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The Mad Doctor of Blood Island is a 1969 Filipino horror film, co-directed by Eddie Romero and Gerardo de Leon, and starring John Ashley, Angelique Pettyjohn, Eddie Garcia and Ronald Remy.

It was the third in a series of four Filipino horror films produced by Romero and Kane W. Lynn known as the "Blood Island" series, which also included Terror Is a Man, Brides of Blood and Beast of Blood. Beverly Miller was associate producer on this film, and later went on to co-produce several other Filipino horror films. This film dared to go a step further than Brides of Blood in the nudity and gore department.

The plot involves a man traveling to an island where a mad scientist named Dr. Lorca is creating human/ plant mutants with chlorophyll blood out of the local natives. The film was later syndicated to television as Tomb of the Living Dead.  It was also briefly known in certain states as The Mad Doctor of Crimson Island.

Plot
A woman running naked through the jungle on Blood Island is killed by a green-skinned beast that resembles a man. At the same time, a ship arrives at the island carrying American pathologist Bill Foster, who is investigating a strange chlorophyll disease among the islanders;  Sheila Willard, who has come to Blood Island seeking to reunite with her father; and Carlos Lopez (Ronaldo Valdez), who wants to get his mother, Mrs. Lopez, to move off the island. The captain of the ship claims that the island is cursed and tells a story of a man they picked up on a raft who bled green blood before he escaped into the sea.

Sheila discovers that her father is a hopeless alcoholic. Mrs. Lopez does not want to leave the island, even though her husband, Don Ramon Lopez, died there recently under mysterious circumstances. The suspicious Dr. Lorca will not reveal any details about Don Ramon's death to anyone. When Foster and Lopez exhume the grave of Don Ramon, it is empty.

Rumors abound about a green-skinned monster with chlorophyll blood that has been killing the local natives. One night, a native with green sores on his body tries to break into the government house, but runs off into the jungle when he is confronted. Sheila is attacked in the jungle by the chlorophyll monster, but manages to escape when an unfortunate native who comes to her rescue is gruesomely mutilated by the creature. Sheila and Dr. Foster fall in love during their stay on the island.

It is revealed that Dr. Lorca has been experimenting on the natives, including the unfortunate Don Ramon, who had sought Dr. Lorca's serum as a treatment for his cancer, but was turned into a monster instead. They learn that Don Ramon is actually the green-blooded beast that has been killing people on the island. Don Ramon kills his wife, and almost kills his son Carlos, but at the last moment a glimmer of humanity returns to the creature and realizing what a monster he has become, he attacks Dr. Lorca in his hidden lab instead. A fire breaks out in Lorca's lab, resulting in a huge explosion, killing Dr. Lorca, his assistant and the monster.

Sheila, her father, Dr. Foster and Carlos all return to the ship, glad to finally leave Blood Island. But as the ship leaves port, a grisly hand appears from underneath a boat tarp, dripping green blood.

Cast
John Ashley as Dr. Bill Foster
Angelique Pettyjohn as Sheila Willard
Ronald Remy as Dr. Lorca
Alicia Alonzo as Marla
Ronaldo Valdez as Carlos Lopez
Tita Muñoz as Mrs. Lopez
Tony Edmunds as Mr. Willard
Alfonso Carvajal as Ramu
Bruno Punzalan as Razak
Edward D. Murphy as Captain
Eddie Garcia as the monster

Production

Prior to production on The Mad Doctor of Blood Island, Ashley had starred in Brides of Blood. The film was popular enough in the United States to get American distributors to ask him to appear in a follow-up film. Ashley agreed, which led to his moving to the Philippines and co-producing several other films there in partnership with Romero, Beverly Miller and Roger Corman.

Mad Doctor was produced by Romero and Kane W. Lynn along with Miller and Irwin Pizor, on a budget of either $125,000 or $100,000.

The score was composed by Tito Arevalo.

Promotion
A prologue to the film invited theatergoers to partake in a bizarre initiation, and each patron was given a free packet of colored liquid labelled "green blood". At a certain point, the audience was told to "recite the oath of green blood" as they tore open the little packets and drank the colored liquid inside. By doing this, the viewer could safely watch "the unnatural green-blooded ones without fear of contamination". The prologue was shot at Clark Air Base in Manila using American teenagers.

Sam Sherman came up with the idea of distributing the liquid gel-packs to the theatergoers, and said years later in an interview that he drank one of the packets, which contained an aqua-colored gel, and it made him sick to his stomach. Nevertheless, Miller (an associate producer of the film) said he actually witnessed dozens of teenagers drinking the stuff in the theaters that he managed in Kansas City.

In another gimmick, the camera zoomed in and out rapidly each time the monster killed or stalked someone, a technique that some theatergoers complained made them dizzy and was actually designed to cover up the shoddy make-up effects.

Release
The film was released in the U.S. in 1969 on a double feature with the 1967 European film The Blood Demon. In 1969, a practice arose in some states (Rhode Island in particular) wherein the local newspapers began omitting the word "blood" from the titles of films they were advertising. In certain areas, Mad Doctor was advertised as The Mad Doctor of Crimson Island and The Blood Demon became The Crimson Demon, etc. This practice did not last very long, and by the time the sequel Beast of Blood was released, Hemisphere was again able to use the word "blood" again in their titles.

Image Entertainment released Mad Doctor on DVD in 2002, featuring a commentary track by Sherman and an interview with Romero.

Reception

Mad Doctor of Blood Island received mostly negative reviews from critics.

Dennis Schwartz from Ozus' World Movie Reviews awarded the film a C grade, calling it "dreary" and stating that the film "is as bad as it sounds". On his website Fantastic Movie Musings and Ramblings, Dave Sindelar called it " intermittently fun but intermittently disappointing as well". Paul Gaita from Allmovie liked the film. While noting the film's poor camerawork, Gaita stated that the film "has a loopy charm that will be best appreciated by fans of low-budget horror". TV Guide gave the film 1 out of 5 stars, criticizing the film's dialogue and overuse of zoom shots.

The film proved to be popular commercially, and was followed by the last film in the series, Beast of Blood (1970), which saw the return of the chlorophyll creature.

Romero later said of Mad Doctor: "We thought it was one of the worst things we ever did... I can't account for it [the film's impact]".

See also
 Terror Is a Man
 Brides of Blood
 Beast of Blood (film)

References

External links

1969 films
1969 horror films
Films directed by Eddie Romero
Films shot in the Philippines
Films set in jungles
Mad scientist films
Philippine horror films
Philippine science fiction horror films
Films set on islands
1960s English-language films


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Q: SVN admin management GUI tool What GUI Administration / Management tools are there for an SVN repository on Windows?

A: I recommend you look at Subversion Edge.
Subversion Edge is a distribution of the latest versions of Apache Subversion, httpd and ViewVC all tested and designed to work together.  It also includes an easy to use web console for configuring and managing the server.  It is very easy to install and get running and includes a built-in updater that lets you install updates remotely via your web browser.  So you are always up to date with the latest security fixes and do not have to worry about the components not working together.
Subversion Edge is free and open-source.

A: Do you want to admin a remote repository (whether it be a linux or windows box), or a local repository?
Personally I haven't come across any decent utility, so I use an AutoIT script that uses PuTTY's plink.exe to interface with svnadmin on my linux server.
EDIT: fairly lame code, but it serves my purposes. Assumes that you have a "conf/shared" directory in your $svndir, which will be shared by the repositories created by this script. Scripted with AutoIt
$plink_bin = "C:\path\to\plink.exe"
$svndir = "/subversion"
$sshuser = "username"
$hostname = "host.domain.com"

$proj = InputBox("Enter project name", "Please enter a subversion project name", "")

if ($proj = "") Then
    Exit(1)
EndIf

$arg =        "cd " & $svndir & ";"
$arg = $arg & "svnadmin create " & $proj & ";"
$arg = $arg & "rm -fr " & $proj & "/conf;"
$arg = $arg & "ln -s ../conf/shared " & $proj & "/conf"

$command = $plink_bin & " " & $sshuser & "@" & $hostname & " " & $arg
Run($command)

A: Look at visualsvn:

VisualSVN Server is a package that contains everything you need to install, configure and manage Subversion server for your team on Windows platform. It includes Subversion, Apache and a management console.
User-friendly Management Console

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*Create, import and remove repositories

*Create and delete folders in repository

*Dashboard showing overview status of Subversion server

*Manage Subversion security policy

*Start, stop and restart service

*Repository browser

*Manage users and groups

*Edit Subversion hooks

A: svn-access-manager seems to be a great open-source web administration GUI for SVN too (and currently active ...).
Try also USVN.

A: uberSVN makes Subversion admin easy, and is available for Windows, Mac and various Linux flavours:
Free, easy to implement UI for Subversion which includes:

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*Everything you need to setup a Subversion server, including the latest version of Subversion and Apache.

*Toggle feature lets you deploy with 1.7.5 or 1.6.18 and upgrade or downgrade anytime.

*A very quick and easy setup wizard.

*A social coding environment.

*Easy to use administration console.

*Advanced LDAP functionality.

*Support for offline installations.

*Support for those that need to access the internet via a different machine (proxy).

A: There's also my own program called PainlessSVN. It only works with repositories setup to be served with svnserve.exe It can work with Subversion servers in your LAN. I'm currently working on version 1.1, which is almost a complete rewrite. Check the blog to see what the new stuff is.
If you want to work with an existing Subversion server, then my program will work for you. If you want to start from scratch, then VisualSVN Server is pretty good.

A: found this tool : http://sublimesvn.com/download/index.html
This is a beta release of Sublime. It is free to use without restriction until it expires on September 1st, 2009. Pricing will be announced when Sublime 1.0 is released later this year.

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Grave of Dr. William P. Rothwell
Post-Mortem Mirth.
Oak Grove Cemetery, Central Avenue, Pawtucket
You've probably never heard of Dr. William P. Rothwell. He wasn't a film or television star, he didn't win the Pulitzer Prize, and he didn't invent the little plastic doohickeys that keep your shoelaces from fraying. Still, if you're a lover of the unusual, it's worth the trip to Pawtucket to see his grave.
You see, Dr. Rothwell had a healthy sense of humor and the foresight to put it to good use. Several years prior to his death he wanted to make sure that his friends and family would remember him for the generous and genial man he was, rather than feel sad that he was gone. So in 1929 he arranged for a large boulder to be taken from his summer home to be used as his head stone. On it he had engraved the usual information that one would find on a gravestone, with one irreverent addition.
On one side of the boulder, down near the ground, is the sentence "This is on me."
The phrase has a triple meaning. The first, and most obvious, of course, is that the stone is on top of Dr. Rothwell. The second meaning refers to his generous nature, as described by his June 14, 1939 obit:
DR. WILLIAM P. ROTHWELL, who always paid the check at parties, died today and will be buried under the huge boulder bearing the inscription: "This is on me", which he had set up in a cemetery 10 years ago. No fumbler, Dr. Rothwell, who practiced medicine here for years, gained a reputation as a genial fellow to his friends by always paying the freight at social gatherings in an exclusive men's cub. His booming comment: "This is on me," became a byword. He swore that nobody would weep at his funeral and to make sure, back in 1929, he had the boulder from his summer farm inscribed: "Rothwell. William P. Bothwell, M.D., 1868—This is on me. Rx." The last symbol is the familiar prescription sign which Dr. Rothwell always marked on the dinner check.
The third meaning? Charitable even in death, he appears to have borne the expense of memorializing a relative he could never have met. Rothwell shares his headstone with James, who died at the age of ten, seventeen years before William was born.
The epitaph is unusual enough to have been noticed by none other than Robert Ripley, of Ripley's Believe It Or Not! A fabricated headstone bearing the inscription shares an exhibit with similarly humorous epitaphs from all over the country at Ripley's museum in San Francisco.
Dr. Rothwell's home (not the summer farm mentioned above) still stands at 50 Summit Street in Pawtucket. In 2002 it housed the St. George Catholic Pastoral Center, and in 2011 it was for sale. Its current (2015) use is unknown.
Rothwell's Grave Inscriptions
WILLIAM P. ROTHWELL M.D.
THIS IS ON ME
JAMES ROTHWELL
W.P. ROTHWELL, M.D.
Time required: allow 5 minutes
Hours: daily, 8am-4pm
Remember, this is a cemetery. Please be respectful.
Finding it: from Route 95 north, take exit 29 and take a left onto Cottage Street; the main gates of the cemetery are on the right; enter and drive straight toward the flagpole; pass to the right of the flagpole and go to the end; Rothwell's stone is on your right.
Distances between points are actual distances, without regard to rights of way or man-eating hellhounds. Your travel distance will be longer.
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Like father like son: Bucs sign Testaverde Jr.
By FOX 13 News staff
TAMPA, Fla. (FOX 13) - Buccaneers fans at training camp might do a double take when they see another "Testaverde" among the Bucs quarterbacks. That would Vinny's son, who goes by Vincent.
Vincent is hoping to catch on here in Tampa, following in some pretty big footsteps.
Second to Jameis Winston, "Testaverde" is the most high-profile name to be on the back of an orange quarterback jersey. Vincent was signed Monday after working out with the team earlier this offseason, during rookie minicamp.
The situation for the elder Testaverde was much different. He was the Bucs' first overall pick in 1987, played six seasons here.
As for Vincent, he's an undrafted free agent. He bounced around in college from Texas Tech to Miami, before finally playing his final year at Albany.
There's no telling how long this opportunity will last. He knows he will always be compared to his father, who still leads the franchise in passing yards, but he doesn't really feel the weight of any expectations.
"I'm not going to go out here and try to be like him," the younger Testaverde told reporters. "I'm my own self, I'm my own player. Me and him have different games, different strengths, whatever it may be, I'm just going to go out there any play my game; that's what he's told me."
The Bucs quarterback room is pretty well established, with Winston, Blaine Gabbert, and Ryan Griffin. They also like rookie Nick Fitzgerald, but he was placed on the active/non-football injury list, which is in part why Vincent is getting this opportunity. But you never know when an injury might occur, or what other team might be interested.


As an attorney who practices extensively in the area of real property litigation, I am frequently called upon to prosecute or defend cases involving a claim of adverse possession, and am approached by individuals who either have only a basic understanding of what adverse possession is, or who have formed misconceptions about what it means and how the doctrine is applied. This article is intended as a primer for non-attorneys — individuals who are interested in learning the basic contours of the doctrine of adverse possession as it applies in the state of Washington (although the law of adverse possession is similar if not identical in most states).
In its most basic sense, "adverse possession" is a legal doctrine that allows a person to acquire legal ownership of property that he treats as his own, if he does so for a long enough period of time, even though the property is not his own. In other words, a person who uses another person's property, without permission, for a long enough period of time, can acquire legal ownership of that property. As an example, if a fence separates two properties — Parcel A and Parcel B — but does not run along the actual property line, a portion of Parcel B might be located on Parcel A's side of the fence.
If the owner of Parcel A mows and tends to all areas of his property right up to the fence (and is therefore maintaining parts of Parcel B), and does so for the requisite length of time, the owner of Parcel A might be able to acquire legal title to that portion of Parcel B that he has maintained.
Most people are familiar with statutes of limitation. A statute of limitation sets forth a time period within which one must sue to enforce a right, failing which the person loses the right to sue. The statute of limitation for a trespass action in Washington is ten (10) years. If an owner allows another person to continue trespassing on his property and does nothing about it for ten years, the trespasser can acquire legal title to the complacent owner's land. Thus, adverse possession is nothing more than a statute of limitation for bringing a trespass action. After ten years of trespassing, the trespasser can go to court to seek a declaration that the owner has allowed the statute of limitation to pass, and that the claimant has therefore acquired title to that property.
A person claiming title to land by adverse possession (I shall refer to such a person as the "claimant") must prove four basic elements. The claimant must show that she or he used property belonging to another in a way that was (1) open and notorious, (2) actual and uninterrupted, (3) exclusive, and (4) hostile.
Possession (i.e. use) of the property that includes each of the necessary elements must exist for ten years, following which the claimant can go to court and acquire legal title to the property. As stated above, adverse possession is merely a statute of limitation for trespass. Thus, if the title owner of land has knowledge that another person is using his land openly and without his permission, he can sue that person for trespass. However, if the title owner allows the trespass to continue for ten years, he loses his right to sue the claimant. Each of the four elements stated above exists to protect the diligent owner, and also to reward those who productively use land.
Sneaking onto another's property in the dead of night and 'using the property' until the break of dawn is not "open and notorious," because the true owner would not reasonably be aware of the clandestine use of his property. For this reason, such surreptitious use of another's land will never ripen into an adverse possession claim no matter how long it goes on.
Likewise, using another's property openly and exclusively for one year, but then vacating for some period of time, then occupying it for another year, then vacating (and so on) is not "actual and uninterrupted." Thus, even if such intermittent use continues over the course of fifty years such that cumulatively the land has been used and occupied for ten years, such use would not give rise to an adverse possession claim, since the claimant would be unable to establish an uninterrupted use.
The requirement that the claimant use the land "exclusively" protects a title owner of land who decides to let everyone use his property.
Finally, the "hostile" element does not have the normal definition of 'hostile;' it does not mean enmity or ill will. Rather, 'hostile' in the adverse possession context merely means 'without the owner's permission.' Thus, a landowner can explicitly give his permission to allow another to use his land for 100 years and not be subject to a claim of adverse possession. Think of a landlord who rents to a tenant for more than ten years: the tenant is there pursuant to an agreement with the owner, and does not adversely possess the property.
Like all legal doctrines, there are exceptions to the general rules regarding adverse possession, as well as several defenses. For example, public land can never be adversely possessed. Open, continuous, exclusive and non-permissive use of land, where the land is owned by the city, county or state, cannot form the basis of an adverse possession claim.
Most "defenses" to an adverse possession claim involve simply proving the non-existence of one or more of the required elements. The word 'defense' in the preceding sentence is put in quotation marks because asserting that a statute of limitation bars the action, or that another element necessary to an adverse possession claim is absent, is itself generally considered a defense. Since adverse possession is itself essentially the assertion of a statute of limitation defense to a trespass action, labeling efforts to resist such an assertion a "defense" seemingly puts the terms "claim" and "defense" on their heads.
"Neighborly accommodation" is one of the most common defenses to an adverse possession claim when dealing with developed residential property. Suppose two houses share a common boundary comprised of a lawn, with no fence separating the two properties. Allowing your neighbor to walk on, use, or maintain portions of your property may merely be a neighborly accommodation on your part. Obviously, it would make bad public policy to require neighbors to constantly insist upon asserting their property rights vis-Ã -vis their neighbor, and accordingly the "neighborly accommodation" defense arose to lessen the tension between encouraging the productive use of land, on the one hand, and avoiding neighbor-on-neighbor acrimony, on the other.
For example, suppose "Bill" and "John" own the neighboring properties described above (sharing a common boundary comprised of a lawn, with no fence separating the two parcels). Suppose Bill routinely mows the front lawn, including portions of the lawn on John's side of the property line. Suppose also that throughout the year, Bill sits on lawn chairs placed in the vicinity of the boundary line, occasionally setting up his chair on John's side of the line, and occasionally on his own side of the line. The neighborly accommodation defense would protect John from losing part of his property were Bill to bring a claim for adverse possession. Bill might be able to prove that he openly, continuously, and exclusively used portions of John's property and never once sought or received permission from John. John, however, could defend against such a claim by demonstrating that he was merely extending a neighborly accommodation by not protesting Bill's use of the property or suing Bill for trespass. The 'neighborly accommodation' defense has its limits, such as where Bill unilaterally decides to build a fence between the two properties, does not consult with John prior to erecting the fence, and it is later determined that the fence encroaches upon John's property. Generally, however, courts have stuck to the rule that true owners often do (and should) permit third persons to use their property on an occasional, transitory manner, and that not all use is adverse in this sense.
Some defenses, while common, apply only to certain types of land. The so-called "vacant land doctrine" applies (as its name suggests) to open, vacant, undeveloped land. The vacant land doctrine applies a presumption that the use of vacant, undeveloped land is done with the permission of the owner. If that presumption applies, the claimant must then put forth evidence to rebut that presumption. In such cases, use which might have been sufficient to establish adverse possession if done on developed property is insufficient when done on vacant land.
Adverse possession cases often proceed to trial (rather than being resolved based on a summary judgment motion or other pre-trial disposition) precisely because the questions are so fact-specific. Often, one or both of the parties has not personally owned the property for the entire ten year period, in which case it is necessary to investigate how the prior owner(s) used the property, and whether there were any explicit agreements between the prior owners (generally, the prior owner's use "counts" toward the current owner's claim).
Adverse Possession is, quite literally, a doctrine that legalizes the theft of land under certain circumstances. It is a very unintuitive rule in this sense.
However, the elements of adverse possession, as well as the most common defenses to it, along with the extraordinarily long period of time required to establish the claim, together operate to deprive an owner of his property only when the owner unreasonably sits on his rights for an extended period of time.
Hopefully the foregoing article explains the basics of this doctrine.
 Chaplin v. Sanders, 100 Wn.2d 853, 857, 676 P.2d 431 (1984).


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Interview: Director Richard Shepard Talks THE PERFECTION
2019/05/21 20:14:56 +00:00 | Heather Wixson
Last year, Richard Shepard's The Perfection took Fantastic Fest by storm, and for this writer, the wait for it to finally arrive on Netflix has been painfully long. Thankfully, we're only a few days away now from The Perfection arriving on the popular streaming platform, and to get you ready, Daily Dead recently spoke with director Richard Shepard about his twist-filled thriller that features a pair of intriguing performances from Allison Williams and Logan Browning. During the interview, Shepard discussed the approach to the film's story, working with both of his leads, and how The Perfection defies genre labels.
And do not worry, the following interview contains zero spoilers so that readers can go into The Perfection still able to enjoy all of the film's unexpected moments when it debuts on May 24th.
Great to speak with you, Richard. I'd love to start off by digging into the ideas of the story, because you all did a wonderful job of creating these compelling and layered female characters, and dig into this complicated back-and-forth that they share. And I'm doing my best to keep things vague, because I don't want to ruin anything for viewers.
Richard Shepard: No, you're doing great and here's the thing is, it is such a hard movie to promote without spoilers because the spoilers are what makes the movie so fun in so many ways. And it's been really tough talking about it without trying to hurt the movie, but what I can tell you is this: the fact is that this is a movie about two women and it is a complex, twisted, odd, dark movie that also is sexy and violent and thought-provoking, I hope.
And the characters are so rich because they are so not what they initially seem in the beginning of the movie. They become three-dimensional and so, in a way, it's empowering the roles because they're representing three-dimensional characters, which is rare in movies on any level, let alone with women characters which tend not to be three-dimensional. And in this case it is, and there's a true connection between the two characters, and audiences have responded to the fact that as twisted as this movie is, there's a real heartbeat underneath these characters—they feel like real people even in a heightened genre movie. So, I think it was really fun for the actors to play it, to be able to go to such extremes and take expectations of the audience and turn it on their heads.
These days, there's pressure on everybody, but I feel like there's almost sort of this added pressure to women because you have to consistently walk this line of critical perfection. Did you guys realize when you were making this that there would be this parallel between this story to some of the issues that are coming up these days?
Richard Shepard: Yeah, we wrote the movie wanting to tell an interesting story that was both genre-bending and had an emotional dovetail to it, too, and the fact is that Allison Williams and Logan Browning are incredibly articulate, passionate performers and people. They became my partners in this movie in terms of making sure that their characters were well-rounded and realistic, and that what we were doing was not exploitative, even if there were exploitative elements to the storytelling and to the movie. And yeah, it feels very current, some of the issues we talk about, and some of that is the pressure the people are feeling, the world that women have been living in and exposing some real problems in society.
I think it's great that we're talking about these things, and having these two strong women actors as partners with me making the movie helped me as a 54-year-old white man, tell the story in a different way than I might have told it without their participation and help. And so I do think that there's a currency to the film and a reality and a connectivity, even in a film as outlandish as this. I think that by the end of the movie, audiences are really behind these characters in some way that you might not have imagined earlier in the film.
You just mentioned working with Allison and Logan, and so much of this film is about this wonderful back-and-forth between them. Can you talk about that collaborative process that you shared on the film, and making sure you nailed certain elements of the story?
Richard Shepard: Yeah, this was a very unique collaboration and Allison was truly my partner in crime on this movie and from the very beginning, the script was pinpointing so many specific things, asking so many questions. Many of the reasons that the movie works with all the twists and turns is that Allison poked holes in earlier drafts to try and get us to tighten things up and make things make sense.
And, as a filmmaker, to find someone you can collaborate with like that, who you trust and who you feel like will put up a good and logical fight about things, is like a gift, and throwing Logan in the mix there, too, we were all able to approach this material in a cool way.
I also educated them on certain genre movie things that I was really interested in. I showed them Oldboy and The Handmaiden and all these other Park Chan-Wook movies. So I was showing them ascetically what I wanted to do, and we talked about all the genre elements, and they were even in the editing room, and we were always talking about making sure that we weren't revealing too much, too early. Ultimately, we wanted to make sure it was all tracking, so when you watch it the first time, it hits that landing point.
And this is definitely a movie where, I think watching it a second time is going to be just as fun for people. Obviously, I just hope they watch it a first time, because that's what's most important, but watching it a second time, they will be able to see the level of nuance that the actors brought to their characters. I think it's pretty fun.
In terms of genre elements, you have had so many great successes in different realms, was there something in particular that made you want to dip your toes in the waters of genre storytelling? There used to be this stigma for years about doing something that had horror to it, but I feel like that tide has really been changing over the last few years and it's very exciting for me as a fan because we're getting this really fun influx of new storytellers coming in and bringing these new, different stories into the genre world, and I think The Perfection is a great example of just that.
Richard Shepard: Well, thank you. I agree on so many levels of what you've just said. I think that horror used to be stigmatized, but the fact of the matter is that great filmmakers have always been drawn to genre movies, whether it's Brian De Palma or Alfred Hitchcock or Steven Spielberg. There is something great about a genre movie. You can do so much more in a genre movie than you can in a straight drama or a comedy because you can have more than one layer going on. You can be twisted and perverse, and also deep, and you can be moving and funny and outrageous, and it also gives you the place cinematically to do very cool things.
But I do agree with you that there's been this sort of a stigma on horror for far too long, and I love that things are changing because there are so many great stories to tell. And with our film, it's a situation where there are far scarier movies than The Perfection, and far more violent than The Perfection, and far sexier movies than The Perfection, but The Perfection exists in its own special place, and I'm really proud of it because it is its own genre.
In case you missed it, check HERE to read Heather Wixson's other interviews with the cast and crew of The Perfection.
About the Author - Heather Wixson
After falling in love with the horror genre at a very early age, Heather Wixson has spent the last decade carving out a name for herself in the genre world as a both a journalist and as a proponent of independent horror cinema. Wixson is currently the Managing Editor for DailyDead.com, and was previously a featured writer at DreadCentral.com and TerrorTube.com where her online career began; she's also been a contributor at FEARnet as well as a panelist for several of their online programs.
Wixson recently finished her first book, Monster Squad: Celebrating the Artists Behind Cinema's Most Memorable Creatures, and is currently working on her second upcoming book project on special effects artists as well.
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An essential home-team for the first time in the Super Bowl, as Super Bowl XIX returns to the sunny state of California in 1985, our latest stop on the Road to the 2020 Super Bowl in Miami.
Played at Stanford Stadium in Stanford, California, the NFC-champion San Francisco 49ers would play an essential home game in their Super Bowl XIX matchup against the AFC-champion Miami Dolphins. In front of over 84,000 fans, the 49ers would take Super Bowl XIX, defeating the Dolphins by a score of 38-16.
Leading up to the big game, the biggest spotlight was easy to spot; the quarterbacks. Two Hall of Fame QB's, San Francisco's Joe Montana and Miami's Dan Marino, would be going head-to-head for the first time in the Super Bowl. Each of the quarterbacks would throw for more than 300 yards total, but it was Montana who would get the best of Marino this time around.
Super Bowl XIX was also a first in many other areas. The game was broadcast for the first time on ABC, and President Ronald Reagan became the first sitting president to participate in the pre-game coin toss ceremony, taking part in a televised even directly from the White House. The cost for a commercial during Super Bowl XIX sharply increased to a whopping $525,000 for 30 seconds of air time, with more than 85.53 million viewers watching the big game.
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Oceanside, CA – Trade shows sprang to life in September with some noticeable gains in all three metrics, following a stretch of lackadaisical growth.
The 26 shows in the Trade Show Executive (TSE) Dashboard of Monthly Trade Show Metrics enjoyed growth rates of 3% in exhibit space and 3.5% in attendance while the number of exhibitors grew by half that percentage: 1.5%. It was the 12th straight month of growth in net sf and the 5th consecutive month in which exhibitor count increased. Attendance performance has been spotty at best, declining five times in the past 12 months.
Led by a mushrooming of booths at Gold 100 shows, such as Interbike, Global Gaming Expo (G2E) and PACK EXPO, the exhibitor count for September ticked up 1.5% from the previous year. That growth followed a 2.7% jump tallied in August. "We were thrilled to welcome all of our new exhibitors and our returning exhibitors to G2E 2013," said Courtney Miller, senior vice president of Reed Exhibitions, about her company's show. "This year's floor was nearly 9% larger than last year, and the largest since 2008." Excluding outliers, the numbers reported to TSE reflected an adjusted total of 3,114,322 net square feet (nsf), 11,177 exhibitors and an attendance of 268,521.
Of the 26 shows held in September, 10 were 100,000 nsf or larger. Seven were ranked on the TSE Gold 100 rankings of largest U.S. trade shows. In fact, Interbike was included on both the Gold 100 list of the largest 100 shows and the TSE Fastest 50 roster of fastest-growing events.
Interbike has had a lot to cheer about in 2013. Emerald Expositions reported a 1.4% increase in exhibit space to 324,383 nsf. Attendance was virtually unchanged at 25,556, but the exhibitor rolls jumped 12.1% to 908.
Emerald extended an interesting offer to its exhibitors by providing them the opportunity to give their best retail customers an inside look at the newest must-haves on two wheels coming to bike shops everywhere. Interbike by Invitation allowed select customers of their exhibitors to roam the aisles at Mandalay Bay on the final day of the show for a mere $50. The goal was to generate further downstream buzz as the holiday shopping season approached.
"It is not designed to open the flood gates to consumers seeking stickers and swag (S.W.A.G. or "stuff we all get") — but rather as an opportunity for retailers to invite their best consumers with the goal of leaving the show with the invitee feeling closer to both the retailer and the brands they love," Hus said.
GLM's Surf Expo was also in the black across the board. The popular Orlando show hosted the highest number of buyers in its 37-year history and saw a 11.5% gain in total attendance.
"Buyer attendance was up 14% compared to last September, and eclipsed our record-breaking January show by 4%," Show Director Roy Turner said.
The continuing evolution and intermingling of water sports and skateboarding on the retail level continued to play into Surf Expo's wheelhouse. The result was a 10% increase in new exhibitors and 2.6% increase in the overall exhibitor count. Exhibit space grew 1.9% to 219,000 nsf.
G2E cashed in on the growth in international manufacturers in the gaming industry. The show hosted 430 exhibitors in Las Vegas, up 6.2% from 2012. Of that number, 125 were first-time exhibitors from overseas, representing 32 nations. Reed has also expanded its exhibits into nongaming product lines and has now added conference sessions for the F&B side of the casino business. "G2E featured specialized exhibit space, special events, dedicated conference programming, and the latest entertainment acts to address the growing importance of the food, beverage, hospitality and entertainment sectors to the casino industry's bottom line," Muller said.
Gear Expo rolled into Indianapolis this year. The venue, in the heart of the U.S. manufacturing region, paid off with a 12.7% boost in exhibit space to 52,500 nsf and 3,400 attendees, a 4.6% boost.
ATCE 2013 moved to the heart of the Gulf Coast offshore oil industry and the Society of Petroleum Engineers was rewarded with an 8.4% increase in attendance to 12,028, the biggest crowd since 1999. The exhibit space grew 20.8% to 150,500 nsf. Exhibitor count was up 17.2% to 552.
PACK EXPO Las Vegas was the largest of the September Dashboard shows and also one of the most robust. Show managers at PMMI, the Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, grew "outside the box" and called 2013 its largest Las Vegas show in history. "PMMI's mission is to convene the entire packaging and processing supply chain in one location, and that is exactly what PACK EXPO Las Vegas accomplished," said Charles Yuska, president & CEO of PMMI.
A customer survey conducted last Fall inspired Yuska and his team to relocate the educational sessions to the exhibit hall, which paid off handsomely in the form of standing-room only crowds at hourly intervals in the main hall. "Attendees said they valued education, but still wanted to maximize their time on the show floor," Yuska said.
PACK EXPO Las Vegas was one of five Dashboard shows held on The Strip in September. Together, all five of the shows totaled 1,434,344 nsf of exhibit space. Chicago was second on the leader board with four Dashboard events totaling 603,608 nsf. One of the Windy City shows, however, was the quadrennial PRINT 13 & CPP Expo, which ended up losing more than (25)% of its exhibit space and was not included in the adjusted Dashboard totals. Orlando also reached the podium thanks to Surf Expo and The Landscape Show with 293,500 nsf.
The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) Convention & Exhibition in Las Vegas highlighted the October U.S. trade show calendar. The NBAA was expecting 25,000 attendees and more than 1 million nsf of indoor exhibits at the Las Vegas Convention Center. And Orlando hosted the Specialty Graphic Imaging Association and also the American Academy of Pediatrics. Also in October, High Point Market Fall took place in North Carolina and Louisville was the site of the always-expansive GIE + Expo Green Industry and Equipment Expo, the must-attend gathering for the landscaping industry.


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Vlad's NFL DFS QB Coach – Week 17
December 30, 2020 by Vlad Sedler
Welcome to the NFL DFS QB Coach, where we identify optimal point-per-dollar quarterbacks for our lineups on DraftKings, FanDuel and SuperDraft.
Before we dive into Week 17, here is a quick review of last week's NFL DFS results.
Green is a hit, red a miss and grey a push. Roster Percentage (Own%) listed from the DraftKings Millionaire Maker ($20 entry). Also included their point-per-dollar output (DK points divided by DK salary).
Another solid week for the QB Coach, with four of the seven recommended quarterbacks ending up in the top six at the position. Mayfield was the lone disappointment, but almost all of us moved on from him following the loss of his receivers to the Covid IR. I ended up with Watson, Trubisky and Mahomes as my 3-max guys and sadly did not have enough of Dalton. Though, my Dalton teams were double stacked with Michael Gallup and Amari Cooper and ended up as my best ones on the day. Those who rostered him did so under two percent. Rookie Hurts came through with a third straight solid start.
It's important to note this article is posted mid-week, so injuries and other news can change our reads as we get closer to Sunday. This article is specifically for Sunday's "Main" slate.
NFL DFS Matchups
The final regular-season slate of the year, and it's a massive one, as is the case every year in Week 17. Fifteen games total with only one other game this weekend, Washington-Philadelphia in the Sunday night primetime spot.
The main difference between this slate and every other one in a season is the playoff implications. Some teams are still gunning to make the playoffs, and others fighting for seeding. The teams that plan to go 'all-out' and have the most to play for are usually the ones we want to focus on for NFL DFS.
All the team's quarterbacks who need to win are bolded in the chart below, but here is a quick overview:
Packers (Aaron Rodgers) – Need to win to clinch top seed
Seahawks (Russell Wilson) – Can land anywhere between #1 seed (first-round bye) or # 3
Saints (Drew Brees) – Need Packers to lose and need to beat Panthers to get first-round bye
Buccaneers (Tom Brady) – Either #5 or #6 seed, so Brady should play, and they'll keep Brady in there if they aren't blowing the Falcons out since that way they can avoid playing Saints or Seahawks in first round (would get an NFC East team instead, which is a better matchup)
Rams (Jared Wolford) – Stepping in for Goff; must win to clinch playoff berth
Bears (Mitch Trubisky) – Will be fighting; need to beat Packers to advance to playoffs
Cardinals (Kyler Murray?) – Kyler will likely suit up for this important game if he is medically cleared and able to; need to beat the Rams and have Bears lose (likely) to get in; Chris Streveler ($4,700 DK) would sub in for the start if Kyler can't go
Bills (Josh Allen) – Possibility of starters getting pulled early, but need to win or Steelers to lose to clinch #2 seed (which doesn't mean as much with no second league bye)
Titans (Ryan Tannehill) – Must-win situation to clinch playoff berth; high Vegas total here
Ravens (Lamar Jackson) – In with a win; Lamar will go all out
Dolphins (Tua Tagovailoa) – In with a win; Bills might pull starters
Browns (Baker Mayfield) – In with a win; Steelers resting Big Ben for Rudolph
Colts (Philip Rivers) – Not guaranteed to get in if they win; would also need a loss by any of TEN, BAL, CLE or MIA, which is certainly possible; Colts are big favorites over the Jaguars
Spots I feel comfortable with include Rodgers (GB), Wilson (SEA), Jackson (BAL) and Tannehill (TEN). Deshaun Watson (HOU) and his squad are out of the playoff race, but he is still a fantastic play against a porous Titans' secondary. Mason Rudolph (PIT) is a very intriguing play at just $4,300 on DK and will likely draw some of the highest ownership we have seen all season.
Cash plays in gold, GPP plays in blue
Vegas lines as of Wednesday morning
Listed: QB DvP and DVOA; QB's in must-win or important scenarios are bolded
Cash Game Preferences
Aaron Rodgers, Packers
The likely NFL MVP will want to put a bow on his amazing season with a big game and a first-round bye. He leads the league in touchdown passes (44) with just five interceptions and provides a solid weekly floor despite not adding much as a scrambler. Rodgers has dipped below 23 DK points in a start just once in his last 10 starts. As he looks to continue padding his stats (and possibly even having a goal of 50 pass TD in mind), you can expect Rodgers to throw a ton whether the team has a big lead or not.
Ryan Tannehill, Titans
The highest Vegas total (56.5) by a country mile and our first combined total over 55 in six weeks. The Titans need to win in order to make the playoffs and likely won't take their collective feet off the gas pedal to ensure this against their division rivals, the Texans. Houston has been getting shanked by the run all season and is a bottom-three run defense, but since the loss of their best CB, Bradley Roby, the Texans have been getting shredded through the air, as well. Tannehill may not be very popular only because there are so many games and a multitude of fine options to choose from in NFL DFS. I would expect that Watson and the Texans put up a fight and turn this regular-season finale into a shootout.
Deshaun Watson, Texans
The other side of this game, where the Texans are 7.5-point underdogs with a 24.5 team total. Thus will expect Watson to slang it for four quarters against a pass defense that ranks 30th in DVOA. The Titans have been getting toasted through the air weekly, having allowed the second-most passing touchdowns (33) this season behind only the Lions. Watson has the league's best yards-per-attempt rate (8.1) and doesn't seem to have skipped much of a beat without Will Fuller. He put up a 335-4-0 line (35 DK points) against the Titans in Week 6 and has thrown for over 300 yards in five of his last six.
Lamar Jackson, Ravens
A must-win scenario for the Ravens and Jackson has been hitting his stride since a minor leg injury around Weeks 4 and 5 that caused him to be cautious as a runner. Since Week 6 (nine games), Jackson has averaged a whopping 10 carries and 75 rushing yards per game, running in six scores over that span. The Bengals have only allowed 176 rushing yards to opposing QBs (third lowest) but also have had some good luck in that regard. They simply haven't faced any scrambling signal-callers this season besides Lamar himself in Week 5. And that's when Lamar was hurting and not running. He should be all systems go, both on the ground and through the air, against a defense that ranks among the bottom five against the pass.
GPP/Tournament Preferences
Russell Wilson, Seahawks
Something tells me Russ steps up to cook in his regular-season finale and makes those who drafted him in season-long curse his name wondering, "where was all this production the last few weeks?" Bottom line, the Seahawks have been a much better squad defensively. Partially because some key guys got healthy, but also the unit just started to gel and hit their stride. The Seahawks also just happened to run into a bad string of matchups with good defensive teams who operate at slow places, so cooking was never really part of the recipe plan. Check out this string of tough opponents since Week 10: Rams, Cardinals, Eagles, Giants, Jets, Washington, Rams. That's five of the ten most stout pass defenses, and against the Jets, he threw four TD passes in just a couple of quarters before getting pulled.
Granted, the Niners are stingy on defense, as well. They boast a top-ten pass DVOA unit, allowing the fourth-least pass yards per game (211.2) and the fifth-least YPA to opposing QBs (6.7). But the last time these two teams squared off (Week 8), Wilson completed 73 percent of his passes and threw four scores. The Seahawks are still playing for that first-round bye, and my guess is this offense bounces back in a big way this week.
Tom Brady, Buccaneers
Listed as GPP here because we can't always take coach Bruce Arians' word at face value, as he has a history of not always being upfront with his plans. He claims all his starters will play, but there is always that risk, especially if they establish a big, early lead. The Falcons nearly shocked the football world last week by almost beating the Chiefs. Two weeks ago, they hung tight with these Bucs, losing by only four points. In fact, the Falcons have been surprisingly competitive in almost every game. They are just 4-7 in their last 11 games, but in those seven losses, they have been beaten by more than a touchdown just once (Saints 24-9 in Week 11).
This game has a 50-point Vegas total, and Brady faces off against a pass defense near the bottom in almost every metric. He has also thrown for multiple passing scores in 12-of-15 starts and threw for 290 with ease against them two weeks ago. Better recommended for GPP's, but a viable option nevertheless.
Baker Mayfield, Browns
The Browns are in a must-win situation, should be getting Landry and all their receivers back, and will face a Steelers team that is not only resting their starting quarterback but likely some stud defensive players, as well. If we get some inactives in that respect ahead of time, we move Mayfield up our list of options even more so, especially at very reasonable price tags across the industry. You know Baker will be motivated after a putrid effort against the Jets last week.
Mitch Trubisky, Bears
Trubisky has been solid since returning as the team's starter in Week 12. That just happened to be a 41-25 loss to these Packers, but Mitch still put up 21.78 DK points, as he threw for three touchdown passes despite two interceptions. The Bears are motivated to win even though the likelihood of this is low. What we do know is this pass offense will likely be in catch-up mode early on, which could easily lead to Trubisky's first 50-attempt outing since Week 15 of last year (ironically, against the Packers). His efficiency may not be there against a stout pass defense, but the volume could help him reach his ceiling.
Kirk Cousins, Vikings
Moving Cousins up my list with the news that just hit about the unfortunate passing of Dalvin Cook's father, as Cook will now miss the season finale. The Vikings are out of the playoff hunt and don't have much to play for, other than to perhaps show off and pad their stats against a defense that allowed Cousins to put up 20.8 DK points (220-3-0) in Week 9. The Lions essentially have backup cornerbacks in this last half-season and allowed 32.9 fantasy points to Brady last week and 37 to Tannehill the week prior.
Without Cook and possibly Alexander Mattison as well, they'll be relying on Mike Boone and Ameer Abdullah to help carry the load in a game plan that may end up being pass-heavy. With two stud wideouts who have had monster years (Thielen: 70-868-15, Jefferson 79-1,267-7) and are among the league's top 10 in aDOT and Air Yards, the sky is the limit for Cousins to hit yet another ceiling.
Mason Rudolph, Steelers
A bit of a dicey proposition because if Rudolph has a mediocre outing and ends up with just 13-14 fantasy points, he very much won't be worth his uber-cheap $4,300 price tag on DraftKings. Nevertheless, Rudolph does have some tremendous weapons at his disposal (JuJu Smith-Schuster, Dionate Johnson, Chase Claypool, Eric Ebron), and the Browns' defense has surprisingly been a bottom-eight unit against opposing quarterbacks all season. I don't believe Rudolph is as enticing as he appears to be, as the allure of his price might force our builds into starting with him. But with Vikings' Cook off the slate and a multitude of value options across all positions in Week 17, we can build around an actually talented QB who has a lot more incentive.
💵Favorite Cash Plays: Aaron Rodgers (GB), Deshaun Watson (HOU), Lamar Jackson (BAL)
💰Favorite GPP Plays: Rodgers, Watson, Ryan Tannehill (TEN), Russell Wilson (SEA), Kirk Cousins (MIN)
🔸MME Considerations: Philip Rivers (IND), Derek Carr (LV), Jared Wolford (LAR), C.J. Beathard (SF)
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"I have an inner demand to share with you a piece of unexpected news that His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia appointed me a father-confessor of the Russian Olympic team during their stay in Rio de Janeiro," the priest said in his address to the parishioners conveyed to Interfax-Religion.
Head of the patriarchal press service Priest Alexander Volkov also confirmed the information about Father Andrey's appointment to the agency.
Rector of the Butovo Church, where a sport school works, notes that members of the Russian team have experienced "great stress in connection with the notorious developments, which certainly exceeded sport grounds."
"It is certainly important to support them now and all through the period of the Olympic Games. If leaders of the Russian Church blesses clerics and Christian community of our church to participate in it, then such is God's will, and we need to get ready for it, and with proper spiritual attitude to go along the way from August 5 to August 21 - the time of holding the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro," the statement reads.
The priest urges parishioners to pray for Russian athletes "who will have to go through difficult trials."
"Our task is to support them in this complicated affair," he said.


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The Focusrite Group Announces Acquisition of Studio Monitor Company ADAM Audio
British company, The Focusrite Group, which comprises the Focusrite, Focusrite Pro, Novation and Ampify Music brands, announced the acquisition of studio monitor company, ADAM Audio GmbH of Berlin, Germany. The group of companies has recently defined a new growth strategy and adding speakers to their product mix was the first acquisition for The Focusrite Group since going public in 2014. "A clear demonstration of our careful consideration around which brands should join in the Group's mission to 'Remove Barriers to Creativity'", the company states.
July 11, 2019 by Joao Martins
Biamp Systems Accelerates Expansion with Acquisition of Community Loudspeakers and Apart Audio
Biamp Systems, a manufacturer of video and audio networked solutions for commercial audio applications based in Beaverton, Oregon, announced the acquisition of Audioprof Group International, parent company of Community Loudspeakers based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Apart Audio based in Antwerp, Belgium from 3d Investors of Gent, Belgium. The strategic acquisition follows the expansion strategy defined by Rashid Skaf, Biamp's President and CEO, appointed by Highlander Partners, a private investment firm which acquired Biamp in November 2017.
Sennheiser Acquires Majority Stake in VR/AR Audio Software Company Dear Reality
Sennheiser has taken a majority sharehold in Dear Reality GmbH. The German company specialized in spatial audio algorithms and VR/AR audio software will continue to operate as a separate company based in Düsseldorf and Dear Reality confirms that its existing customers will be able to rely on existing dearVR products, while looking forward to new joint VR/AR workflows developed in collaboration with Sennheiser. Uwe Cremering, responsible for AMBEO Immersive Audio at Sennheiser, will support the company as a third CEO alongside founders Achim Fell and Christian Sander.
June 3, 2019 by audioXpress Staff
Infineon to Acquire Cypress Semiconductor Aiming Expanded Growth in Connectivity Technologies
Infineon Technologies AG and Cypress Semiconductor Corporation announced that the companies have signed a definitive agreement under which Infineon will acquire Cypress for US$23.85 per share in cash, corresponding to an enterprise value of €9.0 billion. The transaction is expected to yield €180 million in cost synergies per annum by 2022 and more than €1.5 billion annual revenue synergies in the long-term, the announcement states.
NXP to Acquire Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Connectivity Assets from Marvell
NXP Semiconductors N.V. announced that its wholly owned subsidiary has entered into a definitive agreement with Marvell to acquire Marvell's Wireless Connectivity portfolio in an all-cash, asset transaction valued at $1.76 billion. The acquisition encompasses Marvell's Wi-Fi Connectivity Business Unit, Bluetooth technology portfolio and related assets. NXP expects the acquisition to create new revenue opportunities in its target end markets, including connected devices, automotive and communication infrastructure applications.
SnapAV Acquires Control4 to Create Merged Smart Integration Solutions Business
SnapAV, a leading manufacturer and supplier of A/V, surveillance, networking and remote management products for professional integrators, announced the acquisition of Control4 Corporation, a leading global provider of smart home solutions. The two companies entered into a definitive merger agreement whereby SnapAV will acquire Control4 in an all-cash transaction for $23.91 per share in cash, representing an aggregate value of approximately $680 million. The acquisition is expected to close in the second half of 2019.
Mimi Hearing Technologies Acquires 3D Sound Labs
Mimi Hearing Technologies, a leading company in digital hearing tests and hearing-ability-based sound personalization, has announced the acquisition of French company 3D Sound Labs, the developers of 3D Audio technologies, including a HRTF (Head-Related Transfer Function) personalization service that improves the realism of the audio listening experience. According to Mimi, 3D Sound Labs has the know-how and intellectual property to help them further enhance Mimi Defined, the company's state-of-the-art sound personalization technology.
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Plantronics + Polycom Merger Relaunched as Poly
Following the acquisition of Polycom, confirmed in July 2018, Plantronics, announced that the company will transform into Poly, a technology company focused on the human experience of communications and collaboration, aiming to make communication as rich and natural as in-person. Poly aims to be the solution of choice whenever and wherever collaboration clouds reach people. To connect people, not things, the company motto says.
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Sensory Inc., a Silicon Valley company that pioneered speech recognition and AI in consumer electronics, announced the acquisition of Vocalize.ai, a software tools and services company that performs benchmarking, accuracy assessments and bias evaluations for speech technologies and natural language interfaces. As part of the acquisition, Sensory will maintain Vocalize.ai as an independently operated division.
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Q: about minimal point in non- autonomous discrete system Let $(X,d)$ be a compact metric space.  In $(X,f)$, $x\in X$ is called minimal point if $N(x,U)=\{n|f^{n}(x)\in U\}$ is syndetic for every open set $U$ of $x$ i.e. there is $k\in N$ such that $\forall n\in N$, $N(x, U)\cap [n, n+k]\neq \emptyset$. It is known that $x\in X$ is minimal point if and only if $\omega(x,f)$  is minimal set (if $A\subseteq \omega(x,f)$  is close and $f(A)\subseteq A$ then $A=\omega(x,f)$.)
Cosider non-autonomous discrete system $F=\{f_n\}_{n=0}^{\infty}$,  Similarly $x\in X$ is called minimal point if  $F_n=f_n\circ f_{n-1}\circ \ldots f_1 \circ f_0$ then  $N(x,U)=\{n|F_n(x)\in U\}$ is syndetic for every open set $U$ of $x$
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South Dakota Minimum Wage Earners Will Get a Raise on Jan 1
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I've had a couple of minimum wage jobs in my life. My first 'real' high school job was as a dishwasher where I earned a whopping $3.35 per hour, which was the minimum wage in my state in 1989. By 1995 I was working in a steel shop operating a cutting machine and making $10.59 per hour. I was rolling in the dough, or so I thought!
There's good news for minimum wage workers in South Dakota who will get an automatic raise on January 1, 2021.
The current wage of $9.30 per hour will increase to $9.45.
For reference, the Federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour.
Tipped employees will increase to $4.72 an hour, which is half the minimum wage for non-tipped employees. State law says wages and tips together must equal at least the minimum wage.
Department of Labor Deputy Secretary Dawn Dovre said the minimum wage in South Dakota is annually adjusted by any increase in the cost of living, as measured in the Consumer Price Index published by the U.S. Department of Labor. Dakota News Now reports that this year's increase was 1.3% and is rounded up to the nearest 5 cents.
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FOLLOWING its hugely successful premiere at Royal & Derngate and hit UK tour, The Worst Witch is transferring to the West End – to the Vaudeville Theatre, where it will play for seven weeks over the summer holidays – from July 24 to September 8, 2019, with all tickets for the July 24 performance just £20.
This new story, adapted for the stage from Jill Murphy's original books by Emma Reeves (who won a Royal Television Society Award for Best Children's TV Programme and 2017 British Screenwriters Award for Best Children's Programme for the televised version of The Worst Witch) was launched last November as Royal & Derngate's Made in Northampton 2018 Christmas show.
Kenny Wax Family Entertainment, Novel Theatre and Nica Burns present this Royal & Derngate, Northampton Production, which is directed by Theresa Heskins (2017 UK Theatre Award for Best Show for Children and Young People), designed by Simon Daw (Baskerville, Humble Boy) and has music by Luke Potter (Hetty Feather).
Lighting design is by Aideen Malone (A Monster Calls, London Old Vic/Bristol Old Vic, Peter Pan, National Theatre), sound design by Leigh Davies (Spring Awakening, Hope Mill Theatre, King Lear, Old Vic), aerial direction by Vicki Amedume, choreography by Beverley Norris-Edmunds, and illusions by John Bulleid.
Jill Murphy's The Worst Witch stories have sold more than five million copies and been made into films and TV series by HBO, ITV and CBBC. There are now eight Worst Witch titles. Murphy is also well known for her picture books and was commended for the 1980 Kate Greenaway Medal for Peace At Last.
Five Minute's Peace, the first in her series about the Large Family (of elephants), won the 1987 Parents Magazine Best Books for Babies Award, as well as being shortlisted for the 1986 Children's Book Award. From the same series, All In One Piece was highly commended for the 1987 Kate Greenaway Award and shortlisted for the 1987 Children's Book Award, and A Quiet Night In was short-listed for the Kate Greenaway Medal in 1994.
The Last Noo-Noo won the 0-5 category of the 1995 Smarties Book Prize and in the same year was shortlisted for the English 4-11 Outstanding Children's Book of the Year, going on to win the 1996 Sheffield Children's Book Award. The Last Noo-Noo also won the 1996 Gateshead Gold Award and in the same year was adapted as a play and performed at the Polka Theatre, London.
The Worst Witch is most suitable for ages 7+.
For more information or to book tickets, call the box office on 0330 333 4814 or visit www.nimaxtheatres.com/shows/the-worst-witch/.
Also at the Vaudeville Theatre: Mischief Theatre's Groan Ups (September 20 to December 1) and Magic Goes Wrong (from December 14, 2019).


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Q: html css Vertical list aligning top I'm trying to create a container with 4 columns, on the top theres an image with some text below it.
But it doesnt align towards the top, but bottom
This is the styling for li
#carousel-navigation li {
    list-style: none;
    display: inline-block;
    width: 23%;
    background-color: blue;
}

Here is the fiddle: (the images on the bottom should be on the top instead)
http://jsfiddle.net/G6Jnh/
I'm thinking a table might be easier but it should only be used to display data and not layout they say...

A: You need to add vertical-align property like following:
#carousel-navigation li {
    list-style: none;
    display: inline-block;
    width: 23%;
    background-color: blue;
    vertical-align:top; /* add this */
}

Demo

A: Display the ul as a table and the li as table cells and then use vertical-align as you need to align
#carousel-navigation ul {
    display: table;
}

#carousel-navigation li {
    display: table-cell;
    vertical-align: top;
}

Updated Demo

A: I added a float: left to your styling for the li and it seems to work.


Great presidents born from bad times – Rick Barton shares his thoughts on the newly elected President. If greatness is bestowed upon the American presidents by the seriousness of the problems they face, then the coming months are likely to produce Mount Rushmore-like moments for Barack Obama.
Not since 1932, when Franklin D. Roosevelt prepared to take office amid the depths of the Great Depression, or perhaps since 1860, when little-known prairie lawyer Abraham Lincoln watched powerlessly as a swath of Southern states seceded from the Union, has an incoming president faced such a daunting set of challenges. Is Barack Obama as the new president of the United States of America ready to rise up to the challenges that lay ahead and thence forth be recognized as one of the greatest President of our time?
When we look at these hollow claims that law of necessity is buried forever especially after 20 July, we must analyse as to why there always seem a gap which is filled by our Generals. We need to look at the reasons as to why the country was divided in 1971; corruption allegations always surfaced in civilian rule and military never could hold them accountable as they lacked legitimacy. Musharraf regime despite weak opposition and leaps of dollars could not go nearer to the completion of its seven point's agenda. In fact, he brought the federation to near collapse. Most ironic is the current civilized government who seems an epitome of mal administration where committee chairmen along with anyone coming to Premier house with warnings is deemed fit to be given 'Federal Minister Status.' President house seems to be representing a group amongst one party only than the federation. In these circumstances the slogan or aspiration of rule of law, democracy, justice, and governance seems a wish for the moon. Iftikhar Chowdhary has turned the tide towards the very basic fact that from Karachi to Khyber people demand justice let it be Justice with the state, justice with the nation or justice with the institutions.
Misspelling controversy rehashed: God or Gaad, does it really matter?
On 11th September the newly elected President Asif Ali Zardari paid homage to the Mausoleum of the Father of the Nation in Karachi, all seemed well until reports started trickling in from various sources of a juicy controversy, where our new President had accidentally misspelled a few words here 'n there. The message that appeared in the on the Guest Book placed at the Quaid' Mazar read "May gaad give us the strent to save Pakistan" — Asif Ali Zardari, President, Islamic Republic of Pakistan. This email was also supported by a picture which showed his signature.
Since the past few days the Ministry of Information has been issuing a strong statement to condemn hidden forces in the media to have launched a smear campaign against Asif Ali Zardari, this specific incident took place over 20 days back and the Ministry has suddenly woken up to issue a condemnation, I feel this was pushed through after the global blooper our President committed when he met Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin and had some interesting comments to share which were seen to have been a little awkward and poorly timed for the occasion.
In regards to the misspelling fiasco, a fellow blogger, Farhan, questioned bloggers in general to have been a part of the malicious campaign, in a small way I too must take the blame as my blog did carry a guest post by Silence who humorously poked fun at the English Cracy (sic) of the incident. This could have been a follow up from my own rant which I made on 12th of September where I joked on another twist to the message.
POLL: Who Should Be Pakistan's First Lady?
And now something different and away from 58-2b, Article 17, Iftikhar Chaudhry, Load Shedding, Fata, Aata, who kills our civilians – the Faujis, the Terrorists, the US Army, NATO and the likes. Please vote on who should be Pakistan's new First Lady.
The President's House is huge, Co-chairman of the Hand Written will is an eligible billionaire, and despite the hoopla is a very lonely man.


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The Bible is the bedrock of civilized society
by Warren Nunn
Published: 3 November 2016 (GMT+10)
Thomas Jones Barker, via Wikimedia Commons
The painting of Britain's Queen Victoria presenting an African prince's envoy with a Bible. She wanted to convey how important the Scriptures were as the foundation of British society.
Have you ever stopped to consider just how much positive effect Bible-believing Christianity has had on societies throughout the world? It is also no coincidence that in prosperous nations such as Great Britain, the United States of America, much of Europe, Canada, South Korea and Australia, a significant proportion of society historically embraced biblical Christianity.
Children raised by parents "in the discipline and instruction of the Lord" (Ephesians 6:4) for generations grew up to influence all walks of life, including as business leaders, decision-makers, lawmakers, police and judges, and in the arts and sciences.
Among the things they were taught was that the Bible gave a true history of the world, including:
when and how the world and everything in it was supernaturally created about 6,000 years ago;
how Adam and Eve rebelled against God;
why that rebellion brought sin into the world;
why God judged the world through a global Flood;
how God the Son came to earth as a baby in the person of Jesus Christ;
why Christ died on the Cross to pay the penalty for sin;
how Christ defeated death and rose from the dead;
how people can now be reconciled to the Father by believing in Christ's redemptive act on the Cross;
how Christ will again come to the earth to judge the living and the dead.
When people in the 19th and 20th centuries began to embrace Charles Darwin's evolutionary concepts, there was a gradual turning away from many of the teachings that came from biblical authority. In its place secular thought prevailed in education and—by extension— throughout the media and society. With the secular creation story (evolution) increasingly taught to the exclusion of anything else, this secularization trend has gathered pace in recent decades.
Rather than a majority of people in society being shaped by biblical authority, there is a significant pushback against such influence as parents abandon bringing up children within a Christ-centred worldview.
Praise from unlikely sources
Despite that, some people opposed to the very idea of the God of the Bible actually admit that Christianity has undeniable benefits—particularly in societies where people are desperately poor and oppressed.1
With the secular creation story (evolution) increasingly taught to the exclusion of anything else, this secularization trend has gathered pace in recent decades.
For instance, British historian and author Tom Holland—known for his writings about the ancient world—spoke of a significant turnaround in his thinking:
"Today, even as belief in God fades across the West, the countries that were once collectively known as Christendom continue to bear the stamp of the two-millennia-old revolution that Christianity represents. It is the principal reason why, by and large, most of us who live in post-Christian societies still take for granted that it is nobler to suffer than to inflict suffering. It is why we generally assume that every human life is of equal value. In my morals and ethics, I have learned to accept that I am not Greek or Roman at all, but thoroughly and proudly Christian."2
Holland appears to identify as a cultural Christian rather than a born-again evangelical, but this is still a significant shift because he had previously accepted an interpretation of history that came from Enlightenment writers who claimed that Christianity had ushered in an "age of superstition and credulity".2
But, eventually, that understanding was shattered:
"The longer I spent immersed in the study of classical antiquity, the more alien and unsettling I came to find it. The values of Leonidas, whose people had practised a peculiarly murderous form of eugenics, and trained their young to kill uppity Untermenschen3 by night, were nothing that I recognised as my own; nor were those of Caesar, who was reported to have killed a million Gauls and enslaved a million more. It was not just the extremes of callousness that I came to find shocking, but the lack of a sense that the poor or the weak might have any intrinsic value. As such, the founding conviction of the Enlightenment—that it owed nothing to the faith into which most of its greatest figures had been born—increasingly came to seem to me unsustainable."2
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Tom Holland had a radical change of mind about Christianity's influence on history.
Even atheist Richard Dawkins has voiced concern about the decline of Christianity:
"There are no Christians, as far as I know, blowing up buildings. I am not aware of any Christian suicide bombers. I am not aware of any major Christian denomination that believes the penalty for apostasy is death. I have mixed feelings about the decline of Christianity, in so far as Christianity might be a bulwark against something worse."4
Law and democracy
What Holland and others are at least in part acknowledging is that the Bible—as has been historically recognized—has served as the most important book for the development of both the rule of law and democratic institutions in the Western world.5
The reverse of that is that when the Bible's influence and Christianity is suppressed in atheistic regimes where state power dominates the life and liberty of individuals, the results often inhibit personal freedoms.5
Think of the regimes under Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc. which, in the name of ideologies that rejected biblical principles, carried out mass murder, including on their own citizens.
By contrast, during her reign (1837–1901), Britain's Queen Victoria frequently invoked Christian faith and sent out copies of the Bible "to show how much she values God's Word".6
The sentiment is highlighted in a painting of an imagined scene in which the Queen presents an African ambassador with a Bible.6 The associated explanation—which is not authenticated—is that when questioned on how Britain had become so powerful, the Queen said, on handing him a copy of the Bible, "Tell the Prince that this is the secret of England's greatness".6
Alexis de Tocqueville, the French author, political thinker and historian who visited the United States in 1831, remarked of the young country:
"In France I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom pursuing courses diametrically opposed to each other; but in America I found they were intimately united, and that they reigned in common over the same country".7
Alexis de Tocqueville … impressed by how the Bible benefitted people in America.
Economic prosperity
More recently, some in the Chinese regime have asked questions about Christianity because of the suggested link between faith and economic success.8 At a conference, Chinese CEOs questioned Harvard scholars about the relationship between Christianity and economic prosperity in the United States. According to one report, they did not know how to respond.8 Perhaps those scholars hesitated to answer because of research published in 2003 in which two of the university's scholars made the link between Christianity and economic success in South Korea.9 That conclusion was countered by dissenting voices,10 so it's no surprise that secularized Harvard academics were uncomfortable with addressing questions about Christianity's influence.
When addressing the impact of Christians in Africa, atheist Matthew Parris wrote that it would 'suit him' to believe that the "honesty, diligence and optimism in their work" he saw had no connection with their evident personal faith, but he had to concede that they were undeniably "influenced by a conception of man's place in the Universe that Christianity had taught".11
Vishal Mangalwadi—when he launched his book The Book that Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization—highlighted why many European nations and the USA first prospered and had since declined.12
He said they thrived with biblical Christianity as the bedrock of society and what he described as the 'party of faith' nurtured the West intellectually in terms of education, by establishing schools and universities (think of the many US universities—e.g. Princeton—established on biblical principles, though sadly now mostly temples of secularism).12
But the new 'bedrock' of society now is science, applied and understood only from a non-theistic/materialistic perspective. It dominates education and the media, and is established 'fact' for a majority of people. Even though such a perspective has no logical explanation for such things as good and evil, its adherents will vehemently attack even fellow travellers for questioning its 'materialism-is-fact dogma'.13
At the same time, this 'bedrock' ignores the historical fact that science flourished because of biblically-inspired logic, as historian Peter Harrison has pointed out:
"Had it not been for the rise of the literal interpretation of the Bible and the subsequent appropriation of biblical narratives by early modern scientists, modern science may not have arisen at all. In sum, the Bible and its literal interpretation have played a vital role in the development of Western science."14
As well, this alternative 'bedrock' has no explanations, for example, for why people hijack passenger planes and fly them into buildings, or strap bombs to themselves and detonate them in crowded marketplaces, trains and buses.15
As Mangalwadi noted with the rejection of the Bible as the source of truth, so began the decline of the once-Christian West.12
How can we respond?
Had it not been for the rise of the literal interpretation of the Bible and the subsequent appropriation of biblical narratives by early modern scientists, modern science may not have arisen at all.—Peter Harrison
This is exactly where the world is right now, but we are sure there is an antidote. CMI has often pointed out that Genesis is not only key to the Gospel, it has long been the 'frontline' issue in the battle for biblical authority. Returning to Genesis foundations is critical because it explains that the world only makes sense from a biblical perspective, and why people—such as Hitler—commit atrocities. It provides the reason for death and suffering, counters superstition, addresses depression, answers atheism, and tells us why 'bad' seems 'OK' to some people.
Readers of CMI's materials can be grass roots agents for change by continuing to be involved in creation evangelism firmly based in the foundational teaching in Genesis that leads to the Bible's unfolding revelation.
In short, the antidote to the hopelessness of evolutionary secularism is the ultimate hope we find in Jesus Christ, revealed in the Bible, which also tells us God is omnipotent, all-powerful, and a God of love. He performs miracles, and He speaks to us through His Word. We have reason to love this God. We have reason to trust and to worship this God.16
And, above all, we have a reason to hope:
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. (2 Peter 3:9)
Which bedrock would you choose?
The Christian foundations of the rule of law in the West
Genesis—the seedbed of all Christian doctrine
Unfolding the plan
The Lawgiver is the biblical Creator God
Atheists credit the Gospel
Thomas Nagel—The atheist who dared to question materialism
A troubling thesis—Nicholas Wade pushes an old view of the origin of races
"A shadow of disbelief is still thick over me"
The authority of Scripture
Entry-level Christian teaching should include biblical creation
End-times and Early-times
Who is the god of evolution—and can he be trusted?
Why did God give us a book?
What would we know about creation if we only had the New Testament?
What the Bible says about the Age of the Earth
Catchpoole, D., Atheists credit the Gospel, Creation 32(4):48–49, October 2010; creation.com/atheists-credit. Return to text.
Holland, T., Why I was wrong about Christianity, newstatesman.com, September 2016. Return to text.
It's interesting that Holland uses Untermenschen (subhumans); this is the term the Nazis used to describe 'inferior' people who were not worthy to survive competition with 'superior' ones. They made no secret of the fact that their ideology was driven by a passionate belief in evolution (for details, search Nazi on creation.com). Return to text.
Gledhill, R., Scandal and schism leave Christians praying for a 'new Reformation', thetimes.co.uk, April 2010. Return to text.
Zimmermann, A., The Christian foundations of the rule of law in the West: a legacy of liberty and resistance against tyranny, J. Creation 19(2):67–73, August 2005; creation.com/christianlaw. Return to text.
'The Secret of England's Greatness' (Queen Victoria presenting a Bible in the Audience Chamber at Windsor), npg.org.uk; accessed May 2015. Return to text.
Aikman, D., The Delusion of Disbelief: Why the New Atheism is a Threat to Your Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness, Tyndale House, Illinois, p.106, 2008. Return to text.
Vu, M.A., Scholar: China Notices Link Between Christianity, U.S. Economic Success, christianpost.com, May 2011; accessed July 2015. Return to text.
Barro, R.J. and McCleary, R.M., Religion and Economic Growth across Countries, Am. Sociol. Rev. 68(5):760-781, October 2003 | doi.org/10.2307/1519761. Return to text.
Durlauf, S.N., Kourtellos, A., Ming Tan, C., Is God in the details? A reexamination of the role of religion in economic growth, J. App. Econometrics 27(7):1059–1075, November/December 2012 | doi: 10.1002/jae.1245. Return to text.
Parris, M., As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God, The Times Online, timesonline.co.uk, December 2008; accessed July 2015. Return to text.
Dr Vishal Mangalwadi: The Book that made your world, youtube.com, June 2011. Return to text.
Nunn, W., Thomas Nagel—The atheist who dared to question materialism, March 2014; creation.com/nagel-materialism. Return to text.
Harrison, P., The Bible and the rise of science, Australasian Science 23(3):14–15, 2002. Return to text.
Catchpoole, D., Evolution—the ultimate antidote to spirituality, Creation 30(3):48–49, June 2008; creation.com/evolution-antidote. Return to text.
McCall, P., Who is the god of evolution and can he be trusted?, Creation 13(1):36–38, December 1990; creation.com/who-is-god-of-evolution. Return to text.
The Genesis Account
by Jonathan Sarfati
mobi (Kindle) epub (ebook) Hard cover
The True Story of the World
by Russell Grigg
Evidence for the Bible
by Clive Anderson and Brian Edwards
The Christian Roots of Science
Creation Evangelism: Sharing Your Faith
One Human Family
by Dr Carl Wieland
epub (ebook) Soft cover
How Did We Get Our Bible?
by Lita Cosner, Gary Bates
epub (ebook)
Dinosaurs & The Bible
Roger G.
AU November 8th, 2016
This article is very helpful in condensing a subject down into one small reading, that the Bible is the bedrock of civilised society. The ref 12 mentions Dr Vishal Mangalwadi: The Book that made your world, youtube.com, June 2011. I found that the book itself is a "must read" for anyone historically oriented, who seeks to understand why our western society happened to become what it is, and how the same civilising influence did not happen in other societies, like China or India. An unusual thing is that it is not written by a westerner, but someone from India. The article title is true, but it has been left to an Easterner to tell the Western world what is so obvious to those who have eyes to see, that, The Bible is the bedrock of civilized society.
Milton C.
This is in my view a balanced view of the social and political impact of the Bible beyond the church that holds it dear. Many may criticize some members of the church, and rightly so, but the Bible itself paints it the way it is; so that heroes are also shown for their frailty because it is an honest real life book.
Philip R.
AU November 3rd, 2016
There is a new video series out (which I haven't seen yet) called Jesus the Game Changer which also talks about how Jesus has changed the world. It includes interviews with Vishal Mangalwadi and Rodney Stark. In an interview, Karl Faase, whose organisation produced it, mentioned that one secular academic they were unable to interview was Larry Siedentop, whose book Inventing the Individual: the Origins of Western Liberalism he said is also very worthwhile on this topic.
Gina T.
NZ November 2nd, 2016
Very, very good article. Thank you! I shall send it to as many people as I can think of! When I was reading the article, it occurred to me the many strongholds that the Bible has brought to its knees through the ages - including Pagan Rome with its crucifixions, slavery and amphitheaters; the monster of the Dark Ages with its vile persecution of those who dared to stand against it; the slave trade in Britain and the US; the practice of suttee in India (murder/suicide of widows); the law of utu in old New Zealand (and throughout the entire South Pacific); and not to forget the Bible's intrinsic part in the emergence of the democracy which we in the West enjoy so much. I challenge any atheist to find an institution, instruction book or anything else that comes anywhere near the Bible's record in bringing peace and prosperity to humanity. They simply won't.


I was not able to run this weekend, as my husband went out of town to a bachelor's party for his friend. By the time he got home Sunday night, I was to tired from running after three kids to go running for myself. When we got home tonight, I said I was going for a run as soon as he was done with the elliptical.
-It is not advisable to try to cross one of the main roads at a minor intersection. I had to double back to the intersection controlled by the light, as there was just never a break in traffic, and I though it was not advisable to cross in the dark!
-All of the houses on one street in our new subdivision use the exact same Christmas decorations. They are pretty, but by the time you've seen 4-5 houses, it just gets boring.
-Apparently emergency vehicles in our town can make all of the lights at an intersection stay red except in the direction they are approaching. I spent a very long time jogging in place while waiting for them to go through, and then through a whole new light cycle. Next time I'll just turn around and run towards the other intersection.
-There were more people out running after dark than I expected! We live in a very safe neighborhood, and it gets dark early now in the winter, but I still expected to have the sidewalk mostly to myself. It was nice to see so many other people out for a run!


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This is excellent with awesome imagination. Hobbit, I'm sorry, don't know how I missed it when voting, it deserves a cup.
hobbit I can't help think you are symbolising a fairytale story. Ive added it to my favourites. Let us know if it follows a known fairytale. My memory isn't what it was.


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