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Dragonball Z Movie 12: Fusion Reborn
This is the trivia answer to "What Dragonball Z movie contains both Freeza and Hitler?"
This was the second DBZ movie I ever saw (after Tree of Might). It was quite a step forward in time. I'd only seen up to the Ginyu Saga in the show because that was all we got in the U.S. for a long time.
We begin with an arena on the side of an asteroid. This takes place very late in the series, when Gokou is in the afterlife. The afterlife is apparently the depths of space. Works for me.
King Kai is here, along with a few other Kais. They all screech at each other and I momentarily consider turning the movie right back off.
But wait! It's Gokou Vs. Pikkon in a rematch for the ages. These guys fought on the show between the Cell and Buu Sagas. This takes place quite a bit later and they're still fighting, as the only two powerful characters in the afterlife. ...wait, what about Broly? Wasn't the next thing supposed to be them fighting Broly? Yeah, probably. Unfortunately, Diarrhea Broly ruined the character for good.
Final version of the opening credits. Gohan is grown-up now and featured front and center, like he's the main character or something. lol
Down in Hell, this punk kid is responsible for watching the machine that regulates souls and separates the evil from them before they get recycled...or something. He's goofing off and listening to music, so his boss comes up to criticize him. The boss talks about how he's Old a lot, then leaves the kid to go back to not doing his job.
This leads to the machine exploding, unleashing the beast of pure virulent evil known as...
...Janemba, a gigantic puff-ball who can only say his own name. W...T...F. Looks like we've got another personality-filled villain here.
He immediately distorts time and space all around his body, literally freezing the corridors of hell. The "old guy" gets frozen right away, which is the price he pays for wearing that tiger-striped tie. He was 25.
Janemba continues to bend the universe as we know it. This is actually a really cool idea, and something we don't see anywhere else in this series.
The afterlife gets divided by colors, creating a sea of giant jellybeans.
Meanwhile, ghosts are roaming the Earth en masse. In a graveyard, a guy encounters his girlfriend who died many years ago. She immediately asks him why he's all old.
He replies by asking her why she can't go easy on an old man.
"OLD OLD OLD OLD OLD"
The Nazis now roam the Earth again, as panzer divisions roll through the streets. Between the layer of slime and the ghosts being rampant, this is like the big late-story conflicts of both Ghostbusters movies rolled into one.
Hitler himself, or at least a goofy charicature of him, stalks the streets and declares that he now owns this city.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch...Chi Chi is looking quite a bit older than she was ten movies ago.
OH NO, NOW I'M DOING IT
Videl's communication-watch informs her of the Ghost Invasion...
...and Gohan is ready for action.
Back in the afterlife, Gokou and Pikkon are on the case, and finding it difficult to damage the big yellow puff.
Pikkon goes from being a really cool customer to being a complete goofball in the span of two seconds, as he suddenly starts ranting at Janemba. Well, he used to be cool.
Gokou also starts exhibiting the worst of his character, as he demands that HE be the one to fight Janemba without help since he wants to face someone powerful.
The afterlife continues to distort and jellybeanize. This background is still rad, and I'd go so far as to say this movie has the best color palette of any of the DBZ movies.
Back at the city, Great Saiyaman (aka Gohan) has arrived to battle the ghosts.
And his foe? FREEZA.
I mentioned how this was the first Japanese DBZ movie I ever saw and the second overall. This part was particularly confusing for me because I only knew Freeza as his initial appearance in the show. Didn't know anything about him having multiple forms, so I thought this was just him without his armor or something.
Gohan inadvertently Heils while posing! Damn it, you're playing right into Hitler's hands!
Freeza summons a horde of goons from the past. The Ginyu Force are here, as well as...
...Turliss' goons? What the hell? And do I see Bojack goons too?
Yeah, definitely Bojack goons...and that's Broly's father on the left. What the actual fuck?
BOJACK TOO? He's way stronger than Freeza and could give Gohan a tough fight, so this doesn't bode well...luckily we never see him, or any of his goons, after this one shot.
Gohan teleports to Freeza and destroys him with one punch, after which all of the minions just sorta disappear. ...ooookay
Our heroes summon the Eternal Dragon to try and solve the ghost problem, but he says there's nothing he can do about it. Well, that was pointless. I wonder if he's tired of these buffoons summoning him all the time. One of these days the dragon is going to go postal and eat Goten.
Back in the afterlife, Pikkon discovers that he can shatter the solid ooze by yelling expletives at it.
This makes it even more like Ghostbusters 2, in a roundabout way. In that movie, the only way to shatter the slime was for everyone to be really positive and say nice things to each other. Which, in pre-millennium New York City, wasn't easy.
Janemba has some interesting abilities, like creating Portal-esque rifts in space and attacking through them.
Gokou launches the Kamehameha wave, which looks particularly awesome in this movie.
Look at the explosion of primary colors! I approve of this.
Of course, Janemba no-sells everything. At least Gokou didn't wait long to go Super Saiyan.
At this stage of the game, though, he can go beyond that...several times. He can go...
...Super Saiyan 3! It's...it's beautiful!
It's like Blue Steele, or Magnum.
Definitely Magnum. This is serious business now.
Gokou UNLEASHES HELL, slamming through Janemba with an electrical cross. Super Saiyan 3 is awesome in action.
Look at that punch!
Gokou quickly drops Janemba, who implodes into himself. Gokou now lives only to face a new nightmare...
...Janemba's second form, which is incredibly badass. This could easily have passed for a new Cooler form, or a new Cell form. Instead it's...Janemba. He has even less dialogue than before, now saying nothing. It's a bit of a waste of a great design, but at least he has some interesting powers.
Back at the city, Hitler is still roaming free. Will someone stop this madman?
Luckily, Goten and Trunks are on the case...and continuing to deal with the ghost menace as slowly as they possibly can.
I like how Hitler points out that they're blonde haired / blue-eyed / strong and says they would be good recruits. I'm almost certain this line was added by the dub, and it's a good one.
Trunks uses a panzer tank as a bowling ball against a bunch of Nazis. I can't believe I'm typing this.
Back at the main event, Gokou charges!
Janemba charges!
Some very hard-hitting fight choreography here. Excellent battle with no blurred "gif on repeat" action.
Aside from being able to reach through portals to attack, Janemba can also break apart and reform at will. As powerful as Gokou is, if he can't hand a good hit then this fight isn't going to go his way.
Janemba on the other hand has little trouble landing good hits with impunity.
Gokou is having some trouble now. He's somewhere off-camera here, but I had to get a shot of this rad giant sunflower.
Janemba summons a giant sword, as if he wasn't dangerous enough already. This guy is a seriously badass villain, I just wish he had a personality or...importance. It's Broly syndrome all over again.
Janemba ignites his sword into a huge energy slash, then fires slice-waves at our hero. Just when it appears that Gokou's on the ropes...
...Vegeta appears, complete with "No one will kill you except ME" speech.
Side note: Vegeta is actually dead at this point in the series, so this is essentially him returning from the afterlife momentarily. Due to Hell being in complete disarray from the events of the movie, Vegeta was free to get up and leave...and did. Once things are restored to normal, he'll have to go back there, which adds a poignant edge to this story. Reminds me of Jack Bauer being freed from prison just so he can save the day and go back to prison afterwards.
A short battle follows, with Vegeta getting completely dominated. This would have been a good time to see Super Saiyan 3 Vegeta, but he never gets to do that. It's Gokou's. It's always Gokou's.
Janemba dematerializes smugly.
Gokou and Vegeta take refuge in a nearby cave. This is a bit like the Cooler battle, except they're taking WAY more of a beating.
Vegeta is dismayed at his ineffectiveness, and Gokou proposes that they try Fusion. Vegeta says he'll be damned if he fuses with YOU.
He then cries because Gokou has been getting more powerful in the afterlife while he stays the same down in Hell.
Vegeta doesn't want to go back to Hell, noting that he wasn't good like Gokou was so he isn't going anywhere else. For him it's either defeat Janemba and go back to Hell, or get tormented by Janemba in this pocket dimension for eternity. Finally, he agrees to try fusing with Gokou, as much as he hates the idea.
Destruction rains from the heavens, as Janemba blasts the cavern with energy. Our heroes are gonna need some room to do the Fusion Dance, so they run for it again.
Meanwhile, King Kai is watching on his Apple iPad (tm). Not sure how there's a camera in Janemba's pocket universe, but whatever
Gokou explains the Fusion Dance very patiently while Vegeta grunts and growls at how dumb it is.
With our heroes having fled the scene, Janemba is now all alone in an empty world. He's finally happy. This is probably his only character development in the movie.
Meanwhile, the kids still haven't defeated the Nazis. Come on, guys! The RAF would have been home for dinner an hour ago!
Janemba senses that fusion has taken place...does this mean Gogeta has arrived?
Nope. It's Vekou, the botched version of Gogeta. Apparently Vegeta did the Fusion Dance wrong, so now they have to wait for the "buff" to wear off to try again.
Vekou bounces around and attacks Janemba by passing gas. Because he's fat! That's almost as bad as being Old. Japan!
Finally the botched fusion wears off. That wasted a good amount of time that could have gone towards the real Gogeta, something I've always resented about this movie. It's the only time we ever get to see Gogeta, and more time with him would have been good.
They try fusion again, but this time Janemba is onto their scheme. Luckily, here comes...
...Pikkon, playing the Piccolo role of distracting the villain.
Speaking of Piccolo, it's worth noting that this movie doesn't follow the usual formula of the earlier movies. There's no goon squad and no jobbing out of the lesser characters before Gokou and Vegeta deal with the main threat.
...except for this part. Pikkon quickly gets stomped by Janemba. Given that Pikkon is said to be stronger than Cell, this means Janemba is quite potent.
Gokou and Vegeta FINALLY complete the Fusion Dance, resulting in...
...GOGETA. He's both Gokou and Vegeta, and he's pissed.
Look at the size of that aura. Gogeta is awesome.
Gogeta swings into action. I really like his design; he looks like a perfect combination of the two characters.
Gogeta with a flying knee to the head! Janemba doesn't even know what hit him.
Janemba lands a punch squarely on Gogeta's face for...zero damage.
Matter of fact, not only does it do zero damage, it also obliterates Janemba.
The villain explodes in a shower of sparks, and that's it for this one.
When I first saw this movie I didn't like it at all. I didn't like the way Gogeta won, or how little time we got to see him. Looking at it now, I still wish we'd gotten to see Gogeta in a real battle, but the overall situation isn't as bad as I used to think it was. This movie is actually pretty good.
Back at the city, the kids sense that their dads fused and follow suit, becoming Gotenks.
Gotenks unleashes his ghost army attack, FINALLY defeating the Nazi hordes.
Back in the dimensional pocket (or whatever this is) Gokou and Vegeta bromance it up for a moment.
They both admit that they couldn't have won without the other, and call each other friends.
This conversation alone puts this into the upper echelon of DBZ movies, but the high quality of the fights in this one is also a big positive.
Vegeta fades out as he gets pulled back to Hell, while Gokou is free to return to the happier afterlife.
Last shot is Gohan and Videl flying home on Earth, with a job well done.
This concludes DBZ Movie 12: Friendship is Magic. Soon I'll cover the final two that I haven't, Movies 13 and 15.
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Posted by Jericho at 9:00 AM
Labels: Dragonball Z, Dragonball Z Month II, Movie 12
Gohan = One Punch Man
Brayn January 14, 2016 at 1:30 PM
Well, it's hard to determine exactly when this movie is supposed to kind of take place. Gohan never goes SSJ which might suggest that it's after all of his hidden potential is released, in which case Bojack would be nothing to worry about. If it's before... then yeah, that would be bad.
Like most things involving him, all you need to say is "the one that had Hitler" and people know what you're talking about.
The movies tend to make up a number of bullshit ways to defeat the boss, but Gogeta completely makes sense as a thing they could potentially do and it's probably the most memorable movie-only thing they've done.
This movie is so colorful! I'm a huge fan of Janemba and his arc just because it's great to look at these pictures. This is also a creative stretching of the DBZ universe. This idea of opening the doors of the afterlife to bring old characters back is a nice way to recycle things too. I would've also liked to hear more about this afterlife factory idea.
It's too bad all those guys disappeared after One Punch Gohan got to them though. It's ok Gohan, I don't blame you!
Yeah, you're right, this plot is totally from Ghostbusters. Not a bad place to take ideas from!
Space rifts! Colors! This is so fun!
Man, the eyebrow bones of Super Saiyan 3 are sooo protruded.
Vegeta's arc is always the most interesting! He can't get stronger down in hell? But he'd prefer hell to Janemba? I really want to see DBZ hell now too, though it wouldn't be a kids' show really then.
The explosions of colors are all so fun to watch. This is one DBZ that is making me think it's art.
Janemba is happy to be alone? That's interesting and cool.
Vekou is fun at least.
Man, Gogeta won that easily? You're right, it would've been fun to see more of him. I'm sure we will in a future film!
Whoa, ghost army attack, cool!
This was a lot of fun to read, and I sense it was a good movie. I enjoyed the creativity, and it reminded me a lot it's a kid show, but in a good way. Always happy to see Hitler get shut down too!
Jericho February 12, 2016 at 7:39 PM
I think the protruded eyebrows are a Neanderthal / Early Man reference. As in the Saiyans go backwards in evolution with their various transformations. Makes sense, given that they can even go all the way into ape-form.
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Everybody and their grandmother are drooling over the new "Mac mini":http://www.apple.com/macmini/ — and saying it's so affordable "everyone should own one":http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200501/mac_mini/. If you are living in the US, the new basic Mac mini is oh, so affordable, and you _should_ own one. Shame on you and me for not living in the US. Let's review the prices if you live anywhere else.
The price difference between Norway and the U.S. is *48%*. Shame on you Apple!
Well, there are a few things to consider.
First, you should strip VAT from the prices, which in the Irish case accounts for €90. As far as I know, VAT is a lot less in the US than in European countries (and I suspect it's quite high in Norway).
Secondly, you've got to remember that European MacMinis are built in Europe (in Cork, Ireland, where I live), and wages are paid in Euros, not dollars, so a simple application of exchange rates doesn't work.
Finally, you've got to remember that the exchange rate has hit a very unusual low that reflects the policies of the US administration more than the difference between the US and European economies. Being Irish, I can tell you that Irish people can afford to pay €510 for a PC. In fact, €510 for a computer with MacOS X, iLife and AppleWorks (i.e. everything you need for home computing) and the almost complete absence of viruses and malware is pretty good by Irish standards. Even if you add an apple keyboard and 512MB of memory, for €620 you're getting a pretty good deal.
Bryan: It's not that we cannot afford Macs here in Norway, even at the prices Apple are charging: It's rather the quite huge price differences. I see no reason why I should be paying more than Irish customers.
Also, keep in mind that it's not Apple's job to pay taxes and toll fees when I order a Mac from the U.S. — that's actually _my_ job.
Besides — at over 700 dollars, users can get way more bang per buck if they go for PC hardware. PC hardware is dirt-cheap here.
Comparied to Ireland, Apple is only overcharging you by seven dollars! Compared to the states, it's a bit more ugly of course, but I don't think it's a whole $86. Given that they have to pay for local labour and shipping of parts, I'd say it's more like $30 higher, which still isn't pleasant, but it's hardly extorionate.
Regarding the pricing, I've always been rather dubious of Apple's margins, but I think the Mac Mini, once Tiger is shipped, will be worth it.
Dell could ship the same for up to €100 less, but that extra €100 you pay for Apple gets you a quality operating system, with quality apps (bar AppleWorks, which is only alright) and freedom from the vast majority of viruses and trojans.
For mom & pop users, I think that's worth the extra money.
For me, I'm quite partial to my PC with Linux, and I can't see myself switching to a PowerPC in the near future. I'd never consider the iMac, it looks great, but the specs are a bit limited, and I feel you're paying a bit too much for style. However it's another good mom & pop PC.
Actually, I'm not sure if mom & pop is the best way of describing that market. There's lots of people out there, not just mom & pops, with no interest in games or development, who just want office, internet and maybe a bit of multimedia with no hassle. Apple suits these people down to the ground. Dell is cheaper, but the system software is far from hassle free.
What I'd be interested to know, though, is where is the eMac going? Now there's an overpriced PC if ever I saw one! I'm beginning to suspect they've priced it to nullify the educational discount.
Arve, the US price is $499, not $449.
And the price difference for the Mac mini isn't really much different from the price differences for other products, like the Big Mac.
Lasse: Typo. Thanks for telling me. Fixed.
Lasse, Bryan: I do get your points – but what I cannot understand is why the price of the mac is so different to the price of a PC: Norway is a country where the grocery stores sell PCs with "OKish" specs at $450 dollars, justifying the price of the Mac mini becomes hard.
I do agree with arve! I live in italy and here the launch price it's gonna be euro 499, but I am already checkin on the ebay lookin forward to get it from the u.s.: 499 usd is worth 380 euro and this means saving 120 euro, a big fat 26%! whoever was sayin the difference is not that big must be on crack!
Explaining the price difference with Irish wages doesn't make sense if production is cheaper some other place. At present there may be cheaper countries within the EU as well.
And if the US$ exchange rate is has hit a very unusual low it allows US companies to sell more dirt cheap computers, not jacking up the price per unit.
To follow up on this: "According to AppleInsider":http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=839 the Mac mini is to be produced in Taiwan by Foxconn.
As a Brit who lives in the USA, I can tell you that US$499 is not the price I'd be paying for the Mini Mac either (I'd pay $534). Prices quoted in the USA don't include taxes because the amount changes by state and sometimes by city. So to get a more reasonable 1 to 1 comparison you must remove VAT and then compare. In which case you're more likely to see a much more reasonable margin, which probably accounts for duty and shipping.
Dean, I have "made a VAT-excluded comparison":http://virtuelvis.com/archives/2005/01/more-apple-pricing — Apple's international margins are still quite insane.
this is the most ridiculous statement I've ever heard. You could make this same statement about any other product. If you look at US magazines they always have a US and Canada price and the Canada price is always a couple dollars more, so how dare all magazine companies. Also how dare everyone that doesn't use US currency because the dollar is losing value daily on other nation's currencies. You are being ridiculous.
If the value of the US dollar is becoming weaker over time, then Mac equipment should really become _cheaper and cheaper_ outside the US.
They aren't however. The Mac Mini is, tax considerations excluded over 20% more expensive in Norway than the US.
I don't think Apple USA sets the prices for foreign. Rather the distributor does. Even if its an Apple subsidiary, they have to add import duties imposed by the local government. That's usually why the cost is higher.
On Sep 24, 2005, I did a conversion, and it costs a mere US$ 1271.72 (R$ 2890.00).
in other less corrupt nations.
Just wondering if you would be able to help me.
I would like to buy a macmini as a present for someone.
What is the best price for one in Dublin.


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Stress free experience although security remains an anxiety. What is there to stop a con artist pretending to be a LGP person and driving off with my car?
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MobileArt is an international company specializing in Android mobile app development.
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HomeChild sexual abuseFather bags 21 yrs imprisonment for defiling daughter
Father bags 21 yrs imprisonment for defiling daughter
By Muyiwa Ajade
Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of Lagos State Special Offences Court on Thursday sentenced a 52-year-old man, Akin Isaac, to 21 years imprisonment for defilement of his daughter.
The convict was accused of sleeping with his daughter since she was six to 18 years.
Taiwo in her judgement sentenced Isaac to 21 years imprisonment following his plea of guilty to a one-count charge brought against him by the state government.
The prosecution counsel, Mrs. Omowumi Bajulaye-Bishi, had told the court that "Isaac, who resides at No 2b Akinlagbe Street, Alapere, did defile his daughter from age six to 18 by having unlawful sexual intercourse with his daughter."
However, while delivering judgment on the plea bargain agreement the convict signed with the state, the Judge said the 21 years proposed sentenced by the Ministry of Justice was too lenient to the offence which carried life .
"I knew this case very well; I could remember the survivor was crying when giving evidence before the court that she had abortion and how the defendant was beating her," the judge said.
"The prosecution had called for witnesses to testified against the defendant. The defendant initially pleaded not guilty."
The defendant, through his plea bargain application dated April 21, 2022, applied and concluded to change his plea.
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Bajulaye-Bishi, therefore, reviewed the facts of the case. She said between 2014 and 2020, the defendant was having unlawful sexual intercourse with his daughter, which resulted in at least one pregnancy.
"The defendant also attempted to procure abortion for her and regularly administer drugs to her to prevent pregnancy,
"The trial commenced on February 7, 2022 in which the prosecution called four witnesses before the defendant approached the prosecution to change his plea."
Justice Taiwo, therefore, directed the registrar to put the defendant in the witness box to go through process of plea bargain, wherein he was asked whether he was forced or coerced by anybody whatsoever to change his plea from not guilty to guilty, Isaac answered that he decided to change his plea.
He started pleading with the court to have mercy on him.
Having shown remorse for his action, he pleaded guilty to the offence of Indecent Treatment of a Child contrary to Section 135 of the Criminal Law Cap C.17 Vol. 3 Laws of Lagos State 2015.
"The defendant agreed to plead to the offence of defilement with a lesser sentence of 21 years."
The court, therefore, admitted his plea of guilty and sentenced him to 21 years imprisonment.
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Shooting in Nathan Phillips Square creates panic after parade honouring Toronto Raptors
by Charlie Smith on June 17th, 2019 at 1:58 PM
Pandemonium broke out in Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto after some gunshots were heard.
This came near the end of a massive celebration in response to the Raptors winning their first NBA championship.
According to the Toronto Police Service, two victims have been located and two people are in custody.
None of the injuries are considered life-threatening.
Police have also recovered two firearms.
https://twitter.com/TPSOperations/status/1140716091129442305
https://twitter.com/Michael22856888/status/1140712456182013958
The shootings occurred after millions had showed up at a parade honouring the team.
Some in the crowd panicked after realizing what had occurred. (Video is available on the Toronto-based CityNews website.)
CBC reporter Meagan Fitzpatrick tweeted video of the crowd dispersing.
https://twitter.com/fitzpatrick_m/status/1140709242011291649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1140709242011291649&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbc.ca%2Fnews%2Fcanada%2Ftoronto%2Fraptors-rally-shooting-1.5178886
https://twitter.com/fitzpatrick_m/status/1140723325972430848
Toronto Police have also reported that three people were stabbed at the entrance to Eaton Centre Plaza after a fight broke out.
https://twitter.com/TPSOperations/status/1140684376742797313?ref_src=tws...
The Toronto Police Service issued a news release at 4 p.m. Pacific daylight time saying that there are four victims with injuries linked to the shooting. Three people have been arrested.
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The purpose of this study was to determine which muscle groups are most important for rock climbing. Eleven skilled male climbers were familiarized with an indoor climbing route before five separate days of testing. On testing days, subjects were randomly assigned a pre-fatiguing exercise designed to specifically target the digit flexors (DF), shoulder adductors (SA), elbow flexors (EF), or lumbar flexors (LF) or control climb with no pre-fatigue. Immediately after the pre-fatiguing exercise the subject climbed the route as far as possible without rest and until failure. The number of climbing moves was recorded for each climb. Surface electromyography of the target muscle was recoded during the pre-fatiguing exercises. Time was recorded from the start of pre-fatigue to the end of the climbing bout. Significantly fewer climbing moves compared to the control climb were completed after pre-fatigue of the DF and EF (50% ± 18% and 78% ± 22% of control) (p < 0.05). Fewer moves were completed following pre-fatigue of the LF and SA (89% ± 17% and 92% ± 19% of control), but these results were not significant (p > 0.05). EMG median frequency for each muscle was reduced from beginning to end of each pre-fatiguing exercise. No significant differences were found among transit times (between end of pre-fatigue and start of route) (p > 0.5). These results suggest that among the muscle groups studied in men, the order of importance from most to least for rock climbing 400 overhanging terrain is DF, EF, LF, and SA.


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"""
Fisherman
	Look for specified patterns in the current repository with git grep
"""

from GitAchievements.achievements import UsageLeveledAchievement

class FishermanAchievement(UsageLeveledAchievement):
	"""
	Fisherman
		Look for specified patterns in the current repository with git grep
	"""

	name        = 'Fisherman'
	description = 'Look for specified patterns in the current repository with git grep'
	cmd         = 'grep'

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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package com.settingprofile;

import com.google.android.gms.plus.sample.quickstart.R;
import com.google.android.gms.plus.sample.quickstart.R.layout;
import com.google.android.gms.plus.sample.quickstart.R.menu;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.view.Menu;

public class SettingProfile extends Activity {

	@Override
	protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
		super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
		setContentView(R.layout.activity_setting_profile);
	}

	@Override
	public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
		// Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
		getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.setting_profile, menu);
		return true;
	}

}


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All anybody could talk about before Saturday's Game Two of the NLDS in Washington, D.C. was the pitching match-up scheduled to start the game – San Francisco's Tim Hudson versus Washington's Jordan Zimmermann. Six hours and twenty-three minutes plus eighteen innings later, the longest game in recorded playoff history wrapped up and the San Francisco Giants advanced to game three with a 2-0 lead in the five-game series by beating the Nationals 2-1.
Hudson – who is notorious for his successful and often dominant outings against the Nationals – was going to be a struggle for the Nats but Washington went into the game planning to be patient with him. On the other hand, Zimmermann was fresh and just six days removed from his historical no-hitter on the final day of the 2014 regular season. The match-up made the first nine innings what they were but the final nine innings played are the reason the evening's game turned into the longest playoff game ever played.
A crowd of 35,085 witnessed history at Nationals Park during game 162 of the 2014 regular season when right-handed starting pitcher Jordan Zimmermann threw the first no-hitter in the Washington Nationals' nine year history to beat the Miami Marlins 1-0 on Sunday afternoon. The complete game outing was one the two-time All-Star never thought would ever happen, but it did.
The Washington Nationals rebounded from Friday night's lop-sided 10-3 loss that snapped their 10-run winning streak against the San Francisco Giants on Saturday by beating their visitors 6-2. Right-handed starter Jordan Zimmermann pitched a solid eight innings while throwing 107 pitches and 78 strikes. He gave up two runs on seven hits – including a Hunter Pence two-run homerun in the first inning – while striking out eight batters.
Hours before being named to the 2014 National League All-Star team for the second time in two years, Washington Nationals right-handed starting pitcher Jordan Zimmermann threw a tough game against the Chicago Cubs and went on to win 2-1 on Sunday afternoon. Right-handed relief pitcher Tyler Clippard ended up with the official win but Zimmermann's strong efforts helped ensure Chicago's low run count.
Zimmermann gave up seven hits over six innings while striking out five and walking one batter on 105 pitches (76 strikes). While the majority of Chicago's 10 hits on the day came off of Zimmermann, the soon-to-be-announced All-Star pitcher and his defense held the Cubs in place.
The night was almost overshadowed by the fact that outfielder Bryce Harper was back in the Washington lineup for the first time since April 25 but, instead, a five-run rally in the sixth inning against the Colorado Rockies highlighted what the Nationals are capable of if their starting nine stay off the disabled list.
A few hundred people bore witness as the midnight hour crept just passed 1 a.m. at Nationals Parks on Tuesday morning as the Nats beat the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers 4-0. Due to rain, the game fell subject to a 3 hour and 17 minute rain delay starting in the middle of the 4th inning. The total time of the delay even ended up being longer than the total amount of playing time it took the Nats to win it.
Both teams fielded some of their most reliable starting pitchers. Right-handed pitchers Zack Greinke and Jordan Zimmermann each performed prior to the rain forcing them out of the game. In fact, the two-run shutout Washington carried into the bottom of the eighth with them was recorded within the first two home team at-bats of the long, long night.
Jordan Zimmermann became the first pitcher in the National League to reach 19 wins this season on Friday night as he led the Washington Nationals to a 8-0 complete game shutout victory over the Miami Marlins at Nationals Park. Zimmermann was as strong as he's been all season and threw 107 pitches and 79 strikes. He gave up two hits, walked a batter, and struck out nine.
By the ninth inning of Sunday afternoon's 11-2 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies, the Washington Nationals fielded eight players who spend time at Triple-A Syracuse this season. It was a day where most everything went right for Washington, allowing Manager Davey Johnson to give some of the call-up kids a little playing time.
Right-handed starting pitcher Jordan Zimmermann pitched seven strong innings and gave up seven hits and two runs while walking two, striking out seven and hitting a batter on 102 pitches (65 strikes).
The Nationals started the second-half of the season on a rough note falling 3-2 against the Los Angeles Dodgers despite a strong seven innings from right-handed pitcher Stephen Strasburg on Friday night. Even Manager Davey Johnson appeared a bit deflated after his squad let the tie-game get away from them in the top of the ninth. "Tomorrow's another day," he said as he ended his post-game press conference.
The Washington Nationals squeaked past the San Diego Padres with a 5-4 win on Saturday evening. Their line-up continued to work with the changes made this week but it took them a bit longer to tally up their run count when compared to the past few days.
Outfielder Bryce Harper finally snapped his 0-for-19 hitless streak and had three RBIs in the game. Harper's first RBI came in the third inning when he was walked by former Nat and San Diego starting pitcher Jason Marquis allowing catcher Kurt Suzuki to score making it a 1-0 ballgame.
The Washington Nationals were three outs away from a one-run loss against the fourth place New York Mets on Tuesday night but Steve Lombardozzi saved the game by hitting a walk-off sacrifice fly into the glove of Mike Baxter in left field. His sacrifice fly sent first baseman Adam LaRoche around to score. Washington beat New York 3-2 in their first walk-off victory of the season.
The Nats may have won the game but it was night in which the their offense continued to struggle. Manager Davey Johnson's lineup managed four hits before their three-hit ninth inning rally. They were lucky enough to score early on a solo home run hit by shortstop Ian Desmond off right-handed pitcher Jeremy Hefner in the second inning — Desmond's eighth home run of the season — but that's the only run they'd tally up until the ninth inning.
It was a game the Nationals could have won. A four-run first inning made the team's offensive efforts look solid. But a short outing from starting pitcher Jordan Zimmermann helped this game fall into the hands of the St. Louis Cardinals lineup in a 10-9 loss.
What started as Dan Uggla hesitating to make a routine play at second base turned into a 5-4 Nationals victory in the wee hours of Tuesday morning. It took four hours, twenty seven minutes, thirteen innings, and a fifty six minute rain delay, but Washington beat the Atlanta Braves and are now 30 games over .500.
If you're looking for consistency then look no further than RHP Jordan Zimmermann. The Nationals' third starter in the rotation secured his seventh victory of the season Wednesday night with a 4-3 Washington win against New York, pushing him to a winning record of 7-6 thus far. This is the first time Zimmermann's had a winning record since his 2009 rookie season.
What appeared to be a quick and easy game for Nationals starting pitcher Jordan Zimmermann ended up being one of the most exciting extra-inning games of the 2012 season when Bryce Harper hit his first career walk-off – a single – to left field in the bottom of the twelfth inning aginst the New York Mets. Washington won 7-6 after battling through a four hour and fifteen minute contest and it was brutal.
Over the course of the night, both teams' benches and bullpens were depleted to the point where position players would have needed to fill the role on the mound. Nats fans were treated to not just one but two starting pitchers on the mound including Zimmermann and Ross Detwiler – Detwiler ended up with the win, by the way, with two innings of work in the game.
What seemed to hold up the Nats eventual victory was Mets starter Chris Young who made his season debut, leaving men on base, and failing to come through in the clutch several times over before finally executing a combination resulting in runs scored. Young was effective, only giving up six hits and two earned runs of the three earned by Washington early on while throwing 52 strikes in 75 pitches.
Zimmermann posted similar numbers on the night lasting six total innings and giving up five hits, two runs, no walks, five strikeouts and two homeruns. That's what hurt him – giving up two homeruns in the sixth inning with the lead – bringing the score to 3-2 in favor of the Nats.
Washington didn't lose the lead in the sixth (they lost that honor in both the eighth and tenth innings) but that was the start of what ended up being a twelve-inning game. Coach Jim Lett's bullpen got a full-group workout in during the game when Manager Davey Johnson started calling them over to the mound in the seventh inning.
Left-hander Tom Gorzelanny threw a scoreless seventh before Stammen gave up two runs in the eigth after inheriting a runner from Sean Burnett's stint just two batters earlier. Tyler Clippard walked the leadoff batter in the ninth before retiring the side.
Once the game got to the eleventh, though, Johnson stuck with Detwiler and the Nats managed enough offense to win it. Michael Morse – who got his first hit of the season, a double in the fourth, since returning from the disabled list – did it again in the twelfth to leadoff and eventually scored on a passed ball at the plate. Then, as the story goes, 19-year-old phenom Bryce Harper recorded his first walf-off hit with a single to left field. Jesus Flores scores. Nats win 7-6 and resume their place atop the standings in the National League East.
After the emotional Sturm und Drang that was this past weekend's three-game series against the Phillies, the Washington Nationals needed a nice, quiet game that wouldn't overly tax the bullpen. Luckily, they got just that kind of performance from Ross Detwiler, who allowed just one run on six hits over 6.2 innings as the Nationals defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks 4-1 Monday night at Nationals Park.
On a night when most of the focus of the Washington brass and media was on Stephen Strasburg's third rehab start with Class-A Hagerstown (for the record, Strasburg went three innings and allowed one earned run on two hits, walked one and struck out six while throwing 60 pitches in front of Nationals General Manager Mike Rizzo and principal owner Mark Lerner), the 25-year-old Detwiler continued to build on his impressive year, pitching into the seventh inning as a starter for the first time since June 20, 2009.
How much of Detwiler's improvement is genuine progress and how much is a product of mere year-to-year statistical variance is hard to gauge. His strikeouts per nine innings ratio has jumped to 6.61, up from 5.16 in 2010, though he only managed just three strikeouts Monday night after fanning seven in his previous start against Cincinnati. Detwiler's also been getting more ground balls with his more effective sinker. 48.9 percent of all balls in play against him have been grounders this season, up from an even 43% in 2010. As a result, both Detwiler's Fielding Independent Pitching (FIP) and expected Fielding Independant Pitching (xFIP) have dropped by more than a run from 2010 (the FIP has fallen from 5.64 to 4.54, while his xFIP has fallen from 4.97 to 3.96).
But there's no denying that the left-hander has gotten very lucky when it comes to stranding runners on base. Entering Monday night, Detwiler's left on base percentage was an unsustainable 86.6 percent. Remarkably, he managed to bolster that number on Monday night, as Arizona stranded five of their seven runners while he was in the game. Indeed, the most crucial moment of Detwiler's outing came in the top of sixth inning, when he allowed a single to Justin Upton and walked Chris Young to load the bases with two outs and Washington on top 4-0. Henry Rodriguez was warming up in the Washington bullpen, and on another night, Nationals manager Davey Johnson might have pulled the trigger on a pitching change. But this time, he only visited the mound to have a word with Detwiler, and his faith was rewarded when Detwiler induced Paul Goldschmidt to ground into an inning-ending force play.
Along with Strasburg and Jordan Zimmermann, the development of Detwiler will be fascinating to watch. The good news is that the Nationals and their fans will have plenty of time to make a determination. Detwiler has one more full season before being eligible for arbitration, and he won't be a full-fledged free-agent until after the 2015 campaign.
On the other side of the coin, the Nationals offense didn't make Arizona starter Joe Saunders work particularly hard (he had only thrown 90 pitches when he made way for a pinch-hitter after six innings), but the Nationals didn't to have particular trouble hitting certain of his pitches. As it turned out, Saunders' two-seam fastball was particularly ineffective, and it was responsible for all of Washington's runs. In the bottom of the second, Jonny Gomes dropped a two-seamer into right field to drive in Jayson Werth for the first run of the game. Two innings later, after a Ryan Zimmerman infield single and a walk by Michael Morse, Werth hit another Saunders two-seamer quite a bit farther. The ball sailed into the front row of the right-field seats for a three-run home run that turned a 1-0 lead into a 4-0 cushion and capped off a fine night at the plate for Werth (2-for-4 with his other hit a pulled double into the left field corner in the second). The well-paid right fielder is very quietly having a fine second half to the season, with a .358 on-base percentage and a .778 OPS in 137 plate appearances since the All-Star Break entering Monday night's game. While those numbers still don't measure up to his outstanding statistics in Philadelphia, Nats fans can now expect, rather than hope, that Werth has got his feet under him in the nation's capital.
Two years ago, right-handed pitcher Jordan Zimmermann and catcher Jesus Flores founds themselves sidelined due to injury. Since then, Zimmermann has returned to the Nationals' clubhouse after successful Tommy John surgery and Flores has regained his spot behind the plate which makes them regular fixtures in Washington's 2011 25-man roster.
Flores, although he fills a current slot on manager Davey Johnson's lineup card due to Ivan Rodriguez being placed on the disabled list, is a player Johnson is proud of this season. He is also the reason the Nationals scored their first run in Thursday night's 3-1 victory versus the Cincinnati Reds while Zimmermann got the necessary work done on the mound. It was Flores' first homerun – a solo shot – since May 8, 2009.
As the 4pm deadline crept ever closer the questions about a potential trade with the Minnesota Twins for CF Denard Span were met with silence. No one was talking about the trade. As the clock struck four, not a positive thing had been said about the prospects of the trade for four hours. Storen would remain a National, and entered the game to an ovation from the crowd of 25,307 on hand. Leading 2-1, Storen gave up a home run to Scott Hairston, his second of the day, to blow his fourth save this season. The Nationals went into the bottom of the ninth tied at two.


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Renewable Energy...
Renewable Energy Prospects: Mexico
Mexico has a large and diverse renewable energy resource base. Given the right mix of policies, the country could attract large-scale investments to diversify its energy supply, with the potential to increase the share of modern renewables in total final energy consumption to 21% by 2030, up from 4.4% in 2010. This would reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and could result in net savings of USD 1.6 billion annually in energy system costs. With the benefits of reduced health damage and reduced carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions taken into account, the savings could be ten times as high.
Current plans, however, would only achieve a 10% share of renewables by 2030. Policy changes in the power market are needed to unleash Mexico's renewable energy potential, with planning for expanded infrastructure and grid integration. New policies are also needed to promote the uptake of renewable energy for heat and fuel applications in buildings, industry and transport.
This report is a joint effort of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and Mexico's Ministry of Energy, SENER. The analysis of the country's renewable energy prospects comes as part of REmap 2030, IRENA's roadmap for doubling the share of renewables in the global energy mix.
The scale-up of renewables can drive diversification in Mexico's energy supply, potentially reducing coal demand by 62%, natural gas by 21% and oil by 6% in 2030, compared to what current policies would achieve. Mexico could generate up to 46% of its electricity, or 280 terawatt-hours (TWh), from renewable sources each year. This would require the deployment of 30 gigawatts (GW) of wind and 20 GW of solar photovoltaic (PV) power generation, which could account for a combined 26% of total power generation in 2030. Small and large hydropower could contribute about 12% (26 GW), geothermal energy 5% (4.3 GW) and biomass 2.5% (4 GW).
Total biomass consumption in end-use sectors, including for heating or as transport fuels, could reach 685 petajoules (PJ), representing more than one-third of total renewable energy use. Traditional uses of biomass for cooking or heating – which carry health and ecological risks – would be replaced by up-to-date forms of biomass and other renewable energy consumption.
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Interest on these certificates shall be liable to tax under the Income-Tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961, on the basis of annual accrual specified in rule15, but no tax shall be deducted at the time of payment of discharge value.
9% per annum, payable from the date of deposit of 31st March/30th Sept/31st December in the first instance & thereafter, interest shall be payable on 31st March, 30th June, 30th Sept and 31st December.
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A Boy and His Dog review
Title: A Boy and His Dog
Genre: SciFi Adventure
IMDb: link
RT: link
A Boy and His Dog is a 1975 film starring a young Don Johnson, based on a novella by Harlan Ellison. I'm including this review in honour of Ellison, who passed away June 28th, one week ago at the time of this writing.
Harlan Ellison is one of the most emblematic writers of the so-called golden age of science fiction. He was highly prolific, highly awarded, widely recognised, and left behind him a plethora of stories so extremely distinctive, and yet so highly varied, that it is almost a contradiction.
Having said this, he was also a highly controversial figure, and quite often what we remember about Ellison is Ellison, rather than Ellison's writings. For example, perhaps his most notable achievement is the anthology "Dangerous Visions", which remains one of the high points of the golden age of science fiction, and often described as the moment when science fiction ceased to be a marginalised genre and began its mainstream adoption. And yet, if one is to read "Dangerous Visions" today, with the sensibilities of a 2018 reader, "Dangerous Visions" is more than just a bit embarrassing. The key theme of the anthology is its attempt to shock the reader with taboo themes and subjects, exclaiming that only under the protective mantle of the science fiction genre can such topics be explored without the reader running for the hills. In 2018, however, all these taboos have long been rehashed to death, and "Dangerous Visions", stripped of its shock value, becomes downright boring.
Ellison has also contributed to the moving image. He has had a sordid love-hate relationship with the Star Trek universe, to which he contributed, among other things, the first draft of what was to become the series' most beloved episode ("The City on the Edge of Forever"). He also wrote screenplays for other TV series, including for The Twilight Zone and Babylon 5.
Interestingly, his impact on Hollywood movies was much less direct. It manifested itself mainly in ideas. Ellison's writings are chock-full of ideas, often pushed out to the reader in a whatever-sticks manner, and it is not difficult to trace the ideas from any given one of his stories and see how they influenced an entire generation of later writers. As an example of all of the above, Ellison sued (with out-of-court success) to be recognised as the writer whose ideas gave rise to The Terminator franchise.
But, surprisingly, actual adaptations of Harlan Ellison's works to Hollywood movies are few, and screenplays are virtually nil. This review is dedicated to what looks to me to be his only serious Hollywood adaptation: A Boy and His Dog, based on Ellison's award-winning novella of the same name. It is a very quirky film, decidedly Ellison-y, and, according to IMDb, is likely to receive at some point a remake, which (extrapolating on existing Hollywood trends) will surely lose both the original quirkiness and the distinct Ellison charm.
Let us therefore examine Ellison's most enduring direct contribution to Hollywood.
The film A Boy and His Dog is a post-apocalyptic tale set in 2024. However, like so much of Ellison's works, it screams farce in every scene, to the point that one cannot take any part of it at face value. The only way to do the story justice is to treat it as an allegory, providing social commentary.
To recap the story briefly for those unfamiliar with the film: we are in 2024; the world is a barren wasteland following World War IV (which lasted 5 days, the time it took to fire everyone's nuclear arsenal). We follow Vic (Don Johnson) and his dog Blood (portrayed by Tiger, the dog from The Brady Bunch, with such sensibility and precision that it deserves an award of its own). The two are connected telepathically, and, in fact, the first of the allegories thrust upon us is that they act as the "id" (the simple-minded, impulsive, violent and sex-driven Vic) and the "super-ego" (the measured, well-educated, cynical Blood) of a single entity.
The "ego", missing from this equation, which would be the cohesive unifier in the mind of a real person, is in this case portrayed by the invisible bond of love shared by a man and his dog, and, indeed, in retrospect much of the movie can be seen as an exploration of this bond and its strength, pitting it against the bond between man and woman (although, to be fair, both relationships are portrayed as parodies of themselves).
For comparison, and perhaps as a first example of how Ellison has affected other works, this is the same bond that George Lucas says he was aiming to explore when he created the Star Wars universe, with Han Solo and Chewbacca at its heart. (Lucas says they were inspired by his own travels with his dog, Indiana.)
However, Ellison is not tied to any one of these two interpretations of the relation between his protagonists. In his usual "throw everything against the wall" style, he is equally happy to have the dog, when appropriate, become, for example, a parody of the educational system, by having it, in the midst of this post-apocalyptic world, force Vic to learn by rote the names of the U.S. presidents.
Ellison is clearly out to shock us, with Vic's matter-of-fact attitude towards such things as murder and rape -- In one scene, when he discovers a woman who had been tied up, raped and mutilated by a passing gang, he bemoans that if they had only left her in one piece she'd be in perfectly good shape to be raped by others, such as himself, later on. -- but to a modern audience the whole thing looks absurd. Vic is a mild-mannered gentleman, never uttering a swear word throughout the entire film, avoids attacking anyone unless attacked first (and even then only provides a measured response), and the few scenes exhibiting (very sterile) nudity are so stylistic as to appear like outtakes from A Clockwork Orange, which, only 4 years earlier, created this highly distinctive style. (In the latter half of the film, we see the appearance of over-the-top, grotesque use of make-up and the farcical use of symbolically-loaded clothing, which is a direct continuation of the same style effect.)
Most of the film can be divided clearly into two halves. The first half is above ground, and its sensibilities have been replicated precisely, four years later, by Mad Max, to the point where I do not feel they need elaborating on. Ellison's only addition to this universe is a mysterious disease that spreads on contact, rots the mind and the body, and causes all infected to become rage-fuelled monsters. This, too, has in the meanwhile become an overused Hollywood trope (see, e.g., Firefly), and Ellison even makes use of it in its most effective form, namely in the variation where the bearers of the disease are talked about far more than they are ever actually seen on screen.
In the latter half, Vic ventures below ground, to discover a society that borrows heavily from 1970's Beneath the Planet of the Apes (although, to be fair, Ellison's original novella was published already in 1969), and with a look-and-feel that borrows heavily from 1967's The Prisoner. It is a society that mimics, parodically, a Norman Rockwell painting, but whose members, under a guise of a developed social structure, nice clothing, elaborate make-up, and other trappings of modernity (down to a marching band), are no better, and in many ways much worse, than the gangs of thugs roaming above ground. These under-dwellers, like H.G. Wells's Morlocks, are rapidly losing their human origins, and are looking to Vic to inject new life into their ranks.
Vic's foray into the underworld comes in his attempt to follow a particular woman, with whom he had already had sex repeatedly above ground. This is perhaps the part of the story that took me most sharply out of suspense of disbelief. Again, 2018 sensibilities are at play: whereas to a 1975 audience rape could be played for shock value and not thought about too hard, in 2018 one must contend with an audience more educated about the topic. So, for example, while a 1975 audience may have linked rape with sex, explaining by this Vic's behaviour, a 2018 audience is far more aware that rape is part of a power-play, not part of sexual interaction. I was in disbelief that Vic would pursue anyone who has participated with him in consensual intercourse, and by this robbed him of his need of an aggressive display of power dominance. I think a real-world Vic would have been repelled.
Either way, the man-woman relationship drives the film's main plot-line, and both Ellison's original novella and the film adaptation end on the note of pitting this relationship against the man-dog one. The script, by writer-director Q.L. Jones, ends on a pun. It is a beautiful pun, bringing together all the film's motifs. The pun was well-received by fans at the time, and is easily the film's most memorable moment. However, it does reduce everything we have witnessed in the 91 minutes leading up to that moment to an elaborate joke, with this as its punchline. Ellison (in typical self-righteous Ellison-ness) objected strenuously to this change in tone of the last line, far preferring his own ending. However, that ending is only minutely different (while not a direct pun, it does the same in reducing the tale to a punchline story, comparable with the last line of Rosemary's Baby (1968)). If anything, Ellison's gripe with the altered ending is that it enraged him and others for bringing to a point the very tones that provide the story's main themes. So, in my view, Q.L. Jones's ending is actually the more effective of the two, while serving exactly the same purpose.
It is unfortunate, of course, that one cannot take this ending as more than the punchline of a joke, and by implication cannot take the film as more than a long joke, but at the same time one also has to remember that the film is throughout a self-proclaimed farce, at no point trying to take itself with any level of self-seriousness, and that if it is a joke, at a 91-minute run-time it does not over-stay its welcome.
As can be seen in this review, the story generated many ideas that were later toyed with endlessly by other writers, but at the same time does not treat its ideas with any elitism: it borrows happily from all manner of sources that preceded it, and gleefully concocts a ridiculous soup that mixes all ingredients together. In this, Ellison has created that most distinctive of Ellison creations: a story that is talked-about, immortalised by its infamy far more than by its story value. To appreciate this one as a story, one has to be willing to be entertained by a lighthearted social farce featuring rape, mutilation and murder (but toning down the source material by omitting incest). If a remake ever comes out, I can only hope it is directed by Quentin Tarantino.
RIP Harlan Ellison.


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The 32nd Packsaddle fundraising exhibition will be opened by guest speaker the award-winning artist Amanda Penrose-Hart at the New England Regional Art Museum (NERAM) during the opening function commencing at 5.00pm on Friday 20 October 2017.
The fundraising exhibition provides an opportunity for local arts enthusiasts and collectors to purchase works by leading artists from around Australia with the funds raised going towards supporting the New England Regional Art Museum.
"The Packsaddle exhibition is one of our major fundraisers of the year," said Robert Heather, Art Museum Director. "The funds raised from the sale of artworks provide us with opportunities to purchase significant works for the collection, key pieces of equipment or to support new programs and initiatives."
"Packsaddle is one of the most successful and long lasting fundraising activities run by any regional gallery in Australia," said Mr Heather. "Over the past 32 years the funds raised by the Packsaddle exhibitions have supported the purchase of paintings, prints, sculptures and other artworks for NERAM's collections including the magnificent Margaret Olley painting The Yellow Room as well as projects such as lighting equipment and the fitting out of the Packsaddle Artist Studio and art classroom."
"Anyone can collect art and the huge number of works on display means that there is always something for every taste where you can pick up works to suit every budget and it is a great opportunity for people who are interested in starting their own art collection."
"I recommend that prospective buyers get in early on Friday evening as there are some great works in this year's show which are sure to send buyers into a frenzy of purchases including paintings by artists Ross Laurie, Angus Nivison, Elisabeth Cummings, Amanda Penrose-Hart, John Gleeson and Chris O'Doherty (aka Reg Mombassa)."
"Packsaddle is also an opportunity for collectors to select from the range of reasonably priced works on paper including prints and drawings by artists like Arthur Boyd, John Olsen, Charles Blackman, Pro Hart, Judy Casab, Tony Tuckson and Rew Hanks ."
This year's guest speaker at the exhibition opening will be award winning artist Amanda Penrose-Hart who has held over twenty solo exhibitions and has shown in many more group exhibitions. She regularly has work selected in prizes such as the Portia Geach Memorial Award (2011, 2008, 2007, 2006) and the En Plein Air Art Prize. In 2017 her painting 'The Sphinx, Perpetual Peace' won the Gallipoli Art Prize.
This year the public program for the Packsaddle exhibition will include a talk by Amanda Penrose-Hart at 10.30am on Saturday 21 October as well as talks by printmaker Basil Hall, painter Rowan Matthews and water colourist James White.
The 32nd Packsaddle fundraising exhibition is on display at NERAM from Friday 21 October until Sunday 5 November 2017. NERAM would like to thank the Packsaddle Group as well as participating art galleries, art dealers and artists for their support.
Packsaddle 2017 Events:
Friday 20 October 2017 – starts at 5.00pm: Exhibition Opening – 32nd Packsaddle Fundraising exhibition
Saturday 21 October 2017 – starts at 10.30am: Artist's Talk with Amanda Penrose-Hart
Saturday 21 October 2017 – starts at 4.00pm: Floor talk with master-printmaker Basil Hall
Sunday 29 October 2017 – starts at 10.30am: In conversation between artists Rowen Matthews and James White
Sunday 5 November 2017 – noon – 4.00pm: Closing drinks and last purchases
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Thalia Hispanic Theatre is Queens' Original Home for Latino Culture
Our mission is to celebrate the vibrancy and diversity of Spanish and Latin American culture with unique productions of plays, musicals and dance.
We are the first and only BILINGUAL Hispanic theatre in Queens, serving one of the most diverse communities in the United States, including more than one million Hispanics from every Spanish-speaking nation in the world. Every month is Hispanic Heritage Month at Thalia Spanish Theatre.
In the last four decades we have produced more than 215 productions of the best Spanish plays, zarzuelas (Spanish operettas) and folklore shows of music and dance, and earned national recognition as a leader in New York City's celebrated Spanish theatre movement. We've grown from a community-based theatre to a world class cultural institution, collaborating with guest artists from Spain, Uruguay, India, Germany, Israel, Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, Colombia, Uruguay, Argentina and more.
Our productions have been presented to full houses at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall; the Millennium Theatre in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn; Kingsborough Community College; Bergen Community College in New Jersey; Millersville University in Pennsylvania; the International Festival of Zarzuela in El Paso, Texas; Merkin Hall and outdoors at Untermyer State Park in Yonkers.
In 1977, actress and director Silvia Brito, against all odds, established Thalia Spanish Theatre in Queens. She was determined to meet the neglected cultural needs of the borough's incredibly diverse and quickly growing Hispanic community. Ms. Brito concluded her distinguished career with Thalia when she retired on December 31, 1999, paving the way for us to enter the new millennium under new leadership.
Her chosen successor, acclaimed Spanish director/writer/ producer Angel Gil Orrios, has produced and directed more than 170 productions in Spain, the United States, and France in the last 40 years. Committed to maintaining the quality that has become the hallmark of Thalia, Mr. Gil continues producing Spanish and Latin American plays, World Premiere original dance musicals, flamenco and tango dance programs and more, and the annual free Thalia al Aire Libre/Outdoors Festival in our neighborhood park.
His most important innovation is to present our productions with bilingual casts, alternating performances in English and Spanish.
We're celebrated as an important venue for new plays by authors from Spain and the Americas. In 2003 we produced the bilingual World Premiere of "El Tuerto es Rey/The One-Eyed Man is King" by Mexico's Carlos Fuentes, and in 2011, the bilingual World Premiere of "No Problemo Amigo" by award-winning Colombian novelist Jaime Espinal. The play was the winning submission (out of 170 new plays from 17 different countries) of the Inter-American Development Bank's (IDB) inaugural Hispanic-American Playwriting Competition in the category "Hispanics in the U.S. Without Stereotypes". In February 2009 Angel Gil Orrios was selected by the IDB, which is based in Washington, D.C., to direct the competition.
The production also marked the debut of our new supertitle projection/open captioning system, made possible by a capital grant from Queens Borough President Helen Marshall. It enabled us to portray in the same performance characters speaking in English or in Spanish, with translations of their dialog projected, comic-book style, on the scenery.
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We also have produced masterworks by such celebrated writers as Calderon de la Barca and Jardiel Poncela of Spain and Chile's Miguel Frank, and created World Premiere flamenco musicals from plays written by Pablo Picasso.
Our BILINGUAL productions are dedicated to bringing to life onstage a canon of literature by the finest Spanish and Latin American authors for American audiences who otherwise would never know them. We commission the highest-quality English-language translations to attract students and educators as well as the general public.
We were the first Spanish theatre in New York to incorporate Folklore, which has included Mexican song and dance, Tango, and Flamenco, into its season. The Folklore Shows, originally produced only on Fridays, have fostered the development (since 2001) of our new original World Premiere dance musicals incorporating music, dance, text and visual arts to create what Mr. Gil calls a "total theatre experience".
We are the artistic home in the United States for Queens-based Dance Company Cali Salsa Pal Mundo, Ballet Fiesta Mexicana, and Andrea Del Conte Danza España, as well as for internationally renowned bandoneon maestro, composer and arranger Raul Jaurena, who was praised by Astor Piazzolla as one of the best bandoneon players in the world. The CD of music he composed for our 2005 musical "Te Amo Tango (I Love Tango)", recorded live at our theatre and released by Soundbrush Records, won the 2007 Latin Grammy Award for Best Tango Album.
We hosted the United States debut of acclaimed young flamenco composer/guitarist Daniel Casares, whose 2004 concert on our stage earned him the ACE Award for Revelation of the Year, and led to a recording contract with Universal. He later collaborated with Maestro Jaurena on our 2006 World Premiere musical "Tango & Flamenco Fusion". We also hosted the debut of the all-female Mariachi Flor de Toloache in 2009. An ensemble that was nominated twice for the Latin Grammy, and won the prestigious award in 2017.
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The tale of a journey straight from a peaceful American dream settlement into space, the dream of colonizing the Moon and Mars is haunted by the ghosts of destruction and chaos. They come and go to outshine and set fire to the smallest spark of hope. Like the four horsemen of the apocalypse, they only bring destruction in their metal chariots. Our dreamy journey into space becomes a hopeless escape, in which we unknowingly take the same fire and death with us, forgetting that only in moments of critical nature these demons show their true power.
The work is a commentary on two parallel events that took place at the end of May 2020. The first of these was the first commercial space flight ended with a successful docking to the ISS space station. Space X announces that the next step will be a moon landing and, in the future, colonization of planet Mars. The second event was the murder of Grorge Floyd by four policemen in Minneaplois, which became the reason for international Black Lives Matter protests and massive, brutal riots in the entire United States. The juxtaposition of these two, as it turned out from the perspective of already two weeks, socio-civilizational milestones shows on the one hand the power of human technical thought oriented rather to escape from the crumbling planet, and on the other, the inevitable, irreformable dark part of human nature, full of hatred, xenophobia , reign of revenge and aggression, which will probably leave this planet with us.
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HUNDREDS of homes in the Huntingdon area have had their power restored after damage was caused to an overhead cable. Power was cut to 302 customers just after noon on Tuesday (August 4) when a high voltage cable was damaged by a third party. Areas affected included Grafham, Buckde
HUNDREDS of homes in the Huntingdon area have had their power restored after damage was caused to an overhead cable.
Power was cut to 302 customers just after noon on Tuesday (August 4) when a high voltage cable was damaged by a third party. Areas affected included Grafham, Buckden and Diddington. Power was restored to all but four customers at 3.42pm.
A spokesman for EDF Energy Networks said: "We would like to apologise for the inconvenience caused."
John Stewart who is retired and lives in Van Diemens Way, Grafham, contacted the Hunts Post to say his power had been cut. He said: "We have no gas supply here, so we cannot do anything without electricity."


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