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The awesome shorts and features at the 22nd SF IndieFest!
Peter Wong 2020-01-15
15 Jan 2020 Peter Wong
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Ibiza The Silent Movie
Hey, Broke-Ass Readers! Are you ready to encounter a beautiful nude woman with a glowing crucifix on her body? How about seeing in person the man who brought the world "The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle?" Or do you want to hear the strange-but-true story of the attempt to create a "Sundance of the East?" If you answered yes to at least one of these questions, you're ready for the 2020 edition of the San Francisco Independent Film Festival aka S.F. IndieFest!
Running from January 29 to February 13, 2020, the 22nd edition of S.F. IndieFest comes to such venues as the Roxie Theatre (3117-16th Street), the Victoria Theatre (2961-16th Street), and the 518 Valencia Art Gallery (518 Valencia, duh). 21 countries supplied a total of 47 features and 57 shorts to this film festival which is a two week celebration of the independent and the subversive. Besides the films, there will also be parties and guest appearances galore.
Because of the timing of this year's IndieFest, there will be no anti-Valentine's Day Power Ballad Sing-along this year. However, IndieFest attendees can still mock the Super Bowl (Super Bowl LIV: Men In Tights) or the Academy Awards (Up The Oscars Benefit Bash). In addition, the Bawdy Caste gives "The Big Lebowski" the Live On Stage treatment. For Broke-Ass Readers interested in one-off parties, they should check out the "American Psycho" event. No, this isn't a party celebrating the well-deserved impeachment of the current occupant of the White House. Instead, it's an homage to the 20th anniversary of Mary Harron's dark comic adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' notorious serial killer novel.
Nichelle Nichols, subject of "Woman In Motion"
Now for those whose partying hasn't left them too wasted to take in a movie, there are marquee events to consider. Festival Opening Night Film "Woman In Motion" offers a portrait of actress Nichelle Nichols (who will appear in person at the screening). Todd Thompson's documentary shows there was way more to the actress than playing Lt. Uhura on "Star Trek" TOS. Offscreen, Nichols worked with Martin Luther King, Jr. and led a successful nationwide blitz to diversify NASA's astronaut base beyond white males. The Roxie Opening Night Film is "Come As You Are," director Richard Wong's ("Colma The Musical") remake of the Belgian comedy "Hasta La Vista." In this seriocomic film, a trio of differently-abled adult men still living with their parents take a road trip to Montreal. There, they intend to visit a brothel that caters to special needs clients so they can lose their virginity.
For something sexual which goes a lot darker, check out B. Harrison Smith's "The Special." It's what might be described as a sort of Glory Hole Horror. The title refers to a brothel's unusual sexual gratification option. It's a box with the words "Stick It In Here" written on its side and an arrow pointing to a dark hole. For a possibly cuckolded husband, The Special delivers comfort before becoming a source of obsession.
Readers who prefer the tamer thrills of athletics might want to check out Coan "Buddy" Nichols and Rick Charnosky's documentary "The Tony Alva Story." At age 62, subject Alva is the world's oldest professional skateboarder. He's also the man referred to as the godfather of modern day skateboarding. After the film, viewers can talk to Alva in person.
For those interested in more unusual sports, they might want to learn about competitive pigeon flying. That's the subject of "Pigeon Kings." San Francisco native Milena Pastreich's documentary follows a Los Angeles group of South Central black and Latino breeders over several years as they breed flocks of Roller Pigeons for World Cup competition.
For a more unusual take on man-nature relations, check out Dan Wayne's documentary "Big Fur." Its subject is a champion taxidermist trying to create a life-size Bigfoot. This project isn't aimed at providing him more fame and glory. Instead, his replica might inspire others to find the real Bigfoot.
The Planters
By contrast, the project at the center of "The Planters" would be considered of dubious inspirational value. No, Alexandra Kotcheff and Hannah Leder's comedy has nothing to do with a certain well-known peanut company. Instead, the title refers in part to telemarketer Martha's ongoing project of burying boxes of "treasure" for discovery by other residents of her desert town. The telemarketer's now "assisted" by her new childlike guest Sadie, who has multiple personality disorder. Add in stop-motion fantasy sequences, and the result is what the IndieFest program guide calls a gentle-spirited David Lynch film. (For those who prefer the David Lynch of "Blue Velvet" and "Eraserhead," the Pacific Film Archive's David Lynch film series has just started up.)
Yasuhiko Shimizu's "Vise" is just one of S.F. IndieFest's more bonkers offerings. It begins as the story of an aspiring model who figures she needs a smaller face. A surgeon uses a vise to fulfill the wannabe model's desire. The film soon brings in a love story, a "man on the run" tale, and lots of violence.
This year's IndieFest's best weird title is "Jesus Shows You The Way To The Highway." It's the story of a CIA Special Agent whose pizzeria business dreams have been sidelined by a mission to save the world from a big-time threat. However, destroying the computer virus code-named "Soviet Union" proves a lot more difficult when his mission turns out to be a trap. What makes this familiar tale way different is what else director Miguel Llanso adds to the story mix. This film might be for you if you like mashing together Afro-futurism, psychedelia, lots of reality-warping, and even stop motion animation with live human actors.
Blood Machines
The IndieFest offering which turns the gonzo craziness dial up to 11, though, is Seth Ickerman's "Blood Machines." It's a sequel to the director's Carpenter Brut music video and YouTube sensation "Turbo Killer." Two space mercenaries attempt to hunt down the Mima. It's a rogue ship piloted by an AI seeking to free itself from human control. But when a beautiful nude woman with a glowing crucifix on her body emerges from the eventually disabled ship, it's "do machines have souls" time. The visual style of the film mixes together such influences as John Carpenter, Chris Foss' spaceship art, heavy doses of neon, and 1980s B-movies. Add in some synthwave tunes, and you're ready to fly through the reaches of space.
Speaking of mixing music and film, this year's recipient of the IndieFest Philo T. Farnsworth Award For Innovative Filmmaking is rock 'n' roll filmmaker Julien Temple. His career has been marked by inventive ways of bringing rock to the cinema screen. Not only will Temple be here in person, but a couple of very special films he helmed will be shown at IndieFest. His newest film "Ibiza: The Silent Movie" takes viewers on a musical tour of the culture and history of the White Island as it faces the twin threats of wealthy socialites' annual invasion and gentrification. Presented in 35 mm, "The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle" is Temple's classic mockumentary about the rise and fall of The Sex Pistols.
If you missed "Cat Sticks" at the recent Third I Film Festival, you've got a second chance to see Ronny Sen's Slamdance sensation. This oddly beautiful black and white Indian film follows a group of drug addicts over the course of one long rain-soaked night. They're all searching for the drug high of "brown sugar" with various degrees of success. Alternately tragic, oddly funny, and even unexpectedly beautiful, this is a don't miss offering.
By contrast, just one outsider faces a hostile world in IndieFest's Centerpiece Film, Riddhi Majumder's "Pariah." The title character may just be a stranger who's left a forest to go to an idyllic nearby village to obtain food. But the village's local despot whips up the villagers' suspicion and hatred to the point of regarding the stranger's presence as "an attack on our society and culture." The resulting mass hysteria leads to tragic results.
A tragedy of a far different sort is chronicled in Jason Cohn's documentary "The First Angry Man." There was a time when providing city, state, and federal government services wasn't characterized by constant cutbacks or lack of money. That situation changed for the worst four decades ago with Howard Jarvis and his notoriously successful Proposition 13 campaign. Cohn's film tells the story of Jarvis' campaign and its ennobling of selfishly refusing to pay for one's share of the common good.
In Bob Byington's new polarizing comedy "Frances Ferguson," the titular snarky Nebraska substitute teacher is highly dissatisfied with her life. But her solution, having an affair with one of her students, sets her off on a downward spiral which includes jail time and unwanted celebrity.
Narrowsburg
Take one French film producer, her husband (who used to be a mafioso), and a small town full of people excited at the possibility of becoming movie stars. This is not fiction, but an actual account of an attempt to create a Sundance Of The East. The end result is Martha Shane's documentary "Narrowsburg."
Don't forget that IndieFest also offers half-a-dozen short film programs. Take time to check one or two of them out, as you might luck out and see the early creative steps of a future famous filmmaker. Some of the shorts to be shown include "Wavy Tales" (ordinary people asked how their microwave ovens work come up with some truly bizarre answers), "Compartmentalization Storage Facility" (a special facility where customers can literally store their personal issues in rented compartments), and "All Eyes On Me" (tattoo request by a girl from a religious family involves a sentence expressing all her religious beliefs).
For those whose cinematic tastes run more towards international film noir, IndieFest has you covered with "The Wild Goose Lake." The new film from director Diao Yinan ("Black Coal, Thin Ice") concerns the consequences of an underworld gathering going badly wrong. Imagine such film noir staples as rain-slicked alleyways and the neons of cheap diners (nighttime noodle shops here) playing out in an unnamed Chinese city, and you'll get an idea of what to expect with Diao's film.
An IndieFest offering which has its Chinese protagonist going for the unexpected is "Lucky Grandma." Sasie Sealy's film concerns an ornery chain-smoking 80-year-old grandmother who wants to live independently in New York City's Chinatown. Her decision to head to the nearest casino and go all-in on a possible lucky streak leads to her eventually getting stuck in the middle of a Chinatown gang war.
Closing Night Film "Alice" won the Narrative Feature–Grand Jury Award at SXSW. The title character in Josephine Mackerras' film is a wife and mother who makes the unpleasant discovery that her husband has bankrupted their family by blowing all their money on hookers. In a last ditch effort to support herself and her kid, Alice becomes a high-end escort. Don't hold your breath waiting for the MRA crowd to cheer Alice's efforts.
Obviously, there are other IndieFest programs that haven't been mentioned such as a chance to enjoy bad art ("Bad Art Gallery") or a film pitting treasure hunting geocachers against some very pissed off mutant boar men ("Wild Boar"). Just know that if you prefer your movie fare to offer offbeat alternatives to cookie-cutter Hollywood fare, you need to make time for S.F. IndieFest.
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The "New Monkery"
Michael Sattler and the Benedictine Roots of Anabaptism
Timothy Troutner
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Thank you, Timothy, for your unique and thought-provoking synthesis. Maintaining a balanced sense of universality and intimacy in the mystical Body of Christ has been so stubbornly elusive. As a Catholic who has long admired the witness of the Bruderhof, I do believe you're on to something in holding up to us the model of a "monkish vanguard community."
The year was 1527, and a new challenge confronted the Reformation in Switzerland and its neighboring territories. Ulrich Zwingli and his allies found their young Protestant state church threatened by an upstart movement. In sharp polemics, Reformed critics quickly swung into action, insinuating a connection between the fledgling group and monasticism. In its separatist communities, devoted to rigorous imitation of Christ, they sensed the whiff of the cloister.
The reformer Wolfgang Capito warned of "the beginning of a new monkery," while Jacobus Ottelinus criticized the movement's leader for his "monastic position." Zwingli himself decried "a full monkish system." The Lutheran Urbanus Rhegius wrote against a "new baptizing order," and the famous Formula of Concord denounced "a new sort of monkery." What was this "order," this shadowy "monastic" group? A crypto-Catholic vanguard, working for counter-reformation? A "high-church" Protestantism retaining ascetic elements Martin Luther and Zwingli had left behind?
It might be shocking to learn that this "new monkery" was in fact Anabaptism. For Anabaptists are commonly lumped in with the Radical Reformation, suggesting greater distance from Roman Catholicism – with the Lutheran and Calvinist Magisterial Reformation falling somewhere in between. Yet the magisterial reformers saw in Anabaptism a return to the form of Catholicism perhaps most bitterly attacked by Luther for its supposed works-righteousness: monastic life.
This unexpected connection becomes even more tantalizing when we turn from polemics to history. The new monkery did not merely resemble Catholic monasticism – it had real, historical roots in Benedictine spirituality. Now one must not forget that there were and are many "Anabaptisms." They arose independently from disparate influences, and range from peasant uprisings and anti-Trinitarian sects to the more well-known peace churches. Yet the leader of one of these Anabaptisms – the man Ottelinus had criticized for his "monastic position" – owed a crucial debt to St. Benedict, leaving a mark on subsequent Mennonite, Hutterite, and Bruderhof traditions.
Michael Sattler, whom scholars believe was the primary author of the Schleitheim Confession (the most important early Anabaptist manifesto), had previously been a Benedictine monk and probably even the prior of the monastery at St. Peter's in the Black Forest. Sattler's vision, rather than abandoning his monasticism, actually universalized it. The whole church was to become a cloister.
A Personal Journey
For me, this unexpected bond is not confined to the distant past. As a convert to Catholicism from Anabaptism, I have experienced both its appeal and its challenge. I grew up in a historically Anabaptist, albeit functionally evangelical, denomination that had largely forgotten its heritage and distinctive practices. I spent my years as an undergraduate history major looking for deeper roots, simultaneously rediscovering and reclaiming the radicalism of my Anabaptist identity and falling in love with the intellectual richness of the Catholic tradition. Both attractions were intensified by a class on the Reformation for which I wrote on Sattler's Catholic connection.
In my senior year, I was received into the Catholic Church at Easter. Yet I never saw this as a rejection of my heritage or admiration for Sattler, and I've recently felt an increasing need to reckon with the curious links between Anabaptism and Catholicism, both in his life and my own. What do they mean for me and for the church as a whole?
I believe that the encounter between monasticism and the Radical Reformation highlights what, at its best, the Christian tradition has always known: the radical discipleship and tight-knit solidarity sometimes associated with monks or nuns are not theirs alone. Imitation of Christ through common life together is implied by the baptismal promises made by all Christians. Whether monastic or lay, communities dedicated to this kind of monkery serve as vanguards of the body of Christ, exemplifying the fellowship in holiness to which all are called. Here Anabaptist and Catholic traditions can be mutually corrective, each identifying problematic shortcuts the other has taken in their quest for visible communal holiness.
Michael Sattler, Benedictine and Anabaptist
Sattler transferred the ethos of his Benedictine monastery outside its walls, creating a theology in which every Christian is called to perfect imitation of Christ and to the sharing of a common life. The baptism all believers share takes the place of the profession of vows. After formation, Sattler the monk would have taken a vow which his biographer C. Arnold Snyder reconstructs as the following: "I, brother [Michael Sattler] promise stability, amendment of my way of life and obedience to the Rule of Saint Benedict." Sattler the Anabaptist explicitly echoed this vow, itself based on the rule of St. Benedict, in the first article of the Schleitheim Confession. It instructed that "baptism shall be given to all those who have learned repentance and amendment of life." Since baptism was now reserved for adults only, the rite became a voluntary vow of radical discipleship. Sattler intended for everyone, by virtue of common baptism, to aspire to the "perfection of Christ" previously reserved for monks. As Anabaptist leader Balthasar Hubmaier insisted, if the church had simply "observed" the "correct baptismal vow," "all other oaths and obligations of the monks and nuns would have been unnecessary."
Imitation of Christ through common life together is implied by the baptismal promises made by all Christians.
Sattler emphasized what became a core Anabaptist commitment: Nachfolge Christi, the imitation of Christ. Christ's example was always the ethical key: "we should also do as He did and follow after Him." This Christocentrism resonated with Catholic devotional texts popular at the time, like Thomas à Kempis's The Imitation of Christ, and the Rule itself grounded obedience to the superior of the monastery in "imitating the Lord." Like vowed religious, Anabaptists were to model their lives after Christ through practices distinct from those of the surrounding world, including nonviolence and the rejection of political office.
Sattler's Anabaptists did not pursue this radical discipleship as solitary individuals. Resembling the Benedictine brotherhood, the community shared a structured common life. Partaking in the Eucharist together made them "one loaf" and rigorous church discipline – "the ban" – preserved a sharp, unified contrast to the outside world. Sattler even composed a "Congregational Order" to regulate communal life. It prescribed meeting "at least three or four times a week," recreating the regular devotion of the monastery. Its proposal of a communion of goods referenced the same passage from Acts that the Rule invoked to reject private property in the cloister. Believers were to read the Psalter at home and, when celebrating communal meals, receive "soup or a minimum of vegetable and meat," reminiscent of Benedictine dietary restrictions. Sattler's Anabaptism did indeed function as a new monkery, making the solidarity and radical discipleship of Benedictine life the vocation of every Christian.
Horb, Germany, where Michael Sattler worked before his death Image courtesy of Jason Landsel
A Lesson for the Universal Church
Sattler's vision reminds us of something precious that the church has often forgotten (although never entirely, for the Holy Spirit has never tired of using the saints to jog our memory). Every Christian, by being buried with Christ in baptism and raised in newness of life, is called to the imitation of Christ. As Sattler insisted, this vocation is not optional. The Sermon on the Mount does not come with the disclaimer "only for clerics." Christ insisted that no one could follow him without taking up the cross and leaving father and mother (Luke 14:26-27) and that following would inevitably incur opposition (John 15:19). Everyone who receives baptism dies to the world; in a theme dear to the Anabaptists, "here we have no lasting city." But since what "we are looking for" is nevertheless a city (Hebrews 13:14), we are never lone disciples. Summoned on pilgrimage as the people of God, we are born anew into a new, familial solidarity. Acts 2:42-47 gives a portrait of the common life all are invited to share simply by belonging to the church.
We must not forget that the "old monkery" has a similar goal. Since the church constantly falls short of her ideal while on pilgrimage, monasteries promote the universal call to holiness by reminding us of our baptismal promises. As John Paul II put it, religious life is "an eschatological sign" "of the fundamental values of the Gospel." Through formal commitment to chastity, poverty, and obedience, monks and nuns follow Christ by living "in a particularly radical way . . . the demands flowing from baptismal participation in the Paschal Mystery." Catholic teaching, though it affirms the "objective superiority of the consecrated life," lets no one off the hook. Exemplary radical witness is a "means of promoting and supporting every Christian's desire for perfection." Rather than partitioned vocations, there is an intrinsic link between the monk's discipleship and the identity of every Christian. Similarly, the tight-knit solidarity of monastic life is meant to be "an eloquent sign of ecclesial communion." The monastery should be, as Louis Bouyer described it, a "vanguard community" leading "the whole body of the Church towards its final destiny." The great monks and mendicants understood this. Francis's order, for example, was a response to Christ's call to "rebuild my church which is in ruins," and monastic reform typically played an important role in broader church reform. Moreover, lay communities like the Beguines in late medieval Europe show that monkery was not confined to the cloister. Before their marriage, Sattler's wife, Margaretha, had been a Beguine.
Yet since the embrace of Christianity by the Roman Empire, there has been a persistent temptation to delegate Christianity's lofty baptismal demands to nuns and monks, thereby freeing the rest of us from the call to discipleship and a common life of solidarity. In the fourth century, Eusebius placed a gulf between a life "beyond common human living," which involved perfection, celibacy, and pacifism, and "a secondary grade of piety" that was "more humble, more human" and made concessions to the supposed "needs" of temporal existence. In practice this became a division of labor that reserved Christ's radical ethic for the vowed religious, while the laity were free to immerse themselves in temporal (as well as military) affairs. Magisterial Protestants, meanwhile, often lost sight of Christianity's radical call in their own way: by suspecting monasticism, and all requirements of strict discipleship, of works-righteousness.
Sattler's new monkery responded to this danger, uttering a cry of protest against the replacement of shared baptismal promises with a division of labor. In many ways, he has been heard. With the rise of lay ecclesial movements, Catholic Worker houses, and the "base communities" promoted by the Latin American bishops, twentieth-century Catholicism realized new forms of monkery, accompanying Vatican II's renewed emphasis on the universal call of holiness. Mennonite and Bruderhof communities continue their countercultural witness, while many Protestant churches have shown fresh interest in monasticism. However, since radical imitation of Christ and tight-knit solidarity are too often absent in our parishes and congregations, Michael Sattler –the Benedictine and the Anabaptist – still has something to say to us.
Avoiding Shortcuts Together
Yet while it's helpful to identify areas where Catholics and Anabaptists already find common ground, responding to Sattler should also challenge and unsettle us. Since my conversion, I've had to face difficult questions that go beyond the shared commitment to the universal call to holiness. Can the Catholic Church, which claims to be where the "fullness of truth" subsists, genuinely learn from Anabaptism, from the ecclesial "outside"? Can it repent for the sins it has committed against Anabaptists (among others)? I had nearly forgotten that it was Catholic authorities who cruelly tortured Sattler before executing him for heresy. Yet as a Catholic, I also believe there are serious limits to Sattler's vision. What contribution might another tradition offer to supplement his witness?
For me, responding to the challenge posed by the new monkery means allowing my Catholic present and Anabaptist past to mutually correct one another. Each exposes ways in which the other tradition has sometimes chosen shortcuts over the visible communal holiness to which Christ calls us. As Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher to the papal household, once wrote regarding another schism, we need not the capitulation of one party to the other but "a conversion on both sides."
As noted above, Sattler's legacy warns Rome that vowed religious life can become a substitute for lay holiness. Yet his martyrdom should also remind Catholics (especially those who wish to revive an "integralist" past) that the visible unity of the Church cannot be restored through the shortcut of violent and coercive means, even if the "dirty work" is relegated to lay executioners. As the new monkery emphasizes, every Christian must make Christ visible. What becomes visible, however, with the stake or the rack is not the suffering Christ, but the principalities and powers who nailed him to the cross. Such methods can only mediate the lust for domination, not love; they echo the confusion of Babel. Or if Christ does become visible here, it is in the church's victims rather than her inquisitors. If Rome's witness is to be truly catholic, it will involve modeling repentance to an unrepentant world.
This balance between the already and the not-yet gives the church both the patience and confidence to accompany the weak and both acknowledge and bind up ecclesial wounds.
Yet a Catholic might gently note that Sattler was not without his own shortcuts to visible communal holiness. He could only claim to have achieved the united and pure church that his perfectionist ethic demanded by excluding from the picture the vast majority of professed Christians. He wanted a visibly holy church now, even if that meant rooting out the "tares" from the "wheat" before the eschatological harvest. He thus confined God's people to a small band of dedicated believers, labeling Catholic and Protestant communions "abominations" and relegating them to a Satanic realm which could not tarnish the church's purity. Contemporary Anabaptists may reject this narrow vision, but have they too easily accepted the denomination divisions which Sattler's commitment to visible unity rightly could not tolerate?
At its best, Catholicism refuses the shortcut to unity offered by Sattler's exclusivism and the later notion of an invisible church existing above denominational division. These solutions bypass the real problems posed by lukewarm believers and Christ's fractured body. Instead, Catholicism refuses to either totally immanentize or abandon to invisibility the church's eschatological ideal. She holds that there are "eschatological signs" of the church's identity visibly existing even now. Along with the saints, monks and nuns prefigure the church's destined holiness; meanwhile, the Bishop of Rome serves as a visible emblem of her final unity, a unity which is anticipated in another way by the solidarity of monastic life. Yet Christ's church is not found only in these signs of future perfection. In her historical pilgrimage she also extends beyond them, to individual believers or entire segments of Christ's body struggling to live out the holiness and unity Christ will one day consummate. This balance between the already and the not-yet gives the church both the patience and confidence to accompany the weak and both acknowledge and bind up ecclesial wounds. She can have this patience, refusing the shortcuts of a church restricted to the pure few or one only united invisibly, because she is confident that by the Spirit's power holiness is still lived, at her heart, by the saints and vowed religious, just as at her center a real but imperfect visible unity subsists in communion with Peter's successor. These exemplars do not substitute for the wider church's sanctity and unity, but are nuclei from which the fullness of her identity can radiate outward.
Catholics have retained some practices Anabaptists have rejected, such as infant baptism and the distinction between monastic and lay vocations. These do not imply denial of the universality of our baptismal promises, but faith that God's grace reaches even those who cannot or do not yet fully live them out. Lay sanctity and visible unity remain as pressing as ever, but there are no shortcuts to final perfection. In the meantime, Rome offers the body of Christ the leaven of the old monkery and the charism of Peter as powerful aids for a church still on pilgrimage.
Not everyone will agree with this attempt to do justice to the challenge posed by Sattler's strange Catholic connection, tied as my answers are to my own journey and commitments. Yet I am confident of one thing: until the eschaton, all baptized Christians will require monkery, both old and new, to remind us of who we are.
Timothy Troutner is a third-year PhD student at the University of Notre Dame studying Systematic Theology, with particular interests in the theology of language, ecclesiology, and political theology.
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IUCN Red List Status: Endangered
*Since 2017, the IUCN has recognized two subspecies of tiger, the continental tiger and the Sudan island tiger. Island tigers are found in Sumatra as the Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sondaica). Continental tigers (Panthera tigris tigris) include the Bengal, Malayan, Indochinese, and Siberian (Amur).
Habitat: Tigers can readily adapt to a variety of habitats when the space is available, living in taigas, savannas, tropical forests, grasslands, and evergreen forests. Their current range includes; India, Southeast Asia, Western China, and some areas in Russia. They can also possibly be found in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan.
In the Wild: 6.5 to 10 years
In Captivity: 16 to 23 years
Around 3,890
Recognized Extant Populations
Bengal Tiger – P. t. tigris
Indochinese Tiger – P. t. corbetti
Malayan Tiger – P. t. jacksoni
Siberian (Amur) Tiger – P. t. altaica
Sumatran Tiger – P. t. sumatrae
South China Tiger – P. t. amoyensis *
*Functionally Extinct in the Wild
Extinct Populations:
Javan Tiger – P. t. sondaica
Caspian Tiger – P. t. virgata
Bali Tiger – P. t. balica
Territoriality: Tigers are generally solitary animals as adults and maintain an exclusive territory and home range. Males will overlap their territory with 1 to 3 females, and their territory ranges from about 8 square miles to 154 square miles.
They mark their territory by scratching trees, rubbing areas with scent glands on their face, spraying urine, and distributing feces around their home range. They will also vocalize to warn competing tigers or attract mates. Tigers are also able to communicate with their tails. When relaxed, it will remain loose and hanging. When a tiger is threatened, they will move their tail rapidly from side to side to symbolize aggression. When tigers come across scents associated with territory marking, mating, and aggression, they will curl their lips and stick out their tongue, a motion known as the Flehmen's response. This response allows the scent to travel over the Jacobson's organ, a specialized olfactory (related to sense of smell) organ on the roof of their mouth. Tigers use scent to communicate reproductive status or to identify competitive tiger territory, as warning signs to stay away.
Weight: 220 to 660 pounds
Length: 6 to 10 feet (head to tail)
Tigers are the largest of members of the big cat family and are powerful apex predators. They are sexually dimorphic, as males are larger than females. Their coloration and body size varies between individuals, and are recognized for their red/orange coat with black stripes. Their coats have adapted to survive the cold with long, dense fur. In warmer areas, their fur is thinner and shorter to regulate their body temperature. The undersides of limbs, chest, belly, throat, and muzzle are a lighter or white coloration.
Every tiger has a different stripe pattern, just like a fingerprint; Their stripes are also pigmented on their skin. A tiger's stripe pattern acts as disruptive camouflage, breaking up their large outline to better hide in the tall grasses and bush. The orange coloration helps them blend in with their surroundings. Their white spots on the back of their ears act as warning signals, communicating a threat by twisting them around, like eyes in the back of their head.
In the early 1900s, there were approximately 100,000 tigers throughout their natural home range. Due to extreme habitat loss, fragmentation, prey depletion, agricultural development, and human persecution, the population has been reduced by 90% in two decades to approximately 3,900 individuals within 5 to 7% of their native habitat. Poaching, as well as retaliatory killings from farmers, also caused this significant population decline. Fragmented habitats cause breeding difficulties. Within the 20th century, three of the nine tiger populations became extinct (Caspian, Javan, and Bali), with the South China tiger not being seen in the wild within 20 years, and is viewed as functionally extinct.
Gestation Period: 96 to 111 days
Litter Size: 1 to 5 cubs (2 to 3 average)
Female tigers reach sexual maturity between four to five years old, and males reach sexual maturity between three to four years old. Females come into estrus every three to nine weeks and are receptive to mates between three to six days. They will attract mates by scent marking and vocalization throughout their habitat range. The females and males come together to breed, and the females solely take care of the cubs. Males do not provide any care to their cubs. The mother will find a safe area or den protected by dense brush to hide her cubs from other predators and threats. Cubs are born blind and helpless, relying entirely on their mothers. One to two weeks after being born, their eyes will open. During these vulnerable stages of growth, the mother spends the majority of her time nursing and protecting her young.
Between 90 to 100 days, cubs will start weaning from their mother. During this time, she will start bringing them solid food. Tiger cubs learn critical hunting skills between five and six months of age and will start leaving the den to join their mother on a hunt. They learn how to stalk successfully, ambush, and kill prey from their mother. At two to three years old, the young tigers will leave their mother's territory to establish their home ranges. The juvenile mortality rate is high due to the lack of protection and care provided by their mothers.
Diet and Hunting Behaviors
Tigers are obligate carnivores and only consume meat to survive. The availability of sufficient prey items is vital for their survival. As large predators, they must kill between 50 to 60 large prey items per year. They are opportunistic hunters and will prey upon what is available within their habitat range. Preferred prey is deer and wild pigs, but they will hunt water buffalo, elephant, and rhino. They may also prey upon birds, fish, rodents, insects, reptiles, and other mammals such as primates and porcupines. Females kill 50% more prey when raising cubs to sustain enough energy to produce milk and provide food for them.
Being ambush predators, tigers will stalk their prey by sneaking up as close as possible without being seen. Tigers choose to hunt alone and primarily at night. By doing so, they have an advantage of stealth. They have excellent night vision, seeing much better than their prey. Tigers prefer to hunt within dense vegetation, camouflaging themselves from their kill. They can move without being heard or seen by carefully placing each paw to remain silent. If the tiger is seen or heard, the animals being hunted will alarm each other with loud warning signals, and run away from danger. When this occurs, the tiger will lose it's kill because they do not chase after their meal for long distances. They can pounce 20 to 30 feet in front of them, and latch onto their prey with powerful, retractable claws. They use 3-inch canine teeth to wedge between their prey's spine, severing the spinal cord, and successfully subduing their meal. Tigers are successful in 10 to 15% of their attempted hunts.
Tigers help regulate populations of large herbivores within their home range, protecting the ecosystem from overgrazing and overpopulation. They are considered a keystone species, meaning that other species within the same ecosystem largely depend on these predators to remain in equilibrium. If removed from this ecosystem, it would drastically change and have a negative impact on all other species.
Tigers cannot purr. They are part of the big cat family because they roar.
To show affection, tigers make a noise called a chuff, that sounds similar to a raspberry.
Tigers can weigh up to 700 pounds and can be 11 feet long!
Tigers are excellent swimmers and love water. They often use pools to keep cool.
Threats and Conservation
As an endangered species, tigers face many threats of extinction within the next decade if they are not protected. Human-wildlife conflict is causing unrelenting pressure for tiger survival. Poaching, deforestation and habitat loss, habitat fragmentation, and retaliatory killings are devastating tiger populations. They are forced to compete with the ever-growing human populations for space and survival. All tiger subspecies are endangered and must be protected to ensure their conservation for generations to come.
Poaching is still a lucrative industry and a primary threat to big cats, as a tiger's coat is extremely valuable on the black market. Their body parts are also utilized in traditional Asian medicines, creating tiger bone wine, consuming tiger meat, and making tonics from their body parts. Every organ is sold on the black market, and it is believed that consuming tiger bones and body parts can cure arthritis, epilepsy, and increase blood circulation. Their skin and other parts are used for decor as a status symbol, indicating wealth and success throughout Asia and across the world. Even though tiger hunting is prohibited by law, the high price for tiger products continues to fuel the illegal black market for endangered species. Tiger population numbers have shrunk by 50% in only a few generations due to this lucrative market.
The problem lies in having limited resources to protect areas in countries where tigers live. Even places that have strong enforcement of laws continue to fight with poachers and illegal killings. Thousands of acres of pristine tiger habitat are uninhabited by the big cat due to poaching. When a single tiger is killed, it has a ripple effect on other tigers, as well as the entire ecosystem. If a mother is killed, likely, her offspring will not survive without her care. When a male tiger is killed, other males compete for territory, potentially leading to more death among the population.
Tigers are under extreme threat due to deforestation due to developing agriculture, human population growth and development, and especially monoculture farming for palm oil plantations. Palm oil can be found in 50% of grocery products within the United States from processed foods, peanut butter, deodorant, shampoo, and beauty products. Millions of acres of rainforest in Borneo, Sumatra, and Indonesia are being destroyed. Tigers have already lost 93-96% of their historic natural home range. By the continual growth or monoculture plantations, this poses an imminent threat to tigers and their possible extinction in the near future.
As wildlife shares highly populated areas with humans, Asia is rapidly developing land into agriculture, commercial logging, and urbanized areas, and reducing prey populations due to the bushmeat trade. Overhunting by humans depletes substantial prey populations for tigers, including wild deer and pigs, which are the primary food source for these large predators.
Retaliatory Killings
Tiger attacks on livestock cause retaliatory killings by farmers who are trying to protect their domestic animals. This presents an ongoing challenge for tiger conservation entities to reduce the high rates of tiger killings and to gain community support to save the tigers with advocacy and education. As the tiger's habitat is depleted, they are forced to live in more human-populated areas, increasing human-wildlife conflict and retaliatory killings of tigers. These cats typically also end up on the black market.
As an apex predator, tigers are a vital link in maintaining rich biodiversity in surrounding ecosystems. They are an umbrella species, protecting tigers in the wild also protects many other species of flora and fauna around them. Biodiversity is essential to humans as well, providing ecosystem services like clean water and air, things that humans also need to survive and be healthy. By protecting a single tiger, roughly 25,000 acres of forest are also protected.
The future of the tiger range depends on Asian governments working together to create productive tiger habitats and corridors by conserving large areas of natural habitat. Due to the large clustering of populations, the focus is geared towards larger population concentrations for potential species recovery.
The RoundTable for Sustainable Palm Oil has initiated education and conservation efforts to spread awareness of the palm oil crisis. Companies that join the RSPO are held accountable for their sustainable practices and only using products that are not causing habitat destruction. By downloading a Palm Oil App on a smartphone application, consumers can view daily products and make choices in their regular buying to avoid unsustainable practices. Buying products that are FSC certified ensures that products come from responsibly managed forests following global sustainability standards. Rainforest certified coffee also ensures that the products purchased are not damaging valuable forest land for endangered species.
There are laws in place to protect endangered species, although a lack of law enforcement and regulation still needs to be seriously addressed. Tigers are protected under CITES Appendix I as an endangered species, in which this treaty is signed by 172 countries that these species cannot be commercially traded when threatened or endangered (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora). The Endangered Species Act is one of the world's strictest environmental laws, making it illegal for endangered or threatened species to be killed, hunted, collected, or injured within the United States. The Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act provides conservation programs and provides financial resources to protect these endangered species.
Conservation organizations are diligently working to monitor tiger populations and prey availability by using camera traps to collect data. By protecting and developing a more suitable habitat for tigers, the population will be able to recover. Eliminating the demand for tiger's within the black market and preventing poaching and human-wildlife conflict are the main priorities of NGOs and conservation organizations to save tigers from extinction.
The key to species survival is immediate protection of the remaining wild populations, and recovering large habitat and corridors for the species to roam. Natural prey populations must also be managed sustainably. Mitigating human-wildlife conflicts between locals and tiger conservation is crucial to save the species from extinction.
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F1 2015 team preview: Scuderia Ferrari
By Luke SmithMar 6, 2015, 11:00 AM EST
No. 5 Sebastian Vettel
No. 7 Kimi Raikkonen
First Race: 1950 Monaco Grand Prix
Grands Prix: 890
Pole Positions: 207
Fastest Laps: 230
Race Wins: 221
Constructors' Championships: 16
2014 Championship Result: 4th (216 points)
The Ferrari that enters the 2015 F1 season is a very different team to the one that ended 2014. Gone is the old regime under Luca di Montezemolo; gone is Marco Mattiacci; gone is star driver Fernando Alonso. In their places, three men tasked with reviving the marque's F1 fortunes: Sergio Marchionne, Maurizio Arrivabene and Sebastian Vettel. A new era needed to be ushered in at Maranello following its worst season in over 20 years.
Vettel's arrival has already invigorated the team, with Kimi Raikkonen – a man many consider lucky to still be in F1 – noting that people are enjoying their work at Ferrari once again in 2015. Testing has been encouraging for the Italian team, with the SF15-T appearing to be a step up from its predecessor. A scrap with Williams and Red Bull for second place in the constructors' championship appears to be on the cards this year, but the main goal will be to lay the groundwork for a revival of the Schumacher era in the early 2000s. After all, that's exactly why Vettel has moved to Ferrari: to emulate his hero and establish himself as one of the all-time greats.
SEBASTIAN VETTEL No. 5
After storming to four consecutive titles between 2010 and 2013, Sebastian Vettel had a shock to the system in 2014 when he lagged to fifth place in the championship, failing to win a single race. With teammate Daniel Ricciardo overshadowing him, he decided to exercise a clause in his contract to secure a move to Ferrari for 2015. His critics will argue that without the right car, he isn't a top driver, and 2014 would appear to act as proof of that. However, he now has the perfect opportunity to prove them wrong and rebuild Ferrari around him.
KIMI RAIKKONEN No. 7
Raikkonen struggled with the front end of the Ferrari chassis a year ago but has counted himself happier with the new chassis throughout this year's preseason testing. He doesn't have much to lose going into this year since whatever he does in 2015 is almost certainly going to be an improvement upon a career-worst 2014, and if he beats new teammate Sebastian Vettel on a regular basis, it will have showcased his ability once over. He's done well in odd-numbered years too for whatever reason; he nearly won the 2003 and 2005 titles, won the 2007 title, and took Ferrari and Lotus to their only wins of 2009 and 2013, respectively. Here's an early candidate for comeback driver of the year, even at age 35.
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THANATOS are celebrating 35 years of fully dedicated fierce death fuckin thrash metal. Admittedly, they absolutely still sound incredibly and accurately relevant to nowadays metal scene thanks to their utterly implacable material. Saying their 7th album 'Violent Death Rituals' sounds removed from their original early Slayer, Possessed, Kreator influences would be a mistake. They have undoubtedly honed their vehemently powerful sound over the years to become a purely individual relentless machine. By all accounts, good Metal is for life!
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Band leader Stephan Gebédi comments:
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I hope you like these Edouard Manet quotes from my collection of quotes about life.
Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.
you have to have feeling.
Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.
Black is not a color.
This woman's work is exceptional.
Too bad she's not a man.
and universal figure and still keep it living and real.
People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.
fascination with color and shapes and sequences.
Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.
comes to us through the mystic realm of color.
lots of hair color and high heels.
adding color and suspense to all our life.
The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas.
never have been created without the technology.
the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.
that we never really perceive what color is physically.
applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color.
in the average downtown bar at happy hour.
It's really easy to get colors right.
Black is certainly a color but it's also an illusion.
expressed by every means available to the arts.
Truth knows no color; it appeals to intelligence.
How beautiful the leaves grow old.
but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.
They say Elvis is dead.
I say, no, you're looking at him.
Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color.
and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen.
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Congressman Demands Bill Gates Explain Why He's Buying Up Vast Amounts of Farmland
A South Dakota Congressman is demanding Bill Gates be brought before a committee to explain why he is purchasing vast amounts of farmland in the United States while telling Americans to stop eating meat.
As we highlighted earlier this month, Gates, who already owns close to 270,000 acres of land in the U.S., has been granted the legal authority to buy another 2100 acres in North Dakota despite protests by local residents.
Gates is circumventing a 1932 anti-corporate farm ownership law by pledging to lease the land back to farmers after the purchase is complete.
Now South Dakota Congressman Dusty Johnson is demanding answers.
"It has become clear in recent reports that Mr. Gates is the largest private farmland owner in America – he now owns nearly 270,000 acres of farmland across 19 states. Comparatively, the average farm size in 2021 was 445 acres, according to the United States Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service. I believe that Mr. Gates' holdings across much of our nation is a significant portion that the Committee should not ignore," Johnson wrote in a letter addressed to committee chairman David Scott.
He also took to Twitter to ask how Gates buying huge quantities of farmland was consistent with him telling Americans not to eat meat.
"Bill Gates is the largest owner of US farmland. I'm curious what's planned for this incredibly productive ag land given that he believes developed countries like America "shouldn't eat any red meat." How are his land purchases related to those aspirations?" asked Johnson.
The Congressman also highlighted the meat issue in his letter.
"The Committee should be interested in Mr. Gates' ownership and plans for his acreage, as he has been a leading voice in the push for 'synthetic meat'. In 2021, Mr. Gates was quoted to say 'all rich countries should move to 100 percent synthetic beef' to combat climate change," wrote Johnson.
In an interview with Fox News, Johnson also demanded to know what plans Gates had for the farmland.
Asserting that "ownership of farmland matters, a lot," Johnson noted how, "no one has been buying it up faster than Bill Gates."
Gates now owns 268,984 of multi-use land in 19 states.
The billionaire is buying vast amounts of farmland at the same time as his friends at Davos are telling Americans, "You'll own nothing and be happy."
The land purchases are also happening at a time when farmers across Europe are being paid not to farm and are being put out of business by onerous net zero emissions targets pushed by globalist technocrats and bedfellows of Gates.


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Official Paris 2024 supporter, Sodexo Live!, will provide catering at the Athletes' village
Sodexo has become an Official Supporter of Paris 2024 – as has its subsidiary Sodexo Live!, which is set to provide catering at the Athletes' village. For a five-week period, Sodexo Live! will employ 1,000 people per day at the Village, serving 40,000 daily meals for 14,850 athletes from 206 Olympic delegations and 182 Paralympic delegations.
Sodexo Live! is an experienced partner to major sporting events and will harness its expertise to look after the 14,850 Olympic and Paralympic athletes, with three main objectives:
contributing to athletes' performance by offering appropriate food for the requirements of elite sport.
creating a memorable experience for the athletes that matches this unique moment of their careers by working with three talented and iconic chefs – Akrame Benallal, Amandine Chaignot and Alexandre Mazzia.
helping Paris 2024 reach its environmental and social ambitions.
Sodexo Live! will also provide catering for the general public at around 15 Paris 2024 competition venues.
Nathalie Bellon-Szabo, Global CEO of Sodexo Live!, said:
"Sodexo Live! is immensely proud to actively participate in this event, which will be exceptional for Paris and the whole of France. All of the teams at Sodexo Live! are now working hard to prepare a unique and unforgettable experience for the Olympic and Paralympic athletes. Our commitments to social progress and the environment will enable us to work alongside Paris 2024 and rise to the challenge of creating Games with a positive impact."
Tony Estanguet, President Paris 2024, said:
"I am delighted that the Sodexo Group is joining the Paris 2024 adventure. We chose Sodexo Live! for their expertise, which will enable us to provide the athletes with optimal catering services. Because for them, the experience of the Games is also about food. Eating well is of course essential for performance, but it's also about the enjoyment of meeting up to enjoy a meal with other athletes. We and the Sodexo Group, which is staunchly committed to tackling CSR issues, share the aim of delivering socially and environmentally responsible Games. And that goal starts on our plates – through the products we choose and how we recruit catering staff."
Contributing to athletes' performance by offering appropriate food for the requirements of elite sport
Teams at Sodexo Live! will harness their unique know-how and expertise in sports nutrition to meet elite athletes' specific nutritional requirements. Menus will be created with nutritionists who specialize in sport, harnessing the participation of two members of the Paris 2024 Athletes' Commission: Hélène Defrance, bronze medalwinner for sailing at the Olympics in 2016 and now a consultant in nutrition and performance; and Stéphane Diagana, a 400m hurdle champion with a wealth of knowledge on health and well being.
Inventive and diverse cuisine created by three iconic chefs to create an unforgettable experience for athletes
Sodexo Live! is working with a trio of talented and complementary chefs in order to share the excellence of French cuisine and provide food that is inventive, tasty and diverse.
Fully committed to the Paris 2024 adventure, Akrame Benallal, Amandine Chaignot and Alexandre Mazzia figure among the chefs harnessing their creativity, personality and drive for excellence to design a range of catering options that unite the requirements of elite sport with culinary enjoyment.
A shared ambition with Paris 2024 to deliver Games with a positive impact
Sodexo Live! will actively participate in Paris 2024's ambition to encourage the development of a social, solidarity and environmental economy by making firm commitments:
Optimizing the infrastructure used by Sodexo and limiting the creation of temporary facilities by making use of existing structures, such as Sodexo's logistics platform for Greater Paris.
Designing a model for sustainable catering at every step of the way: a sustainable and local procurement policy, production methods, the fight against food waste and the elimination of plastic packaging.
Making sure at least 15% of people recruited have disabilities, are in long-term unemployment or come from priority areas.
About Sodexo Live!
Sodexo Live! manages prestigious, cultural, and sporting venues and major events all over the world. With 40,000 employees and 500 sites all over the world, we offer our clients a range of bespoke catering, sales, and event management services, helping to transform the consumer experience into unforgettable memories. As strategic and responsible partners, we commit to unlocking our customers' full potential while favoring local networks.
Sodexo Live! contributes to the success of prestigious events such as Royal Ascot, the French Open, the Rugby World Cup and the 2024 Olympic Games, and showcases exceptional venues such as the Eiffel Tower Restaurants, the Hard Rock Stadium, Bateaux Parisiens, Yachts de Paris, the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the Prado museum in Madrid and the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. For more information, go to www.sodexo.com. More information on www.sodexo.com.
About Paris 2024
The Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024 (Paris 2024) has the task of planning for, organising, financing and delivering the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris in 2024 in accordance with the host city contract signed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF) and the City of Paris.
The Olympic and Paralympic Games are the leading sports event in the world and have a unique media impact, bringing together some 10,500 Olympic and 4,350 Paralympic athletes respectively representing 206 and 182 delegations from five continents. The Games are followed by over 13 million spectators and 4 billion viewers around the world through more than 100,000 hours of TV coverage, and their impact as a global event of great sporting, economic and cultural importance is unparalleled.
Founded in January 2018, Paris 2024 is headed by Tony Estanguet, a three-time Olympic champion and IOC member. It is administered by an Executive Board (EB) that brings together all the project's founding members: CNOSF, the City of Paris, the state, the Île-de-France Region, CPSF, the Greater Paris Metropolitan Area, the Seine-Saint-Denis Departmental Council and representatives of the local authorities involved in the Games.


Resident Evil 7 is more than just a monumental horror game for Xbox One and Windows 10 — it can be a little tricky, too.
As a survival horror title, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard focuses on ammo conservation, puzzle solving and tense exploration. Resident Evil 7 is also littered with boss battle events which range from relatively easy to the genuinely difficult. The first real test takes place in the Garage, in the Baker family home..
The first thing to know is this fight is more of an event than an actual battle. You can defeat Jack without firing a single bullet. Follow the steps below for the different ways to finish off Jack and survive the ordeal.
First, know the layout of the room. As you enter, there's a car to your right, a handgun on the floor directly in front of you, and ammunition and health pick-ups scattered around the room. There's no need to fire a single bullet in this fight.
The easiest way to deal with Jack is to head straight to your right, and pick up the car key. The best time to do this is after Jack has swung his axe into some shelves, destroying them. He gets stuck in an animation for a little while.
Using the car key, enter the car. You can use it to run Jack over.
Run him over a few times to trigger an event, where he'll jump on the car and cause it to crash.
Dodge Jack until the car's explosion hits him.
Now, given how fast Jack moves, it's quite easy to fail to get the car started before he grabs you out of it. If this occurs, do the following.
If Jack enters the car before you get the chance, try to hug the inside of the car in the middle of the room. Abuse the car's turning circle to avoid being hit.
You can slash Jack with the knife during these moments, but either way, he'll eventually destroy the car and be hit by the explosion.
Once the car's explosion has floored Jack, you'll have an opportunity to explore. There is both ammunition and other items to be found in the Garage, so search at your leisure.
Drop the Car Key from your inventory. It's useless now.
Head up the ladder next to the table where the car key was to continue your journey!
Resident Evil 7 is a return to form for the aging series, bringing back the fear, tension, and uncompromising atmosphere that made the series a household name. Capcom is hard at work building DLC for RE7, as well as performing a full remake on the PlayStation 1 classic, Resident Evil 2.


Have you ever experienced that feeling of excitement when you've just purchased a new piece of cutting-edge hardware? I felt that way when I bought my first iPad the instant they became available on the market in my home country of Belgium. Just 18 months later, Apple announced that it would no longer support operating system upgrades for first generation iPads. By then, my iPad had rapidly become a life companion, providing me with personalized entertainment, access to my e-mails, appointments, messages, social media, games, fitness apps and TV was about to become defunct. I could no longer update the software I was using, I couldn't download new applications, and performance came to a standstill. I hung on, persevered with a few workarounds, but eventually my reliance on this tool forced me to reluctantly buy a replacement.
Why I am telling you this story? Because the same is true for business software. In some cases, enterprises hold on to legacy software, even when it is no longer supported, because the effort and ROI to replace it doesn't make business sense at face value. The consequences of end-of-life for my iPad were my own personal costs and time to purchase and setup a new device.
The consequences for legacy business software can be much more severe. Using software beyond end of life or end of support exposes your enterprise to security risks and hidden costs.
A pressing example of end-of-support software is IBM's License Metric Tool (ILMT) 7.5 – a tool used extensively by enterprises relying on IBM software. ILMT enables significant licensing cost reductions as, in virtualized environments, it enables organizations to purchase licenses based on the capacity of the machines on which the software is installed. For example, if you install IBM software on a virtual machine (VM), licensing obligations are relative to capacity of that machine. You don't need to license the full server. This is IBM's way of delivering sub-capacity licensing. However, to take advantage of the significant cost reductions afforded by sub-capacity you need to install the most recent version of ILMT on machines running IBM software.
Let's first talk about the cost issue. Sub-capacity licensing is complex, so to help customers IBM has provided an illustrative example highlighting the potential savings in PVU obligations for full-capacity and sub-capacity licensing for their MQ and WebSphere software products. The details are available in the IBM Knowledge Center. My point here is simple: if the potential for savings are massive, the potential risk is equally massive when your estate no longer meets IBM's software licensing rules.
Without any cases to point to, it's hard to predict what IBM will do in an audit situation. But my best guess points me in the direction of fines based on full-capacity calculations.
End-of-life can also present performance issues. Like in my iPad story, end-of-life often prevents taking advantage of new technologies. IBM recently announced that their standard edition of AIX 7.2 will soon be available for monthly licensing under Passport Advantage. However, this Operating System and all software running on top of it cannot be captured by ILMT 7.x.
For a full list of non-supported applications, see IBM's eligible virtualization technologies.
The good: ILMT 9.x offers many new features that will help you manage your IBM software. The ability to create separate PVU reports for different products, generating reports for different periods, and manual adjustment of PVU per core counts are just some of them.
The bad: be sure to save your audit reports for at least two years, as those generated in 7.x are not migrated to 9.
The ugly: if you haven't already migrated, my advice is to make the shift to ILMT 9.x before the 90-day rule comes into force (customers have 90 days to install ILMT from first eligible sub-capacity deployment) after which you run the risk of breaching your T&Cs.
April 2017 also marks end-of-life for Windows Vista, currently estimated to still be running on more than 10 million PCs around the world. End-of-life for operating systems like Vista may not present compliance issues, but without support, my top priority would be to prevent security breaches. My advice for managing Vista, or any other end-of-life software, would be to first determine if anyone in your organization is still using the software, and this can be easily checked in Snow License Manager by searching for it in the list of installed applications.
Upgrading to ILMT 9.x is just one of many steps you can take to ensure that you are getting the most out of your investment in IBM software. As products and bundles change over time (and licensing requirements vary for hot, warm, and cold servers), lack of visibility into installed IBM software can lead to unbudgeted costs.
My final piece of advice would be to check out some of our tips on how to efficiently manage these and other issues in our e-Book: 5 ways to save on IBM licensing.


Due to the changed plans, the nave is much higher than the choir and aisles.
Northern aisle, divided in two by an additional arcade. The base of one arch covers an imperial eagle painted before modification of the vaulting.
Northern façade clerestory. The upper levels of the nave are built in stone while the rest of the church is built of brick.
"Ulmer Spatz": the original of 1858 by the cathedral roof is now in the Ulmer Münster near the entrance in a display case.


From South of Downtown Ventura: Take the 101 Freeway north to California Ave., exit and take an immediate Rt. onto Thompson Blvd., Turn Left onto Chestnut (lst signal), and 1st Right onto Santa Clara.
From the north: take the 101 Freeway to Ventura Ave. exit; merge onto Thompson Blvd. Cross California Ave., and turn Left onto Chestnut (lst signal), and 1st Right onto Santa Clara.The church and office building are on the left.
There is a parking lot between the sanctuary and the office building.
Counseling room is located in the office building across the parking lot from the sanctuary. Enter through glass double doors. If locked, knock and your therapist will come and open them.


When Dog begins appearing in your life, consider its demeanour. Sometimes this Spirit Guide is playful and reminds us to take some "down time" to relax. Other times a Dog Power Animal may come as a support unit for those who give of themselves too much (such as Nurses and other care givers).
The message of Dog is also one of service –it's a true language of love. Dogs give to those with whom they bond unconditionally. Dog spirit may be encouraging you to do just that – love and forgive, serve and understand. Listen actively.
In working with Dog as a Power Animal remember to respect the beauty of this energy. Don't take advantage of it. Work with kindness in your heart, and Dog will continue to stay by your side.


Arjowiggins Graphic, a leader in the development of environmental paper solutions, in partnership with Antalis, has unveiled a high spec, beautifully designed; 80 second video to showcase to business the positive impact using recycled papers has on the environment. Using a combination of origami style animations, real and green screen footage to bring the subject to life, the video introduces the viewer to Paperworld - a magical world, thriving on the synergies between the natural environment and recycled papers.
Designed by production company Banana Split, the video shows a young girl's journey through dark streets and bustling traffic - guided by a paper chain and brightly coloured origami animals - until she finally reaches the entrancing Paperworld, buzzing with bright colours and wildlife.
Tom Jackson, Head of Programming and Production, Banana Split said: "We set out to conceive a creative idea that would allow us to showcase the beauty of paper - we believe Paperworld certainly achieves that goal. Working with three different elements on screen was challenging - but against the gritty real world footage, the origami animations do a brilliant job of creatively representing how recycled papers represent the hidden natural elements of the everyday."
By positioning recycled papers as being 'one with nature', the campaign from Arjowiggins Graphic and Antalis aims to deliver a simple message to businesses about the positive impact of recycled papers.
Shannan Hodgson, Arjowiggins Graphic explains: "Companies are more frequently looking to source supplies that match the requirements of their CSR policies, with 30% of respondents surveyed by Arjowiggins Graphic believing that sourcing sustainable material is the biggest environmental challenge facing their business in the next two-three years. Choosing recycled papers is a simple way for businesses to meet sustainability targets and more and more, it's what their customers will expect. Recycled papers contribute to a number of savings which include: carbon footprint - water use energy, wood and waste to landfill."
The viral is available to watch on Arjowiggins Graphic's YouTube channel from Tuesday 9th April.


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Exploring Brisbane's Bikeways: north
Today's Brisbane bikeway adventure takes us to the north side, connecting the Gateway North Bikeway, Deagon Deviation Bikeway, Brighton/Sandgate Foreshore Path, Sandgate Bikeway, Cabbage Tree Creek Bikeway, Downfall Creek Bikeway, and Jim Soorley Bikeway.
We start at the southern end of the Gateway Bridge, at the top of Queensport Road – which climbs up from Murarrie Station. (Be careful at the top, as there is a lot of heavy vehicle traffic accessing the motorway and Lytton Rd.) You can stop to check out the confusing upside-down map of the Moreton Bay Cycleway, including all the "future path". (When??)
Ride up over the bridge (see yesterday's post), and follow the path through to Kingsford Smith Drive. If you want to stay off-road, you can cross at the lights there and take the "shared path" (widened footpath) on the northern side to Schneider Rd. Cross the slip lane (carefully) and the main road to find the shared path on the western side of Schneider Rd which will take you up and over the rail line. Look for the turn off on the left to double back to the path past historical Hangar 7 and through to Terminal Drive.
Path from Schneider Rd behind Hangar 7 to Terminal Drive
Careful crossing the slip lane at Schneider Rd
This is where the connection to Viola Place should start
Unfortunately there are no good ways to reach the north side bikeways which completely avoid Nudgee Rd. (If the path from Schneider Rd to Viola Place existed, you could ride there via the Airport Precinct). You can take some back streets behind Doomben Racecourse, and the wide footpath along the front as far as Raceview Ave, but after that you'll probably find yourself on Nudgee Rd, which gets increasingly hostile as you head north, and really nasty around the East-West Arterial. Once through that mess, you can finally breathe easily again when you reach the Schultz Canal Bridge: from here you can enjoy an almost totally traffic-free and continuous ride as far as Redcliffe!
Schultz Canal Bridge
Recently upgraded bridge on the Jim Soorley Bikeway
Veer left onto the Gateway North Bikeway or turn right for the older Jim Soorley Bikeway to Nudgee Rd
Cross the bridge over Schultz Canal (which is actually the downstream end of Kedron Brook), and turn left and left again to head under the bridge and onto the Jim Soorley Bikeway. The first section is in relatively good condition, apart from a few weeds growing through the asphalt in places. A few kilometers along, you will come to an intersection where you have the option of taking the new Gateway North Bikeway or continuing on the old Jim Soorley Bikeway behind the golf course to Nudgee Rd. (Later in 2020 you won't have that choice for a while, as the Jim Soorley Bikeway will be closed for work to stabilise the crumbling embankment).
Taking the Gateway North option, you now have a smooth and fast ride to Bracken Ridge. There are just two things to look out for: the signage at Bicentennial Rd is a little unclear; you need to take the first underpass to rejoin the bikeway on the northern side. At Depot Rd it's again not obvious which way to go. Crossing at the lights is possible, but very slow. A better option is to continue west (along the southern side of Depot Rd) and then turn left to take the underpass to cross.
Head along Depot Rd to find the underpass rather than waiting at the traffic lights.
The underpass beneath Depot Rd
Once past Depot Road, you now have a smooth run on a mix of new and older sections of path alongside the motorway until that veers left at Bracken Ridge and things get a little weird. There are no signs to tell you that the underpass will take you north to the Deagon Deviation Bikeway. It's easy to get lost like Doug (who I met changing a tyre and being eaten alive by mosquitoes) and end up doing confused laps of Bracken Ridge. The underpass itself is wide, well lit, and in good condition, but at its northern end the constrast to the quality of infrastructure you've just been enjoying couldn't be more stark! No, you have not taken a wrong turn… pick your way through to the banana bars on the far side of Barfoot Street which herald the start of the Deagon Deviation Bikeway.
Look out for the unmarked underpass.
The underpass is wide and well lit
Emerging on the north side, it's easy to assume you've taken a wrong turn, but stick with it!
Practice your skills on the crazy ramp…
Head for the banana bars visible across Barfoot St
Hello Doug! Hope you survived the mozzies!
The Deagon Deviation Bikeway is another older path which was solidly built originally and holding up well. It's shared, but there are not usually many people walking that way. It brings you to an underpass beneath the Redcliffe Bridges, and if you curl underneath, you can take the newest – the Ted Smout Memorial Bridge – across to Clontarf.
Path over the Ted Smout Bridge to Clontarf
The bikeway is subject to flooding, but the footpath is slightly higher (with less hedroom)
It's a popular route to the beach for pooches
For a change of pace, and a lovely sea-side ride, you can take the Brighton and Sandgate Foreshore path south from here. Most of it has recently been upgraded to be smooth and wide, but there is still one section which is squeezy, and adult riders might feel better on the road. Being a seaside path, it's busy with pedestrians and families on bikes and scooters – so totally unsuitable for fast riding. Chill and be prepared for the unexpected, or hop onto the road if it all gets too crazy.
Rather than continue around the Shorncliffe Peninsula (which has a steep climb back up to Shorncliffe Parade) I found the Sandgate Bikeway, past the Lagoons, through Deagon Sportsground Park, and along Racecourse Rd. From there, an underpass and the curly-wirly overpass connects back across to the Gateway North Bikeway.
Underpass at the end of Racecourse Rd, Deagon
The curly-wirly overpass for want of a better name
Back on the Gateway North Bikeway
My next mission was to follow the Cabbage Tree Creek Bikeway. To get there, I headed back under Deagon Road, then under Lemke Rd, across the new bridge, to the start of the bikeway at the Sandgate Hawks playing fields.
Underpass beneath Lemke Rd
New Bridge across Cabbage Tree Creek at the start of the bikeway
From Lemke Rd you can follow the Cabbage Tree Creek Bikeway south-west all the way to McDowall. There has been a lot of money spent in recent years on new sections of this path, and most of it is in excellent condition. The worst discontinuity is at Beams Rd where the bikeway is officially the northern footpath from the driving range, across the rail line as far as Balcara Ave. Then you need to find the path again at the back of the carpark behind the State Government Precinct at Carseldine, and use the footpath for a short stretch on Dorville Rd, Aspley.
After that, the quality of the path picks up again, with a relatively new underpass under Gympie Rd at Aspley, and new connections either side or Albany Creek Rd – although the crossing there only has a centre refuge and it can be quite a challenge to get across 2 lanes of traffic in each direction.
Underpass beneath Gympie Rd on the Cabbage Tree Creek Bikeway
The connection at Dorville Rd is poor.
Crossing 2 lanes x2 at Albany Creek Rd can be challenging
At Beckett Rd MacDowall, the crossing has gates on either side of the road to prevent the wildlife venturing onto the road. These are spring-loaded, but not too difficult to manage as there is plenty of room. (Alternatively, you can access the bikeway from Saturn Crescent)
Wildlife gates at Beckett Rd, MacDowall
Beckett Rd crossing
Beckett Rd, McDowall
From the end of the Cabbage Tree Creek Bikeway at MacDowall Reserve, I rode along east along Hamilton Rd, then south along Trouts Rd (which some people are keen to see become a future urban freeway – as if no-one has learned the lessons from the past 50 years of city planning…) to pick up the start of the Downfall Creek Bikeway on Trouts Rd, Everton Park.
Trouts Road – and the bushland corridor could become an urban freeway in future 😦
Upstream end of the Cabbage Tree Creek Bikeway at MacDowall Reserve
Start of the Downfall Creek Bikeway, on Trouts Rd, Everton Park
Again, Downfall Creek Bikeway is a mixture of old and new pieces – some in excellent condition, and some much less so. There are a lot of road crossings with only a refuge island that can be difficult to cross when it's busy or if you're with kids or novice riders. (The worst of this is at Hamilton and Webster Roads).
Don't ride a bicycle weighing more than 6t over this bridge at Marchant Park!
At Gympie Rd, Chermside, the chain of pedestrian signals take forever. From there you can follow the bikeway north along Marchant Park – including possibly the widest bikeway bridge in Brisbane! Eventually, that path is supposed to continue through to Aspley, but after a number of years of talk, we have not yet seen any action from Council.
You can follow the Downfall Creek Bikeway all the way from Everton Park to Nudgee – although it can be easy to get lost – which is how I stumbled on this tribute to Kerry Fien, who was killed riding his bicycle on Beams Road in 1999. Would he be proud of the bikeways today, or frustrated with how much is still left to do after 20 years? (Perhaps both.)
At the end of Elliot Rd, Nudgee it looks as if the path was once intended to connect through to Boondall, but for the moment you can only cross the rail line at Nudgee Station and take the roads and paths through to Childs Rd, crossing at the lights to rejoin the Gateway North Bikeway at Nudgee Rd.
Sadly, no bikeway connection to Boondall
Path to Nudgee Station
The Jim Soorley Bikeway will be closed soon for repairs.
There is an offroad bikeway to Nudgee Beach I could have explored, but since it was growing dark, I took the Jim Soorley Bikeway back to Nundah – which I only recommend in the dark if you have a good headlight. (And don't stop moving or the mosquitoes will suck you dry!)
Not keen to take on Nudgee Rd and the Gateway Bridge for the second time, I continued along the Kedron Brook Bikeway to Toombul, then took the path along Widdop St, and on-road along Zillman Rd, and Racecourse Rd (which would make a good bike route if only the street space wasn't reserved for parked cars…) to Bretts Wharf Ferry Terminal for the intermittent and expensive toll-bridge (aka the CityCat) back to the southside.
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Q: error: in triplet x64-windows: Unable to find a valid Visual Studio instance Could not locate a complete Visual Studio instance I am trying to start coding so I started watching the Cs50 course.
Now i am trying to use VsCode as my program editor because I know it's pretty good and it is the same editor they use in the Cs50 lecture, but when i try to include libraries like stdio or cs50 it spits out "#include-Fehler erkannt. Aktualisieren Sie Ihren includePath. Wellenlinien sind für diese Übersetzungseinheit". I've tried a couple of things and now installed Vcpkg. While trying to install cs50 by typing ".\vcpkg install cs50" into my PowerShell Window i got the error message "error: while looking for cs50:x86-windows:
error: while loading cs50:
The port directory (C:\Users\felix\DEV\vcpkg\ports\cs50) does not exist" so i tried to install something else first to make sure it works.
I copied what the guy in my Youtube Video typed in to install sqlite3 but now i get the error message "error: in triplet x64-windows: Unable to find a valid Visual Studio instance
Could not locate a complete Visual Studio instance
The following paths were examined for Visual Studio instances:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Auxiliary/Build\vcvarsall.bat".
I added english as a supported language in Visual Stuio Installer but it didn't help and all the other solution people talked about were not comprehendable for me.
I hope someone can help me and if you can please try to explain it in simple terms as i am failry new to this whole thing.
Sorry for my bad english and thank you all in advance

A: select and install "Visual C++ tools for CMake" in the Visual Studio Installer
https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/issues/22074

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