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Quantum physics and spirituality
elona, 2 months ago 3 min read 16
The association between quantum physical science and otherworldliness is obvious to the Dalai Lama. As per him, every one of the iotas in our bodies incorporate piece of that old material that made up the Universe before. We are stardust, and we are organically associated with any living being; we are creatures of imperceptible energy that vibrates, substances joined thusly to all that exists.
In the event that there is something we as a whole know, science and otherworldliness are not unequivocally known for orchestrating their standards. Subsequently, while in the Medieval times and the Renaissance it was dangerous to advance in the logical field under a setting overwhelmed by the religious class (there we have, for instance, the miserable story of Giordano Bruno ), today the most profound methodologies have been felt during years that basic and doubtful vision from the logical world.
To say now that these two generally adversarial regions or universes of our general public have settled on something is to take an excessive amount of hazard. Notwithstanding, positions have been drawn nearer to join on certain thoughts that can without a doubt welcome us to reflect.
BUDDHIST Way of thinking IS THAT Structure FROM WHICH A Perplexing AND Intriguing AREA OF SCIENCE CAN Move Nearer TIES: WE ARE Discussing QUANTUM MECHANICS.
That first methodology occurred in 2015 in New Delhi. The Dalai Lama went to a two-day meeting on quantum physical science and Madhyamaka reasoning. Along with a few important physicists and researchers from different fields, they investigated a wide assortment of subjects to find shared view. Tomahawks that complete one another and that in some way further enhance human information.
"At the point when I was around 19 or 20 years of age , I fostered an extraordinary interest in science. In China, during the years 1954 and 1955, I met Mao Zedong. He once commended me for having a logical psyche, adding that religion was poison, trusting that it would draw in somebody who had a logical brain.
Be that as it may, over quite a while back, I started a progression of exchanges zeroed in on cosmology, neurobiology, physical science, quantum physical science, and brain research. I accept that Buddhism carries more significance to this information".
-Dalai Lama-
The association between quantum physical science and otherworldliness, what does the Dalai Lama tell us?
The speculations that lay out an association between quantum physical science and otherworldliness are not new, nor do they come from the Dalai Lama alone. Readily available, we have, for instance, books like Science and Otherworldliness: A Quantum Joining by Amit Goswami, resigned teacher in the Division of Hypothetical Physical science at the College of Oregon and trailblazer of another logical worldview that looks to establish the groundworks of a study of cognizance.
Moreover, we likewise have Fritjof Capra, an eminent Austrian physicist scientist in subatomic physical science. This researcher is known for his work The Tao of Material science (1975), where a lukewarm opening of the scholarly world towards the otherworldly world started. Accordingly, we are not mixed up assuming we express that there is an obvious rapprochement between the actual local area and Buddhist way of thinking.
Physicists like Raja Ramanna, who passed on a couple of years prior, yet most popular for his job in the atomic improvement of India, checked out the texts of the rationalist Nagarjuna in his last days to find something shocking. Large numbers of the originators behind the Madhiamaka school of Majaian Buddhism addressed a few standards of quantum material science.
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The Tragic Story Of A 14-Year-Old Vaccine Myocarditis Victim — One Of Umpteen Males Misinformed By Health Authorities Vaccine myocarditis is not trivial, mild, or "rare."
In young men, it's a far greater risk than Covid hospitalization and death. It is catastrophic. Now research out of Basel Switzerland shows women, females may be at even greater risk than males
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The Tragic Story Of A 14-Year-Old Vaccine Myocarditis Victim — One Of Umpteen Males Misinformed By Health Authorities
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Rav Arora published this and I am re-publishing to share this shocking and painful piece. See Rav's fine work.
"On May 12th of last year, school teacher Emily Jo took her 14-year-old son Aiden to get his first Pfizer vaccine dose. The public health authorities and her son's pediatrician unanimously recommended vaccination, prompting her decision. She knew that mRNA shots caused some number of adverse events, like all vaccines, but was re-assured by the CDC and White House's public recommendation.
"The talk amongst the mainstream medical community was that vaccine myocarditis was mild and that this was very rare," she told me.
At that time, despite alarming heart inflammation reports from Israel, the CDC publicly claimed to have found no signal of myocarditis after "intentionally" investigating over 200 million administered doses.
Moreover, Emily Jo was never warned of the myocarditis risk or informed about the risk-benefit profile.
"When I took Aiden to get his vaccines at the drive-through vaccination site, there was no warning about myocarditis. We were not counseled about any side effects to be aware of," she said.
In the name of public safety, scientific innovation, and personal health, Emily Jo sent out a celebratory tweet proclaiming she and her family are "so thankful" their teenage son was able to get vaccinated.
However, her pride and relief turned out to be tragically short-lived. Two days after her son's second vaccine dose (which he got a month after his first), he ended up in the hospital after experiencing intense chest pain. He was moved to a room on the acute cardiac floor where he was found to have elevated troponin levels (a key sign of heart damage) and an abnormal electrocardiogram. Every doctor Emily Jo spoke to at the pediatric hospital Children's Healthcare of Atlanta confirmed her son had vaccine-induced myocarditis.
Aidan admitted to Atlanta pediatric hospital on June 12, 2021, two days after his Pfizer vaccine
Given her son's dire condition, Emily worried Aidan might die or suffer from a catastrophic injury. Thankfully, after four distressful days at the hospital, Aidan troponin levels returned to baseline and he was discharged. However, this didn't mean he could return to his normal life. Aidan was unable to do physical activity for six months. Sports, hikes, and other forms of exercise were deemed too dangerous for his heart — a typical consequence of myocardial injuries.
"I had no idea how life altering 'mild' myocarditis actually is. I have a very hard time with the label 'mild' for anything that requires hospitalization and months of inactivity," Emily Jo said.
The most serious concern with Aidan's vaccine injury isn't the harrowing experience itself, but the frequency at which it occurs. Virtually any substance or medication will produce a diverse range of reactions across the human population. As many commentators have correctly noted, if you administer peanuts to everyone, there will be some number of fatalities and cases of anaphylaxis.
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The rare incidence of life-threatening anomalies doesn't mean that peanuts produce a net harm or should be banned altogether. Tragic interactions with any kind of externality are often exaggerated and exploited to justify irrational ideological agendas. For example, Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin's treatment of George Floyd paved the way for radical "Abolish the Police" initiatives.
In the case of COVID-19 vaccines causing myocarditis, we aren't dealing with trivial ratios of one in a million or even one in ten thousand. Among the most robust data we have—according to Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg (Florida Health department) and Dr. Marty Makary (Johns Hopkins University)—is from Dr. Katie Sharff (who had her young son vaccinated) and colleagues, who analyzed a wide database from Kaiser Permanente.
Dr. Vinay Prasad on the Kaiser Permanente study
Going beyond other study methods, Sharff found a number of vaccine myocarditis cases that weren't explicitly labelled as such or were outside the parameters of the CDC's vaccine safety search. After performing an exhaustive search of the Kaiser medical records, Sharff and colleagues found a 1 in 1,862 rate of myocarditis after the second dose in young men ages 18 to 24. For boys ages 12 to 17, the rate was 1 in 2,650. Countries with active surveillance monitoring of medical data (which suffer from far less under-reporting than the passive system in the U.S)—such as Hong Kong—show virtually identical figures. The risk of vaccine-induced myocarditis remains elevated for men up to the age of 40.
Tracy Høeg, MD, PhD @TracyBethHoeg
If the best study we have (Hong Kong) says post-vax dose 2 myocarditis occurs in 1/2680 12-17 yo boys & Nordic & French studies say myocarditis post moderna is 3.3-3.7x more common than pos Pfizer, that would give a post dose 2 moderna myo rate of 1/724-812 in 12-17 yo males 🧵
11:26 PM ∙ Jul 19, 2022
One need not be an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist to recognize these figures are alarmingly high.
Historically, vaccines with adverse event profiles far lower — but still deemed far too high — than the mRNA myocarditis signal have been withdrawn. The 1976 swine flu vaccine was pulled back because of a 1 in 100,000 risk of Guillain-Barre Syndrome.
An approximate 1 in 3,000 risk of vaccine myocarditis in young males would only be favorable in a cost-benefit analysis wherein the risk of disease would be considerably serious.
The pre-vaccine Covid infection fatality rate for people under 30 was 0.003%.
The vaccine myocarditis risk after dose two (0.03%) is ten times higher than the fatality rate.
Today, since the vast majority of young Americans have been previously infected with Covid once or twice, the calculus has shifted. Putting aside the question of whether it makes sense for unvaccinated people to get the primary series targeting outdated variants, the myocarditis risk (in young males) from even one dose eclipses that of hospitalizations from re-infection. Josh Stevenson — a data analyst who has co-authored multiple peer-reviewed studies on vaccine myocarditis — has designed the following bar graph comparing risks:
From Covid data analyst Josh Stevenson
Data methodology reviewed by Dr. Vinay Prasad
Using Covid hospitalization statistics instead of deaths is a more accurate comparison since Covid deaths are virtually nonexistent in healthy, young populations. Still, the differences are massive. For example, the risk of myocarditis from dose one in males ages 18-24 is 15 times higher than hospitalization from Covid re-infection. For dose two, the risk differential is a stunning 61 times greater.
Unless a young male is immunocompromised, obese, or suffering from other serious health conditions, taking any mRNA Covid vaccines carries far more risk than benefit. The best data indicate this is a fact — though this is hardly considered in mainstream media.
Cases such as Aidan's have prompted many honest voices in the public health community to reflect on the CDC's top-down vaccine recommendations. Dr. Anish Koka—a renowned cardiologist with his own clinic in Philadelphia—believes medical experts should have been "more careful about recommending this to low-risk patients from the very outset."
Koka Cardiology
As he explained to me over email, "Clinical myocarditis is never mild—a recent paper of 12–29-year-olds found 25% of myocarditis patients end up in the ICU, and 1 patient needed ECMO (a modified heart lung machine) to stay alive."
"The long term impacts of the persistent scars that are apparent in follow-up on cardiac MRI are also unknown," he added.
Koka believes it was "apparent by April (of 2021) there was a real safety signal," and he questions why public health authorities "didn't make decisions starting then to at least inform the public about this potential side effect at that point. "
Instead of mitigating risks by further spacing vaccine doses, recommending Pfizer over Moderna, and being honest about near-zero risks of severe outcomes in younger, healthy groups, Big Pharma in collusion with the government recklessly opted for universal decrees.
Looking back on the CDC and Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) possible negligence and recklessness, Khoka stated the harm perpetrated was "unconscionable."
More and more medical professionals are now speaking out on the strong likelihood that vaccine-induced myocarditis seems to occur at a rate that far exceeds deaths and hospitalizations in healthy, naturally immunized men under 40. Johns Hopkins public health professor Marty Makary recently wrote in a tweet:
"Last y[ea]r, the NEJM described a 22-yr-old that died from vax-induced myocarditis & I've heard of many more cases. I have never heard of a young healthy person with nat[ural] immunity dying from Covid. Our gov't doctors have not been honest about the risks:benefit in young healthy people."
Marty Makary MD, MPH @MartyMakary
Last yr, the NEJM described a 22-yr-old that died from vax-induced myocarditis & I've heard of many more cases. I have never heard of a young healthy person with nat immunity dying from Covid. Our gov't doctors have not been honest about the risks:benefit in young healthy people.
I had been frankly hesitant to make such a statement since it isn't scientifically rigorous, but since this topic is becoming less taboo, I will say it now: I have heard (without deliberately seeking) of several vaccine myocarditis cases in healthy, young people but have heard of zero hospitalizations and deaths.
In my last investigative article, I interviewed a 38-year-old previously healthy and incredibly fit man who unwillingly got double-vaccinated to keep his job in law enforcement.
He didn't hear the term "vaccine-induced myocarditis" until the doctor told him his diagnosis when he ended up in the hospital after almost dying from heart failure (210 beats per minute) following the second Pfizer dose:
"Working out of the gym helped clear my mind and establish discipline in my life…I can't jog, go for a hike, play tennis, or do any of the things for both my mind and body.
"I'm living with the consequences of what the government made me do, not what I chose to do," he said.
"If you don't get the vaccine, you're an outlaw," he added. "And you must be vanished to some other place in society."
Perhaps the most damning insight from this young man's story is the alarming frequency at which others like him have suffered. The doctor at the hospital said he was his third vaccine-induced myocarditis patient in a month-and-a-half; meanwhile, his cardiologist said he was his fourth patient at his clinic in recent weeks.
Three vaccine-induced myocarditis patients in (roughly) 60 days in a single hospital—out of 139 total major hospitals in British Columbia—suggests this problem is prevalent enough to warrant not only an end to draconian government mandates but also the halt of the administration of the vaccine in young healthy men (until more studies are conducted).
Desh's story shows how vaccine myocarditis isn't a "just" a problem for "14-year-old boys." It's serious risk for young men broadly.
It makes little coherent sense why young males were not only permitted and recommended to get the mRNA vaccine series, but mandated by the state (as I wrote at length here). This injustice is even more egregious now that we know vaccines confer little to no long-term protection against infection.
Aidan's mother recently came across a new scientific paper showing dismal vaccine efficacy in adolescents and tweeted the following:
Thinking about the fact that Aidan got myocarditis for 30.6% transient efficacy is pretty infuriating…This Pfizer vaccine was initially sold as 95% effective. Big change.
Fast-forward to today, Aidan is far from his physical condition before getting double-vaccinated. After advising him against even going on for a walk for the first four months post-vaccination — and eventually allowing a return to exercise after six months — Aidan's cardiologist has cleared him for all physical activity. However, "he tires more easily and has lower endurance," Emily says.
"He used to be able to run around and play for hours….now it's like 20-30 minutes and he gets exhausted," she added.
More than a year later, Aidan is still recovering from a vaccine that had little to provide him in the first place. Though some have shamed Emily for getting her son vaccinated, she is hardly to blame for trusting in taxpayer-funded health agencies whose sole function is to keep the public healthy and safe.
In light of the FDA and CDC's outrageous push to vaccinate everyone with the new "bivalent" booster—despite explicitly "unknown" myocarditis risks—hopefully more people will wake up and re-evaluate their blind faith in institutions who have far abandoned their ostensible mission of keeping us safe and healthy."
Rav Arora is a 21-year-old, independent journalist formerly writing for top publications such as The Globe and Mail and New York Post before critically covering vaccines and government mandates.
It is high time to stop calling govt health departments 'Authorities 🤬🤬🤬🤬
People are the decision makers with regard to their health not the communists in the government's health care department
What a sorry, sad story for this child and family. Those pushing these shots need accountability, personally, not the taxpayers funding the bill.

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Shorts in Motion: The Art of Seduction is a Canadian anthology of 10 original, two-minute mobile shorts for video cell phones, by directors, artists and personalities, including: Ann Marie Fleming, Mark McKinney, Guy Maddin, Isabella Rossellini, Theodore Ushev and Denis Villeneuve. The series is presented by Bravo!FACT and co-produced by marblemedia and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). It was one of the NFB's first ventures into mobile media. Rossellini is the only non-Canadian director.

Films
Nude Caboose: Guy Maddin - A jovial shirtless man attempts to rouse a contingent of lethargic dancers to life in Nude Caboose. His highjinks really get the deadbeats bustin' out until something unusual catches his eye. Dance floor seduction distilled into a fateful moment!
Strip Show: Adam & Dave - Adam Brodie and Dave Derewlany's short film about an internet seductress who gets duped into performing out of character, acts before the camera.
Not Pretty, Really: Mark McKinney - Writer director Mark McKinney conducts candid interviews with selected subjects on the benefits and downside of being considered "pretty."
On Fire: Jenn Goodwin - Writer director Jenn Goodwin's live action short about a firefighter who acts out his inner desire of being a dancer while on his way to work.
Dirty Dog: Trent Carlson - Trent Carlson's short about a man who tries to atone for his infidelity by serenading the woman he scorned.
120 Seconds to Get Elected: Denis Villeneuve - A young politician has 100 seconds to convince his audience to vote for him. His speech becomes an improvisation in which he tries to capture the needs of the crowd. According to the reactions of the crowd, he changes his ideas and opinions and goes back on his promises. He focuses on seducing the audience by finding out what they want to hear. A satirical parody that shows a man abandoning his world view in hope of seducing the masses. The ideas are not an end but a means.
Sou: Theodore Ushev - Set to a kinetic soundtrack, Sou is a dazzling multi-layered animated collage piece on how a Western man, through ill-equipped eyes, views the seductive qualities of the pell mell kitsch that is the modern Japanese society.
Electric Chairs: Anita McGee - Grandpa may be 95 years old, but he's still young at heart. Even at his own birthday party, he is lured away by an ageing babe on an electric scooter. Proof indeed that you're never too old to play the game.
My Obscure Object of Desire: Ann Marie Fleming - In the animated short My Obscure Object of Desire, the heart will go to any lengths to become the object of its love's desire. So it woos, coos and even "awoos." But in the end not even the heart can always get what it wants.
Oh La La: Isabella Rossellini - A city's population whisked off the streets and in to the bedrooms. So this is where the art of seduction leads us! A harmonious symphony of pleasure fills our ears. Oh la la! C'est magnifique!

Features
Shorts in Motion: The Art of Seduction integrates quizzes, advice columns and guides as well as downloads of all 10 Micro Movies which can be played back on mobile phones. For a further level of audience interaction, the ability to create and send e-cards via users' cell phones was also implemented.

Awards
The Art of Seduction was named Best Made for Mobile Video Service at the GSM Global Mobile Awards (Barcelona, 2007) and Best Original Content for Mobile at the Banff World Television Award (Banff, 2007). It was also nominated for an International Interactive Emmy.

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NFB Collections page for The Art of Seduction

National Film Board of Canada series
Mobile content
Internet films
Canadian anthology films
2007 films

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"When [actor Christopher] Abbott abruptly left 'Girls', there was conjecture -- some of it snarky -- that he was looking to take on darker, more challenging roles before he got typecast as an amiable punching bag. If that's true, with 'James White' Abbott -- who will reportedly return to 'Girls' next season for a single-episode appearance -- has achieved his goal. 'James White' is the kind of role any young actor might quit a hit TV show to play: On screen for virtually every minute of a film named for his character, he's followed in near-constant close-up by Mathyas Erdely's nimble camera as he skids between extremes of grief and ecstasy, anxiety and hope. (The unsettling electronic score, composed by Scott 'Kid Cudi' Mescudi -- who also nicely underplays in the role of James' best friend -- reflects James' stormy inner state.)"
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"'God is a squirrel,' Fitzgerald says during this scene. It's the kind of line one would expect to find in a Werner Herzog film, and indeed many critics have pointed out that 'The Revenant' owes a debt to the German director. Like Herzog's 'Aguirre, the Wrath of God' (1972) and 'Fitzcarraldo' (1982), 'The Revenant' is preoccupied with a man trying to overpower the natural world and, by proxy, the assumed physical limitations of his species. Herzog, however, is obsessed with the absurd dialectical struggle between nature's cruelty and human beings' compassion and reverie. His films have a humor and visual poetry largely absent from 'The Revenant,' in which nature seems unfathomably enormous -- a fearsome, awesome, overpowering presence. This vision is largely attributable to Lubezki, because apart from the photography, Hardy's performance, and Bryce Dessner, Carsten Nicolai, and Ryuichi Sakamoto's moving score, everything in 'The Revenant' feels botched or horribly mismanaged (many crew members left the production, complaining of horrible conditions and treatment by Iñárritu). In the past few years Lubezki has worked on four films, Oscar nominees all, that attempt to visualize daunting, colossal, and even cosmic subjects: existence ('The Tree of Life'), space ('Gravity'), ego ('Birdman'), nature ('The Revenant'). Though they were made by three different directors, the way they address larger-than-life topics despite problematic scripts makes them feel like the output of one person. That person is Emmanuel Lubezki; with each successive film he confounds and exceeds my expectations."
"But such a possibility is short-lived: Soon enough, Glass is left alone to fend for himself, at which point most of the Native American figures are reduced to little more than scowling, vicious plot devices. Needless to say, 'Meek's Cutoff' this is not: Rather than complicating the relationship between American settlers and various tribes, 'The Revenant' presents the latter group as fearsome, one-note companions wielding vicious tools and beastly tempers. This mainly points to a lack of sophistication in the storytelling as a whole, since the movie does contain attempts to convey genuine bonds between the two groups. But these token acknowledgments feel oddly forced, particularly once Glass teams up with another nomadic sort whose world has been destroyed by the white man. The abrupt music cue when the pair realize they have something in common plays like the worst kind of dime store political correctness."
"Consequently, the power of this filmmaking pair, with their unbroken, 360-degree action scenes, is in conveying frontline danger so primal you forget about the virtuosic feats of shot-making choreography involved. The technical achievements extend, too, to veteran production designer Jack Fisk's evocative frontier structures, Jacqueline West's richly textured harsh-climate clothing, and the seamless effects work. Credit must also go to the mélange of atmospheric music by the trio of Bryce Dessner, Alva Noto and the great Ryuchi Sakamoto."
"The hauntingly spare tenor and relentless punishment of 'The Revenant' may not be the easiest sit at times, but there is much to admire. Superstar cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki's panoramic vistas and breathtakingly choreographed action set pieces -- the majority of the movie is shot in gorgeous, soft-hued natural light -- make him a shoo-in at this year's Oscar race. Ryuichi Sakamoto's plangent score is subtle, but emotionally poignant, and, of course, Leonardo DiCaprio palpably scorches in scenes of brutal affliction and hot-blooded retribution. One scene in particular, with Glass crippled and immobile, losing one of his loved ones right before his eyes, is one of the most wrenching moments you'll have seen on screen this year. DiCaprio's visceral rage is so devastating, he appears as if he'll break into full-blown seizures at any moment."
"Many have said the same about Terrence Malick's dreamy visions of a lost America, especially 'The New World.' Malick is a poet; Inarritu's more of an entrails guy. Like 'The New World,' 'The Revenant' was photographed by the remarkable Emmanuel Lubezki, who fully deserved his back-to-back Oscars for his work on 'Gravity' and 'Birdman.' He's a maestro of ravishing natural light, along with flowing, extended lines of action, unfolding in both real and brilliantly fabricated single takes. Inarritu's film is worth seeing, on balance, largely for Lubezki's contributions, though it has many other fine elements, notably a subtly powerful musical score by Bryce Dessner, Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto."
"Iñárritu doesn't entirely overcome his longtime issues with 'The Revenant.' Among his films like 'Birdman,' 'Babel,' and '21 Grams,' this one comes furthest in escaping his tendency toward facile, shallow conclusions, delivered with vast self-importance. The dialogue can be naked and obvious -- that flashback metaphor about the strength of the storm-tossed tree gets repeated at least two times too many. But relatively little time is wasted on talk, and when Iñárritu lets Lubezki's images and Ryuichi Sakamoto's eerie score speak for him, any sense of pontificating falls away in the gravity of the world they capture. Still, it's worth debating what exactly the point of 'The Revenant' is. Stripped of all its considerable craft, it's yet another basic betrayal-and-revenge story, the kind that's mostly satisfying because it indulges a fantasy. Malick's visually similar films always seem to reach for enlightenment and the ineffable; Herzog is obsessed with the infinite possibilities of human ambition. It's unclear whether Iñárritu has any broader philosophical agenda worthy of the craft he showcases here."
"That's the movie. And a visceral punch in the gut it is. You could gripe about the excess of carnage and lack of philosophical substance. But surviving nature is Iñárritu's subject, and he delivers with magisterial brilliance. As does the haunting score by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Alva Noto and Bryce Dessner."
"As the surviving trappers flee with whatever pelts they can salvage, we feel not just ambushed but surrounded -- by the attackers lurking just off screen, by the dense trees looming in Lubezki's deep-focus compositions, and perhaps most of all by the astonishing sound design, which transforms the music of babbling brooks, rustling trees, thunderous hoofbeats, falling bodies and anguished screams into a wild symphony of woodland chaos. These sounds will be joined, in due course, by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto's artfully modulated, never-repetitive score, which begins as a series of low, synth-like rumbles that gather melodic force and power as the film progresses."
"Having handled such notable prior evocations of frontier America as 'Days of Heaven,' 'The New World' and 'There Will Be Blood,' production designer Jack Fisk is entirely in his element here, as is another Terrence Malick regular, costume designer Jacqueline West. The score by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto, with additional music by Bryce Dessner, is effectively ominous and grim."
Maybe because Shire is one of my top ten faves, I have trouble imagining confusing those two. For me, Shire is perhaps the most underrated film composer ever.


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Revelation 3:7-13 • The Church at Philadelphia
This study comes from week 161 of the Reading Plan, Revelation 1-3.
Please read Revelation 3:7-13 completely before beginning.
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Revelation 1 • It's All About Christ
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Revelation 2:8-11 • The Church at Smyrna
Revelation 2:12-17 • The Church at Pergamum
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The seven churches represent at least four different things:
Seven literal churches which existed at the time Revelation was given;
Seven types of churches which can exist at any time in history;
Seven types of churches which will exist in the Last Days;
Seven types of individual believers.
Additionally, this writer believes as many do that each church represents a 5th aspect of a sequential, overlapping period of history when the corresponding church characterizes its overall condition for that time.
This is provided In much more detail in Jacob Prasch's book, "The Dilemma of Laodicea", which says of the age of Philadelphia that it characterizes what we call the "Great Awakening" of the late 17th through mid-20th centuries, building on the many changes brought about by the Reformation. Philadelphia corresponds to the most prolific period of spiritual success since the time of the founding Apostles. All of these churches existed and were present, but the main environment was dominated by what is written about Philadelphia.
7"And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write:
He who is holy, who is true, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says this:
Read verse 7
Q: What appears to be the main issue at Philadelphia?
A: Like Smyrna, there is nothing negative raised about this church.
Q: How does the meaning of "Philadelphia" correspond to the spiritual condition of this church?
A: "Philadelphia" means "brotherly love".
Q: What characteristics of Christ are emphasized for Philadelphia?
"He who is holy and true…"
"He…who has the key of David…"
"He…who opens and no one will shut…"
"He…who shuts and no one opens…"
Q: What is the "key of David"?
A: There is a significant parallel to what is mentioned in Isaiah concerning Eliakim:
22"Then I will set the key of the house of David on his shoulder, When he opens no one will shut, When he shuts no one will open. 23I will drive him like a peg in a firm place, And he will become a throne of glory to his father's house
Whereas the historical Eliakim was given the authority over entrance or rejection to Hezekiah's court, Christ as the Son of David has the key to the kingdom of God, the authority over entrance or rejection to the King of Heaven's court. At the very least this speaks to a powerful and fruitful working of the Gospel through this particular church.
Application: Great spiritual opportunities are entrusted to Christ according to His will and timing.
8'I know your deeds. Behold, I have put before you an open door which no one can shut, because you have a little power, and have kept My word, and have not denied My name. 9Behold, I will cause those of the synagogue of Satan, who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie—I will make them come and bow down at your feet, and make them know that I have loved you.
Read verses 8-9
Q: What is the "good news"?
A: "I know your deeds".
Point: This phrase appears 5 times in the letters to the churches:
Ephesus (Rev. 2:2)
Thyatira (Rev. 2::19)
Sardis (Rev. 3:1)
Philadelphia (Rev. 3:8)
Laodicea (Rev. 3:15)
This is good news when it affirms faithfulness, as with Philadelphia, or bad news when it affirms unfaithfulness as in Laodicea.
Q: What is the first thing Christ is going to provide this church?
A: An "open door which no one can shut".
Q: What are the reasons given for this privilege?
"…you have a little power…"
"…you…have kept My word…"
"…you…have not denied My name".
Application: These are qualities which have allowed them to accomplish their good deeds.
Q: What is the second thing Christ is going to provide this church?
A: The Judaizers, who also plagued the other good church in Smyrna (Rev. 2:9), will be humbled before Philadelphia.
Q: What is the purpose of humbling these Jews who "are not Jews"?
A: To "make them know that I have loved you".
Point: It is not just a demonstration of God's power but of is His love.
Application: These two provisions are an opportunity to display and preach the Gospel to both the friendly and unfriendly. Faithfulness on a smaller scale has led to a divine opportunity for a much greater calling.
10'Because you have kept the word of My perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth. 11I am coming quickly; hold fast what you have, so that no one will take your crown.
Read verses 10-11
Q: What is the reciprocity expressed in v.10?
A: Because "you have kept the word of My perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing".
Q: Why is the Word connected to "perseverance"?
A: Philadelphia did not merely read or even study Scripture, but put it into practice and thus lived it. It wasn't just informational but practical.
Application: Those whose choices, decisions, and behavior strictly conform to God's Word will find that they will successfully ßendure and overcome this world by the Word.
Q: What and when is the "hour of testing"?
A: There are two very important details which need to be properly understood in order to interpret this correctly:
It will "come upon the whole world". It is not confined to a single location or limited to a few select nations or groups.
The purpose is "to test those who dwell on earth". This is speaking of one of the most featured aspects in God's Word when it comes the End Times: "the day of the Lord".
Point: "The day of the Lord" is that time when all that remains is the pouring out of God's wrath, from which believers are exempt.
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.
For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Q: But isn't that "hour of testing" the whole final week of years?
A: The specification that it is only for "those who dwell on the earth" consigns it to that phase closing out those 7 years known as "the day of the Lord".
Point: "Those who dwell on earth" is a common designation found within God's prophetic Word which refers to those who have not accepted Christ as Savior—that is, those associated with rejecting the Messiah. (Rev. 6:10; 8:13; 11:10; 13:8, 14; 17:2, 8)
Q: What is the warning given to Philadelphia?
A: "I am coming quickly".
Q: So how are they to prepare for His return?
A: "…hold fast what you have, so that no one will take your crown."
Application: Just as persecution must be endured, likewise faithfulness must continue uninterrupted to the very end. This is the only way to escape "the hour of testing" and secure the crown of our salvation.
12'He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will not go out from it anymore; and I will write on him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God, and My new name. 13He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'
Q: What is the first promise to all believers provided by Christ to all overcomers?
A: "I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will not go out from it any more".
Q: But how does this fit with what we are told about the final temple in the New Jerusalem?
I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.
It speaks of our permanent residence with God without a formal structure..
Q: What are the three names which will be written on us?
"…the name of My God
"…the name of the city of My God…"
"…My new name".
Point: All the markings of God's people recorded in Scripture foreshadow this final marking in eternity.
Application: Those qualified as the temple of Christ here on earth (1 Co. 3:16) become the final temple of God in eternity.
Overall Application
Throughout the Church's history, very big things have come from a very small group or even a single individual. They were provided a door opened by Christ which no one could shut. Such opportunities are provided to the faithful whose priority is to put God's Word into practice to the very end not just personally, but in all their endeavors.
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Cloud's Rest in upper Yosemite is one of those places that's a real pain to reach, but once you do it's all worth it. This is a comparatively old image next to the others on this site, dating all the way back to my Boy Scouting days. The figures enjoying the view are Chad Erickson (in red), his father (sitting next to him), and Chris Lowe (blurry head in lower right corner). There is really only one word that describes this kind of place... and that word is different for all of us.


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Le record de France senior du lancer du poids est détenu chez les hommes par Frédéric Dagée avec la marque de , établie le  lors des championnats de France en plein air d'Angers. Chez les femmes, le record national appartient à Laurence Manfrédi, créditée de  le  lors des championnats de France en salle de Liévin.

Record de France masculin

Record de France féminin

Records de France en salle

Hommes

Femmes

Notes et références

Sources
 DocAthlé2003, Fédération française d'athlétisme,  et 51
 Chronologies des records de France seniors plein air sur cdm.athle.com
 Chronologies des records de France seniors en salle sur cdm.athle.com

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Lancer du poids en France


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Q: Issue with sending an email to only the users being deleted from the database     // Show the members that are in the Database
    $query = "SELECT user_id, membership_id, user_email, first_name, last_name, approved        FROM vintage_user ORDER BY user_id ";
$result = mysql_query( $query, $mysql )
or die( mysql_error() );

if (mysql_num_rows($result) > 0){
$members = "
";
while($ev = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
    $row_id = $ev['user_id'];
    $first_name = $ev["first_name"];
    $last_name = $ev["last_name"];
    $email_member = $ev["user_email"];
    $membership_id = $ev["membership_id"];
    $members .= "

Members Name: ".$first_name." ".$last_name."

Member's Email: ".$email_member."

Membership ID: ".$membership_id."

";
    $members .= "
<form action=".$myPage."  method=\"post\"><input class=\"event_item_box\"  id=".$row_id." type=\"checkbox\"  name=members_cbox[] value=".$row_id.">

";

if (sizeof($_POST['members_cbox'])) {
foreach($_POST['members_cbox'] AS $row_id ) {
                $email_query_member = "SELECT user_email FROM `vintage_user` WHERE user_id='" .$row_id. "'";
            $the_result_member = mysql_query( $email_query_member, $mysql )
                or die( mysql_error() );
            if (mysql_num_rows($the_result_member)){
                $email_list_member = "";
                while($ev5 = mysql_fetch_array($the_result_member)){
                    $user_emails_member = $ev5["user_email"];
                    $email_list_member .= "".$user_emails_member.",";
                }
                mysql_free_result($the_result_member);
            }
        $to2 = $email_list_member;
        $from = "";
        $subject2 ="";
        $headers = "From: {$from}" . "\r\n";
        $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
        mail($to2, $from, $subject2, $headers);
        mysql_query("DELETE FROM `vintage_user` WHERE user_id='" .$row_id. "'");

That is what im using right now and it sends an amount of emails based on how many users are in the list but only to the users being deleted, its a very weird bug. maybe I should use a limit or actually grab the amount of users being targeted? Thanks in advance.

A: Looks like your problem (other than the fact this code could use a major refactor) is in the while loop:
while($ev5 = mysql_fetch_array($the_result_member)){
    $user_emails_member = $ev5["user_email"];
    $email_list_member .= "".$user_emails_member.","; // Problem
}

The email_list_member is being appended to for every user found in foreach loop. Try just assigning the value rather than appending it.
-- Update --
Ugh, didn't want to get into a refactor, but try this (untested):
if (sizeof($_POST['members_cbox'])) {

    $membersToDelete = $_POST['members_cbox'];

    // If this doesn't work
    $membersToDelete = array_map('mysql_real_escape_string', $membersToDelete);

    // Use this
    $membersToDelete = array_map('intval', $membersToDelete);

    $email_query_member = "SELECT user_email FROM `vintage_user` WHERE user_id IN (" . implode(',' $membersToDelete) . ")";

    $the_result_member = mysql_query( $email_query_member, $mysql ) or die( mysql_error() );

    while($ev5 = mysql_fetch_array($the_result_member)) {

        $user_emails_member = $ev5["user_email"];

        $to2 = $user_emails_member;
        $from = "";
        $subject2 ="";
        $headers = "From: {$from}" . "\r\n";
        $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
        mail($to2, $from, $subject2, $headers);
    }

    mysql_query("DELETE FROM `vintage_user` WHERE user_id IN (" . implode(',' $membersToDelete) . ")";
}

A: It is not quite clear what you want nor what you are doing, but running a  SELECT query per each element in $_POST['members_cbox'] doesn't seem to be a good idea. Same happens with the DELETE statement.
The algorithm should be:

*

*Get all members you want to delete from the database using the where user_id in(...) syntax

*Send emails to each of them

*Delete all of them using a similar syntax as before

And most important, modularize that code at least in 3 methods/functions!

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This week I have a finish!
Talkin Turkey is finally completed. This was also my UFO from April.
I was also able to complete the last of my applique blocks from Temecula Quilt Company Block of the month. Not sure yet how I will set them, thinking something simple. Any ideas are welcome!
My only purchase this week was from Sunshine Quilt Guild's Auction. I bid on this charm pack, layer cake, ruler and pattern called Five and Dime. Lucky me- I won! The pattern is super simple and will be coming with me to our retreat this week in Lakeside.
So the numbers for this week are not so bad!
Used this week: 16 yards.
Purchased this week: 5.0 yards.
Purchased Year to date: 65.0.0 yards.
Net Fabric Used in 2014: 12 yards.
Hope this week finds you using up your stash! See all the other reports at Patchwork Times.
Your Talkin' Turkey is stunning! Great finish.


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Microsoft and Nokia to Host Windows Phone Event on Sept. 5
By Daniel P. Howley, LAPTOP Senior Writer | August 15, 2012 10:48 am
Well look what we have here. Nokia and Microsoft have just sent us an invitation for an event on Sept. 5, which will undoubtedly have to do with Redmond's upcoming Windows Phone 8. Previous rumors had Windows Phone 8 hitting the market sometime around October or November.
The Sept. 5 time frame, however, fits perfectly with the start of Nokia's Nokia World event, which runs from Sept. 5 to the 6th. Sept. 5 is also significant, because it is one week before Apple's rumored Sept. 12 iPhone 5 launch event.
Rumors have been circulating for quite some time, that Microsoft would try to undercut Apple's announcement, and if the iPhone 5 does, in fact, make its big debut on Sept. 12, Microsoft will have accomplished its goal.
We'll bring you live updates on the event as it happens. Stay tuned.
Top 12 Features of Windows Phone 8
Microsoft: Windows Phone 8 Will Free Your From "Big Brother" iPhone
10 Ways Windows Beats the iPad
Daniel P. Howley, LAPTOP Senior Writer
A newspaper man at heart, Dan Howley wrote for Greater Media Newspapers before joining Laptopmag.com. He also served as a news editor with ALM Media's Law Technology News, and he holds a B.A. in English from The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.
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Scott Wiener, who has served District 8 on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors since 2011, was re-elected this week as chair of the San Francisco County Transportation Authority. The Authority was created in 1989 and it works closely with the Municipal Transportation Agency, funding and shepherding long-term projects such as the Van Ness and Geary bus improvements and the Central Subway. Wiener has long been a leader in transportation issues—probably because, unlike some elected officials, he actually rides the trains and buses.
Streetsblog talked with Wiener about cycling, his goals for improving Muni, and general mobility in San Francisco. But first, late last December Supervisor Wiener pulled out his phone to check an appointment and got robbed. The thieves took his phone and then demanded money. Wiener got his phone back and managed to maneuver them in front of an ATM camera. Streetsblog started by asking him about that encounter and what it says about personal safety in San Francisco.
Streetsblog: So you got the thieves on a security camera?
Scott Wiener: It was either an incredibly smart move or an incredibly stupid move, but I got my phone back and the people are in custody. I was walking down 16th Street at Valencia and I had briefly taken my phone out to look at my calendar to see where I was going. A woman who was with two guys snatched the phone out of my hand and I was able to get it back from her by paying. So I got them to an ATM machine so that they would be on video; two of the three are now in custody.
I've walked through 16th and Valencia probably hundreds or thousands of times and I'm very comfortable there. You just have to always be aware of who's around you. But I feel like there's a lot of shaming that goes on and there's this mantra now that you're never supposed to take your phone out in public because it makes you some kind of sitting duck for crime. That's not realistic. Sometimes when I'm going from one location to another it's my only opportunity to return phone calls. Even though I try to minimize that but even if people aren't making calls or aren't texting you have to take your phone out to look at your calendar to see where you're going. Or you have to take your phone out to call a cab or Lyft or Uber or see when the next bus is coming. So yes we should all try to reduce the amount of time you have your phone out in public but you know, we are going to take our phones out. And so we just have to be aware of who's around us and be safe.
SB: Whenever I hear police say you shouldn't take out your phone on the street or on the bus, my first thought is what's the phone for if you're not going to take it out?
W: Crime is a problem in SF. It's terrible to have just been victimized. It is a sense of violation. We need to be careful but we have to live our lives even if that puts you, to an extent, at risk of being victimized.
SB: Riding my bus to City Hall I had a typical experience; someone was playing a radio loudly. That's not the end of the world. But every other time I ride Muni there's someone misbehaving. There's a sense the system is out of control.
W: We don't have security on the buses in a systematic way. We have the drivers who have to be focused on driving. And they have a role to play in terms of keeping the inside of the bus safe but their main job is driving safely. And they're not security guards. Then we have fare inspectors whose jobs are primarily to inspect fares. I don't want to have police swarming all over our buses but we do need to make sure the police are periodically going on the buses—not that you're going to see an officer every time you are on a bus, but periodically you will see one. It's a little bit like having officers walk beats. If you see more of a police presence, people start to think "okay there are rules and they can be enforced." I'd like to see more. There has been some additional police riding Muni, but there needs to be more.
SB: I went for a tour of the new bicycle infrastructure in SF and almost immediately I saw a DHL truck just pull right onto the new raised bike lanes. I've actually seen this happen already right in front of SFPD and they don't seem to act on it at all. What do we do about that?
W: SFPD and MTA have really just failed when it comes to double parking enforcement; whether it's double parking in traffic or on a bike lane. And I don't say that lightly. I work closely with both agencies. I think there are certain things they do really well. But this is one area where I would give both agencies, to be charitable, probably a "D" and maybe an "F." I feel for delivery truck drivers. It's a really hard job in a city like SF. And there are times where they have to double park—where there's no other way. And I get that. But there are too many times where you see a delivery truck just stopped in the middle lane of traffic when there is a loading zone available. In the Castro we have a ton of yellow zones. And sometimes they just don't use them. There's so many times where a cab or an Uber or a Lyft is picking up or dropping off a customer and there is a curb cut where they could pull in. And instead of doing that they just stop in the middle of traffic. And to me it's just so unacceptable and they never get a ticket. I've had several oversight hearings. And I think it was SFPD that said "well when we see someone doing it we'll tell them they have to move." So the worst thing that's going to happen to them, if they get caught, is someone is going to tell them to move? So how is that a disincentive to blocking traffic?
SB: You said they get an "F." When is it time to start firing people at these agencies if they're failing?
W: The Board of Supervisors has a bully-pulpit on this and that's all. The law is what it is. We don't have to pass any laws. It's clear that it's illegal. So we'll keep pounding away and they claim to be doing more double parking enforcement. I take them at their word. But it's not nearly enough.
SB: Then how do we get to the mayor to do some more hiring and firing?
W: It's a question for the mayor. To be clear, I'm not advocating that anyone be fired. I know the people involved. They're good people. And it's not one person. There's a culture that's developed in SF over many, many, many years. And it's hard to change. And also to be clear I'm not advocating that we're going to eliminate all double parking. There are situations where a delivery truck can't pull over. They're are situations where a driver is running in to get something on a street where they're not causing a problem by double parking. To me it's about reducing the amount of double parking and also taking a look at the corridors where it causes real problems whether it's for traffic or for Muni or for cyclists. I'm not saying we should be wiping double parking off the face of SF. It's about taking a thoughtful approach.
SB: Bike Yield was vetoed. What's the next step?
W: I hope that we can keep searching for ways to take a realistic approach in terms of bike enforcement and to really focus our scarce traffic enforcement resources on behaviors that are creating danger–cyclists who are violating rights of way, who are blowing through stop signs or red lights, who are doing things that actually put people in danger and really moving away from enforcement of these slow rolling stops that put no one in danger. We need more understanding of what it means to bike in a place like SF and that if you're going to come to a complete and utter stop and put your foot down at every single stop sign even if there's nobody else around it's just not realistic. It's not how people operate in the real world and we need to be making it easier for people to bike, not harder.
SB: So you support a pilot project?
W: Yeah. I know there was discussion in committee of a pilot and I would support. Perhaps a pilot on the Wiggle. It's not my first choice but it's certainly better than the Status Quo.
SB: It seems like the mayor's office was floating that as a possible compromise?
W: I believe Supervisor Cohen may have mentioned that as well. That seems like a good path.
SB: Pagoda Theater Site. I know you're a big supporter of expanding subway. What do we have to do to keep sites available for the Central Subway extension?
W: I've been frustrated because it felt like there was just inertia setting in to securing a site to have a North Beach station. And the fact that we bored the tunnel all the way there and you're talking about, whatever the price—whether it's a $6 million dollar piece of property, or either or ten, that's a rounding error in the overall scope of this $1.5 billion dollar subway project. So we have a $1.5 billion subway project and we could add say six or seven or eight million to that $1.5 billion budget to secure a site so that we can extend it pretty easily to North Beach. And why in God's name would we not just make that a high priority and lock down that site and then put together the funding to actually build the station? So it was very frustrating to me that it felt like it was slipping away. So when Supervisor Christensen and I announced that we wanted the department of real estate to appraise the property, the mayor, to his credit, got engaged and I think he's supportive. As I understand it, there is another site that MTA is looking at that the tunnel goes to. To me there's nothing magical about the Pagoda theater. It just made sense because it's a vacant site where we extract the machines, but if there's an adjacent site that works as well, then that's fine with me.
W: As I understand it, yes.
SB: The San Francisco Transit Riders Union brought up the problem of three N-Judahs in a row. Bunching of transit vehicles seems like a perennial problem in SF. Why?
W: MTA has lacked sufficient street level management for a long time. They've been trying to rectify it but there's no real replacement for having people on the street who are pro-actively managing the lines and saying "you know, hold on, stop, you need to wait a few minutes because you're bunched." There should never be a situation where two buses on the same line are riding behind each other. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
SB: I've seen that happen with buses in other cities. I've never seen it happen with trains. Especially in a subway tunnel, as it does with the N-Judah.
W: It's frustrating and I don't pretend to have the answer on how to fix it. But I know it's fixable.
SB: Is there anything you'd like to add. Stuff you'd like to get done with Muni?
W: I want to see Van Ness and Geary BRT move to completion. I want us to move on to other BRT projects. We need to move a lot faster on those projects. We can't keep doing this whole ten-years of environmental clearance. People complain about California environmental law. But it's not a CEQA problem. It's a San Francisco problem. There's nothing in CEQA that requires us to take that long to do environmental clearance on one bus line project. It's San Francisco and our inability sometimes to conduct a process with a beginning, middle and end. We need to get much more efficient in moving these important transit projects forward through environmental clearance and through design. The city's growing and we're getting so congested and we have to transform our transit system.
SB: Okay. Thanks for your time.
It's a pity California realpolitik is pushing Wiener towards the state Senate. I'd rather see him as mayor. 2019 seems so very far away . . .
I was disappointed he didn't run in 2015.
I like most of what Supervisor Wiener has done since elected, but in this interview he comes across as tired and passionless. Is he excited by the challenges facing San Francisco, or ground down by the endless delaying tactics and corruption of this city's political establishment?
Sometimes it feels like of all the elected officials at city hall, Supervisor Wiener is the only man who seems to get it, he seems to be the only one who understands the challenges this city faces, and solutions that need to happen, especially when it comes to transportation whether its the need for safer more PROTECTED bike lanes, or the need to improve reliability and efficiency of Muni, it just seems he's the only one that gets it, and like me, he wants to get things done efficiently without the STUPID IRRATIONAL nonsense some of these improvements have to put up with every single day. I just wish there were more people like him, I just only wish he would run for mayor rather than the state senate. San Francisco MORE THAN EVER needs leadership from people like Scott Wiener who gets it!
Really appreciate hearing from Scott Wiener, and wish he'd run for mayor!
Let's elect Jane Kim to State Senate and keep SW available for the Mayor's office.
Scott is all marketing. I live in District 8. We have been without a leader who represents us for 7 years. Crime is up, MUNI has gotten much worse. He panders to people about housing but nothing gets done. His pet pork projects of $8 Million to widen 2 blocks of Castro Street and $25 Million to renovate Dolores Park have been extremely disruptive. The Castro Shopping area now has higher vacancy rates than before and Dolores Park's only improvement is the playground. Is District 8 in better shape than it was 7 years ago? NO!!!!
Combining the Muicipal Railway with Dept of Parking & Traffic was a collosal mistake. It created the MTA which now is fed by parking money making the MTA an impregnable agency with a constant source of money. Half of the 7th floor at 1 S. Van Ness should be fired tomorrow. Instead of designing apps for iphones so gawd ferbid, riders dont have to carry one of those heavy clipper cards, they should be designing apps to keep the buses from bunching and getting the damnable buses cleaned. All public tranist should serve one question: "How can they improve the passenger experience?" *Muni sells more bicycles than anyone* The muniserable experience is why I got a used bike a year ago.


My friend Joshua Ramo just introduced me to the concept of being a Hypomanic. I felt at home with it. Both with the good and bad aspects of it. This is what he wrote.
is because American entrepreneurs are largely hypomanic.
This does flow from your idea that the very nature of immigrants and immigration is entrepreneurial. This would also explain the relative success of cultures in the diaspora (Indians in Africa and the Carribean, Chinese in South East Asia, Jews first in Europe and then in the US, and then the Lebanese, Greeks and Turks in place like Australia, South Africa, the US, etc).
A frequent characteristic of entrepreneurs is high attraction and resistance to stress and danger ( extreme conditions ) . Often entrepreneurs create danger, maybe to test their own capacity to escape death. Why do they need to feel the danger of ruin after fortune when other spend their life to protect themselves and their family ? is complex psychoanalytical question that may have an answer in each and every individual . I thought interesting to mention that a similar process exist also in very simple bacteria ( without psychology ). The recent research of such organism can give an interesting angle.


using the alpha iso to do the install.
I am not sure of the version built into the boot.iso.
100% with the current hard drive contents, reproducing that might prove tricky.
1. Use alpha.iso to try to install with encryption on top of raid.
2. Use boot.iso do to an install after the above step has failed.
problems lingering.  So I'll leave this open to be tested then.


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Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Review
by Mark Fajardo
on December 3rd, 2019
TagsStar Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
Following the abysmal reception of Star Wars Battlefront II, fans have been questioning what kind of future Star Wars would have in EA's control. When Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was revealed, fans were hopeful that these mistakes were in the past. Given Respawn's involvement and a number of interesting design choices, it looks to be the game fans have been waiting for. With a seemingly well-written storyline, intense action and everything else Star Wars fans expect, does it live up to expectations or should you wait until Star Wars has a new publisher? Here's our Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order review.
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order sits right between the events of Episodes III and IV movies. With Order 66 in place that eliminates the Jedi across the galaxy, there are a few that manage to survive and one of them is the protagonist of the game, Cal Kestis. After being exposed to the Empire and with the help of Cere, he must travel across the galaxy in search of a "holocron" that shows the location of the remaining Jedi. Of course, as he journeys himself to a perilous journey running like a fugitive, the Empire will be after him, especially the game's main antagonist, the Second Sister. With so many surprises and plot that the game has, Jedi Fallen Order has a good story that is worth checking until the end.
While trying to find the Holocron, Cal and Cere will travel in tosix planets along with Gris, the captain of the Mantis ship that you will be using. It is expected that the game can be finished in roughly twenty hours or so. The length of gameplay can be extended if you are a completionist as there are a lot of other things to do such as fully exploring the planets searching for lightsaber parts, or digging into the lore that rewards experience points.
Gameplay-wise, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is purely an action-adventure game. Playing through the twenty-hours of Cal's journey, I see some similarities to his adventure with Nathan Drake of the Uncharted series and Lara Croft of the Tomb Raider games, except Cal wields a Lightsaber. Every area that you come across t will give you an easy puzzle to solve to progress to other areas, while there are times it's really challenging that requires a little bit of thinking where some might find it too annoying. Unlike in past Star Wars or adventure games where the game offers a linear path when it comes to exploration, the six planets that you will get to visit will be massive, allowing you to explore it freely and find items that you can use. While some areas will be locked in early parts of the game, it will open up as Cal manages to learn more of his Jedi powers along the way. If there is one thing that I find annoying in the game, that would be the backtracking, which is aplenty.
As far as combat goes, it's pure action where Cal will have to use his Force powers and a Lightsaber. With the ability to wield both single and dual-lightsabers, Cal can unleash devastating combos to his enemies. Adapting part of Souls' mechanics in combat, Cal will find something similar to a bonfire where he can rest and use an ability points that he earns from taking down his enemies. Whenever he is rested, the game automatically saves and the enemies respawn. Think of it somewhat of a Dark Souls game but with a Lightsaber. Though comparing it to Dark Souls may mean it will be as hard, but it's not. The game offers a decent difficulty under the normal game mode, which is dubbed as Jedi Knight. For those looking forward to a challenging playthrough, there's also Jedi Grand Master mode where you will really have to master the combat by parrying, dodging, and hitting at enemies at the right time.
At the beginning of the game, you might find Cal to be a boring character to use in combat as he uses the same combos over and over again with his Lightsaber. Luckily, as you progress through the game and unlock powers through the main story, Cal unlocks more abilities that he can learn. When using the savepoint to rest, remember that you can use your points to learn several combos to make him tougher in combat. For every enemy that you take down, it fills up your experience bar gauge. Once it fills up, you gain an ability point. Be warned though – whenever you find yourself killed in combat, you will lose the experience points you earned but they can be earned back if you land a hit to that the enemy that took you down. Don't worry about the ability points you already earned as those won't be taken from you when you die – only those experience points you had before you can fill it.
As we all know, there are a lot into the Star Wars lore that you can explore and in Jedi Fallen Order it's no different. Exploring through the planets will only give you more background as to what has been going on with the game. With Force Echoes that are scattered throughout the areas, you can learn more about the planet's lore. It acts like an audio log that divulges information of what left it there. Aside from learning a lot of things about what had happened, you also gain experience points that can easily give you a boost in getting that ability point. As far as treasure, there are a lot scattered as well and getting them is a must if you want Cal to have a variety of outfit he can wear or even his BD-1 droid to use. Not to mention, you can change the design of the Lightsaber Cal is using by simply finding parts that are hidden in the game's world.
With a planet so huge that you can explore, there will be a Holomap that you can use. Unfortunately, there are no fast-travel points in the game, thus you really have to either take a long way back or use the shortcuts you unlocked whenever you are tasked to return to your ship. Just note that whenever you are exploring or doing a mission, always look at your story objective or the map to find where you are going.
In terms of visuals, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order looks phenomenal. Playing it on PC with RTX 2080 and a 43″ 4K monitor from ASUS, I was able to max its setting and being able to manage to maintain at a steady 60-70 frames per second with HDR on. The environments look very detailed from the six planets, to the temples and other unique areas that you get to explore later on in the game. Using the Unreal Engine instead of Frostbite Engine, expect some performance issues here and there but it's not game-breaking that detracts you from fully enjoying the game.
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Review – Verdict
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is the Star Wars experience fans have been waiting for. With several already considering it the best single-player Star Wars experience to date, there is plenty of reasons to be excited. From a captivating plot, challenging combat and plenty of secrets, Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order makes up for previous disappointments.
[Editor's Note:] Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was reviewed on the PC platform. The game was provided to us by the publisher for review purposes.]
Compelling Narrative
Memorable characters
Stays true to the Star Wars universe
A perfect combination of Uncharted and Dark Souls gameplay
Performance issues and bugs
Backtracking can be annoying at times
Very few enemy types
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Hague Court Declines Inquiry Into Church Abuse Cover-Up
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Pope Benedict XVI International Criminal Court Investigation Requested By Clergy Sex Abuse Victims Rejected
AP By RACHEL ZOLL 06/13/2013
NEW YORK — The International Criminal Court has rejected a longshot request by clergy sex abuse victims to investigate former Pope Benedict XVI and Vatican cardinals for possible crimes against humanity.
The tribunal, based in The Hague, told attorneys for the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests that "there is not a basis at this time to proceed with further analysis."
"The matters described in your communication do not appear to fall within the jurisdiction of the court," a court official wrote in a May 31 letter to the Center for Constitutional Rights, the nonprofit legal group that represents the victims. The legal organization released the letter Thursday.
Jeffrey Lena, the U.S. attorney for the Vatican, had called the 2011 request to the court a "ludicrous publicity stunt."
"The common thread running through all these cases is the mistaken idea that 'everything is controlled by Rome,'" Lena said Thursday.
Pam Spees, senior staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, said her group was confident it could collect enough evidence as new abuse victims come forward to press the tribunal to reconsider.
The odds against the court opening an investigation have been enormous. The prosecutor has received more than 9,700 independent proposals for inquiries since 2002, when the court was created as the world's only permanent war crimes tribunal, and has never opened a formal investigation based solely on such a request….
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/13/pope-benedict-international-criminal-court-_n_3436720.html
Int'l court case against ex-pope fizzles
By RACHEL ZOLL AP Religion Writer Thursday, 06.13.13
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/06/13/3449145/intl-court-case-against-ex-pope.html
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN June 13, 2013
The International Criminal Court in The Hague has decided not to investigate or prosecute the former pope and other leaders of the Roman Catholic Church on allegations of covering up the sexual abuse of children by priests.
Victims of sexual abuse filed a complaint in 2011 asking the court to prosecute Benedict XVI, then the pope, and three other Vatican officials for what they called an international and systemic cover-up of sexual abuse that amounted to "crimes against humanity."
The court responded in a letter dated May 31 that after analyzing the complaint, it had determined that the matters "do not appear to fall within the jurisdiction of the court." The letter said that "some of the allegations" fell outside the court's jurisdiction, which is to prosecute genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
In addition, the case did not appear to meet the court's time limits. For the most part, the court may prosecute only crimes committed after it was constituted in July 2002, and even though the cases submitted by the victims involved more recent allegations, some of the supporting material predated 2002….
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/world/europe/hague-court-declines-inquiry-into-church-abuse-cover-up.html
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Clinic Wins the Case But Might Lose the Fees
by Rinat Fried
Roy Frye starts a case against THC with attorneys Andrew Zacks and Paul Utrecht. Claiming that THC can't charge contingency fees because the organization is not registered with the State Bar, although its attorneys are. In San Francisco Superior Court its ruled that THC did not commit fraud but the rest of the case must go to trial.
THE RECORDER • TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1998
Judges and the Justice System
Roy Frye was glad to learn five years ago that the Tenderloin Housing Clinic was taking up his and other residents' complaints against the owners of the run-down President Hotel at Geary and Polk streets.
"We were very angry at the conditions," the 76-year-old man recalls. "But most of us realized that we couldn't pay attorneys fees up front."
Frye's happiness about THC's involvement vanished four years later, when its lawyers took $186,000 in fees out of $464,723 awarded to the victorious plaintiffs.
That upset Frye, even though he got about $10,000 and had signed a contingency fee agreement granting THC 40 percent of the award of the case went to trial.
"The checks were reduced… with no legitimate reason to do so," says the retired PG&E electrician.
Lucky for Frye, who now lives in Sacramento, two highly motivated attorneys decided to champion his case. Andrew Zacks, who primarily represents landlords and has crossed swords with THC in the past, and solo practitioner Paul Utrecht have represented Frye since April in a suit that claims THC can't charge contingency fees because the organization is not registered with the State Bar.
The outcome of the case, now before San Francisco Superior Court Judge Thomas Mellon Jr., could have a dramatic impact on the way the $1.1 million-a-year organization conducts business. That's because THC earns about a third of its revenue from contingency fee litigation.
Unfortunately for THC, Zacks and Utrecht might be correct in their claim: State Bar rules state that nonprofit law firms must register with the Bar.
But THC contends it isn't registered because nonprofit firms must meet a host of criteria, such as having an all-attorney board. THC also claims it does not have to register, because its attorneys are members of the Bar.
"Mr. Zacks is basically trying to prevent the clinic from doing any affirmative work," says Timothy Lee, a THC staff attorney representing the clinic in Frye v. Tenderloin Housing Clinic, 989112.
Zacks is indignant at the suggestion he has ulterior motives.
"I happen to believe that what THC is doing is wrong," he said after a hearing on Friday.
If Zacks prevails, THC will likely have to restructure to qualify for registration or give up an important revenue source.
In April, San Francisco Superior Court Judge David Garcia said THC didn't commit fraud in its contract with the President Hotel tenants, but said the rest of the case would have to go to trial.
The case has posed a dilemma for Mellon, who has said he is not inclined to return the fees.
At a hearing Friday, Mellon seemed to wrestle with the fact that THC has served its clients well in the case — but also might be violating a State Bar rule he called irrational.
"We're getting the answers to some very basic questions." Mellon said. But, he added, a resolution is still at least one more hearing away.
— Rinat Fried
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Video shows Black woman punching 'Convenience Store Karen' who called her the N-word
The white woman said the racial slur multiple times.
Samantha Shaps
Published Jun 26, 2020 Updated Jun 26, 2020, 1:13 pm CDT
A video that circulated on social media on Thursday shows a Black woman hitting a white woman, dubbed "Convenience Store Karen," who called the Black woman the N-word multiple times, NewsOne reports.
In the video, the two unidentified women are arguing back-and-forth at a 7-Eleven in Sacramento, California. The Black woman says, "All I did was walk past you and you start talking about your Black husband."
https://twitter.com/HeavyyCampp/status/1275978998032543747?s=20
"I don't give a fuck about your Black husband" the Black woman appears to add. "Just because you suck Black dick doesn't mean you're not a racist."
As the Black woman speaks, the white woman yells the N-word back at her. The Black woman throws something at the white woman, repeatedly says "call me [N-word] again," and threatens to beat her up.
After the white woman says the racial slur again, the Black woman punches the white woman in the face multiple times.
In a second video, the white woman is sitting on the ground gripping the Black woman's arm and yelling for someone to call 911. The Black woman repeatedly says, "let me go."
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After the white woman releases her grip on the Black woman's arm, the Black woman walks out of the store and says "call 9-1-1 and tell them."
The white woman was treated for minor injuries and initially chose to not file a complaint, TMZ reports. Although, the next day she called the police and decided to report the altercation.
Despite claims on social media that the Black woman was arrested for assault, the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office told TMZ that "no suspect has been identified, charged or arrested."
The sheriff's office did not immediately respond to The Daily Dot's request for comment.
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*First Published: Jun 26, 2020, 11:47 am CDT
Samantha Shaps is a journalism student at the University of Texas at Austin and a contributor for the Daily Dot.
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In a letter to the Montana House Judiciary Committee, ABA President Bob Carlson expressed his support for a bill that would eliminate the suspension of a driver's license or privilege as a sentencing option for nonpayment of fines, fees or restitution.
He told the committee, which plans to have a hearing on the bill Friday, that court fines and fees may be appropriate in certain circumstances, but legislators and courts should ensure that citizens are not faced with excessive sanctions—such as the suspension of a driver's license—when they do not have the money to pay those fines or fees.
Jurisdictions around the country also have become increasingly concerned about the negative effects that financial bail can have on people of modest means, as well as its contribution to jail overcrowding and costs.
Carlson provided the committee with a copy of the ABA Ten Guidelines on Court Fines and Fees, which the ABA House of Delegates adopted in August 2018, to provide guidance on developing and reforming court fines and fees. He specifically references Guideline 3 and its related commentary, explaining that people who lose their driver's licenses also can lose their ability to work, or drive with a suspended license and then face incarceration.


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Message from Junior Chairman – Leighton Nichols
Welcome to Skewen RFC and I hope you have a happy time playing and volunteering with us. In line with the requirements of the WRU for Rugby clubs in Wales, Skewen has the structures and policies in place to enable the club to successfully run Mini's, Juniors, Youth and senior teams.
We are always looking for people to join us and this welcome pack has been prepared to allow all relevant information to be readily available in one place to both new and existing members and clearly outlines what you can expect from the club and what the Club and WRU expects from you
Put simply
Skewen RFC recognises the rights of volunteers to:
have adequate support in their volunteering
receive appreciation
volunteer in a safe environment
be insured
know their rights and responsibilities if something goes wrong
receive relevant out-of-pocket expenses
receive appropriate training
be free from discrimination
In return Skewen RFC expects volunteers to:
be reliable
respect confidentiality
make the most of training and support opportunities
carry out tasks in a way that reflects the aims and values of the Club
carry out tasks within agreed guidelines
respect the work of the Club and not bring it into disrepute
comply with the Club and WRU's policies
As a Club Skewen has a voluntary structure in place for the recruitment and training of individuals to meet the requirements of the club based upon the guidelines set by the WRU.
WRU Code of Conduct for Players and their Parents/Guardians
Players representing Skewen RFC and their respective parents/guardians will abide by the following WRU Code of Conduct
Code of Conduct for Players
Players are expected to be properly dressed.
Learn the laws of the game and abide by them.
Make a personal commitment to keep yourself fit at all times.
Never argue with the referee's decision.
Control your temper on the field of play.
Do not take unfair advantage of any player.
Hard work will benefit both yourself and the team's performance.
Do not listen to comments from spectators.
Co-operate with your team-mates, coach, and referee, for without them you do not have a game.
If you are disciplined, accept it without question.
Above all, do not use abusive and foul language
Code of Conduct for Parents
Do not force an unwilling child to participate in rugby.
Encourage your child to play by the laws of the game.
Teach your child the importance of effort and teamwork.
Help your child to improve skills and to learn a positive attitude to the game.
Set an example to your child.
Applaud good play by our team and by members of the opposing team.
Be friendly to parents of the opposition.
Do not publicly question the referee's decisions.
Support all efforts to remove verbal and physical abuse.
Recognise and value the importance of coaches.
Above all, do not use foul and abusive language or bad behaviour.
Team Tactics - Matters relating to team tactics are the sole responsibility of the coaches. They should not be publicly criticised by players, parents or non participants.
Team selection - Will be decided by the coaches and selectors.
Players performance - Judgements of players performances are the perogative of the selectors and coaches. Shows of public disapproval should never occur.
Discipline - All matters relating to team and individual discipline on and off the field are the responsibility of the team manager and coaches. This includes players behaviour off the field (which can includes school) and when travelling to and from matches.
Changing rooms - The changing rooms will be out of bounds to parents pre and post match, unless directly invited in by the team manager and coaches. This is to allow the coaches to gain the players individual attention.
Players Role - Players responsibility to contact team manager regarding availability.
Grievance Procedure - If you feel you have a grievance with your respective squad, you must inform the team manager in writing within 7 days of the incident/event occurring. The team manager will respond, in writing, within 7 days acknowledging receipt of the complaint. The team manager will endeavour to deal with the complaint within 11 days of the original complaint. However, if you feel that your complaint has not been dealt with sufficiently and the aforementioned process has been exhausted, it then becomes an issue for the WRU senior development officer, whose decision is final. Failure to comply with any of the above could result in a player being removed from the squad.
WRU Rugby Pathway
The following link below is the WRU rugby pathway for all players u7 to u19
https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/860a75_1b27859c768843f4901cde7ead664086.pdf
WRU Half Game Initiative
The following link explains the WRU half game initiative which has been implemented in Skewen for the last two seasons
https://www.wrugamelocker.wales/media/146251/wru727%20half%20a%20game%20guidelines.pdf
District D
Skewen are members of District D and the following accesses their website
https://www.districtd-gmg.wales/governance
Our Anti-Doping officer is Dai Kingdom. The following links to the WRU policy and advice pages which has downloadable documents about supplements and medications
https://community.wru.wales/governance/policy-and-integrity/anti-doping/
The WRU's policy on concussion can be accessed via the links below
https://community.wru.wales/governance/medical/
https://d2cx26qpfwuhvu.cloudfront.net/wru/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/05114036/WRU_Concussion_Guidance_2016_English.pdf
Skewen RFC Ltd
Chairman – Richard Tristham
Company Secretary - Rachel Hopkins
Company Financial Director – Stephen Morris
Manager - John Grimes
Coaches - Christopher Grimes, Andrew Pope, Richard Davies
Safeguarding - Kevin Jones
Junior Chairman Leighton Nichols
Junior Secretary Victoria Dunsford
Junior Fixture Secretary Carl Jenkins
Under 11s - Carl Jenkins ( Coach); Kimberley Jenkins ( Team Manager)
Under 10s - Lee Dunsford ( Coach); Victoria Dunsford (Team Manager)
Under 9s - Richard Thomas ( Coach); Angharad Thomas ( Team Manager)
Under 8s - Kevin Owens ( Coach); Rachel Davies ( Team Manager)
Under 7s - Pete Thomas (Coach); Kelly Wallace (Team Manager)


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