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Nucleus Films to restore cult classics through Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign!
Posted by admin | Oct 24, 2016 | Headlines, Slider | 0
Nucleus Films, one of the UK's leading cult film labels, has launched an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to remaster two classic Italian cult movies from the original negatives: DEATH LAID AN EGG (La morte ha fatto l'uovo, 1967) & LADY FRANKENSTEIN (La figlia di Frankenstein, 1971). Both films will be remastered from the Italian negatives for the very first time.
The campaign will give fans the chance to finally own definitive 2k restored versions of these highly sought after cult classics as ultimate collectible Blu-ray limited editions.
Those who pledge will receive exclusive collectors' numbered limited edition slipcases and a 'thank you' credit check for supporting the restoration. If you pledge at ANY LEVEL you are guaranteed a Blu-ray copy of Lady Frankenstein. So, the more you pledge the more you get! Check out all the perks available and the pitch video for the Nucleus Films Euro Cult Cinema Restoration Project, which is now live:
https://igg.me/at/ NucleusEuroCult
Marc Morris, co-director of Nucleus Films said today: "Nucleus Films have never taken on a project of this scale. The only way to do the definitive releases is to go back to the Italian licensors and do a deal for all the original materials to access the negatives and get them remastered properly. Because we're a small company we can't afford to do this without YOUR HELP to raise the money for the licensing, expert remastering, Blu-ray authoring, production of extras, artwork and BBFC classification costs".
Fellow director Jake West added: "We want to create the ultimate collectors' editions that you'll be proud to own. And, if this goes well we plan to unearth many more Euro-Cult titles that we know the fans are desperate for. We want your suggestions for forthcoming titles too, so please get involved with the Euro-Cult Restoration Project. This is just the start!"
Film critic, journalist & broadcaster Kim Newman commented: "Nucleus Films are a company you can trust with your cult movies. They lavish attention on titles that other labels would let languish on the sidelines"
Critic, author and Director of FrightFest Alan Jones said: "It's criminal that DEATH LAID AN EGG, a genre masterpiece of the highest Italian order, has languished unreleased in its proper, vibrant and glorious form. Every Giallo lover should support the directive taken by these pioneers at Nucleus Films, They will eternally have mine if they continue to do this imperative service for fantasy lovers everywhere".
DEATH LAID AN EGG
Jean-Louis Trintignant's Marco lives a double life. By day, he's a well-kept husband, married to the beautiful Anna (Gina Lollobrigida), who helps run the couple's high-tech chicken farm. By night, he begs Anna's free-spirited cousin Gabrielle (Ewa Aulin of 'Candy' fame) to run away with him. However, he also spends his wife's money on prostitutes with whom he engages in kinky role-play, black gloves and all, and which makes him the prime suspect in a series of bizarre murders! A crazy Giallo oozing with substance and style, all backed by an Avant-garde score and with a striking pop-art backdrop. What else would you expect from acclaimed cult director Giulio Questi (Django… Kill!)?
LADY FRANKENSTEIN
In this Eurotrash classic, Dr. Frankenstein (Joseph Cotten) is killed by the monster he created! However, his kinky daughter Tania (Rosalba Neri) and lab assistant Marshall continue his dangerous experiments. The pair fall madly in love, and attempt to transplant Marshall's brain into the desirable muscular body of their servant Stephen. However, the original monster seeks revenge on the grave robbers who sold the body parts, and it soon stalks them, seeking revenge!Directed by Mel Welles famed for his brilliant performance as flower shop owner Gravi Mushnik, in Roger Corman's camp cult classic Little Shop of Horrors (1960).
Nucleus Films is a UK-based independent distribution label founded in 2003 by cult film researcher and writer Marc Morris ('Art of the Nasty' & 'Shock Horror') and film director Jake West ('Evil Aliens', 'Doghouse') In 2010, Nucleus Films produced and released the highly acclaimed documentaries 'Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape' and 'Draconian Days' released on the 3 Disc Collectors DVD sets 'Video Nasties The Definitive Guides Volumes 1 & 2'. Nucleus Films also creates DVD and Blu-Ray extras for various UK labels, including Anchor Bay and Arrow Films.
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The Cristóbal Balenciaga Museoa in the fishing village of Getaria, is housed in an annex to the Palacio Aldamar, former residence of the Marquises of Casa Torre, grandparents to Queen Fabiola of Belgium and mentors to Balenciaga in the early years of his career.
The building is new, avant-garde and very large in volume, where the interior is designed to define bright, warm spaces offering the possibility of holding special events, business meetings, sales presentations and receptions. The ground floor occupies almost 2,000 m² of useful surface organised into different spaces. Added to this main space, the Museum has an auditorium, classrooms and a sprawling open attic.


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Node: Tickets available for first concert in 15 years.
Legendary electronic music band Node will be playing at the Royal College Of Music on the 27th February. Full details below:
8:30pm | 27 February 2015 | Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall
Flood, Ed Buller, Mel Wesson, David Bessell electronics
We're delighted to host the first performance for 15 years by analogue electronic quartet Node.
Node is: sonic legend and maverick record producer Flood, record producer and composer Ed Buller, Hollywood sound designer and soundtrack composer Mel Wesson and Dr David Bessell, academic composer and audio researcher. Performing on an extremely rare collection of vintage analogue synthesizers, their music ranges from dense textural atmospheres to minimal evolving rhythms via the soundtrack to some long forgotten sci-fi film.
Playing entirely live on instruments which look more like the set of Dr Who than a musical ensemble, Node conjures a startling array of unclassifiable sounds from their electronic laboratory.
Tickets: £30
To order tickets go here:
http://www.rcm.ac.uk/events/listings/details/?id=549161

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Q: About random number ranges in PHP I just got PHP VC11 x64 Thread Safe installed in Windows 8 64bit. I am trying to run random number by calling mt_rand(). As far as I know, mt_rand() use 32-bit MT algorithm and it should support [0, 4294967295]. But if I run mt_getrandmax(), it returns me 2147483647. So I think the number it return should be signed 32-bit integer.
I am trying to call mt_rand(-2147483648, mt_getrandmax()) 10 times, but most of the outcomes are zero. So I wonder if MT algorithm in this case doesn't return full 32-bit integers.

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You are very perceptive! It is well known that the diuretic type of medications raise blood glucose a little. In your case, enough to push you over the diabetic cliff. It is possible that you had the genes to become a person with diabetes at some point in your life, but it is likely that your diuretic medication forced the issue. If you are taking diuretics for blood pressure, you may want to ask to be switched to one of the medications that falls into the group called ACE inhibitors. This group of antihypertensive medications not only lower blood pressure, but also have a positive effect on the kidneys. If you are taking diuretics for fluid retention or swelling, you may want to discuss a change in dose with your doctor. Some people can get a good effect by taking as little as 1/2 tablet a few times a week.


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Palestinians in Gaza protest in support of the uprising in the West Bank, 2 November.
What is happening in Palestine? Is it a new intifada? If so, what are its slogans?
Many compare the current situation in Palestine with apartheid South Africa. The tribal chiefs of the South African bantustans — the nominally independent Black-ruled "homelands" created by the racist government — used to believe that they were heads of sovereign states. The apartheid regime promoted the fiction of Black independence under its overall control in an attempt to legitimize and perpetuate white rule.
For Zionism to survive in Palestine, the "other" — the indigenous Palestinian people — must be assimilated and subjugated without being conscious of that subjugation. This was the thinking behind Israel's decision to grant Palestinians "autonomy" under the Palestinian Authority. It is the logic behind the 1993 Oslo accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization that created that authority.
Oslo aimed to bring about the Palestinians' surrender and create among them a passive consciousness, but its architects did not foresee that Israel created its antithesis — defiance and reaction — as a result of decades of ethnic cleansing, settler-colonialism and apartheid.
They did not account for the legacy of civil and political resistance that has become a trademark of the Palestinian struggle. The formation of the Boycott National Committee in 2007, two years after the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) call made by more than 170 Palestinian civil society organizations and around which there is an overwhelming consensus, the resistance to Israel's war machine in 2009, 2012 and 2014 in Gaza, and the current uprising, all represent what I call a process of de-Osloization.
Oslo held out the promise — illusory though it always was — that one-third of the Palestinian people, those living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, would realize their "national dream" of statehood on no more than 22 percent of historic Palestine.
But the impossibility of realizing even that — as Israel has entrenched its occupation and relentlessly expanded its colonization in the West Bank, and placed Gaza under permanent siege — ended up, ironically, reviving the embarrassing question of the rights of the remaining two-thirds: the millions of dispossessed refugees inside and outside historic Palestine and the 1.5 million third-class Palestinian citizens of Israel.
The Oslo accords paid lip service to the millions of Palestinian refugees scattered all over the world as a result of the Nakba, the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Zionist militias.
But the Palestinian elites who signed Oslo more or less explicitly reassured Israel that they were ready to sacrifice the rights of those refugees in return for a state. The Palestinians in Israel were not mentioned at all.
Oslo was designed — at best — to improve the conditions of oppression (while making some Palestinians partners in the occupation) and thus make Israel's Palestinian "problem" disappear. In the end, it did not even do that — save for a small Palestinian elite that profited from economic deals with Israel.
Most events that have taken place in Gaza since the 2006 Palestinian Legislative Council elections — won by Hamas, which had opposed the 1993 accords — have represented a complete rejection of Oslo and its consequences.
And noting that some 80 percent of Palestinians in Gaza are refugees from other parts of Palestine, the results of the 2006 elections in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank become more comprehensible as anti-colonial and anti-Oslo acts.
But this is deliberately hidden by the Oslo signatories and their complicit sponsors.
Palestinians' resistance depends, like that of Black South Africans under the inhumane apartheid regime, and African-Americans under Jim Crow laws, on the higher moral ground that they occupy as a result of being dispossessed of their rights and land.
Palestinian victory will be the inevitable result of their sumoud — steadfastness on their land — that has not wavered, despite the feeling that they are left to fight Israel on their own.
What has helped keep the Oslo regime alive for so long is the ever fainter promise that redemption — in the form of "statehood" and "self-determination" — lay at the end of it. But the Oslo generation, Palestinians born after or around the time the accords were signed, do not buy it. They are fed up and their message is clear: the problem is not only with the occupation, but also with settler colonialism, apartheid, ethnic cleansing and Israel's genocidal policies.
The current uprising — whether one calls it an intifada or not — may be the crucible where a new leadership is forged, one that can understand the unity of the cause of all Palestinians, whether inside or outside historic Palestine, whether refugees from today or from long, painful decades ago.
This is a generation that is telling us that they are opposed to all forms of collaboration with the occupier. This is a generation that has seen nothing from Oslo but defeat and humiliation, and they are throwing it off.
They are saying — and we should hear them — that coexistence based on colonization and apartheid is no coexistence at all. It is slavery and they will no longer accept it.
Palestine's youth are saying: we want all our rights and will accept nothing less.
In Haidar Eid's requiem for the two states, he writes that the Oslo generation has delivered a clear message: "They are fed up and their message is clear: the problem is not only with the occupation, but also with settler colonialism, apartheid, ethnic cleansing and Israel's genocidal policies." What these young people have described is the manifestation of zionism.
The UN got it right in 1975 by equating Zionism with racism. It is still fundamentally about zionism - a racist political ideology whose purpose is to ethnically cleanse the indigenous Palestinian people and to colonize the whole of Palestine in order to build an exclusive Jewish homeland. It is an ongoing self perpetuating project that is the basis of our dehumanization as Palestinians everywhere. It is high time for this archaic ideology to be relegated to the history books.
Only one democratic state can provide an alternative vision for future generations. "They are saying [Oslo generation]— and we should hear them — that coexistence based on colonization and apartheid is no coexistence at all. It is slavery and they will no longer accept it." Haidar Eid. Alas, the road to the future is being paved with the blood of the Oslo generation.
As many suspected the Palestinians do not want a state of their own after all.
Not surprising they haven't got one after all these years.


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Virtual 2020 Festival Features Authors of "The Orphan Master's Son" and "World War Z"
Preview: Adam Johnson and Max Brooks
The Virtual 2020 South Dakota Festival of Books includes some heavy hitters in the publishing world, including a homegrown Pulitzer Prize winner and a novelist whose book "World War Z" became a blockbuster movie starring Brad Pitt.
REGISTER FOR THE VIRTUAL 2020 FESTIVAL OF BOOKS
To attend events featuring Johnson, Brooks, and many more, visit sdbookfestival.com/tickets and register free. The official slate of weekend events begins with a special kickoff Oct. 1; a Festival Preview Party is scheduled for Sept. 22.
NOTABLE BOOK: "The Orphan Master's Son"
Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Named ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by more than a dozen publications, including The Washington Post • Entertainment Weekly • The Wall Street Journal • Los Angeles Times • San Francisco Chronicle
Virtual 2020 Festival of Books Event
Friday, Oct. 2
Making Readers Uncomfortable, from South Dakota to North Korea: Adam Johnson in Conversation with SDPB's Lori Walsh
VIRTUAL – REGISTER HERE
Inside a Secret Society
Note: This story was featured in our 2020 South Dakota Festival of Books Guide produced by South Dakota Magazine. Click here to download a copy for free.
To help research his Pulitzer Prize-winning 2012 novel, "The Orphan Master's Son," Adam Johnson traveled to one of the most secretive nations in the world — North Korea. There was just one problem. "It's illegal for a citizen of the DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea] to interact with a foreigner," he says. "North Korea is the one place in the world you can't talk to a North Korean."
Instead, Johnson sought out expatriates in South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and California and used their accounts to gain insight into this mysterious society. One of these sources was Kenji Fujimoto, a Japanese sushi chef who cooked delicacies for the country's "Supreme Leader," Kim Jong-il, and flew kites with young Kim Jong-un. Fujimoto provided a wealth of details about life at the top in the East Asian dictatorship.
North Korea stands in sharp contrast to Johnson's birthplace of Yankton, which he remembers as a land of stories. "When I was young, I would go to South Dakota in the summers, where people exchanged stories all the time, in the coffee shops, at pancake breakfasts, at supper clubs," he says. "I came from a family of great storytellers — and the landscapes, South Dakota farms and the Missouri River fed my imagination."
NOTABLE BOOK: "Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch"
An Amazon Best Book of June 2020
"A masterful blend of laugh-out-loud social satire and stuff-your-fist-in-your-mouth horror. One elevates the other, making the book, and its message, all the more relevant."—David Sedaris, #1 New York Times bestselling author of "Calypso"
As a best-selling author, Max Brooks is credited with helping propel zombie lore from niche sub-culture fascination to mainstream pop-culture obsession. While Brooks has published three massively successful zombie-themed books—"The Zombie Survival Guide," "World War Z," and "The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks" — Brooks' ultimate goal was to challenge old ways of thinking and encourage mental agility and flexibility for problem solvers and leaders. "World War Z" was the basis for the 2013 American apocalyptic action horror film World War Z starring Brad Pitt; the film, which grossed more than $540 million, is the highest-grossing zombie movie of all time. Brooks' unique, unconventional thinking depicted in his books has even inspired the U.S. military to examine how they may respond to potential crises in the future. "World War Z" was read and discussed by the sitting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and Brooks has been invited to speak at a variety of military engagements.
Brooks is now touring virtually in support of "Devolution," which bestselling author David Sedaris called "A masterful blend of laugh-out-loud social satire and stuff-your-fist-in-your-mouth horror. One elevates the other, making the book, and its message, all the more relevant."
Brooks balances his work as a novelist and speaker with his duel fellowships at the Atlantic Council's Brent Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and the Modern War Institute at West Point. Together with his colleagues from the Modern War Institute (including ML Cavanaugh, a 2019 Festival presenter who returns to the lineup for the Virtual 2020 Festival), Brooks has co-edited two books on teaching military science through science fiction: "Strategy Strikes Back: How Star Wars Explains Modern Military Conflict" and "Winning Westeros: How Game of Thrones Explains Modern Military Conflict."
Saturday, Oct. 3
Max Brooks, Matthew Cavanaugh
Devolution: Bigfoot and Big Ideas - Max Brooks in Conversation with ML Cavanaugh
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2020 One Book South Dakota 'Unfollow' has Arrived, Available for Statewide Loan
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Authors, Stories & Pirates: Students Loved Attending the SD Festival of Books
The students from St. Joseph's Indian School who attended this year's S.D. Festival of Books are all authors in the making. Continue Reading
Daily Writing, Imagination Helps Pulitzer-Winning Poet Reach Broad Audience
Ted Kooser wrote much of his poetry during the pre-dawn hours, before it was time to get dressed for work as a life insurance executive. Continue Reading
He Said, He Said
There is much controversy, confusion, and embellishment when it comes to the Wild West icon Calamity Jane. Etulain and McLaird set the record straight.	Continue Reading


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FAVORITE FITNESS ACCOMPLISHMENT: Running my first full marathon and then doing two more full marathons all in one year.
MOST MEMORABLE WW EVENT:My first full marathon (St. Jude 2013) was cancelled due to the weather. I was relieved because it would have been a cold run with little support. Instead, a big group of my Memphis is Motion running friends went with me to a marathon in New Orleans and we had the best time! Three of my friends, Debra, Jack and Paula, were my main crew to make sure I finished. They paced me well and I did it faster than expected. We enjoyed celebrating afterwards in New Orleans.
I ❤ RUNNING: I started running just to keep in shape and remain active; it's a great way to relieve stress. I have an amazing group of running friends, which helps me look forward to long runs. My running friends are always positive and we provide encouragement and support to one another.
MANTRA: If you really want to do something you will find a way. If you don't you will find an excuse. Life without goals is like a race without a finish line.


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Dart Sync Socket
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[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/google/dart-sync-socket.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/google/dart-sync-socket)
[![pub package](https://img.shields.io/pub/v/sync_socket.svg)](https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/sync_socket)

A Dart VM Native Extension and supporting Dart libraries that provide
synchronous socket and HTTP client support.

Installing
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Add the following to your pubspec.yaml:
```YAML
  sync_socket: '^1.0.1'
```

Then run 'pub get'.

After getting the package with pub, you will need to build the native extension itself.

To build the shared library on Mac OSX or Linux, run the 'tool/build.sh' script.

To build the DLL on Windows (32 bits):
  - Create a new project of type Win32/Win32 project in Visual Studio 2010 Express.
  - Give the project the name sync_socket.
  - On the next screen of the wizard, change the application type to DLL and select "Empty project", then choose Finish.
  - Add the "sync_socket_extension.cc" file to the source files folder in the project.
  - Change the following settings in the project's properties:
     - Configuration properties / Linker / Enable Incremental Linking: Set to NO.
     - Configuration properties / Linker / Input / Additional dependencies: Add dart-sdk\bin\dart.lib, from the downloaded Dart SDK.
     - Configuration properties / Linker / Input / Additional dependencies: Add Ws2_32.lib.lib. This is the Winsock library.
     - Configuration properties / C/C++ / General / Additional Include Directories: Add the path to the directory containing dart_api.h, which is dart-sdk/include in the downloaded Dart SDK.
     - Configuration properties / C/C++ / Preprocessor / Preprocessor Definitions: Add DART_SHARED_LIB. This is just to export the _init function from the DLL, since it has been declared as DART_EXPORT.
  - Build the project with "Release" target, and copy the DLL to the directory "lib".

Testing
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Follow the instructions above for building the shared library then run tests
as normal.

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Hey! You guyz gotta pool??!!


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DC Comics: The "D" stands for Directionless
September 5, 2015 by Anghus Houvouras
Anghus Houvouras on a lack of direction at DC Comics…
Four years ago when DC Comics announced their 'New 52 lineup', the company seemed to be on the precipice of a new age. Once again the company was making a bold step in revamping their lineup of iconic characters and updating them for a new age of comic fans. Old continuities would be abandoned. Titles would be reworked to be more inclusive for new readers. Decade old ideologies would be abandoned in favor of bold creative choices.
The New 52 was a decisive event for comic fans. Lifelong readers were irritated by the changes. Casual fans seemed intrigued by the new direction. The launch was successful with DC grabbing more market share than they had in years. However, the New 52 quickly lost it's luster. Within two years any gains had been erased. Within three years DC was already scrambling to rethink their strategy. Now the New 52 has been dissected, the body parts harvested and reassembled for their newest DC YOU initiative.
There are so many problems at DC. Even the most casual observer can see the exposed wounds and poorly stitched seams. There have been reports of financial problems and reorganization has streamlined the employees down to the lowest level in decades.
DC Comics is in trouble. It doesn't take a genius to see that.
To me, the problem seems so obvious: There's no direction at DC, which right now seems to stand for 'Directionless Comics'. There has been much talk of the DC You strategy, which one again features radical departures in previous continuities and rolling out wild new takes on classic characters. EIC Dan Didio has a plan: throw everything at the wall and see what sticks. However, that it not a creative strategy, it's a numbers game. It's the move of an organization without a clearly defined path.
Basically DC Comics Editorial's strategy is akin to having a thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters hoping one of them churns out the next Watchmen or Dark Knight Returns.
Now, there are some very talented monkeys at those typewriters, but the strategy is still flawed at a molecular level. DC Comics has abandoned the idea of a cohesive creative direction in favor of creative anarchy.
I won't lie: the lack of a cohesive direction has resulted in some entertaining titles. Earth 2, Action Comics, Batman, Doctor Fate, Midnighter, and Grayson have all been solid, entertaining titles that are diverse in story and style. Much like the New 52, DC You has produced some interesting titles at launch that are both unique and engaging. Unfortunately, it won't last.
The inevitability is that sales will falter on second tier books and cancellations will lead to reboots and relaunches. The problem with throwing everything at the wall is that whatever doesn't stick ends up in a disgusting pile on the floor. Whatever does stick is emulated and copied in an attempt to bolster poor sales. Eventually the bold creative direction of a title is tweaked and reworked to right the sinking ship.
The challenge of mainstream comic publishing are epic. You are dealing with a world where the characters are evolving from the printed page and becoming mainstays of television and movies. Do you emulate the elements that make the movies and TV shows so popular? Do you adhere to the continuity of the characters that has spanned 75 years? How do you gracefully deal with a rabid, vocal fan base who is constantly feeling rubbed raw by the abandonment/changes to their favorite characters?
These are questions I can't answer. However, its clear that DC Comics is suffering an identity crisis. There is no clear creative direction and they are hitting the reset button a little too frequently. At this rate, DC YOU will exhaust it's novelty within a couple of years (or less) and we'll be right back where we started sometime in 2017 when DC announces their next major initiative to keep fans interested.
It was novel when DC retooled their continuity with Crisis on Infinite Earths. The novelty being that it was the first major renovation since they introduced characters back in 1939. It seemed less novel when they attempted to do the same thing with Zero Hour… then Infinite Crisis… then Final Crisis… then Flashpoint… then Convergence. Eventually retooling your characters and continuity becomes a necessity because of the mess you've made.
DC can't even make it five years without requiring a janitorial event like Crisis/Flashpoint/Convergence to clean up the mess. And that, my friends, is because they don't have a clear idea of where they're going.
Anghus Houvouras is a North Carolina based writer and filmmaker and the co-host of Across the Pondcast. Follow him on Twitter.
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In the previous article we share with you some interesting and easy tricks how to clean with salt.
Today we`ll share some more for your easy cleaning at home. Enjoy them and remember everyone will envy you for the good keeping home.
6. If you can not clean your iron , take an old towel, sprinkle salt on it and go with a hot iron several times in the towel.
7. When washing with sponges, have you ever thought that they could remain with bacteria? Did you know that can kill the bacteria if you put them into boiling salted water!
8. Each of us don`t like when ants appear in the house, right? I guess you all know how to get rid of them, but will still advise you – just sprinkle with salt around windows and doors. Then there will be no trace of ants.
9. When cleaning the floor, probably put not one or two agents! And do you know that when you put in the bucket of water a cup of salt is obtained twice as efficient cleaning agent from all other preparations?
10. If you have plastic flowers for decoration in your home and want to clean the dust, put them in a bag filled with salt and shake well. After removing the flowers, you will notice that they are like new!
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May 21, 2017 · 05:46 pm
Saharanpur violence: Hundreds of Dalits gather in protest at Delhi's Jantar Mantar
The police had refused to give them permission to stage a demonstration there, but they did so anyway.
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Hundreds of Dalits, led by the Saharanpur-based organised Bhim Army, gathered at Delhi's Jantar Mantar on Sunday, protest against caste-based discrimination in the Uttar Pradesh district. The Delhi Police had denied a number of Dalit groups permission to hold their demonstration there, but the protestors gathered anyway, The Indian Express reported. The founder of the Bhim Army, Chandrashekhar, was also present.
The protestors have alleged that the Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government was doing little to improve living conditions for Dalits in the state, and in fact mistreating them. The police had refused to give the protestors permission to gather there after being told that at least 50,000 community members were expected to attend, The Times of India reported.
Earlier in the day, the police said they had arrested four people for allegedly damaging a statue of BR Ambedkar in Saharanpur's Mirzapur village, Hindustan Times reported.
The Saharanpur area has been rife was caste tension in the past month. On Wednesday, 10 people were injured in clashes between Dalits and Thakurs over the building of a drain in Uttar Pradesh's Keshopur Jaufari village. The incident took place after Suresh Singh, a member of the upper caste Thakur community, laid a pipeline near the house of Chandra Pal, a Dalit. Seven of the 10 injured were Dalits.
On May 5, violence erupted in Saharanpur's Shabbirpur village when upper caste members organised a procession to commemorate the birth anniversary of Rajput king Maharana Pratap. Some reports said the Dalit community had objected to the loud music played during the event. Other versions claimed that a statue of BR Ambedkar was vandalised, still others said that the villagers were upset with the Thakurs for allegedly preventing an Ambedkar statue from being installed. One person was killed in the violence.
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"You will have those bite marks for life, that what you get."
Aktar Ullah, 43, was jailed for 64 months after biting a police officer's cheek and shouting racist abuse at them. The incident occurred on 22nd June 2018 in Silvertown, East London.
Ullah left the police officer with three bleeding bite marks after the attack.
The defendant originally received a sentence of 36 months imprisonment. It increased to 48 months because of the racist attack on the officer.
He had another 16 months added for breaching a restraining order at Snaresbrook Crown Court on 2nd August 2018.
He admitted racially abusing the officer and acting in breach of a restraining order.
Ullah was also caught on the police officer's body camera saying: "You will have those bite marks for life, that what you get."
The sentencing judge told Ullah that his original sentence is increased to 48 months imprisonment due to the racially aggravated offence.
He was sentenced another 16 months for breaching his restraining order, giving a total of 64 months. Ullah will serve his sentences consecutively.
Senior Crown Prosecutor of CPS London North Elaine Cousins said: "If you commit a crime that is racially aggravated, the CPS will invite the judge to apply the law to give an 'uplifted' sentence to properly reflect the full nature of that hate crime."
"Aktar Ullah was clearly heard using racist slurs against this police officer and is now facing an extra 12 months in prison because of what he said."
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"We hope this prosecution empowers other hate crime victims to come forward and ultimately stop others from also being subjected to vile treatment."
Crimes motivated wholly or partly by hostility or demonstrate hostility towards the victim based on that person's presumed race, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity or disability are eligible for increased sentences.
Hate crimes include verbal abuse, intimidation, threats, harassment, assault and bullying, as well as damage to property.
It's possible that the perpetrator is a friend, carer or acquaintance who exploits their relationship with the victim for financial gain or other purposes.
The CPS is working hard to punish perpetrators of hate crimes. In 2016/17, 83% of hate crime cases prosecuted by the CPS led to a conviction or guilty plea.
Because of the serious nature of these offences, the CPS can apply for a 'sentence uplift' which is an increased punishment for the crime.
Last year, over half of the requests led to offenders having their sentences increased because they were motivated by hate.
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Q: How to delete or skip a list of lines in a text file and print the remaining lines in a new text file? I am very new to python. I am trying to  create a script that prints lines of text to a text file that exclude a list of lines. Is the error IndexError : List index out of range due to the .pop function?
with open(file_path) as f:

    lines = []
    lines = open(f,'r').readlines()

    # delete the following lines from the textfile
    skip_line =[14,27,39,56,78]

    while skip_line:
        pop = skip_line.pop(0)
        print(pop)
        print(lines[pop])

        lines.remove(lines[pop])

        with open('duplicates_removed.txt', 'w') as savefile:
                savefile.writelines(lines)
        savefile.close()

I expect that the lines found in lines[pop] will be removed from lines.
Actual result:
IndexError : List index out of range

A: skip_lines = {14, 27, 39, 56, 78}

with open(filepath) as infile:
    with open("duplicates_removed.txt", "w") as outfile:
        for index, line in enumerate(infile):
            if index not in skip_lines:
                outfile.write(line)


Waking up, looking in the mirror, and not being satisfied with what you see is nothing anyone should have to go through. It can be a real detriment to your self-esteem and how confident you feel in day-to-day situations. With the help of cosmetic procedures and laser treatments, more people than ever before can regain body confidence with ease.
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Body sculpting is a cosmetic treatment that shapes and contours your body, especially around stubborn fatty deposits that might make you feel a little out of proportion. Skin tightening is a separate cosmetic treatment that does as it says: tightens your skin to reduce the appearance of wrinkles, laugh lines, etc. TightSculpting™ utilizes advanced Fotona laser's to masterfully combine both procedures into one.
A highly-trained cosmetic dermatologist will use a Dynamis Pro laser to target problem areas of your body. The laser is noninvasive and nonsurgical, so it causes little to no discomfort for the vast majority of patients. In fact, many patients say it feels like a hot stone massage, which can be quite relaxing.
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If you are like me and you have been looking for moth life cycle printable activities that kids can do to learn more about metamorphosis, then look no further! This is the bundle for you! It is awesome to have made these 12 fascinating activities with my kiddos the other day! We all enjoyed them so much and we learned a lot together! I'm sure you and your will like them, too. They will learn so much about the life cycle of a moth for kids with printables!
So, whether you are looking for moth life cycle activities for preschoolers like the Memory game, a life cycle of a moth worksheet for kindergarten or a notebooking page for elementary, you will find all of that here!
You can use this bundle for moth life cycle arts and crafts using our amazing life cycle template for kids to trace! Or use them to learn to read new words, to point out vocabulary words, to learn event sequencing, a moth life cycle paper to fill out, practice handwriting, doing research, playing games and so much more!
The butterfly life cycle is different from the moth life cycle, so be sure to look at both (link at the end of this post). These activities will make it so much easier for you to make your lesson plans a complete unit without the extra work!
1 3 Life Cycle activities for kids: 3-Part Cards (photos, cartoon and black and white). When kids color the black and white cards, they can research to find out whether this will be colored as a gypsy moth caterpillar or a luna moth caterpillar.
2 Life Cycle of a moth printables: It's a Matching Dice Activity so kids learn what a moth caterpillar looks like, what color moth eggs are, what size is a moth cocoon and more!
3 Moth Life Cycle template: Handwriting practice page with manuscript and cursive while reviewing the caterpillar life cycle.
6 Moth Life Cycle craft: a beautiful wheel paper craft for kids to learn event sequencing. Just cut out a small window on the top circle, overlap the circles and us a brad to hold them together and for the top circle to move around to show all 4 stages of the moth life cycle!
7 Printable moth Life Cycle worksheet Set (6 Pages): printable posters to show event order, a blank poster to draw the events in the correct sequence, cut out event pictures and paste on the other page in the correct order of events and more!
8 Moth Life Cycle Book: Children will love to read this color book because it is short, with familiar words, some new words (to keep it interesting) and more information about the moth life cycle.
9 Life Cycle printable coloring book: This is a super fun set of handwriting and coloring pages. Kids will enjoy coloring the life cycle pictures and also tracing (as well as writing) important words on each page. They will love learning so much without even knowing it! The last page is my favorite of all. They can even use the backs of the pages to draw their own gypsy or luna moth pictures!
10 Moth Life Cycle sheet: this Word Search page is a lot of fun! Kids will have a list or relevant words about the moth life cycle and then they will find all of the words in the word search. All the words are put throughout (forward, up, down and diagonal).
Moth facts are so incredible to learn about! This set will be a great springboard to get kids to learn more about the moth lifespan, the or life cycle and more! To get this wonderful printable set, you're in the right spot! If you are looking for the very hungry caterpillar life cycle then go here. For the butterfly life cycle, go here.
6 Moth Life Cycle craft: a beautiful wheel paper craft for kids to learn event sequencing.
8 Moth Life Cycle Book: Children will love to read this color book.
10 Moth Life Cycle sheet: this Word Search page is a lot of fun!


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Brunstatt-Didenheim je francouzská obec v departementu Haut-Rhin v regionu Grand Est. Vznikla 1. ledna 2016 sločením obcí Brunstatt a Didenheim. V roce 2013 zde žilo v původních obcích 7 932 obyvatel. Obec patří do aglomerace města Mylhúzy. Je centrem kntonu Brunstatt.

Poloha obce
Sousední obce jsou: Bruebach, Flaxlanden, Hochstatt, Morschwiller-le-Bas, Mylhúzy, Riedisheim a Zillisheim

Odkazy

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If you've ever walked up a rainy mountain in the gathering dark, you were probably grateful for the classic pink and orange paper maps produced by Ordnance Survey (OS). Ordnance Survey has mapped every corner of our country, from Cornwall to Norfolk, from the Isle of Wight to the islands of Shetland.
Ordnance Survey began in 1791, when its maps were used to help defend the British coast from the French. In the industrial revolution it surveyed and mapped land to build Britain's railways. Today, of course, it produces the iconic paper maps. But that's not all - these world-famous maps now make up only 5% of its revenue. The rest involves 'big data', producing super accurate geographic information that is used by the government and businesses across the UK.
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You are truly such an inspiration to me! I have been pursuing photography for about 3 years now, and am just starting to poke my foot into the business aspect of it. I have done a total of 2 paid shoots in my entire life, and as I am getting more requests to do senior pictures I am feeling a bit over my head. For that reason I started researching senior pictures to try and find some inspiration- which led me to you. I have been poring over you blog and portfolio for the past half hour and I am in complete amazement! I love how you include professionally done makeup with your photo-shoot experience, and I am sure it makes the girls feel 100% more beautiful and confident! Also, your editing techniques have me baffled. The matte affect and soft colors are stunningly beautiful- one I have been trying to master for a very long time, yet you make it look effortless!
I am sure I will be studying your blog for the next hour as well, but I just wanted to let you know how beautiful and unique your work is. Thumbs up!!
Meet the gorgeous 2014 senior from Bay City Central High School, Saige! She is an athlete (playing all my faves… basketball, volleyball & soccer), gorgeous, down to earth, with an infectious laugh and killer smile. Killer smile! It's always hard to smile on cue, and as a photographer, I dread the Chandler's….
Saige was NOT a Chandler… She was AMAZING & Natural!! She has the smile I wish I had… haha. Don't worry, though… she didn't disappoint on the serious model look either. You all know that the half face shot is a signature of Miss… Well Saige's is one of my most favorites ever. Check it out…. Did she nail it or what!!
Saginaw, Michigan Senior Photographer or is it Plano, Texas Senior Photographer? Either Way… Celeste!!
The power of social media is pretty amazing. I know this because I had the wonderful pleasure of photographing the gorgeous Celeste… a Michigan born, Texas raised Class of 2014 Senior at Liberty High School in North Texas. Do you all remember Cassondra's Session that was featured a couple of places? If not you can check out the In the Press page and see it. (: Once her session was featured, the blog owner's pinned it… and it was repinned… Quite a bit, apparently, because that's how Celeste found me… Pinterest! Crazy!!
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I cannot thank Celeste and her mother, Donna, enough for choosing me to be their 2014 Senior Photographer… especially since, they are in Texas, and I'm all the way up here in The Mitten. Thank you both for taking time out of your vacation to work with me. It truly was a pleasure, and I am over the moon, in love with these images!
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I'm about 104 years past the median age of One Direction's target demographic. I think their music is shallow, mechanical pop of the lowest order, with lyrics specifically tailored to titillate and exploit the first flushes of sexual maturity in teenage girls.
I'm surprised the press feel so superior. Cheap, formulaic journalism isn't really any better than cheap, formulaic devotion, is it?


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Properties and Applications of Graphene Oxide and Functionalized Graphene
Sponsored by GrapheneaJun 29 2015
Currently, a number of techniques are used to produce graphene and these include epitaxial growth, chemical vapour deposition (CVD), and thermal or mechanical exfoliation. Large scale production of graphene can also be effectively realized through chemical reduction of graphene oxide.
Since graphene was first reported in 2004, made using mechanical exfoliation from graphite, graphite oxide has attracted a great deal of interest, as researchers have explored simpler, more efficient, cheaper and better yielding methods of synthesizing graphene, which can be scaled up easily and retain commercially viable properties for industrial applications.
From Graphite Oxide to Graphene Oxide
Graphite is a 3D-carbon based material, which can be thought of as being made from many layers of graphene. Graphite oxide is slightly different from graphite.
When strong oxidizing agents are used to oxidize graphite, oxygenated functionalities are introduced in the structure of the graphite, which makes the material hydrophilic, and also expands the layer separation.
This feature makes it possible to exfoliate the graphite oxide in water through sonication and this eventually produces monolayer or few-layer oxygen-functionalized graphene, called graphene oxide or GO.
The number of layers is the major difference between graphene oxide and graphite oxide. Although graphite oxide is a multilayer system, monolayer flakes and few-layer flakes can be found in a graphene oxide dispersion.
Properties and Applications of Graphene Oxide
Due to the presence of oxygen functionalities, graphene oxide can easily disperse in organic solvents, water, and different matrixes. This is a major benefit when combining the material with polymer or ceramic matrixes to enhance their mechanical and electrical properties.
With respect to electrical conductivity, graphene oxide functions as an electrical insulator, because of the disturbance of its sp2 bonding networks. It is important to reduce the graphene oxide so as to recover the honeycomb hexagonal lattice of graphene, in order to restore electrical conductivity.
After a large number of oxygen groups have been removed, it is not easy to disperse the reduced graphene oxide (rGO), because this material tends to produce aggregates.
The properties of graphene can be changed by the functionalization of graphene oxide. The chemically-altered graphenes obtained by this method could possibly be used in several applications. Depending on the intended application, the graphene oxide can be functionalized in a number of ways.
One way to ensure that the chemically-altered graphenes disperse easily in organic solvents is to use amines through organic covalent functionalization, for instance. This makes the material better suited to production of biodevices and optoelectronics, and for use in drug delivery.
Also, it has been shown that it is possible to attach fullerene-functionalized secondary amines and porphyrin-functionalized primary amines to graphene oxide platelets, to enhance the nonlinear optical performance of the material.
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Graphene oxide could potentially be used as an intermediary in the production of single layer or few-layer graphene sheets. To achieve this, an oxidization and reduction process should be developed that can isolate carbon layers and separate then without changing their structure.
In terms of mass production of graphene, the chemical reduction of graphene oxide is considered to be one of the most viable methods. However, scientists have found it challenging to create graphene sheets that have the same quality as those made by mechanical exfoliation on a large scale.
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Graphenea produce a graphene oxide film (Figure 1), by filtering a monolayer graphene oxide dispersion. The film is non-conductive, has a thickness of 12 to 15µm, and measures 4cm in diameter.
Figure 1. Graphene oxide film
Millipore Filter Specifications
Thickness: 105µm
Porosity: 70%
Pore size: 0.025µm
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Oxygen: 41 – 50%
Hydrogen: 0 – 1%
Nitrogen: 0 – 1%
Sulfur: 0 – 2%
Carbon: 49 – 56%
Graphene oxide films are used in the following applications:
Graphene research
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Support for metallic catalysts
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Graphenea supplies graphene oxide filters that go through stringent quality check process so as to ensure that the products produced are of high quality and have good reproducibility. The company also provides customized solutions for application requiring more specific quality control.
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Ministry is often an ego contest. I would be lying if I said I don't compare myself to others. That is not a good idea; all you can do is make sure you are being faithful with what God has given you. I THINK THAT MIGHT BE A STORY IN THE BIBLE.
For that reason WE track the percentage of growth in something since the previous year. Sometimes stats can look good or bad depending on the context and story. Here are those numbers and some things that HSM is doing well or may need work on based on what we are looking for.
I am very aware how lucky I am that I get paid to do what I do for a living. Feeling so blessed and grateful for the ministry God has given Kristin and I.
Tonight was the last HSM Wednesday night of the school year.
Closed out our facedown series with God is love.
I talked out of I Corinthians 13 and talked to our seniors for the last time.
We talked about living out love as a response to the love God has shown us. That means loving yourself as God loves you and loving others as God does.
I finally got to tell them that the worst part of my job is seeing them put pics up on facebook in college of beer pong, slutty Halloween, and spring break stuff no one should see.
These are not cases of loving yourself as the image of God or loving others.
The world cannot see us living empty religious love. That is a clanging gong!
Time got away from us and I didn't get to embarrass our worship band and hospitality staff and tell them what an amazing job they do week in and week out. If you guys are reading this THANK YOU!
Jim Heffner got on the mic and embarrassed me. He said everyone had to give me a hug before they left. I was honored and I am a hugger.
We have so many great students I am going to miss. The bittersweet part of the job.
I mentioned that we pause Wednesday nights for the summer. Let me explain more….We still have our grace groups meeting and they are student lead, we have 5 different trip options for students, and we have monthly gatherings for large group. Things do not slow down, they just look different.
This time of year is so busy. I actually have a yearly list of things I launch into after our last Wednesday night.
Tomorrow Dave Nicodemus and I will have the big Momentum planning session for our pre-session antics.
In the next week I will also do major work at clarifying the systems, positions and job-descriptions for HSM next year.
This is also the time of year that we do the teaching calendar for next year and gather resources and teaching series ideas. Any ideas from someone reading this?
We are also launching into our college ministry for the summer. Excited about the people HSM has developed into this next stage of life.
Also going on the yearly shopping trip to try and make our basement music/sound and game room stuff functional again. Some people are of the persuasion that pool sticks need tips, and mic stands should hold mics. I happen to be one of those people.
Doing some big planning for the 2010 Kalahari retreat in the next week too.
Finally diving into the world of a mass texting service. We dabbled in it before but are now committing money as email, facebook, and websites just aren't getting it done. Shoutout to Kelly Coville for doing the admin work as it was no small task to input 500 numbers and find out their cell carrier.
7 years ago, I did an internship at Wooster Grace and lived with Jake Workman's family. This summer he is interning in Columbus so I found him a family to live with. Can't wait to hang out with him and put him on some blind dates.
I actually have at least two other blind dates brewing between friends of ours I want to meet. That is definitely me and Kristin'sguilty pleasure.
I am so pumped for the MTV movie awards this summer. I am really digging Aziz Ansari's comedy and writing and expect this to be a breakout night for him.
I mentioned a few months ago I realized I am not using creativity enough in my life. Over the next months I have arranged a coffee house show, hope to write some songs. Hope to oil paint, am going to dabble in comedy writing and filming some videos for ministry stuff. Not sure what any of it will lead to but I am excited.
Graduation party season is right around the corner. Youth pastors don't have to buy groceries for these 3 weeks.
So much more I could write, but I want to eat a bowl of cereal instead.
WeShare2010 is still going and my fast for the gospel continues. I thought today I would highlight two things I have been thinking about as this month moves on.
1) WHY DID I GIVE UP ICE CREAM?
The vision of weShare2010 was to fast from something and than redirect that money toward advancing the gospel. Here was my thought process as I looked at excess in my life.
We don't have cable, we don't go to movies, and we don't really eat out with consistency as a family. Our budget is pretty locked in. Lots of people could give up renting movies, buying Starbucks, going out for lunch, or things like that. To be honest, we don't do any of those things, but every summer I seem to alter my schedule and budget around my love of ice cream. It might be sad, but if I am being honest, I spend significant time and money focused on ice cream. So I decided to give it up-cold turkey.
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'13 Reasons Why' Final Season Trailer: Clay Jensen To Unravel Secrets In Season 4
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Netflix has finally dropped the trailer of the fourth and final season of '13 Reason Why' this Thursday on its video streaming platform. The final season will finally unveil all of its secrets out.
The third season ended with the reveal that Alex was the one who killed Bryce, but when the group admitted to frame Monty for it, the season ended with another reveal: Monty had been killed in prison. Now, the fourth season's trailer begins with Clay walking into school, only to see the words "Monty was framed" spray-painted on a wall.
It also shows Winston, Monty's ex, who has entered their college and looks quite set to expose Clay and his friends for framing Monty in the murder. Further, it shows that someone is seeking to resolve the puzzle of Bryce Walker's passing by explaining all the puzzling equations at Liberty High to prove that Monty was innocent and that he was accused of someone else's negligence.
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Talking about the fourth season, producer Brian Yorkey told EW stated, "Certainly we saw at the end of season 3 that Winston can alibi Monty and is upset at the way Monty was used by these kids to, in his mind, get away with murder, so Winston is certainly going to be a significant factor in season 4. He is going to be trying to find out what really happened and in his own way get some sort of justice and closure for Monty, who he only had brief encounters with but we'll find meant a lot to him."
The series will premiere on June 5, 2020, on Netflix.
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With so much going on in the world, wouldn't it be nice to just be able to tune it out, to focus on the nice blessings God has given us and never to worry about what is happening around the corner? Not accordin to Amos. For him, having good worship and "doing church" while staying silent in the midst of oppression is tantamount to taking the side of the oppressor. Amos challenges us with the question: Is there such a thing as faith in God that doesn't include justice for the least?
Before we read, does anyone have any background information on the book of Amos? Anything from the sermon?
Leader's Note: Look to the NIV Introduction to Amos (in Resources) to find a helpful short overview.
What is striking to you in this passage? Why?
What is God calling Israel to repent from (be specific)?
What are the possible consequences for Israel if they do not repent?
How do you think God is being portrayed in this section? What sort of language is being used? Why does that matter?
Leader's Note: God is both judge and creator in this passage. The truth of his verdict is rooted in his being the ultimate arbitor of the world. He created the Earth and can use it to inact his justice on those who violate his way.
How do justice and love relate in this passage?
If our own culture was in the place of Israel, what injustices would God be calling us to? What would repentance look like?
Verse 21-24 are proabbyl the best known in the book. Why do you think so many people have found this passage moving and challenging?
Have you seen examples of religious worship get in the way of doing justice? What happened? What is the point of worship if it can be corrupted so easily?
Is simply doing justice enough as an expression of faith, or is worship also important?
Do you typically view your conern for justice as a part of your faith? How do you express it?
Read A Basic Introduction to the the Day of the Lord.
What is challenging about this prophetic concept? What is troubling? What is comforting?
Why is judgment an important part of the Christian tradition?
Christ's advent is often understood as being part of the "Day of the Lord." How does that change how you understand the concept?


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A Cruse of Oil in Mumbai
by Yosef Y. Jacobson
Last night, the first night of Chanukah 5769 (2008), as my own menorah was burning, I watched a clip on one of the websites showing Moshe Holtzberg kindling his father's menorah in Afulah, Israel. 2-year-old Moshe, whose parents were sadistically murdered three weeks ago in the Mumbai Chabad House, was now standing near his nanny Sandra, and his grandparents, lighting the Menorah his father Gabi would use each Chanukah to generate light in Mumbai, India.
When you gaze into this innocent child eyes, it is not difficult to see how much he has endured during the last 25 days since that unforgettable night when two monsters entered into his own home and tortured and destroyed his entire family. Standing near the blood wrenched bodies of his beloved parents, Moshe shouted Sandra! Sandra! She, subjecting her own life to save suffering and death, ran up and saved the beautiful child from mutilation and death.
Now, little Moshe was in Israel, surrounded by his loving grandparents, and his nanny, attempting to rekindle the light which has been extinguished in his own life.
Wiping tears away, I recalled the famous passage in the Talmud about the festival of lights.
"What is Hanukkah?" asks the Talmud (1). The answer given is this:
"When the Greeks entered the Sanctuary, they contaminated all its oil. Then, when the royal Hasmonean family overpowered and was victorious over them, they searched and found only a single cruse of pure oil that was sealed with the seal of the High Priest — enough to light the menorah (candelabra) for a single day. A miracle occurred, and they lit the menorah with this oil for eight days. The following year, they established these as days of festivity and praise and thanksgiving."
That is the story of Chanukah. It is not so much a story about military victory, as much as it is a story about a single cruse of oil through which the Jewish menorah was relit. What gave Chanukah its timeless relevance was not the physical victory (this was undone in a single century, when Rome conquered Israel), but about the power of a small jug of oil to recreate a people, to generate a new consciousness and to redefine a destiny.
When the Pakistani monsters entered the Sanctuary in Mumbai, an oasis of faith in a turbulent city, an island of goodness in a difficult region-- they too, like the ancient Syrian Greeks, destroyed all of its oil, all of its pure and holy souls, people who were using their resources–-like oil--to kindle lights each day of their lives, to embrace hearts, to ignite sparks, to study, teach and give to others. Each person cut down in that Chabad House was a beacon of light in his or her own unique way.
After 48 hours of horror, the beautiful home was desecrated and contaminated. Currents of love were replaced by rivers of blood. Holy bodies and holy books were reduced to fragments. The oil and the light it generated were now gone.
But one cruse of oil survived -- "a single cruse of pure oil that was sealed with the seal of the High Priest." One 2-year-old survivor, sealed with the seal of great holiness and purity, with the seal of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, a spiritual High Priest in our age, who sent him and his parents to Mumbai to cast light on their surroundings.
Moshe Holtzberg's birth was a miracle, as was his survival. He is our own miraculous cruse of oil; the living remnant of a desecrated Temple.
And just as during the first Chanukah, this little cruse of oil has the power to inspire us to rebuild our own menorah, to recreate a new consciousness in the Jewish world – one of deep unity and love, in which the discord and conflict which existed between communities and individuals for so many years will be banished as we recall the type of love and dedication Moshe's home bestowed upon so many thousands of people of diverse backgrounds and walks of life.


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