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Magnificent Maleficent?
It's no secret that I love a good fairy tale, especially when it promises a kickass female protagonist. Or antagonist.
I couldn't stop raving about Brave, and Princess Merida wasn't half as tantalising as the combination of a Lana Del Rey soundtrack and Angelina Jolie lead promised to be.
To say I had high expectations is a bit of an understatement. So now you get to suffer the fallout of my utter disappointment.
My second nephew is also into scary fantasy films, and given he's had a love for Jurassic Park since the age of six, I thought he might enjoy this for his 10th birthday.
But the day before its release, Australia's classification board slapped on an M rating, and being a responsible aunt, I thought I better check it out first.
Lucky I did, because there turned out to be multiple reasons I wouldn't take my nephew to see that film, and none of them have do to with the rating.
As you would expect from the trailers, Maleficent is a feminist reworking of an old beauty myth.
At this point, I would say * SPOILER ALERT *, except that by the end of the film the only thing I can honestly say I didn't expect was to be unafraid, underwhelmed and uninspired.
(Having said that, if you would rather find that out for yourself, skip The Gory Details and move on to The Monstrous Truth.)
The Gory Details
The narrative follows a linear trajectory, blandly filling us in on the backstory of a young, powerful yet benevolent fairy and the bitter rivalry between her woodland paradise and the neighbouring kingdom ruled by greedy men.
Despite the rivalry, an innocent romance blooms between the fairy girl and a young boy, and from here on you know more or less exactly how this story will play out.
Boy grows into a power hungry man, commits a hideous betrayal against his one true love and wins the throne. Check.
Birth of Princess Aurora. Check.
Vengeance in the form of a curse exacted by justifiably embittered Fairy Queen. Check.
From here, the narrative starts to look familiar, except for some troubling bumps in the plot.
For her own protection, baby Aurora is sent off to a hideaway in the forest, under the guardianship of three pixies until her sixteenth year. Fine.
Only the pixies are so dim witted that they can't even feed her proper food, let alone instruct her in the ways of the world.
Instead, her care falls to Maleficent, who watches from the shadows and, with begrudging curiosity, keeps her from harm's way.
The result is a girl who grows up sheltered and naïve, as unaware of who she is or the fate that awaits her, as she is unafraid of horns that lurk in the dark.
It's not a good outlook for female empowerment.
With a mother almost completely absent from the plot, pixie nannies who are both clueless and neglectful, the only source of female strength in Aurora's life is one that sought her harm.
Of course, by the time Maleficent reveals herself to Aurora, she is genuinely attached to the girl and regretful of her actions. But since she fails to tell her the truth, Aurora has nothing really to be afraid about, and the moment of reckoning anticipated by the appropriately named 'teaser' is a horrific anti-climax.
When Aurora finally does learn the truth, she naturally runs off to the castle and gets her finger pricked, invoking the curse and landing in a coma.
At this point, the outlook for male empowerment is similarly grim. The only men in Aurora's life are a vindictive, power hungry father, and a Prince with a flaccid kiss.
By now it's pretty obvious who will deliver the awakening kiss, and from there it's just a matter of magic and a few convenient plot holes before the evil king is done away with and women get to rule the world.
The Monstrous Truth
As sympathetic as I might be to the idea of women taking over for a change, this film was nothing but a tease.
The only sign of Lana Del Rey is a single rendition of "Once Upon a Dream" over the credits.
Though everything looks pretty, the 3D goes in and out of focus with nasty double edge effect. It is only in the credits that we learn the film was not shot in 3D, but instead, badly converted.
The characters are similarly two dimensional and the plot is full of holes.
Instead of a tale of female empowerment, we find the old gender divisions alive and well.
All we have, in the end, is a Disney branding exercise of a horny goat woman in latex and leather who inspires us to maybe want to look like that.
Seeing this through my nephew's eyes, if he took away any message at all, it would be this:
Men are either ruthless or weak.
Women are either neglectful and stupid, or vengeful, somehow all powerful but not very scary, sometimes sorry but always right.
Don't trust anybody.
Definitely don't fall in love.
To be fair to the creators, maybe their point was that powerful women don't have to be scary. But that seems unlikely, since she lets the king fall to his death.
At any rate, I doubt my nephew would care enough to notice any of that, which is why the reviews seem to be putting it all down to a bit of harmless family fun.
And why I remain perplexed about Australia's M rating.
Magnificent Maleficent? Meh.
Have you seen it? Will you see it? How do your expectations measure up?
Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: Angelina Jolie, fairy tales, female empowerment movies, high expectations, hoodwinked by Disney, Lana Del Rey, Maleficent 2014, recommended for mature audiences, scary movies, writer Alarna Rose Gray
The Wood Chipper
June 5, 2014 by Alarna Rose Gray 42 Comments
WARNING: Contains scenes of suburban horror that may traumatise some readers.
The other day, someone knocked on my door.
Thanks to the sign from my slightly paranoid electricity provider, I was pretty confident whoever it was must be looking for me, so I answered.
It was a tree lopping company, come to cut down my non-existent tree.
I immediately had flashbacks to what might have been the start of Evie's porno career, but alas, this was not a ruse for desperate housewives!
Since they had the wrong address, I pointed them in the vague direction of the tree killers, and returned to my online activities, thus entering the first stage of grief known as Denial.
Twenty minutes later, the noise was getting out of hand. I go and take a glimpse out my kitchen window…
…and see not one, but TWO sources of suburban horror:
Strange man jumping over the fence into my back yard.
Bare blue sky in the space where my little possum friend ought to be asleep!
In a panic, I shuffle outside to murmur the blatant obvious:
"You cut down the tree…" (Bargaining)
Mr Tree Lopper glances up from his leaf gathering efforts, "Yeah, sorry."
I can hear a noise from the street that sounds suspiciously like a hungry wood chipper, and try not to think what that might mean.
"But, there was a possum living in that tree…" (Bargaining)
"Oh, was there? We didn't see anything…"
Mr Tree Lopper carries on with his leaf gathering efforts, not remotely uncomfortable about the fact he's trespassing in my yard, or that his friend might have just committed possum murder.
I had no idea what else to say, so naturally, I went inside and messaged Ms. (Anger)
And after that, put a sad status update on Facebook. (Depression)
And after that, placed a hex on my neighbours on Twitter. (Anger)
When Ms got home, she immediately climbed the fence to yell at the neighbours. (Anger)
But just as she started waving and 'yoo hooing' like a crazy person, we heard a rustle in the lemon tree nearby.
Sure enough, out popped a tiny Ringtail, totally unperturbed by the days events.
Could it be? (Bargaining)
Ms called the local wildlife experts and (after a friendly chat with the neighbour), we concluded that our possum may well have survived the wood chipper. (Denial)
I followed this up with some internet research, and learned some interesting facts:
The timid, herbivorous marsupials have a territory radius of about 50m, in which a Daddy and one or two Mummy ringtails, along with their recent offspring, coexist in Big Love bliss.
Ringtails tend to sleep solitary and frequently bed hop, having up to 8 nests in their territory.
Considering the neighbour recently moved in with a dog who is suffering separation anxiety, it's more than likely our little possum moved beds to get a decent sleep. (Denial)
At any rate, that's the story I'm telling everyone because (considering my utter failure to defend the rights of my tree dwelling friends) the alternative is too horrific.
Have you ever saved, or tried to save, or failed to save, a creature from harm?
Filed Under: Creatures Tagged With: five stages of grief, man vs wild, Ringtail Possum, suburban horror, tree lopping services, when good neighbours become good friends, wildlife protection, writer Alarna Rose Gray
May 30, 2014 by Alarna Rose Gray 32 Comments
What is it about dragons? Every tradition has one or, at least, East and West each have their own mythical variant of the diabolical beast.
Australia doesn't really belong to either tradition, which is probably why we have to resort to recycling dragons…
Melbourne's very own Dragons of Targaryen.
Or, how about a PET Dragon (made from recycled plastics)?
It's understandable. Who wouldn't want a pet dragon or two with which to smite thine enemy?
When I stumbled across this quiz on Twitter, I was like, 'Yeah, I'm gonna be a dragon!'
Anyway, I took the quiz, and it reminded me of that moment on Buffy before Willow turned badass…
"Oh thanks. Old reliable? Yeah, great, there's a sexy nickname!"
I mean, a Fish? Seriously??
Talk about boring old reliable.
But then I got to thinking. We all descended from fish, right? Even the dragon…
First the fish, then the legless lizard, then the four legged fire-breathing fiend.
Really, that makes me the First and Original badass.
Stonefish. Australia's master of camouflage – the most venomous fish in the world!
It reminds me of one of my favourite songs, End of May by Keren Ann.
Close your eyes and make a wish
Under the stone there's a stonefish…
Hold your breath and roll the dice
You haven't seen me disguised yet!
One step wrong, and dragons be gone!
I guess that means there's more to fish than meets the eye. So now I'm cool with that 🙂
Happy End of May, friends of the blogosphere!
What House do you belong to? Any secret powers you possess?
Filed Under: Creatures Tagged With: dragons, end of may, game of thrones, house targaryen, house tully, stonefish, willow old reliable, writer Alarna Rose Gray
Every Day is Stupid
Sometimes I get tired of my own BS, don't you?
A couple of weeks ago, I was having a really crappy day. No reason. I even knew it was all in my head, and that only made things worse.
It just was – not so much the Sunday blues as a Dark and Stormy gloom fest.
Nothing could snap me out of it – not even the final season of Weeds!
The upturn in mood began a few days later, with the arrival of my first ever eBay purchase, followed by several other sources of undue momentary glee…
1. Vintage bean slicer
Ever since I left home, I've moaned over the loss of Mum's mouli shredder.
I'm not a fan of electric appliances. They're heavy and expensive and annoying to assemble. And they take the tactile fun out of handling food.
Or so I tell myself.
I bought this Italian 'Moplen' instead of the French 'Mouli'.
I'm not sure why – it looked less used and the blades were all shiny. Which probably should have told me something.
In fact, it's quite clumsy and difficult to use. BUT…
I managed to make a week's supply of vegetable pasties, AND…
It has a bean slicer! Oh, the joy of not having to slice beans one at a time anymore.
2. Cocktails in Berlin
Well, Berlin Bar, to be exact – two rooms divided into East and West, with charming French waiters and confusing paintings of austere looking nuns on the wall.
But the cocktails and, I'm told, even the mocktails are to die for…
There was a certain glow to Melbourne-town after that, the kind that makes you glad you're alive not the designated driver.
3. Reliving Pepi's youth
You know how when you dread a task, and put it off hoping it will go away, it turns into Godzilla??
That's what the next books in the series had become, as I dreaded the seemingly immense task of getting Pepi's pictures ready for publication.
In fact, once I sat down to do it, it only took me a day and the up side of that was reliving periods in Pepi's life, like this one:
Pepi meets Maxi.
Pepi learns to escape and terrorise the neighbourhood.
Pepi moves house.
A story told in three pictures or less 🙂
4. Crywank
Maybe you're not like me.
Maybe you don't spend your life whining about everything from the bugs that ate your sage plants…
(Freakin' little blighters!)
…to the fact we're all going to die hungry and penniless.
But if you are, then we all need to get a grip. Or have a good cry. Or both.
I stumbled onto this 'anti-folk, sadcore' band because an American twitter buddy asked me to tell them what I know of the future (believe it or not, in Australia, we are ahead of almost all of you – in time, at least!).
This is what Crywank had to say:
Tomorrow is nearly Yesterday and Everyday is Stupid. Waaa…
The music is not so much sad, as making a joke of our sadness. And that makes me immeasurably happy.
What little absurd things make you happy? Give me a glimpse into your day, week. Hell, give me anything!
Filed Under: Life Tagged With: buying junk on eBay, Crywank, cute puppies, depression, Hello Pepi, mood altering substances, retail therapy, sadcore, vintage kitchen appliances, writer Alarna Rose Gray
Nothing strikes fear into the heart of someone who left their past behind like the words High School Reunion.
Honestly, it's probably the reason why I stayed off Facebook for so long.
And why my Profile still looks like this:
Don't get me wrong. My classmates were good people. It was boarding school, and they were just like family. Only better, because NOT family.
It's hard to describe how much you miss friends like that – such an intimate part of your daily life one day, gone the next.
Even harder when you know a big part of the reason they were 'gone' is that you slammed the door.
Let me put this in perspective.
It was a Christian school, and most of my friends were believers in some sense. But normal, you know?
It was just a part of their lives, along with boy crushes and manicures and torturing the Dean's pet cat.
There was Before Graduation. Do gooder preacher girl. On track for sainthood with a scholarship for Theology school firmly in hand.
Then there was After Graduation.
The about face probably made no sense to anyone but me.
I disappeared off the face of the earth, leaving a trail of burned bridges and lots of rumours in my wake.
Fast forward twenty years and my real and imaginary worlds suddenly collide with a mysterious Friend Request.
Crap, this name sounds familiar, I'm thinking. Who is this? What do they want with me?
My finger hovers over that button like the key rattling Pandora's box. Open Sesame, a world of hurt to follow…
Sure enough, Class of 1994 has tracked me down. I feel old. Really, really old.
Flash forward – Michele from 'Romy and Michele's High School Reunion'
But there's something else.
Amidst the fear and regret, anticipation. A longing so deep it bleeds.
I attend the reunion. Despite the fact it's a breakfast. And I'm not a morning person. And there's not a drop of alcohol in sight.
What I don't expect is this – no one really cares!
They've moved on. We all have. Important jobs. Partners. Kids. Lives. We've all matured. Found our own ways of dealing with the world.
I thought I was going for closure. Instead, what I found was a circle of beautiful people who still want to know me, despite the fact I was an idiot in school our wildly divergent paths.
Will we be best friends again? It's unlikely. We live on opposite sides of the river, for a start.
Still. There's a bridge on which to travel now. An open door at the end of it.
And love. Lots and lots of love.
(Okay. Maybe not that much… 🙂 )
Who were you in high school? Would you go to a reunion?
Filed Under: Life Tagged With: before and after, class of 1994, getting old, growing up, high school reunion, pandoras box, rights of passage, writer Alarna Rose Gray
May 9, 2014 by Alarna Rose Gray 28 Comments
Mother's Day. Each year it rolls around, and each year I fail to find words.
I left home too young for my Mother's liking. Living apart in more ways than geography, we can probably count on one hand the number of Mother's Days we've spent together since then.
But as I look back, there are countless moments in between we've shared. Working, side-by-side, for the good of one or all the family.
My favourite memories are those with our hands in the dough, when as a child she taught me the almost lost art of baking bread.
A ritual she no doubt shared with her own mother, and so on, back through generations past…
We're born looking up to you –
To Her.
We grow up
We out grow.
And as the kink in our gaze
Shifts gear
We see crossways and
Sideways and
Every other which way
Except the one
Where we see
Eye to eye.
And yet we know
That underneath the
Not looking and the
Not seeing
Is the part where we join hands.
Her hands.
There's a story etched there
Silent as the years that pass
Deep as the affection flows.
A job worth doing is
Worth doing over and over
Like a well worked dough
Kneaded and needed
Less for what it is than
For what it represents.
Love is a doing word.
Passed through
Not down
One generation to the next.
Where would we be
Without our Mother's touch?
Wishing all the mums out there a special day of pampering!
Do you have a favourite childhood memory of your mother's hands?
Filed Under: Family Tagged With: a job worth doing, baking bread, kneading dough, mother daughter bond, Mothers Day, mothers hands, sensory memories, writer Alarna Rose Gray
In the years since my road map took me on the scenic route through life, I have developed a passing interest in Astrology.
This is based in certain unscientific observations.
Like the illuminating discovery that my sister and I have not one astrological compatibility in our chart.
No one needed to tell me that our planets were at logger heads when I was born!
When I found that out it was a relief – I could finally file us under 'Irreconcilable Difference' and move on.
Likewise, it came as no surprise, watching my nephew and his mother interact, that his top three planets share the same positioning as mine. Poor fella.
(It's part of the reason I contend that Karma is just another word for Genes.)
There are other patterns too.
Library of Congress planisphere from c1708, courtesy Stuart Rankin
My partner and I are situated in opposite positions on the zodiac, being Taurus and Scorpio.
She also shares my father's birthday, which in itself is not all that remarkable (yeah, I know, *Daddy issues* – it's not the same year, okay? 🙂 ).
Delve a little, though, and we find that every member of her family shares a birthday with someone close in mine, only in each case, it is gender reversed!
Is this freak coincidence, or is there something to it?
Some contend that Astrology is just another form of quackery. A kind of mystical, hocus pocus fortune telling. Maybe. Maybe not.
The planetary line up at the time of our birth is never the same twice. It is branded to us, like a fingerprint, or DNA.
A site of endless mystery for curious minds to unravel.
A blueprint, if you like, of possibility.
What fascinates me is the way that scientific discoveries sometimes mirror 'mystical' explanations for the way things are.
For instance, did you know scientists have found a gene that predisposes us to religious belief?
This leads me to wonder – is it possible that the sensory memories encoded in our genes are just a more sophisticated way of explaining reincarnation?
Or that the historical trajectory of planets is a more precise means of mapping the course taken by one giant breath of life?
On the one side we have belief in the wisdom of an all knowing being where the limits of our knowledge fail.
On the other, a precise methodology that turns flat surface theory into solid 3D fact.
Both reaching for a mystery neither dogma can explain. Pointing in the same direction, but unable to shake hands.
Courtesy http://www.michelangelo-gallery.org
For my part, I find the magnetic push-me-pull-you of planetary entanglement far more compelling than a nudge from a big hand in the sky.
Beyond metaphor, it connects me with elemental force to the wider universe, a small part of a much grander mystery.
Mystery is good. It is reaching for the unknown that propels us forward, and what is life, if not an inexplicable need to create meaning from nothingness?
So, until science can disprove the notion that our personality is written in the stars, I will go on reading my forecasts, and contemplating possibility.
Do you read your stars? Any freaky patterns there you can't explain, or is it all just hocus?
Filed Under: Life Tagged With: astrology, dna, god gene, mysticism, reincarnation, religion, science, writer Alarna Rose Gray
April 25, 2014 by Alarna Rose Gray 26 Comments
What do you do when you turn old enough to realise it's been twenty years since high school, and you're just as shiftless as you ever were?
Watch a grunge-chic vampire flick, of course!
Only Lovers Left Alive is a Jim Jarmusch take on vampirism in the twenty-first century that is a welcome departure from the Twilight zone. Suitable, in other words, for those of us more in touch with our mortality.
The film documents a centuries-old love affair between Adam (Tom Hiddleston), a reclusive, "suicidally romantic" musician, and Eve (Tilda Swinton), a somewhat more optimistic, but equally reclusive, literary buff.
Living in obscurity between Detroit and Tangier, Adam and Eve share a languid existence borne as much of human ("zombie") fatigue as a shortage of uncontaminated blood supply.
It's the way they treat the world," complains Adam, "and now they've succeeded in contaminating their own blood, never mind their water".
It's difficult to describe what happens. There's an unwelcome visit from Eve's sister, the problem of dead body disposal, and the last pure drop of illegally acquired blood – "type O negativo".
Be warned: the film is dangerously anaemic of narrative tension. I'll even admit to nodding off somewhere in the middle…
How do I love this film? Let me count the ways.
There are so many truly clever, 'you just have to see it' funny moments in this film.
It celebrates, as much as pokes fun at, a kind of self-indulgent nostalgia – the kind only people who grew up with analogue can truly grasp.
Like the couple's video chat, facilitated by an iPhone on one end, and an elaborate 1970's telephone-to-television hook-up on the other.
"How can you have lived for so long and still not get it?" asks Eve of Adam.
There are numerous in-jokes about vinyl versus YouTube and the download generation.
Creative rewriting of the origins of classics, from the likes of Shakespeare and Schubert.
A healthy disdain for family, given 87 years between visits isn't deemed long enough by Adam ("It's always a bit weird with family", concedes Eve).
While it may be true to say that not much happens, all the little moments come together in poetic symphony right at the end.
As Adam and Eve contemplate their fate and the meaning of entanglement theory, they watch, enthralled by what appear to be the only (other) lovers left alive…
What I love most about this film is the evolution of the vampire mythology. Where once vampires were seen to prey on humans with abandon, there is now a recognition of their dependence on human virility.
Whether it be the artists and their fan base, or the vampires and their blood source, they are interdependent on each other.
The reminder that we're all going down together was just what I needed to be grateful for another revolution around the sun!
What was the last film and/or birthday indulgence you truly enjoyed?
Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: art, entanglement theory, evolution, nostalgia, old age, Only Lovers Left Alive, vampire movies, writer Alarna Rose Gray
Känguru Hop
This week I was tagged in a blog hop by Rita, the crafty almost-Australian French Canadian writer and rose whisperer over at Crafty Expat. (Have you ever seen roses like these?).
I'm pretty impressed by Rita's commitment to the path less travelled from criminal lawyer to tortured writer. Hop over here to learn more.
But for this week, here are my answers on all things writerly:
What am I working on?
Good question. Given my relative silence on the matter, you'd be forgiven for thinking I'm having you all on, that the first three books of Hello Pepi were just a ruse, a means of tricking you into believing Toy Dogs Are For Real.
But it's no ruse – toy dogs demand to be taken seriously! All of last year until now I have been working with an illustrator to complete the final four books in the series – a fictionalised account of the real life Pepi, in verse.
How does my work differ from others in its genre?
I could tell you about the things it does and doesn't have in common with Tales of Peter Rabbit. Or how the illustrations evoke the classic feel of Alice in Wonderland.
I could say this is not a children's story, but rather a story for kids of all ages. And I could tell you how Pepi would object to being used as a device for a human centred tale.
Or, I could simply show you one of the songs in the Hello Pepi inspiration soundtrack. A song that tells about a day in the life of Schnappi the Krokodil.
(How could you Not fall in love with this creature?)
Why do I write what I do?
I wrote this series because Pepi taught me many things. He taught me how to love, how to listen, how to speak. His greatest gift was that he taught me how to live.
Most importantly, I wrote this series because small dogs, and by extension, small creatures, are so often misunderstood, misrepresented and overlooked in the greater human narrative.
But they have their own stories to tell. Stories that not only need to be told, but need to be heard.
How does my writing process work?
Writing is a mysterious thing. I hardly know how this came into being. Except that Pepi somehow linked his synapses with my brain waves and transmitted a story in lines and images that surprised us both.
I'd write solidly for half a day, a combination of scribbled lines that were then shaped and reworked on the digital page.
Sometimes it was linear. Sometimes the end came before the beginning. Possibly, there was a little bit of Rhymezone involved (ahem).
Always there was an animated sequence in my mind that somehow made it to the page.
When I was done, I would read it out aloud to Pepi. And he would jump up from his bed and dance for me.
Since this blog hop came to me from the land down under, I thought it only appropriate (in the spirit of Schnappi and his hopping Känguru friend) to extend the hop to another Australian writer.
Kath Unsworth is new to my blogging world, but I was immediately taken with her magical illustrations of miniscule moments (and other creatures), as her knack for making a story out of almost anything.
Here's her bio:
Kath Unsworth is an artist and writer who lives down the far south coast of Australia, her dream is to create, illustrate and write happy hopeful picture books for children. She takes her inspiration from the world around, remembering what it was like to be a child. She hopes to inspire others to follow their dreams.
Kath blogs weekly about the journey of a writer at Minuscule Moments, using her photos and art to give her readers a personal view on the journey. Learning the craft of writing and illustrating picture books, whilst balancing every day life as a mum with two children.
What's the most child-like guilty pleasure you enjoy?
Filed Under: Hello Pepi Tagged With: Australian blog hop, Hello Pepi, Kath Unsworth, kids story for grown ups, Rita Azar, Schnappi und Seine Freunde, toy dogs, writer Alarna Rose Gray, writing and illustrating


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CyberCenturion Vll launches with pledge to increase diversity in participation
October 2020 by Marc Jacob
At the official launch of CyberCenturion Vll, Nick Chaffey, Chief Executive, UK, Europe and Middle East, Northrop Grumman announced that the 2020/21 focus of the competition will be on encouraging greater diversity in the cyber security sector.
CyberCenturion VII is open to all secondary school students in the UK, UK Crown Dependencies and UK Overseas Territories and starts in October 2020 with the national finals due to take place in April 2021. CyberCenturion is the UK edition of the global CyberPatriot programme, sponsored and led by Northrop Grumman, designed by the U.S. Air Force Association and delivered in the UK in partnership with the Cyber Security Challenge UK.
CyberCenturion is a UK-wide competition which gives secondary school pupils the opportunity to develop and bring a myriad of skills into play to crack cybercrime. The multi-round event, for which there is no fee to participate, culminates in a national final for the highest scoring teams. If Covid-19 restrictions prevent a face-to-face final in 2021, in line with qualifying rounds, the final will take place as a virtual event.
CyberCenturion VII is adopting the theme of space, to highlight the unlimited opportunity that young people from all backgrounds in cybersecurity have, linked to the pioneering work Northrop Grumman does in space. This ranges from the historic Lunar Module, the vehicle that landed men on the moon, to the Mission Extension Vehicle (MEV) and James Webb Space Telescope today.
Nitya Sri Adapala is a past winner of CyberCenturion: "It opened my eyes and those of my teammates to a whole world of inspirational people that we could talk to and learn from. As a direct result of entering CyberCenturion, the enrolment onto Computer Sciences at our school went from 3 people to 18 - it's been fantastic and I do feel proud of myself and my teammates for encouraging girls into the industry."
Teams have the opportunity to register and participate in online training and practice rounds before the first live competitive round of CyberCenturion Vll takes place on Friday 13 November 2020.
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package ioke.lang;

import java.io.Reader;
import java.io.StringReader;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Map;

import ioke.lang.parser.IokeParser;

import ioke.lang.exceptions.ControlFlow;

/**
 * @author Ola Bini
 */
public class UseValueRestart extends Restart.ArgumentGivingRestart {
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    private final Object[] newCell;

    public UseValueRestart(String name, Object[] newCell) {
        super("useValue");
        this.name = name;
        this.newCell = newCell;
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    public String report() {
        return "Use value for: " + name;
    }

    public List<String> getArgumentNames() {
        return new ArrayList<String>(Arrays.asList("newValue"));
    }

    public IokeObject invoke(IokeObject context, List<Object> arguments) throws ControlFlow {
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        return context.runtime.nil;
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}

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Determine where the wine is from // A wine's flavor is influenced by where the grapes are grown. New World wines are wines from America, Argentina, Chile, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. These wines will generally give you most of the information you need right on the front of the label. Old World wines are from France, Austria, Italy and Spain. These wines are a little trickier and you may need to look at the back of the label for more information or even consult Google.
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One of the best parts of spring in the Low Country is the arrival of local soft-shell crabs. This occurs as the water temperature rises and blue crabs molt, losing their hard shells to allow them to grow larger every year. During this short window of time, crabs are at their best to be eaten whole. In the Clubhouse, members typically prefer their crabs quickly fried so that they are very crispy; sautéing the crabs offers another cooking method just without the truly wonderful crispy exterior.
Method: Dredge crabs in buttermilk and then in seasoned flour and immediately place in hot oil and cook for 4 minutes, being careful of splattering grease. Fry in batches keeping them warm in the oven on brown paper to absorb any oil.
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Invitations // There are several local businesses who can help you create beautiful invitations. There are also some great websites like evite.com that allow you to electronically send invites and instantly keep track of your guest list. Make sure to include the RSVP phone number or email address for responses. The RSVP deadline should be seven to ten days in advance.
All about the bubbles! // Anniversary parties are a great excuse to pop a bottle of bubbles. Classic favorites like Tattinger, Veuve and Moet are always a go-to item, but also consider a trendy Brut Rose or Prosecco to add a fun twist to the cocktail hour.
Pour all ingredients in to an ice filled rocks glass and stir. Garnish with a lime wedge. **If you prefer gin, you can substitute it for vodka.
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Décor // Enlist a florist to help you create stunning centerpieces that set the feel of the party. Include flowers you had in your wedding as a great memory of the day you said "I do." Luxurious linens are also a great way to add personalization. You can get specialty linens for all the guest tables or if you just want an extra pop, only cover the dessert table and the bar!
Entertainment // This is not necessary but can certainly set the tone of the evening. If you're looking for a big party that is talked about for years, go for a fun band or a great DJ. If you prefer an elegant evening, a violinist or a string trio is a beautiful way to add background music.
Personalization // Don't forget the best part of the day is the two of you! Make it feel as formal or as casual as you want. The same goes for the size of the party and whether you do a cocktail party or a full sit-down dinner. A personalized cake that has themes representing the places you have traveled to together or your life milestones is a great way to share your story with your friends. Themed-food highlighting where you have lived together is also a nice touch to share with your guests.
Whether you decide to host your anniversary with us at the Clubhouse or at your home, we are happy to help you come up with ideas to make it memorable, just ask!
Cheers to National Rum Day! What better way to celebrate than with yours truly, Kenrick! Check out our new drink feature, Spiced Negroni. Come on over to the Clubhouse and try it out!
This past weekend, we hosted our annual Member Holiday Party, with a Winter Wonderland theme. The party exceed everyone's expectations from the menu to dancing under the stars!
This year's party was much different than year's past; the menu featured grand hors d'oeuvres displays, butler passed items, raw bar, sushi roller and more of Chef Frank's delicious creations. Afterwards, flambeed specialty desserts were "fired" up, to include both edible sweets and cocktails.
The Club's a spooky sight with cauldrons that bubble.
This past week, we were in full Halloween spirit.
Our week began with Wexford's ETC (Event & Travel Club) Murder Mystery Dinner. Our members dressed their parts as they searched through the Clubhouse for clues on who committed the crime and how. This real-life game of Clue was a most memorable evening for all who attended and participated.
We finished the week with our annual Spooktacular party – plus a different twist on the traditional Trick-or-Treat through the neighborhood. Given the amounts of remaining roadside debris, instead of having our children go door-to-door, we invited them to the Clubhouse to go Trunk-or-Treat. We invited our members to park their decorated car(s) OR golf cart(s) at the Clubhouse and passed out candy from there. It wasn't only a safer option for our children, but it brought friends and neighbors together to mix and mingle while the children went from car to cart.
Following our Trunk-or-Treat, we hosted our ever-popular Spooktacular, featuring bounce houses, carnival games, a dance party and a 'Goblin' good buffet for adult ghosts and mini-ghouls of every size. This is one of our most popular events by frightfully far!!
The Drink that will leave you wanting S'MORE!
Earlier this year we hosted a S'mores on the Terrace evening, featuring your favorite campfire treat and a fun/adult spin on the traditional dessert. With that said, in honor of National S'mores Day (TODAY!), we give you our S'mores Martini recipe- Cheers!
Shake and pour into a martini glass rimmed with Hershey's chocolate syrup and crushed graham cracker. Top with a toasted marshmallow.
Last week we hosted a children's cooking class, Fresh Pizza from the Garden, with our Executive Chef Frank Copeland. The event was a huge success, filling up quickly with 12 Wexford children.
The children started in the Wexford kitchen (adorned in their chef's hats!) where they worked alongside Chef Frank, rolling out their dough, saucing their pizzas and dressing them with all the toppings they love, consisting of fresh herbs and vegetables from Wexford's garden. While the pizzas were baking, the children then helped replenish the garden, by each planting their very own herb or vegetable. The plants were labeled with the children's name so they can continue to watch as their plants grows.
This was an unforgettable experience for our children and we look forward to hosting more children's cooking classes in the near future – so stay tuned!
Check out our latest July/August Newsletter.
Upcoming Clubhouse Events – including Kid's Cooking Class with Chef: Fresh Pizza from the Garden, Napa vs. Sonoma Wine Dinner, Burgers & Brews and more!


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Mitsubishi (, an die japanischen Wörter "mitsu" und "hishi" angelehnt, was wörtlich übersetzt "drei Rauten" bedeutet) ist eine japanische Marke, unter der über zweihundert verschiedene Unternehmen, Konzerne, Stiftungen und weitere Organisationen vernetzt sind (jap. keiretsu). Diese entstanden aus der nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg erfolgten Zerschlagung des Unternehmenskonglomerats (jap. zaibatsu) Mitsubishi.

Obwohl die meisten davon unter der Marke Mitsubishi firmieren und das Mitsubishi-Logo benutzen, sind sie rechtlich voneinander unabhängig.

Geschichte

Vor 1945
Das Unternehmen ging aus einer 1857 auf Einladung des Tokugawa-Shogunats von Holländern gegründeten Eisengießerei und Werft in Dejima bei Nagasaki hervor. 1868 ging die Werft in Staatsbesitz über. 1870 gründete Iwasaki Yatarō mit drei gemieteten Dampfschiffen ein Schifffahrtsunternehmen. Der Firmenname Mitsubishi wurde ab 1873 benutzt. 1884 mietete er die Werft vom Staat.

Nach dem frühen Tode Yatarōs 1885 übernahm sein jüngerer Bruder Yanosuke die Firmenleitung. Im gleichen Jahr gründete er Nihon Yūsen kaisha einen weltweit agierenden Schifffahrts-Liniendienst. 1887 kaufte er die Werft in Nagasaki unter dem Namen Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works. Seit 1891 wurde das Schiffsreparaturgeschäft auch in Yokohama betrieben. 1914 wurden in Shimonoseki die Mitsubishi Heavy Industries - Shimonoseki Shipyard & Machinery Works errichtet. Yanosuke engagierte sich auch im Bergbau und im Bankwesen.

So wurde Mitsubishi, bis 1945 stets unter Leitung der Familie Iwasaki, zu einem Unternehmenskonglomerat von über 70 Gesellschaften mit Geschäftsfeldern in Bankwesen, Handel und Immobilienwirtschaft.

In den 1930er- und 1940er-Jahren war Mitsubishi einer der führenden Waffenproduzenten in Japan. Die Mitsubishi Aircraft Company stellte unter anderem das Kampfflugzeug Mitsubishi A6M "Zero" her. Bis 1945 wuchs Mitsubishi auf über 200 Unternehmen an.

Nach 1945
Nach Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges wurde der von einer Holding verwaltete Mitsubishi-Konzern von den amerikanischen  Besatzungsbehörden in eine Reihe von Unternehmen zerschlagen, die voneinander unabhängig sind, aber weiter unter dem Mitsubishi-Logo firmieren und Mitsubishi als Teil des Unternehmensnamens tragen.

1964 wurden wesentliche Unternehmensteile in den Mitsubishi Heavy Industries wieder zusammengeführt, die heute den Unternehmenskern bilden. 1970 wurde Mitsubishi Motors ausgegründet.

1992 gründete man mit Caterpillar das Joint-Venture Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift zur Herstellung von Gabelstaplern.

2005 verschmolzen die jeweils selbständigen Unternehmen Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation und Mitsubishi Pharma Corporation zum Unternehmen Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation.

2012 beschlossen Mitsubishi Heavy Industries und Hitachi, ihr Wärmekraftwerksgeschäft zusammenzulegen.

Mitsubishi baut für die Japanische Raumfahrtagentur Raketen, die für Navigations- und Wettersatelliten als Träger genutzt wurden, Regionalflugzeuge sowie Flugzeuge wie die Mitsubishi F-2 und Panzer für die japanischen Selbstverteidigungsstreitkräfte.

Unternehmenslogo

Bereits im Jahr 1875 fuhren die Schiffe Iwasaki Yatarōs, des Gründers Mitsubishis, unter einer Flagge, auf der drei im Dreieck angeordnete Rauten abgebildet waren. Entstanden ist das Logo aus den Familienwappen der Familie Iwasaki (drei Rauten) und der ebenfalls am Unternehmen beteiligten Familie Yamanouchi (drei Eichenblätter).

Mitsubishi bezieht sich auf das Unternehmenslogo und stellt eine Kombination der Wörter mitsu (drei) und hishi (Raute) dar. Das Wort hishi bedeutet eigentlich "Wasserkastanie", erlangte aufgrund der Form der Wasserkastanie aber auch die Bedeutung "Raute".

Im deutschsprachigen Raum ist das Markenzeichen auch als die drei Diamanten von Mitsubishi bekannt.

Mitsubishi-Grundsätze
Der vierte Präsident von Mitsubishi, Koyata Iwasaki, definierte in den 1930er-Jahren drei Grundsätze, an denen sich das Handeln des Unternehmens orientieren solle:

Shoki Hōkō
(, dt. Verantwortung gegenüber der Gesellschaft)
"Sei bestrebt, die Gesellschaft sowohl materiell als auch spirituell zu bereichern, während du zur Bewahrung der globalen Umwelt beiträgst."

Der Geschäftsbetrieb ist ein öffentliches Unterfangen, und die Unternehmen sind dafür verantwortlich, die entscheidenden Interessen ihres Gastlandes zu fördern. Das unternehmerische Ideal für Manager und Angestellte muss die Mitwirkung zum nationalen Wohlstand sein. Der Endzweck eines Unternehmens ist es, zum größeren Wohl der Gesellschaft beizutragen.

Shoji Kōmei
(, dt. Anstand und Gerechtigkeit)
"Unterhalte eine Unternehmenskultur der Transparenz und Offenheit, und betreibe deine Geschäfte nach den Grundsätzen des Anstandes und der Gerechtigkeit."

Iwasaki warnte die Mitsubishi-Manager wiederholt davor, sich nur auf Zahlen zu konzentrieren, und den Blick auf die Unternehmensethik im Wettbewerb zu verlieren. Er drängte die Manager und Angestellten dazu, auf Skrupellosigkeit mit Anstand zu reagieren, und Betrügereien mit Ehrlichkeit zu entgegnen, und erinnerte sie, dass Unternehmen die höchsten gesellschaftlichen Erwartungen in Bezug auf ethisches Benehmen erfüllen müssten. Das bedeute mehr zu tun, als nur den Gesetzen zu folgen. Es bedeute, die Bräuche und Empfindlichkeiten jeder Nation zu respektieren, in der Mitsubishi agiere.

Ritsugyō Bōeki
(, dt. Völkerverständigung durch Handel)
"Erweitere deine Geschäfte basierend auf einer allumfassenden globalen Perspektive."

Zwei Tage nach Ausbruch des Zweiten Weltkrieges gab Iwasaki eine mutige Stellungnahme über die Freundschaft zwischen Geschäftspartnern, die durch einen Krieg getrennt sind, ab: "Wir zählen viele Briten und Amerikaner zu unseren Geschäftspartnern. Sie haben viele Geschäfte mit uns abgewickelt. Sollte der Frieden wiederkommen, sollten sie wieder gute und treue Freunde werden."
Durch "Ritsugyō Bōeki" drückt Iwasaki die Bedeutung einer internationalen Perspektive aus.

Mitsubishi-Unternehmen
Die wichtigsten Unternehmen, die das Mitsubishi-Konglomerat bilden, sind:

 Mitsubishi Motors (Fahrzeugbau)
 Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation (Nutzfahrzeuge)
 Mitsubishi Electric (Elektrotechnik)
 Mitsubishi Chemical Group (Chemie, Verbatim-Speichermedien)
 Mitsubishi Pharma (Pharmazie)
 Mitsubishi Paper-Mills (Grafische Industrie, Papierfabrik)
 Mitsubishi Estate (Immobilien)
 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (Schwerindustrie)
 Mitsubishi Trust and Banking (Finanzwesen)
 Mitsubishi Corporation (Handel)
 Nikon
 Mitsubishi Tōkyō UFJ Ginkō (Bank)
 Kirin Brewery (Brauerei)
 Mitsubishi Materials (Bergbau, Montanwesen, Metallbearbeitungswerkzeuge)
 Tokio Marine Holdings (nonlife-Versicherer)
 Mitsubishi Nichiyu Forklift (Stapler, Hubwagen und Logistiklösungen)

Aktivitäten im Motorsport
Aufgrund der besonderen Anforderungen im Motorsport, z. B. in Bezug auf die erforderlichen flexibleren Vertriebswege, übernimmt in den meisten Ländern eine eigene Motorsportabteilung diesen Geschäftsbereich. Hierfür zuständig ist die Unternehmensgruppe Ralliart, die in allen Ländern wiederum eine eigene Organisation ist.

Erfolge:
 FIA Rally WM: 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999
 Rallye Dakar: 1985, 1992, 1993, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
 GT 300 Series (Team Taeivon Ralliart Mitsubishi FTO): 1998: 5. Platz / 1999: 6. Platz (Fahrer: Akihiko Nakaya, Takahiko Hara, Ralph Firman)

Einzelnachweise

Literatur
 S. Noma (Hrsg.): Mitsubishi. In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993. ISBN 4-06-205938-X, S. 980.

Weblinks

 Deutsche Portalseite der Mitsubishi-Unternehmen
 Internationale Portalseite der Mitsubishi-Organisationen
 Gefangenenlager in denen Zwangsarbeit zu leisten war (1942–45)
 DIATONE Mitsubishi, klassische Geräte der Consumer Electronic

Rüstungshersteller (Japan)
Keiretsu
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Gegründet 1870
Unternehmen (Präfektur Tokio)
Wirtschaft (Japanisches Kaiserreich)

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Q: Show that $\Bbb Z[\alpha,4/\alpha]/(2)$ is a direct product of three domains, where $\alpha^3+\alpha^2-2\alpha+8=0$ Let $\alpha$ be a root of $x^3+x^2-2x+8$. As part of another problem, I am trying to show that, in the ring $\Bbb Z[\alpha,4/\alpha]$, the ideal $(2)$ splits as a product of three distinct primes. This is equivalent to the fact that $\Bbb Z[\alpha,4/\alpha]/(2)$ is a product of three domains.
A useful fact is that the minimal polynomial of $4/\alpha$ is $x^3-x^2+2x+8$. The following all seems correct to me:
\begin{align}
\Bbb Z[\alpha,4/\alpha]/(2)&\cong \Bbb Z[x,y]/(2,x^3+x^2-2x+8,y^3-y^2+2y+8,xy-4)\\
&\cong \Bbb F_2[x,y]/(x^3+x^2,y^3+y^2,xy)\\
&\cong \Bbb F_2[x,y]/(x^2,y^3+y^2,xy)\cap(x+1,y^3+y^2,xy)\\
&=\Bbb F_2[x,y]/(x^2,y^3+y^2,xy)\oplus \Bbb F_2\\
&=\Bbb F_2\oplus \Bbb F_2[x,y]/(y^2,x^2,xy)\cap (y+1,x^2,xy)\\
&=\Bbb F_2\oplus \Bbb F_2\oplus \Bbb F_2[x,y]/(x^2,xy,y^2).
\end{align}
If it is unclear, I'm using the Chinese remainder theorem in a few places. Clearly the third component is not a domain, so something has gone wrong. Its possible that the first line is incorrect, and that you need another condition relating $x$ and $y$. For example, in the quotient, there is no difference between $2/\alpha$ and $4/\alpha$, which seems wrong.
The bigger context here is that $\Bbb Z[\alpha,4/\alpha]$ is the ring of integers of $\Bbb Q(\alpha)$. This ring is interesting because Dedekind came up with a proof it is not monogenic. However, I am stuck on this detail, which is really just basic ring theory.

A: The missing relations are $\alpha^2 = 2 - 2(4/\alpha) - \alpha$ and $(4/\alpha)^2 = 4/\alpha - 2\alpha - 2$.
These translate into $x^2 = 2 - 2y - x$ and $y^2 = y - 2x - 2$.
Modulo $2$ they become $x^2 = x$ and $y^2 = y$ (and these make the cubic relations superfluous).
So you have $$\begin{align*}\mathbb{F}_2[x,y]/(x^2 - x, xy, y^2 - y) &= \mathbb{F}_2[x,y]/(x,xy,y^2-y) \cap (x-1,xy,y^2-y) \\&\cong \mathbb{F}_2[x,y]/(x,xy,y^2-y)\oplus \mathbb{F}_2[x,y]/(x-1,xy,y^2-y)\\ & \cong \mathbb{F}_2[y]/(y^2-y)\oplus \mathbb{F}_2[y]/(y,y^2 - y)\\ &\cong \mathbb{F}_2 \oplus\mathbb{F}_2 \oplus\mathbb{F}_2.\end{align*}$$

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Transoral robotic surgery-based therapy in patients with stage III-IV oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma.
Park YM1, Kim HR2, Cho BC2, Keum KC3, Cho NH4, Kim SH5.
Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Department of Medical Oncology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Department of Radiation Oncology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Electronic address: shkimmd@yuhs.ac.
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TORS-based therapy showed excellent oncological and functional outcomes for treatment of stage III-IV OPSCC. For advanced T stage OPSCC, clear margins were obtained using TORS-based therapy and patients with clear margins showed good local control. Risk stratification of patients based on pathological information obtained after surgery and decision about additional treatment based on the information helped improve OS and DSS of OPSCC patients.


I've managed to get done most of the work Gypsy needed done thanks to everyone who donated to the GoFundMe my friends set up and a couple of good shoots, and I've got a thumb's up from Greg over at AutoCentro to take her out again. She still needs a couple little things, but she's rolling and we're off and running. First up, a trip to Philly to see my daughter and some old friends. A few days there, a night back in DC, a couple nights in Jacksonville, NC to see my son, and then on to Charleston, SC for the Brain Tumor Race. A few days in Columbia to visit Beverly, a week back in DC, and then on to New York City, Boston, and the rest of New England. After that, Gypsy and I will head down the Canadian side of the border into Michigan, on our way down to Indiana for the weekend of June 15th.
I don't have to be anywhere else until August, for Woodhull, so I'm working out a plan of where I want to go this summer. The Grand Canyon is on the list, as is Mexico via a return trip to Big Bend. The wind is blowing, and the sails are full. It's time to get her wheels hot.


Normally, when we go out to eat on a holiday or special occasion our diets go out the window. As long as you are being health conscious in your normal day-to-day life, a sweet splurge won't ruin your metabolism. With Valentine's Day coming up, we had to wonder if you knew exactly the amount of work you were going to put in for a slice of cake or a 6-piece Godiva chocolate box, would you still eat it? If the answer is yes then don't worry, Personal Trainer, Certified Nutritionist & Exercise Physiologist, Franci Cohen has the perfect exercises to burn off the tasty delights.
It's not just calorie counting. Franci weighs in on how much exercise you need to do to burn off the Valentine's Day treats.
Begin by squatting down low enough that your knees are level with your hips. Be careful not to hyperflex your knees over your feet. Next, place your hands on the floor directly under your shoulders, and jump your feet back, so that you are now in plank position. Quickly jump your feet back in towards your arms, and then jump up to standing position shooting your arms straight above your head.
You just performed your 1st Burpee! Now do 23 more! Each Burpee should take approx 8 seconds, and the total 24 should be done continuously without interruption if possible. Next, stand behind a mini trampoline. If you can't find a trampoline then you can use a bench or step. Squat down low and then power squat forward up onto the trampoline. Then, power squat off back into your starting squat position on the floor. Repeat 24 power bounce squats. Each squat on/off should take approximately 4 seconds (2 seconds on/2 seconds off).
Finally, step on to trampoline, and pretend you are making the final most important "jump shot" of an NBA basketball game. Stand with feet and knees together, squat down and reach both arms up and out in front of you as you jump up with power.
Repeat 100 jump shots (yes-100)!!!! It should take less than 3 minutes to compete. Now, jog in place on trampoline for 3 full minutes. The consistency of the moderate intensity jog will target fat stores, and the fluctuation between the high-intensity plyometric Burpee block and the moderate aerobic jogging with expend additional calories overall. You are getting the benefits of cross-training. Congrats! You've just completed the 1st block of your Burpee Bounce Block-Triple "B"! NOW repeat the entire block 3 times, and you can kiss that cheesecake goodbye!
Exercise: Want to blast away those 440 fat-laden calories of smooth silky chocolate bliss?
Start by taking 2 cans of beans/soup/pasta sauce out of your cupboard. 16oz cans are perfect! Holding one can in each hand stand with feet hip-width apart facing a mirror. Step forward with your right leg into a deep lunge, making sure your right knee stays directly over your right ankle (not past-not over the foot), and checking to ascertain that your left hip and knee are in 1 straight line (don't let left knee pull behind the hip). Now, quickly swap legs while punching your hands down.
Repeat right -left, right- left on single counts (2 seconds each leg), for a total of 60 seconds (30 power lunges with can punches).
Now it's time for the "can-can"-just like the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall!
Go back to starting standing position and bring arms straight out to the sides so that hands elbows and knees are all on one straight plane. Without bending the knee, lift your right leg up so that leg is parallel to the floor, and as you do this, bring your hands together to touch in center of your body-line. Switch to left leg.
Finally backtrack to lunges, doing single lunges (1 at a time without the power swapping). Perform 100 lunges (50 on the right leg and then 50 on the left-no alternating legs).
This should take approx 6-7 minutes to compete (4 seconds per lunge).
Yay! You did it! Repeat the "Can-Can Lunge" cycle 4 times, and those blissful chocolate medallions will simply melt away!
Exercise: To fire up that metabolism and knock out the calories from the bubbly, try this exercise.
Facing a mirror start performing front kicks. With your arms in the "on-guard" position, kick your right leg forward so that the ball of your foot is directed toward the mirror. Aim to get your foot above your shoulder height. Repeat on the left leg.
Continuously kick right- left, right- left, until you have performed 100 front kicks (50 on each leg alternating legs). This should take less than 3 minutes.
Next, continue with double front kicks (2 on the right, then 2 on the left). Perform 25 doubles on each leg-still totals 100 kicks, and takes another 3 minutes or less.
Finally, perform non-stop airborne front kicks (100 high then 100 low). Kick your legs (right, left, right, left) in the air non-stop as fast as you can (approx. 1 kick per second), trying to get your legs elevated as high as you can for 100 kicks. The repeat the same 100 locking ankle level (very low), for an active recovery. The 200 kicks should take 3-4 minutes total.
Repeat this Kickbox Drillmaster drill set 3 times, get strong, get ripped, and kick those calories gone!
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The Punisher: WarZone
By Tim Bradstreet, September 21, 2007 in Tim Bradstreet
I took the time to read through this entire thread today and, with some fear and trepidation, have decided to throw in my very superficial two cents. I have every expectation of being blowtorched to a crisp but, as long as it's figurative and not literal, who cares. Flame away.
I look at the Punishe flicks from a different point of view because I have never read a Punisher comic in my life. Sorry about that. Just the way it is. I vaguely remember the Lundgren version - that he looked hot and didn't act very well and lived in a sewer for some reason. Don't remember much else from that flick.
I liked the Thomas Jane version of The Punisher for several reasons. I already liked him as an actor. I thought he did a great job portraying someone who is basically PTSD. I saw this film as the baseline for the sequels to come - explaining what he did for a living, explaining what happened to his family, explaining how he avenged their deaths, etc. Since Castle had lived and worked in various places, I just figured each subsequent film would be in a different location where he knew there were bad guys to eradicate.
But the following quote bothered me.
In the comic book the punisher after avenging his family sort of becomes this vigilante on the street going after criminals and he always sort of walks the line between good and bad. In the sequels is there anything like that being talked about where he's almost the villain.
Thomas Jane: Abso-fucken-lutley!, that's the whole thing of why I decided to become this guy ....and part of the reason why it took me so long to get me to do it, this is not a heroic person, he may have done these heroic things to avenge his family but he walks that line between good and bad and what's right and wrong and he crosses it sometimes you know? He does take it too far sometimes and in the second one [film] I think he should get apocalyptic, he should have the FBI after him, the cops after him and the mob after him and he's totally isolated himself, and he s just a fucken machine. I'd love to take it that far, trying to have that humanistic connection and then that not working out for him and then in the 3rd one I'd like to see him go completely insane.
That's The Punisher & that's Frank Castle. Insane, out of it, fuckin' people up and not caring. He loses it and doesn't know what's right, what's wrong. He is a machine.
-JO
If you want to watch a flick about a killing machine, rent The Terminator.
The thing I find most compelling about Castle is the tiny shred of humanity buried under the grief and rage. If you lose that, there is no reason to care about this character. And I WANT to care about him. Maybe a testosterone-driven blood bath works on a comic book page, but it doesn't translate into a wide release, wide appeal, movie. It always comes down to money. And a studio is not going to drop a chunk of change on a niche flick if they have any financial sense. That's life.
It makes me sick to my stomach that Thomas Jane will not be continuing to develop the character of Frank Castle, but I'll probably watch P2 when it comes out on video just out of curiosity.
Well, I could babble on, but I'll leave it there. Those are my main thoughts after reading through the thread.
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4 months to go...
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You are strong with the force Kwiat Skye. The dark side of Disaster Zone has not seduced you the way it has seduced some of our brethren here. I find it valid to wanna check the film out on dvd, fair enough. Just rent please, do not purchase. And Noeland, I am looking forward to see puree this dead horse.
-TL
You know I'm going to buy an extra ticket to make up for you not going, right? And I will tell everyone you saw it.
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Man, why the hell does everyone think that I'm blood hungry. I don't want pointless violence. Shit. I'm saying I want The Punisher to be more brutal when he kills. Sure, I understand where everyone comes from wanting the guy to suffer. But shit he was so easily stumped and then believed his friend who he'd never seen with his wife unless he told him to go with her, and all that bs. Then, yeah, he finds out what Castle did, but what the hell? He barely has time to except the fact that he was behind it before he's dead. I'm saying, you want someone to suffer, then do it in such a way that they'll be scared of you and shit their pants. I don't want pointless violence, I don't want pointless movies. I want conflict, suspense, darkness, drama, gritty, raw, in your face. Not a Frank Castle you think is goin' to take a girl to a movie and then go whack about 30 mobsters and be home in time for dinner. Got me?
OK, finally had a chance to sift through this thread again, and I've changed my mind. I think the horse is actually already past puree, it's fucking liquid. It's Salsa, with a hint of lime.
And not everyone thinks your blood hungry James. Not that I'd have a problem with it if I did think that. I know exactly what you're getting at, and I agree. I want to see Frank Castle as driven, intense, and yeah, bloody, willing to kill the evil bastards of our world with no hesitation at all. I want some body count, but I also want there to be a perfect justification for the body count, and I want it to matter to the story that he has to wade through evil doers, and criminals.
I don't know if the next incarnation of Frank Castle will be good or bad, all I'm saying is I'm reserving judgment until I see a trailer, or God forbid, decide to see the movie itself! Gasp and Horror. How dare I even consider it. We haven't seen a lick of concept art, a storyboard, or Ray in costume. We have bad scripts, and that doesn't always mean the finished film will suck, especially when it's being reworked right now, as I type this, someone somewhere is probably trying to improve the script.
Just too early for me to condemn it as dogshit just yet. But TL, don't misunderstand that. That doesn't mean I'm saying I think it'll be Saving Private Ryan either.
I don't see it as any kind of move against Tom Jane's Punisher to be curious about the new guy, and the new film. Like I said before, Tim Bradstreet is involved, my ass is in the seat on opening night. Just like the first film, though I had many reservations about it, I supported it anyway. And even now, though I don't love the film they made, I support it.
I do have a problem with insulting other members of the board for being interested in the sequel. It's a fine line we're dancing on, I know, but if other folks want to see it, so what. If we can get over the fire hydrant, we can live and let live here! hahahaha.
TL, I'm curious what it is that makes you think I'm non-violent. Honestly, where did that even come from? If you actually knew me, well, you'd know me. Just ask anyone I've punched in the throat, thrown through a plate glass window, thrown down a flight of stairs, or . . . shot at. I'm just not going to be including any of my real life misadventures or moments of violence and anger when I'm posting about a movie, music, comic books, or my favorite artists, directors, etc. because these things bring me joy and happiness.
And also, it's not how I relate to it or make my point. And that's important to understanding why I brought it up to begin with.
Reading this thread again, I see that you're just using these stories to relate to the topic at hand, and I missed that before. It read like you were just bragging about what a tough guy you are, and I was just a little marveled (heh, that's funny to me) at your ability to tell a story about how you'd fuck somebody up in any given thread.
Like if we were talking about fluffy bunnies and fields of flowers, you could probably come into that thread and talk about how you gave your girlfriend a bunny once, and if she ever cheated on you, you'd light the bunny on fire, and throw it at her car. I know, not a great example, but hey . . . was it a funny visual? I think so.
Anyway, to get back to the fire hydrant.
The hydrant thing, to me, represents what I felt was mishandled with the character. Mind you, as I've said before, I can separate the film from the comic with no problem. I wasn't watching the sober, driven, intense bad ass from the comic books. I was watching a film about a man destroyed. A family man who was the reason his family was killed, and was not meant to live himself. He was a drunk, guilt ridden, angry and confused, dealing with an open, fresh wound, but he was becoming focused. He was becoming the Punisher.
But, the hijinks. The tricks. The way he went after Saint did not work for me. I was bored to tears man. Especially because, as James noted, Castle was always just going to shoot everyone anyway. That wasn't a secret. The film made no bones about it, and never bothered to have any twists or turns before or after the violence. He could have shown up at the Saint building and opened fire at any time in the film, but he decided to play a bunch of tricks on Saint before opening fire.
There was no mystery for the audience in Castle's plan, or in the way he went about putting it into action. Saint never questioned a thing, and I had a problem with that. Big time. Because I felt the character would have questioned what was going on at some point before he killed his best friend and wife. It was just too force fed, too easy, and worse yet, it had to be accepted that he would just believe all of it, react with psychotic rage and kill his wife and best friend, for the rest of the film to work. That bugged the hell out of me. What if he already knew his best friend was gay? That would have shot the whole plan to shit, huh? What if Saint didn't accept that his wife was cheating, or what if he just didn't care?
None of those things were considered, and Castle didn't seem to have any backup plan in case his hijinks didn't work.
But more over, visually speaking (and visuals matter) The moment that I saw Tom Jane taking a fire hydrant out of a duffel bag on screen, my heart sank, I shook my head, and I knew the film wasn't going to be what I wanted it to be, ever.
And by the way, I LOVE the song from the diner. I equally hate the scene it was played in.
But for me, that's gonna be the last word for today. I have had enough Salsa.
Noelandlovesguns is back with and he is blazing. This made me laugh man, and I agree 100%. Personally, I've always thought that The Punisher should be like Tony Scott's Man On Fire. Just seemed right. The NIN song in the background, the way the cuts and flashbacks are made. Just seemed that if Tony Did that to The Punisher, Frank Castle would be perfect.
What ghost? Punisher's not dead. Awesome Zone is just getting started.
Did you do 200 sit ups during that post? If you didn't think First Round was just terrible... I am really glad it's you on the opposite side of this debate.
But War Zone is going to be awesome. That's why the in-development title is Awesome Zone.
Don't feel too bad, it's like a garfield cartoon... if you try to be funny everyday, some days it just won't happen.
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So can I be the jackass to chime in and say...
1.) Why the hell was the first film in Florida? Ruined a lot of the Punisher mystique.
2.) What was up with Frank Castle being a master of disguise undercover cop?
3.) What was up with the elaborate revenge plot that was very brainy versus simply blowing the fuck out of everyone?
4.) What was up with the buddy buddy bullshit and almost (thank GOD) love story between Frank and his building companions?
I really got to say that it looks like they took an existing revenge script, changed the characters name to Frank Castle and added a few references to "The Punisher" and called it a Punisher movie. Much as...I beilieve Die Hard 3 was written originally as a Lethal Weapon flick.
Tom was a great Punisher...and I liked the movie...BUT I think it ranked near way below XMen 1 and 2, Spiderman 1 and 2 and Batman Begins (BTW...Christain Bale is the 4th guy to play Batman in RECENT memory and most likely the best...in Ray's defense).
The Punisher, if you ask me, has a reputation for having some REALLY crappy storylines and very BAD choices within the comics on direction. He's a VERY simple character that is VERY easy to do. People writing it have a tendency to overthink it.
Basically, if the next Punisher movie is jank...we may just be seeing more of the same...in some respects.
Let the stones come...
He's a VERY simple character that is VERY easy to do. People writing it have a tendency to overthink it.
I have heard this once or twice before about the character, and I generally agree... though there are some intricacies about presenting the character that make the difference between a fun story and a classic (read Steven Grant's stuff, you'll see what I mean) but otherwise there's not a lot to write about Castle. Ennis put it really well on the 04 version's special features section... he pointed out that Castle is a really heroic guy (he used the "would rescue a child from a burning building without hesitation" example) who also happens to be a cold blooded killer. He's deeply wounded and though he's got a strong heart, it's almost completely buried under the need to make evil people pay in blood. The '04 version did get the "wounded hero" part right, and TJ was awesome at portraying that duality. The scene where he contemplates suicide was perfect... he doesn't live because he's tough to the core, he lives because his memories push him to not give up.
You can run with the punishment part alone though. People like seeing rotten bastards pay and that's why the character has such basic appeal. He sets them up and knocks them down but there are always more murderers for him to find.
Much as...I beilieve Die Hard 3 was written originally as a Lethal Weapon flick.
The original script was called "simon says" and was just a mad bomber script by Hensliegh. They talk about t in the commentray on the DVD. I've always wanted to read the script before the die hard rewrites (which hensliegh did)
He's a VERY simple character that is VERY easy to do.
I disagree with this statement, in that, if you turn him into a stoic killing machine, maybe. But personally I find the character complex, interesting, and the farthest thing from simple. He doesn't lead a simple life, and he's not one dimensional. At least, he doesn't have to be.
I've always wondered how you define one dimensional, exactly. I usually assume it means a character is poorly fleshed out and only does one or two things... which the Punisher clearly isn't (though there is that constant accusation.) Say what you will, but even in the 89 version he wasn't one dimensional... there are many seperate aspects to his personality that seem to conflict, making him a compelling hero, in both movies to date.
He's very thoroughly fleshed out, but none of it is hazy or complicated. That's why misinterpreting him is such a cardinal sin. That's why it's awkward when you see him in a movie breaking character... it's not like any of his traits are a puzzle.
If you interpret easy to do as one dimensional...
He's a military vet (demonstrates experience at and an ability to kill) who's life is shattered when everything that's important to him is stripped away in one horrible moment. To cope, he buries himself in vengeance/punishment. I think Frank suffers from a HUGE case of PTSD (if done right). There can be a lot of deep moments with that.
I can also see a great storyline relating to the justification of what he does morally. Not to open up a can of worms...and this is something I planned on using for a similar vigilante character. An interesting storyline would have Castle coming to grips with the fact that he's probably going to hell for what he's doing...but he doesn't care. He's sacrificing his soul to make the world better for others.
When I say it's overthought I'm referring to the fact that he doesn't need a bunch of fancy weapons or computer gadgets (Microchip). That's for Bond. He doesn't need a campy group of misfit friends. He needs a target and a rifle and we need to see the internal struggle with how fucked up he is for what's happened in his life.
THAT is Frank.
An interesting storyline would have Castle coming to grips with the fact that he's probably going to hell for what he's doing...but he doesn't care. He's sacrificing his soul to make the world better for others.
I don't remember which issue it was, but he ponders the idea of going to hell (I think it was one of the magazine reprints), and says something along the lines of evil fearing the day he goes to hell.
I still have it someplace, I'll have to find it.
MAN...I wish I were the biggest Tom Jane fan...
But seriously, for better or worse, Ray is the Punisher now. My initial preference is that I'd rather see Tom playing the role...just because he nailed it last time and it's odd to see that switch in characters (though Brosnon is the best bond in my opinion and Craig is spectacular).
However, I'm going to give them a chance at this new one. I think they were idiots to allow the lead actor to walk over the script. Not sure how you could believe so passionately in something that sucks...bad enough to run off Tom.
I loved Ray in "King Arthur". I think he can do the grittiness.
Guess we'll have to wait and see for the most part...
I always liked the Cell story line, but in that book he's older and looks like a huge mothafucka who has a face like Clint Eastwood. Pretty bad ass book.


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Jennifer Withers HoeyOctober 21, 2019
Rory McIlroy has a surprising response to recent criticism from Brooks Koepka.
McIlroy, 30, was criticized recently by Koepka for essentially not doing anything of note over the past five years.
"I've been out here for, what, five years. Rory hasn't won a major since I've been on the PGA Tour. So I just don't view it as a rivalry," Koepka said.
"I'm not looking at anybody behind me," he continued.
"I'm No. 1 in the world. I've got open road in front of me and I'm not looking in the rearview mirror, so I don't see it as a rivalry."
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McIlroy was asked about Koepka's comments on Monday.
"What Brooks said wasn't wrong," he replied.
"I don't think he had to remind me that I hadn't won one in a while," McIlroy continued.
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"What Brooks said wasn't wrong."
Rory addresses Brooks Koepka's recent comments about rivalries. pic.twitter.com/B55h0pavLq
— GOLFTV (@GOLFTV) October 21, 2019
"But I love Brooks, he's a great guy and obviously super competitive like we all are.
"I guess I can see where he's coming from; we're out here, we can't control anyone else, we just have to play our own golf.
"And look, I said a couple things after the Tour Championship that I approached that final round like a rivalry because he got one over on me in Memphis and I sorta wanted to get him back."
It remains to be seen how Koepka will react to McIlroy essentially just taking the high road regarding his initial critical comments.
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Cutest little Disney roundup! The mini minnie ears are a must!
So, there goes all my money. I've been on the hunt for cute Mouse stuff for Julia. And, I hope you snagged that ZoZu bow!
Love those pjs! So cute!
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Senate Intelligence chair 'conflated' government spying programs
by Jose Pagliery @Jose_Pagliery May 8, 2015: 5:55 PM ET
U.S. Senator Richard Burr oversees the NSA as chair of the its intelligence committee.
On Thursday, the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee freaked out privacy experts when he "conflated" two government spying programs.
Under the Patriot Act, the NSA collects Americans' phone call records. It previously tracked your physical location as you surfed the Web. That ended in 2011.
But Senator Richard Burr said that computer location tracking -- enabled through IP addresses -- was still going on. Alarms went off.
Here's what Burr said on the Senate floor: "Now what's bulk data? Bulk data is storing telephone numbers and IP addresses — we have no idea who they belong to — that are domestic." He mentioned IP addresses a second time later on.
In fact, Burr's office said he mixed up.
"The Senator conflated two programs," his press secretary said.
Burr made his impromptu speech in support of extending the life of the Patriot Act. Congress is considering another bill, the USA Freedom Act, which would slightly dial back government surveillance.
Why do Burr's comments matter? This year, Burr became Senate Intelligence Committee chair, so it's his job to oversee these programs.
"Anyone can make a mistake," said Steven Aftergood, who heads the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy. "But when the chair of the Intelligence Committee gets these programs mixed up, it's a sign that confusion about them prevails."
And it's even more important that Burr know exactly what the NSA is doing, now that a federal appeals court says NSA mass collection of phone records is illegal. The judges said government spies collect too much information on Americans.
Burr's office insists this was an error -- and not the senator accidentally revealing that mass spying of computer locations is still going on under the Patriot Act.
But there are questions about the extent of government surveillance too. Exposed NSA documents reveal that government spies are collecting emails, phone records and tapping into phone and video chats -- more than the government has ever admitted to.
The episode reveals something else: The Congressional Record isn't really an accurate record.
The official federal records of the speech deleted both mentions of "IP addresses." And it added in the phrase "foreign" to reflect that collections are both home and abroad.
These changes weren't noted. The agency that maintains these official logs, the Government Publishing Office, did not return calls to CNNMoney on Friday.
The disparity between Burr's speech -- and Congress's records -- was first caught by Aftergood and reported by intelligence blogger Marcy Wheeler.
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What Makes Princess Cut Engagement Rings So Popular?
From Round and Marquise, to Pear and Asscher, there are so many diamond cuts to choose from when purchasing an engagement ring for your partner. However, there is little denying that Princess cut diamond rings are one of the most popular options. In fact, it is the second-most popular diamond engagement ring for women all over the globe, behind the Round Brilliant cut. People all over the world have clearly fallen in love with this beautiful diamond cut, and below we are going to take a look at the different reasons why.
One of the reasons why so many people love Princess cut engagement rings is because they get to benefit from a level of fire and brilliance that rivals the Round Brilliant cut in a more contemporary shape. Some people prefer the sharp, modern appearance of a Princess diamond, and not everyone is a fond of the round stones.
Princess cut diamond engagement rings are also more affordable than Round Brilliant cut diamonds. The reason they have a lower price-per-carat is because there is a greater yield during the diamond cutting process, as less waste is created. The princess cut boasts a four sided pyramid shape, which is very similar to a half of the octahedron rough stone. This means that a Princess Cut can be taken from each side of the stone, allowing for little waste.
You will be spoilt for choice when choosing a Princess cut engagement ring. Due to the popularity of this diamond, and the flexibility of it, there are so many different rings to choose from. This includes three-stone Princess cut engagement rings, Princess cut halo engagement rings, and Princess cut solitaire engagement rings. There are also vintage style Princess cut engagement rings, or you could opt for a bespoke service to create the perfect ring.
The versatility of this type of diamond engagement ring is something worth elaborating on further. Not only do you have a huge assortment of ring styles available, but also Princess cut diamond engagement rings can be teamed with other rings with ease. Some diamond shapes and engagement ring styles make it very difficult to find the perfect accompanying wedding ring, but you should have no trouble when you go down this route.
Last but not least, Princess cut diamond rings are flattering, especially for women with long fingers. This is due to the sharply squared corners. You will never tire of looking at this beautiful diamond ring on your finger!
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