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Planet Earth (1974) -***
We all know the story. Gene Roddenberry produces a pilot for a sci-fi television series, but the network doesn't bite. He's convinced the premise is sound, though, so about a year later, he tries it again with a new cast, revised production design, and a more humanistic script in which the hardcore science fiction stuff serves to illuminate the personalities and relationships of the major characters, instead of vice versa. Nevertheless, Roddenberry does carry one figure over from the first pilot to the second, a peculiar, saturnine man from a culture alien to the rest of the cast, whose ways are poorly understood and somewhat mistrusted by his comrades— oh, and he also manages to sneak Majel Barrett into the new version as well by shifting her into a different role. I'm not talking about "Star Trek," though. I could be, obviously, since that's the origin of the series in a nutshell, but weirdly enough, that history repeated itself almost exactly in the early-to-mid-70's, on a completely unrelated project. The failed first pilot this time was Genesis II; the second attempt (which was no more successful than its predecessor at winning a network buy-in) was Planet Earth. Planet Earth too ultimately saw the light of day as a TV movie, and it must have given anyone who tuned in without knowing of its origins an unbearable case of déjà vu. You see, unlike with "Star Trek," Roddenberry kept all the main Genesis II characters even as he hired new actors to play them, and the script for Planet Earth was built up from one that would have become a regular episode had Genesis II been cleared for series production. Consequently, I'm going to treat Planet Earth as a sequel to Genesis II despite all the surface-level discrepancies between them. In some ways, this film even works a little better if you look at it from that perspective.
For starters, taking Planet Earth as a sequel certainly makes sense of the rather drastic in-media-res beginning, in which Dr. Dylan Hunt (John Saxon, from Cannibal Apocalypse and Hands of Steel, taking over from the forgettable Alex Cord) and Pater Isaac Kimbridge (Rai Tasco, of The Black Gestapo and Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde— and note the change in Kimbridge's title as compared to the Percy Rodrigues incarnation of the character) lead Harper-Smythe (now played by Ghostbusters II's Janet Margolin), Isiah (still Ted Cassidy), and a new character called Baylok (Christopher Cary, from The Sword and the Sorcerer and Lifepod) on a scouting mission into what used to be Southern California. We join them just as they're getting into trouble with a band of post-apocalyptic neo-Nazi mutants called Kreegs, which is disorienting in practice, but becomes less so if we assume that we're already supposed to be acquainted with four of the team's five members. In any case, the Kreegs hold several advantages over our heroes. For one thing, they're unencumbered by anything resembling the Pax oath against the taking of sapient life. For another, they're immune to the tranquilizers fired by the Paxers' dart pistols, but the Paxers have no corresponding natural defense against the Kreegs' rifle bullets. Most of all, Hunt and the others are stuck on foot until they can reach the nearest station for the supersonic subway their people use to travel the globe, whereas the Kreegs have motor vehicles— 20th-century automobiles which they've converted to burn wood-pulp biofuel. Even so, the explorers are able to reach the threshold of their tube shuttle stop before Kimbridge is gunned down by one of their pursuers. The wound isn't instantly lethal, but it's well beyond the treatment capacity of either the team's portable medkits or Baylok's psychic healing ability.
The news gets worse once the doctors at Pax get a look at Kimbridge. The Kreeg bullet took a piece out of his pulmonary artery, and although he can be kept stabilized for a short time with the clinic's best life-support equipment, he's sure to die unless bioplastic surgery can be performed within the next two to three days. Furthermore, the best man for the job is currently on an expedition to the Eastern Mediterranean; no way could he be summoned back in time to save the pater. There's another surgeon almost as qualified, but he— Dr. Jonathan Connor (Jim Antonio, from Pigs and Gentlemen Prefer Nature Girls)— disappeared some months ago in the territory just beyond Kreegland. That region is rumored to be controlled by a tribe of xenophobic female supremacists, so it's hard to imagine that he's still safe and sound after all this time. But long shot or not, Dylan determines to play it. He owes Kimbridge way too much to do anything else. His plan is a conspicuously bad one, however. While Isiah and Baylok scout around in the wilderness for possible Connor hideouts, he and Harper-Smythe will attempt to infiltrate the Society of Ruth directly, posing as a wannabe joiner and the captive man she's brought along in the hope of buying admission.
Hunt and Harper-Smythe's half of the mission goes awry almost immediately. The first person they meet is a high-ranking Ruthite named Marg (Diana Muldaur, from The Other and Maneaters Are Loose!), who promptly challenges Harper-Smythe for ownership of Dylan. As you might imagine, a girl who was raised from birth in a place called Pax isn't much for fisticuffs, and Marg administers to Harper-Smythe one of the most one-sided ass-whippings in recorded catfight history. Hunt, for his part, remains unclear on the concept even now, and keeps pestering Marg about Jonathan Connor no matter how many times she slaps him and orders him to keep his mouth shut like a proper "dink." By the time they reach the main Ruthite village, Marg has decided that Dylan's more trouble than he's worth in his current state of training. She determines to sell him at the slave auction tomorrow. In the meantime, she places Hunt with an obedience-school kennel run by Villar (Johanna De Winter) and Bronta (Corinne Camacho)— but before he takes up his position there, Hunt is left to cool his heels in the same pen as (that's right) Isiah and Baylok! Both men have clearly had something done to them. They're skittish to the point of panic, and neither one seems to recognize Dylan at first. Eventually, though, he gets it out of Baylok that the Ruthite women put psychoactive chemicals in the food they give their males, to make them fearful and compliant. That forewarning almost enables Hunt to escape that night, but Villar is not as easily overcome as Bronta. Just the same, his performance suggests to his would-be trainers that Marg may have underestimated him.
Meanwhile, Harper-Smythe wastes an entire afternoon and evening wandering in the wilderness. Eventually, she blunders onto the property of another Ruthite called Treece (Sally Kemp, from The Invasion of Carol Enders and The Glove), where again she is forced to fight— this time for the simple hospitality due any traveler among civilized people. That gets the girl from Pax pissed off enough to win, after which Treece flummoxes her by becoming a gracious and welcoming host. The women's chat over dinner brings to light quite a bit of vital intelligence. First, Treece and Marg are rivals to some extent, the main point of contention being Marg's family monopoly on the secret formula for the dink drug. They're also on opposite sides of an emergent controversy over the wisdom of keeping the dinks drugged in the first place. No one argues against the benefits of controlling the natural masculine tendency toward irrational violence and aggression, but the uncomfortable fact is that birth rates among the Society of Ruth have declined precipitously since the practice of dink-doping became widespread, and have now reached an unsustainably low ebb. Marg doesn't want to face that fact, though, any more than the CEOs of BP and Exxon-Mobil want to face the facts of man-made global warming— and for exactly the same reason. The other important thing Harper-Smythe learns from Treece is that although Marg intends to sell Dylan at auction tomorrow, Harper-Smythe can get him back in the same way that she lost him in the first place. All she has to do is win this time.
Somewhat surprisingly, Harper-Smythe accomplishes just that when she calls Marg out just as Dylan ascends to the auction block. However, she soon winds up trading him back. That's because it turns out that Marg's stable of house-dinks includes none other than Jonathan Connor. What's more, he alone of all the males in the village still has his full faculties about him, because his medical training has enabled him to invent an antidote to dink dope. (Mind you, he doesn't normally make a habit of advertising that.) Once Hunt has been dosed with Connor's formula, the Pax agents devise a twofold plan to get away from the Society of Ruth, and to hurry Connor to Pater Kimbridge's bedside. As I said, Harper-Smythe will offer Hunt back to Marg in trade for the doctor. Then, while Dylan keeps Marg busy by unleashing upon her the full might of his unsuppressed masculine charms, Harper-Smythe and Connor will sneak off to spike tomorrow's shipment of dink dope with the antidote, rendering the drug ineffective. The men will surely rise up against their owners as soon as they've digested their breakfast, affording our heroes the perfect opportunity to scamper off unnoticed. The Paxers haven't figured on one thing, however. The Kreegs have been aware for some time what pushovers the Society of Ruth's men are, and one ambitious Kreeg chieftain (John Quade, of Hammer and Night Terror) has finally gotten the big lightbulb to try conquering the Amazons next door.
I do so love it when Gene Roddenberry attempts to tackle sexism and gender roles. It's the one area where his instincts failed him (generally in hilarious ways) every single time, even when his heart was unmistakably in the right place. The most infamous example of the latter case is probably the first-season "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode, "Angel One"— and rightly so— but Planet Earth would surely run that one a close second if more people had seen it. The first indication of what's to come arises when Hunt briefs Harper-Smythe, Isiah, and Baylok on what Pax has been able to learn about the Society of Ruth. At the end of the rundown, the camera gazes up at John Saxon, and he intones as seriously as he is able, "Women's lib? Or women's lib gone mad?!" I'll give Planet Earth credit at least for recognizing that a female chauvinist society must be something more complex than a mere point-for-point inversion of the familiar male chauvinist variety, and for devising a couple halfway-plausible ways for the Society of Ruth to do things differently. (And while I'm at it, I'll salute once again Roddenberry's unrivalled knack for outmaneuvering the censors. Heaven knows how he got away with having the Ruthites refer to their men as "dinks.") But from the moment Dylan utters that "women's lib" line, you know this is going to turn into yet another story of matriarchy bowing before Penis Invictus. The scene in which that bowing occurs is a humdinger, too, easily outdoing any of the times when Captain Kirk's dick saved the day.
Speaking of which, the Kirk-like behavior of this second incarnation of Dylan Hunt is neither accident nor coincidence. Although the immediate provenance of Planet Earth's script was the pile of unused Genesis II leftovers, this story had actually been gathering dust in Roddenberry's filing cabinet since the days of the first "Star Trek" season. So if Hunt now comes across as a poor man's Kirk, it's because the foundations of Planet Earth were laid with the real thing in mind. John Saxon, alas, is no substitute for William Shatner. He lacks the capacity for hamming without shame that enabled Shatner to sell Kirk's Pan-Galactic Lady's Man shtick, coming across as squirmy and self-conscious during the critical seduction scene. That leaves Diana Muldaur in an impossible position. We're asked to believe that Hunt is such a juggernaut of sexual potency that Marg rethinks her whole worldview based on a single night in his company, but he's such an obvious dope that she looks thoroughly ridiculous falling for him. And that's too bad, because Muldaur, up to that point, has acquitted herself far better than Saxon, mostly reconciling the seemingly incompatible demands that come with playing both Babe of the Week and Queen Bitch. Indeed, she's easily the best thing about this fairly silly movie, and her performance here will come as a revelation to those who remember Muldaur mainly as that awful, schoolmarmish doctor from the second season of "Star Trek: The Next Generation." Thanks to Planet Earth, it will henceforth be a part of my personal fan-canon that Dr. Pulaski spent her youth living in a gender-flipped Gorean back-to-nature commune.
On the whole, Planet Earth is markedly less serious and less ambitious than Genesis II, but it's a lot more fun. Much as I criticize John Saxon for botching his William Shatner impression, it's a hoot to watch him try. He is, at the very least, a welcome improvement over Alex Cord. And while it certainly doesn't work the way it was intended to, the seduction scene between him and Diana Muldaur is exactly the kind of squirmy spectacle I salivate for whenever I see that Roddenberry is out to tell me once again that "Sexism's bad, m'kay?" Some of the other recasting is a step up, as well. I like the new Harper-Smythe much better than the old, partly because Janet Margolin is much more charismatic than Lynne Marta, and partly because this version of the character dials way back on the tiresome Youth Anti-Sex League business. Baylok is a nice addition to the cast, too, even if he doesn't get a chance to do very much. Finally, I think we all know there was no way I wasn't going to love a tribe of Road Warrior lizard-Nazis, right? Considerably more than with Genesis II, I'm disappointed that Planet Earth didn't go to series. I definitely would have enjoyed spending more time with this version of Pax.


There are many reasons that the Los Angeles Kings are up three games to none over the New York Rangers in the Stanley Cup Finals. One big reason is that the Rangers don't know how to defensively cover the most dangerous part of the ice in terms of allowing opponents to take shots. Top photo is Jeff Carter's first goal in last night's game and the bottom photo is Justin Williams taking the overtime winner in Game 1. Notice any similarities?!!! Game Four is Wednesday night in New York and Game Five, if necessary, Friday afternoon at Staples Center, located conveniently near the Pico Station served by the Blue Line and Expo Line and a pleasant stroll from the Red/Purple Line station at 7th/Metro Center.
Perhaps the source of the cuts — an outgoing Georgia politician — were the issue. Still pretty amazing, given the un-love that some Congress members have heaped on Amtrak in the past.
A while back, Chicago leased its parking meters to a private firm for $1 billion for 75 years. The idea was that the city would get an instant cash shot-in-the-arm in exchange for the revenue stream from its meters. The deal has had its critics and this article certainly takes a dim view of it — including examples of how the deal is getting in the way of other goals. Example: installing bus lanes is now more difficult as it's more difficult to remove meters.
Coverage of the media event held at Metro's Division 13 last week about pending state legislation to use revenue from California's cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gas emissions to help fund mass transit. In related news, the New York Time's Thomas Friedman published an interesting interview with President Obama about climate change, with the president saying that putting "a price on carbon" is crucially important.
Some interesting background on the bike lanes that the city of Los Angeles is not going to install of Westwood Boulevard. I mention it here because two future Metro Rail projects will have stations on the street: the Expo Line will stop just south of the Westside Pavilion and the Purple Line Extension will stop at Wilshire and Westwood. Bike connections from both stations could help with first mile/last mile issues, I suppose.
Speaking of first mile/last mile…here is how a few people are solving the problem — by riding. The private sector is responding with electrified skateboards to tackle hills, skateboards with fat tires to handle bumpy and rocky city pavement and other contraptions that are skateboard-like. I don't see a ton of commuters on skateboards but I've definitely see more skateboards in bike lanes than in the past.
The Garcetti article link isn't working – goes to the Obama article.
Sad to see the lack of bike lanes on Westwood. I frequently travel that route by bike as it is a direct route from where I live in Palms to many commercial locations on Pico (and much lower speeds/traffic volume than Overland). I'm a bit concerned that some simple striping is out of the question to let motorists know cyclists are welcome there.
You're right about the 1st/last mile connections issues on Westwood Blvd. Once the Expo Line extension opens, there's going to be a dramatic increase in the number of riders on Westwood Blvd between the station and the UCLA campus and Westwood high-rises.
Doing nothing is the best way to ensure the gridlock that locals fear.
It will be interesting to see if there is some type of other viable and nearby north-south bike corridor that emerges. There are certainly some other side streets near Westwood in the area, but I would imagine getting cyclists across Pico, Olympic, Santa Monica and Wilshire would remain as issues.
Skateboards are great for last/first miles. When I was going to CSUN I used to skate to the 741 hookup with the Orange Line and skate out to my work in woodland hills. Makes a 15 min walk a 5 minute skate. + Fun!
Maybe LA can speed up the completion of a rail line into LAX and the subway to Westwood. Or even the funding of a rail line from SFV to West LA.
That's exactly the problem. Unless the city wants to install additional traffic lights to cross the major streets you listed, Westwood will remain the only viable alternative for riders, with or without bike lanes. Even then, it would take a major refiguring at Santa Monica to create a crossing anywhere other than Westwood or Veteran — and Veteran is too narrow to accommodate bike lanes north of Santa Monica, and has a steep hill beyond the ability of many riders.
The brilliance of our dear leaders in Sacramento is that they fail to see the logic of CA's cap-and-trade.
What stopping these companies to move to TX? Oops, now there's no money at all to be collected.


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Le Selle italien () est un stud-book de chevaux de sport, sélectionné en Italie.

Histoire
La race est relativement récente, puisqu'elle est créée durant la seconde moitié du , pour les sports équestres. Il s'agit d'un croisement des races locales (Anglo-arabe sarde, Salernitano, Sanfratellano, Maremmano ou Murgese) avec des chevaux français, allemands, et irlandais avec une prédominance marquée de l'Anglo-arabe sarde.

Depuis 1960, le programme d'élevage a ainsi donné un très bon cheval apte à toutes les compétitions sportives.

Description
Le Selle italien n'a pas véritablement de caractéristiques propres. L'hétérogénéité de ses ascendants fait que l'on trouve une grande diversité de modèles dans la race.

Néanmoins une ligne de conduite précise a été définie pour approuver un cheval en tant que selle italien :
 On définit comme cheval de selle Italien (S.I.), les produits provenant de croisements de Pur-sang anglais, Pur-sang arabe, Anglo-arabe et ses dérivés, ainsi que de l'Anglo-arabe sarde et ses dérivés, avec des poulinières italiennes typiques ayant des dispositions à la selle, aux origines vérifiées et qui n'aient pas d'ascendants de races de trait jusqu'à la troisième génération.
 Les poulinières importées peuvent été inscrites au livre généalogique si leurs origines sont vérifiées et si elles n'ont pas jusqu'à la troisième génération des ascendants de races de trait et si leurs produits relatifs sont des selles italiens.
 Les sujets doivent aussi avoir les caractéristiques suivantes :
 une hauteur au garrot supérieure ou égale à .
 une généalogie vérifiée, et une conformation générale apte aux efforts demandés par les sports équestres.

Sélection
Les poulinières et les étalons doivent être inscrits au registre généalogique suivi par l'UNIRE, qui se charge de contrôler le développement et la conformité athlétique du cheval à travers différents tests.

Utilisations
Le Selle italien est avant tout un cheval de sport. De ce fait, il est particulièrement adapté à la plupart des disciplines sportives comme le saut d'obstacles, le dressage, le concours complet et l'endurance.

Notes et références

Liens externes

Race chevaline originaire d'Italie
Cheval de selle
Cheval de sport

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Tony Wroten Jr. spoke to the local media today during a teleconference and said his biggest regret about leaving Washington is not being able to play in a NCAA tournament.
He said he'll miss the Husky fans, particularly the student section known as the Dawg Pack. He laments the chance to play with good friends Hikeem Stewart and Jernard Jarreau.
Wroten said the biggest reason he left was the feedback he heard from the NBA Undergraduate Advisory Committee, which told him he could be a top five draft pick or fall as low as 25 in the first round.
Wroten admitted he talked about turning pro with Terrence Ross several times and had a good idea the sophomore guard was going to declare for the draft.
Wroten also said he expects Stewart will compete for a starting job next season and be among the team's scoring leaders.
Here's a full transcript of the interview.


float at first light and at dusk.
heralds of what is yet to come?
all that has been or that could be…..
But we do not want this script.
our heart's desire, untimely death.
in every fire and every tale.
the scent of pain and terror.
wrong about our weapons of autonomy.
in reality star paths beyond our imaginings.
Do not fear the wolf or bear.
Who seeks the power of the mists.
Presider: Creator God, from the earth you fashioned humanity from you own holiness. In Jesus, you draw us in love and purpose. Through the Holy Spirit, we are energized in compassion and creativity.
People: We receive this bread for community, this wine for joy, and this love for strength and vision.
it rolls over me, a tidal wave.
As I thought through what I wanted to say in this book, I became aware that each idea kept turning in on itself; although I could examine one idea, it was attached to every other idea. Love and suffering, fear and sin, wisdom and change, healing and repentance, compassion and self knowledge, all were held together in one pattern. I would say that one pattern is composed of what we think of as the eternal mind of God, including the bits and pieces of human and other life. Early on in my thinking and praying, I became aware that I was spending time in the labyrinth of paradox, where each corridor leads both ahead and back on itself. Although we may feel like it is a maze, really we cannot ever be lost because the way out and the way in are the same, through our bodies and our experiences.
Although this text suggests that God assumes that God guesses what will happen, it also suggests an element of uncertainty. When we say that God is unchangeable, we acknowledge either that prayer is completely ineffectual or that if God has a plan at all, it can be amended. If God's plan can be amended, then we must say that the Divine mind can be changed and therefore, change is a quality of the eternal, an assumption about God that we continue to make. When we say that God is the maker of heaven and earth, we must say that the only part of the universe we know is this galaxy and the only heaven we know is the one described by sages and mystics. What we know about God is either the product of our own projections, or a response to the image of the Divine within us, or a way of describing experiences that push us beyond language.
To attempt to consider the mystery that is the Divine in any way that hopes to expand our culturally biassed pictures, we must accept paradox as a working reality of all that we know. To accept paradox as a quality of the Divine is to say that god is and is not, that everything we believe about God is and is not. One of the concerns for Christians is how this affects our christology. For some this is a threat to the idea that the historical Jesus and the experience of the Risen Christ are expressions of the Divine designed and developed to fit Christian thinking, but not necessarily universal in their application. We can say that Jesus Christ is the only revelation for the church, but can we say that God is not revealed in Buddhism, in pantheism, in Hinduism, in Sufiism and so on?
An example of intentional application of paradox is to say that for those who are called, or who discover themselves as Christians, Jesus Christ is the only Way, Truth and Life. That does not mean that this can be applied to the experience of the Holy for all other people of the earth. We can say that for those who "fit" the Christian model, there is no salvation outside the acceptance of Jesus Christ, but can we say this of others who have been shaped and moulded in different structures and perspectives? Thus, we can say that Jesus is the only child of God for Christians, that Jesus is the only path to God for Christians, that in Jesus the fullness of the Divine is revealed to Christians and still allow that for other people, there are different paths, different revelations, different dreams.
We can say that whatever the nature of the Divine is, we believe that within it are held seeming contradictions of theology, of ethics, of spirituality and of lifestyle. If we say that nothing that was made was separate from the Divine and everything that has come to be is part of the Divine, then we must allow that in that fullness of being there must be contradiction and the dynamic tension of that which we perceive to be opposites. For Christians, the place of paradox is the centre of the cross, where we find the suffering Jesus and where we do not find the Risen Christ. On the cross, we place our unswerving conviction that for us, this Jesus, this Christ is the way, the truth and the life and that no one can understand Christian faith except through this mystery. What we also say is that for others, the resolution of paradox does not exist on the cross, may not even require a god, may be equally full of truth but it is not for us.
To extend this discussion, I would like to consider the contradictions and breadth of some of the ideas that we have already considered and place them in the frame of holy paradox that allows them and their opposites to exist together. We have said that change is the essential condition of the universe as we know it. We could say that God saw everything that was made and it was changing, just as easily as we can say that God saw everything and it was good. When death is no longer understood to be a threat but an unfolding of the power of life to transform and make new, then we no longer need an unchanging universe nor an immutable God. But is there anything that we want to continue to think about as eternally existing and as being eternally changeless?
This is a discussion of the essentials of reality. For Jews and Christians, the constant that occurs is the chesed of the Divine. This steadfast love is not so much fixed as it is encircling, spiralling back always to an original and indissoluble bond with the creation. After each disaster or break in the relationship with God, the stories and prophets tell us that God remembers the original love for us and the earth and "repents" of anger and judgement, turning to us with renewed concern and protection.
We understand then that nothing can separate us from the Holy Love of God which may not always be gentle or even kind by human standards, but is constant in the sense that it always returns to its point of original holiness and blessing. This would suggest to us that the evil we intend and act out is without much point if everything spirals back into God's love. We might remember Paul's vision on the road to Damascus, when he learns that his "crimes" will only increase his own torment rather than bring him peace or satisfaction. For the people of Hebrew and Christian scripture, then, the eternal love of God is a relative constant —relative in that it is in orbit with human experience, constant in that it always returns to the still point of the primary impulse for creation.
The other thing we can say is that reality is about ongoing creation and revelation. This is a tough point for those who cling to a single act of creation rather than an unfolding process in which creatures and species have lifespans and ages and then disappear to give way to new forms and new species. Humans are fearful of this process and so we attempt to cling to all the stages of evolution at the same time. Hence we have the movies about time travel in the Star Trek future or the era of dinosaurs intruding on the present or the frozen human being revivified so that all ages can coexist. We do not like the idea that as a species we may also have a limited lifespan that is not simply threatened by large cosmic events, but in fact is part of our natural way of being to evolve and change. Although Paul speaks of the resurrection as being a major shift–in that we will inherit a materially different kind of body–Christians rapidly reinvented a resurrection in which we have the same bodies and behave in a very similar way, just without death this time. I am amazed at how much we cling to ideas about this life, not because it is necessarily so satisfying but because it is what we know. I want people to think about an eternity of sameness and then consider whether or not we want change to disappear from the experience of being alive.
Not only is creation changing and evolving or devolving, depending on perspective, but so is the revelation of who is in the universe and what our relationship is to the Creator. This is an equally sore point for those who would like the revelation to have been completed during the time of the resurrection appearances of the Anointed One, completion marked by his ascension into a literal heaven. Then the church could remain on earth as keeper of the tradition, an unchanging completely fulfilled revelation which we might struggle to understand but which is complete in itself. I believe this is a dead end for serious thinkers who can easily spot the problems with such a tidy plot that seems in almost direct contradiction to the Pentecost experience. And yet, perhaps in one possible reality, there was a plan and we followed it. In this reality, the plot clearly was adjusted as the church became the world of empire and the world became a vehicle for a state religion. The irony of the Jewish peasant rebel serving the armies of one type of tyrant or another is either shocking or tragic.
Another way of thinking about the unfolding history of the world is to acknowledge that absolutely nothing is finished. Not only is our knowledge partial, existence itself is partial because the last chapter has yet to be written. If there is a master plan, then it is not yet fully revealed. More likely, if there is no plan, then we do not yet perceive how we are to function in developing reality and of our participation in the cosmos. We have only begun to think about what it means to be in relationship with each other. Jesus taught us that as we learned to love one another, to shelter one another, to discover the power of vulnerability, the unity in the dismemberment of the cross, then we would come to know something about the Divine. We would begin to be in mutual relationship with the Holy One and it would be possible to see ourselves and our place in the universe more clearly. If what we are seeking is the way to God, which to say to wholeness, to holiness, through repentance and healing, then we want to touch the goodness that lies within our cells, the goodness that broods over the universe, the goodness that begins and ends everything with blessing and the power of love.
How do we define what is good then? The creation story tells us that essentially everything is good; that at the moment of beginning everything is good. Everything comes from goodness and has goodness as its originating spark. Everything resolves in goodness and has goodness as its motivation. But when we speak ontologically, we are able to say that whatever is close to the source of being, the originating principle, is good. Not because of what it is or is not doing or what it is or is not believing, but because of its state of being alive. At heart, then, everything is good because at one moment everything was in the state of coming into existence. If most things attempt to return to their original nature, then we can say that everything is groaning to be born again, struggling to return to another state of coming into being. Everything wants to change, everything wants to be born, everything wants to be complete, everything wants to be at that original centre of existence. But we know that when we return to that river, we will not be what we were but a new creation, something different as all that we have been is blended into the new creation. Conscious and lovingly, passionately aware of being part of all that is.
If good is the ontological nature of the universe, then matter as it changes and flows into and out of different forms of itself is all becoming a new creation. The gift for humans is to be conscious, to be aware of the process of holiness birthing us, filling us, flowing through us, breaking us and remaking us. It can destroy the tyranny of our demanding egos and our defiant need to be autonomous, but it fulfills our desperate need to belong. It acknowledges the value of the forms we take as we participate with God in the unfolding of the universe. Perhaps one day, we will stand at a crest of human development and these will have been quaint ideas of a primitive time, but until then I am going to gamble on a universe that is fully inhabited by holiness, that is the child of holiness, that is the journey of holiness, that is the alpha and omega that births change and compassion.
I remain a Christian because for me the story of Jesus, his faith and teachings are the Way, the Truth and the Life. For me, Christianity is about these four noble truths. Everything begins and ends in goodness. In the growth of wisdom, everything we know is changed. Change causes us to suffer and our suffering reunites us with our sense of belonging, of wholeness. The remedy for isolation is compassion which we learn through repentance as we discover and accept ourselves as monsters and as angels.
And finally, Jesus is the one who has walked this road before, who was able to find a pathway through distraction and fear and his own suffering. Jesus was able to stand in solidarity with everyone who suffers, to sit at table with monsters and other sinners, was able to love those whom he met. Jesus knew a loving God of goodness and mercy, a God who cared about all the little ones and not much about structures and forms and rules and labels. I do not care whether or not he walked on water or did tricks with wine. I have little interest in his parentage and whether or not it matters how much he owed to being divine and how much his DNA looked like mine. What i really care about is learning how he could love so much that people felt cared about beyond his death, beyond his humiliation. What matters to me is his strength of spirit that can reach out to me 2,000 years beyond his death to claim me, a mixture of monster and angel, for the work of love. When we speak about relationship, we re-member ourselves in the context of that relationship. When we speak about our connection to the Holy One, we re-member that we, the partial ones, are already whole and fulfilled in our beginning and in our ending and for love, we walk the pathway of possibility where anything is possible and yet all things already exist in love and goodness. We are contained within the walls of this goodness, but within these walls, within this garden that is old and new, we recreate ourselves and we learn and change and grow until this garden is full and we discover we are a star. And another star explodes into being and a new beginning is born.


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Former Rutgers student ordered to pay $8.6 million for cyberattacks on university network
A federal judge ordered a former Rutgers student to serve house arrest and to pay $8.6 million for hacking the Rutgers University computer network.
Former Rutgers student ordered to pay $8.6 million for cyberattacks on university network A federal judge ordered a former Rutgers student to serve house arrest and to pay $8.6 million for hacking the Rutgers University computer network. Check out this story on dailyrecord.com: https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/new-jersey/2018/10/29/rutgers-hacker-must-pay-8-6-million-serve-six-months-house-arrest/1807009002/
Catherine Carrera, North Jersey Record Published 1:21 p.m. ET Oct. 29, 2018 | Updated 5:35 p.m. ET Oct. 29, 2018
Exterior photo of Rutgers Honors College dormitory located at 5 Seminary Place in New Brunswick, photographed on 08/30/18. (Photo: Mitsu Yasukawa/Northjersey.com)
A former Rutgers student must pay $8.6 million in restitution and serve six months of home incarceration for launching a series of cyberattacks on the Rutgers University computer network over two years.
Paras Jha, 22, of Fanwood admitted last year to violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act when he initiated a series of "distributed denial of service" attacks, known as "DDoS," on the university's central server.
Jha's attacks led to a shutdown of the central server, effectively blocking faculty, staff and students from delivering assignments and assessments, blocking access to online classes and knocking out internet service, leaving campuses crippled for days at a time from November 2014 to September 2016.
"At times, Jha succeeded in taking the portal offline for multiple consecutive periods, causing damage to Rutgers University, its faculty, and its students," the Justice Department said in a statement.
Crime: More New Jersey residents are falling for online scams
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Watchdog: He blew the whistle on NJ Transit. He paid for it with his career.
U.S. District Judge Michael Shipp imposed the sentence on Friday.
The type of attack Jha used on the university's networks occurred through having multiple computers act in unison to flood the internet connection of a targeted computer or multiple computers.
A Rutgers spokesperson said the university had no comment on the sentencing.
After the first series of cyberattacks in the 2014-15 school year, the university spent $3 million on cybersecurity the next year.
Jha was also sentenced in a separate case last month in federal court in Alaska for conspiring to violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act when he and two others — Josiah White, 21, of Pennsylvania, and Dalton Norman, 22, of Louisiana — operated a "botnet," or a network of infected computers used to crash websites around the world, in fall 2016.
The federal court in Alaska ordered Jha and the two other defendants to serve a five-year probation and 2,500 hours of community service, pay $127,000 in restitution and abandon significant amounts of cryptocurrency seized during the investigation.
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Given it's a travel blog, the name Little Grey Box doesn't make any sense. With scarcely a hint of travel in the name, I've had lots of people ask me why the blog is called Little Grey Box. Some people say they think it represents a laptop, a grey Macbook packed full of all our adventures. Others say they associate it with a plane, like a black box flight recorder and some say they think it has to do with luggage, boarding passes or passport stamps. The truth is, it has absolutely nothing to do with travel and everything to do with me. Here's the story of how and why it came to be called Little Grey Box.
In 2011, Matt and I both felt restless in our lives. Have you ever felt that? It's an uncomfortable sensation like you've outgrown your space. It's physical at times, as though you're itching for a change and need something new and exciting to happen or you'll burst. For Matt and I, that feeling led to us moving to London with a one month stay in Bali along the way. We applied for our visas, ended our lease, notified our workplaces, packed up our lives and hopped on a plane.
On the way, after a few too many drinks in a Balinese restaurant, Matt asked me, "If you could be anything, what would you want to be? If there were no limits, you could have any job, what would it be?" It occurred to him since we were moving to a new country, we were starting from scratch and, really, anything was possible. With a clean slate, we could reinvent ourselves to be anything.
In a very important moment of honesty, I said, "I'd love to be a writer. A travel writer, for Lonely Planet or something," and in the next breath, "But that's not possible, I mean, that's everyone's dream job. It can't happen to me," Matt was shocked. Up until that point I had never even mentioned that I enjoyed writing. Truth be told, I had loved to read and write since I was a little kid. I'd get lost in books, savouring every word on each page then beg my mum for more, reading novels in primary school. I'd write short stories, creating fantasy worlds I could get lost in for days at a time. They were my own, secret pocket of the world.
When we'd read aloud in class I'd sit there hoping the teacher would ask me to read so I could speak the words in a way that told the story. It felt like I could hear the author's words in my mind and feel the characters lives through the paper. I would search through my Mum's Womens Day magazines each week, looking for the short stories so I could read and study them, dissecting what made them good or bad and cataloguing the good ideas in my mind for later. As a way of helping me calm down in stressful situations, I'd come up with a sentence in my mind and count the syllables in patterns on my fingers. For me, words were more than just sounds or black marks on white paper, they were my friends, my world and something I truly loved and enjoyed.
Back to Bali. Up until that precise moment, I had never told Matt about my love of writing. At that point, we were engaged and had been together for years but I had hidden my love of writing from him and myself. Looking back, I had no self-confidence and didn't believe I was worthy of being able to write. I guess I didn't have enough love and respect for myself to believe I was any good or deserved to do something I loved. At that time, I felt I was dumb and unsuccessful, that I had missed my chance to make something of my life and had wasted my potential.
When we arrived in London, Matt suggested I start a blog. At that point, I had never heard the word before and didn't have the foggiest idea what a blog was. Having worked as a graphic designer, he knew not only what a blog was but how to start and host one. I wasn't totally sure at first, so I mentioned it to a friend I was working with, Katie. She knew all about blogs and told me about one of her friends, who had a food blog, and was invited for free meals all the time in exchange for a write-up. Easily motivated by food, my mind started clicking over. Yes! I could do that – start a blog, go out for a free meal every now and then and write about it. Perfect.
I remember that night very clearly. Our flatmates had gone away for the weekend and Matt and I had our lovely little flat in Clapham to ourselves. It was cold outside and pitch black, it had been snowing all afternoon and into the evening, so everything was covered in a perfect layer of pristine, white snow. A little boozy and very excited, we cracked open my laptop and opened WordPress. With no prior thought given to it, other than, 'let's start a blog,' we began the sign-up process.
One of the first questions asked us for the name of the blog. I had no idea what I wanted the blog to be now or in the future. I had no concept it could or would become my full-time job and dream career, that it would fulfil me in ways I didn't know possible and bring out the best in me. There was no inkling I was in the middle of making the very best decision of my entire life. I was just starting a blog, an outlet for something I love.
Not knowing what I would even write about I couldn't craft the blog name around a specific idea. It couldn't be named something like, 'Phoebe's Food Blog,' or Travel with Phoebe.' I had to come up with a generic name, allowing me and it room to grow. I'd like to say that kind of deep thought was at the front of my mind but, swept up in the excitement, it was more subconscious than well planned. So, I turned to my love of words. I've always loved certain words, particularly shapes, textures and colours. Words that throw a vivid image into your mind, words you can feel when you say them. I love onomatopoeia, words that sound like what they are, like sizzle, pop, zap and bark.
I told Matt I wanted to use the word, 'white,' but couldn't come up with a way to make it work. Slowly, the name started to form in my mind. I've always loved the word little and the onomatopoeia of box, throw in a colour word and I had a name I loved. Little Grey Box was created.
It wasn't intentional at the time, but Little Grey Box has come to be more than just a name. It represents my deep love of words and captures my whole journey, from a little girl who loved to read and write but lost her way to a woman with her dream job who gets to do what she loves each and every day, surrounded by words. Little Grey Box isn't just a name, it's my story.
If you pick up a copy of Lonely Planet's Solo Travel Handbook and turn to pages 144 and 145 you'll see my words and my story on the paper. In 2011, it was something I dreamed of but knew, deep inside, was not possible. Turns out, I was wrong, it wasn't impossible, it just wasn't the right time. To get there, I had to go from a dark place of self-doubt and sadness to where I am now. It took 7 years of really hard work on myself and facing up to a lot of fears, but I did it and that thing I felt was truly impossible has turned out to be one amazing piece of a wonderful reality. So, whatever dream you have for yourself that feels totally unachievable, I'm here to tell you it isn't. Trust yourself and make a start. The rest will come.
Thank you for the explanation of the name and, most importantly, the inspiration. 🙂 I love reading your blog.
Found your blog through Discovery; like you said to me it sounds like everyone's dream job and it might be cliche, but I really do wish one day I can be where you are: travel writing for a career! Thanks for all your wonderful posts!
Very interesting! I love to read about other people's travels. I don't travel a lot because I hate the hassle and bustle, and when I see those people on TV stranded at airports or train stations I get anxious!


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Eight U.S.- and Hong Kong-listed Chinese companies have collectively raised more than $2 billion this month, mostly through new share issues Key Takeaways: By Doug Young Long-suffering U.S.- and Hong Kong-listed Chinese companies are taking advantage of recent positive sentiment to raise billions of dollars, bringing new meaning to the old adage "make hay while the sun shines." This month alone, the group has raised more than $2 billion in at least eight deals, led by a $580 million fundraising by data center operator GDS (GDS.US; 9698.HK). The amount…
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Rebounding Atour Nears IPO Finish Line With Slashed New York Offering
The upscale hotel operator's ninth updated prospectus for a U.S. listing lowers its fundraising target to $62 million from previous $350 million Key Takeaways: Atour has slashed the fundraising target for its long-delayed U.S. IPO plan to $62 million from a previous $350 million The upscale hotel operator's latest prospectus shows its business rebounded sharply in the third quarter after a big slowdown in the first half of the year By Doug Young If any single company can be said to represent all the ups and downs for U.S.-listed Chinese…
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Can a Strong June Salvage H World Group's Second Quarter Malaise?
Chinese hotelier is enjoying rising room rates and occupancies at its over 8,000 hotels, but that's unlikely to offset a disastrous April and May Key Takeaways H World Group's average occupancy and revpar are recovering after steep declines in April and May due to pandemic restrictions, but still lag 2019 levels Investors are watching whether the company's loss will narrow in the second quarter on the back of improving hotel performance metrics By Andrew Curran Ahead of soon-to-be-released second-quarter results, hotelier H World Group Ltd. (HTHT.US; 1179.HK) is reporting some…
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Sheryl Taylor has been a hero to many. She assisted travelers trapped in Cairo by the Arab Spring: a slew of sometimes-violent protests and demonstrations across the Middle East and North Africa. When she returns home, though, she finds no hero's welcome. Instead, she teeters on the edge of despair and bankruptcy, all thanks to one man who would have her destroyed.
Dr. Sterling Jackson is a master at deception. For more than a few years, Sheryl has been his romantic attachment and his financial investor. It is thanks to him that she faces foreclosure. Even worse, a secret life—radically different from her public persona—might soon be exposed. It seems she has nothing left to live for, which is why Sheryl now contemplates suicide.
Somehow, in spite of her struggles, Sheryl's will remain strong. To live or die becomes a daily preoccupation—unless Sterling makes the decision for her. With Sheryl going against him, he needs to silence her forever. He can't let the world know he's a cunning con man with an eye for unwary ladies. Will Sheryl find a way to escape her desperate circumstance, or will she give in to the doctor's lethal resolve?


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International Events | 29 Oct 2022
HARIMOTO halted OVTCHAROV in semis of the WTT Cup Finals Xinxiang 2022
Photo: WTT
Japanese in outstanding form, Tomokazu HARIMOTO, defeated Olympic bronze medalists Dimitrij OVTCHAROV in the semi-finals of the WTT Cup Finals Xinxiang 2022. It is the third German ace in a row, after HARIMOTO had already beaten record European champion Timo BOLL in the quarter-finals the day before and in the round of 16 on Thursday the World's no. 13 Patrick FRANZISKA
OVTCHAROV had consolation in 37,500 dollars prize money and 525 world ranking points, but much more importantly with yesterday's quarter-final triumph over World's number one FAN Zhendong (China). In the final on Sunday, HARIMOTO meets either China's Olympic champion MA Long or his compatriot WANG Chuqin. In the women's final, two players from China will face each other: World number one SUN Yingsha will face either Olympic champion CHEN Meng or World champion WANG Manyu.
Former world number one Dimitrij Ovtcharov ungrudgingly acknowledged his opponent's performance:
"My respect: HARIMOTO played flawlessly and built up a lot of pressure with his strong shots. I'm actually someone who is very strong in the longer rallies, but I have them today almost all of them lost. That also has an effect on my self-confidence in my serve and return game."
The outcome of the more than three-week trip to Asia by the Olympic bronze medalist from Tokyo and London to the WTT tournaments in Macao and Xinxiang is extremely positive: "The Champions and the Cup Finals were two great tournaments in terms of the cast, there is a world-class opponent after the others, it's amazing training. It's great for me to have played so many matches against such good players. I'll learn a lot from both wins and losses. Above all, yesterday's win over FAN Zhendong showed me that after as before, anything is possible and gives me a lot of confidence. If I keep working hard on myself, I can keep improving my level and then keep it in the tournament for a longer period of time. Then I can win against Harimoto again in the future, even if I did today didn't stand a chance."
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Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is a benefit for people with a mental or physical health condition. You might get PIP if you need help with the extra cost of living because of ill health or disability. This section explains the eligibility criteria for PIP, and how to make a claim.
Personal Independence Payment (PIP) helps with the extra costs you have because of ill health or disability.
PIP is expected to replace Disability Living Allowance for people of working age (16 to 64 years) by July 2019.
PIP is made up of two parts, 'daily living' and 'mobility'. These are known as components.
Each component can be paid at either a 'standard' or 'enhanced' rate.
You will need to fill in a form to say how your mental illness affects your daily activities.
You may have to go to a face to face medical assessment.
It can help to get supporting evidence from your health care professionals.


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var server = require('../../app/core/server'),
  request = require('supertest'),
  uuid = require('node-uuid');

describe("Projects", function() {

  var proj;

  describe("#save", function() {
    it("should save a project", function(done) {
      request(server)
        .post('/projects')
        .send({
          name: uuid.v1()
        })
        .expect(201)
        .expect(function(res) {
          proj = res.body;
        })
        .end(done);
    });
  });

  describe("#list", function() {
    it("should list all projects", function(done) {
      request(server)
        .get('/projects')
        .expect(200)
        .expect(new RegExp(proj, 'g'), done);
    });
  });

  describe("#show", function() {
    it("should list project with specific id", function(done) {
      request(server)
        .get('/projects/' + proj._id)
        .expect(200)
        .expect(new RegExp(proj.name, 'g'), done);
    });

    it("should return 404 when listing not found", function(done) {
      request(server)
        .get('/projects/a1b2c3')
        .expect(404, done);
    });
  });

});

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Most items are either functional and beautiful, and some are both. This traditional amber glass storage jar makes a unique display item and is also useful as a practical container around the home. Perfect for storing supplies such as grains and dried goods, or as a decorative object to place in any room and fill with wonderful finds. Either way, it's ideal for creating that special atmosphere.
– Amber glass storage jar: 1L.
– Ideal for displaying or storing any kind of product.
– Made from amber glass.


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Wishing on a Star: Investors Pour Billions in to SPACs
A SPAC is a special purpose acquisition company. It is typically sponsored by a venture capitalist or a private equity firm that has expertise in a specific sector or industry, such as green technology. A SPAC launches as an IPO, but it is nothing more than a shell company that raises money from investors. Post-IPO, it has a limited amount of time (one to two years) to merge with an existing company, where the capitol is deployed. Once that happens, the private operating company trades publicly under the SPAC name.
While SPACs have been around for about 30 years, they've only become popular in the past year or so. In fact, this year investors have already poured more than $100 billion into these vehicles, and that's more than the total amount raised since they were first introduced. SPACs offer investors the opportunity to buy into a startup, which might be at early-, middle- or late-stage development when it partners with the SPAC. In 2020 and 2021, industries heavily represented by SPACs include electric vehicles, consumer-oriented technology, communications and retail.
What makes the SPAC particularly interesting is that investors do not know what company they are buying into since the entity has no commercial operations of its own. As such, they are sold largely based on trust in the management sponsor and belief in the growth potential for the industry it represents.
SPACs differ from traditional IPOs in that the IPO price is not based on the valuation of an existing business. Instead, investors typically pay $10 per common share of regular stock at the initial offering. These shares are referred to as units. Each unit also includes a warrant, which offers the right to purchase the company's stock at a specific price and at a later date. Once a SPAC merges with a private company, the shares and warrants are listed and publicly traded on the stock exchange. Capital raised by the sale of warrants is typically used to compensate the SPAC sponsor.
One of the appeals of the SPAC model is that individual investors have the opportunity to invest in a startup that has been vetted and funded by an experienced private equity partner. This presents less risk as well as a ground-floor opportunity that is usually not feasible for individual investors. Most IPO opportunities require higher capital investments and occur at a later stage of development. SPACs provide the opportunity to commit a smaller investment at an earlier stage in a company's life cycle, which often offers the potential for higher returns.
Unfortunately, the lack of a longer, established track record also increases risk – which is something the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is currently scrutinizing. For now, the SEC has taken a hands-off approach, hoping the market will regulate itself. However, if SPAC sponsors oversell the entity's capabilities or investors become disillusioned with the returns on their investment, the SPAC market may be subject to considerable regulation in the future.
As for investment returns, the outcomes are mixed. Initial SPAC IPOs tend to outperform the S&P 500. However, once SPACs merge with their respective private companies, the results tend to be less impressive. Given their recent surge in popularity, there's no way to gauge their long-term performance success.


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"1GB size" but not "1GB per page size".
I am running a 32-bit DPDK application on a NUMA system, and sometimes the application initializes fine but cannot allocate memory. Why is that happening?
-32-bit applications have limitations in terms of how much virtual memory is available, hence the number of hugepages they are able to allocate is also limited (1 GB per page size).
-If your system has a lot (>1 GB per page size) of hugepage memory, not all of it will be allocated.
+32-bit applications have limitations in terms of how much virtual memory is available, hence the number of hugepages they are able to allocate is also limited (1 GB size).
+If your system has a lot (>1 GB size) of hugepage memory, not all of it will be allocated.
NUMA node it is running on (the EAL does not affinitize cores until much later in the initialization process).
therefore all the hugepages are allocated on the wrong socket.
affinitizing the application to a would-be master core.


This page indexes general articles that explore various common factors relating to the sale of Doctor Who to foreign broadcasters.
What was BBC Sydney? What was Television International Enterprises Ltd? What special privileges did Commonwealth nations have over non-Commonwealth countries? This chapter explores the procedures and processes of buying a television programme like Doctor Who.
The BBC didn't sell Doctor Who season by season. It often sold the series in batches of three or four stories at a time - and not always in sequence. This chapter looks at the "Waves" in which the series was sold, from 1964 to the 1990s.
The framework around which BroaDWcast has been built comes from information gleaned from extant documentation - BBC sales reports, inter-departmental memos, lists, etc - that have been researched by others and published elsewhere. This chapter profiles the major research sources used for BroaDWcast.
Doctor Who has been seen by "110 million in 60 countries" - or so the BBC would have us believe. In this chapter, we discover the truth to this bold claim.
EL DOCTOR MISTERIO! This name might mean little to those of us who speak English, but to the Spanish-speaking nations, William Hartnell and Tom Baker were El Dr Misterio. This chapter is an overview of the Spanish-language versions, complete with summary of Spanish episode and story titles.
See also our interview with Eddie Montague, the BBC film editor responsible for assembling the Music / Effects tracks.
In the Middle East and North Africa, ادكتورهو was played by William Hartnell and Jon Pertwee. In this chapter, we take a look at Doctor Who in its Arabic-language versions, explain what "Al-Ittihad Al-Fani" is, and provide partial translations of the DVD narrations!
There were 134 William Hartnell episodes produced between 1963 and 1966. Many of them are still missing. Where did they go, and where are they today? This series of tables shows some of the possible bicycling routes that the film prints may have taken between 1964 and 1973.
There were 119 Patrick Troughton episodes produced between 1966 and 1969. Many of them are still missing. Where did they go, and where are they today? This series of tables summarises some of the possible bicycling routes that the film prints may have taken between 1967 and 1976.
A review and analysis of Richard Molesworth's book "WIPED! Doctor Who's Missing Episodes (Updated Edition; 2013)".
Two missing episodes of The Daleks' Master Plan were found in the basement of a Mormon church in 1983. Or were they?
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They met at a shelter. They both liked to walk. Among the barbwire and scant shrubs, his head was bent low. Hers cocked high. He thought she was foxy. She liked the indifference of his distance. He liked her good nose. She admired his chest like a horse. Did it matter that she was of Spitz ancestry? His from working class Staffordshire? They were unaware. She needed a serious cure to her separation anxieties. He was adopted into her family.
After the paperwork, he arrived at his suburban home. He liked his large, ample bed - the blooming jasmines from the window. She was confused with her new standing. He gained greater affections from his new parents. She sulked. He felt he belonged. She started to resent his presence. It would take time - the pugilist and the paloma. Parallel lines waiting to intersect.
They shared a castrated past - both runaways. She was found in the streets of Do You-Know-the-Way-to-San Jose - a studded faux diamond collar around her neck. He slept in the rainy streets of Jack London's Oakland - ribs protruded by the time the cops collected him. Prodded, tested, socialized – the lonesome journey to domestication. He attempted no barks - taught himself silence to survive.
On any other day, in the backyard, her legs were splayed open in full eagle on the lemon lawn chair, while he, tucked away in the corner, shy as a flea. She crouched in a yoga downward dog position, coquette-like - an invitation to play. His head was bent low. She rolled unto her back. He sat upright as a sphinx, but looked away to contemplate a tennis ball. She flicked her head as if to say, hey come over.
He sauntered by - then pretended to trip.
She jumped on top and pinned him down.
They wrestled on the splendor of brick.
She leaned in and licked his chops.
From then on, they became inseparable. His Heathcliff to her Cathy.
Sometimes they slept in the same bed. Sometimes she would steal his. Again, legs spread open, saluting the heavens, while he coiled massive muscles fetus style inside her tiny nest. He preferred it this way.
Over the years, change became more manageable.
She conquered her phobia for staircases.


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05 / 28 / 21 | PETER MURRAY
Caring for cyclists, caring for streets
Peter Murray is the founder of the London Festival of Architecture and Curator-in-Chief of NLA. In this piece he opens up about a competition he has been working on recently for the Construction Industry Cycling Commission, focused on the theme of 'care'.
Back in 2008 young architect Anthony Lau won first prize in a design competition organised as part of the LFA called 'Reinventing the Bikeshed'. Anthony's design of the cyclehoop, which increased the bike parking capacity of lampposts, formed the foundation of his very successful company which to date has installed over 2,000 cyclehoops on streets all over the world providing 4,000 cycle parking spaces. The company also makes bike hangars which can be seen in streets across the capital.
In 2021, to return the favour, Anthony has agreed to help the winner of the Caring for Cyclists light protection design competition to prototype their proposals and bring them to market. The competition responds to the theme of 'Care' by seeking innovative ideas for light separation infrastructure to protect cyclists on busy roads.
In recent years, and accelerated by COVID19, light segregation has become increasingly ubiquitous – London alone has installed some 100km of bike lanes in the capital as part of the Mayor's Streetspace programme. However, the proliferation of plastic wands and barriers has done little to enhance streetscapes; after two decades of attempts to declutter public areas, we are filling them again with new and essential infrastructure. How do we design such protection in a way that puts safety first but responds to the context of the urban environment? Can we find more beautiful options? Light segregation combines the benefits of cost, speed of delivery and adaptability.
In the same year that Anthony won the LFA competition, artist, musician and cyclist David Byrne of Talking Heads designed a range of innovative bike parking racks for the streets of New York. There was a rack shaped in a dollar sign for Wall Street, a red high-heeled shoe for outside the Bergdorf Goodman department store on Fifth Avenue and a coffee cup for the Upper West Side near the Hungarian Pastry Shop.
Byrne will head up the judging of the design competition, supported by TV presenter Jeremy Vine who has long been campaigning for safer cycling infrastructure in London. Another judge is Will Norman, the Cycling and Walking Commissioner for London who says "This past year we've built a huge amount of new cycling infrastructure, much of which has used cheap and cheerful plastic wands. Wands are fantastic, but not everyone likes them as much as I do, and some of the products we use are also not built to last. As London starts moving again, we need to continue to work quickly to change our streets to enable more Londoners to cycle, and I hope the winner of this competition can be part of this next exciting chapter."
I look forward to seeing the winning designs rolled out across London as we recover from the pandemic and deliver healthier, safer and more beautiful streets.
Since the start of the pandemic the Streetspace project has delivered over 100km of new or upgraded cycle routes. Many of these are delineated by temporary plastic wands or barriers. While these are doing a great shop of protecting cyclists in the short term, London needs a more elegant solution to light protection for cyclists.
Care for Cyclists is a competition open to designers, architects, cyclists around the world to come up with designs that enhance rather than detract from the experience of using our streets.
Organised by the Construction Industry Cycling Commission, the aim is that the winning scheme will be prototyped for testing and, if successful, manufactured. Chief technical advisor is Brian Deegan.
To download the brief and to find out how to submit your design, head here.
Please note, this is not an LFA competition.
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Marti, 6 decembrie, ora 18:00, la UNAgaleria (Str. Budisteanu nr.10) va fi deschisa expozitia Afisul Contemporan Polonez / Trei perspective: Ryszard Kajzer, Lukasz Klis and Sebastian Kubica, organizata de Institutul Polonez in colaborare cu Universitatea Nationala de Arte Bucuresti.
Cei trei graficieni au participat la expozitii personale si de grup din toata lumea si sunt castigatorii a numeroase premii si distinctii in competitii din Polonia si internationale. De asemenea, sunt implicati in procesul educational, contribuind la pastrarea unui nivel artistic ridicat al afisului grafic polonez.
On Tuesday, December 6, 2016, at 18:00, at UNAgaleria in Bucharest will be opened the exhibition "Polish Contemporary Poster / Three perspectives – Ryszard Kajzer, Lukasz Klis and Sebastian Kubica", organized by the Polish Institute in cooperation with the National University of Arts in Bucharest.
The three exhibiting graphic artists have participated in many individual and collective exhibitions around the world and are winners of several awards and distinctions in Polish and international competitions. They are involved also in the teaching activity, which ensures continuity of high artistic level in graphic poster in Poland.
The opening of the exhibition will be folowed by a lecture and a workshop for the UNARTE students on Wednesday, December 7, 2016, at 10.00, at the Amphitheatre Hall of the National University of Arts in Bucharest.


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Four Women in Graphic Novels, and How They Made the Leap from Fan to Creator | Stellar Panels
by Brigid Alverson
Mar 18, 2019 | Filed in Graphic Novels
Christina "Steenz" Stewart, Dylan Meconis, Amy Chu, and Janet Lee talk about finding—and making—comics.
Raina Telgemeier's how-to book, Share Your Smile (Scholastic, April 2019) includes excerpts from her graphic novels followed by a discussion of how she created the stories. But the heart of the book is her advice for readers who want to create their own comics. Each section starts with Telgemeier's explanation of how she developed a particular aspect of her books (characters, setting, travel and supernatural stories), then invites the reader to brainstorm some ideas and work up one of them into a complete story. It's more a series of prompts than a set of explicit instructions, encouraging readers to take their ideas and run with them.
While the book holds few surprises for Telgemeier fans, its mere existence shows how far middle-grade graphic novels have come. Young readers today have plenty of graphic novels to choose from, but many of the creators who are making them came of age at a time when monthly comics had disappeared from the newsstand and graphic novels were hard to find in bookstores. I asked some of those creators how they encountered comics and how they made the leap from reader to creator.
Christina "Steenz" Stewart is a former library tech and comic shop manager who is currently an associate editor at Lion Forge Comics, as well as the co-creator (with Ivy Noelle Weir) of Archival Quality (Oni Press, 2018), which won the 2019 Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics.
Christina "Steenz" Stewart
"I actually got into comics from my interest in the animated series like Batman: The Animated Series and Justice League," Stewart says. "And from there I started reading the graphic novels and trade paperbacks from my local libraries. I'd go online and figure out reading order and just order what the library didn't have from worldCAT and other interlibrary services. Then about 10 years ago a friend of mine wanted to start getting into single issue series, so we found a comic shop and started with 'Green Lantern.' I was a converted single issue 'Wednesday Warrior' from then on."
As for becoming a creator, she says, "I've always been interested in drawing, but didn't get really into drawing comics until I started working at my local comic shop. That's when I started seeing people that looked like me on the shelves. Namely, Brittany Williams [the artist for BOOM! Studios' Goldie Vance]. And that's when I was like 'oh, wait… I can do this, too!'"
Dylan Meconis
Dylan Meconis started out making webcomics; her adult graphic novel The Long Con was published in February (Oni Press), and her middle-grade graphic novel Queen of the Sea will be published in May by Walker Books.
"My parents had a subscription to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (RIP), so I was reading daily strips with my bowl of Kix every morning as soon as I was even semi-literate," Meconis says. "I was born in '83, so I hit a real sweet spot for newspaper comics—Calvin & Hobbes, The Far Side, Foxtrot, Boondocks all hit the scene while I was still a kid." In fifth grade, a friend turned her on to the X-Men.
Meconis started posting her art online in high school and started getting paid for it in college. "I think that people were so happy to see me and my little band of fellow geeklings, and so pleasantly startled that we had somehow developed professional skills over the internet, that we received a really warm and encouraging welcome," she says. "That whole community treated me like a creator, not a kid fan, and when you're 19, that's the most incredible feeling in the world."
Amy Chu and Janet Lee are the co-creators of Sea Sirens, a middle-grade graphic novel that will be published by Viking in June 2019.
Janet Lee and Amy Chu
"I think everyone read comics of some sort when I was kid," says Chu. "As a kid, I remember an occasional issue of 'Archie,' 'Wonder Woman,' 'Donald Duck,' the Sunday funnies. My parents would have a few volumes of 'Old Master Q,' a series from Hong Kong."
Chu set aside comics after she graduated from college, but in 2011 she took an online course on impulse. "Once I put together my first short story, I just kind of got obsessed with learning the craft," she says. "By 2012 I self-published my first comic and got accepted into an Asian American comics anthology. By 2014 I had my first professional credit, a short story in a Vertigo anthology. I suppose that's when I realized I could actually do this professionally." Since then, she has written for some of the most iconic characters in comics, including Wonder Woman, Red Sonja, and Poison Ivy, as well as a graphic novel for tweens, Ana and the Cosmic Race (Papercutz, 2017).
Lee also started out reading comic strips, but not in the newspaper. "The first things I remember reading obsessively were paperback collections of strip comics," she says. "I was five or six, and my best friend's next-door neighbor was a salesman of novelty goods—you know, wax lips and plastic vampire teeth. And little paperback collections of strip comics. I vividly remember boxes and boxes of the most amazing and unexpected toys, and the thrill of being allowed to pick something for myself. That's how I found my first comics." Later on, she, too, became a fan of the X-Men.
Lee worked on the business side of publishing for years and made art as well. Eventually some publishers asked her if she was interested in illustrating children's books. "I really thought that was where I would get my break," she says, "but instead a dear friend and former co-worker wrote a graphic novel and asked me to illustrate it. I had absolutely no experience with making sequential art, but I said yes." That friend was Jim McCann, and the book was Return of the Dapper Men (Top Shelf, 2017). "It was my big chance to illustrate comics for a living," says Lee, "and I didn't want to blow it, so I treated Return of the Dapper Men as if it were my calling card to the industry. I put my heart and soul into the book, and it worked. It won an Eisner. THAT'S when I knew I could go from fan to creator."
"The Queen of the Sea" by Dylan Meconis
Brigid Alverson is the editor of the blog "Good Comics for Kids."
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Nealcidion pulchrum es una especie de escarabajo longicornio del género Nealcidion, tribu Acanthocinini, subfamilia Lamiinae. Fue descrita científicamente por Bates en 1880.

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Mide 11,13 milímetros de longitud.

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Se distribuye por Colombia.

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It is no secret the wood flooring is a prime upgrade option for homeowners in every sense. Wood flooring is a much more stylish option than carpet or linoleum. There are numerous choices for the colour, texture, and pattern and with that you have the power to create the exact type of style you want in your home. When it comes to which type of wood flooring to put in your home, the choice comes down to engineered flooring or hardwood flooring. Both can provide you with different benefits, but the choice is ultimately up to you, based on your lifestyle, needs, and budget.
The pinnacle of wood flooring comes at a hefty price with solid wood flooring. Solid wood flooring is created from whole pieces of wood cut to floor slat size and installed with a coat of varnish or finishing on top. Solid wood flooring is expensive and you are limited in style choices based on natural grain and finishes. This hardwood flooring is the obvious choice for restoring older homes and for luxury remodels, but may not be practical for a young couple's starter home.
Engineered wood flooring is a composite material made up of small pieces of wood pressed together to make a wood flooring slat. These slats are generally thinner and cheaper to produce (meaning cheaper to buy) than traditional wood flooring. Since they are created, rather than cut from a tree, engineered wood has many more options for design than traditional hardwood. You can find engineered wood in just about any colour and any texture you can think of. One of the many benefits to choosing created wood flooring is the consistency in every piece.
Many people are choosing to purchase engineered flooring rather than hard wood because they want the uniqueness. With the surge in modern styled homes, you are not going to find black solid wood flooring for example. Engineered flooring is also better on the logistical side. With engineered wood flooring, installation is much easier and quicker. No one wants to spend more time and money than they have to on a home improvement project and solid wood flooring can take a long time, as significant delays can be caused by even the slightest mistake.
Engineered wood flooring is not only easier to install, but it is also much easier to clean and maintain. Solid wood flooring requires special care and attention as not to hurt the wood or damage it over time. Composite flooring can withstand more regular wear and tear and can be fixed much easier, which makes it especially ideal for hallway flooring and other high-traffic areas. Homeowners are starting to choose composite flooring over solid wood simply because it is more economic in terms of time and money. People in general have less time to spend treating and maintaining a floor than in the past so they want something that will take less work to keep looking nice.
The choice is ultimately up to you and there are both pros and cons to both, but whichever you choose, your home will look great with new flooring.


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I've heard from so many people who say, "Government has enough money. They need to learn how to make it stretch before they come back for more." I can certainly understand that point of view. I will make driving efficiency in state government one of my top priorities. Where there is waste or duplication, we need to cut it out. Where we've lost track of our real priorities, we need to get back on track by respecting every tax dollar and seeing to its proper use.
It is up to elected leaders to prioritize and streamline, to guard every tax dollar as though we paid it ourselves, and that is my commitment to you.