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Sight-fishing for redfish is what I refer to as "seeing red." Now is the time of year when you have the best opportunity to actually see these fish in the water.
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Vastavam web: One day she lived up to the expectations only to far exceed them the next but winning two gold medals in as many days on a World Cup debut is "beyond belief" for even a storehouse of talent like Manu Bhaker.The shooting sensation, all of 16, shot her way to a second successive gold medal in a mixed team pistol event as India maintained their spectacular stranglehold on the season's first ISSF World Cup in Guadalajara, Mexico.This was a day after she signalled her arrival on the world stage with a bang — an individual gold medal in the women's 10m air pistol.
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SCO "Unity Dance" hits U.S. and Interprovincial Borders
ANISHINAABE AND DAKOTA TERRITORY, MB, August 20, 2019 — The third Southern Chiefs' Organization (SCO) Unity Dance will be held at the Piney-Pine Creek U.S.-Canadian border crossing, on Provincial Trunk Highway 89, August 23, 2019 at 5:30 pm for two hours.
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The "Unity Dance" series is planned by SCO Grand Chief Jerry Daniels and leadership from communities across Southern Manitoba. The peaceful, mobilizing dances are held in response to the encroachment on First Nations' rights, and blatant disregard for the well-being of our people by provincial and federal governments. Jurisdiction on First Nations communities belongs to First Nations people only.
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"Smallville"'s Black Canary
After much hoopla and uber-promotion, the Black Canary has debuted tonight on the CW's "Smallville" series. This isn't the Canary's first foray into live-action television as she first appeared in NBC'c horrid "Legends of the Super-Heroes" back in the 1970s and most recently in "Birds of Prey". Here on "Smallville," her appearance marks the long-awaited return of Green Arrow. All in all it was a great episode with some very cool superhero action and fairly good effects, however watered down by the gruesome soap opera aspect that the series has taken on. As a not-so-regular viewer (basically only when comic book concepts show up) I have to say that this aspect has gotten not only worse, but campier. Whereas last season I was on board for most of the Green Arrow episodes, and enjoyed the antics of Clark, Lana, Lex and Lois – as of this one… not so much. It's Superman, guys, just let him be Superman. There's enough soap opera in that paradigm already.
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Colorado Rapids 0-3 Arsenal: Debut goal for Martinelli and Saka on scoresheet as youngsters down MLS side
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Arsenal started their US pre-season tour with a win, as Gabriel Martinelli scored his first goal for the club and a young Gunners team beat MLS side Colorado Rapids 3-0 at Dick's Sporting Goods Park.
Unai Emery's side took on the Stan Kroenke owned club who sit second-bottom of the MLS Western Conference, in a bid for fitness ahead of difficult pre-season games against Bayern Munich and Real Madrid.
Bukayo Saka opened the scoring with just 13 minutes on the clock, after he dinked his effort over goalkeeper Clint Irwin and the Colorado defence failed to stop the ball crossing the line.
18-year-old James Olayinka got his first Arsenal goal just before the half hour mark, as he drove through midfield before curling home a superb strike, one that he will remember for a long time to come.
Martinelli then got in on the act to make it 3-0 and grab his first goal for the club since arriving from Ituano earlier this month.
The Brazilian teenager showed why Unai Emery parted with £6 million to bring him to North London, brilliantly chesting home a Dominic Thompson cross.
Fans were also rewarded with a glimpse of first-team stars Mesut Ozil, Alexandre Lacazette and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, as the trio came off the bench with 12 minutes left.
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The win means a successful start to pre-season for Arsenal, who play Bayern Munich on Thursday.
Olayinka was delighted to get his first goal for the club, saying: "I've been here for 12 years now, so to finally score for the first team is a great feeling.
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"I just picked the ball up on the edge of the area and when I looked up, I saw the keeper on the other side. I took a shot, made sure it was on target, and luckily it went in.
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Series: Billionaire's Beach
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Genres: Contemporary Romance
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Being butler to a widower and single father is a dream job in more ways than one for Charlotte "Charlie" Emerson. She helps keep businessman Ethan Archer's household running without a hitch and enjoys every minute she has with his six-year-old son, Wells. But as time passes, the situation feels alarmingly intimate and when her heart starts beating faster each time Ethan steps through the door, Charlie must exert rigid control over her feelings.
With her secret, falling in love would be all kinds of bad…
Ethan Archer values the woman who keeps his life in order and cares so much for his motherless boy. He and Charlie act in harmony with each other and it's not hard to picture them as a little family…in fact, it's so easy, one reckless night he proposes a marriage of convenience.
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Charlotte Emerson, Charlie, is a graduate of the first ever all female butler class at a prestigious school. For about a year she has been helping Ethan Archer manage his home and care for his six-year old son. She loves her job, adores the child and to her dismay, has recently started seeing Ethan in new ways. Ways a butler should not be looking or thinking of her employer.
Ethan Archer, a widower, firmly believes his one and only true love was his late wife, Michelle. They shared a strong and powerful love. He does not believe he is capable of ever loving again. He lives for his son. But he also worries about the future and what his son needs.
I liked Charlie very much. She was practical and sensible, but Ethan had a way of unsettling her, to her constant shock. But underneath that prim and proper exterior, she was loving and caring. Ethan was crushed by the death of his wife. But he moved forward for his son. He was strong, powerful, and sweet. Though he never thought he could love again, Charlie made him wants things he thought he would never have again.
I loved the easy and sweet nature of this story. Charlie has been a part of the Archer home for under a year, but she fits right in. The Archer men, Ethan and his son, Wells, open their home and arms to her. But Charlie has a secret she is hiding. Will that secret destroy any chance of a future for them?
The Secret was a very entertaining and sweet read with a little added angst. Though they believe they are entering a marriage of convenience, Ethan and Charlie have a strong chemistry that is continuously felt. This was a good story with very likable characters.
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This was made with a little help from my friends Tom Magee and Phil Openshaw. It was part of the creative progress engendered by this GLP comic:
"Sreya Derew Counts Backwards from Ted to Dina"
I am very grateful to Phil and Tom for giving me permission to use pieces of their work.
This photograph was posted on Facebook by Phil Openshaw. The interface between positve and negative spaces grabbed my attention. I immediately began to see graphic possibilities for those shapes, even though the photo is not a particular favorite of mine. The image does not really do justice to the breadth of Phil's wonderful talent. You should check out his site for his photography, and his fantastic asemic art.
The drawing below was made by Tom Magee and posted on his blog at Ello.
When I was making this comic, I reached a point where I had dynamic spaces divided between black and white and red, yet there was no story. When I make abstract comics and asemic writing there is always a story. It can be a fragment of a story, like a scrap of a lost manuscript, or a quotation from an imaginary book. Maybe it is barely a glimpse, like something seen through a window, or like one frozen frame of film. I try not to worry that I have only a small piece of the story, because I have always known that the viewer, the reader, brings the larger narrative to the work. Asemic writing has helped me fully understand that truth. But I did not have even a piece of a story until I saw Tom Magee's drawing on Ello. The two floating entities in his drawing almost yelled at me, like little bratty monsters. They knew they were the catalysts for a GLP narrative, and they demanded their space in it.


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Srinagar, Dec 31: Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) and Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) on Monday released an annual report of year-2018, which reveals that 586 persons including civilians, militants and forces personnel were killed in the Valley this year.
The annual report, revealed 160 civilians, 267 militants and 159 forces personnel including Jammu and Kashmir policemen were killed this year, adding that the year turned a deadliest in over a decade.
The report further added that "31 Children and 18 women were among 169 civilians who were killed in the 2018." It added that year 2018 was the deadliest year of the last decade, revealing that 145, 216 and 267 militants have been killed in Kashmir in 2016, 2017 and 2018 respectively while as the year 2012 witnessed a least number of killings.
"At least 160 civilians were killed in the year 2018 and 18 among them were women," the report added, revealing the year also witnessed killing of at least 31 children, accounting for nearly 20% killings of civilians, which is highest in the last ten years.
"The year saw extrajudicial executions of at least 160 civilians with the month of May recording the highest (28) civilians killed this year. November recorded highest (61) killings followed by October with 57 killing," it said, adding that there was no halt in civilian killings in any of the month this year.
"The four districts of South Kashmir – Kulgam, Anantnag, Pulwama and Shopian jointly recorded highest number of civilian killings with 85, while North Kashmir districts of Baramulla, Kupwara and Bandipora recorded 24 civilian killings and the Central Kashmir districts of Srinagar, Ganderbal and Budgam witnessed 13 civilian killings," the report claimed, adding that in 2018, three civilians were forcibly disappeared and their dead bodies later surfaced.
"The crime of enforced disappearances is continuing crime and the Indian State continues to be in denial about the 8000 enforced and involuntarily disappeared persons. The government in Kashmir is reluctant to carry out forensic investigations into 7000 unmarked and mass graves despite several SHRC recommendations," it said.
"Sexual violence as a 'weapon of war' continues to be prevalent in Jammu and Kashmir as the horrifying rape and murder of an eight year girl from Kathua in January 2018 demonstrates. In 2018, there were other cases where allegations of rape were made against CRPF personal in Poonch and in another case an Indian army personal was arrested by police for allegedly abducting a girl in Poonch," the annual report added.
"In February this year, JKCCS submitted a petition to State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) listing 143 cases of sexual violence cases in Kashmir and demanded investigation but till now no progress has happened in the case," the report added.
"In 2018, several cases of State surveillance were reported in Kashmir. This year, there were reports that army in Kashmir is seeking information on populations, from the police in the vicinity of the armed forces camps." (KNS)


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Blackwater founder linked to murders of persons participating in federal investigation of the company
"Holmes [opened his hotel] for the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 […] The ground floor of the Castle contained, aside from Holmes' own relocated drugstore, various shops […] while the upper two floors contained his personal office as well as a maze of over one hundred windowless rooms with doorways that would open to brick walls, oddly angled hallways, stairways to nowhere, doors that could only be opened from the outside, and a host of other strange and labyrinthine constructions. […] Over a period of three years, Holmes selected female victims from among his employees […], lovers and hotel guests, and would torture and kill them. Some were locked in soundproof bedrooms fitted with gas lines that permitted him to asphyxiate them at any time. Some victims were locked in a huge bank vault near his office; he sat and listened as they screamed, panicked and eventually suffocated. The victims' bodies went by a secret chute to the basement, where some were meticulously dissected, stripped of flesh, crafted into skeleton models, and then sold to medical schools."
There's a book on this.
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Man decapitates passenger aboard Greyhound bus in Canada
"While we were watching the door, he calmly walks up to the front with the head in his hand and the knife and just calmly stares at us and drops the head right in front of us"


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The cat just needs to miaow and rub it's cute fuzzy face on things.
In search of something to entertain the kids, I watched Disney's Tarzan (The animated one from 1999) and do you know what, it's actually pretty good.
It starts off pretty dark, with a baby gorilla and Tarzan's parents all getting killed in the first 5 minutes. May be the only disney movie with bloody hand prints and dead bodies?
The story is what it is… it's the same basic Tarzan story we've seen 100s of times, and that's fine with me. After the initial dark start, my kids started to lose interest in it at first (If the main character isn't female, my daughter tends to have no interest at all) but by the time it got to some of the tenser action moments near the end she was on the edge of her seat.
The animation is really nicely done… it's a lovely mix of old-school 2D disney characters and some subtle 3d to make some very exciting scenes as tarzan zips, swings and 'skates/surfs' through the forest. Voice acting is good too.
The music by Phill Collins(!) is… actually pretty good. That is to say, it works pretty well in the context of the movie and is dramatic/uplifting enough for the moments its needed.
That said, there are apparently 4-5 songs in there and basically they're all the same.
It's also one of those weird period Disney Movies where they had musical numbers, but it wasn't the characters singing… but I'm not sure if Tarzan bursting into song would have worked anyway.
Ending is a bit rushed… but I guess they couldn't make it too action heavy / violent.
Sadly, the straight-to-video sequel seems to be a prequel that focuses on kid-Tarzan, whereas a sequel with more Jane in it would have gone down really well.
I grew up with the johnny weissmuller BW Tarzan movies on TV, Greystoke, reading Tarzan books and comics… so it was rather nice to be back.
I kinda wanna expose my kids to the old Tarzan movies… but I'm not sure how the handling of race/gender would hold up these days. (though this holds true for so much of the beloved stuff from my childhood).
I mean, aside from the fact that the race/gender stuff is pretty errr… bad… the old Tarzan movies (1930s-1950s) are, in general, not good movies, so I think children are unlikely to respond well to them, because children have been exposed to good movies, and whilst children have very low standards, the original B&W Tarzan movies will be bad enough that they'll be bored/annoyed, I'd predict. They're not well-written, they're not well-paced, they don't have good or even bizarrely entertaining action sequences, and they don't have good acting or relate-able characters (whereas plenty of '80s kids movies do - it's almost like people suddenly learned how to make kids movies in the 1980s or something).
Some films of that era are sufficiently remarkable that I think kids, or at least young teenagers might be enthralled by them. But the Tarzan movies are not among them, I would suggest. Greystoke might at least be weird enough to get some traction with older kids, because that is a weird movie at least.
Bonus scary thought - the last 1940s Weismuller Tarzan movie was 1948. So probably less than 40 years old when I would have seen in the 1980s. Greystoke was 1984. In 5 years, that'll be 40. The Weismuller ones are now over 70 years old - equivalent to you or me watching films from the 1910s when we were kids.
You take that back!
The Weismuller Tarzan movies were great!
Well, I enjoyed them as a kid, along with all the other old b&w movies (mainly cowboy ones) that used to be on TV every weekend.
When I was a kid, the scenes of Africa seemed epic and the scenes with the animals seemed amazing and the fight scenes were nail-biting. Plus Wesimuller had good 'presence' even if he was hardly what you'd call a great actor.
I will concede they might not have aged well though.
I watched A United Kingdom because it was on iPlayer.
While I wouldn't say it was a mindblowing movie, it was definitely an interesting story about a historical event I knew nothing about.
I haven't researched how much dramatic license they took, but the basic idea of a black african king marrying a white british shopgirl against the wishes of the UK, South African, Botswanan governments and everyone else is pretty interesting. One of those stories you don't learn about in history class.
The movie is well made, well acted, etc… but never really does anything beyond tell the basic story.
Worth a watch if you have nothing else to do.
To be fair to Weismuller, a couple of his ones were a cut above a lot of 1960s and some cheaper 1980s movies. The issue I feel exists is what you're comparing against and what age you are, and also what choices you have. In the 1980s and earlier 1990s we had what was on TV and maybe what was on video. This actually caused a lot of people to watch a lot of things they might otherwise have avoided, and it will be interesting to see what comes of the Netflix era (which started with Sky+ really). Especially as many classics are not on Netflix or Prime at all, where they were regularly on terrestrial.
Finally watched John Wick 2. That is a magnificently ridiculous movie. It's like a movie of a lost World of Darkness game - "Assassin: The Murdering" or something (as opposed to Vampire: The Masquerade, or Werewolf: The Apocalypse), with this bizarre setting, and paranoiac vision of a world where professional assassins lurk, quite literally, on every street corner. I felt like the action in the first half was a lot stronger than the latter bits though. I did appreciate the fact that the film-makers were actually counting bullets correctly, unlike even some fairly recent Hollywood movies - you could tell exactly when he was going to have to reload or change guns. OCD I know!
One thing really weirdly reminded me of a game I played long, long ago, probably in the early or mid '90s, but perhaps even the very late '80s - where he put weapons/ammo ahead of himself on the path he intended to take. I think can actually think of it now - Airborne Ranger in the 8-bit/16-bit era, 1987/89, apparently - I think you chose what equipment would be dropped into the level ahead of you, and then had to pick it up. Kind of surprising we haven't seen that mechanic really used since (i.e. planning ahead in that way - few games even have you do anything more than pick a couple of weapons and "fill up" on ammo for them).
It's Shaolin Soccer meets Bourne meets Dirty Pretty Things.
Only worth it if you know the bare minimum about who Cristiano Ronaldo is, otherwise it most jokes don't land.
I've been home with a cold for a couple of days and not really able to focus on anything, so I decided to watch a bunch of silly action movies, starting with:
Kong: Skull Island
Shit characters, some pretty dodgy acting, a really lazy story, but so schlockily invested in its giant monster fights that it was kinda fun anyway. I was a bit puzzled by the Chinese lady who had about two words of dialogue and filled no discernable purpose in the plot. I wonder if she was just there as a name to put on posters or maybe it's one of those cases where they actually re-cut and change things for Chinese releases?
And then I ended up watching nearly all I had missed of the Marvel movies in the last 11 years, so:
Thor 1, 2, 3
I've never read a Thor comic, but it puzzles me that it took them three movies to figure out that the best thing to do was to go completely insane with it. I'd seen the first years ago but couldn't remember anything about it, which isn't so strange because rewatching it there's nothing memorable about it. I did like the silly design of Asgård though. The second had more fun and life to it and the third was surprisingly enjoyable. I wish we could have spent more time just hanging out with Thor and Hulk on the crazy scrapheap planet, but it all added up to a really fun science-fantasy adventure movie.
Deadpool 2
Liked it more than the first, but I don't know if that's because it was actually better or if I was just more in the mood for it. Might have to re-watch the first now…
The Incredible Hulk
Bit rubbish. I like the concept of Bruce Banner as a character and the Hulk is one of the few Marvel characters I have any childhood nostalgia for, but they didn't do anything interesting with the premise. I was hoping they were going for something clever with the anti-Hulk serum for the ending, but nope, just two ugly slabs of CGI meat slapping together for 15 minutes. Also, why does Liv Tyler keep being in movies?
Iron Man 1, 2, 3
As with Thor, I've never read any of the comics and I'd seen and forgotten the first movie years ago. All three movies were okay, but while Tony Stark was entertaining he never strayed into likeable territory and all the villains were pretty boring so I struggled to ever feel invested. I was also starting to feel serious fatigue with the over-the-top CGI explosionfest finales by this point and was zoning out pretty hard by the ending of the third movie.
Spider Man: Homecoming
I liked this a lot, I think mostly because along with Deadpool and Guardians of the Galaxy it's among the few Marvel movies where I've managed to care about the main characters, and after all the doomsday plots it was nice to see a smaller story where the stakes were more personal and less about the fate of the earth/universe/realm.
Avengers 1, 2, 3
I was expecting an absolute fustercluck and non-stop dumb action, and I kinda got that, but… it sort of works? Perhaps watching all these movies got me a little more invested in the characters through sheer exposure. The first two are certainly not great and there were loads of things I can complain about, but on the whole I enjoyed them. Infinity War was pretty great; It went much more weird, kept throwing fun ideas and set-pieces into the blender, it was fun to be back with the Guardians of the Galaxy and it had a villain that was actually pretty good and interesting.
So that's… 13 big dumb action movies in 3 days, and I mostly enjoyed them. I may have given myself brain damage.
Wow. I like most of those movies, to a varying degree, but I think watching them all in one go would burn me out on them pretty quick.
It was nicely done, with good acting, non actiony first contact movie but
The conclusion of the movie, what it suggested is absolutely horrifying. That future is already written and everything must happen as it is seen.
Maybe there are some nuances to that, which the movie was not going to explore but nevertheless, unchangeable future means that your actions, your thoughts, your existence is meaningless. No free will, not even randomness.
that's helluva depressing and scary.
Being a bit ill and not being able to focus too much on all the details probably helped, but I was feeling a bit dazed towards the end.
I'm trying to avoid all spoilers for Avengers: Endgame, and last night I got on a train home that turned out to be entirely Avengers: Endgame themed. Every wall had a different endgame poster, every tv screen was showing endgame trailers.
I had to spend the entire train ride staring at my phone and trying to block out all peripheral vision.
All I can say is that the video clips looked very dark. As in, no lights so thankfully I couldn't really see what was going on anyway.
Oh, and I just remembered that I watched Trolls - the movie.
Do you know what… it's actually really fun. I'm not quite sure how that happened, but theymanaged to take the Trolls Franchise and Justin Timberlake, and end up with something pretty smart, funny, creative and with a bunch of great use/desecration of classic songs.
Until you called it a franchise and mentioned Justin Timberlake I thought you were talking about the 1986 movie Troll.
Nah. That movie is no where near pink enough.
Stayed up until 3am watching the midnight showing of Avengers: Endgame.
I didn't really love the first two Avengers movies (enjoyed but I enjoyed, say Thor: Ragnarok more), but I have to give it to this one - it lives up to the hype and 5 star reviews and so on. It's just tremendously well put-together, knows when to indulge in cliche and when to avoid it, knows when to joke and when to be serious, and plays with the audience in some pretty clever ways. There are a few moments when it's just corny, but they are rapidly forgotten. Performances are pretty strong too - all the major characters' actors are bringing their A-game.
Anything else is OMEGA GRADE DO NOT READ spoilers, but I will leave some for when other, saner people watch the movie. Again do not read if you have not seen the movie.
I'm warning you, there are some seriously good "OH SHIT!" moments in this movie, IMHO.
The first thing to say is, if you read a synopsis of this movie a few months ago as a leak or something, you'd be like "Bullshit, that's just some fanwank wet dream! What a lot of nonsense!". Because so many ideas that fans have had turn up at one time or another, but they're all well-handled.
The first very short act is just brilliant in it's abrupt, brutal way. The "OH SHIIIIIIIIT" reaction from the audience to Thor decapitating Thanos mid-sentence was extreme, followed by tumultuous clapping (!!!). But it's a really great "Now what?!" kind of position to start things from. It does open a rather significant plot hole (and/or direction for future movies) given stuff we learn later. That being: if the stones no longer exist, isn't the universe fucked? That's what the Ancient One (the old Sorcerer Supreme, Tilda Swinton), seems to lay out very clearly for Bruce Banner.
The only slightly weak point of the movie follows as they have to get the idea for the "Time Heist" and get the team together - but even that has a lot of humour and charm ("fat Thor" is slightly overplayed but only slightly).
The "NO I WANT TO DIE!" scene was almost hilarious, I'm impressed that they managed to avoid that actually going into the laughter zone. Cameos from two of the best characters from Community. A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one. Cap wielding Thor's hammer was something fans had obsessed about for a long time, and they did NOT half-arse it, that was full, all you can eat Cap with Mjolnir action. There's so much other stuff I could comment on - very interesting that the final fight basically included the scene which was in trailers for the previous movie, but didn't actually happen, too.
Deaths-wise it was slightly different to what I expected. Iron Man dying was a given - I think probably somewhere further back in this very thread I said there was no way he was living through this movie. That "I Am Iron Man" kiss-off line was perfection. I really feel like I'm making this up, because it was so what people would have made up - expect it was better done than that. Nobody who died-died in the previous movie got resurrected. That was slightly surprising. Black Widow dying didn't exactly surprise me, but I didn't really anticipate it, and certainly not as a willing sacrifice to that awful cliff. And Cap is effectively dead, as he's "aged out" (must have been what, 100-and-something at the end? Explains why even he was looking a tad decrepit). The Gamora we know remains dead, but a Gamora survives. Vision is still dead (BOOOOOOO). Thanos and all his dudes are like double-dead.
Most importantly though, the old Marvel universe is dead. They didn't reset it. There was no reset button - I expected a reset button, I have to admit, just one with a cost - even after they explained time-travel not working that way ("Back to the Future is bullshit?!"), I kind of wondered. But nope, no going backwards, and they reversed the snap, but it's not a reset.
So all future Marvel movies have to either be set in before this, or to take place in a sort of post-apocalypse in a rather different sense to usual. Apocalypse just means a great change, not necessarily destruction, and here that's what we have. Literally half the world is five years older than the other half, and spent five years without them. The social and culture impact of that will be huge, potentially. Will they really even go on? They sort of "cleared the decks", and I guess the timing is perfect for the return of the X-Men and Fantastic Four to Marvel's hands, because they did a tremendous job with the Avengers and related superheroes, but most of them have had their stories told now. Not all, of course, I expect we'll see a Black Panther II before too long (my god the cheer from the audience when he and the armies of Wakanda arrived!), but it'll be very interesting to see where they go from here.
Particularly re: Spiderman. The new movie has to be set before this, or literally all of Spiderman's friends have to have been snapped out of existence with him, because none of them are five years older than the rest. Which would be a bit weird, honestly.
I thought it was pretty good, although I think I preferred the first part. I think it's a pretty amazing feat that they pulled it off (in both cases).
I guess it was inevitable, but I thought the first one was just more 'fun', with more laugh out loud moments and more 'hell yeah!' moments. But this one still had its fair share of both of those.
(plus Japanese audiences don't really do cheering or hell yeahs - though the lady next to me was crying near the end, and I must admit i did get a little something in my eye.)
I wonder if this one might need repeated viewings, or hold up a bit better to them though. There's a lot going on.
Having most of the guardians out of action is probably why the movie felt a lot less funny… it was basically all left to Thor. (edit, oh and Scott Lang)
That opening scene was really great, at least if you're a parent and these things hit you harder.
Then the opening quick 'win' was pretty coolly 'wtf!?'
I thought it was kinda a 'reset button', although that was effectively inevitable, so they handled it pretty well. It does have the slight effect of removing a lot of the consequences/weight of previous scenes. But they made it significantly difficult and a big enough part of the movie that it didn't feel too cheap.
Not sure how I feel about Gamora coming back. That was the one bit that did feel kinda cheap. Much as I like the character, I'd have left her dead/out.
I liked how they got pretty much everyone from the entire series back in at some point, including some of my favorites. (Everyone except Paul Bettany?) Even Nathalie Portman?? The security guy with the beard!
They do really great 'dramatic shots, don't they'. The cap one with the dust near the end, and the girl power one. (I hope that doesn't trigger all the online haters).
I can't believe they kept up the Thor thing for the whole movie.
For me, the stark reunion was the only bit that was a bit too long and dragged on a bit. I'd have shortened it by 5 minutes and put in a bathroom break.
I suspect they may need to hand-wave away a lot of the '5 year' thing for future movies, otherwise it's just going to get too complex.
Isn't Sebastian Stan pissed? That switch would have worked better if I hadn't spent the whole time thinking 'what the hell is that beard!!!'
I felt like Thanos got reduced to a bit too much of a generic bad guy in this one.
(Edit: On further reflection, it's surprising how little action there was in most of the movie, with almost all of it saved up for the end. This is at least partly because the funny intro did have the side effect of removing the main bad guy from the story until the very end.
It's also a little surprising how much of the movie was 'minor' characters. Scott, War Machine, Nebula got a lot of screen time, plus of course Hawkeye and Black Widow got a lot too (though they aren't so minor).
But yeah, overall it was a pretty solid feat.
PS/ I spotted one Community cameo in the elevator, but where was the other one?
Ken Jeong is the security guard who spots Ant-Man on the camera of that storage facility his van is in, and escorts him out of the building.
Re: Reset button, I feel like it wasn't because literally everything happened, still happened. Not a single thing was changed or truly reversed. They brought back the snapped characters (as was inevitable), but not other dead characters, and all the snapped people are "out of time", and the universe has to be impacted by this. I like the style of time-travel they used, because it's one of the older, more straightforward ones, abandoned by SF because people love their time loops and paradoxes, and it doesn't allow for either. You can't change anything in the present through time-travel with it, you just bust alternate timelines out of the main one (and they minimized the amount that they did that). It's weird, on reflection, that Stark envisioned it as a "reversed moebius strip", because it's actually a straight line, as the Ancient One correctly visualized it for Banner. I hope they don't handwave it, because that would indeed make it more of a lazy reset. It can't have been unintentional or without consultation with Disney-Marvel high command, either, because this is a big universe-wide deal, and that it coincides with them getting the X-Men/FF/Spidey-related properties back cannot entirely be a coincidence. I've heard theories that Far From Home deals with the post-snapback consequences in part - though presumably all of Spidey's classmates must have been snapped to be the same age as him - as the trailer shows that they are.
Re: Gamora, well, she's kind of not back, because if a Gamora is still around, she's not the one who is in love with Starlord, indeed she's kinda "Wtf…" about the idea, as she says. We also don't see her after Tony's snap, and it's theoretically possible that she was dusted by that, as part of Thanos' gang, but I suspect that's not what we're intended to think.
Re: Fat Thor, yeah that was amazing. When he got the lightning to do his hair and stuff, he was still fat, you could see it a couple of times in the Thanos fight despite his heavy armour, that belly was still there!
Re: Paul Bettany/Vision - Yeah that was weird. My favourite Avenger from the comics and one of the more interesting characters (albeit his relationship with Scarlet Witch is a little dull, typically), and they barely even mentioned him, which felt a bit off. Given there's a TV series with him and Scarlet Witch in coming up, it presumably can't be a falling out. I guess time is limited.
Re: "Girl power", it was a little clumsy, but for the most part the whinging misogynists of the internet seem to have either not picked up on it, or been shouted down. The fact that the movie is in general fairly male-dominated probably helped calm them. I've seen a lot more arguing over whether Scarlet Witch or Captain Marvel is more powerful and whether Scarlet Witch got shortchanged than moaning about that. (My take: Over a sufficient length of time, Scarlet Witch is more powerful - she could theoretically destroy the entire universe. But in a fight? Marvel, being basically Superman, is usually going to come up trumps. And SW nearly killed Thanos by herself! 10-20 seconds more and it'd have been all over!)
Just come back from it myself. Was personally rather underwhelmed by Infinity War, but found Endgame to be triumph from start to finish. To me, this really felt like a massive achievement for Marvel, topping off over ten years of storytelling in really epic fashion. I'll admit that I normally come away from these films having had a great time, but not feeling much need to revisit them again; this made me not only want to watch Endgame again, but all 22 films.
That opening sequence was really inspired. Killing off the main villain came as a complete shock and really left me at a lose as to what would come next. Even more surprising was the destruction of all the infinity stones. I, and I'm sure many others, felt certain that the time stone would come into play and be used as the reset button. They instantly took that one off the table. I would say it also takes the reset button away as well, even more so when they dismiss that Back to the Future "Bullshit."
The time jumps to past films were great too. I did feel that the New York section was significantly more fun and engaging than the others and perhaps the concept could have been used a little more interestingly than a couple of nods to previous films, but to really use it to full effect likely would have required this idea to have been planned for when those films were made. Still, it really allowed them to go back to some of those earlier films and remind us just how much this franchise has gone through. I thought it was a great way to really make this an epic story.
That final battle was truly special. There was so much to love there and so much that gave me chills. Cap using the hammer, the heroes and armies from previous films all marching through Dr. Strange's portals, the reunion between Peter and Tony, and the females of the MCU all coming together (this felt like a bit of an apology that it had taken them so long to give a woman/women the spotlight) in particular all were such fantastic moments one after the other. They managed to get so many moments of spectacle happening, but managed to never make any of them feel underwhelming or like it was too much.
Then we have those closing moments post the battle. The death of Tony has been inevitable for a long time with people expecting it to happen since the first Avengers film, so it really didn't come as a surprise. Still a moving moment though. I think we have Tom Holland to thank for much of that, but also, rather unexpectedly, Jon Favreau. The pan over all of the characters at the funeral was a lovely touch too. Not as moving as Captain America's farewell though. That closing shot in the past was absolute perfection, paying off a sequence way back in his first film. I was a little surprised that there were not more deaths of the original Avengers, as I was fully expecting it to be a case of all of them not being able to return. Also surprised that there was not a new team formed by the end as well.
So, yes all pretty great I thought. I normally come away from Avengers films thinking that they were about as good as they possibly could be when needing to balance so many characters, but this is the first one that I would say was genuinely great throughout.
I was looking at some user reviews on Metacritic (which is probably not a good idea, but they weren't too offensive in this case) and they naturally break down into mainly 10s or 0s with little in the middle.
I actually found myself agreeing with a lot of the points made by people in both the positive and the negative reviews, despite coming out largely on the positive side myself.
So I can understand why some of them didn't like it, although personally those negatives certainly didn't drag it down to anything remotely low.
However, It's a long complex movie with a lot of people, places, times, timelines, etc… going on, and I don't think it quite pulled it all off as smoothly or lightly as Infinity War, which managed to juggle a lot of plates while still feeling snappy and pacy.
It had a lot of fan service and callbacks and characters, and despite having watched all the movies at one time, there were a couple of points where I couldn't really remember what they were on about.
The Thor movie one worked for me, because I remember that movie.
The one with Cap/Tony in the 70s didn't work so well for me, as I don't remember what that was referencing… I assume that base was in one of the movies, but I don't remember it. (?)
The stuff with Cap/Tony in Shield HQ worked better for me as I remembered mostly what was going on and who the characters were - but it'd have been pretty incomprehensible if I didn't.
The stuff with Peggy I got, because I loved Agent Carter (well, S1 at least).
I somehow feel like Cap deciding to spend his life with Peggy should have had big consequences for the future, whatever they say about Back To The Future time theory, though i'm f'd if i can explain why.
It made sense for them to focus the 'flashbacks' on Tony/Cap given that they were exiting, though as I said I did think they overdid the Tony one.
It's a shame that they couldn't do the same for Natasha, but given that the films have done very little to flesh out her back story there wasn't really anyone for her to connect with. (Except Clint). I thought she was really good in the first bit of the movie though.
(Side note: Agent Carter S1 did a much better job fleshing out the Black Widow program)
I was a little worried about the symbolism of only female heroes getting sacrificed, but I thought the girl power team up kinda made up for that.
The one complaint I can kinda get behind is that Hulk didn't really get a big moment in either movie. I was hoping that after he sat out the first movie he'd get to seriously hulk out at the end of the second one and give Thanos a bit of a kicking… which is what I assumed would happen after he got extra gamma rays from the gauntlet.
Another complaint that I read was that "it was a 3 hour movie with only 6 minutes of action at the end". While that's clearly exaggerating, I was a bit surprised at how little action it had until the final battle. It just wasn't really a negative for me.
Saw it on Friday and pretty thoroughly enjoyed it. Some bits were a little annoying or caused some eye-rolling but there wasn't anything that I felt detracted from the film overall. Definitely a worthwhile watch if you enjoyed the other Marvel films.
The misdirect that made up a bunch of the trailer scenes with the early Thanos fight was fantastic. Reminded me of the voice overs in the Winter Soldier trailers that led you to assume Pierce was talking to Cap when he was talking to Bucky instead and was making a completely different point than it seemed.
Military Base: It's the base from the first 2 Captain America films. The one he trained at and where he and Nat found the Zola program. Also, apparently, Hank Pym worked there while with SHIELD at some point but that wasn't mentioned before that I remember. Knowing about the base doesn't really alter the scenes, it's just a little bit of nostalgia for those who like call-backs.
Girl power: The posed scene did make me roll my eyes a little. Mainly because, except for Wanda and maybe Valkyrie, I don't think any of them would really be much help against anything that could actually slow Carol down. Does seem like a scene that makes for a great poster. That's just the pose part though, the actual scene after that with them clearing the way worked pretty well.
Wanda fighting Thanos was great. I was, however, disappointed that they had the standard action movie defeat for her where the character who is clearly dominating the fight with ranged attacks walks forward into melee range and gets stabbed/head-butted/whatever. Just stand back and kill the guy!
Hulk: The Doc Green part was pretty good, the diner parts especially. On the whole though I tend to agree with Valkyrie in that I prefer him either of the other ways. I'd swear he shrank for the final charge scene though. He spent most of the film towering over everyone and then barely seemed a head taller than the others.
Time travel: Mostly worked for me. They were clearly leaning toward the Marvel Comics version of time travel where changing the past creates a new alternate timeline and leaves the timeline you started in as it was. Not sure how well that holds up with Thanos coming forward from before The Snap and then dying without ever causing it. Maybe they jumped back and forth between different realities or something.
Not sure that works for Old Man Captain America though. If he went back and altered his past that should create a new timeline so he wouldn't be in the original one to see Sam and Bucky. That would obviously ruin the big moment closing their relationship which would weaken the film so I should probably let it slide
The only part that didn't work for me at all was at Tony's funeral. When the camera is panning between groups there's a teenager between Wanda's group and Maria Hill and I had no idea who it was. According to my brother, who looked it up online, it's the little git from Iron Man 3. That's probably my least liked of all the films though so it's not surprising he never came to mind when I was trying to figure out who it was. That's a tiny moment and it doesn't impact the rest of the film at all so I'll probably forget about it soon enough.


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I feel lucky to live where I do, and try to take advantage of as much going on in my community as I can. The Collingwood Book Festival is INCREDIBLE, get to it every year if you can. A group in my neighborhood called Booze & Haiku meets to write suburban angst haiku! The Rosenbach… Continue reading Literary/Community
Daytrips and Adventures
I feel like my friendships are particularly strong and healthy right now, and this fills me with gratitude. I am also loving active time together, exploring outside. Here are a few different day trips I can recommend: Sunrise Mountain, Branchville NJ: Finns Point Lighthouse, Supwana Meadows and Auburn Road Winery. (Represent Salem County, NJ!) More… Continue reading Daytrips and Adventures
NJ State Parks: Summer 2019
Pictures from five different NJ State Parks in summer 2019
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These days my life is almost painfully quaint. It crept up on me. I'm trying to pay attention.
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I love to take pictures when I can think of it, but I am particularly bad at getting shots of people's faces. Asking for a photo of people pauses conversation and makes us pose instead of acting naturally. I do not like getting my picture taken so I don't want to make anyone else uncomfortable… Continue reading People. Have faces?


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LCJH Golden Dazzlers attend camp
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The Little Cypress Junior High Golden Dazzler Dance Team attended the American Dance/Drill Team camp in Galveston earlier this summer and reports great success, especially since the organization is about to begin only their second official year as a school group. Among the many teams attending they were the only junior high in attendance and so competed among high school teams.
The first day of camp, the Golden Dazzlers received the Gussie Nell Davis Team of the Day award for their improvement, unity and hard work and also won a Division 1 rating for their Home Routine. This rating, plus First Division ratings for their final evaluations of the high kick field and jazz routines earned the group the Super Sweepstakes Award.
The team also received many individual ribbon awards. Teal Specialty Ribbons, for attitude, enthusiasm or extra effort, went to Dajha Myles, Ashley Umbenhaur and Bailey Bouley. Sydney Peet received two Teal Ribbons.
Red All-American Nominee Ribbons, for outstanding achievement in dance technique and quick learning skills, went to seventh graders Caylee Aleman, Abbey Gray, Dayla Hulsey, Kayla Lingo, Sydney Peet, Karly Ray, Shelby Smith and Ashley Umbenhaur, and eighth graders Bailey Bouley, Harli Foreman, McKenzie Guillory, Dajha Myles and Daisy Sutton.
Harli Foreman was named Junior All-American for ninth grade and under. This honor included a medal and certificate, as well as invitations to participate in the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade in New York City and the Capital One Bowl half time performance in Orlando, Florida.
McKenzie Guillory received a Pink Ribbon, for exceptional achievement in dance, and Harli Foreman and Daisy Sutton received two Pink Ribbons.
Harli Foreman won the Outstanding Performance Award trophy for dance technique, attitude, leadership and overall excellence.
Simone Smith is the sponsor and coach of the Golden Dazzlers.
Pictured from left to right, back row are Shelby Smith, Daisy Sutton, McKenzie Guillory, Director Simone Smith, Dayla Hulsey, Abbey Gray, Gia Montoya and Karly Ray. Front row from left are Kayla Lingo, Caylee Aleman, Captain Harli Foreman, Co-captain Dajha Myles, Ashley Umbenhaur, Sydney Peet and Bailey Bouley (not pictured Haley Votava)


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Do you wish you could figure out how to stop being shy with guys? Do you find yourself blushing and becoming tongue-tied every time a guy you like talks to you? Are you worried that your shyness is making it impossible for you to get a boyfriend? Not all women can be confident around men all of the time. In fact, most of us are sometimes shy or insecure and so we let great guys slip through our fingers without giving them an opportunity to know us at all. But you can learn to stop being shy with guys you like. Don't allow yourself to miss out on a great guy. Read on to find out how.
The first thing that you need to do is ask yourself what the source of your shyness is. You may be shy because you don't feel like you are as pretty as the women guys are always talking about. Or there may be something about your appearance that you see as a flaw that makes you insecure. Sure, men do seem to be more preoccupied with personal appearance when it comes to dating than women are. But the good news is that even though men may talk a lot about wanting a 'hot' girlfriend, they don't want to be with a woman who has nothing else to offer but a great body and/or face.
How do either of you feel about your current job? Are you doing what you love or are you working towards a different goal? Maybe you have a job that you don't really care about but it pays the bills, either way this question will give you an insight to what a person has in mind for their future.
Again without your contact she will begin to ponder on the relationship and it's values. Let her have time to begin to miss your presence. Remember if you can keep from having communication with MY ex girlfriend you should be able to control your anxiety and feelings while letting her realize how important you were to her.
For quite some time in the porto velho acompanhantes department I had to do for myself. I didn't encounter guys who really wanted to be gentlemen. So instead of leaving, I tried to "correct" the issue by being a woman that did everything for myself that I didn't feel I could get from unhealthy relationships.
Turn off the noise. This means iPods, stereos, so-called ambient TV noise (you know your ears are going to perk up when Judge Alex gives his ruling), radio and your snoring Boston terrier. It also may mean obtaining ear plugs to buffer the sound of the ice falling off your roof.
How will you know when you've found your voice? There isn't any have-I-found-my-voice test you can take, but there is a saying that the process is like falling in love–when it happens, you'll know. It is literally as if a switch is thrown inside you and voila!, you have a voice. Once discovered, your voice is a hardy thing, it will never leave you, only become stronger. This voyage to voice is by no means simple. The destination is only the beginning. Once there, a whole world will open to you. The possibilities are endless, and thrilling.


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Last week, there were 2 Portland police cars, a Guardian ambulance, and a fire truck parked in front of my house. I didn't see a fire and wondered which of our older neighbors was sick. Mostly, I choked back a rising sense of deja vu since the same arrangement of emergency responders parked in front of the house 5 years before when Jack was dying.
Not wanting to get in the EMT team's way, I got in my car and drove away thinking, "I'll call Mark and find out what happened." A few hours later Whitney, Mark's stepdaughter, called to tell me Mark had suffered a massive heart attack and was dead.
Mark lived across the street with his wife, Jeannette; he was curious as a cat. There was little that happened on Crosby Street that Mark didn't see. He'd early retired and supplemented his income by doing home repairs and renovations. And making sure that the street stayed secure.
He was the first person I met when we were working on my little house so it would pass the loan company's inspection. The previous owner had been a cat lady. And a dog lady. Dog and cat fur covered the house, it smelled like a litter box, and had last been renovated in the mid-80's. It looked like that was also the last time it was cleaned, too.
GE, Jack, Claire, and I brought in borrowed and bought loads of tools and supplies to strip wallpaper off the living room walls, repaint, and sanitize the house. "Howdy, neighbors!" Mark called through one of the open windows. After watching our feeble attempts at foil wallpaper removal, he excused himself and returned with his wife, Jeannette, and a bucket of tools. The two of them had just finished removing wallpaper and repainting walls at an Ingleside apartment complex. What they didn't know about stripping wallpaper wasn't worth knowing.
My hired workers were residents at the Good Sam Rescue Mission. The first day I lined them out; that evening I came home to see that they'd done something completely different. Seething because MY instructions weren't followed , I approached them and asked through thin lips, "What happened? I thought I asked you to start painting." (That fellow across the street said we needed to take off the rotten wood before we painted. He brought over this lumber, nails, and hammers.) When I asked Mark what I owed him, he said it was all scrap. Just bring back the tools and anything leftover.
Nobody on the street started a project without Mark walking across to check the work and offer suggestions. They were always good ones; Mark was quick to offer advice and tools. He remodelled several of our neighbors' houses and knew construction materials used, plumbing and electrical weaknesses, and probable slab construction. When it came time to repaint my house, he agreed to do the work. It wasn't the doing the work part that was a problem. It was convincing him that he needed to take money for it. Jeannette joked that Mark would do work for the neighbors for free to keep from finishing work at their home.
If Mark noticed a delivery left on the front porch, he'd pick it and text me that he had it at their house for safe keeping. (I've seen some weird looking people walking down the street and don't want one of them to decide they want your package.) A few days before Bob and I got married, their granddaughter, Beetle, brought over a beautiful Christmas wreath that Jeannette made. The day before my family arrived for the wedding, I came home to a fresh mown lawn. (I figure you and Bob have too much to worry about. This is one thing I could help you with.)
At the memorial service on Saturday, friends told their stories of how many times Mark had been the emergency locksmith, ladder carrier, tool loaner, repairman, and installer for our neighborhood. Jeannette said with a wistful smile, "Mark was a stubborn, feisty butt. And he wasn't sarcastic. Noooo. Not Mark." We all laughed. For all his goodness, Mark was human.
Mark started January 16 in the usual way, waking at 4 a.m. to finish a pot of coffee before making fresh. His last actions were to take Jeannette a cup, give her a good morning kiss, and tell her he loved her. It was a beautiful way to end a life and a sad way to be left behind.


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In keeping with its pared back décor this restaurant sits back off Wilston's main eat street, quietly dishing up some of the finest Asian cuisine to be found anywhere in town.
Come here for the exquisitely prepared dishes such as tea smoked ocean trout and banana blossom salad with pork crackle and finger limes, or the signature twice cooked crispy chicken with ginger & chilli caramel sauce.
Tasting plates are available as entrees for those who can't decide between the delicate betel leaf packages of sand crab, coconut chilli and coriander, crispy fish with hot and sour green mango and the ma hor (minced prawn, pork and peanuts on pineapple.
Delicious dinners aside, Citron is unbeatable value for a civilized lunch, with the same dishes coming in at $22-25 each, a steal for the quality.
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For some time on Thursday, it appeared like the #NeverTrump movement inside the Republican Party could become a real thing. And then, at the end of a raucous debate, it wasn't.
Last night, the candidates on the stage spent two hours (on top of a week) saying that under no circumstances should Donald Trump be the Republican nominee. Then they said unequivocally that they would support Trump if he were.
As Trump himself might say: They were politicians, all talk and no action.
Just hours earlier, Mitt Romney offered an indictment of Trump in a speech from Utah. While Romney may not have changed a single Trump supporters' mind, that was not the point. The point was to stop Trump's momentum and galvanize other Republicans around that cause. That kind of scene -- the previous Republican nominee going out of his way to criticize the Republican presidential front-runner -- has not happened since 1912. That was the year the Republican party split.
And the Republican Party appeared to be headed toward a real split on Thursday. It wasn't just Romney speaking into the wind. This past week significant money was put into a national stop Trump effort, including an ad buy in Florida. Republicans had meetings about how to maneuver the delegate system during the Republican National Committee convention.
The debate introduced this fissure to the broadest possible audience, though largely through schoolyard taunts. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz argued that Trump would not only lose to Hillary Clinton, but he would also be a bad president who would undermine the conservative movement.
But during the last question of the night, when the candidates were asked if they would back Trump as the Republican nominee, they virtually raised their hands (large and small) and said OK.
To be sure, the #NeverTrump movement will continue, thanks in part to its funding. But instead of stopping Trump's momentum last night, the other candidates on the stage stopped the #NeverTrump movement.
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Writing their lives: books by women you must read
Next Friday (8 March) is International Women's Day, so we thought we'd come up with a selection of books by women who have done one of the most daring things anybody can do – share their lives with the world.
It's not an easy thing to reveal your innermost thoughts or deepest feelings, but the women in this list have plucked up the courage to share their experiences about what they've been through. Some are happy, others are sad, some are wistful, others are heartwarming. But all of it is true.
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A LIFE IN WORDS by You Jin. Tham Yew Chin, better known by her pen name, You Jin, is one of the most lauded female writers on our list. Her achievements? Well, receiving the Singapore Chinese Literary Award, the Montblanc-NUS Centre for the Arts Literary Award, and the biggie – the Cultural Medallion for her contributions to Singapore's literary arts scene. Among others, of course.
A Life in Words documents not only You Jin's career as a writer but her early life as well – growing up in Malaysia before moving to Singapore and dealing with parents whose relationship was like a rollercoaster ride. Her life story is broken into bite-sized anecdotes with interesting revelations, such as the fact that her dad was a member of the famed Force 136, Lim Bo Seng's resistance unit that fought against the Japanese forces in World War II. Or that You Jin once wrote an article exposing some of the underhanded tactics of trishaw riders in Singapore (this was in the 1970s, Singapore still had trishaws as a mode of public transport then). Angered by the story, these riders arrived at her office to confront her. Fearing for her safety, she had to wait inside for hours before a colleague sent her home.
You Jin's life – as recorded in A Life in Words – is an inspiring tale that everyone can learn from.
I'M NOT PERFECT. I'M A MOM by Jasmin Han and Shelly Holly. Most books about mothering and motherhood often tell you how to be the perfect mum and how to raise the perfect child. I'm Not Perfect. I'm a Mom isnot one of those books.
No, no. This is a collection of light-hearted, true stories about the bizarre experience of being a mother – from the moment you come to terms with your pregnancy to managing mood swings and attempting to avoid public tantrums; to how mothers learn to make it through proverbial the "terrible twos" (and, come to think of it, the ones, threes and fours) while trying not to punch the husband while he is trying to be "helpful". Jasmine Han and Shelly Holly – both mums with three young kids between them – regale us with their humorous collective experiences about surviving, and not perfecting, motherhood.
DON'T CALL ME MRS ROGERS by Paige Parker. At the turn of the millennium, American-born Paige Parker and investment guru Jim Rogers spend three years – 1,101 days to be exact – driving over six continents in their customised coupe and trailer. From the steppes of Russia to the savannahs of Africa they went, ultimately setting a Guinness World Record along the way. Her experiences are recorded in Don't Call Me Mrs Rogers, but this book isn't a mere travelogue. During the epic journey, Paige's world view is turned upside down after she meets the residents of each country, whether they be women from every walk of life, inspiring monks in China or boy soldiers in Angola. The life lessons she picked up on that journey also fuelled her life journey – and she wants to pass them on.
"I hope (the book) will also resonate with more young women around the world. My wish is for them to take a chance, to roll the dice, and when given the opportunity to travel, to just do it," she said. It's time to take a chance and do it.
DYING TO MEET YOU by Angjolie Mei. Why would someone leave a shining career in management to work among the dead? Angjolie Mei, funeral director and "life celebrant", recounts how the death of her father – a veteran in the funeral industry known as 'The Coffin King' – prompted this dramatic choice.
Within the pages of Dying to Meet You, Angjolie answers some of the questions that people frequently ask her: What exactly happens during embalming? What kind of post-death restoration is needed for second-degree burn victims? What are the little-known facts surrounding suicide in Singapore?
However, Angjolie also shares how her perceptions of life have changed since she chose this extraordinary profession – not least the fact that she is a female in a "man's world".
"When I first started, there were times when people didn't trust me to do things. They thought I was just a small girl. The only solution is to do it; show them it can be done," she said.
"I was once asked if I was a rose among the thorns. I replied that even if I were, a rose would not be complete without the thorns."
NEVER LEAVE HOME WITHOUT YOUR CHILLI SAUCE by Constance Singam. On the surface, this would appear to be a recipe book – after all, it contains recipes for chilli sauce, together with other recipes such as Kerala fish curry, chicken vindaloo, flourless orange almond cake and mango mousse by Singapore's most prominent advocate for civic society, Constance Singam.
However, this 184-page volume is more than a foodie book, even though food plays a central role in these pages. Through her food memories, Constance also takes readers on a culinary journey to discover the rich local food culture and its roots. Her love affair with food began with her mother's Keralan cooking. Still, after decades of social activism, travel and kitchen mishaps, food is still able to transport her back to a time of street hawkers and wet markets and when dishes such as spaghetti was considered strange and foreign.
LETTERS TO ALY by Lee-Ann. How do you survive your best friend's suicide? After Alyessa – or Aly – jumps to her death two days after her 16th birthday, her best friend Lee-Ann blames the tragedy on her failure to answer Aly's last phone call. Haunted by the what-ifs, stressed out by the looming 'O' Levels, and troubled by the fraught relationships with her parents and on-again-off-again boyfriend Nate, Lee-Ann slowly begins to contemplate suicide too.
In Letters to Aly, Lee-Ann offers a series of searingly honest diary entries, as she exposes the wound of having a loved one gone too soon. This true account of a teenager's journey reveals the anger and the despair at its most raw – plunging to the depths of the abyss before she eventually begins the slow and painful recovery to live again.
BABY ZOEY: OUR SEARCH FOR LIFE AND FAMILY by Olivia Chiong. Olivia and Irene wanted to have a baby. But their journey from wanting a baby to actually being parents was fraught with difficulty. Baby Zoey, written by Olivia, tells the story of how the two of them braved the difficulties and obstacles they faced as they pursued their dream.
For example, Olivia details her struggles with infertility and the lack of support for her particular situation. (In Singapore, artificial reproductive technology, including intrauterine insemination is only available to heterosexual couples who are married.)
Furthermore, their daughter was not automatically granted citizenship in Singapore. They had to renew Zoey's social visit pass every 30 days – failure to do so would mean that she would have to leave Singapore.
"Publishing (this book) was a conscious choice," said Olivia. "In Singapore, families like ours are censored out of the narrative. I wanted the world to know what was stopping us from being a family. And I want Zoey to know that our family is nothing to be ashamed of," she said.