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Border fence dispute brings Texas showdown
Government wants land for border fence; landowners refuse
Secretary Chertoff says he won't relent "for a particular individual"
Eloisa Tamez says her property has been in her family since 1767
Border town mayor calls the fence "a multibillion-dollar speed bump"
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By Jeanne Meserve
EL CALABOZ, Texas (CNN) -- Eloisa Tamez said she isn't scared anymore, just determined. "I am not backing down," she said.
The U.S. government wants to build a border fence like this one. About 100 landowners are fighting it.
Tamez owns three acres of land along the Texas-Mexico border where the Department of Homeland Security would like to build a border fence. The property is a remnant of a 12,000-acre grant from Spain to her family in 1767, before the United States even existed.
"It is my history. It is my heritage," Tamez said.
This week, the Justice Department began legal action against landowners and municipalities who have refused to give government surveyors access to their land.
Tamez expects she will be sued sometime soon, but she is not intimidated.
Asked how long she will fight, she said, "As long as I have to."
Michael Chertoff, the Secretary of Homeland Security, said the fence will not be stopped by opponents like Tamez.
"Can we simply abandon an enterprise because it is a problem for a particular individual?" Chertoff told CNN. "I don't think I can accept that." Watch Chertoff say it's "civic responsibility" to give up land »
Chertoff believes a fence would curb the steady stream of illegal immigrants making their way across the border and lessen the flow of drugs. He also argues it will increase the safety of Border Patrol agents who have faced increasing violence.
The government wants to build 700 miles of fence along the Mexican border, including 370 miles of it by the end of this year. About 70 miles of fence is to be built in the Rio Grande Valley by year's end, if the government gets its way.
The Rio Grande forms a natural barrier along this stretch of the border, but in some places it is narrow enough to swim across.
On the banks of the river there is ample evidence that people do so. Piles of underwear lie discarded by swimmers after they make it across. The swimmers change into dry clothes they have carried across in plastic bags. Then they disappear into the United States.
The Border Patrol has stepped up its efforts in the Rio Grande Valley with more lights, and sensors to pick up movement. A levee built along the river has a muddy road on top used by Border Patrol vehicles to patrol the area.
Richard Cortez, the mayor of the border town of McAllen, Texas, believes hiring more Border Patrol agents, deepening the Rio Grande, and clearing its banks of tall vegetation would provide better border protection than the fence.
Deadline nears for proof of citizenship
Government touts 'border cards'
Illegal immigrants leaving Arizona
Cortez calls the fence "a multibillion-dollar speed bump," which will slow, but not stop, illegal immigration.
"It is a false sense of security," he said. "America will not be safe. America will continue to waste resources on something that is not going to work."
Cortez and other border mayors who oppose construction of the fence formed a group called the Texas Border Coalition. The coalition wrote to Chertoff asking for further consultations on the fence, but this week the Department of Homeland Security turned them down.
While expressing support for open dialogue with residents and officials, David Pagan of U.S. Customs and Border Protection wrote in an e-mail, "We do not plan to suspend work on the construction of fence in order to hold a series of additional consultation meetings."
Cortez said his city is contemplating a court test of the law that mandated the construction of the border fence.
And so a battle is being waged by about 100 landowners, those like Eloisa Tamez who are standing firm.
"I will not allow them to come and survey my land. I have an American-given right to protect my property," she said. E-mail to a friend
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Campaigns in California are among the most costly in the nation. This barrier to participation in our state spurs heated debate over how state campaigns are funded and whether different methods of financing produce different effects with regard to the comparative influence of special interests, who chooses to run for office, and who participates in elections and in what numbers.
Some experts believe campaign contributions should be regulated; others believe that the cost of political campaigns should be distributed equally among the public as a shared cost of a democratic society; and others believe that improved disclosure is the only workable remedy, or at least would be a good place to start.
Although campaign contribution limits were enacted in California in 2000 there is still a widespread sense that something more needs to be done to increase the quality of campaigns while reducing the cost of running for office and the negative consequences of big dollar fundraising that for most candidates is currently an unavoidable necessity.
Supporters of campaign finance reform are generally motivated by an interest in limiting the disproportionate and potentially distorting impact of well financed interests on the political process, and increasing access to candidacy for a more representative sample of the state's population.
In the '05-'06 legislative session, Assemblywoman Loni Hancock (D-14) introduced AB 583 to establish a statewide system for public campaign financing. Other campaign finance-related legislation has been introduced would have required corporations to report political campaign contributions and publicly finance the campaign for Insurance Commissioner on a pilot basis. None of these passed the legislature.
The California Nurses Association and a number of other groups are supporting Prop 89 (on the November ballot), an initiative to enact public financing of campaigns, mandate corporate reporting of political contributions, and other items.
Supporters of Prop 89 say public financing will level the playing field at election time, and reign in undue influence over campaigns by special interests. Opponents of the measure say that by further limiting who can contribute to candidates and campaigns, the measure would actually restrict participation in the political process.
Opponents also object to the funding mechanism for the proposed policy, which would be a .2% increase in the corporation tax rate from 8.84% to 9.04%. Supporters assert that the tax increase is negligible, amounting to less than 20 cents for every $100 of taxable income, and would restore the corporate tax rate to 1996 levels.
For more information, please visit the Yes on 89 website.


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is a Professor of Psychology at the College of Letters, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan.

In 1984, he received a BSc from the Department of Biology, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, where he studied animal psychology (burrowing behavior in rats) and (at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience) neuronal activity of the inferotemporal cortex in macaque monkeys.

After his 1991 PhD from the Institute of Psychology, University of Tsukuba, he specialized in visual perception and visual illusions of geometrical shape, brightness, color, in motion illusions and other visual phenomena like Gestalt completion and Perceptual transparency, based on a modern conception of Gestalt Psychology.

He became renowned through his Rotating Snakes peripheral drift illusion (see above).

In 2006, he received the Gold Prize of the 9th L'ORÉAL Art and Science of Color contest.

In 2007, he received the Award for Original Studies from the Japanese Society of Cognitive Psychology.

In 2008, his designs were the inspiration for the experimental pop band Animal Collective's critically acclaimed album, Merriweather Post Pavilion, which features a leaf covered optical illusion.

He was asked by Jeff Koons to provide illusions for the interior packaging of Lady Gaga's 2013 album Artpop, and a version of his "Hatpin urchin" image appears on the CD itself.

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External links

 "Rotating snakes"  can be downloaded for non-commercial purposes from the website (RIKEN institute project)
 Akiyoshi's illusion pages

Japanese non-fiction writers
Japanese psychologists
Academic staff of Ritsumeikan University
University of Tsukuba alumni
1961 births
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Claire's Camera
by Francis May 30, 2018 November 11, 2020
There's a fine line between throwing yourself out there and putting it all on the line for the world to see and accidentally pooping yourself on stage. Both will certainly get a reaction. Both could even be called art. But again, knowing where that line is will be the important part.
Claire's Camera is barely a movie and mostly resembles a hastily scribbled series of notes about all the cool symbolism the director intended for his film before he realized that a coherent and conscious narrative was going to escape him. In fact, at barely seventy minutes long there were times when I struggled to stay awake. I know everyone likes to rag on Ebert these days but he was undeniably good with coming up with little cinematic "rules" – the relevant one here being "No good movie is too long and no bad movie is too short." So at least that running time meant I was still finally able to squeeze in a screening of White Comanche, the infamous William Shatner western that I wish I had been assigned to write about instead of this pile.
Hong Sang-soo is clearly after some kind of meta-narrative here about the way Korean and French cinema play to each other's native audiences, or perhaps about the nature of cinema as a communication tool being too bogged down in the minutiae of "looking" to ever really get anywhere productive. But as portrayed onscreen, I have to say, after the fifth long shot of two characters just staring at each other for what seemed like eternities I wanted to scream from the top of a mountain like Tony Soprano: "I GET IT!" But, also like Tony….Yeah, I don't really get it.
For all the hand-wringing the film goes through about art and commerce and interpersonal connections (and lack of connections), and for the way the film plays out over the course of the Cannes Film Festival without ever once actually taking place there, there were plenty of avenues to explore if the director sincerely wanted to get across something about the ways in which the buying and selling of films (and art in general) gets in the way of how we actually want to consume them. Instead, the film is content to build a palindrome of itself. Themes are presented and repeated rather than being reinforced, with the painfully "clever" conceit that an older director in a controlling relationship with his producer (and a one-time fling with a film buyer) is reduced to simple wordplay to create a dumbed down version of the bigger picture at work. Early on it's mentioned that a woman who makes short films doesn't feel "mature" enough to make features, while later in the film the older director berates the shorts of the woman he won't admit he has feelings for, telling her she's attracting the wrong kind of attention from the men around her. All of this could play out in any number of ways, from the simple and overt misogyny of the film world (and festival circuit) to the ways in which some artists are made to feel less than their more traditionally successful contemporaries. But Claire's Camera just lets these things hang there, almost daring you to put together for yourself the most basic of connotative tissue, like the movie can't stop nudging you going "huh? HUH?! Right?!!"
It's a film with no direction, no momentum, no real reason to keep existing moment to moment. But another thing Ebert taught me was that if you can't say something nice, you better at least have something interesting to say, and if that's not even possible, you better be funny. But I'm not even sure I've succeeded in any of those respects, so bereft of material was this film on its own terms and as fodder for a rant. So I'll circle back and try to say three nice things:
1.) Isabelle Huppert didn't get sexually assaulted in this film.
2.) The scene of Huppert making Jung Jinyoung recite French poetry was charming…even though it was also buried under layers of thick, leaden symbolic rhetoric about how men criticize the women around them for "not knowing" something then getting to privately "not know" things without those women around to see them, yet another theme which the film does absolutely nothing with because the director, so intent on being a "good sport" and making his semi-autobiographical character out to be a silly but likable buffoon, won't go so far as to actually dig deep into how that kind of narrative and culture – specifically as it applies to the film world – keeps good, hungry artists down so that the men at the top of the pile can keep using everyone else around them as fodder in their cute little quirkfest movies like this one…oh fuck wait, this was supposed to be a nice thing. Okay. One more…
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Turcotte to visit Kentucky Downs
Sep 22, 2014 | News, Uncategorized |
From Kentucky.com
Hall of Fame jockey Ron Turcotte, who rode Secretariat to his Triple Crown wins 41 years ago, is returning to Kentucky.
Turcotte will be signing autographs at Kentucky Downs in Franklin as it closes out its live racing season Wednesday. Franklin is in south-central Kentucky near the Tennessee state line off Interstate 65.
The track says Turcotte will visit with fans and sign autographs near the finish line from noon to 1 p.m. CDT and then in the Clubhouse from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Proceeds from donations will benefit the Permanently Disabled Jockeys' Fund.
Turcotte won 3,032 races during his career, including a Kentucky Derby win aboard Riva Ridge in 1972. He was left a paraplegic after falling from a horse at Belmont Park in 1978.
Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2014/09/22/3441680/jockey-ron-turcotte-visiting-kentucky.html#storylink=cpy
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La Comisión Warren (nombre oficial en inglés The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy) fue creada el 29 de noviembre de 1963 por el presidente de los Estados Unidos Lyndon B. Johnson para investigar el asesinato del presidente John F. Kennedy.

La Comisión toma su nombre de su presidente, Earl Warren, magistrado y presidente de la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos.

Otros miembros de la comisión

 Congresista Hale Boggs, demócrata - (Luisiana)
 Senador John Sherman Cooper, republicano - (Kentucky)
 Exdirector de la CIA, Allen Dulles
 Congresista Gerald Ford, republicano - (Míchigan), futuro Vicepresidente y Presidente de los Estados Unidos
 expresidente del Banco Mundial John J. McCloy
 Senador Richard Russell Jr, demócrata - (Georgia)

Entre los asesores se encontraba el posteriormente senador Arlen Specter, fallecido en 2012 a los 82 años.

Conclusiones de la comisión

Las conclusiones de la Comisión Warren son en resumen:

 Los disparos fueron hechos desde una ventana del sexto piso del Texas School Book Depository.
 Sólo se realizaron tres disparos.
 La misma bala que hirió al presidente en el cuello hirió al gobernador Connally.
 Los disparos fueron hechos por Lee Harvey Oswald.
 Oswald asesinó a un policía 45 minutos después del ataque al presidente.
 Oswald se resistió al arresto intentando disparar contra otro policía.
 El trato dado a Oswald por la policía fue correcto, excepto en la permisividad que mostró en el acceso de la prensa al acusado y que fue contraproducente.
 El asesinato de Oswald por parte de Jack Ruby fue realizado sin apoyo de nadie de la policía y se critica a este cuerpo por la decisión de trasladar al acusado a la cárcel a la vista del público.
 No hubo conspiración ni de Oswald ni de Ruby en los hechos que se investigan.
 Ningún agente del gobierno ha estado involucrado en conspiración alguna respecto a los hechos.
 Oswald actuó solo, sin apoyo alguno para asesinar al presidente, y su única motivación se basa en sus propias situaciones personales.
 El Servicio Secreto, encargado de la protección del presidente, no ha actualizado sus procedimientos de acuerdo a las nuevas necesidades de movimiento del presidente de los Estados Unidos y recomienda reestudiarlos.

Controversia

Mucha gente no quedó satisfecha con las conclusiones de la Comisión Warren ya que no despeja una gran cantidad de dudas sobre el asesinato. Una de las cuestiones que mayor controversia suscita es si Oswald actuó solo en el asesinato o si había otros tiradores que también actuaron ese día. Las ideas de conspiración toman también fuerza debido al pasado de Oswald, que aparece vinculado tanto a la Unión Soviética y al partido comunista, como a los servicios secretos estadounidenses. El tercer punto de las conclusiones de la comisión también ha suscitado polémica al hablarse de la "bala mágica", dada la inverosímil trayectoria que, según los escépticos, debió seguir el proyectil para causar las heridas descritas en ambas víctimas. Otras líneas de investigación independientes vinculan al crimen organizado con Oswald, los servicios secretos y el asesinato. Oliver Stone, en su película "JFK" que reseña la investigación del fiscal Jim Garrison del asesinato de Kennedy, vincula a la comunidad de inteligencia de los Estados Unidos con una conspiración, aunque algunos investigadores han criticado el escaso rigor documental de esta película.

El Comité Selecto de la Cámara sobre Asesinatos fue establecido en 1976 para investigar los asesinatos de John F. Kennedy y de Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Las investigaciones del comité duraron hasta 1978 y en 1979 emitieron el informe final. En ese informe el comité dijo, basándose en las pruebas disponibles, que el presidente John F. Kennedy fue probablemente asesinado como resultado de una conspiración. El Departamento de Justicia, FBI, CIA, y la Comisión Warren fueron severamente criticados por dicho comité por su pobre desempeño en las investigaciones llevadas a cabo y el Servicio Secreto fue tildado de deficiente en su protección al Presidente.

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Véase también
 Abraham Zapruder y la Película de Zapruder
 Comité Selecto de la Cámara sobre Asesinatos
 conspiración
 John F. Kennedy
 Teoría de conspiración
 Teorías sobre el asesinato de Kennedy

Asesinato de John F. Kennedy
Administración Lyndon B. Johnson
Estados Unidos en 1963
Política en 1963


Hi, my name is Lilia. I am a girl - or should I start saying woman now that I am 23? - with unstoppable fire in my soul, crazy love in my heart, and a philosophical mess in my mind. Welcome to my annual catharsis of all the lessons I have learned in 2017. Looking back, I feel like I have realized so many valuable things this year, and as many other aspects of my life, I want to share those life lessons with you.
The fact that I do not even know where to start describing everything that happened in 2017, gives a good understanding of how this year felt for me. On the one hand, this year flew by in seconds; On the other hand, 2017 was filled with enough life changing experiences for multiple years. This brings me to the first life lesson I want to share with you, and that is: Time is out of our control. Time is one of the most mysterious forces in life I was never able to understand. Why do some moments seem to fly by, while others seem to last for eternity? How come some memories never seize to exist in our imagination, while others only pass our thoughts once in a blue moon? Why does it feel like it was just yesterday when I was writing this blogpost for 2016, but I can also remember how many things happened to me this year? Ancient Greek mythology described this difference in time as Chronos and Kairos. Chronos is how we usually understand time: It is chronological or sequential, just like the time is measured on your favorite watch.
However, Kairos stands for the opportune time or right moment. It is non-chronological, and can make us feel like the world has just stopped turning: It is time defined not by external factors, but by our internal experience. It is that moment when you suddenly feel a rush of inspiration going through you, and you can think of so many new ideas just at once. It is that moment when you first kiss a person, and you know it is the right person for you. And it is that moment when you are so deep in your thoughts, you forget everything in the world around you. This brings me to my point: Not only time itself, but even our experience of time is out of our control. Simply put, when it comes to time, we do not know. So many of us are focused on questions like "where do you see yourself in 5 years" or "what is your plan for the future". Although it is always a good idea to plan and to dream, you should never forget that in the end, we do not know. We do not know, because time is not in our control. Realizing this made me feel more peaceful about my life.
Leaving my life in Groningen and moving to Washington DC, realizing that I do not want to be a lawyer and instead want to pursue online entrepreneurship fulltime, and choosing to be alone, are all decisions that were hard to make for me. Nevertheless, becoming aware of the fact that it does not matter if a choice is "risky" or not - because in the end, we do not know how it will end up anyway - made me feel more confident and relaxed about my own Dao.
Speaking of Dao: Another thing that I have come to realize this year is that no one knows you, but yourself. No one can know how you feel, what you want, or who you need in your life. I have realized that everything I have achieved this year was because I wanted it. I did not do it for the sake of someone else's happiness or wishes, but because I thought it would be good for me. I know that people may not understand or agree with me, but that is not something I should be worried about. In spite of many people having opinions about my choices, I always trusted my own intuition, my own Dao. I have spoken about Dao before, but in short, your Dao is the path of your life. It is the flow of the universe and of your life - the path that you should follow. This path is different for everyone, and that is why you should never judge, or take judgment from other people about the Dao. Becoming even more aware of my dao made me feel more at peace with myself. I understood that in the end, I should not listen to what others had to say about me, and just go with my own flow. That is also one of the reasons why I wanted to move to DC and study at GWU, even though I was not certain if I even wanted a legal career at all. To me it made sense - I love law, the knowledge that it gave me, and the way it boosted my confidence and strength - but for others it did not. However, that does not worry me, as long as I know that I am following my own path.
With that being said, another aspect of 2017 that stood me by is that it is okay to be alone. Our society is so focused on finding your "true love", being "social", and building "relationships". I am not saying that that stuff is not important. What I am saying, is that it is more important to first learn to be okay with yourself, before embracing any of those other things. Previous year, I was trying to find someone that would fix how I felt about myself and my life. This year, I taught myself to be completely comfortable alone. 2017 was a year where many of my decisions I made before, manifested themselves. These decisions were risky, and made me feel insecure. That is why I missed having someone by my side, a person that made me feel more comfortable in these unstable times. However, trying to find a balance is not an external, but an internal process. I have realized that the only reason why I could even make these risky decisions in the first place, was because I was alone. I made choices solemnly by myself, for myself. And no, that is not selfish. I used to be this girl that always relied on someone else to feel comfortable. Today I am completely comfortable alone. I do not need others approval to know what is right for me. I do not waste my energy on people that are only taking my strength away from me. And most of all, I do not need anyone else, in order to feel happy. I have realized, that being okay with yourself requires you to be alone sometimes. 2017 was that year for me.
With this quote, Heraklitus meant to say that even though the "existence" of the river stays the same, its essence - the water - changes. And that's how I feel. 2017 made me even more aware about how much my essence has changed. The Lilia you know now is different than the one in 2016. And I cannot wait to see how different I will be in 2018.
My last, but very valuable yet difficult lesson from 2017: Protect your inner peace. What I have come to realize is that everytime I had a negative experience with someone and I was treated unjustly, I would carry this burden around with me - not the other person. If I felt angry or sad about someone, the only person that would be hurt was me, not them. You should not lower yourself and your standards based on other people's behavior. If someone is treating you bad, protect your inner peace by being kind to them. I know that this is extremely hard, and may even feel unfair sometimes. However, keeping your inner peace is the best thing that you can do in every situation. Do not let their bad behavior get to you.
It's time to conclude the chapter of 2017. You were an intense year. I've finished my first year of being a Research Master LL.M. and a Philosophy B.A. student. I've had some amazing collaborations with brands, universities and organizations I love. I've hit the 150k subscribers on Youtube. I've travelled a lot to old and new places. I've moved accross to world to build a new life. I met people from all over the world and started new friendships. I dated with some guys, just to realize I am not ready for things like that yet. I finally managed to find closure for my bad break-up in 2016. And most of all, I have learned so many lessons I cannot wait to translate into actual deeds in 2018. I do not know how 2018 is going to turn out to be - no one does. However, I do feel like next year is going to be a good year for me. I hope it will be a good year for you too. Thank you for all of your support and constant love. I could not have done this without you.
WHAT IS YOUR LIFE LESSON OF 2017?
P.S. If you want to know what I've learned from life in 2016, check out this blogpost.
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Some very good lessons. Can't wait to see what 2018 holds for us all! Happy new year!
Amazing as always. Thank you.
Wow Lilia. This was so inspiring, I love the way you wrote about philosophy and how much it is impacting your life. You had an incredible 2017, thank you for taking all of us along with you on your journey to success.
Heel mooi gezegd en omschreven Lilia <3 Mooie lessen!
Brilliant post to finish off 2017!
I've learnt so much this year living away from home and finally launching my blog which is my lesson for 2017 that I'll be taking into 2018!
Can't wait to see where 2018 takes you, sweetie.
this was a nice post-Lilia keep it up, you are such an inspiration. God bless.
Hi Lilia! I've been following you on Youtube for over a year now and to be honest you are my favourite vlogger! You give me so much motivation with school and life in general. You are a great rolemodel for other women and why not also for men.
I also love your style to write blogposts! You have a quality that makes your writings interesting and unique. This post was incredible as always! I really hope from the bottom of my heart that you will have a successful and pleasant year, 2018.
Nice post and very inspirational! You are very wise. Best wishes for 2018!!
Thank you. I still remember reading the blog you posted before you left for DC. It was at the same time as I was leaving for England. And I feel that your life lessons, have become my life lessons. It is amazing how much a semester abroad and being alone can do. I often felt lonely, but as you said, you learn to be alone. And mostly, you learn to focus on your inner voice instead of the opinions of others.
Even though I still don't know what I want to do with my Politics degree, I know now that I will follow my gut and just listen to myself. I hope you will re-read this life lessons you just wrote, because I will. I'm afraid I will become the same person when I go back home, and be too dependent of people again.
But I will read this blog as a reminder on who I've become and you have become.
You should be proud of the person who you've become and I'm looking forward in seeing you grow even more in 2018!
My life lessons are really similar to yours. 2017 was a period of growth for me, and even though I had some awful things happen I didn't let it break me. I changed a lot, and that's always reason to celebrate.


First of all we will release, together with this version, the packages updates.
It means that you can install the beta now and run updates to reach the stable version, passing through all the other beta/rc stages of course. To get the updates you just have to register your email here: www.endian.com/community/register/ and then, in the command line, run `efw-upgrade`.
One of the big changes for this version is the architecture that has been modified to x86-64.
Alpha1 architectures were 32bit i586 and 64bit core2duo. This last one requires cpu with ssse3 instructions that might be incompatible with some AMD cpus.
This is the reason why we decided to use a more generic x86-64 bit architecture and just drop support for 32bit cpus.
IMPORTANT: You can't upgrade from alpha1 to beta1 because of this architecture change. All alpha versions need to be re-installed with beta1 but you can always restore a backup.
New drivers available! Especially if you want to run Endian inside a virtual machine.
Obviously this image includes tons of fixes.


New Year day is the day celebrated all over the world on the same day, that is the start of the new coming year i.e. 1st January of every coming year according to the Gregorian calendar, which is being followed across the whole world, for official and civil purposes. Gregorian calendar is also named as western or Christian calendar. According to this calendar a complete year has twelve months in it: January, February, March, April, may, June, July, august, September, October, November and December. This calendar has been used since 45 B.C and was refined in 1582 as Julian calendar. It is a lunar calendar that is repeated from years to year.
Romans celebrate this day in the memory of Junas: The God of dates and January is also named after him. As New Year celebration is the most important event in all religions though Hindus, Muslims and others have their own dates of celebration. According to the Muslim faith Hijri New Year i.e. Islamic New Year is the first day of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar. It is also a lunar calendar. And the day is celebrated with same respect, spirituality, faith, trust, conviction and hope.
As we talk about New Year celebration, how could forget New Year Eve. It is the night when New Year is celebrated at mid night before the 1st January starts. On this Eve people get together on a same place, remind the beautiful or harsh memories of the passing year. Prayers are offered for new start, hopes, forget harsh things and forgive each other's mistakes. New commitments and New Year resolutions are made to follow throughout the whole year.
It is a new phenomenon that is being popular among the whole world and celebrated with gifts, cards and dinner parties. Ringing churches bells, tooting horns and ear-piercing shrieks echo throughout the world on this festive day. Families visit their families. This day was celebrated in Rome in 153 B.C. A common symbol of New Year's Day is Baby New Year. This is often a white male baby dressed in a diaper, a hat and a sash. The year he represents is printed on his sash. He rarely a newborn baby, as many pictures show him sitting up or even standing alone.
James agate says, "New Year's resolution: to tolerate fools more gladly, provided this doesn't encourage them, to take up more of my time." On this day one takes a drink then drink takes a drink and at last drink takes you. As Somerset says, "At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely." So this day be celebrated with respect, hopes for coming New Year, prayers for better future and achievements, being more flexible towards life and thanking Lord for given life and health to celebrate this day.
We wish all of you, a happy, prosper, successful, spiritual, and content New Year; a Year full of benedictions and blessings. HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014.
Don't waste time, do it now.


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by Michael Belfiore | Aug 18, 2005 | Blog, Uncategorized | 2 comments
It's a scoop! I nabbed it for Wired News, and it's today's lead story.
Read all about it at Wired.com, or, after today, at http://www.wired.com/news/space/0,2697,68528,00.html.
In essence, NASA's going to start hiring private spaceship companies like transformational Space Corporation (t/Space) to send its crews to orbit. It's a huge shift for NASA, and possibly the only thing that can save its manned space program.
The shuttles are down until at least next March according to the latest reports. Coincidently, that's when Lockheed Martin and a team made up of Boeing and Northrop Grumman are due with their concepts for NASA's big-budget next-gen spaceship. Concepts. No actual hardware, or even finished designs.
Meanwhile, t/Space has spent the last year building and testing hardware for an orbital spaceship it wants to hire out to NASA on a contract basis. If fully funded, they'll get to orbit way before the big guys.
To anyone who stops and thinks about the situation for more than five minutes, and that includes NASA administrator Mike Griffin, hiring lean, hungry space startups to get NASA off the ground again quickly and affordably makes a hell of a lot more sense than relying soley on fat, monolithic aerospace primes whose executives' salaries burn up more NASA money than t/Space's entire annual budget.
Lots of heavy-duty politics going to fight this one, though. Griffin can only do so much with the money directly under his control before he has to turn to congress to get this new program fully funded. And a lot of powerful dudes in Congress have a vested interest in keeping the (very lucrative) status quo, no matter how many astronauts have to die along the way.
Meanwhile, the Russian Space Agency has pulled way ahead of NASA, also as I report on today's Wired News. After today, hit http://www.wired.com/news/space/0,2697,68529,00.html.
David Corking	on August 23, 2005 at 4:42 am
A friend told me about t/Space yesterday, so after reading your great Wired article, I hunted down your blog with Google.
Keep close to this story, please. I am interested in hearing how it develops.
Michael Belfiore	on August 23, 2005 at 8:07 am
Welcome aboard, David, and thanks! I'll have the cover story in the next (October) issue of Popular Science with a feature on t/Space. It'll hit the Web before it's on stands, and I'll post a link on the blog as soon as it's available.


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French - In order to fully celebrate the autumn season (there is always something to celebrate) and as Halloween is coming pretty fast, such as dark and cold evenings, I thought a pumpkin soup would suit perfectly. In this soup I used 5 sorts of cucurbita: green & white pumpkins, a pomme d'or squash, a piece of butternut and two topinambour, plus a lot of spices and herbs.
On medium heat, place all your ingredients in a big pan and cover with water.
Cook for at least 20 minutes. It will be ready when putting a knife on a squash, it falls.
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The first episode already gives us a clue on how Smash are made: They're converted humans, like in the original series. We've only seen it momentarily in flashbacks but it does not look pleasant. Thankfully unlike the modified humans of the Showa Era, Build's power can revert them to normal.
So far all we know about how Smash are created is the victim is knocked out and later wakes up inside a case, surrounded by masked scientists while other victims are screaming in terror nearby. The only good thing is that anyone who is fully turned into Smash don't remember this terrifying experience when Build cures them or else they'd turn out like Ryuga, who is rightfully traumatized by what Faust did to him (he was able to escape before he is fully turned, and thus remember everything).
And now we know. The subjects are shoved into that case to expose them to Nebula Gas, a byproduct of the Skywall itself, to test their resistance to it. Those with some resistance, but not enough, become Smash. Those with enough resistance, labelled Hazard Level 3, don't become Smash but instead have the potential to use Build Drivers to become Kamen Riders. Those with no resistance die during the operation and rampage about as Smash until their essence is extracted.
The chase with the Guardians has some goofy moments, but pause and think for a second. They armed the guardians with assault rifles and rocket launchers just to bring in a relatively normal fugitive armed with nothing but his fists. What the hell is up with Touto's government?
On another note, a lot of what happened to the Guardians would never have made it to air if they were human. One even drives straight down a 90 degree incline trying to catch Ryuga and Sento only to fall onto the ground hard.
The poor people who were caught by the Skywall when it starts rising from the ground. Unless the red light kills them immediately, imagine their terror as they're being pushed towards the sky. Either they eventually get killed by the red light, they fall to their deaths. or they are suspended on the sky wall with no hope of getting down and eventually die from thirst or starvation, or if they are high enough, they die from lack of oxygen or exposure.
The fact that Touto, whose government was said to be pacifistic, has a mechanized police force who seemingly uses lethal force as soon as they spot their target. Either their AI is phenomenally bad or something's up with Touto's government. note Peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy, doesn't it, Tony?
Corpses are remarkably non-violent
Given later revelations about the Nanba Corporation, it becomes increasingly clear that the Guardians are meant to act like this.
Night Rogue reveals that people in suboptiminal health die the second the process that turns them into Smash begins. The fact that he has a term for this (Hazard Level 1) implies that such cases were plenty. It also makes you wonder that, if Hazard Level 1 is dying, what could be Hazard Level TWO?
On later episodes it is revealed that the Hazard Level turns out to be not that much of a nightmare - while Level 1 means you are unable to survive, Level 2 means you have a chance to be a Rider, while Level 3 means you are capable of becoming a Rider. However, depending on how you view it, being able to fight monsters can be a nightmare on its own, especially when your "boss" is Gentoku.
The episode also shows the viewer that the Guardian robots are capable of merging into a bigger mechanical unit to overwhelm their targets. The best way to describe it would be ED-209 with a Merry-Go-Round of machine gun armed Guardians on its underside.
This episode shows us that Faust's test subjects are not sedated before they're put in the tanks. They're awake and fully know every single horrifying moment they're experimented upon until they turn into monsters. It actually makes you feel bad for Nabeshima.
The first Smash of the episode was a mother who was unknowingly attacking her own son after she became a Smash. She doesn't remember her time as a Smash but knew that if it weren't for Build, she might've hurt her child or worse.
What's the first thing Blood Stark does? Poison Sento and then devouring Nabeshima. It's not made clear if Blood Stark's snake consumed Nabeshima's body as a means of recapturing him or if it just straight up ate him.
It was the former... but given he was experimented on again, it might have been more merciful to be eaten.
Also, the fact that the poison only knocked Sento out shows that Blood Stark still has some plans with him..
Night Rogue in general is pure nightmare fuel. Whenever he appears, you know he's about to do something terrible to somebody, whether it's turning a man's sick girlfriend into a Smash to kill him or "rewarding" an agent by turning them into a Smash as well.
Blood Stark tells Sento that he has Hazard Level 3.4 and still can do better after their fight. Knowing what is Hazard Level 1, this is not good.
Sento attacks Blood Stark in anger, his Hazard Level reportedly rises. It makes sense with Smash as they are humans with artificially heightened aggression. But does it mean Sento is/was a Smash?
Ryuga finally loses his patience and decides to find Faust's base on his own. The plan he comes up with is knocking Sento out and turning Tatsuya back into Smash.
Ryuga gets his hands on the Build Driver after punching it out of Sento's hands and nearly transforms into Build. However, he's proven incapable of changing into Build, getting an immensely painful power surge through his body that knocks him unconscious instead.
Ryuga makes the mistake of trying to get in close quarters with Blood Stalk and gets a disturbingly fast acting dose of his poison as a reward, causing him to writhe in pain while his skin rapidly turns greenish-black in patches .
Blood Stalk reveals that Sento and Ryuga were experimented on and should have turned into Smash, but did not. Adding this on the top of the events (like unfinished business with Blood Stalk and Ryuga slowly dying of poisoning) causes Sento to go completely apeshit .
Guardians catching up with some people fleeing from Hokuto is just brutal.
Blood Stalk appears out of thin air, threatens a group of children and turns one of them into Smash.
Stalk's casual demonstration of the Steam Blade's Devil Steam attack, which allows him to administer Nebula Gas quickly and without clunky equipment, allowing him to create Smash anywhere at any time. Presumably the only reason Faust needs the clunky equipment at all is to record data.
Blood Stalk's laugh in this episode. Deep, echoing sound that is most likely a genuinely happy laugh, but definitely not what most people would imagine under the description.
Nightrogue is Gentoku, Sento's boss. And, like the two villains before him, he knows perfectly well that Sento is Build, while Sento has no idea who he is. Not only does this mean that he could likely take out Sento at any given time, it also raises the possibility that Sento (and the majority of the other people working for Gentoku) might actually be working for Faust and have no idea...
Seeing Night Rogue approach her causes Misora to relive the trauma of being in captivity of Faust. The sheer horror of this is so strong she passes out.
The fact that Night Rogue seems to be taking sadistic pleasure in terrifying her is equally horrifying. This is what Pandora's Box turned Gentoku into. A sadistic monster who preys on the helpless.
Touto's security guards get to experience a full on Mook Horror Show this episode, starting with the lovely image of Blood Stalk killing and dissolving guards with his poison.
It gets worse for them too. After Blood Stalk activates the Guardians' Manchurian Agent protocols, the guards start being killed left and right without any hope of fighting back. Several of them are even brutally executed as their surviving squadmates try to drag them to safety.
The reveal that due to their pact with Faust, the Nanba Corporation included a Villain Override in the Guardians so Faust could take control of them any time. Faust basically has Touto's entire robot army at their beck and call.
Blood Stalk uses his powers to disintegrate a pair of guards. The second one he pumps full of his poison until he breaks into particles, screaming the entire time. The first one he just backhands and he pops like a balloon.
Made worse by Blood Stalk's utter lack of a reaction, almost like he's doing nothing more than swatting a pesky fly instead of murdering a pair of guards.
Just the way Utsumi drops off the bridge when Gentoku kills him. He falls too fast and motionless to be alive on his way down. The fact that Gentoku is so willing to cast aside those who serve him also serves to highlight what a reprehensible villain he is.
Taro Sato went to Katsuragi's place, saw Blood Stalk, tried to run away crying and died nearly immediately after Blood Stalk stabbed him. His face was swapped with the recently knocked out Katsuragi and his body was left for Ryuga to find.
What will Tatsuya say after he gets to know this?
The prime ministers start an all out war. Hokuto has their own Smash and a Rider - Grease. There is a reason for that, Blood Stalk gave them the completed Sclash research data.
The end shows a powerful Smash capable of going back and forth between his monstrous form and human form. And he seems to be a complete ass to boot. It gets better - there are three of them.
The episode starts with some disturbingly real imagery of the border between Touto and Hokuto turning into an active warzone.
Misora wanders around the place in daze, blaming herself for every single thing that's happening, resulting in her trying to hurt her own arm just to take off her bracelet.
Sento searches for Misora among the chaos like a parent looking for their child.
And there's also a scene of a child desperately searching for his missing mother.
Ryuga's first transformation into Cross-Z Charge looks really painful. Not helped at all by the Sclash Driver immersing him in the Dragon Jelly and then twisting it around him until it forms into the Cross-Z Charge armor.
In a first after who knows how many years: Grease, a Rider, used a finisher on an untransformed human. It failed due to an interference, but his intention was to kill the human, he even outright says this. Sure he's an evil Rider, but still, it doesn't make his intention any less of a nightmare fuel.
Sclash Driver is revealed to be extremely dangerous - that's why Katsuragi back then didn't finish it, he was unable to find a way to not make Sclash Driver be not dangerous to its user. What's the danger? Using it basically exposes the user to the lethal effects of Nebula Gas, the same as being unshielded from the light of Pandora Box, thus making the user more violent like Smashes. This explains why Grease has a violent fighting style, to the point where he has no qualms about killing humans. The episode 19 preview revealed Ryuga getting just as violent as Grease, and this is just from two or three uses of the Sclash Driver!
What's just as twisted, is that Blood Stalk tricked Sento into completing the Driver, all while he is being fully aware that Sento is Katsuragi (at that time Sento himself is unaware he is Katsuragi). That means Blood Stalk used Sento/Katsuragi's amnesia to trick him into finishing what he shouldn't have finished.
Using Hazard Trigger carries the risk of its user losing their sense of self. This would be bad for anyone, but for Sento, there is nothing more frightening. He lost his identity once already and fought to hold onto what he managed to establish.
Sento's reaction to Katsuragi's notes on Hazard Trigger is appropriately horrified.
Even the Build Driver is afraid of the Trigger. The transformation has it finally ditching the enthusiastic "Yeah!"... for a genuinely worried, Oh no!
Ryuga is afraid of not being able to control himself as Cross-Z Charge, but just keeps on going because he believes this to be the only option.
The preview implies Sento apparently killing Aoba as RabbitTank Hazard and the realization completely wrecking him. Kazumi's reaction is no better.
In the episode proper, Sento is unable to convince Ryuga into backing down before the Hazard Trigger overwhelms him, suddenly turning RabbitTank Hazard into an agent of Tranquil Fury as he brutally and mercilessly forces Ryuga, Akaba, and Kiba out of their transformations, and then kills Aoba in cold blood. When Sento got forced out of his transformation, he was in shock over what he had done.
The worst thing about it is just how sudden and subtle the change is. There's no roaring like Philip in FangJoker, no deep breathing or grunts like Eiji in PuToTyra. Just silence as the Hazard Trigger overrides Sento's personality to turn him into a silent berserker. Hell if one didn't know how the Trigger functions, they could be forgiven for thinking that's how Build always is.
In a Meta sense, the Hazard form is even more terrifying when compared to other "Berserk" power-ups. FangJoker was hyped up as being dangerous but was brought under control in it's debut. PuToTyra corrupted Eiji into a Greeed, but he never killed anyone. Hazard has killed and still isn't under Sento's control.
Elaborating on the above, the first true showing of Hazard's power starts when Sento just freezes up and stands stock still with a lamp creaking as it swings from the ceiling. Then Build looks up at Ryuga and lunges forward, opening up with a Finishing Move that wipes him out immediately before turning his attention to the Three Crows and tossing them around like ragdolls. The way he kills Aoba is equally terrifying. He brutalizes him with two finishers. A surge of electricity from an Overflow and a Hazard Finish kick. He's totally emotionless during the act too.
Perhaps one of the more subtly horrific things about this scene is that there wasn't a particularly big explosion from the whole thing. Aoba's body just drops like a rock and stays there for the remainder of the scene until Grease checks in on him.
Then, as if all of this wasn't bad enough, he turns toward Akaba and Kiba and begins walking towards them. Note that they just managed to return back to normal and obviously are in no condition to fight. Sento would have killed two untransformed people in cold blood were it not for a combo of Ryuuga and Grease.
In the aftermath of RabbitTank Hazard, Sento is visibly distraught after taking a life and losing control to the Hazard Trigger. To say that he's distraught as a result of his actions would be an understatement.
The device Sento made to destroy the Hazard Trigger will kill him at the same time, and he wants Misora to use it if it comes down to it. She is naturally horrified and tells him off for trying to make her commit murder leading to Sento unintentionally echoing Stalk's words from #21. It doesn't count as a murder because he is just a weapon. Misora rips him a new one for saying so out of a fear induced worry for Sento's well being.
Sento's pleas to stop the fight getting increasingly distorted as he loses control of the Hazard Trigger.
Hazard Trigger affected Sento advancing on an untransformed Kazumi before pulling him up and preparing to kill him. Kazumi barely stirs, resigned to his fate.
Masakuni Mido/Prime Minister of Hokuto having the workers on Kazumi's farm rounded up and told Kazumi that if doesn't join Seito's forces, they will be killed. And he was looking for an oppurtunity to show off the Washio Brothers in the most horrifying way possible. While Tajimi was a cartoonish villain, this guy is just plain evil.
Kamen Rider Rogue's henshin sounds are rather terrifying. The build up music is basically the Jaws theme and includes a woman screaming. Everything about him screams "Bad News" especially since he's Gentoku returned for some revenge. Hell, the activation sound for the bottle is it literally saying DANGER....
Pleasant suprise, his Nebula Steam Gun finisher ends with a scream too.
Gentoku's way of becoming Kamen Rider Rogue. He did not have the privilege of getting the tank treatment like the other three Kamen Riders. Instead, he was chained up until his spirit was broken, forced to keep trying to transform with the Sclash Driver to the point where he was incapacitated by the feedback, and was almost beat to death by Seito's Guardians until his Hazard Level was up to the required level. No wonder he stated that he went through hell to become a Kamen Rider.
His emotionless voice and unblinking stare suggests that he has left some of his marbles back in that cell, too.
Sento's voice, when he warns Soichi to stay away from Misora, does not sound like one anyone should be willing to disobey if they have a shred of sanity left intact.
Sento loses control of Hazard form and beats down everyone on the scene before going for Misora. The way he advances on her is sheer horror.
Neither Ryuga, or Kazumi can move to stop him. All they can do is watch.
To clarify, Build stares at Misora for a few seconds, then wildly dashes towards her. He then picks her up by the neck, slams her against a pillar and starts choking her. If Misora's mysterious powers hadn't kicked in, Sento would have killed one of his closest friends.
Mars...the brief devastation we see is horrifying. And what's occurring now is likely similar to what happened there.
To make things even more horrifying, Misora sees the destruction of Mars' civilization every time she purifies a Fullbottle. Considering how many Fullbottles she purified under Faust's control and with the heroes....
Rogue vs. Akaba. We know that the fight will go badly for the remaining member of the Three Crows. But then Rogue starts ripping off chunks of Akaba's body during their scuffle, while declaring that he will fall for his "crusade". Yeowch.
The Nanba Children. During this episode, we learn that Jusaburo Nanba personally trained a group of orphans from childhood to be experts in a variety of skills, while indoctrinating them to be completely loyal to him. Many of them grew up to be in important positions of power, giving Nanba a spy network who can gather information on or sabotage anyone he wants. For example, Touto's Prime Minister's aide had been leaking military secrets to Hokuto and Seito while they were at war. What's worse is that unlike many of the other villains in this series who were corrupted by Pandora's Box, the ages of some of the Children such as Utsumi proved that Nanba has been doing this since long before the box was discovered, so he doesn't even have that excuse.
This episode shows what it's like for Sento inside his armor when the Hazard Trigger overwhelms him. His face looks like it's in a state of absolute panic and various readouts are flashing in front of his face Iron Man style with a loud alarm going off. It makes his previous freakouts in his Hazard forms feel less like a cold calculating menace and more like a panicked berserker whose thought process screams "KILL AND KILL AND KILL TO MAKE IT STOP!"
Sawa is revealed as one of Nanba Children. She never stopped spying on everyone, and all the things with her being "disposed of" and turned into Smash was only a ploy to get everyone to trust her again. One of the main members of the cast has been a brainwashed Laser Guided Tyke Bomb the entire time.
Stalk completely reduces Seito's Prime Minister to nothing and uses his face-swapping powers to help Nanba pull a Kill and Replace. With a final shot of the Hard Guardians, heavily armored Guardians with gatling guns for hands, powering up it's clear that Nanba is gearing up for a war that can't be stopped by a Representative Battle.
The devastation left by creation of the Pandora Tower. People are tossed everywhere in a much more horrible way than being tossed into the sky during the Skywall Disaster, they're hurled horizontally which means that when they finally hit something... Splat. Also, seeing an event like the Skywall Disaster in more detail, and then seeing the result the completed tower had on Mars (with still no word on how it destroyed a civilization. There was a complete version of a tower just like the one we just saw begin... and then there's total devastation.) really hammers home how the heroes, villains, and nations are playing with impersonal and apocalyptically powerful forces they know nothing about, to a level far beyond even anyone in Gaim trying to control or stop the Helheim Forest. A child playing with a nuke would be ten times less scary than anyone touching that box. And of course, even in the face of this, nobody has any plans of saying "let's just bury the damn thing and go home before we end the world" and walking away.
Misora's scream upon seeing it happen doesn't help either, considering she likely recognizes the tower from the nightmare visions she has while purifying Fullbottles. Not even the Narm packed scream Taizan Himuro gives after her dulls that.
If Souichi's not lying, completing the tower will doom Earth in the same fashion as Mars. They have 27 of 60 bottles. They are almost halfway to their goal.
At this point, the story has crossed into full Cosmic Horror Story territory, and a plot summary reads like one.
The Reveal that Soichi is possessed falls into this, as it is clear that despite Fighting from the Inside, he has virtually no control... Meaning that this whole time, through all the horrible things Stalk was doing, he was trapped in a And I Must Scream situation, only able to watch as it happened—especially given what his own daughter was put through.
Gentoku claims to have a kill switch implanted in him, so he wouldn't try to do anything funny against Nanba.
The way Blood Stalk manipulates Pandora's Box to knock everyone around makes fighting inside the Pandora Tower nearly impossible. Also, it's very reminiscent of how he manipulates people into his plans.
Ryuga was experimented on as a child, because his mother was affected by Pandora Box before he was born.
Oh no, not Pandora's Box, it would actually be less frightening if it was. His mother was walking by the unmanned Martian rover shortly after it returned, and....something crawled off it, and entered her through her leg. Then as she was one month pregnant, and apparently had no idea, it entered the still forming Ryuga and over wrote his human DNA and cellular structure. Allow that to sink in. It altered a being that had no way of defending itself and no one knew, not even his mother. If you're a parent reading this, I apologize for the likely chill you just felt. Arguably worse still? We later learn that it was a piece of Evolt.
Shinobu Katsuragi (Takumi's father) was involved in the experimentation on Ryuga. It turns out that it wasn't too bad, just scientists trying to figure out why the hell a baby born so early was so healthy. What is scary is the fact that Evolt caught wind of this and proceeded to threaten Shinobu to repair the Evol Driver. Imagine being a scientist trying to discover some biological mystery only to get strong-armed into repairing a weapon by a genocidal body-snatching alien.
This also paints the Hazard Trigger in a darker light. It wasn't clear before what Takumi would've wanted with something that could only be a weapon, but with the above in mind He might have been willing to throw away his morals to destroy Evolt no matter the cost.
After Blood Stalk was defeated and then restrained with Pandora's Box, he creepily laughs about how the vessel is finished and that all he needs now is the ultimate Driver. The music only adds to the feeling of how even when he lost the battle, he's still progressing his evil scheme.
And guess what he's getting next month boys and girls? Sleep tight!
Try two episodes from now.
The next step in Blood Stalk's work on rising Ryuga's Hazard Level was attempting to beat Sento to death while Ryuga was watching, unable to move.
With the sheer number of revelations this episode has, the question to ask now is, just how long has Evolt been playing humanity like puppets? If the above point about part of him being within Ryuga is accurate, it began even before the mission ten years ago. And what's worse? We followed willingly.
The attempt to get Pandora's Box by killing Kazumi's past friends from his farm is too evil even by Gentoku's standards! (According to him, what's the point of killing them if the plan didn't work?) Then we see what happened when Gentoku rebelled too much courtesy of Utsumi's device...
Gentoku ends up being forced to take his father hostage for Blood Stalk's agenda to retrieve the Pandora and the Super Prototype Build Driver.
Three words for what's about to come: Evol: Phase One!
Evolt's transformation sequence sounds positively demonic, right down to having a completely psychotic Evil Laugh. Everything about it screams evil, with how its voice is the same as Evolt himself, its transformation music is a twisted, electronic parody of Beethoven's Ninth, and the dark energies and star motifs scream one thing; Evolt is back, and he's done playing around.
Evol Driver: "Cobra! Rider System! Evolution! Are you Ready? Cobra! COBRA! EVOL COBRA! FUHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Everything about Kamen Rider Evol is nightmare fuel incarnate. First, he can teleport at will, to the point that Rogue can't even land a hit on him. Secondly, Evolt is such a vicious fighter that he gives no time for Gentoku to even fight back, hitting him repeatedly before finishing him with an Evoltech Finish. Lastly, translated scans show that this suit has an in-built system to scan celestial bodies to determine the best way to destroy them.
The Evol Driver is no super prototype of the Build Driver. It's the ORIGINAL version. The Build Driver is a man-made version of alien tech, which makes Build an inferior knock-off of Evol.
Soichi Isurugi is not a bad guy in the end, just a man in a very unfortunate situation. Evolt torments him over this seemingly regularly, and Soichi is utterly terrified of what he's being made to do.
Evolt's possession of Ryuga. After the two fire off some explosive punches at each other, when the dust settles, it looks like Ryuga is the only one left standing... Only for him to slowly turn around and speak in Evolt's voice while Kazumi, Sento, and Sawa can only stare in horror.
Evolt appears in Nascita and just knocks everyone down like nobody's bussiness.
The heroes are reduced to one Phoenix Fullbottle in Gentoku's hand since Evolt has all the other Fullbottles and Pandora's Box! Then one of the promotional images shows Evolt with said Fullbottle in the Hokuto panel about to attach it to Pandora's Box. The heroes just can't catch a break.
The Pandora Tower is completed. It is simply a horrifying moment. The sky darkens, fire begins to erupt from the ground, and we hear Evolt laughing manically at his handiwork.
Sento's suicidal plan to deal with Evolt. He experiments with one of the panels to get it down to a size where it can be inserted into the Build Driver. This gives him enough power to fight Evol on equal ground and separate Ryuga. The next step is to use its full power and kill Evol.
Just imagine Misora's situation. Her father is comatose in hospital, her mother is nowhere to be found, her brother has been possesed by Eldritch Abomination and her other brother plans suicide. There is practically nothing she can do about either of these things.
It seems as if Evolt has hijacked Sento. While this likely means that Ryuga is free, that also means that Evolt has control of another Hazard Level 5 body and potentially Sento's genius intellect and memories.
The actual episode not only confirms that Evolt has Sento's body, but that the Hazard Level has been raised even further, meaning that Evolt is that much closer to getting his back to his original power level and destroying Earth.
Even worse? Sento found a way to raise his Hazard Level due to placing a panel of the Pandora Box into the Build Driver. What did his Hazard Level raise to? 6. Higher than even Ryuga. Worse still? Even if he's removed, Sento still used a device too dangerous for a human anyway, and there will likely be consequences for doing so. He now has to walk the route several other Riders have before him, no matter what.
It is implied that Evolt comes from some undiscovered planet that is not Mars nor Earth which could potentially mean that there is possibly other beings just like him and could be just as evil.
According to Vernage, Pandora's Tower didn't wipe out Mars with an enormous explosion like the audience was lead to believe it did. What seems to be a Black Hole opened above it and and "stripped the planet of everything". Paired with the episode title of Evol Hunts Planets and the terrible possibility that Evolt and his race are Planet Looters comes to mind.
What's worse? Vernage screamed that if Evolt gets his final form, Earth is doomed, and magazine scans show that the Evol Trigger gives Evolt a Black Hole Form. The Pandora Tower didn't make the black hole that wiped out Mars. Evol made the black hole with his own two hands.
We later learn that Evolt is actually much worse than a Planet Looter. He actually consumes planets for energy, not because he needs to, but only because it makes him more powerful, and his ultimate goal is to eventually consume everything in the universe until he's the only thing left just because he can.
The Uncanny Valley that Evolt-Sento resides in. Just to start with hearing Evolt's voice come out of Sento is just surreal. Evolt mostly keeping Sento's body language (with some creepy faces added on the top) only makes things worse.
Evolt is actually furious that his plans have been foiled for the first time in his long planet-destroying career. He starts threatening Sento, saying that if he's still there, he is letting him know that he'll destroy everything and everyone he cares about personally. Then he begins to twitch and growl inhumanly. Seeing Sento's body do those movements is just...wrong.
Evolt: Sento, did you hear that? Thanks to you... My whole plan WAS RUINED!!!
Transforming into Great Cross-Z makes blue cracks appear on Ryuga's face for a moment.
Using a panel of Pandora Box in the Build Driver and being possesed by Evolt screwed with Sento's mind, causing him to return to being Takumi Katsuragi. He doesn't remember anything that happened after he was disposed of by Evolt, which is made obvious when he doesn't recognize his name.
The Washio Brothers both fight Evolt and die. Rai gets disintegrated by a black hole and Fu vanishes like the Three Crows.
Utsumi doesn't so much as jump off the slippery slope as do a tap dance number off it. He's all but feral now and acts as Evolt's attack dog.
Utsumi's Kamen Rider Mad Rogue can be seen as terrifying in its own right. The orderly tubes that normally form become wild and incoherent, and when they converge, they deform and bring to mind blood vessels.
And with that, we also get another dose of terror; Evolt is officially toying with everyone now, as he's abandoned the idea of destroying Earth simply because Utsumi's breakdown was so hilarious to him that he decided "Hey, you know what, this is just too fun to stop now."
The implication that Evolt even after getting his final Black Hole form can become even more powerful. All because of him creating a seventh panel from the Pandora Box and the Evol Trigger as well as converting Smash Bottles into Lost Fullbottles that will play into the upcoming movie.
Once again, the Evol gear perverts another classical score. In this case, the rotation jingle while the Evol Trigger is attached is a remix of O Fortuna.
Kazumi infiltrates Faust in Hokuto, is captured and subjected to forced Nebula Gas exposure that raises his Hazard Level to it's absolute limit. If he is defeated, he will disappear just like the Trio.
Evolt brought Tajimi out of whatever place he had her tucked away for later usage and makes her into Lost Smash bent on killing Sento and Kazumi. If they didn't have other options, they would have to kill her to make her stop attacking.
What's worse, The dose of Nebula Gas required to completely brainwash Tajimi and turn her into a Lost Smash is all but confirmed to be hideously painful by her terrified strained screams from within the pod.
The connections between Best Matches are finally explained as being thirty things that Evolt asked Soichi to name, and thirty things that could destroy them. The only reason for the more bizarre ones was eventually out of a desire to protect the things that Misora would love, the Organic FullBottles, after a while he stopped answering Evolt's questions for Inorganic FullBottles rationally and started giving him nonsense answers. This had the unfortunate side effect of making Evolt Intrigued by Humanity.
It turns out that up until this point, Evolt couldn't feel human emotion, despite acting very much like he could, and something Sento's Genius Finish did to him gave him actual emotions. Later on in the episode, Sento notes after taking a finishing move that Evolt being able to feel true anger and having the Rider System plugged into his belt means that Evolt's Hazard Level can rise. That's right. The villain can get stronger without having to get any new toys. And from how frustrated he got from fighting Genius Form, he's gonna get a lot angrier. Nice knowing you, Sento.
Another frightening implication of this is that up until this point, any sadism Evolt exhibited was also just a farce. But now? He can actually take enjoyment out of making others suffer, and if his actions in this episode are any indication, he's realized this fact too.
Evolt gives us another dosage of this page when he uses a Black Hole Finish and generates a giant black hole to devour the Touto government building, and everyone inside, eliminating the entire Touto government in one swoop. It's obvious if it weren't for his interest in Earth, he would've done this a while ago and kept it going, to devour the entire world.
Somehow this causes Ryuga has another flash of Evolt's memories and goes berserk in fight against Utsumi. He seems to be at least somewhat aware of what's going on, but it doesn't exactly allow to stop himself. When Utsumi escapes, he starts punching a downed guardian (basically a pile of scrap already), probably to avoid attacking Kazumi, who is justifiedly freaked out.
Worse, he uses Evolt's Flash Step ability and something akin to a Black Hole finish in the fight.
The inside of his helmet at moment reminded of the warning signs and alarms that go off in berserk Hazard Forms.
Ryuga loses control and goes berserk against Katsuragi Shinobu/Another Build. He would have killed the man if Sento didn't stop him and that is after he snapped out of the horror caused by watching him.
Misora is captured by Evolt and turned into Lost Smash. The way she pleads for Sento to save her before being taken over by crazed Vernage is worthy of slasher movie.
Evolt not only successfully evolves by absorbing the completed Black Pandora Panel and pushing the Evol Driver to the limit, he then gets a little emotional revenge on Sento by warping him with him to another unrelated planet and then proceeds to activate his new form's Black Hole Break finisher. What does that do you may ask? Why opens up a black hole that consumes the entire planet instantly and without the need for Pandora's Box of course! Oh yeah, and it gets worse. Every time Evolt does that he gets stronger. His description of what he's going to do with that power is bone-chilling.
Evolt: I'm going to consume as many planets as I can, until I'm all that's left in the universe. And that... ...will be the new world!
Oh, and that planet Evolt warped to? It was populated, and it's inhabitants can be seen being pulled into the air by the Black Hole Break. Evolt just casually committed on-screen genocide for shits, giggles and a power-up.
The fact that Evolt threatens Utsumi while telling him to not inform the Blood Tribe members of what he's after implies that his desire to be "all that's left in the universe" extends to exterminating his own race.
The episode opens on Evolt as Mido giving a televised speech about the Skywall Disaster and a quick summary of the events of the series before breaking into an Evil Laugh and revealing who he really is to the world after declaring "As of today, our country is done!" and transforming into Kamen Rider Evol's Black Hole form. Imagine if a beloved and respected politician tore off his skin during a speech and revealed that he was an alien who wants to eat your planet and you'd understand how the people of Build's Japan must have felt during that broadcast.
Evolt: My name is Evolt. I'm an extraterrestrial being that assimilates planets to turn them into my energy! Your planet will be destroyed as it becomes part of me!
His explanation of his devised final confrontation with the Riders is bone-chilling too, mainly because he frames the whole thing as a game. The Riders need to make it to the top of Pandora's Tower to fight him, but for every ten minutes they don't Evolt will destroy a segment of the country. He then immediately demonstrates it, sucking an entire city block and thousands of people into a Black Hole.
Evolt reveals even more of his Super Power Lottery, as it turns out he can spawn doppelgangers of people. What's worse, each of them is extremely powerful, able to match, if not exceed, the originals in power. He created imitations of the Hokuto Crows, and the preview for 47 implies he makes imitations of the Engine and Remocon Bros, but so far there's no known limit on how many he can make, or how powerful they can get.
Fridge Horror when you realize that instead of attacking the heroes, he could've had these guys run around outside the Tower and kill regular people. They almost perfectly snuck up on the Riders, after all.
This episode kills two riders in one go. First, Utsumi dies fighting Evolt and then Kazumi dies fighting Evolt's mimics.
Evolt is still destroying huge chunks of Japan with his Black Holes, inflicting horrible deaths upon thousands, while the Riders are struggling and dying.
Sawa's hands are all bloody up to the wrists from tending to Gentoku's wounds. This doesn't stop her from hugging Misora, who is too distraught to notice.
Evolt opens a massive black hole to destroy Earth like he did Mars, in the process consuming the Moon to power his true form up further.
Gentoku's death, while a Dying Moment of Awesome that was instrumental in saving the world, was horrifyingly brutal. He gets beaten down by Evolt so badly that he gets a hole punched in his helmet.
Ryuga's seeming death, pulling a Taking You with Me gambit to force Evolt into the distortion between realities knowing full well that if he does they're both facing absolute oblivion.
Episode 49: There's just something terrifying about how Evolt behaves when Sento arrives and he reveals himself. Evolt normally makes some witty quip or insult, but here, he just stands there for a few moments with a Death Glare, practically snarling. Evolt's been angry before, but this is the first time he's been completely speechless with rage.
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Creating the Ex-Aid FullBottle robs Emu of his ability to transform.
The villains plan to destroy both Sento's world and the main Kamen Rider world by having them collide into each-other.
Raising the Hazard Level
Sento spends not even a full minute in SmarphoWolf Hazard before losing control. He's working to try and get it under his control... and wasn't in control for more than a minute. Yikes
Build nearly kills Utsumi, mowing though the two hologram Smash he summons, punching through the first, and using the Drill Crusher to shred the other, embedding it into its head and working downward. Had the latter not used that as a distraction to remove the Trigger, he most likely would have been next.
#1: Gentoku and Soichi talk about naming the organization experimenting with Nebula Gas Faust. [[Spoiler: Gentoku]] notes that Soichi can't be as powerful as Mephistopheles. Well, as it turned out, he was wrong and actually talking to the closest equivalent of the devil there is in Build.
Gentoku is repeatedly beaten by his inmates in Nanba's prison. One time leaves him half dead and stuffed in a body bag.
There is a strong implication of prison rape as two inmates hold Gentoku up while their boss starts undressing. While nothing is shown, it's also implied not to be the first time.
The deathmatch between inmates in Nanba's prison. Gentoku beats all three of them to death, transforms into Kamen Rider Rogue for the first time and he fights the Hell bros.
The Hell bros kill one of the fighters by slicing his throat ear to ear by the gears on their hands. It's as far from Bloodless Carnage as everything else in this special.
Utsumi is visibly upset by Stalk's scheming and tries to stop Gentoku from killing the Hell bros by telling him they're his former subordinates from Faust. They saved his life when he was beaten half to death by the other inmates he was in cell with. Gentoku's casual disregard of their lives makes Utsumi very horrified and disgusted.
New World: Cross-Z
To start off, we learn from the trailer that not only is there at least one more member of the Blood Tribe. His name is Killbas, and he's Evolt's older brother. Who apparently is stronger than him. He also can imitate people's appearances, much like his brother did.
And that's just the start of the fun, kids! In the trailer, while all of his lines are over-the-top, the way he delivers them is pretty terrifying. The way he says Banjou's name is definitely going to leave a mark in someone's memory.
Killbas in the full movie barely loses his stride in this department. He starts off by imitating Sento, then he imitates a flamenco dancer. While his motions in that form are certainly hard to take seriously, it's the raw power he carries that maintains the message. Using basic Best Matches, he curb stomps Banjou and Evolt (But to be fair Evolt only had access to the Blood Stalk form at the moment).
Then he turns a children's toy into the Kilbus Spider, a tool which allows him to maintain the curb stomp train against Cross-Z Magma and Evol Cobra, while summoning multiple Clone Smash (which were able to defeat Grease and Rogue), implying that he split his power between himself and the Smash. Which in turn means that he was able to beat the two strongest characters in the show with a portion of his new power.
All of this pales in comparison to the offscreen implications of his backstory. He's the king of the Blood Tribe, and he not only destroyed their home world, he commanded the others to fulfill his Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum. This, in turn, implies that most of the Blood Tribe were Punch Clock Villains and the only ones we met were those who were cruel and powerful enough to survive.
The fact that the trailer said Kilbus used the White Pandora panel to enter the New World. This means that, somehow, the old world still exists, and Kilbus is just the only thing so far to find his way into the New World. Which makes one wonder what else might be hiding in the Old World looking for a way out.
Some how, some way, Evolt himself has come back for round 2! While he's allied with Banjou to fight his brother, the thought of Evolt surviving being crushed between two worlds is a horrific one by any standard.
Evolt's jarring out of character moment when he faces Killbas is pretty damn creepy to behold and with the above mentioned facts about his nutheaded pyschopath of an older brother is pretty damn scary to watch
In the flashback to Yui's backstory, we're treated to a sequence of Yui being taken to a Faust lair and painfully doused with enough Nebula Gas to turn her into the Scissors Lost Smash before being chained up and beaten by Guardians, causing her to catch aflame and burn to death. Doubles as a Tear Jerker.
When Killbas reactivates Pandora's Box the nascita team regains their memories of the old world. While this doubles as a moment of awesome, take a moment to really think about it. You're going along, living your everyday life, when, suddenly, you start remembering horrible things. A civil war between Japan, you killing other people, or even, in Grease's case dying!
On top of this, it's speculated in the movie that anyone who was experimented on by Nebula Gas would regain their memories. At least the nascita crew has others that share their memories. Random people who became Smash, like, say the Flying Smash from episode 3. That was a mother who almost attacked her son. She suddenly regains those memories, but her son doesn't remember any of that. It would be easy for the woman to assume that she's just going crazy.
New World: Grease
The seeming Dragon of the movie's villain, Kamen Rider Metal Build, answers the question "what if someone really did use Build as a military weapon?" The result is a Rider with no flashy colors who uses two grey Tank fullbottles and the Hazard Trigger to transform. Seeing a Build Hazard with two dull gunmetal grey eye-plates and an affiliation to a conquest hungry terrorist organization is chilling to the bone.
Someone decided to test the standalone Legend Rider Bottles with the Evol Driver to see if there would be a difference between it and the Build Driver's sounds, and there is. Where the Build Driver simply states the Rider's name and plays their default transformation sound the Evol Driver produces the respective Rider's Final Form.
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Russia Uses Social Media to Sway Public Opinion
Russia is continuing its efforts to meddle in elections around the globe and is currently working on spreading misinformation via social media ahead of the EU parliamentary elections at the end of May, according to new data from SafeGuard Cyber.
Malicious actors – defined in the report as individuals, bots, trolls and hybrids – are exacerbating what are already contentious issues to try and influence the public's perception of events, according to the report.
SafeGuard Cyber's report evidences the volume of misinformation that is directed at EU member states in an effort to foment social unrest around hot-button issues, such as an article that looks at the future of France, written by French president Emanuel Macron.
The day after Macron published the piece, bad actor activity increased 79%, primarily to promote or share content attempting to discredit Macron's ideas and shape public perception, according to today's press release.
"Influence operations can appear difficult to discern because the content moving through conversations takes many forms and appears scattershot as any topic on social media. However, chasing any and every topic would actually dilute misinformation efforts, because campaign managers are aiming to achieve a certain 'critical mass' of messaging in order to exert any influence on the average citizen," the report said.
"The scale of the problem is tremendous. The rise of disinformation campaigns is abetted by the fact that it is incredibly difficult to stop their spread on social platforms," said Otavio Freire, co-founder, CTO and president of SafeGuard Cyber.
"Bad actors realize that hacking election infrastructure and hacking the perception of reality and facts are ultimately tactics to accomplish similar outcomes. The former you need to get past firewalls while the latter continues to be unprotected. Our report reinforces the need for a new approach to security, as today's bad actors are not at all hindered by the cybersecurity tactics of yesterday."
In related news, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced on May 6 that it released ElectionGuard, a free, open-source software development kit (SDK) from its Defending Democracy Program, according to a blog post. "ElectionGuard will make voting secure, more accessible and more efficient anywhere it's used in the United States or in democratic nations around the world."


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