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This Bright River
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Publisher's Summary
A compelling story of young love and old secrets.
Lauren Sheehan's career in medicine came to a halt after a chain of violent events abroad. Now she's back in the safest place she knows - St. Helens, Wisconsin - cut off from career, friendship, and romance.
Ben Hanson's aimless young life has bottomed out after a series of bad decisions, but a surprising offer from his father draws him home for what looks like his final second chance. In Wisconsin, he finds his family fractured, still unable to face the truth behind his troubled cousin's death a decade earlier.
As Lauren cautiously expands her horizons and Ben wrestles with his regrets and mistakes, their paths intersect. Could each be exactly what the other needs? Or the last thing in the world either one can handle?
The weight of secrets, the price of success, and the cost of love all linger at the heart of this surprising, unsettling, deeply satisfying novel. Rich with the dark humor and piercing intelligence that made The Cradle so beloved, This Bright River confirms Somerville's status as one of the most engaging and daring young writers at work today.
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- Mary
- 10-28-12
Compelling dialogue, lifelike characters
Would you listen to This Bright River again? Why?
I'd definitely listen again. Puzzles and logic problems are a recurrent theme. Ben is trying to solve a mystery from the past and I think it would be very rewarding to experience the book a second time, knowing the conclusion, and pick up on important details I paid little attention to the first time.
What other book might you compare This Bright River to and why?
I don't think I've read anything else that quite fits into the space This Bright River occupies: an overlap between literary fiction (with complex characters and attention to writing at the sentence level) and detective story (with a page-turning plot and heart-pounding climax).
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
For a book that explores the nature and definition of evil, I was surprised how many times I found myself stifling a laugh while I walked with my headphones in.
Any additional comments?
I'd recommend this to anyone looking for a good read, and in particular to anyone interested in: video games, small town midwestern life, intellectual debates on human nature, recovery (substance abuse), or family drama. Oh, and people taking trips. I think this would make great airplane reading.
3 people found this helpful
- 08-20-12
Great story
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
yes, interesting characters, likeable, fairly complicated in a good way, suspenseful, interesting the way lives connect
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3 people found this helpful
- Concerned Reader
- 04-09-13
Intricate story that ties things up neatly
Any additional comments?
The opening scene of the book doesn't seem connected to the rest of the book other than the locale until close to the conclusion. Ben has burned through his parental endowment money, got himself into trouble, and managed to be a major contributor to new game software because of his gift for creating puzzles. His life puzzle is to solve the mystery of his cousin's death in the frozen Michigan peninsula several winters ago. On the way to stumbling onto the solution to that puzzle he pursues an old high school friend who had a crush on him. She's got her own puzzling background complete with off kilter ex-husband on the prowl. Somerville provide some good character building background and got me invested in each of the people involved, even Will (the ex-husband) as he descends into madness. The story is intricate but easy enough to follow. The puzzle's solution is complex and satisfying. Just when you think the book is wrapping up another layer is revealed.
2 people found this helpful
- Mighty_Cranium
- 10-17-15
After a promising start, major fail.
The front end of this was unique and just strange enough to be intriguing. Then a few hours of "when was this?" and "which guy was that?" and the book, story and actors quickly left the realm of interest. By the end of the tale, I was praying for the sweet release of death. I've heard a couple worse...but very few. Do NOT make my mistake and assume it will somehow be worth the effort by the end.


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This game was created in collaboration with an Italian association and is part of a project for schools, where we teach children the importance of respect for animals.
The game has some educational content but also has a classic adventure style.
In this adventure, we control Orazio, a big friendly cat who, with the help of his friends, must find a way to stop an evil multinational corporation from knocking down the cattery to build a motorway. All in the course of one night, during which Orazio will have to get up to all sorts of tricks to find a solution to the problem.
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Fatwas Part One-Hundred-and-Twenty-Eight
Issued by: Dr. Ahmed Subhy Mansour, translated by: Ahmed Fathy
Debts of Deceased People
Published in June 2, 2019
Question: … Dear Sir, … A man died and he had some debts (about 14000 US$); are the inheritors responsible for settling the late man's debts or not? Any ideas? … Thank you …
Of course, inheritors must settle such debts before the distribution of the rest of the money among themselves as per the shares mentioned in the Quran. If the money left by the deceased man is not enough to settle the debts, the money should be divided in percentages to settle the debts partially. If the deceased man left no money at all; the supposed inheritors should never settle any debts at all as they will not receive any money in the first place: "That no soul bears the burdens of another soul." (53:38).
Fasting in Bairams and for 6 Days in Shawwal!
Published in June 3, 2019
Question: … Dear Sir, … Some Sunnite scholars assume it's very wrong to fast during any of the days of the Lesser and the Greater Bairams and during Shiites feasts in the lunar month of Muharram; yet, they encourage people to fast for any 6 days in the lunar month of Shawwal (which follows Ramadan); why is that? Any ideas? … Thank you …
Please do not pay attention at all to Sunnite myths, prohibitions, and fabrications; there are no religious feasts in Islam; they exist only in terrestrial/earthly religions of the Muhammadans, Christians, and others. One can perform any extra acts of worship anytime (fasting, prayers, etc., while dedicating them only to Allah) to gratify the Lord God and to be among the Forerunners on the Judgment Day and in Paradise.
The Night of Decree, Again!
Question: … Dear Sir, … So, the Night of Decree is – as you say! – when Gabriel and angels carry fates imposed on human beings for one year, from the lunar month of Ramadan to the next one; yet, this, I think, contradicts God's Omniscience; I mean, why would fates descend annually anyway?! ........ You might be mistaken in your understanding of the Quranic Chapter 97 ........... … Thank you …
We do not misunderstand the Quranic Chapter 97. The present tense in 97:4 about the descent of the angels shows that this event occurs annually every Ramadan; this does NOT contradict the Omniscience of the Lord God; you have no right whatsoever to question the Divine Will or the deeds of the Lord God: "He will not be questioned about what He does, but they will be questioned." (21:23). For more information about the Night of Decree, you can (re)read our book, in English, titled "The Night-Journey Is The Night of Decree", found on the following link:
The Sign of Prostration on the Forehead!
Question: … Dear Sir, … In your old videos, the sign of prostration is visible on your forehead; it's disappeared in recent videos; why? You did not stop praying, I suppose! … Thank you …
That we perform prayers or not is none of your concern; this is a private matter and we never allow anyone to interfere in it; what we display to people/audience is Quranist thought as the Only True Islam, and they are free to accept or reject Quranism; the Lord God will settle our disputes in faith on the Last Day. There is nothing in Islam called the sign of prostration on the forehead. In 48:29, those who prayed with Muhammad had signs of prolonged prayers on their faces; yet, not all of them will enter into Paradise; only those pious ones among them. This is clear in the last part of 48:29. By the way, the arch-enemies of Islam in our modern era are the Wahabis/Salafists whose puckered skin on their foreheads makes a huge sign/mark of too much prostration; they sometimes burn a circle on their foreheads or use makeup to fake it before cameras of the media and eyes of onlookers. By the way, we take pride in never missing any of the daily prayers since we were a seven-year-old child. Unintentionally, this led to a mark/sign on our forehead for a while; it is gone now because for the last two years, we can no longer prostrate our head on the ground for health reasons; we sat at our desk for more than 30 years, writing constantly, and this has caused pains now in our backbone and knees; we pray while sitting on a chair now. The Lord God knows that we tried to prostrate many times before, but unbearable pains occurred as a result. We pray while sitting on our chair as part of ease/facilitation required by the Quran. We implore the Lord God to accept our prayers and we adhere to concentration, piety, and reverence within our prayers as much as we can. The Lord God does not burden a soul beyond its capacity, as you know.
About the Crescent!
Published in June 4, 2019
Question: … Dear Sir, … I live in CA, the USA; the two main mosques there differ concerning the last day of Ramadan; one of them considers the last day of the fasting month is the 29th and it celebrates the Lesser Bairam today; the other mosque considers today as the 30th of Ramadan! Should I fast the 30th day or consider it as the 1st day of Shawwal?! Should I choose whimsically or what? Will the Lord Allah forgive me?! Am I to see the crescent myself or what?! What if I cannot?! In Egypt, the 30th of Ramadan is also the 1st of Shawwal in the KSA and the Gulf monarchies! ............... … Thank you …
You do not have to see the crescent or follow any Arab state (Egypt or the KSA) at all in deciding the last day of the lunar month of fasting. In fact, we ourselves follow the astronomical calculations; this means that where we live, in VA, the USA, Tuesday the 4th of June is the 1st of Shawwal; Ramadan as per astronomical calculations is 29 days in this lunar/Hijri year 1440. Of course, there are nothing called Bairams or feasts in Islam. Of course, acts of worship are a personal, individual matter dedicated only to the Lord God within the aim of attaining piety. Countries, presidents, and kings have nothing to do with this. You can choose if you will fast a 30th day or not; it is up to you. You should not follow any whims of any clergymen or presidents. Manipulating the days of Ramadan and the timing of its beginning and its end is done for political reasons since the Mameluke Era until now; see our three-part article, in English, about Ramadan and its timing, on the following three links:
Abraham's Fear
Question: … Dear Sir, … The Lord God says the following in the Quran: "When Abraham's fear subsided, and the good news had reached him..." (11:74); did the Lord God's prophets/messengers feel any fear? Why? How come? Any ideas?! … Thank you …
You must bear in mind that all of the Lord God's human prophets/messengers are mortals; they are like all human beings: they love, hate, despair, get surprised, feel afraid, etc. Abraham in the context of 11:74 saw angels who took a human form and felt afraid when they never ate the food brought before them; he felt afraid as they told him how they were sent to destroy and punish the sinful, disbeliving people of Lot; he was mightily surprised when they told him that his old, barren wife will get pregnant with Isaac.
The Meaning of Thankfulness towards Allah
Question: … Dear Sir, … What is the meaning of being thankful to the Lord God as per the Quranic verse 1:2 and praising the Lord Allah? How is this expressed in prayers and other acts of worship? Any ideas? … Thank you …
We refer you to our four-part article, in English, titled "Quranic Terminology: Being (Un)Thankful to the Lord God", on the following four links:
About Seeing the Crescent, Again!
Published in June 5, 2019
Question: … Dear Sir, … A man in Sana'a, the Yemeni capital, fasted 29 days of Ramadan but when he went to another city, he discovered that Ramadan there is 30 days! This discrepancy is due to the different orders of the Houthis and the legitimate government in different parts of Yemen. Was Ramadan 29 or 30 days this year?! How would we see the crescent to determine this exactly?! Any ideas? … Thank you …
One does not have to see/examine the crescent at all; it is enough to examine astronomical calculations via the internet; Ramadan of 1440 A.H. was 29 days only as per these astronomical calculations. Political reasons make some governments manipulate this to show opposition or agreement with the KSA (or other Arab countries or rivals). One should never follow the ways of the corrupters who assume authority and rule; their ways always violate Quranic sharia of the Lord Allah.
The Day of Calling
Question: … Dear Sir, … How come that in 40:32-33 we see the believing Pharaonic prince knowing about the ancient prophets/messengers and knowing about the Last Day and calling itthe Day of Calling? Who would 'call' who on the Day of Judgment? Any ideas? … Thank you …
The context of 40:28-35 about the speech delivered by the believing prince in the palace-court of Moses' Pharaoh shows that he had a measure of knowledge of the previous Divine Scriptures. All Divine Books of the Lord God contain warning about the Day of Judgment. The term (the Day of Calling) refers to the fact that all human beings will be forced to gather in one location; many of them will call one another but in vain, as they will feel frightened: "The Day when a person will flee from his brother. And his mother and his father. And his consort and his children. Every one of them, on that Day, will have enough to preoccupy him." (80:34-37); "On the Day when the Trumpet is blown, everyone in the heavens and the earth will be horrified, except whomever God wills; and everyone will come before Him in humility." (27:87); "And they say, "We have believed in it." But how can they attain it from a distant place? They have rejected it in the past, and made allegations from a far-off place. A barrier will be placed between them and what they desire, as was done formerly with their counterparts. They were in disturbing doubt." (34:52-54).
To Frighten David?!
Question: … Dear Sir, … Have the Lord God frightened David in the context of 38:21-25? Why is that?! Any ideas? … Thank you …
The Lord God has not sent people to David to frighten him; those people came to him as an arbiter/judge; they came suddenly to him in his seclusion and it is natural that he would feel afraid of their sudden presence before him; he might have thought they desired to attack him; he thought this is a test from the Lord God; he asked His pardon and prostrated in humility, and the Lord God has forgiven him. This Quranic story, which comes in the context of praising David, shows the piety of David and we should draw a moral lesson from it. The Lord God says the following in the Quran: "Has the story of the two disputants reached you? When they reached the walls of the mihrab? When they entered upon David, and he was startled by them. They said, "Do not fear. Two disputants; one of us has wronged the other; so judge between us fairly, and do not be biased, and guide us to the straight way." "This brother of mine has ninety-nine ewes, and I have one ewe, and he said, 'Entrust it to me,' and he pressured me with words." He said, "He has done you wrong by asking your ewe in addition to his ewes. Many partners take advantage of one another, except those who believe and do good deeds, but these are so few." David assumed that We were testing him, so he sought forgiveness from his Lord, and fell down to his knees, and repented. So We forgave him that. And for him is nearness to Us, and a good place of return." (38:21-25).
Slight Errors
Published in June 6, 2019
Question: … Dear Sir, … I've noticed some slight grammatical errors plus misspellings (and missing letters in few words) in your recent Arabic articles; why is that? Let me exemplify this:.......... … Thank you …
Thank you for notifying us; please keep doing this; at the age of 70, we sometimes make unintentional mistakes while writing on the keyboard of our laptop. We thank other people who notify us about similar mistakes to correct them, especially our dear fellow Egyptian Quranist friend Dr. Mustafa Hammad.
The Angels and Marital Sex!
Question: … Dear Sir, … I find the hadith about angels cursing wives (all night long!) who refuse to grace their husbands' beds to be a laughter-inducing text authored by patriarchal scholars of fiqh to force women to submit to men in bed anytime and to encourage men to rape their wives by forcing them to have sex if these wives are unwilling to make love for some reason or the other; what do you think? … Thank you …
Of course, you are right; we have refuted this laughter-inducing hadith in one of our early YouTube episodes of our show titled "Quranic Moments" about Quranic legislations regarding women.
The Lord God's Holy Names in the Quran
Question: … Dear Sir, … Some of the Lord God's Holy Names/Epithets are combined repeatedly in the Quranic text; does this signify anything to you? Any ideas? Does this refer to aspects of Omnipotence or the Lord God? … Thank you …
When two or more Holy Names of the Only One and True Lord God, Allah, are mentioned together, this means that they explain, elucidate, and detail each other. This is a very long, detailed topic which we hope to cover one day within lengthy articles on our Quranism website.
Deifying Hussein by Shiites
Published in June 7, 2019
Question: … Dear Sir, … I came from a Shiite background; I tend to think that it is OK in Islam (and not against Islam as you wrote in your previous writings) to mourn Hussein (i.e., the son of Ali Ibn Abou Talib and Fatima the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad) annually within the memory of his assassination as he revolted against the unjust Umayyads and aimed to establish the Islamic rule......... The Quranic Chapter 85 celebrates the death/martyrdom of believers who were persecuted, as you know.......... … Thank you …
We beg to differ; it is never part of Islam to mourn the loss/death or murder of anyone at all; this is part of the Shiite religion of Satan. Hussein and his parents are never mentioned in the Quran, let alone any celebration or commemoration of them or of any other historical figures. Shiites deify Hussein and his brother, father, and mother; they also deify Muhammad. This is utter polytheism; when we see a spade we call it a spade. The Shiite worship Hussein in their mosques dedicated to his name; they perform acts of worship in his name; they made Hussein their immortal deity alongside with the Lord Allah. This has nothing to do with the Quranic Chapter 85. Hussein was a mortal human being; as per history, he never revolted against injustice; his sole aim within fighting the Umayyads was to impose himself as the new ruler/caliph; he sought the wealth and the crown and he never sought to establish any Islamic rule at all; please stop believing in Shiite mythology. History books tell us that for several years, Hussein received money regularly from the Umayyads so that he would not rebel against them; this means he consumed ill-gotten money of the unjust ones and Arab conquerors. Please read (with open-mindedness) our book about the massacre of Karbala and the assassination of Hussein.
About Textolatry!
Question: … Dear Sir, … The masses in the Arab world do not understand the Quran but they worship and deify its text; this is called textolatry. They do not differ very much from those who worship tombs/mausoleums! No one among these masses care to try pondering on the Quranic verses!................. … Thank you …
We beg to differ; we do not think that the Muhammadans worship/deify the Quranic text; in fact, they have discarded and abandoned the Quran; they merely assume to draw benediction from putting copies of the Quran in their houses, shops, cars, etc. Of course, Quranists never deify the Quranic text. Quranists believe in the fact that the Quran is the Dominant Lord God's Word; Quranists read it and this is an act of worship; pondering its verses is another act of worship and so is reading them during prayers and supplications. These religious duties do NOT indicate the deification of the Quranic text.
A Question of Inheritance
Question: … Dear Sir, … A childless wife died recently and she is survived by her husband and two brothers; how would her money be distributed among them within inheritance shares as per the Quranic sharia laws? … Thank you …
Half of her money should be given to the husband/widower; the rest of the money is to be divided in two equal halves among the two brothers.
About Taha Hussein, Again!
Published in June 8, 2019
Question: … Dear Sir, … I was reading a book by the late Egyptian thinker and author Taha Hussein (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taha_Hussein), but my brother saw me and informed my father that I read books of the 'heretics' and 'infidels' who opposed the Quran! My father told me about his objection to my reading books of Taha Hussein ......... I beseech you, Sir, to tell me the truth about Taha Hussein; did he ridicule Quranic verses?! Was he an atheist or not?! The Arabic websites mention that he only criticized pre-Islamic poetry as false poems composed in the Abbasid Era; I saw no views of him about the Quran. Why would my father and brother hate this author, then?! Any ideas? … Thank you …
We surmise that your family members are influenced by Salafist propaganda against Taha Hussein and other Egyptian authors who were influenced by the European philosophy and thought. We do not think that Taha Hussein ridiculed the Quran at all; he did not say he was an atheist; he wrote literature and he composed critical books of history and philosophy. About his views on poetry, we refer you to our article, in English, on this link:
We quote this passage from this article: (Many linguists of the Arabic tongue and historians cast doubt on many poems of the pre-Islamic era based on stylistic analyses; the origin of Arabic grammar depended on these poems and listening to desert-Arabs who never mingled with non Arabs after the Arab conquests to infer grammatical rules. There were two rival schools of grammar in Iraq: that of Basra and that of Kufa. Scholars of each one quoted poems to assert their viewpoints; some historians accuse such grammarians of fabricating poems and ascribing them falsely to the pre-Islamic era. Stylistic analyses show that many such poems were in fact influenced by prosody and poetry meters of the Abbasid Era. This led the Egyptian thinker and writer Dr. Taha Hussein cast doubt on the whole of pre-Islamic poetry.)
We quote here our previous two fatwas about Taha Hussein:
Poetry of The Pre-Islamic Era
Published in July 6, 2017
Question: … Dear Sir, … Within the book of Taha Hussein titled "On Pre-Islamic Poetry", the author claims that some of the verses he quotes match some Quranic verses; what do you think of that? … Thank you …
The best amusement and diversion for Umayyad and Abbasid caliphs was to hear poetry recited to them and they used to handsomely reward poets with thousands of dinars and dirhams when poets praise them in lines of verse. Moreover, narrative poems were so popular that many poet used to compose poems and ascribe them to poets of pre-Islamic era. This created a problem especially when lexicographers and grammarians of Arabic (during the Abbasid Era) went to deserts of Arabia to record vocabulary and anecdotes from Desert-Arabs and Bedouins who presumably had the 'pure' tongue. Two grammatical schools rivaled in that respect, within political influence and favor of Abbasids, and there was a popular demand for more verse 'remembered' from the pre-Islamic era. One of the poets was Hammad who, when exposed and scandalized, admitted to the caliph Al-Maamoun his guilt of composing poems and ascribing them to pre-Islamic era poets to get financial rewards. Hence, views of Taha Hussein in his book about poetry of the pre-Islamic era are invariably wrong, we assure you; he was not a researcher in history; he was a literary figure who took poems at their face value as if they were authentic original poems.
Taha Hussein Again!
Published in April 28, 2015
Question: … Dear Sir, … Who are the Azharite sheikhs that persecuted the late francophone Egyptian Azharite thinker Taha Hussein? … Thank you …
Who are the sheikhs that persecuted us, Dr. A. S. Mansour, within the periods 1977-1980 and 1985-1987? No one remembers the names of these Azharite leaders who persecuted ourselves nor the names of those who persecuted Taha Hussein, because these persecutors had no scientific contributions or books of any kind, and after they died, they went into the dustbin of history and sank into oblivion. Who knows the names of our Azharite persecutors: Abdel-Rahman Al-Kordy, Saad Dhallam, M. Al-Saady Farhoud, Ibrahim Al-Fayoumi, and Khouleif? They were head professors of Al-Azhar University who did all their best to persecute our person and inflict all possible penalties on us. No body now would remember their names. At one time, we wrote a memo to Farhoud, the head of Al-Azhar University in the 1980s, telling him that even after we resigned from our post there, history will immortalize our name because of our books that will outlive us, while his name will sink into oblivion as he wrote no books at all and he could not even write any. This is what occurred once Farhoud retired: no one ever remembered him, while he saw our name rising into fame inside and outside Egypt despite being persecuted. The owner of the pen who writes what is useful to people has his/her name immortalized since there will be people who read them in many generations. Those in authority will lose it by death or by any other means. Glorified be the name of the Immortal King and Creator of heavens and the earth.
About the Quranic Verse 17:39
Question: … Dear Sir, … Does God threaten Muhammad in 17:39 to throw him in Hell?! How and why is that? Have I rightly understood 17:39? Any ideas? … Thank you …
Muhammad was never infallible; Muhammad did not embody Islam; the context of 17:39 is within commands given to Muhammad in 17:22-39, including to avoid polytheism: "Do not set up another god with Allah, lest you become condemned and damned." (17:22); "That is some of the wisdom your Lord has revealed to you. Do not set up with Allah another god, or else you will be thrown in Hell, rebuked and banished." (17:39). See our two articles, in English, about the myth of infallibility:
Greetings at Lunch Table?
Question: … Dear Sir, … I entered into my house one day and I found my family (i.e., my parents and brothers) sitting at the lunch table, and when I greeted them by the phrase (Peace be with you!), my elder brother scolded me while quoting to me a hadith about never to utter greetings at meal-time! This hadith cannot be true; this is never part of Islam, right? Any ideas? … Thank you …
We never believe in any hadiths, as you know. What you did is never prohibited in Islam at all; this Quranic verse proves it: "There is no blame on the blind, nor any blame on the lame, nor any blame on the sick, nor on yourselves for eating at your homes, or your fathers' homes, or your mothers' homes, or your brothers' homes, or your sisters' homes, or the homes of your paternal uncles, or the homes of your paternal aunts, or the homes of your maternal uncles, or the homes of your maternal aunts, or those whose keys you own, or the homes of your friends. You commit no wrong by eating together or separately. But when you enter any home, greet one another with a greeting from God, blessed and good. God thus explains the revelations for you, so that you may understand." (24:61).
My Lazy Brother!
Published in June 9, 2019
Question: … Dear Sir, … I am an Egyptian-American woman.....After immigrating to the USA, my marriage was a failure and it ended in divorce. So that I would not live alone, I made every possible legal effort to bring my younger brother here in the USA. Sadly, my brother became a major source of troubles to me! In fact, he is such a thorn in my side and a veritable headache! He is very lazy; he refuses to work; naturally, he has no money of his own at all; he sleeps all day long and he spends his nights before the PC screen watching porn! I cook his meals, wash his clothes, clean his room,...etc. and he never helps me at all! To top it all, he assumes the role of the 'man of the house'; i.e., he cusses me and yells at me; he gives me orders about what he likes to eat...etc. This ingrate forgets that I am spending my money on him and that I brought him to the USA! I am sick of him! I am tired of this situation! What shall I do? Any advice? … Thank you …
You are the reason behind his behavior; your spending money lavishly on him is the cause of all your troubles. The only solution at hand is simple: You have to throw him out of your house. Your lazy, dependent brother must suffer and must experience hunger and thirst so that he would learn how to survive; this is the only way to reform himself. You must sever all ties with him after throwing him out of your house; he has to face life and to rely on himself to survive. This is the only solution; can you do it? If you cannot, you must know that you are behind his failure and that he will destroy your life after destroying his own.


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Bristol Movement Space is on the ground floor of 307 Church Road which is a large redbrick building which backs on to St George's Park (it used to be a school). It is next to St George's Community Centre.
Travelling by car/bicycle
If you are travelling away from the shops on Church Road towards Kingswood or Hanham (i.e. away from the city centre), the entrance is on the left opposite Seneca Street; turn when you see the St George Community Centre Sign. Then enter the car park on your left (the car park on the right belongs to the community centre). There is ample car parking space in front of you but follow the signs round the building to the studio as our entrance to the building is tucked around the corner (it is well signed). Try and park near the studio entrance if you can (against the railings).
At the back of the building there are plenty of railings if you wish to lock up your bike.
Travelling on foot
If you are walking away from the shops on Church Road towards Kingswood or Hanham (i.e. away from the city centre), the entrance is on the left hand side. Look out for the iron gates and steps leading from the street to the side of the building. At the top of the steps you will see the door to the studio on your right.
Buses stop outside the studio see below for bus numbers
307 Church Road
St George
Call: 0117 329 3833
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Parking is available in the Car Park at the rear of the building.
Public Transport:
Train: Laurence Hill Station is a short walk away.
Bus routes:
From Central Bristol: 36, 42, 43, 44, 45
From Kingswood: 42, 43
From Longwell Green: 44. 45
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Thu, 31 May 2018
At long last I'm getting to the D-Day episodes. It may seem long to you because I skipped last month (April). But it's a lot longer than that. I visited the Normandy beaches on vacation back in 2014. I figured I'd record a podcast about that and play some related games soon after. Then when I went to live in France from 2016-2017, I brought a number of Normandy games with me, again thinking I'd get to them. In both cases, other things took their place, and my D-Day podcast was pushed back & back. Now, though, I'm getting to do it, and synced up with the anniversary of the battle. (I always prefer to play wargames around the anniversary of their battles, because the weather outside fits the action on the map a little closer.)
Direct download: WGTG_16-1_D-Day_Introduction.mp3
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A blizzard swept through the US East Coast, dumping heavy snow and disrupting travel and business through the region.
The blizzard hit from Washington to New York, forcing government agencies, the United Nations and schools to close. The storm comes as residents were still trying to dig out from weekend snowfalls of 18 to 32 inches from Washington to southern New Jersey.
Hundreds of flights were canceled and airlines relaxed ticket policies to allow passengers to change their plans without penalty, moves that could cloud the outlook for an industry already hard hit by the battered economy.
In New York, the storm was expected to worsen later Wednesday. Some companies were allowing employees to leave the office early and many people worked from home. New York ?City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the storm was likely to cost the city's taxpayers about $1 million for every inch that fell.
The United Nations said its New York headquarters would be closed Wednesday due to the storm.
While government offices in Washington were also closed for the third straight day — at a cost of some $100 million in lost productivity per day — President Barack Obama was trying to maintain his schedule with a meeting with black leaders to discuss the economy and jobs.
The U.S. House of Representatives canceled votes for the week. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the Senate would not be in session Wednesday but would resume work Thursday. He said he doubted the Senate would have any votes this week. Many congressional hearings were also called off.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke had been scheduled to testify before Congress on his exit strategy from the central bank's various liquidity measures once the economy strengthens.
While Bernanke's prepared remarks were released at 10 am ET, he did not appear before the congressional panel that was to hear from the chairman.
Elsewhere, the Treasury Department's monthly budget statement, which was to be released at 2 pm ET today, has been postponed until at least Friday.
And the weekly Energy Information Administration report on oil and gasoline inventories, which normally would come at 10:30 am, has been switched until Friday at 11 am.
The stock market, meanwhile, opened as scheduled, though trading was light. The New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ, which put some key personnel in hotels Tuesday night ahead of the storm, said they planned regular sessions Wednesday.
JP Morgan was making cots available in its New York offices for workers who were unable to make it home.
Schools were closed across much of the region, and many canceled classes for the rest of the week. Some Northeast cities ground to a halt as large amounts of snow fell, coupled with powerful winds that created whiteout conditions. That led the city of Baltimore to order all vehicles off the streets except for emergency personnel.
Slideshow: Big Budget Events
—Reuters contributed to this report.


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Christmas often comes and goes in the blink of an eye. Not only that, it's easy to miss the magic of the season. Either things don't go the way we had hoped with our family, or we get so buried in our to-do lists we need a search and rescue team just to help us come to the surface.
In this episode, we talk about decisions you can make to enjoy the Christmas season with your family. We talk about:
- Practical ways we can manage our expectations of the Christmas season
- Why it's important to also acknowledge and grieve loss during this season
- Being people who include others
- How to prioritize Jesus during the holidays–i.e. getting our kids to behave because of Jesus, not for Santa 🙂
- How to make decisions at Christmas based on your family values, not the culture around you
- One very practical way husbands can crush it this Christmas
- How to be the grace others need at this time of year
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1. Watch the Marmaris International Race Week
October is racing month in Marmaris when the International Race Week kicks off. Just a 30 minute drive from Turunc, the biggest sailing event in the region.Find out more
With its rustic, rolling countryside and beautiful coastline, Turunc has been unspoilt by modern life. Tucked away from the hustle and bustle of the nearby resorts, Turunc is a peaceful location with lots of nature to explore on and off the land. With lots of water taxis and buses, you can travel easily to many different places in the region. Spend the day in Marmaris for the yacht festival and see all the stunning boats and exciting entertainment.


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The peppers we call Hawaiian look like little red lipsticks but are more like capsules of fire. I was talking smack in Waipio Valley fresh off the jet about how I just love hot food and I can eat anything and not even blink. I ate one and within three blinks of an eye was on my hands and knees under a mango tree, sucking rotten fruit like they were life savers. I've handled them with great respect ever since that uncomfortable day.
In garden class the 5/6 grade boys are first to find the pepper bush, four years running. Even boys that have been in gardening class, cruising around that same pepper bush since they were in second grade, get to fifth/sixth grade and start secretly daring each other to eat ripe peppers. I hear them whispering even though they don't have to: "I can eat four." "I can eat more than that." "You go first." Depending on who is in on the daring, I usually don't interupt. I figure boys that dabble in daring must be prepared to suffer their own consequences. This is just chilli peppers and an impactful few minutes may teach a lifetime of a lesson. Sometimes I don't hear the dares and trash talk that makes a person gobble a pepper. Everytime though, quick as a bite, red-faced contenders are running to the hose, gasping for cool air, promising an unseen angel they'll never do that again.
Yesturday, I witnessed one boy who is usually on the cusp of social scenes, get in on the red-hot action. I jumped in with a gentle warning, "Hey guys, that is super hot. Even touching it is dangerous. You'll forget it's on your hands and touch your eyes later and it will hurt."
All heard my warning and even nodded in understanding. None headed. Three boys tumbled out of the garden like flames were in pursuit. The boy who is often alone was included in their group, covering his eyes with his folded-up, watered down shirt, bemoaning "Oh why did I touch my eyes?!!" The boys all took turns with various spiggots and picked each other starfruit to stop the sting. One of the barrel chested ring leaders said, "I thought I was stronger than a pepper." Another said, "No way. Never again." All walked away from garden class complimenting each other on surviving their great pepper adventure. The boy usually not included in the banter was shining center stage.
Shot through the heart
I had a break down at work yesturday. There I was, after three glorious garden classes teaching kids about safe and propper tool usage, retrieving the wheelbarrows for bed in the shed after a long day's work. I bent down to nibble a nugget of mint, and spotted the spikey stinging nettle caterpillar smack dab in the middle of the mint. I looked closer and saw its younger, rice-kernal sized cousin, just a few leaves away. I searched for more but came up empty so I picked the intruder's mint branch. My heart felt like it suddenly weighed so much the whole thing sank to my stomach. I didn't even try to stop the flood of tears from erupting.
For the last four years, (heck, since I've given birth 10 years ago), I've done everything I could to protect children and give them a safe place to be outside. To teach them to grow their own food, to think before they throw away rubbish, to protect all the inhabitants of a garden.
I can't protect them from this damn caterpillar. It's here now. This paradise now has a caterpillar whose sting is sharp for a week where there was wide open, wild spaces with out them. Unlike jungles of Thailand or the Amazon, where thousands of snakes and insects can seriously sting, even kill humans, the Big Island was free of injurous leaf-eaters. Not anymore.
I join the unknown numbers of earth workers who have undoubtedly witnessed capitalism and globalization and colonialism spread deadly virus, invasive insects, maurading plants and wipe-out pure ecosystems. Another imported caterpillar that can hurt people delivered to a foreign land and blending in until it just is. On my watch.
I spent the last hour trying to call Dept of Ag folks and actually got "this number is no longer in service" after dailing our "Plant Industry Hotline" correctly. You would think a garden teacher would get a return call.
But I don't get a friendly call instructing me step by step on how to make the caterpillar go away or how to get the red fire ant off the island or the fire weed that is killing grassfed cows and horses to go back or the coqui frogs thats causing a rukus to be quiet. Because there is no way. We import insect and plant terrorists with every passing boat and airplane.
I am so sad that our garden is now a battlefield. I don't want to know this enemy. I didn't have to think of any caterpillar as enemy until now. Competition maybe, but never enemy.
A sweet second grader saw my tears last evening as I walked through campus with the stinging nettle caterpillar in a bottle and my baseball hat pulled down as low as possible. She said, "I think you should treat it like any other caterpillar and take it over to the field over there and let it go." Then she skipped away.
I didn't know what to say.
Enter Darna Pallivitta
The Stinging Nettle Caterpillar drew First Blood last week. I've never wanted to obliterate, until it's completly gone, a life form before. Until now.
A formitable enemy, Darna pallivitta is about the camoflauged length of a thumb nail at it's most venomy, comes from fuzzy brown sacks loaded with 480 eggs at a time, each one morphing through seven different life phases. Eggs and larvae slipped security into the Big Island via ornamental raphis palms imported from Taiwan to a nursery in Hilo.
I was told by some students the Stinging Nettle Caterpillar was a mile mauka of our school last year. Over the summer, the painful bugga was discovered at Pua Lani Park - half mile straight south. Last week, I found one of the potent pests in my own garden just a mile north and makai of our school.
I can only now bring myself to write about the darn thing because we finally came up with a solution that helped me get some sleep. It took a few days to ask the right wise farmer, and of course, it was Nancy Redfeather who reminded me of it's nocturnal egg-laying stage.
Her words made me buck up and think like a Nettle Destroyer. We will stalk and kill it's night-marching moth with a iron zapper. I will take plastic-jarred prisoners and talk about it near and far, so distant garden teachers can protect and defend their outside-exploring students.
But before this light at the end of the garden, I was stressing. I thought of the Stinging Nettle Caterpillar as a garden class game changer. I had a bad feeling about a sense of strangling brought to our worry free garden classes. Sure, there was always bees, wasps, and centipedes to keep a close eye on but these potentially harmful critters seem routine in the minds of most. Everyone knows a bee sting is sure to disappear by recess.
'Lil Nettle is different. Reaction varies, but I know adults that felt two weeks of itchy pain. My mind flashed to a million things: a child's first garden experiences tarnished by a tramatizing sting. I could imagine some children completely freaking out. Would parents be supportive? How to eliminate a invasive species without damaging our school's nutritious and beautiful edible ecosystems? How to treat a painful sting when I can't legally administer the suggested calamine lotion and benedryl?
My nightmarish thoughts prevented four solid nights of sleep. There goes carefree days in the garden. I know I've been helping students discover vital knowledge that will help them survive in a questionable future but I never pictured myself doing physical armed battle for beloved students against a maruading leaf-eating refugee.
Yesturday a strapping eighth grade boy that lives on a farm was the victim of a stinging nettle caterpillar that fell from a banana he was machette-ing down during garden class. It landed square on the back of his hand. I was standing a foot away, saw it, and brushed it off. I had him wash it with soap (as instructed) and put ice on it. I called his grandfather while the boy stated with calm conviction, "It hurts. It definitly hurts. Burns." He turned down the pick-up his grandfather offered in a brave voice and lunch/recess was the next subject.
One day later his hand is swollen and sore and jr.highers are false sighing stinging caterpillars by the garden tent.
Why are we importing transplants from Taiwan? How are these things inspected? What are we going to do as invase species get more dangerous for humans? Have I become my enemy to when I destroy a caterpillar that is really just following it's instinct?
I can sleep tonight because bug zappers are within my reach. The Stinging Nettle Caterpillar has seven life phases; seven different opportunities for a savvy gardener to attack back.
As Nancy said, "Krista, you know this is a great educational opportunity."
Recycling for Starters
The new year wound down Week 1 with a school-wide assembly about our awesome recycling system. IPCS' wonderful School Services Coordinator asked me way back in the beginning of summer to create a game/presentation that would introduce recyling IPCS style, so that's exactly what I was up doing until midnight on Thursday's eve.
I couldn't let the opportunity go by without infiltrating the masses with some info about WHY we recycle. Why we recycle just happens to be inextricable linked to our school's new, two-year theme - survival. I fascilitated questions about where, why, what plastic, paper, aluminum, and capri-suns we recycle talk-show style, darting around to students so they could rock the mike with brilliant answers.
I asked the audience, "Why do we recycle aluminum?" Answers ranged from "because it's good for the Earth" to "so we don't have to use new stuff." While their answer's content was solid, I dream of hearing, "We recycle aluminum because using already mined and combined aluminum ingredients consumes 95% less energy and prevents new natural resources from being extracted and manufactured."
I asked the entire school body, "Why do we recycle paper?" A brand new first-grade boy said into the mic: "So we can plant a money tree and get money" Giggles. I said, "Exactly. We need many of those." I asked again, "Where does paper come from? What is it made from?" Answer: "Trees. Paper is made from trees."
"And why are trees so important for survival?" I could see light bulbs going off above many heads. Answers: "Because they clean our air." "Trees help us breathe." I followed up with, "So when we recycle we let the trees live and use trees that have already been harvested. Right?"
After the question segment, time for a fun activity 7/8 graders made up last year. Students loved The Recycling Game again. I placed students in four lines of six, each with a tin of trash, then the school's recycling bins in front, facing the audience. Recyclers had to pick up a trash item and run to place it in the propper recepticle. They asked the audience for help if they needed it. Everyone was shouting about where to recycle what while Gloria Geynor's "I will survive" made at least the adults groove.
When the recyling assembly was all over, I didn't know how it went. The kids were amazingly attentive; curious minds or deep first week of school depression? I've had three parents say they learned alot and my boss said it was "a good assembly Krista." Of course, I couldn't help but think of a few things I could have done better. Can't wait for next year.
What happens when 65 garden educators from every Hawaiian Island get together to share ideas, conjure the directions, and eat local food? REVOLUTION.
More seeds of ecoliteracy revolution were planted last weekend at Mala'ai in Waimea. We were treated to a global perspectives of the amazing progress that can happen when children get to grow their own food at school by the folks at the Ecoliteracy Institute. Schooling for Sustainabiltiy is so now.
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My mission is to teach, train, and testify in resistance to the white supremacy of my ancestors. My personal choices are political, powerful, and practical. Let's trash waste.
July 2019


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Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv is modern, vibrant, trendy and cosmopolitan - and very gay-friendly. Its position on a beautiful stretch of golden coastline means that a lot of its scene and life revolves around outdoor pursuits, like eating and drinking al fresco. But it's not just bars and restaurants: the historical area of Jaffa with its port and old quarter has an intriguing Arab feel. Tel Aviv will fascinate its visitors for its laid-back attitude, the international feel, the endless choice of art galleries, lively cafes and amazing food to enjoy. And when the sun goes down on the Mediterranean, the nightclubs and the hectic party scene kicks in. Just to start all over again the next day.
Tel Aviv in itself is a very open city and Israel is a beacon of tolerance in the Middle East when it comes to LGBT rights. It's not all roses, of course - as there is still a lot of opposition from certain religious quarters, but in a city like Tel Aviv pretty much everyone is very gay-friendly, though there isn't a proper gay village. Tel Aviv Pride, held in June, is an iconic celebration, attracting over 200,000 people each year.


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BenQ HT9050 Ultra HD DLP Projector Review
I've reviewed models from Epson and JVC; now BenQ is in the mix with its new HT9050 from the CinematicColor line. It marks a departure from their usual compact models with a 20,000-hour LED light engine and an advanced DMD from Texas Instruments that incorporates XPR technology to deliver 3840×2160-pixel resolution through a premium lens. Generous shift and zoom are provided for flexible installation in a wide variety of environments. A single-chip design eliminates the convergence errors of its LCD and LCoS-based competition. DLP's clarity with 8.3 mega-pixels, what could be better?
BenQ HT9050 Ultra HD DLP Projector
- Single-chip DLP with 2716×1528 native resolution
- XPR pixel-shift technology provides full 3840×2160 resolution
- Philips HLD ColorSpark LED light engine with 20,000-hour service life
- 2200 lumens output
- Generous lens shift with wide zoom range
- DCI-P3 and Rec.709 color options
- Anamorphic lens support
I have long been a fan of BenQ's DLP models. They offer tremendous performance at every price point while delivering excellent value. After seeing Ultra HD offerings using LCD and LCoS engines, I was anxious to experience what the HT9050 Ultra HD DLP Projector with CinematicColor Technology could deliver. DLP is the only micro-display type that can create an image from a single chip. This eliminates the convergence errors inherent to three-chip LCD and LCoS designs. It also offers fast response with no motion blur because unlike its two competitors, it is not a sample-and-hold technology. It can render frames with zero lag between refresh cycles. With XPR technology delivering a full 3840×2160 pixels through a premium lens, this LED-lit projector offers an excellent alternative to other mainstream models. Let's take a look.
Light engine:
Single-chip DLP with XPR technology
Native resolution:
2716×1528, 3840×2160 with pixel shift
Throw ratio:
Lens shift:
+65% vertical, +27% horizontal
Maximum image size:
Anamorphic lens support:
Light source:
Philips HLD ColorSpark LED
Light output (mfr):
2200 lumens
Fan noise:
31/23dB (Normal, Economic)
Video connections:
1 x HDMI 2.0 w/HDCP 2.2, 1 x HDMI 1.4, 1 x VGA
Additional connections:
RS-232, Ethernet, IR input, 2 x 12v trigger out
LED service life:
20,000 hours
8.9" H x 18.5" W x 22.2" D
Three years
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You've already seen from the specs that the HT9050 Ultra HD DLP Projector is not a true native 4K machine. Its DMD has a native resolution of 2716×1528 pixels along with a refractor module that optically shifts each pixel by one-half width every other refresh cycle. This fools the eye into perceiving 3840×2160 resolution. Similar technologies exist in Epson and JVC models. Is it as effective in rendering Ultra HD content as a native display? That is a matter of opinion. I recently reviewed the JVC RS4500 which has a native resolution of 4096×2160 and a high-end lens. It looked fantastic; which it had better considering its $35,000 cost.
The merits of pixel-shift have been debated and discussed at length by many, and I have experienced JVC and Epson's versions first-hand. Upon installing the HT9050 and viewing both test patterns and actual content, I believe the XPR technology used here is the best yet and when showing quality material, can easily match the clarity of a true 3840×2160 display.
The Ultra HD standard includes not only resolution specs but values for an extended color gamut and HDR. The HT9050 scores well on the former but unfortunately omits the latter. There is no support at present for either HDR10 or Dolby Vision. How this will affect the viewing experience is something I'll discuss later.
The HT9050 succeeds the HT8050 by replacing its UHP lamp with a Philips HLD ColorSpark LED light engine. Its spectral properties allow for a native gamut that fully meets the DCI-P3 specification, which is how the current crop of Ultra HD Blu-rays are mastered. It also means no more bulb changes as it is rated for a service life of 20,000 hours.
The lens is a 14-element, 6-group array with a 1.5x zoom and generous shift. You get 65% vertical in both directions and 27% horizontal. That should enable one to install the projector just about anywhere. The controls are manual and consist of small dials atop the chassis. Zoom and focus are accomplished with lens barrel adjusters. While I missed the motorized functions, BenQ's mechanicals are very precise. Dialing in image geometry was a simple affair.
The chassis is large and heavy at just over 40 pounds. Build quality is tank-like with a high-quality finish that reflects no light. The only visible controls are the aforementioned lens shift knobs. A small sliding door on one side conceals a few buttons for menu navigation and source selection. Ventilation is handled by louvers flanking the lens and a large grill in back. The fan is one of the quietest I've ever experienced. In the Economic mode, it wouldn't even register on my SPL meter. Even in the Normal light mode, it barely makes a sound.
The HT9050 supports anamorphic lenses with an aspect ratio mode in the OSD and mounting lugs on the bottom of the chassis. You can install both constant-height and constant-width hardware depending on your screen's shape and size.
The input panel is on the left side and contains one HDMI 2.0 port with HDCP 2.2, one HDMI 1.4, one VGA, and control via RS-232, LAN, and two 12v triggers. IR receivers are in evidence on both the front and back.
The remote is very different from the tiny handsets I usually get with BenQ projectors. It's a proper wand with a soft orange backlight that's just perfect in completely dark rooms. It features discrete power keys along with menu navigation, source selection, and one-button access to calibration options like color temp and color management. There are also keys for 3D and a dynamic iris, both of which are absent on the HT9050. It makes me wonder if these features will be added at some point.
The HT9050 was installed on a stand behind my seating with the lens slightly above the screen's center axis. This approach utilizes minimal lens shift and allows for maximum light output. The pattern generator and other video components were connected to the HDMI 1 input which supports HDCP 2.2 and accepts signals up to 3840×2160 pixels at 60Hz. I used an OPPO BDP-93 for standard Blu-ray and a Philips BDP-7501 to view Ultra HD content.
The menu system is laid out like any other BenQ projector and includes a set of very precise calibration controls along with five picture modes. Cinema corresponds to Rec.709 and is appropriate for standard hi-def content. DCI-P3 delivers just what it claims and is the one to pick for Ultra HD Blu-ray. Also included are Bright and Vivid which deliver greater output, up to 88fL in Bright mode. I also found a Silence preset which quiets the fan to an inaudible level and turns off the XPR pixel-shift feature. Two user memories allow you to create customized presets from any of the other modes. I set up calibrated configurations for DCI-P3 and Rec.709. If you have the appropriate passcode, ISF Day and Night modes can be enabled and calibrated as well.
In the Advanced sub-menu, there are 11 gamma presets ranging from 1.6 to 2.8. 2.2 is the best choice in both Rec.709 and P3 colorspaces. The Color Temperature menu has four presets, all of which are adjustable with a two-point control. The gradations are super-small which affords high precision but also requires patience. You may have to adjust a particular slider by dozens of clicks to see a change. The color management system has hue, gain, and saturation controls for all six colors. Again, I had to make some large changes to dial in accurate color. The HT9050 is a bit off-spec in its default modes. I strongly recommend calibration, regardless of application.
CinemaMaster is something I haven't seen in other BenQ projectors. It has sliders for color enhancement, flesh tones, and 4K Pixel Enhancer which is a form of edge enhancement. I left these alone. You also get toggles for color and luminance transient improvement, abbreviated DCTI and DLTI. Neither was able to improve the already sharp image I was seeing. In addition to a three-step noise reduction option, you get two light levels, Economic, good for around 38fL; and Normal which provides just over 56fL in the calibrated modes.
Calibrating the two color gamuts required a fair amount of work, especially in the CMS; but in the end, I achieved superb results that were well worth my time. The HT9050 is capable of reference-level accuracy and at this price point, one should realize the highest possible performance from their display.
If you're looking for an auto-iris, there is none. This to me is the most unfortunate omission because no DLP can match black levels with an LCD or LCoS display without one. The lack of HDR support is something I can live with since no projector really has the native contrast necessary to make the most of it. But an iris, even a manual one, would be a real asset to the HT9050.
If you're considering moving up to an Ultra HD projector, the top question in your mind is likely to be, will my 1080p content look better? After all, Ultra HD Blu-ray is an emerging format. It'll be a few years before most of us update our movies to the higher-res versions. The answer is a resounding – yes! The HT9050 does a superb job upconverting standard Blu-rays.
1080p Blu-rays
I turned to the latest content which already looks amazing on my reference Anthem projector to see just how much difference a quality Ultra HD display can make. Kong: Skull Island is one of the best transfers I've seen of late and its clarity was taken to eye-popping levels on the HT9050. From my 10-foot seating distance, I had no trouble distinguishing the pores on actors' skin, or the individual hairs of Kong's fur. Textured surfaces like rough metal or wood literally leapt from the screen.
Now a word about contrast. With no iris included, the HT9050 does not excel in the dynamic range department. That being said, there were only a few instances where I actually noticed. In scenes with a wide range of luminance values, black levels seemed deep thanks to extremely bright highlights that were beautifully delineated from the background. Comparing medium and bright-toned material to my Anthem, the BenQ simply crushed it. 38fL peak sounds too bright but trust me, in practice, it creates an amazing sense of depth. Only the darkest scenes, those without any highlights, looked a bit washed out.
Moving on to Passengers, I really enjoyed the HT9050's portrayal of the ship's squeaky-clean interior, much of which I suspect is CGI. Close-ups of the characters' faces were once again so real I could almost smell them. Laurence Fishburne rocks one of the roughest five-o'clock shadows I've ever seen. I felt as though it might abrade me if I got too close! Color was also top-notch, even though I was watching in the Rec.709 gamut. Primary hues showed excellent saturation and detail while subtle shades came through with no banding or artifacts.
Fate of the Furious is another super-clean title that drips with bold, vivid color. The HT9050 had no trouble with this material taking it to a high level of detail and depth. Only a few nighttime scenes went a little murky with blacks that were more a dark gray. I missed the iris a few times but by and large, standard Blu-rays were substantially improved by this display.
Ultra HD Blu-rays
When playing Ultra HD content, you'll need to switch color modes manually. I pulled up my calibrated DCI-P3 memory and started with Creed. This transfer has many colorful, high-contrast scenes, but also has some sections that are dark and drab. The extra color afforded by the HT9050 helped dress up the more difficult-to-render content while making things like boxing matches just leap off the screen. The sweat flew all over my theater as I watched each fight. Pops of color came from the men's shorts and other elements covered by harsh arena-style lighting. It was the best I've seen this film look in Ultra HD thus far.
JJ Abrams Star Trek makes for excellent demo material in its Ultra HD form. Even without the benefit of HDR, the hi-res version shows far more dynamic range and pop than the standard disc. When Kirk is deposited on the ice planet, he is pursued by a large red monster. This beast looks drab and dark in its 1080p form but thanks to the bonus color afforded by the HT9050, it looked much more vibrant; and dare I say, more menacing. Once Kirk is rescued by alt-Spock, I was mesmerized by the road map that is Leonard Nimoy's face. The detail and clarity this projector is capable of is truly stunning.
My favorite Ultra HD disc continues to be The Martian. There are many opportunities for a display to take advantage of that extra color during the scenes on Mars. There is Rec.709 orange, then there is DCI-P3 orange. The two are nothing alike. The extra vibrancy is almost visceral. This transfer also boasts outstanding clarity and resolution. The superior motion processing of DLP meant that even during the most intense action, nothing is marred by excessive blur or smearing. Until we have 8K and 300-inch screens in our homes, it won't get better than this.
On The Bench
To test the HT9050's color accuracy, I used an X-Rite i1 Pro Spectrophotometer facing the projector's lens and fitted with a diffuser attachment. Luminance readings were taken with a Spectracal C6 tri-stimulus meter facing a 92" diagonal Stewart Filmscreen Luminesse with Studiotek 130 material, gain 1.3, at a 10-foot distance. Patterns were generated by an Accupel DVG-5000 and controlled with CalMAN, version 5.7.
I created two calibrations, one for Rec.709 and one for DCI-P3. The former is performed in the Cinema mode, while the latter is done in the mode by that name. Employing the User memories meant I could leave BenQ's default presets unchanged.
Grayscale and Gamma Tracking
My initial measurements were a bit disappointing. I expect better out-of-box accuracy from a premium display such as the HT9050. Errors in white balance tend towards green and get more visible as the signal level rises from 20%. At 100%, the tint is easy to see. Gamma also tracks on the light side. Given the projector's relatively low contrast, this isn't necessarily a problem but I prefer to have it dialed in at 2.2 before making any subjective tweaks.
The DCI-P3 mode displays much the same behavior. A green tint can be seen at every signal level from 30% and higher. Gamma is just a little light with a spike in luminance at the 90% step.
Luckily, BenQ has engineered the calibration controls with great precision. It takes some back-and-forth but the end result is reference-level accuracy. Not only is the average error well-below the visible threshold, gamma tracks almost perfectly. Once calibrated, the user can change the gamma preset to taste. Some content will benefit from a higher setting. Grayscale performance doesn't get much better than this.
The DCI-P3 mode offers nearly equal accuracy with the only spoiler being a tiny green error at the 10% level. It's barely visible in test patterns and complete non-issue in actual content. Like the Cinema mode, gamma runs just under the 2.2 line but if you want deeper contrast in certain content, simply raise the preset value.
Color Gamut and Luminance Accuracy
The HT9050 has a DCI-P3 native color gamut. That means it should be able to hit Rec.709 with perfection. Like the grayscale controls, the projector's color management system is very precise. In fact, it's one of the best I've encountered of any display I've ever reviewed.
With a 3.9047dE average error level, the Rec.709 isn't too far off in the Cinema mode. The main issue is with green luminance which is too high at every saturation point. You can also see slight hue errors in all three secondary colors.
The hue errors in DCI-P3 mode are even more pronounced, especially for cyan and yellow. They will need more help than a simple grayscale calibration can provide. The CMS has hue sliders with tremendous range and very fine resolution. I'll also need to address luminance levels for the green primary.
I don't encounter too many displays that have such a precise and functional CMS. The sliders have tremendous resolution and some required changes of over 150 clicks. My patience was rewarded with superb tracking of both saturation and luminance for all six colors. There are no visible errors whatsoever.
DCI-P3 mode is the HT9050's shining star after calibration. There are very few projectors that can average a color error of only .86dE over 36 measurements. Many professional displays can't achieve this level of accuracy. Luminance levels are ideally balanced. This projector is the perfect excuse to start acquiring Ultra HD Blu-ray titles. The color is simply amazing.
Video Processing
It's becoming less important for displays to properly process interlaced video. DVD collections are dwindling rapidly and even highly-compressed streaming content is delivered in a progressive format. The HT9050 manages to provide correct film-mode processing but fails the 2:2 video test. Resolution is superb with perfect rendering of the one-pixel burst patterns in every signal mode. I could tell no difference between RGB and component formats.
Contrast Performance
The HT9050 does not have an auto-iris, nor does it employ a variable-brightness light source like some other DLP projectors. Therefore, all content is displayed beholden to its native contrast capability.
After calibration, in the LED's Economic mode, I recorded a white level of 38.7043fL, a black level of .0447fL, and a contrast ratio of 866.1:1. Setting the LED to Normal increased peak output to 56.4285fL with a black level of .0648 and 871.5:1 contrast.
The HT9050's maximum light level is achieved in the Bright mode which offers 88.1843fL peak, .0992fL black, and 889.2:1 contrast.
THE BENQ HT9050 ULTRA HD DLP PROJECTOR currently has no peer in the home theater market. It represents a good value and delivers excellent performance.
- Superb clarity in both still and moving images
- Reference-level color accuracy after calibration
- Precise picture controls
- Super-quiet fan
- Premium build quality
Would Like To See
- Better out-of-box accuracy
- HDR support
- An auto-iris for improved contrast
When I first received information about the BenQ HT9050 Ultra HD DLP Projector, I was disappointed to see that it lacked HDR or an auto-iris. But after reviewing hundreds of displays, I've learned to never pass judgement solely based on specs. No matter what the numbers may say, there are projectors that rise above their test results and deliver a truly compelling image. The HT9050 is at the top of that list.
Whether you spin 1080p or Ultra HD Blu-rays, you'll be mesmerized by the BenQ's amazing level of detail, superb intra-image contrast, bright and vivid color delivered by CinematicColor, and the premium motion processing afforded by its advanced DLP technology. The home theater market may be dominated by LCD and LCoS designs but there is something about DLP that keeps me requesting those review samples. The advantages of a single-chip engine and the wide gamut afforded by a maintenance-free LED light source are obvious here. Despite less-than-impressive contrast numbers, I never found myself wishing for HDR while watching.
In my opinion, this projector is excellent but has upward potential. While HDR10 and Dolby Vision could be added with a firmware update, an auto-iris would have a greater impact on image quality. Even a manual version would raise the contrast level significantly. That being said, I would still recommend this projector as the sharpest lens-based display I've seen for under $10,000.


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Beer: From the Beginning to Boulevard Brewing Co.
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The topic of discussion here? Kansas City, Mo.'s famous Boulevard Brewing Co., on Southwest Blvd. in the Westside. However, its tale cannot be justly told without mention of its predecessors, for the city has a long and influential history in the brewing industry. And beer itself? It's an ancient art of craft and sustenance, standing the test of time like few things do. Boulevard, established quite literally thousands of years after beer was, still manages to continuously create innovative and very interesting blends.
This proves two things: that ingenious minds reside at Boulevard Brewing Co., and that the recipe for beer is liquid (ha!), in that endless combinations and ingredients can result in a new product every time. To understand the impact of our hometown brewery, one must understand beer itself. So, as we like to say here at Squeezebox …
Settle in, we've a lot to discuss.
Countless "styles" of beer abound, categorized by assorted traits like appearance, taste and history. Of course, this wide variety existed not in antiquity; the types have evolved over many years through trial and error and tried and true practice. The first-ever "adult beverage" – a blend of fruit and rice – had roots in China.
However, those amazing ancient Mesopotamians (responsible for the first civilization and cuneiform, the foundation of the entire written language system) mastered the brew, leaving record of the earliest substantive paraphernalia. It's even addressed in the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, the oldest written epic tale: "Drink the beer, as it is the custom of the land."
The invention of beer – thought to have been stumbled upon by an ancient female baker – arose when agriculture settled nomadic peoples. Rather than foraging and following food, humans could now grow their own and produce – ta da – bread. Though actual evidence of the lady baker is diminutive, it was indeed the production of bread that accidentally bore the beer. The yeast in the air and a bit of spilt water fermented the dough. And it was good.
Beer consumption and creation spread, evolved, transformed, improved. The Babylonians loved it. The Egyptians loved it. The Germans loved it. The Chinese loved it. England loved it, the Catholics loved it – monks learned and improved upon the art of brewing. Fun fact: the Bavarian Weihenstephan brewery established in 1040 still operates to this very day. And this Weihenstephan brewery? 'Twas the handiwork of the Benedictine Weihenstephan Abbey. The holy men, mind you, sipped a much diluted version.
Only the Romans snubbed it. Bacchus, the god of wine and grapevine in Roman and Greek mythology (Greek: Dionysus), heavily influenced their embracement of wine over beer. Elsewhere, beer and bread reigned as every-meal staples for children to the elderly. Cheese often accompanied the "Bs," and the wealthy feasted on meat and fruits as well. From mythology through the Middle Ages, century after century, to the present here and now, beer remains an undeniable basic element of human life.
Boulevard pays homage to ancient methods. They modeled part of the brewery after the traditional Bavarian brewhaus style. They employ the practice of bottle conditioning: "All of Boulevard's ales are bottle conditioned, an old-world brewing tradition that creates a secondary fermentation in the bottle, resulting in a beer that tastes fresher, better, longer." With clever alterations to age-old recipes, the brewery produces fresh twists on classics.
One excellent example: Boulevard's 80 Acre Hoppy Beer. This wheat-and-hops combination has roots in Medieval Europe, when hops entered the flavoring category in brewing. The use of wheat can be traced back to the B.C. era in ancient Armenia. Boulevard's Double-Wide India Pale Ale (or as this style is commonly known, simply I.P.A) is a variation on the good ol' blend: "The classic India Pale Ale is a traveler's beer, aggressively hopped to withstand the long, hot ocean voyage to the British East Indies… Enjoy this [Double-Wide] beer fresh to best appreciate the complex blending of hop aromas, ranging from minty to citrusy, with subtle hints of pine."
Boulevard even throws shout-outs to local history, with Boss Tom's Golden Bock (as in, Tom Pendergast and his political machine in Kansas City) and my personal absolute favorite, the KC Pils. George Muehlebach, whose influence shall be addressed below, popularized the pilsner, or pilsener, style in Kansas City, his brewery operating from the 1860s to the 1950s. Boulevard even boasts a beautiful event space within the brewery called the Muehlebach Suite.
Ah, Kansas City. At the turn of the 20th century, she was a haven for breweries and beer drinkers alike… not to mention all sorts of spirits. The city's West Bottoms area merited the moniker "Wettest Block in the World," home to all of the above – as well as countless rowdy saloons and brothels. The West Bottoms also housed Union Depot, the original railway station in the city, later damaged by one of many great floods to devastate the area and closed up for good when Union Station was built at Pershing and Main streets. Travelers-by-train added to the drunken crowds as did border-hoppers; the state of Kansas outlawed alcohol twenty years prior to Missouri.
Beer (and alcohol in general) garnered quite the controversial history in the United States. For as many people who enjoyed it, there were those who opposed it heavily. Temperance advocates, they were – later also known as "bone-drys" – had existed in America since at least the earliest 1800s.
But long before the temperance movement, beer was here.
The oldest documentation of beer in the United States dates back before the country had ever even heard of the United States. The first beer was created in the colony of Virginia in 1857, when settlers used corn for their brewing. By the early 1600s, Virginia ordered beer and received shipments from the motherland (England). Apparently, that corn method was unsatisfactory – a plea for English brewers to aid Virginia appeared in advertisements overseas.
The first brewery to be established in America opened in 1612. And as the New World was settled, expanded, ahem, stolen from the natives… beer production and consumption grew. And kept on' a growin', globally as well. So much so, that in the mid-1700s, The Theory and Practice of Brewing was published in London. Brewing had become mainstream enough that it needed a whole book dedicated to the art. In the later 1700s, states enacted laws to bolster brewing numbers and consumption of beer among the general public.
Beer production saw continued expansion. By 1810, the United States produced 185,000 barrels of beer annually. This is largely in thanks to Mr. George Washington, who didn't like it much that Americans were still importing beer from England after the United States fought and won the Revolutionary War to gain its independence from England in 1776. As the first president, his influence was considerate. He started the original "Buy American!" movement – by announcing that if a beer wasn't made in the U.S. of A., he wouldn't drink it. By George, it worked.
The first brewery in the state of Missouri cannot be claimed by Kansas City, but St. Louis, opened in 1789. At that time, our great city was yet to be quite as developed, and St. Louis remained the last stop before heading into the wild west. It wasn't until the mid-1850s – when America was producing 9,000,000 barrels of beer per year – that brewing truly begun in earnest in Kansas City.
Brewing long preceded the-then Town of Kansas. Still, Kansas City would become – and remain – a staple in the beer industry. In 1857, just two breweries graced city records – one being the Kansas City Brewery at 3rd and Oak streets. Operated by Peter Schwitzgebel, the man himself proclaimed at its opening: "I am prepared to furnish the public with the best lager beer west of St. Louis!"
In 1862, Misters George Messerchmidt and Heinrich (Henry) Helmreich designed and executed the first structure in Kansas City specifically for brewing purposes. The Western Brewery, they called it, and it occupied the corner of Westport Rd. and 23rd Street.
By the year 1870, five breweries were in continuous operation in Kansas City. Many breweries came and went within one to two years. The thriving five included Star Ale Brewery, owned by one F.H. Klumpf (he'd soon rename it Kump Brewing, omitting the "l" and "f" from his surname), Western Brewery (as mentioned above), Grand Avenue Brewery (20th and Grand, owned by Frederick Hey) and Main Street Brewery (11th and Main).
The same year, Kansas City's soon-to-be beer baron, George Muehlebach, acquired Main Street Brewery. Best known for popularizing the pilsener style of beer in the area, by 1879 the brewery (re-dubbed Muehlebach Brewing Co.) was the second largest producer of beer in Kansas City. The following year, George's brother and co-owner died, and George razed the brewery. He replaced it with an elaborate "beer castle" and a more spacious, better equipped brewing plant – the company sold thousands upon thousands of beer barrels every year.
Meanwhile, old F.H. Kump's brewery exchanged hands, purchased by Ferdinand Heim. The Ferd. Heim Brewery set up shop at 14th and Main for a few years, but the company's success urged a new brewery, built in the East Bottoms at Agnes and Guinotte. This new building became the Heim Brothers Brewery. By the late 1890s, Heim Brothers was within the top 50 producers of beer in the United States. In 1899, they opened Electric Park (Kansas City's first electric amusement park) and Beer Garden next door to their East Bottoms brewhouse. The following year, the Heims added a separate bottling house to their empire (now home to the newly resurrected J. Rieger & Co. Whiskey distillery). In 1901, they erected a brand-new boiler house and claimed the title of the Biggest Brewing Company in the Whole World.
The Rochester Brewery, established in 1888 at 20th and Washington streets, produced a whopping 125,000 barrels of beer annually within four years. The old Western Brewery became the Weiss Brewery in 1898 upon its acquisition by Leo Thoma (Weiss beer is described as "effervescent, highly-carbonated wheat beer."). Imperial Brewery was erected in 1902 on Southwest Blvd., where today it still stands at I-35 highway. Imperial was one of just two breweries in the entire Midwest to have installed a state-of-the-art ice machine.
A few short years later, in 1905, the Kansas City Breweries Company was formed in a threefold amalgamation of the Rochester Brewery, Heim Brothers Brewery and Imperial Brewery – and quickly became the largest producer in Kansas City. Missouri was ranked fourth in United States beer production for nearly half a century, well into the 1900s.
But in 1919, some major changes to the American Constitution halted beer production on a dime.
Yes, the good ol' days of Prohibition. The ratification of the 18th amendment and the Volstead Act rendered the manufacture, sales, and transport of intoxicating beverages illegal. An intoxicating beverage was defined as anything containing more than .5% alcohol. Sorry, breweries.
Many went out of business. Many replaced their beer products with soda. Kansas City breweries largely saw both situations, though Imperial Brewery converted to a flour mill. The populace remained mostly unaffected. Boss Tom Pendergast and his mafia connections kept booze-a-comin' in the city with bootlegged liquor. In fact, the reason most Americans prefer a bit-weaker beer than, say, Europeans, is that they adapted to weaker beer during the 1920s. It was profitable to water down bootlegged beer, you see. It's often said that Prohibition didn't really happen in Boss Tom's kingdom. Perhaps not, for the people. But for Kansas City's breweries and distilleries, it was very real.
Fast-forward to 1933, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed off on the 21st amendment: the repeal of national prohibition. He ordered in a case of 3.2% beer to celebrate at the White House and voila! Alcohol production and consumption reconvened slowly but surely. In Kansas City, it was no different.
George Muehlebach opened back up for business at 4th and Oak, until 1956 when the brewery was acquired by the Milwaukee, Wis.-based Schlitz Company. Continuous improvements in laws, brewing and containers kept the beer scene fresh. In 1935, the very first canned beer debuted, and the 1960s proved a most innovative decade. Between 1959 and 1965, tab-top cans, aluminum cans, aluminum tops and ring-pull tab-top cans were all introduced. In 1978, the allowance of home-brewing became federal law. Microbreweries cropped up through the 1980s. And craft breweries? By the mid-1990s, 1,102 craft breweries were in operation in the United States.
One of these 1,102 craft breweries was our Boulevard itself. See, when home-brewing was legalized, Daniel McDonald unknowingly started an empire, creating the "flagship ale" of Boulevard Brewing Co., IPA, in his basement. McDonald began the building of Boulevard Brewing Co. at 2501 Southwest Blvd. in 1988, and made his first keg delivery in the back of his truck to the nearby Ponak's Kitchen restaurant in 1989.
Kansas City is home to several burgeoning breweries, like McCoy's Public House in Westport, the Kansas City Bier Company in Waldo and Cinder Block Brewery in North Kansas City. There's even a new brewery set to open in October 2015, appropriately titled Stockyards Brewery, in the West Bottoms' old livestock district — back to the city's booze roots.
And we appreciate every single one of them.
But Boulevard is our crown jewel. Over the years it's grown into the Midwest's largest craft and specialty brewery. The many varieties of Boulevard beer are distributed throughout the nation. And the incredible variety and continuous new releases are one of the top reasons Boulevard is so successful. Offering something for everyone, you'll find seasonal beers, backroads beers, year-rounders and tasting room beers – the company releases test beers and encourages feedback from their consumers to decide what stays and what goes.
Tasting-room beers include Westside Rye Ale, Red IPA and Ginger-Lemon Radler – the last of which, I might add, is particularly tasty. The backroads beers are adventurous, with Last Splash and Entwined Ale, a mix of malt beverage and grape juice (also very tasty). Seasonals, like the Irish Ale, Bob's 47 Oktoberfest and Nutcracker Ale come round during the appropriate holidays, while classics like Tank 7 Farmhouse Ale, Double Wide I.P.A. and Dark Truth Stout are always available.
In 2012, the Brewers Association reported 2,126 craft breweries in the United States. Still as of 2015, Boulevard Brewing Co. is alive and well – and better than ever. Recent releases include a Chocolate Ale, and (as always, representing Kansas City) the limited-edition Crown Town Ale in honor of the 2014 Royals winning division and fighting to the very last seconds of World Series game seven (*sobs… damn you, Madison Bumgarner!).
We love you, Boulevard Brewing Co. And we look forward to many more years of innovative, exciting beer as you expand. For an art having been around since the first civilization, you'd think it's all been done. But you prove that notion wrong with each and every new product.


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After AT&T decided to start rolling out "5G Evolution" branding on phones and networks that use 4G LTE Advanced technology, competitors have had to make decisions on how to respond. While T-Mobile mocked it with a sticker, Verizon (Engadget's parent company) fired off a letter. So what is Sprint going to do? It has filed a lawsuit in federal court, seeking an injunction to prevent AT&T from using 5GE tags on its devices or advertising.
In its claim, Sprint said it commissioned a survey that found 54 percent of consumers believed the "5GE" networks were the same as or better than 5G, and that 43 percent think if they buy an AT&T phone today it will be 5G capable, even though neither of those things are true. Sprint's argument is that what AT&T is doing is damaging the reputation of 5G, while it works to build out what it calls a " legitimate early entry into the 5G network space."


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