For most of his life, Vice President of Professional Services Matt Foresman, MA, has counted on two wheels to take him where he wants to go. As a child, he rode his bicycle around his Kansas City, KS, neighborhood, and as an adult, he used a bicycle as a triathlete. "After years of huffing and puffing as a runner and cyclist with motorcycles passing me, I decided to try riding," Matt laughed.
Matt with his Kawasaki C1400.
A weekend training class convinced Matt to purchase a motorcycle. He's now on his second bike, a Kawasaki C1400. For Matt, his bike is an outlet for his competitive nature. Instead of pushing himself as a triathlete, he now tests his endurance and mental stamina by sometimes riding over 1,000 miles in less than 24 hours. He only stops for gas and food, no sleeping.
During Matt's marathon trips, he rides with a purpose–to benefit charity. He logs hundreds of miles as he raises money for veterans' organizations. On one ride, called Tour of Honor, he traveled throughout Missouri to locate seven preselected sites that memorialized veterans. In the 2016 event, Matt was the first rider to visit all seven sites.
Quick action gave him the advantage over his competitors. "I was at my computer when the race opened at midnight on April 1," Matt remembered. "I loaded the destinations in my GPS and started riding at 1 a.m., and I got home at 11 p.m. that night." A week later, he did the same thing in North Dakota and South Dakota.
What drives him? "I guess it's the reward system of winning combined with my competitiveness," he said. In 2016, Matt finished eight rides for a total of 10,000 miles.
Not all of Matt's riding centers around fundraising. Sometimes he identifies a place to visit and he just goes, like when he traveled to Canada and back in just over a day.
He rides year-round and enjoys traveling at night. His bike is specially equipped with accessories to make his travel as safe as possible. The adjustable wind screen helps shield him from the elements; his headlight is nearly four times the brightness of a standard headlight; and when it's cold, he wears heated socks, gloves and a jacket. In fact, he's been stopped by police officers who were intrigued by his bike's appearance.
In his travels, Matt's experienced his share of close calls with deer and cars, but thanks to well-practiced skills and "what if" planning, he's remained unscathed. While riding, he keeps his head clear during all those "mindless" miles. He's always aware of his surroundings and often listens to music or satellite radio, which don't distract him. When he's traveling in urban areas or on a curvy road, he turns everything off to improve his concentration.
Motorcycle safety is always top-of-mind for Matt, which makes him a great teacher. He now teaches the same class that he once took as a beginning rider. "I can't make someone a safer rider, but I can make that person a better rider who understands the risks," he explained. Certified riders typically enjoy a savings on their insurance and some states legally require the class.
Matt cites statistics from the Motorcycle Safety Foundation (MSF) that many current riders don't have any formal training. Besides not having formal training, another challenge is weather that typically allows only six months for riding. "If you don't practice your basic motorcycle skills, those skills degrade," said Matt. He reestablishes muscle memory by doing drills before he rides.
Matt's interest in rider safety has evolved into a position as a MSF certified RiderCoach and so far, he's taught more than 10 classes over the last year. He recently taught four classes in seven days and plans to expand his teaching in 2018. "I have turned into a motorcycle nerd," he laughed.


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Australian universities take aim at understanding dementia
A number of new reports, pilot programs and research papers are being undertaken and released by universities across the nation in the area of dementia prevention, support and diagnosis, as the condition's prevalence continues to grow globally.
Universities across Australia are making dementia research a focus (Source: Shutterstock)
Among the latest studies and pilot programs undertaken by universities is a new Sydney-based trial by the University of Sydney which is offering coaching and peer support to help people newly diagnosed with dementia cope with the prognosis and stay actively involved in their lives and community.
The Dementia Lifestyle Coach pilot study, a collaboration between the University's Faculty of Health Sciences and Brain and Mind Centre, will see participants receive 14 counselling and coaching sessions from a registered psychologist over a six-month period and will also have regular phone or skype catch ups with a peer support who lives with dementia.
Lead researcher, Associate Professor Lee-Fay Low, says the pilot study has the potential to fill a "vital service gap" with the latest research suggesting keeping the mind and body active could slow the progression of dementia.
She adds that following the 12-month long pilot, researchers will aim to assess the impact the coaching program has on participants' mood, independence, activity levels and quality of life.
"Following a dementia diagnosis many people withdraw from their friends and family for fear they will deteriorate quickly and can suffer immense grief or depression," she explains.
"There are over 400,000 Australians currently living with dementia and with a cure still some way off, it's essential that we help people with early dementia live well.
"We hope that giving people the right support, tools and strategies from the onset could help achieve this."
As well as the focus on dementia by the University of Sydney, South Australian-based Flinders University students and researchers have also been looking into the need for greater dementia education, as well as how non-pharmacological therapy programs can improve outcomes for older people - including people with dementia and their families.
Lead researcher in the Flinders University study paper What does the general public understand about prevention and treatment of dementia? A systematic review of population-based surveys Monica Cations says the research shows that the general public still believes dementia is a normal and non-preventable part of ageing.
"We were surprised to find that dementia literacy is still so poor, given how much effort has been put into improving understanding," Ms Cations says.
"The view that dementia is a normal part of ageing with few treatment options is a demonstrated barrier to both preventive health behaviours and to help seeking and diagnosis in the event that symptoms emerge."
The second paper released by Flinders researchers - Economic evaluations of occupational therapy approaches for people with cognitive and/or functional decline: A systematic review - also shows benefit for people living with dementia during their day-to-day life.
"The benefits of these interventions [removing clutter, or adjusting lighting] were evident for supporting people with dementia and their caregivers, as well as the caregivers of people with other neurodegenerative diseases and older people living in the community with different functional limitations or decline," co-author and Flinders PhD candidate Miia Rahja explains.
Executive Director Consumer Engagement, Policy and Research at Dementia Australia, Kaele Stokes, says research and study into dementia is vital.
"As dementia is the second leading cause of death in Australia and investment in this space will help minimise its impact in the future," she says.
"There is an urgent need to provide quality dementia care and it is through university study, that health professionals and career researchers can receive specialised knowledge and ultimately launch a career in this field.
"The Dementia Australia Research Foundation aims to build capacity in the dementia research workforce by funding Australia's talented new and early career researchers and students."
Dr Stokes adds that scientists are working hard to delay, prevent and ultimately find a cure for dementia, noting the major barriers to the development of new interventions and treatments in Australia are the lack of research capacity, funding and infrastructure, especially for those in the earlier stages of their career.
"We support further and continued research and study into dementia by universities," she says.
"Dementia Australia recognise this research and study is critical in increasing awareness, and improving the lives of people living with dementia their families and carers."
University of Sydney Associate Professor Lee-Fay Low has reiterated the importance of dementia research, for both her personally and researchers across Australia and the world.
"Dementia is the second leading cause of disease burden in older Australians, so we need more research to help decrease this burden through prevention, cure and better care," she says.
"On a personal note, I'm driven to conduct research that is going to make a real-world difference."

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Barber Paper Mill- Georgetown
Latlng: (43.661104, -79.907942)
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Recent status Being Demolished
Category Mill/Foundry
City Halton Hills, Ontario
Location # 603
In 1823 a descendant of the United Empire Loyalists by the name of George Kennedy purchased 200 acres of land upon. Mr. Kennedy constructed a woolen mill along the banks of the Credit River. A small settlement formed around the mill that took on the name of Hungry Hollow. The name was in reference to the difficult times that the settlers faced. The land was scarcely cleared, roads were poor and the area full of hungry wolves. For the first few years only two other people lived in Hungry Hollow: Marquis Goodenow and Sylvester Garrison In the nearby settlement of Crook's Hollow lived a man named Joseph Barber and his family. The Barber family immigrated to Canada in 1822 where Joseph found work as a stonemason working for James Crooks. The Barber sons gained experience working in nearby paper mills. The youngest and the eldest of the brothers worked in the woolen factory. The second worked in the paper-making business. The third worked in the mill-wright business. In 1837, six years after the death of their father Joseph, the four Barber sons (Joseph, Robert, William, and James) left Crook's Hollow and moved to Hungry Hollow. Relying upon their mill experience, the four brothers purchased a portion of George Kennedy's land and built a mill and metal foundry located south of Kennedy's mill. By 1840 Hungry Hollow had grown to include John Sumpter's general store and Elijah Travis' planing mill. By 1842 there were two Inns, a tailor, shoemaker, carpenter and blacksmith. In 1844 a second general store opened operated by James Young. Philo Dayfoot opened a tannery and boot factory during that same year. In 1843 the Barber mill had become successful enough that the brothers opened a second mill in the settlement of Streetsville. Around 1853 the Barber brothers consolidated their two woolen mills in Georgetown due to failing water power. The new larger facility became known as Toronto Woolen Mills. At it's prime, the paper mill produced over 5000 pounds of paper for books and newspapers per day. A fire in 1861 completely destroyed the Streetsville woolen mill and during that same year a boiler exploded in the paper mill at a loss of $8000. By 1864 the population of Hungry Hollow had grown to approximately 1250 people. In 1869 the Barber Brothers operation was dissolved. Joseph retired, Robert and William took over the Streetsville woolen mill and James took over sole operation of the Georgetown paper mill. Upon James' death in 1880, his son John Roaf Barber took over the mill and changed the production to wood pulp. The wood pulp was used for a specialty newspaper known as Number 3, which sold for 5 cents per pound. By the 1880's the Georgetown mill was requiring increased power to operate. To harness the power of the river a water dam was constructed with a twenty-four foot fall that was able to provide 175 horse power. John Roaf Barber hired the Brush Electric Company to create a 100-horsepower electric generator and a 60-horsepower DC motor. The generators were placed in the power house located 2.4 km downstream from the mill. Hydro electric power was transferred back to the mill by copper wire. This was the first mill of it's kind in Canada to generate electrical power for industrial production. John Roaf continued operating the Barber Paper Mill under 1911 when he retired and sold the mill to the Provincial Paper Company who had mills in Thorold, Milleroches, and Port Arthur. Provincial Paper was progressively shut down beginning on November 15, 1948 due to weakened financial markets. Production would eventually resume. The Provincial Paper Company continued to operate until March 31st, 1991 when it was closed permanently. Today the property is owned by Victor Boutin of Everlast Restoration. Mr. Boutin's plan is to convert the property into a country inn, fine-dining restaurant, and art studio. A 14 storey condominium is also to be built on the site. As of 2010 the developers had submitted their plans to the Town of Halton Hills. Some Southern Ontario paranormal investigators believe the site to be haunted by the ghost of Robert Barber. Writeup by OAP. Black & White photo source: Esquesing Historical Society FUTURE PLANS: (Added April 6th 2014 by Kenndruuh) The property is now owned by a company called Everlast Restoration. Their plan was submitted to the town of Halton Hills in 2010. They want to convert the property into a country inn, a fine-dining restaurant, and an art studio. A 14 story condominium is also to be built on the site.
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hgalkema Visited this location yesterday and unfortunately didn''t have much time to explore. Police were called and an officer escorted us off the property. He did let us take a few pictures inside before we had to leave, which was much appreciated.
Visited this location yesterday and unfortunately didn''t have much time to explore. Police were called and an officer escorted us off the property. He did let us take a few pictures inside before we had to leave, which was much appreciated.
Adder If you plan on exploring the place fully, be sure to bring a flashlight because even during the day, the basement is extremely dark and there are many holes in the floor.
If you plan on exploring the place fully, be sure to bring a flashlight because even during the day, the basement is extremely dark and there are many holes in the floor.
Darknights the place is still standing when I went a couple of weeks ago. pretty easy to get in from the riverside. as long as you keep quiet while you're there you shouldn't have a problem.
the place is still standing when I went a couple of weeks ago. pretty easy to get in from the riverside. as long as you keep quiet while you're there you shouldn't have a problem.
Sauce They definitely increased security on this place so be careful. Was much more difficult than it has been in the past but absolutely beautiful site!
They definitely increased security on this place so be careful. Was much more difficult than it has been in the past but absolutely beautiful site!
LivingGhost Still a lot left to explore here.
Still a lot left to explore here.
jp196400 such a shame to loose a great piece of history
such a shame to loose a great piece of history
f.o.s. Why don't you post it here and add to the description?
Why don't you post it here and add to the description?
Kenndruuh If you want to know more about current plans and more pictures go here for my blog. OAP covered everything else :) http://urbexdiaries.blogspot.ca/2012/10/georgetown-paper-mill.html
If you want to know more about current plans and more pictures go here for my blog. OAP covered everything else :) http://urbexdiaries.blogspot.ca/2012/10/georgetown-paper-mill.html
ann_faith There was talk about what they wanted to do with this plave back in 2010 when my mom lived close by...it was in the papers and everything...there was even some talk about saveing someof ot....but i guess the stupid condo builders won their fight....id like to send oit a bog F -U to all tje idioys that let this place get demod to the ground- and didnt fight to keep such an important and beautiful p
There was talk about what they wanted to do with this plave back in 2010 when my mom lived close by...it was in the papers and everything...there was even some talk about saveing someof ot....but i guess the stupid condo builders won their fight....id like to send oit a bog F -U to all tje idioys that let this place get demod to the ground- and didnt fight to keep such an important and beautiful p
rashomon Thank you Barber Mill for so many years of fun. It won't be the same without you. You will be missed.
Thank you Barber Mill for so many years of fun. It won't be the same without you. You will be missed.
The Duke Wow I was there a few days before demo began. I'm going to miss this place. Did many fun photo shoots here over the years.
Wow I was there a few days before demo began. I'm going to miss this place. Did many fun photo shoots here over the years.
animefreak13 I'm gong to go check what's left of it tonight if anyone wants to tag along
I'm gong to go check what's left of it tonight if anyone wants to tag along
ground state The loss of a legendary location... arguably one of the most visited site in Ontario.
The loss of a legendary location... arguably one of the most visited site in Ontario.
HudsonTL They've started demolition to make way for the river-side condos. I suggest making a trip down before its completely gone.
They've started demolition to make way for the river-side condos. I suggest making a trip down before its completely gone.
animefreak13 Just was there the other day it's so different with all the windows borded up
Just was there the other day it's so different with all the windows borded up


How Many Women in NH Experience Sexual Harassment – Part I | Douglas, Leonard & Garvey, P.C.
While the Me Too movement only recently gained widespread news coverage, the initiative actually began over ten years ago. But it transformed into a viral campaign in October 2017 when actress Alyssa Milano took to Twitter to invite those who have experienced sexual harassment to respond with "Me too." Milano's speaking out came in the wake of an investigation into sexual harassment and assault allegations made against movie producer Harvey Weinstein.
According to a recent analysis by Boston University Law student Kathleen White, by the end of the morning that Milano's tweet was posted, more than 12 million people had engaged with #MeToo across social media.
On the heels of Me Too, the Time's Up Movement was started by a group of over 300 women in Hollywood, with high-profile leaders like Reese Witherspoon, Natalie Portman and Shonda Rimes. The Time's Up movement specifically aims to combat employment-related issues.
Effects of #Me Too can be seen on the rising number of gender discrimination and sexual harassment claims reported by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission EEOC) – the federal administrative agency tasked with handling these cases. In an October 2018 press release, the EEOC disclosed its "Sexual Harassment Data" for the fiscal year. The agency announced more than a 50% increase in suits challenging sexual harassment over fiscal year 2017.
2018 saw more than 7,500 charges of sexual harassment filed with the EEOC, up 12% from 2017, and the first increase in such charges in at least eight years.
The dollar value assigned to a gender-discrimination or sexual harassment claims has increased. Since the development of the MeToo and Times Up movements, attorneys for employers and management realize that their clients may pay more for the resolution of a gender discrimination or sexual harassment case than they might have before.
While there is always an incentive to settle and avoid the long and costly process that comes with a trial, the extremely public nature of Me Too and Time's Up has created an additional incentive to do so, and to do so earlier, observed Ms. White. Especially through the use of social media, these movements started a very public discussion about the previously more private issue of sexual harassment.
If you are being sexually harassed at work in New Hampshire please call our experienced sexual harassment attorneys for assistance at 1-800-240-1988 or fill out our online contact form.


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The Apostle John Before the Latin Gate
In the year 95, St. John, who was the only surviving apostle, and governed all the churches of Asia, was apprehended at Ephesus, and sent prisoner to Rome. The Emperor Domitian did not relent at the sight of the venerable old man, but condemned him to be cast into a caldron of boiling oil. The martyr doubtless heard, with great joy, this barbarous sentence; the most cruel torments seemed to him light and most agreeable, because they would, he hoped, unite him forever to his divine Master and Saviour. But God accepted his will and crowned his desire; He conferred on him the honor and merit of martyrdom, but suspended the operation of the fire, as He had formerly preserved the three children from hurt in the Babylonian furnace. The seething oil was changed in his regard into an invigorating bath, and the Saint came out more refreshed than when he had entered the caldron. Domitian saw this miracle without drawing from it the least advantage, but remained hardened in his iniquity. However, he contented himself after this with banishing the holy apostle into the little island of Patmos. St. John returned to Ephesus, in the reign of Nerva, who by mildness, during his short reign of one year and four months, labored to restore the faded lustre of the Roman Empire.
This glorious triumph of St. John happened without the gate of Rome called Latina. A church which since has always borne this title was consecrated in the same place in memory of this miracle, under the first Christian emperors.
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Q: How to "css3 blink effect" with visibility property I'm trying to get an old blink effect on some DIVs. The should start FROM invisible and then turn visible for a while, then over and over in an infinite blink.
CSS specs says Visible is animatable as Visible (I understood this as there can not be transition ie fade in and out, just blink. That's what I want).
However, my code doesn't work. DIVS remain visible all time, no flicker, no blink..
Any hint on why is this happening?

A: In order for you to use animation, it's important to know your vendor prefixes for this effect.

the documentation

div{
  -webkit-animation: blink 1s step-end infinite;
  animation: blink 1s step-end infinite;
}

@keyframes blink {
 0% {display: blue}
 50% {background-color: transparent;color:transparent;}
}
@-webkit-keyframes blink {
 0% {background-color: blue}
 50% {background-color: transparent;color:transparent;}
}

hello!!!!!!

Your CSS animation specifies a first transition from 0% to 50% turning from hidden to visible which shows the element according to the rule above and then you specify a transition from 50% to 100% from visible to hidden, which also shows the element while playing. So the element it permanently visible.
By specifying
@keyframes toggle {
         from {
            visibility:hidden;
         }
     50% {
            visibility:hidden;
         }
     to {
            visibility:visible;
      }
 }

the element will stay hidden until 50% and then abruptly appear. To hide it at the end, you need to add visibility:hidden to the main style sheet rule not to the keyframes.

.blink_me {
  background: red;
  height: 200px;
  width: 200px;
  -webkit-animation-name: toggle;
  -webkit-animation-duration: 5s;
  -webkit-animation-timing-function: linear;
  -webkit-animation-iteration-count: infinite;
  -moz-animation-name: toggle;
  -moz-animation-duration: 5s;
  -moz-animation-timing-function: linear;
  -moz-animation-iteration-count: infinite;
  animation-name: toggle;
  animation-duration: 5s;
  animation-timing-function: linear;
  animation-iteration-count: infinite;
}

@keyframes toggle {
         from {
            visibility:hidden;
         }
     50% {
            visibility:hidden;
         }
     to {
            visibility:visible;
      }
 }
@-webkit-keyframes toggle {
         from {
            visibility:hidden;
         }
     50% {
            visibility:hidden;
         }
     to {
            visibility:visible;
      }
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everyday i'm toggling!

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With over a decade of casting experience, Aaron is the Executive Director of Casting at Disney Television Animation where he oversees pilot and series casting, as well as recording sessions. Some of his recent credits include Star Wars: Rebels, Duck Tales, and Big City Greens. He has several EMMY nominations for Outstanding Casting in an Animated Series or Special. Aaron has also worked on projects for Hulu, Amazon and Netflix.


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Miscellaneous Movie Musings: Part XXXIV
Tags: 1408, 2001, 2012, Adult World, AI: Artificial Intelligence, Évolution, Brian Wilson, Cell, Chi-Raq, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, David Duchovny, Dragon Blade, Drive Hard, Ghostbusters, Gordon Gekko, Grace is Gone, Grand Piano, Grosse Pointe Blank, Hot Tub Time Machine, Ivan Reitman, John Cusack, John Wayne, John Wick, Keanu Reeves, Kiefer Sutherland, Kirk Douglas, Love & Mercy, Maps to the Stars, Matthew McConaughey, Michael Douglas, Monsters Inc, Moulin Rouge!, Netflix, Ocean's 11, Phone Booth, Planet of the Apes, Reclaim, Roland Emmerich, Samuel L Jackson, Shanghai, Shrek, Spartacus, Stephen King, The Bag Man, The Butler, The Contract, The Factory, The Frozen Ground, The Lord of the Rings, The Numbers Station, The Paperboy, The Prince, The Raven, The Searchers, Tigerland, VOD, Wall Street, War Inc, We Are Not Animals
As the title suggests, so forth.
2001: A very bad year
Well, I finally saw Evolution last weekend. Just because it was on. And because I was eating dinner. It was a sorta ambient film-watching experience. Watch 45 minutes. Tape the rest. Watch that during lunch the next day. Wonder then why I bothered watching any of it. Muse on not knowing about Head & Shoulders' efficacy against aliens. Cheer on some truly minor TV actors in small roles. Wonder why on earth David Duchovny took the lead. Muse on whether its failure stopped him from parlaying his X-Files fame into a leading man career on the big screen. And then remember that, even though it was from the director of Ghostbusters, I'd skipped the film on purpose in 2001 from a complete lack of interest. A lack of interest not limited to Evolution. There were multiple reasons why I saw only eleven films in the cinema in 2001, an alarming number of them rep showings. But one of them is that the year 2001 was not a very good year for cinema. In fact it was by way of being a very bad year. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Tigerland, which were 2001 highlights for me arrived here then but were actually 2000 films. And the hangover went the other way with Ocean's 11 and Monsters Inc being 2002 experiences here. Shrek, Planet of the Apes, AI, Moulin Rouge!, The Others, The Fellowship of the Ring. These were the films of 2001 I saw on the biggest screens in the Savoy and Ormonde during 2001, and if not for the Antipodeans Luhrmann and Jackson unleashing immortal classics in the final four months of the year what a washout it would have been. I don't know if anything can really be said to cause a slump the likes of which Hollywood experienced in 2001 but it was a slump for sure.
John Cusack: Former Film Star
John Cusack turned 54 yesterday which led me to the question: What in the hell happened to John Cusack? In what should have been the decade of his career in which he played a defining role, like Kirk Douglas in Spartacus or John Wayne in The Searchers, or Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko or Keanu Reeves as John Wick, the best that Cusack rose to as a fortysomething was his lead role in the minor Stephen King horror story 1408 and his hero repeatedly escaping just ahead of the shockwave(s) in Roland Emmerich's over-egged disaster pudding 2012. What went wrong? How did he end up making so many films that were not released, barely released, or sunk without trace here? 1408 and Cell, his two Stephen King horrors with Samuel L Jackson, got cinema releases in late summer 2007 and 2016 – they almost neatly cordon off the decade of disaster under scrutiny, and the decline in Cusack's celebrity, as the latter went to VoD before a very limited cinema release. Before 1408 came Grace is Gone and The Contract. Ring a bell? Nope… 2012 and Hot Tub Time Machine while not great films got wide releases and made money. The Raven and The Frozen Ground are better films but got less wide releases and made considerably less money. They also flag a recurring problem – there are way too many films here that merge together when you read the loglines; impressive casts assembled for some glossy crime thriller, involving a serial killer or assassination or heist: The Factory, The Numbers Station, The Bag Man, Drive Hard, The Prince, Reclaim. There's even a Phone Booth–like appearance in Grand Piano. And what's stranger is that in the midst of these formulaic films Cusack made We Are Not Animals in Argentina, about a Hollywood star fleeing formulaic films, and then went back to Hollywood to make more formulaic films. There have not been enough meaty roles like his older Brian Wilson in the split-focus biopic Love & Mercy. Instead he's made cameos in The Paperboy, The Butler, Adult World, taken more substantial roles in glossy films that sank without trace (Dragon Blade, Shanghai), indie films that failed to connect (Maps to the Stars, Chi-Raq), and somehow bungled a spiritual sequel to his towering 90s achievement Grosse Pointe Blank in the shape of War, Inc. Cusack has not stopped working, and perhaps that's the problem. Like Matthew McConaughey, he needs to say no to a looooot of scripts for a while if he wants to get back on track. Otherwise Cusack will continue to work steadily, but solely on trashy nonsense (constantly declining in quality), that is made for midnight drunken Netflix buffoonery, and clicked on increasingly only by people who remember that his was once a face that appeared on posters inside cinemas.
Miscellaneous Movie Musings: Part XXVIII
Filed under: Talking Movies,Talking Music — Fergal Casey @ 9:11 pm
Tags: 007, A View to a Kill, Alexandre Desplat, Barack Obama, Benjamin Britten, Bill Murray, Birds of Prey, Bottle Rocket, Cary Fukunaga, Charlie's Angels, Daniel Craig, Ethan Hunt, Eva Green, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Fantastic Mr Fox, Flash Gordon, Game of Thrones, Ghostbusters, Ian Fleming, IMF, Ingmar Bergman, Intacto, Isle of Dogs, James Bond, Kirk Douglas, Lashana Lynch, Mark Mothersbaugh, Max Von Sydow, MGM, MI6, Michael Jackson, Ming the Merciless, Minority Report, Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, Moonrise Kingdom, Neverland ranch, No Time to Die, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Quentin Tarantino, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Roger Moore, Rushmore, Terminator: Dark Fate, The Darjeeling Limited, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Exorcist, The Force Awakens, The French Dispatch, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Seventh Seal, The Three-Eyed Raven, The Virgin Spring, The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Three Days of the Condor, Tom Cruise, Tom Stoppard, Vesper Lynd, Wes Anderson
Alas, Max Von Sydow
Another great has left the stage. 13 years younger than Kirk Douglas, Von Sydow was still working in high-profile productions. Indeed he worked for so many decades that one could say there are multiple Von Sydow personae. There is the Bergman art-house God that my mother remembered from The Virgin Spring, beating himself with sticks to build himself up for his vengeful rampage. There is the priest from The Exorcist and assassin from Three Days of the Condor which properly established him with American audiences after his underwhelming Hollywood debut The Greatest Story Ever Told. Then there was the first von Sydow I encountered, unrecognisable as Ming the Merciless in the gloriously silly Flash Gordon. He was already very old when I came across him as another villain, this time in Minority Report. And then I started coming across him in the art house as a tremendous supporting player in Intacto and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. It is astonishing to think that while Kirk Douglas thru ill health and bad luck had his last important roles in the early 1980s Von Sydow was still working in his 90s and goes out with cameos in The Force Awakens and his role as the Three-Eyed Raven in Game of Thrones as recent reminders of his potency.
The Desplat Factor
I have, of late, been trying to distil down the elements needed to reproduce the essential Wes-ness of a Wes Anderson film. Some are practical for guerrilla film-makers, others less so. Colour coded costumes, hand-crafted sets of increasingly outrageous artificiality, whip-pans, tracking shots, overhead shots, especially of handwritten notes, and the laying out inventories, droll narration … Bill Murray. And, one might add, a score by Alexandre Desplat. Which itself may or may not be connected to the increasingly outrageous artificiality of Wes Anderson's cinemascapes. Certainly I still regard The Darjeeling Limited as the highpoint of his work, and it was after that film, which used pre-existing music, that he replaced Mark Mothersbaugh, the composer for his first four films, with Desplat for his next four films. I rather liked Desplat's largely percussive score for Isle of Dogs, but was not particularly taken at the time by either his Moonrise Kingdom or The Grand Budapest Hotel work. Although the latter is growing on me as I soak it in. I think my objections circle a certain childishness at the core of the Desplat/Anderson enterprise. The score for Fantastic Mr Fox had a childlike quality, which was entirely appropriate to the material. But The Grand Budapest Hotel, a film I thought soured in dialogue and action by an unexpectedly mean spirit, seemed to be given the same treatment. And in both cases they shared their approach with Moonrise Kingdom where, in thrall to the featured music of Benjamin Britten (especially his Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra) Mr Desplat's orchestration was explained in 'The Heroic Weather-Conditions of the Universe Part 7'. Ralph Vaughan Williams held that a composer lacking confidence in their themes could be depended upon to orchestrate all hell out of them. Desplat's work for Anderson though is a horse of a different colour. The orchestration is sparse but determinedly eccentric, with featured unusual instrument after featured unusual instrument ["Not to speak of the glockenspiel" "The glockenspiel?" "I asked you not to speak of it"]. And this complicated curating of harps, flutes, piccolos, pizzicato strings, electric guitars, ukuleles, classical guitars, dangling blocks, sixteen bass baritone singers, balalaikas, celestes, banjos, tubular bells, cymbals, timpani, vibraphones, xylophones, triangles, clarinets, French horns, tenor saxophones, trombones, tubas, trumpets, organs, snare drums, bassoons, pianos, and, yes, glockenspiels, is far more important than his simple melodies: timbres are more important than themes. In a sense that's a musical reflection by Desplat of style being more important to Anderson than substance. Has Anderson fallen into the same trap of Tarantino, of losing touch with basic reality and human emotions in favour of constructing his own Neverland ranch? We shall see later this year…
No Time to Die Edit
Now that the release of No Time to Die has been pushed to November it might be an idea for Cary Fukunaga to go back into the editing suite and make some cuts. The already ramping up publicity push had unwisely seen Lashana Lynch brag about how 007 got put in his place for sexual harassment in this movie. Coming just weeks after Birds of Prey bombed after a publicity campaign that couldn't stop talking about everyday sexism, male gaze, and misogyny, you have to ask the question staff most feared hearing from President Obama – 'Who thought this was a good idea?' The trailer had already seen my tepid interest evaporate. Craig looks as past it physically as Roger Moore in A View to a Kill, but without even the lingering interest in the role. The moment where the security guard has no idea who Bond is clearly is meant to be hilarious and subversive, and yet it makes no sense; MI6 would remember. Think of the scene at the start of Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation where a similar character realises who Ethan Hunt is, "I've heard the stories. They can't all be true…" Lashana Lynch's dialogue and smirks in the trailer quickly pegged her character as insufferable and, once again, made you yearn for any Craig-era Bond girl to measure up to Eva Green's Vesper Lynd. But the idea that No Time to Die will see Bond, and by implication the audience, receiving an endless series of lectures makes one think again on the reasons for delaying it. Quite simply, this film cannot fail or it sinks MGM. But… even if everyone is primed to go back into packed cinemas in November, will anybody bother if the cast and crew of the film keep telling them it's not a rollicking adventure but a vitally necessary lecture on their implicit biases? The evidence of Birds of Prey, Charlie's Angels, Terminator: Dark Fate, and Ghostbusters (2016) suggests not. Films that wish to lecture a pre-existing audience must reckon with that audience not showing up, and the supposedly untapped new audience of people on Twitter that like and retweet that pre-existing audience getting owned will also not show up, they never do. Which means of course that no one shows up. And then goodbye MGM. Time to edit?
Miscellaneous Movie Musings: Part XXV
Filed under: Talking Movies,Talking Politics,Talking Radio — Fergal Casey @ 8:46 pm
Tags: 103.2 FM, Ace in the Hole, Adam Driver, Anakin Skywalker, At Eternity's Gate, Build My Gallows High, CCP, China, Daisy Ridley, Disney, Disney Star Wars, Doc Holliday, Dublin City FM, Emperor Palpatine, Finn, George Lucas, Gunfight at the OK Corral, Hayden Christensen, JJ Abrams, John Ford, Kirk Douglas, My Darling Clementine, Paths of Glory, Plato, Poe Dameron, Rey, Seven Days in May, Spartacus, Star Wars, Sunday Breakfast with Patrick Doyle, The Assassin, The Bad and the Beautiful, The Engineer, The Mandate of Heaven, The means defeat the ends, The Vikings, Tombstone, Victor Mature, Vincent Van Gogh, Vincente Minnelli, Willem Dafoe, Wyatt Earp, Young Man with a Horn
The Golden Age has passed
Alas, Kirk Douglas is dead. As plans for this week's Sunday Breakfast with Patrick Doyle quickly change to pay tribute to the last great of Hollywood's Golden Age something that's occurred to me is just how vivid and indelible Kirk Douglas' performances were. When I caught up with At Eternity's Gate recently I kept faulting Willem Dafoe for not capturing Vincent Van Gogh in the way that Kirk Douglas did, though it had been over 20 years since I'd seen Lust for Life. When I finally saw My Darling Clementine a couple of years ago I kept inwardly (and occasionally outwardly, to the exasperation of the Engineer) sighing that Victor Mature was not measuring up to the Platonic Ideal of the nervy, doomed live-wire Doc Holliday, which was of course Kirk Douglas in Gunfight at the OK Corral which I hadn't seen for a decade. Here are ten Kirk Douglas films I'm thinking about:
Build My Gallows High (1947)
Young Man with a Horn (1950)
Ace in the Hole (1951)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Lust for Life (1956)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Gunfight at the OK Corral (1957)
The Vikings (1958)
Seven Days in May (1964)
The means defeat the ends: Part IV
As rumours continue to swirl that JJ Abrams originally delivered an entirely different lousy Star Wars movie to Disney than the lousy Star Wars movie they released in cinemas one strand of speculation stands out. To wit, that the grand finale was severely reworked in deference to the sensibilities of the Chinese Communist Party. I knew when watching Taiwanese movie The Assassin a few years ago that the appearance of a ghost was a provocative move, but I didn't really understand why the mainland was so firmly opposed to ghosts. I only recently read that the appearance of ghosts was associated with disorder and the loss of the mandate of heaven, and so the Party is eager for those associations of ideas not to start associating in the minds of the people. And of course Force Ghosts would start such associations, were they to physically appear as ghosts. But why else would Hayden Christensen have been on-set if not to physically reprise his role of Anakin Skywalker as a Force Ghost? It seems likely that he and others were originally physically present in the showdown between Super-Rey and the inexplicable zombie Emperor, but that the scene was reworked to make the Force Ghosts a mere vocal montage of pep talks. That is to say Disney completely reworked the scene in an attempt to make mucho money in China. But… Chinese audiences really couldn't have made it any plainer that they could give a damn about Star Wars in toto. The idea that a finale which would have added some pizzazz belatedly to this asinine cash grab trilogy was scrapped for the sake of making mucho money in a territory where it was never going to make mucho money, at the cost of luring back disenchanted actual Star Wars fans in the rest of the world, blows the mind.
Sin City: The Big Fat (Career-)Kill(er)
Filed under: Talking Books,Talking Movies — Fergal Casey @ 2:36 pm
Tags: 300, 300: Rise of an Empire, Awake, Barack Obama, Batman Begins, Blue is the Warmest Colour, Bret Easton Ellis, Bruce Willis, Camelot, Carla Gugino, Casino Royale, Catwoman, CGI, Christopher Nolan, Cracks, Daredevil, Dark Angel, Dark Horse Comics, Dark Shadows, Elektra, Eli Roth, Elijah Wood, Erik Lomis, Eva Green, Fantastic Four, Fantastic Four 2, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Frank Miller, George Bush Jr, Good Luck Chuck, Guantanamo Bay, Guardians of the Galaxy, Hellboy, Heroes, Hostel, Inception, Indemnity Only, Interstellar, James Gunn, Jessica Alba, Kirk Douglas, Little Focker, Machete, Machete Kills, Mark Millar, Marv, Marvel Comics, Marvel Studios, Mickey Rourke, Nancy Callahan, Nick Stahl, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Penny Dreadful, Pete Travers, PG Wodehouse, Planet Terror, Raymond Chandler, Robert Rodriguez, Rolling Stone, Sara Paretsky, Sin City, Sin City 2, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, Sin City: The Big Fat (Career-)Kill(er), Spider-Man, Stranger by the Lake, The Bad and the Beautiful, The Big Fat Kill, The Big Sleep, The Eye, The Faculty, The Golden Compass, The Killer Inside Me, The Love Guru, The Prestige, The Spirit, The Ultimates, The Wolf of Wall Street, Torture Porn, Valentine's Day, Watchmen, Will Eisner, Womb, X-Men
A decade is a long time to wait for a sequel. It's a very long time. When the original Sin City was released Pete Travers of Rolling Stone hailed its success as a two-fingered salute to the values of Bush's America. And yet even he's bored senseless by its belated follow-up, because, lest we forget, 9 long years have passed…
Bush's America now exists only in the pages of self-justificatory memoirs, and endless hostile polemics that seem ever more embarrassing as Obama; from drones to Guantanamo Bay to blanket surveillance; continues and amps up what he was supposed to dismantle. And the film landscape has changed beyond recognition. Back in 2006 studios still made 40 million dollar movies. Christopher Nolan could follow up Batman Begins with a small personal movie at that budget, The Prestige. Nolan now makes small personal blockbusters (Inception, Interstellar) between blockbusters. And even if he wanted to make a smaller movie he probably wouldn't be allowed; its 5 million dollars or 150 million dollars now, nothing in between. And for Sin City, looming above the possibilities of the comic-book movie now is the monolith of Marvel Studios; which was a mere business plan back in 2005.
2005… Spider-Man and X-Men had both had two lucrative outings. Batman was about to roar back into the cinematic fray, after a disastrous attempt to spin out Catwoman. Fantastic Four were about to be the latest Marvel characters given a chance for glory after disappointments for Daredevil and Elektra. And Hellboy had proven an unlikely blockbuster hit for Dark Horse. But, and this seems grimly hilarious, Fantastic Four was greeted with a universal groan of "Oh no, not another comic-book movie!" The clichés that bedevil the genre were already glaringly obvious. And Sin City didn't have them: no superpowers or origins. This alone would have made it original, but it was also a brave new world of CGI recreating the look and feel of a comic-book. But now, after two 300 movies, (and Watchmen…) even its visual originality feels hackneyed.
Back in 2005 I wrote about how comics are perhaps the closest medium to cinema, combining as they do images with dialogue and voiceover. And, after all, films are storyboarded scene by scene, which is to say – drawn like a comic-book. Sin City finally treated the frames of a comic-book as if they were the storyboard and Robert Rodriguez simply shot what was drawn by Frank Miller. I lamented that it was a pity they picked such a lousy comic for the experiment. Hysterically, a year before Heroes, I also lamented how comic-book stories are more suited to the serialisation possible in television but have to be blockbusters owing to FX budgets needed for convincing superpowers. More on point was my contention then that, with outrageous blockbusters comics like Mark Millar's The Ultimates out there ripe for the Sin City comics as storyboard treatment, it was the studios not the comic-books that were dumb; as big budgets led to playing things safe. Guardians of the Galaxy is probably the closest we'll get to a Mark Millar blockbuster, and take away the absurdities James Gunn has attractively and distractingly sprinkled and you'll notice the customary perfectly predictable Marvel structure plodding away…
But arguably Sin City was a success in 2005 because it reflected the zeitgeist more than its sequel does now. In the era of torture porn, its opening vignette of Bruce Willis blowing off Nick Stahl's hand and manhood seemed perfectly normal. Elijah Wood's cannibal making Carla Gugino watch as he ate her hand, Mickey Rourke cutting off Elijah Wood's arms and legs and leaving him to be eaten alive; all the violence that I found grotesque synched perfectly with Eli Roth's work at the time. But that love of sadistic violence, which some critics implausibly interpreted as comedic, even clever by dint of its use of silhouette, isn't present to the same degree in the sequel. Instead, and this is perhaps by accident rather than design, Sin City 2 amps up the sex – which places it neatly into the zeitgeist of Blue is the Warmest Colour, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Stranger by the Lake. It is unthinkable that Eva Green's mostly topless/naked performance would not have excited a firestorm if it had been released a few years ago. In 2014 it's slightly unusual but is more or less the new normal as Bret Easton Ellis might argue.
Sin City 2 isn't likely to be seen by many people, which leads to an interesting side-note on what that says about the effect of onscreen nudity on Jessica Alba and Eva Green's careers. Back in 2005 I praised Alba's refusal to take her clothes off as stripper Nancy Callahan to satisfy the pervy hordes lusting at Miller's porn-noir, dubbing it a giant punch against the liberal sexism of contemporary Hollywood. Eva Green, however, never had any such compunctions; as proved by her ridiculously over-exposed role in Sin City 2. But, while not getting her kit off has undoubtedly helped mute Alba's career since Fantastic Four 2 to glossy horror (The Eye, Awake), terrible rom-coms (Good Luck Chuck, The Love Guru, Valentine's Day, Little Fockers), and only the odd interesting film (The Killer Inside Me), getting her kit off hasn't really worked out for Green, who has followed Casino Royale with TV shows (Camelot, Penny Dreadful), unseen movies (Cracks, Womb), and unmitigated disasters (The Golden Compass, Dark Shadows, 300: Rise of an Empire). Taking your clothes off apparently does not guarantee success. Indeed Alba's rampage in Sin City 2 recalled her best role – her breakthrough network TV show Dark Angel.
If Sin City 2 is out of step with the zeitgeist, and its visual style no longer wows, it must be said there is another obvious reason for people's lack of interest – Frank Miller… After two 300 movies, and The Spirit, audiences have evidently grown tired of Miller's shtick. Sure The Spirit could be said to have put shackles on Miller's vision by being a PG-13, but, freed from the 'restraining' influence of Rodriguez, in writing and directing his own original take on Will Eisner's character we were getting the pure, unfiltered directorial vision of Frank Miller – and it was screamingly bad; not even laughably bad, just jaw-droppingly awful. It recalled nothing so much as the moment in The Bad and the Beautiful when Kirk Douglas' producer takes over directing to get the most out of every single scene, and makes a total hames of the movie as a result.
Miller's obsession with every single line being delivered in as macho a manner as possible is exhausting, indeed the only sane way to approach 300 is in the best Wodehousian manner – a sort of musical comedy without the music. Sin City 2 highlights Miller's excruciatingly repetitive and witless writing. Miller will never describe a character like Raymond Chandler in The Big Sleep; "I pushed a flat tin of cigarettes at him. His small neat fingers speared one like a trout taking the fly"; or drop into interior monologue like Sara Paretksy in Indemnity Only: "'I'm trying to keep people at the office from knowing I've been to a detective. And my secretary balances my checkbook.' I was staggered, but not surprised. An amazing number of executives have their secretaries do that. My own feeling was that only God, the IRS, and my bank should have access to my financial transactions."
But Miller's idiocy is now going to sink the man who bafflingly shackled himself to such pseudo-noir: Robert Rodriguez. Rodriguez has undoubtedly gone downhill creatively since the parodic joy that was Planet Terror. Indeed he's properly ghettoised himself with Machete and Machete Kills, while his only other feature outings since Planet Terror have been two unloved kids' films. Sin City 2 was positioned to reach a wider audience than anything he'd made since the original Sin City, but it's gone disastrously wrong. Once, Rodriguez was a man who made major summer horror movies, off-beat summer action flicks, and event movies (The Faculty, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Sin City). But (zeitgeist time again…) then people started watching a lot of gleeful trash, streaming it in their homes… So now, it's likely Rodriguez will become a schlocky cable showrunner, having just made his last movie to be released in theatres…
Sin City 2 cost somewhere over $60 million and made around $6 million on opening weekend. As TWC distribution chief Erik Lomis said "We stand behind the film, and … never expected this level of rejection. It's like the ice bucket challenge without the good cause." …The Big Fat Career-Killer.


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by Matt Beauvais — Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Ten Things I Hate About The PS3
The article is a little more constructive than the title implies, as most of the annoyances listed can be improved upon. While none of the next-gen consoles can be considered perfect, Sony's Playstation 3 has had its fair share of criticism, with it's price and lack of exclusive titles being some of the biggest complaints. Fortunately these problems can be worked on, though gamers aren't always the patient type.
"Much has been made of how Sony is nowhere near where it should be in terms of downloadable content, and its PlayStation Store is a joke compared to Microsoft's Xbox Live and Apple's iTunes Store. To make matters worse, navigating the online storefront is a chore as you attempt to center the cursor on a desired icon or button and select it with the X button. While Sony continues to add new content weekly, the rumored arrival of a totally revamped Connect service with music and movie downloads has yet to materialize."
With all the negative news that has been floating around about the Playstation 3, one thing many PS3 owners are eagerly awaiting is Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion. The PS3 port of the game is expected to be out sometime next month, and features all the content mods that were released for the XBOX 360 and PC (just the mini mods, not the expansion which is also scheduled to be released next month).
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In 2017, the Foundation delivered more than 13,000 sit down meals, 8,500 take away meals and distributed more than 7,400 hampers of fresh fruit, vegetables and other essential items.
It also runs an education program which supports young people in secondary education with scholarships, mentoring, and a tuition program.
The electorate of MacNamara is home to a diverse community, and the Father Bob Maguire Foundation is emblematic of how local residents come together to provide a helping hand to those in need.
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Yeah, me too, I thought it was 'good night from him and good night from the other one' yonks ago.
Does anyone else remember the production line of cryogenic Brezhnevs on 'Whoops Apocalypse' (TV version) back in ~'82?
He sure is. Say, fancy a gmail invite anyone?
btw mr jones, i'm afraid you're all mouth and trousers according to http://homokaasu.org/gematriculator/. you're website is only 50% evil. tchoh!


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The local sheriff reported a white male suspect from Baltimore fatally shot three people, including himself, at The Jacksonville Landing complex in downtown Jacksonville. Eleven others are wounded.
Williams says that among the 14 total victims, nine people sustained gunshot wounds, and two others were injured while fleeing the scene. All 11 wounded are in stable condition, the sheriff says.
The incident unfolded at Chicago Pizza — an eatery that shares its space with a gaming bar that hosted the tournament — at The Jacksonville Landing, a waterfront shopping mall and entertainment space in downtown.
The gaming competition featured the newly released football video game Madden 19 NFL.
The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office says it got the first call at 1:34 p.m., and officers were on the scene two minutes later. Seven injured people have been transported to the hospital, according to Williams.
"Stay far away from the area. The area is not safe at this time," the sheriff said in a tweet as the incident was unfolding. "STAY AWAY." Williams said later they had finished securing the scene.
The FBI is assisting Jacksonville police in Baltimore, the sheriff's office tweeted Sunday, where Katz is believed to have stayed last night. "We have located and impounded the suspect's vehicle and a search is pending," the sheriff's office said. "If anyone has information about where he stayed, please contact 904-630-0500 or JSOCrimeTips@Jaxsheriff.org."
"The tourney just got shot up," said a player named Drini Gjoka. "I am literally so lucky. The bullet hit my thumb. ... Worst day of my life."
"They took me to the hospital. Bullet grazed my head. I feel fine, just a scratch on my head. Traumatized and devastated," said another player known as Dubby.
The GLHF Game Bar at The Landing posted on Facebook that "All GLHF staff are safe and accounted for." The venue was hosting the EA Madden NFL 19 Southeastern Qualifiers Playoffs on Sunday, according to its Facebook page. The top two finishers of the regional tournament are supposed to advance to the finals in Las Vegas in October with a $165,000 prize pool.
The official Twitter account for EA SPORTS Madden NFL said it was aware of the incident and "working with authorities to gather facts at this stage." It added: "This is a horrible situation, and our deepest sympathies go out to all involved."
SWAT teams conducted searches of the area and asked people at the scene to remain hidden in place and call 911.
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott said he's spoken to the sheriff's office "to offer any state resources it may need." White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said President Trump has been briefed on the situation in Jacksonville.
The original feed where GLHF Game Bar had been streaming the competition on Twitch, a social livestreaming platform, has been cut off. The GLHF channel is now hosting a charity stream to raise money for victims.
Lindsey Kilbride of member station WJCT in Jacksonville tells NPR's Michel Martin that some survivors of the Parkland school shooting held a "March For Our Lives" rally at The Landing one month ago.


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La moabita és un mineral de la classe dels fosfats.

Característiques
La moabita és un fosfat de fórmula química NiFe3+(PO₄)O. Va ser aprovada com a espècie vàlida per l'Associació Mineralògica Internacional l'any 2021, i encara resta pendent de publicació. Cristal·litza en el sistema ortoròmbic.

L'exemplar que va servir per a determinar l'espècie, el que es coneix com a material tipus, es troba conservat a les col·leccions del Museu Mineralògic Fersmann, de l'Acadèmia de Ciències de Rússia, a Moscou (Rússia), amb el número de registre: 5627/1.

Formació i jaciments
Va ser descoberta a una pedrera de fosforita del complex de Daba-Siwaqa, a la Governació d'Amman (Jordània), l'únic indret a tot el planeta on ha estat descrita aquesta espècie mineral.

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Minerals fosfats
Minerals pendents de publicació
Minerals de níquel
Minerals de ferro
Minerals descoberts a Jordània

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    ref = "required_schema:RequiredSchema"

    def plan(self, planner_config, attack_config):
        pass

    @staticmethod
    def to_dict():
        return Planner._to_dict(RequiredSchema.ref, RequiredSchema.schema, RequiredSchema.example)

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On a swing stage atop the 41-story DTLA Ernst & Young Plaza building at 725 S. Figueroa Street, D 7 Owner Joseph Daniels is performing Building Exterior Skin & Sealant Remediation Consulting Services with Brookfield Property Partners. The building was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. It opened in 1985 & is the 18th tallest building in Los Angeles.


The moons of Mars are Phobos and Deimos. Both moons were discovered in 1877 by Asaph Hall and are named after the characters Phobos (panic/fear) and Deimos (terror/dread) who, in Greek mythology, accompanied their father Ares, god of war, into battle. Ares was known as Mars to the Romans. It is possible that Mars may have moons smaller than 50–100 meters and a dust ring between Phobos and Deimos, but none have been discovered.


They said it would never be done….
Alas, even A Revolutionary Press has succumbed to the virtual world.
But the masses have been clamoring for the undisclosed location of the once based Harborside, Maine letterpress print studio.
Peace be with you, Peace be with me, Peace be with U.S.
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Amy and Kate are joining forces this week to bring you a joint blog post. Kate spoke with Kristy Hawes, one of our regular volunteers. Amy concocted a delicious potato leek soup from the farm, and she'll share the recipe below.
This season, I've become accustomed to seeing Kristy appear every Friday around mid-morning, with the work ethic of a former trail crew member, a smile, and a genuine enthusiasm for farming. Kristy moved to Montana last year from New England, but is relatively new to Missoula. While working for Montana Conservation Corps out of Kalispell, she volunteered at Purple Frog Farm in exchange for fresh produce. Upon moving to Missoula this year, she sought out a similar opportunity to connect with the local community and a quick Google search led her to Garden City Harvest and Orchard Gardens. Kristy has always relished being outdoors, whether on the trail or digging in the earth, so weekly farming adventures keep her grounded.
It turns out that a penchant for agriculture runs in Kristy's family. Her great-grandparents once ran the largest carnation farm in New England! In addition to helping us weed beds, plant flowers, haul winter squash, and now, disband trellises, Kristy has been trying her hand at growing her own garden this year. She has been especially excited about her tomatoes, peppers, and herbs. Kristy has been using the fresh produce to expand her vegetarian cooking repertoire.
Thanks, Kristy for your hard work, and being a fantastic volunteer – we hope you'll join us again next year!
It is officially the soup season here in Montana. As a consequence, our house soup pot has been rotating for weeks between different concoctions including vegetable lentil, squash chilli, and tonight, potato leek. This recipe is easy and delicious. Stay warm!
In a large pot, layer 2 cups of the leeks and all of the potatoes. Cover with stock and bring to a boil. Add the salt. Reduce heat to simmer and cook for 20-25 minutes, or until the potatoes are tender.
Meanwhile, in a medium-sized skillet, heat the oil and saute the remaining leeks and garlic for 4-6 minutes. Set aside.
When the potatoes are tender, blend together half of the potatoes mixture and the milk in a blender or food processor until smooth and creamy. Return the mixture to the pot and add the reserved leek mixture, the celery, herbs, and spices. Simmer for at least 10 minutes. Garnish with the dill and serve.


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Q: can`t boot to win7 x64 after formatting ubuntu12.0.4 I got a new laptop Sony VAIO E-series with win7.
I installed ubuntu12.04 x64 but I formatted Ubuntu partition due to some booting problems. From then I'm unable to boot with previous win7 and recovery disk for win7 is unable to load though it is available.
How can i regain my previous booting from win7?

A: It seems that you had installed grub boot loader on the ubuntu partition, you have erased afterwords.
If you plan to install Ubuntu again - just go ahead. During installation select to put grub to the root of your device, for example /dev/sda instead of /dev/sda2.
If not, you can still install grub to boot Windows and any other operating systems you may have using pretty much any Linux live media. To do this, follow the instructions, provided here How can I repair grub? (How to get Ubuntu back after installing Windows?)
Either way, grub should detect all the existing OSes and you'll be okay.


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Serialism and the the twelve-tone period
I'm really confused about 'Serial composers'. While studying Igor Stravinsky, in his later life, he was regarded as a 'Serial composer'. I would love to know if composers despised this categorisation but we are digressing.
From his Wiki page, from 1945-1968.
This began Stravinsky's third and final distinct musical period, the serial (or twelve-tone) period, which lasted until his death.
Not just Igor, there are lots of them.
When we say 'twelve-tone' we mean the Chromatic scale don't we?
The twelve Major and Minor's aside - this is a new scale, a scale which uses all the notes.
However, when Stravinsky was setting about his work or any composer of that matter it's up to you what notes you use, you could use all twelve notes in any scale but this doesn't class you as a Serial Composer does it? I could have a piece in G Major and still use whatever I wanted to with the use of accidentals and naturals?
In a way, we are always writing music using Serialism then? I must admit I'm not very good with scales yet, I don't know them off the top of my head :(
All 12 notes are thus given more or less equal importance, and the music avoids being in a key.
What is it about this movement, of which people believe Schoenberg's use was of it was most important, made it such a worthwhile landmark in the evolution of classical music?
composition classical-music chromatic serial
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This question is very probably too specialized for MusicFans.
– PiedPiper
The key word here is serialism.
Serialism means that the compositional process is determined by a series, or list, of pitches and various transformations that occur to this series.
A twelve-tone serialist will create a listing of all twelve pitches, using each once and only once. They can use this series (also known as a row), but they can also:
Transpose it to begin at different pitch levels.
Retrograde it and play it backwards.
Invert it and play it upside down.
Or some combination of all of these, like a transposed retrograde inversion (!).
Thus there are several points in the compositional process where the composer does not choose the next pitch; rather, that next pitch is chosen for them based on the serial transformations they chose earlier.
Earlier composers did use all twelve pitches, but they used them in a tonal context. Here, Stravinsky is using all twelve pitches with the serial process, which is the main difference.
As for why this is important in music history, it's one of the key developments (forgive the unintentional pun) in composing music without a tonic pitch. As composers like Wagner and Mahler continually pushed the boundaries of tonal music, Schoenberg felt that the only logical next step was to abandon tonality completely. One way of doing this was to use the serial process.
And one final historical tidbit: Stravinsky hated serialism for decades. But once Schoenberg died, Stravinsky suddenly loved serialism. It seems that his "hatred" for serialism was really a hatred for Schoenberg, and once the latter died, the former felt comfortable using serialism publicly!
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As always, Richard - thanks very much. I did read that Stravinsky and Schoenberg had respect for each other but did not particularly like each other. Schoenberg was known for making fun of Stravinsky and his love of the C Major scale.
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Another great line from Schoenberg "My music is not modern, it is merely badly played".
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Staying at a hotel for business? You probably think that traveling means you can't cook, right? Wrong. There are lots of ways to make delicious dishes if you're inventive (and we're not just talking about heating things up in the microwave, guys and gals).
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Discussion in 'Motorhome Chat' started by Kanberlingo, Nov 18, 2009.
My MH is due a hab/damp check, with prices varying from £145, to £322.26 inc vat. (very precise that figure) with one at £160 in the middle. The £160 quote told me what work would be carried out & a print-off of the work done, is supplied.
I'm ashamed to say that of all the MHs that we've owned, I've never had a hab/damp check carried out on any of them. But in my defence, this MH is only 2yrs old (I'm the second owner) whereas the others were "oldish" MHs, the youngest being a 2003 when we had it, & we only seemed to keep them for app. 2/3 years. I'll pre-empt one obvious reply that I would expect & that is that the older ones would have been a priority annual inspection, but we never had any problems with them & at the time of exchange, a dealer damp check was a statutory requirement, so I guess we were lucky.
So how do the charges above stack up with those in the know?
Give Mark at C.L.S. a call, he is a MHFun member, you can find his details on here.
Mark comes to you, and I can happily recommend his services.
I second that, but not sure if Mark does Lancashire.
Hi, More to the point is Why Bother ?
I asked this question myself, back in the summer I took my van back to the dealer as the fridge was playing up, he sent me to a place for the repairs, speaking to the owner I decided to let him give the van the once over, they found 3 gas leaks, the rubber pipe from the bottles was 5 years old and badly cracked.
I am now a convert and will get mine checked each year.
I had a hab check last year and it was so obvious that it hadn't been checked that I swore I'd never have it done again. Maybe it was a poor garage, however I did have an awful lot of other work carried out by him and he did an excellent job.
I will agree that a gas service is required and something that I will have done this or next year.
How long do you think it would take to do a gas pressure test .They quote you well over £100 to do a Hab/Check , most of the certificates are printed off in house , and it is just a tick list .If it wasn't for the warranty I wouldn't bother .Oh and to bring things into perspective I had an MOT done on my last van it cost £45.
I woudnt now how to do a gas test other than to buy a meter that senses gas. I think there's probabley more to it than that, (not a lot more mind).
I'd feel a bit more comfortable knowing that the van wasn't going to bow up at any time.
How long do you think it would take to do a gas pressure test .
A fair number of pros & cons on this subject. The vehicle side for service isn't a problem as I do all that myself & always have done, that way I know it's right.
Thanks for the links, I'll see what info comes up, although I can't see Mark at C.L.S. getting involved. The £160 quote I've had, plus the reputation of this particular dealers workshop, puts them at the front if I decide to get it done.
I have always been a firm believer in having Hab Checks done, to my mind it's a small price to pay for piece of mind.
If you pick a reliable company they will do a good job for you and test everything. I have watched the company I use do the job and seen the trouble they go to, and feel happy that if any thing is wrong they will find it.
After all it is your life and you only get one go at it, so I am quite happy to pay the cost.
as far as I can ascertain this habitation check is a uk con ; doesn't seem to exist elsewhere , or does it?
and if you buy a new vehicle this must be warranted as fit for purpose , so how can this be taken away from you ?
perhaps , not living in the uk , I am missing something here ...if it was a free check , ok ; but pay real money [ ok , not real money anymore , £'s ] ???
how have I managed without this for 35 years ?
There is a fulll hab service check list on the site here somewhere and I reckon anybody could do it.
On top of all that when using your van on a regular basis you are effectivley checking and inspecting your own van. You probabley know more about its condition than anybody.
There is much confusion over the annual habitation service or check for motorhomes, with widely varying prices and standards of work. However a 'standard checklist' is used by many dealers when carrying out this work, but it seems that many owners are not aware of this, or of what checks should be included. We suggest that owners should ask for the 'SMMT Annual Habitation Service Check' to be carried out. Competent owners may wish to use the published checklist when carrying out their own maintenance.
The following guidelines for the checking and servicing of a motorhome's habitation area are taken from the guidance booklet published by the Motorhome Section of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) and the Motorhome Division of The National Caravan Council (NCC). They are © SMMT & NCC and reproduced here with their kind permission. We would like to thank them for providing this information and also thank The Motorhome Information Service for their assistance.
The checks do not cover any part of the base vehicle, although there may be minor overlapping (such as tyre pressures, cab seats, internal lights, battery and windows) in a van conversion. The base vehicle must be serviced in accordance with the chassis manufacturer's instructions.
1. Any owner's manual or equivalent supplied with the vehicle by the motorhome manufacturer.
3. Driver s handbook or equivalent supplied by the chassis manufacturer.
A vehicle is accepted for service at the dealer's discretion.
Any defects, repairs, adjustments, cleaning or lubrication required will be noted on the check list.
The customer's approval will be obtained before any work is done.
Any work carried out following the check, and the sufficiency of the work in the check itself, is subject to the contract between the customer and the dealer. The National Caravan Council (NCC) & SMMT and their member companies are not part of this contract, and accept no liability in contract, tort or otherwise, other than death or personal injury due to negligence on their part.
Examine all fixings retaining the body to the chassis - this may be direct or through a sub-frame.
Where practical, all fittings should be checked to ensure they are all present and correctly secured.
Examine joint between body and cab for signs of movement and soundness of sealing media.
Check serviceability and tightness of body retaining gear.
Check serviceability of body support struts and mountings.
body supports must be agreed between dealer and customer).
Check window glazing rubber or sealing for cracks and general condition.
Check for satisfactory opening and closing.
Check fixing of top hinge rail on top hung windows.
Check for good weather seal when window is closed and latched.
Check catches and stays for satisfactory operation.
Not including base vehicle doors.
Check that hinges and catches are satisfactory and that, when latched, doors are held securely shut.
Check that keys or internal latches lock the doors correctly.
Check that any device fitted to hold a door in the open position is satisfactory.
Check all door seals for cracking and general condition. Check correct closing to give a weather-tight seal.
Where a door is fitted with a childproof lock, check that an appropriate warning notice is fixed adjacent to the door.
Appropriate warning notices are available from motorhome manufacturers.
Check that hinges and catches are satisfactory and that, when latched, the door is held securely shut.
Check that any device fitted to hold a door in the closed position can be operated from both sides to open the door in an emergency.
Check that attachments to chassis are secure. Ensure steadies work freely and satisfactorily.
Lubricate screw to ensure correct operation.
Check that step pivots are satisfactory and not worn. Check that, when closed, the retaining mechanism holds the step securely. If fitted, check warning device is working.
Check mounting frames are secure to body. Any fastenings that require releasing to remove the tank should be free of rust and operate freely. (Removal, flushing, cleaning and replacing of tanks will be carried out at the prior request of the customer or will be done subsequently with other work).
Remove spare wheel. Check for damage. Check tyre pressure.
Check for damage, corrosion, water seepage, signs of tyre rubbing.
Check security, general condition, and that sealing has not deteriorated.
Check security to body and general condition.
Check roof for damage adjacent to rack.
Check security. Check sealing has not deteriorated (see section 6).
Check security. Check sealing has not deteriorated.
Check that these are not blocked.
Examine for moisture/water staining of areas under windows, at side of roof and at corners which could indicate water seepage problems.
A moisture meter should be used where appropriate.
Check furniture is securely fixed.
Check door hinges, catches and stays for satisfactory operation.
Check seat bases for security of fixings and for damage.
Check there is a secure means of access to upper bunks and that, where applicable, protection against falling out and entrapment is provided.
Check track is secure and curtains draw freely without snagging.
Check blinds and/or nets for correct operation.
Check flyscreens in roof lights and air vents.
Where cab seats form part of the living area and/or bed layout they should be checked for security of attachment, smooth and easy operation of seat slides, swivels and seat back operation.
Check condition and expiry date. If an extinguisher is not fitted, inform the customer of the advisability of such equipment.
Check position (should be near cooker).
If one is not present, inform the customer of the advisability of such equipment.
FIRE FIGHTING: PROVIDE, AT LEAST, A 1 KG POWDER FIRE EXTINGUISHER, THAT COMPLIES WITH BS 5423 BY THE MAIN EXIT DOOR, AND A FIRE BLANKET NEXT TO THE COOKER. MAKE YOURSELF FAMILIAR WITH THE INSTRUCTIONS ON YOUR FIRE EXTINGUISHER AND THE FIRE PRECAUTION ARRANGEMENTS ON THE CARAVAN PARK.
Check for its presence. The customer must be advised against its use.
Gas struts or spring struts should be checked for corrosion (particularly on the piston rods of gas struts), smooth operation when operating roof up and down and to ensure that they support the roof when fully up. Check attachment points of struts to body and roof.
Check for satisfactory attachment to body and roof.
Check for splits or holes, particularly at fold lines.
Check that the canvas stows satisfactorily when roof is lowered.
Check sides and end panels fold up and down correctly, that they seal against each other where appropriate and that retaining mechanisms are satisfactory.
Check all hinges for security and freedom from strain.
It is important to ensure that when the roof is in the travelling position, it is safely and positively locked down. Any locking retaining mechanism should be carefully examined.
Establish that the cylinders and regulators are compatible. Butane (blue) cylinders should have a regulator stamped with the pressure 11" WG (28 m bar) and propane (red) cylinders should be stamped 14" WG (37 m bar). Check that the regulator is controlling the gas to the correct pressure for the type of cylinder fitted.
Check cylinder compartment vents and gas drop hole in the floor are free from obstruction.
Check seals on internal doors.
Check any flexible hose is of an approved type. Check its condition and for any evidence of cracking.
Check piping for condition, damage and correct support.
Carry out an overall leak test.
Where appropriate, remove cover(s) to gain access to heat exchanger.
Clean away any fluff or foreign matter. Reassemble and test.
Check that all knobs etc. work smoothly and are secure on their spindles.
If gas taps require greasing to ease stiffness, use only approved LPG grease.
Check that appliances can be brought into service using the normal controls.
Check that all pilot flames burn quietly and clearly.
Refrigerator: With the refrigerator gas control turned to maximum, the colour of the flame should be predominantly blue.
Instantaneous Water Heating: The main burner flame should be of even height and blue in colour. A flame burning yellow will allow sooting to occur.
Ovens: The oven flame should burn quietly and be of even height, mainly blue/green in colour. If the gas is propane, the flame will normally develop yellow tips as the burner heats up. If the gas is butane, a small amount of yellow tipping will be seen immediately after lighting, increasing as the burner heats up.
Grill Burners: It is normal for the flames on this type of burner to develop yellow tips as it heats up, particularly on butane.
General: A flame lifting away from the burners is an indication of too high a pressure, although it may happen with grill burners whilst the frets are heating up.
A yellow flame will cause sooting and is an indication of too low a pressure.
Providing the regulator and piping have been checked and found satisfactory the above faults should not appear.
Flues should be examined for security of fixing and for correct attachment to appliances and flue terminals. They should be free from damage and corrosion.
Check for leakage of flue gases into the vehicle.
Where fitted, the FFD should be checked to ensure satisfactory operation. After the appliance has been successfully checked, allow time for the thermocouple to cool.
Attempt to relight the appliance by turning it on without pushing in the gas control knob. (Do not override the FFD). If appliance does not light, FFD is satisfactory.
Check that surfaces adjacent to open flame cooking appliances have adequate protection.
trained to, for example, CORGI (Confederation of Registered Gas Installers) or Calor standards.
Before operating the water system, a visual check of the following items may show up an obvious leak source.
Check condition, fill tank and check for leaks.
Check the external filter and filter pipe to tank.
Check condition and presence of filter cap.
Check drain tap is clear and working.
Check condition and presence of drain hose. (The water tank will be drained, flushed, cleaned and charged with a measure of toilet fluid/disinfectant at the prior request of the customer.
When applicable, remove filter and replace.
submersible pump from tank, check condition.
Check pump inlet and outlet are clear and not obstructed.
Operate pump. Check all piping for leaks.
Operate taps and shower. If a hot water system is fitted, it can be checked for leaks etc. using cold water.
(Note - Aerated water from tap could be due to a leak on the suction side of the pump).
With water running through the drain pipes, check for leaks and satisfactory draining of water from sinks etc.
9.6 . COUPLINGS AND FLUIDS.
Check that the appropriate markings are used - blue for fresh water, grey for waste water. Ensure a sealing off cover is supplied for each coupling. Check that filler positions are designated "petrol", "diesel", or "water" as appropriate.
Check that any fixed tank intended to receive discharge from a toilet is fitted with either a level or full indicator.
Check connections, wires, fuses and relays appertaining to the habitation electrics.
Ensure that fuses and fuse holders used to protect the habitation electrics are satisfactory and that fuse ratings are compatible with the circuit appliances being protected.
It is recommended that the inspection and certification of the 230 volt system be carried out by a qualified electrician who is an approved contractor of the NICEIC (National Inspection Council for Electrical Installation Contracting) or in membership of the Electrical Contractors Association.
Check all high level ventilators, including roof lights, are free from obstruction and allow a free flow of air.
Check all low level ventilators are free from obstruction and allow a free flow of air.
as a matter of interest i have just spoken to gas safety tec ,dept. there is no qualification under there system that covers self propelled vehicles that are for private use . the gas satey legislation says compedent people to work on these vehicles. i dont say gas safe arent ,but there isnt a qualification that makes them any better than a compedant person.


The battle to free humanity from a cult of human-sacrificing Satan worshipers (Ba'al, Molech, etc.) is reaching a key turning point as intense battles rage on multiple fronts.
In essence, the battle is between the masses, allied with the military of most countries, against a deeply entrenched top-level elite.
Now let us look at the involvement of the Italian Mafia, who take orders from the Black Sun worshipers, in recent events involving North Korea and U.S. President Donald Trump. Notice that after the summit meeting between Trump and North Korean strongman Kim Jong Un failed, Chinese President Xi Jinping postponed his planned March visit to the U.S. to meet with Trump. Instead, he is flying this week to Italy, to meet the real bosses.
… "The Italian-American Mafia promised success in the meeting between Trump and Kim Jong Un because they had carried out a money-laundering operation in favor of North Korea." However, the source continued, "The meeting failed because the ideological geopolitics of the power blocks was stronger than the money." As a result, the Gambino family was forced to pay for the huge losses incurred, as they found themselves stuck with piles of worthless North Korean currency, he said.
One whistleblower, an executive at a major technology company that produces 5G equipment, says it is extremely dangerous technology. Unlike when 3G and 4G were introduced, this source says the top management are pushing hard for 5G implementation without any proper safety testing. The "5G wavelength is very similar to that of the human brain so that it can be used for mind control," he said. He also said that while 3G signals hit people like a basketball and 4G like a golf ball, 5G was more like a needle and could cause brain damage. Also, he warned that 5G would require transmission towers every 100 meters, and would be extremely intrusive and saturate the environment with dangerous electromagnetic waves. He said no living creature, even microbes, could survive in his company's 5G testing laboratory.
British intelligence sources say the Anglo-Saxon Five Eyes Group is aware of these dangers, and that is why they are putting the brakes on 5G, and also why they are asking the Chinese to do so as well.
The Pentagon source also noted that the ending of the Robert Mueller probe, as well as "FISA declassification to take down the Deep State, the foreign agent registration of Zionist organizations, 9/11 disclosure," and other moves were continuing.
The month of March continues its madness with an unprecedented historical event—the formation of the first-ever world government—unfolding before our eyes. What is happening is that the P2 Freemason lodge, the people who created monotheism, are making a deal with the Asian secret societies to create a "world federation government," P2 and Asian secret society sources confirm. The only people standing in the way now are Satan-worshipers and fanatical Zionists who still cling to ancient superstitions. There are multiple news events that confirm this. For example, take look at this picture of negotiations between China and Monaco on the official Chinese news site Xinhua.
Now, the entire superficial story about the Trump/Kim summit being between an impoverished nation of 25 million people and the world's superpower is falling apart. For example, former CIA Korea mission chief Andrew Kim revealed as much when he told an audience in Seoul, Korea last week that Kim had demanded the complete demilitarization of both Hawaii and Guam, as well as the dismantling of the U.S. Indo-Pacific naval fleet.
Skull and Bones is widely known as a secret society from Yale University, but P2 Freemasons say the original skull and bones can be found in a church in Rome built by the mother of Emperor Constantine in the year 322. Above is a picture of the original skull and bones sculpture located there.
The Golan issue is just "another nail in the coffin of Zionism," the sources continue. They note that the Zionist thought police Southern Poverty Law Center is imploding, and Democratic party politicians are boycotting a meeting being held by the AIPAC lobbying group (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee). They are boycotting because most American Jews are waking up to the fact that it was Zionists who were really responsible for the Holocaust, and are turning their backs on them. Other signs of Zionist collapse were also seen last week as "Zionist donor Bob Kraft may be forced to sell the Patriots football team, and Brown University becomes the first Ivy League school where students voted 69% to divest from corporations doing business with Israel," the sources noted.
The UK, for example, is readying for a tumultuous hard Brexit with plans to evacuate its leadership to bunkers, MI6 sources say. The UK military is preparing to take over logistics such as food and fuel delivery, in case the financial system computers (ATMs, etc.) shut down, they say.
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