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Q: Matplotlib plot without whitespace in tkinter frame Im trying to display a greyscale image (made with matplotlib) in a tkinter Frame. The image itself is displayed, but only with some whitespace between each side of the actual image and the tkinter Frame border. Any ideas on how i can avoid drawing the image with the whitespace?
My code that i currently use:
from matplotlib.figure import Figure
from matplotlib.backends.backend_tkagg import FigureCanvasTkAgg

fig = Figure(figsize=(20, 20))
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
ax.imshow(self.data, cmap="Greys", interpolation=None)
ax.axis("off")

canvas = FigureCanvasTkAgg(fig, master=self.frame)
canvas.get_tk_widget().pack()
canvas.draw()

The code produces this output in the frame:

This is roughly how it should look like (with better image quality of course, but you get the idea):

A: It looks like the whitespace exists both in the plot and in the GUI, so the problem lies on the matplotlib side. The fig.subplots_adjust(left=0.01, right=0.99, top=0.99, bottom=0.01) method can reduce this whitespace.

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fig.add_axes - Add an Axes to the figure.
rect : sequence of float
   The dimensions [left, bottom, width, height] of the new Axes. All quantities are in fractions of figure width and height.

example code,
from matplotlib.figure import Figure
from matplotlib.backends.backend_tkagg import FigureCanvasTkAgg
import tkinter as tk

root = tk.Tk()
frame = tk.Frame(root)
frame.pack()
fig = Figure(figsize=(5, 5))
"""
fig.add_axes - Add an Axes to the figure.
    rect : sequence of float
        The dimensions [left, bottom, width, height] of the new Axes. All
        quantities are in fractions of figure width and height.
"""
ax = fig.add_axes([0, 0, 1, 1])
ax.plot(range(10))
ax.set_xlim([0, 9])
ax.set_ylim([0, 9])

canvas = FigureCanvasTkAgg(fig, master=frame)
canvas.get_tk_widget().pack()
canvas.draw()

root.mainloop()


The Three Rivers Varsity Football game was one for the ages. Not only were they wrapping up a very successful regular season, the halftime show featured a marriage proposal between two alumni.
Dariel Carr and Alexis Bradshaw met as students at Three Rivers Armstrong Field during the Homecoming game in 2009. Dariel graduated in 2011 and is now a Pharmacy Technician in Kalamazoo County. While Alexis graduated in 2010 and is now a Teacher for Bullfrogs and Butterflies Learning Center as well as the Three Rivers Band's Color Guard Coach. The two share a daughter, 16 month old Malia. A true hometown love story coming full circle.
At the end of the halftime performance, the announcer called Alexis to the field "For a very important question". That is when Dariel comes out and asks Alexis to marry him. See the video of the special moment below.
Congratulations to the happy couple and congratulations Three Rivers Wildcats on a winning season.


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Netflix Confirms Expansion Into Mobile Gaming
Posted July 20, 2021 at 10:29pm by iClarified · 3401 views · Translate
Netflix confirmed plans to expand into mobile gaming today. The move was announced in the company's second quarter earnings report.
Notably, games will be included in your Netflix subscription at no additional cost.
We're also in the early stages of further expanding into games, building on our earlier efforts around interactivity (eg, Black Mirror Bandersnatch) and our Stranger Things games. We view gaming as another new content category for us, similar to our expansion into original films, animation and unscripted TV. Games will be included in members' Netflix subscription at no additional cost similar to films and series. Initially, we'll be primarily focused on games for mobile devices. We're excited as ever about our movies and TV series offering and we expect a long runway of increasing investment and growth across all of our existing content categories, but since we are nearly a decade into our push into original programming, we think the time is right to learn more about how our members value games.
It's unclear what types of games Netflix will produce and when they will be available; however, it appears the company's efforts are already underway. Netflix recently hired former EA and Oculus exec Mike Verdu. Additionally, its TV deal with Shonda Rhimes has been extended to include feature films and gaming content.
Netflix will be competing with Apple Arcade in the mobile gaming category, similar to how Apple is now competing against Netflix with its Apple TV+ streaming service. Please download the iClarified app or follow iClarified on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and RSS for updates.
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So you can send audios on WhatsApp scam effects on voice
WhatsApp will be one of the applications that master of science trust tries to give its users that suppression is totally safe with them. And it has been that one of his maxims was to keep everything that has to do, which includes talks with any other information, totally protected from the gaze of third parties. But in addition to this, you can also do other things to use the application in a conscious and responsible way.
For example, decide who will show your private information, read messages secretly through widgets On a primary page, decide who can add you to the groups or listen to voice notes before sending them to the recipient. In addition, WhatsApp may also stop working if it detects that you have other applications downloaded to your phone that are third-party but that they pass as add-ons of it.
With it, there are many apps currently both available for Google android and for iOS, all scam that you can perform many functions. Like, for example, send audios voice effects with. Whether you want to speak like the robotic or if you want to sound like the baby, you can do it with external applications. Next, we will tell you everything you need to know to do it.
With external applications downloaded to your phone you can change your voice over WhatsApp
To be able to enjoy all the functions that WhatsApp offers to its users, the best thing has been that you know all with each one about the options that you will find on an application on instant messaging. But in addition, it will also be very useful for you to know other external applications that will help you to perform many interesting actions to get the most out of it.
Con was that when you want to change the effects on voice on the audios that you send the travs on WhatsApp, you will have to use an external tool. Since an application h does not yet offer this possibility in. To do so, there are applications available on both Google android and iOS in. Next we are going to list the best ones that you can download some.
Baviux Tone of voice Changer with Results
This will be one on the applications available for Google android master of science phones downloaded on a whole store on Google Have fun with. With, although this voice change is not available for calls, you can record audios and apply special effects on your voice with. Account with master of science of 40 effects to choose from. It has been free, but scam account possibility of purchases within the application.
Live Tone of voice Changer- Prankcall
This has been one of the few applications available that allow you to change your voice during a call, something that one does on the master of science used by users on WhatsApp. One application was free, but you have to buy integrated into it to be able to activate certain functionalities.
If you have these applications installed WhatsApp could delete your profile
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Lyrics Of Top Hit Songs
by GrooveLilyin Albums, Groove Lily, Tracks
Some of the best hit songs of all times come with powerful lyrics that resonate with people regardless of their age and culture. It is prudent to say that music has transformed the world into a global village. Good music travels far and wide, and is listened to from different corners of the globe. However, much as music listeners enjoy musical lyrics, they may not understand that lyric writing is not an easy task.
It takes a musician months and sometimes years to identify the ideal words that can communicate the singer's feelings, and rhyme with his chosen tempo and melody. Both the lyrics and the sound must appeal to the listener's ear.
Many times, lyrics make or break a song. Many songs that have been widely shared and appreciated comprise of powerful song lyrics that express the singer's mood and an inspiring tune to match. There within lies the authority of words. Songs have the power to ignite different emotions on different people.
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This explains why some songs will make you happy, while others will make you cry. It is important to remember that not all music artists are talented lyric writers and vice versa. Some musicians hire people to write down their lyrics while some lyric writers will have a musician of their choice transform their lyrics into a dynamic song. There is a wide variety of songs and many more are released every other day. Some of them come with unfathomable and sometimes meaningless lyrics, yet they can be so catchy.
The Beatles – Hey Jude
These types of songs can stick around your head for a prolonged period of time. They cannot be termed as inspiring though they are among the most sang and enjoyed songs throughout the world.
For instance, perhaps The Beatles had no idea that their song Hey Jude would receive the magnitude of appreciation it has managed to garner throughout the years. The song features some meaningless words such as Nah nah nah yeah. Still it has some powerful lyrics. You are likely to find many people humming along to the song with little regard to the word's meaning.
Probably some of the best song lyrics have a touch of poetry which may convince listeners that the singers are talented poets. Take Bob Dylan and Neil Young for instance their lyrical prowess coupled with their beautiful sounds brings out some of the best songs ever written. To date, many listeners believe that their lyrics are both impeccable and poetic. For the musical lovers who have listened to different varieties of music, they know how to tell a poorly written song from a great one. Below is a compilation of some of the greatest songs ever produced?
Surf's Up The Beach Boys
This song is what many people have termed as a masterpiece with some of the most alluring lyrics ever. It is filled with a surreal analogy, a result of intricate imagination that the lyrics writer Van Dyke Parks excelled in.
The words of the song simply flow allowing the listener to pile together images created by the lyrics of this powerful song. The bizarre nature of the song lyrics brought about resistance in the band with some of the singers saying that they made little sense while others said they would bring about hostility within their fans.
As a result of this, the song was suspended for a few years.
I Still Miss Someone By Johnny Cash
When Johnny Cash sang this song, he probably aimed at releasing a simple song. However, it turned out to be covered numerous times. Additionally, the lyrics are dynamic.
Many music lovers can attest to the fact that lyrics that touch on love and especially lost love have received lots of appreciation.
Johnny outdid himself in this tune because the lyrics resonate with a huge percentage of people who have gone through heartbreak before.
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out By The Smiths
The Smiths have managed to garner appreciation for their music and lyrics alike, courtesy of Morrissey, a band member who has been described as a wordsmith.
He is said to be a poet, an enthusiastic reader, and an idealistic from within his heart. He has penned down some of the most popular lyrics that have ever been released on British music in a span of thirty years. The Smiths pay extra attention to their song titles, giving them a poetic touch. Some of their other songs include; Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me, Shoplifters of the World Unite, and There Is a Light That Never Goes Out.
Good music lasts through generations.
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Adnan Syed's Story Continues In HBO Docuseries
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Serial & Adnan Syed Are Back In New Trailer For HBO Docuseries
Kathryn Lindsay
Photo: Courtesy of HBO.
Serial may just have wrapped its third season, but the story of season 1's Adnan Syed is still unfolding. Fourteen years after he was convicted of the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee, Serial advocated for his innocence. The show's work spurred action that resulted in a new trial for the 38-year-old, who is currently serving a life-sentence. To know exactly what went down after the podcast's first season, though, we'll have to turn to HBO.
The Case Against Adnan Syed, a four-part docuseries directed by Amy Berg, is slated to debut on the network this spring. The series is a culmination of over three years of work on behalf of Berg, who was nominated for an Oscar for her 2006 documentary Deliver Us From Evil. In addition to the evidence presented by Serial, the first teaser trailer for the series promises "a piece of evidence that nobody even realized existed for all these years," and a current look at Syed and his legal struggles.
Not everyone believes in Syed's innocence. Plenty of fans were not convinced by Serial's evidence, and, in the The Case Against Adnan Syed, Syed himself admits things appear dicey.
"I know there are things that don't look good for me," he says on the phone in the teaser.
Is The Case Against Adnan Syed the next step towards his freedom? Watch the teaser, below.
The Case Against Adnan Syed HBO Docuseries Trailer
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... Keith Collins, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's chief economist, has estimated that the ethanol-fueled increase in corn prices lowered federal payments to farmers by $6 billion last year. Dinneen said $2.7 billion from the ethanol industry in new federal tax revenues meant that taxpayers gained a return on their investment in government subsidies paid to ethanol producers.
Magyar said the partners are looking for a U.S. site to build a biobutanol plant. He said biobutanol will complement - not compete with - ethanol.
As I understand it, ethanol in gasoline is not subject to the federal fuel tax. If this loss of tax revenue is also taken into account, I wonder if there is not then a net loss?


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Indian Overseas Bank authorised to collect receipts from Tamil Nadu's official IFHRMS portal
IFHRMS facilities include downloading of payslips, creating DDO templates, generating bills, adding festival advances.
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IOB or Indian Overseas Bank is now authorised to collect receipts from the official portal of IFHRMS. The authorisation will enable both offline and online collection of receipts on the official Tamil Nadu HRMS portal.
What is IFHRMS?
Here are some details about the IFHRMS portal that the government of Tamil Nadu operates for making the payslip process smooth in the state.
IFHRMS stands for Integrated Financial and Human resources management system.
It provides an online portal for employees to avail finance related services.
It helps with the online digital payslip downloading process.
It is run by the Finance department of Tamil Nadu State Government.
About Rs 2,000 crore funds unutilised by state identified
Recently, according to a Business Standard article, the government of Tamil Nadu identified that an amount of about Rs 2000 crore was unutilised which could be remitted back to the treasury, as confirmed by Tamil Nadu Finance Minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan.
He also emphasised on the importance of a mechanism that will prevent non-utilisation of such big funds. For this, a pattern of direct disbursal of funds from the treasury to the beneficiaries account must be promoted, he said.
Through IFHRMS, direct supply of goods and services, payments made to pensioners and scholarships to students can be also looked upon.
Using the portal
According to Talkshubh, one can visit the official login page of the Karuvoolam portal launched by the TN government for using IFHRMS facilities. They can download their payslip, create DDO templates, generate bills, add festival advances etc.
Apart from this, one can add or remove employees, add dues and deductions etc too. Please note that these details are outsourced and must be verified by the readers too.
Indian Bank partnered with the portal in September
In September, Indian Bank also confirmed their partnership with the treasury portal. The bank thanked the government of Tamil Nadu for choosing them as one of the partners for receipt of payment.
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It is a border-control agent's nightmare: a terrorist sneaks uranium or plutonium through a seaport and into an urban center, and uses it to set off a dirty bomb or a nuclear weapon.
On April 13 at the American Physical Society meeting in Baltimore, Md., physicists will present research on a cargo-screening technology that could foil such a plot. The researchers say that a device involving the approach, which would scan shipping containers with beams of precisely tuned γ-rays, would be safer and more effective than current technology. The device could be several meters tall and stationary, or a smaller, portable unit.
Interest from governments in screening cargo for nuclear material increased dramatically after the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks. At present, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) uses passive-radiation detectors to scan all cargo containers entering the country by land and sea; similar systems are used in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. But passive detectors are prone to producing false positives caused by benign, but slightly radioactive materials such as cat litter and stoneware. More problematically, a terrorist can shield material such as uranium so that a passive system cannot detect it.
In the past few decades, active-screening technologies have become available. These devices produce images of cargo containers using high-energy γ-radiation, similar to medical X-rays. Technology currently used in the United States and United Kingdom generates this radiation through a process known as 'bremsstrahlung', in which decelerating charged particles emit γ-rays at a range of energies. The γ-rays travel through cargo and strike a detector on the other side, creating an image.
These images can alert inspectors to dense material hidden inside lighter cargo — a chunk of uranium inside a shipment of wheat, for example. But they cannot distinguish metals and other dense materials from one another, so shielding nuclear material is not that difficult. "If you take a nuclear weapon and you throw it into scrap metal or into some random cargo, it won't look like anything," says physicist Areg Danagoulian of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, who led the latest research.
At higher intensities, bremsstrahlung-based devices could provide information on the atomic number of material inside cargo, potentially differentiating between uranium and other metals such as iron. But achieving this level of precision requires more-powerful radiation than imaging does, and risks delivering dangerous doses of radiation to stowaways in cargo containers or to port workers.
To reduce radiation without sacrificing the ability to identify specific elements, Danagoulian and his colleagues used a particle accelerator at MIT's Bates Linear Accelerator Center in Middleton, Massachusetts, to study a nuclear reaction between deuterium (an isotope of hydrogen) and boron. The reaction reduces radiation by releasing γ-radiation at two specific energies, 4.4 and 15.1 Megaelectronvolts, or MeV. Bremsstrahlung, in contrast, releases radiation at a broad range of energies.
Elements with higher atomic numbers absorb substantially more 15.1-MeV photons than do those with lower numbers. By comparing the counts of 15.1-MeV photons to those of 4.4-MeV photons striking a detector, Danagoulian and his colleagues can so far differentiate iron, tin, tungsten and lead. Though they have not tested uranium specifically, Danagoulian says that the element should be even easier to detect because it has a higher atomic number than those metals. The researchers plan to test their device on depleted uranium later this year.
The technique could also provide another way to detect nuclear material, Danagoulian adds. When 15.1-MeV photons strike uranium, they can trigger a controlled nuclear-fission reaction and release neutrons, which inspectors could then detect. Danagoulian stresses that the process carries no risk of initiating a chain reaction.
But he adds that more-advanced particle accelerators and detectors are needed before his team's technique can be deployed. The accelerators need to produce beams that contain more photons at 4.4 MeV and 15.1 MeV than at present, and the detectors would need to process these photons more quickly.
However, the official, who asked not to be named, noted that a practical system would require smaller accelerators than the researchers currently use. It would also need to be tested on cargo containers, and meet various criteria related to the cost and complexity of operation. The Department of Homeland Security or other sources might support such development, he said; a practical device could still be a decade away.
This article is reproduced with permission and was first published on April 11, 2015.
Gabriel Popkin is a freelance science journalist and chair of the National Association of Science Writers' information access committee.


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	/**
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	 * asynchronous request processing timeout. The value is expected to be of
	 * type {@link Long} and express the timeout in milliseconds. The default is
	 * 10 seconds.
	 */
	String ASYNC_TIMEOUT = "com.boylesoftware.web.async.timeout";

	/**
	 * Standard name of application configuration property used to configure the
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	String ASYNC_THREADS = "com.boylesoftware.web.async.threads";

	/**
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Tag Archives: Signature Style
January 5, 2016 by Moreland
A Fashion Statement
So I've talked about fashion before:
And it's true, whether we are so deeply invested that we know the designer's names and collections, to whether we know what we like and that's what we buy over and over again; everyone has some sort of interest in fashion.
And with that we have the things we like and dislike; our own little quirks. For instance I hate anything around my neck it bothers me to no end.
My sister always makes fun of me for that, but it feels like I am choking.
I also hate huge clunky bracelets. I have very small wrists so I always have issues getting ones that fit right.
Yep, comfort tends to be my number one thing.
Sometimes it is more fun to just chill out and relax than be in dressed up clothes. I think Cher said it best in Clueless:
Yep:
Although that doesn't go for my shoes as I love them high.
For more fashion, go to These Shoes Were Made for Walking
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For more on Star Trek, go to To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before
For more on Clueless, go to My Current Relationship Status
For more on Marilyn Monroe, go to Musical Madness
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October 4, 2015 by Moreland
I'm the Chosen One. And I Choose to be Shopping: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
Buffy, you're the guy. You are the chosen guy.
Right. I'm the chosen one. And I choose to be shopping.
So I'm sure a lot of you are surprised. What Buffy the Vampire Slayer is this? Well before we had this:
We had this:
In 1992, Joss Whedon's idea of a Californian cheerleader finding out she was actually the vampire slayer of her generation, came to theaters. Only one problem, Whedon HATED it.
In fact he hated it so much, that he was reported to walk off set one day and never come back.
Five years later, Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series came out, one that stayed true to his "vision".
So What Went Wrong?
Apparently the screenwriters felt that Whedon's story was too dark and depressing. They wanted it to be more of a horror-parody comedy, kind of like Heathers with vampires instead of a homicidal maniac. Whedon wasn't interested in that, as you can tell with his much darker TV series.
Joss Whedon to a T
So Is this Film Bad?
Let's get down to the review and find out:
The film starts out with a historical piece. A medieval woman who has the birthmark (a mole), proving she is the Vampire Slayer of this generation. We switch from a very serious moment of her asking to "become the blade".
And fighting Vampires.
And then we switch to Los Angeles and a group of cheerleaders chanting.
And Miss Buffy Summers, cheerleader extraordinaire, fashionista, and a total valley girl.
Yeah, that is pretty much the essence of the movie. They try to pin together opposites. And is it horrible? No. I love it. It is so quirky and funny. And come on, a cheerleader by day and vampire slayer ay night? That's awesome.
So as I'm reading the credits and as I have seen this movie before I didn't think think I would see anything important, but then Paul Reubens…wait, what?!
Pee-Wee is in a teen film? Pee-Wee Herman is in a vampire film? PEE-WEE?!!! PEE-WEE??!!! PEE-WEE HERMAN is in a TEEN VAMPIRE FILM?
How could I have missed that? Huh. And Hilary Swank? Ugh! I hate her. Ever since she ruined the Karate Kid series.
This was supposed to be her first film, so maybe she won't be too bad. So Buffy and the gang go to the mall, shopping!
And there is something you might notice in this scene. While this movie came out in 1992, we hadn't completely crossed over from the '80s. You can kind of see it in the stonewash, abundance of leather, and in the "gothic" clothes of the vampire and "uncool" crowd, but most of it looks like this:
And I LOVE IT!
Anyways, so at the mall the girls are shopping when Buffy spots this totally rad jacket. And let me tell you, Buffy has a great sense of style
Her friend Kimberly (Hilary Swank), and let me just stop her and say that unless you are a pink ranger, having the name Kimberly means you are EVIL. I don't know why, it just seems to be a trait that carries on with a name.
Anyways, she convinces her that the jacket is ugly and so yesterday.
When she is not shopping, she spends her time out with her jocky boyfriend, Jeffrey.
Jeffery is on the basketball team and one day after practice, his group splits up. Jeffery is heading over to hang out with Buffy, while two of the other guys go about town, and the last one, Robert heads home. And the route he chooses goes right through an abandoned amusement park.
Come on dude! You are going to go through an abandoned AMUSEMENT PARK????!!!!!! You are just asking to be killed.
And of course, he gets attacked by a Vampire and turned. Good-bye Robert.
So Jeffery is alright, but not altogether that interesting and handsome. Sorry dude, Luke Perry of the "uncoolness squad" is much better looking.
Luke Perry plays Pike, a leather wearing, motorcycle driving, mechanic. He lies above the garage that he works at. He is very dissatisfied with life him, only having one friend, Bennie (wonder if it is a nickname after the drugs, wouldn't be surprised if it was), played by David Arquette (aw David, just can't keep you out of Horrorfest). The boys spend most of their time drinking and making fun of those richer than them.
We then jump back to historical times so that we can get more of a background of Lothos. Lothos is the head Vampire that has destroyed every prior slayer. He is over 800 years old and has the power to hypnotize his enemies.
So for Buffy everything is going as usual. The only thing she has to worry about is the senior dance.
Buffy: [Trying to come up with an issues-related theme for their school dance] The environment.
Nicole: The homelesses?
Kimberly: [to Nicole] Oh, please.
Jennifer: Are there any good sicknesses that aren't too depressing?
Buffy: Guys. The environment. I'm telling you, it's totally key. The earth is in terrible shape, we could all die, and besides, Sting's doing it.
You know that actually sounds difficult. From being on my high school's prom comittee, I know that it is already hard enough trying to get the committee to come up with a theme and work on decorations and such. I can't imagine how difficult it would be to throw a "socially conscious" dance.
Buffy & co run into the uncoolness squad and there is definitely one thing this movie did wrong, they made the "undesirable" guys, undesirable. I mean come on, there is a formula to this thing! They are supposed to be secretly charming and adorable. Not pigs and boring because they have zero character development!
Both Pike and Bennie are super drunk and start hitting on the girls, incredibly gross style. Bennie even acts as if he is going to whip out his junk, and Buffy slices it.
Turns out it was just a hotdog, but it just goes to show you that Buffy is intense. I would not want to mess with her.
So one night as Benny is going home, he gets attacked by a vampire and turned. He goes to the window and tries to get Pike to come out and join him, but even in his alcohol induced state, Pike can tell something is not right.
Benny: Let me in, Pike. I'm *hungry*!
Pike: Go home, Ben.
Benny: [whining] C'mon I'm hungry.
Pike: You're floating! C'mon, man, get away from here!
Pike can tell that things aren't right and tries to leave the city, thinking anywhere is better than here. As he is fleeing town, he luckily is saved by a creepy dude.
You look like a pervert but I guess thank you?
So life is going good for Buffy, until the same perverted-looking, old, creep comes to kidnap her.
Nah, it's actually Donald Sutherland who is Buffy's watcher, Merrick. But he looks like a pervert and sounds UBER CREEPY. He tells her that he can show her "the birthmark mole of slayer, if he can look on her body", and "Come with me to the graveyard".
Apparently Sutherland thought decided to rewrite his dialogue, I'm not sure which lines but I'm guessing these ones as they suck. He's creepier than Nicholas Cage in The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
I mean did he not hear himself? Did he not hear how creepy he SOUNDS?!!!!!!!
The idea to update to a kindly, well-dressed, English, librarian was just perfect.
Buffy still doesn't believe him. To prove it, Merrick tosses a knife at her and Buffy catches it.
Buffy: You threw a knife at my head!
Merrick: Yes, I had to show you.
Buffy: But… you *threw* a *knife* at my *head.*
Merrick: And you caught it. Only the chosen one could have caught it.
This scene is amazing. This is some Aragorn-awesomness right here.
So Buffy agrees to go down to the graveyard and wait for Robert to come out so she can kill him. Say what you want about this movie, but you have to admit this Buffy is pretty awesome. She's tough, intense, and extremely brave.
While they are waiting, Buffy gets bored and asks him for gum.I don't know why, but that line just cracks me up.
I think it is because Merrick is all super serious and trying to get Buffy to understand what's happening, but Buffy is just bored.
Robert awakes and Buffy has to fight and take him down.
Buffy may come off as a a stupid, silly cheerleader, but she can seriously kick butt. When Merrick gets attacked, Buffy takes out, not one but two Vampires.
Afterwards, Buffy heads home for some serious relaxing with her boyfriend Jeffrey. There we meet her parents who are so out of it. Like in the film, Heathers, they are just selfish and only into themselves.
Buffy's Mom: Bye-Bye Bobby!
Jeffrey: Bye! She thinks my name is Bobby?
Buffy: It's possible she thinks *my* name's Bobby.
I'm not sure which is worse, to have parents who completely ignore you and don't seem to care a whit, OR a parent that ignores you most of the time, while punishing you the rest (Joyce Summers from Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series).
So her parents go on their merry way, an Buffy + Jeffery spend the night together.
We know what they're doing
Later that night Buffy awakes to a strange man in her bed.
As Lothos is wakening, the past lives of Slayers are flooding into her and crossing over to her world. It is a very weird scene and for a while keeps you guessing as to what is real and what is all in her head.
So Buffy and Merrick begin her training. Merrick is really hard on her as they have to make up their years of training. I just wonder who's fault is that?
They never explain why Merrick is just approaching Buffy now either. And since we are on the topic, Merrick sucks! He's creepy, rude, and mean. He keeps pushing Buffy and blaming her, when she's still trying to get her head around the fact that her life is completely different.
Buffy: All I want to do is graduate from high school, go to Europe, marry Christian Slater, and die. Now it may not sound too great to a sconehead like you, but I think it's swell. And you come along and tell me I'm a member of the hairy mole club so you can *throw* things at me?
Oh '90s. When everyone was in love with Christian Slater. I know I was.
Sorry for that, moving back on track.
So Buffy is upset with Merrick as he is pushing her too hard and punches him out.
Buffy is a total knockout, literally as it only took one punch to take Merrick down.
Buffy: Oh, wow. I-I never hit anybody before.
Merrick: Really? Well you did it perfectly.
Buffy: I didn't even break a nail.
Yep, Buffy is awesome!
Merrick gives her some background information on Slayers and Watchers. A slayer is born every generation, being reincarnated when killed (so if you watch the beginning again you'll notice that Kristy Swanson plays the historical slayer). Merrick trains the girls, watches them die, and then when his life is up he is reincarnated into Merrick the watcher again. A very sad existence if you ask me.
After this we get a training montage, Rocky style.
Yep you always need a montage .
Buffy has accepted everything and gets super into her training. You know it's actually not that far-fetched that a cheerleader could be this totally awesome fighter. To be a cheerleader you have to do gymnastics, lift weights; it can be INTENSE. And with Buffy, she works hard.
She's also been hunting at night with Merrick, and one night runs into Pike.
So because of all her training, she's been missing practices and dance committee meetings. As always in a teen movie, the principal assumes it's drugs.
Gary: [Thinking Buffy is doing drugs] Hey, there's nothing to be afraid of! I know where you're coming from. Believe me. I'll tell you the truth. I've had my drug experiences, too. I did a lot – I did some acid in the Sixties. Well, the late Seventies, actually. It was at a Doobie Brother's concert… and I could see the music flowing into me, it was bright red and electric, and I felt like a big toaster, and I thought, maybe I am a toaster, we're all molecules, and my friend Melissa, her head looked like a big party balloon, and that scared me, I started to freak out…
The sad thing is that this is probably the only thing in a teen film that actually resembles reality. When people in power act as if they are a "pal". Ugh.
So Buffy is really starting to feel the pressure of everything. She has Merrick constantly pushing her to do more and more; otherwise she won't be ready and die. She has her boyfriend tired of the fact that she can't spend her time with him, constantly getting mad at her. And she has her friends who don't understand at all.
Kimberly: Buffy? What's your sitch? You're acting like the thing from another tax bracket. It's too weird.
Buffy: Listen, a lot's been going on you guys, okay? And I really wanted to talk to you guys about it. See, um, a couple of weeks ago, I met this guy-…
Kimberly: Oh my god, you're having an affair?
Nicole: Cool!
Jennifer: Does Jeffrey know?
Buffy: It's not about that. He's, like, old. He's fifty.
Kimberly, Nicole, Jennifer: Ewwwww!
Jennifer: Gross!
Buffy: Haven't you guys noticed what's been going on here? The strange things? Have you noticed people disappearing, turning up dead?
Nicole: What are you talking about?
Kimberly: Weird? You mean like hanging around with that homeless Poke?
Buffy: Pike.
Nicole: [gasp] Eww, you're having an affair with him?
Jennifer: He doesn't look fifty.
Buffy: Guys, I think reality stepped out of here about five minutes ago.
Yep, the pressure is mounting and to combat it, she goes Shawn Spencer on Merrick, quipping right and left.
Buffy: Does the word "duh" mean anything to you?
I love how sassy she is.
To make everything worse, it looks like Buffy's period has come.
Yep, that pretty much sums it up.
but it turns out that it is just her Slayer sense.
Man that would suck.
Merrick: And you're going to be able to use that to track them.
Buffy: Great. My secret weapon is PMS. That's just terrific. Thanks for telling me.
Merrick: It's not a weapon. It's an alert system.
Buffy: Well, aren't we kung fu? I don't see you out there killing any vampires.
Merrick: I play my part.
Buffy: You can play with your part all you want, but it's my neck on the block.
That night Pike is wandering around inebriated. And let me tell you I am totally not digging Luke Perry. He's cute but that's not enough. All we've seen so far is him getting high, drunk, and be nasty.
Now this is where the TV did a better job. Every person had a backstory. I mean when they brought Angel on to the show, they started him mysterious and cool, and then revealed his tragic backstory. We need MORE! We NEED a backstory! We NEED development!
One night Pike is drunk, AGAIN, and gets attacked by vampires. Luckily Merrick and Buffy are there. They save his life, AGAIN. As you have probably figured out, with Buffy being the totally awesome Slayer, Pike is her damsel in distress. I mean it's not like he doesn't do anything, he helps Buffy fight, becoming her partner, but still gets into trouble a lot. He's the Sam Winchester to her Dean.
After the help him, they defeat Lothos' right hand man Amilyn, by pulling a Star Wars and cutting off his arm. Amilyn returns to the vampire lair, with the knowledge of Buffy being the Slayer.
Meanwhile, Buffy takes Pike to her home. Pike is homeless (hence the fact that he was working as a mechanic for a home). The thing that really bothers me is that we never find out why. Were his parents horrible and he emancipated himself? Did they die? Is he an orphan? WHAT IS HIS BACKSTORY!!!!!!!!
Sorry about that. Back to the film.
So at Buffy's home, Pike starts going on how awesome she is, but Buffy is having a hard time keeping it together. She breaks down on and lets out all her feelings.
And while we haven't had too much development other than he's from "the wrong side of town" and a drunk, he just listens to everything she has to say. He doesn't try to take advantage of her, put the moves on her-nope. All he does is listen.
How sweet.
Instantly redeemed.
So the next day, Buffy is back to doing what she normally does. She is trying to hang out with her friends but the spawn of Satan, Kimberly (I'm telling you, don't name your children that.)
Has turned them agaist her. Her boyfriend is also mad and avoiding her.
And some football player grabs her for fun.
But Buffy is not having any of that. She totally takes him down, making him learn his lesson.
Not kidding, after doing that this is what he says with a straight face: "I see the errors of my ways." Hilarious & awesome!!!!
So something you might have noticed, is that there a quite a few people who have been turned into vampires. It is mostly those on the low side of the totem pole, you know the unpopulars. But there are a few popular kids too. I just wonder how no one has noticed. Well…I guess they do look pretty normal most of the time.
So Buffy is going back to her regular schedule as there is a basketball game.
They do the cheer "how funky is your chicken, how loose is your goose". Now years back when I was in middle school and only a select few had cellphones that could not get on the internet, and you couldn't get on the school computers unless for schoolwork, people came to me with their movie questions. Now I know what you're thinking:
But it wasn't like that. Although how AWESOME would that be?????!!!! SUPER AWESOME!!!!!
Anyways you all know how much I love film,
Well everyone at school did too. So one of the girls was a cheerleader and they were bringing back the "how funky is your chicken, how loose is your goose" cheer. She knew it was a famous cheer and came to to find out which film it was from. I couldn't remember the film it was first in, and when I saw this film years later i was like "of course, duh." Oh well.
Anyways, back to the game. So Buffy is cheerleading when she notices something weird. One of the players looks completely different. It turns out that one of the guys has been turned, and as the adreneline starts pumping he starts vamping out.
And as he does so, he also starts becoming an awesome basketball player. I guess like in Teen Wolf, becoming something not human increases basketball skills?
Buffy is the only one to realize that he's a vampire and ends up chasing him down. She finds herself in some weird place which is Lothos hideout. This is the worse place for a lair. I'm not kidding. Like there is a giant horse plant structure, and the whole place is just too obvious to be a secret hideout. Then again this is the most flamboyant Vampire I have ever seen, and he doesn't care what others think of him.
Buffy meets Lothos and begins fighting with him, when he puts her in a trance and is about to kill her.
Merrick can't stand that and interferes. A big watcher NO-NO. Watchers are supposed to train and then watch, no interfering.
And Lothos can't have that. So he kills him.
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT?????????!!!!!!!!! THEY JUST KILLED THE WATCHER!!!!! CAN THEY DO THAT???
He's not really dead is he? Is he? He is! He is DEAD???!!! WHAT??!!! WHAT JUST HAPPENED???!!!
Lothos and his horde leave, while Buffy hears Merrick's dying words. He tells her she's special and to d things HER way.
Buffy is shocked at the death and completely heartbroken.
She sufferes from shock of everything and wants to be done slaying. It scares her and hurts her and she just wants out.
She tries to hang out with her friends, but just finds them shallow and vapid. They are also selfish as they don't want to invite every senior to the dance. Just the cool ones. She yells at them and takes off.
Her boyfriend is still ignoring her as well. She decides she is just going to be a "normal" girl and goes shopping for a dress. While she is searching for the perfect gown, she runs into Pike. The two have a huge fight as Pike can't believe she is backing out and letting the world down.
Pike: Buffy, you're the guy. You are the chosen guy.
Buffy: Right. I'm the chosen one. And I choose to be shopping.
Buffy just wants to be in denial as she is too scared. If she fights she will get hypnotized and die, maybe causing the death of others. If she doesn't fight then Lothos and his group might kill a ton of people. What's a girl to do.
After the two storm off, we discover that Benny has been hiding in the phone booth. He overheard everything and returns to the master to tell him all about it. When the master hears, he is estatic about the party and chooses it to be the best final moment of Buffy's life.
So while Buffy is getting ready for the dance, Pike has decided to step up to the plate. He returns to his home above the mechanic shop, and grabs every bit of wood he can find, turning them into stakes.
Get ready for this!
So while I have complained about his lack of background (and it still bothers me) every scene after the one when he listened to Buffy he has risen up and up in my esteem.
So Buffy goes to the dance and I absolutely love her outfit. She has her hair back in a no-nonsense bun, a beautiful puffy white dress, and boots. Yes boots.
It's as if she subconsciously wanted to be ready in case something should happen. Her boots are actually white boxing boots
I can look pretty and feminine and kick butt.
It's awesome how hardcore she is.
Take note Hollywood
So she goes over to her boyfriend, to ask why he didn't pick her up for the dance. And it turns out that since she wasn't around to give him what he wanted, he broke up with her on her machine and started dating her friend.
Buffy: You left me a message?
Jeffrey: You weren't home! Like always.
Buffy: You broke up with my machine?
What a loser.
Come on, really? That's so wrong. He's a loser to the max. And how could her friend date him? That's breaking the code!
The two leave to have sex in the parking lot and Buffy is left all alone. But not for long as Pike comes to the dance, dressed up in a button up shirt, slacks, and his leather jacket.
He brings Buffy flowers and asks her to dance with him.
Okay, just gained 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 points! That was so sweet of him coming to the dance, especially since he's not into that sort of thing but did it because he knew it would make her happy!
The Vampires come to the dance. Pike gives Buffy all his stakes and his jacket, while she rips her dress so it is shorter and doesn't constrict movement. She runs to warn everyone to close the doors, as if we don't invite them in they are unable to come. One problem, she forgot about an earlier conversation.
Buffy: Don't worry. They can't come in unless they're invited.
Kimberly: I already invited 'em. [Buffy looks at her] They're seniors!
Yes, Buffy was being a good person telling her friends to invite all seniors, and unknowingly just caused one huge problem.
Now when the Vampires come in we really reach a horror/comedy pinnacle. A Com-Ror as I like to say. It's cheesy, but fun.
Except for the Vampire DJ, that was dumb.
So the fight begins. Some parts are silly, others creepy. I still haven't gotten over seeing Pee-Wee Herman as a vicious vampire. It's just does not compute that this is the same guy.
Benny tries to convince Pike to turn vampire, and in a bizarre way, channels Christian Slater's character J.D from Heathers. Talking about people being sheep and this chaos is better, etc. That makes Pike his Winona/Veronica. The only problem is that Benny is nowhere near as hot.
So they kids inside are following Pike and Buffy's lead trying to take down the vampires, while Buffy heads out to do a throwdown with Lothos.
She takes down Pee-Wee, his right hand man (horrible death scene) and heads down to Lothos. The two fight, with Buffy surprising him with a flame torch made out of hairspray and a cross.
She then stakes him! BUFFY ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She and Pike ride off on his motorcycle, as the dumb principal hands out detention slips to the dead vampires:
Gary: [Throwing detention slips on the dead vampires] Detention [Walks to another body]… detention [Walks to another body]… detention. [Throws 2 more slips on the same body. Says quickly]Detention, detention.
And the rest of the group is interviewed about what happened.
So How Does It Hold Up?
Some parts of it seem a bit underdeveloped, mainly backstories of the characters. And at times it can be cheesy or silly, but on a whole I loved it.
Yes, I LOVED IT!!!!! The series on a whole is better, as it has more time to devote to the characters, but this movie was awesome. Buffy is incredible.
It's a great film if you are looking for something funny and silly, but with a horror twist.
To start Horrorfest IV from the beginning, go to You Cannot Conquer It. It Has Conquered You!: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
For the previous post, go to Psycho Strangers: The Girl He Met Online (2014)
For more on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, go to Heaven on Earth
For more on vampires, go to Monster Movie: Supernatural (2008)
For more Com-Rors, go to Someone Very Special: The Addams Family Values (1993)
For more David Arquette, go to Don't F*** with the Original: Scre4m (2011)
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Fandom Love
So I'm sure you can tell where this is going. Post six of my fandom love. Hope you enjoy it and get interested in checking these out. 🙂
The King of Rock 'n Roll himself! Elvis!!! Yes I am a huge Elvis fan, in fact I don't know anyone who loves Rock 'n Roll, that doesn't love the "father" of the genre. He's awesome! Yes Elvis, the pandemonium that Elvis created was bigger than any artist before or after. His fandom is one of the earliest and strongest. Nothing can hold a candle to him.
So not only was Elvis a great musician, singer, dancer (signature style) but an actor as well. The big deal there!
So now onto my favs. For favorite songs I love them ALL.
If I had to pick a favorite…I would have to go with A Little Less Conversation or Burnin' Love. But then there is something to be said for Jailhouse Rock or Can't Help Falling in Love or…I need to stop or this could take forever.
For films I like all his films, but I loved Jailhouse Rock. In that he choreographed the dance moves..well kind of. You see he couldn't do the moves created by the choreographer. They were taking a break and his buddy Russ Tamblyn came by and checked out the issues he was having. He asked him what he could do, and the two created a dance number that incorporated it.
Then there is Spinout, which is hilarious. Elvis is a lead singer in a band and a racer. All he wants to do is race his car and sing, but finds himself in a love triangle. His bandmate Les and mechanic has fallen for him, a spoiled heiress who's dad gets her anything she wants is trying to force him to date her, and then an author on Men has taken a liking to him. What's Elvis to do?
And then A Change of Habit. This was the last film Elvis made and it is very different from his other works. In this one he is a young doctor working in the ghetto at a clinic for the underprivileged. There he meets three women who are evangelizing to the people. He and one of the women begin falling for each other. The only problem…she's nun. She hasn't yet taken her orders and finds herself faced with a huge decision. Take her orders, become a nun, and continue to serve and help the community. Or chose life as a wife and be unable to work with the Catholic church she has been building up. It was sweet, dramatic, and one of those films that confronts hard issues and decisions.
For more on Elvis Presley, go to Heartbreak Hotel
So Grimm is a modern day telling of the Grimm Fairy Tales but with a twist. Creatures from the fairy tales live among us, appearing as human to all but a select few. Instead of being the "brothers Grimm", the Grimm are certain people who have the ability to see those monsters, or Wesen as they are called, from the tales. They are kind of the police force of the "fairy tale world," as it is their job as Grimms to destroy all the Wesen. The Grimm ability is passed genetically, and sometimes it can miss a generation or skip a few, but all Grimms are related if you go back far enough on the family tree.
In the series the main character is a homicide detective named Nick Burkhardt, who is played by the very handsome David Giuntoli.
OMG I just find him so attractive. He has these really intense green eyes that just bore into you. He also has an amazingly adorable little boy/mischievous smile. Sometimes I'll be watching the show and lose track of what has been happening because I'm too caught up in staring at him.
What can I say? He's dreamy. Anyways let's get back on track.
So the "Grimm sight" didn't come to Nick until he was in his 30s. He discovers that it's up to him to destroy all the creatures, but Nick actually does things much different. Because he is a cop, he likes to ask questions first before shooting, maiming, beheading, etc. Because of this he actually befriends a lot of Wesen. He meets up with a vegetarian Blutbad (Werewolf) named Monroe, who helps him figure out what the monsters are and how to take them down.
Now I just love Monroe. He is so casual and normal and such a sweetheart.
Later on they recruit a Fuschbau (Fox) named Rosalee. It's really cool as they bring to life all those fairy tale stories you used to love as a kid, but at the same time they also use a lot of German and the culture; promoting the same thing the Brothers' Grimm did. There is also a lot of mystery and intrigue with a story that spans over four seasons.
So in season one is Nick trying to figure things out, as everything is completely new and a little hard for him to understand. Season two he has a better handle on it, but also faces issues of trying to conceal or reveal to his close friends. He also gets involved more in the political intrigues and history of the Grimm. In the third season we have a guy who really has it together but faces a lot of issues as an enemy from the past is trying to kill him, a new Grimm comes to town, and much, much more. I highly recommend it!
For more on Grimm, go to Happily Ever Aftermath: Grimm (2012)
I loved this show so much as a kid. In fact I was in love with Kirk Cameron and wanted to marry him (after Clint Eastwood and Michael J. Fox).
Growing Pains is about the Seaver family. The father Jason (Alan Thicke) is a psychiatrist and is doing very well. His wife, Maggie (Joanna Kern), is a reporter. They have three kids: Mike (Kirk Cameron) the cool kid who is only interested in girls and having a good time; Carol (Tracey Gold) who is the smart, studious, straight arrow; and Ben (Jeremy Miller) who is the adorable, rambunctious, boy.
The series is a normal show as it follows the group as they progress in age. It was absolutely adorable, funny, and awesome. Later on as Ben grew up, he developed similar to Mike, and the Seavers had another child, Chrissy (Ashley Johnson). As Mike grew up his character changed as well. He originally wanted to be an actor, but ends up becoming a teacher. As he is teaching low-income students, he notices one who is living in the school as he has no where to go. This boy is Luke, played by Leonardo DiCaprio (in one of his earliest roles), and Mike brings him home to his family.
I love this show and it was great watching.
So at first I wasn't going to watch this movie. My ex-boyfriend had been really into it, and that is were I first heard about it. When it came out I wasn't interested. That is until my friend saw it and said I had to as it was full of '70s and '80s references. She convinced me to check it out and I did. My reaction was:
So the story is Peter Quill's mother is dying of cancer. He runs outside as he is hurting, and gets abducted by aliens. Twenty years pass, and Peter Quill, aka Star-Lord, is a treasure hunter. He goes to a planet to steal an orb for a buyer, and finds himself caught in a huge adventure.
Unbeknownst to Star-Lord, others want that orb. Gamora (the green girl) is an assassin. Her species was exterminated and she was adopted by Thanos and trained to be an assassin after he rebuilt her cybernetically.
While the two fight over the orb, Rocket (a raccoon-type alien) and Groot (a tree-like alien) also attack trying to get the bounty on Star-Lord. They all get arrested and end up bonding in jail, adding to their group Drax the Destroyer.
It was a truly hilarious film. Almost a parody of superhero films, completely on par with Mystery Men. Check it out once, twice, or a hundred times.
And this is for anyone who has watched it already.
Loved this film and now the comics.
My favorite characters were Rocket and Groot, of course, and Star-Lord. He is Star-Lord after all.
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Hell on Wheels is an amazing show that I just absolutely love. I am a huge fan of Westerns, so when this show came out I was all over it. Hell on Wheels takes place after the Civil War, in which railroad companies are trying to create raillines all over the United States. Thomas "Doc" Durant is the one who is in charge of the investors and building the railroad. Thor Gundreson is his security man, known as the Swede, even though he is Norwegian. They oversee a huge group of people: freed slaves, immigrants, and others leaving the South and North looking for jobs.
One of these freed slaves is Elam Fegursan, eager to prove his work and worth. He gets into some skirmishes with Cullen Bohannon, an ex-confederate soldier. As the two fight more and more, they end up becoming friends. But unbeknowest to anyone, Cullen has a secret vendetta, to kill the men who raped and murdered his wife and child.
Also in this group, is Joseph Black Moon, a Cheyenne who has converted to Christianity. He was the chief's son, but because of his conversion he has been kicked out of the tribe and has joined up with the church following the railroad. He too becomes friends with Cullen, a very interesting trio in 1870s.
Also on this group are two Irish immigrants, Seán and Micky McGinnes. These two get into lots of scrapes with the Swede as they don't want to pay for his protection.
And last but not least we have Lily Belle, who's husband was the surveyor for the railroad. He was killed by Native Americans while Lily Belle was saved by Joseph. She thinks about going back to England, but ends up staying in America continuing her husband's work.
The first season was amazing. I have yet to finish it as I have no cable and need to catch up. I will say that I hope the rest is as good as the story was amazing and the characters so good.
How I Met Your Mother was such an amazing show and I am so sad that it has ended. It was hilarious, sweet, and just adorable. It covers five friends living in New York and their lives in trying to find love, work, etc.
Ted Moseby
Ted is the architect that is the narrator of the show. He is looking back and telling his children the complete story of how he met their mother. He is undeniably sweet and dreams of finding the right woman to marry. He is so eager, that he is constantly getting with the wrong woman. He is the greatest best friend ever, and the guy any girl would be lucky to end up with.
Marshall Erikson
Marshall is the all around perfect guy. Every girl dreams of having a Marshall in their life. Marshall is from Minnesota and he and Ted meet freshman year of college as they were placed together as roommates. He later met Lily who became the love of his life. He studies to be a lawyer and hopes to have a great future with Lily. Unfortunately, Lily dumps him, but comes to her senses and gets back together with him.
Lily is the smart and sassy member of the group. She meets Marshall and Ted, when she knocks on their door and asks Marshal to fix her radio. She and Ted is typically the center of the group, although she gives far better advice than Ted to everyone.
Barney Stintson
Barney meet Ted at the bar bathroom. He quickly roped Ted into one of his schemes to pick up chicks and quickly becomes a part of the group. He is hilarious, a magician, and loves to act. His biggest flaw is that he constantly creates these extremely funny scenarios to pick-up-chicks.
Robin has a very interesting background. Her parents got divorced when she was young and she started out being raised by her father who wanted a boy and treated her like one. When she becomes a woman she moves in with her mom, and starts a career as a pop singer, Robin Sparkles.
She wants to be a news anchor and meets Ted in a bar. They become friends and she is brought into the group, becoming Lily's best friend and dating Ted and Barney off and on. Barney and her finally get together, and he proposes and they get married. And that's the end of the series for me.
***Spoiler Alert***
I hated the last episode of the series. I never wanted Robin and Ted together as Robin never loved everything about Ted, she just put up with his quirks. I wanted Ted with someone who really loved him. I also hated how after all that time Ted spent in planning his wedding, they have a five-second one they fit in between everything else they do. I hated how Robin and Barney divorced as they were perfect for each other. And I hated after all that growth he did, after the divorce he was back to being the same person from before.
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A Hidden Wonder
Day 5) An Underrated Movie
The Black Cauldron is highly underrated as it has a bunch of great characters and scenes. I know I talked about it during my first Horrorfest.
So I actually never saw this film as a kid. My mother thought it would scare me. It would come on TV and I remember it coming out of the vault and being on all kinds of commercials. I even had a toy Gurgi that I got in a McDonald's happy meal.
So how did I finally stumble onto this work? Well, I really like the author Lloyd Alexander, as I have read his book Time Cat. Two years ago, I decided that I would read through the The Chronicles of Prydain series as it is his most famous work and what The Black Cauldron is a part of. The book series was really good except I wish the Horned King was in more of it and as the series wraps itself up, the last books are not as nearly good as the first ones. Anyways, so after I had read the series I checked out the film and of course did the I'm No Warrior, I'm an Assistant Pig-Keeper post. But in that post I compared the film and the book as I had just finished reading the series.
So the film The Black Cauldron is a compilation of the first two books in the series; The Book of Three and The Black Cauldron. And I thought it was pretty good. I mean some parts were film corny, but I really liked it. In fact, I am appalled that more people have never heard of it or seen it. It really deserves more love.
"Legend has it, in the mystic land of Prydain, there was once a king so cruel and so evil, that even the Gods feared him. Since no prison could hold him, he was thrown alive into a crucible of molten iron. There his demonic spirit was captured in the form of a great, black cauldron. For uncounted centuries, the black cauldron lay hidden, waiting, while evil men searched for it, knowing whoever possessed it would have the power to resurrect an army of deathless warriors… and with them, rule the world."
So the film is about Taran, an assistant pig-keeper, who dreams of becoming a great warrior. He finds out that the pig her cares for, Hen Wen, is in danger as she is an oracular pig and that the evil Horned King is after her. The Horned King needs her to find the Black Cauldron to bring to life the dead, creating a zombie army.
An actual army of the undead. That is much more creepy than this guy.
Taran accidentally allows Hen Wen to be captured and travels after her, saving and getting the creature Gurgi as a follower. He comes to the Horned King's castle and there he finds a captured princess, Princess Eilonwy, a ministrel named Fflewddur Fflam, and a magic sword. The journey on to destroy the Black Cauldron, meeting up with fairies, witches, and battle the Horned King.
It's funny, but now that I think about it, this film in a lot of ways reminds me of Star Wars.
Now it has a lot of great characters.
First we have Taran, a young boy who dreams of achieving something greater. Think Luke Skywalker, eager to leave what he feels is an inadequate existence. He wants more, he wants to fight the Dark Sith Lo…I mean Horned King. At times he is a bit silly, as every young boy who is trying to find his way is, but in all he's a great character. You just love him.
Then we have Eilonwy. Now people always forget this princess, but she rocks.
She tooootally kicks butt. She is like the animated version of Princess Leia. She has been caught by the evil Horned King, but isn't waiting around, she's trying to get out of there. She never let's anyone push her around because of her size or gender:
"Taran: What does a girl know about swords, anyway?
Eilonwy: "Girl"? "Girl"? If it wasn't for this *girl*, you would still be in the Horned King's dungeon."
And this film has one of the all-time creepiest villains ever! The Horned King!
Oh man, he is a creep. Horrifying and Incredibly Horrible.
This is a great film, you should totally watch it!
Check out the trailer!
So since this film reminded me of Star Wars so much I decided to give it something a little extra.
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Q: Suppose $G$ is a group generated by elements $x$ and $y$ where $xy^2 = y^3x$ and $yx^3 = x^2y$ What can you prove about $G$? Suppose $G$ is a group generated by elements $x$ and $y$ where $xy^2 = y^3x$ and $yx^3 = x^2y$ What can you prove about $G$?
I've just been playing around with the relations but I can't seem to get anywhere. It seems as if I'm going in circles. I don't know what to look for in terms of how the equations should look in order to give me an insight into the structure of the group.
So given a group presentation, are there any general strategies of what to look for in the relations (as in how to rearrange them) in order to obtain insight about the group?

A: It's a pretty open-ended question, and therefore hard to answer.  But, here are a couple of things to look at and how they apply in this example.
First, you should wonder whether the group is finite or not.  If you've got more generators than relators (or relations) then your group is infinite.  However, this does not apply here, since the numbers of generators and relations are both equal to two.
The next thing to look at is the abelianisation, $G/[G,G]$.  For a finitely presented group, this is easy to do.  First write your relations as relators:
$$G = \langle x,y\mid x^{-1}y^{-3}xy^{2}, y^{-1}x^{-2}yx^{3}\rangle .$$  Now compute the relation matrix for the presentation.  This is the matrix $(\sigma_{t}(w))$ of exponent sums of generators $t$ in each relator $w$ in the presentation.  In this case, taking $w = x^{-1}y^{-3}xy^{2}$, for example, the exponent sum $\sigma_{x}(w)$ of $x$ in $w$ is $0$.  (Just add up the exponents that appear on the letter $x$.)  Similarly, $\sigma_{y}(w) = -1$.  For the relator $w_{2} = y^{-1}x^{-2}yx^{3}$ we get $\sigma_{x}(w_{2}) = 1$ and $\sigma_{y}(w_{2}) = 0$.  Therefore, the relator matrix is
$$\begin{bmatrix} -1&0\\ 0&1\end{bmatrix}.$$
In general, you'd need to compute the Smith form for this to get the abelianised invariants, but in this case, there is nothing really to do, since it indicates that the abelianisation of $G$ is trivial.  Therefore, you can conclude that $G$ is a perfect group (i.e., that $G = [G,G]$).
However, as soon as I see a finitely presented perfect group, I'm immediately suspicious that the group is itself trivial.  (This need not be true, of course, but it's something to look into.)  Therefore, you might try to show that the relations imply that the group is trivial.
Now, since it's me, I'd just go and ask a computer algebra system (such as Maple) to tell me.
> with(GroupTheory):
> G := < x,y | x.y^2 = y^3 . x, y.x^3 = x^2 . y >;
G :=

    < (x, y) |  (x^(-3).y^(-1).x^2.y, y^(-2).x^(-1).y^3.x)>

> GroupOrder( G );
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But you can try to work it out by hand also, and for this example, it's not too difficult.  (In general, it can be very difficult!)  From the relation $xy^2 = y^3x$ we get $xy = y^3xy^{-1}$, and from $yx^3 = x^2y$ we get $xy = x^{-1}yx^3$.  Hence, $y^3xy^{-1} = x^{-1}yx^3$. From this last equality we get $xy^3x = yx^3y$, from which we obtain $x^2yx = x^2y^2$ by using the original relations twice.  Now this implies that $x = y$ by cancelling $x^2y$ on the left.  Putting this back into the original relation $xy^2 = y^3x$, we get $x^3 = x^4$, whence, $x = 1$. Therefore, $y = 1$, and the group is trivial.
[Full disclaimer: It helped a lot that I knew the answer before I started.]

A: Here is something you can say. Any word in $x$ and $y$ built with positive exponents can be reduced to $$y^a(xy)^bx^c$$ with $a,b,c\geq0$. The first relation allows you to commute powers of $y$ that are greater than $2$ to the left at the cost of raising the exponent on $y$. The second relation allows you to do the same for $x$ but to the right. There is a similar statement to make for words built with negative exponents.
I'm not sure how helpful this is, especially since it is not applicable to most of the words in $x$ in $y$ (the ones that involve mixes of positive and negative exponents) but the question was open-ended.

You can also say that $$xy^3x=yx^3y$$

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Netflix for iOS drops support for AirPlay due to 'technical limitations'
Chance Miller
- Apr. 6th 2019 4:49 am PT
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Netflix's app for iOS has lost a key functionality for users of the Apple ecosystem. According to an updated support document on the company's website, the Netflix for iOS app no longer supports AirPlay playback.
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Netflix doesn't give a specific reason as to why AirPlay support has been removed from its iOS app. The support page simply attributes the change to "technical limitations."
Airplay is no longer supported for use with Netflix due to technical limitations.
The AirPlay icon has been completely removed from the Netflix app. Furthermore, if you attempt to activate AirPlay via Control Center, you'll be presented with an error that says "cannot play title, please try again later."
Netflix for iOS losing support for AirPlay comes as AirPlay is expanding to a multitude of third-party TVs, such as models from Vizio, Samsung, LG, and Sony. While many of these TVs feature Netflix applications built-in, the ability to instantly play content from the Netflix app on your iPhone or iPad to your TV was an appealing option.
Apple fans were also left out back in December, when Netflix released the choose-your-own-adventure Black Mirror: Bandersnatch. The interactive title was not supported on any variation of the Apple TV, forcing users to watch on their Mac or iOS device instead.
At this point it's unclear if Netflix has any plans to add AirPlay functionality back to its iOS app. You can keep an eye on the App Store for any updates that might do so.
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Q: Redirect loop in Spring Security app I am developing a Spring MVC / Spring Security application.
I do not have any exceptions or errors, but there is a redirect loop on one of the pages.
I'm using Spring 3.0.1 and Spring Security 3.0.1.
My dispatcher-security.xml:
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
   xmlns:security="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/security
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-3.0.xsd">

   <security:http auto-config="true" use-expressions="true">
      <security:form-login login-page="/login" default-target-url="/login" authentication-failure-url="/fail2login"/>
      <security:logout logout-success-url="/"/>
      <security:intercept-url pattern="/auth/**" access="hasRole('ANONYMOUS')" />
      <security:intercept-url pattern="/js/**" access="hasRole('ANONYMOUS')" />
      <security:intercept-url pattern="/css/**" access="hasRole('ANONYMOUS')" />
      <security:intercept-url pattern="/**" access="hasRole('ADMIN')" />
   </security:http>

   <security:authentication-manager>
      <security:authentication-provider>
         <security:jdbc-user-service data-source-ref="dataSource1"
           users-by-username-query=" select name,password,enabled from user where name=?"
           authorities-by-username-query="select u.name, r.role from user u, role r where u.role = r.auto_id and u.name =?  "
         />
      </security:authentication-provider>
   </security:authentication-manager>

</beans>

Please help me......

A: The default-target-url attribute defines the page where the user is redirected in case of a successful login. Usually it is the home page of your application. You have default-target-url="/login", so it redirects you back to the login page after a successful login.
I do not understand the meaning of the ANONYMOUS role in you example. If it is the build-in role for anonymous users, I think it is called ROLE_ANONYMOUS.
In this case you probably use it incorrectly, and these two lines:
<security:intercept-url pattern="/js/**" access="hasRole('ANONYMOUS')" />
<security:intercept-url pattern="/css/**" access="hasRole('ANONYMOUS')" />

should be replaced with something like this:
<security:intercept-url pattern="/js/**" access="hasRole('ROLE_ANONYMOUS') or hasRole('ROLE_USER')" />
<security:intercept-url pattern="/css/**" access="hasRole('ROLE_ANONYMOUS') or hasRole('ROLE_USER')" />

Otherwise unauthontificated users ONLY will be able to access the /js/ and /css/ directories.
ROLE_USER in not a build-in role, it is a role that you define manually for all authenticated users.
See also:
What is the difference between ROLE_USER and ROLE_ANONYMOUS
The Spring Security Reference: Anonymous Authentication


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Biography Born
Posted in News on October 29th, 2013
Biography Born to an Osaka prostitute and an unknown father, Ueda was adopted at 4 years of age by a wealthy merchant who raised him comfort and provided him a good education. As a child sick with smallpox, and although he survived, he suffered from deformation of the fingers of both hands. During his illness, his parents prayed to god Kashima Inari Shrine and Ueda felt that this deity had intervened and saved his life. During his life he had always believed strongly in the supernatural, and this belief seems important elements of his writings and his school, as in his famous work, a collection of ghost stories titled Tales of Moonlight and Rain. Mikhael Mirilashvili understands that this is vital information. He inherited the family business of oil and paper Ueda when his adopted father died, however he was not a successful businessman and he lost the business when it is burned in a fire after running it for ten years fortune.During this time, he published several humorous stories in the ukiyo-z shi (literally translated as "tales of the floating world", the name of a style of popular fiction published between the 1680s and 1770s). Taking the fire as an opportunity to put aside the business world, Ueda began studying medicine under the guidance of Tsuga Teisha, who besides teaching Ueda to become a doctor, also introduced colloquial Chinese fiction. In 1776 he began to practice medicine and also published Tales of Moonlight and Rain. This work places Ueda Akinari Takizawa Bakin with the most prominent writers of "yomihon" a new genre that represented a dramatic change in the practice of reading popular fiction.Besides this type of fiction, Ueda was involved in the field of research known as kokugaku (National Learning), the study of philosophy and classical Japanese literature. The "Kokugaku" is typically shown by their rejection of foreign influences on Japanese culture, notably the Chinese, Buddhism and Confucianism. Ueda took an independent position in these circles, and his controversial feud with the leader of this school of thought, Motoori Norinaga is documented in the dialog Kagaika ( 1787-1788). Some argue that Ueda worked in this conflict in stories like "Tales of Moonlight and Rain" based on Chinese stories and their moral and intellectual discourses and that apart from this he added a Japanese sensibility using supernatural elements and putting his characters a deep charge of emotion (as opposed to the Chinese reliance on the intellect).However, it is also true that he had a strong empirical and rational temperament, dismissed as nonsensical myths reviving fantasies of kokugaku and scholars throughout showed an intense curiosity, distinctive for its lack of patriotic superiority foreign cultures, both within Japan (the Ainu and Okinawan cultures) and abroad (China and Western countries). In the years before the death of his wife in 1798, suffered from temporary blindness and sight although eventually returned to his left eye during this time had to dictate most of his writings. It was during this time he began writing his second yomihon "and ended the first of two stories that became" Tales of Spring Rain (Harusame monogatari) around 1802. The full version was not published until 1951, when the missing parts of the manuscript were found."Spring Rain" is very different from Tales of Moonlight and Rain, and there is debate about which is the superior work. Among other differences, "Spring Rain" did not invoke the supernatural, and the extension of both texts. The story titled "Hankai" is about a disreputable ruffian who suddenly converts to Buddhism and spends the rest of his life as a monk. The history extends the collection by virtue of its length and the literary skill it displays. Ueda died in 1809 at the age of 76 years in Kyoto.
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Miniso (chino simplificado: 名创优品; chino tradicional: 名創優品; pinyin: Míngchuàng Yōupǐn), estilizado como MINISO, es una cadena china de tiendas de bajo costo que se especializa en mercancía para el hogar y de consumo, incluyendo cosméticos, papelería, juguetes y utensilios de cocina. Fue cofundado en 2011 por el diseñador japonés Junya Miyake y el empresario chino Ye Guo Fu, y tiene su sede en Cantón, China, bajo la compañía china Aiyaya. En 2016, los ingresos de la compañía alcanzaron los 1500 millones de dólares, cantidad que ascendió de 769,9 millones de dólares un año atrás.

Miniso comparte una similitud estética con otras tiendas de bajo costo japonesas, y ha sido criticada por ser una tienda china que se mercadea etiquetándose como «japonesa». A pesar de ello, Miniso se ha expandido fuera del mercado de China y opera 1800 tiendas en Asia, Europa, Australia, África, Norteamérica y Sudamérica. La cadena planea eventualmente abrir unas 6000 tiendas alrededor del mundo.

El 18 de agosto de 2022, la tienda emitió un comunicado disculpándose por haberse presentado como una marca de diseño japonés, que estaban «promocionándose en una vía equivocada» y que desde finales de 2019 han estado en un proceso de «desjaponización» de sus tiendas sobre todo en China. Esperan que en marzo de 2023 la marca complete su transición como una con imagen china.

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Look is a photographer and designer from Holland. He initially studied law in Rotterdam, but the lure of his creative side was too great. During and after his studies, Look was the founder and editor of the literary magazine Renaissance.
From 2001 to 2003 he was editor of a local newspaper and a business magazine, before he started a career as a writer and graphic designer.
Since 2008, Look has been active as a portrait and fine art photographer, working on a collection of portraits and conceptual images. A favourite theme is to portray two extremes (such as strength and vulnerability, love and murder) side by side. He also likes to capture what he calls "the beauty of the ordinary" in his nude portraits.
Look debuted in 2007 with the poetry collection The Delusion of the Night. His first publication as a photographer was made in collaboration with his wife, Mirjam. Their coffee table book A City of a Thousand Words is a tribute to their hometown Vlaardingen and appeared in December 2009.
In the summer of 2014, Look created a series of photographs to accompany James Howell's novel, A Disturbed Girl's Guide to Curing Boredom. You can view the images from this project here.


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Europe Bails Out Its Populists
Jul 29, 2020 Sławomir Sierakowski
Following grueling negotiations over the European Union's budget and pandemic response, it is not surprising that much of the attention has focused on an historic agreement that will establish a proto-fiscal policy. Less surprising still is that the rule of law has once again received short shrift.
WARSAW – As expected, the European Parliament has torn into the European Council's recently agreed budget and pandemic-response package. The €1.8 trillion ($2.1 trillion) price tag and proposed cuts to development funding, including science and research, have predictably met with resistance. But the biggest stumbling block was always going to be the proposal to make EU funding conditional on respect for the rule of law.
Arguing in support of such conditionality, Dacian Cioloş, the leader of the centrist Renew Europe group, claims that, "This is not aimed against Hungary nor against Poland or any other member state." Rather, the point is to "ensure that European money no longer finances governments which continuously turn their backs on our fundamental values on a daily basis."
But it is no secret that in both Hungary and Poland, EU funds are systematically used to finance political or private corruption and fund handouts to political cronies. The most recent example is the takeover of Hungary's last independent news website, read by millions of Hungarians. Moreover, the governments led by Fidesz in Hungary and Law and Justice (PiS) in Poland are among the least inclined to show solidarity when it comes to accepting refugees or supporting the European Green Deal. Poland, for example, is the only EU member state that has refused to adopt a "net-zero carbon" target for 2050.
Sławomir Sierakowski
Sławomir Sierakowski, founder of the Krytyka Polityczna movement, is a senior fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations.
The Populist Tail Wagging the German Dog
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Despite a growing chorus calling for reform of the eurozone and the European Union, the chances for meaningful change are diminishing. The main obstacle is Germany, whose economic interests lie not just with the status quo, but also with some of the EU's populist governments.
attributes Germany's intransigence on EU reform to its economic interests in the Visegrad Group.
Charles Crawford Aug 4, 2020
"But it is no secret that in both Hungary and Poland, EU funds are systematically used to finance political or private corruption and fund handouts to political cronies"
Haha only there? Plus have you any idea how much money is plundered from national budgets by EU VAT carousel fraud, and why all EU governments do so little to stop it?
David Stephenson Jul 29, 2020
Western Europe is in a quandary, as is the West's media. In 2019 the UK Ministry of Defence performed tests on the parts of the wreckage of the Polish Presidential plane that crashed in Smolensk in 2010. They confirmed what the Polish police forensics team discovered in the aftermath of the crash - residues of RDX high explosives. Vladimir Putin blew up President Lech Kaczynski and almost 100 other Polish dignitaries. Donald Tusk knew about it after the event and his actions before the event were highly suspicious. The person his govt appointed to lead the visit, Tomasz Turowski, was Communist Poland's top spy at the Vatican in the 1980s and a confidant of Radoslaw Sikorski. He insisted that consular staff delete photos of the crash scene. The plane had earlier been overhauled in Russia without a security detail, providing the perfect opportunity to secrete the bombs that exploded: on the left wing, by the fuel tank and inside by passenger door 2.
The EU knew about the assassination and mass murder - or should have if it had shown due diligence. The EU rejected the rule of law in the most brutal way possible. If a plane disintegrates in mid-air questions should be asked. Especially if it disintegrated into 30,000 pieces. The biggest question facing the EU at present is why Donald Tusk is still present at the highest level.
Mirek Fatyga Jul 30, 2020
for those unfamiliar with Poland and her present day, toxic politics: this is polish version of birtherism. Same thing, exactly.
https://prosyn.org/cTE9fnl