The halls are starting to hum softly here in Berlin as the European Film Market swings into gear. The first deals were announced yesterday before the event officially opened, with The Weinstein Co notably boarding IM Global's The Man Who Made It Snow. This morning, FilmNation unveiled a series of offshore output deals for titles from Open Road, which will kick off with the Jamie Foxx/Michelle Monaghan-starrer Sleepless Nights.
Though it's not likely to be a frenzy, and with currency concerns in the market internationally, Berlin should see more action in the coming days. Distributors are looking for product for 2016 and beyond, and some memorable buys have emerged here in recent years. In 2014, The Weinstein Company made a record-setting $7M deal for The Imitation Game which has now made about $140M worldwide and has an armful of Oscar nominations to boot.
Much of the pre-buy buzz in and around Potsdamer Platz this year centers on movies like the Mel Gibson-directed Hacksaw Ridge and Matthew McConaughey-starrer Gold. On the finished film side, there could be some heat on official selection titles like Werner Herzog's just-screened Queen Of The Desert, or Anton Corbijn's James Dean-themed pic Life. Berlin certainly served up some enduring gems last year with both Boyhood and The Grand Budapest Hotel becoming major factors in awards season.
HACKSAW RIDGE – Director: Mel Gibson; Cast: Andrew Garfield. The true story of Desmond T Doss, a U.S. Army medic who served in World War II during the Battle of Okinawa and refused to kill. President Truman made him the first conscientious objector ever awarded the Medal of Honor. CAA and IM Global are selling with deals understood to already have closed in some markets.
GOLD – Director-writer: Stephen Gaghan; Cast: Matthew McConaughey. McConaughey plays a failing businessman who teams with a scientist/explorer to head into the Indonesian jungle on the trail of undiscovered troves of gold. Based on a true story about the 1993 Bre-X Mineral Corporation mining scandal. CAA and Sierra/Affinity are brokering.
QUEEN OF THE DESERT – Director-writer: Werner Herzog; Cast: Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Robert Pattinson. This competition title stars Kidman as Gertrude Bell, the Lawrence of Arabia of female diplomats and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the 20th century. CAA and Sierra/Affinity are brokering the pic that bowed today.
WAKE – Director: John Pogue; Cast: Bruce Willis, Ben Kingsley. The project has Willis as a man who returns home for his brother's wake on a remote island that comes under siege during his stay. IFT is brokering.
ARMY OF ONE – Director: Larry Charles; Cast: Nicolas Cage. The bizarre true tale of Gary Faulkner's mission to single-handedly hunt down Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. TWC-Dimension already has North America. FilmNation is selling international with shooting due to start in Q1.
MESSAGE FROM THE KING – Director: Farbice du Welz; Cast: Chadwick Boseman. In pre-production, the revenge thriller has Boseman as a South African man who arrives in LA in search of his younger sister. When he learns she's been killed after his first 24 hours, the film tells the story of what happens in the next six days. WME is repping.
UNTITLED JOEL EDGERTON PROJECT – Director: Joel Edgerton; Cast: Edgerton, Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall. From Jason Blum's Blumhouse, this is Edgerton's helming debut and is in pre-prod. The thriller sees a couple tormented by a bully from the husband's past. Sierra/Affinity is handling as part of its new deal with Blum.
NOVEMBER CRIMINALS – Director: Sacha Gervasi, Cast: Ansel Elgort, Chloë Grace Moretz, Catherine Keener. The story follows two teenagers into the dangerous underbelly of Washington DC as they investigate the murder of their friend while falling in love for the first time. CAA and WME co-rep domestic; international sales are with Lotus.
BONJOUR, ANNE – Director-writer: Eleanor Coppola; Cast: Diane Lane, Yvan Attal, Nicolas Cage. A big-time producer's wife takes an invigorating road trip through France. Shoots in May. Coppola was nominated for an Emmy for her 1991 documentary Hearts Of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, about the making of husband Francis' Apocalypse Now. This is her narrative feature debut. Sales are with Protagonist.
AMY – Director: Asif Kapadia. Senna helmer Kapadia looks at the late Amy Winehouse's life and career. Cinetic and Sunray Films are handling sales. It screened for select buyers today with good buzz.
YOUTH – Director-writer: Paolo Sorrentino, Cast: Rachel Weisz; Michael Caine, Paul Dano, Harvey Keitel. Oscar winner Sorrentino returns to the English-language with this drama about two old friends on vacation in the Alps. Pathé is selling and this title could be Cannes-bound.
THREE SECONDS – Director: Otto Bathurst; Cast: Luke Evans. Evans just boarded as a man forced undercover in prison as part of an FBI operation, then has to escape on his own after being abandoned during the mission. Bloom has foreign sales; WME and CAA are co-repping domestic.
KNIGHT OF CUPS – Director-writer: Terrence Malick, Cast: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman. Malick returns with a story of temptations, celebrity, and excess. Bale plays Rick who is navigating those facets of the Hollywood fast-life, questioning who he's become. CAA and FilmNation are repping the Competition title.
DEEP WATER – Director: James Marsh; Cast: Colin Firth. Based on the true story of amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst and his attempt to win the first around-the-world yacht race in 1968. This is a recently announced Studiocanal title.
BRAIN ON FIRE – Director-writer: Gerard Barrett; Cast: Dakota Fanning, Will Poulter. Based on the true story of a young woman's sudden descent into insanity as a result of a mysterious illness. Principal photography starts in May. WME and Mister Smith are repping.
MANCHESTER-BY-THE-SEA – Director-writer: Kenneth Lonergan; Cast: Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams. Matt Damon is producing the story of Lee, who is granted custody of his teenage nephew after his brother dies. As they both adjust to their new lives, Lee struggles with the many ghosts of his past. Production starts in March. Sierra/Affinity has sales.
MR RIGHT – Director: Paco Cabezas; Cast: Sam Rockwell, Anna Kendrick, Tim Roth, Anson Mount. Hitman action romance sees Kendrick as a girl unlucky in love and Rockwell as the assassin she accidentally falls for. In post. CAA and Sierra/Affinity are selling.
13 MINUTES – Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel; Cast: Christian Friedel, Katharina Schüttler. An official out-of-competition world premiere from the director of Downfall, 13 Minutes is a Nazi-era drama about the resistance fighter who tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler in the Munich Bürgerbräukeller on November 8, 1939. Beta is selling.
ALONE IN BERLIN – Director: Vincent Perez; Cast: Emma Thompson, Daniel Bruhl, Brendan Gleeson. The true story of a German couple whose son was killed at the front in WWII. They began a quiet rebellion by dropping anonymous postcards in mailboxes around Berlin that decried the actions of Adolf Hitler. Sales are with Sunray Films.
THE FOUNDER – Director: John Lee Hancock; Cast: Michael Keaton. Keaton is starring in the story of McDonald's founder Ray Kroc which FilmNation is getting off the ground.
45 YEARS – Director-writer: Andrew Haigh; Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay. Making preparations for their 45th wedding anniversary celebration, Kate and Geoff are rocked by news from the past. The body of Geoff's girlfriend, who had a fatal accident in the Swiss Alps, has been discovered frozen in ice and time. Rights are with Match Factory. This screens tonight in Competition.
EYE IN THE SKY – Director: Gavin Hood; Cast: Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Barkhad Abdi, Alan Rickman. Colin Firth is producing this thriller about a London-based military intelligence officer who is remotely commanding a top secret drone operation that aims to capture a group of terrorists in Nairobi. EOne is selling.
FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS – Director: Stephen Frears; Cast: Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant. The biopic about the real-life New York heiress and socialite who coveted a career as a great opera singer, but who lacked any real ability, sold well internationally for Pathé at AFM.
MISS YOU ALREADY – Director: Catherine Hardwicke; Cast: Toni Collette, Drew Barrymore, Dominic Cooper, Paddy Considine, Tyson Ritter. Two best friends see their lifelong relationship tested when one struggles to have a baby and the other finds out she has breast cancer. CAA and The Salt Company are brokering; Salt is showing a five-minute promo.
SKIPTRACE – Director: Renny Harlin; Cast: Jackie Chan, Fan Bing Bing, Johnny Knoxville. Set in China, the Midnight Run-like action comedy has Chan as a Hong Kong detective who teams with a mouthy American gambler to save his niece and take down the city's most notorious criminal. Shooting recently wrapped. Sales are with WME and Bloom.
CONSIDER YOURSELF – Director: Vadim Jean; Cast: Geoffrey Rush, Michelle Dockery, Stephen Fry, Olivia Colman. Rush plays Oliver! composer-lyricist Lionel Bart, who became the first person to have three West End musicals running at once. Film will chart his rise and fall. Good Universe reps.
OUR KIND OF TRAITOR – Director: Susanna White; Cast: Ewan McGregor, Damian Lewis, Naomie Harris, Stellan Skarsgard. Adapted from the John LeCarré novel by Hossein Amini, the thriller sets an English couple on a tortuous journey after a chance meeting with a Russian oligarch. UTA, Studiocanal are repping.
THE BENDS – Director: Jean Luc Herbulot; Cast: Joel Kinnaman, Rosamund Pike. A diving adventure opens old wounds for an ex-Marine. In pre-production, WME and Sierra/Affinity are selling.
LIFE – Director: Anton Corbijn; Cast: Robert Pattinson, Dane DeHaan, Joel Edgerton. Control helmer Corbijn examines the relationship between James Dean and Life Magazine photographer Dennis Stock whose portraits led to the iconization of Dean. CAA, WME, and FilmNation have sales for the Special Gala presentation here.
THE WIFE – Director: Bjorn Runge; Cast: Glenn Close, Frances McDormand, Britt Marling, Logan Lerman. In English and Swedish, the adaptation of Meg Wolitzer's novel is a drama about a married couple whose relationship falls apart on their way to the Nobel Prize ceremony as a startling secret is laid bare. Shoots in the fall. WME, CAA, and Embankment are selling.
EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE – Director: Wim Wenders; Cast: James Franco, Rachel McAdams, Charlotte Gainsbourg. Franco plays a writer who spends 12 years trying to give his life meaning again after causing the accidental death of a young boy. The pic screens in Competition on Tuesday, but is not competing. Sales are with Hanway.
GO WITH ME – Director: Daniel Alfredson; Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Julia Stiles, Ray Liotta, Alexander Ludwig, Hal Holbrook. A modern fable set in the Pacific Northwest logging community about a young woman who enlists the help of a former logger to help her face off with a stalker. Sales are with UTA and Electric.
LOUDER THAN BOMBS – Director-writer: Joachim Trier; Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Jesse Eisenberg, Gabriel Byrne. In his English-language debut, Oslo, August 31 director Trier focuses on Gene and his two sons, three years after the death of their wife and mother. The three grapple with contrasting memories of the woman who influenced their lives so profoundly. Memento Films International has rights and is screening footage for select buyers.
SPOOKS: THE GREATER GOOD – Director: Bharat Nalluri; Cast: Kit Harington, Peter Firth, Jennifer Ehle. Harington plays an ex-MI5 operative brought back in by Ehle's deputy chief to uncover how a terrorist escaped custody during a routine handover. Screening in the market. The UK's Altitude is on sales.
THE DRESSMAKER – Director-writer: Jocelyn Moorhouse; Cast: Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth. The adaptation of Rosalie Ham's eponymous novel stars Winslet as an avenging angel who returns home to rural Australia where she liberates and empowers the town's women with her quick wit and beautiful clothing. CAA and Embankment are brokering and screening footage.
FREEHELD – Director: Peter Sollett; Cast: Julianne Moore, Ellen Page, Michael Shannon, Steve Carell. Based on the 2007 documentary about Laurel Hester and Stacie Andree, who fought to amend the Domestic Partnership Act, which grants pension benefits to domestic partners of all New Jersey public employees. CAA and Bankside are repping.
JADOTVILLE – Director: Richie Smyth; Cast: Jamie Dornan, Guillaume Canet. Centered on a stand-off between Irish troops and French and Belgian Mercenaries in the Congo during in the early 1960s. UTA and Bloom have this one.
THIS MAN, THIS WOMAN – Director: Isabel Coixet; Cast: Penelope Cruz, Diane Kruger. An estranged man and woman encounter each other by chance on a plane, and relive memories of their turbulent romantic relationship. Coixet's Nobody Wants The Night opened the festival on Thursday. CAA is on domestic, Fortitude has foreign.
UNLOCKED – Director: Michael Apted; Cast: Noomi Rapace, Orlando Bloom, John Malkovich, Michael Douglas. Rapace plays CIA interrogator Alice Racine in this female Jason Bourne-style thriller. Sales are with CAA and Bloom which closed several territories at the AFM.
YOGA HOSERS – Director-writer: Kevin Smith, Cast: Johnny Depp, Justin Long. Depp and Smith's daughters play yoga obsessives who team with a man-hunter when an evil presence threatens their invitation to a senior party. Sales and handled by WME and XYZ which is screening footage.
BARTON & CHARLIE – Director-writer: Rupert Friend; Cast: Friend, Emily Blunt. Homeland's Friend makes his directorial debut and stars in the story of a down-on-his-luck con-artist who meets a woman who he offers to teach the tricks of his trade. She turns the tables on him and they embark on a road trip, along with a 10-year old Mexican boy. CAA and Fortitude International are selling.


Pray-reading the Word of God is a healthy practice to help both new believers and long-time Christians grow. In fact, the entire Bible can be a prayer book. Simply take the words of the Bible and turn them into a personal prayer to the Lord. Watch this video about how we can pray with God's Word.


Bullying Prevention at Doyle - Monsignor Doyle C.S.S.
One of Monsignor Doyle's main priorities is the safety of our students. Here you will find many documents and tools to help with protecting those within our halls.
BULLYING ENDS HERE – Constable Tad Milmine is originally from Cambridge, and is now an RCMP officer who is gay and tells his story.
And Words can Hurt Forever: How to protect Adolescents from bullying, harassment, and emotional violence. James Carbarino and Ellen deLara. Free Press, 2002.
Don't Pick on Me: How to Handle Bullying. Rosemary Stones, Pembrooke.
The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander. Barbara Coloroso. Harper Collins, 2002.


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For China's Communist Party, Jesus is a political enemy, which is why it wants to crush Christians
A Protestant clergyman explains Beijing's campaign of persecution against Christians. "The government sees Christianity as an independent political group. Indeed, its organization meets the definition of modern civil society, and is an autonomous society entity independent of the state. The Christian church is an intermediary for a self-governing, plural and open social space." Likewise, "The Holy Cross and the architecture of the church are expressions of the church's physical presence in the public space, and symbols of social power."
Wenzhou (AsiaNews) – For China's Communist regime, "Christianity as an independent political group" and deems believers "a threat to the security of the regime"; yet, its crackdown has seemingly lessened. The reality however is different, this according to a Protestant clergyman (anonymous for security reasons). For him, Beijing's policy of sinizing religion hides a desire to muzzle believers.
Cao Yaxue interviewed the clergyman on 23 November for ChinaChange, a website that monitors Christian rights in China. Its latest update on arrests and releases was posted in the second week of December 2015. What follows are excerpts from the interview.
Yaxue Cao (YC): Paster L, I interviewed you in late July at the height of the Chinese government's cross-removal campaign. The campaign of demolishing churches and removing crosses had lasted a year and half by then, and several large churches were destroyed. One estimate had it that up to 1,500 crosses were dismantled across Zhejiang Province. But since August and September, there hasn't been much news about cross removals. Has it stopped?
Pastor L: It has for the time being, but the suppression has not, and is very much ongoing. Since August and September, the authorities have changed their strategies and methods. They are accusing journalists who simply reported facts of "divulging state secrets," and charging pastors and evangelists with leaking intelligence. That is a first. In Wenzhou, at least twenty clergy members, church workers, and legal counsel have been placed under secret detention for over two months by now. [. . .]
It's been confirmed that some of them have been placed under secret and solitary detention where detainees face high risk of torture and maltreatment. All of them could face severe jail terms.
In early November, several of them in secret detention sent letters to their relatives almost simultaneously to dismiss their lawyers, including lawyer Zhang Kai who had been the counsel for several churches. This is rather strange: a lawyer who has been known for using legal tools to help church communities in Wenzhou would reject help from lawyers after being secretly detained. In his letter, Zhang Kai said nothing at all about his circumstances, inviting speculation that the letter was produced under duress. Such things are common in China.
On November 11, Lucheng District authorities in Wenzhou posted three documents in Xialing Church, announcing the pending demolition of two church buildings, each four stories with a total area of 2,907 square meters (about 31,290 square feet), on November 16. This is the very church where lawyer Zhang Kai and his assistants had been stationed and were arrested. But as of today, the demolition team hasn't shown up.
Right now, church communities in Zhejiang Province are experiencing a sense of defeat not seen over the last 30 years or so. The churches have underestimated the cruelty of the government. They thought the crackdown would come to an end after the Sanjiang Cathedral was demolished. But that has proven to be wishful thinking.
YC: It all started as a campaign to demolish illegal buildings and clean up the city's appearance, but what really happened looked more like a masked war against Christians. What's the real motivation?
Pastor L: It was a carefully thought-out plan to legitimize their demolition of churches and crosses, in the name of regulating illegal buildings. The goal was to minimize negative reaction by the public. By treating religious issues with non-religious methods, the government hoped to conceal its intent to weaken Christianity.
It's true that some churches in Wenzhou, and across the province, have built more than they were permitted to. That's due to the flaws of religious policies and excessive administrative restrictions. Because the procedures for church construction approval are extremely cumbersome, local governments, out of tolerance for religious groups, have allowed churches to unofficially "construct more and report less," and sometimes you can even see local officials giving speeches during a church's inauguration ceremony. Take Sanjiang Cathedral for example. In 2013, the expansion of it was proposed, and promoted, by none other than the Wenzhou municipal government as an architectural landmark that would forge the image of a modern, pluralistic, and tolerant city.
But the cross removal campaign must be understood in the context of the Xi Jinping government's tightening control of ideology. The authorities see Christianity as something outside their authoritarian sphere, and an imperialist legacy that identifies more with Western values. Indeed, it is one of five categories of citizens whom the government deems a threat to the security of the regime, along with rights lawyers, dissidents, Internet opinion leaders, and disadvantaged social groups.
The government sees Christianity as an independent political group. Indeed, its organization meets the definition of modern civil society, and is an autonomous society entity independent of the state. The Christian church is an intermediary for a self-governing, plural and open social space. The Holy Cross and the architecture of the church are expressions of the church's physical presence in the public space, and symbols of social power.
Suspicious of religious organizations, the government does not tolerate the scope and influence of the church and regards it as a threat to its security. An internal meeting in Zhejiang Province in early 2014 required that "cadres in charge of ethnic and religious affairs must grasp the political matter behind the cross and resolutely resist infiltration."
In Wenzhou one rumor is that, while visiting Wenzhou in September 2013, the provincial CCP Secretary Xia Baolong was greatly displeased by what he saw: the large, brightly-lit cross of the Sanjiang Cathedral by the Ou River. "This is brazen! Whose domain is this, the Communist Party's or the Christians'?"
YC: Again, why Wenzhou?
Pastor L: Because Christianity is thriving in the area, with 15% of the population Christian. That's over one million people, according to official statistics. In towns and the countryside, churches are numerous and crosses conspicuous. Wenzhou has been called "China's Jerusalem" and the authorities don't like it. And more, Wenzhou has influenced, over the past 30 years, the expansion of churches in China.
YC: Can you elaborate on the last point?
Pastor Pastor L: Starting in the mid-1980s, troves of Wenzhouers left home to do business across the country. Christians among them would hold regular gatherings in the cities they lived. Volunteers and clergymen, mostly from house churches, began to establish, propagate, and sponsor house churches in large cities and rural areas, providing financial support, equipping their altars, and holding regular evangelical meetings. As churches in Wenzhou matured, they also organized Bible study groups to equip church leaders and staff across the country with biblical knowledge and church management skills.
Wenzhou Christians inside and outside China worked together, evangelizing in the country. There are more than 10,000 volunteer evangelists in Wenzhou; there are several hundred of them in European countries and in the U.S.; several thousand evangelists serve churches in large cities in China; and there are many evangelists from Wenzhou in both officially sanctioned churches and house churches in Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing, and other cities. Since the 2000s, Wenzhou has gradually established two dozen or so bible and theology sessions, training hundreds of new grassroots evangelists each year.
YC: As a non-Christian who observes society and politics in China, two things struck me about the Chinese government's behavior: one is that it challenges a very large sector of solid middle class people in the wealthiest province on the east coast; the other is that it treats the state-sanctioned churches no differently than the underground house churches. I feel that the state of Christianity in Wenzhou must have troubled the government a great deal for them to act with such reckless abandon.
Pastor L: The state-sanctioned churches are not always obedient in Wenzhou. The church's' belief system is rather self-contained, impervious to government control. In this, any authoritarian government would perceive potential resistance to its control. In China, the central government has been increasingly unhappy about the ambiguous interaction between local governments and churches, convinced that its authority has been weakened and the manipulation through the so-called United Front Work hasn't worked well. Indeed the UFW's usefulness is so limited that the government doesn't mind the loss by destroying its connection with state-sanctioned churches.
YC: What loss? Can you elaborate on that?
Pastor L: The registered churches have always believed that their religious activities are approved by the government, and, because of it, they have done things almost free of concern. For example, they organized summer camps for college students. They held large-scale evangelist services. In townships and villages, sometimes they came out with Christmas programs on streets. The church workers didn't limit their work to Wenzhou. [. . .]
But as this cross removal campaign unfolded, they suddenly realized that registration with the government does not guarantee that they'll be spared, and a lot more crosses have been removed from government-sanctioned churches than from house churches. They realized that, as registered churches, they are retaliated against even worse when they refuse to adopt the government's unreasonable policies. On the part of the government, they feel the registered churches have betrayed them and therefore should be suppressed even harder. The will of the Party must prevail. Consequently the government loses everyone. Disappointed church leaders have condemned the government. Grassroots Christians are angry but not surprised. They say, if the Communist Party showed tolerance, then it wouldn't be the Communist Party.
YC: While the cross demolition was taking place and over the following months, I regularly saw slogans like "sinicizing Christianity" and the "five entries and five transformations." This month a purportedly international academic symposium was held in Beijing called "The Path to Sinicizing Christianity," attended by representatives of the Party's United Front Work Department, the State Administration for Religious Affairs, proxies like China Christian Council and the Three-Self Patriotic Movement, and a number of universities. What is the sinicization of Christianity? Is this is a new idea?
Pastor L: The official-led and directed campaign of "sinicizing Christianity" is in essence the politicization of Christianity—it's forcing Christianity to "go communist," or undergo a "socialist transformation." The intent is to reform and remold Christianity into a Party-dominated tool that can be used in its service. A proponent of the "sinicization of Christianity" theory, official scholar Zhuo Xinping, laid it out straight: "Christianity in China needs to emphasize sinicization politically; it must acknowledge and endorse our basic political system and its policies."
At this conference in Beijing, "sinicizing Christianity" might mean different things for different parties, but the core, tacit presupposition of the meeting was that Christianity is a latent, potential political competitor with the Party. This already warps Christians' own understanding of their identity as God's people. It has absolutely nothing to do with what went on during the late Qing and Republican eras, in which grassroots Christians, as an organic part of their missionary work, experimented with and developed various forms of localizing and adapting Christian teachings to China.
When Nestorian Christianity entered China during the Tang dynasty, it integrated too much into Chinese culture, to the extent that the transmission of Christian teachings was stopped, in the end going away entirely. If Christianity neglects its ecumenical and theological tradition, all sorts of "abnormal" variations fused with Chinese folk traditions are apt to proliferate. The example of Hong Xiuquan's "Taiping heavenly kingdom" is a familiar example. If the Church, on the other hand, overly attaches itself to state power, emphasizing nationalistic will, then secular powers are apt to sweep in and try to commandeer it. Nazi Germany's instrumentalization of Lutheranism led to great tragedy. Many clerics in the Orthodox Church in Eastern Europe were later found to have been recruited as informants for the Communist Party, and when the archives were opened they were too ashamed to show their faces in public. In China, Christianity should draw a lesson from these cases and on no account let itself become a mistress of the Communist Party.
The authorities are now engaged in a series of actions in churches. In Pingyang, Wenzhou, the local authorities are on Sundays sending administrative personnel to churches to monitor the activities, ensuring that churches don't discuss the cross demolitions or talk negatively about government policies. Some places plan to set up offices inside churches, but they haven't succeeded. In other places the government has set up their own propaganda noticeboards on church properties, and made a big fuss of them in state media. In 2015, Zhejiang officials started to roll out the "five entries and five transformations".
The "five entries" consists of: "government policies and statutes enter the church; health care activities enter the church; popular science and culture enter the church, assisting and helping the poor enters the church, and harmonious construction enters the church." It's all about controlling the church's social activities, ensuring that they're toeing the Party's line. The "five transformations" refers to "localizing religion, standardizing management, indigenizing theology, making finances public, and co-opting the Christian teachings." With these, they intend to control the church by controlling the teaching, management, and finance.
But their scheme has not worked. The "five entries and five transformations" campaign hasn't progressed smoothly at all, and church groups have been quite critical and put up very stiff resistance.
YC: We all know that, because its power is unchallenged and unchecked, the way the Communist Party uses power is brazen and brutal. Whether Christians resist or not, I predict that the Party will carry out its will – of that I have little doubt.
Pastor L: In China, diktats are issued from the top straight down, and the apparatus moves following the will of the top leaders. Local officials, if they want to keep their job, have to join the competition to suppress Christians, and they are rewarded by the number of crosses they remove. There are local officials who say: We don't want to be the Number One, but we don't want to be the last one either. The Public Security Bureau chief in Wenzhou and the Party Secretary in Yongjia have been promoted for their hardline approaches during the cross-removal campaign.
In order to complete their objectives, secret police began threatening church leaders. They have arbitrarily detained people, showing no regard for proper legal procedures. In the Wenzhou area, hundreds have been summoned, detained, threatened, or criminally detained. In Pingyang, Wenzhou, 14 members of the Salvation Church were beaten and injured. The government has also persecuted families and relatives, and targeted businesses owned by Christians. Wenzhou has become a testing ground for Party officials to fulfil their political ambitions and test their ideology and brinksmanship.
Doubtless, Wenzhou is facing the same cataclysm it did in 1958. Back then, it was declared a "religion-free area," it became an outpost in a projected war with Taiwan, and religion was suppressed. Today the government is once again targeting Wenzhou. Information about cross removal campaign online is censored immediately. Discriminatory measures are taken against Christian civil servants. The government has also investigated grassroots Party members to find out who the Christians are, and it has organized sessions to study the Party's Mass Line rhetoric and Marxist religious views. All signs indicate that this is a determined political campaign and another catastrophe for Christians.
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Juventus make Adrien Rabiot transfer decision
Arsenal target Adrien Rabiot could stay with Juventus for the rest of the season if Paul Pogba does not make a successful recovery.
Pogba rejoined the Bianconeri on a free transfer from Manchester United last summer, but he has yet to make an appearance.
He has been nursing a knee injury sustained during pre-season and it is still unclear whether he will be fit in the coming months.
According to Gazzetta dello Sport, the Bianconeri were initially aiming to sell Rabiot for a cut-price fee with his contract expiring next summer.
However, their stance appears to be changing with the uncertainty surrounding the fitness of Pogba ahead of the New Year.
The Serie A giants will reportedly decide to keep Rabiot until the end of the campaign if the World Cup winner suffers another setback.
Rabiot recently admitted at the World Cup that he dreams of playing in the Premier League. He failed to agree terms with Man Utd last summer.


The Fall has been fishing really well. ODFW and Mother Nature have both helped this, with plenty of stocked Rainbows and a good mix of Browns and Brookies.
We've been doing well Euro Nymphing with Perdigons and Euro Jigs, Frenchies and Rainbow Warriors.
On top there have been good PMD hatches, Yellow Sally's, a few Drakes and some Caddis. Ants and Beetles have been good along the grassy banks too.


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Outdoor Pavilion Online Reservations can only be reserved during April 1 through October 15. Reservations can only be made a maximum of 160 days in advance! Reservations also cannot be made within 72 hours of the reservation date.
Pavilion reservations may be made 6 months in advance for the date requested. If the date falls on a Saturday or Sunday, you may come in on the preceding Friday. Reservations can be made online or in person at the Parks & Rec Office. Non-Sandy residents will be charged an additional fee to reserve a pavilion. To reserve a pavilion in person, please visit our office at 440 East 8680 South Monday - Friday between the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 pm. Closed Saturdays and Sundays. For more information please call 801-568-2900.
Indoor Pavilions
Indoor Pavilion Online Reservations can only be made a maximum of 160 days in advance! Reservations also cannot be made within 72 hours of the reservation date.
LONE PEAK INDOOR PAVILION • Reserve Online!
This beautiful indoor/outdoor facility is located at 10140 South 700 East. The facility will accommodate 230 people, seating capacity would be less, or if used as a split room will accommodate 115 per side. Tables and chairs are included with your reservation. Two outdoor pavilions (one on each side of the building) also are available for reservation. Reservations may be made up to 6 months in advance from the date requested.
BICENTENNIAL INDOOR PAVILION • Reserve Online!
This indoor/outdoor facility is located at 530 East 8680 South. The facility will accommodate 80 people. Round tables and chairs are included in your reservation. One outdoor pavilion is directly behind this indoor facility.
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CHAPTER TWELVE - CITY PARK
7-12-1. Definitions
As used in this chapter:
"Recreation center" means those buildings and surrounding areas owned by Sandy City (the City) where recreation activities, day care, health services and other beneficial services and activities are provided by the City, that are designated by the City Council as recreation centers or senior citizen centers.
"Park" means a specific piece of ground, either within the City or that is under the control of the City, that is operated and maintained by the City and set apart for the use of the general public, whether developed or undeveloped, including natural parks, and that is usually, or may be, planted with trees, lawns and other shrubbery. A park may include within its boundary facilities for sport, entertainment, dancing, recreation, swimming, or a park may be planned for any beneficial used by the citizenry. A park may have numerous facilities or consist of only a single facility.
"Recreation" means a leisure activity or diversion which restores one's strength, spirit or vitality and which refreshes the mind and/or body.
"Recreation facilities" (facilities) means parks, recreation areas and recreation centers which are owned or operated by the City, or for which the City has enforcement and/or maintenance responsibilities.
7-12-2. Authority to Make Rules
The Director of Parks and Recreation Department (the Director) of the City may adopt or recommend the adopting of rules for the use and care of City recreational facilities consistent with this chapter and other City ordinances, as provided by the City's ordinances on rulemaking. The Director may coordinate rulemaking and enforcement with the Sandy Police Department which has enforcement authority in all City recreational facilities.
7-12-3. Prohibited Activities
The following activities are prohibited in or on City recreational facilities:
Entering into a flood detention pond where there is water present in it;
Expectorating, urinating or littering in violation of 7-1-11, R.O.S.C., or defecating except into a toilet for that purpose;
Bringing into a City recreational facility an animal other than a dog, cat, horse, donkey, burro, mule or llama unless a special permit has been obtained from Salt Lake County ("County");
Allowing any dog or cat to be off of a leash, or allowing such animal not to be secured to a person;
Allowing a donkey, horse, burro, mule or llama to be in a facility when not being led by a halter or ridden;
Allowing an animal, other than a horse, donkey, burro, mule or llama, under one's ownership, care, custody or control to defecate in a recreational facility without removing the defecation to a proper trash receptacle as provided in Section 3-1-16, R.O.S.C.;
Possessing or drinking any alcoholic beverage;
Hitting or throwing balls or other hard objects against fences, or against baseball, soccer or other backstops;
Shooting any projectile, paint ball or golfing;
Adjusting or tampering with sprinklers, sprinkling valves, or sprinkling or irrigation systems;
Making excessive, unnecessary or unusually loud noises in violation of Title 7, Chapter 2, R.O.S.C.;
Making or continuing to burn an open fire except in barbecue or grill areas provided by the City or County;
Skiing, snowboarding, sledding, toboganning or riding inner tubes or similar means of descending a hill on snow or ice in areas where such uses are prohibited by posted signs;
Putting any object which is not normally used in those receptacles in sinks, toilets or drinking fountains which is reasonably likely to clog or plug the plumbing;
Parking a motor vehicle or trailer overnight in a facility unless in an area where specifically allowed by posted signs;
Riding bicycles or using skateboards, rollerblades, rollerskates or the like on any surface other than a sidewalk, parking lot or designated trail, or using any of these in a careless or reckless manner;
Operating a snowmobile;
Using any trail, path, walk, road, lot or area for any purpose other than that which is designated by signs or by City or County personnel;
Creating or constructing any path without the express written consent of the Director or County;
Tying or tethering any animal to a tree, plant or structure which is not specifically designated for that purpose;
Annoying, injuring, releasing from confinement or interfering with any animal;
Hunting or fishing unless there is a special facility set aside for such purpose by the City;
Swimming, bathing or wading in any lake, pond, fountain or stream not specifically set aside by the City for that purpose (except that persons wearing fishing waders may wade where fishing is allowed);
Operating any dispensary or concession stand without the express written consent of the Director or without first obtaining a current, valid business license from the City;
Distributing any handbills or circulars, or posting, placing or erecting any bills, notices, papers or advertising of any kind without the express written consent of the Director or County;
Engaging in any activity in an area which is not specifically designated for that activity;
Camping, lodging or remaining overnight unless in an area specifically designated for that purpose;
Throwing or depositing any bottle, metal objects, glass, paper, wood, clippings, rubbish or garbage except in receptacles set out for that purpose;
Carrying or discharging any firearm or explosive of any kind, including fireworks, excepting law enforcement officers and those who have received written consent to do so from the Director;
Violating any provision or instruction on any sign, or violating any rule of the facility;
Conducting or carrying on any parade, formal celebration, service or speech-making without express written permission from the Director, the City Council or the County;
Removing any plant, shrub, natural plant, rock, etc., from the recreational facility, excepting parks and recreation personnel in furtherance of their duties;
Entering any area designated by signs as a rehabilitation or restoration area, excepting parks and recreation personnel in furtherance of their duties.
7-12-4. Opening and Closing Times for City Recreational Facilities.
Except for unusual or unforeseen events, City recreational facilities shall be open to the public every day of the year during designated hours. Unless otherwise noticed by sign or other communication, facilities shall open each day at 6:00 a.m. Facilities without lighted playing fields shall be closed at 10:00 p.m. and those with lighted playing fields shall be closed at 10:30 p.m. Closing hours for facilities shall be posted in each for public information and those posted hours shall be the actual closing time for that facility. With the exception of police, fire, and parks and recreation personnel, no one may enter a recreational facility during the hours it is closed.
Individuals or groups may receive express written permission from the Director, the Director's assistant or the County to be in a facility during the hours it is closed. The written permission shall designate specific hours within which the exemption is granted. The exemption from closing hours shall be in effect only for those hours exempted. Such written permission must be presented to any police officer or City official or employee upon demand. Written exemption from closing hour prohibitions shall not void any other penalties or violations of this chapter or other Sandy City ordinances.
7-12-5. Motor Vehicle Restrictions.
Speeding. It is unlawful to operate or drive a motor vehicle within any recreational facility at a speed in excess of that posted on the particular road, trail or pathway in the facility. If no speed is posted, then no motor vehicle shall be operated at a speed in excess of 7 miles per hour. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to allow operation of a motor vehicle outside of parking lots and roads unless otherwise permitted by a sign posted by the City.
Careless, Reckless or Hazardous Operation. No motor vehicle, even operated within the permissible speed limit or within area designated for such vehicle's use, shall be operated in a careless or reckless manner, or in a manner which causes significant hazard to life, safety or property.
Drive Only Where Allowed. No motor vehicle, as defined in Section 7-2-3(k), may be driven within a facility other than those in areas specifically designated and posted by the City for that particular purpose. This shall not apply, however, to motorized or self-propelled equipment used by onduty City or County employees or emergency personnel for transportation, maintenance or service of facilities, or in performance of their duties.
Definition of Motor Vehicle. This is any vehicle within the definition of "motor vehicle" contained in 7-2-3 (k) of this ordinance.
7-12-6. Noise Restrictions.
No person may play or cause to be played amplified music or sound in a facility without the express written approval of the Director and without obtaining a license for such purpose. Such permission or license may be denied by the Director or the City where it is reasonably believed that such noise would disturb other patrons of the facility, annoy residents neighboring the facility or disturb wildlife. The written permission and license to play amplified sound must be provided to any City employee or official upon demand during the time for which it is granted. Issuance of permission and a license does not exempt the holder or permitted from all other rules, regulations, ordinances or statues whether State, County or City.
7-12-7. Violation of Ordinance or Rule.
Eviction. Any person violating any of the ordinances, rules or instructions established by the City or the Director may be evicted immediately from the facility by any City employee who has been granted that authority by the Director. Any person who, having been given direction to leave by such an employee and who does not leave, is guilty of violating this chapter.
Penalty. Any person who violates any ordinance, rule, instruction or sign within this chapter is guilty of an infraction unless the violation is a greater offense under State, County or City criminal codes, in which case the violation shall be punishable as the greater offense.
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Trump Fights Back On Twitter Over Universal Healthcare Protests
darlene Jan 06, 2022
Since Donald Trump has been elected as president last 2016 U.S. elections, he somehow managed to immediately get on the nerves of the people, not just in America, but from all over the world.
He has been involved in a lot of controversies because there are times that he would make extremely bold statements that aren't exactly what a leader of a nation is supposed to say. Which is why more and more people are expressing their dislike of the current U.S. president.
The latest incident involves a tweet, which is where he often make bold statements, about Great Britain's health care.
For almost a year now, the United States has been struggling to find unity when it comes to the healthcare industry, so when the president found a chance to talk about other nation's healthcare system, he immediately took it but it would seem that Trump didn't quite understand it, which led to the Brits disliking him even more, continue reading for more info.
The Democrats are pushing for Universal HealthCare while thousands of people are marching in the UK because their U system is going broke and not working. Dems want to greatly raise taxes for really bad and non-personal medical care. No thanks!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 5, 2018
Trump Attacks United Kingdom's National Health Service
Last February 5, United States commander-in-chief, Donald Trump has yet again made a controversial post on his official Twitter account, this time attacking another nation's health service. On the tweet, Trump mentioned how the Democrats are actually protesting against his administration because they wish to have a universal health system, which he definitely disagreed on and even compared it to United Kingdom's National Health Services, that he actually referred to as "going broke and not working".
Trump thought that people in Great Britain are protesting against their own National Health Services because it is going downhill, it turns out that the people are actually fighting to save the NHS and they are asking for more funding.
The United States president thought that the thousands of people who joined the march in London last weekend were protesting against NHS. The people of Great Britain does not need to pay for healthcare services because they pay for it with their taxes, whereas in the United States, people spend thousands of dollars in order to get treated and people of America wishes to have a similar healthcare system.
British Government Fights Back
It is not surprising when the British nation tried to defend their healthcare system from Trump, just like the British Prime Minister did. Theresa May backed up Britain's health secretary, Jeremy Hunt over the United States president's claims that their healthcare system is actually going downhill. Hunt definitely disagreed with Trump's tweet by making another statement via tweet as well.
Hunt said that he is indeed proud to belong from a country wherein he does not need to worry about affording healthcare unlike other nations, he also backed up the marchers saying that not a single one of them would want to live with a healthcare system wherein they need to get insurance from private sectors and worry about not getting their right to be treated.
I may disagree with claims made on that march but not ONE of them wants to live in a system where 28m people have no cover. NHS may have challenges but I'm proud to be from the country that invented universal coverage – where all get care no matter the size of their bank balance https://t.co/YJsKBAHsw7
— Jeremy Hunt (@Jeremy_Hunt) February 5, 2018
The prime minister's spokesperson even said that the prime minister herself is indeed very proud of their National Health Services. She even mentions how they have always prioritized the budget for healthcare which made it the best healthcare system in the entire world for the second time around, and that is all according to the Commonwealth Fund international survey.
When May's spokesperson was asked if the prime minister have anything to say regarding Trump's statement regarding the NHS, she simply refused to answer, instead, she stated that May has never commented on any of the current issues of the United State when it comes to their healthcare.
Britain's labor leader also expressed his thoughts via Twitter regarding the U.S. President's statement, he said that Trump was indeed wrong when he talked about the March since the people of Great Britain loves the fact that they have NHS, this is because people have the right to accessible and affordable healthcare.
The current chief executive of National Health Service, Simon Stevens also released a statement saying that Trump definitely got it all wrong and the people do not want to get rid of NHS.
Experts On United States' Healthcare Crisis
Financial experts believe that Trump must not worry about other nation's healthcare problems because his own country is suffering from it. In fact, Toby Cosgrove of Cleveland Clinic even said that private companies such as the merge of Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase, will be the one to save the healthcare industry of the United States, this is because the government officials couldn't seem to agree on how they will be able to fix this healthcare crisis.
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Theodore Roosevelt Pell, född 12 maj 1879, New York, New York, USA, död 18 augusti 1967 var en amerikansk högerhänt tennisspelare. Theodor Roosevelt Pell upptogs 1966 i the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

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Theodore Roosevelt Pell var en av USA:s bästa tennisspelare under 1910-talet. Han rankades 5 gånger bland de 10 bästa perioden 1910 till 1918. Som bäst var han nummer 5 (1913 och 1915).

Sina största framgångar nådde han vid spel inomhus. Han vann singeltiteln i Amerikanska inomhusmästerskapen 3 gånger (1907, 1909 och 1911) och dubbeltiteln i samma turnering 4 gånger (1905, 1909, 1911 och 1912).

År 1915 nådde han semifinalen i Amerikanska utomhusmästerskapen vid Newport. På vägen dit hade han bland andra besegrat Beals Wright. Han förlorade semifinalen mot Maurice McLoughlin som vann med 6-2, 6-0, 7-5.

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Creature-Feature Conversations: Event Horizon
Creature-Feature Conversations is an ongoing series of informal discussions about obscure, unique, or cult horror films.
Orrin Grey is a skeleton who likes monsters, movies, and especially monster movies. His stories have appeared in dozens of anthologies, including Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year, and been collected in Never Bet the Devil & Other Warnings and Painted Monsters & Other Strange Beasts. From 2011 until 2016 he wrote a monthly column on vintage horror cinema for Innsmouth Free Press that has now been collected into Monsters from the Vault. You can visit him online at orringrey.com.
Jonathan Raab is the author of The Hillbilly Moonshine Massacre and Flight of the Blue Falcon. His novella Cold Call will be featured in Turn to Ash's Open Lines anthology later this year, and his novella The Lesser Swamp Gods of Little Dixie will be available just in time for Halloween.
Event Horizon (Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, 1997)
OG: This was a favorite of mine back in the day; I used to own a copy on VHS, back when VHS was about the only way you could own copies of movies. But prior to sitting down to watch it for this, I hadn't seen it since college. (That's about fifteen years ago, for those of you keeping track at home.) Recently, when it first showed up on Netflix streaming, I had a conversation with Simon Berman of Strix Publishing (who'll be putting out the deluxe hardcover reissue of my first collection, Never Bet the Devil, Kickstarter coming soon!) and he was saying that this film had what he considered an undeserved bad reputation. Which was news to me, as most everyone I know seems to be fond of it. I know you've seen it before as well, did you know that it had a bad reputation, and how did it hold up for you?
JR: What's funny (and somewhat… sad, if you think about it) is that I'd given myself a sense that this movie wasn't very good. That was due mostly to the ill will I'd built up for director Paul W.S. Anderson, and for 90s CGI. Looking back on my retroactive negative attitude towards the film, I realize I was caught up in my post-college (that's nine years ago!) desperation to "grow" in taste and refinement. Somehow I had convinced myself that this movie was bad or overrated, simply because Alien Vs. Predator was bad.
That is not at all the case.
I discovered this movie while I was in high school. I rented it when some friends came over to spend the night, mostly on the fact that it starred Sam Neill and it was in the "Horror" section of my local small-town grocery store's rental display. This movie terrified me and those of us who stayed up to watch it. It was so intense that I compared it to The Exorcist in terms of what unnerved and frightened me.
I'm happy to report that the film, post-self-important-critical-reassessment, absolutely stands tall as a—and yes, I use this term carefully—classic 90s horror film. And, in an ironic twist considering my pre-developed palate, is a competent and well-made throwback to haunted house and sci-fi thrillers like The Haunting, Galaxy of Terror, and Alien and Aliens.
OG: Yeah, I can't really imagine anyone saying this film is bad, though I can also see why it might not quite reach classic status. Underneath its Hellrasier in Spaaaaaace! logline, there really isn't a lot of meat on its bones. (The screenwriter went on to pen Firestarter 2 and Mutant Chronicles and… that's about it.)
But it's a good, solid movie that mostly looks amazing! (The cartoony 90s CGI notwithstanding, which is really only a problem when things are supposed to be floating in zero G, as pretty much everything else is practical.) The eponymous Event Horizon remains one of my favorite spaceship designs of all time, both inside and out, and the gravity drive room is, I'll just go ahead and say it, as iconic (and cool looking) as anything to ever find its way into the horror canon. It's the Lament Configuration of this movie, and is just an incredible set from top to bottom. I don't really know who's responsible for that stuff, but I know that the production designer for Event Horizon had previously worked on Hardware which… makes a lot of sense.
I think any bad reputation this movie might have probably comes—as you sort of implied—from retroactive dislike of Paul W.S. Anderson. And lord knows AvP was a disappointment, though AvP: Requiem does show how much worse yet it could have been in other hands. I have this private theory that Anderson is essentially trying to be a late-era John Carpenter, and I think that Event Horizon is about as close as he ever got, minus maybe the first ten or fifteen minutes of Resident Evil. Replace the more restrained score by Michael Kamen and Orbital with some pounding synth stuff, and Event Horizon would be vintage mid-list Carpenter. Sam Neill is even playing sort of a variation on his character from In the Mouth of Madness three years earlier.
JR: For the record, In The Mouth of Madness has, at various points in time, occupied the space reserved for my favorite horror movie of all time. It's up and down in recent years, but that movie hits all the right notes for me.
The Event Horizon is a glorious setting. In a making-of documentary Anderson describes how they basically reconfigured Notre Dame into a spaceship. Despite everything being gray and black, the different rooms and spaces within the ship have their own unique look, but everything fits together. The incorporation of stone-like designs, the columns, patterned walls, the green-lit circuit board tunnels, the rune-like etchings on the iconic gravity drive, and candlelit style of lighting really works.
Now, I know you won't meet my "classic," assessment, but in my defense, please note I said "90s classic," which is a far cry from "80s" or "70s classic."
The actors did a great job considering they all had limited time and dialogue to differentiate themselves beyond what their occupation was. Laurence Fishburne as an even-headed merchant marine captain is a great foil to Sam Neill's increasingly arrogant and madcap performance.
OG: As a big, big Hannibal fan, it was fun to see a pre-Matrix Larry Fishburne looking so young (albeit not Apocalypse Now/Nightmare on Elm Street 3-young), as well as playing "spot the actor I can recognize now" among the supporting cast (Jason Isaacs! Sean Pertwee!)…
Everyone always calls Alien "a haunted house movie in space," which I've never really gotten from it so much. For me it always felt more like an early-era slasher in space. But Event Horizon is definitely a haunted house movie in space, right down to the bleeding walls before all is said and done. And then of course there's that great and oft-quoted line which, like many of the visuals in the movie, is a classic, even if the total package never quite reaches that exalted position in my book: "Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see."
JR: Sounds like we both agree that this movie has aged pretty well (CGI aside), and it's worth checking out even if you don't have the nostalgia factor in place. I might just revisit Anderson's Resident Evil and Resident Evil: Apocalypse to see if I still enjoy them now as much as I did when I was in high school and college…
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fmagto says:
I totally watch it every few years. It's always held up for me, and is probably one of the only 90s horror movies I consider re-watching (I just can't think of any others at the moment). I also remember this having a bad reputation, but don't remember where that came from. I think there's also the 90s horror movie stigma that can be added to what was mentioned above.
Jonathan R says:
The 90s were a weird time. I think the horror genre was somewhat exhausted after the renaissance of the late 70s through the 80s, so this got lumped in with a lot of the less-than-stellar selections of the time.
Also, has anyone been reading the Image Comic Southern Cross? I don't expect it to go the same as Event Horizon, but once things started getting weird, it immediately reminded me of the movie.
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Harvard Law grad Thomas makes the case for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas (no relation).
Just in time for the tenth anniversary of the contentious confirmation hearings that rocketed an obscure lawyer to fame (and to the highest court), this biography begins well with the compelling story of Clarence Thomas's rise from absolute poverty in rural Georgia. The trail from Liberty County to Yale Law School, via a Catholic seminary in Missouri and Holy Cross University, was full of twists and disappointments that make understandable Thomas's gradual drift to the right and his disregard for the truisms propounded by the liberal establishment, especially on matters of race. Unfortunately, the second half of this account doesn't come close to matching what precedes it. Thomas's years at the EEOC and on the Court are related in mind-numbing detail and assessed in unconvincingly laudatory terms; every action is built up into a stunning achievement. And while the author tries to give the impression of restrained neutrality, his bias becomes increasingly pronounced around the time of the Anita Hill affair, for which his account relies to a large degree on the work of David Brock, who has recently done a very public about-face on the issue. Although a conservative viewpoint is unobjectionable, it comes entwined here with a vituperative misogyny that raises serious doubts about the rest of the analysis. This is unfortunate, as the author offers some important insights into Thomas's development. His supposedly copycat conservatism is revealed as something far richer, emanating from a black man with firsthand knowledge of American liberalism's failures, and the justice comes off here as stubborn, droll, rebellious—precisely the opposite of the qualities for which he is so often maligned. By needlessly attacking women, however, the author makes it likely that reaction will focus not on Thomas's growth as a judge but once again on his relationship with Anita Hill.


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Yesterday when I opened my iGoogle page, "today's spotlight video" looked something like this.
Because I love both soul and gospel music, I clicked on it–and became an instant fan of an unknown singer who doesn't even have an album out yet. (LaTosha Brown. Check her out. Fabulous!)
As LaTosha tells it, as of the day-before-yesterday, her video had been viewed 310 times. Today, that number is 496,642–an instant fan base! Her record company, PortoFranco Records, is scrambling to get this cut on iTunes so some of those fans can actually buy the single.
Books are not as accessible as music in this way, but there's cause to believe that short pieces, priced low and marketed through social media, could become for authors what this single song is for a talented, upcoming musician: a way to develop an instant audience for their work.
Earlier this year, Amazon launched Kindle Singles, a division that is actively seeking articles, essays and stories of 5,000 to 30,000 words. These pieces, which are being reviewed and quality-controlled by editor David Blum, are being priced between $.99 and $4.99–impulse buyers' pricepoints. Publishers Weekly recently reported that six of the 75+ published works on this platform have already reached bestseller status among all Kindle books.
Kindle Singles has terrific potential. It provides a new platform for long-form journalism and could revive the world of short stories. And most importantly, it could build audiences for those emerging voices who have been abandoned by traditional publishers.
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In an interview with Ha'aretz, Israel's ambassador to the United States took a dim view of a recent American political trend. "Israel has become a partisan issue in the U.S., and this political ping-pong is bad for us," he said.
The interview was no more specific, but Michael Oren might have been referring to the deeply partisan way in which U.S.-Israel relations are framed by groups like the Republican Jewish Coalition and the National Jewish Democratic Council as well as by newcomers like the pro-Republican Emergency Committee for Israel. While we don't doubt that these groups are deeply committed to Israel, their foremost mission is to elect members of their party. Unfortunately, that often leads them to demonize the other party, and to suggest that politicians are more deeply divided on Israel than is the case. In truth, allowing for differences in diplomatic approach and disagreements over some specific policies, support for Israel is a consensus issue in the United States, with wide and deep support in places well beyond traditional Jewish strongholds.
Brooks' counterparts at the NJDC would disagree with that characterization of their party, and would undoubtedly point to isolationists on the other side of the aisle.
Israel has a place in electoral politics, and we should hold all our candidates to a high standard when it comes to their positions on Israel. Without tossing around words like "anti-Israel," we should demand that they clarify positions that seem at odds with Israel's elected leaders, or with which we simply disagree. If their answers are lacking, we can respond in the voting booth.
But we would do well to heed Amb. Oren's warning. A vigorous give and take on Israel is essential, but partisan ping-pong is a game we'll all end up losing.


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This page contains philatelic information on the Chang'e-series satellites. Catalog numbers, years of issue, and notes on the satellites featured are given when available. If readers know of additional information or images, please contact the authors using the e-mail addresses at the bottom of this page.
The Chang'e-3 lander included the Yutu lunar rover.
The Chang'e satellites are named after an ancient Chinese Moon goddess.
Below is a list of Chang'e-series satellite postal items (stamps, souvenir sheets, aerogrammes, postal cards, etc.).
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1The Chang'e-4 lander and the Yutu-2 rover are on the far side of the Moon and so cannot communicate directly with Earth. The Queqiao relay satellite, in orbit at a location beyond the Moon from which it has a clear view of both the landing site and Earth, receives signals from the lander and rover and relays them to Earth.


We had no schoolwork planned for today. I pretty much left the boys to themselves but within no time of them waking I was asked to come help supervise while Ian made us all waffles.
He, once again, made a double batch and wanted me in the room so he could make sure he was doubling all the measurements correctly. He read through the recipe by himself and followed all the directions. He still has a hard time remembering how to double 1 3/4 but other than that he was just fine and we all had nice delicious waffles for breakfast. Yum!
While the boys were eating I offered to read a bit more of Harry Potter and we ended up finishing the book!
We packed our lunches and all three boys took turns using a vegetable peeler. They were peeling our cucumbers and carrots. I just love having my boys helping out in the kitchen and love teaching them new skills!
We met our homeschool group at Purgatory chasm.
We hiked through the chasm, squeezed through the corn crib, slid down the sliding rock and had a ball! We examined "new" rocks that we had not seen before, noticed trees that looked like they might have gotten struck by lightening, and observed how the chasm changes over time. We talked, played on the playground and connected with other homeschoolers. We did NOT want to leave because we were all having so much fun. It was great.
We were in the car quite a bit today so we got to listen to a lot of our book. The boys are really enjoying the Mark of Athena.
Ian is enjoying it so much he's decided to build his own Argo II ship on Minecraft.
He's finished the outside of the ship, it's engine room, the bedrooms and the bathroom and he's started on the middle level. He couldn't wait to show it off to all of us and I have to say I was very impressed.


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Q: AWS Deequ Checks Error: isGreaterThanOrEqualTo is not a member of com.amazon.deequ.VerificationRunBuilder I run the following command on Databricks Notebook with com.amazon.deequ:deequ:2.0.0-spark-3.1 library for checking data quality on input data, and I got error messages on certain functions a member of com.amazon.deequ.VerificationRunBuilder. Where are those checks such as isGreaterThanOrEqualTo, hasDataType, hasMinLength exist? I did check the https://github.com/awslabs/deequ/blob/master/src/main/scala/com/amazon/deequ/checks/Check.scala and they do exist in there.
%scala

import com.amazon.deequ.{VerificationSuite, VerificationResult}
import com.amazon.deequ.VerificationResult.checkResultsAsDataFrame
import com.amazon.deequ.checks.{Check, CheckLevel, CheckStatus}
import com.amazon.deequ.suggestions.{ConstraintSuggestionRunner, Rules}
import com.amazon.deequ.constraints.Constraint;

val verificationResult: VerificationResult = { VerificationSuite()
  // data to run the verification on
  .onData(df)
  // define a data quality check
  .addCheck(
    Check(CheckLevel.Error, "unitTest")
      //.hasSize(_ >= 2) // at least 100 rows
      .hasMax("prem_amt", _ <= 2000) // max is 10000
      .hasMin("prem_amt", _ >= 1000) // max is 10000
      //.hasCompleteness("pol_nbr", _ >= 0.95) // 95%+ non-null IPs
      .isNonNegative("prem_amt")) // should not contain negative values
      .hasMinLength("pol_nbr", _ <= 8) // minimum length is 8
      .hasMaxLength("pol_nbr", _ <= 8) // maximum length is 8
      .hasDataType("trans_eff_dt", ConstrainableDataTypes.Date)
      .isGreaterThanOrEqualTo("trans_eff_dt","pol_eff_dt")
  // compute metrics and verify check conditions
  .run()
}

// convert check results to a Spark data frame
val resultDataFrame = checkResultsAsDataFrame(spark, verificationResult)

resultDataFrame.show(truncate=false)

VerificationResult.successMetricsAsDataFrame(spark, verificationResult).show(truncate=false)

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Jeff Jones ask me to relay message he would like a 2XL please.
Might be on the ETR homepage 2018 Event results page where they normally are.
You are too nice. Especially as a Marine.
Pretty sure Victoria will want a small, I'll try to remember to double check tonight.
Also shes Victoria Keefer now... I need to get that updated with msr/scca. I'm assuming that change won't be difficult to implement for the jackets.
Small confirmed for Victoria Keefer.
last I knew STS was 1.6 and STR was 1.8 cars. Unless rules have changed. I have always raced 1.6 cars in our class. And have always taken great pride when my times have bored deeper into the rest of the classes. As far as I know I'm not real sure at this moment who is right or wrong. I will tell you all when a car comes into your class that has a larger engine it dose make you wonder why. So I am asking why. And on a note I sorta feel like I have been crapped on since I stopped doing the equipment. Well after a while enough is just that. I felt used. Always still packing the trailer while awards were being given out. Yes I know it's all about the club but we have an event with 90 plus and only 20 or so show for awards. WTF is there a fix for that or is that just how it is? I might be back after surgery and if I do I will be pissed. The visor comes off.
The 1.8 has been in STS for a long time, JB can chime in on how long but I know it has been in STS since 2011 and probably longer than that.
I think STS, then STS2, came out in 2005 and the open diff NA8's were in the class.
People tend to gravitate towards the 1.6 cars because while they make a bit less power, they are lighter, have more favorable gearing, and the diff makes then more fun and easier to drive. Several have ran the 1.8 at nationals over the years and it has some top 5 finishes. The purple car that has ran at Bristol the last few years is a 1.8 car.
Its all in the rulebook.


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Lucius Aemilius Salvianus war ein im 2. und 3. Jahrhundert n. Chr. lebender Angehöriger des römischen Ritterstandes (Eques).

Durch eine Inschrift, die beim Kastell Habitancum gefunden wurde und die auf 205/208 datiert ist, ist belegt, dass Salvianus Tribun der Cohors I Vangionum milliaria equitata war, die in der Provinz Britannia stationiert war. Beim Kastell wurde auch noch ein Altar mit einer Weihinschrift gefunden, den Salvianus errichten ließ.

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Einzelnachweise

Eques
Militärperson (Römische Kaiserzeit)
Römer
Mann
Geboren im 2. Jahrhundert
Gestorben im 3. Jahrhundert