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A Faithful Companion – S.A.G. Short Film
January 14th, 2016
Contact: Talina Adamo (Casting Director)
Email: email@example.com
[Black Onyx Productions, LLC teams up with Paper Lantern Productions for a short film]
Please email to submit your headshot, resume and contact information for an audition appointment. Place "A Faithful Companion" in the subject line of the email.
Production title: A Faithful Companion
Union/Non-Union: SAG
Production Type: Independent
Project length: Short Film (20 minutes)
Project format: 16:9 HD
Production location: Parrish & Delray Beach, FL
Production Company: Paper Lantern Productions / Black Onyx Productions, LLC
Company website: http://www.fireflyfanfilms.com
Pay Rate: $500/Day Lead Roles
Director: Frank Fradella
Producer: Frank Fradella / Talina Adamo
Auditions: January 30, 2016 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM & January 31, 2016 8:00 AM – 2:00 PM
(Please note all auditions will be given a specific time within this window)
Audition Location: Address will be given when audition is scheduled. West Palm Beach, FL 33401
Call Backs: January 31, 2016 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Shooting Starts: (Estimated) April, 2016 Shooting Ends: April, 2016 (4 Day shoot)
Synopsis: "A Faithful Companion" is a romantic dramedy inspired by Joss Whedon's space western television series, FIREFLY. In this universe, a Companion is a highly respected part of civilized society, not unlike the traditional Geisha of ancient Japan. On a trip back home to an outer rim world (read: the Old West frontier), Calliope, a sought-after Companion, meets and falls in love with Jeremiah, a wise-cracking charmer who knows more about horses than space stations. This story tells the story of what happens when a respected Companion battles her own heart and the edicts of her order to find happiness.
Character BIOS
Calliope is a Companion, trained from an early age in diplomacy, politics, commerce, music, dance, and sensual pleasures. She was born and raised on a rim world, riding horses and taking hayrides. Her father still lives there. Falling in love with Jeremiah was not part of the plan.
Jeremiah is a good ol' boy who has lived his whole life on a rim world bedding farmer's daughters and probably raising his fair share of hell. He's got a quick wit and a bit of a drawl, but his heart is in the right place. He doesn't much know the difference between a Companion and a hooker and it doesn't bother him either way.
Nupuri is the Elder Mistress of the Companion Order in which Calliope resides. It's her job to instruct and counsel her girls in everything from playing a musical instrument to the Kama Sutra. She is the epitome of effortless class, and a master manipulator. She has lived the life of a Companion and sees the dangers that lie ahead for Calliope.
Calliope's father has no problem with his daughter's profession. He has a fairly big problem with some backwater hick trying to take that profession away from her. Campbell is a big personality. The kind of guy who wears overalls and has a beard that's been with him since he was in diapers.
We are currently seeking happy, Florida crew members with a positive attitude and desire to be on our set for the following positions:
Second AD, Script Supervisor, (Set & Office) Production Assistants
There will be NO to possibly low pay ($100/day) depending on our investors and fundraising outcome.
There will be IMDB credit for all crew positions. We would like to pay everyone at least $100/day, but it all depends on funds raised. We will pay more if we raise more than anticipated. We hope to launch our fundraising campaign This February and through the beginning of March. We should know our exact pay rates by then
Seeking Florida residents with a good driving record who are willing to travel and or live near these locations only, please.
Travel & Lodging costs will be covered. One day shoot in Delray Beach at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens
and a 3 day shoot at OLD WEST TOWN in Parrish, Florida.
PA's must be willing to do what PA's do. Drive for picking up meals, actors, equipment, etc …
Office and or set work assisting other crew members.
Dates are not set until funding and locations are secured, but ETA is a 4 day shoot in April. We would like to shoot March 31-April 3, but this will only happen if paper work for SAG, locations and investors secure funding in time.
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Liam Neeson Action Alert: Get Ready For RETRIBUTION
For a while there, it seemed as though Liam Neeson was taking a break from the old man action business. But now that break is over. Already the guy has The Commuter coming soon as well as his remake of In Order of Disappearance (now named Hard Powder, of course).
But that's not enough. So now we have a new one: Retribution, a remake of a Spanish film called El Desconocido. It' plot, if you can handle it, is about a dude in his car with his family. He learns that the car has been bombed and if he doesn't Die Hard with a Vengeance for the bad guy, that bomb is going off. Tricky situation! Bet ol' Neeson gets to be on the phone a lot!
This does not have a director yet, but it is supposed to start filming in the fall with a script from Chris Salmanpour and Andrew Baldwin. And of course, Jaume Collet-Sera will help produce. I mean, who else?
Still, I'm fine with these movies. Some are better than others, but they're all more or less entertaining. I certainly don't have it in me to kick a Liam Neeson Speed remake out of bed. Do you?

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Tristan & Novie Family Photosession
The weather was just beautiful, not too windy and a bit cloudy as well.
Perfect timing for photosession.
So, we went to this place called 'Forest Lake Reserve' in Canning Vale area.
We picked out one of the benches and I set up my equipment there.
Here are some of the best from yesterday's session.
This is my favourite!
This is another of my favourite.
Have a great day!
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I belong to a category exclusive business building networking group and our group would love to have someone from your industry check us out. We are a newer group in the area (the first and only in Indiana), but we have over 50 chapters throughout the US. We've had one amazing meeting after another and have gotten a lot of rave reviews by both our members and our guests. I'd love for you to come see what all the excitement is about and promote your business with us.
We meet for lunch on Thursday, March 5th from 11:30 to 1:00 at Asparagus restaurant at 7876 Broadway in Merrillville, IN (just North of Route 30). Attending the meeting as a guest is FREE, you only pay for your delicious lunch. The restaurant provides us an all-inclusive lunch for $20. This price includes your beverage, your entree, an egg roll, soup, tax, and gratuity - and it even includes the exclusive networking opportunities offered at this meeting.
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The mighty Colorado River and its watersheds are a crucial source of life in the arid Southwest, supplying water to vast ecosystems and millions of people across seven states and northern Mexico. With so much depending on its existence, the Colorado River filed a groundbreaking lawsuit against the state of Colorado last month, demanding that its right to evolve, flourish and be restored in the wake of human interference be recognized in the court of law.
Well, sort of. An activist lawyer filed the legal complaint at a federal district court in Denver, naming the river itself as a plaintiff and calling on the court to recognize its ecosystems as a "person" under the law. Still, the lawsuit is fairly unprecedented, at least in the United States.
Bodies of water can't defend themselves in court, but they do not go untouched by the law. All the organisms -- including humans -- that depend on a river to survive can be affected when existing environmental laws fail to prevent water pollution, or when a government or corporation wins the legal right to guzzle up its life-giving resources.
Western states have fought over the Colorado River's water resources for decades, damming and diverting more than 70 percent of its water to vast cities and cropland. In 2015, two tributaries of the Colorado River suffered an environmental disaster when federal remediation workers accidently allowed 880,000 gallons of wastewater contaminated with heavy metals to spill from the defunct Gold King Mine in Silverton, Colorado.
"Water is life," declared the Native Water Protectors and allied activists at Standing Rock. Without clean water, clean air and a stable climate, the future of all life on Earth is in peril, including our own. This raises important questions: Is a river like the Colorado simply a collection of resources to be bought, sold and haggled over in courts and legislatures? Or do rivers and all ecosystems actually rise above monetary value?
The answer to this question is central to a growing global movement of activists and attorneys who are forging a new kind of environmental law by proclaiming the legal "rights of nature." Since nature can't directly assert legal rights itself (although the Earth may punish us for disrupting the climate and other follies), these advocates also fight for the right of local communities to protect the natural systems around them from destruction and exploitation.
That nature and its entities have the same "right" to exist and flourish as people do is not a new concept -- many Indigenous people have embraced such ideas for millennia. However, the lawsuit filed on behalf of the Colorado River is attempting to inject this thinking into the contemporary legal system, challenging Western capitalist notions such as "corporate personhood" in the process.
"The rights of nature is all of us sitting here, because there is no separation," said Casey Camp-Horinek, a water protector, grandmother and activist from the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma, at a recent symposium on the rights of nature at Tulane University in New Orleans. "When we say 'rights of nature,' are we so ego-bound that we think it is separate from human beings?"
Does Nature Have Legal Rights?
Colorado River v. Colorado outlines the basic ideas driving the "rights of nature" movement. The current system of law has failed to adequately protect the environment and the natural and human communities that depend on it, as evidenced by climate disruption and rampant pollution. Current laws fail because they treat the natural world as private property, with existing protections only regulating the rate at which it is exploited and destroyed in the name of profit.
The lawsuit traces its legal roots back to a 1971 dissent written by liberal Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who argued that "inanimate objects" are unable to represent themselves in court but are parties to lawsuits all the time. For example, a cargo ship has a legal personality for the purpose of maritime law. "Contemporary public concern for protecting nature's ecological equilibrium," Douglas wrote, is reason to give "environmental objects" standing to sue for their own preservation.
After all, if a corporation can claim the same legal rights as persons, as the Supreme Court famously held in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission and other cases, then why not a river ecosystem that has sustained human civilization in the Southwest for many thousands of years, and life for millions more? Still, the lawsuit faces a tough road ahead.
An initial hearing on the case is set for November 14, and Colorado's attorney general has already called for it to be thrown out. The lawsuit asks the court to recognize members of the radical environmental group Deep Green Resistance as "next friends" of the Colorado River who may defend its rights in court, a request that could raise eyebrows because the group has promoted Earth-defense tactics such as sabotage that are technically illegal.
The case is not without precedent, however, at least internationally. Earlier this year, the high court in India's northern state of Uttarakhand issued a ruling recognizing the Ganga and Yamuna Rivers as legal persons with certain rights in order to "preserve and conserve" water resources. The ruling came after the same court found that the rivers and glaciers that feed them are "central" to the well-being of half the Indian population, but still they suffer from pollution that threatens their very existence.
Similar rulings have come out of a number of other countries in recent years. A river in New Zealand now enjoys the same rights as a person under a law that Indigenous people spent decades fighting for. In 2010, Bolivia's legislature passed a law affirming the "rights of Mother Earth." In 2008, Ecuador enshrined the rights of nature or "pachamama" into its constitution, and legal rulings there have since recognized that rivers have rights that can be violated by human activity.
While these victories are milestones for the rights of nature movement, they have not put a total halt to pollution and resource extraction in their respective jurisdictions.
Ecuador's constitutional amendment was a "top down" initiative won by NGOs and friendly lawmakers rather than a bottom-up grassroots effort, according to Natalia Green of Ecuador's Pachamama Alliance, which pushed for the constitutional amendment and also works with Indigenous groups on the ground. Empowering local communities to defend the rights of the natural systems around them is often a different story, and it's how the movement is making the most immediate impact in the US.
"We need to have everyone in the country believing that nature has rights, and that's why we start at the local level," said Ben Price, an organizer with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), during a symposium in New Orleans.
CELDF worked on the constitutional amendment in Ecuador and is at the forefront of the rights of nature movement in the US, where it's a major backer of the Colorado River lawsuit. It's also a driving force behind the "community rights movement," which has taken hold in town halls across the US as local communities take a stand against invading polluters.
A Tiny Town Takes on the Fracking Industry
In 2013, Pennsylvania General Energy (PGE) proposed a fracking wastewater injection well in Grant Township, Pennsylvania, a rural community of about 700 people. Wastewater from fracking can contain dangerous chemicals and radioactive material, and injection wells have been linked to water pollution and earthquakes.
Residents weren't happy about the proposal, which would bring 152 million gallons of fracking waste into Grant Township to be dumped down the well over the next decade, according to CELDF. About 50 people showed up in opposition to the injection well at an initial public hearing held by the Environmental Protection Agency, but months later they learned that a permit would be issued anyway.
So, in 2014, the township adopted a "community bills of rights" ordinance that banned injection wells and asserted the community's right to self-governance, with help from CELDF.
PGE then sued the township, arguing the ordinance violated its corporate constitutional "right" to build the injection well. In response, CELDF filed a motion to intervene on behalf of residents and the local watershed, which is home to the hellbender salamander, the largest aquatic salamander in North America. CELDF's assertion of the rights of nature alarmed the oil and gas industry, which feared that the move could set a dangerous precedent.
In 2015, a federal district court threw out the motion to intervene and ruled that state law preempted the local ordinance banning injection wells. The ruling put the well back on track, so local activists and township commissioners went to work knocking on doors and building opposition among their neighbors.
Within weeks, the township adopted the country's first municipal charter establishing a local "bill of rights," including the right to prohibit injection wells. Highland Township, another rural community in Pennsylvania facing a proposed injection well, worked with CELDF and passed a similar charter. The charters define local government structure and establish "home rule" in order to trump state laws seen as favorable to industry.
"What if your community could just say 'no' instead of using loopholes like industrial zoning [to stop polluters]?" said Grant Township Supervisor Stacy Long at the symposium in New Orleans.
The charters effectively stalled the state permits for the injection wells, but eventually the state relented. In March, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, which was mired in controversy for working too closely with the industry during the state's fracking boom, finally issued permits for the injection wells. Regulators then sued both townships, arguing that the charters unlawfully interfered with state oil and gas policies.
For rights of nature activists, legal battles like this one are proof of the absurdity that plagues current environmental laws and regulations, which favor the rights of big business over ecosystems and fail to protect the people living in harm's way.
"Our community wrote a new constitution, with wide community support and input, to protect our rights and our environment," Long said in a statement at the time. "And now we've been sued, not only by a corporation that wants to profit by dumping toxic waste in our community, but also by our own state 'environmental protection' agency."
PGE, perhaps wary of the community rights activism that boiled up in response to its injection well proposal, asked a federal court in July to order CELDF to pay $560,000 in compensation for the attorney fees it accrued while fighting Grant Township in court over the past three years. CELDF is a relatively small organization that provides pro bono and low-cost legal assistance, and the fees would suck up more than half of its annual budget.
However, both cases are still winding through the courts, effectively blocking the injection wells in both townships to date. Last year, Grant Township passed another ordinance recognizing the rights of local residents to engage in nonviolent civil disobedience if PGE wins the legal right to finally install the injection well.
"This work is really about conducting civil disobedience through municipal lawmaking, challenging the system by using the system," CELDF Associate Director Mari Margil told Truthout in an interview.
If the goal is to block unwanted industrial activity, the rights of nature movement has had a number of successes. Margil said small towns in the Northeast have used community rights ordinances to ward off Nestle and other private water companies. About 200 communities across the country have now passed local ordinances declaring their rights to ban fracking, wastewater injection, sludge dumping, factory farming and other sources of industrial pollution.
"For the most part, those laws are in place and prohibiting the activity that has been banned," Margil said.
In Ohio, Washington and other states where community rights initiatives have been challenged by powerful corporations and preempted by state law, networks of community activists are pushing legislation and ballot initiatives that would enshrine that right to local self-governance into state law. In Wisconsin, the Ho-Chunk Nation is considering a rights of nature amendment to its tribal constitution. A final vote is expected next year.
CELDF admits that its efforts cannot always succeed under the current legal system. However, activists say, inspiring people to challenge that system is a success all its own.
"Suddenly, people are willing to fight like hell when they didn't used to be," Price said. "For me right now, the success is that people are engaging in ways that they never have before."
Just a decade ago, the rights of nature movement occupied an odd corner on the fringe of environmentalism. Since then, its influence has grown both globally and at home, operating at the intersection of traditional legal tactics and radical environmental ideas rooted in Indigenous wisdom that have called activists to direct action for decades. Whether the rights of nature will be accepted into the broader legal system remains to be seen, but in a time of mounting ecological crises, recognizing nature's right to flourish may just be what preserves our own.


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Leather Over Lace
Your wedding day is built on fantasies: You'll look the best you ever have, donning the biggest, whitest dress or the sharpest, blackest tuxedo, kiss your perfect partner, eat the perfect meal, dance the perfect dance and start your perfect life. Right? Well, yes—but Liesl Finkler and Erik Lashbrook wanted their wedding day to be about fantasy and reality. "As much as we wanted to embrace the wedding vibe, we really wanted to stay true to us, how we really are," Liesl says. So Liesl wore a big, white dress, and Erik wore a sharp, black tux—and then they topped their wedding-day finery with leather."I wanted him to see me like I am every day, not some illusion that he would only see once," says Liesl. "The dress was definitely full-on bride, but the jacket was me."


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I am ashamed of congressional representatives, bought off by the NRA, who refuse to bite the NRA hand feeding them despite a shooting of one of their own, Gabrielle Giffords.
The NRA apparently has shrewdly indoctrinated many voters into learned helplessness. Despite investigations to determine cause and actions to prevent future car/plane/medical disasters, there remains indifference and even a resigned inevitability to the unmitigated tragedy caused by gun.
Congress absurdly refused to fund public health research into gun violence. Is that because knowledge is power? The NRA wants us to remain ignorant and to erroneously conclude more guns equals more safety.
The United States should be the safest nation on earth, but that is simply untrue. Mass shootings occur in places of worship, entertainment, schools, health care, work. Single shootings occur every day across our country. How many more gun deaths must there be?
Surely our Founding Fathers would have disallowed the right to bear the kinds of arms (as in weapons of mass destruction) that proliferate today, given how hard it was back then to fire for limited distances. Times change. Let's bite the proverbial bullet and end our complacency with gun violence.
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Beaumont Auto Accident Lawyer
If you or someone you know was involved in a Beaumont car accident and suffered an injury, you are probably thinking about whether an automobile accident injury attorney can help you recover damages to pay for all of your bills related to the accident, as well as provide compensation for your pain and suffering. The short answer is: yes.
When to Hire an Attorney
Although an individual can file an automobile accident injury lawsuit themselves, chances are the other party or parties will hire an attorney of their own who knows the law and can have your claim dismissed. Having a Beaumont automobile injury attorney of your own can assist you going up against large insurance companies and their team of attorneys. Your lawyer should already know the personal injury laws and procedural rules in your state to effectively handle all the legwork. They should act as your advocate throughout the entire case from initial contact to collecting your settlement.
A big insurance company's attorneys have the knowledge to reduce settlements or even outright deny the culpability of the guilty party. It is best to hire a lawyer of your own in the following cases:
- Those who have suffered severe or long lasting injuries.
- Those who are facing expensive and ongoing medical bills.
- Those who have experienced a significant loss of wages due to their injuries.
- The families of those who have suffered a wrongful death.
- Those who are in an automobile accident with a commercial vehicle.
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Please DO NOT TRESPASS onto these properties!! Many of these HAVE NOT fully completed the foreclosure process yet and MAY BE OCCUPIED! Please respect the occupants and their privacy! Limit your research at this time to viewing the maps which provide full street level views. When in doubt, feel free to contact me with any questions. Disclosure: *All info is deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Information is provided as a courtesy only and is not intended to be used as factual.


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Fat Plants San Diego started as a fun hobby for two ladies in 2009. Both women had been lifetime gardeners, so the friendship began as more of a "plant competition" between the two. They joined plant clubs and drove miles upon miles to find new nurseries together. They built small greenhouses in competition to see who could grow the most exotic species.
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Plants were packed very well. Amazed at how many fit in the box, but the way they were packed kept them all in great shape. There was a great variety. They all looked great and they transplanted easily into a small clay pot. I wish I could have kept them all for myself, but these were teacher's gifts for the end of the year. Buying them here saved me a lot of money over buying them at a box store or local nursery. I would definitely buy from Fat Plants again.
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Small Displacements, by Vanessa Furse Jackson
shortlisted: Randy Lopez Goes Home, by Rudolfo Anaya
JUDGE: Matt Bondurant
The two finalists for the 2011 awards are immediately notable for their vastly different subject matter, writing style, structure, settings, and nearly every other narrative choice. But Rudolfo Anaya's Randy Lopez Goes Home and Vanessa Furse Jackson's Small Displacements do have some commonalities. Each author is clearly dedicated to the themes of loss, memory, keeping the dead alive, and the search for truth in the wake of death. They also both come to the same general conclusion in very different ways.
Randy Lopez Goes Home is a sprawling, mythic tale, in which a lone traveler seeks his origins, meeting persons from the annals of literary history, folklore, and ancient legend, as well as individuals from his own past. This is a novel about seeking true knowledge, about reconciliation, and ultimately about love; gained and then lost. It is a also a book that is firmly rooted in the settings and cultures of the southwest, light and heat, desert, cactus, mountain, evoking the intersection of Chicano and white civilizations, the meeting point of the Americas.
The setting of Small Displacements is the damp, chilly, environs of England, shadowy gardens, thatched roofs, rain on the windowpanes, a single footpath through a dark graveyard. The characters busy themselves with the simple and sometimes mundane aspects of living, however each bearing a singular burden that cannot be denied, not forever. In Jackson's stories people meet for tea, they take the long tube ride into London, they walk the dog in the waning afternoon, conveyed in a classic literary style that is lyrical, richly drawn, and pierced with an emotional tenderness for the characters that is incredibly affecting. Loss comes for them all swiftly and without mercy. One of the constants in these stories is people – often older people near the end of life – talking to their deceased loved ones. The lessons learned are acute and painful, and so true. The dead never leave us.
Vanessa Furse Jackson has written an astonishing little collection of tales, so quaint, English, almost even unfashionable by current literary trends. These are stories almost completely free of irony, without glibness or conceit, and employing the literary devices of Forster and Woolf. The title of the collection is its most ironic act, as of course these are no mere small displacements, rather these are gorgeously written, heartrending stories of human beings making their way in this world and finding truth, despite its terrible costs. Small Displacements is the winner of the 2011 PEN Texas Southwest Book Award for Fiction.


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Intro to Batik
Batik is a wax resist fiber art. Hot wax is applied to fabric in a design. The wax serves as a resist, preventing the dye from reaching the fabric where it was applied. This technique can be applied in layers with different colors.
The Batik effect is unique in that the wax cracks during handling, either intentionally or not. In each dye bath, the cracks in the wax allow the dye to reach the fabric creating the unique batik effect . Batik can be done on cottons, silks and other natural fabrics.
In this class we will be using simple block batik printing on cotton and Procion MX Fiber Reactive Dyes. Procion fiber Dye's are the dye of choice for batik on cotton because they are used with cold water.
Materials to bring from home:
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- Fine point Sharpie marker
- Newsprint\ tracing paper large enough to draw actual size of desired batik
- rubber gloves
- scotch or masking tape
- scissors
- old newspapers
- 1-2 yard 100% Cotton Fabric- prewashed with HOT, Hot water and line dried
optional: plastic storage container large enough to lay batik flat in colored dye solutions. Additional small artist brushes for possibly applying dyes in small areas.
Warning, batik dyes are permanent, and will ruin clothing. please wear old clothes.
A good overview of the batik process, examples of various batik artists and supplies can be found at www.dharmatrading.com
Wax melting pots with bees wax/paraffin (one per two students)
*Watercolor brushes
Procion Fiber Reactive Dyes with necessary chemicals, salt.
Plastic tubs for soaking fabric in dyes.
clear plastic cups for mixing dyes
Clothes line & pins for drying
Blow driers/fans
Newsprint /iron and ironing board
A take home information sheet with wax dye recipes and essential supply list for students that wish to continue on their own after the class.
Several books on batik to illustrate various styles and techniques of batik


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Chuumei Watanabe (渡辺宙明 Watanabe Chuumei) is a composer for the Super Sentai franchise. He is noted for composing the music for every Sentai season from Gorenger through Goggle V, as well as insert music for multiple seasons beyond these; he also shared duties on the soundtrack for Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger vs. Uchuu Keiji Gavan: The Movie (with Kousuke Yamashita).
See Also
- Chuumei Watanabe on the Kamen Rider Wikia
- Chuumei Watanabe on the Metal Heroes Wikia


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|387-100-VA, Initiation Course Individual and Society
Through class discussions and debates, lectures, videos and student research, this course will examine how individuals are shaped by society and will help students to understand the relationship between events in their own lives and larger social forces. The principles, methods and theories of sociology will be used to examine the norms, values, beliefs and material conditions of our lives. Major topics will include culture, socialization, inequality, race and ethnic relations. This course is a pre-requisite to other sociology courses.


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Lily James Wore a 'Boob Flattener' for 'Downton Abbey'
Lily James is gorgeous in white while stepping out for an AOL Build Session on Wednesday (January 27) in New York City.
That same day, the 26-year-old Pride and Prejudice and Zombies star stopped by IMDb Asks for an interview with Jerry O'Connell about the film.
Lily also opened up about working on Downton Abbey.
"At times I wore a sports bra and a boob flattener, because at that time the style was, in the twenties, to actually emulate a man's physique," Lily said. "There was the low-cut drop waistline in this sort of very square shape so the women would flatten their boobs to fit into the style. Women were becoming liberated and doing the flapper and dancing and showing that they were sort of equal."
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"Her First Kiss!?" (ファースト·キス!? Fāsuto Kisu!? ) is the fifteenth episode of the anime adapted from Full Moon o Sagashite.
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- Chieko Honda as Meroko Yui
- Yasuo Saitou as Takuto Kira
- Mayumi Akado as Yoneya Tanaka
- Kazuko Sugiyama as Fuzuki Koyama
- The Scanty as Themselves
- Tomomi Seo as Masami Oshige
- Hiroki Takahashi as Murakami
- Makoto Ueki as Kasai
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Entry Name: Red House Cottage the Red House
Listing Date: 11 May 1983
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Art is infinity and artistic nudity is purity in the eye of a creative person who admire art with mind and soul. For today's photography inspiration, we collected an old popular black and white hot fashion photography. kindly note that some of our photography or illustration may not be appropriate for every users. Anyhow we give a notifcation when we publish content – not for minors.
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Watch Online In the Name of the King: Two Worlds Movie For Free- In the Name of the King: Two Worlds is a 2011 movie that was directed by Uwe Boll and produced by Chawn Williamson. The genre of the movie are action, adventure and drama and the characters of the movie are Dolph Lundgren, Lochlyn Munro, Natassia Malthe, Christina Jastrzembska and Michael Adamthwaite. You can free watch online movies without downloading requirement and any kind of registration or membership in perfect audio and video quality. The movie was released 27th December 2011 on and the movie is the sequel of In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale that was released in year 2008.
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Hi Gary, I already attached some useful resources (.java, .log) and some explanation on some same issue I found in JIRA. We can not provide a 100% reproduceable test case as this scenario is not happening always with a program. We could not expect when it is really happening (some one posted in the issue - "after some days of continuous running") I did hit that queue with my program when it was struck and not releasing messages, the same happened to my consumer program too. It didn't get any message. Please have a look at... Link : https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-1751 Thanking You, Nag. -----Original Message----- From: Gary Tully [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 6:18 AM To: email@example.com Subject: Re: Message stuck on queue : Same Issue Both 5.2.0 and 5.4.2 The most important thing for any issue resolution is a good test case that can reproduce the problematic behavior. Typically a fix results in a new junit test in activemq-core, so it you can produce a failing test in that form it would be excellent. Often, the process of generating a test case; requiring all of the variables to be accessed and understood can expedite the resolution process by eliminating parts of the system that just produce noise. If you can generate such a test, then validate it with the current 5.5-SNAPSHOT, as this contains all of the known fixes to date. On 7 March 2011 16:44, nnprasad <email@example.com> wrote: > > Hi Krishna, > > your first post was still pending, hope with no reason > > Even I am facing the same Issue, But with ActiveMQ 5.2.0, Windows 2003 > Server R2 SP2, Persistent with Oracle 10g. > > Not you are facing it in Active MQ 5.4.2, I am suggesting an upgrade > to my project to 5.4.2 because of this issue. > > I am really afraid now. this is going to be a serious problem, as > crucial batches are holding on messages for days with no reason because of activeMQ. > > I pity myself, no one looked at my POST / Issue created > http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/Strange-Issue-Particular-Queue-N > ot-sending-Msgs-to-Consumer-td3331634.html > http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/Strange-Issue-Particular-Queue-N > ot-sending-Msgs-to-Consumer-td3331634.html > > > It has been already Late Late Late..we reached 5.4.2 > > Some one from ActiveMQ must addrres this issue...praying GOD! > > Thank You > NN Prasad > > -- > View this message in context: > http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/Message-stuck-on-queue-tp3338786 > p3339422.html Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > -- http://blog.garytully.com http://fusesource.com
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Three new national polls released Sept. 7 showed Donald Trump just 2 points behind Hillary Clinton, after he trailed by 8 points on Aug. 9.
The three polls were George Washington University's Battleground poll, a Reuters/Ipsos poll and an Economist/YouGov poll. Together, they forced down the polling gap between the two candidates from 3.1 percent to 2.1 percent.
The Battlground poll of 1,000 likely voters showed Clinton at 42 percent, Trump at 40 percent, and Gary Johnson at 10 percent.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll showed likely voters splitting 40 percent to 38 percent for Clinton ahead of Trump. Johnson won 9 percent.
The Economist/YouGov poll of registered voters showed Clinton at 40 percent, and Trump at 38 percent. Johnson got 7 percent. That poll also showed 11 percent of African-Americans picking Trump over Clinton. Fifteen percent of African Americans disfavor Clinton.


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Thanks for having us! Knock, knock 2017!
A short while ago, nobody would have dreamed that the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Southern Europe was going to progress so fast. But there is great potential in this region, and this year we have definitely seen that it is emerging. There is a lot of technical and entrepreneurial talent available willing to develop its own ideas, while empowerment of people through the access to latest technology and internet is greater than ever.
And amidst this fascinating landscape, Samaipata Ventures has come to existence and reached cruising speed in only 12 months. With passion and hard work we have fostered our project, and we aim at fueling innovation and evolution through injecting capital and knowledge to this sector. Today we are about to close a first chapter, full of excitement and illusion.
It seems like only yesterday when I co-founded La Nevera Roja with my former colleague Íñigo Juantegui. After 4 years of intensive work, I came up with the idea of creating a venture capital dedicated 24/7 to a new entrepreneur profile within this thrilling new startup ecosystem.
Entrepreneurship is becoming an aspirational career among a growing number of talented professionals in Europe (48% between 18 and 24 years old), and this revolutionary context has called the VC industry to go beyond. More and more professionals with successful careers ahead, are willing to say 'No' to a comfortable life in order to start their own business. For instance, the number of graduates launching their own startup had grown by 5% between 2014 and 2015 among the most prestigious Business Schools in Europe. Professionals, have wider ambition and an international perspective, encouraged by the vast access to IT advancements, evidenced by a large Internet penetration (for more information on the opportunity of Southern Europe, you can read our post.)
Europe counts with 1.1M people graduating annually in STEM careers (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), doubling USA figures and revealing the immense technical potential we still have to explode. We have all the ingredients to build top quality startup teams (talent, education, technology, etc.), and it is actually affordable. Whereas the average salary in startups in Sillicon Valley is $87.000, in London it is $64.000, and the gap is wider if we look at Southern Europe. Europe seems a fertile ground for innovative and technological startups! Indeed, the ecosystem of enterprises accelerators and incubators has proliferated, in response to this new trend (please check these figures in Atomico's report "The State of European Tech 2016").
We are witnessing a new era of startup funding where the entrepreneurs already have the key to choose which funds suits their company better thanks to a multifaceted investors' ecosystem with different investment methodologies and startup focus. Hence the importance of specialized venture capital funds. This is why we created Samaipata Ventures, a hands-on and founder-fund early stage venture capital specialized in marketplaces and disruptive e-commerce startups across Southern Europe.
"I see great talent among entrepreneurs who have found out that their aspirational career is to pursue their own ideas and dreams instead of working for others"
Our vision after our first year of life
Here and now, in Southern Europe, there is a momentum for entrepreneurship. This year we have witnessed how fascinating this context is and we are eager to continue taking part of it!
The number of startups being born is simply a never-ending figure, growing at an incredibly fast speed week over week. In Samaipata we want to help boosting this trend. During our first year we have had the chance to analyze >2000 projects (increasing 10% MoM), besides we are still far away from comprising a significant share of the Southern European startup ecosystem. We analyze each project, listen to entrepreneurs, learn from their ideas and, if they match our focus, we try to support them.
"We're meeting incredible entrepreneurial warriors every day, fighting for technological innovation, bursting with leadership and willing to change the world. This is, without a doubt, the most enriching experience of being part of the VC industry"
During this year, we have been optimizing our Deal Flow analysis methodology continuously. We realized from the very beginning the importance of being rigorous and data-driven with regard to decision-making, as a way of respecting our investment criteria (exclusively analyzing companies in which we could play a value-adding role as investors) and the times of the entrepreneur, who's looking for transparence and fast feedback.
Our team, with different backgrounds, has built a personalized CRM and pipeline, to ensure efficiency and accuracy. We follow a step by step process with each project, and it has proven to be very useful.
Our methodology has also allowed us to identify patterns and dynamics in our field of expertise — marketplaces and disruptive e-commerce across Southern Europe. We are committed with sharing our methodology with the ecosystem and so far we have published some of our key internal tools of analysis (take a look at our cohort template in this article). We are currently working on many more interesting posts to be launched, such as our internal framework for marketplaces, where we highlight the main KPIs and growth levers to be implemented when building a platform like such.
We believe in the importance of understanding the investment sector as a collaborative industry, with VC funds strengthening co-investing networks, sharing their market intelligence with founders, and collaborating with all the players in the ecosystem (startups, accelerators, incubators, venture builders, business angels, etc), always at the service of entrepreneurship.
"Founders are our heroes and the essence of our business. They have taught us the most fundamental rules of our industry (to be decent, to play hard and to go beyond), and thanks to their generosity when sharing with us their experiences, we are able to gather countless sources of wisdom".
From the very beginning, we have embraced an international identity. We have always wanted to scout talent and startups across Europe, since we believe that entrepreneurs should have the ambition of becoming European leaders, subsequent to succeeding in their first country of operations.
This initial approach has thus shaped our activity. We're currently receiving >40% of international deal flow, mainly from our investment geographical footprint (France, Portugal, Italy and UK). Our objective is to keep expanding these figures next year. By opening to other countries, we learn and find out new opportunities, and we bring back home incredibly enriching investors' know-how.
"Visiting vibrant European ecosystems such as London, Milano, Paris, and Lisbon on a monthly basis, has made us aware of the importance of thinking in European terms. Entrepreneurs have to aspire to become European market leaders, and at Samaipata we're building a network of VCs to help them scale fast internationally".
Following a European roadshow, we are meeting accelerators, incubators and business angels on a monthly basis, to stay close to the newest projects coming up that may take a next step and look for a first institutional investment (AKA, Seed Stage, our preferred investment stage) from a VC. European ecosystem can only grow if it's interconnected and keeps generating synergies. Like in the VC industry, we believe that accelerators and incubators should count on international networks and programs open to entrepreneurs across the continent. This idea is part of our philosophy and we want to give a helping hand in this approach.
In our trips we have met VC funds across Europe and expanded our co-investors network. We feel very privileged for all the learnings collected from all our co-investors, being some of them top tier VC funds like Northzone, Eventures, Point Nine, Local Globe, 360 Capital Partners, P101, or Breega, among others. We have had the pleasure to collaborate in interesting initiatives with leading founder funds, like Atomico, that are paving the way for a new generation of VCs led by entrepreneurs.
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Don't Hate Me Because I'm Beautiful...
Of course I'm referring to the beauty of those luscious tulips...
and not myself! They are beautiful!
Teetering perilously close to "hot mess" territory, I am!
Migraine...hormonal...and WAY over my ovaries! {TMI? No
"boys" read this, so I don't think I have shocked anyone ;}
I need some drugs and something salty...then I'll be good...
I think I need the "something salty" first though!
I'll stop whining...after all...it's February...and my sister Kae's
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Mean, aren't I?
I blame the hormones! {I'm mean anyway, that's a lie! ;}
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they just stand there...all bright and happy!
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I just hate tulips!
Sorry...forget you ever read this...I'll just put myself to bed now!
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I love coming to visit, I never know what I'll find here. rotfl.ReplyDelete
Dearest M,ReplyDelete
Guess you don't want to swap with those 'beautiful' but short-lived tulips! Period...
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awww bless you, i hope you feel better soon, those tulips do look beautiful but so are you a beautiful person and that comes out via your lovely blog, hugs dee xReplyDelete
So refreshing!! Just like Spring!!ReplyDelete
Huggs, Nancy
I did look! he he :-)ReplyDelete
I always want sweet.
I know exactly how you feel. Every time I visit you make me giggle ~ LOVE the tulips ~ I can hardly wait for tulip time here in Ontario ;-)ReplyDelete
OH, you should be here, You would really be crying We are in ugly right now. I can't wait to show everyone how beautiful IN can be we have about two more small snows(I hope) Those tulips are so pretty.ReplyDelete
I should send you a photo of MY backyard - full of dirty snow, mud and a winter's worth of dog poo. We have 60 more days until we can anticipate tulips! So, I'm totally appreciating this photo.ReplyDelete
Hot damn those are a sight for sore eyes. Love the way you write!ReplyDelete
My daughter sent a photo of the flowers peeking up in her backyard. They think spring is here. Poor flowers. Poor you. "This too shall pass."ReplyDelete
me thinks you need to bake a batch of brownies. the perfect Rx for your "condition." then you'll be back to loving tulips in no time!ReplyDelete
same temp here today, too! of course, there are still glaciers in my front yard but it's a start.
Ah My! It will be a LONG WAIT here in New England before we see the GROUND, little lone Tulips! What a beautiful picture! Hope you feel better soon...ReplyDelete
Hugs to you,
You are a cute little tulip to me M...albeit...a very funny little tulip!ReplyDelete
I imagine Becca is pretty excited to be your winner. Congratulations to her!!!
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(05-05-2011, 03:40 PM)dragonlordsd Wrote: Alright, here's my attempt at reading the letter:
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Lay of the Land: A series of essays on the spirit of Montana
I can't remember when I first came to Billings, but the safe money would put it sometime in the first half of 1970, when I would have been mere weeks or months old. My parents lived in Casper, Wyo., at the time, and we had kin in Billings and Great Falls who were eager to meet me.
I do remember, with varying degrees of clarity, many of the subsequent trips: climbing through the Pictograph Caves as a youngster, when you could do that sort of thing; visits to my aunt and uncle's place on Clark Avenue and, later, farther west off Broadwater; a long layover on a series of flights that carried me from Wolf Point, where my father was working, to Dallas/Fort Worth, where my mother waited to see me again after a summer's absence; a family trip to Yellowstone when I was about to be a senior in high school; and my own drive here, in the first car I ever bought with my own money, when I was flush with cash at age 19 after some freelance work.
Those last two trips, notably, helped bring shape to a particular idea I had. I wanted to leave my suburban upbringing behind and live here on the northern plains. That I began formulating this idea at 17 but needed nearly 20 years to make it happen can be ascribed to the folly of youth and the serendipity of time. Long after I'd given up on the dream of living in Montana and had hitched my wagon to other stars, I found myself here at 36, settling down to pursue another dream. I wanted to write novels.
It surprised no one more than me when that happened, too. A further surprise: After a childhood spent largely in Texas and a working life that had played out in such places as Alaska, Kentucky, Ohio and California, I set my stories in Montana generally, and Billings specifically.
If I may quote the esteemed honcho of this website, "Maybe that's presumptuous of me, in a state where so many people can trace their roots back to the first generation of European settlers, or the original inhabitants of this land." (That's Ed Kemmick, "The Big Sky, By and By," a fine book that you should read if you haven't already.)
I can live with presumptuous, so long as you permit me a few words in my defense.
First, the work is underlined with love. I was well fond of this place, my anchor set and a mortgage in my hand, before I learned what some others think of Billings. Before my first reading in Missoula, three or four folks approached me, asked where I lived and reacted to my answer with an upturned nose and an "Oh." Nice place, Missoula, but I wouldn't want to live there.
Second, my affections run east. Part of this, I'm sure, stems from the fact that in my initial years here I traveled north and east on Interstate 94 far more often than I trekked west on I-90. My former in-laws lived in Fairview, Miles City is a dandy place to meet up for lunch, and I doubt I've ever seen anything more magnificent in this state than a winter sun casting a glow on the badlands near Terry.
Third, I know what I don't know. In one way or another, the Billings I scrape at puts me in my rightful place as an outsider, and that position comes through in the stories. Consider Edward Stanton, the middle-aged Aspergian at the center of "600 Hours of Edward" and "Edward Adrift," who doesn't know where or how he fits in. Or the broken-down boxer at the center of my new novel, "The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter," who grew up here but still yearns for comfort and belonging. I've built a home here, but I don't know the place the way some of my dear friends do. When I can, I keep my mouth shut and listen to the wisdom and memories of dyed-in-the-wool Billings folks.
I've been here for eight years, and I feel the same now as I did when I drove into town on June 19, 2006, with a U-Haul trailer in tow and carrying the weight of 36 years spent on other patches of dirt. I was lucky to get here at all. So let's get on with it. I've wasted enough time.
Craig Lancaster has two Billings events related to the launch of his new novel, "The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter." On Saturday, Nov. 1, he'll be reading from the book at the Billings Public Library. That event starts at 2 p.m., and refreshments will be served. On Nov. 7, the launch party for the book will be held at Harper & Madison, 3115 10th Ave. N. in Billings, starting at 7 p.m. There will be food and drinks, plus music from John and Ed Kemmick. The public is invited. Visit him at Craig-Lancaster.com or on Twitter at @AuthorLancaster.


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