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Doha, Sept. 10: In what can be termed as the Indian Senior National Team's most significant result in recent times, a resolute India held Asian Champions Qatar to a goalless draw at the Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium in their second Group E match of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 and the AFC Asian Cup China 2023 Joint-Qualifiers.
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I am in Cebu and UTTERLY CRAZED at the moment. Besides the Ironman Race on Sunday, for which 1,700 participants and perhaps 15,000 visitors are expected in Metro Cebu and Mactan, I have a couple of other important "events" to attend to. Several blog readers who are participating in the race, and their friends and family are indicating that they might be dropping by Zubuchon outlets for some lechon over the next few days, so here are some suggestions so that we can handle any surge in traffic as best as possible…
First of all, thank you to the organizers of the race, who I do not know personally, who have placed an order for 35 whole lechons for race day, apparently to help feed organizers and volunteers… yipes, that's 35 whole lechons for an early morning delivery time! :)
Where can participants and guests get some Zubuchon? If you are staying on Mactan island, the closest outlet, but also most likely to be swamped with guests is located at the ground floor of the Islands Stay Hotel just a minute or two from the Mactan airport. It can only seat 30-35 people, and the hotel is fully booked, so it could be quite full. The Mango Avenue branch is the largest, but still small at a total of 80 seats, but it has the most extensive menu. If you happen to be in the city checking out the route or sightseeing, I strongly recommend this outlet. Another small restaurant is located on Escario Street, near the Provincial Capitol, with say 24 seats. Here is branch location and contact information. Please note that we DO NOT take any reservations on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays during peak meal times.
Islands Stay Hotel
ML Quezon Avenue (on the bike race route)
Lapu-Lapu City
One Mango Avenue Building
General Maxilom (formerly Mango Avenue) Avenue
731 Escario Street
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Many folks have sent emails, texts and called to find out about bringing home some lechon/chicharon as bitbit, pasalubongs, etc. While we have an outlet in the Mactan Domestic Departure lounge, predicting demand on weekends such as this is extremely difficult. So to ensure that you have some lechon/chicharon set aside, please, please, please call us at least a day ahead to reserve some lechon for you to take home with you… Many major roads are shut down on Sunday, August 5th, so we expect massive disruptions to transport of lechons to Mactan and the airport… so please reserve early to ensure we can meet your requirements. Thanks.
ZUBUCHON DOMESTIC AIRPORT (Lechon and Frozen Products take out only, no meals)
Domestic Pre-Departure Lounge
63.918.654.4678 (signal is sometimes dodgy in the lounge)
032.3402486 extension 3304
We have tried to gear up for the weekend, asked staff to work overtime, and brought in additional crew to help make sure we can handle the expected surge in customers this weekend… We wish all participants a very good and successful race, and we look forward to seeing you all if you have a hankering for pork. :)
Marketman and all of us at ZUBUCHON!
Zubuchon, fighting!
Aug 2, 2012 | 9:04 pm
happy problems!
Aug 2, 2012 | 10:42 pm
So that's why you've not posted in a while..very busy po pala. :) May everything work out as planned or better for you and the entire team on the race day. indeed there will be a surge of customers! Good luck!
Aug 2, 2012 | 10:50 pm
Wahh…. ang layo ko….but I know.. someday (dreaming) magkakaron nito sa Manila. Or siguro on my next Pinas Trip, since sa NAIA 3 ang bagsak ko, I will order ahead of time ng frozen to go, so pagdating ko sa airport, daanan ko na ito.
Ayy, MM, sigurado na maraming madaragdag na Zubuchon afficionados. Tawagin ko kayang 'ZUBUNADOS" ang mga taong fans ng iyong restaurant.?
Aug 2, 2012 | 11:53 pm
I hope the weather gods smile on the athletes! But then again, that's why it is called Ironman…
So. remember to take a deep breath, MM, as often as you can!
Aug 2, 2012 | 11:54 pm
35 lechons! Wow!
Would love to see an Ironman event in the future.
Good luck to the blog readers that are participating in the event. Fuel up on some Zubuchon!
Sana may "marathon shirt" na puwedeng suotin nila na naka-advertise yung Zubuchon. Not unlike Manny Pacquiao and his sponsor studded apparel.
("look at that pig fly!" hehe!)
Aug 3, 2012 | 2:58 am
I am so happy I finally live in Cebu, so I do not have to fight the crowds for Zubuchon…think I will go on Monday when all is calm! Good luck MM, sounds like a busy weekend, but as always you will prevail.
Aug 3, 2012 | 6:07 am
Another triathlon I am going to miss, friend of mine signed up for it months ago, but won't be there to cheer him, MM and the Crew, on (sigh, I miss CEB).
Oh well, at least he gets to partake in the 35 lechons, and I hope he remembers to bring me back some zubuchon (since missing this Ironman does count as an incident requiring comfort food… )
Incidentally, I heard this is the last year of the current Ironman franchise.
Aug 3, 2012 | 6:23 am
It would be great to have some lechon and chicharon waiting at the finish line so that when the cameras click, it would appear that the ironmen were all in a mad dash for the pork. Nag-uunahan makakuha ng lechon! Hehe… Best of luck to you and your crew, MM!
Aug 3, 2012 | 7:21 am
What better post-race feast than Zubuchon!
Mart: "Zubuchon Finisher" shirt?!
Have a great one!
Aug 3, 2012 | 7:27 am
Aug 3, 2012 | 7:42 am
Goodluck this weekend Piggyman! May you meet all the expectations of your Zubuchon fans! :)
Aug 3, 2012 | 7:54 am
Good morning! Good luck to MM and crew this weekend! What an exciting weekend! Sarap! Saya! Wish ko lang magka-meron na sa Manila! :)
Aug 3, 2012 | 8:12 am
good luck!
Aug 3, 2012 | 8:22 am
Seems like yr crew has to cook at least 100 or so lechons this Sunday.WOW!!!!
Wish you the best of luck ,MM! Am excited for you!
Aug 3, 2012 | 8:26 am
One of the organizers is a friend, and she said they wanted to feed everyone 'the best pig ever.' :) It sounds like it'll be a good race.
For F1 fans, heard that Jensen Button is in town (Cebu) and will be joining the triathlon.
Aug 3, 2012 | 8:58 am
Whew 35 Zubuchons in one day! Plus the accompanying demand surge before and after the competition. Maybe we can also dub this Zubuchon feat as the IronPORKMan! I can just visualize MM and crew handling all the Lechon crazed crowd. Goodluck MM and to the Zubu crew. God bless you all!
Aug 3, 2012 | 10:12 am
Yep JB is in town and he just tweeted that they've (he and his friends) registered already. I also wish I am in Cebu.
Marketman and crew, goodluck, good health and happy vibes this weekend as you prepare the lechons :-)
Aug 3, 2012 | 11:13 am
Dear Mm, patiently waiting for lechon delivery to arrive at your mango ave branch.
Staff unable to give us an idea of arrival time. (why?)
Kinda expect that when restaurant is open best selling item will be available.
Hope worth the wait.
Aug 3, 2012 | 11:21 am
Good luck this weekend market Man!
Hopefully I will get to try Zubuchon soon when I find myself in Cebu.
Aug 3, 2012 | 11:26 am
Gejo, "Zubuchon Finisher" sounds more apt for those foodies who gobble up the lechon rather than for the athletes who finish the race. =)
Aug 3, 2012 | 11:39 am
I agree with papa ethan's comment unahan para sa lechon :) one day makakatikim din kami ng Zubuchon! Good luck MM and the crew!
Aug 3, 2012 | 11:58 am
didn't know so much is happening is my beloved Cebu right now! more power to MM and your crew!
Aug 3, 2012 | 12:07 pm
Good Evening, when can we have the privilege of tasting your Zubuchon? Watched it at Jessica Soho's show 2 weeks ago and I've been craving since. Please bring it to Manila ASAP! :)
Aug 3, 2012 | 6:40 pm
Hi marketman, good luck to you and your crew. I'm down to my last piece of trisuit that will be shipped to Cebu tomorrow for the race on Sunday. Now, it's your turn. All roads and flights lead to Cebu for the IM. Our clients are posting photos eating at Zubuchon "allegedly" relieving their stress and nervousness.
Aug 3, 2012 | 9:10 pm
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Aug 3, 2012 | 9:26 pm
Hi Marketman and fans. I am flying SG-MNL tomorrow for a short break and squeezed in an overnight trip to Cebu on Wed-Thurs just to finally get a taste of Zubuchon and all the delicious dishes described here! I am hoping that you and your readers could give some tips on where to go, what to do, and other food places to visit (of course after getting my fill of Zubuchon) during my short stay there. As it is just a 2 day trip I would like to make the best out of it! Looking forward to some ZUBUBLISS!
Thanks a lot!
Aug 4, 2012 | 12:18 am
MM, please give in na to your Manila fans, otherwise they won't stop bugging you ;) Have a few cousins partcipating in this weekend's Ironman, i told them all not to miss Zubuchon :)
Aug 4, 2012 | 12:45 am
GREAT! Jenson Button will then get to taste the BEST example of Cebu Lechon :-)
Aug 4, 2012 | 5:45 am
Papa Ethan: Tama!
Aug 4, 2012 | 6:57 am
Dear Marketman, thanks for taking the time to respond to my comment. Please let me know how to reach you privately. Thanks again.
Aug 4, 2012 | 6:19 pm
To Liz_D:
You might want to try Casa Araño but you have to take the taxi to there since it is located inside a residential subdivision. Just google for the address kasi i forgot na. :p
Aug 4, 2012 | 11:37 pm
Dear Marketman,
Thought you should know that I have been craving for Zubuchon since you first wrote about it. Now that I am finally here in Cebu, the first thing I told the driver was: Alam niyo ho ba yung Zubuchon? He replied "Oho, Ma'am. Lahat ng drinadrivan ko, yun yung hinihiling nila."
When I got to the hotel, I was glad that my room hotel was not ready, and I immediately jumped into the car, and asked to be brought to Zubuchon immediately.
I got so excited, and then suddenly wondered if I was setting myself up for disappointment. What if the lechon is good enough, but I hyped it up so much in my head, that my expectations are ridiculously high?
Just to cut the story short, Marketman, the lechon is everything and more!!!!!! All the hype and totally exceeded my expectations!!!!!
From the crispy skin, to the meat, to the fat, to the EVERYTHING! I wonder why there's a bottle of vinegar, soysauce and oil on the table. Is it for decor? Because surely, no one in their right mind would bother putting some on the lechon, it's perfect as it is!
And the Santol juice? Sublime.
My only gripe is that the waiter was err, a little "Judgemental." Hahaha. I'm a solo traveler, and I wanted to order as much as I can. So, I ordered the Pork Rice, with the lechon. She said "Pang 3-4 servings ho yung kanin." I nodded, meaning, okay, yes, I'll eat them all, if I can't finish, I'll take it home. But then she still insisted, and said "marami ho yon." Okay, fine! I'm a pig! So, I just ended up ordering a cup of white rice.
I'll be back later.
P.S your wifi's incredibly fast! :-)
Aug 7, 2012 | 11:49 am
OMG. I asked if you were still here in Cebu, they said you were in Manila already. Will be there later at 7:30. Looking forward to meeting you! :-)
Aug 7, 2012 | 5:56 pm
Shucks! The waiter said I just missed you by 3 mins. :-(
Aug 7, 2012 | 7:47 pm
No wonder the waiters were extra nice! Hahaha. I was joking awhile ago regarding the "judgmental" waitress, though I admit, I felt conscious for ordering so much. :-) Yes, of course, she was being helpful. :-)
I tried the Kamias shake, utterly refreshing, and the biko, wow, the muscovado sugar on top nailed it. I ended up still ordering lechon, though. (I figured if the cholesterol was going to kill me, I might as well go down happy. Hehehe) I couldn't stop taking photos and sending it back home to my brother and sisters via imessage. I promised them I'd buy at the airport when I go back to Manila tomorrow.
It would have been awesome had I met you. Wysgal and Fabian are my very close friends, and it's a shame I never met you. (I was in NY when the Cebu Lechon eyeball happened), though I did meet you briefly, during an Alumni event in Salon de Ning a year ago I think. :-) I was the one who approached you and said that I read your blog. You probably don't remember, but that's okay.
Maybe next time. :-)
Zubuchon fan forever
Aug 7, 2012 | 8:37 pm
hey MM, was in Cebu for the Ironman, I joined the relay but aside from that I was excited to try Zubuchon! my friends and I dined at the Mactan Branch last Monday, I wanted to try everything on the menu but I guess I need more visits to do that. I really liked the mongo with zubuchon as well as the dinuguan..and the duhat shake was like eating many, many duhat at the same time! it was refreshing, too bad the kamias shake ran out when we ordered. we were even joking if how does your team get the seeds off and laughing our hearts out at gross suggestions which i think your team do not do :D however, the zubuchon i ate was not as tasty as i imagined :( good thing, we took home a couple of kilos and boy was it good compared to what i had at the store! the skin was still crispy even when i placed it on the fridge and the meat tasted of the spices, really yummy!
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The announcement, made by festival organisers through their official Twitter account, confirmed speculation from fans who believed the Grammy-winning alternative rockers would be headlining after spotting a symbol in the grass on the festival site which resembles Radiohead's cartoon bear logo.
The symbol, which was first used by the band to promote their 2000 album Kid A, was seen on the BBC's Glastonbury webcam, beside the half-constructed Pyramid Stage at the festival site in Somerset.
Speaking on BBC Radio 1 last month, lead singer Thom Yorke confirmed that Radiohead would be performing live in 2017, but as yet no tour dates have been announced. If the band are to top the bill next year on the Pyramid Stage – the festival's largest stage – it would mark 20 years since their first headline slot at Glastonbury in 1997, and their third appearance as headliners at the festival.
In recent years, fans of the band have been frustrated by their infrequent live performances. Since performing a secret set as "special guests" on Glastonbury's Park stage in 2011, the band's only UK outing has been one three-night stint at London's Roundhouse in May this year, to promote the release of their latest studio album A Moon Shaped Pool.
The album, their ninth, was launched to widespread critical acclaim: A Moon Shaped Pool was nominated for this year's Mercury Prize, and praised by The Telegraph's Neil McCormick as "a work of total self-assurance" in a five-star review.


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An imaginative new presentation of the short tales of Walter Benjamin.
When Gershom Scholem, the twentieth-century Jewish thinker who rekindled academic interest in Kabbalah, published his seminal study Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, he dedicated it to the memory of a dear friend who had taken his own life in 1940 out of fear of being returned to Nazi Germany: "The friend of a lifetime whose genius united the insight of the Metaphysician, the interpretive power of the Critic and the erudition of the Scholar." This friend was Walter Benjamin.
The soaring register of Scholem's praise, published a year after Benjamin's death and some time before his work became widely known, foreshadowed the impact Benjamin would come to have in the following decades. The three distinct titles with which Scholem eulogized his friend's brilliance—metaphysician, critic, scholar—speak to Benjamin's resistance to disciplinary and professional categories. But Scholem's formulation misses one aspect of Benjamin's approach: the imagination of the Artist. The Storyteller: Tales out of Loneliness, which explores this feature of Benjamin's work, makes a compelling case for the artistic imagination's centrality to his project.
One could be forgiven for expecting The Storyteller to comprise, simply, short works of fiction. Much of the marketing apparatus surrounding the book insists as much. But the contents, many of which appear here in English for the first time, span many genres: novellas, dream journal entries, book reviews, riddles, fantastical tales for children, even verses written for a wall calendar. The pieces, none more than a few pages long, are arranged into three themed parts: "Dreamworlds," "Travel," and "Play and Pedagogy."
If The Storyteller is not simply a collection of the short fictions of a brilliant critical mind, the book's existence demands justification. So its editors devote much of the introduction to fretting over the question of the volume's purpose and supplying different versions of the same unsatisfactory answer. After acknowledging the reuse of material gathered in The Storyteller in Benjamin's later critical work, the editors defend the volume against anticipated charges of banality, superfluity, and being mere "juvenilia." "Benjamin's early stories," they write, "anticipate a number of the theoretical concerns that he developed in subsequent years." Fine—but is that all?
Fortunately for its readers, The Storyteller illumines Benjamin's work anew, highlighting the importance of the imagination in his thought. The volume's editors have facilitated this not only by bringing these works together, but by doing so in a way that is itself imaginative: classing the pieces under suggestive titles, juxtaposing writings in divergent styles and written for radically different audiences, referring to the pieces as numbered chapters, as if each were intended to follow its predecessor in a strange novel, and pairing each "chapter" with a piece by the painter Paul Klee, whose Angelus Novus Benjamin owned and famously cites in his essay "Theses on the Philosophy of History."
Nowhere is Benjamin's regard for the imagination clearer—not only as a key form of human thinking, but also as a pedagogical principle for children—than in the two book reviews that close the final section ("Pedagogy and Play") and the book as a whole. In the first, a review of Alvois Jalkotzy's The Fairy Tale and the Present: The German Folk Tale and Our Time, Benjamin rails against Jalkotzy's narrow view of children's fairy tales as serving purely practical societal ends:
It is not easy to find a book which demands the relinquishment of that which is most genuine and original with the same taken-for-grantedness that unreservedly dismisses a child's delicate and hermetic fantasy as an emotional demand, having understood it from the perspective of a commodity-producing society, in which education is regarded with such dismal impartiality as an opportunity for colonial sales of cultured wares.
For Benjamin, the "child's delicate and hermetic fantasy" is not merely "an emotional demand" to be exploited or discouraged, but, rather, a vital manifestation of human imagination. In the second review, a laudatory examination of a children's primer based on principles of play, Benjamin makes it clear that, for him, the story is a sacred form. He condemns the primer he used as a child for hiding math problems in narratives, a pedagogical trick Benjamin regards as treachery:
What coldness was spread by the phoney moral uprightness of these lines, into which—like a trap door—numerals were embedded every now and again. It was nothing less than a betrayal by the most trusted and beloved thing that the child had received from his mother: the story.
This old primer, Benjamin writes, spoke from "the seriousness of life" and put the student "under the spell of the black-upon-white, of law and right, the irrevocable, the being set for all eternity." And, he claims, "[we] know today what we should think of such things."
What do Benjamin's own stories reveal about the form's possibilities to transcend the inhibited thinking embodied by his old primer? The pieces collected in The Storyteller find freedom in the itinerant over the intentional. In a contrast with the ceaseless forward motion that animates much contemporary American fiction, Benjamin's narrators don't venture forth with purpose; rather, they wander, restless and often alone. Their solitude allows them space to move haphazardly, digressively—and generally on foot. In each of the short pieces that make up "Tales out of Loneliness," the sequence from which The Storyteller takes its subtitle, the narrator's solitary walk makes possible the piece's revelations.
These "Tales out of Loneliness" appear in the part titled "Travel," which features the most complete and traditionally structured of any of the stories collected here. Benjamin excels at the form. In "The Death of the Father," his evocation of the protagonist's grief, which takes the form of his unsettlement from his academic work in political economy, is graceful and moving:
From this day on he worked with less certainty. He noticed deficiencies; fundamental problems, which until then he had regularly passed over, began to preoccupy him. While ordering books, he would suddenly lose all composure and orientation…. When he interrupted his reading, he could never shake off the feeling that he was someone whose clothes were too big.
Benjamin is as skilled in evocation as he is in analysis. This is clearest in the pieces, more affective than narrative, collected in the first part, "Dreamworlds," which encompasses two sections: "Fantasy" (dreamlike fiction fragments) and "Dreams" (dream reports and a tangentially related book review). Here, anxiety and melancholia are the dominant moods. Benjamin's unease is often cosmological: In a dream entry titled "The Moon," a question plagues him in the dark: "Why then is there something in the world, why does the world exist?" (In 1935, a year or two after Benjamin wrote his dream entry, Martin Heidegger would open the lecture course that was later published as Introduction to Metaphysics with a version of this very question—"Why are there beings at all instead of nothing?"—which Heidegger called "the first of all questions.") The problem stalks Benjamin, even disturbing his sleep: "When I awoke at night in the dark the world was nothing more than a single mute question. It might be that this question, though I didn't know it at the time, sat in the pleats of the plush curtains which hung from my door to keep out the noise."
These pieces also highlight Benjamin's sensitivity. In "A Christmas Song," he describes "a Christmas song that filled me, as only music can, with solace for a sorrow not yet experienced but only sensed now for the first time." In "Too Close," as he stands in wonder before a doppelgänger of Notre Dame Cathedral that in no way resembles the real Notre Dame, he describes another paradoxical and compelling emotional experience: "What overwhelmed me was longing. Longing for the very same Paris in which I found myself in the dream." Strikingly, at this moment he pivots from description to analysis: "But where does this longing come from?" Benjamin's analytical impulse drives him to interpret even the most emotional experiences.
But the Benjamin who emerges in The Storyteller is not always anxious or melancholic; he is often exuberant. This aspect of his disposition is most prominent in the book's final part, "Pedagogy and Play." Most of the pieces are written for children, whom he held in high esteem. In a review of a collection that documents Frankfurt children's rhymes, he expresses admiration of children's ingenuity: The child "never adopts the established form as such…. The children return the oldest fragments and phrases of verse to the adults in variegated forms; their work lies not so much in the gist of these pieces, as in the unpredictably appealing play of transformation." Benjamin displays his own keen sense of "the unpredictably appealing play of transformation" in these writings, which include riddles, challenges for children to compose stories using strange sets of words, and fables ("Why the Elephant Is Called 'Elephant'"; "How the Boat Was Invented and Why It Is Called 'Boat'"; "Funny Story from When There Were Not Yet Any People"). Certainly the most delightful, these pieces may also be the most revealing about Benjamin. They foreground the power of unbounded play, which for Benjamin is essential to radical thinking and to the sacredness of stories.
In an essay that does not appear in this volume, "On Some Motifs of Baudelaire," Benjamin takes up the nature of stories:
There is a contrast between all these forms [of communication] and the story, which is one of the oldest forms of communication. It is not the object of the story to convey a happening per se, which is the purpose of information; rather, it embeds it in the life of the storyteller in order to pass it on as experience to those listening. It thus bears the marks of the storyteller much as the earthen vessel bears the marks of the potter's hand.
The writings in The Storyteller are all stories in this sense, for each bears the inimitable imprint of Benjamin's imagination. The Storyteller usefully complicates Benjamin's legacy and his absorption into mainstream academic and popular discourse by emphasizing the fractured, digressive, poetic character of his thinking. But beyond this, it reveals aspects of his mind that transcend the critical concern with his intellectual development. The collection allows us to delight in the singular warmth and wonder of one whom Scholem spoke of not only as a metaphysician, a critic, and a scholar, but as "the friend of a lifetime."


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Net Neutrality MIGHT Be Saved - But It's Not Over Yet
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It's two steps forward, one step back
The battle to save net neutrality continues. For an easy guide on what net neutrality is, and why it is so vitally important, check out our quick and simple guide to the issue right here.
As you may know, the Federal Communications Commision (FCC) voted to undo net neutrality back in 2017, a decision that has dramatic and terrible implications for not just the US, but for the internet as a whole.
What has happened now?
The US has voted, by a narrow majority, to overturn the decision made by the FCC. All 49 Democrats voted in favour of keeping net neutrality, and they were joined by three Republicans - Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and John Kennedy of Louisiana, which meant there were just enough votes for it to pass (the Republicans hold a narrow majority in the Senate).
The Democrats used a law called 'the Congressional Review Act' to force a vote on the issue. This law means that Congress can reverse decisions made by the FCC using a simple vote, which sidesteps a lot of the usual blocks and obstacles that Senate leaders can use to prevent issues being voted on. Republicans have so far voted almost entirely in unity with the FCC, most likely out of party loyalty to the President, who was in favour of repealing net neutrality.
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The vote now moves to the House Of Representatives, where the chances of it passing are exceptionally low.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said after the vote that: "The House Republicans don't have to choose the same path that the vast majority of Senate Republicans in the Senate chose... the American people have spoken and the American people should listen."


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7 Films Jennifer Lawrence & Chris Pratt Should Co-Star In, Because They Have Serious On-Screen "It Couple" Potential
Every once in a while, Hollywood gets it really, really right. That's what happened when the Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt movie Passengers was greenlit. The interstellar love story is going to feature two of the most beloved, and adorkable, actors in Hollywood right now, so it's no wonder that everyone is unbelievably excited to see it come to life on screen. Honestly, I'm hoping this is the beginning of a beautiful acting relationship between the pair, one in which, like Lawrence and Bradley Cooper and like Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson, the two get along so well, and have so much chemistry, that they start starring in practically every movie together. In fact, I have some ideas for films Lawrence and Pratt should co-star in.
I don't mean specific films, of course, because I would never pull an actor off of a project just because I want Lawrence and Pratt involved instead. And, besides, who knows what films will come up that the pair might be better suited for? All I'm saying is, there are some genres that I need them to explore after this, the launch of what I hope is a beautiful working relationship with each other.
1. Comedy
Um, it would be an absolute waste not to have the two of them in a comedy film together at some point. Watch any interview of them, or watch them at any event, and you'll see that their personalities are perfectly suited to comedies. Just to see them play off each other would be amazing, and I have no doubt that they would ad lib so much of the script that the director would just throw the written one out.
2. Superhero
Lawrence has starred as Mystique and Pratt has starred as Star-Lord, so both of them have lots of experience in this area. What needs to happen is that there either needs to be an X-Men/Guardians of the Galaxy crossover in which Star-Lord and Mystique meet, or they should make the jump over to DC and portray two different superhero characters that allow them to be in the same movie together. Somehow, Hollywood needs to make this happen.
3. Action
Pratt might not be confirmed as our next Indiana Jones, but he and Lawrence both handle action scenes so well that they could very well be good for a Mr. and Mrs. Smith remake or something. Sure, they're no Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, but I can see them standing back to back and shooting as many enemies as they can during their last stand in a deserted department store.
4. Mini-Series
Both of them have film careers that make them too busy to commit to a TV series, but there are plenty of mini-series that they could film — or anthology shows they could join. Imagine Pratt and Lawrence on a season of True Detective. Imagine it, and then come back to reality and join me in wondering why no one has made this happen yet.
5. Animated
Lawrence and Pratt both have voices that would be beautifully lent to a new Disney or Pixar film, OK? They might have missed their chance to be in Inside Out, but most of what Pixar does is magic, so I don't doubt that an animated project will come up that could tempt them both into joining the cast.
6. Horror
Plot twist: Chris Pratt is the scream queen in this movie instead of J. Law. J. Law is still the final girl, but she's a Buffy-esque final girl who ends up saving Pratt so often that even the monster starts dismissing Pratt as a threat. OK, this is turning into more of a horror-comedy, but I'd watch it.
7. Parody
A film like This Is the End would allow the two to play wildly exaggerated versions of themselves, something I think they would both be very, very good at. Pratt and Lawrence love to make fun of themselves, and make other people laugh with them, and a parody film would be greatly enhanced with their presence. If Passengers is a success, I really hope the two co-star in more movies together. They're too amazing not to.
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Cliffton Hall (former Fiyero –1st Ntl. Tour, San Francisco) and Deedee Magno Hall (former Nessarose – San Fransisco, 1st Ntl. Tour) have been cast in the upcoming national tour of IF/THEN. As previously announced, original Broadway stars Idina Menzel (Elphaba – Original Broadway Cast, Original West End Cast), LaChanze, Anthony Rapp, and James Snyder will play stops in Denver, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Tempe, and Costa Mesa before the tour continues across North America. Casting will be announced.
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On 29/ 04/2019, a club programme was organized by Mihika club The Launch of "Idea Box".It was held being in the Activity Centre of DCSMAT Wagamon Campus from 7:10 to 8:15.
The programe was being inuagurated by the, Group director Brigadier MC Ashok kumar along in the presence of Principle Dr. Sreekanth , Dr Pradeep Kumar , 2014 Mihikan
Mihika club coordinator Prof.Manu Mohan along with all facultt team members and students.
The program started up with lamp lighting ceremony followed by prayer song and small cultural programe coordinated by the students .
Idea box is an excellent platform for students to explore new ideas and creativities. Students are asked to come up with ideas and instructions for mission based activities. Each pgm in the box outlines 'what,why, nd how to implement a pgm.
IDEA BOX is based on the principle that even if one has lost everything the onething that cannot be takn away is the ability to dream.
The relaunch of Idea Box was enriched with the speech given by group director and the principal which attributed the need for such a program in the college . The club programe concluded with Cake Cutting and sweet distribution as a part of Easter Celebrations DCSMAT by MiHika Club 2k18


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Grand Canyon (Finale)
We decided to start our hike out of the canyon by 6am, considering that the Bright Angel Trail is about 10 miles (vs. South Kaibab's 7 miles) and that we expected temps on the rim to be much warmer than at the bottom of the canyon. Also, we had dinner reservations at El Tovar awaiting us! After the early 5am breakfast, we packed up and started out of the ranch, using our headlamps to light the way in the dark.
Dawn came later than expected through the clouds, and in fact we stopped to put on our rain gear about a mile into the hike as the mist turned to a steady drizzle. We said good bye to the river, now flowing much more rapidly due to the previous days rains, as we hiked up the canyon wall.
We encountered several "stream crossings" due to the runoff, but our west trek was rewarded when we turned around to see a double rainbow. We stopped to take lots of photos.
The views as we hiked out of the canyon were a lot different from the panoramas we saw on the way down, but were still expansive and impressive, especially given that we had spent more time in the canyon.
There was a bit of clearing as we arrived at Indian Gardens, the halfway point, and we decided not to dally at 3 mile house, the next stop, but by the time we got to 1.5 mile house – the last stop – we knew that the clouds were rolling in again.
Brian and Dan had hiked ahead and managed to get out before the rain. Brian took this same photo 16 years ago when he was here.
but Steve, Hanley and I got caught a bit in the rains, but were able to see the front make its way across the canyon.
We all met up at the lodge with congratulations for a strong hike and a beautiful venue. Then it was time for the best shower ever (at least it felt that way to get out of wet socks and muddy boots!), nap, and get ready for dinner. After a respectable 11 year run, my water bladder was retired. I had noticed the bladder was leaking during our red rocks hikes, and decided to be safe by "double bagging" for the canyon hikes. After a confirmatory diagnosis of multiple pinhole leaks, my trusty hydration bag was laid to rest.
El Tovar did not not disappoint. It was a slice of the early 1900s, easy to imagine how visitors 100 years ago would have enjoyed similar views and similarly prepared food. Our waiter Jaime was perfectly formal, yet friendly, and parried our jokes with his own wit. The food was delicious and overall it was a highlight of the trip to reflect on the week's experience.
After that, we said our goodbyes to Steve and Hanley who were heading out early the next morning for CA. Dan, Brian and I took our time the next morning and drove out the east side of the park. The clouds and fog prevented us from seeing much of the canyon, so we picked out our own "vistas" to enjoy until the weather cleared and we could see down the canyon.
We stopped at Grandview Point, which honestly had better vistas that the Village at the south rim. It was the first location on the canyon to have a lodge, but when the railway came through it stopped a few miles away and thus few visitors made it to Grandview anymore. There's a rugged trail to the canyon from there, so perhaps next time we'll try that hike. We continued eastward to the last few stops – warming up in the car between stops because it was cold! – and the Hopi house before making our way back toward Phoenix.
The final two highlights of the trip were relaxing in the hot tub at the Hampton Inn to soothe our tired legs, and a FANTASTIC dinner at True Food Kitchen. Every dish was fresh and tasty, from my kale salad and baked squash to the guys' carmelized onion and mushroom flatbread to the curry and beverages. A healthy and tasty end to the trip before returning to Boston.
Posted: October 30th, 2010 under Brian, Friends, Hiking, Susan, Us.
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gnome-shell-theme is not listed in gnome-tweaks, this is as upstream designed the theme.
To use shell theme you need to set the default shell theme in gnome-tweaks and select "Yaru session" in the login screen.
|Git Clone URL:
|https://aur.archlinux.org/yaru.git (read-only, click to copy)
|Package Base:
|Yaru default ubuntu gnome shell theme
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gnome-shell-theme is not listed in gnome-tweaks, this is as upstream designed the theme.
To use shell theme you need to set the default shell theme in gnome-tweaks and select "Yaru session" in the login screen.
i am not using login screens or any stuff that manages sessions
so this works fine:
GNOME_SHELL_SESSION_MODE=yaru QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland exec dbus-run-session gnome-session
Just a heads up, there are directory layout changes in the upcoming Yaru release that will require changing this PKGBUILD. See yaru-git if you want to copy its PKGBUILD. Furthermore, the shell theme will be selectable in gnome-tweaks from the next release, so using the session will be optional.
If anyone wants to build the dark version of the gnome shell theme, they can add the following
prepare() function to the
sed -i s/light/dark/ yaru/gnome-shell/src/gnome-shell.scss
In the long run, Yaru aims to provide a switchable dark/light shell theme:
@drakkan it is indeed! Thanks
@figue, it should be better now, thank you for your suggestion
@drakkan thanks for these packages.
Only one request: can you hide all these hundreds of thousands lines while building? It's impossible to find anything significant in that huge log.
Why is this package flagged out of date? Can you please remove the flag? the latest release is 19.10.2 https://github.com/ubuntu/yaru/releases
@chrisjbillington thanks for the investigation I reverted to 19.04.3
The overview search bugginess is due to a change to Yaru required to be compatible with an upcoming gnome-shell change. So in gnome-shell 3.34 there will be no problem, unfortunately the 'fix' makes Yaru 19.10.1 buggy on gnome-shell 3.32. Either stick to Yaru 19.04.3 until gnome-shell 3.34 is out as @Mershl has done, or use a gnome-shell package with the required backported changes.
The aur package gnome-shell-performance has the required patch (it is the patch for merge request !110), but it is disabled at the moment, so you have to uncomment it manually for now if you use that package.
The latest release (19.10.1-1) shows icon misplacements and cut strings when searching using the Super-key in Gnome 3.32. Downgrading to 19.04.3 fixes these issues on my system.


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Straight from the video game "Assassin's Creed II" comes this 1/10th scale statue!
The Polystone statue stands approx. 21 cm tall and comes with base in a printed box.
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Adapted from The Frances Virginia Tea Room Cookbook by Mildred Huff Coleman
Serves 4 to 6
I once had Sunday supper in Cleveland at the home of my friend Polly's mother. She had people over in the late afternoon after they had all been to the Symphony. Everyone was happy and relaxed on a warm sunny day in early summer. The women wore cool cotton dresses; the men, linen blazers. Ruth was a good cook. More than twenty years later, I still have a number of her favorite recipes in the loose-leaf book of things I cook most.
That day the menu was plain classic chicken salad, macaroni and cheese, a huge tossed Caesar-like salad, and toasted buttered pita bread - which at the time I had never seen before. Bags of pita chips were not yet available at the supermarket. Dinner was served buffet-style, and people found chairs to perch on - or not - but no one sat at a table. All the guests had a great time, drinking lots of white wine, and eating everything in sight. The macaroni and cheese, in particular, disappeared in the blink of an eye. That was when I learned that simple - even humble - food can make a great party provided everything else is in place, especially convivial people and a warm atmosphere. Lots of quaffable wine doesn't hurt either. In the summer Portuguese vino verde is good. It is low in alcohol and just slightly, festively frizzante.
It was also the day I started the search for what we be my macaroni and cheese recipe.
My friend Carolyn found the recipe in the spiral-bound Frances Virginia Tea Room Cookbook. It's the easiest macaroni and cheese recipe you will every find. It doesn't have four cheeses or a secret ingredient. You don't make a cheese sauce. It isn't even creamy. It's baked and custardy. Someone (and I promise this is true) took a bite, got an ecstatic look on her face, and said "Oh, this is fluffy," as if she had invented the word.
I know everyone always thinks his or her recipe for macaroni and cheese is the best, and I am no exception. But mine really is the best.
It's called macarini and cheese instead of macaroni and cheese because someone wrote that down when they were scribbling the recipe on a note pad. It seemed funny at the time, and it stuck.
Macarini & Cheese
Adapted from The Frances Virginia Lee Tea Room Cookbook
Note: I have never had this work properly with a different shape of pasta. I like DeCecco Elbows.
5 ounces of uncooked DeCecco Elbow Macaroni (If this is measured, it's a generous cup.)
2 cups whole milk
1 egg, lightly beaten
⅛ to ¼ teaspoon salt
8 ounces sharp cheddar cheese, cut into small cubes (I usually use white Cabot Extra Sharp Vermont Cheddar.)
2 tablespoons butter, for dotting on top (optional, and I don't do it)
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Butter a 1-½ quart casserole. I use a round (rounded on the bottom) Pyrex one.
Cook the macaroni in boiling salted water until slightly underdone. Drain, and set aside. Mix the beaten egg, milk, and salt together in a medium bowl. Add the cooked macaroni and the cubes of cheese, and stir. Pour the mixture into the casserole. Dot the top with the optional slivers of butter, if you're using it.
Bake at 350°F until firm and lightly brown, about 30 minutes. Let stand for a few minutes before serving.
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Exabyte Machine Learning Engine¶
We provide a proof-of-concept support for Machine Learning through the Exabyte Machine Learning (Exabyte-ML) engine, which is based upon the Linear Regression computational and statistical method.
The currently implemented version of this engine is 0.2.0.
Exabyte-ML is accessible via the subworkflow editor interface. Pre-assembled ML workflows can be imported directly from the Workflows Bank.


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March 30, 2011 report
Study shows some forms of visual reasoning might be inborn
(PhysOrg.com) -- Italian researcher Girogio Vallortigara of the University of Trento in Italy, and his colleagues have devised an experiment that shows that the ability to view and interpret what is normal and what is not, at least in vertebrates, might be imprinted on our brains before birth.
In a paper in Biology Letters, the researchers describe how they placed 66 baby chickens in a dark chamber immediately after birth to prevent them from forming any sort of visual reasoning abilities, then turned on the lights and presented them with two drawings; one of a cube with an M. C. Escher type staircase that could never exist in the real world as it wraps around the object in impossible ways, and the other a normal cube with a normal staircase. Two thirds of the chicks went for the real deal, while presumably the other third either did nothing, or tried out the impossible picture to see if they could climb those stairs and escape from their chamber after all.
The results show that the chicks do have some inborn ability to look at and recognize the difference between something that is visually possible and something that is not; and raises the issue of whether human beings have the same kind of skill. Human babies have been tested, and showed the same results, but not till they were four months old, and most certainly werent forced to live in the dark all that time, which meant they were able to build up their own ideas of what is real and what isnt by existing and learning in a three dimensional world.
The study also lays open the question of how animals of any species come to understand what is possible and what isnt in the world they inhabit. Other experiments have shown for example, that baby chicks wont walk off the edge of a table, as they seemingly know they cant fly; which begs the question, how did they come to know, and what causes them to change their minds as they grow older and their wings develop?
Once again, more research will be needed to find the ultimate answers to such difficult questions.
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Without doubt, the 2012 NHL Entry Draft belongs to the blueliners.
Scouts, media and even fans of the game have been talking about the impressive talent available on the blueline that the 2012 draft holds for the past couple season and that depth has only grown as these prospects enter their pivotal draft seasons.
There is a handful of future top pairing NHL defenseman in this bunch, a couple who could develop into the NHL's elite, as well as those who will likely find employment on a NHL squads the second and third defensive pairings for the next 15 seasons.
So who are these prospects?
Future Considerations' choice as well as most of the NHL teams top draft eligible defenseman early in the season is Everett Silvertips captain and two-way force Ryan Murray. Murray is a super posed and calm puck mover who also plays as close to a mistake free game as you will find.
Murray skates well and controls the game from the backend like few 17-year-old defenseman ever have. His poise with the puck and vision up ice make him a danger to hit a teammate no matter where they are on the ice. He also has the ability to use his strong positioning and a quick stick to negate an opponents attack.
Murray has been chased down a bit already this summer by fellow Western Hockey Leaguers Mathew Dumba and Morgan Rielly. Both made big time contributions at the summers U18 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament for the gold medal winning Canadian squad and made big impacts on scouts in attendance at the NHL's Research, Development and Orientation camp in Toronto.
Scouts are excited about the explosive offensive ability shown by Red Deer's Dumba, who skates extremely well and has a lethal shot. His ability to physically shut down opponents as well as his perfectly timed open ice hits are also another area that has some scouts thinking he could end up being selected towards the top of the 2012 NHL draft.
Moose Jaw Warriors two-way defenseman Morgan Rielly is less of a wild stallion type and more of a controlled, refined puck mover/solid defensive presence than the aforementioned Dumba, Rielly sees the ice very well, has great instincts and plays a pretty well rounded game in all zones.
While Rielly is not a physical threat like his Rebels counterpart, he does have the skills that NHL team covet in the faster transitions of the NHL game.
Windsor Spitfires two-way threat Nick Ebert is another prospect who will likely jump up the draft board early in the season as he becomes the club's top defenseman after Ryan Ellis' graduation to the professional ranks.
Ebert is as close to a do-everything type defenseman as there is in the draft. He is smart, has good size, plays physical, skates well, shows some strong offensive instincts and with a little more work on his defensive reads, can also be a shutdown blueliner in his own zone in the not to distant future.
Griffin Reinhart is a big, powerful defender playing with the Edmonton Oil Kings of the Western Hockey League this season. He has one of the hardest shots in the draft and plays an aggressive physical style that NHL teams covet.
The only drawback going forward for young Reinhart, who is the middle son of former NHLer Paul, has to do with his skating and foot speed. He can be caught by some of the WHL's faster forwards and needs to work on his lumbering stride. Hindering this is the fact Reinhart missed a large chunk of hockey last season, but if corrected, he could be a real riser this year.
One prospect that has so much untapped potential and will likely cause some heated debate among scouts all season as to what his future holds is United States Development Program Under-18 squad defender Jacob Trouba.
He is also big, strong and willing to play a physical role. Trouba skates very well and can deliver some of the most devastating open ice hits of all these defensemen. He shows strong offensive skills as well as he makes a good outlet pass and also can contribute with a strong point shot.
The one problem that observers see with Trouba, and one that will likely be corrected as he matures in his understanding of the game, is his defensive positioning. He can sometimes misread the oppositions attacking speed or that often he will pull himself out of position looking for that big open ice hit.
Joining the other Western Hockey League defenseman to make it a 'big five from the Dub' is Portland offensive minded defender Derek Pouliot. Pouliot moves the puck extremely well, joining and often times leading the rush from the backend. His smooth skating stride, smarts with the puck and impressive offensive creativity have scouts making Portland again a regular stop this season. Opinions on Pouliot range from late first rounder to knocking on the door of a top-five prospect.
After the above top dogs on the backend there are still plenty to like about the potential future NHL defenseman that the 2012 draft has to offer.
One of the more polished defenders available has to be Ottawa 67's two-way threat Cody Ceci. Ceci, with his pro size, impressive strength, and mature, keep-it-safe game along with his physical play has to be a strong choice to stick in the NHL right out of the draft next June. Ceci has mastered the ability to pinch at the proper times and knows when to hang back. He has already improved his mobility this season and should look to add more on the offensive side as his defensive game is already a strong point. Ceci's potential might not be as high as some of the others in his draft class, but he is a good bet to make it to the show because of his smarts and size.
Big and offensively talented United States Hockey League defender Jordan Schmaltz is pushing on the door to get into the upper echelon of defensemen for this draft. His size at six-foot-two and impressive offensive creativity make him a likely NHL point producer from the backend. Schmaltz effectively uses his good mobility and impressive vision to open up lanes for himself.
Slater Koekkoek of the Peterborough Petes displays a strong all-round game that blends strong defensive zone coverage and an offensive flare as part of his impressive future potential. While he is not naturally aggressive, Koekkoek will stick up for himself as well as use his frame to cause puck separation. He is strong in his own zone not often allowing attackers the time and space needed to generate offense.
One dark horse favorite to make a big jump up the rankings as the season wears on is Sault Ste. Marie Greyhound two-way defenseman Gianluca Curcuruto. His strong two-way game, smooth skating stride and vision from the backend make him dangerous on the rush. He can also play strong defensively, especially in his own zone, using his size and strength to eliminate attackers along the wall and keeping strong gaps.
The first overall pick in the Import Draft this past summer, London Knights Finnish defender Olli Maatta possesses a safe yet exciting two-way game that allows him to be a physical defense first type guy but also contribute offensive with strong outlet passes and the odd rush up ice. Despite all his strengths and size, Maatta's skating ability has been called into question as he can be heavy booted evidenced especially against the faster attackers ability to beat him around the outside.
Dubuque rearguard Michael Matheson, has impressed early as scouts were all a chatter with regards to his poise and calm play with the puck at the NHL Research, Development and Orientation camp last August. His smooth skating ability and consistent effort level have many thinking he has future top four NHL potential.
Some wildcards who could sneak into the top round as the season progresses include the OHL's Niagara Ice Dog's creative puck rusher Jesse Graham, US NTDP under-18 squad two-way defender Brady Skjei, the Quebec leagues Dominic Poulin of Chicoutimi and Dillion Fournier of Rouyn-Noranda both of whom has some good offensive skills.
Do-it-all type Brain Cooper of the USHL's Fargo Force as well as European defenders Ville Pokka, an offensively skilled defender with Finland's Karpat, and Ludvig Bystrom, who impressed at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament, are all ones to watch.
While this is how things look with regards to the 2012 NHL Entry Draft rearguards at the beginning of the season, the scouting game is a marathon, not a sprint. Much can and undoubtedly will change over the course of the next eight or nine months. There is a whole season ahead for these prospects to step up and challenge that top grouping.
And who steps up, or slides, remains to be seen.
Dan Stewart is the scouting director of Future Considerations and can be found on Twitter. For all the latest Future Considerations news and posts, follow FC's Official Twitter Feed, on YouTube and on Facebook!


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Bloodstone is also referred to as heliotrope in Greek which simply means sun turning. Many believed that the sun turns red when this stone is immersed in water. It comes in dark green color with spots of red almost resembling droplets of blood. Hence named as the BLOODSTONE.
Bloodstones were believed to be a magical stone in ancient times. Touching the stone simply stopped hemorrhages. Ancient warriors carried with them bloodstone amulets for reasons to stop the bleeding whenever they had wounds.


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He must love to play golf.
West Virginia native and former "America's Got Talent" winner Landau Eugene Murphy Jr. has been arrested on domestic violence charges after a woman reported he struck her in the face with a golf club, slammed her on the ground and then banged her head into the sidewalk.
I would never guess he plays golf.