LAS VEGAS – Antonio Tarver talked plenty of trash in the days leading up to his rematch with Roy Jones Jr.
Last night he brought plenty of punch to back it up – one punch to be exact, a devastating overhand left that knocked out Roy Jones in the second round.
Tarver, who'd hardly thrown a punch up to that point, landed a hard left solid on Jones' jaw, sending Jones flying halfway out of the ring. Obviously dazed, Jones couldn't regain his feet before being counted out at 1:41 of the round.
It was only the second loss in 51 fights for Jones, and the first time he'd been seriously hurt.
In scoring the 18th knockout of his career, Tarver (22-2) regained the WBC light-heavyweight championship he'd lost on a controversial decision to Jones last November, and also added the IBO's version to his collection.
Jones, who said poor conditioning and lack of focus contributed to his lackluster showing in November, had no excuses. He weighed in a tight 174 pounds and was stone-faced when he entered the ring. Tarver, meanwhile, was smiling and bouncing to his them music "Chicken Roy" as he entered.
Tarver had predicted, "between [rounds] six and eight, I'll decide his fate." It took just two.
Both fighters were cautious early with Jones landing just enough light punches to claim the first round. The second round started with the same pawing and Jones occasionally targeting Tarver's body. Unlike the first fight, where Jones spent much of time covering himself along the ropes, the two stayed in the middle of the ring.
The finishing segment began with the two missing hooks, including a right from Jones that grazed Tarver. The lanky southpaw came with his counter punch, the left that landed flush on Jones' chin, sending him down.
Last night's rematch was needed to settle several lingering questions surrounding their first fight in the same ring last November. Tarver, defending the WBC and IBF titles, gave Jones the toughest fight of his career, but lost a majority decision. Tarver felt he was robbed. The crowd loudly booed the scoring by the judges: 114-114, 117-111 and 116-112.
Jones admitted his performance in that first fight was "lackluster," and blamed his fatigue on having to lose 24 pounds of muscle to get down to the 175-pound weight limit.
Jones, who earned $6.2 million last night to Tarver's $2 million, has said he'd like to fight at least one heavyweight either, Mike Tyson or Vitali Klitschko, before retiring. But yesterday, Tito Trinidad announced he'd like to meet Jones sometime next spring. How's last night's outcome affects those plans remains to be seen.
Trinidad was in Las Vegas to announce his first fight after two years will be Oct. 2 against Ricardo Mayorga at a site to be determined.
* Brooklyn's Zab Judah won a 12-round split decision over Rafael Pineda of Columbia to win the WBO Intercontinental Welterweight Championship.
* Victor Burgos of Mexico retained his IBF junior flyweight championship with a sixth-round knockout over Fahlan Sakkreerin of Thailand.
* Philadelphia heavyweight Gerald Nobles remained unbeaten with a ninth-round knockout over former champion Bruce Seldon.


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The considerable amount of land required by Lidl for its planned distribution centre in Malta is holding up the project, according to Economy Minister Chris Cardona.
The news is not bad for all stakeholders: in fact it will be welcomed by local importers, according to sources, who are now cautiously optimistic that the project will slowly die.
Although the project was touted as a regional distribution centre, local importers were concerned about how it would tie in to Lidl's local stores. Many of them were deeply unhappy that the German retailer might end up paying less than commercial rates for a warehouse – which would then be used to supply their operators in Malta, giving Lidl a competitive advantage which would hurt their operations.
When the minister had announced the project in March 2017 during one of a series of the government's public outreach events, he had focused not on importers but on local producers.
Dr Cardona had projected that within three years, Lidl would increase the value of products it purchased from Maltese manufacturers from €3 million to €22 million, with most of these products destined for export.
However, sources familiar with the talks were also sceptical about this claim.
"If Lidl wants to buy from local producers for export, there is nothing to stop them from doing so now. The distribution centre would make no difference," he said.
The deal with Malta Enterprise and Malta Industrial Parks would create more than 120 jobs, according to Dr Cardona, which the sources said was also irrelevant in a scenario where the challenge for the country was filling vacancies and not creating more jobs.
"And you have to ask what level of jobs these would have been," he said.
However, when asked in parliament by Nationalist MP Chris Said for an update recently, Dr Cardona replied that the viability of the project depended on having a substantial amount of land.
Dr Cardona said that discussions were under way between the two parties but the sources close to local importers said that they were sceptical that a solution would be found after all this time.


LAHORE: Funeral prayers for Kulsoom Nawaz, wife of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, have been offered at Sharif Medical City Raiwind on Friday.
Renowned scholar Maulana Tariq Jameel led the funeral prayers.
Following the funeral prayers, the former first lady was laid to rest in Jati Umra next to the resting place of her father-in-law Mian Sharif.
Relatives, politicians, celebrities and hundreds of party worker attended the funeral rites.
Punjab Governor Chaudhry Sarwar, National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leaders Khursheed Shah, Qamar Zaman Kaira, MQM-P leader Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, Farooq Sattar, Mehmood Khan Azhakzai, Punjab Assembly speaker Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi and PML-Q leader Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain were also present at the funeral rites of Begum Kulsoom Nawaz.
The former first lady's body was flown back to Pakistan on a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight from Heathrow Airport for Lahore Thursday night.
Kulsoom Nawaz died of cancer in London's Harley Street clinic on Wednesday. She had been battling with lymphoma (throat) cancer since August 2017.
Hassan and Hussain have decided not to attend the funeral rites of their mother in Pakistan as they are declared absconders from the on going corruption investigation against them.
Nawaz Sharif, daughter Maryam and son-in-law Capt (retd) Safdar have been released from Adiala jail on parole for the funeral rites of Kulsoom Nawaz.
A large number of political leaders and party workers are gathered at the Jati Umra to condole the death of the former first lady.
Earlier, Prime Minister Imran Khan and Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa has sent their condolences messages to the Sharif family over demise of Kulsoom Nawaz.


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"Every man, woman, and child on Nathema died that day. Every beast, bird, and fish; all the insects and plants; every living being touched by the Force was consumed. When the ritual ended, Nathema was no longer a world. It was a husk sucked dry. Lord Vitiate sacrificed millions, stealing their life force to make himself immortal."
The Ritual of Nathema was the name given by historians of the reconstituted Sith Empire to the event in 4999 BBY, in which the Sith Lord Vitiate performed a dark ritual that stripped the Force itself from the entire planet of Nathema. While Imperial historians saw it as one of the greatest achievements in the history of the Old Sith Empire, the Ritual was actually the result of Vitiate's mental enslavement of over eight thousand Sith Lords. He forced them to participate in the Sith magic that killed every living thing on Nathema and rendered himself immortal.
"But in the aftermath of the war—after our defeat at the hands of the Republic and our flight to escape the massacre of our people by the Jedi—he emerged from his solitude to call a great council of all the Sith Lords who remained."
In 5000 BBY, the Sith Empire was destroyed by the Galactic Republic in the Great Hyperspace War, and the people of the Empire were terrified that the Republic and their Jedi protectors would not stop until the entire Sith species was wiped out. Supreme Chancellor Pultimo was in the process of orchestrating a purge of the remnants of the Empire, and the Sith Lord Vitiate chose to take advantage of the people's fear. Broadcasting speeches across the Empire that described how the Jedi would not rest until the Sith were destroyed, Vitiate stoked the Empire's terror and then offered them hope: arriving on the planet Korriban, Vitiate sent out a call for all of the remaining Sith Lords to meet with him on his world Nathema, where he promised to lead them in a powerful ritual of Sith magic that would ensure the Jedi Order's destruction. However, Vitiate ordered his scientists and researchers to locate a world upon which the Empire could rebuild without fear of the Jedi following.
"He turned them into slaves to his will, forcing them to participate in the most complex ritual of Sith sorcery ever attempted. Calling on the dark side, Lord Vitiate devoured them. He fed on their power, absorbing it into himself, utterly obliterating all traces of his victims."
In 4999 BBY, not long after he returned to Nathema, Vitiate was informed by the head researcher that they had discovered a hyperlane connecting Korriban and the long-lost colony world of Dromund Kaas. Three days later, Vitiate announced the commencement of his ritual, and eight thousand Sith Lords answered his call, including the surviving members of the Empire's ruling Sith Council. However, as each Sith arrived at his palace, Vitiate dominated their minds and bound their wills to his own, placing their strength at his disposal. He then began the ritual itself, which took ten days to perform. To achieve his goal, Vitiate used the central computer of Zildrog, an ancient superweapon from the artificial world of Iokath that specialized in the transfer of life energies, to empower himself at the cost consuming the life force of every living thing on the planet. The combined power conferred immortality upon Vitiate, granting him immense strength in the Force at the expense of the entire world.
"He lured many Sith Lords here before consuming them in a dark ritual that wiped out all life on the planet."
The only species on Nathema that survived the cataclysm were the voreclaw, semi-sentient insectoid bipeds who lived underground. The voreclaw hive mind was obliterated by the ritual, leaving their colonies nothing more than groups of mindless individuals, who eventually emerged onto the surface driven by the hunger. In the utter absence of any other food, the creatures turned to cannibalism, attacking and eating each other until Vitiate captured the few remaining survivors and stored them in carbonite beneath the Sanitarium. As a result of the Ritual, Nathema was left entirely devoid of the Force, and the physical environment of the planet itself was warped. Color seemed to have leeched from reality to those who stood on its surface, and the planet's orange sun appeared to be a dull brown when viewed through the atmosphere. The newly immortal Vitiate shed his mortal identity and took on the title of Sith Emperor, blaming the devastation of Nathema on the Jedi. He then proceeded to gather the younger generation of the Empire's people before embarking on a twenty-year odyssey from Korriban to Dromund Kaas. After reconstituting the Empire on Dromund Kaas, the Emperor purged all navigation data relating to Nathema in order to ensure that no one discovered the truth of Nathema's fate.
However, members of the Empire's ruling Dark Council eventually discovered the planet's existence and history over a thousand years after the Ritual, and they began a conspiracy to unseat the Emperor and ensure he would never commit such a crime again. The conspiracy was destroyed, however, and by the time of the Great Galactic War with the Republic three centuries later, the Ritual of Nathema was celebrated by Imperial historians as a great achievement. The historians were unaware of the actual events of the Ritual, believing that the other Sith Lords had willingly sacrificed their strength on the Emperor's behalf. The Sith Lord Scourge, who had visited Nathema and learned the truth of the Emperor's rise from the conspirator Darth Nyriss, dedicated himself to preventing the Emperor from performing the Sith ritual on a galactic scale during the Galactic War between the Republic and the Empire, and he informed the Jedi High Council of the Ritual's history in order to convince them of his sincerity.
Vitiate meanwhile continued to use Nathema for his own purposes, as unknown to the Sith and the Dark Council he also secretly build another Eternal Empire on the Wild Space planet of Zakuul under the name Valkorion. Vitiate maintained a Sanitarium on Nathema, in which powerful Force-users who opposed him could be experimented upon, unable to draw on the Force to escape or resist. The Sanitarium was guarded by Nathema Zealots, a secretive group of powerful Force-sensitives able to withstand the horrors of the void in the Force through a regime of daily and intense rituals and meditation. Vitiate kept the holocron with the essence of his father Dramath in the vault beneath the Sanitarium, while another vault under an ancient Sith temple housed Zildrog, whom Vitiate had deactivate after the ritual. Vitiate lived for over thirteen hundred years by moving his consciousness between the host bodies, but around 3630 BBY his spirit was finally destroyed by the combined efforts of the Commander of the Eternal Alliance and Valkorion's biological children, Arcann and Vaylin. His death had a profound effect on Nathema, as the previously lifeless world was miraculously revitalized within a short time. Force-users no longer felt the unsettling "wrongness" upon setting foot on the planet, the air had become fresher, and the weather more dynamic. Most importantly, vibrant plant life from seeds left in the soil had not only taken root but flourished, dramatically altering the planet's once-desolate landscape. Escaped experiments from the Sanitarium gave Nathema some semblance of animal life, while surviving Zealots began settling in the abandoned wilds. Though Nathema had returned to life, experts were unable to determine any precise environmental mechanism that could have brought about such an abrupt change.
The Ritual of Nathema was first described in Drew Karpyshyn's 2011 novel The Old Republic: Revan, though it was not given a proper name until the release of the BioWare–LucasArts video game Star Wars: The Old Republic later that year. One of the in-game Datacrons, holocron-like devices that grant players permanent stat boosts, can be located in the Gorinth Canyon region on the Empire's version of Balmorra, and the corresponding Galactic History entry for the in-game Codex describes the Empire's account of the Ritual of Nathema. The Ritual is also mentioned in the Jedi Knight class mission "An Unthinkable Alliance" during the game, though Lord Scourge does not identify the planet's name.
The Journal of Master Gnost-Dural, a reference book released alongside the game, features Jedi Master Gnost-Dural's investigations into the history of the Emperor, though he was unable to determine exactly what occurred on Nathema. The 2012 reference guide The Essential Reader's Companion mentioned the event during its summary of Karpyshyn's novel, and the Star Wars: The Old Republic Encyclopedia also featured a mention of the Ritual. Nathema was later featured in the game's Knights of the Eternal Throne expansion, in which the story of the Ritual was relayed once more by Force spirit of Vitiate's father Dramath. An update set after Vitiate's final death revisited the planet in "The Nathema Conspiracy" flashpoint, which added to the backstory of the Ritual by revealing Zildrog's involvement and showed the void in the Force dissipating and the planet returning to life, indicating that the effects of the Ritual were not irreversible, but lasted only for as long as Vitiate continued to draw his power from Nathema.
Star Wars: The Old Republic—Codex Entry: "Zildrog"
Star Wars: The Old Republic—Codex Entry: "Galactic History 31: The Ritual of Nathema"
Star Wars: The Old Republic—Codex Entry: "Galactic History 30: Rise of the Sith Emperor"
Star Wars: The Old Republic: Knights of the Eternal Throne—Codex Entry: "Voreclaw"
Star Wars: The Old Republic: Knights of the Eternal Throne—Codex Entry: "The Sanitarium"
Star Wars: The Old Republic: Knights of the Eternal Throne—Codex Entry: "Nathema Zealots"
Star Wars: The Old Republic: Knights of the Fallen Empire—Codex Entry: "Valkorion"
Star Wars: The Old Republic—Codex Entry: "Nathema Reborn"
Star Wars: The Old Republic—Codex Entry: "Zealots Without a Master"


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« Reply #120 on: June 03, 2013, 03:48:51 PM »
Babe the Ox was a good episode, I especially liked Joel's enthusiasm. I also liked the legend too of Paul Bunyan, very interesting and one of the better legends of Season 2. I also remember the temple games being a tad one sided, where Dorothy kind of sucked in her game, but Joel excelled in his. The win is also a tad overrated, for the same reasons you stated. But I still find Joel a respectable contestant and he deserved his win. At least he had some objectives in there, even though he sort of struggled with them. I definitely prefer Joel over Paula, Shane, Bobby, and Mitchell any day.
Overall, great review. I can't wait until you post your player rankings of Babe the Ox and the whole production day. I'll probably rank Discarded Seal next, I'll post it here sometime tonight. And PS, the Silver Snakes beat the Green Monkeys 1.5-0.5, not 1.5-1.
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Yes, I definitely take Joel over Shane, Bobby, Mitchell, Paula, Yakerra, and the kids. And I think he would win at any layout in S2 too. Joel was very strong in this episode - got across the moat his first try, answered all three questions in the Steps, dominated his own temple game, and had a pretty strong temple performance. His final player score will probably be the highest out of all the teams that day. I will probably post by player rankings by tonight. I still need to sit through Ahmed Baba and Ivory Elephant, which are a borefest. *yawns*
And I definitely can't wait until your Ivan the Terrible review. I will save the details on that one for you to post. But I love that episode and I hope your final score of it is just as good as the final score I have in mind. There are three episodes that I have in mind that I want to do next too - Mummified Hand, Ahmed Baba, or Alhambra. I am interested in seeing if Alhambra ranks as the worst episode on the show. And it will have to be done sooner or later. But I think I will do Mummified Hand next because I have been wanting to do it for a long time.
Here it is, my review on "The Discarded Seal of Ivan the Terrible."
THE DISCARDED SEAL OF IVAN THE TERRIBLE
MOAT: 8/10
For this moat, the players had to cross by balancing on three islands and a plank. If you fell into the water, you had to start all over again. This was a pretty exciting round, and none of the teams had much trouble at all. The Orange Iguanas finished first, and the Green Monkeys finished last.
LEGEND: 7/10
The legend was about Ivan the Terrible, who wanted to change his name and stray away from his old name "Ivan the Kind." Ivan and advisor Krankoff kept thinking of names like "Ivan the Horrible," "Ivan the Miserable," etc. to which Ivan said "That's terrible." It was then Ivan declared "That's it!" and the name stuck. Naturally, he needed a new seal made and gave Krankoff the old seal as a souvenir. This was a decent legend in my opinion. I know it sounds lame to revolve a legend around name changing, but it was executed in a humorous way where it wasn't a total waste.
STEPS OF KNOWLEDGE: 8/10
The Steps of Knowledge were a good round, and just about all the teams were smart the whole way through. The only wrong answer was given by the Purple Parrots, where they thought Ivan the Terrible wanted "to change his attitude" as opposed to "change his name." Nonetheless, the Green Monkeys eventually joined the Orange Iguanas on the final step.
TEMPLE GAMES: 8/10
The temple games were an awesome match, with the Green Monkeys absolutely destroying the Orange Iguanas. In the first game, Elisa and Ashley had to spell out the "Terrible" in "Ivan the Terrible." Elisa beat out Ashley before the 60 seconds were up, as Ashley could only spell "Terrib." In the second game, Travis and Jimmy had to knock over Pizzaro's soldiers. Both players did well in this game, but Travis beat out Jimmy with about 10 seconds to go. In the final game, the teams had to throw rings at their partner, and rebuild the onion domes. The game was AGAIN finished before time ended and the Green Monkeys sweep the Orange Iguanas and go to the temple with 2 pendants! Literally all three games ended just before time ran out, and it was a temple game sweep by Travis and Elisa. That's amazing.
TEMPLE RUN: 9/10
This was by far the hardest layout in the shows history. Travis and Elisa were both fast and smart, didn't hesitate once, and STILL lost. Travis was one of the very few people to get back on the platform, and he breezed through the rest of the bottom floor with no trouble at all. He was removed from the temple in the Shrine, two rooms away from the Discarded Seal, with 1:15 left on the clock. Elisa goes in and blazes through his partners removal, assembls the monkey in quick fashion, and makes it to the Room of the Ancient Warriors with time ticking down. Unfortunately, a third temple guard was waiting there and totally stalls Elisa. Needless to say, her time ends as she tries the last armor. Stupid temple guard and crushing any chance this team had at reaching the Discarded Seal. I do love how when the credits roll, Elisa is still spinning around in one of the armors. And she's totally laughing it off too. Good to know she was a good sport about losing the way that she did.
FINAL VERDICT: 8/10
This was a great episode from beginning to end, and it was the first episode I ever saw on YouTube from a long time ago. And I've seen this one a million times, so it was easy for me to review this episode all from memory. Every round featured solid competition and I loved Elisa's enthusiasm throughout the whole episode. Especially during the temple run when she was cheering for Travis from the sidelines. It's such a shame this team lost, and I can't believe the production crew gave them a layout this impossible. If Travis and Elisa were given say.... Bent Shaving Pan's layout, they would've won for sure. I definitely recommend a rewatch of this episode, it's totally worth it.
« Last Edit: June 03, 2013, 11:35:14 PM by Purple Parrots Fan »
You pretty much came up with the final score that I would've came up for this episode. "Ivan the Terrible" is a classic episode and the Green Monkeys were a great team. The moat was pretty creative and I think this was the only moat during that production day that was quick. I don't think any of the teams fell in? The legend was also pretty humorous and unusual at that. I didn't really expect this legend to be about how Ivan the Kind became Ivan the Terrible. The conversation between Ivan and Krankov was pretty witty too, although I expected more from the legend.
The temple games were very fun for Elisa's enthusiasm and the Green Monkeys dominance. It was actually nice to see the Orange Iguanas get dominated for once since they had very few temple game losses on the show. And it was a good feat also for Travis and Elisa to finish every single one of their games because normally each of those games they used are ones that you never see completed. The other episodes that day sure didn't have all their temple games completed. Unfortunately, Travis and Elisa got stuck in a production day where the producers decided to not give a grand prize out. Seriously, that layout was hard as hell. The Green Monkeys were a flawless team in the temple - Travis made it back to the platform, both players moved fast, and Elisa covered his path very well. They were so close to the Discarded Seal, but that last guard stalled Elisa and the ending was a heartbreaker. Too bad, they would've won on any other layout of S3 most likely. I honestly wouldn't have mind if you gave the temple run a 10 because it was a flawless performance and exciting and memorable experience.
Overall, "Ivan the Terrible" is the best episode to end in a loss. Either that one, Polynesian Girl, or Henry Morgan were the best episodes ending in a loss. I liked this one the most due to flawless and dominating performance throughout the episode. And do not believe what people have to say about Elisa being a blabbermouth either. Her enthusiasm was authentic and this episode was great. I would recommend this episode too.
So it looks like Billy the Kid next for you? My plan is to either do "Mummified Hand" or "Alhambra" next. I still need to finish Ahmed Baba and Ivory Elephant for my player rankings, but I got stalled with something else. And both of those are boring that it is kind of hard wanting to watch them. Also, I changed the score for "Captain John Smith" and gave it a lower one. Likewise, I raised the score for "The Trojan Horseshoe" a little bit too.
Yeah, I'm doing Billy the Kid next, but I'll let you rank an episode next, since it is your turn. And good luck ranking Tall Turban and Ivory Elephant, I assume you'll have them up very soon. I already have an idea of how Joel will do, but I still want to see how Shane and Jamie rank. I know this seems like a lot to do, but it will be worth a read through at the end.
It's actually not too time consuming at all. It usually takes an hour at most to do the player rankings, and about 45 minute at most to do the episode ones. The only thing that would keep me interested in Ahmed Baba is to see how Shane and Jackie rank altogether. Other than that, I always felt that episode was so boring and plain average.
And I think I am going to do Alhambra next too and do Mummified Hand afterwards. Since Alhambra is considered the worst episode ever around here, I am interested in how it ranks. And I can knock out a shitfest at the same time. Although I think that Bifocal Monocle will rank lower than Alhambra, but I am not touching that one anytime soon.
Shane and Jamie you mean?
And I'm not touching Bifocal Monocle either. That's on my black list, and I swore never to watch it again. But I'd love to see if Alhambra is truly the worst episode ever. Whether or not your rating of it decides that, I still consider it the worst and is also on my black list.
Well, I finally completed the dread "Alhambra" episode review. All I have to say that I am glad to get this episode over with. I am sure the score won't disappoint anyone.
THE KEYS TO THE ALHAMBRA
This had to be the most blandest moat ever used on the show. Basically, the first player had to swim across the moat with a rope in their hands and tie the rope around the pole. The second player then had to cross by using the rope over their head. The moat moved by pretty quick, which is expected for such an uninspiring moat. The Silver Snakes rang in first while the other three teams followed close behind.
Alhambra was a beautiful palace that was located in the Moors of Spain. The legend talks about a young Queen Isabella and her husband who ruled most of Spain, except for an area south of the Moors. Queen Isabella wanted the mythical jewels and treasures of Alhambra, so she battled for it for 10 years before the King gave her the Keys to it. According to the legend, the Alhambra was designed by a magician and only an individual can only unlock the treasures of Alhambra if they are pure of heart. Isabella tried unlocking every room of the temple, before she threw away the Keys...
The legend was pretty boring this episode, but it wasn't terrible like some of the other S1 legends. The legend tried to fit so many things in a 2 minute segment though. Like the part of the magician casting a spell over Alhambra felt like it was randomly thrown in to make it more interesting. Plus, the artifact was pretty lame too.
STEPS OF KNOWLEDGE: 2.5/10
The Steps of Knowledge was pretty uneventful like the legend. The Red Jaguars got 3 questions answered correctly within the first four questions asked. The Silver Snakes were bad at this Steps too. They got two questions incorrectly, but they still moved onto the temple games. There was no form of excitement either during this round and Kirk and Olmec sounded awkward. Furthermore, a majority of the questions asked had nothing to do with the actual legend.
The temple games featured the Silver Snakes pitted against the Red Jaguars. There was Steve, 14, and Lisa, 13, of the Red Jaguars; and Rodney, 14, and Leslie, 14, of the Silver Snakes. That's right, no personal interview questions in this episode. This temple game round is pretty infamous for the Red Jaguars lucking out in their last temple game and winning the tiebreaker due to the Silver Snakes answering incorrectly. The temple games themselves were lackluster in performance anyways.
Temple Game #1 - Decorate Alhambra
In the first temple game, Leslie and Leah had to climb up the wall and place pieces of tile to decorate Alhambra. While the concept for this game was interesting, I hated the rules used behind it. The girls had to align the patterns correctly on the tiles for it to count. Why were they so picky on this rule in S1? Oh well, Leslie won this temple game within the last few seconds while Lisa was getting ready to put her final piece up.
Temple Game #2 - Unlock Alhambra's Doors
Steve and Rodney had to climb up a slippery water slide with keys on their head. At the top of the water slides were three key holes where they must place their keys. The player that gets the most keys into their correct holes will be the winner. Rodney won this temple game rather easily and Steve kind of just gave up on getting his last key to the top. He even dropped his key while trying to climb up. And you can tell that Rodney was not completing the games while on his knees. He was walking of the slope with his feet. I am surprised Kirk didn't catch this?
Temple Game #3 - Attack on Alhambra
Okay, the premise of this game made no sense. One player was suppose to be Isabella from the legend and one is suppose to be the King of Alhambra? And the King of Alhambra is suppose to catch the balls? Weren't they enemies? Basically, the female players had to throw velcro balls at their partners while their partners must catch them with their bodies. The Red Jaguars win the final temple game and force the first ever tiebreaker.
The tiebreaker in this episode was a load of crap. The Silver Snakes answered Kirk's tiebreaker question incorrectly, so that automatically means that the Red Jaguars go to the temple?! Season 1 had so many flaws, and this one of the glaring ones that was luckily fixed in later seasons. I know it's not Lisa and Steve's fault for the tiebreaker working this way. But the way they went to the temple was a load of crap. They only won their final temple game and then go to the temple with the other team who was more dominant getting the answer wrong? This temple appearance was handed to them on a Silver Platter!
Brace yourself everyone, you are about to witness one of the worst temple runs on the whole show. The first 30 seconds of the run is fine, but everything goes downhill after that. Steve was one of the fastest runners on the show, and he made it through his fifth room in under 30 seconds (granted his path was incredibly simple). Leah, on the other hand, was quite the worst second runner either. She had 2:30 to herself and doesn't even make any progress towards the artifact. When she makes her way into the Tomb of the Ancient Kings, the golden door to the Shrine doesn't seem to open when she tries it out. So she spends the next two minutes screwing around the temple and backtracking to the entrance. Yes Lisa, running into the room you entered will sure make you progress. In the end, she just spent 2:30 running around and only entered one new room - the Heart Room. And that was not even progress towards the artifact.
Furthermore, Kirk Fogg was extremely annoying in this temple run. His commentary was so annoying and didn't make any sense. He called Lisa a "cool customer" and said then said that "she pulled her socks up because she is a cool". What is wrong with you Kirk? His lamest line though was when he said "They are tangled, oh what a might web we've weaved" when Lisa was in the Spider's Lair. Apparently, both Lisa AND Kirk needed to get it together in this run. I was originally going to give the temple run a higher score due to Steve and feeling a little bad for Lisa who got confused in the Tomb of the Ancient Kings. Then I felt like the lowest score possible was fitting for one of the worst temple runners on the show. What a pathetic and sad attempt.
FINAL VERDICT: 2.7/10
This episode is often labeled as one of the worst episodes on the whole show by the Legends fanbase. And you know what? Listen to what the fans sAY! I really think this is the worst episode ever aired on the show. There is nothing good or redeemable about this episode at all. You could try to find something, but it would probably be something trivial. Steve and Leah are the poster child of an undeserving temple team. They didn't help their case when they blew their load in the temple! As a Red Jaguars fan, not only am I embarrassed what these two did to my team, but I am also embarrassed on what they did to my favorite game show. The only reason to ever watch this episode is for completion! Otherwise, stay away from it and you will thank me too for that!
Wow, only a 2.7? Fuck. This really is the worst episode ever, and your review just reminded me all over again why I always skip it. I've only seen the full episode twice, and I don't intend on watching it ever again, not even for player rankings. This is why I hate the Red Jaguars, their episodes are always my least favorite. I'm not sure how much better the Silver Snakes would've fared, but they probably wouldn't have been as pathetic as Lisa was. If only they didn't choke at the tiebreaker.
Well, here's another review for you guys. I've decided to switch gears and do "The Broken Wing if Icarus" instead.
THE BROKEN WING OF ICARUS
In this moat, the players had to swing across using a rope. Much like they did in the Enormous Ring episode. The Silver Snakes and the Green Monkeys got across with little trouble, with the other two teams ringing in not long after. Also, everyones shirts were wet before the round even started. Maybe the teams had to start over due to struggling in the moat? Nonetheless, it was a good round, just not as exciting because the round didn't last long at all.
The legend was about Dædalus, who wanted to teach his son Icarus how to fly. However, Dædalus warned Icarus not to fly too high or else his wings would melt. Unfortunately, Icarus ignored his advice, and flew higher and higher to the sun, which got hotter and hotter and melted his wings. Icarus ended up plunging into the ocean and one of his wings eventually floated ashore. I liked this legend a lot, and I especially like legends that dealt with Greek mythology. They were always the most accurate, and this legend didn't disappoint.
The Steps of Knowledge were over in a heartbeat as the Silver Snakes and the Green Monkeys double swept the steps. I happen to like double sweeps, but it just makes the round a lot less exciting, and very rushed. Hence why I only gave this round a "6."
The temple games were a decent and close round. In the first game, April and Kevin had to place birds on the ceiling above them. Kevin kept knocking his birds off, but April had no problem as she kept 5 birds hanging, winning the game for her team. Just as the game ended, Kirk joked to April "That's a good position there," referring to April's awkward standing position after the game ended. Silly Kirk. In the second game, Jason and Lisa had to grab feathers, and put it in their bin using the oh so common rotating lever game. Jason kept a solid lead the entire time and beat Lisa 7-4. In the final game, the teams had to meet up with each other, take a feather foot to foot from their partner, then attach it to their shirt. At the end of the game, Kirk almost declared the game, and NOT the pendant score a tie. Then he noticed the extra feathers on Kevin's shirt, and declared the pendant score a tie. For the tiebreaker, the Silver Snakes choked by saying "Mount Olympus" and not "Atlantis" were destroyed in a volcanic eruption that also took out Crete. April got the latter answer, and thus won a free trip to the temple, much like Steve and Lisa did in Alhambra. However, at least the Green Monkeys here actually got the tiebreaker question. And didn't weasel their way into by winning automatically like Steve and Lisa did. -_- Oh well, still a decent match, but the tiebreaker in the end kind of dragged the score down a little.
The temple run is yet another famous one. Jason had a solo victory basically handed to him, but he totally blew it by taking his sweet ass time exiting. I mean, people pick on Tony from Billy the Kid for take a long time exiting too, but at least he knew what he was doing up until then. Jason just sucked the whole way through. He just had no idea what he was doing. Quite truthfully, I didn't find this run exciting at all, it was very frustrating. I can't say it was uneventful though, and it was a memorable, nailbiter finish. It was also the closest anyone came to winning without actually doing so. But this loss is not heartbreaking at all due to how slow Jason was. Which is the reason I only gave it a "6."
Overall, this was a pretty good episode, despite the frustrating finish the temple run had. The Green Monkeys and the Silver Snakes were 1 and 2 all day long, until the tiebreaker where the Silver Snakes choked. Seriously, you would think "Atlantis" would be an obvious answer. Even the very first time I saw this episode, I knew the answer. You would think a team that outright swept the steps would get that no problem. Alas, the Green Monkeys ended up winning a trip to the temple and almost won. If only Jason didn't hesitate so much and take forever exiting. I'm not sure how much better the Silver Snakes would've fared, but I doubt they would've done a worse job. Either way, I still recommend this episode, especially if you're into Greek Mythology and actually like the temple run despite the outcome.
Good choice of an episode to choose! Icarus was definitely an entertaining and good episode to watch through out. I am curious about the wet team shirts in the moat. It happened in Nostradamus too, but I don't think the players in Dolley Madison or Polynesian Girl had wet shirts before the moat start. The legend was good and interesting also. And I also very much enjoy legends about Green Mythology. Legends like this one and "Broken Trident" were very interesting choices for legends.
The Steps of Knowledge had the rare double sweep. This hardly happened at all on the show. The only other episode I recall was the "Mummified Hand" episode. The temple games were decent also, and it's always hilarious when a girl beats a guy in the individual games. The temple games pretty much pertained to the legend too, so they were decent. I always thought the final game was a little tricky to get those feathers to stick to the other player's feet. The tiebreaker question was kind of a fail. How did the Silver Snakes not now it was Atlantis for the answer? At least April answered it correctly. And I'd rather see a team who won their individual games over just their team game in the temple.
The temple run though pisses me off. Jason was so slow and was backtracking into the wrong directions. He had an easy temple layout and still managed to lose in the temple. -_- He was a mediocre player and couldn't even bring the Broken Wing out of the temple with almost a minute on the clock. His temple run literally ended behind Olmec. If he had just a couple of more seconds, they would've won. April looked kind of piss at the end of the run too. But still, it wasn't a terrible run and at least it was sort of a nailbiter at the end. I think a 6 is the best score to give this temple run.
Overall, good review and good choice for an episode. This is one of those episodes where everything about the episode is good except the temple run. Even then, the temple run is decent and memorable. My next episode? After reviewing "Alhambra", I am looking for a good episode. Looking at the highlighted list, I think "Nostradamus" and "Mummified Hand" are the next choices. Maybe I will do Nostradamus next.
You should totally do Nostradamus next. What a coincidence that Nostradamus was filmed just before Icarus too. We'd be reviewing episodes filmed back to back! And after the abomination that was Alhambra, you owe it to yourself to review an awesome episode. It should rank high too, since it was very exciting the whole way through. Plus, you've been wanted to rank that episode for months now.
Yeah, I haven't ranked many of the Orange Iguanas episodes yet, so I think Nostradamus would be a good start. Actually, all those episodes that day would be fun to cover. Dolley Madison and Polynesian Girl are very fun and solid episodes. So you can't go wrong with any episode that entire production day. My plan for the next three episodes: Nostradamus -> Mummified Hand -> Leonardo Da Vinci.
I'm not sure which episodes I'm gonna rank next. I would love to do Dolley Madison, which is also from the same day as Icarus. I also wanted to do Billy the Kid somewhere down the road, and didn't you want to rank Very Tall Turban in this thread too? But, it's your turn to rank an episode, and I most look forward to Nostradamus as your next episode.
I don't know about Ahmed Baba, I have finished it half-way through that episode for my player rankings and I almost literally fell asleep while watching it. Seriously, the Green Monkeys were such a boring team and they barely won their team game in that episode. I know I am hard on that episode sometimes, but it really is a snore fest. I will eventually cover that one down the road. But Nostradamus is the next one for sure.
Dolley Madison is a great episode also. The Orange Iguanas were a fun team and this is literally the only good Orange Iguana episode ending in a loss next to "Blue Pearl". I think I might even use the temple run for this episode in my newly created "Does this temple run get a bad reputation" thread next.

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Та́верівка - селище сільського типу у Богодухівській міській громаді Богодухівського району Харківської області України.
 Поштове відділення: Кленівське

Географія
Селище Таверівка знаходиться біля витоків річки Крисинка. На річці невелика загата. Нижче за течією річки примикають селище Максимівка і село Новоселівка. На півночі на відстані 1 км знаходиться село Кленове.

Історія
Село засноване в 1919 році.

Посилання
 Таверівка на сайті Верховної Ради
 Погода: Таверівка

Селища Богодухівського району

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const EventStream = require('event-stream')
const LineWrap = require('../util/linewrap')
const { getSequenceByHash, getSequenceDictByHash } = require('../util/featureSequence')
const SEQUENCE_BATCH = 200

function formatFASTAGenomeSequence (o) {
  const header = `>accn|${o.accession}   ${o.description}   [${o.genome_name} | ${o.genome_id}]\n`
  return header + LineWrap(o.sequence, 60) + '\n'
}

function formatFASTAFeatureSequence (o) {
  let fasta_id
  if (o.annotation === 'PATRIC') {
    fasta_id = `${o.patric_id}|${(o.refseq_locus_tag ? (o.refseq_locus_tag + '|') : '') + (o.alt_locus_tag ? (o.alt_locus_tag + '|') : '')}`
  } else if (o.annotation === 'RefSeq') {
    fasta_id = `gi|${o.gi}|${(o.refseq_locus_tag ? (o.refseq_locus_tag + '|') : '') + (o.alt_locus_tag ? (o.alt_locus_tag + '|') : '')}`
  }
  const header = `>${fasta_id} ${o.product} [${o.genome_name} | ${o.genome_id}]\n`
  return header + ((o.sequence) ? LineWrap(o.sequence, 60) : '') + '\n'
}

module.exports = {
  contentType: 'application/dna+fasta',
  serialize: async function (req, res, next) {
    if (req.isDownload) {
      res.attachment(`BVBRC_${req.call_collection}.fasta`)
    }

    if (req.call_method === 'stream') {
      Promise.all([res.results]).then((vals) => {
        const results = vals[0]
        // let docCount = 0
        let head

        if (!results.stream) {
          throw Error('Expected ReadStream in Serializer')
        }

        results.stream.pipe(EventStream.map(function (data, callback) {
          if (!head) {
            head = data
            callback()
          } else {
            if (req.call_collection === 'genome_feature') {
              getSequenceByHash(data.na_sequence_md5).then((seq) => {
                data.sequence = seq
                res.write(formatFASTAFeatureSequence(data))
                // docCount++
                callback()
              }, (err) => {
                next(new Error(err))
              })
            } else if (req.call_collection === 'genome_sequence') {
              res.write(formatFASTAGenomeSequence(data))
              callback()
            }
          }
        })).on('end', function () {
          // debug('Exported ' + docCount + ' Documents')
          res.end()
        })
      }, (error) => {
        next(new Error(`Unable to receive stream: ${error}`))
      })
    } else {
      if (res.results && res.results.response && res.results.response.docs) {
        const docs = res.results.response.docs
        const numFound = Math.min(res.results.response.numFound, docs.length) // query results can have lesser then it matched

        if (req.call_collection === 'genome_feature') {
          // fetch sequences by batch and create a global dictionary
          let sequenceDict = {}
          for (let i = 0, len = Math.ceil(numFound / SEQUENCE_BATCH); i < len; i++) {
            const start = i * SEQUENCE_BATCH
            const end = Math.min((i + 1) * SEQUENCE_BATCH, numFound)
            const md5Array = []
            for (let j = start; j < end; j++) {
              if (docs[j] && docs[j].na_sequence_md5 && docs[j].na_sequence_md5 !== '' && !sequenceDict.hasOwnProperty(docs[j].aa_sequence_md5)) {
                md5Array.push(docs[j].na_sequence_md5)
              }
            }

            const dict = await getSequenceDictByHash(md5Array)
            sequenceDict = Object.assign(sequenceDict, dict)

            // format as it goes
            for (let j = start; j < end; j++) {
              if (docs[j] && docs[j].na_sequence_md5) {
                docs[j].sequence = sequenceDict[docs[j].na_sequence_md5]
              }
              res.write(formatFASTAFeatureSequence(docs[j]))
            }
          }
        } else if (req.call_collection === 'genome_sequence') {
          for (let i = 0, len = docs.length; i < len; i++) {
            res.write(formatFASTAGenomeSequence(docs[i]))
          }
        }
      }
      res.end()
    }
  }
}

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The amount of Value added tax (VAT) a business pays to the HMRC or claims back is in fact the difference between the VAT charged on the invoice for the goods and services sold to the customer and VAT charged on the inwards invoice received by the business on its purchases.
Post Brexit, we can expect certain changes. Essentially, VAT is a European tax and is levied throughout the European Union and is a key feature of the European single market. After leaving the EU in a political sense, the UK might still remain as a member of the single market with commitment to continue complying with EU VAT law.
VAT meets modern day fiscal requirements and in recent years most developed countries have shifted their fiscal balance, depending less on direct income taxes and more dependency on indirect consumption taxes such as VAT, and this trend is expected to continue. This was in March 2016 when the UK's Office for Budget Responsibility confirmed that after income tax and national insurance contributions (NICs), VAT remains government's third largest revenue raiser. In 2016/17 VAT was anticipated to produce £120bn – or 18% of total revenue of the government.
Under the flat rate VAT scheme, VAT charged on a single purchase of capital expenditure goods can be reclaimed if the amount of purchase including the VAT amount is £2,000 or more. These capital expenditure goods are dealt outside the flat rate scheme i.e. the amount corresponding to input tax can be claimed in box 4 of the tax return. On the other hand, if the purchase is more than one or the invoice value is under £2,000 including VAT or it is a service then in such a scenario VAT cannot be claimed and the input tax is taken into account as part of the flat rate percentage calculation.
To have a better understanding of VAT and the applicable VAT rates, it is advisable to contact Property tax advisors to suggest the most appropriate VAT scheme for their business. All businesses might not be eligible for the flat rate VAT scheme.


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Roermond and Munsterkerk
Category: Limburg - places to visit...
Roermond, a municipality, and a diocese in the southeastern part of the Netherlands. The city of Roermond is a historically important town, on the lower Roer at the east bank of the Meuse river.
It received city rights in 1231. Roermond town centre has been designated as a conservation area.
Through the centuries the town has filled the role of commercial centre, principal town in the duchy of Guelders and since 1559 it has served as the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Roermond. The skyline of the historic town is dominated by the towers of its two churches: St. Christopher Cathedral and Roermond Minster or 'Munsterkerk' in Dutch. In addition to important churches, the town centre has many listed buildings and monuments.
Main sights
Roermond's old city centre is home to several historic monuments, including:
Minster church (Munsterkerk)
Stateroom of city hall
The old cemetery
Kapel in 't Zand
Roermond City Hall
St. Christopher Cathedral
Carolus chapel
National Indiëmonument
Kasteeltje Hattem
Rattentoren
The Galgeberg is a small hill in Roermond. It is in the Kapel in 't Zand-area of Roermond. "Galgeberg" is Dutch for "gallows hill". Once criminals were hanged or burned here. For instance in 1613, 64 witches were burned here; it was the biggest witchtrial in the Netherlands ever.
Munsterkerk (Munster) is an old 13th century Our Lady church in Roermond. The towers are 55 m height.
The Munsterkerk is the most important example of Late Romanesque architecture in the Netherlands. It's the only surviving part of an abbey, the rest of which was demolished in 1924. The church was restored by architect P.J.H. Cuypers between 1863 and 1890; during this restoration the frontal towers were added while a Baroque tower was removed and the originally octagonal eastern towers were replaced by square ones.
In 1992 the church was damaged by an earthquake which destroyed the two eastern towers, which were rebuilt since.
The church is a Rijksmonument, and is part of the Top 100 Dutch heritage sites.
Places to visit in Limburg . . .


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Films In Town
Home » Uncategorized » A PERFECTLY NORMAL FAMILY (EN HELT ALMINDELIG FAMILIE) (PG)
Kaya Toft Loholt
Malou Reymann
Mikkel BoeFølsgaard
Neel Rønholt
Rigmor Rante
A PERFECTLY NORMAL FAMILY (EN HELT ALMINDELIG FAMILIE) (PG)
Posted by ruthmedia on October 13, 2020 in Uncategorized | Leave a comment
Director: Malou Reymann
Cast: Kaya Toft Loholt, Mikkel BoeFølsgaard, Rigmor Rante, Neel Rønholt
Synopsis: Emma (11) has a perfectly normal family until one day it turns out that her dad, Thomas, is transgender. As Thomas becomes Agnete, both father and daughter struggle to hold on to what they had, while accepting that everything has changed.
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsB8RFnFFGM
Danish director Malou Reymann makes her debut feature with this gentle, open-hearted, semi-autobiographical drama based on her own childhood experience of her father transitioning to female. Winner of the Big Screen Audience Award at the Rotterdam Film Festival earlier this year, its story is told from the perspective of 11-year-old Emma (an outstanding Kaya Toft Loholt) and it presents a nuanced and timely portrait of family life.
A Perfectly Normal Family tells the story of Emma, whose home life suddenly becomes more complicated when her mother Helle (Neel Rønholt) tells her and her older sister Caroline (Rigmor Rante) that they plan to divorce.
Then her father Thomas [Mikkel Følsgaard – A Royal Affair (2012), Land of Mine (2015)] announces that he has chosen to identify as a woman. Witnessing Thomas become Agnete, Emma struggles to hold on to the relationship they had, whilst acknowledging her parents' feelings for her have not changed. Reymann's drama sensitively explores the issue of trans identity from the wider perspective of domestic life and in doing so questions the very essence of what we mean when we talk about family.
Malou Reymann has commented:"I am very interested in norms and how to break them. In any society we know, there is always someone who is perceived as the other. But what is considered as normal usually says a lot about who we are and I am very interested in that clash. It can be about trans people, like in my film, but it can also be about women, as all these stories we have been telling for so many years have always revolved around men.
" It's something everyone can recognise: feeling normal, and then suddenly becoming the talk of the town because you broke the unspoken rules. We all try to be normal to some extent, especially when we are young. And then we have to ask ourselves who we really are, and finally embark on that journey. In this film, it's the journey of Emma, but also of her father, Agnete, as they need to accept that they went from being just like everyone else to being themselves."
A Perfectly Normal Family is a film which offers different perspectives, leading to an appreciation that children can love a parent and respect their decision, while still suffering from the fallout of that choice.
In cinemas and streaming on Curzon Home Cinema
Images courtesy of Modern Films
← I Am Woman (15) BEING A HUMAN PERSON →
A-GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2021 PROGRAMME
A-Z of MEDIA MOVIES
B-80 Years of Cinema celebrated at GFT this weekend
C-Six films where Glasgow's west end is the star
CINEMA FIRST INVITES EVERYONE TO FALL IN LOVE WITH THE BIG SCREEN ALL OVER AGAIN
CINEMA IS BACK
D-THE GREAT GATSBY
Full programme announced for Glasgow Film Festival 2019
Glasgow Film Festival 2018 announces full programme
Glasgow Film Festival 2018 celebrates record-breaking year
Glasgow Film Festival 2020 celebrates record audience figures with over 43,000 admissions
Glasgow Film Festival announces hybrid festival for 2021, plus a new year-round online platform
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL TURNS TEN WITH POP-UP CINEMA AND VINTAGE HOLLYWOOD GLAMOUR
Glasgow Film Festival will screen in cinemas nationwide for 2021
Glasgow Film Theatre successfully launch Dementia Friendly screenings
GLASGOW FILM THEATRE UNVEILS RE-OPENING PROGRAMME
GLASGOW FILM THEATRE WILL REOPEN ON 31 AUGUST 2020
Glasgow Film Theatre's third screen opens its doors to the public
SUMMER OF CINEMA 2015
The Social Isolation Film Festival from Glasgow Film Theatre


Well, God works in amazing ways! As a result of a mission trip to Mexico in 2007, our hearts became burdened to "Reach Hispanics: Our Neighbors" right here in in the U.S. Now, ten years later as we serve in Hispanic Ministries with Baptist Church Planters, we are seeking to do just that.
Do you realize that we presently have over 55 million Hispanics here in the United States? In fact, we are the second largest Spanish-speaking country in the world. Only Mexico has more Hispanics than the U.S. There's no question that the mission field has come to America.
Many believers have a desire to reach out to these people but are not sure exactly how to do this. May we ask a few questions as you consider reaching this culture within our culture?
Are you reaching people in your own culture and language?
If reaching people in your own culture and language is difficult then reaching those of another culture will be even harder. Crossing cultural barriers adds a whole new dimension to seeking lost souls. Once we develop the habit of sharing the gospel with people that are like us, we can build on this experience, taking it to the next level of reaching those who are from a different background.
Are you seeing people from a spiritual perspective?
As you look around and see all the people that God is bringing to our country, your natural tendency may be to look at them through the eyes of the news media, political stance or social status. But as believers, we should ask God to help us to see everyone from a spiritual perspective, to see Hispanics (or any race) through the eyes of Scripture. Their race, their economic level, their social status, their political situation, all take a back seat to the need of their eternal soul. Please consider these Scriptures: Exodus 22:21; 23:9; Deut. 10:19; Leviticus 19:33-34; Ephesians 2:11-13, 18-19.
Are you loving people through relationship-building?
Most people, but especially Hispanics, respond to people more than plans, and to relationship more than programs. If we want to reach this Hispanic culture for Christ, we must invest in building relationships with them. They will respond very well to an Anglo that shows genuine interest in them, especially since many of them are far from home and their extended family. In fact, people will know if you love them, regardless of the language you speak. We believe this is the best way to reach people in our own culture, but in crossing cultural barriers, it is absolutely essential.
So, if your "neighbors" are Hispanic, let us offer the following suggestions as you seek to reach them for Christ.
1) Survey your community and determine the Hispanic population. Remember that all Hispanics are not from Mexico. In fact, there are actually 23 Hispanic categories.
2) Ask questions to learn about their culture, foods, religious background, etc. Remember they are probably just as hesitant to speak to you as you are to speak to them. A smile and a few kind words can make great progress toward a relationship.
3) Take your neighbors a plate of cookies with a Spanish tract. If you deliver the cookies on a non-disposable plate they will most likely return it with a gift of their own.
5) Encourage teens to take Spanish in school. Challenge them to memorize and share their testimony in Spanish.
7) Pray specifically for a bilingual couple to be saved and discipled in your church. They could be the beginning of a flourishing Spanish ministry.
8) Begin a Spanish adult Sunday school class with a bilingual teen or adult translating as needed. Hispanic children usually know English and will attend your regular classes.
10) Learn some Spanish choruses for your VBS. This will make Hispanic families feel welcome and it will put zeal in your hearts.
11) Have the Latino's children translate for you when you invite the parents to church.
12) Learn some basic Spanish phrases, if only enough to give a tract, to invite someone to an English class, or to invite to special events at your church.
13) Buy a library for a Latino who is training for the ministry.
14) Make reaching Hispanics the theme of your next missions conference.
15) Purchase translation devices and have a bilingual speaker translate the sermon or lesson for those who are not fluent in English yet.
16) Send your Pastor or church leaders on a mission trip to a Spanish speaking country.
17) Connect with several like-minded churches and challenge them to invest resources and people to help establish a Hispanic outreach that could eventually lead to a church plant.
18) Visit our website www.reachinghispanics.org for further information, resources and ideas.
20) Contact us here at Baptist Church Planters. We would be glad to come evaluate the possibilities of ministering to Hispanics in your community.
What a better way to teach missions than to just look into your own community and see the wide open door of Hispanics . . . your neighbors! They have come to us. We just had to notice.
Herb and Wanda Taylor serve in Hispanic Ministries with Baptist Church Planters. Their theme is "Reaching Hispanics: Our Neighbors" by following their three-fold purpose: 1) PLANTING Hispanic Baptist churches, 2) PARTNERING with established churches to reach Hispanics, and 3) PREPARING Hispanic church leaders.


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The group is focused on a living leader to whom members seem to display excessively zealous, unquestioning commitment.
The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members.
The group is preoccupied with making money.
Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished.
Mind-numbing techniques (such as meditation, chanting, speaking in tongues, denunciation sessions, debilitating work routines) are used to suppress doubts about the group and its leader(s).
The leadership dictates sometimes in great detail how members should think, act, and feel (for example: members must get permission from leaders to date, change jobs, get married; leaders may prescribe what types of clothes to wear, where to live, how to discipline children, and so forth).
The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, its leader(s), and members (for example: the leader is considered the Messiah or an avatar; the group and/or the leader has a special mission to save humanity).
The group has a polarized us-versus-them mentality, which causes conflict with the wider society.
The group's leader is not accountable to any authorities (as are, for example, military commanders and ministers, priests, monks, and rabbis of mainstream denominations).
The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify means that members would have considered unethical before joining the group (for example: collecting money for bogus charities).
The leadership induces guilt feelings in members in order to control them.
Members' subservience to the group causes them to cut ties with family and friends, and to give up personal goals and activities that were of interest before joining the group.
Members are encouraged or required to live and/or socialize only with other group members.


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package com.exxeta.iss.sonar.esql.api.tree.function;

import static com.exxeta.iss.sonar.esql.utils.Assertions.assertThat;
import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNotNull;
import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNull;

import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

import com.exxeta.iss.sonar.esql.api.tree.Tree.Kind;
import com.exxeta.iss.sonar.esql.utils.EsqlTreeModelTest;

class PositionFunctionTest extends EsqlTreeModelTest<PositionFunctionTree> {

	@Test
	void positionFunction() {
		assertThat(Kind.POSITION_FUNCTION).matches("POSITION('Village' IN 'Hursley Village')")
				.matches("POSITION ('A' IN 'ABCABCABCABCABC' FROM 4)")
				.matches("POSITION ('B' IN 'ABCABCABCABCABC' REPEAT 2)")
				.matches("POSITION ('A' IN 'ABCABCABCABCABC' FROM 4 REPEAT 2)");
	}

	@Test
	void modelTest() throws Exception {
		PositionFunctionTree tree = parse("POSITION ('A' IN 'ABCABCABCABCABC' FROM 4)", Kind.POSITION_FUNCTION);
		assertNotNull(tree.positionKeyword());
		assertNotNull(tree.openingParenthesis());
		assertNotNull(tree.searchExpression());
		assertNotNull(tree.inKeyword());
		assertNotNull(tree.sourceExpression());
		assertNotNull(tree.fromKeyword());
		assertNotNull(tree.fromExpression());
		assertNull(tree.repeatKeyword());
		assertNull(tree.repeatExpression());
		assertNotNull(tree.closingParenthesis());
	}

}


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Disney, The Latest Animation News, Uncategorized
Sterling K. Brown, Evan Rachel Wood in Talks to Join Voice Cast of 'Frozen 2'
Hannah Ortega
Sterling K. Brown and Evan Rachel Wood are in talks to star alongside Anna and Elsa in the kingdom of Arendelle as voice actors for Frozen 2.
Brown and Wood are best known for their work on television shows This is Us and Westworld, respectively, and both actors received Emmy nominations this year for said work. Brown recently starred in Black Panther as N'Jobu, the father of Erik Killmonger, and he will grace the big screen again in September for The Predator. Wood voiced fairy princess Marianne in 2015's Strange Magic.
Frozen, released in 2013, was a smash hit for Disney. The film received both the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film and the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film, both in 2014. The movie also holds the title of highest-grossing animated film, launching the world into a true Frozen frenzy with its music, merchandise, and more.
It has not yet been revealed who Brown and Wood will voice, but it's confirmed that the original cast– Idina Menzel, Kristen Bell, and Josh Gad– will return for the sequel. Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck will once again share the director's seat, and Peter Del Vecho will be back as producer. Lee will also write the script, just as she did for Frozen.
Frozen 2 will debut in theaters on November 27, 2019.
Tags: Disney Frozen frozen frozen 2
About Hannah Ortega
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away Hannah found Star Wars, Disney, and Marvel, and a fangirl force was awakened inside her. Hannah's favorite animated movies are Beauty and the Beast, Pocahontas, and Aladdin. Movies such as these inspire her writing, which is her biggest passion. Hannah is an aspiring author and journalist, as well as a Christian, a horseback rider, and a cross country runner.


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Porcușorul carpatic (Gobio carpathicus) este un pește dulcicol bentopelagic, cu o lungime de 6–12 cm, din familia ciprinidelor.

Descrierea
Are corpul fusiform, acoperit cu solzi mijlocii. Gâtul și pieptul lipsite de solzi până la marginea posterioară a bazei înotătoarelor pectorale. Pedunculul caudal înalt. Capul masiv, botul obtuz și fruntea bombată. Gura inferioară, orizontală, în formă de potcoavă; buza inferioară este întreruptă la mijloc; la colțurile gurii, câte o mustață ce ajunge până sub marginea posterioară a ochiului sau trece puțin de acesta. Fruntea cu un scurt șanț longitudinal. Înotătoarea dorsală cu baza scurtă are 7 radii ramificate, iar marginea ei este ușor excavată. Înotătoarea ventrală ajunge, cu extremitatea ei, până la orificiul anal sau trece puțin de acesta și are marginea dreaptă. Înotătoarele pectorale nu ajung până la baza înotătoarelor ventrale. Înotătoarea caudală destul de mare, bifurcată, cu lobii subegali.

Colorația
Spatele este cenușiu-verzui, laturile cenușii-argintate sau gălbui, abdomenul argintiu. Partea superioară a capului este mai închisă decât restul corpului. De-a lungul flancurilor sunt 6-12 pete întunecate negre-albăstrui, mari cât ochiul sau mai mari și, uneori, mai ales în regiunea caudalei, se contopesc mai multe la un loc. Înotătoarele dorsală și caudală sunt cenușii-gălbui, prevăzute cu mai multe rânduri transversale de pete întunecate, dispuse regulat. Celelalte înotătoare sunt gălbui sau gălbui-cenușii, lipsite de obicei de pete.

Distribuția geografică
Este răspândit în bazinul Tisei, Someș, Tur, Mureș, Criș; Olt. Specia este întâlnită în următoarele țări: Ungaria, Polonia, România, Republica Moldova, Serbia, Slovacia, Ucraina.

Habitatul și comportamentul
Trăiește în toate râurile și pâraiele, începând din zona păstrăvului și până jos la șes, fiind puțin pretențios asupra locului lui de ședere și adaptându-se ușor cu apele al căror fund este nisipos-pietros sau mocirlos. Se adună în grupe mici, pe fund, ascunzându-se sub rădăcinile arborilor din mal, în brațele deschise ale râului sau sub trunchiuri de arbori. Ziua se mișcă după hrană, însă încet și greoi.

Hrana
Se hrănește cu nevertebrate bentonice: insecte și larvele lor, crustacee, moluște și anelide. Într-o măsură mai mică, se hrănește și cu resturi vegetale și icre și puiet al altor pești.

Reproducerea
Se reproduce în aprilie-iunie, când porcușorii se urcă la ape mici; o femelă depune la suprafață 1000-3000 icre de culoare albăstruie-deschis, cu diametru de 2 mm, lipindu-le de pietre și plante. Puietul se dezvoltă repede. Pentru iernat își caută locuri adânci, îngropându-se în substrat și amorțind acolo până în primăvară.

Importanța economică
Are o importanța economică locală și nu se pescuiește în cantități mari. Carnea este destul de bună, folosită mai ales la prepararea ciorbei. Se mai folosește, ca nadă, la pescuitul altor pești.

Note

Bibliografie
 Petru Bănărescu. Fauna Republicii Populare Române. Vol. XIII : Pisces - Osteichtyes (Pești ganoizi și osoși). București. Editura Academiei Republicii Populare România, 1964.
 Sergiu I. Cărăușu. Tratat de ichtiologie. Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Române, Bucuresti 1952, 804 p.
 George D. Vasiliu. Peștii apelor noastre. București : Edit. Științifică, 1959.
 Th. Bușniță, I. Alexandrescu. Atlasul peștilor din apele R.S. România. București, 1971.
 L. Lustun, I. Rădulescu, V. Voican. Dicționar piscicol. Editura Ceres. București 1978.

Legături externe
 Gobio carpathicus  Vladykov, 1925 Carpathian gudgeon. FishBase
 Gobio carpathicus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
 Il gobione dei Carpazi, Gobio carpathicus Vladykov, 1925. Associazione Ichthyos Italia
 Il gobione dei Carpazi, Gobio carpathicus Vladykov, 1925. Associazione Ichthyos Italia

Cyprinidae
Pești din România
Pești din Republica Moldova


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I headed up to Burlington, CT on Sunday to drop off some trail tools with the CT NEMBA Regional Trails Rep for the Nassahegan State Forest. We met at Lamson Corners off of Rt 69. Apparently, the regular riders of the Nassahegan are known as Nassa'ricans contrasting to those who ride offroad motorcycles and ATVs here, all illegally of course, are called the Hessians, famed German mercenaries from the Revolutionary war. Later during the ride we just missed encountering one of these bastards.
Mark led me on a 10 mile tour starting from the Cemetery Twisties, up Stony Hill Road to the Kitchen Bypass. There is another trail nearby called the Devil's Kitchen which is insanely technical, fall line climb. We were doing quite a bit of climbing on the Kitchen Bypass and I was cursing myself for not putting on the 22t. From there, we picked up a trail called Rob Halford named by an atypical mountain biker from Bristol. Along this trail we came across where a turkey hunter got lucky on opening day. Eventually we got to the Soccer Fields and crossed over George Washington Turnpike.
On the other side of the Turnpike is a dense pine forest with a big mix of fast dual track and winding, flowy singletrack. Some super, long assed climbs, and some really crazy descents. We rode by the Burlington Trout Hatchery and then crossed over Punch Brook Road on our way back to Lamson.
At the seven mile point we stopped for some Gu and that's when we really started to notice the heat. By this time it had to be nearing 90 degrees but you didn't feel it because you were in the shade of the forest most of the time.
From here we popped onto a dirt road called Stone Road where we passed this old jailhouse on the side of the road. According to Mark, during the Great Depression there were transient camps set up in the area and if one of the inhabitants went on a bender they wound up here to sleep it off.
We continued down this dirt road until we picked up another trail that took use to the impassable section of George Washington Turnpike and while heading back towards the Kitchen we heard a Hessian and saw evidence of his recent travels on the trail.
What initially was supposed to be a two hour jaunt in the woods turned out to be more like 3 hours and 10 miles. By the time we got back to the cars, it was pretty damn hot, when I got home the thermometer red 91 degrees and it's only the second day of May! I noticed something while riding in the heat and that was my heart rate tended to stay higher and came down slower. Something to think about if I am going to race in warmer weather, especially if I do the Landmine. I don't think my gearing choice helped much either.
Above is a 3d representation of today's ride (in red) and the ride we did last fall to give you a sense of the enormity of the Nassahegan State Forest. Apparently, there are 50+ miles of trails here and I have only scratched the surface. Can't wait to come back for more fun.


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