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It's International Women's Day, so it's a good time to reflect on how the Film Girl Film Festival has grown over the years. Granted, this is only my third year, but still.
First off? Let's just say ignorance is bliss. Generally, I'm not a huge fan of not knowing what's coming, but I'm kind of glad I didn't know just how much I was going to go through that first time. I had almost no guidance. I started the film festival myself, with no organizational backing. To comprehend just what I'd gotten myself into (and the times I wondered that was more than I could count), consider I had no experience in putting on such a massive event like this, and I also had no staff. Sure, I had plenty of people who were willing to help, especially once they saw I was serious. But mostly, it was just me writing press releases and keeping the media informed, watching and choosing the films, determining the schedule, getting sponsors, raising money, building and updating the website, finding the location, arranging the opening night party festivities, coordinating volunteers, running the festival equipment during the fest itself, and finally, setting up and taking everything down.
Needless to say, by the time it was all over, I needed a day off to lie around on the couch, which I happily took. Actually, more than one. It wasn't too hard, since the day job I had, or rather, stayed stuck in for years let me go about a month or two before the fest. Why? Because I'd gotten a 94.91 instead of a 95 on an assessment after being there for...well, years. I truly wish I could say I'd left rather than getting fired, like so many others had. But when I walked out, I felt freed rather than bitter. It may not have been the best timing, but it felt like I was finally making the necessary changes.
I hope all this makes it easier to understand just why I wasn't sure I wanted to put on the festival again. Just the thought of going through everything again exhausted me. But then the 2016 election happened. And that decided things. Sure, the fest was a relatively small thing, but I felt like I needed to do it again. This would be my own way of saying that not only would I not shut up, I'd do my part to make sure other women were heard too. Once I committed to it, things happened quickly. I found that new problems quickly sprang up to replace the old, but for once I was happy to have them. When your issues are due to growth, that's a lot easier to handle.
The big thing was I met the two women who would work with me. One was Crystal Schreiner, who would help me build the Film Girl Film Festival into not just an event, but a brand, with a new site and logo. The other was Kenlei, who would help me fundraise and find new sponsors. Interestingly enough, I met them both at the coffee shop I would go to, the Pleasant Kafe. It's since changed owners, but thankfully it's still there. Local coffee shops really are the best for all purposes, including networking.
But the biggest change came from being awarded a grant from the Women's Fund of Greater Milwaukee. Hell, I didn't even apply for it. Money changes things, and having spare cash that I could use to spend on the fest changed everything. Suddenly, my profile was bigger, people were taking me more seriously, and I learned even more about how to make best use of funds. (Like paying Crystal and Kenlei, although that was more of a given.) And it had results. For my second year, I learned about how to build a brand, give the festival a higher profile, and get even more people to attend.
So for 2018, there was never even a question of whether I would do it again. For the third year, I changed the name to the Film Girl Film Festival, and decided to try and make it an official nonprofit. I set up a GoFundMe, opened the fest for submissions, and made the move to Chicago (don't worry, fest is still staying in Milwaukee!) for more professional opportunities. To get a sense of just how much things have progressed in just a few years, here's the essay I wrote after my first year, with my old logo: https://www.theyoungfolks.com/review/85918/six-things-i-learned-from-starting-a-film-festival/. But if you wanna skip the read, here's the logo from my first year:
For the second year, here's my new logo:
And the current one:
So what comes next? I'm still in uncharted territory, but I'm happy to say at the very least, a really great event celebrating women in film.
The Film Girl Film Festival will occur from Oct. 12-14 at the Underground Collaborative in Milwaukee, WI. To donate to the fest, click here. To submit, click here.


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Post Match InterviewsAuthor: Stuart Meldrum Date: Sunday, 22nd Apr 2007
Highlights from interviews given by Stephen Kenny, Craig Levein and Tam McManus after the game against Dundee United at East End Park.
Stephen Kenny
Stephen thought that his side, who worked extremely hard for each other, deserved to win with good chances and a fine defensive display. He is obviously pleased at how his players have come back from the points deficit but isnt going to be talking it up as there is still alot of work to be done in trying to remain in the SPL. The manager may take in the St.Mirren vs Falkirk game but insists that his side havent been talking about their rivals and have stuck to there own task of getting wins and playing well. When asked if he is enjoying his time at East End he is hesitant as it has been hard but admits that the enjoyment comes in knowing that your hard work merits the reward that the players have been getting.
Craig Levien
Craig doesnt believe his side meritted anything out of the match on the day as it would have been a great injustice to Dunfermline. He was pleased with his sides midfield and defensive displays but realised that in the final third his player simply weren`t performing. The United manager wasnt surprised by his opposition and felt they did exactly what he expected them to, the difference from earlier in the season is that the goal came.
Tam McManus
Tam realises that in the context of theleague position and timing that his was a huge goal for the team. He gives credit to Shields and McIntyre for making the goal for him to score. Being a Falkirk player for a short time, Tam explains that he has kept in touch with a few of the lads and that he expects them to be professional in their approach to the St.Mirren game on Monday night and doesnt expect them to slacken any. He harks back to the day that St.Mirren came away from East End with a point, causing some of the away fans to goad the home support with relegation chants, he is proud of his team for dragging themselves back into contention. Although Dunfermline are on the way up, Mcmanus is keeping his feet on the ground explaining that the Buddies still have a game in hand and are one point ahead.
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What is it?
Bitcoin is a brand-new currency that was produced in2009 by an unknown person using the alias Satoshi Nakamoto. Transactions are made with nomiddle guys— significance, no banks! There are notransaction costs and no need to give your genuine name. More merchants are beginning to accept them: You can purchase web hosting services, pizza or perhaps manicures.
Is it truly Anonymous for Newhall residents?
Though each bitcoin transaction is taped in a public log, names of buyers and sellers are never everrevealed— just their wallet IDs. While that keeps bitcoin users' deals private, it likewise lets them purchase or offer anything without quickly tracing it back to them. That's why it has actually ended up being the currency of choice for people online buyingdrugs or other illegal activities.
Compared with Brexit, Bitexit appears a piece of cake. On August 1st, without much agonizing or uncomfortable settlements, a group of Bitcoin activists and entrepreneurs managed to produce a 2nd variation of the crypto-currency. It immediately got a following: as The Economist went to press, a system of "Bitcoin Money" had a rate of $460 and tokens worth $7.6 bn were in blood circulation (although that is still much smaller than Bitcoin traditional, which stood at about $2,700 and nearly $45bn).
This "fork", as such occasions are called, came earlier thanexpected. But it is how insiders had actually expected a two-year-old conflict over the future of Bitcoin to end. At the heart of this "civil war" was the concern of how to increase the capability of the system, which can handle just as much as 7 transactions per second. The brand-new variation is able to process more than 50 per second, but otherwise works similar to the initial one. [google-map location="Newhall CA"]
Will Bitcoin Money be more than just another "altcoin", as the many existing clones of the crypto-currency are called? It is backed by Chinese"miners", firms that offer the computing power toconfirm payments and mint brand-new digital coins. They have actually been unhappy with how the initial system has actually been managed by its developers— and made some more technical tweaks to guarantee that the brand-new Bitcoin endures. The followers of the two variations will now contest which can declare to be the " genuine"Bitcoin
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The rate of bitcoin has actually smashed through $5,000 to an all-time high.
The cryptocurrency increased by more than 8% to $5,243 having actually started the year at $966. Bitcoin has actually skyrocketed by more than 750% in the past year and is worth 4 times as much as an ounce of gold.
But the rate has been unstable. The digital currency plunged listed below $3,000 in mid-September after the Chinese authorities revealed a crackdown.Beijing bought cryptocurrency exchanges to stop trading andblock new registrations, due to fears that increasing varieties of consumers stackinginto the bitcoin market could trigger wider monetary problems.
The chief trader at for Newhall California, stated:"The returns are truly remarkable, particularly offeredthe current ban on bitcoin trading in China, wheredemand had previously accounted for at least 10% of all international volumes."
The Russian president called today for policy of cryptocurrencies, stating their use "bears serious threats" such as cash laundering, tax evasion and financing for terrorism. However he also alerted versusimposing " a lot of barriers," which appears to have given bitcoin a increase.
Despite warnings over a bubble, bitcoinis acquiring in acceptance. Last month, a London home designer, The Collective, said it would enable its renters to pay their deposits in bitcoin and accept rent payments in the cryptocurrency by the end of the year.
History of Bitcoin
A male called Satoshi Nakamoto posted a term paper to an unknown cryptography listserv explaining his style for a new digital currency that he called bitcoin. None of the list's veterans had become aware of him, and exactly what little information could be gleaned was dirty and contradictory. In an online profile, he said he resided inJapan. His email address was from a totally freeGerman service. Google searches for his name turned upno relevant info; it was plainly a pseudonym. However while Nakamoto himself mayhave been a puzzle, his development crackeda problem that had baffledcryptographers for years. The idea of digital money— practical and untraceable, freed from the oversight of federal governments and banks— hadbeen a hot subject since the birth of the Web. Cypherpunks, the 1990s movement of libertarian cryptographers, devoted themselves to the task. Yet every effort to develop virtual money had foundered, especially in Newhall CA. Ecash, an anonymous system released in the early 1990s by cryptographer David Chaum,failed in part since itdepended on the existing facilities ofgovernment and charge card companies. Other proposals followed— bit gold, RPOW, b-money— however none got off the ground.


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When comparing MailMate vs Boxy, the Slant community recommends MailMate for most people. In the question"What are the best e-mail clients for macOS?" MailMate is ranked 3rd while Boxy is ranked 20th. The most important reason people chose MailMate is:
While most email clients support searching content from their To, From and Cc fields, MailMate lets users search down to the different sections of these fields. For example, you can search for the address only, or the name only, or even any one of the embedded headers. Subjects can be searched by prefixes, or by specific words which may be contained within and so on.
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Pro Extremely powerful search features
While most email clients support searching content from their To, From and Cc fields, MailMate lets users search down to the different sections of these fields. For example, you can search for the address only, or the name only, or even any one of the embedded headers. Subjects can be searched by prefixes, or by specific words which may be contained within and so on.
Pro Markdown support
Markdown is a way to format text quickly using only the keyboard. Different text characters create different text: for example, putting asterisks (*) around a word or group of words will italicize them, while double asterisks (**) will bold that text. Markdown is a basic formatting system that can then be adapted to HTML or other formats.
Pro Clean, no-fuss interface
MailMate's UI is very basic. The icons are limited to some default MacOS standard folder images and the interface is very clean and simple, showing only what's needed without any fuss or distracting colours. Instead, opting for a mostly grey interface, with a sprinkle of some other colours here and there.
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Inbox tries automatically bundling similar messages together. For example, Inbox will create bundles for travel information, receipts, promotions as well as group messages temporally. It enables also managing these bundles of messages together - they can all be swiped away together.
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Published: 8/21/2018
By: Fantasy Football Dude
The Cardinals are a team that are in rebuild mode and that means it gives a lot of players plenty of opportunity to make an impact this season. Now the player that might be a deep sleeper to focus on from this team is Chad Williams and I know they drafted Captain Kirk this year but that doesn't mean Williams won't get a chance to make an impact.
Williams has a chance to be one of the top 3 WRs on this offense and that might not sound very appealing but he could be a valuable piece of this offense. Everyone seems to forget that Williams was a 3rd round pick offers great speed, size, and great hands. They biggest problem with him was his ability to run routes and that seems to have changed this year and has made great improvements in that area.
Either way Willams should be the starting WR on the outside considering both Fitz and Kirk are both slot WRs primary this gives Williams a great chance to carve out a nice role on this offense along with the fact that DJ will be fully healthy this year and teams will be zeroed in on him will open this up for these WRs. Willams coming out for the draft last year showed well in the senior bowl and checks every physical measurable now its all about him taking advantage of his opportunity that he has with the cardinals.
I am very excited about Williams making a major impact this year given that fact that he is more comfortable with the NFL and the great opportunity that is in front of him. Now at the moment he might be a better Dynasty stash than a redraft player but make sure you keep an eye out for Williams throughout the year because the sky is the limit for him this year.
2017: 3 receptions, 31 yards and 2 carries 33 yards
2018: 62 receptions, 860 yards, 7TDs


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20. Bruising - Think About Death
I caught the Leeds quartet's exciting performance in London this past May for the Art is Hard Family Portrait release. Naomi Baguley's dream pop vocal stylings swept my heart away. More please.
19.Rebecca Clements - Pure Wasted
While in London on vacation, I saw Rebecca Clements' impressive gig at the Old Blue Last in early May. I could not quite get over how gorgeous her voice was while singing about a relationship that fell apart. Hoping for a full LP in the new year.
18. Fazerdaze - Little Uneasy
New Zealander Amelia Murray offers up another dreamy slice of bedroom pop. Her debut album is slated for a 2016 release. If it is as good as the first track, it will figure into many top LP lists next year.
17. Gabriella Cohen - I Don't Feel So Alive
Australian artist Gabriella Cohen stunned me with her vintage sounding pop tune earlier this year, and hasn't been able to shake me since. Full LP coming in the new year.
16. Avers - Vampire
Richmond, Virginia 6-piece continually makes me kick myself for missing their show in Birmingham earlier this year every time I hear this stunning sing along slice of fun.
15.Diet Cig - Harvard
New Paltz, NY bedroom pop duo Diet Cig turned up the heat on a former love in a bout of catty defiance, shouting "Fuck Your Ivy League sweater." But it feels light, like it will all be forgotten by the weekend, as it should. Crossing fingers for a full length in 2016.
14.Young Romance - Wasting Time
I almost missed the London 2-piece band's set at the Great Escape in May when I couldn't find the venue. I got there as the band started their performance, and was blown away by vocalist/drummer Claire's big voice and guitarist Paolo's shoegazing swirl of guitar noise. 'Wasting Time' begs for multiple listens.
13.Annalibera - Black Cat White Cat
One of the most devastating songs I've heard in years. And I can't get it out of my head. I'm eager to hear what's next from the Des Moines, Iowa based band.
12.Sauna Youth - Creeping
I probably listened to "Transmitters' more times, but this track gets the nod because it's the final track on the LP. I love it when an album doesn't run out of steam at the end. A gem of sing along surf punk.
11.Lilla Vargen - This is Love
Dubliner Lilla Vargen stunned me with a piano driven heart rending song about love and wondering if it is real. It's well trod territory, but never gets old when the artist has a voice capable of melting the hardest of hearts. And that's where Lilla suceeds. More, Lilla!!!


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I told you,
it's sock city over here.
Pair #2 is the only complete pair of adult socks that I finished during the Ravellenics. And they are also not for me.
This pair is for my mom (sorry to spoil the surprise, Mom). You might remember that she dropped some heavy-handed hints a few months ago that she would like more socks, so this is the second pair of "just because" socks I have knit for her. I loved knitting this pattern so much that I've started a second pair for myself, and I think I'll knit them just as tall. Usually by now I'm looking to knit shorties for the next six months or so, but it's still freezing here, meaning tall socks are a must.
Not only was this pattern a joy to knit, but the yarn is a dream. I love my super soft socks for sure, but I have really been drawn to the more hearty BFL/nylon blends. There's something about the textured feel on my needles that I really enjoy. Mom also wears her handknit socks with birkenstocks (as those who live in and around Ashville are wont to do -- never change, Mom!), so I feel like the extra toothiness of a BFL makes them a little more hardwearing than they would be otherwise.
And yes, it is not lost on me that this is the second pair of socks I have knit for her that is Hermoine-themed. No, it's not intentional, but it is highly amusing.


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"Gotham City. Clean shafts of concrete and snowy rooftops. The work of men who died generations ago. From here, it looks like an achievement. From here, you can't see the enemy."
-Frank Miller, Batman: Year One
The inevitable byproduct of a cast and crew too talented not to make a sequel, Batman: Arkham City is the follow up of 2009's femur-snapping, psychological Game of the Year, Arkham Asylum. City was also developed by Rocksteady Studios and released for the PS3 and Xbox 360 systems (and Microsoft Windows, but nobody cares), and it sees the return of legends Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill and writer Paul Dini. If you loved Asylum, you'll probably at least "like" Arkham City. Though it may at times feel a little too bloated by ambition for its own good, it's a worthy sequel with plenty of definitive Batman moments and an incredible storyline.
After the cataclysmic events in the previous story, the Asylum has been deemed inefficient (finally) and the top brass of Gotham have at last decided to do something about their city's criminal insanity. Gotham city Mayor Quincy Sharp, formerly the warden of Arkham Asylum in the first game, has taken credit for stopping the Joker's plans in the asylum, which catapulted him into the office of mayor. His solution to Gotham's crime is to convert the slums into a giant, maximum security super-prison, walled off from the rest of the populace, presided over by the authoritarian psychiatrist Dr. Hugo Strange, and patrolled day and night by his militaristic force of highly trained soldiers called TYGER. The new prison is dubbed Arkham City, a modern improvement upon the aged asylum. There, the prisoners are free to do anything minus escaping. It's essentially a no man's land in the vein of Escape from New York but with frickin' Batman in it.
Sounds alright, don't it? I mean, they're just criminals. But it turns out that six months after completion, several political enemies of the mayor and outspoken opponents of Arkham City have begun disappearing. When Bruce Wayne is the next humanitarian to voice his complaints against Arkham City, he is taken into custody and thrown into the super-prison himself. There he meets the resident psychiatrist, Huge Strange, who has surmised the true identity of the Batman as Bruce Wayne with, y'know, logic and stuff. Strange talks the usual bad-guy speech and mentions something called Protocol 10. Inside the prison, incarcerated dogs and animals are practically salivating for his blue blood. But they don't know his dark secret.
I'm going to summarize the entire plot and attempt to indicate spoilers that come as suprises, but if you'd rather not know the entire story without playing the game, then please skip down the The 8-Bit Review below.
As the Batman, Bruce escapes into the prison and encounters rogue elements within Arkham City attempting to organize factions from the chaotic free-for-all and carve out their own territories, each with their own agenda. The Penguin is an arms dealer. Two-Face controls a large force under the false pretense of "justice". Poison Ivy is holed up in the northern region. The Mad Hatter is reliving his fantasies. Bane has set up a fighting ring and is collecting the Titan super-steroid. Even Catwoman, who has been prowling about, makes an appearance. Actually, she's a playable character.
Her apartment happens to be inside the new super-prison. Did they even evacuate anyone? Or were they just like "You're poor so we're turning your neighborhood into Sing, Sing"?
Batman rescues Catwoman from Two-Face and asks her about Protocol 10. Kitty has no idea. He then saves her again from being assassinated by the Joker.
It's Batman's confrontation with the Joker that is truly unnerving. Of course. Taking the industrial zone as his domain, rumors circulate that the Joker is sick and dying. Indeed he is. Turns out the massive overdose of Titan formula that transformed him into a hulking monstrosity in the first game? Not so good for his health.
Yes, the Joker has signed his own death sentence, and Batman's too once he injects the Dark Knight with a sample of his own blood. It gets worse. With the Joker it always does. The madman has sent other tainted blood samples to hospitals across Gotham, guaranteeing that an endemic would sweep the city with the same ailment the Joker and now Batman currently suffer from. The Caped Crusader may have been content to let the Joker, or even himself perish, but he cannot allow innumerable innocents to suffer such a fate. And thus the Joker has forced Batman to find a cure.
So finding the cure involves hunting down someone the Joker blackmailed into developing it: Victor Fries (that's Mister Freeze, to you), a cryoscientist supervillain who is also looking to cure his wife's terminal illness while she's in stasis. Unfortunately for Batman, Mr. Freeze has been villain-napped by the Penguin. Sighing with the exhaustion of an errand-boy, Batman breaks into Penguin's iceberg lounge, rescues some captured cops, fights through the usual thugs and hopped up Titan monsters, battles Solomon Grundy in the basement, and rescues Freeze from a fate worse than hearing the Penguin's ridiculous cockney accent any longer.
However, Freeze's cure is incomplete and requires a restorative chemical before it can be finished. Batman recognizes the missing chemical as identical to a natural enzyme someone has been exposing himself to for generations: Ra's al Ghul. Batman tracks down the League of Assassins and is confronted by on-again off-again girlfriend, Talia al Ghul. Nothing like seeing an old flame again when you're slowly dying. The Joker's tainted blood is quickly having a physical effect on Batman, slowing him down.
Ra's demands that Batman become his successor as leader of the League but Batman tells him "nuh uh, girl" and takes a sample of Ra's blood for use in Freeze's cure. On his way back to the lab, Batman encounters thugs surrounding Mayor Sharp. Turns out Sharp had acquiesced to Strange because the psychiatrist had powerful friends who helped Sharp win the election if only he would turn a blind eye to Stange's plans.
Unfortunately (there are a lot of unfortunately's), Mister Freeze has had enough of playing second fiddle. He locks away the antidote in an attempt to force Batman into rescuing his wife, now wife-napped by the Joker. Fully armored in his cryosuit, he attacks Batman and the two duke it out for the cure. Best boss fight in the game. Just saying.
Too bad that when the testosterone subsides Batman discovers that the antidote has been stolen by Harley Quinn. Rushing to the Joker's hideout, Batman rescues reporter Vicki Vale and Oracle informs him that Protocol 10 is about to begin in 30 minutes. What is Protocol 10? (spoiler: highlight to reveal) Strange's plan to launch missiles into Arkham City to stop the inmates from using firearms to stage a revolt, firearms which he provided them.
When he finally catches up with the Joker, Batman finds that he has been cured. The Dark Knight delivers some brutal justice but Talia interrupts and offers to give Joker the position of successor to Ra's al Ghul, leader of the League of Assassins, and the secret of immortality. Joker might be crazy but he's not an idiot. Talia plants one of Batman's trackers on herself, knowing her "beloved" will follow her.
Now he's left with a dilemma: rescue Talia from the Joker or stop Protocol 10. Alfred wisely insists that one life cannot outweigh thousands (and besides Talia is a hussie). So Batman rushes off to Wonder Tower in the center of Arkham City. Inside the Tower, Strange taunts Batman with the thought that Gotham's criminal element is all the fault of the Dark Knight, that his presence has created a city where crime has spiraled out of control, and that the only way to solve the problem is by blowing crap up. When Batman confronts Strange and shuts down Protocol 10, (spoiler: highlight to reveal) Ra's al Ghul appears and runs Strange through with a sword. Ra's is revealed to be Strange's "powerful friend", orchestrating the election of Mayor Sharp and the construction of Arkham City for Protocol 10 in order to wipe out crime in Gotham and bring harmony back into the world. Now that Strange has failed him as his possible successor, Ra's doesn't need him anymore.
Strange executes Protocol 11, detonating the top of Wonder Tower.
The night isn't over yet. The Joker contacts Batman and says he has taken Talia hostage at the Monarch Theatre (which is the theatre Bruce visited with his parents as a child shortly before they were gunned down, because thematics). At the theatre, the Joker demands that Batman fork over the cure. Bats is confused since the Joker seems to be healthy and Harley had already stolen the cure. Talia then breaks free and kills the Joker with her sword. She tells Batman that she stole the cure back from Harley Quinn.
Now the detective begins to put it all together: (spoiler: highlight to reveal) he remembers seeing a seemingly dead Joker in a wheelchair, the two Joker playing cards left in place of the stolen cure, and the image of a healthy Joker staring into a mirror that reflected a sickly Joker. There are two Jokers. Talia is then shot by the true Joker, who is still sick, and the seemingly dead clone writhes back to life: Clayface, seeking "the role of a lifetime". Batman battles Clayface in the theatre and then falls into the basement below where a Lazarus Pit has been set up with its restorative chemical bath. However, Batman throws Talia's sword in the main generator and knocks Clayface's body into the Pit to contaminate its chemicals. All the is left is the cure.
Batman drinks almost all of the antidote and recovers from his illness. The Joker demands that Batman give him the cure, knowing that Batman will save him. The Dark Knight pauses… remembering all the death and misery his adversary has caused, all the lives he has destroyed and all the horror he has brought into his life. Maybe he does deserve to die. Desperate, the Joker stabs Batman in the arm and Batman drops the vial of the remaining antidote. It shatters on the floor. Screaming, the Joker tries to lap up what's left of the chemicals. Batman looks on in pity and says these words: "Do you want to know something funny. Even after everything you've done, I would have saved you." The Joker gasps, "That actually is… pretty funny…" and then he lies down and dies.
Carrying the body of his nemesis past the shocked faces of gangs and Harley Quinn, past a wide-eyed Commissioner Gordon, Batman lays the Joker's body on the hood of a police car and walks away without a word.
Drop the jaws. Roll credits. Play "Only You" sung by Mark Hamill.
The 8-Bit Review:
Visuals: 9/10
City's graphics are a clear step up from Asylum's. Better costumes, more detailed backgrounds and characters, more variations of thugs, more articulate animations, and
thankfully less of that "glisten" on everything. I just don't know what it is about Batman's face that is weird. Maybe the brow is too high?
Cowl complaints aside, there is very little to complain about in the visual department. Once again, Rocksteady nailed the appearances of the villains, like Mister Freeze. Not a fan of Penguin and Two-Face. But Gotham itself has never been more vividly grimy, immersive and revolting. Weather effects are astounding. Detective mode got a visual upgrade too.
The real winner is the cutscenes. The mouths are much more articulate when the characters are speaking and the level of detail they put into the game is simply masterful. Oh and there are just as many visual easter eggs to find as in the first game.
Audio: 9/10
If you've played both Asylum and City, than you'll have recognized by now the main musical theme for the series. It sounds more like Zimmer's score for the Dark Knight trilogy. The quick strings, blaring brass and oohing and ahhing choir is all distinctly Batman. Great soundtrack that could easily pass for a Hollywood score.
There are also some stellar performances by the voice actors. Again, I'm not ecstatic about Two-Face's and Penguin's voices. The former sounds like he's attempting to channel the gravel of his animated series counterpart, only it just doesn't quite make the distance, and the latter, while consistent, is really off putting to me. Whenever Penguin talks I just hear "Oy!" This might not mean much to everyone but I also thought there was simply too much language in City, as compared to Asylum, and there are several moments where it took me out of the experience.
Kevin Conroy still does what he does best. There are a few moments when it feels like he's audibly phoning it in. But his baritone is irreplaceable. Of course, Mark Hamill still out-performs as the Joker, adding his layer of gurgling raspiness and coughs to portray the clown's sickness. The rest of the voice cast has a lot of charm: special shout out to Catwoman, the Mad Hatter, the Calendar Man, Dr. Strange, Alfred, Oracle and Ra's al Ghul, particularly. Arleen Sorkin retired from voicing Harley and is replaced by a shaky and squeaky Tara Strong who is a great actress but fails to capture the energy of the original. There are a few other voices that sound a little hokey, as if they're aware they're in a video game, (spoiler: highlight to reveal) like Clayface.
A featurette on the cast can be peeped here. Below is the song "Only You" from the credits sequence.
Gameplay: 9/10
Batman is now more capable of a crime fighter than ever before. Arkham City accepts everything that was great about the predator and combat modes in Asylum and builds on them by adding new gadgets, such as the freeze grenade, the remote electrical charge, and the line launching, and adding new takedowns: one of my favorites is the disarming takedown where Batman picks out an enemy with a weapon and takes it from them and breaks it, snapping baseball bats over his knee, bending riot shields and disassembling firearms. The addition of these new tools and abilities are welcome and necessary in consideration of this being a sequel, but they add a new layer of difficulty to learn and retain more button inputs than you had to on the last outing. More on that later.
The boss fights were great inArkham Asylum. Here, they're absolutely wonderful. Compare the final bosses of both games. There is no comparison, is there? More strategy and timing must be employed during boss fights, ramping up their complexity, and making them more enjoyable. To tout an old horn once again, the battle against Mister Freeze is so involved and innovative, allowing you to plan how you'll take him down uniquely, that it may just be one of the best boss fights I've ever played through in any game.
One final note on gameplay, this entry is more open-world than its predecessor. There's a much bigger space to explore. That means it's a much bigger space to get sidetracked in. The storyline can feel disjointed because of this fact and because of all the errands Batman is running around completing for his villains. Too many things to do at once is a double-edged sword. It feels more realistic and puts you at the helm of steering Batman's course, but it grinds the narrative to a halt, at times, because of the sheer amount of stuff they added to the gameplay.
Narrative: 10/10
Gameplay interruptions aside, the narrative itself for Arkham City excels. Of course it does. It is once again penned by the great Paul Dini. I'm talking about the central storyline here, experienced without getting sidelined by all the sidequests in City. Not that those aren't terrific. They are. But if you spend too much time on them it will ruin the central storyline and make you forget what's going on with Dr. Strange and Protocol 10.
Besides for the main narrative, numerous side-missions feature an assortment from Batman's rogues gallery: the Mad Hatter, Deadshot, Zsasz, the Riddler, the Calendar Man, and Hush, as well as dozens of tiny references to many others. The references even extend to Bat-moments outside of the comics, like this scene that shows up in Penguin's Iceberg Lounge:
Figuring out ways to include another batch of Batman baddies ranges from genius to ham-handed, at times. Mister Freeze is amazing in his high-tech cryosuit armor but Ra's al Ghul being conveniently nearby is an example of the latter. But it's awesome to see some of the more obscure villains getting their moments in the limelight. All of these bizarre and psychotic personalities come together to drive the narrative forward to a head, to its inevitable and tragic? conclusion.
There are enough plot twists in City to keep even the World's Greatest Detective guessing.
Accessibility: 6/10
Here we are then. In my opinion this is something which made for an inferior game to Asylum despite everything City has going for it in the references, narrative and visual departments: the fact that adding to Batman's array of abilities cumulatively decreases accessibility. There seem to be just enough new skills and gadgets added to the game for use in combat, and new button inputs for special combos, that it was more than my brain could handle. Trying to remember all of them to keep your combos mixed is increasingly difficult as the game progresses. Batman can do so many things that it's hard for a mere mortal to keep up with all of the new features of gliding, gadgeting, navigating, preying, and punching gangsters in the nuts. Where's the ceiling where adding too many new features becomes unintelligible and unplayable? It is the fact that you have so many opportunities to do your best to memorize these new inputs that is the saving factor.
Replayability: 9/10
There is even more to do than in Asylum. That's really the point isn't it. There's so much more to explore and find and do, and the numerous side-missions will keep you busy for quite some time. Then there's still the extra predator and combat missions, now with multiple playable characters for all the separate missions and mission campaigns. You can play not only as Bats, but as "third time's the charm" sidekick Robin, ex-sidekick "I'm moving out soon as I turn 18" Nightwing, and "I'll call you when I'm bored" Catwoman.
Each character comes with their own set of skills, skins, takedowns, abilities and gadgets. This mix adds a lot of replay value in trying to figure out situations from a different perspective and approach than Batman's. It also adds some real difficulty. I cannot to this day beat the final Catwoman campaign.
Now become a trademark of the series, there's also the Riddler challenges. You didn't think I forgot about them, did you? Actually, the predator and combat missions have been re-styled as Riddler challenges. But in Arkham City, the king of conundrums has laid out elaborate traps and puzzles to perplex the Caped Crusader, demanding that he use his high-tech tools to track down and unlock every last Riddler trophy. Some of these puzzles are as easy as hitting a switch with a well-aimed batarang. Others may leave even the Dark Knight scratching his head and calling for Alfred. The best thing is, you finally get to face the Riddler, mano a bat-mano, and hit him where it hurts: in his swollen ego. Trust me, you'll really want to.
Uniqueness: 7/10
Considering that Batman: Arkham City borrows from its predecessor, a score of a seven is fairly generous. But here it's a case of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". It gets brownie points for the narrative it bears up and the supervillains it manages to include. And even if it doesn't really bring too many new things to the series, feeling a little like you've been there and done that before, it's still a stand out game in the third person, action adventure genre.
My Personal Grade: 8/10
I didn't enjoy Arkham City as much as I did Asylum. Whereas the previous installment felt focused and had an air of claustrophobic dread, City just feels dirty and busy. Nothing wrong with busyness, but it might have benefitted from allocating more of its side-missions to endgame content, rather than giving the player the choice to pursue this villain or that and ignore the storyline, which is so good when taken on its own. That's just my opinion, but then if you're reading this, you know what the heading for this score is all about. All in all, Arkham City is a worthy successor to the crown jewel that was Arkham Asylum, bringing some new things to the table like more playable characters, villains, gadgets and skills, and it may feel a little out of proportion for that. It's not as good as the first one, but this is still a definitive take on Batman and the direct it takes the mythos with its shocking ending is sure to leave audiences desperate to know how the Dark Knight will be changed by what he has experienced. City ends with a sense that the worst is yet to come and that it can no longer be simply the status quo.
Aggregated Score: 8.2
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This morning Noah and I went off to do some early shopping in Newquay and then went to meet my Mum and Dad at a cafe closer to our holiday home.
Noah and I had spoken about going to Rock later on today. We were planning to go on the ferry from Padstow. We had been talking about it for the last few days and Noah was really excited about getting a toy shark grabber that he wanted from the RNLI shop.
When we mentioned it to Dad he felt strongly that we should save it until tomorrow when we could go early and avoid the busiest time for parking and for the ferry.
When he heard this Noah was instantly in floods of tears, he was SO disappointed. Mum and Dad then thought Noah was overtired that that we should definitely not go today.
I was completely torn. I didn't want to let Noah down but I also didn't want to look like I was a push over parent to my parents!
I decided to stand by my promise and go ahead with the Rock trip. Dad didn't come and took the dog back.
For a short while I really felt my anxiety levels rise. It was the first time we had had any disagreement on our holiday. I am a real peacekeeper and I couldn't stand the thought that anyone was less than happy.
As we drove to Padstow I focussed on my breath. I noticed the pauses at the beginning and end of each breath. Before I knew it my breath had slowed and I had chilled out.
Noah, Mum and I had the most lovely time in Padstow and Rock. We had a drink, enjoyed the view whilst we were on the ferry, and pottered round the shops. It was perfect.
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Something From Home
The faculty of making stupid discoveries by accident. The name of my first Fantasy Football Team. Neither of which have anything to do with this blog. I just like the word. Deal with it !!!!!!
Something from home is a project that I have started that send "cheer packages" to our Canadian Troops deployed overseas. With the help of family and friends we put together boxes of things that we, here at home take for granted every day.
Some have asked me why I do this. The answer is simple really, living as close to the base in Trenton, Ontario that I do, has given me a new perspective on our Canadian Forces and standing on the overpass of Hwy 30 and the Highway of Heroes changed my way of thinking dramatically. Additionally I have met many people over the course of the last couple of years, here in my own community with members of their families deployed that I felt I needed to do "something" other than just "talk the talk". Thus, Something From Home was born.
How often do you reach for a cookie or a cracker and it is right there within your reach? Grabbed a bowl of Fruit Loops or Mr. Quaker's oatmeal on a cooler day?
How many times have you taken a shower without knowing that some of our troops can be out on patrol without access to a shower or bath tub for 15 days at a time??? Baby wipes and hand sanitizer go a long way to making someone in a dust laden war zone feel a little more "human".
Did you know that Silly String can help save a soldier's life? Silly String can be sprayed into a doorway before entering to show if there are trip wires for bombs…
Hot sauce makes even K-rations palatable – or so I have been told. I really don't know – I have never HAD to down K-rations and cannot imagine having to do so.
So, it really is the "little" things that we take for granted everyday that bring a smile to the face of our troops.
No "care package" from home would be complete without other goodies. Again, just things that some of us have stocked in our pantry's or junk food cupboards from time to time. Tuna, salmon, chocolate bars, juice boxes…
If you are a deployed CF member or know of a deployed CF member please contact me at somethingfromhome(at)gmail(dot)com or leave me a message here at Serendopeity. I will go to any lengths to try and get what you want/need. As long as I have a name and rank and mailing address I can send packages from Trenton at no charge. Let me know and I will get on it right away.
Thank you for visiting Serendopeity and drop by again. This page will be updated as time goes on and hopefully (with their permission of course) I will post some replies from our troops.
In the coming weeks I will have a list of items that I keep in stock to send. Again, special requests are welcomed and encouraged!!!
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Starting off, I recommend thinking about what you want in life and what are some keys of your dream life! I made a diagram with a bunch of categories like blogging, anxiety/happiness, health, etc. Then make sections off of those with specific goals, you can even use photos to represent them.
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Look at the German politicians laughing at what President Trump said while they are betraying their own citizens and selling out their country. Some Germans are laughing........are they probably the same kind of ones pushing for keeping borders open for illegality and considering keeping up on business with Iran?
In EU, a number of the same politicians representing nations have lost direction ......and nations are like ships in high seas and without the SKIPPER........and sea is becoming rough!!!! Germany taking gas from Russia, the enemy and not paying the US for defence is off the scale hypocrisy.
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- Advertisements ( e.g. Press, TV, Radio)
- Recruitment Agency (aka the head-hunter)
A snap shot view of pros and cons of each recruitment channel you could use prior to a recruitment agency:
1. Job boards
e.g. Jobs DB, Monster
- Low cost.
- High volume of talent where general skills are abundant.
- The talent has to be on the job board.
- Not all talent has access to internet. (e.g. Only 37% of Thailand has a smartphone)
2. Social media communities
e.g. LinkedIn, Facebook, Naukri, Ren Ren etc.
- Low cost.
- You can proactive source people whom may not be actively looking.
- If they don't like your marketing message candidates won't respond
- If they don't rate your recruiter they won't respond e.g. are they senior enough to engage with a C level person on LinkedIn?
3. Employee Referrals
e.g. Company employees, Company Alumni, Internal Talent.
- Low cost.
- A force multiplier to your recruitment as it extends your recruitment team size.
- Consistent approach to your HR messaging that you investing in your talent.
- Nepotism, Cronyism can lead to lack of diversity,
- How do you know that your people know the best in the market; think are all your friends as capable as you? Is internal talent stale, do they bring new ideas?
4. Company Community Talent pools
e.g. Database, Predictive search software
- Low – Medium cost.
- Great if you remain engaged with the talent.
- Effective if you codify and use correctly.
- Great sustainability and can lead to just in time hiring.
- Often poorly managed:
- The engagement becomes mismanaged, so the talent becomes disengaged.
- Recruiter's seldom trained correctly on the tools available.
5. Advertise
e.g. Radio, TV, Print, Billboards
- Low cost.
- It still works great for brand building
- If your talent doesn't see the advert, they can't apply.
So why use a recruitment agency if the other channels can yield your talent.
6. Recruitment Agencies/Vendors.
e.g. Agency, head-hunter, search-firm, Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO)
- Low – Medium – high costs.
- They can execute on confidential searches, you can't.
- They can provide volume scalable solutions instantly you can't.
- Perceived high cost of use: Negotiate the price, understand the true costs.
- They are often only as good as the individual recruiter/s you use.
Final Word:
So, yes, Recruitment firms are still an excellent channel for recruiting! especially when you consider the cost of not having the right talent at the right time.
Because recruitment firms have specialists who:
- Know their market.
- Continuously manage their talent communities.
- Can scale at speed for your needs.
- Delivery confidential searches.
- Know how to market your role and company.
So I recommend you have a blended preferred supplier list of firms:
- Global suppliers to leverage your global spend.
- Local boutiques who have local market intimacy.
- RPO for scale and elasticity.
- Specialist skills firms who have niche networks.
- A mix of senior search firms to volume recruiters companies.
Because when you have: a need to hire at speed, you understand the financial impact of not hiring, or a confidential search, you will be glad you have the relationships in place!
Almost the final word, possible companies and people to consider.
Example of companies and individuals I have worked with in recruitment firms who provide exemplary service when engaged correctly:
Great Global Firm Korn Ferry in Asia Pacific a good contact is Arvind Mathur
Global Firm Heidrick & Struggle's in EMEA a good contact is Jake Gordon-Clark
Global Niche Specialist Carter Morris, specialists in HR Recruitment, a good contact is Leanne Morris
Great recruiter in the UK market is Adrian Dawson at Michael-Page London
Great RPO Company Simon Bradberry Asia Pacific Resource Solutions.


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The Lakes Region Symphony Orchestra in making final preparations for its inaugural concert of the 2010-2011 season. The season opener will feature a performance by the winner of our first concerto competition for high school students, Miss Laurel Gagnon, a 15-year-old violinist from Hooksett. Laurel will be performing Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major.
The concert will be held on Saturday, Nov. 6, at 7:30 p.m. at the Inter-Lakes Auditorium in Meredith. Also on the program are Dvorak's Slavonic Dance No. 8, and Mozart's Symphony No. 41.
Shortly on the heels of the Nov. 6 opener, the LRSO will delight audiences with its annual holiday pops concerts on Dec. 11 and 12, featuring Lakes Region Big Band vocalist Sureya Felch. March 26, 2011 brings out the best in the Great American Songbook and popular music, with works from Louis Armstrong, the Big Band era, Broadway, Beach Boys, the Beatles, Michael Jackson, and more. The 2010-11 season will conclude on May 21 with Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man, Doppler's Flute Concerto in D Minor, and Brahms' incomparable Symphony No. 1.
"We always look forward to our season opener, but we are especially proud of this year's concert" says Chris Mega, LRSO's chairman. "We had been tossing around the idea of hosting a concerto competition for a long time, and we were finally able to launch the program last year. We notified all the high schools in New Hampshire and were expecting perhaps 7-8 applicants. We were thrilled to receive 14 applications and had some tough choices to make during our audition phase last spring. Miss Gagnon emerged as the winner of the competition and we're delighted she's performing with us on Nov. 6."
Mega added, "We want to thank our friends at Laconia Harley-Davidson for sponsoring this wonderful student competition."
Laurel Gagnon, age 15, is a ninth-grader from Hooksett. She began studying Suzuki violin at age 31⁄2. She now plays with the NH Philharmonic Orchestra and the Concord Community Music School Scholarship Quartet. She was recently named as the winner of the NH Philharmonic 2010 Youth Concerto Competition. She currently studies with Elliott Markow at the Manchester Community Music School.
Gagnon enjoys playing the violin, but has occasionally been spotted with a viola. She also delights in playing the piano, running hard, the scent of fir at timberline, mornings in the garden, and eating noodles while listening to Dvorak, but not as much as� playing the violin. She is schooled at home, where she dutifully takes out the compost and is always the first to volunteer to bake cookies.
Tickets for individual concerts are $12 for adults and $6 for students 17 and under. Discount season tickets are available from now through the Nov. 6 concert.
Tickets are available for purchase by mail, online at www.LRSO.org, or from our ticket outlets. These include Innisfree Bookshop and the Mobil station across from the town docks in Meredith; Greenlaw's Music in Laconia; Bayswater Books in Center Harbor; and the Hometown Market and Deli on Rt. 25 in Moultonboro. Any unsold tickets will be available at the door starting one hour before each concert.
The LRSO appreciates the support of its sponsor, Meredith Village Savings Bank. Their generous community support is a big part of what makes the LRSO, a community orchestra, possible.
The Lakes Region Symphony Orchestra is a Meredith-based, non-profit orchestra that performs throughout the fall, winter, and spring months. Orchestra members have ranged in age from 13 through retired seniors, representing more than 30 communities in the Lakes Region.
Lakes Region Symphony Orchestra opens season with young violinist
The Lakes Region Symphony Orchestra in making final preparations for its inaugural concert of the 2010-2011 season. The season opener will feature a performance by the winner of our first concerto competition for high school students, Miss Laurel Gagnon, a 15-year-old violinist from Hooksett. Laurel will be performing Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major.


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Top cleric seen tipping Iraq's political balance
Iraqis hoping for a secular, nonsectarian government are worried about signs that the country's most revered Shiite cleric has stepped into the postelection fray with moves that appear aligned with Iran's own ambitions in Iraq.world Updated: Jun 17, 2010 16:08 IST
Iraqis hoping for a secular, nonsectarian government are worried about signs that the country's most revered Shiite cleric has stepped into the postelection fray with moves that appear aligned with Iran's own ambitions in Iraq.
The March 7 election gave a narrow victory to a bloc led by Ayad Allawi, a secular Shiite with Sunni backing. But Allawi's chances of heading the next government were dampened when two major Shiite blocs, one of them overtly religious, struck an alliance after the votes were in.
Now Allawi faces a fresh challenge in the shape of Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani, the 83-year-old sage who was revered by Sunnis and Shiites alike as a uniter standing above politics, but who is now seen by many as the man who shut out Allawi and brokered the alliance that put the Shiites on top.
The apparent shift brings into sharper focus the conflicting visions of Iraq's future as the U.S. prepares to withdraw its forces from the country next year _ whether it will drift into the orbit of Iran, or take the middle ground by improving relations with Saudi Arabia and other Sunni-led Arab states.
Shiites are the majority in both Iraq and Iran, and the new alliance has positioned religious Shiite parties to maintain their hold on power for four more years and deepen the intertwining of politics and religion in post-Saddam Hussein Iraq. The formalization of the merger was announced just hours after Ammar al-Hakim, one of its leaders, met with al-Sistani in Najaf, the Shiite holy city and base of the so-called marjaiyah, or religious Shiite leadership.
Sunnis backed Allawi's Iraqiya bloc because they wanted a secular, Iraq-focused party to shield them against some Iranian-style form of Shiite clerical rule. They are taking the new Shiite alliance as a slap in the face, and fear Al-Sistani has gone from uniter of Iraq to uniter of its Shiites.
"We don't view the recent moves of the marjaiyah to have been made in the national interest," complained Mohammed Tamim, an Iraqiya lawmaker. "They were made for the benefit of just one particular sect."
The Shiites, for their part, see Iraqiya as a vehicle for sympathizers of Saddam's Baathist regime to regain their ascendancy or at least win more power than their minority status entitles them to.
Both Allawi and al-Sistani carry personal baggage that isn't lost on Iraqis.
Al-Sistani was born in Iran and holds Iranian citizenship. Allawi is a former member of the Baath Party and was handpicked by the Americans in 2004 to serve as Iraq's first post-Saddam prime minister.
Iraq's next two prime ministers _ Ibrahim al-Jaafari and the current Nouri al-Maliki _ belong to the religious Shiite Dawa Party which is in the new alliance.
With al-Maliki leading the alliance and seeking another term as prime minister, and Allawi claiming the title on the strength of his election showing, al-Sistani's role may be critical. The ayatollah won his stature by skillfully shepherding the nation through the upheavals that followed the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, defending the country's nascent democracy, and insisting that the new constitution be drafted by directly elected lawmakers. He resolutely stayed out of partisan politics, and his aides say nothing has changed in that regard.
But two Shiite insiders with direct links to the marjaiyah cite evidence that the cleric has, at least in part, gone partisan. Speaking anonymously because the subject is sensitive, they say it was al-Sistani who pushed for the merger that secured control of the 325-seat legislature; that he agreed, albeit reluctantly, to be the arbiter of any differences that might arise between the two factions; and that he gave the clear impression he wouldn't support any secular candidate for prime minister, thus ruling out Allawi, the Sunnis' favorite.
Allawi visited al-Sistani in Najaf on May 23 to enlist his support, and according to the insiders and a source who was present, the meeting was fraught with tension.
They said Al-Sistani rebuked Allawi for touring Sunni-ruled Arab nations to win their endorsement, and urged him to "withdraw" his warning of civil war if his bloc was denied power. Al-Sistani's style is subtle, and it is hard to judge to what extent, if any, he wishes to serve Iranian interests. But he may also have had personal reasons for stepping into the political tangle: a fear that if he stayed aloof, other rising Shiite clerics would move into the vacuum at a time when Shiites increasingly seek to unite in readiness for the U.S. withdrawal by the end of next year.
They said al-Sistani's declining health has forced him to greatly reduce his teaching schedule for seminary students and he is losing ground to the Afghan-born Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Ishaq al-Fayadh, who is fast establishing himself as Najaf's leading scholar.
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- Immaculate Fund
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- Matching Gifts
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- Making A Bequest
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Immaculate Fund
Immaculate Fund
Contributing to the Immaculate Fund is the simplest way to make a philanthropic impact on the lives of Immaculate students. Funding from tuition income addresses only 85% of the real operating costs associated with educating a student today. Gifts to the Immaculate Fund are put to use immediately and directed to the areas where they are most urgently needed.
Adopt A Mustang
The Adopt-A-Mustang Fund is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. All donations to the Adopt-A-Mustang Fund are tax deductible. This fund established to ensure that students of all economic and educational backgrounds have access to a high quality, faith-based college preparatory education. Since its doors opened in January 1963, Immaculate High School has helped open opportunities to generations of families in the great Danbury area through its budgeted scholarships, tuition assistance programs, and gifts from local businesses and individuals.
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A bequest for Immaculate High School is the easiest way to benefit the school and its future. Adding the institution as a beneficiary of your will or retirement plan allows you to increase your financial support while retaining the use of the assets, as needed, during your lifetime.
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