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"Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, 'Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water" John 7:38
There is something about this thought at the start of a new week that is both an encouragement & a challenge. Jesus is talking about us experiencing His life flowing from the inside out - love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness & self control - I want that to be my experience. The interesting point is that the quality of your life is not dictated by our outward circumstances. The life described here by Jesus is one that is birthed internally and then flows outwardly into our worlds. As a result, when we are in the middle of challenges and hardship our state can be peaceful and joyful.
Jesus says that this is the life of people who believe Him. How does that happen?
The word 'believe' here also means "to trust in" and to "be persuaded". So it follows - being persuaded that God's perspective is the final authority in every circumstance and trusting that He is faithful to perform His word will result in a quality of life that is not dependant on outward circumstances.
Your promise at the start of this week is that God has a never ending flow of His Spirit & life for you. Whenever you feel troubled today, bring it to the Lord and speak words of trust that He is faithful. Speak out the transformation you want to see. Speak out the change that you are waiting for. Speak out the healing that you need. Invert the situation, turn your fear to faith and living water will flow.
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Clerk busted for forging $6,000
A case of forgery has been reported at the San Pedro Magistracy where over six thousand dollars are unaccounted for. A clerk and interpreter at the court is accused of cooking the books. The alleged forgery has just been reported but the scam was first detected in October and the resident magistrate of San Pedro, Patricia Arana, was brought into the picture. The forgery involved government Revenue Collectors Receipts; there are twenty duplicate receipts on which the amounts were altered from those appearing on the original receipts during the period March to October 2010. The amounts ranged from a one hundred to five hundred. When it was tallied, the investigation found that six thousand and ninety dollars are not accounted for. Police have formally arrested and charged Deidra Casanova for five counts of forgery.


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SOCOM U.S. Navy Seals Combined Assault
Since the Playstation 2 went online a few years ago, Sony has been releasing new version of the prized squad based combat shooter, SOCOM US Navy Seals, without fail every year, which has gathered quite a following. Being one of the first online titles for the Playstation 2, gamers from around the world have been gathering taking some really intuitive combat online forming clans and just really creating a great online community. Now with the Playstation 2 nearing the end of its life cycle, it should be interesting to see if SOCOM can suck anymore life out of it? So how does Combined Assault turn out? Read our full review to find out!
So over the past years SOCOM has really expanded its horizons in terms of both gameplay and graphical power from the original. Also the key component has always been multiplayer for the series, however Zipper Interactive (the developers) really have tried to expand the horizon to focus on both ends of the spectrum, so when your clans not gathering you can go through which have helped the depth of the recent SOCOM games. Now with what could be the last SOCOM title for the PS2, what does Zipper have in store for us with Combined Assault?
So once again Zipper Interactive has not given up on the single player side of things, which to me is a great thing because I am one that always needs breaks from online play. This time around in Combined Assault, which takes a fictional approach probably to stay out of the limelight for all of the problems we are having in the Middle East. Anyways you are in the country of Adjikistan, which to me sounds like a cross between a few countries in the Middle East, but let's not even bother going there. Moving on you have eighteen missions at your disposal, which seems a bit longer then what we have seen in year's past, and you definitely get the feeling of a longer game when playing it.
One of the interesting new features to the single player portion of the game is the cross talk feature, which allows you to link up with your PSP. Now this only works if you own a copy of Firestorm Bravo 2 for the PSP, and basically you can have the data from the two games and thus have different effects on your experience offline. The idea is well executed and without giving too much away the whole idea is great, and really rewards true SOCOM fans first for their loyalty to the franchise but also for playing through both campaigns. The overall single player campaign isn't all that fresh, but it does enough to get the job done and offer a solid SOCOM experience.
You really cannot have a SOCOM game however without the online play, which of course makes a grand return in this game. The online play supports up to 32 players, which still is a great number that offers up some extremely intense battles. All of the features that we have come to love from SOCOM are all still there, like friends list, clan support, and all of the things that really bring together an online community. The online play really doesn't feel all that different than what we have seen in years past. The game still has the same sort of tendencies and strategies that we have had in recent games. If you have played the previous SOCOM games, you really already know what you're getting yourself into, and that is one addicting and enjoyable online combat experience.
In the end, Combined Assault really continues to have all of the making of a great squad based shooter on the Playstation 2. Sure the game is nearing the end of the PS2's life cycle, but with all of that being said Combined Assault really does the series right in terms of keeping up a high standard of gameplay. The series has been a true mainstay for the console, and the potential transition to the next-gen PS3 should a very interesting.
One area in which I was and wasn't surprised about was the visuals, which on one hand I thought the game needed some touch ups but on the other hand knowing the PS2 has seen its prime and it definitely seems like this may be the last time we see SOCOM on the PS2. Combined Assault continues the same style we have seen in SOCOM since the very beginning, with just more detail and better looking environments. Combined Assault is definitely showing its age and is one that I think still holds to a good standard of graphics. Unfortunately however one that just doesn't pack as much punch as it used to.
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As much as SOCOM has changed over the years the underlying fact is that this is still the same game that we saw right when the Playstation 2 launched its online network. What that means is over the years we have grown accustomed to the SOCOM formula, one in which still holds a lot of ground in this game. Combined Assault has some refined mechanics that do work to the game's advantage as well as the PSP connectivity that really is a great idea and one that I really appreciated. The game just sticks with what has worked in the past, and luckily that is still a whole lot of fun to play.
Is Combined Assault a totally new and fresh experience? Well, no. But what it is is a great squad based combat shooter that packs in a great punch both online and offline. If you are a fan of the series, then there is probably already very little thought in your mind, but if any doubts exist, throw them away as this is still another great SOCOM shooter that highly deserves a look.
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I almost never post shots of myself on the blog, but this one was just too funny. It was funny when it happened and it was funny when I was processing the pictures.
I was living on the wild side this day and this shot is courtesy of Rick!
In case you can't read it, the sign says, "Please do not touch the glass".
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By Amber McLinden
CALGARY — What do an evil twin, murder, prostitution, beating up men, and the power of friendship all have in common? Let Her Out brings all these elements into one horrifying film as part of the Calgary International Film Festival's Late Show series.
The best type of horror movie is one that constantly keeps you on the edge of your seat. Let Her Out manages to do just that, while still providing all the elements that you've come to expect from horror. Bringing psychological thriller and gore together into one plot allows for it to push the boundaries of what is expected while still keeping you grounded in reality.
"I'm infatuated with horror because of the extreme emotions that you can get out of it," director Cody Calahan says. "You're playing within reality because you want to suck your audience in but you can kind of reel them in and then completely break that reality and go somewhere completely terrifying or even absurd and still be able to sort of drag the audience along with you."
The main character, Helen, struggles with her mother's past and her own life in isolation. After experiencing blackouts, she consults a doctor who tells her she has a growth in her brain. She begins descending into a series of psychotic episodes that threaten to ruin her life. "Vanishing Twin Syndrome" is at the base of this film, and it's downright terrifying.
Vanishing Twin Syndrome occurs when "a twin or multiple disappears in the uterus during pregnancy as a result of a miscarriage." The fetal tissue is absorbed by the other twin or the mother, which gives the appearance of a vanishing twin. The result of such has a psychological effect on Helen, and in this case, the viewer of the movie.
Let Her Out does many things to an audience. A horror film that excellently pulls on different genres, you are left questioning the existence of the entire 87 minutes you sat watching it. "Unstable anxiety" is the realm this film exists in, Calahan explains.
Shocking its viewers is certainly one of the main goals of the film, and it wastes no time in doing so, using the opening scene to establish the shock value you can expect throughout the entire show. Working with award-winning cinematographer Jeff Maher, a feeling of instability and constant movement is created that translated from shooting to onset, Calahan says.
"We wanted it to continuously move," he continues, "so the camera is almost constantly moving, even if it's in a room it's still all handheld. The way we wanted it to feel really bled into real life."
If you've ever had the unfortunate displeasure of being stuck with your own thoughts, you'll be able to relate to the main character, Helen. A small presence in a big city, her development is drastic to say the least. Calahan intended this, and purposely excluded relationships from her to accentuate her disconnect with the outside world.
Perhaps the most terrifying moments in the film are grounded in reality. Through a series of events, Helen comes to lose control of her own mind and tries to understand what happened during periods of time she can't remember. Calahan adds: "The two things that battle a person are the brain and the heart. We wanted to make a movie where we could kind of hold back a little bit of the heart and make it a more cerebral movie."
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Theresa & Jackson | May 2011 | Pier Village, NJ
"Theresa, I would love to court you with the intention of marriage." That's how Jackson asked Theresa out a few years back. When a man asks a women out in that way and she says yes, it's pretty much guaranteed they are meant to be. Such gentlemen and ladies are hard to come by and Theresa and Jackson were the best of them. Their wedding was on a rooftop overlooking the South Jersey beach and while the sun was setting over the horizon, there were toasts, dancing, and a full on choreographed dance to a Chinese pop song that was epic.
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Samsung XE500t Atom Powered Windows 8 Tablet review
I've been researching these Atom powered Windows 8 tablets for a bit now. I last posted about the new Windows tablets and discovered the Atom category of tablets I didn't even know existed. It's really hard to figure out whether these Atom powered devices are going to be good enough for your needs (vs a Core i3/I5) without actually buying one and trying it. So after all my research I jumped in.
So my must haves were:
– NOT Windows RT :). That way I have compatibility across the board.
– USB on the go support for use with keyboard/mouse/data stick, preferrably a full size port. Has to be possible to use it while charging.
– HDMI output preferrably using a standard connector
– microSD slot (or SD slot).
– ability to choose to add a docking station/keyboard
– a pen would be nice but not a must for me, I'm not sure how much I'd use it.
Being an atom all these devices are ALL limited to USB2, 32bit Windows 8, and 2G of storage. It's a platform limitation.
Some info on the atom used in all these devices or if you'd rather directly from the horses … Intel. Or the complete data sheet for your reading pleasure :). Yes I'm an engineer.
What am I trying to do with this device?
Surf the web, do emails, watch 1080p movies including on a large screen, maybe some ebook reading. Basically replace my ageing Dell Lattitude D620 that overheats, is noisy and heavy on my lap.
So there were three devices I looked at. None are Windows RT
Asus ME400
I really like the feel of this device. From an ultra portable it is light (580g) and small (10.1″ display). A very pleasant experience. If I was only ever going to use this as a tablet this would be hands down my choice. An excellent travel companion. BUT it got thrown out for a number of reasons. First and foremost there are only two ports on the device. A microHDMI port (I think it's proprietary, maybe a pigtail?) and microUSB port that doubles as the charging port. This means your either doing USB OTG or charging. Right off the bat this rules it out. It means I can't use a USB data stick and have it plugged in at the same time. Second the microUSB means you would need a USB OTG pigtail (comes with it) to connect anything. A pain. And lastly there is no chance of a docking station. So keyboard and mouse will be by bluetooth. So using this on my lap as a laptop replacement is going to be clumsy. Something I learned with my Android tablet. Price is very good. Battery is suppose to be 6760mAH which they claim will yield up to 8.5 hours. Overall a nice device but not something I could live with, it won't meet my needs.
Acer Iconia W510
This device also has a 10.1 display but comes with a keyboard/dock (optionally). Without the dock it is also 580g, 1260g with. The keyboard/dock have an additional battery in it to give even better battery life jumping from 2540 mAH up to 5080 mAH giving you 9 and 18 hours of battery life! It also has a full size USB port as well as a power connector making it almost complete as a dock (no HDMI, it's on the tablet). The device appears to be well made with Gorilla glass up front and lots of aluminium to protect the device. Ports are good with micro USB (you get the USB OTG pigtail with the device), microHDMI and microSD slot. Reading reviews the device gets absolutely slammed for a keyboard that is so small it's hard to use, a trackpoint that is completely unusable, and oddly one reviewer noted very poor performance on the built in 64G of flash. I mean REALLY bad. I only saw this on one report so no idea if it is true or not. But it was enough to scare me off. That and I am concerned that the smaller screen may not meet my needs for the main purpose of the device, a laptop replacement.
Samsung XE500t
This was the one I chose:
This device is much larger at 11.6″ display and 761g. The overall device is very plasticy. It's not going to be anywhere near as impressive in the hand, or as durable as the other two. Battery size is 4080 mAH which they claim will yield up to 10 hours. I got 9 hours on my first day. I find it odd how such a large variation in battery size between these three seem to have little to no bearing on battery life. Maybe how they test it. Who knows. The device is VERY responsive. Actually all three were. The screens respond well to touch. I have to say the experience on the tablets finally finds a home where Metro actually makes some sense. While you need to relearn how you do things it is actually reasonably fluid! Panning, zooming, browsing are actually quite a pleasant experience. Movie playback so far is quite reasonable even 1080p movies but HD really depends on the encode. I found heavily compressed ones were a little less than perfect.
Physically the device has a microSD slot, a full size USB port (on the top of the unit making it convenient), a standard microHDMI connector, standard 3.5 mm audio plug and a proprietary round power plug. Because these are all standard there is next to nothing in the box. A power adapter and a few manuals. That's it. From a button point of view the unit has a volume up/down, rotation lock, windows button, and a power button.
Speaking of the power adapter we come to one of my dislikes about the device. This round barrel plug is proprietary, doesn't feel that good when you plug it in, and doesn't put out enough juice to charge this up quickly. I wonder how long this plug is going to last. I guess we will see. I would have preferred a standard micro USB charger. But you can't always get what you want 🙂
It was shocking even to me the number of upgrades that were needed to the device. Windows updates, Samsung updates, Driver updates. It seemed to go on for quite a while. And the unfortunate thing is that this device is extraordinarily slow when it's installing anything. Updates etc. And to make matters worse plug a new device in for the first time and this is an absolutely painful experience that will tax even the most patient person. Think 5-10 mins to install new drivers. And amusingly if it goes into standby the install process halts. So if you have a long install like updating Windows for the first be sure and change the power settings to stay on so it actually will complete! And the updates just keep coming. Which seems to imply that Samsung is VERY active at resolving issues customers are having. A very good sign, but also a statement of just how new these devices really are. Samsung have done a nice job of including a software update tool that updates everything all in one. Drivers, BIOS, Windows etc. Very nice!
This device has the fastest of the 3 tablets 1.8GHZ Atom Vs 1.5 for the other 2. Not sure how much of a difference it makes. But heh it can't hurt right 🙂
I've played around with HDMI output on countless Android phones and tablets and while they work and are usable they just aren't perfect. Playback of MP4 videos on a dual core device is touchy, sometimes the HDMI doesn't start, problems with screen orientation and turning off, it just isn't there as a perfect solution. And I've spent a good deal of time (and money) trying to make this work.
I am positively thrilled with HDMI on this device. I might even go so far as to say shocked. The HDMI monitor shows up as a second monitor and you can set it up anyway you want. Including full 1080p video. It's crisp, smooth and just plain works. I set the HDMI output as the only monitor so that way movies being played, XBMC whatever just go there. And it is amazing.
On some of the devices the keyboard dock has a spare battery. Not in this one. The dock has a VERY usable keyboard that has nice feel and placement. Like any laptop keyboard it takes some getting use to with the different layout but it's quite good. It includes a trackpoint, and while I'm not a lover of trackpoints, it works fine. I wish more would adopt the IBM style pointer stick. I prefer it, am quite good with it and it takes up less space. I know I am in the minority here. It also has two full size USB ports and a power port. The mating system between the tablet and dock is quite good and rigid. It is well designed, well built and solid. Even more so than the tablet iself. You can then use this device like a netbook. I have to say I love this accessory. The device is almost like two totally different devices with and without it. Without the dock the tablet gets used with the touch interface. With this attached it's just like a netbook with a keyboard you can actually type on! The dock sells as a $100 model increment, or $129 from Samsung as an add on. I highly recommend this accessory. Love it. The dock isn't light, I couldn't find the spec for it, but it does add some weight to the device for sure. Probably almost the same weight as the device itself.
This device comes with a limited 64G of internal storage. You need to be aware that this is shared with Windows. So when it boots your looking at around 30G free. I immediately removed Norton Internet security (and added back Windows Defender that is built into Windows 8), Microsoft Office Trial and Adobe Acrobat. The device seemed more sluggish with Norton there. Samsung included the version of Adobe reader that includes all languages taking over 400MB Vs the <20MB single language edition. Bits are bits. And they are precious on this device.
Now there is a microSD slot that you can use that includes support for exFAT, FAT32 and NTFS. 64G cards are supported (yes I tried it), so that means SDXC, as are class 10 cards. So this ought to be compatible with larger cards as they become available. Now Windows recognizes the microSD card as a removable device. This is worth noting because it means you can not use it (by default) for program storage. Oddly Windows Video/Picture/Music libraries will NOT allow you to add removable storage. This is a bizarre over sight and dramatically limits how the microSD card can be used. This also means the built in Video/Picture/Music apps can't be used for content on the micro SD card. You also won't be able to share out the content on the uSD card to your homegroup. The help file for windows says explicitly: What type of locations can be included in libraries? "On removable media (such as a CD or DVD), or a network-attached storage (NAS) device … No." Bizarre. I even tried creating a symbolic link and it still said it wasn't allowed 😦 So I finally found the solution. You go into disk management (under computer management) and delete the drive letter. Then create a directory on the C drive. Then mount the SD card under this blank drive letter and your done! You can then also use it to install programs but be aware that uSD cards are quite a bit slower than internal storage. Also since you no longer have the ability to do safe removes your probably going to want to be careful about removing the card especially if there is anything important on it. Maybe even only remove it when the device is powered off. As a reference my class 10 card yelds about 21MB/s Vs 70 MB/s for the internal storage. So if you choose to use uSD storage for programs you need to be aware of the speed difference.
Speaking of Homegroup, in spite of being on a network where a home group existed Windows created a new one with the Microsoft logon and ignored the existing one. Without asking. Fortunately this was easily fixed by removing it from new homegroup and then added it to the existing one. Still odd behaviour in a world where we are suppose to be sharing everything.
Connectivity options for this device are very good. The full windows this device runs opens up a world of possibilities Android can only dream of. I added my USB Media center remote and it worked like a charm. Add in the HDMI output and this device works just fine as a media device. Oddly it won't let me add Windows Media center to it. I have no idea why.
Tethering worked perfectly for my S3 for both Bluetooth and WIFI. Once paired you can initiate the Bluetooth tethering (assuming you have enabled it on the phone, and remember this reset each and every time after a reboot, lastly remember bluetooth ends up limiting the connection to 1MB/s) by right clicking on top of the phone in the devices and selecting connect using access point. For some reason USB tethering would not work. It never got an IP address. And by the way turning on USB tethering turns off MTP file level access to the phone from the tablet. An Android limitation. Bluetooth is tethering is slower but has better power consumption.
Metro (the name for the tiled interface of Windows 8) works well with this tablet. Frankly IMHO it demands a touch screen. I am TOTALLY shocked how many vendors are completely ignoring Metro. Google, facebook etc. The positive is that you can run normal non Metro apps on this device (unlike Windows RT devices where you can not). There isn't even a way to display basic information like battery status and time of day in a tile.
One of the things I never did with Android is internet banking. I frankly don't trust the platform. No anti virus and a market place filled with adware programs. This is paranoia I do admit. But none the less it's my paranoia. Might as well own it. No issues on this device (for me). It's a PC!
The Windows key at the bottom will also wakew up the device. This is good and bad. It's convenient but it also leads to the device waking up when in a case. Unfortunately I don't see a way to turn this off. Shame the button isn't more depressed so that doesn't happen accidentally, but this admittedly is a nit pick.
Windows 8 really wants to use a Windows live account for logon. It's amusing Android needs a Google account. If you don't use a Windows live account each MS ap from games to the Store etc will want you to enter the account. Not exactly convenient. So I gave in and am using a Live account. I did encounter one limitation of this, Skype has integrated sign on with that account and no way to over ride it. I have a Skype account from before it was part of MS so the two aren't coupled. So you need to go onto your Skype account on the website and link these accounts.
The US version of this device includes an S-Pen (and a place to put it) and a digitizer (no idea if there is a premium for it). Sadly the Canadian version does not. And I tried my capacitive pen that works fine on my S3 and no joy that won't work either. A shame. Not sure how much I'd use it, but a shame to not have the option.
Specs say this device has a GPS. The MS Maps aps seemed to be able to make some use of it and I found an app in the Store that would talk to it and get location but oddly not elevation so no idea if this is somehow a limited GPS or what? And no idea what other aps might be able to make use of it. I tried a bluetooth GPS but got nowhere with it.
The Windows 8 Metro Kindle app is nice and works nicely on touch but I can't seem to find a way to side load my own content. So the easy solution to that is to install the Windows 7 desktop app where content can easily be added.
XBMC presented a number of challenges. First it wouldn't play at all (distorted video playback). I found an article that explained how to fix this by disabling DXVA2 and enabling DXVA. This helped. But for some reason XBMC was always rescaling the movies to play full screen and choking on that. So a 720p movie played badly on a 1080 screen. Audio came out of the laptop instead of the HDMI port so that too had to be changed. All in all there were a lot off issues with XBMC. Movie playback from within XBMC was some times jerky while the same file would play fine using the native video player. So XBMC is less than perfect. Somewhat expected.
I've read that some models of these devices do not sleep properly when the display is closed on the keyboard. This one works perfectly and sleeps and resume as it should.
WiFi caps out at 4.5 MB/s Vs 5.6MB/s on my other laptop in the same situation. Oddly it linked in at only 65Mb/s even when right next to the access point, while my other laptop linked in at 100 Mb/s quite a distance from the router. The SDIO implementation of the WIFI could be a limiting factor to the speed of WIFI. According to this article theoretical max of SDIO is 100Mb/s while proactically it's more like 40Mb/s. This could be a limiter in things like tethered LTE connections.
I measured 60-70MB/s off the internal storage (I had trouble getting a stable performance number). While not horrible it's not as good as it could be. Likely limited by the chipset eMMC interface at 100MB/s.
I had some difficulty finding a case for the tablet. I found a case for a 13″ MacBook at TheSource that is basically a neoprene case with no protection but does have handles. I found a nice hard cover iPad like case with adjustable angles on Amazon from Asuxtek:
In the end I really like the device. As you delve into the design you come to realize the compromises that were made for this format and the implications they have. You have to decide for yourself whether this device will do what you want it to. I ended up finding no hands down show stoppers that made me return this device. All the while knowing there is a faster, more competent device out there (Surface pro and the like) albeit at a much higher price, lower battery life and heavier. What this device does is offer reasonable performance, light(er) weight, and better battery life. Given I have this device I have no idea if/why I would choose an Android tablet other than the better portability of a 7″. I can really see these carving out a niche for themselves. I can't wait to see when more of them hit the market, even more innovation and prices come down!
I've recently discovered a bug or problem on my device. The unit is consuming a fair amount of power when it is suppose to be "Sleeping". It turns out MS invented a new state for these tablet devices called Connected Stand by. A number of the tablets are consuming a lot more power than they should be in this state. Here are a couple articles about Connected Standby if you want to read about it. One from Intel and another from Microsoft. According to spec to meet Microsoft requirements "Connected Standby systems must drain less than 5% of system battery capacity over a 16-hour idle period". Mine was drawing 5-10% per hour. Meaning if left over night it was basically dead. I found this article very helpful in finding and resolving issues. It also recommends changes to the power settings to keep the battery from completely draining which is hard on it. The conditions Microsoft describe in their spec are really quite specific. It reminds me of the whole EPA MPG … your mileage may vary 🙂
With my tweaks I'm down to around 1% per hour in connected standby. Not perfect but quite an improvement. Being connected to the dock brings that number up to around 5-6% per hour. To say this state is brittle is an under statement. Desktop aps can keep it from properly sleeping as can many things. Personally I would love to find a way to disable connected standby altogether and go back to good old standby.
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Early this week in a conversation Chris said, "We might have to go and visit Sophia Retreat Center this weekend." OK, where is it? About 6 hours drive from Colorado Spring. What!? 6 hour drive? As you all know, after relocating to Colorado Springs we are hunting for a great retreat center to rent for the upcoming retreat for Pause Your Life group.
I usually like to look into and learn about the geological significance of the surrounding place – any scenic route or interesting places to visit along our 2 day trip. When I was doing my research to my surprise we would be driving very close to Mesa Verde which I have wanted to visit since we moved to Colorado Springs. So we decided to leave Friday evening. After a 5 hour drive we rested for the night at Pagosa Springs.
As per the plan we reached Mesa Verde before noon and right away we bought our tickets for a tour of an 800 year old cliff dwelling – the Balcony House! The history of Mesa Verde is fascinating. It contains the remains of cliff dwellings built by the Anasazi people dating back 800-1100 years ago. It was a mind-boggling experience for us – to have a peek into the past. Humans have been so creative when living in a community in harmony. It wasn't sophisticated living but a peaceful life. After a big A-HA in our hearts we headed for Sophia.
We were very warmly received by Mary and Vince who are the owners of the Sophia Retreat Center. They walked us through the property showing us everything – it was a bit overwhelming for both Chris and myself. The place itself was very open and grounding. I took a quiet walk in the labyrinth (which is an exact replica of the famous one in France) while Chris sat in meditation. Felt so calm and peaceful. We stayed for the night to experience and to get the feel of it. We could feel how much care they have put into making the place a great retreat center. We all have a calling and some of us are very fortunate to follow it. Looks like Mary and Vince are following their heart in running this retreat center. We felt so aligned in how we wanted to serve the community.
As per Mary's recommendation, the next morning we visited the Anasazi Heritage Center. We were so glad we went there! This post was inspired by that place. What do you see in the picture above? Retreat to Kiva not once but twice a year. Yes, the Anasazi knew to nourish their Soul as much as their body. The purpose of Pause Your Life was all the more clear and strong. I always wonder how the great wisdom of balancing activity with rest got dropped in our modern way of living. When I hear the phrase, "I am busy all the time – it's better than being depressed and sitting idle," I usually wonder about the reality behind that. We seem to have great intelligence to bring all kinds of comfort to the body, but not to the soul!
Having been reassured AGAIN of our purpose and our journey, we started contemplating the dates for the next Pause Your Life retreat. If you truly in your heart feel the pull within to rest and rejuvenate, clear your calendar for summer 2017. As soon as the dates and logistics are worked out we will make all the effort to put together ALL the information and send it across for you to prepare for this journey.
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Australia & New Zealand: Exceptional water deficits to emerge in Tasmania
26 April 2017
The Big Picture
The 12-month map (below) indicates severe to exceptional water deficits in South Australia, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and New Caledonia, and moderate deficits in New South Wales and central Australia.
Surpluses reaching exceptional severity are forecast for the Kimberley Plateau in the northwest and in northeastern Queensland.
Heavy rain and flooding from a category 4 storm, Cyclone Debbie, that hit coastal Queensland and New South Wales, Australia and North Island, New Zealand in late March left 6 dead, at least 100,000 without power, and early estimated damages of A$1 billion (~US$770 million) in Australia alone. The disaster zone stretched 1,000 km (600 miles) along eastern Queensland and NSW. Several days later water levels on the Fitzroy River in Rockhampton peaked at around 9 meters (30 feet) flooding streets, shops, homes, and closing the airport for 6 days. Floodwaters reached the roofs of cars in Gold Coast, Queensland and residents of Lismore boated between houses. The National Farmers Federation is predicting crop losses of A$1 billion.
Continuing rainfall a week later led to a suspension of flights at Wellington Airport in New Zealand and left 10,000 homes without power in Auckland.
Forecast Breakdown
The 3-month maps (below) for the same 12-month period show the evolving conditions.
As is apparent in the top two maps, water anomalies – both deficits and surpluses – are forecast for much of Australia for the six-month period ending June 2017. Thereafter, the extent and severity of anomalies is expected to diminish considerably.
The April through June map indicates significant improvement as widespread and exceptional water anomalies are no longer evident in South Australia, Queensland, and New South Wales. However, severe to exceptional deficits are expected to emerge throughout Tasmania and in Western Australia, particularly from Perth south. A vast expanse of moderate deficits is forecast for central Australia, and exceptional deficits will persist in Northern Territory's Top End near Darwin. Moderate deficits are expected to persist in New Caledonia and may emerge in southern South Island, New Zealand.
Moderate to exceptional surpluses will continue to emerge in eastern Queensland from Mackay past Rockhampton. Surpluses in the Kimberley Plateau in the northwest will diminish in extent and severity and begin transitioning as deficits emerge.
From July through September primarily abnormal deficits will prevail over most of the country. However, severe to extreme deficits will continue to emerge in eastern Tasmania, Western Australia from Perth south, and in Northern Territory's Top End near Darwin. Surpluses in the Kimberley Plateau will continue to diminish and transition. Surpluses in eastern Queensland will also diminish.
The forecast for the final months – October through December – indicates conditions similar to the prior three months.
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Indian Community in the US
As of 2015, the largest populations of Indian immigrants resided in California, New Jersey, Illinois, and Texas. Indian immigrants have come from throughout India, mostly from Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, Maharashtra, and Telangana. Migrants from India in the US have high levels of employment and participate to a large extent in the labor force. Indian influence is also felt in the political sphere, as groups like USINPAC have shown. Through this organization in particular, Indian voices in the US have been represented in dealing with various issues.
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Gallup research reveals that the likelihood of someone having your same top 5 StrengthsFinder talent themes in the exact order happen only 1 in 33 million.
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A spokeswoman for Sir Richard Branson has confirmed that the entrepreneur would be donating £100,000 to Kate and Gerry McCann's legal costs.
Sir Richard has been in touch with several other wealthy people to encourage them to contribute as well, she added, without specifying who they were.
Meanwhile, the McCanns attended Sunday mass at their local church for the first time since returning from Portugal.
A Portuguese newspaper, the Correio da Manha, reported that Mrs McCann is to be reinterviewed in the UK. The paper said Madeleine's mother would be made aware of "all the evidence against her" so she could respond to police's questions.
Meanwhile, the Archbishop of York sprang to defence of Mr and Mrs McCann.
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In his lifetime, Dick Gregory (1932-2017) achieved the distinction of becoming a celebrated athlete, conscientious comic, civil rights leader, devoted (in his own singular way) family man, philanthropist, American icon, and author of more than a dozen books.Publisher Harper Collins released his most recent title, Defining Moments in Black History, Reading Between the Lies, on September 5, 2017. The event was a highly-significant one for a 21st-century America in which racial conflicts continue to fuel social and political division. It also represented the extension of a major literary legacy begun at the height of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
'For Black Folks and White Folks'
Gregory possessed an uncanny ability to transform the soul-crushing anguish of racism and poverty into healing inspiration. As rare as such a gift can be, it is on full display in his first triumphant publishing venture: the classic autobiography titled Nigger, (written with Robert Lipsyte).
My used paperback edition of the book was published in 1964 and has a cover price of $1.94. On its now-famous front is a beautiful black and white photograph of Gregory beside a red starburst with bold white text announcing in all caps: OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD. The copy in my possession has been so thoroughly read and re-read by different people that the cover has started coming off and had to be reinforced with cellophane tape.
As impressive as the book's 1 million-plus sales figures are, equally noteworthy is an observation shared by Gregory in its pages about the history and future of the struggle to which he would dedicate so much of his life:
"It started long before I came into it, and I may die before it's over, but we'll bust this thing and cut out this cancer. America will be as strong and beautiful as it should be, for black folks and white folks" (p. 209).
Few in 1964 would have imagined those words retaining the relevance which they have for more than half a century. Yet the #TakeAKnee and Black Lives Matter movements, both of which owe some ideological debt to the icon's legacy, indicate they have never been more applicable. In addition, Mr. Gregory has indeed passed on while the struggle has not halted but intensified in ways unpredictable before the advent of social media.
On August 20, the day before the great eclipse of 2017, I learned that Gregory had died on the 19th at the age of 84. Prior to learning about his death, my plan for the day had been to spend some time constructing an outline for an article or an op-ed in response to suggestions the Confederate Monument in Savannah's (Georgia, USA) Forsyth Park should be removed. But news of the great satirist's demise prompted me once again to pick up his brilliant autobiography.
'More Hope in Laughing'
In his own way, Richard Claxton Gregory, who was born on Columbus Day, was as politically dynamic as Malcolm X, as spiritually motivational as Martin Luther King Jr., and as socially revolutionary as Nelson Mandela. Yet his talent for coaxing laughter out of the most brutally inhumane situations set him apart as an astonishingly unique and painfully necessary individual.
He said his genius for employing comedy in the face of humor-less oppression derived from a lesson taught by Lucille Gregory (1909-1953) his mother, whom he saw cruelly beaten by Presley Gregory (b.?-1964) his father: "She taught us that man has two ways out in life—laughing or crying. There's more hope in laughing" (p. 25).
In regard to the highly-controversial word chosen for the title of his autobiography, he examined it from many different angles and concluded it said more about people who used it to express hatred that it did about people who were targets of its use. He himself employed it in different situations, such as in 1963 during a protest demonstration in Greenwood, Mississippi, when threatened by a white policeman: "Nigger, you want to go to jail?" (p. 172). By that time, when he was 30 years old, Gregory had already become one of the most successful comedians in America and responded to the policeman as follows:
His words represented more than just a furious retort. Gregory felt a deep compassion for humanity as a whole; one of his early mentors was the white Southern Illinois University track and field coach Leland "Doc" Lingle. Like many of the great civil rights activists of his time and now, he believed racism was at least as injurious to those who practiced it as it was to those dis-empowered by it.
In the universe as the comically-inclined author saw it, whether certain words cause an individual's soul to bleed or help it to heal depends on the emotional intent expressed behind its use. Hatred can turn a beautiful poem into a curse. Love can transform an expletive into a benediction. Therefore, the same word which word which sustained an intense encounter between him and a policeman could make others smile: such as when reading this dedication to his mother:
"Dear Momma––Wherever you are, if you ever hear the word 'nigger' again, remember they are advertising my book."
Maintaining that fine-line balance between humor and rage never became easy. In light of the author's commitment to eradicating social injustice, however, the ability to do so remained critical.
NEXT: Text and Meaning in Dick Gregory's 'Nigger' part 2: Unyielding Commitment
About Aberjhani
On any given day of the week, the creator of Postered Chromatic Poetics and co-author of Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, Aberjhani, may be found wearing any number of hats: historian, visual artist, poet, advocate for compassion, novelist, journalist, photographer, and editor. Having recently completed a book of creative nonfiction on his hometown of Savannah, Georgia (USA) he is currently working on a play about the implications of generational legacies as symbolized by efforts to rename the Eugene Talmadge Memorial Bridge.
here is within the human heart, I believe, a quality of intelligence that has been known to surpass that attributed to the human mind. The idea is one Muhammad Ali might have appreciated because in director Clare Lewins' ten-star film documentary, I Am Ali, the fighter shares these words: "Man judges man's actions. God judges man's heart."
When tapped and cultivated, or made a naturally dominant trait of an individual's personality, the heart's intelligence radiates a wise benevolence capable of assuming different powerful forms.
As fellow heavyweight champion and Christian minister George Foreman testified:
"Sometimes people come to me and say, 'What do you think? Was Muhammad Ali the world's greatest boxer?' And I feel almost insulted because boxing was just something he did. I mean that's no way to define Muhammad Ali. He was one of the greatest men to ever appear on the scene of the earth" (from I Am Ali, 2014).
When the radiance of the heart emanated through the person of Muhammad Ali (1942-2016) he could easily, at different times, be defined in one of at least 10 different ways:
Of Saints and Athletes
On the iconic and controversial April 1968 cover of Esquire Magazine, the devout Muslim Ali duplicated the famous image of the Christian Saint Sebastian. Shot through with arrows for converting people to Christianity while enlisted as a Roman soldier, Sebastian (c. 256–c. 288 AD) was reportedly left for dead but miraculously recovered and confronted his would-be executioner. He was then then bludgeoned to death and in time adopted as a spiritual protector to call upon during plagues, and as a patron saint of warriors, individuals desiring a saintly death, and athletes.
As in the classic portraits of the martyred Saint Sebastian, the image of Muhammad Ali on the cover of Esquire shows him shot through with six bloody arrows. During the photo shoot, Ali identified the arrows as symbols of political figures whom he felt had positioned themselves to be his his "tormentors": U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973), Vietnam War Commanding Army General William Westmoreland (1941-2005), U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara (1916-2009), U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk (1909-1994), political consultant Clark Clifford (1906-1998), and Vice-President Hubert Humphrey (1911-1978).
The specific names given the arrows could just as easily (or almost anyway) have been exchanged for the various social injustices which the garrulous gadfly witnessed and protested against: relentless racism, poverty, corporate colonialism, unnecessary war, class discrimination, and unequal education. The names could also have been switched out for any number of others who felt more threatened than charmed by the great man's uncanny charisma.
A Curative Force of Genuine Love
It takes an oversized personality like his to absorb and survive the kind of social and political poisons designed precisely to destroy men such as Muhammad Ali.
It takes the most exceptional of hearts occupied by the rarest of souls to transform those toxins into a curative force of genuine love, one capable of healing and empowering multitudes just by being its beautiful shining courageous self.
5 June 2016
Bright Skylark Literary Productions
"It has always been much easier (because it has always seemed much safer) to give a name to the evil without than to locate the terror within. And yet, the terror within is far truer and far more powerful than any of our labels: the labels change, the terror is constant." –James Baldwin, from the essay Nothing Personal
Before there were human resource managers and action research teams counseling American corporations on the advantages of embracing diversity rather than vilifying it, there was author James Baldwin putting the theory to the test in acclaimed essays, novels, plays, short stories, poems, and dialogues. Social networkers in recent weeks have found occasion to quote those writings in regard to everything from a Palestinian state and gay marriage equality to Barack Obama's presidency and the American identity.
It is true that he marched alongside Martin Luther King, Jr., and shared podiums with Malcolm X, Marlon Brando, and other iconic figures of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. It is also true that the author was something of a mentor to both the late Literarian Award-winner Maya Angelou and Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison. Yet these biographical notes cannot fully account for the astonishing resurgence of interest in Baldwin's legacy as observed in New York City and elsewhere via the ongoing Year of James Baldwin in honor of the 90th anniversary of his birth.
Baldwin understood that diversity was about more than racial dynamics or shifting cultural demographics. He knew that once society made its way past surface categorizations it would have to confront the more beguiling challenge of individuality dwelling beneath the surface of public demeanor. He was acutely aware of every American as a crucial stakeholder in the future of democracy, and just as aware of humanity's need in general to liberate itself from the fear-driven inclination to oppress another for the sake of laying false claim to a doubly-false sense of "security." What may provide greater insight on the resurgence of interest in his work and encourage reasons to host dialogues regarding the same on every educational level is the following:
The Year of James Baldwin Now in Full Classic Literary Swing
Members of New York City's cultural arts community made a rare kind of decision earlier this year and the results of that decision continue to generate exceptional events and responses. They–– as in Columbia University School of the Arts, Harlem Stage, and New York Live Arts–– elected to observe The Year of James Baldwin from April 2014 until June 2015 in honor of the late iconoclastic African-American author's 90th birthday August 2, 2014.
Long before he died on December 1, 1987, millions came to recognize the indelible mark of Baldwin's impact on, and the incredible depth of his singular voice within American literature. He is in many ways more alive now than ever before, a statement that holds especially true when considering the events that have already been held to launch the year dedicated to him.
"There were few political figures as deeply engaged and as capaciously soulful as James Baldwin, nor we'd like to insist, any as urgently pertinent to our own times," noted curator Lawrence Weschler in the brochure for Live Ideas, James Baldwin This Time! He added the following:
"We agree with one of our Festival's premier participants, the poet Nikky Finney, that James Baldwin may well have been one of 'the most salient, sublime and consequential American writers of the twentieth century.' And this is not just because he confronted truths about race and gender with a vividness and lucidity few before him had done, but because he always did so from the vantage of an American—not just a black man, not just a gay man, but an heir to the whole harrowing, horrible, magnificent American project, and a prophet as to what that project yet could become, and indeed has to become."
Initial enthusiasm for The Year of James Baldwin has been backed up with many outstanding events launched during April. One of them was the premier of Patricia McGregor's stage adaptation of Nothing Personal, based on photographer Richard Avedon's (1923-2004) and Baldwin's now classic 1964 work of quietly understated images and provocative text such as this:
"…Wherever love is found, it unfailingly makes itself felt in the individual, the personal authority of the individual. Judged by this standard, we are a loveless nation. The best that can be said is that some of us are struggling. And what we are struggling against is that death in the heart which leads not only to the shedding of blood, but which reduces human beings to corpses while they live."
Another noted event was a "preview" of the multi-talented Carl Hancock Rux's stage piece, Stranger on Earth (the title comes from a classic song by Dinah Washington). Featuring Rux and vocalist Marcelle Davies Lashley, the work imagines Baldwin and Washington in a powerful dialogue on race, music, and creative artists' perceptions of the future of the world.
Celebrated Voices
Among the most talked about events thus far has been a conversation focused on Baldwin's still-controversial novel, Another Country, between the Academy-Award nominated actor Jake Gyllenhaal and author Colm Toíbín held May 1at Columbia University's Altshcul Auditorium. The year-long celebration also received substantial attention during the Harlem Book Festival held July 11-14 with important panel discussions on work by Baldwin held at both Columbia University and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
In addition to those already noted, numerous others have lent their celebrated voices in support of the event, including: choreographer Bill T. Jones, the dramatist Stew, poet Yusuf Komunyakaa, and authors Michelle Wallace, Walter Mosely, Jamaica Kincaid, ad Fran Lebowitz, just to name a few.
FOR MORE PLEASE READ: The Year of James Baldwin Now in full classic literary swing (part 2): Letter to James Baldwin
by Aberjhani
"When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place." --Yusef Lateef, from "A Syllogism"
How could I have known, as a nine-year-old child growing up in Savannah's Hitch Village project, that Yusef Lateef was speaking light in the form of music directly to my soul through his saxophone and flute when I first heard his masterpiece of an album The Blue Yusef Lateef? I could not have imagined that years later, while seeking the timbres of my own creative voice out in the world, his would find me again. It happened this time as I sat in the window of a hotel in San Francisco's Tenderloin District, the haunting blues-heavy moans of "Juba Juba" swelling the room as the vision of a young black man looking up at stars through a jail cell hole-in-the-wall unfolded before me.
I do not recall what prompted my recollection of the song. It may have been because I was alone in the city and just as uncertain about my ability to survive there as I was certain I was not yet ready to leave. The more I heard it, the more the image of the boy in the jail cell came into focus. His thoughts became my thoughts. They communicated to me that his name was Juba and he was waiting for his dead father's friend Elijah to come get him.
Between Juba's words and the music that flowed with them, it was impossible to resist picking up a pen and notebook. Maybe I would create some lyrics to go with the moon-shredding laments on the track (provided I would later learn by the group known as The Sweet Inspirations). Once I started writing, I did not stop until the story later published as "I Can Hear Juba Moan," in the book I Made My Boy Out of Poetry, was completed.
I did not, at that moment, even recall Dr. Lateef as the principal saxophonist for the song, only the chain-gang-like rhythm that waved back and forth between unholy anguish and calmly defiant determination. Some quick research at the San Francisco library provided the master musician's identity but more decades would pass before I managed to find the album again during the mid-1990s, this time in the form a CD that I ordered through the multimedia store where I worked. As an adult, I was able to listen to The Blue Yusef Lateef in its entirety and appreciate the various production details and nuances of performance that had eluded me as a child. At the same, I was more amazed that ever that the music had embedded itself so permanently in my consciousness.
CLICK TO READ PART 2 HERE: Memory-Song Painted Gold: for the Blue Yusef Lateef (1920-2013) Part 2
by Aberjhani
Contemporary award-winning author of classically-styled works in history, poetry, creative nonfiction, speculative fiction, and journalism.
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I Can't Believe What My Kid Is Watching, Part II: Pixar's "Cars 2"
Part I here.
Who wrote this script — Goebbels?
I must step back here and explain that like most adults, I find the whole premise and ambiance of the Cars franchise vaguely disturbing. There are so, so many questions. Where are all the people in this world, that's clearly designed for humans? Why do the phones have keypads, even though cars have no fingers? Why do cars have seats, even though no one in their world is capable of sitting down? Why does their world have what appears to be large-scale agriculture, even though cars consume primarily fuel made from dead dynosaurs, and their plants are inorganic anyway? Did self-driving cars rise up against humanity and exterminate it? Where are the animals (that aren't vehicles)? Did the machines kill every organic life form on the planet? How do they reproduce? What makes a car male or female? How do they fulfill what is obviously sexual attraction?
So it is against this unsettling background that I have to consider the positively Goebbelsian story of Cars 2.
Let's start with the fact that the evil leader of the shadowy international cabal seeking to corner the market on fuel – that is, to control the world — has a Jewish surname (Axle Rod = Axelrod). The conspiracy itself is needlessly convoluted and nonsensical very much in the vein of classical anti-Semitic canards. But okay, whatever; I'll grant you that little kids today probably aren't as responsive to anti-Semitic dog whistles as their great-grandparents would have been.
What I find particularly disturbing about the Cars universe – hinted at in the first film and shown at length in the second – is the treatment of the disabled. Because that's what "lemons" are, right? Disabled?
Cars 2 is, thankfully, light on exposition, but the small jigsaw pieces provided here and there add up to a grim picture. "Lemons" don't become such by choice; they are poorly designed, so their lemonness is entirely beyond their control. That's not just being disadvantaged at birth – the disadvantage that comes with being a "lemon" is actually a system, thoroughly permeating culture and even law. Although this is never made explicit, the movie strongly suggests that while good cars are allowed to replace their damaged parts, "lemons" are not. (There would be no reason for the shady market in Paris to exist otherwise. That nod to the Court of Miracles is the only place where "lemons" can get parts.) Instead, "lemons" are limited to bandaid-type repairs barely enough to keep them alive and resulting in near-constant breakdowns and towings to the shop (financially bleeding them, incidentally, in addition to limiting their movement and causing immesurable suffering). Those who want to be reasonably functional are reduced to buying replacement parts on the black market. In other words, to be a "lemon" is to be a criminal.
There is no explanation for why this is, no rationale offered. Imagine a world in which organ transplants and prosthetic limbs are illegal; or rather, available only to previously healthy people who suffered traumatic injuries. Those who suffer from congenital abnormalities can go pound sand.
Moreover, even "good" "lemons" –like the one that Mater tows in the beginning – the law-abiding ones who meekly submit to these cruel and arbitrary limitations – endure public opprobrium.
"You are the only one who's nice to 'lemons' like me," says the Good Lemon to Mater, which leads me to believe that ostracism and verbal abuse against "lemons" – if not more – are par for the course in this society. (In the first movie, there is at least one instance in which the word "lemon" is used as a slur.)
Think of what all this means in the context of the Cars universe switching to alternative fuel. Presumably, many cars will need modifications to complete the switch; but remember, "lemons" are not allowed modifications, they can't get replacement parts. To them, phasing out oil is a death sentence. Can you blame them for rebelling? They aren't fighting for oil profits; they are fighting for their very survival. This is really obvious, yet the world of good cars refuses to acknowledge this. Even Mater, the supposedly kind and sympathetic Good Car, believes "lemons" are trying to sabotage alternative fuels for mercantile reasons and because their betters keep making fun of them. That "lemons'" very lives are at stake is treated as a non-fact. It is here that the underlying creepiness of the whole Cars universe really bubbles to the surface: by the most charitable interpretation, the movie can't make up its mind whether its characters are just machines that can be junked if they are defective or when they become obsolete, or sentient beings who feel pain and experience human emotions, such as hope, fear, despair, longing.
Incomprehensibly, being a "lemon" – a condition over which "lemons" have no control (and in fact, are legally prevented from alleviating) – is regarded as a moral flaw. Meanwhile, Mater's ignorance, provincial buffoonery and lack of decorum are treated as just some adorable redneck hijinks that should be accepted in the name of friendship and tolerance and rainbows and sunshine.
Mindful of Godwin's Law, I don't easily accuse a movie of promoting Nazi values. But here, I just can't escape the impression that this would be a garden-variety children's movie in an alternative universe where Hitler won and the Nazi ideology became mainstream orthodoxy everywhere, embraced as self-evident without even thinking about it. Here you have a group of
cars people who are matter-of-factly ostracized and humiliated for no other reason than being designed "wrong"; while our "heroes" risk their lives to bring about their end.
The non-"lemons" in this movie may be physically sound, but they've got rotten souls. And we are supposed to root for them. What the hell??


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Japanese Life & Culture
LoCarbo Boom in Sushi, Noodles, etc.
Here's a new jargon LoCarbo coined to mean low carbohydrate and a movement to promote foods of low carbohydrate content.
August 15, 2017 at 11:53 pm
Edamame or Green Soybeans for Miraculous Dieting
How about a great recipe for effective dieting with green soybeans or Edamame as it's called here in Japan?
July 31, 2017 at 10:14 pm
"Smapho" for Kids Now Coming Up
Opinions divided over whether the kids should or should not own smapho or smartphones, a new type smapho for kids is coming up for sale this month - branded Tone Mobile developed by the Tsutaya Group in DVD rental business, reported July 25.
July 27, 2017 at 9:54 pm
Rice Paddy Art in Full Swing
Heard of the "rice paddy art"? Perhaps not, but here's an episode to tell you what it is.
July 16, 2017 at 12:57 am
Raumen Museum Opened Afresh in Yokohama
Let's assume most of you known Raumen, or otherwise spelled Ramen - that popular noodles you' ve heard or tried while in Japan or locally in New York, for instance.
July 10, 2017 at 12:47 am
Life Shift: A Wake-Up Call for New Life Style
Drop in any major bookstores, and you wouldn't miss stacks of a book titled "Life Shift: The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity".
July 2, 2017 at 11:42 pm
Duty-free Shops in Arrivals Area to Open this Fall in Narita
The Narita International Airport will be the first domestic airport to install duty-free shops in the arrivals area this fall.
June 27, 2017 at 1:14 am
Sota Fujii Did It at Last!
Don't say you are fed up with Sota and tired of Fujii -because it's well worth reading about him, folks.
June 26, 2017 at 1:18 am
Japanese Dancers Sparkle in Moscow Ballet Competition
Okawa is from Aomori, Japan and belongs to a ballet troupe in the Tatarstan Republic in Central Russia. Чино(Chino) Марк is the eldest son of Masami Chino of Machida, Tokyo of the Russian Ballet.
June 22, 2017 at 11:52 pm
Sota Fujii Stretched Winning Streak to 28 to Tie All-time Record
A historic feat was displayed on June 21 in Osaka as the legendary 14-year-old 4-dan Shogi player, Sota Fujii, won his 28th game of his professional career since his debut in last October to tie the all-time record marked 30 years ago by Hiroshi Kamiya 8-dan.
June 12, 2017 at 11:35 pm
Shogi Progidy Fujii Stretches Winning Streak to 23
You recall our past episodes "14-Year-Old Shogi Prodigy Outplayed 62 Years Older Veteran" and "Rising Shogi Prodigy Fujii Trounced Grandmaster Habu", and now for the third time I am tempted to report on this miraculous shogi (Japanese chess) player of mere 14 years of age who reminds me of the dramatic entry of Bobby Fischer into the stage of the world of chess.
May 17, 2017 at 11:47 pm
Photolike Painting Booming in Japan
A school of super realism in painting is fast finding a unique world of its own here in Japan as even artists in their 30's attract 40 prospective buyers to every work they exhibit.
May 16, 2017 at 4:09 am
How about a Templetel for Lodging in Japan?
Believe or not, many a foreign tourist turns to a Buddhist temple in preference to city hotels for lodging. Umm?
May 9, 2017 at 12:54 am
100-Meter Carp Flying High Up in May Sky
The Japanese celebrate Boys' Day on May 5 as they do Girls' Day on March 3.
May 2, 2017 at 12:36 am
8th World Bonsai Convention in Saitama
In case you are not familiar with Bonsai, a few lines of explanation might be due at the start.


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GTA V debut trailer REMAKE in GTA 4 Shows Graphical Evolution, The debut trailer of Grand Theft Auto V that was released earlier this month has been talk of the internet for weeks now. The trailer has now been remade by making use of GTA IV engine in-order to showcase graphical evolution GTA V has undergone.
This remade trailer of GTA V is enough to silent all critics of the game who claimed that the game hasn't evolved much in terms of graphics and visuals as compared to its predecessor. Watch the trailer below, and check out the difference on your own, and let us know in the comment section below what you guys think about it.