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My New Desert Rose Plant is in Bloom!
My new desert rose plant is blooming! I just got it a couple months ago. Usually it takes a while for them to bloom, so I am very happy that it's already blooming. What you need to get them to bloom is a lot of hot sunny days, and that's what we've been having recently. Sunshine is definitely the key to getting them to bloom. That being said, they can be temperamental. I have another one that blooms regularly throughout the summer, and another one, that almost never blooms no matter what I do, so I guess it can be rather hit and miss.


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Phoenix, AZ 85032
If you're looking for dentures that look great and last, look no further than Dameron and Team located in the Phoenix, AZ area. Brett Dameron, D.D.S. will assess your needs and fit you with durable, comfortable, natural-looking dentures - at a price you can afford.
Brett Dameron, D.D.S., in the Phoenix area accepts Cigna Dental® insurance. Our friendly team will be happy to file your insurance paperwork for you.
We know affordable dental treatment is important to you. At Dameron and Team, your long term oral health is our top concern.
A negative self image can be detrimental to many facets of your life. Phoenix area dentist Dr. Brett Dameron understands the positive life-changing power that a healthy and beautiful smile can bring to you. Here at Dameron and Team, we don't want you to be embarrassed any longer. Why not take your smile - and even your life - to a new level of self-confidence and beauty?
One of the first things people notice is your smile. All it takes is a single appointment or two with Phoenix area dentist Brett Dameron, D.D.S., and you, too, can have the winning, healthy-looking smile you've always wanted. The beautiful cosmetic results you'll get from Dameron and Team can be immediate and dramatic!
Dameron and Team is a trusted Phoenix area dental implants practice providing natural-looking, comfortable tooth replacement. We make it our mission to use a gentle touch during the process.
We hold ourselves to the highest standards to replace missing teeth and provide you with natural-looking results. Our goal is to restore your confidence and your bright, healthy smile.
222 South Summit Avenue Ste 2
Prescott, AZ 86303
Dr. James Spurgeon has a gentle touch and provides comfortable cleaning for a whiter smile. Offering dentures in the Prescott, Arizona area, Dr. Spurgeon assures you that a bright, healthy smile is the result of regular, preventative, professional dental cleanings.
A negative self image can be detrimental to many facets of your life. Prescott area dentist Dr. James Spurgeon understands the positive life-changing power that a healthy and beautiful smile can bring to you. Here at Prescott Dental Center, we don't want you to be embarrassed any longer. Why not take your smile - and even your life - to a new level of self-confidence and beauty?
If you suffer from dental anxiety in the Prescott area, Dr. Spurgeon can help. We offer several options that can make your dental treatments pleasant and stress-free. Our team at Prescott Dental Center is trained to help you feel comfortable. You'll be able to feel relaxed while receiving the friendly, professional oral care you deserve.
Don't let untreated dental problems get you down. Rebuild your confidence with a beautiful new smile. From simple treatments that make a big difference, to more extensive work, unveiling the smile you were meant to have can have profound life-changing effects. Serving the Prescott, AZ area and offering dentures, Dr. Spurgeon can help you develop an affordable treatment plan you'll feel good about.
Prescott Dental Center is a trusted Prescott area dental implants practice providing natural-looking, comfortable tooth replacement. We make it our mission to use a gentle touch during the process.
We hold ourselves to the highest standards to replace missing teeth and provide you with natural-looking results. Our goal is to restore your confidence and your bright, healthy smile.
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There is no specifically agreed-upon chronological answer by dentists to "When should a denture be replaced?" There are instances where dentures have been replaced after 1 year or less, and on the opposite side of the spectrum, there are people who have worn the same dentures for 25 or more years. These ranges obviously are extremes.
However, on average, dentists seem to be replacing dentures somewhere between four to eight years. This would seem to imply that the average denture fabricated from contemporary biomaterials will wear out and deteriorate within that time and/or the average denture patient's jaws have changed so much that a new denture must be redone.
Each individual's denture needs are different. There are some factors that a licensed dentist takes into consideration when evaluating the need to replace dentures.
The proper linear distance relationship between the upper and lower jaws is called vertical dimension. This is unique for each individual.
As one's jaw changes and the ridges upon which dentures rest shrink, a denture becomes loose and vertical dimension begins to change (the vertical dimension is said to be lost by a certain linear measurement unit such as millimeters). Additional plastic (acrylic resin) is added to the inside of a loosening denture (called relining a denture) to stabilize it by reducing looseness caused from jaw shrinkage. However, relining does not restore vertical dimension in an accurate way.
The current position held by most dentists is that when vertical dimension has been lost by three millimeters or more, a new denture should be fabricated in order to restore vertical dimension and maintain functional health.
There are individuals who have worn the same denture for extended periods with considerable loss of vertical dimension over time. Since vertical dimension loss is a slow, but nevertheless progressive, process, they have gradually adapted to a continually increasing closed bite position. These individuals often have a sunken facial appearance and usually appear much older than their chronological age.
Functioning with an abnormal vertical dimension may eventually result in alterations of the temporomandibular joints (TMJ, the jaw joint located in front of the ears). This can lead to significant pain and difficulty with effective eating and even the jaw motions involved with speech. It frequently becomes quite difficult, if not impossible, to restore such individual's proper vertical dimension and chewing efficiency by relining and repairing this older denture.
Aside from impaired ability to chew effectively, excess tooth wear will adversely affect esthetics and cause other problems associated with lost vertical dimension, as described above. While porcelain denture teeth will wear at a slower rate than plastic teeth, they nevertheless will wear and are more susceptible to chipping and cracking. Multiple cracked teeth will need to be replaced.
Deterioration: While the biomaterials used by dentists to fabricate dentures today are quite durable, they still deteriorate and exhibit dimensional change over time -- no longer fitting properly, even after relining.
Aging plastic looses its natural appearance and texture, and coloration fades, making dentures look quite artificial.
Deteriorating plastic also makes it easier for dentures to become excessively contaminated with microorganisms. This contributes to mouth irritation and bad taste, and socially unacceptable odors will develop that no amount of denture cleaning will seem to eliminate.
Keeping regular dental check-ups with your dentist so that one's dentures, soft tissues, and jawbone may be checked is essential to extending the life of a denture and maintaining oral health.
by Joseph J. Massad, D.D.S.
A frequent cause of a broken, chipped, or cracked denture is the impact of dropping it on the bathroom tile or into a sink. Sometimes damage to dentures happens when they are left in a place where children or pets are able to get at them let a dentist help you with that denture repair.
Dentures should be handled and stored carefully once out of the mouth to avoid chipping, breaking or damaging the pink denture base or the denture teeth.
If your denture is broken or damaged, visit a dentist to make sure that the denture repair provides the best denture fit, function, appearance and oral health.
Do-it-yourself denture repair can cause more damage than good to your denture and result in your needing a new denture. Do-it-yourself denture repair also can be very destructive to the gum tissues and bone ridges and cause irritation and sores.
A dentist has the training and qualifications, as well as the right instruments, supplies, and tools best suited to properly perform a denture repair.
If your denture is broken, keep any broken pieces of the denture. To prevent distortion of the denture, store the pieces in room temperature water until your dental appointment. The dentist will examine you and the denture and determine how to best restore the denture to its original condition.
Some denture repair, such as replacing a denture tooth, can be accomplished quickly, often in-office on the same day. More complicated breaks, such as a fracture of an edge that rests on the soft tissue inside the lips or cheeks, may involve obtaining impressions of your mouth and having the denture sent to a dental laboratory for the denture repair.
The ability to properly repair a denture depends upon the extent of denture damage, the past home care of the denture, the age of the denture and the fit of the denture at the time it was broken.
To maintain the best possible oral health and to avoid causing more damage to your denture, see a dentist for evaluation and denture repair. Often, home denture repairs require more extensive and costly reconstruction later.
by Denise J. Fedele, D.M.D., M.S.

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All week we have seen images and heard stories about the "Camp Fire" wildfires in California. An area four times the size of San Francisco has now burned. As of this post, 48 people have died and 7600 buildings have been destroyed, making it the deadliest and most destructive wildfire on record.
The images are all over the news, and stories of the blaze are surely being talked about at school — so we encourage you all to meet your child's natural anxiety and fear with empathy, reassurance and then, if appropriate, some agency.
Below we've posted our best story to help children who have experienced loss through fire. You can stream or download it for free.
You can also tell your child that in extraordinary circumstances like this, the "helpers" step forward - and that they can be one of those helpers. David wrote an article about "the helpers" after Hurricane Irma - you can find it here.
Having agency can help to soothe worried children and becoming a "helper" is a great way to step into action rather than sit in one's fears. Its always good to feel what one feels - and then, we believe, its even better to act.
Action can be anything from offering a prayer, to donating food or clothing, to giving money to charity.
How to Help Californians Directly:
If you'd like to send support to the people and animals affected by the fires in California, see this post for great suggestions.
Fire Fairies
from the So Many Fairies Series
This story is a part of the "Handy Tool Belt of Stories" — a collection of various stories designed to give your family support during overwhelming life events. Included are stories about trauma, sickness, potential harm, and death. These stories are here to have in your back pocket if your family experiences a sudden trauma or difficult life event.
Nicholas and Miriam love their grandmother Nani's warm and cozy home. But one spring day, a fire breaks out, and Nani's home is mostly lost to smoke and flame. Their grandmother is okay with the loss, but Miriam is not okay. In fact, she becomes afraid that the fire may happen again. It takes the work of several fairies to help Miriam learn to appreciate fire again.
This story has no Sparkle advertisement – only a short copyright tag at the end. It is intended as a gift to support families who may find it useful.
For more stories to support children in the face of tragedy or loss:
Please see our previous post "You Are Safe and the World Is Good."
In it, you'll find three free stories to help children with fear and worry.
About the Authors
David Sewell McCann
David Sewell McCann fell in love with spinning stories in first grade – the day a storyteller came to his class and captured his mind and imagination. He has been engaged in storytelling all of his adult life through painting, film-making, teaching and performing. Out of his experience as a Waldorf elementary class teacher and parent, he has developed a four step method of intuitive storytelling, which he now shares through workshops and through this website.
KC Pagano
KC is a full-time radical homemaker and mama to two spunky little girls. She writes about all kinds of radical goodness, from gardening and cooking with whole foods to crafting, sewing, homeschooling, and mama musings. Read more on her blog The Nettlesome Life.


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Additional support for veterans' emotional and mental well-being
On November 10, 2020, an announcement was made by The Honourable Lawrence MacAulay, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence, that $20 million in new funding to create a temporary Veterans Organizations Emergency Support Fund. This provided financial support to Veterans organizations who have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, and who are in need of immediate support. True Patriot Love Foundation was named as a recipient. Read the press release here.
We are pleased to announce that in March 2021, two additional funding announcements have been made. Details are provided below.
- On March 24, 2021 Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy announced legislation to renew the Soldiers' Aid Commission and make its support available to more Veterans than ever before. Building on this commitment to support those who served our country and their families, the government will be making investments to support Veterans' mental health and their transition to employment through the True Patriot Love Foundation. Read the press release here.
- On March 29, 2021, The Honourable Lawrence MacAulay, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence, announced that True Patriot Love is among the 23 organizations that have been awarded funds to either start or expand their activities in support of Veteran and family well-being. In response to growing recognition that creative arts can play an integral role in Veteran rehabilitation and recovery, True Patriot Love Foundation will use its funding from the Veteran and Family Well-Being Fund to create a "Military Creative Arts" framework. Read the press release here.


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In Hannibal, the terrible Ridley Scott-directed sequel to The Silence of the Lambs, Gary Oldman plays an antagonist named Mason Verger. Verger is a wealthy pedophile who was once a patient of Hannibal Lecter. Lecter, with his twisted, impish pranks, once gave Verger PCP and instructed him to cut off his own face with a shard of glass. Now, Verger is a howling maw from a Francis Bacon painting, a skull made from smooth sculptor's clay. He looks almost exactly like, well … Mitch McConnell. Verger's plan for revenge is to feed Lecter alive to a pen of ravenous, feral hogs. In a gruesome reversal, Verger ends up pushed into the pen and devoured.
This is more or less what just happened on January 6. It's what happens when Mitt Romney or Lindsay Graham are stalked and screamed at through the airport, their heads gravely bowed, as if they finally appreciate the scope of the abyss under the scab they helped pick off. It's what happens when anti-maskers maraud through a mall telling a sobbing woman whose father is in the hospital for Covid: "People die! Your father's not special." This feral hog spirit does not refer to Americans' (including my own) growing size and resemblance to hogs, but rather to a psychic state: a mélange of grievance, rage, and paranoia expressed as a constant, primal bray.
America now, and in the past (as crowds photographed at lynchings reveal), represents extreme aesthetic dissonance. The constant, absurd grotesquerie serves to blunt and mask the material horror. So, we see the fur-clad, Viking-horned Q Shaman; the people in patriotic animal costumes and pajamas amidst the masked Tier 1 operators with zip ties; the gallows on the lawn; the "Staff: Camp Auschwitz" hoodie; the billowing Confederate flag. The mind cannot really process such contradictions, resulting in sputtering disbelief. It is as if Jerry Lewis' extremely ill-advised and unreleased Holocaust "comedy" The Day the Clown Cried (made in the throes of Lewis's ferocious painkiller addiction) were a documentary.
In the coming months, I have no doubt that the darkness of these events will be revealed as far vaster and more cavernous than previously imagined. I think those who stormed the U.S. Capitol had ex-military and law enforcement officers among them, assistance from some Capitol police, and perhaps even House GOP members and their aides, and that we were much closer to a blood bath than we ever thought possible. There's a grim irony to the censorship of Philip Guston exhibitions earlier this year. Guston's Klan paintings were too incendiary to show, so their figures just drove off the canvas in their little buggies, straight to the Capitol.
Five people died, including a Capitol police officer beaten to death with, among other instruments, an American flag. And then there's Ashli Babbitt and her bleak, deeply American journey. Babbitt served in the Air Force in Iraq and Afghanistan, came home, went down a rabbit hole of feverish QAnon conspiracies and 1776/Flight 93 hysterical rhetoric, and eventually tried to climb through a broken window into the Senate chamber and was shot in the neck, dying with a rictus of stunned realization. Her last tweet was a retweet by the fire-eating lawyer Lin Wood, who had assisted in Trump's spurious election challenges. Soon after, Wood tweeted (or whatever the proper verb is on the right-wing alt Twitter, Parler) that Babbitt was a false flag crisis actor. Wood also made a bleak American journey to the frenzied hog mind. Long a conservative and libertarian hero, he defended Richard Jewell from baseless attacks by the FBI (and was played with a flinty charm by Sam Rockwell in Clint Eastwood's underrated film on the subject, Richard Jewell), and now he spends his time announcing that the execution of John Roberts and Mike Pence is imminent. (The latter prophecy, with people bounding the halls of Congress screaming "Hang Mike Pence!" almost came true).
The ferocity of such derangement is terrifyingly widespread, and to continue with the hog analogy, resembles a livestock disease, in that the laxness of the environment ensures the disease in the best of times is barely dormant. In this case, that environment is an obsequious indulgence of white rage. The feelings of the "fuck your feelings" crowd are culturally paramount. Just days after the assault, Republicans are already talking "unity" and "healing," and discouraging impeachment trials.
And then there is the porcine king of this white petit-bourgeois army, Donald Trump. Two works of art have become especially relevant in my mind since January 6 and Trump's furious Cabela's Putsch speech leading off the assault. The first is William Blake's image of Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian king from the Book of Daniel cursed by God for hubris, doomed to live as an animal and "eat grass as oxen." In the picture, Nebuchadnezzar's face is a mix of crestfallen shell shock and recognition, a blasted knowledge of having gone too far. This was Trump's face in his very strange Thursday night video response to the attacks. Poured into his suit as one would pour concrete, his face rough and clay-hued, he spoke in gaspy bursts like a bicycle tire being pumped, his hands outstretched. He was unapologetic, but melancholic, as if to say: "I'm sorry, we have to live as animals now."
The second piece that comes to mind is the character Manpig in Jim Woodring's wondrous graphic novel, Frank. Set in a Jodorowsky-like surreal and exotic landscape, Manpig lives in a state of agony, nude and writhing from one torment or humiliation to the next. Occasionally, Manpig rises through the aid of mysterious, shadowy forces, becoming wealthy and living in luxury. But, the good times always end, returning Manpig to his wretched state. Trump has been living in luxury through such mysterious and shadowy forces (his father, NBC, Rupert Murdoch) for decades, long insulated from the consequences of being himself. Finally, after the events of last week, even the most credulous fool cannot deny the swinishness of his true state. The problem, the terror, is there are so many millions eager and ready to flail and root in the dirt with him.
Now, Trump is coming to Texas in his defiant last days in power. And why shouldn't he? This is the state of literally millions of actual feral hogs and their human brethren: Ted Cruz, Louis Gohmert, and Ken Paxton, all people who threw meat and viscera into Trump's trough. He plans to visit Alamo, Texas, a hub of border-adjacent ICE agents, named after a famed last stand to preserve white supremacy and slavery. Who knows what devilish hijinks he has planned! Whatever he says, what he means will be unchanged. The central message will be the same as another wounded and grotesque prodigal son of wealth, Danny Devito's Penguin in Batman Returns (the only good superhero movie ever made). Flipping the cry for dignity in The Elephant Man — a cry to live ruled by something higher: god, law, beauty, mercy — the Penguin asserts his baseness, that one's urges and furies is the true self. "I am not a human being; I am an animal!" Trump will squeal on Tuesday, and all around the country, in board rooms, law offices, and police stations, there will be snorts of approval. As he said in Thursday's video: "Our incredible journey has only just begun."


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Multi-touch is a common feature in many touchscreens devices. Whether you're using a smartphone, a tablet or any other touchscreen device, it may support touch commands involving two or more simultaneous points of contact. Known as multi-touch, it's available in self-capacitive touchscreens. Self-capacitive touchscreens still support single-touch commands, but you can usually control them with multi-touch commands as well.
What Is a Self-Capacitive Touchscreen?
A self-capacitive touchscreen is a type of touchscreen device that uses a grid of sensors to detect changes in a uniform electrostatic field. It's essentially a variant of capacitive touchscreen technology. All capacitive touchscreens detect touch commands by measuring a uniform electrostatic field. When performing a touch command with a conductive object, such as a bare finger, the electrostatic field will change. Capacitive touchscreens will then register this change in capacitance as a touch command.
What makes a self-capacitive touchscreen different from other capacitive touchscreens exactly? The main difference is that they feature independently operated rows and columns of sensors. The sensors are still arranged in a grid. The rows and columns, however, can operate independently of each other.
Self-capacitive touchscreens are similar to mutual capacitive touchscreens. The main difference, though, is that self-capcitive touchscreens have independently operated rows and columns of sensors, whereas mutual capacitive touchscreens do not. With their independently operated rows and columns of sensors, self-capacitive touchscreens are more accurate, they also support multi-touch commands.
How Multi-Touch Works in Self-Capacitive Touchscreens
Multi-touch, of course, refers to the use of a two or more points of simultaneous contact. In other words, you perform different commands using multi-touch by placing two or more fingers — or styluses — against the display interface. In self-capacitive touchscreens, desensitizing is used to support multi-touch.
All self-capacitive touchscreens have rows and columns of sensors that operate independently of each other. With their independent operation, they can be desensitized. Self-capacitive touchscreens will typically only register a maximum number of contact points at any given time, such as two. After registering these contact points, the other areas of the display interface will be desensitized.
In Conclusion
Not all touchscreen devices support multi-touch. While it's become a common feature in many smartphones and tablets, there are still some touchscreen devices that require single-touch commands. Fortunately, multi-touch is supported by most self-capacitive touchscreens. Self-capacitive touchscreens are able to desensitize other areas to allow for accurate and responsive multi-touch commands.


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Hotel Okura
Designer: Feliix
Location: New Port City, Pasay City
Project Background
Nestled within the Resorts World Manila complex, a premier entertainment and leisure destination, Hotel Okura Manila epitomizes the essence of elegant and refined Japanese hospitality here in
the Philippines. Feliix allotted the storage racks and storage systems of the beverage department, housekeeping management department, purchasing department and engineering department
of Hotel Okura Manila in Pasay City.
Client Requirement
As interior improvements continued inside the hotel in preparation for their opening in the first
quarter of 2021, Hotel Okura Manila's procurement department contacted Feliix to inquire about
smart storage solutions intended initially for the beverage department of the hotel. They desired
to replace their old wooden storage racks with metal ones for better storage durability and capacity,
as well as for a more organized stockpiling in their storerooms.
122x47x179 cm stock racks in charcoal gray powder coat finish in the engineering department
122x47x179 cm stock racks in charcoal gray powder coat finish
Solution & Products Provided
After meeting and hearing the concern of our client, we immediately delivered product samples
at Hotel Okura Manila for their look over of the materials, quality and condition of our storage
systems. With 91% of materials imported from Taiwan, our products met our client's demand
for a better storage solution, replacing their wooden storage racks with our simple yet sturdy
metal ones. The procurement department gladly favored our products and initially purchased
8 units of storage racks for the beverage department, as well as a unit of storage cabinet
for their own. Consequently, we provided them the storage racks in beige powder coat finish
and a glass sliding cabinet in off-white powder coat finish.
Product Specifications
Stock Rack
• dimensions: 142W x 47D x 179H cm
• finish: powder coat
• color: off-white
After a few months since their first business with us, the procurement team contacted us again
for acquiring a second batch of orders. The procurement department requested additional units
of storage systems for the other departments of the hotel. They ordered 10 units of stock racks
for the engineering department, 125 units for the housekeeping management department, and an
additional 2 units of glass sliding cabinets, all in off-white or charcoal gray powder coat finish.
Stock Rack
• dimensions: 142W x 47D x 179H cm
• finish: powder coat
• color: off-white
118x40x176 cm glass sliding cabinet in off-white powder coat finish
in the purchasing department
Project Conclusion
Our storage systems are proven to be cost-effective and can achieve a well-organized storing-look
even in the busy workplaces of Hotel Okura Manila. For a span of just a few months, we have provided
Hotel Okura Manila a total of 143 units of storage racks and some glass sliding cabinets, which 91%
of the materials were made and imported from Taiwan and were then locally assembled here in the
Philippines, thus combining technology and craftsmanship at its finest for the optimal storage systems
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Every individual has certain goals for oneself and one's family. Life insurance is the safety measure a person should always take up for himself/herself and his/her family. ULIP is one of the best ways to fulfil the aspirations of the individual, along with safety. The full form of ULIP is Unit Linked Insurance Plan. ULIP is a life insurance plan with a package of attractive investment returns. ULIP is a life insurance product which ensures that an investor gets both insurance and investment cover under a single plan. ULIPs are generally opted by people for life insurance and investment purposes. In ULIP, a part of the premium is deducted for insurance and the other part is invested in various selected funds. Here, the policyholder has to pay the premium monthly, quarterly, half-yearly or annually. The term of the policy is for five, ten or fifteen or more years and through this period of time, units are accumulated. An investor can invest in any number of qualified funds which in turn investment in stocks, bonds or mutual funds. ULIPs are subject to market risk as they are associated with the capital market. The benefit of ULIP is wealth creation along with life insurance. As a result, money grows from time to time and the future is also secured from the unexpected turn of events in life. If an investor has enrolled for a ULIP plan, the beneficiary can receive payments following the death of the investor.
ULIP is a reliable investment option. When compared to other instruments available in the market, ULIP is something out of the box which offers a combination of benefits such as: wealth protection, value appreciation, strategic flexibility and tax savings.
Now, why should we choose ULIP over other available life insurance plans? The answer is simple. ULIP provides investment flexibility i.e., one can invest one's money as per investment risk either in equity, debt or hybrid funds. It also gives the option to switch between investment funds according to the changing needs. In this way, an investor can escape market risks and benefit from market upturns. A policyholder can switch the accumulated amount among any of the six to eight or more funds based on availability. Thus, it assures steady wealth appreciation with safeguards and transparency.
Moreover, ULIPs are beneficial for aggressive and dynamic young people, as the money gets compounded for a long period of time. It provides better returns in the long run. A young individual with high-risk tolerance can obtain maximum from this instrument.
Amongst several investor-friendly plans and insurance options, ULIP ensures tax benefits under prevailing Government norms like section 80C of the Income Tax Act. ULIPs also provide inflation-proof real returns over the long run, unlike PFs.
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Countdown to Basketball: Girls Player Rankings No. 5, Aubrey Mendonca
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West Valley's Aubrey Mendonca is a Record Searchlight Most Valuable Player (R-S.V.P.) recipient and should eclipse the 1,000-point mark for her career this season.No. 5 Aubrey Mendonca, Guard, West Valley, Sr.
Mendonca was only a sophomore when she won the Record Searchlight Most Valuable Player (R-S.V.P.) and is looking to become a two-time winner.
The Eagles' point guard is enters her fourth year on varsity after leading them in scoring with 11.3 points per game to go with 4.4 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 2.4 steals per game. She should reach the 1,000-point milestone this year, needing 141 points - she scored at least that in all three of her varsity seasons.
Mendonca has a quick first step, can drive to the hoop and nail the outside jumper, but one of her top qualities is her leadership. She motivates her teammates to play harder both, vocally and with her aggressive style of play. She demands excellence and it's one of the reasons why the Eagles have made back-to-back trips to the Northern Section Division IV championships.
With one title on her resume, the proven success in the postseason, and the fact she plays in the always tough Sac River League against the bigger schools gives her the exposure against the top players to prove her worth.
Mendonca, a first-team all-Record Searchlight, second-team all-Northern Section and all-SRL pick last year, signed to play for Oregon Institute of Technology following high school but is looking to leave her mark on the West Valley program by trying to get to the finals for the third straight year.
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Player No. 5: Aubrey Mendonca
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It is time boys and girls. The NFL Draft is this Thursday at Cleveland. Therefore, this will be my last mock draft on the website (don't even think that this will be my last one till it happens lol). Obviously so many other things can happen with the order and with what happens with players. So without further ado, here is my final Monday Mock with the explanations at the end as always!
|1.) Jacksonville Jaguars
|Trevor Lawrence (QB/Clemson)
|2.) New York Jets
|Zach Wilson (QB/BYU)
|3.) San Francisco 49ers
|Trey Lance (QB/North Dakota State)
|4.) Atlanta Falcons
|Kyle Pitts (TE/Florida)
|5.) Cincinnati Bengals
|Penei Sewell (OT/Oregon)
|6.) Miami Dolphins
|Ja'Marr Chase (WR/LSU)
|7.) Detroit Lions
|DeVonta Smith (WR/Alabama)
|8.) Carolina Panthers
|Rashawn Slater (G/Northwestern)
|9.) Denver Broncos
|Mac Jones (QB/Alabama)
|10.) Dallas Cowboys
|Patrick Surtain II (CB/Alabama)
|11.) New York Giants
|Christian Darrisaw (OT/Virginia Tech)
|12.) Philadelphia Eagles
|Justin Fields (QB/Ohio State)
|13.) Los Angeles Chargers
|Jaycee Horn (CB/South Carolina)
|14.) Minnesota Vikings
|Jaelan Phillips (EDGE/Miami)
|15.) New England Patriots
|Jaylen Waddle (WR/Alabama)
|16.) Arizona Cardinals
|Micah Parsons (LB/Penn State)
|17.) Las Vegas Raiders
|Teven Jenkins (OT/Oklahoma State)
|18.) Miami Dolphins
|Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah (LB/Notre Dame)
|19.) Washington Football Team
|Greg Newsome II (CB/Northwestern)
|20.) Chicago Bears
|Alijah Vera-Tucker (OT/USC)
|21.) Indianapolis Colts
|Kwity Paye (EDGE/Michigan)
|22.) Tennessee Titans
|Caleb Farley (CB/Virginia Tech)
|23.) New York Jets
|Azeez Ojulari (EDGE/Georgia)
|24.) Pittsburgh Steelers
|Najee Harris (RB/Alabama)
|25.) Jacksonville Jaguars
|Christian Barmore (DT/Alabama)
|26.) Cleveland Browns
|Joe Tryon (EDGE/Washington)
|27.) Baltimore Ravens
|Jayson Oweh (EDGE/Penn State)
|28.) New Orleans Saints
|Rashod Bateman (WR/Minnesota)
|29.) Green Bay Packers
|Zaven Collins (LB/Tulsa)
|30.) Buffalo Bills
|Travis Etienne (RB/Clemson)
|31.) Baltimore Ravens
|Alex Leatherwood (OT/Alabama)
|32.) Tampa Bay Buccaneers
|Gregory Rousseau (EDGE/Miami)
Who Picked Who and Why?
1.) Jacksonville – Why Trevor Lawrence?
He's donating to Jacksonville charities at this point. It's no question. Trevor Lawrence will be the pick here.
2.) New York (J) – Why Zach Wilson?
No secret here either. As soon as Wilson had his pro-day, Sam Darnold was traded away to the Panthers days later. Kid is sharp and a bright spot hopefully for a Jets team that wants to be taken seriously again.
3.) San Francisco – Why Trey Lance?
Last night, it was confirmed that the 49ers are between Trey Lance and Mac Jones. In my mind then, Lance is the guy to go here considering how big of an upside he has. He can sit right away behind Garoppolo and develop for the future. Big pick here for them at number three.
4.) Atlanta – Why Kyle Pitts?
Originally, it seemed like Atlanta was in the position to draft a quarterback, but it seems that the need has shifted based on the hire and determination of coach Arthur Smith to make Matt Ryan and the Falcons bound to win now. How do you do that? By drafting the best tight end prospect in college since Vernon Davis; Florida tight end Kyle Pitts. He's a huge help with Hayden Hurst taking a back seat. Though they could trade back as an option as well.
5.) Cincinnati – Why Penei Sewell?
I know I joke about how easy this pick is, but some people want Chase here to help out Burrow. If he gets hurt again, good luck having a backup throw Chase the numbers they want out of him. Draft the best tackle in the draft and hopefully pick up Terrace Marshall Jr. in the second round who Burrow still has a relationship with.
6.) Miami – Why Ja'Marr Chase?
Tua is their guy, and in order for him to succeed, he needs more weapons around him. Getting Fuller in free agency was smart, but now take the best wideout in the draft giving them a great threesome receiving unit with Chase, Fuller, and Parker.
7.) Detroit – Why DeVonta Smith?
The Lions need a lot of help, and honestly if we could trade back this would be a team to do so, but we can't. So a big goal now is to get new quarterback Jared Goff some weapons to work with. They lost Kenny Golladay and Marvin Jones in free agency which obviously hurts the offense. Drafting Smith is the best choice as Goff gets a number one target to throw the ball to, and being the Heisman Trophy winner sure helps too.
8.) Carolina – Why Rashawn Slater?
Getting Sam Darnold from the Jets is just what the Panthers needed, but now they need to do the right thing the Jets had a hard time doing, and that is to protect him. Give them Rashawn Slater here to virtually play any offensive tackle position. Doing this is a must for this Carolina Panthers team.
9.) Denver – Why Mac Jones?
It is a shame to not see another name taken, but honestly Denver has an unhealthy habit of taking the wrong guy. It's nothing against Mac Jones, but he seems like the John Elway type of guy that Denver has wanted so bad. Drafting him definitely brings the heat on one Drew Lock, but my hunch is that they'll compete to see who the starter is.
10.) Dallas – Why Patrick Surtain II?
Honestly, this pick seems almost set in stone as Lawrence and Wilson. Surtain has been linked to the Cowboys ever since mocks started, and it is not hard to see why? Their secondary was trash last year. So why not pair up Surtain and Diggs to give the Cowboys a chance here in an awful division.
11.) New York (G) – Why Christian Darrisaw?
Call it what you want, but a lot of people have a wide receiver going here. Getting rid of Golden Tate was a must, but they have a good receiving core of a newly required Golladay, Sterling Shepard, and Darius Slayton. They also signed Kyle Rudolph as a back up to Evan Engram. Getting the best tackle available in Darrisaw is the move to give Jones time to think and throw for his last stand as the Giant's quarterback.
12.) Philadelphia – Why Justin Fields?
Oh it's the shock of the draft people. It might not be the right decision, but it is one that is very possible. Coach Nick Sirianni said in an interview that he declined to make Hurts the starting quarterback. Only one to compete with him so far is Joe Flacco. That isn't happening which might mean he plans on drafting one, and Fields fits the book. It's a shame, but a coach wants their guy, and Fields might just be it.
13.) Los Angeles (C) – Why Jaycee Horn?
While the Chargers could go offensive line here, a great deal of them have been taken. So let's improve the defense here with a much needed position at corner. Jaycee Horn is the best option to go with here to add some depth in the secondary.
14.) Minnesota – Why Jaelan Phillips?
The Miami product has been showing some upside in draft boards here. The Vikings have a desperate need to add an EDGE rusher. So let's give them one. Phillips is the perfect fit to a defense that is in need of improvement after such a terrible season last year. Mike Zimmer will be very happy.
15.) New England – Why Jaylen Waddle?
Waddle is the best receiver on the board, and at this point, there is no reason New England shouldn't take him here. Cam Newton needs some help at receivers. Bill did a great job landing Hunter Henry, Jonnu Smith, Nelson Agholor, and Kendrick Bourne, but now let's give them a number one weapon in Jaylen Waddle.
16.) Arizona – Why Micah Parsons?
This is too good to be true man. The Simmons experiment did not pan out to well, but now they get a true linebacker to command the defense in Penn State's Micah Parsons. His dominance will bring a power to a team that is clearly in win now mode with all the free agency signings they made.
17.) Las Vegas – Why Teven Jenkins?
Jenkins literally screams Raider to me. His attitude, his raw power, his big body, and his ability are literally what Jon Gruden craves for his team. They got rid of their whole offensive line. So this is the perfect fit for Jenkins and the Raiders.
18.) Miami – Why Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah?
This is a good move on the Dolphins part. They already added depth at wideout with Ja'Marr Chase, so now let us look at the defense. This combo of linebacking and safety work is a great angle for the Dolphins to select the Notre Dame product to give some much needed pressure after they released Kyle Van Noy.
19.) Washington – Why Greg Newsome II?
Washington has a quarterback in Ryan Fitzpatrick, and a great defensive front. Now let's improve the secondary. They gained William Jackson, but lost Ronald Darby. So adding a shut-down corner like Greg Newsome II would be the way to go here. Caleb Farley is certainly an option, but the injury scare is real for a team that relies heavily on the defense.
20.) Chicago – Why Alijah Vera Tucker?
In order to even remotely have a shot at making something out of this garbage situation the Bears find themselves in they will need to protect their "number one" quarterback; Andy Dalton. Vera Tucker is the best option for them, and the kid has the skills to hopefully do that. Some might think receiver here, but they could get one in the later rounds.
21.) Indianapolis – Why Kwity Paye?
Kwity Paye fell, but lands on a really good system for the Colts. I know that a lot of people think that offensive line is the way to go here, but Paye has fallen too far, and the Colts won't think twice about scooping the Michigan EDGE rusher up to improve their pass rush.
22.) Tennessee – Why Caleb Farley?
The injury ridden corner finally finds a home in Tennessee. They lost Malcom Butler to the Cardinals, and they'll need to improve their secondary. Farley carries some baggage because of the back surgery, but before that he was regarded as the first or second corner in this class. Give them Farley to earn a good shot at demanding a shut-down presence for the Titans.
23.) New York (J) – Why Azeez Ojulari?
The edge rusher from Georgia goes here to the Jets. New head coach Robert Saleh is a former defensive coordinator so adding Azeez Ojulari is a no brainer for the Jets here. His pass rushing ability will definitely help in order to make New York's defense relevant again.
24.) Pittsburgh – Why Najee Harris?
I know. I know. Offensive lineman, corners, centers, they are all needed here. However, there is plenty to go around in this draft. Harris is currently the best running back on the board, and the Steelers were last in the league last year in the rushing department. Whether it is him or Travis Etienne, a running back is the pick here in the first round.
25.) Jacksonville – Why Christian Barmore?
There is a lot of ways Jacksonville could go here, but honestly getting the best defensive tackle off the board is a good way to end their selections in the first round. Barmore brings an intensity to shut down the run and disrupt the quarterback. This is a no brainer for them here.
26.) Cleveland – Why Joe Tryon?
A shocking pick, but yes Tryon makes it into the first round. His stats at Washington were impressive, and overall, he is a great fit to put aside from Myles Garrett to enhance the pass rush. With great quarterbacks in the AFC North, it might be an unexpected pick, but Tryon can help Garrett bring the pressure.
27.) Baltimore – Why Jayson Oweh?
Baltimore gets a much needed help for their defense in the form of Penn State's Jayson Oweh. His crazy numbers at his pro-day make him a great pick for the Ravens to use to provide an incredible amount of pressure. They need it for dealing with quarterbacks like Ben Roethlisberger, Baker Mayfield, and Joe Burrow.
28.) New Orleans – Why Rashod Bateman?
The Saints are in need of a second receiver now that Emmanuel Sanders was lost in free agency to the Bills. A lot of people might think corner here which is understandable, but Bateman sitting here at the 28 spot can't be overlooked. Whether it is Hill or Winston, they'll need another receiver to throw the ball to other than Michael Thomas.
29.) Green Bay – Why Zaven Collins?
Green Bay needs a linebacker to stop the run against some good rushing first teams. Zaven Collins is a great start to add to that feel of run-stopping. The Tulsa product has shown his ability on the field, and in my mind he is the best linebacker available. Green Bay would be stupid to pass him up.
30.) Buffalo – Why Travis Etienne?
The Bills need some defensive help, but their rushing attack was mostly led by their quarterback; Josh Allen. Zack Moss was a nice add last year, but his injuries add some effect on his playing. Singletary also hit a slump this past season leaving the rushing attack in question. Travis Etienne is the perfect add to this Bills offense. He can run, and he can catch with ease making him a favorite go to for Josh Allen and Buffalo.
31.) Baltimore – Why Alex Leatherwood?
The Ravens gain another first round draft pick from the Chiefs by sending Orlando Brown to them. Now they use this pick to gain another offensive lineman to protect Lamar Jackson. Leatherwood isn't my favorite tackle, but he does bring some much needed relief to Jackson and the rest of the Baltimore Ravens.
32.) Tampa Bay – Why Gregory Rousseau?
His draft stock has been sliding for some reason, but Tampa Bay will be glad to add the Miami EDGE rusher to their list of defensive studs. I can't see him moving past the first round, so if he has to go then this is where I predict he will land. He might even end up with a ring by the end of the season with Tampa Bay as they look to win yet another Super Bowl.


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The gang I swore never to join, I now lead
"Prophesy to us, loser", they taunt
"Which one of us will betray you next?"
Their laughter was a mockery of my words
Like the howl of hyenas, the shriek of owls,
It rang as true as a prophecy fulfilled
As true as the dusk when it fell on me.
Now they surround me as the night falls deeper
But my fears loom greater than any voice I hear
Keeping me in the firm grip of darkness, and
The torturous circle of guilt and endless regret.
They keep me in the embrace of men I trusted Under the tutelage of self-deceit, among whom I'm now hemmed in, as they bid me good night.
Toyin Taiwo (c) 2020


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Waiting for a Written Invitation?
Why would someone feel so compelled to watch 5 movies in a series that was never really that good to begin with? I don't have an answer to that question. I do know the person that would do such a thing: me. Every time this series releases a new movie, I feel like there's no way I'm going to watch it. I let it get all the way through the theaters too. But when it comes to DVD, I always check it out. There's no excuse for my actions. I'm contributing to this. It's like I'm watching Keeping Up with the Kardashians or the Jersey Shore or something. But I can't help myself. And so you will be dragged into my psychosis as I review Resident Evil: Retribution, written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, and starring Milla Jovovich, Li Bingbing, Shawn Roberts, Sienna Guillory, Aryana Engineer, Johann Urb, Kevin Durand, Boris Kodjoe, Michelle Rodriguez, Oded Fehr, Colin Salmon, Megan Charpentier, and Mika Nakashima.
Alice (Milla Jovovich) is a normal housewife that lives with her husband Todd (Oded Fehr) and their deaf daughter Becky (Aryana Engineer). OR IS SHE?!?! No, she's actually a zombie killing machine. Well, one of her is. There're a lot of clones in the Umbrella facility she wakes up in. The real-ish one wakes up and is getting interrogated by Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory), who has been brainwashed by Umbrella. Alice escapes to find herself in a giant, underwater facility designed to test the zombies or some shit. We spend the rest of the movie watching Alice escape this facility with the help of Ada Wong (Li Bingbing), Leon Kennedy (Johann Urb), Barry Burton (Kevin Durand), and Luther West (Boris Kodjoe), who have all been sent by Albert Wesker (Shawn Roberts), who is a good guy now, I guess. The Red Queen (Megan Charpentier) is also back, and she uses clones of Alice's original team – Rain Ocampo (Michelle Rodriguez), Carlos Olivera (Oded Fehr), and James Shade (Colin Salmon) – to try to stop them.
This movie is exactly what you expect. I think it was Jonah Ray on the Nerdist podcast that acknowledged that these movies are lower class cinema, but that he could not help but be excited that they were coming out. I never get so far as to say that I'm excited for them to come out, but they are enjoyable in their stupid simplicity. The same goes for this movie. It's definitely not a good movie, but it's enjoyable if you just shut your brain down and watch. That's the way they're meant to be watched; with an aneurism. They don't really seem to be trying too hard either. First off, the story is really not much more than Alice trying to figure out how to get out of a facility. And that facility is full of various landscapes representing different places in the world, so they're going to act like Alice is spanning the globe on the poster for the movie even though she's not leaving that one facility. But don't worry; if you forget that all these places are fake, everyone in the movie will need to remind Alice several thousand times. But she's pretty, so brains are really irrelevant. The same kind of goes for the writers of this movie and their ability to pull off some sweet one-liners. They all fell completely flat. Alice hits some baddies with a, "Hey boys. Bad idea," when she blows a car up in their faces. You're not even trying now, guys. Bad idea works if you blow up a light bulb in their face or something. That situation demands more of a "Here's your ride" line. I'll need to refer you to Batman & Robin for proper usage of horrible one-liners. Then you miss out on another good opportunity after Leon proclaims, "We're gonna be okay," and you didn't have the Red Queen pop up and say, "Activating 'Famous Last Words' Protocols." It also bummed me out that it seemed clear that this game was not made for fans of the Resident Evil games, or even gamers for that matter. All gamers know about the concept of a weak spot. And all Resident Evil fans remember that the way to beat brainwashed Jill was to shoot the giant red spider brooch in the center of her cleavage. And it wasn't just obvious because all gamers were probably staring at her sweet rack. Well it took this killing machine lady about 15 minutes before someone else told her to shoot at the bull's-eye between Jill's tits.
The look and the action in the movie worked out pretty well throughout. The first scene in the movie was interesting because they were basically playing the last scene of the previous movie in slow motion reverse. And, for a while, I thought they were going to play the entire movie in reverse because it went on so long. But the movie seemed completely aware of the fact that its story wasn't going to support it, so it made sure it was decently full of action. The hallway battle early on in the movie was pretty sweet, even though it didn't really have anything to do with the story. I didn't really care though because I didn't really care about the story. That way, it's perfectly fine to make your action scenes just a bit of jerkin' off because it had been three minutes since something blow'd up. When the executioners showed up later, I was a little bit thrown off over how much they were ripped off from Pyramid Head from Silent Hill, but I'm pretty sure I remember them from the game too, so I can't really blame the movie for that. I also realized that this movie had a total Star Trek thing going on because guys wearing masks were the red shirts of this thing. Michelle Rodriguez and Oded Fehr would come out of battles unscathed because they had the sense to not cover their faces.
Most of the performances were entirely acceptable and not much more. I thought it was cool that they got the original team from the first movie back for this one, but I also thought it got a little confusing that there were like 4 versions everyone. The only thing I thought about Milla Jovovich is that her housewife character was fuckin' stupid for throwing away her baseball bat after one use. That shit still works. Li Bingbing was also pretty good. Her performance wasn't anything special, but she looked good in that Ada Wong outfit. I did have some problems with Sienna Guillory. She definitely looked the part, and definitely had some sweet knockers, but she delivered her lines super robotic and paused in weird places. I guess she could've decided that it was the way someone who was brainwashed would act, but I just felt like she decided to let her tits do the talkin'.
Resident Evil: Retribution is exactly what I'm sure everyone expects. It's a big, dumb action movie. And it lives up to every bit of it. It's so huge in scale that it's unsatisfied with the idea of having their movie appear as if it was filmed in only one global hemisphere. And, even though the story was weak, the action was fun and frequent. It will probably not be the last time I say it about the Resident Evil franchise, but you know what you're getting and it always delivers. I wouldn't necessarily recommend you buy this, but it's a fun rental. Resident Evil: Retribution gets "I'm kinda enjoying myself" out of "I've heard that before."
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The People's Champion?
Some of you that are old enough may remember a time when one of the best "video games" you could play was two plastic robots on either end of a tiny ring, controlled by two buttons on each side that would cause the corresponding robot to punch with either his left or his right arm until one of the two robot's heads popped off. This game was called Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots. In order to pave the way for them to somehow turn Battleship into a movie, they decided to turn Rock 'Em Sock 'Em into a movie to test how people would react. And then to add a little baby mamma drama into it, just to get the ladies watching. They kept the beginning initials the same, but rename the movie Real Steel, written by John Gatins, Shawn Levy, and Richard Mathis, directed by Shawn Levy, and starring Hugh Jackman, Dakota Goyo, Hope Davis, James Rebhorn, Evangeline Lilly, Karl Yune, Olga Fonda, Anthony Mackie, and Kevin Durand.
In the not too distant futures, the world has decided that the sport of boxing is far too brutal for humans to go through, so they are replaced with giant robot boxers. But also (and thank God for it) PETA seems to have disappeared because, on occasion, those giant robot boxers are allowed to fight bulls. That's where we start off, with former boxer Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman), down on his luck and forced to take his robot, Ambush, to fit bulls. Charlie gets distracted by a cute blonde and his robot get scrapped, making Charlie skip out on the money he owes the promoter, Ricky (Kevin Durand). Charlie finds out that his ex-girlfriend died and he must attend a custody hearing for his 11-year-old son, Max (Dakota Goyo). Deciding that he is neither the paternal type, nor the type that wants to be likeable to almost any audience, Charlie not only does not want custody of his kid, but sells custody to Max's wealthy uncle Marvin (James Rebhorn), behind the back of Max's wealthy-by-marriage aunt Debra (Hope Davis), for $100,000. Because Marvin and Debra were about to go on vacation, Charlie agrees to take Max for three months, until they return. Charlie takes Max to the boxing gym of Charlie's childhood friend Bailey Tallet (Evangeline Lilly) and promptly drops around $30,000 dollars on a once famous (and championship material) robot named Noisy Boy … which he quickly enrolls in an underground main event fight and gets it destroyed. Charlie and Max go to a scrapyard to find pieces to make a new robot when Max stumbles across an old, 2nd generation sparring robot named Atom. Flying in the face of all logic, Max single-handedly digs Atom out of mud and claims the robot as his own. They take it to another underground fight and find out this little robot's got some chutzpah.
I admit being completely caught off guard by this, but this movie actually won me over. Going into this movie I figured that the robot fights would be awesome, but that they'd be flimsily held together by an ill-conceived plot and the addition of a kid reminiscent of Seven from Married … With Children. …Okay, that's kind of exactly what happened, but it was done in a way that worked. The story is kind of one you've seen before … especially if you've seen Rocky. There are two underdogs in this movie (as opposed to the lone one they had in Rocky) in Charlie and Atom. Charlie doesn't believe in himself anymore and his kid helps him believe in himself again. The similarities to Rocky are at their boiling point in the very end of the movie where ::SPOILER ALERT:: Atom puts up a good fight but loses the decision, settling for the "People's Champ" booby prize. In this scene, Atom and Charlie take turns being Rocky, whereas Max takes the role of Adrian. IMDb tells me that they're in the process of making Real Steel 2, so one can feel safe in thinking that Atom will win in the next one, fight a robot with a mohawk in the movie after that (but Charlie will probably have to die at some point), fight a behemoth Russian robot next (and make a cheesy speech about how we all can change and love each other), and then further ruin the entire memory of the series in the fifth one. Maybe, some years after that, they'll make a coming out retirement one that tries really hard to fix what number five fucked up. ::END SPOILERS:: I found the kid parts of the movie fairly tedious for the greater majority of the movie, but then it started getting to me towards the end of the movie, causing me to get a little bit choked up about it. And before you go calling me a pussy, think to yourself why movies about daddy issues affect me so much and, if you know me, you'll understand … and THEN you can call me a pussy. On a much more manly note, the robot fights are pretty spectacular and incredibly gripping, especially when you take into account that they're robots with no feeling or emotion. I guess it's because you kind of get attached to Atom, even though he only mimics movements of people around him. Of course, that lead to something that I found sickening on every occasion, but it still popped up about 3 or 4 times: Max dancing with Atom. Charlie comes up with this idea when he sees Max dancing with Atom outside of a hotel once and decides to incorporate it as a gimmick before the fight to get the audience on their side. I grant that this would probably work for some people, but I just found it annoying. Get to the robot smashing! Speaking of ::RESPOILER:: The ending bout worked for me too. I originally predicted that they would need to defeat the adaptable, super powerful champion, Zeus, by doing something unpredictable. I guessed that would be dancing to confuse Zeus. Thankfully, that was not the course they took. His remote controls damaged, Max comes up with the idea to have Atom mimic Charlie, so that Charlie would be doing the fighting via proxy. Charlie doesn't believe in himself, Max gets him to, and though they don't win, they whoop that ass. It's another predictable strategy, just not the one I expected, but I thought it was very well done. ::END RESPOILERS::
The cast mostly does a fantastic job for what I went into this movie expecting. Hugh Jackman's performance was great, but it was difficult to do with the writing being a little soft. You hate him to some degree for about an hour and a half, getting to like his character for only the last half hour of the movie. This guy basically sells his son, who he's either never met or not seen in 90% of the kid's life. Then, Max turns out to be more business savvy than Charlie is because Charlie's so desperate for money that he'll throw a robot he's never used into a main event fight, never thinking about why a legendary champion robot could be purchased for less money than he was fixing to win in that one fight. Maybe there was something wrong with it, Charlie. These kinds of decisions lead him to get in a bad financial situation, which in turn leads to more bad decisions, which in turn leads to him getting his ass kicked by the guy that played the Blob, probably mostly in retaliation for being in that shitty Wolverine movie. But I got really confused by this beating they gave him because Charlie and Max were getting their asses beat fairly close to a truck that contained their giant, ass-kicking robot! I'm sure there's some law against using your giant robot to beat up a guy (and I'm sure Asimov wrote these stupid laws), but there's also a law against beating up a man and his son with your two goons. I'd call that a push. I never really liked Dakota Goyo, but I'm not sure if that's because he was bad or just because I hate kids. I do know that I hate the kid in the movie that's supposed to be smarter than a kid his age ever really is, but is also always trying to act tough when I know, for a fact, that I would beat the shit out of that kid. Not so tough now, are you Dakota! One thing that annoyed me about him was that he was instantly able to speak Japanese and disassemble a robot. How was he able to do this? He plays video games. Well so do I, and I also watch TONS of Japanese Anime porn, and I only know how to say "No" and "Stop raping me" in Japanese. Thankfully, I've had to use those two phrases a lot, but I still call bullshit on this movie for it. Evangeline Lilly was also in this movie, and pretty attractive as well, but there's not a whole lot more to be said about that. She did, at one point, say that her plan was "trying not to let (her) gym die", but that is not a plan. That's something you need a plan to do, so you're apparently in the same boat as Charlie. The performances of the robots in this movie can roughly be equated to that of Jet Li: they're stiff and can't really act, but they are good in the fight scenes. I never really did understand how they justified the robots getting punch drunk, though. They don't actually have brains. I could understand parts of them not functioning from being broken, but not them staggering around the ring because they've been hit in the head too many times.
I was quite shocked to find that I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. Sure, it was pretty easy to make fun of because some of it is so ridiculous and pointless, but their story had won me over by the end of the movie, and the robot fights had me from the word "go". A lot of fun as an action movie, and pretty solid as a movie in general. I say go rent this movie. I'm probably going to outright purchase it, but I understand if you don't trust me. I've lied to you before. OR HAVE I?! Real Steel gets "I want you to fight for me! That's all I ever wanted!" out of "You know you're bringing him home in pieces, right?"
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I Am … Not Interested
The timing of my decision to start doing movie reviews became fairly unfortunate when my friend Cody suggested I review the movie I Am Number Four. The reason it was so unfortunate is because I had already watched this movie, it was completely lackluster, and now I must do it again to review it. Well, here goes anyways. I Am Number Four stars Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant (or Olyphantastic, as Kevin Smith called him), Dianna Agron, Teresa Palmer, Callan McAuliffe, and Kevin Durand (who I know from his portrayal of the Blob in the Wolverine movie I don't like to call an X-Men movie).
At least 6 aliens have come to Earth, their planet having been destroyed by a race known as the Mogadorians, or as I call them the Overactians. We follow, of course, Number 4, otherwise known to us as John Smith (Alex Pettyfer) and his protector Henri (Timothy Olyphantastic). Their identities are compromised by 4's shiny calf scar and a combination of iPhones and the interwebs. So they have to pick up and move. Turns out his shiny calf (not a golden idol, I mean a scar on his calf that started glowing) meant that one of the other 6 was killed by the Overactians. The move to Paradise, Ohio and John enrolls himself in the most cliched, John Hughes-ian school in recent memory. Here he meets the the bully jock, the quirky artsy girl (Dianna Agron), and the picked on nerdy kid (Callan McAuliffe). Being the good guy, he befriends the two outcasts. This pisses off the jock because he used to date artsy girl. Eventually the Overactians descend upon Paradise and the whole group, plus Number 6 (Teresa Palmer), must overcome the enemy.
Not a lot of this movie works for me. The writing is totally cliched and obvious. Like I said, the high school 4 goes to is right out of a John Hughes film. I've been to high school before and I never really saw any of this stuff going down. I could've been considered either a nerd or artsy girl … I mean guy … back in high school, but no one ever knocked my books out of my hands or set up elaborate exploding paint pranks in my locker. Hell, I didn't even have a locker!
The acting pretty much tops off at mediocre. No one really stood out. One of the weird things I thought about towards the end of the movie involve Number 6. This chick shows up in the very beginning of the movie at the house Number 4 just evacuated and decides to blow it up to cover their tracks. They work really hard to make her appear to be a badass here; having her walking out in slow mo, sunglasses on, and the building blowing up behind her. Then you don't see this chick again until the last 10 minutes of the movie, where they again try to sell her as a badass by giving her cool powers. If this chick is supposed to be so cool, why not give her a little screen time? As I said, the Mogadorians are totally hamming it up as the alien enemies. And they look weird too. Their main physical feature that sets them apart is having gills next to their nose, which apparently cause them to speak in a ridiculous way. On a positive note, the fight scene near the end is decent, the CG is actually pretty good, and they have some nice parkour in the movie.
So, not a lot of this movie made sense to me. First off, the names of everyone. How clever is it to just give people numbers? Was it a placeholder so you could go back and give them names later but you forgot and the deadline on the script ran out? And how angry would you be if you were Number 2? The poop jokes would never end. "Hey, here comes Number Two." "Oh you guys were looking for me?" "No, I was just saying I haveta take a shit pretty soon." "…I hate you guys." Another weird thing is when Number 4 meets the artsy girl. She introduces herself and he does as well, introducing himself as John Smith. She gets all butt-hurt and says something like "Okay, you don't want to tell me your name. That's fine." Bitch, you don't think there may be a few people whose name really IS John Smith? They're super common names, that's why they even use it as a unidentified person's name. The biggest thing that bothered me while watching the movie was the relationship between 4 and artsy chick. Why is he even falling in love? Aren't you an alien?! What kind of horrible abomination are you looking to create? And do you even know if our reproductive organs match up?
The best thing I can say about this movie is that it is completely lackluster as a movie, but probably would've made a pretty decent Saturday morning TV show. It's got a lot of Power Rangers to it. Probably Ben 10 too, but I've never seen it. They have these powers called Legacies and it seems they can make up new ones on the spot. This is how they show up. They are all apparently extra agile and strong, 6 has a shield of some sort, 4 makes his hands glow, 4 learns to blast and grab things with his glowing hands, 6 can teleport, and then apparently 4 can blast another Number Ranger with his hands to "power them up". The glowing hands create light, heat, and concussive force, but if he decides they can also gently cradle a girl that just fell off a roof. They can just decide whatever they want to be able to do. Tell me this format wouldn't get kids on board on TV every week.
This movie seemed to be after an audience stupider than myself. Between it's hip music, pretty people, and parkour, it adds up to a formula to appeal to the dumber masses. It's not horrible, but it's not worth watching either. Make a TV show out of it, get some kids to watch it, 'cause I won't for a third time. And Heaven help you if you make a sequel to this like the end of the movie hinted at. I will never forgive you. I give this movie "Red Bull is for pussies" out of 1060.
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It was a second successive defeat at the City Ground for Nottingham Forest as they were toppled 1-0 by QPR in their final home game of 2018.
Toni Leistner's header just before the break proved to be the difference between the two sides on an afternoon when Aitor Karanka's team had plenty of possession but lacked attacking threat.
You can watch Reds reporter Paul Taylor's verdict on the Championship clash in our latest Forest video.
Boss Karanka had made two changes from the side which drew 0-0 at Derby County on Monday night, with Tobias Figueiredo coming back into the defence and Adlene Guedioura preferred in midfield, ahead of Michael Hefele and Claudio Yacob respectively.
A lack of tempo and intensity made for a lacklustre first half, though, as the hosts struggled for ideas against a well-drilled Rangers team.
Guedioura and Joe Lolley both fired wide, but that was about as good as it got in the opening 45 minutes, with Leistner then finding a breakthrough at the opposite end right on the stroke of half-time.
Karanka made changes early in the second period, as Daryl Murphy and Karim Ansarifard were brought on in a bid to rescue something from the game.
The closest Forest came however, was a rocket from Guedioura which was expertly tipped on to the bar by goalkeeper Joe Lumley.
It meant QPR claimed their first ever victory at the City Ground, with the Reds unable to bounce back from their 1-0 loss to Preston North End in their previous home outing.
Next up for Karanka's men is a trip to league leaders Norwich City on Boxing Day, and they will be looking for revenge for a 2-1 reverse against the Canaries earlier on in the season.
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Today, we have been problem solving using our mathematical skills finding the mass of objects.
This was our problem:
|Make 3 clay balls
Make sure 1 ball is half the mass of another
Also ensure that the third ball of clay is the lightest and weighs between 60g and 100g
The total mass of your 3 clay balls should be 500g
First work out what each ball will weigh!
Report the mass of each clay ball in more than one unit.


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…I felt like I had to qualify which version of this I was reviewing. For those who are still confused, yes, this is the version with Johnny Depp.
Fifteen years ago, Benjamin Barker was falsely accused and convicted of a crime by a corrupt Judge Turpin and sentenced to life in a penal colony. However, his ship capsizes at sea and he is rescued by Anthony Hope and brought aboard another ship that eventually returns to England. There, Barker takes on the alias of Sweeney Todd and discovers that the judge who condemned him also left his life in ruins to satisfy his own lust. With the help of Mrs. Lovett, his neighbor from before the conviction, he declares that he will have his revenge against not only the judge, but all the people of London. But things are not as they seem, and the greatest tragedy of all is set to take the stage…
I'm not going to pick on the plot too much on this one. It was actually really solid and historically grounded, and is also somewhat based on an urban legend, so… Free pass. I will offer a little interpretation I have, which is the true villain is not Turpin or Todd… But Mrs. Lovett. I feel like she is real the center of everything that goes wrong. I don't have proof of her being behind what happens to Lucy Barker, but I have the feeling of it. She's definitely why Todd ends up as twisted as he is, with her being the one to suggest cannibalism, plus the ending reveal (which I won't spoil). And what happened to her husband? I don't know, but it's convenient that he isn't around anymore.
Now to the actual actors. I gotta say, Todd was great. Johnny Depp had a certain croon when he was being, for lack of a better explanation, the man Benjamin Barker was, and then a deeply gravely growl when he was being Sweeney Todd. The counter balance was just amazing. Okay, I was making Harry Potter cracks over the casting discussions for Turpin and his croney, the Beadle, because… Snape and Pettigrew. I can't help it. Toby also seemed to grow (too much, I mean) between his first scene as the barber's apprentice to shop boy. The only one I really had issue with otherwise was Carter as Mrs. Lovett. Sometimes, her way of being slow and creepy was just fine. But others, I felt like she missed that Mrs. Lovett was being a used carsalesman, one that sometimes talks too much. This was particularly obvious in "Worst Pies in London," where she's supposed to be talking Todd up…except she's so slow in her movements, it completely contradicts the pacing of the actual song. I mean, Pirelli annoyed me for similar reasons, since he really should have been hamming it up and instead he was so tight and small in his movements, but his part is minor. Lovett isn't, and that was disappointing.
From the horror standpoint, despite Burton wanting it to be a gore fest, it just doesn't get there. Now, depending on the director in a stage production, your gore factor will wildly vary, but I expected a film version to be outright gruesome. Instead, similar to Sleepy Hollow, Burton used a rather comically shade of red for the blood, one that was extremely unrealistic (this spoken as someone with a skin condition that's led me to some rather gruesome moments). It's also got the consistency of milk, which is nothing like what you actually look for. So yes, it turns the stomach, but not for the ick, it's blood factor, just the ewww, that looks gross one.
Musicals are not what people usually associate with Halloween. But I think you should make an exception for Sweeney Todd. It won't completely give you nightmares, and the story really is quite sad, so don't spoil yourself with Wikipedia summaries until you see it! The movie cuts some sillier scenes from the musical, so your grim and dark Halloween mood won't be broken up by them, and instead it just lets you focus on the horrible, tragic circumstances of these characters. (It also does miracles for Johanna's character, but that's my opinion.)


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Object Description
A Rare 18th Century Mahogany George II Period
Centre, Or Supper Table Having Well Figured One
Piece Circular Tilt Top Of Significant Proportion Over
Gun Barrel Turned Stem And Elegant Tripod Legs
Terminating On Carved Ball And Claw Feet With
Original Recessed Castors
(This 18th century table retains an exceptional colour
and untouched patina and has quite clearly been well
loved and looked after throughout the years. It is most
unusual to find a circular top of this significant proportion
constructed from one piece of timber and that adds real
significance to the piece. It is clear it was originally made in
an eminent workshop of the time as a piece of solid
mahogany that size would have been incredibly expensive to
purchase as a raw material and only the very best and wealthiest
workshops would have been able to begin to consider this purchase)


text: Does anyone know anything about the really little pleco's about the same size as oto's? Parotocinclus spilosoma is what I think they are. They are small about 2" and have not grown at all in a couple months so I don't think they will get much bigger. They were amazing at getting rid of the brown algae. I bought a couple when I was having a terrible brown algae problem, before I found this forum. How hard on plants are they? I was told at the LFS that they had them in a planted tank with no problems but I am doubtful. I have one left that I haven't been able to catch and move to my other tank and wonder if I am going to have to tear things up to find him. I see a few small holes in the leaves on some of the plants and think he may be the cause since I only have a 6 tetra and 1 pearl gourami and 3 cory's other than him.


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I've run across stories of interest but my family is more interested in making certain I don't slab the turkey; and, so, like Sop, I've got cooking at the top of my agenda.
I'll start with one still up on my screen and hope others will add items of interest or comments.
Left out of the Bailout: The Poor
As the roster of corporations and financial institutions in line for government bailouts seems to grow, some public-policy advocates in Washington are calling on policymakers to focus more efforts on the nation's poorest. The ranks of the destitute are growing quietly but alarmingly as much of the world focuses on troubles surrounding Wall Street. "Recent data show poverty is already rising quite substantially," says Robert Greenstein, executive director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. "There is a strong potential for more hardship and destitution than we have seen in this country in a number of decades."
…Signs of the recession's impact on America's impoverished are increasingly apparent, Greenstein says, pointing to a dramatic rise in food-stamp caseloads in recent months. The number of people using food stamps has risen 9.6%, or roughly 2.6 million people, from August 2007 to August 2008, the last period for which data are available. Food banks around the country are reporting longer lines even as donations are falling….
A reminder on the eve of a day of Thanksgiving that Main Street is not the only street in town.


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In the game, players compete to accumulate money from land speculation out West where railroads are due to be built. This differs very much from the railroad building genre popular in eurogame circles where building the rail line is paramount and moving commodities is profitable. In this game your goal is to buy the land where the railroad track would be laid and profit when the track is actually completed between 2 cities. There is no product to move and no cargoes to be managed.
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Production Blocks: East Front II – A Boardgaming Life Reviev
HQs control the game because you must expend a step to activate units within the command radius of the HQ and gain full effect for combat. If you opt for blitz, essentially allowing another attack and combat, you expend two points. These points represent logistical capabilities.
Bobby Lee: The Civil War in Virginia
by Harvey Mossman Although seven score and ten years have passed since the Civil War, this titanic struggle still profoundly affects American culture and the


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A few months ago, BBC One aired its retrospective of last year's cinema from the British perspective. It generated a 1 hour special entitled "2008 At The Movies" and I was lucky enough to record it. Gemma was among the British rising stars that were interviewed exclusively for this special. The other British rising stars were Ben Barnes, Dominic Cooper and Noel Clarke. Gemma was absolutely adorable as usual, and she talked about her "crazy year", how Tess was the highlight of her career so far, how she couldn't believe when she was told that Sir Michael Caine watched the mini-series and thought she was a brilliant Tess Durbeyfield. She couldn't believe that he could have loved something that she was in. She's also mentioned Prince of Persia, and how cool it's been to work with Jake Gyllenhaal and that the fact that he was so good-looking wasn't that bad either. ;)
– TV Specials: BBC One – 2008 At The Movies
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Marksman Llyod Rewrite The Ending
'Rewrite the Ending' is the new single and title track off the latest EP from Perth's rising star, Marksman Lloyd. The successful launch of the EP just this September, saw the release crack into the top 20 iTunes hip hop charts while accompanied by a national tour. 'Rewrite the Ending' sees Marksman adding a head nodding, summer banger to his already energetic repertoire, with stellar production from Creed Birch and mind bending cuts from Rob Shaker, the single sets itself apart from the type of hip hop emerging from Australia at present. It follows hot on the heels of Marksman's … Continue reading Marksman Llyod Rewrite The Ending