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'I Remember Him With That Smile': Beloved Phoenix Doctor Dies Of COVID-19 At 99
By Danny Hajek
Published August 11, 2020 at 2:01 AM PDT
Courtesy of Valle del Sol Community Health
Dr. José Gabriel López-Plascencia spent over 60 years providing health care for low-income families in Phoenix.
In June, Marcel Lopez and his cousins set up a Zoom video call to say goodbye to their grandfather. Retired physician, José Gabriel López-Plascencia — Dr. López for short — was near death at his home in Phoenix. He was unable to speak, but he let his grandchildren know he was listening.
"Every time we talked to him, he'd kick his leg and move his arms to let us know he was hearing us," Marcel says. As they sang his favorite song "Por Un Amor," he noticed over the video call that his grandfather started crying. "I would've loved to have been there holding his hand, just to see him one last time."
A few hours later, Dr. López died from complications due to the coronavirus. He had just turned 99. Dr. López is one of the more than 163,000 people who have died from COVID-19 in the United States, a disease that has hit the country's Latino population especially hard.
His work in medicine helped generations.
"I remember him with that smile," says Blanca Fernández. She's in her quiet living room in Phoenix looking at a faded photo of a young Dr. López and his wife from their anniversary party. "They were always having fiestas and we were always there, singing and dancing," she says. "We were compadres."
Her photo is proof that Dr. López was a sharp dresser. He's wearing a black tuxedo with ruffles and a big bow tie. For Fernández, that outfit is actually a reminder of the time he saved her husband's life. On a hot Arizona day in 1974, her husband, Jesús Fernández, came home from his construction job with severe symptoms of heat stroke. Instead of dialing 911, Fernández called Dr. López.
"[Dr. López] was on his way to a doctors' banquet and he came to my house right away," Blanca Fernández says. "He came with his tuxedo on and he took care of my husband because my husband was dying. So we are very grateful to him — because he really saved my husband."
/ Courtesy of the López family
Courtesy of the López family
Dr. López arrived in the U.S. in 1947 after a Catholic priest in Arizona invited him to help provide health care for low-income families.
The older generation remembers Dr. López as one of the few Spanish-speaking doctors in all of South Phoenix. Born in Guadalajara, Mexico in 1921, he arrived in the U.S. in 1947 after a Catholic priest in Phoenix invited him to help care for low-income families in Arizona. Dr. López practiced medicine and surgery for over 60 years — even enlisting in the Arizona Army National Guard as a medical officer. He served neighborhoods in South Phoenix that once faced decades of segregation and poverty.
"People knew where they could go for help, and that was Dr. López," says former patient Abe Arvizu Jr. He can still picture the crowded waiting room inside Dr. López's office. "It was wall-to-wall — no room — and people out in the hallway waiting. And they were mostly undocumented, or farm workers, or just the poor people from the surrounding areas."
"People didn't have to make appointments, they would just walk in and he would see them," says Olivia Rosales-Murrieta, 83, who was Dr. López's receptionist in the early 1960s. "He never asked me, 'How many more patients do I have to see?' I never — never — heard him complain."
Dr. López (left) enlisted in the Arizona Army National Guard as a medical officer. He retired in 1977 as a Lt. Col., and continued to practice medicine until he was 89.
Rosales-Murrieta was with Dr. López at the start, back when he saw patients out of his house in Tolleson — a small farming community west of Phoenix. "Most of his patients didn't have medical insurance," Rosales-Murrieta says. "They paid in cash." And if his patients didn't have enough money for an appointment, they would find other ways to pay.
"They would exchange," says Arvizu Jr. "For a lot of people in the barrios, that's how you survived. Whether you did lawns, whether you did cement work, brick work, or whether you had a bakery or made food — [The López's] always had food at their house."
In communities left out of the healthcare system, Dr. López was their trusted caregiver. He looked after multiple generations of family members and stayed with patients until his retirement at 89. He had a saying: "It's not how hold you are; it's how long you've been living."
His family is holding onto those words now, as they're confronted by the devastating tragedies of this pandemic. Shortly after Dr. López's death, his daughter Barbara Ann Sordia and her cousin Humberto "Junior" Trujillo also died from COVID-19.
Like many of his loved ones, 88-year-old Blanca Fernández (with her photo of Dr. López in his tuxedo) decided not to attend his funeral Mass due to rising coronavirus cases in Arizona. She's been home thinking about the last phone call she had with her old friend.
"Oh yes," she says. "Two weeks before he died." Dr. López called to check-in on her family, and to remind her that it was almost his 99th birthday. "We talked for the last time; I'm very sorry about his loss," she says with a pause. "And also, I'm glad. Because pretty soon, I'll be over there with him. I'll be there with Dr. López, singing and dancing."
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Commentary: Texas should reconsider parole for elderly inmates
By Bill Hammond
While Texas prisoner Rodney Reed, a man who has long claimed his innocence, has gotten a lot of media attention, there are other Texas prisoners whose cases are equally deserving of public support. The case of Joe Bryan is one of them.
Joe Bryan has spent the past 31 years in prison after being twice convicted of killing his wife, Mickey. In 2018, ProPublica reporter Pamela Colloff wrote an outstanding investigative series titled "Blood Will Tell," bringing to light the shaky foundation on which Bryan was convicted, largely based on a questionable bloodstain-pattern analysis. At the time of his wife's murder, Bryan was attending an education conference in Austin, 120 miles from his Clifton home, and has maintained that he was asleep in his hotel room at the time of the crime. Furthermore, the testimony of the detective who conducted the bloodstain-pattern analysis in Bryan's case was, according to bloodstain-pattern analyst Celestina Rossi, egregiously wrong.
Bryan, now 78, suffers from serious health issues and, according to his brother, cannot walk 20 steps without resting because of his congestive heart failure. And yet, despite serious questions about Bryan's guilt and concerns about his ever-deteriorating health, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles this year denied Bryan for parole for the seventh time, citing him as a continuing threat to public safety.
Bryan has an exemplary record while in prison. He has done everything right since he began serving his sentence. He has been a model inmate, something that should have been considered by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles before coming to their conclusion in his case.
Bryan has an appeal pending before the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, where he is asking for a new trial, but considering his age and health issues, his time is running out.
Bryan's case points to the urgent need to reform parole laws in Texas. A growing number of states are approaching parole hearings with a presumption of liberty. Under this type of parole system, if someone is eligible for parole, having met all the conditions for early release, and they have a clean record while in prison, they should, presumably, be released on parole.
Something else to consider: Being paroled doesn't mean you are completely free to do what you want. Parole is tough. You are under community supervision with many rules and restrictions on your life, and if you make a single mistake, you are likely heading back to prison.
Texas has an aging prison population, which is costing taxpayers exorbitant amounts of money. Not only are we paying to unnecessarily keep people who are no threat to public safety locked up to the tune of around $20,000 a year per person, but we also are paying for their extensive medical care. I understand that not everyone eligible for parole should be released; however, a person who has maintained a completely clean record and has met all the other conditions of his parole should.
Considering the mounting evidence indicating actual innocence in Bryan's case, I hope that he is granted a new trial. And just as his case deserves a holistic review, Texas' parole procedures deserve a holistic review by the Legislature. Continuing to incarcerate people who are not a threat to public safety is not justice.
Hammond is the president of the advocacy firm Bill Hammond and Associates and the former CEO of the Texas Association of Business.

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from kivy.lang import Builder
from kivy.uix.screenmanager import ScreenManager, Screen

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# property manager that gives you the instance of the ScreenManager used.
Builder.load_string("""
#:import FadeTransition kivy.uix.screenmanager.FadeTransition
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<MenuScreen>:
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            text: 'Goto settings'
            on_press: root.manager.current = 'settings'
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            text: 'Back to menu'
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""")

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class SettingsScreen(Screen):
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class MyScreenManager(ScreenManager):
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15 Aug 2003 ● English ● 2 hrs 23 mins
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Embedded with quirky comedy and flamboyant action, this swash-buckling tale is the first instalment of a series of movies that follow the adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow, a savvy pirate with a wicked sense of humour. In this story, 'Captain' Jack Sparrow must team up with Will Turner, a resourceful blacksmith, on a dangerous quest in search of Elizabeth Swann, the gorgeous the author of the governor. Elizabeth is also the love of Will's life, has been kidnapped by the feared Captain Barbossa. Little do they know, but the fierce and clever Barbossa has been cursed. He, along with his large crew, are under an ancient curse, doomed for eternity to neither live, nor die. That is, unless a blood sacrifice is made. How will Jack Sparrow, Will Turner and Elizabeth escape the cursed Captain Barbosa and his crew?
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This action adventure is the first instalment of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' series that sparks off when sailing to Port Royal, Governor Weatherby Swann, his daughter Elizabeth, and Lieutenant James Norrington encounter a burning shipwreck and recover a young boy Will Turner. Elizabeth hides a golden pirate medallion owned by Will, so as to protect him and sees a ghost ship vanishing into the fog.
Eight years on, Norrington is promoted to the rank of Commodore and proposes to Elizabeth, but her tight corset causes her to faint and fall into the sea. She is rescued by Captain Jack Sparrow, who Norrington identifies as a pirate who intends on commandeering a ship. Jack attempts to escape but runs into Will, now a blacksmith and a talented swordsman. They engage in a sword fight but Jack is captured by Norrington's men and imprisoned.
That night, the Black Pearl, the ship Elizabeth saw as a child, assaults Port Royal in search of the medallion. Two pirates, Pintel and Ragetti, escort Elizabeth to meet Captain Barbossa to negotiate parley. Elizabeth pretends to be called "Elizabeth Turner", but while Barbossa stops the attack he takes her prisoner. Barbossa reveals to Elizabeth that his crew are cursed to be immortal after taking the Aztec treasure of Cortez from Isla de Muerta, appearing as skeletons when out in moonlight.
In order to free themselves, the crew must gather all 882 gold pieces and gave blood sacrifices, but still need the last piece and Elizabeth's blood to complete it.
Will frees Jack from prison to rescue Elizabeth, Jack agreeing to when he learns Will's last name. They commandeer the HMS Interceptor by pretending to steal the HMS Dauntless and recruit a motley crew from Tortuga, including Jack's friend Joshamee Gibbs. Jack reveals that Will's father, Bootstrap Bill, was a pirate.
Will learns that Jack was formerly captain of the Black Pearl until Barbossa mutinied and marooned him on an island, leaving him with a pistol with a single shot that Jack never used, intending to shoot Barbossa. Arriving at Isla de Muerta, Will and Jack observe Barbossa trying to commence the blood ritual but finds Elizabeth is not the child of Bootstrap Bill. Will spirits Elizabeth away to the Interceptor, while Jack reunites with his former crew and is locked in the Pearl's brig.
The Pearl pursues the Interceptor, taking the crew hostage and destroying the ship. Will makes a deal with Barbossa to release Elizabeth in exchange for lifting the curse, but Barbossa maroons Jack and Elizabeth on the same island Jack had been left on before.
However, Elizabeth makes a smoke signal using Jack's hidden supplies and alerts the Dauntless, reuniting with her father and Norrington, who agrees to rescue Will when Elizabeth accepts his proposal. Jack and Norrington plot an assault on the pirates with Jack going in to lure them out but the plan goes awry when Barbossa sends his crew underwater to assassinate the Dauntless' crew. Elizabeth escapes the Dauntless alone, freeing Jack's crew from the Pearl, and ventures to the island to rescue Will.
Jack and Barbossa duel, but when Barbossa runs Jack through, he is revealed to be cursed too, having taken a piece of gold from Cortez's chest. Jack shoots Barbossa, with Will revealing the curse has been lifted by fulfilling the blood ritual, and Barbossa drops dead.
A short time later, Jack faces a public hanging, but Will attempts to rescue him. The two are captured, but when Elizabeth defends them both, Jack escapes aboard the Black Pearl. Governor Swann pardons Will and gives his blessing for Elizabeth to marry him. In a post-credits scene, Barbossa's pet monkey Jack regains immortality by stealing a piece of gold from the chest.
Cast: Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley
Crew: Gore Verbinski (Director), Dariusz Wolski (Director of Photography), Klaus Badelt (Music Director)
Rating: PG13 (Singapore), 12 (Germany)
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Release Dates: 15 Aug 2003 (India)
Tagline: Prepare to be blown out of the water.
Did you know? Robert De Niro was offered the role of Captain Jack Sparrow but he declined thinking that the movie wouldn't do well in the box office as many other pirate movies in the past. He was proved wrong and so he accepted the role of Captain Shakespeare in the movie Stardust (2007). Read More
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as Jack Sparrow
as Elizabeth Swann
Brye Cooper
Damian O Hare
as Lt. Gillette
as Barbossa
as Norrington
as Governor Weatherby Swann
Lucinda Dryzek
as Young Elizabeth
Michael Sean Tighe
as Will Turner
Trevor Goddard
Vince Lozano
Second Unit Director
Bruce Hendricks
First Assistant Director
Peter Kohn
Second Assistant Director
Paul Schneider
Jerry Bruckheimer Films
Chad Oman
Paul Deason
Screenplay Writer
Jay Wolpert
Ted Elliott
Terry Rossio
Story Writer
Dariusz Wolski
Elliott Marks
Craig Eastman
Playback Singer
Jon Ailetcher
Christopher Boyes
Christine Danelski
Sound Re-recording Mixer
David E Campbell
Boom Operator
Marjolaine Tremblay
Brian Morris
Michael Powels
Prop Master
Fred Apolito
Gene Darnell
Larry Dias
Set Dresser
Oscar Delgadillo
Jennifer Alessi
Ronna Kress
Costume and Wardrobe
Arthur Schmidt
Stephen E Rivkin
Jane Aull
Special Effects Makeup Artist
Kelcey Fry
Special Effects Coordinator
Terry D Frazee
Special Effects Technician
Mike Deken
Stunt Director
Laura Albert
Tony Angelotti
Visual Effects Producer
Kim Boyle
Digital Compositor
Cathy Burrow
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DTS, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound
Panaflex Platinum
2.39:1 (Scope)
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Prepare to be blown out of the water.
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Movie Connection(s):
Reference: The Last of the Mohicans (English)
Referenced in: The Lone Ranger (English)
Referenced in: Paddington (English)
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Wallilabou Bay, St Vincent and the Grenadines
Bequia, St Vincent and the Grenadines
Kingstown, St Vincent, St Vincent and the Grenadines
Long Beach, California, USA
Little Europe, Backlot, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA
Marineland of the Pacific - 6610 Palos Verdes Drive South, Rancho Palos Verdes, California, USA
Mediterranean Square, Backlot, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA
Mexican Street, Backlot, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA
Walt Disney Studios, 500 South Buena Vista Street, Burbank, California, USA
Goofs:
Character Error
At the end of the film Jack is about to be executed. The court crier reads aloud the charges against Jack, and then concludes that he is to be "hung" by the neck until dead. Proper English dictates that he would be "hanged" by the neck until dead.
When Jack and Barbossa are fighting in the cave, Barbossa seems surprised that Jack is also cursed. Being a skeleton in the moonlight, he rolls a cursed coin between his fingers and says that he couldn't resist, hinting at an earlier scene, where he took a few coins from the chest, threw them back, but secretly kept one. Now, Barbossa saw him take the coins, but did not notice that he kept one. However, even if he hadn't kept it, he would still be cursed, since he didn't return the coins together with his blood. Barbossa, being well aware of the rules of the curse, would be fully aware of this and shouldn't be surprised that Jack is cursed.
When Jack is to be hanged and the man is reading the list of Jack's offenses, a female extra in a red-topped dress is seen mouthing the words along with the man.
When Norrington arrives on the HMS Dauntless to fight the cursed pirates, some of the naval personal are fighting no one because the CGI skeletons weren't put in.
When Pintel and Ragetti are rowing (dressed as females) towards the Dauntless, Ragetti knocks Pintel's umbrella away. When Ragetti threw his away, he turned into a skeleton progressively, as the moonlight fell on him (meaning that while the umbrella's shade was on half his face, only the exposed half was skeletal.) However, Pintel stays entirely human until the umbrella is completely out of his hands, and then he turns into a skeleton in one frame.
After Will And Jack commandeer the Interceptor, the ship is viewed from above, sailing on a beam reach (a point of sail in which the boat is at 90 degrees to the wind). When Jack knocks Will off the ship with the boom, he jibes the boat, causing the sail to shift positions suddenly. In order to do this from the previous position, he would have had to turn the ship almost completely around. This would have taken well over a minute. Jack did this in less that three seconds. The sail is also filled to the wrong side while it sweeps Will off the deck.
Factual Mistake
Elizabeth Swann's maid fills a bed warmer with red-hot coals and then places the warmer at the feet of Elizabeth, who is lying in bed. That's not the way bed warmers were used. They held warm, not red-hot, coals, and were placed in bed before one turned in and removed before the sleeper lay down. If used as shown in the movie, they would have barbecued one's feet.
When Jack and Will walk underwater towards the ship they intend to steal, they are holding an upturned rowing boat over their heads to trap air, allowing them to breath. This would be impossible in real life, since not only is the boat made of wood (which floats), but due to the upthrust of the trapped air, Jack and Will would need to weigh several tons between them to keep the boat down.
Errors in Geography
Port Royal, Jamaica, is built on a low spit of sand south of Kingston Harbor, nowhere more than about ten feet above sea level. The movie set has it built atop hundred-foot basaltic cliffs.
The Royal Navy did not station any 100 gun ships of the Line in the Caribbean. The ships were simply too large and deep drafted to be of much use in those waters. The English bases in the area were incapable of supporting ships that size. And the Royal Navy only had six such ships world-wide at the time of the film.
Crew/Equipment Visible
Just as Jack says, "On deck, you scabrous dogs," to the very left edge of the screen over Jack's shoulder is a grip crew member with a tan cowboy hat, white short sleeve tee shirt and sunglasses, just standing there looking out to sea.
When the Commodore and Jack are discussing how to attack the cave and the Pearl, the movie pans out to show the two small boats. The boat that has Jack and the Commodore in it, if you look to the right in the water you can view a green diver's fin that comes out of the water.
Captain Barbossa states that the pirates cannot feel anything on their skin since the curse was put upon them. However, in the beginning the Pirate Ragetti can feel the coals that Elizabeth drops on him claiming that they're "Hot Hot". If what Barbossa says is true, the coals shouldn't have affected Ragetti.
When Barbossa is chasing the Interceptor, as he is shouting commands, in one shot his teeth are perfectly white, while in the rest of the movie they are decayed.
When he first shows up in the movie bringing the sword to Governor Swann, Will Turner is almost clean shaven (just a trace of a little mustache). His next scene, at the blacksmith shop - which in the movie happens at the same day, maybe an hour later - Will has a little goatee and almost full mustache.
Audio/Video Mismatch
When Jack tears the skirt of Elizabeth's dress off underwater, the loud ripping noise is heard of dry fabric being torn.
When Will draws his sword on the Interceptor and tells Jack that his father wasn't a pirate, the sword makes a metallic scraping noise, despite being tucked in his belt without a sheath of any kind.
At Commodore Norrington's promotion ceremony, the troops are given the command "right about face", which they proceed to execute. As the camera changes angles they have not completed the command, but you never hear the sound of their feet completing the last step of the maneuver.
Barbossa is seen holding a Granny Smith apple, throughout the movie. Granny Smiths originated in Australia in 1868, around a hundred and fifty years after the events of the film.
"Bob's your uncle" the British catch phrase, meaning all will be well or all will be taken care of is thought to refer to Prime Minister Lord Robert Salisbury who appointed his nephew to be Secretary of Ireland in the 1890s.
When Will Turner goes to help break out Jack Sparrow from the prison cell at the beginning of the film the bars of the cell are welded together with modern welds not invented until the 19th century.
In various close-ups of Barbossa, he can be seen wearing yellow contact lenses.
Trivia:
Johnny Depp wore contact lenses which served as sunglasses so he wouldn't be squinting in the sun all the time.
Johnny Depp improvised Jack Sparrow's catch phrase, "Savvy?"
Jack (the monkey) is seen "smiling" when Barbossa thanks him specifically after he returns the Aztec coin to him after Jack Sparrow chases him. In the special features on the DVD it is revealed that the monkey did this purely by chance and it was not planned out in any way.
There is a small scab on Jack Sparrow's chin that gets bigger and bigger throughout the movie. The make up artist and Johnny Depp did it on purpose as a prank.
Clothing and smears of charcoal were used to conceal Johnny Depp's numerous tattoos. The "Jack Sparrow" tattoo on his arm in the movie is a fake, but he got a real replica after finishing the film, in honor of his son Jack.
According to the DVD commentaries, Geoffrey Rush has a theory that people watch the screen from left to right, just like when they read a book. Therefore, he tried to be in the left side of the screen as often as possible. He was particularly intent on doing this in the scenes with the monkey and Keira Knightley because he didn't think anyone would look at him otherwise.
The names of the three main characters are all linked to birds. Jack Sparrow, Elizabeth Swann and William Turner, who was a famous ornithologist.
One of the film's last lines - "Bring me that horizon" - was conceived by Johnny Depp on the morning the scene was filmed.
The substance sprayed on William Turner after the sword fight between him and Captain Jack Sparrow is actually powdered chocolate.
During the swordfight scene between Jack Sparrow and Will Turner in the blacksmith shop. The clanging of their swords are just about in sync with the rhythm of the incidental music.
When Will wakes up after being knocked out, the morning after the Port Royal siege, he looks out into the port and in the background is a young girl sweeping a porch. The actress is Lucinda Dryzek, who plays Young Elizabeth in the beginning of the film.
HIDDEN MICKEY: The final cannon shot during the Black Pearl's siege of the town, billows into a Mickey Mouse head shape against the night sky.
According to the screenwriters' commentary on the DVD, Will Turner is the best swordsman in the film, Barbossa and Commodore Norrington are evenly matched, and Jack Sparrow is actually the worst.
The scene where Orlando Bloom impersonates Johnny Depp's performance was devised by Bloom who asked producer Jerry Bruckheimer if he could put it into the movie.
The various "eunuch" lines were improvisations by Johnny Depp.
First theatrical trailer was released with The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), to capitalize on the fact that both films starred Orlando Bloom.
Robert De Niro was offered the role of Captain Jack Sparrow but he declined thinking that the movie wouldn't do well in the box office as many other pirate movies in the past. He was proved wrong and so he accepted the role of Captain Shakespeare in the movie Stardust (2007).
The title was originally just "Pirates of the Caribbean" but the name was changed in the hope that it would do well at the box office and a sequel could be made.
Johnny Depp's character, Captain Jack, is portrayed as having gold teeth in the film. The gold teeth were Depp's idea, but he predicted that executives would want fewer gold teeth, and told his dentist to implant more gold teeth as a bargaining tool. Sparrow's final number of gold teeth in the film was what Depp had envisioned all along.
When filming in the cave, excessive makeup was added to the characters so they wouldn't looked washed out on film. When the crew realized how cool the makeup looked on Johnny Depp, they continued to use it on him for the rest of the movie.
In an attempt to ward off the seasickness that struck the rest of the cast and crew, Keira Knightley took a travel sickness pill... and fell asleep instead.
Originally, Johnny Depp wanted Jack Sparrow to have no nose and be afraid of silly things like pepper and the common cold. Disney rejected the idea.
Keira Knightley wore colored contact lenses like Johnny Depp's in the last scene of the movie. But since her eyes are lighter than Johnny Depp's, they had to be dark in the center and light on the outside. She complained they made her so dizzy that she threw them away the night after shooting.
When casting for the role of Will Turner, it was down to Orlando Bloom or Heath Ledger. Gore Verbinski chose Bloom because he heard he was in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy and felt he would be a more bankable choice.
Keira Knightley claimed she was so sure she was going to get fired after a few days work on this film, she only packed a few things to go with her to start filming.
The East India Company (the real-life counterpart of the film franchise's East India Trading Company) really did brand pirates with a "P" but it was put on their forehead instead of their arm.
Industrial Light and Magic designers scanned turkey jerky to create the effect of decomposing skin when the pirates turn into their skeletal forms.
Keira Knightley's hair was extended because it was still short from her previous roles.
Jude Law, Ewan McGregor, Tobey Maguire, Ben Peyton, Christopher Masterson and Christian Bale were all considered for the role of Will Turner.
The movie is inspired by, and takes its theme from, the popular Walt Disney theme park ride of the same name.
The island Isla de Muerta is Spanish for "island of dead". Tortuga is also Spanish, meaning "turtle".
The skull and crossed blades flag was the flag of "Calico" John Rackam, longtime lover of notorious female pirate Anne Bonny.
The movie's world premiere was located at Disneyland Park at the Disneyland Resort in California, home to the original Pirates of the Caribbean attraction, on June 28, 2003. This was the first ever movie premiere at Disneyland.
Many of the crew got seasick while filming.
Keira Knightley almost didn't make it to the audition because of a traffic jam.
Michael Keaton, Jim Carrey, and Christopher Walken were all considered for the role of Captain Jack Sparrow.
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Brian's Service Centre is a Canada based automobile service center that is owned by Brian Kipfer. Brian's Service Centre provides automobile sales and repairs services to several world's top rated automotive manufacturers like Yamaha, Husqvarna and Triton. The service center is located about ten minutes north of Exeter on Highway No. 4 in Hensall, Ontario.
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Q: modifying 3rd party website locally for testing What's the general approach on modifying 3rd party websites for testing? For example, I want to modify certain aspects of a random website (HTML, js, css, images whatever) that I do not control and see locally modified site with my changes.
There are multiple ways:
 1. copy everything to local server and do whatever I want.
This is a bit tedious, messy and won't replicate exact behavior of original server: some headers might not be the same (CORS for example). Also, host name is different (but this can be "fixed" by overriding host name in hosts file)
 2. Another approach is to create a chrome extension that does what I want: there are hooks for chrome.webRequest where I can redirect to another file (on other server or stored in the extension folder). This also doesn't work for me: when I redirect somewhere else I get CORS issues because redirected file is located elsewhere.
My goal is to get absolutely identical behavior (e.g. it's best to access the site in question directly, and not its copy on my local server) but before content is rendered have a chance to modify it. I could for example setup a local proxy and would make my changes on the fly, but the remote site uses https, so I cannot do it that way.
If I had a chance to run regex.replace on received content buffer that would be perfect. Any ideas how to do something like that?

A: A third party site will typically be published via a build process that minifies and bundles together JavaScript and CSS (e.g. closure, jspm, webpack, browserify), and sometimes images as well (as sprites). If you don't have the source files, you can still resort to the methods below.
If you want to modify the CSS and have it persist, you can use a Chrome extension like Live CSS editor.
For JavaScript, Chrome supports user scripts, and you can manage user scripts more easily with Tampermonkey.
A proxy to do regex replacements is another valid approach, and it works over HTTP as well as HTTPS. See Fiddler, Charles or the good old Proxomitron for Windows, which also has plugins that can intercept SSL traffic.

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United States' Clint Dempsey, left, celebrates scoring his side's second goal during the group G World Cup soccer match between the USA and Portugal at the Arena da Amazonia in Manaus, Brazil, Sunday, June 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
United States vs Germany World Cup 2014: USA's Only Option is to Win Group G, 'Group of Death'?
By Zachary Stieber
June 24, 2014 Updated: June 24, 2014
The United States is set to play Germany in the World Cup on Thursday, and some believe that Team USA's only option in the game is to go on the offensive and seek to win.
If the U.S. wins the game then it wins Group G, known as the Group of Death.
U.S. and Germany are tied with four points each after both getting a win and a draw.
Portugal and Ghana are tied with one point each are both getting a loss and a draw.
The United States only has to get a draw to advance, but playing conservatively could hurt them.
Mike Foss of USA Today points out that the U.S. doesn't know how to defend a draw.
"If there is one thing we know about this American team, it's that they are incapable of hunkering down in defense for 90 minutes. The most recent example of this was against Ghana, where for 80 minutes the U.S. attempted to do just that. Absorb pressure, deflect crosses, save the occasional shot, and try to counter when possible," he said.
"Eventually, Ghana did score, and when that happened, the U.S. wasn't prepared to counter back. It managed to steal a goal back off an unlikely corner kick, and while it made for a great narrative, everyone watching in Natal and around the world knew the U.S. was fortunate to walk away from its first match with three points.
"That's why we saw coach Jurgen Klinsmann go to a much more open style against Portugal. Removing one striker in favor of an additional midfielder which allowed the U.S. to attack Portugal's flanks with numbers. It was on the flanks where DeAndre Yedlin and Graham Zusi created the U.S.'s second goal."
The problem with Germany's 4-2-3-1 formation and its style of play is that it doesn't allow for many counterattacks.
Basically, Foss is saying that instead of the way the U.S. played against Ghana–on the defensive–the team needs to play the style it played against Portugal–not afraid to attack, or even go down a goal.
Klinsmann hasn't indicated what his lineup will be for the game but it appears that starting striker Jozy Altidore will not be available still, meaning that the same five midfielder and one striker lineup that the U.S. employed against Portugal will be used. Graham Zusi came in for that match after starting the Ghana game on the bench.
Even if the United States loses, then it can advance. If Ghana and Portugal draw, then both the U.S. and Germany automatically advance.
If the U.S. loses, then Ghana would need to win by a margin of two goals or more. While that scenario is unlikely, it's even more unlikely that Portugal can get through–they would need to have a winning margin of at five goals.
The U.S.-Germany game is at noon on Thursday. Portugal and Ghana play at the same time.
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Members of the military will get a battery of new tax breaks thanks to a bill signed into law by President Bush on Veterans Day.
The Military Family Tax Relief Act of 2003 doubles military death benefits and shelters them from tax; creates new deductions for National Guard and reserve troops; and refines the rules related to several tax deductions in ways that help military families.
"Our nation is relying on the military in unique ways," said Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and a sponsor of the law. "The sad fact is these folks don't get a fair shake under the federal tax code."
Many of the changes are retroactive, allowing some military families to obtain refunds on taxes they have already paid.
* Emergency military death benefits have been doubled, going to $12,000 from $6,000. These payments are made to families of soldiers who die in combat and to families of those who die in training or transportation accidents.
The payments also are now completely tax-free. In the past, only $3,000 was exempt from federal income tax.
These changes are retroactive to Sept. 11, 2001, so the families of service personnel who have died in the last two years will receive additional checks from the Department of Defense, said George Jones, senior tax analyst with the Washington office of CCH Inc., a publisher of tax information.
In the meantime, those who paid taxes on past death benefits should file amended tax returns to claim their refunds.
* A new deduction was added for members of the National Guard or reserves who are required to travel overnight at their own expense to a destination more than 100 miles from home. This deduction, which can be claimed even if the taxpayer doesn't itemize, has no set dollar limit, but it can't exceed the per diem rate that the federal government has established for the destination city.
The deduction is retroactive to Jan. 1, but it won't be a line item on forms for the 2003 tax year. Taxpayers who qualify for the deduction should enter it on Line 33 of their 1040 forms, said Internal Revenue Service spokeswoman Nancy Mathis.
* Home sale rules were modified to make it easier for active-duty military members to claim the so-called residential exclusion. Homeowners can exclude from federal taxes up to $250,000 in profit from the sale of their personal residences.
However, to qualify as a personal residence, a house has to be occupied by the homeowner for at least two of the last five years -- a restriction that many active-duty personnel have trouble meeting because they are stationed away from home for long stretches.
The change gives military personnel and members of the U.S. Foreign Service five additional years to establish residency, said Mark Luscombe, principal tax analyst at CCH. The result: Uniformed and Foreign Service personnel can use the exclusion if they have lived in a home for two of the last 10 years.
This change is retroactive to May 1997 -- when the home-exclusion rules went into effect -- and active-duty service members who paid taxes on home sales because they failed the original residence test can now claim refunds.
But time is short. Typically, taxpayers can't claim refunds more than three years after their returns were filed. But the new law specifically gives military personnel one year from the date of the law's enactment -- until next Nov. 11 -- to claim refunds, even if they are amending returns filed more than three years ago.
* Homeowner assistance payments are now tax-free. These payments are made by the Department of Defense to military homeowners when a base closing or reduction in operations causes a severe decline in home values in the area.
The program is aimed at helping military families recover the cost of having to sell their homes in an artificially depressed market, Luscombe said. This is one of the few provisions of the military tax relief law that are not retroactive. It went into effect when the law was signed last week.
* Military child-care assistance is now tax-free, retroactive to Jan. 1.
* Combat zone filing rules, which give personnel additional time to file and pay federal income taxes, have been expanded.
These rules give personnel stationed in the more than two dozen presidentially designated combat zones, as well as troops deployed in "contingency operations," the ability to delay filing their taxes for as many as 180 days after their return to the United States. All tax penalties and interest charges also are put on hold.
In addition to members of the armed forces, the new law extends the combat filing rules to members of the merchant marine, the Red Cross, accredited journalists and civilians "engaged in support activities," CCH said.
Although those who qualify do not need to file anything, if the taxpayer or his or her spouse mails a blank return to the IRS and writes "combat zone" across it, that may head off late notices that would be auto- matically generated otherwise, Luscombe said.
Kathy M. Kristof, author of "Investing 101" and "Taming the Tuition Tiger," welcomes your comments and suggestions but regrets that she cannot respond individually to letters or phone calls. Write to Personal Finance, Business Section, Los Angeles Times, 202 W. 1st St., Los Angeles, CA 90012, or e-mail kathy .kristof@latimes.com. For past Personal Finance columns, visit The Times' Web site at www.latimes.com/perfin.


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USDA Offers Tribal Students ScholarshipS
News | January 2, 2020
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16, 2019 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the opening of the 2020 scholarship application cycle for the USDA 1994 Tribal Scholars Program. The program aims to increase the number of tribal college and university students studying agriculture, food, natural resource sciences, and other agriculture-related disciplines. The program is available through the USDA Office of Partnerships and Public Engagement (OPPE).
The USDA 1994 Tribal Scholars Program was established in 2008 in partnership between the U.S. Department of Agriculture and 1994 institutions, tribally controlled colleges and universities with land-grant status. The program provides full tuition, fees, books, and workforce training to students pursuing degrees in agriculture, food, natural resource sciences, or related academic disciplines. When the student has completed the academic and summer work requirements of the scholarship, USDA may convert the student to a permanent employee without further competition.
"The USDA 1994 Tribal Scholars Program is an important way to collaborate with Indian Country and its tribal colleges and universities. Together we can train the workforce for 21st century agriculture and promote tribal agriculture," said Mike Beatty, Director of USDA's Office of Partnerships and Public Engagement.
This program is among several USDA efforts to build the capacities of 1994 institutions. Since the passage of the Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994 and the Federal Agriculture Improvement Act of 1996, USDA has supported scholarships, research, education, extension activities, and grants for facilities and equipment at these institutions.
Tribal colleges and universities (aka "1994s") play a significant role among tribal nations. These institutions serve as anchors in their communities, advance tribal health, promote economic opportunity, further environmental conservation, and prepare young people for the workforce. In addition to offering the distinctive land-grant mix of research, education and extension, they also frame that education in the context of Native American history, indigenous knowledge, and traditions. Today there are 36 federally recognized tribal colleges and universities designated as land-grants.
The USDA 1994 Tribal Scholars Program is available to high school seniors entering their freshman year of college, and current freshman, sophomore, or juniors. General requirements include U.S. citizenship, a GPA of 3.0 or higher, and acceptance to, or currently attending a 1994 institution to study agriculture, food, and natural resources. The scholarship is renewable each year and is contingent on satisfactory academic performance and normal progress toward an associates or a bachelor's degree. Additional requirements are listed in the application package.
All application materials must be postmarked by February 09, 2020. See the high school application (PDF, 577 KB) and the college application (PDF, 592 KB) for details. For other questions, email 1994@usda.gov.
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Weekly classes suitable for, but not exclusive to, beginners.
Our groups are small, friendly & informal, with a maximum of 6 people per class so that we can provide you with ample support & encouragement.
To get you started you will be given a demonstration a technique to be used in the session. You will then be able to create your own unique piece using the technique you have been shown or work on our own project. Techniques include pinch pots, slab work, coiling, surface decoration & wheel work.
The classes run in blocks of 4 weeks on/1 week off throughout the year.
Price per session is £20.00 so a 4 week block is £80, to be paid in advance.
I also offer taster sessions for pottery which are ideal if you would like to have a go but can't commit to a weekly class. Please contact me if you would like information on the taster sessions.
Price includes: clay, kiln firings, use of glazes, under glazes & specialty glazes, tuition fee, studio fee, use of tools & equipment & refreshments.
It was my first time having a go at pottery and Louise talked me through how to use the wheel (you don't have to use it) and I ended up making a mug albeit not very straight and even! Would highly recommend any course here! I hope to return in the future.
Relaxed, friendly sessions, where the time flies!
Great teaching by Louise. With support and guidance, she encourages you with your own projects and ideas. I've enjoyed the classes very much and am so happy with the pieces I've made. Hoping to be back again soon!
I had a lovely time with a great teacher who explained and demonstrated everything very well. I made a pot on the wheeI and will be returning to decorate soon. I would definitely recommend it.
I have recently completed two 4 week sessions at Poppy Rose.
It was brilliant and Lou is a fabulous teacher. It is lovely to do something creative and go home with the end product. I can't recommend it enough.
Thanks Lou you've been great and hope to see you again soon.
Thoroughly enjoyed my pottery session at Poppyrose where i made a mug (on the wheel).
This was only possible, because of the instructions and tuition, which were clearly explained and demonstrated by a very skilled potter, Louise.
A friendly enviroment in the heart of Stockton, highly recommend the pottery taster sessions, to those who want to try something new.
We really enjoyed our pottery taster class at Poppy Rose, it was fun, relaxed and well taught. We hope to come back and attend a class at some point in the future.
Surprise anniversary present from my husband. We had the most fantastic time learning to throw a pot on the wheel, returning once it was fired to paint and glaze the pot.
Louise was absolutely brilliant, patient, informative and very knowledgeable. Would recommend this taster session as a fun activity.
I recently attended a pottery taster session. I had a great time. The time taken to show the various skills was really appreciated. I'm hoping that a spot will open up in an evening class as I'd love to try some other skills.
I don't know where to start really because everything about this course is just simply amazing. I was over the moon when I discovered there was a pottery course near to me, then I was blown away with how fun it was once I started. I have made a range of different things, and Louise is fantastic at helping you through every step of the way if you are unsure. I look forward to this class every week, it is definitely a highlight! From beginners to advanced it is a place for everyone, so don't be afraid if you fancy giving it a go or even buying it for a friend to experience - just do it. I only just wish I'd done it sooner.
Thank you for your kind review Jane! You are a pleasure to have in the class and have made some wonderful pots.
My Mum and I have been attending Poppy Rose to make a pot on the wheel. It's been on Her bucket list for years! We both thoroughly enjoyed the experience, our pots didn't look too bad once they were painted! Louise was very helpful, patient and encouraging. I will be Recommending Poppy Rose to others. Thanks again for having us.
Hi Julie, Thank you so much for your lovely review, much appreciated, and it was a pleasure to have yourself and your mum for your taster. Have fun with the rest of the bucket list!
I've just been to pick up my two pots that's I made on the pottery wheel with Louise. I love them. The whole new experience was brilliant from the making of them to painting them. Highly recommend to anyone whose always wanted to give pottery a go. Louise is a brilliant teacher and very friendly.
Louise was a brilliant teacher and really friendly. Had a fantastic time, great experience and well worth the money! Hoping to do it all again, even willing to travel the hour and a bit to do it. Couldn't recommend it more!
Couldnt have asked for a better experience.
I've also enjoyed felting classes and quilting at Poppy Rose .Get involved!
Louise has the gift of inspiring you to create and develop your own skill at your own pace and create beautiful and interesting pottery in your own individual way. The environment is relaxing and friendly. I can highly recommend this class at any level and to anyone as Louise pays everyone individual attention to match their own aspirations.
Louise's classes are educative without failing to be good fun. Louise is patient and she can give you ideas on projects to carry out or will guide independent ideas. She harnesses the student's own creativity and problem solving skills interjecting only where necessary.
The classes provide a relaxing environment for the students to 'bounce' ideas off one another. I personally am not very 'arty' but have produced beautiful slab work from trinket dishes to decorative bowls and plates.
Whether it is sculpting or the wheel you fancy 'Poppy Rose' is definitely the right place for you.
Great relaxing atmosphere to pick up a new hobby.
Started going regularly for a year but unfortunately have moved now. Have made some wonderful gifts, Xmas decorations, bowls, pots and incense burners. Great teaching support from Lou and introduction to using a wheel.
Poppy Rose offers a great friendly setting. Classes are very motivational, fun and productive. Louise is keen to help you achieve your goal and appreciates all her students' work. This class is suitable for both beginners and experienced potters.
I had absolutely no experience of pottery whatsoever; I received an introductory voucher as a Christmas gift in 2016 and I have kept the weekly classes up since then.
The classes are relaxed and friendly but very educational. Louise teaches many techniques and provides all the tools and materials one needs. Self expression is encouraged but Louise is always on hand to offer suggestions for new projects.
I love these classes and would encourage any one to join the group whether experienced or beginner.
I absolutely loved this course. I went for a taster course with my father and we really enjoyed the experience. Louise allowed us to use the wheel which we were very pleased with and gave us brilliant advise and instructions. It was a very relaxed environment and we were able to use our own creativity throughout the lesson. I would highly recommend this to everybody- no matter how skilled in pottery they are.
I love going to this pottery class and it's the highlight of my week. The 2 hours pass too quickly. Louise is brilliant and helps with ideas and teaches you the skills of pottery, one to one, in a very relaxed and friendly atmosphere. She is always interested and encouraging in whatever project you are on with. There is a lot of equipment and different tools available to use and Louise has her own kiln for the firing. I'm so glad my friend introduced me to pottery, with Louise and her lovely Mam, Ann, at Poppy Rose!
Very friendly, good instructions and Louise is extremely supportive and helpful. I am very pleased with the items I have made. I was very unsure of my skills but Louise has encouraged me and made sure she is there to give advice whenever it has been required. I would highly recommend this course and will keep going.
Brilliant teaching and lovely atmosphere.
I have been coming to this pottery class for about a year now . Great company , lots of encouragement from Lou our fantastic tutor. I have made some lovely pots and had a few disasters but l love every minute.
Great course, very relaxed and friendly. I highly recommend it! Lou is very patient and a great pottery teacher.
Have been attending one of these classes since last year . Classes are small and very friendly so there is plenty of time for tutor to help with projects. Lou (tutor) creates a relaxed atmosphere and brings a lot of knowledge & experience.


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Blessed Alfredo Pellicer Muñoz
4 October (2001 Roman Martyrology)
8 September on some calendars
22 September as one of the Spanish Civil War
Franciscan Friar Minor, making his solemn profession on 5 July 1936, just days before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. He had been studying theolgy; his family urged him to give it up and become a teacher, in hopes of avoiding the persecutions of the anti–Catholic Republican forces. He refused and was soon arrested, told to deny God, and then killed when he refused to do so. Martyr.
10 April 1914 in Bellreguard, Valencia, Spain
shot by firing squad at approximately 3pm on Sunday 8 September 1936 in Castellón, Spain
buried in the nearby cemetery of Gandia, Spain
re-buried in Bellreguard, Valencia, Spain on 3 June 1939
relics enshrined in the parish church of Bellreguard just prior to his beatification
20 December 1999 by Pope John Paul II (decree of martyrdom)
11 March 2001 by Pope John Paul II
Martirologio Romano, 2005 edition
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I've published two pieces in the past few days: a poem on the website Poets Reading the News, and a raw 'assay' into my own history of sexual assault, on my Medium page. I was already tired of holding on so tightly to my story, and have written about it elsewhere, in an oblique, intellectualizing sort of way. But the wave of honest stories and of bottled-up rage, flowing in the wake of the Ford/Kavanaugh hearings, finally pulled this version forward. It may not seem very "Still Life," but it's the truth I needed to speak. It may be hard to read.
It's a raw and challenging time right now. However you hold or release your stories, know that you are part of the harrowing, promising cultural shift we are moving through, we need to move through.


Home > Blogs > Over 2,00,000 Data Science Vacancies are Waiting for You!
Harvard Business Review termed data scientist the hottest job of the 21st century.HBR made this statement in 2012, so are you wondering if it still holds true? Let's dig up some data to prove it.
It's raining opportunities in data science!
NASSCOM had predicted over 5,00,000 projected openings for data scientists in 2018 alone. And there's more! The Hindu reported a drought of 2,00,000 data scientists in Indian analytics firms in the time to come.All in all, the weather is perfect and it's raining jobs in data science!
But are professionals seizing the opportunities being presented to them?
Well, let's just say that the talent has always been there. They just need to be shown the right direction. That being said, top tech firms are investing big in reskilling programs for their employees. Infosys and Wipro conduct mass reskilling programs for their employees in trending technologies like big data analytics, design thinking and mobile app development. But can this solve the talent shortfall in the tech and analytics industry?
The tech companies are showing a common trend. Many companies have slowed down hiring fresh recruits due to the high cost of training and a considerably longer deployment time. As a result, companies like Infosys, Wipro, and TCS have reported lower Operating Profit and lower revenue per employee.
When we put things in perspective, how does the picture look for an engineering graduate or a tech professional in the coming time? What is a suitable strategy to get a job in a company of your choice?
Analytics companies in India have grown at a staggering rate in the past four years. The Indian Analytics Market is majorly driven by BPO/KPO service providers taking up to 80 percent of the market share. Industries like banking and financial services top the list of companies that are hiring data scientists. Data analytics is creating job opportunities in virtually every sector including e-commerce, media and healthcare.
Of course, you need to have the passion to make sense out of data to prosper in this field. You need to fall in love with numbers to make it your dream career. And this love for numbers pays off in the salary figures too. If a data scientist plays all his/her cards right, he/she can double his salary in a span of two to three years.
In the present scenario, employees might even have to bear a pay cut for job retention. If the company has to outsource the job due to lack of internal skills, it will reflecton the employee's paycheck. Lack of skills in new technologies can cause a relative salary loss of 25% or more.
Upskilling with data science is a well-calculated move taken by students and tech professionals who are passionate about the subject and want to begin their career in this field. Competencies like data analytics and Hadoopturn you into a more valuable asset for the company along with better incentives and growth options compared to those who don't have these emerging skills.
As per Analytics India Salary Study 2017, professionals with big data Hadoop training recorded a lucrative salary increment of over 20% in a year.
There are many ways you can jump into the fast-moving data bandwagon, and make a great career for yourself. Taking up a data science certification program is one of the best ways to kick-start your journey in this field. Remember, if you invest in yourself, the world will too!


Happy Birthday Brad. Of course that's surely ridiculous, to wish you a Happy Birthday, but how can I not? I still wish that for you. I still wish you were here in your solid human form.
Grieving stages be damned. There's still a part of me that believes its not true. That you will be here with a "Hey it's me" sometime. It's OK with me if I never really pass that. In the meantime, out into the universe - Happy Birthday Brad.


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The Most Spiritually Affecting Buddhist Movies
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The Cup. Talk about good credentials for authenticity! Written by Buddhist monk Khyentse Norbu, who is the director of several spiritual centers in India and elsewhere, it features a group of young Tibetan monks playing a young group of Tibetan monks in Dharamsala, India, the exiled community of the Dalai Lama. The Cup is a refreshing and delightful antidote to more reverent and cautious films about Buddhist monastic life. In their daily life at the monastery, despite their relatively austere setting, and the gravity of their religious responsibility, we see that the monks are also regular boys - squirming with impatience during meditation, being playful, and acting rebellious. They are also obsessed with soccer. One of them, Orygen (Jamyang Lodro, whose father is an eminent Buddhist philosopher, and also in the film) is determined to watch the World Cup between France and Italy. After being caught trying to sneak out to see it with two friends, the abbot decides to allow him to bring the World Cup to the monastery by renting a television set from a local village.
The monks watch the action excited and enthralled, and there is a funny and memorable scene in which they try frantically try to get reception by struggling with a roof antenna. The Cup is about important subjects like the effects of globalization on ancient traditions, but it is also lighthearted and fun. The juxtaposition of devout religious practice with more seemingly mundane activities like watching sports is endearing, and actually constitutes a valuable lesson about not taking ourselves too seriously even in the midst of serious spiritual endeavors.
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Peaceful Warrior (2006)
Peaceful Warrior. Upon its release, many critics dismissed this as a New Age trifle, but unfortunately they weren't listening and watching closely enough. Take from Dan Millman's incredibly popular book The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, the film tells the semi-autobiographical story of a talented and driven college gymnast (Scott Mechlowicz) who is in a horrific car accident and realizes he may never compete again. Forced to re-evaluate the way he lives, he turns for help to an unusual and mysterious spiritual mentor he calls Socrates (Nick Nolte), whom he met in a gas station. This kind of crisis, in which one must re-examine one's purpose, is familiar to most; however, the kind of advice and wisdom dolled out by Socrates is less conventional and actually quite worthwhile. There are some silly scenes, such as when the mentor does a parlor trick and seemingly teleports himself to the roof of the garage. But what Dan learns - deep acceptance of the changes we cannot control, and equanimity when faced with difficult realities - are authentic lessons, not flaky hokum, and will hold up to the scrutiny of anyone who knows the basics of Zen Buddhism. The teachings mostly center around the complex difficulties involved in doing the most simple thing - being in the present moment.
It is not especially sophisticated stuff, but is philosophically consistent throughout and can serve as an inspiring introduction to Eastern types of thinking. Nolte, always an underrated actor, does a terrific, understated job with a role that could have descended into parody in lesser hands. Three great scenes to watch for: Socrates takes a cue from Jesus when faced with a couple of hoodlums, and surprises the hell out of his apprentice; Socrates throws a screaming Dan into a river, and then tells him his name for the experience is "Yaaaaaaaaaaah!"; and Dan sits on the hood of his car for hours literally waiting for some insight, any insight, to arrive.
Wheel of Time (2003)
Wheel of Time. Thousands of faithful Buddhists and spiritual pilgrims flood from the Himalayas into Bodh Gaya, where the Buddha is believed to have attained enlightenment, to hear the Dalai Lama speak at a bi-annual ceremony in which Tibetan monks will be initiated into the fold. Werner Herzog, who has created some amazing documentaries such as Grizzly Man and Little Dieter Needs to Fly, here turns his considerable skills to the extended Tibetan Buddhist community. We hear Herzog's signature hypnotic voiceovers, equal parts quiet contemplation and determined curiosity, as we watch followers arrive, meditate, and pray while awaiting the Dalai Lama's appearance. Herzog is particularly fascinated with an intricate mandala being built for the occasion, known as the "wheel of time;" but despite some attempts he doesn't really create any penetrating insights or explicate the philosophical concepts at work with the mandala or elsewhere. Instead, moving the camera intimately among the throngs of followers, Herzog communicates the physical and emotional textures of quiet and powerful devotion. This is enough.
The level of commitment and perseverance will strike Western viewers; one remarkable sequence portrays a man who has traveled three years, ritually prostrating himself across thousands of miles, to be at Bodh Gaya. When the Dalai Lama ultimately cannot appear because of illness, the moment is heartbreaking, but the crowd's patient reaction makes them all the more impressive.
Revenge of the Sith. Yes, no kidding! Buddhist imagery, especially of the Zen variety, has always been an important philosophical and aesthetic element of George Lucas's two Star Wars trilogies. The Force is a rough mix of Taoism (which influenced Zen) and Christian mysticism, and Yoda is really a loving and somewhat tongue-in-cheek Muppet (and later CGI) tribute to our popular images of the wizened Zen master. The advice Yoda dispenses to Luke Skywalker during his Jedi training, along with his bemused and curmudgeonly attitude toward him, resonate with those familiar with Zen stories and techniques. There are several notable Buddhistic moments in the series, as when, in Phantom Menace, Jedi knight Qui-Gon Jinn (whose name is a play on Qi-Gong, an Eastern movement practice much like Tai-Chi) calmly sits in a meditative posture in order to prepare to face the villian Darth Maul with his light saber. But it is only in the very last chapter (to be released) that Buddhist thinking becomes explicit. After two lumbering prequels, Lucas returns to form with an effective, tightly structured end to his saga.
We find out that the story of how Annakin Skywalker becomes Darth Vader turns out to be a Buddhist lesson in space-opera garb: unable to accept the inevitability of his wife's death, Annakin adopts the evil ways of the dark side of the Force in hopes of using his Sith powers to prevent it. He thus embodies the dangers of attachment (an essential Buddhist concept), and the folly of trying to avoid the natural course of suffering. Annakin wants to find a route around the Buddha's First Noble Truth - "life is suffering," and a tragic perversion of his personality results. Ironically, his inability to accept the inherent loss and change of life leads Annakin to a worse form of suffering - that is, delusion. As Yoda says, "Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
The Thin Red Line. Terrence Malick's triumphant return to filmmaking is not explicitly about Buddhism, but in both its quietly observant tone and its subject matter, it is very relevant to core Buddhist ideas. Ostensibly about the invasion of Guadalcanal by American soldiers during World War II, the film is really a spiritual meditation (pun intended) on the forces of cruelty and peace, and on the possibility of transcending violence through the power of mind and sacrificial action. Many characters, played by many famous actors, move in and out of the scenes, representing various stages of moral evolution, but the main conflict guiding the narrative is between Private Witt (Jim Caviezel) and Sergeant Welsh (Sean Penn). The idealistic Witt is always trying to escape his duties for the tranquility he finds living with the natives, while the cynical Welsh is constantly dragging him back and reprimanding him.
But Witt feels the mystical impingement of a bolder duty than even the military affords, and signals his superior toward it. The crucial exchange between the two comes when Walsh tells him, "In this world, a man, himself, is nothing. And there ain't no world...but this one." Witt replies, "You're wrong. I've seen another world." He then comes to show, in Buddhist fashion, that the "other world" may not be another place but simply a different state of mind.
Towards the end of the story, he follows through on his spiritual vision with selfless action, when he saves his fellow soldiers' lives by letting himself be taken by the enemy. Throughout, Witt has an almost unnerving air of calm detachment and compassion that is one of the hallmarks of the Zen adept. He moves through the battle scenes as if one foot is already in the 'other world." Eventually, his altruistic death comes to move and change (in the deepest sense of the word) the mind of Welsh.
The character of Witt could definitely be considered a Christ-like figure, but he is also similar to a Bodhisattva, the Buddhist practitioner (and mythical figure) who delays his or her own enlightenment to help save all beings. Malick mirrors the state of Witt's mind with hypnotizing camera work that lingers and absorbs the scenes of nature, and also the scenes of battle, with an intelligence and purposefulness that will create a spiritual, watchful attitude in the viewer. The director is famous for this kind of thing, and he is only one of a handful of filmmakers (Kubrick, or Fellini in the last lyrical scenes of Amacord, or P.T. Anderson's There Will Be Blood come to mind) that has the uncanny ability to build atmospheres, full of tension, that heighten our senses and that are as palpable as any character.
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring. In the small canon of specifically Buddhist films, Korean director Kim Ki-duk's is the first bonafide masterpiece. It tells the story of a master and apprentice who live on a secluded monastery floating in the middle of a lake. The master teaches the young boy lessons about cruelty and empathy, and awareness of other beings (tying a rock to his leg just as the boy has done to a helpless frog). Although portraying a monk's practice, Ki-duk suffers from none of the pious awe or idealization demonstrated by Western filmmakers like Martin Scorsese (who tackled the Dalai Lama in Kundun) or Bernardo Bertolucci (who missed an opportunity with Little Buddha). As he grows up, the apprentice eventually faces the most brutal challenges life can offer, and the director does not shy away from frankly engaging them. Knowledge of his budding sexuality comes to the monastery in the form of a young woman, and once he leaves the monastery for the outer world, he commits a sordid act of violence. Yet the most sophisticated form of a Buddhist life is not about naiive purity, or avoiding emotional extremes or temptations, but about penetrating more comprehensively into their psychological nature.
There is some "kiss, kiss, bang, bang*" here, although it takes place in a larger context of the reaching for transcendent understanding of one's own nature. Ki-duk, who has made films of harrowing violence and stark sexuality (such as in The Isle), in this film aptly takes his dexterity with extreme subjects and effectively applies them to hard-won spiritual lessons. The results are spectacular.
When the apprentice returns to the monastery a struggle for redemption and insight begins, portrayed in all its existential difficulty with harrowing and ingenious images. In the climactic scenes, the apprentice enacts a ritual exemplifying the wisdom he has gained, pulling a heavy stone seemingly for miles up a mountain in a grueling ordeal. Reaching the apex, he drops the literal and metaphoric weight and then meditates gloriously atop the mountain. The sequence is one of the most amazing and profound cinematic symbols of Buddhist spiritual practice.
Originally posted at GreenCine Central, authored by Simon Augustine.
"A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes suffering. " - The Buddha
"The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality." - Goethe
"The secret to film is that it's an illusion. " - George Lucas
The dramatic portrayal of Buddhist lifestyles and spiritual truths is perhaps more difficult to accomplish in an exciting way than depictions of Western religious practices and stories, because the Dharma is geared to inner transformation. And while enlightenment may be one of the most profound experiences a human being can undergo, it doesn't exactly translate easily into compelling cinema.
Christianity, on the other hand, with its bloody and wrenching crucifixion story, its miracles, and a traditionally greater emphasis on social action, lends itself more directly to the external world and the sensationalism upon which cinema thrives - witness the extensive pantheon of superb films about Christ and his message from Passolini's The Gospel According to Saint Matthew to The Mission. The stuff of cinema is often about what is excessive in human nature: big emotions, big explosions, blood, passion, and lots of fighting and screwing (it could be argued that Christology is in some ways about excess, too.)
Yet much of Buddhist practice is about the refrain from excess - it is, after all, called "the Middle Path" - that is, it consists of stepping back from the entanglements of emotional attachment and aggressive desire, and understanding how to free oneself from these things by being more mindful and aware of them. Its teachings attempt to make us more human by questioning our usual human reactions.
Does this mean there cannot be a viable and entertaining Buddhist cinema?
Fortunately, the answer is "no," because the struggle of disciplining the mind away from excess can make for a fascinating struggle in itself. There are many examples in which filmmakers have made the purposes and consequences of relatively "passive" activities like meditation and non-violence into powerful narratives, featuring a more internalized struggle -- let's call them "inner explosions."
And as Buddhism becomes more pronounced and practiced in America, and even evolves into new movements such as "engaged Buddhism," which expands more directly into the social action typical of Christianity, filmmakers from the West have more opportunities to explore the Dharma from fresh perspectives.
The following is a list of films, from both the East and the West, that comment in some way upon the teachings of the Buddha, and that are both explicitly about Buddhist subjects, or more subtly so. (Alas, the first two listed are not yet on DVD, but hope springs eternal that at least one of them shall be soon.)
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Uromys rex is een knaagdier uit het geslacht Uromys dat voorkomt op Guadalcanal. Het is de enige van de drie soorten van het geslacht Uromys (ondergeslacht Cyromys) op Guadalcanal die nog leeft; het is ook de enige in bomen levende soort, wat misschien de reden voor zijn overleven is. Ook van deze soort zijn echter slechts elf exemplaren bekend.

Het is een grote, zilverkleurige rat. Hij lijkt het meeste op U. imperator, maar heeft een langere staart met grotere schubben en is kleiner. De kop-romplengte bedraagt 257 tot 290 mm, de staartlengte 232 tot 296 mm, de achtervoetlengte 50 tot 55 mm en de oorlengte 16 tot 20 mm.

Dier uit het Australaziatisch gebied
Endemisch dier uit de Salomonseilanden
Uromys-divisie
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Charlotte McConaghy, född 1988 i Darwin, är en australiensisk författare. Hon blev internationellt känd för sin första roman Migrations (svenska: Den sista migrationen), som handlar om det pågående utdöendet av arter.

Biografi
McConaghy har en examen från the Australian Film Television and Radio School 2012, i manusförfattande och filmvetenskap.McConaghy bor i Sydney, med sin partner och deras son.

Författarskap
Hon började skriva som 14-åring. Under åren 2005–2016 publicerade författaren ett antal serier i fantasy- eller science fiction-genren för en ungdomlig läsekrets. Det inkluderar fem bokserier och de båda singelverken The Pearl (2005; bokdebuten) och The Shadows (2012).

2020 debuterade hon med romanen Migrations, inspirerad av en resa till Island 2016 som ledde till två och ett halvt års skrivande. Boken blev en bestseller, fick stor internationell uppmärksamhet och har översatts till ett tjugotal språk. I den förenas naturobservationer, beskrivning av pågående miljö- och klimatpåverkan och utdöendet av arter med huvudpersonens personliga drivkrafter och bevekelsegrund. En kvinnlig forskare beger sig till Grönland för att därifrån med en fiskebåt följa de sista silvertärnornas flyttväg till Antarktis. Ett dunkelt personligt förflutet ger sig tillkänna. Boken har beskrivits som "en hybrid mellan äventyrsroman och klimatdystopi, en form av modern ekofiktion". Den har beskrivits som "sorglig och vacker", "poetisk och skrämmande", "en kärleksförklaring i noir till en värld som är på väg att gå under, och till allting som redan gått förlorat". Boken har blivit aktuell för en filmatisering, med Claire Foy och Benedict Cumberbatch bland skådespelarna.

Nästa roman fick inspiration från en artikel om den största och äldsta levande organismen på jorden – aspskogen The Trembling Giant i Utah. I Once There Were Wolves pågår ett försök att återinföra vargar i Skottland. Efter deras utrotning har hjortarna kraftigt ökat i antal, vilket i sin tur påverkat vegetationen och förändrats ett helt ekosystem.Den kvinnliga huvudpersonen är som zoolog djupt engagerad i projektet. Hennes synestesi, som innebär att hon har förmåga att känna fysisk plåga hos såväl människor som djur, gör henne både sårbar och inkännande. Hon bor med sin sjuka tvillingsyster i ett litet samhälle i närområdet till de framtida vargreviren. Lokalbefolkningen är fientligt inställd till projektet och dess deltagare. En man försvinner och förmodas vara utsatt för vargangrepp. Romanen har beskrivits som "en vild och vacker lovsång till naturen", som "roman mer än deckare".

Once There Were Wolves belönades 2022 med Indie Book Award for Fiction och ett Nautilus Gold Award. Den har översatts till ett antal språk (på svenska som När vargarna kom).

Bibliografi i urval

Barn- och ungdomsböcker

 The Pearl (2005)
 The Strangers of Paragor, 2 volymer (2005–2010)
 The Shadows (2012)
 The Chronicles of Kaya, 3 volymer (2013–2016)
 The Cure, 3 volymer (2014–2016)
 Fury, 3 volymer (2014)
 Limerence, 3 volymer (2016)

Romaner
 Migrations, Flatiron Books, 2020,
 Den sista migrationen, Lavender Lit, 2021, översättare Carina Jansson,
 Once There Were Wolves, Flatiron Books, 2022,
 När vargarna kom, Lavender Lit, 2022, översättare Carina Jansson,

Priser och utmärkelser

 Indie Fiction Book of the Year Award 2022

Referenser

Australiska författare
Projekt Kvinnliga huvudpersoner
Personer från Darwin, Northern Territory
Levande personer
Födda 1988
Kvinnor


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Plenty of changes for 7th annual Rubick Run
Tom Dombeck
Just like the changing colors of the leaves, subtle differences are being made to the Ron Rubick Run.
The run, in honor of former Manitowoc Lincoln head football coach Ron Rubick, is entering its seventh year and has undergone some changes for the newest installment. The biggest of which is the date of the race itself, which was moved from early August to Saturday to run in conjunction with the Ships' homecoming festivities, including the football game against Sheboygan North.
Race host Don Davey says the change was made to boost participation.
"We only get so many nice weekends during summer that I kept hearing from people that they'd love to take part but they were busy that weekend going up north or had other commitments," Davey said.
Another big change is in the course, which now begins and ends at Ron Rubick Field.
"This really allows us to show off the Rubick Plaza," Davey said of the field's new entrance, which was under construction for the better part of a year. "Instead of having a separate ceremony for the plaza, we can do them at the same time during a fall family football weekend."
It also makes things a little easier logistically for all those involved, Davey says.
"It's just easier on people. It was awkward starting at the JFK Fieldhouse before and finishing at Rubick," Davey said. "Now people can park their cars at Rubick and not have to go back for them later or get rides from others."
During his time at Lincoln, Rubick enjoyed unparalleled success, leading the Ships to three straight WIAA State Division 1 titles from 1984-86 and compiling a record of 48-straight victories, which still stands today. Rubick passed in 2009 after a long battle with cancer but his legacy is still going strong.
For Davey, who played for Rubick while at Lincoln before going on to play collegiately at Wisconsin and professionally for the Green Bay Packers and Jacksonville Jaguars, family is what the Rubick Run is all about.
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