text:
Slimming in Sarnia : Developed over years of ketone research!
Natural Weight Loss - description
Ketosis Fat Burning - Product Info
Ketosis Fat Burning - Rochester
Weight Control - Dealer
Scientific Breakthrough - Distributors recovery
10-day weight management - Winston-Salem
Natural Ketosis Supplement - Pueblo
Lose weight in Ketosis - Trenton
Nutzritional Ketosis - OR
|FIXX - No gluten. It has been for a while. Slimming in Sarnia . Zero-impact carbs. Today, most people have sugar-burning bodies, not fat-burning bodies. Fat-burning bodies typically experience better energy and fewer cravings due to balanced blood sugar levels.
a) Slimming in Sarnia !In layman's terms, the body will use your stores of fat to simply get you through the day- you don't even have to hit the gym to burn fat. The body produces insulin, a fat-storing hormone, to digest foods that are high in carbohydrates. Lifestyle diet and weight loss program! Zero-impact carbs. Developed over years of ketone research! This allows your body to increase its utilization of fat for energy without making you feel sluggish.
1.1 : Slimming in Sarnia :
Many leading scientists believe the ketosis lifestyle will be the pinnacle of health and well-being. Essentially, keep your carbs down and your body will look within itself for fuel and the pounds will melt away. Ketosis Fat Burning in Sarnia . This breakthrough means more than weight loss. The proof is in the box! You can use Ketostix and measure your progress toward nutritional ketosis only hours after taking KetonX.It has been for a while. Adding hemp foods to your diet is something you should seriously consider, and below are five health benefits of hemp you might not have known. In America we are the sickest generation ever, the heaviest generation ever, and the first generation predicted to outlive our children. In fact, the money that Americans spend annually on weight loss alone could feed the world's hungry for two years.
Slimming in Sarnia - Drogerie und Parfümerie.
Slimming in Sarnia :These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Developed over years of ketone research! This technology has been developed over years of ketone research by Dominic D'Agostino, PhD. Sarnia - The KETOPIA diet plan - new by ForeverGreen - KetonX, Dough Bites, KetoPM and FIXX. FIXX - Rich in antioxidants.A recent search on the popular International Trading website Alibaba.com, for example, showed the following results when searching for each particular fatty acid: Their unique chemical makeup makes them more readily absorbed and more quickly metabolized than other fats. Dough Bites are high in fiber, prebiotics, and phantom carbohydrates that work with your body, rather than against it, to keep your cravings at bay. Developed over years of ketone research! Total Body Wellness in Sarnia . Chromium. It is followed with a customizable maintenance program that's realistic and effective for your lifestyle, consisting of meal suggestions, proper nutrition, and follow up resets as needed. It suggests that people making such statements are falling for marketing claims, without really investigating the true nature of MCT oil.
But it is not. Slimming in Sarnia - Kosmetikartikel. Benefits of FIXX: Currently Available in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico.
No artificial flavorings or colors. Slimming in Sarnia . FIXX features cold-processed New Zealand whey from clean pasture-raised cows that contains no hormones or second-hand antibiotics, and is 99% lactose free. Lifestyle diet and weight loss program! Carbohydrates are insulin-responding foods, which means they tell your body to product insulin, which in turn tells your body to store fat. Marine Phytoplankton Supports healthy joints. Easy achieve a state of ketosis in Sarnia .
Featuring a patented blend of ingredients, KetonX is a safe and simple way to achieve ketosis without the negative side effects of a typical ketogenic diet. For the past two years the company has been in negotiations to be granted exclusivity of the patent-pending technology. Weight Loss Program in Sarnia .
Weitere Seiten:
Knoxville - Diet in Ketosis on ketosis-reduce-weight.com | Daly City - Total Body Wellness on ketosis-fat-killer.com | Red Deer - Weight Loss Management on ketosis-lose-weight.com | New Jersey - Weight Loss System on fat-burnung-in-ketosis.com | Usa - Lose weight on weight-reduction-in-ketosis.com |
Las Vegas - The optimum state of nutrition
Field Test - Keto Diet
Chesapeake - New Weight Loss System
Treasure State - Burn Fat without Burning Carbs


text:
Malware writers, always eager to take advantage of breaking news to get victims to click on bad links and download Trojans, have already jumped on the largest recent Internet message stream — the flood of grief and commentary surrounding the death of singer Michael Jackson.
The volume of Web traffic surrounding Jackson's death became so huge that there was a tangible Web slowdown, with problems affecting major Web sites and services. Google, for instance, admitted on its official blog that its Google News site initially took the spike in searches as an automated attack.
Not surprisingly, spammers and malware authors have also begun taking advantage on the public's interest in the King of Pop.
Today, F-Secure's chief research officer, Mikko H. Hyppönen, wrote in his blog that the security company has already found several Michael Jackson Trojans.
"When executed, Michael-www.google.com.exe drops files called reptile.exe and winudp.exe. These are IRC bots with backdoor capability," he wrote. "This file was distributed through a site called photos-google.com and possibly also through photo-msn.org, facebook-photo.net and orkut-images.com. Do not visit these sites."
MessageLabs, Symantec's cloud security service, said it had also uncovered similar Michael Jackson-themed threats.
"MessageLabs blocked 144 copies of a Trojan dropper identified as "W32/VB-Generic-0481-f36f," MessageLabs senior analyst Paul Wood said in an e-mail to InternetNews.com.
"All of the e-mails had the same subject, 'Remembering Michael Jackson,' with a ZIP attachment containing malware with double extension (xxx.jpg.exe)," he said. "The link in the mail downloads a malicious executable file, disguised as a JPG."
It's just the latest case where spammers are taking advantage of victims' trust in or eagerness to learn about celebrities. While Michael Jackson ranked 10th on the list of names used as spam bait even before his death, spammers have exploited the good names of actresses Kate Hudson and Kirsten Dunst and wrestler Hulk Hogan in one case, and Net guru Guy Kawasaki in another.
Yet, e-mail may soon be losing its luster the preferred attack vector for malware authors.
While e-mail is carefully policed, recent attacks show that Web 2.0 has more vulnerabilities. Symantec also recently reported that spammers have new tools specially designed for invading social networks.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Vikse Designs
Crazy Lace Agate Ring - Size 7.25
This ring features a Crazy Lace Agate in shades of gray and yellow, that I cut, shaped, and polished. It is set in fine and sterling silver. The ring band is 8mm wide and has a hammered finish. Due to the wide band, this ring will fit about a half size smaller (6.75).


text:
We love an Outposter contribution here at Last Movie Outpost, and Wrenage loves to contribute! Here he is with another of his trademark watch-along Retro Reviews and this time, just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, you can't even get to it. It's Blood Beach.
Blood Beach (1981)
Big movies are in theaters again. I even went to see one of them. Like the mighty groundhog, what I saw caused me to return to my burrow, broken. It looks like we have six more weeks of winter, at least, when it comes to this current phase of movie folk making it their life mission to create works of fart.
Escaping into the past, I combed the depths of my brain for something interesting to watch. I remembered a movie poster from yesteryear that always stuck with me — that of a screaming bikini woman being sucked into the sand with the title Blood Beach.
Saddle up. We're doing a running diary of Blood Beach. We're going in with full spoilers, a sunburn, and sand in our underwear.
The camera pans across a remote beach. No pristine white sand, blue skies, and blue water here. This is 1981. The camera is allowed to film ugly things. The sand is gray like my hopes; the sky is gray like my hopes' socks, and the water is gray like a gray crayon writing the word gray on a picture of Jamie Lee Curtis's hair.
The credits roll. Blood Beach is a Sir Run Run Shaw Production. Does this mean Blood Beach is a Shaw Brothers movie?
Sir Run Run Shaw is indeed the Shaw of Shaw Brothers. He died in 2014 at 106-years-old. He produced more than 1,000 movies. Dude even co-produced Blade Runner.
I wonder if Sir Run Run had a hand in Tower of the Drunken Dragons — a movie I saw on USA's Kung Fu Theater many moons ago. Tower of the Drunken Dragons was about this king-of-the-mountain-style contest where two clans fought to reach the top of a tower. They were so hardcore that the ladders going up the tower had rungs made from swords, blades up. Since Sir Run Run apparently produced every movie in existence, I can probably figure he produced Tower of the Drunken Dragons, as well.
Back to Blood Beach — we are looking at a pier that appears to be entirely composed of algae holding hands. The camera goes underneath the pier. I wouldn't go under there. The only things you're likely to find under that pier are trash and possibly Harley Warren.
The credits inform me Blood Beach was written and directed by Jeffrey Bloom. Checking Bloom's filmography, it looks like the only other thing Bloom made that I've seen is the 1983 anthology-horror film Nightmares, with Emilio Esteves. Emilio is quite a name, very dense. Say it out loud, and your mouth feels like it ran a 5K.
We're on a nicer part of the beach now, with houses. A man wearing a wetsuit vest over a sweater steps out onto the sand. My mistake. He's not wearing a sweater. He has a hairy chest. Conveniently enough, the character's name is Harry.
I recognize this actor, David Huffman. Where have I seen him before? Oh yeah, he's in Firefox as the negative-nilly working opposite all-time-great-scenery-chewer Freddie Jones.
He has this line:
"Then what was all that coded stuff we intercepted between Bilyarsk and the fire-chain stations? They got him, Aubrey! They blew his ass right out of the sky!"
While heading to the water for a swim, Harry banters with an old lady out walking her dog. The old lady looks straight out of a Metamucil commercial as she bounds about the sand with the vim and vigor of a senior citizen with regular bowel movements.
(Note to self: purchase Metamucil…)
Harry enters the water. I see what they're doing. They know they're riffing on Jaws and want me to think the man is in danger for swimming, but it is actually the old lady on the beach that is about to become the movie's inaugural victim.
Yep, the old lady's foot sinks into the sand. She can't pull it free. She shrieks and gets sucked into the sand while her dog barks. It might be a cheesy effect, but it is effective. I wonder when that sand-sucking effect was first used? The original Invaders From Mars maybe?
Do you think Tremors took inspiration from Blood Beach? It would not surprise me. Man, Tremors is a fun movie — beautifully-done creature feature. Maybe George Lucas got his Sarlacc from Blood Beach, as well. Did you know Sarlaccs share a common ancestry with Rathtar, Blixus, and Vixus species?
You didn't? And you call yourself a Star Wars fan? You should be ashamed of yourself. Sarlacc ancestry is Star Wars Knowledge 101.
Anyway, Harry wonders what happened to the old lady. She is nowhere to be seen when he exits the water. Only her dog remains. Meanwhile, a bag lady perched in a nearby building like Lee Harvey Oswald witnessed old lady's demise.
A street musician rocks a saxophone while the aforementioned bag lady dances past him. She is literally dancing, not merely stepping lively around all of the used needles on the ground. Blood Beach is from 1981 remember. It predates the collapse of Western Civilization.
The scene switches to Harry talking to two guys about the missing old lady. Hey, one of those guys is Paulie from the Rocky movies — Burt Young!
Young was the go-to guy if you needed a loveable mook back in the day, the same way Soon-Tek Oh was the go-to guy if you needed an Asian guy, and George Buck Flower was your go-to guy if you needed a drunk guy.
Burt doesn't seem to be playing a loveable mook in Blood Beach, though. He seems like kind of a jerk. Maybe he was trying to broaden his range with Blood Beach.
I can see Burt discussing the career move with his agent now:
Burt: I can do more.
Agent: What…like juggle?
Burt: No, play more characters than loveable mook.
Agent: Loveable schlub?
Burt: You get me a good role with more range or you're fired.
Agent: (shuffling papers) How about jerk guy in Blood Beach?
Burt: All I heard from you is "Oscar Nomination" you magnificent bastard.
Additional sidenote: all of the peripheral characters in Blood Beach look so real. Nothing on them is coiffed, tucked, nipped, or injected. If they showed up in Hollywood today, the only way they are making it onscreen is if they are looking down from a belltower shouting "Sanctuary!"
A car drives by a building with a sign that proclaims itself to be Moby's Dock. Due to my classical education, I get that reference, and like a person pointing out Walrus Man in Rogue One to display their incredible film knowledge to all within earshot, I will mention my recognition of the reference in an overly loud voice, as well:
"That's a reference to Moby the musician!"
A woman gets out of the car. She goes into the Harbor Master office, which has adopted old lady's dog, and pets it. This woman is the daughter of old lady. Her name is Kathy. She also knows Harry, who is said Harbor Master. They were once in a relationship.
As Kathy says her estranged hellos to Harry, a shirtless guy named Hoagy steps out of the backroom, looking all guilty. What were Harry and Hoagy doing back there before Kathy walked in? Trading shirts to see who looked better in them? Let us speak of this no more.
Harry and Kathy leave Hoagy behind and catch up while looking out on the water. Come on you crazy kids, can't you see that you were made for each other?
Kathy wants to know what happened to her mom. All Harry can say is that he heard a scream, and then the old lady's dog barking…
"In a way never heard before."
I've heard many dogs barking in my life, but I can't really say I've heard much difference in all of that barking. Are there connoisseurs of dog barking than can discern the subtle differences of dog barks the way wine tasters can discern the subtle differences of vintages?
That bark had a nutty undertone, with a bit of a flowery crescendo.
That bark was light and airy, like a feather on a white lie.
Kathy vows that she is staying until she finds her mom, which means she is going to be at Blood Beach until Judgment Day. Think before you speak, Kathy.
Kathy is revealed to be an artist as she putters about a studio. The music here reminds me of James Horner's score to the opening of Aliens. The soundtrack of Blood Beach is punching a bit above its weight.
The composer is a guy named Gil Melle, who was a jazz musician. He did the soundtrack for things like The Sentinel, Kolchak, and the Yul Brenner vehicle, The Ultimate Warrior. I saw The Ultimate Warrior on TBS once. I remember Brenner being tiny and knife-y. William Smith, who would have been a great Kraven the Hunter, also starred.
We are only nine minutes into the movie, and it is edging into soap opera territory with Harry and Kathy. I'm not sure how comfortable I feel about this. The movie is called Blood Beach, not The Young And The Bloodless Beach.
Kathy stands outside and looks wistful while feelings happen inside of her. The bag lady wanders into frame and rants about how Kathy's mother was murdered and is under the sand. Kathy listens but appears to deem bag lady's claim implausible.
You should listen to the harbinger, Kathy!
Harbinger…now there's a great word. It's almost as good as writhing.
Beware the writhing harbinger…knocking at your cellar door, Emilio!
A lovely sentence, that…
Here we find out the reason Harry is not all over Kathy after she walked back into his life. Harry has a girlfriend — a blond stewardess with an accent.
A hairy chest and a French girlfriend — could Harry be any manlier?
I imagine it would be fun to be married to a stewardess. You are married, but you still get to live like a single guy when she is working. One day you are out with the better half, reaching things off high shelves, listening like you care, watching the clock during foreplay to make sure you aren't being sexually selfish, and manoeuvring around PMS symptoms like a running back in the open field. The next day you are on the couch watching whatever you want on TV, eating donuts, and smelling yourself. That's living the dream!
The movie does some switching back and forth between scenes here. First, we are with Harry and his girlfriend. Next, we are with the dog as it goes out at night to search the beach for the old lady. Will he bark in a way not heard before if he finds something?
Back to Harry being seduced by his stewardess girlfriend. Her character is actually called "Girlfriend" in the credit list. She is played by Marleta Giles. Giles has four other credits. Blood Beach and roles in Murder She Wrote, Hunter and Dynasty.
Remember DeeDee McCall from Hunter? I remember DeeDee McCall from Hunter. Remember DeeDee McCall's short appearance in The Man With Two Brains?
"Why can't she be dead?"
*Car hits her*
Back to the dog digging in the sand as he searches for the old lady. Kathy goes out to look for the dog at this point. Speaking of Kathy, she is played by Marianne Hill.
Hill was also in High Plains Drifter. She was the lady Clint has his way with at the beginning of the film. In addition, she had a role in Godfather Part II and a decent number of appearances in things like Star Trek, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Outer Limits, etc.
Back to Harry love-wrestling with his stewardess girlfriend.
Back to Kathy approaching the dog. The dog does not respond to Kathy's calls. The dog merely sits on the sand. Kathy reaches out to touch the dog and… the dog's head is gone! Nice!
Kathy and Harry go to the cops about the beheaded dog. A sombre doctor comes out to tell them that he is:
"sure the dog was brutally, savagely killed. The killer was a large man, or an average-sized man with unusually-sized hands…or very strong, with long sharp fingernails."
That certainly narrows it down.
Wait, did I see an actor give a serious autopsy report on a dog while everyone else listened equally seriously? High marks, movie!
Harry and Kathy go boating. They continue to cautiously rekindle the old flame. This movie seems to be attempting to give these characters depth. I'm not sure that is the right track. The movie is 90 minutes long. We are 17 minutes in and we've already seen Harry and Kathy do this dance twice now. It's bogging the movie down.
Fortunately, the movie seems to realize it's falling off the beam. It switches to a beach montage. Bikinis? Check. Frisbees? Check. A girl buried up to her neck in sand? Check.
Suddenly, the buried girl screams, "Ouch! Something is biting my feet!"
Buried Girl's friends dig her up, and her legs look like someone drizzled strawberry syrup all over them. Perhaps she was attacked by the Strawberry Quik Bunny.
Did you know that rabbit had a name? Quiky! However, his name was changed in 1999 to the Nesquik Bunny. That doesn't have quite the same ring to it, but I suppose it's less offensive to slow people. If slow people heard the name Quiky, it might trigger them by reminding them of their lack of speed.
Personally, I find bunny offensive, as well, because of its associations with Playboy. I'd rather we called the mascot the Nesquik Oryctolagus Cuniculus.
Jon Saxon sighting!
Saxon is great. Never mind that, if constipation had a face, it would look like Saxon (if Metamucil had a face, it would look like Jim Carrey). I'd classify Saxen as B-Level Legendary. He was in Enter the Dragon, Battle Beyond the Stars and Nightmare on Elm Street.
Saxon is in full-on angry police chief mode in Blood Beach.
"We got women disappearing. We got a dog with its head bitten off. We got a lovely blond — from Beverly Hills, no less — slumming here, who suffered massive damage to both her once pretty legs.
She may be crippled for life and had her mind blown to the moon because she laid on a beach. Oh yeah, and her parents also happen to be giving large donations to the mayor. We even got a telegram from the society of prevention of cruelty to animals to find whatever did this. Not get out there and catch my perp!"
They don't waste any time. The movie cuts to a backhoe digging up the beach while guys run around with Geiger counters. The authorities don't bother with seeking a reasonable explanation. They immediately jump to it being a monster.
The movie perhaps goes awry on this point. Instead of following Harry and Kathy around having conversations, the movie could have focused on the monster mystery.
The only one not on board with the monster theory is Burt Young. He declares it a big waste of time. He knows exactly what they should be looking for instead — Nazis!
Burt's partners laugh at him, but he's actually pretty far ahead of the game. Blood Beach came out in January 1981. Raiders of the Lost Ark didn't come out until June to put Nazi villains back on the map, big-time.
For the sake of curiosity, I looked up what other movies we got in only June of 1981. We got Clash of the Titans, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Cannonball Run, Superman II, Dragonslayer, For Your Eyes Only, Roadgames and Stripes.
This is why I live in the past, Hollywood, and, more importantly to you, why my money lives there, as well. In case you're looking for it…
Harry returns to swimming. It's a bad sign when a movie repeats itself to fill the time. Kathy watches Harry swim. She may not be undressing Harry with her eyes, but she is definitely imagining him in funny costumes.
Bag lady enters the scene. She ominously tries to hand Kathy the collar of the beheaded dog, but it looks more like one of those hairband things girls wore in grade school. This scene is a bit clunky. It could have been cut, methinks. It feels like the filmmakers are straining to hit that magic 90-minute mark.
Like Peter Benchley in Jaws, we got a news reporter on the beach. He is investigating the incidents. He talks to a trio of teenagers, who look like people the moviemakers picked off the beach to say a few lines. The kids are having a blast with it.
These kids are probably close to retirement age by now. I wonder if they regale their grandkids with the story of when they were in a real-live movie.
"No one cares, boomer. I got 100K followers on my Eating-Expired-Tuna Youtube channel."
One of the kids drops the title of the movie, "Blood Beach, man." The other kids theorize a "creature" is behind the nefarious attacks. If I knew a monster was sucking people into the sand on a certain beach, I don't think I'd go there, but an old saying exists — the masses are asses.
Harry and Hoagy have a moment to reflect on the situation. Harry thinks things are serious enough that Hoagy should carry a gun. The suggestion is delivered with a gravitas that rings hollow to my Midwestern ears.
Everyone has a gun where I live. You basically come out of the womb with a gun. As a result, guns have all of the fascinations of furniture. Saying you need a gun is like saying you need a microwave. No one needs a microwave. Everyone has a microwave.
Meanwhile, a guy plays violin at sunset while Kathy paints pictures. Again, the music is a bit more soulful than the movie deserves. Kathy hears a strange noise while painting and goes to the window to investigate.
A cat hops through the window for a jump scare, even though Kathy has never been shown owning a cat, nor has a cat been seen anywhere else in the movie.
Not even a third of the way in, and the movie is already gasping for life. Something interesting needs to happen soon.
Hoagy kisses his girlfriend goodbye. They have an elaborate parting ritual. They sing a song to each other. Researching the lyrics, it appears they are singing Fools For Each Other by Guy Clark. I listened to it, but I don't recognize it. I remember a lot of Crystal Gayle, Juice Newton and Dolly Parton at this time, but I don't remember Guy Clark.
Hoagy's girl takes off on a bike. She sees a bird struggling in the sand. Since it is the dead of night and she is alone, of course, she is going to hop off her bike and walk under the pier to investigate. It's only a seagull, lady — a rat of the sky.
The viewer assumes the girl will be a victim of the creature, but the movie throws an unexpected curveball. The girl is attacked by a would-be rapist instead. The girl fights him off, and the rapist creepily crawls across the sand to get back into the fray.
The Blood Beach monster then castrates the rapist. Sucks his junk into the sand and rips it off.
Welp, earlier, I said the movie needs something interesting to happen soon. I guess it heard me.
Cops are on the scene of the attack. Burt Young doesn't feel sad for the rapist. He believes the rapist got what he deserved. I'd probably side with him on that one. You jump a girl in the dark with bad intentions and you forfeit a lot of basic compassion.
Meanwhile, Saxon pines for cooperation and support.
"What did I do to deserve this?"
Saxon opines. Starring in The Bees (1978), perhaps? To show how serious Saxon is about solving these crimes, he announces he is bringing in the big guns — geologists. I did not see that line coming. The FBI? Maybe. The army? Possibly. But geologists? They are pretty far down my list of disaster plan contacts.
Saxon also utters the tagline of the movie,
"Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, you can't get to it…"
Blood Beach was made six years after Jaws and three years after Jaws II. Is the fact that they are still riffing on Jaws proof the makers of Blood Beach were behind the times, or is it proof of how much impact Jaws had on that era?
The doctor who somberly did the dog autopsy pontificates on the nature of the creature they seek. If you doubt his expertise, he has a pipe. I honestly can't remember anything he said, but he has a pipe. Obviously, he knows what he's talking about. I'd put him in high in the government and in charge of all responses to COVID based on that pipe.
Occasionally, the movie goes to the monster point-of-view, and the music goes into the monster theme. I finally realize why the theme seems vaguely familiar. It kind of sounds like the theme to the Monsters anthology show that ran from 1988-1991.
After the attack on the rapist, the movie goes back to its safe space — Harry and Kathy talk to each other. This stretches the movie to its breaking point. The sand-sucking is cool, but it's not enough of a gimmick to sustain an entire movie of Harry and Kathy talking.
Look to Tremors for how this concept was done better. It did a nice job focusing on the activity of monsters and keeping the stakes raised. First, we saw what the Graboids did. Then we saw their effect on something in the moment. Then we saw their tongues. Then we saw the whole creature.
Blood Beach is getting bogged down in human drama, much like the latest James Bond movie. It's not the road to travel.
Now we get to watch Harry cook. In the process, he breaks off a chunk of bread and makes a celery sandwich. This seems to be the act of an actor who realizes they are doing boring things and are trying to give a bit of life to the proceedings.
Outside the house, Girlfriend returns from being a stewardess. She parks her car and heads inside to eat whatever vittles Harry has whipped up. It's windy, and the girlfriend's hat blows off. She goes to retrieve her hat from the beach and… slurp!
The girlfriend gets sucked into the sand. The thrill is gone at this point, however. We've seen it too many times and nothing new is added to it. As a result, it isn't particularly scary anymore. It is just a person falling through a giant bag of sand with a hole in the bottom.
Harry thinks he got stood up by the girl, so he goes to Kathy's house. He brings wine and flowers and a big loaf of French bread. Nothing phallic about that. Harry is not worried about his girlfriend being a no-show. She probably got stuck at the airport. It happens all the time. Kathy then announces she will soon divorce her husband. Subtle.
Harry returns home. The next morning, he goes outside and notices his girlfriend's car parked in the driveway. She came home last night, after all. But where could she be?
Harry looks out on the beach and sees his girlfriend's hat next to a crater in the sand. Combine this implication with Kathy's divorce announcement, and Harry leaps into the air and pumps his fist. No more obstacles exist that prevent him from making a move on Kathy!
Just kidding. Harry is sad about the demise of his girlfriend. I think…
The geologists are on the scene! Now we'll get somewhere. Nobody can save the day like geologists. Burt heckles the geologists as they dig in the sand, presumably where Harry's girlfriend was sucked underneath it. The geologists find an eyeball. Burt displays the baggy containing the eyeball and asks Harry, "What color eyes did the stewardess have?"
That's cold, Burt. Why not just say…
Hey, Harry, I don't think your girlfriend will be seeing you around anymore!
Hey, Harry, let's take a vote. Is your girlfriend dead? The eyes have it!
Hey, Harry, why did your girlfriend cross the road? Probably because she couldn't see where she was going because a monster ate her eyes!
As for the geologists — MAJOR SPOILERS — they are never seen in the movie again. So much for bringing in the big guns…
The movie switches to a board meeting. Blood Beach has a lot of trouble sustaining energy. Something interesting happens, and then too much talking makes you forget it happened.
A councilwoman with plastic fruit on her hat berates the police for not spending tax dollars wisely. She angrily asserts the police have no results even though they have been investigating the monster "for the better part of a week."
Hold the phone, lady. A previously-unknown monster appears out of nowhere, and the police don't have sufficient results after working the case "for the better part of a week?"
That's five days. People have been investigating the Loch Ness Monster since the year 565. I'd give the police department at least a full week before I got bent out of shape on results.
Saxon fires back at this Karen-type councilwoman. He explains the council has already cut the "twigs and berries" off the police department with "proposition thirteen." Saxon then calls the councilwoman a "grandstanding twelch and a snot-nosed, scissor-billed probate."
The sad part is that even as Saxon delivers goofy dialogue like this, he does not appear to be having fun. Then again, Saxon never seems like he's having fun. As I said earlier: "if constipation had a face, it would look like Saxon."
Harry looks out on the water… again… and ponders things. Is Kathy there to talk to Harry? You bet! Kathy is sorry about the stewardess. Meanwhile, Harry wants "answers to hard questions." Are they looking for a person or a thing? Real or unreal?
The movie and characters already established it's a monster. Don't go backwards, Harry! Stop with the waffling, ya twelch!
Harry reasons:
"Even Santa Claus has a home. The monster must have a place it goes back to, but there haven't been any patterns anyone can figure out!"
All of the attacks were on the same beach, yes? That's a pattern, no? Hence, perhaps — and I'm spit-balling here — maybe the monster lives close by?
While Harry and Kathy talk, a weird shadow mars the top of the screen. I'm wondering if the shadow is perhaps boom mike-related. The sound guy probably got overzealous not wanting to miss a single word of the 943rd conversation between Harry and Kathy.
Harry takes matters into his own hands. He will hunt the creature down himself!
Harry meanders under the pier. Then Harry meanders further. Finally, Harry meanders some more. The movie will reach the 90-minute mark by hook or by crook. Never fear, producers! We will get this sucker up to feature-length for distribution!
According to the timestamp, Harry has been wandering under the pier for a full three minutes now. Three minutes may not sound like much, but time is relative in a movie like this. Three minutes of doing the exact same thing is a mini-eternity.
After four minutes of wandering, Harry hits a dead end that has what looks like cracks in a brick wall with sunlight shining through them.
The music turns ominous. What am I missing here? They are cracks in a wall. I fail to see the significance. Even as Harry leaves, the camera lingers on these cracks.
In an effort to solve the mystery, I went to Wikipedia's Blood Beach plot synopsis to see if it shed any light on this matter. The synopsis had this line:
"After finding nothing, he leaves the tunnel, not noticing a movement in a collapsed section of the wall."
I did not notice any movement, but I went back to rewatch it so you don't have to. Yes, it is subtle, but a bit of movement exists. Again, the music saves the day. Without the music, I never would have had a clue anything interesting happened.
We got a guy in white shoes, black socks and checkered shorts out running a metal detector over the sand. The guy finds a tin can lid. I bet he will also find death. Yep, Metal Detector Guy is not sucked into the sand, however. Rather, the monster point-of-view gets him.
My guess is the crew got tired of moving the sand-sucking setup around that day and asked the director to let the camera eat the guy instead.
Cut to a bar. A singer rocks out a song. For a moment I mistake the singer for Robert Culp. A harmonica soloist lays down a harmony as a lady joins the pseudo-Robert Cup for a duet.
Hey! Pseudo-Robert Culp is Hoagy and the lady is his previously-assaulted girlfriend! I couldn't tell right away because the movie did not do a good job of establishing them. This scene pays off that earlier scene where they say goodbye to each other by singing.
I apologize, Blood Beach. I never should have doubted your meticulous structure.
Harry and Kathy have a candlelight dinner, which leads to them sucking face in bed within thirty seconds. The pace is a problem with Blood Beach. Hoagy singing got more screentime than Harry and Kathy's reconciliation, which is somewhat pivotal considering the movie has been trying to get them together since the first five minutes.
On one hand, I'm glad the movie is moving on. On the other hand, it's a bit jarring the way Blood Beach goes from padding time to glossing over things. The story has a very loose focus. The movie strings scenes together in a way that serves as a narrative, but the scenes do not feel connected to each other by momentum.
For example, earlier Harry made dinner for his girlfriend. The movie showed the girlfriend getting sucked into the sand. Then Harry went to have dinner with Kathy. Momentum was lost as soon as Harry went to be with Kathy.
A more energetic sequence goes like this: Harry makes dinner for his girlfriend. His girlfriend gets sucked into the sand. Harry gets worried and goes out looking for his girlfriend. Harry finds his girlfriend's hat on the beach. Cut to the next morning. The geologists find the girlfriend's eye. Harry and Kathy then have a moment as Kathy leads him away from the scene to comfort him after Burt's insensitive comments.
The wife of Metal Detector Guy shows up at the police station to file a missing-person report. Burt takes her statement, which goes into strangely great detail. Her husband was wearing "nylon executive socks, the kind that come up high in case you cross your legs while wearing a suit."
She describes his shorts, which were blue-and-red mattress Bermudas. Does that mean you could sleep on them in a pinch? I've never heard the term mattress applied to shorts before.
I had an awesome pair of Bermudas once, grey with red and blue palm trees on them. I got them because a girl I liked had a pair with the same pattern, and I thought that would give me a reason to speak to her, and then we'd probably get married.
What can I say? I was twelve… and our matching Bermuda shorts never came up.
Anyway, Metal Detector Guy also wore a gold pinky ring, not smooth, with a tiger on it, along with a black-on-black, luminance-dial, seventeen-jewel SCUBA watch with matching black band. The man's shirt was minutely described, as well, but Burt had a hard time getting past the fact that the t-shirt's color was aquamarine.
I feel you, Burt. Who can comprehend a color named after a watery soldier?
Saxon goes on another mini-rant. Mini-rants are all Saxon does in Blood Beach. This time it is about all of the crackpots calling in with sightings of the creature and how all of the testimonies contradict each other. Some say the monster is large and hairy. Others say it is small and bald. Some say it has wings. Others say it doesn't have wings. You get the idea.
This movie has become stuck in a strange pattern of listing all of a sudden. We had the missing-person report that went into great detail listing clothing. Now we have this scene that lists all of the witness testimonies. Blood Beach then goes to yet another listing scene…
Burt is eating a hamburger at a stand. He starts talking to the hamburger-stand owner about how bad business has become since the monster showed up. This leads to Burt listing what could happen if hamburger-stand owners of the world united. It's like the screenwriter needed more pages to beef up the movie's length, and he added them by going back and inserting a bunch of lists to this section of the story.
Suddenly, a scream is heard. A guy who looks all chewed up crawls out of the sewer. Wait a minute, it's Metal Detector Guy! He escaped the monster.
Saxon is at the hospital and gives a statement to reporters about Metal Detector Guy. Metal Detector Guy is not much help as a witness. Doctors say he has considerable brain damage. Burt chimes in and helpfully adds:
"he is vegetable soup."
Also, Metal Detector Guy's tongue got ripped out.
That combination would make communication a bit of a challenge, no doubt.
Hoagy sees Bag Lady on the beach. Hoagy believes that is unsafe, so he follows the bag lady and cajoles her to come with him. Since this is 1981, the bag lady does not accuse Hoagy of stalking. She ignores him and climbs into her little nest under the pier instead. Hoagy tries to get her to come out by talking about how much the area has changed since he was a kid.
This little spiel makes Hoagy super-humanized. Why would the movie suddenly want to tug on my heartstrings and make me feel something for Hoagy?
What possible purpose could this emotional manipulation serve?
Aaaaaaaaand Hoagy gets sucked into the sand. Now I'm sad because the movie made him a person. Hoagy's sand-sucking scene is the best one. Hoagy begs the bag lady for help, but she merely watches him go under with an expression of pity on her face.
Remember when Harry searched under the pier for about five minutes of run-time? Now Kathy is searching under that same section of the pier, as well. Been there, done that.
Groaning, I am about to close my eyes and take a micro-nap when Kathy screams. She found a human head. Next, a whole bunch of body parts fall out of the ceiling.
What we have here is a creature that burrows underground but stores food in ceilings. At one time, I would have been unsure how to wrap my brain around this concept. Then I got married and began sharing a home with a woman. A monster that lives underground yet stores its food in ceilings is perfectly reasonable now. I have seen much more confusing things in marriage. As the great Al Bundy once said about women:
"When you share a bathroom with a woman, you got nylons hanging on the curtain rod, you got Nair where the toothpaste should be, a bottle of vinegar lying around. I mean, what do they do in there, make a salad?"
Now that everyone knows where the monster lives, they converge on the location the way the authorities converged on the Chrysler Building in Q: The Winged Serpent.
Saxon wants to rig the place with explosives and infrared cameras. Burt is all for the explosives part of the plan. Meanwhile, the doctor kneels down, mulls the area over and says:
"it must have laid here. You can almost see the shape of the thing on the ground."
All I see is sand and boards, but the actor playing the doctor is taking the old adage of there are no small parts, only small actors to heart. His name is Stefan Gierasch. Interestingly, he was also in High Plains Drifter, along with Jeremiah Johnson, The Hustler, Carrie and even the Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle Junior.
After her encounter with all of the body parts, Kathy is traumatized. Harry is on the scene to comfort her with coffee. Good call. Caffeine should take the edge off…
Back to the monster carnival. The whole town is there. Spotlights flit around like it's a movie premiere. Police put cameras and explosives all over the monster's lair. All of the cameras are hooked up to a bunch of monitors in a big trailer. The media is present and narrates the events. Plus, a moody saxophone plays over it all. The composer is still trying. Bless his heart.
Eventually, we enter the police trailer. The doctor gives a moody soliloquy, asking if people know of the variety of creatures below God's green earth, each innately capable of a remarkable act known as the REGENERATIVE PROCESS. What will happen if we blow it up? What might become of each Smithereen?
Earlier, I apologized to Blood Beach for the Hoagy/Girlfriend singing set-up, but I might retract that apology. I'm not sure you can foreshadow something like the REGENERATIVE PROCESS this close to the end. Chekov's Gun is introduced in the first act, not the final act.
Everyone continues to wait for the monster to show up. Saxon drinks coffee. Burt shares a bit of chocolate with Harry, which, again seems like something a couple of actors would come up with on the spot so they are at least doing something.
None of this works. It's not a good thing when the climax of this kind of movie is all of the main characters standing around and waiting. None of them are active.
Remember the climax to Tremors? That also had a blow-up-the-monster ending, but they built to it with clever gags and had the stampede concept setup from the beginning of the movie, plus there was lots of running, yelling, forgetting lighters and other things that gave the proceedings heaps of momentum.
Finally, the monster appears. You can't see anything on the infrared monitors but a red blob. The camera does cut to the real thing, however. The creature is basically a Sarlacc. It has a bulbous body and a flower mouth. It doesn't look great, but it's passable for a movie like this.
Despite protests from the doctor, Burt blows the beastie up. That also doesn't work story-wise. Harry and Kathy should have confronted and bested the monster. They were the main characters and the ones directly affected by its killings.
Instead, the unlikeable Burt character presses the detonator with his foot.
After the explosion, little bits of debris glitter in the air. It reminds me of the end of Die Hard when all of that paper is falling from the sky. The sparkles then transition to people playing on the beach. It's a nice edit.
Harry and Kathy close up her mom's house and drive off into the sunset.
Meanwhile, on the crowded beach, a boy digs in the sand. The camera pans from the boy to his mom as she makes him a sandwich. When the camera pans back to the boy, he is gone. The mom looks around and calls out his name.
Nice job, movie! That was a perfectly-executed gag.
The camera then roams around the beach to show a bunch of little craters, created from each Smithereen of the creature, appearing here and there.
All of the parts are here for a reasonably good coda, but it still doesn't work quite right. They needed to shake up the order. Start with showing little craters appearing here and there on the beach. Next, show the mom making the sandwich. Show her boy gone. Then show Harry and Kathy driving off into the sunset. As the camera follows their car down the street, pan over to see the mom wandering through the crowded beach calling out her boy's name.
We made it to the finish line. Blood Beach is not a great movie. Excellent concept, but its runtime is mostly made up of people talking and things vaguely orbiting the point of the movie — a monster that lives under sand and eats people.
Blood Beach was quasi-remade as The Sand in 2015. I have seen The Sand. Believe it or not, it's kind of fun, despite its dodgy CGI. The Sand is a SyFy Channel-type movie, but it does a better job with the concept.
Instead of being all over the place like Blood Beach, The Sand stays on a small stretch of beach with a small group of characters. Everyone is trapped there. The Sand basically is The Floor Is Lava Game played out as the characters try to escape the beach without touching the sand. Once you touch the sand, you're a goner.
If you want to watch a monster-under-stand-eating-people movie, skip Blood Beach and check out The Sand. The creators of Blood Beach were onto something for sure, but they couldn't dig the gold out of the concept. The Sand did it better. Tremors did it best. The Burrowers (2008) is okay. I've never seen Sand Sharks (2011). If it wasn't for Blood Beach, maybe we never would have gotten any of them. Blood Beach deserves recognition for that.
Then again, maybe Blood Beach was inspired by that episode of The Outer Limits with Adam West, where the astronauts fight those alien sand-shark things — The Invisible Enemy.
I like to think the Sarlacc came from Blood Beach, though. I don't care if I'm wrong. I have precious little to enjoy about Star Wars at this stage. At least give me that!
To Like us on Facebook Click Here
To Follow us on Twitter Click Here
See our YouTube channel Click Here


text:
Nikko Tamozawa Imperial Villa Memorial Park
Attraction 8-27 Honcho Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture 321-1434 Japan Published on: 27-02-2016
|1 hours 30 mins
|First-time visit
Must see
Nikko Tamozawa Imperial Villa Memorial Park is good for
- Highly recommended by fellow travellers.
Image copyrights belong to authors
Why Nikko Tamozawa Imperial Villa Memorial Park is special ?
Tamozawa Imperial Villa is one of the largest remaining wooden buildings in Japan. The interior of the villa is a curious mix of Japanese and Western styles. Many floors are carpeted, and elaborate chandeliers hang from the ceilings. Yet the villa's Japanese elements, such as sliding paper doors and tatami flooring are prominent as well.
Although still impressive in size and grandeur, Tamozawa Imperial Villa currently occupies only one third of its original area. It now functions as a museum and memorial park, and is well equipped with multilingual displays for visitors. The manicured Japanese style garden, that surrounds the villa, has several maple trees which offer autumn colors usually around late October and early November.
Source: http://www.japan-guide.com/
What to explore at Nikko Tamozawa Imperial Villa Memorial Park?
In stark contrast to Nikkō's temples and shrines is the Zen-like simplicity of the beautifully restored Nikkō Tamozawa Imperial Villa (日光田母沢御用邸記念公園). A ten-minute walk west of the Shin-kyō bridge along the main road, this 106-room residence, surrounded by manicured gardens (including a 400-year-old weeping cherry tree), combines buildings of widely different heritage, some parts dating back to 1632. Three emperors have lived in it, including Akihito, who was evacuated here during World War II. As you stroll the corridors, take time to appreciate the intricate details and the gorgeous screen paintings.
Another tranquil escape is close at hand. From the villa, take the road heading south down to the Daiya-gawa; five minutes' walk west along the river is the Ganman-bashi, a small bridge across from which begins the riverside pathway through the Ganman-ga-fuchi abyss (含満ヶ淵). Part of this walk, along the attractive and rocky river valley, is lined by the Narabi-jizō, some fifty decaying stone statues of Jizō, the Buddhist saint of travellers and children.
Source: http://www.roughguides.com/
How to get to Nikko Tamozawa Imperial Villa Memorial Park?
From JR or Tobu Nikko Station, take a Tobu bus bound for Chuzenjiko Onsen or Yumoto Onsen and get off at the Tamozawa bus stop. The bus ride takes about 10 minutes and costs 310 yen one way.
Tamozawa Imperial Villa can also be reached in about a 20 minute walk from Toshogu Shrine.
Source: http://www.japan-guide.com/
Selling points
- Wonderful architectural study
- Antidote to fancy shrines
- A serene beauty
- How the royals lived
- Very nice and modest imperial residense
8-27 Honcho Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture 321-1434 Japan
Tips for you
Having been to Nikko twice before, I was surprised to learn of the Tamozawa (it's in no foreign guide books I know and even Japanese friends have never heard of it) from the owner of the Nikko minshuku where I stayed. As noted, a helpful antidote to funerary shrines. You can see the Tamozawa (up hill by bus or a walk from Toshogu) after seeing Toshogu and the Taiyuenbyo in the a.m. Having been in the Tokyo Imperial Palace, this is close to what you'll see there. Plain decoration. But an amalgamation of buildings from the Meiji, Taisho and Showa eras, with a very nice garden to see from both inside and outside. There's an audio guide which I wish I t can't vouch for.


text:
Add a 'AddedDate' field for pastes
With the current API, for the paste model it is mentioned that the paste date is only included if it is known, and that this value may be null.
Can you please consider adding a 'date reported' field to the paste model, which would simply be the timestamp of when a given breach is reported by HIBP. That would give a usable reference point as to the possible age / currency of the paste, in the event that the regular date value isn't known.
This would also be consistent with the breach model in the API, that differentiates between 'BreachDate' and 'AddedDate'. So in the pastes model, the 'PasteDate' might be null, but the 'AddedDate' would never be null
So I thought this was a good idea, until I looked at the underlying schema I'd implemented. tl;dr – I don't capture and store that information in a fashion that makes this request feasible. Sorry!
Anonymous commented
No worries, thanks for the reply Troy


text:
As biotechnology is an emerging field, tell us about your association with the field and what made you establish Exome?
We were always ahead of the generation in terms of path-breaking technologies. Exome is a sister company of our 23-Year-old well-established and renowned Company for Animal Health care- Intron Life Sciences.
At the time when people were struggling with a basic understanding of biotechnologies and how microbes and microorganisms can be beneficial and innovative for these areas, we had very well-established strategies to enter the market.
Today, we can claim that Exome Lifesciences products are one of the best in the market towards adapting an approach for organic farming.
We have the customer's sentiments towards organically grown agriculture products. However, organic fertilizer is still a grey area, and our products are a means to bridge a gap for the same.
Tell us about the sustainable solutions that your company offers for agriculture?
Exome offers sustainable solutions for Agriculture ranging from Soil Cleansers, Health and growth Management, and disease management
Soil Cleansers – these are the products required to cleanse the soil. Over years we have exploited our mother earth by using harmful chemicals in the name of fertilizers which has caused the land to go through rough phases like increase in pH, soil quality deterioration, the top 15-30 cm of soil is filled with unwanted chemicals, a thick layer of salt. Extensive usage of fertilizer has caused intense damage to the land and apart from killing the eggs and larvae of unwanted pests they have also damaged the soil for survivability of farmer-friendly earthworms which plays a crucial part in soil health.
The soil cleanser when used cleanses all the above anomalies and reforms the soil so that farmers can gradually move towards healthy and organic farming
Disease, Health, and growth Management- Crops, fruits, Vegetables at every stage are susceptible to virus and bacterial diseases and they need self-immunity to withstand these conditions.
While fighting with these bacterial and viral diseases, the plant requires strength to grow and to grow with enhanced organoleptic properties to help the plant develop the required pulp, taste, look and feel and textures
Exome products help in developing the self-resistance towards the bacteria and viral disease with its disease management products and help enhance the organoleptic properties with its growth management products
The overall combination of products when used in proper combination gives the best results, higher yield as compared to chemical usage, and higher quality thereby not harm the plants/ crops
Our motto:
Vibrant Life | Sustainable future
• No toxic chemicals
• No residue on crops/plants
• No harmful Chemicals
Immunity is a dynamic subject with unavoidable implications in modern biology & medicine. What path-breaking research is your company conducting in the field of immunity?
It's a very important question and something to be thought about seriously.
If you see, when we start taking one medication and then if we repeatedly take the same, our body becomes immune to it. Instead of this, we should have our inner immunity build to fight these diseases.
In the same way, while pouring excess pesticides, fungicides, and insecticides into the plant the bacteria, fungi, and the virus become immune to these chemicals and the intensity of attack multiplies over time and hence, the crop is not of good quality.
Exome Life Sciences products are revolutionary in a way that we don't use any "Cides" in our product. No toxic ingredients. They are developed using very advanced and proprietary technology which helps the plant develop an immune system to sustain these different attacks.
Tell us about the trials conducted by your company? What were the results of these trials?
We have amazing trial plots and wherever we grow our business we start with trials. We have successful trial data for Maharashtra, Telangana, AP, Karnataka
Internationally we have done trials in Africa with amazing results as below:
• Cabbage – Highest yield recorded in Nyandarua, Kenya with a maximum of 83.4 tons/ha
• Capsicum (variety Commandant F1)- highest yield at Kirinyaga, Kenya 26.12 tons/ha
• We have local trails where you can see that the organoleptic properties have been enhanced along with the yield: We observed Sugarcane yield to grow from 18 brick to 22 brick using exome product. Similarly, we have a lot of testimonials for Watermelon, Cotton, Sunflower, Paddy, and many more…
How do you manage the finance of this company? What are the constraints with regards to capital management for this company?
We started very small and have been growing with a rapid phase and we are meeting our fund requirements almost through internal accruals and own funds. However, when we launch ourselves pan India and more international markets we will be going in for external funding.
Tell us about the application of Bioinformatics and Artificial Intelligence in Biotechnology? Does your company utilize Artificial Intelligence Technology? If yes, how?
We do not use BI and AI at this point. However, we realize the power of bioinformatics and AI and will have some plans for future
How important is feedback from clients to you? What feedback have you received from farmers who use your technology?
Feedback is the backbone for the success of our company. In the past few years, we have realized the impact that chemical fertilizers have done and when sometimes the products did not work as expected, we got the farmer's feedback, and our R&D department did the intense analysis to modify the product for all types of conditions and usage. Hence, Farmer's feedback is very important.
So far, we have received amazing feedbacks like:
1. After using our soil cleansing product: Trusoil and Nemanil a farmer was filled with tears seeing earthworms in his land after decades and realized his mistake of using harmful fertilizers
2. Another interesting feedback we received was from the farmer was, after eating the left-over leaves of crops his cows and buffaloes denied eating the leaves from his other chemical used farm. This is the best example to show the difference between exome and other products
3. We receive a lot of good feedback from our farmers and keep posting on our LinkedIn and other social media page. Please follow us there
What are the prospects of Exome?
We have conducted amazing and successful trials in Africa where we are an instant hit in the market. The Demand is more than the supply there and we are increasing our production capacity
In India, we are tied up with Coromandel with exclusivity in Telangana, Karnataka, and AP states where we are gradually making our mark with record-breaking sales year on year
We are in the process of opening Exome shop in various parts of Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, and MP to retail our products directly to farmers.
In the coming future, we are sure to spread our wings in other countries and other states of India
Tell us about yourself. What were your experience in academia and your achievements?
Exome is a manifestation of collective personal commitment for safe food, passion for a safer environment, and deeply rooted drive for quality, sustainability, and innovation of the promoters Mr. P S Murali Krishna who is an entrepreneur with many responsible enterprises to his credit, I am an expert in business intelligence with exposure to business environments across various geographies, Mr. Pavan Kumar Velpur a biotechnologist with expertise in various niche technologies and Mr. P R Suresh an agriculture scientist with thorough expertise in various techno commercial aspects of agriculture and deep knowledge of the latest technological advances across the globe. The collective passion, commitment, and zeal of the promoters are behind Exome investing and sustaining research, in vitro and in vivo trials for close to 14 years before the company was formally incorporated and products were commercially launched.
Tell us about the mechanism of action of TETRAPOWER™?
TETRAPOWER is a balanced blend of a biodegradable organic mixture of bio carrier potash, bioavailable amino nitrates with phosphates, traces of bio carrier/amino impregnated Zinc and Magnesium fortified with microbial peptides. TETRAPOWER is finely articulated for the quick transportation of Bio potash and Bio phosphates, TETRAPOWER safeguards the plants during their life cycle from deficiencies of potassium and phosphate when applied.
Some of the Key Benefits for using TETRAPOWER are:
• Enhances the production and concentration of chlorophyll and increases the rate of new leaf formation and accelerates the plant growth
• Reduces the amount of nutrient supplementation required for plant growth and protects plants against the toxic effects of minerals and fertilizers
• Accelerates the rate of root formation in the plant
• Eradicates the soil pathogens effectively
• Unique formulation makes the active biominerals completely available to the plants
• Is easily absorbed from roots as well as from leaves
• Has a biologically active growth regulated carrier
|Year of Founding:
|Funding Information:
|Self Funded
|Founding Members:
|P S M Krishna
|Office Locations:
|2nd Floor, Vamsiram Jyothi Celesta, Plot no.66, Kavuri Hills, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad 500033, Telangana, India
|Company Strength:
|+100 Employees
|Company Logo:


text:
illegal adj.
VERBS be | become | remain | declare sth, deem sth, judge, make sth, pronounce sth, rule sth Their action was judged illegal by the International Court. The sale of these knives should be made illegal.
ADV. highly | absolutely, quite, strictly, totally | allegedly | technically Prize-fighting remained popular, though technically illegal, until the 1880s.


text:
Riding a motorcycle is fun, but it can also be risky because of the actions of others on the road. Unlike other vehicles, you don't have much protection if you crash. Additionally, riding a motorcycle can be dangerous on roads with a lot of potholes or if you're riding in unsafe weather conditions. Below are some tips for staying safe while riding.
If you or your loved one has been injured in a motorcycle accident in Wisconsin, working with a Milwaukee motorcycle accident attorney is in your best interest.
At Natasha Misra Law, we are equipped to offer the guidance you need to know whether you are entitled to compensation. We will provide the representation you need to pursue compensation if you qualify. Contact us today to schedule a consultation.
Car accidents can result in serious injuries and even death. Even without broken bones or internal injuries, less severe injuries like cuts and lacerations can leave accident victims with permanent scars. If you experience scrapes or cuts in a car accident and need stitches, you may be entitled to compensation for your injuries. Here is a brief overview of what to expect if you are injured in a car accident and require stitches.
A laceration is is a deep cut that tears through the skin. In a car accident, skin can be cut by impact with interior components of the car or debris. As a result, foreign material, such as glass shards from a broken windshield, can enter the body.
If you are cut in a car accident, you should assess whether your injuries require emergency medical intervention or if you can treat the wound at home. Deep cuts, debris-filled wounds that are difficult to clean, and cuts with uncontrollable bleeding require medical attention. Stitches, staples, or steri strips may be used to close the wound. You may also need a Tetanus shot or other medication to protect you from wound-related illness or infection.
After you receive appropriate medical treatment, you should promptly file a claim with the responsible party's insurance company. It is important to keep a detailed record of all medical treatment, including evaluations, medication, and other accident-related expenses. This record should include photographic documentation of your injuries before and after medical care, as well as throughout the healing process. You should also ask the medical professional providing treatment if your injuries will result in permanent scarring or require scar revision down the road.
An experienced personal injury attorney can assist you with compiling this information to ensure you receive the compensation you are entitled to, sparing you from personal involvement in the back-and-forth dealings with the often difficult insurance companies.
Untreated lacerations can result in scarring, disfigurement, and even fatal blood loss. If you have a laceration that is more severe than the routine scrape or cut you treat at home, you should seek a medical evaluation to determine the best course of treatment. Stitches are a common form of treatment that promotes healing and reduces the risk of infection by closing the wound, protecting underlying tissues, and even reduces scarring.
You can typically receive compensation for any medical bills, lost wages, or other expenses resulting from the car accident injuries. If injuries result in scarring, you are entitled to compensation for this permanent injury. The amount you are entitled to varies based on the severity of your injuries, impact on your work and home life, and total medical expenses. Emergency room visits are expensive and any treatment rendered there can be costly. Depending on the nature of your injury, you may be unable to work or your injuries may otherwise impede your day-to-day activities.
If you have been injured in a car accident, an experienced personal injury attorney can assist you with understanding what claims you may have against the responsible party and can help you determine how much compensation you may stand to recover. Contact our office today to schedule a free consultation.
My law practice is dedicated to helping people who have suffered injuries in accidents which were not their fault. Born and raised in Milwaukee, I come from a family of medical professionals. My background and experience help me understand and represent individuals injured in accidents.


text:
Gurugram: Setting an example of communal harmony, Sikhs of Gurugram on Wednesday offered space in gurudwaras for holding Friday prayer.
According to a report published in Hindustan Times, Gurdwara Guru Singh Sabha which has five gurdwaras under its aegis has said that Muslims can utilize the space for offering prayers. It has been further said that the doors of gurdwaras are open for all communities.
Gurdwara Guru Singh Sabha president Sherdil Singh Sandhu said that as Muslims are facing problems in offering Friday prayers due to lack of space, they can utilize space in Gurudwaras.
Vice president of the sabha JP Singh said that the Sikh community is always ready to help other communities. Gurdwara premises are open for anyone who wants to offer prayers, he added.
Over 2000 people can be accommodated in the premises of five gurdwaras.
Meanwhile, Gurgaon's Sadar Bazaar Gurudwara has also offered space to Muslims for offering Namaz.
Recently, a man, Akshay Rao offered the roof of his house for Friday namaz. He said, "I offered the land to the Muslim community as it was facing problems post objections raised by right wing outfits".
Right-wing outfits try to disrupt Friday prayers
In Sector 12 area in Gurugram, right-wing outfits have been trying to disrupt the Friday prayers for the past few weeks. On October 29, many members of the outfits were arrested.
In 2018, the district administration designated 37 sites in the city for Muslims to offer Friday prayers following which there were protests by Hindu groups.
Earlier, the group had disrupted one of the sites in Sector 47.


text: 55201 T_MAMMAL Entity Published / External 55162 Chesapeake Bay and the Outer Coasts of Maryland and Virginia 2016 ESI TERRESTRIAL MAMMAL Polygons Data Set Completed The T_MAMMAL table contains links to the attribute information for the vector polygons in this data set representing terrestrial mammal distributions. Note that all attribute information is stored in the data tables, described below. See the Entity_and_Attribute_Overview for a detailed description of how the primary attribute tables relate to the geographic data layers. Also see the Browse_Graphic section for a link to the entity-relationship diagram, which describes the relationships between attribute tables in the ESI data structure. Loaded by FGDC Metadata Uploader, batch 10436, 02-28-2018 15:23 RARNUM NUMBER 9 9 Yes Yes Active A 9-digit identifier linking the record to the BIOFILE table. | Description Source: NOAA ESI Guidelines 285000001 - 285003327 gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:55201 David Moe Nelson 2018-12-11T16:26:43 SysAdmin InPortAdmin 2022-08-09T17:11:43 2019-02-14 Office of Response and Restoration ORR 1002 Public No 2019-02-14 1 Year 2020-02-14


text:
Apr 14, 2017
Engage Pixel
Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Captain Kaon attempts to recapture the gameplay of retro games like Thrust and Gravitar. Developed by Engage Pixel, Captain Kaon doesn't hold your hand. It's control scheme screams "retro" as you control axis and thrust, making for antique flying. But when you pull off when you set out to do it can feel satisfying. Captain Kaon is a game made with love for people who love 80's twin stick shooters, but doesn't offer much for anyone else.
The missons revolve around you navigating your ship through the map as you destroy enemies, doors and compounds. The controls take a lot of time to get used to, so thank whoever that smashing into the ground or walls doesn't damage your ship. As you complete missions you will secure sectors of the planet, rewarding you resources. These can be spent to auto-complete new missions as well as being prerequisites for later ones. You can force the previous completed sectors to give you more resources, but this is met with resistance from the miners, resulting in defense missions. Gameplay is pretty lackluster, and maybe fighting the controls is supposed to part of the experience, usually it just turns into having no fun. Not that there isn't fun to be had in Captain Kaon, it's just few and far between.
The graphics are retro inspired I guess. It looks to me more like a New Grounds flash game, or something I would find on a sketchy website after googling "fun free games". Animation is smooth and the explosions are what you'd expect. I think the art direction is trying to cash in on an era of nostalgia that I was not a part of, so maybe that is why I don't really have a feeling either way. Never did I think the game looked bad, but it never looked good either. I guess it's the definition of blah.
The story is classic 80's fare as well. I'm going to literally copy and past what is on the steam page, because that is the story.
The overcrowded Earth has found a new home among the stars, a clutch of habitable worlds in the Regulus sector. But this new paradise did not last long as a strange alien force began a relentless assault on their colonies. This threat to human expansion could not go unchallenged.
In response the Earth has sent the finest ships in the Interstellar Navy to defend the colonists and protect its interests. Left behind are the old and the out of date, led by the flagship Argus. A small fleet of relics to defend our only home.
Hot headed and insubordinate, Captain Talia 'Kaon' was facing a court martial when war broken out. Hoping this new conflict would give her the chance for salvation, she instead found herself left behind. With the Argus operating on a skeleton crew, she has been assigned as its sole gunship pilot.
In the midst of this uncertainty the miners of Ceres revolt against Earth rule, refusing to supply the fleet with the deuterium fuel it sorely needs. Without it the fleet in Regulus will be unable to fight and the Earth will become vulnerable. Only Captain Kaon can fly her gunship through the twisting tunnels beneath Ceres surface and fight the revolt.
Man that sounds cool, but none of this is really shown through the game. Most of the time playing you're not even thinking about the story as you struggle to fly the ship.
Captain Kaon isn't a terrible game, it's just not good. Terrible controls, or maybe me just sucking, gimped the game. Even so, there isn't a fun gameplay hook baked in. Luckly Captain Kaon is priced accordingly, coming in at $6.99 USD. If you need to get your 80's nostalgia, twin stick shooter trip then look no further, but remember there is a reason they don't make games like this anymore.
+ Nostalgia
+ Price
- Gameplay
- Graphics
- Controls
Captain Kaon is the epitome of meh. With awful controls, this can be an endearing nostalgia trip for some.


text:
John Deere Mini Vehicle Set
Style #: 35265BP
- John Deere Mini Vehicle Set
- 20 Piece
- Each Vehicle is 3"
- Free Rolling Wheels
- 5+Years
This 20 piece John Deere value set includes everything you need to start your own miniature farm! Each set includes a variety of tractors, trucks, implements, and horses. Each vehicle is approximately three inches long and features free rolling wheels and die cast chassis. Age 5+


text:
Dilbert Confronts Lulu Comic Strips - Page 10
Search Filters
- 2022
- 2021
- 2020
- 2019
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016
- 2015
- 2014
- 2013
- 2012
- 2011
- 2010
- 2009
- 2008
- 2007
- 2006
- 2005
- 2004
- 2003
- 2002
- 2001
- 2000
- 1999
- 1998
- 1997
- 1996
- 1995
- 1994
- 1993
- 1992
- 1991
- 1990
- 1989
1000 Results for Dilbert Confronts Lulu
View 91 - 100 results for dilbert confronts lulu comic strips. Discover the best "Dilbert Confronts Lulu" comics from Dilbert.com.
Friday November 03,
Tags Dilbert, Dogbert, terrarium, failure, weather, patterns, climatic, experiment
Dilbert leans over a table looking at a glass container. Dilbert says to Dogbert, "My terrarium experiment is a failure." Dilbert continues, "By now it should have started its own self-contained weather patterns." Dilbert continues, "After all this waiting, it's just so . . . so . . ." Dogbert asks, "Anti-climatic?"
Saturday November 04,
Tags Dilbert, Dogbert, world economy, gold, rock, civilization, money
Dilbert and Dogbert sit on a fence outdoors. Dogbert asks, "Isn't it stupid that the world economy is based on gold?" Dilbert replies, "Yeah . . . No matter how advanced civilization gets, we still use rocks for money." Dogbert says, "The dumb part is using a rock that's so hard to find."
Monday November 06,
Tags love & dating, Dilbert, poem, woman, love, legs
Dilbert sits at his desk writing and Dogbert watches him. Dilbert says, "I'm writing a poem for a woman I just met. Women love poems." Dilbert reads the poem entitled, "Your Legs." Dilbert reads, "How wonderful your legs are, / You can even ask my mutt . . ." Dilbert continues to read, "'Cause if you didn't have 'em, / the ground would hit your butt."
Tuesday November 07,
Tags Dilbert, lunch money, data, diskettes, school, bully, aging
A large man enters Dilbert's cubicle and says, "Yo, Dilbert, give me your lunch money or I'll erase your data diskettes." Dilbert replies, "Touch my data and I'll erase any mention of you from the main payroll computer." Beads of sweat flies from the man's head and he says, "No . . . Please, I'm sorry." Dilbert turns toward the reader and says, "Nothing is more pathetic than an aging school bully." The man says, "I took shop; I can make you some nice bookends."
Wednesday November 08,
Tags Dilbert, Dogbert, talking, world hunger, policies, bumper sticker, debate
Dilbert says to Dogbert, "I've decided it's time to stop talking about world hunger and start DOING something!" Dilbert continues, "Let others debate policies. My time to act is now." Dogbert asks, "You're going to buy a smarmy bumper sticker, aren't you?" Dilbert replies, "Darn straight."
Thursday November 09,
Tags Dilbert, politeness, door, late, sorry
Dilbert approaches a man holding a door open and thinks, "I wish this guy wouldn't try to be polite and hold the door." Dilbert reaches for the door and thinks, "I'm at that awkward distance where I should lunge forward so he doesn't have to hold the door too long." Dilbert says, "Oh, thank you." The man says as he walks away, "Great, now I'm late." Dilbert says, "I lunged as fast as I could. Sorry."
Friday November 10,
Tags Dilbert, neighbor, participate, talking
Dilbert walks down the sidewalk. A man walking toward him says, "Hey, how are you? What's happenin'?" The man says, "Good to see you. I'm fine. Great, great. Take care." Dilbert thinks, "I guess there was no real need for me to participate in that."
Saturday November 11,
Tags Dilbert, woman, dates, love, dating, Dogbert
Dilbert and a woman sit at a table in a restaurant. Dilbert thinks as he reaches for the check, "All of us cosmopolitan guys use credit cards to pay for dinner." Dilbert looks at the receipt and thinks, "Uh-oh . . . I never know which part of the paperwork to keep. I know something gets ripped up . . ." Back at home, Dilbert says to Dogbert, ". . . And by the time I noticed the tablecloth was tangled up with the carbon paper, I had ripped both of them to bits." Dogbert asks, "And that's wrong?"
Monday November 13,
Tags Dilbert, mugged, police, artist, expression, frightened
Dilbert stands at a counter talking to a police officer. Dilbert, who has a bump on his head, says, "I was mugged, but I got a good look at him." The officer says, "I'll get a police artist." Dilbert and the police artist sit at a table. The artist sketches as Dilbert says, ". . . A big head, and kind of a frightened expression . . ." Dilbert looks at the drawing and says, "Perfect. Looks just like me. Now let's do the mugger. He was sort of off to the left here."
Tuesday November 14,
Tags Dilbert, Dogbert, writing, affirmations, thoery, objective, achieved, garden, slug
Dogbert stands at a desk writing on a piece of paper. Dilbert asks, "What's all the writing for?" Dogbert replies, "It's called 'affirmations.'" Dogbert explains, "The theory is that if you write down your objective fifteen times a day, the objective will be achieved, no matter how unlikely." Dilbert reads the affirmation and says, "But you've written 'Dilbert will be eaten by a garden slug.'" Dogbert replies, "It's all I could think of."


text:
Use tab to navigate through the menu items.
Log in
Watch Rhea's video for "Venom"
Rhea Raj
Singer / Producer / Songwriter / Dancer
- Paper Magazine
The 21 year old pop artist, songwriter, producer, and dancer first fell in love with music in her mother's home studio, where she learned classical Indian and Bollywood dance from the age of 2.
Exposure to global music is a main source of inspiration for Rhea, who blends powerful pop sounds with textures drawn from her international background.
She continues to feel through her body and uses dance to bring her music to life on stage and on screen. At 15 years old, Rhea auditioned for the farewell season of American Idol. Her performance aired and was praised by Jennifer Lopez, "Your voice matches your vibe, matches how you look… it's all working for me."
Rhea's YT covers were featured on MTV, Glamour Magazine, and shared by artists like Bebe Rexha. She spent the next couple years toplining major label EDM records, and collaborating with artists, rappers, and producers from around the world. After signing her first publishing deal, Rhea was named the 2020 Songwriters Hall of Fame x BMI award recipient. Her singles "Venom", Atmosphere" and "MVP" premiered on Rolling Stone, and her music has been featured in BBC Radio 1, Billboard, multiple editorial playlists like New Music Friday, and gone viral on TikTok.
Also the founder of Misschief Records, Rhea Raj has a unique sound, persona, and international appeal that makes her an artist to watch out for.,
Save to DISCO


text:
Brazilian striker Carlos Vinícius will wear the number 45 shirt for Tottenham having joined Spurs on loan from Benfica this week.
The forward -known as V95- has previously worn the number 95 shirt at every club he's played at -except for French outfit Monaco- as a tribute to his idol Cristiano' CR7' Ronaldo.
That dream has been dashed, however, with the Premier League willing to reject any attempt to claim the number.
That is because it goes against their rules that dictate squad numbers must be consecutive and close to the current highest number.
The highest number in the Tottenham squad at present is 47 and is worn by former Leeds winger Jack Clarke.
It's not the first time a player with Benfica connections has had squad number trouble in the Premier League.
When Portuguese midfielder Renato Sanches joined Swansea City on loan, he had intended to adopt the number 85.
How to get our daily Tottenham newsletter
Why should you sign up?
In each football.london Tottenham bulletin, we'll bring you the latest breaking news, transfer features and comment pieces, as well as the key talking points for fans.
We'll also send special newsletters when big stories break or there's a special event happening.
How do you sign up?
It's easy and only takes seconds. Simply type your email address into the box at the top of this article - or any article in the Spurs section of football.london in fact - labelled 'Get the biggest daily stories by email' and click 'Subscribe'.
And that's it, you're all set. If you decide later you no longer wish to receive the emails, hit the unsubscribe link in the newsletters - but we don't think you'll want to. For more details, click here.
He was subsequently forced to use the number 35 after the Premier League informed the Swans that it went against their rules.
Vinícius' preferred number is a reference to his birth year having been born in 1995. The striker also played alongside Man City star Gabriel Jesus at youth level.
Spurs have an option to make his loan move permanent next summer.


text:
Vital Realities That You Need To Learn about Blogging.
The look of a blog has evolved in time, yet there are some criteria that continue to be. A header with menus, sidebar of preferred web content, and also footer with relevant links are common features. Each product has its importance. Right here are some tips for ensuring your blog site's appearance. A regularly-updated blog is more interesting than one without updates. Ensure to update your web content regularly as well as consist of a call to action. Blogging aids you share your expertise and also advertise your brand, so maintain it relevant.
One of the best challenges for bloggers today is creating material. While creating web content is very important, the material must also be informative as well as useful to your target market. Web content production is tough with billions of energetic web sites, however extra is not necessarily far better. Even more time must be invested in planning, creating, and also advertising content as opposed to simply focusing on advertising and marketing. If you're a brand-new blog owner, do not really feel frightened; it's completely typical to make errors in the very early days. read more
Utilizing a blog to generate web content is an effective method to drive web traffic to your website. It not only permits you to supply beneficial info to your target market, yet likewise establishes you as an expert. Consumers have a tendency to buy from relied on sources, as well as blogs aid you build a complying with. You can also use a blog site to promote your brand as well as rise sales. You can additionally utilize a blog site as a different earnings resource via affiliate items or advertising.
The growth of blog writing has actually produced numerous brand-new chances for interaction. Individuals utilize blog sites to engage in new partnerships and also to find out about the lives of others. Blog writing has provided individuals the possibility to communicate with individuals from different cultures and nations, as well as with those in rare hobbies and occupations. Blog writing has actually additionally allowed people to share information that was formerly only readily available offline. So, if you want to reveal on your own in a purposeful method, blogging can be the response.
As a result of its appeal, several small businesses have started using blogs as a means to advertise their products and services. Typical internet sites, such as those of celebs as well as famous people, are typically composed of pages and also give a business existence. With the help of a blog site, businesses can enhance their seo. Blog writing additionally supplies a feed function that informs readers of brand-new material. This can increase your site's online search engine rankings.
Blog sites started as natural extensions of computers. These networks were produced by individuals that wanted to share their expertise about various subjects. Depending on the specific niche, a blog can be centered on a certain area or pastime. For instance, a travel blog can have pointers on where to stay in a country, how to prepare delicious dishes, and a lot more. There are unlimited opportunities, and also you can also blog regarding your favored technology. You'll never lack things to blog around. learn more
Blog sites can be found in all different sizes and shapes. Some are personal, while others are simply company. An individual blog is a great way to share your thoughts. You can utilize a blog to share your life experience with others, or you can earn money by selling the web content of your blog. The net has actually made blogging popular, so it deserves giving it a try. Yet keep in mind, you can constantly begin a blog of your very own, but see to it you have sufficient content to maintain the task.
Blogs started out as on the internet journals for individuals. In 1994, individuals started publishing personal online journals. Currently, any person can create an on-line diary or journal. Info is shown backwards sequential order, with the current articles appearing on top. A blog site can be exclusive or public, however the proprietor can also restrict that can review it. As well as, if you really feel a blog is personal, you can constantly set the settings to make it available for others. So, if you have an interest in learning more concerning the art of blogging, you can begin a blog today!
In its early days, blogs were originally individual journals, but nowadays, blog sites have actually broadened well beyond the personal realm. Some are currently focused around a particular topic, pastime, or area. A blog site can be as straightforward as a journal, a travel guide, or a personal finance source. There's no limitation to what you can share on your blog. As well as you can keep including material as well as updating your blog site regularly. The opportunities are limitless.
A blog site can be totally free, paid, or both. Blog writer and WordPress are cost-free, but it's better to invest in a domain and also organizing solution to construct a much more specialist photo. You can even start a blog based upon obscure pastimes. The vital point to remember is that you need to keep upgrading your blog typically with brand-new material to keep your viewers interested. If you're uncertain what subject to blog site about, consider a content schedule or composing routine to keep your blog site fresh.
Among one of the most preferred niches for blogging is fashion. Fashion-related blogs frequently call for great content. Generally, a style blog is run by a fashion specialist or passionate blog owner. No matter your specific niche, style blogs work due to the fact that they can involve prospective customers. As well as due to the fact that they are generally run by one person, the fashion-centric area can anticipate to see top quality web content. But just how do you develop a style blog site? By adhering to these ideas, you'll be well on your means to blogging success. read more info here
Blogging is a preferred type of online publishing that started as an individual online journal. Initially, blog sites were used to publish information and talk about the web. They are presented in reverse chronological order, with one of the most recent post showing up on top of the web page. Commonly, blogs concentrate on a single topic, although others are more diverse or are individual journals. There are countless blogs today, so there's constantly something new to uncover.


text:
"Contrary to popular belief, dyeing your hair is not a hindrance to success, but poverty is" – thus the viral words of Rene L. Principe, Jr. who graduated cum laude at University of the Philippines in Diliman with a degree of Bachelor of Science in Applied Physics. Principe was among the 2,892 students who graduated in UP's first virtual commencement exercises last July 26.
In his viral Facebook post, Rene narrated his family's journey to survive extreme poverty eating restaurant leftover scraps for breakfast, lunch, and dinner to become a Siyentista ng Bayan! His family migrated to Cagayan de Oro after losing their home in Compostella Valley because of a fire. His father works as a security guard while his mother sells vegetables and delicacies. Now, Rene refuses to glorify extreme poverty that he went through because it's the same poverty which hinders millions of Filipinos access to quality education.
Read more of his viral post below.


text:
Curtis Sliwa, radio talk show host, and businessman Fernando Mateo traded barbs and accusations while promoting their successes and qualifications.
77 WABC radio hosted the event and carried it live at WABCradio.com.
Incumbent Mayor Bill de Blasio is leaving office because of term limits.
Sliwa, the founder of the Guardian Angels citizens street patrol, pounced first. He called Mateo a "de Blasio Republican," accusing him of raising money for the controversial two-term mayor, a Democrat.
"You raised money for him, straw-purchased donors, which is illegal," Sliwa charged. "You helped elect the man. Then you watched him destroy this city that I love, and everyone in this room loves."
Mateo, founder of the New York Federation of Taxi Drivers, fired back angrily.
"Curtis, shame on you," said the Dominican-born Mateo. "I've known you 45 years, and I'm ashamed of what you just said because you've lied. It's fake news."
Sliwa was referring to a 2016 fundraising scandal in which Mateo admitted he raised campaign money for the mayor but funneled it through an unemployed Brooklyn woman, which he hoped would help her get a job. Otherwise, he said he detests de Blasio.
State and federal prosecutors investigated a possible illegal "straw" donation in which a person uses money from another person to make a political contribution in their own name. Mateo countered that the Brooklyn-born Sliwa concocted fake publicity stunts to promote himself and the Guardian Angels. Sliwa did not directly respond to the charge during the debate, but he has publicly admitted in the 1990s to several hoaxes.
Other Republicans on the primary ballot are Sara Tirschwell, an investor and distressed financing advisor, Adam Oremland, a lawyer, and perennial mayoral candidate Abbey Laurel-Smith. The winner of the GOP primary will face nominees from other parties. A crowded field of around two dozen Democrats are vying for their party's nomination.
Bill Pepitone, a retired New York police officer and a registered Republican, is the nominee for the Conservative Party of New York State. He also has the endorsement of the Conservative Party's organizations in all five boroughs. With no opponent in his party's primary, Pepitone has a clear path to the election-day ballot in November.
Mateo and Sliwa were the only candidates in the debate because they garnered front-runner status via their endorsements.
Mateo won the backing of the Republican parties of Manhattan, Bronx, and Queens. Sliwa has endorsements from GOP parties of Staten Island and Brooklyn.
'Broken windows' and Anti-Crime Unit
On Wednesday, both candidates dressed in crisp, dark suits, although Sliwa also wore his trademark red beret, the Guardian Angels' official headgear.
They did not differ much on other issues, including the economy, public safety, and education.
Both candidates blamed de Blasio for allowing violent crime to grow over the past year by telling police officers to "stand down," especially during the last summer's demonstrations over the killing in Minneapolis of George Floyd while in police custody.
Mateo said he believed most protesters behaved honorably, but rioters infiltrated the demonstrations to loot, break, and steal. Sliwa said he stood with the Guardian Angels against the violence and suffered a broken jaw.
The candidates pledged to restore morale among the rank-and-file police officers. Both favored reforming the controversial Anti-Crime Unit and said it had effectively taken illegal guns off the streets. They also supported a renewal of the "Broken Windows" campaign of former mayor Rudy Giuliani, which deterred violent crime, with a top-down approach to battling all crimes, including vandalism, petty theft, and vagrancy.
Reducing crime would help clear the way for the city's economic recovery from the pandemic, the candidates said.
Mateo, who has also represented bodega owners, said he knows the pain small business owners face. He said he would urge the return of wealthy entrepreneurs who left the city to find more favorable business climates.
"I would do it by cutting taxes, not increasing taxes," Mateo said. "I would welcome back the rich, making sure that they are part of the fabric of New York. I would make sure that we engage the rich and make sure that corporations and small businesses are able to create jobs and opportunities for kids."
Sliwa said businesses must be allowed to reopen to recapture their vibrancy.
"If you go down 42nd Street, 80 percent of the facilities are abandoned," he said. "There's absolutely no activity. In fact, there's more activity in downtown Buffalo at midnight than in areas in Times Square. And yet, they provide 15 percent of the economic contributions to this great city of ours. It gives $5 billion in taxes. It has 46 hotels and 41 theaters.
"We got to completely open it up."
Catholic schools praised
Likewise, Sliwa said schools must be reopened. He took a shot at de Blasio's handling of school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic. He said private schools have shown they can open safely.
"The mayor of the city of New York must open up all the schools," he said. "The Catholic schools and the parochial schools have not had problems with this pandemic."
Both candidates said they'd improve New York City public schools and implement better school choice opportunities, which, they said, has suffered under de Blasio's administration.
Sliwa added, "not only will I allow for more charter school applicants, but I'm going to promote vocational training at all levels. All school systems are going to have to do more vocational training because that's where the jobs are."
"I would make sure that parents have the right to get a voucher and send their kids to whatever school they believe their kids should go to," Mateo said. "If they want to send them to a charter school, I am for it. If they want to send them to a Catholic school, I am for it. If they want to send them to a yeshiva, I am for it. Children are the parents' treasure, and you want to make sure that your kid gets the best bang for the buck."
The primary is set for June 22, and Nov. 2 is election day.


text:
"Cowboy Bebop" ends on a bad note with Netflix cancelling the series after one season
"See you never, Cowboy!"
If anyone, in particular, felt enthralled by the introduction of Ed in the first season finale of Netflix's Cowboy Bebop live-action series and was looking forward to what follows next with a power-lusting Julia? Well, it will have to remain in the land of thought and musings as Netflix has canceled Spike and the gang just after one season.
There are numerous reasons for this. The low ratings and reviews for one, with THR reporting the series peaked at almost 74 million viewing hours worldwide since its debut before views plummeted 59 percent for the week of November 29 – December 5.
And with the Netflix model that sees only 60% of Netflix series go on to get 2 or more seasons, and the abysmal record of Hollywood attempt of translating anime into (western) live-action, many would say this news was just writing on the wall.
What I will say, is the series had its moments. But the forced, campy voices, casting and narrative progression left a lot to be desired.
However, what do you think? Let us know in the comments.


text:
FONTANA – A woman has been killed by lightning in San Bernardino County, hours after another person in the county was crushed by a wind-fallen tree during heavy thunderstorms.
Fontana police Sgt. Jeff Decker says the 35-year-old woman was struck by lightning Wednesday afternoon while standing near a tree in front of a home.
Video from a KABC-TV helicopter showed the tree had a burn mark on its trunk.
Decker told the San Bernardino Sun that the victim's name has not been released.
Earlier, a woman died when a tree crushed her vehicle as she drove in the San Bernardino Mountains during a thunderstorm.
Big Bear Lake fire officials say the large pine tree, rooted near the roadside, snapped about halfway up its trunk during strong winds.
Most spots barely got wet, but the weather station in Fullerton recorded a hundredth of an inch, said meteorologist Bill Forwood of the National Weather Service.
Measurable rain fell on a June 3 for the first time in Palmdale, a trace, and Sandberg, .03 of an inch, according to the National Weather Service.
Thunder could be heard across a wide swath of the city's Westside about 2 p.m., as thunderstorms popped up over the San Gabriel and San Bernardino mountains.
The pilot of Southwest Airlines Flight 2197, which departed Oakland with 53 passengers and was due in Burbank shortly after 7 a.m., reported the plane being struck by lightning 37 minutes into the flight, KCAL9 reported.
The pilot returned to Oakland, made a uneventful landing, was inspected for damage and returned to service.
In Orange County, thunderstorms were reported across a wide area around 1:30 p.m., including the Santa Ana Mountains and the canyons east of Irvine.
Newport Beach residents were marveling over waking to a lightning storm unlike anything some said they have ever seen in the area.
Forwood said a slow-moving low-pressure system west of Point Conception was responsible for the unstable weather. As the low moves onshore, the next best shot at rain will be Thursday night and Friday morning, he said.
"It'll probably be just more of this convective showery stuff," he said, adding that what triggers the rain is cold air moving over the relatively warm land mass.
The downtown temperature at 2 p.m. was 67 degrees, about 10 degrees below the norm for this time of year.
Barely measurable amounts of rain fell across the Santa Monica Mountains, Forwood said.
Some dry lightning strikes sparked fires in the mountains this morning, mostly in San Bernardino County. Some pea-sized hail also was reported in the Inland Empire.
Meteorologist Curt Kaplan said more clouds would be sliding into the southern part of Los Angeles County overnight with a slight chance of isolated showers and thunderstorms.
"There's a better chance on Friday as the upper low spins off the central coast," Kaplan added.
Thunderstorms commonly occur in the mountains and inland areas in late summer, but Forwood said electrical storms can happen any time of year. He said he expected high pressure to build over the region, ushering in warmer, clearer weather, after the weekend.
Join the Conversation
We invite you to use our commenting platform to engage in insightful conversations about issues in our community. We reserve the right at all times to remove any information or materials that are unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane, indecent or otherwise objectionable to us, and to disclose any information necessary to satisfy the law, regulation, or government request. We might permanently block any user who abuses these conditions.