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The original meaning of Fix Released was that end users can download or access a release of the software in which the bug is fixed. Some projects use it this way, such as Launchpad itself, even when the status doesn't really make sense (for example bug 186702, bug 271781). But in Ubuntu, Fix Released means "a fix was uploaded to an official Ubuntu repository" <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status>; the bug might not yet be fixed even in the latest beta version, let alone the latest release. For Ubuntu to adopt the original meaning would be infeasible, even once mass status changes are introduced, because unless bug 341687 is fixed *and* includes an optimisation to not email every bug separately, the resulting flood of e-mail on release day would be overwhelming for recipients.
It's not enough for Fix Committed and Fix Released to have a difference in meaning; to be worth keeping distinct, they would also need a *functional* difference that saves more time than the time spent distinguishing between them. Currently the only functional difference is that in a normal search, Fix Committed bug reports are shown but Fix Released bug reports are not. This was intended to cut down on duplicates, by showing users only those bug reports that may still be affecting them. But this doesn't work for Ubuntu (bug 90738), where a bug is marked Fix Released while the vast majority of users are still using versions with the bug unfixed. Partly to counteract this, the "Is the bug you're reporting one of these?" list includes Fix Released bugs, but that won't work after a few years, as the suggestions become dominated by bugs that were fixed years ago (cf. bug 76744).
(4) the "Is the bug you're reporting one of these?" list treat bug statuses just like the normal search does, including fixed bugs only if they were fixed recently.
Removing Fix Committed as a status would make fixing bug 341687 unnecessary.
This is currently a discussion in QA/Mobile QA about the need to confirmation of fixed issues and how there is currently no means of tracking the fact that a fixed issue has been confirmed by testing.
My initial reaction was to use "Fix Committed" as a catch all for development, so when development pushed the code to the release repo, the status would change to Fix Committed.
Once the fix is in this Committed state, QA would know that the code is available and could then download. If the fix was then verified to be fixed then the bug state would move to "Fix Released" so the greater community would know that they could now be assured that the fix was there.
The current fix verification system relies on tags which cannot be tracked or used as the basis for performance matrices. A move to this process would free Dev from having to worry about two status settings, and give QA a way of showing a bug fix was tested and proven.
I propose to use target milestones and release series instead of (2) and (3): when a milestone becomes inactive, the bug can be considered "released" for the specified release series or the active ones.
Also, instead of showing "Fixed" every time (which can be ambigous), I think that it would be better to display "Fix committed" or "Fix released" automatically, but keeping a single item in the list of +ediststatus.
we know when the bug will be fixed by a standards update proceedure.
3 - Fix will only be possible in a future distribution.
I also feel that we would be better off without the Fix Released status. My main concern is not that it's entirely useless, but rather than it means completely different things for different projects. As such, these concepts would be better expressed using tags. The problem with tags is that currently hang off bugs, not bug tasks (the lines representing the manifestations of a bug in different pieces of software). For complex bugs that are manifested in many projects, it's very useful to know whether the fix was released in one of the projects, so if we want to get rid of this status we'll have to come up with a way to capture and display this information.
The current summary sounds lovely.
@intellectronica this seems orthogonal to tasks-in-projects.
> @intellectronica this seems orthogonal to tasks-in-projects.
I agree, and also agree mpt's description is very nice.
freeform text into the closing comment on the bug.
This is like structured infestation?
would give some data on whether it's useful.
> (4) the "Is the bug you're reporting one of these?" list treat bug statuses just like the normal search does, including fixed bugs only if they were fixed recently.
Perhaps eventually all searches should include recently-fixed bugs.
I think we should do this. We are not getting a lot of value from the distinction, but we are getting a lot of problems.
Being able to link a branch and a merge proposal to a bug is in many ways already "fix committed". Granted we may need to present things a little differently and polish that experience and UI a bit, as well as other features that may come up (linking to branches outside of launchpad?).
I would sit down and think how we could present the basic case for this, and come up with a plan to get this done.
We need to be sure that we communicate this change as widely and clearly as possible.
One part of that plan needs to be how existing fix committed bugs are to be handled. I suppose it is best to bump them back to in-progress, or perhaps to just block new bugs going into that state.
mp's give a much better and more nuanced view of how far the bug is from being started to finally fixed.
1. Where a bug is "Fix Committed" for a project, change that status to "In Progress" and simultaneously add the tag "projectname.fixcommitted". Similarly for a package, change that status to "In Progress" and simultaneously add the tag "distroname.packagename.fixcommitted". Do not send mail notifications for any of these changes.
2. When finished, send one mail notification to the bug supervisor of each project/package that has any ".fixcommitted" bug reports, giving (1) the number of reports affected and (2) the link to a search results page listing them all (oldest first). That makes it as easy as possible to clean them up.
3. For as long as there is at least one ".fixcommitted" bug report for a project, package, or distribution (up to, maybe, six months later), show a canned link to that same search results page from the main Bugs page, as a reminder that the reports need updating.
One very nice aspect of the distinction between Fix Committed and Fix Released is that it makes the buildup of unreleased work quite obvious. Although we shouldn't necessarily block on actually doing it, we ought to have a plan on how to provide an equivalent in the absence of FC/FR.
> Released is that it makes the buildup of unreleased work quite obvious.
> to have a plan on how to provide an equivalent in the absence of FC/FR.
anyhow. Doing this would make mpt's third step probably unnecessary.
I find the distinction very helpful actually.
Fix Committed = Code is in bzr repo attached to the bug. If you need the fix you can get it here.
Fix Released = Code is in one or more released versions of the project (as targetted).
I'd hate to see "Fixed" appear - or if it does some meaningful way of representing the above is then needed. Couldn't there be a middle ground where either projects can configure this themselves, or where you have all three options?
> I find the distinction very helpful actually.
> Fix Committed = Code is in bzr repo attached to the bug. If you need the fix you can get it here.
> Fix Released = Code is in one or more released versions of the project (as targetted).
> representing the above is then needed.
bzr repository related to the bug, it gets a branch link.
of Launchpad automatically flipping bugs from committed to released.
Is that just meant to be an interim fix?
Not if the related branch isn't ready to be used yet. We'll often link a branch to a bug as it's being worked on - that doesn't however mean that the issue is resolved in that branch.
It's also harder to see that from the milestone overview page - which we use as a todo list for a release.
@Martin, yes, the other was unrelated to this, done by Curtis in his spare time for his own personal itch.
My work was indendent of this bug, but my work implicitly solves some issues that are not being discussed in the bug. As a release manager of many projects I need to update bug statues to communicate that fixes are available for users (not engineers). I stopped doing this 9 months ago because I got complaints that I was stealing karma from the assigned engineer. So I would ask the engineer to close his bugs, but this is not an urgent matter for many.
This was a very frustration matter. I changed how karma was allocated and automated the status updates. Even though I have backout my change to update the bug status when a release is created, karma is still awarded to the bug assignee. Any automatted process that updates status from an inferred state will award karma to the correct user.
I always assumed "Fix Committed" meant "bugfix merged to trunk" while "Fix Released" meant that if the user upgraded to the last release she would no longer see the bug. As a maintainer of a few open-source projects hosted on launchpad I'd be a bit sad to see the distinction disappear.
The Maemo project has a problem where users complain about bugs marked "RESOLVED: FIXED" by saying "no it's not, I upgraded to the latest version and the bug is still there!" with the developers going back saying "it's fixed in $VCS and will be released with the next version, I just don't want to see this bug among the list of open bugs as it distracts me". I usually chime in with a suggestion to implement Launchpad-style fix-committed/fix-released distinction when this issue comes up in Maemo discussions.
Point (2) from mpt's summary only seems really useful once LP has a notion of what those versions actually mean. Sure, it would be nice to record the data rather than systematically losing it, but I think adding support for that needs to be on somebody's plan somewhere. A date-based cut-off is distinctly suboptimal for Ubuntu and probably for many other projects as well, because the date you want depends on the version that the user is running. Indeed, if Launchpad had a way to record versions in which a bug was found as well, it would be possible to be much more accurate still about which bugs we show users: there's no point showing Hardy users a list of bugs that existed only for a couple of days in Lucid, at least not at the top of their list.
This general facility is called "version tracking" in Debian, and has been in debbugs since 2005 (http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/07/msg00010.html). It was in the original design for Launchpad Bugs (under the name "infestations", which I never particularly liked ...), but was cut due, as I understand it, to time constraints. At Launchpad's current scale, I think it would be worth revisiting this decision; it is very useful when tracking multiple release series of software.
I agree that the version field is the hairiest part of the plan. It would be useful to be able to say, for example, that a security bug in Ubuntu is fixed in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, 9.04, 9.10, and Lucid alpha 2 and later, or that a FooBarHum project bug is fixed in versions 2.2.1, 3.0.5, and trunk r775 and later. But any database schema smart enough to recognize those various version types would be quite a challenge, and I don't think solving that problem should be a prerequisite. Hypothetically, if you introduced version tracking later on, the free-form version info that had been entered for bugs fixed before version tracking was introduced would be no more problematic than the complete lack of version info for the older bugs fixed before the Fixed statuses were merged.
> don't think solving that problem should be a prerequisite.
that to block the rest.
to versions, which in many cases we already have thanks to tags.
optimisation to work better in Launchpad's database model.
problem that gets bigger and scarier the longer we leave it.
valid way to address the problem represented by this bug.
I feel that you should be able to set the bug status to 'FIX COMMITTED', but you should not be able to set it to 'FIX RELEASED'. Instead, it should automatically be changed to 'FIX RELEASED' when the milestone becomes inactive.
@Geoff, that would be inappropriate for bugs that are both introduced and fixed within a release, and would add massive overhead to projects that have users using interim versions (like Ubuntu itself - one of our largest users).
See also bug 754375, suggesting that lp:kanban should distinguish "needs release" from "released" by whether the task's has been released or not.
We may want to split out the various potential improvements from this bug: items 3 and 4 seem like genuine defects/improvements on their own.
Robert Collins: what do you mean by "items 3 and 4"? The changes proposed in comment #3 and comment #4 or something else?


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We were researching the social issues that Boston is currently facing when we noticed that homelessness went up 14% in the past year. Then we started talking about homeless shelters, and their supplies and the quality of the donations they receive, when we were hit with the idea for our project.
On the website or the app, when you click on a shelter's name, it will take you to their designated page, where you can see how stocked up they are on certain items. Then you can make donations based on what they actually need. The goal here is to increase donations of items that shelters will find useful, and limit the donation of items that will go to waste.
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There were several hurdles for each step of creating Project FillEmUp! For one thing, the wifi issues prevented us from downloading and installing vital programs, such as Visual Studio and XCode. This caused us to downgrade from doing a web-app and IOS app to just doing a web site and demo app. There was also a major problem with presenting the data from the SQL database on the website, and ultimately we were only able to display the data using a local host.
Honestly, we're very proud of the concept we came up with, as well as the fact that we are able to submit anything at all. We worked with many technologies for the first time this weekend.
We learned how to create and deploy an application using Azure, as well as how to build a SQL Database from scratch. We also learned the basics of developing with XCode. There were small lessons too, like learning the difference between web apps and web sites. Finally we learned how to create a php webpage using localhost.
I developed the website and built the SQL Database. I also worked really hard on integrating the two (although that ultimately didn't happen).
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For the first time, I worked on design instead of the backend. Using Adobe XD I was able to create a prototype of our would-be iOS app.


I'm on my way home to Whittier right now. I work in construction—on houses that get flipped in Highland Park.
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The Security Council heard the third periodic report from the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq. Speaking from Baghdad to the Council, Mr. Mladenov briefed the council on the recent political and security development in Iraq. Politically, the last election in April, which had an impressive turnout of 12.6 million voters, produced a hung parliament with none of the three major political blocs commanding a majority. Such political impasse coincides with the general differences of views between the central government in Bagdad and the regional government in Kurdistan, which currently have disputes on oil revenue sharing and the national budget. However, it is an encouraging sign that the three blocs successfully elected the Speaker of the legislature in spirit of compromise, a practice which Mr. Mladenov hoped can be reciprocated when a new government is formed in the near future. In terms of the security situation, Mr. Mladenov highlighted that the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant or the ISIL "has become a complex threat to peace and security in Iraq, the entire region and beyond." While stating the need for all parties to stay involved in resolving this security threat, he stated a solution comprising only of military measures without accompanying political and social policies will not resolve the issues.
Ambassador Alhakim of Iraq responded to the remarks made by Mr. Mladenov. With regards to the ISIL, he highlighted that actions taken by the terrorists in the city of Mosul harmed both Muslims and Christians alike. The Christians were fined heavily and coerced to convert to Islam to stay in Mosul, or are killed or forced to leave the city. He urged to Council to provide assistance to end the mayhem stirred up ISIS.
The Council proceeded to closed consultation to exchange views among members regarding the situation in Iraq.
Meeting Title – 7224th Meeting of the UN Security Council
Speakers –Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Iraq, United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq; Mr. Mohammad Ali Al-Hakim, Permanent Representatives of Iraq to the United Nations
Location – Security Council Chamber, United Nations Headquarters
Date – July 23th, 2014
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THE smoky message is clear against contraband cigarette smugglers: Get set to face the toughest penalty as a Singapore cigarette-smuggler was fined a record S$34million and jailed.
Friday's court decision on 33-year-old Ng Ghim Hong ranks as the highest in criminal history as the authorities keep a very close worrying watch on smuggling-links with international terrorist activities, too.
The recalcitrant middleman was also sentenced to four years behind bars. If he cannot pay the fine, he will be jailed for another two years and four months, the court ordered.
Police said Ng was part of a Singapore-Malaysia syndicate when he was caught red-handed at a Sungei Kadut warehouse with "an unprecedented quantity" of duty-unpaid cigarettes – some 2,710kg of these were uncovered.
The prosecution said: "It must be emphasised that the quantity involved in the present case is to date the largest that the sentencing courts have had to grapple with." Deputy Public Prosecutors Thiam Jia Min and Tan Weiming asked for a jail sentence of four years and two months for Ng, along with the mandatory fine of S$33.7 million.
Ng worked with 28-year-old Malaysian Mohd Nor Alif Ramlan, who has been sentenced to three years' jail for his part in the syndicate. Ng and Alif were recruited by another Malaysian known only as Ah Yang, who in 2014 tasked the men with unloading gunny bags containing contraband cigarettes into a warehouse in Sungei Kadut.
But when the two men set out for the job on Feb 22, 2017, officers from Singapore Customs had already been tipped off and were trailing a container containing the goods. The officers followed the prime mover and container trailer from PSA Tanjong Pagar to 9 Tuas South Avenue 10, where they watched Alif and his accomplices transfer pallets into a building.
They swooped in and nabbed the men, who admitted that they were unloading contraband cigarettes. Ng, who was acting as a lookout, was arrested after being found in a black car nearby.
In total, 14,489 cartons of cigarettes were found, and the amount of evaded duty came up to about S$1.1 million. The seizure was the largest amount that the sentencing courts have dealt with.
Ng worked with others to import and circulate the contraband cigarettes in Singapore in what was a closely-coordinated operation, the prosecutors added.
Police records show Ng was also a repeat offender who did not learn his lesson and was "more audacious" this round. In 2009, he was convicted of a similar offence for dealing in 1,039kg of duty-unpaid tobacco products and jailed 18 months.
But what is more worrying for the authorities is the renowned indirect link between contraband cigarettes with terrorist activities.
Police sources, familiar with investigations, say that "trading in cigarettes is a popular choice for terrorists because they are easy to smuggle, have low barriers of entry, enjoy a huge market and provide high profits".
That's why continuous police operations are discreetly on the go and the toughest measures are instituted by the courts to send a very clear smoke-filled message that crime-in-cigarettes doesn't pay.
Informed police sources say organised crime syndicates, in Asia, Europe and the USA, garner wide reach through diverse distribution channels in the form of small retailers and street vendors. While retailers may be charged in court if found to be in possession of cigarettes, it has been widely assumed that crime syndicates pay these fines in order to maintain cooperation with retailers, and sustain their distribution network.
Beyond these traditional distribution channels, the World Customs Organisation highlights that the resale of tobacco products on the Internet is being actively developed, enabling greater reach, more discretion, and lesser chances of being caught.
Evidence from Interpol suggests tobacco smuggling operations have been linked to terrorist organisations such as Hamas and Hezbollah, which allegedly utilise these profits to finance terrorism around the world. A recent WCO Illicit Trade Report highlights the illicit tobacco trade represents a good opportunity for organised crime groups and/or terrorists to generate large sums of criminal profits.
The IRA (Irish Republican Army), for example, was one of the first groups to begin using cigarettes to fund their activities. Police estimate that the IRA made US$100million in the past five years from trafficking illicit cigarettes.
Possessing or dealing in duty-unpaid goods are serious offences under the Customs Act and the Goods and Services Tax Act.
The composition sum for a first-time offender who has up to one packet of duty-unpaid cigarettes in his possession is $500. Heavier penalties will apply if he is found with more than one packet of duty-unpaid cigarettes and/or if he is a repeat offender.
With a 10 per cent increase in the tobacco tax in February last year, the draw of duty-unpaid cigarettes continues to be its cheaper price, according to smokers.


Apple today released iOS 12.2 Beta 6 for iPhone and iPad. The latest beta update should be wireless every hour on the hour. Apple will probably also release the sixth beta version of watchOS 5.2, tvOS 12.2 and macOS 10.14.4. We will update our reporting when significant changes are detected in the latest software updates.
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Spider-Man No Way Home is coming to 4K and Blu-ray
Posted on December 23, 2021 by Justin Sluss
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The 2021 film "Spider-Man: No Way Home" appears to be coming to 4K UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray next year via Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, according to retailer listings. There's no official release date at this point, but stay tuned for a later news story when it gets fully announced.
The film, directed by Jon Watts, stars Tom Holland, Zendaya, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jacob Batalon, Marisa Tomei, Benedict Wong, Jamie Foxx, Willem Dafoe, and Alfred Molina.
The tech specs for the 4K and Blu-ray releases have not yet been detailed, nor have bonus materials, but stay tuned for an update on that [as said before] when the title gets officially announced. In the meantime, you can now find the 4K UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray releases available for preorder over at Amazon. You can also find the 4K UHD Blu-ray available for preorder over at retailer Best Buy. Speaking of which, retailer Best Buy will be getting an exclusive 4K UHD Blu-ray SteelBook (pictured below) that is now also available for preorder.
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2021 film Chaos Walking is coming to 4K and Blu-ray in May
Posted on April 13, 2021 by Justin Sluss
The 2021 film "Chaos Walking" is coming to 4K UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray Disc on May 25th via Lionsgate, according to retailers. The film, directed by Doug Liman, stars Daisy Ridley, Tom Holland, Mads Mikkelsen, Nick Jonas, Cynthia Erivo, Demián Bichir, and Ray McKinnon. The tech specs and bonus materials for the 4K and Blu-ray have not yet been detailed, as it's awaiting an official announcement, so stay tuned for an update. It is known that the 4K and Blu-ray releases will come in the form of a "combo pack" (via the artwork) meaning that the 4K UHD Blu-ray will come with its Blu-ray Disc counterpart, the Blu-ray will come with a DVD, and both will include a digital code (copy) of the film. You can now find the 4K UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray available for preorder over at Amazon and over at retailer Target. Further below, after the break, you can find the artwork for the Blu-ray and the trailer for this film. Again, stay tuned for an update on this release when more is known.
Pixar film "Onward" comes to 4K and Blu-ray May
Posted on April 3, 2020 by Justin Sluss
The 2020 Disney / Pixar film "Onward" is coming to 4K UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray Disc on May 19th, via Disney, according to retailers. The film, directed by Dan Scanlon, features the voice talents of Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Kyle Bornheimer, Mel Rodriguez, Lena Waithe, Ali Wong, Octavia Spencer, Tracey Ullman, Wilmer Valderrama, and George Psarras. The tech specs and bonus materials for the 4K and Blu-ray haven't been officially announced yet, but, judging from the Disney+ and digital versions of the film, you can expect it to receive HDR10 on the 4K release and Dolby Atmos sound. It's likely the Blu-ray will only get a DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 mix, instead of Atmos sound, but we'll see. Both the 4K and Blu-ray releases will come in the form of "combo pack" meaning that they'll include their Blu-ray / DVD counterparts (accordingly) and each receives a digital code (copy) of the film. Stay tuned for updates on the official tech specs, bonus materials, and as to when these titles get listed over at Amazon. You can, however, now find the 4K UHD Blu-ray and the Blu-ray listed for preorder over at retailers Best Buy and Target. Also worth mentioning is the fact that each one of those retailers will be getting an exclusive 4K UHD Blu-ray release of the film. Best Buy will be getting a 4K SteelBook (pictured below) and Target will be getting a Limited Edition Gallery Book on 4K (also pictured below).
"The Current War" arrives on Blu-ray in March
Posted on February 23, 2020 by Justin Sluss
The 2019 Director's Cut of "The Current War" is coming to Blu-ray Disc on March 31st, via Universal, according to retail sources. The film, directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon and executive produced by Martin Scorsese, featured a cast including Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon, Nicholas Hoult, Matthew Macfadyen, Tuppence Middleton, and Tom Holland. The tech specs for the Blu-ray include 1080p HD video in the 2.39:1 aspect ratio with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 sound on a BD-50 (50 gigabytes dual-layered) disc. The release will come in the form of a "combo pack" with a DVD and a digital code (copy) of the film included. You can now find the Blu-ray listed for preorder over at Amazon. The bonus materials set to be included on the release are listed below.
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The 2020 film "Dolittle" starring Robert Downey, Jr. is officially coming to both 4K UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray Disc on April 7th, via Universal. The film, based on the story of "Dr. Dolittle" & directed by Stephen Gaghan, co-starred/featured the voice talents of Antonio Banderas, Michael Sheen, Jim Broadbent, Emma Thompson, Rami Malek, John Cena, Kumail Nanjiani, Octavia Spencer, Tom Holland, Craig Robinson, Ralph Fiennes, Selena Gomez, and Marion Cotillard. The tech specs for the 4K include video in the 1.85:1 aspect ratio with HDR10, HDR10+, and Dolby Vision forms of High Dynamic Range with Dolby Atmos sound. The tech specs for the Blu-ray include video in the 1.85:1 aspect ratio and DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 sound. Both releases will come in the form of a "combo pack" with the 4K getting a Blu-ray counterpart, the Blu-ray getting the DVD, and each including a digital code (copy) of the film. You can now find the 4K UHD Blu-ray and the Blu-ray both available for preorder over at Amazon. The bonus materials set to be included are listed below.
Talk to the Animals
RDJ & Harry: Mentor and Mentee
Becoming the Good Doctor
Antonio Banderas: Pirate King
The Wicked Dr. Medfly
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"Spies in Disguise" on 4K and Blu-ray in March
The 2019 computer-animated film "Spies in Disguise" is officially coming to 4K UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray Disc on March 10th, via Fox. The film, co-directed by Nick Bruno & Troy Quane, featured the voice talents Will Smith, Tom Holland, Reba McEntire, Rashida Jones, Masi Oka, Ben Mendelsohn, Karen Gillan, and DJ Khaled. At the time of writing, this carries a "Certified Fresh" rating over at Rotten Tomatoes. Tech specs for the 4K include video in the 2.35:1 aspect ratio with HDR10 form of High Dynamic Range and Dolby Atmos sound. The technical specs for the Blu-ray include video in the 2.35:1 aspect ratio with DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 sound. Both releases will come in the form of a "combo pack" with the 4K getting the Blu-ray counterpart, the Blu-ray getting a DVD, and each getting a digital code (copy) of the film included. The 4K UHD Blu-ray is now available for preorder over at Amazon, but the Blu-ray Disc is not yet listed, so stay tuned for an update on that. The bonus materials set to be included are listed below.
Super Secret Spy Mode
Infiltrating Blue Sky Studios
The Top Secret Guide to Gadgets
"Then There Were Two" Music Video
"Freak of Nature" Music Video
Making the Soundtrack "Then There Were Two"
Making the Soundtrack "Freak of Nature"
"Lunch Break"*
Color Keys and Moment Paintings
Props and Gadgets Concept Art
*Available on Digital Only
It's certainly worth noting that there will be an exclusive 4K UHD Blu-ray SteelBook (pictured below) available of this film over at retailer Best Buy, now available for preorder.
Further below, after the break, you can find the full announcement regarding the upcoming home video releases of this film.
Spider-Man Far From Home on 4K and Blu-ray
Posted on September 4, 2019 by Justin Sluss
The 2018 sequel "Spider-Man: Far From Home" is officially coming to 4K UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray Disc on October 1st via Sony. The film which is part of the "Marvel Cinematic Universe" from Marvel Studios was directed by Jon Watts. The cast to this film included Tom Holland, Samuel L. Jackson, Jake Gyllenhaal, Marisa Tomei, Jon Favreau, Zendaya, and Jacob Batalon. Tech specs for the 4K release include 2160p video in the 2.39:1 aspect ratio with HDR10 and Dolby Vision forms of High Dynamic Range along with Dolby Atmos sound. Tech specs for the Blu-ray include 1080p HD video in the 2.39:1 aspect ratio and presumably just a 5.1 or 7.1 DTS-HD MA lossless mix – although not specified by the studio in the press release. The 4K UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray Disc versions are now both available for pre-order over at Amazon. Retailer Best Buy will be getting a 4K Exclusive Steelbook (pictured below) which is available to pre-order.
Both releases will come in the form of "combo pack" with the 4K getting a Blu-ray, the Blu-ray getting a DVD, and a digital code (copy) of the film for each version. Bonus materials set to be included on the releases are listed below.
New Original Short, Peter's To – Do – List: Peter has a few errands to run before he can leave on his class trip.
Teachers' Travel Tips: Mr. Harrington & Mr. Dell present a few tips on how to traverse the European continent.
Stepping Up: Explore how Spider-Man was introduced in the MCU, the ways Tom Holland transformed the character of Peter Parker, and what the future holds for Spider-Man.
Suit Up: The suit doesn't make the hero – but it does play a big role in who they are and who they can become. This piece examines all of Peter's different suits in the movie, and with behind the scenes footage, we see why some suits are better than others.
Far, FAR, Far from Home: The film's illustrious locations serve story points and establish tone, but they're also amazing to travel to! Hear from the cast on their experiences filming on-location.
It Takes Two: A special look at the chemistry between Jon Watts and Tom Holland.
Fury & Hill: MCU stalwarts Cobie Smulders and Samuel L. Jackson are back as Agent Maria Hill & Nick Fury!
The Ginter-Riva Effect: A look at the villain sub-plot and how William Ginter-Riva ties Spider-Man: Far From Home all the way back to the beginning of the MCU.
Thank You, Mrs. Parker: A look at Marisa Tomei's reimagining of Aunt May, from Homecoming to Far From Home.
The Brother's Trust: A quick look into some of the amazing work Tom Holland and his brothers have done through their charity, The Brothers Trust.
The Jump Off: Interviews with the cast & crew take us through all of the amazing stunts of Far From Home.
Now You See Me: We examine the evolution of Mysterio and why Jake Gyllenhaal was the perfect fit for the role.
Stealthy Easter Eggs: Allow E.D.I.T.H. to reveal some of the hidden Easter Eggs you may have missed!
Select Scene Pre – Vis: A side by side comparison of the Pre-Vis with the film
Gag Reel & Outakes
Never-Before-Seen Alternate & Extended Scenes
Further below, after the break, you can find the full announcement regarding the upcoming releases of the film.
Avengers: Endgame – 4K UHD Blu-ray Screenshots
Posted on August 13, 2019 by Justin Sluss
"Avengers Endgame" on 4K and Blu-ray in August
Posted on June 27, 2019 by Justin Sluss
The 2019 Marvel Studios film "Avengers: Endgame" is officially coming to both 4K UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray Disc on August 13th via Marvel (Disney). The film, directed by Anthony Russo & Joe Russo, stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Paul Rudd, Benedict Cumberbatch, Chadwick Boseman, Brie Larson, Tom Holland, and Josh Brolin. This movie set a record during its theatrical run, which has now been extended, grossing over 2.7 billion (so far) worldwide. The film also has received much critical-acclaimed and carries a "Certified Fresh" rating (at time of writing) over at Rotten Tomatoes.
The tech specs for the 4K UHD Blu-ray include 2160p video in the 2.39:1 aspect ratio with HDR10 form of High Dynamic Range and Dolby Atmos sound. Tech specs for the Blu-ray include 1080p video in the 2.39:1 aspect ratio and DTS-HD 7.1 Master Audio sound. The scenes shot in IMAX will NOT be presented in their correct aspect ratio and sadly, will not expand to fill the screen. This and some other shortcomings of this release have been discussed already by our friend John Archer over at Forbes. Both releases will come in the form of "combo pack" with the 4K getting a Blu-ray, the Blu-ray getting a DVD, and each comes with a digital copy of the film. You can find the 4K UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray of the film now available for pre-order over at Best Buy. Stay tuned for an update when Amazon correctly lists the title on both formats. There will also be an exclusive 4K Steelbook release (pictured below) available over at retailer Best Buy which is now available for pre-order. Another retailer exclusive will come in the form of a 4K Booklet packaging over at Target.
Bonus materials set to be included on the releases of the film are listed below.
Digital Exclusive:
Steve and Peggy: One Last Dance – Explore Captain America and Peggy Carter's bond, forged in moments from previous films that lead to a momentous choice in "Avengers: Endgame."
Blu-ray & Digital:
Remembering Stan Lee – Filmmakers and cast honor the great Stan Lee in a fond look back at his MCU movie cameos.
Setting The Tone: Casting Robert Downey Jr. – Hear the tale of how Robert Downey Jr. was cast as Tony Stark in the original "Iron Man" — and launched the MCU.
A Man Out of Time: Creating Captain America – Trace the evolution of Captain America with those who helped shape the look, feel and character of this compelling hero.
Black Widow: Whatever It Takes – Follow Black Widow's journey both within and outside the Avengers, including the challenges she faced and overcame along the way.
The Russo Brothers: Journey to Endgame – See how Anthony and Joe Russo met the challenge of helming two of the biggest films in cinematic history … back-to-back!
The Women of the MCU – MCU women share what it was like to join forces for the first time in an epic battle scene — and be part of such a historic ensemble.
Bro Thor – His appearance has changed but his heroism remains! Go behind the scenes to see how Bro Thor was created.
Six Deleted Scenes – "Goji Berries," "Bombs on Board," "Suckiest Army in the Galaxy," "You Used to Frickin' Live Here," "Tony and Howard" and "Avengers Take a Knee."
Gag Reel – Laugh along with the cast in this epic collection of flubs, goofs and gaffes from set.
Visionary Intro – Intro by directors Joe and Anthony Russo.
Audio Commentary – Audio commentary by directors Anthony and Joe Russo, and writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely.
Further below, after the break, you can find the artwork for the Blu-ray, the promo trailer for the home video release (that does contain spoilers), and then full details about the upcoming releases of the film.


I came upon Dod's writings as a natural consequence of searching for the books published by the Fowlers in local bookstores. The Fowlers were the primary publisher of alternative writings from the mid-1800s to about 1865. [The occasional co-publisher at the time and later succeeded Orson Fowler was Samuel R. Wells, who bought out this company in the 1870s.] I was researching the history of alternative medicine in Oregon.
I was particularly fascinated by the fact that there were so many books from New York dated between 1845 and 1865 produced by the press of the Fowlers or Fowlers and Wells . All of these were on topics that had something to do with health and well-being, human psychology and metaphysics. These publications weren't hard to recognize on a shelf in a used bookstore. The oldest ones tend to have this mild brownish cover, with a partial calfhide look that leaves behind evidence for an underlying cloth base. These books often all appear alike from a short distance away, although their contents can be quite different depending upon the author. These books are almost always small octavos measuring about 5″ by 7," with about 150 to 200 pages, and a plate in the beginning with a drawing of the author.
This common size for the book could easily be due to the size of the printing press for the time and the new methods printing developed. But another possible reason for this size was due to the fact that these books were just the right size to fit into the pocket of a gentleman's or lady's coat. The book was small enough to enable a reader to use it to pass time while traveling by way of steamship, train, stage-coach or wagon.
A lot of people became familiar with the Fowlers books and the programs these books promoted in this fashion. The Fowlers sponsored and produced numerous lectures on a variety of esoteric subjects related to the popular culture for the time. These included such things as child behavior and raising, the healthy family relationship, living the perfect spiritual life, single or married, finding your true career, learning about your possible destiny in life. In the beginning, the most important writings published by the Fowlers pertained to physiogonomy and phrenology, and many of the teachings on psychology,and behavior promoted by Spurzheim. Nearly all of these topics were provided in New York city as part of a lecture circuit, with a philosophy and alternative way of living and thinking that was much like the atmosphere of residing in Greenwich Village and Soho New York today. For most of these lectures, the Fowlers printed books to go along with a the lecture series. These books had a number of chapters, one chapter per lecture. The purpose of the series was to develop a following for each series, and try to get your most devoted followers to participate in a program that involved you as a participant in the lecturer's evaluation of human psychology, personality and spirit.
But the Fowlers were more into just spirituality and the new religion being bred by such people as Mary Baker Eddy. They were also practitioners themselves of several of these disciplines and as experts often toured the country providing classes on them everywhere from Boston and New York to the larger towns in the Midwest and as far west as California. At each of these classes, they liked to engage the students completely and thoroughly, to such an extent that nearly every student who took such a course and purchased the book had this book signed by the teacher. This was evidence that he or she had finally made an important change in life. On occasion, these books even had notes kept in them by the students, coauthored at times by the lecturer. Such was the case for a book of magnetism and early hypnosis I discovered. It had notes penned into it by a student, being assisted directly in his note-taking by Reverend John Bovee Dods.
Rev. John Bovee Dods was one of the few religious trained practitioners who helped to define the popular culture taught along the east coast lecture circuit making its way from the Washington, D.C. are to Philadelphia and new York City, to Hudson, Troy, Albany, and then across to Boston. Reverend Dods resided in Boston, but frequented the various lecture halls along the east coast trying to promote his own take on the philosophy of Franz Anton Mesmer published more than 50 years earlier. Since the Hudson Valley had well-defined economic or commercial routes, and Dods made good use of the ships, stage coaches and on occasion trains following these routes, he was able to rise in popularity fairly quickly due to his own unique philosophy of magnetism and hypnotism.
But Dods wasn't the first to introduce hypnotism in its earlier period of history to the valley. The knowledge of this earlier form known a mesmerism came to the valley as a part of traditional Hudson Valley behaviors and history. What Franz Anton Mesmer started for the valley, a number of other people continued and then brought to their next level of sensibility and intellectual reasoning. During the late 1700s, John Wesley promoted his belief in electricity as a way to the spirit world. This promoted and at times closely matched similar teachings prevailing in the Hudson valley between 1790 and 1805 regarding the use of static electric cures as a possible mean to revitalize the body's lost life energies. The strongest advocates of this healing philosophy were the local Quakers (see my Shadrach Ricketson work), the primary promoter of which resided down in Dover and advertised his curing devices (probably obtained from England) in the local newspaper.
Another metaphysician to introduce a new spiritual concept to medicine around this time was Samuel Hahnemann, the inventor of homeopathy. Hahnemann claimed that medicines bear some sort of energy or power (not exactly his terms) that is assimilated when the body takes them, and by taking very small amounts we kindle a reaction in the body that help promote the natural defenses we have against whatever symptoms are being treated, and therefore the disease attached to those symptoms. This philosophy is incredibly close to the another philosophy of cure for the time, the inoculation of small pox.
Just how and why these philosophies surfaces in the local region is interesting. It is possible that people were simply looking for some new belief system to adhere to and abide by regarding health, psychology and disease. People were certainly becoming dissatisfied by regular medicine, and its use of "poisons" to treat an illness, such as the extracted chemical of a plant (quinine, laudanum) or the production of the much stronger mineral remedy equivalents for a disease (mercurials, iron tonics). To turn to either mesmerism and his teachings, or Hahnemann with his philosophy, for people in the Hudson Valley, could very well be a result of the local trends in belief systems for the time, beliefs triggered by the writings of other local physicians devoted to metaphysicians, the most important of which was Cadwallader Colden.
Mesmer was an Austrian physician, who claimed the human body contained an "ether", which was a magnetic substance. He claimed that the popular belief in animal magnetism could be explained based on this philosophy. A century earlier, physicians were preaching that there was some sort of animal spirit that could be responsible for the ability of a snake to "charm" its prey, placing it in a trance in order to facilitate and make certain the fatal bite. This animal spirit had its professional physician's and scientist's interpretations wandering about the popular press and science books, but one of the more important in local history which we shouldn't ignore are the writings of Cadwallader Colden. Colden and Isaac Newton had their conversations at time about gravity, light and other universal energies that seemed to be in control of how everything was so well orchestrated in behavior, and as some late 1700s and early 1800s readers of Colden's metaphysical philosophy of the world understood, this energy was the same energy found in living beings, no matter how large or small they were. As I have discussed in my section on Colden's philosophy, this less mechanical, much more metaphysical take on the universe than Isaac Newton was offering had an attractiveness to it that many non-mechanists favored. To some, it was a perfect replacement for the old-fashioned Newton's Grand Theory of things.
The second individual to develop his own take on the metaphysics of the universe around 1790-1800 was Samuel Hahnemann. We never really associate Hahnemann's teachings of homeopathy with Isaac Newton or Colden's metaphysical writings, but because Hahnemann had his own interpretation of these popular beliefs, he was able to develop his own method for practicing medicine. Hahnemann claimed there was this internal energy that existed that could be applied to health and medicines. He claimed that medicines can heal due to their energy (or however one might refer to it during that time), not necessarily because of their physical make up (i.e. chemistry). Supporting Hahnemann's paradigm on this healing mechanism was the success of inoculation programs underway. Hahnemann's own experiences with exceptionally small amounts of a medicine used to treat fevers, in turn gave him fevers. This observation couple with the observations on inoculations would have seemed quite sensible, if some sort of metaphysical cause existed.
Mesmer along with many other scientists and physicians was very interested in the metaphysical aspects and causes of disease and health. Mesmer developed his philosophy on this very philosophical question and published it in his treatise in 1774. In this treatise, Mesmer claimed that magnetism was the cause for some diseases, and therefore some diseases should be treated by way of controlling this energy found in patients. He most strongly favored the use of magnetism for treating nervous disorders. This may have part been related to the increasingly popular belief in nervous energy as a cause for disease during this time frame, a philosophy that came to be called brunonianism and became very popular between 1795 and 1810. Mesmer linked most his claims to such conditions of the nervous system as sleep walking and epilepsy. Some of his followers may have even applied it to better understanding the ongoing conditions of the mind, such as melancholy and nervousness, which could now be explained something other than just results of the passion. Still others linked Mesmer's reasoning to the ability for one to be clairvoyant.
Aside from John Brown (1735-1788), the inventor of brunonianism, Mesmer had his other supporters. One American supporter of Mesmer's teaching was very interested in Mesmer's claims was Benjamin Franklin. Franklin's interpretations of electricity and the body included similar claims about nervous disorders, and the human psychological condition. Franklin claimed that a number of psychological problems or problems with temperament could be treated with this, along with some early versions of electroshock therapy provided on the side as well in the form of static electric generators and Leyden jars.
This introduction of mesmerism to his students at West Point led Professor de Commun to begin teaching his own philosophy about disease and health in various local settings as it related to Mesmer's claims. This included a speech that he gave at the New York Hall of Science in 1829, the bulk of which was published the same year as Three Lectures on Animal Magnetism (New York, 1829). Commun's talks offered no further advancements in this philosophy or its practice locally. Some historians claim this had much to do with the Report of the Royal Commission on the topic of mesmerism produced in 1784. The local favorite, Ben Franklin, was a member of that Committee.
Only a short time would pass before Mesmer's teachings once again came to the United States. Two years later, in 1831, Mesmer's claims were reviewed once again by the French Commission, who in light of several new discoveries made about the human body and its reactivity to such energies as electricity (along with others), they gave a more favorable report on the utility and value of this method of treatment. One of the few things we historians never really realize about this period in French medical history is that this is also when the French were successfully using and reporting on the values of acupuncture, in particular a special form of this treatment that they invented known as electro-acupuncture (1825-J. B. Sarlandiere, preceded by L. Berlioz practicing simple acupuncture in France, 1816). In some ways, like the experiences and influences expressed by Colden and Hahnemann just a few decades earlier, another interpretation of how this might work was being told by the medical philosophers for the time. Recent memories of those most learned in their field of medicine might have even recalled some of the earlier teachings in this field for the time, such as a book published by one of their own colleagues in England who had come to favor a similar energy of vital force related application of the needle in the skin. This English physician was Dr. James Morss Churchill, who practiced and wrote about the values of acupuncture in treating specific disorders for the time (he was preceded by William Coley in England, 1802).
Mesmer's words and philosophy were passed on to several successors. However, the most influential of these was Puységur. In 1802, Puységur coined the term mesmerism to describe this type of practice. This word later became official when it appeared in some writings in 1829.
Mesmer's philosophy was brought to North America several times. According to one of his followers who became quite an influential practitioner, Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, this philosophy was introduced to the United States by a French gentleman, M. Charles Poyen. Charles Poyen came to American as a fresh graduate of his medical school in France around 1839. It was nearing what would later be called the Transcendental Period in medical and sociological history, which according to some authors began as early as 1828 and as late as 1865. Poyen's tour took place mostly along the routes linking the major coastal cities. During this time, he managed to influence many of the followers of the "new age" human philosophy teachings that were attracting people who were no longer interested in hearing about something as old-fashioned as simple human temperament. He likened our physiological powers to a force related to the same energy and force that directs the stars, planets, moons and pretty, much anything out there that Nature was willing to assign a life and ability to move to. This magnetism he claimed was some sort of power that transcended space in some mysterious way and upon reaching the earth was capable of influencing all of us. He used this philosophy to argue that illness could be influenced by the mind due to this power, and began to promote the idea that through this energy-related transformation we could be put through, that our disease state could be changed.
Poyen's influences were followed by those like Dr. Robert H. Collyer (1814-1891). Collyer is a much later addition into this field, having entered it about the same time as Dods. (For more on Collyer see http://www.eapoe.org/people/collyerh.htm). A lot of Collyer's published writings were a direct source for inspiration on behalf of Dods and vice versa. Both of these metaphysical philosophers focused on the elements of human psychology had a significant impact on science in general, but especially those fields developing along non-allopathic routes. The discovery of galvanism, the Faraday circuit, and ultimately electricity as we know it today in the home, generated as many new routes to engineers and physicians as they did to metaphysicians like Collyer and Dods.
Dods' discovery of this Electricity came about in 1830, perhaps due to attending one of the local lectures on Mesmerism. By 1832 he began by lecturing his discovery at the Lyceum in Taunton, Massachusetts. In just two lectures, Dods went on to describe Electricity as the connecting link between mind and matter, a concept which had already made its rounds through New England several decades earlier when mesmerism first became quite popular. By the 1830s, Dods had added to the definition of electricity the concept that it was "the grand agent employed by the Creator, to move and govern the Universe." By taking parts of the philosophy of mesmerism, truncating them, and then adding his own thinking, Dods rejuvenated this basic topic of public lectures.
Dods made his participants drink water and think it was honey, lemonade, coffee, or even brandy. He could make them imagine the "threatening thundercloud," leading them to flee to find a place of shelter. All along, Dods claimed he could accomplish this while they appeared awake and "in possession of their faculties." To further convince any skeptical audience member of this claim, he recollected statements of support provided to him by others laboring in this spiritual healing world. One of these was Hiram Bostwick, an Esquire residing in Auburn County, New York (alongside Syracuse), who witnessed Dr. Dods's heal his inability to walk and blindness to the differences between light and dark due to "a stroke of palsy" he had. He was cured less than a week after meeting with Dods .
Dod's reply must have been gratifying, for he wrote to them: "In reply to yours of Feb. 12th, I would respectfully say, that I feel myself highly honored to receive an invitation from you, to lecture upon the philosophy of Electric Psychology in the United States Capitol. With this invitation I comply, and it affords me much pleasure to do so." The following Saturday evening, within four days of receiving his letter, Dods was in Washington talking about Electric Psychology at 7:30 in the evening.
Following this lecture, Dods' own version of this new psychology specialty become quite popular. Dods' background was suspicious to the members of congress who requested this lecture on his philosophy, but in the long run, like any popular culture belief, congress can do very little to satisfy these types of societal needs. This lecture on "Mesmerism in Baltimore" was published in the top medical journal for the time ( Boston Med Surg J 1843; 28:359-362. June 7, 1843; see http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJM184306070281804), but to no avail. Dods had accomplished his task. The separation of "'church' and state", at least from Reverend John Bovee Dods' point of view, along with freedom of speech and freedom of press rights, remained intact. He probably realized however that more than likely most members of the United States government were still not convinced.
Reverend John Bovee Dods began preaching his healing faith in New York about 1830.
X. Electro-Curapathy is the best medical system in being, as it onvolves the excellences of all other systems.
Beauty, harmony, order, electricity and balance in the body were some of the key concepts in Dod's teaching. As part of the transcendental movement, this concept was not at all unique to Dod's way of thinking, or marketing when it came to promoting his philosophy. Ever since the creation of animus and anima in Latin tradition, these terms have come to be related to metaphysics of the body. Once the most primitive forms of vitality associated withthe body came to be known, the animal magnetism, or in Dod's terms animal electricity of one's soma or corpus (body), the ability to separate the animal behaviors from the more carefully orchestrated human behaviors became more important to psychological medical philosophy and tradition by the 1820s. This concept would lead in turn the separation or splitting of body and mind in medical tradition, and offer the newer alternatives in health care and maintenance the opportunity to pave their way into the medical community.
A review of Dod's lectures at times seems very much like seminars offered today in professional and community settings. The faith healer of the local church, the specialist in auras at the local metaphysical book shop, the energy specialist using these skills to define the best plant medicine, all have a professional dictionary like Dods with a unique terminology all their own. This particular form of human behavior has not changed since the first herbalist drew up on the wall of a cave the sun in relation to the crow and the tree with a symbolically medicinal bark that "speaks to us".
Dods began his series of lectures with the comment "I have received an invitation from several eminent members of the United States Senate, to deliver a Lecture on the Science of Electrical Psychology–the philosophy of disease–the connecting link between mind and matter–their reciprocal action upon each other, and the grand operations of nature that this science may involve." Dods then discussed his concept of "the Creator of the Universe" who "has endowed man with reason, and assigned him a noble and intelligent rank in the scale of intellectual and moral being–and he has commanded him to use this faculty…" He shared as well his respect for NATURE noting "the magnificent ROBE she wears," paying Her back the respect he felt She was due to the incessation of cycles and the changes made by Her during these periods of time.
At the conclusion of his presentation to the Congessional members in Washington, D.C., Dods had at hand the newspapers in which these proceedings were published in order to refute any of those in the audience who remained hecklers and disbelievers. Dods closed his first lecture to Congress by making several more claims about testimonies of those bearing faith in his healing profession, defines the trine he plans to cover in the lectures that follow: MESMERISM is the doctrine of sympathy; ELECTRICAL PSYCHOLOGY is the doctrine of IMPRESSIONS; MESMERISM and SOMNAMBULISM are identical. Whereas Mesmerists were taught "a sympathy so perfect between the magnetizer and subject…the person in the electro-psychological state has no such sympathies with his operator." Mesmer taught his patients what and who they were in his sense, Dods's patients experienced senses of their own design in the somnambular state. These slight differences he used to explain why some couldn't become mesmerized, and yet could be electro-psychologically changed. Thus even skeptics of other mesmerist-like healing faiths remained open to suggestion, at least in Dods's point of view as the inventor of this healing faith.
Dods's second lecture further defined his basic healing principles, and recapitulated such things as "GREAT LAW of the Universe," the GENIUS phenomenon, theology, and intellectual and moral truths.
Dods' fourth lecture defined the dualities residing within these systems such as positive and negative forces, likening them to other natural phenomena such as positive and negative blood (arterial and venous), the positive and negative forces within the lungs, which if thrown out of balance can convert the mental electricity of the being into a state of imbalance. His fifth lecture pertained to the "Philosophy of being Aclimated," which Dods uses to explain why those who migrate, and so change their foods and living conditions, often become ill in the new world. Dods ends by citing the history of a case treated by Dr. John C. Warren, the first President of Harvard Medical School. It detailed a tumor considered untreatable by regular. The lady was so-afflicted that she asked for Warren's advice regarding treatment by rubbing the "the hand of a dead person," which due to his support of the power of imagination, he supported the lady attmept to try it. According to Warren's writings, she was completely cured in just a few weeks. Dods attributed this cure to the effect of electricity, brought about by mental impression upon voluntary nerves.
Underlying this statement are beliefs inherent to both allopathic and alternative healing faiths. Therefore Dods followed this statement up with immediate mention of hydropathy, representative of one of four humoural elements [water, earth, air, and fire], He treated this as a sacred entity which made up the understanding of human conditions as it was judged by allopaths. Two more of the humours come into play in this discussion when Dods mentions terrapathy (earth) and aeropathy (air). The remaining element (fire), exists within his healing faith of electropathy.
Throughout these arguments, numerology resurfaces in Dods's thinking. The trine of electricity, galvanism and magnetism are described as one part of the total cure to be performed: "These three should be passede through different parts of the human system to ease pain, and remove nervous obstructions and nervous diseases by thus equalizing the nervous force." He defines "the grand divisions of nature" as electricity, air and water. And he discusses the duality of electric cure as "the agent of the mind and the invisible power of matter." For terrapathy, he includes the use of rich, fertile earth, in the treatment, or the products of that earth such as food.
Dods's eleventh lecture "Private Instruction to the Class. The Secret Revealed" was written after his financial success came due to the lecture circuit. In it he reveals more on his methods of teaching and dealing out degrees to those who complete this stage in their education.
By pressing this nerve, it was felt sensations were transmitted back to the spinal cord, where it physically and anatomically ends. But in Electric Psychological thinking, this nerve next makes connections needed to ascend the spinal column until it reaches the cerebrum. By pressing it, one makes this nerve overcome the electric powers of all others. He used it to treat "persons most difficult to control" and "those who are most sensitive and impressible." When choosing between the Ulnar and Median Nerve, Dods recommended the latter in his new writings, meaning that this book was meant to surpass the knowledge previously taught by his earlier students borne out of Washington, D.C. politics.
This procedure was meant to cast a spell of sorts on these people. The result of this hypnotism would be the establishment of a psychological state in which Electric Psychology could be practiced.
Another use for the Galvanic Coin was to rely on it for achieving a passive mental state when amongst crowds. Dods recommends that entire crowds join hands in a circle to experience its galvanic effect: "let the current be so gradiated as then be but faintly felt." He claims this should take place by standing there for about twenty or thirty minutes, with his coin held by one or more members of the circle.
Dods has now defined all of his methods of eliciting cure through the practice of Electric Psychology. As he gave order to the different healing methods, he recommended that five plans to be remembered. The first three make use of "the mediums through which persons are brought into the electro-psychological state." These are Mesmerism, "pressure on the nerve by which we detect those who are naturally in the electro-psychological state," and the use of the coin. The fourth is to make use of all of the previous three to perform the sanative cure, basing this process on the use of hydropathy, terrapathy, aeropathy, etc. The fifth stage is when you attempt to cure disease by the application of physical objects and remedies. He calls these phases of treatment Numbers one through five.
Once during these lectures, Dods eludes to his cohorts in Phrenology by noting the phrenological Organ of Individuality "through which organ all ideas and all impressions are transmitted from the external world to the mind." This organ he defines as the site through which "volitions of the mind" can be transferred to the rest of the body, likening its approach mentally through physical means by making contact with the median nerve. He closes his published lecture set with a brief presentation to ladies on Human Beauty, which he first called Natalology as he presented it to the Ladies of Troy in Morris Place Hall, New York, February 1844.
John Bovee Dods. The Philosophy of Electric Psychology: in a course of Twelve Lectures. (New York: Fowlers and Wells, 1851), p. 18.
Ibid. p. 23. Somnambulism (def.): sleep-walking.
DODS, John Bovee, philosopher, born in New York City in 1795 ; died in Brooklyn, New York, 21 March 1872. His life was largely devoted to the study of mental philosophy. He published "Thirty Sermons" "Philosophy of Mesmerism" (New York, 1847) "Philosophy of Electrical Psychology" (1849) "Immortality Triumphant" (1852); and " Spirit Manifestations Examined and Explained" (1854).
Eric T. Carlson. Charles Poyen brings Mesmerism to America. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, vol. 15 (1960), pp. 121-132.
1. Online Etymology Dictionary. (2001). "Psychology".
3. (Steven Blankaart, p. 13) as quoted in "psychology n." A Dictionary of Psychology. Edited by Andrew M. Colman. Oxford University Press 2009. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press.
Friedrich Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), a Viennese physician who conceived the idea that diseases could be healed by stroking the afflicted parts of the patient's body with magnets. Later he discovered that the same healing effect could be produced by stroking or making passes over the afflicted parts with the hands. Hence the name animal magnetism as descriptive of this method of healing which today is generally called mesmerism.
Friedrich Anton Mesmer (1734-1815) Austrian physician who rediscovered and applied the human magnetic fluid, called animal magnetism and then mesmerism. "He was an initiated member of the Brotherhoods of the Fratres Lucis and of Lukshoor (or Luxor), or the Egyptian Branch of the latter. It was the Council of 'Luxor' which selected him — according to the orders of the 'Great Brotherhood' — to act in the XVIIIth century as their usual pioneer, sent in the last quarter of every century to enlighten a small portion of the Western nations in occult lore.
It was St. Germain who supervised the development of events in this case; and later Cagloistro was commissioned to help, but having made a series of mistakes, more or less fatal, he was recalled. . . . Mesmer founded the 'Order of Universal Harmony' in 1783, in which presumably only animal magnetism was taught, but which in reality expounded the tenets of Hippocrates, the methods of the ancient Asclepieia, the Temples of Healing, and many other occult sciences" (TG 213-4).


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Review - Michal's Window
by Billy Burgess on Sunday, September 30, 2012 in historical fiction, romance
Michal's Window
By Rachelle Ayala
Pub. Date: April 12, 2012
Buy Link: Amazon.com
This stunning biblical tale centers on Princess Michal, the daughter of King Saul, as she first meets the shepherd boy/harpist named David, who is arrives at the kingdom to help mend her father who is tormented by evil spirits. The Princess falls in love with David and before long the two are wedded.
Situations occur that causes King Saul to order the death of his son-in-law. Fearing for David's life, Michal helps her husband escape the wrath of her father.
Michal is later reunited with the now King David, but he has changed from the man that she had known. David has several wives and other lovers, but Michal still loves him and is determined to win his heart at all costs.
I'm a fan of biblical historical fiction tales and Michal's Window focuses on King David's wife Michal. If you have read the Bible, you'll know it is not G-rated, and neither is this book which contains some graphic violence and several graphic love scenes. The author uses creative descriptions and dialogue to make the reader truly believe that they are back in biblical times. The heroine starts out at age fourteen and as her life unfolds she matures into a strong woman who knows what she wants. She is not perfect as she does sin, making her character more realistic. I haven't read much about Michal before, so I found the novel entertaining. Even if you're not into Christian themed stories, there is plenty of action and romance to go around! I recommend the book to other romance readers.
Rachelle Ayala was a software engineer until she discovered storytelling works better in fiction than real code. She has over thirty years of writing experience and has always lived in a multi-cultural environment. The tapestry of characters in her books reflect that diversity.
Rachelle is currently working on story dealing with women and contemporary issues. She is a very happy woman and lives in California with her husband. She has three children and has taught violin and made mountain dulcimers.
Visit her at: http://www.rachelleayala.com or follow @AyalaRachelle on Twitter.
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Q: Telegram Bot Java. 500 Request failed I write telegram bot via rubenlagus api. Bot works well during certain time but then it stops responding to any requests. I use webhook connection. I had to install a full chained certificate to my server. I have next settings:
DefaultBotOptions options = new DefaultBotOptions();
    options.setMaxWebhookConnections(10);
    options.setMaxThreads(99);
    RequestConfig build = RequestConfig.copy(RequestConfig.custom().build())
            .setMaxRedirects(99)
            .build();
    options.setRequestConfig(build);

When i used getWebhookInfo via

https://api.telegram.org/botXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/getWebhookInfo

I recieved next response:

{"ok":true,"result":{"url":"https:\myUrl.com","has_custom_certificate":false,
  "pending_update_count"
  :175,"last_error_date":1540816831,
  "last_error_message":"Wrong response from the
  webhook: 500 Request failed.","max_connections":10}}

It's look like this mistake occurs because of pending_update_count.
 How can i fix this error and how i can prevent it in a future?Thanks in advance.
Update
Sometimes i see this:

{"ok":true,"result":{"url":"https:\myUrl.com","has_custom_certificate":false,"pending_update_count":155,"last_error_date":1540923231,"last_error_message":"Read timeout expired","max_connections":99}}

I have this errors in my logs when bot sends response to user:

TelegramApiException sendMyPhoto
  org.apache.http.NoHttpResponseException: api.telegram.org:443 failed
  to respond    at
  org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultHttpResponseParser.parseHead(DefaultHttpResponseParser.java:143)
    at
  org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultHttpResponseParser.parseHead(DefaultHttpResponseParser.java:57)
    at
  org.apache.http.impl.io.AbstractMessageParser.parse(AbstractMessageParser.java:261)
    at
  org.apache.http.impl.DefaultBHttpClientConnection.receiveResponseHeader(DefaultBHttpClientConnection.java:165)
    at
  org.apache.http.impl.conn.CPoolProxy.receiveResponseHeader(CPoolProxy.java:167)
    at
  org.apache.http.protocol.HttpRequestExecutor.doReceiveResponse(HttpRequestExecutor.java:272)
    at
  org.apache.http.protocol.HttpRequestExecutor.execute(HttpRequestExecutor.java:124)
    at
  org.apache.http.impl.execchain.MainClientExec.execute(MainClientExec.java:271)
    at
  org.apache.http.impl.execchain.ProtocolExec.execute(ProtocolExec.java:184)
    at
  org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RetryExec.execute(RetryExec.java:88)
    at
  org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RedirectExec.execute(RedirectExec.java:110)
    at
  org.apache.http.impl.client.InternalHttpClient.doExecute(InternalHttpClient.java:184)
    at
  org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:82)
    at
  org.telegram.telegrambots.bots.DefaultAbsSender.sendHttpPostRequest(DefaultAbsSender.java:765)
    at
  org.telegram.telegrambots.bots.DefaultAbsSender.execute(DefaultAbsSender.java:226)

It seems like my server works incorrect. May it happens because of blocking telegram in Russia?

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Superheroes are larger than life with skills and morality that often seem unattainable, and we love them for that super-human amazingness. After all, it gives us all something to aspire to. So when DC announced its new Super Hero Girls line of middle-grade books, I wasn't sure what to think of it. Would the characters lose some of their magic if they became teenagers in high school? Would it feel like their stories had been watered-down to appeal to younger audience? However, when I actually took the time to read the books penned by the incomparable Lisa Yee, it was obvious that these books were something truly special.
At Denver Comic Con this year, I had the opportunity to chat with Lisa for a bit, and she explained how she approached writing these characters in the backdrop of Super Hero High. "I didn't think of them as superheroes that happened to be teenagers," she explained, "I thought of them as teenagers who happened to be superheroes. Once I did that, everything sort of fell into place for me. After all, we all have the same worries and stresses, only theirs is amplified about a thousand times." And that's ultimately what makes these books feel fresh, not a gimmicky effort to get young girls buying DC product. Yee has penned stories that are genuine, real, and with DC backing her up, these stories are staying true to the characters.
While loads of little girls are getting into these books (you should have seen the kiddos hanging out at her booth at DCC this year), parents are also finding a lot of worth in the series. "I have a lot of parents, especially dads, who were overwhelmed because they wanted to get their daughters into the superhero world, but there was no entry point. A lot of the things that are out there are for older kids, and so this is a way that moms and dads can connect with their daughters and introduce them to superheroes." And the books really are a great entry point for young, new fans. In the latest DC Super Hero Girls book, Katana at Super Hero High, Katana and the other Super Hero girls (people like Supergirl, Wonder Woman, and Batgirl) have to protect ancient Samurai swords, figure out why an old family foe of Katana's is amassing an army, and also complete a huge school project. All in a day's work, right?
But that's the approach Yee has taken with these characters, and what has made them such a hit among young girls. They're teenagers who happen to be superheroes, so their stories are grounded in the character's mythology, but portrayed in a way that a lot of kids can grasp. Wonder Woman is portrayed as someone who was homeschooled before attending Super Hero High, and had to go through the awkward adjustment of a new school, new friends, and a new way of learning. Supergirl was written as a character who wasn't just a big hero, but was also overcoming severe loss. And of course Batgirl was special because, as Yee explained, "Batgirl is any of us. People who love books, people who have questions, she's all of us since she didn't have any natural-born powers."
Of course, Yee was particularly excited about Katana's book--and not only because she actually got to travel to Japan and take part in samurai and ninja training for research (seriously--she told me she learned how to wield a samurai sword, use a throwing star, and "kill people with chopsticks"). But she was especially excited to share Katana's story because it adds some much-needed racial diversity to the superhero space.
While Katana isn't the only character of color attending Super Hero High--you'll see characters like Bumblebee and Hawkgirl in the books as well--making one of the heroes of color a headliner to the book has been an important step in representation for Yee's young fans. It also drives home the core message that she wants to convey to readers: you can be anything and you can do anything. It's a great message to anyone reading her books, but especially to the kids of color who are fans of the series, "As a person of color, you're often trying to fit in, and fit into this idea of what everybody should be rather than celebrating your differences."
Yee also realizes how important it is that her readers see her, an Asian-American woman writer, "When I started writing and traveling a lot, I'd often be the only person of color in a room. At first I felt like I didn't like that, but then I realized how important it was for people to see me, especially kids since I speak a lot at schools. I didn't have a lot of Asian writer role models growing up, and as a 3rd generation stories of Asian immigrants trying to assimilate into American culture didn't really speak to my experience." So Yee has made herself very available and visible to her fans to not only engage in some good, old-fashioned fangirling, but to also show her readers that you don't have to look a certain way or be a certain way to achieve your dreams.
If you want to jump into the Super Hero Girls series, you can pick up books on Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Batgirl, and Katana's book will hit shelves on July 4. Yee assured me there are more books coming in the series, and while she couldn't give me specifics on how many, she did say that the next book will be about Harley Quinn. And if you want a taste of Yee's writing that isn't directed at young girls, she also has a short story in the graphic novel anthology, New Frontiers: The Many Worlds of George Takei, which hits stores mid July.
Have you read DC's Super Hero Girls books? What other heroes do you want to be featured? Tell us in the comments!


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H.R. 6626 (117th)
H.R. 6626 (117th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3903 Melear Drive in Arlington, Texas, as the "Ron Wright Post Office Building".
Cosponsors
117th Congress (2021–2023)
Enacted Via Other Measures
Provisions of this bill were incorporated into other bills which were enacted.
This bill was enacted as:
S. 3825: A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3903 Melear Drive in Arlington, Texas, as the "Ron Wright Post Office Building".
Enacted — Signed by the President on Dec 20, 2022. (compare text)
Jake Ellzey
Representative for Texas's 6th congressional district
Last Updated: Feb 7, 2022
22 Cosponsors (18 Republicans, 4 Democrats)
Identical Bill — Passed Senate (House next)
This activity took place on a related bill, S. 3825 (117th), possibly in lieu of similar activity on H.R. 6626 (117th).
Identical Bill — Passed House
Identical Bill — Enacted — Signed by the President
H.R. 6626 (117th) was a bill in the United States Congress.
Bills numbers restart every two years. That means there are other bills with the number H.R. 6626. This is the one from the 117th Congress.
This bill was introduced in the 117th Congress, which met from Jan 3, 2021 to Jan 3, 2023. Legislation not passed by the end of a Congress is cleared from the books.
GovTrack.us. (2023). H.R. 6626 — 117th Congress: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3903 Melear Drive …. Retrieved from https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/hr6626
"H.R. 6626 — 117th Congress: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3903 Melear Drive …." www.GovTrack.us. 2022. January 29, 2023 <https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/hr6626>
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3903 Melear Drive in Arlington, Texas, as the "Ron Wright Post Office Building", H.R. 6626, 117th Cong. (2022).
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Forms provide the highest level API in WTForms. They contain your field definitions, delegate validation, take input, aggregate errors, and in general function as the glue holding everything together.
obj – If formdata is empty or not provided, this object is checked for attributes matching form field names, which will be used for field values.
prefix – If provided, all fields will have their name prefixed with the value.
data – Accept a dictionary of data. This is only used if formdata and obj are not present.
meta – If provided, this is a dictionary of values to override attributes on this form's meta instance.
**kwargs – If formdata is empty or not provided and obj does not contain an attribute named the same as a field, form will assign the value of a matching keyword argument to the field, if one exists.
Initialize a Form. This is usually done in the context of a view/controller in your application. When a Form is constructed, the fields populate their input based on the formdata, obj, and kwargs.
Note Backing-store objects and kwargs are both expected to be provided with the values being already-coerced datatypes. WTForms does not check the types of incoming object-data or coerce them like it will for formdata as it is expected this data is defaults or data from a backing store which this form represents. See the section on using Forms for more information.
A dict containing the data for each field.
Note that this is generated each time you access the property, so care should be taken when using it, as it can potentially be very expensive if you repeatedly access it. Typically used if you need to iterate all data in the form. If you just need to access the data for known fields, you should use form.<field>.data , not this proxy property.
A dict containing a list of errors for each field. Empty if the form hasn't been validated, or there were no errors.
Note that this is a lazy property, and will only be generated when you first access it. If you call validate() after accessing it, the cached result will be invalidated and regenerated on next access.
This is an object which contains various configuration options and also ability to customize the behavior of the form. See the class Meta doc for more information on what can be customized with the class Meta options.
Populates the attributes of the passed obj with data from the form's fields.
This is a destructive operation; Any attribute with the same name as a field will be overridden. Use with caution.
In the above example, because the form isn't directly tied to the user object, you don't have to worry about any dirty data getting onto there until you're ready to move it over.
Iterate form fields in creation order.
Returns True if the named field is a member of this form.
Forms may subclass other forms as needed. The new form will contain all fields of the parent form, as well as any new fields defined on the subclass. A field name re-used on a subclass causes the new definition to obscure the original.
A typical CRUD view has a user editing an object that needs various fields updated. The Form would have fields describing the fields to be updated and the validation rules, where the attribute names of the fields match those of the attribute names on the object. The second parameter to the Form, the obj parameter, is used to populate form defaults on the initial view.
While we did pass an object as the data source, this object data is only used if there is no POST data. If there is any POST data at all, then the object data is ignored. This is done for security and consistency reasons.
This pattern is mostly a convenience since most application controllers don't separate GET and POST requests into separate view methods.
Note that we have it so validate() is only called if there is POST data. The reason we gate the validation check this way is that when there is no POST data (such as in a typical CRUD form) we don't want to cause validation errors.
Inside the gated block, we call populate_obj() to copy the data onto fields on the 'article' object. We also then redirect after a successful completion. The reason we redirect after the post is a best-practice associated with the Post/Redirect/Get design pattern.
So there we have a full simple "edit object" page setup which illustrates a best-practice way of using WTForms. This is by no means the only way to use WTForms, but just an illustration of how the various features work.
This section is provided for completeness; and is aimed at authors of complementary libraries and those looking for very special behaviors. Don't use BaseForm unless you know exactly why you are using it.
For those looking to customize how WTForms works, for libraries or special applications, it might be worth using the BaseForm class. BaseForm is the parent class of Form, and most of the implementation logic from Form is actually handled by BaseForm.
The major difference on the surface between BaseForm and Form is that fields are not defined declaratively on a subclass of BaseForm . Instead, you must pass a dict of fields to the constructor. Likewise, you cannot add fields by inheritance. In addition, BaseForm does not provide: sorting fields by definition order, or inline validate_foo validators. Because of this, for the overwhelming majority of uses we recommend you use Form instead of BaseForm in your code.
What BaseForm provides is a container for a collection of fields, which it will bind at instantiation, and hold in an internal dict. Dict-style access on a BaseForm instance will allow you to access (and modify) the enclosed fields.
Base Form Class. Provides core behaviour like field construction, validation, and data and error proxying.
fields – A dict or sequence of 2-tuples of partially-constructed fields.
meta – A meta instance which is used for configuration and customization of WTForms behaviors.
Because BaseForm does not require field names to be valid identifiers, they can be most any python string. We recommend keeping it simple to avoid incompatibility with browsers and various form input frameworks where possible.
Take form, object data, and keyword arg input and have the fields process them.
formdata – Used to pass data coming from the enduser, usually request.POST or equivalent.
data – If provided, must be a dictionary of data. This is only used if formdata is empty or not provided and obj does not contain an attribute named the same as the field.
Since BaseForm does not take its data at instantiation, you must call this to provide form data to the enclosed fields. Accessing the field's data before calling process is not recommended.
Validates the form by calling validate on each field.
extra_validators – If provided, is a dict mapping field names to a sequence of callables which will be passed as extra validators to the field's validate method.
Returns True if no errors occur.
Unlike Form, fields are not iterated in definition order, but rather in whatever order the dict decides to yield them.
Dict-style access to this form's fields.
Bind a field to this form.
Fields can be added and replaced in this way, but this must be done before process() is called, or the fields will not have the opportunity to receive input data. Similarly, changing fields after validate() will have undesired effects.
Remove a field from this form.
The same caveats apply as with __setitem__().


Bhojpur district, a part of Kosi Zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country in South Asia.
The district, with Bhojpur as its district headquarters, covers an area of 1,507 km² and has a population (2001) of 203,018. Traditionally, the inhabitants of this area have been the indigenous Rai ethnic group; the Newar ethnic group being the main people in the Bhojpur town. Bhojpur forms part of Majh Kirat / Kirant (Middle Kirat). It is one of the richest districts in Nepal in biodiversity.
To the northern part of this district lies the beautiful small city of Dingla. Various hill castes, Brahmin (bahun in Nepali), Kshetriya (Chhettri in Nepali), and ethnic groups like Rai reside within this beautiful area. This is the place where rudraksha trees are grown naturally in the forest as well as individually on people's land. The religious leader, women's rights activist and poet Yogmaya Neupane was born in 1860 in Dingla.
Champe is the other small town where people from surrounding villages come and sell their products. This happens every 15 days and is called Hatiya.
Balankha (Walangkha) is one of the growing towns in the southwest area of Bhojpur. Another town Ghoretar, southeast of Bhojpur, has been a center point of trade, education and administration for a long time. It is famous as Hatuwa Gadi "a powerful Fort of Kirat king Sunahang" in Kirat history.
Balankha borders with neighboring Khotang district's Bopung village. Balankha is slowly emerging as another hub of education, communication, health and trade. The most distinctive thing about Balankha is its famous Chhongkha Chandi celebration. It is the Kirat Rai festival when Rais go to 'Chandi Than' at Dammarkhu village of Khotang (across the river Buwa Khola), pray for good harvest and rain. Then they flock back to the open space of Chandi bazar, there they dance and celebrate with great joy.