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Metamorphosis told Hunter, "I offer you the seventh secret of the universe, 'Enjoy all things, need nothing.'"
"Need nothing?" Hunter shrugged his shoulders.
"You need nothing. No thing."
"What do you mean?"
"Stop needing. Stop wanting."
"Why should I?"
"By not wanting, all things shall fall in their proper place. When you stop needing, you become calm and free from want."
"Inner freedom brings inner peace, the ultimate experience. When you live with inner peace, you discover you can live without."
"Things from the outside world become unimportant. You shall experience personal freedom. Freedom within."
"How do I stop needing and wanting?"
"Eliminate fear. Stop being afraid of everything."
"I am not afraid," Hunter said, tightening his jaw muscles.
"My son, when you eliminate fear, you eliminate anger. Anger is the curse of your Planet Earth."
"As I have said, when you stop needing things, you become free from fear and anger."
"How?" Hunter asked.
"Stop needing physical and emotional gratification. You need nothing from others…not constant praise and attention."
Morph raised his two upper arms. "You came from nothing. Nothingness. No-thing-ness."
"You came from a place of no things and you shall return to a place of no things."
"You need nothing, yet, you may enjoy all things."
"Things? Do you mean possessions?"
"Correct. All that stuff you humans collect and believe to be so important."
"Those worldly possessions you covet and fight over and kill each other for."
"But I like my stuff."
"I understand. You believe your accumulation of things shall bring you happiness and success."
"The more you get, the more you desire."
"It does not take long before you suffer from the disease of more and lose touch with your center."
"Dad says I'm spoiled, that I have too much stuff."
"Perhaps he has a point. Other than the basic necessities of life…food, shelter and clothing…what do you really need?"
"But it feels good to buy things, have nice stuff."
"The stuff of which you speak cannot bring happiness."
"When you glorify wealth, power and beauty, you beget crime, envy, and shame."
"When I get a gift or buy something for myself, I feel great."
"And how long does this great feeling last?"
"A few days. Wait, sometimes a few weeks."
"Do any of these gifts, these things you buy, bring everlasting joy?"
"Hmmm, probably not. I remember Dad telling Grandpa Norman that he couldn't take his money with him when he died."
"A wise statement. Do you ever get frustrated or angry when you do not get what you wanted?"
"Always needing things becomes an obsession. You become fearful of not getting it; therefore, you become anxious and angry."
"You are taught that things, possessions, make you happy. When you do not get them, you sulk and become angry."
Listening to the crackling fire, Hunter said,. "So, I'm not supposed to get gifts, or have new stuff, for the rest of my life?"
"I am not suggesting that you reject all pleasures of the mind and body."
"I offer you the concept that all things of the body must be voluntary, not mandatory."
"Do not be a slave to things because you feel you must have them. If you choose to have stuff, so be it."
"Inner peace frees you of outside needs. This inner freedom allows you to love unconditionally."
"So, if I stop needing and wanting things, I'll be happier?"
"One day you shall know when enough is enough. When you realize you have enough, you are truly rich."
"The less you desire the better you feel. Need nothing. Embrace this universal truth and you shall live a long life."
"When you discover the Great Way, you shall surely live forever."
"Okay. I'll work on needing nothing," Hunter said. "I need some time to think it over."


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Cinco Sealed—Canelo/Golovkin II
On May 5, Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin will meet once again for the lineal middleweight world championship…
On Monday afternoon, Golden Boy Promotions officially announced by way of a press release some eagerly yet not likely surprising news. Saul "Canelo" Alvarez and Gennady "GGG" Golovkin will meet once again for the lineal middleweight world championship. On Saturday, May 5, at a venue to be announced shortly, fans will be treated to 'Canelo/Golovkin 2'.
Last September, the two pound-for-pound talents battled to a draw which had far more than its fair share of detractors in regard to how the decision was reached. Ringside judge Don Trella scored the bout even, 114-114. Dave Moretti gave Golovkin (37-0-1, 33 KO's) the nod by one round, yet the shock which launched millions of tweets was saved for the scorecard of Adalaide Byrd. Per her pair of eyes, Alvarez (49-1-2, 34 KO's) won ten rounds that fall evening in Las Vegas. Hopefully, a rematch will put the memory of that one single blown gasket to rest.
"I'm delighted to once again participate in one of the most important boxing events in history," said Canelo Alvarez, courtesy of Golden Boy Promotions. "This second fight is for the benefit and pleasure of all fans who desire to see the best fight the best. This time, Golovkin won't have any excuses regarding the judges because I'm coming to knock him out."
Although Guadalajara native Canelo is a fan favorite amongst legions of fans in Mexico as well as the United States and beyond, many in attendance at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas booed the result last September 16. The 27-year-old now has his shot to set the record straight.
On the other side of the coin of a championship contest which may very well outsell its predecessor is Gennady Golovkin, a 35-year-old knockout maestro from Kazakhstan. Much like his redheaded opponent from Jalisco state, "GGG" has developed quite a following with fans from the land of the TriColor.
"I am ready to battle Canelo again and am happy he took this fight again," said Golovkin. "This is the fight the world wants. This is the fight boxing deserves. I didn't agree with some of the judges' decisions in the first fight. This time, there will be no doubt. I am leaving the ring as THE middleweight champion of the world."
Of course, the man behind much of Canelo's successful push to be a crossover star is no stranger to epic nights in the ring. Oscar De La Hoya retired in 2008 with eight world titles in six different weight classes.
"Canelo vs. Golovkin 2 will be boxing's biggest and best event of 2018 as these two elite fighters once again go head-to-head to determine who is the best middleweight in the world," said the Chairman and CEO of Golden Boy Promotions. "I expect we will see even more fireworks in the rematch as both fighters know there more is at stake now than before."
Tom Loeffler promotes the career of "GGG" Golovkin and he was among many who voiced their disgust with Byrd's scorecard last September in Las Vegas. The head of K2 Promotions was pleased that his prized fighter will get a chance to right what many saw as a glaring error.
"This is the fight boxing fans have been waiting for since the controversial outcome of last September, and the ONLY fight Gennady has wanted since that decision," he said. "Gennady is ready for this historic record-tying 20th title defense where he will demonstrate his superiority over Canelo. Gennady is on a mission to prove he is still the best middleweight in the world today and one of the best fighters of his era."

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The International Energy Agency (IEA) slashed its estimate for global oil demand growth for the second consecutive month on Friday, citing intensifying trade concerns amid fears of a global recession.
The energy agency's closely-watched report comes as world oil markets have undertaken a dramatic shift in recent months, switching from supply-side risks like OPEC's output cuts or U.S. sanctions against Iran and Venezuela to worries about deteriorating demand growth.
Crude futures have turned a 45% price rally in the first four months of 2019 into a fall of more than 15% since the start of April.
"The main focus I think we should be looking at here is that until very recently the geopolitical factors related to Iran and Venezuela and Libya… they were at the forefront of people's minds," Neil Atkinson, head of the oil industry and markets division at the IEA, told CNBC's "Street Signs Europe" on Friday.
"Now we are starting to see that confidence in demand is taking over and that is the main driving factor behind the current state of the oil market."
International benchmark Brent crude traded at around $61.25 Friday morning, down around 0.1%, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) stood at $52.15, nearly 0.3% lower.
'Cannot be complacent'
A recent slide in oil prices was temporarily reversed on Thursday, following attacks on two oil tankers in one of the world's key shipping routes.
The incident in the Gulf of Oman off the coast of Iran pushed crude futures up as much as 4.5% in the previous session. It was the second time in less than a month that tankers had been attacked in the world's most important zone for oil supplies, with hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of oil passing through the shipping lane every year.
Washington quickly blamed Iran for the attacks, but Tehran has denied the allegation.
"I think we are realizing that, although we cannot be complacent, the situation is not yet representing a major threat to the security of oil supplies to the very important Strait of Hormuz," the IEA's Neil Atkinson said.
On the demand side, the IEA followed OPEC by downwardly revising its global oil demand growth forecast for 2019 on Friday.
The energy agency said it now expects oil demand growth to reach 1.2 million barrels per day (b/d) this year. That's a downward revision of 100,000 b/d from the IEA's previous projection.
Global oil demand is estimated to have risen by just 250,000 b/d year-on-year in the first quarter of 2019, the IEA said, reflecting the lowest annual growth since the fourth quarter of 2011 — when the price of Brent averaged $109.
Looking beyond the end of 2019, the IEA expects global oil demand growth to rebound to around 1.4 million b/d in 2020.
"A clear message from our first look at 2020 is that there is plenty of non-OPEC supply growth available to meet any likely level of demand, assuming no major geopolitical shock, and the OPEC countries are sitting on 3.2 million b/d of spare capacity," the IEA said Friday.
"This is welcome news for consumers and the wider health of the currently vulnerable global economy, as it will limit significant upward pressure on oil prices."
Saudi Arabia's Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih attends a press conference at the end of the 13th meeting of the Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee (JMMC) of OPEC and non- OPEC countries in Baku on March 18, 2019.
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The IEA cited various reasons for slowing global oil consumption, including: a warm winter in Japan, a slowdown in the petrochemicals industry in Europe, tepid gasoline and diesel demand in the United States and the worsening trade outlook.
The U.S. and China have imposed tariffs on billions of dollars' worth of one another's goods since the start of 2018, battering financial markets and souring business and consumer sentiment.
Expectations that trade officials from world's largest economies will clinch a deal on the side-lines of a G20 meeting in Osaka on June 28-29 have been fading in recent days.
OPEC also cited persistent trade tensions between Washington and Beijing as a risk to economic growth and fuel demand.
The Middle-East dominated group said in a monthly report published Thursday that oil output had slipped to a 5-year low in May. It comes at a time when OPEC and its allied partners are considering whether to extend a six-month deal to hold down output.
Alongside Russia and nine other nations, top oil exporter Saudi Arabia struck a deal with the rest of OPEC to keep 1.2 million b/d off the market from the start of January. The energy alliance, often referred to as OPEC+, says it will carefully consider the economic outlook when it meets in coming weeks.
"The key variable that presents a complication for Saudi Arabia and OPEC+ is a potential breakthrough between the U.S. and China that would bolster demand for oil — but this outcome is extremely unlikely," Ayham Kamel, head of Eurasia Group's Middle East and North Africa practice, said in a research note published Thursday.
"Even in such a scenario, OPEC+ would still extend the agreement but adjust the quotas to allow for higher production," Kamel said.
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Q2 net profit falls 18% amid Popular costs
Santander said on Tuesday second-quarter net profit fell 18% from a year earlier, due to one-off restructuring costs from its acquisition of troubled lender Banco Popular and a weak performance in Britain.
The euro zone's largest bank in terms of market cap — which took over Banco Popular in June 2017 — reported a net profit of 1.39 billion euros ($1.56 billion) for the April to June period, topping analysts' expectation of 1.29 billion euros in a Reuters poll.
Steady growth in Latin America business volumes, where it makes 46% of its earnings, was not enough to offset charges of 706 million euros, mainly in Spain.
Like its European rivals, Santander is struggling to lift earnings from loans in its home market with interest rates hovering at historic lows.
"We have delivered the strongest underlying quarterly performance in over 8 years, reflecting the progress that we have made in our commercial and digital transformation," Jose Garcia Cantera, chief financial officer of Santander, told CNBC's "Squawk Box Europe."
"Our businesses in both North and South America continue to perform extremely well and while the charges relating to ongoing infrastructure in Europe have impacted attributable profit — something that we anticipated — we are already starting to see the value that this will create going forward," Cantera said.
Net interest income, a measure of earnings on loans minus deposit costs, was 8.95 billion euros, up 5.6% from the second quarter of last year and 3.1% higher against the previous quarter due to a solid lending growth in Latin America.
Analysts had forecast a NII of 8.76 billion euros.
In Britain, its third-largest region, profit fell 41%, partly due to restructuring costs of 26 million euros and provisions of 80 million euros.
Santander ended the quarter with a core Tier-1 capital ratio, a closely watched measure of a bank's strength, of 11.3%, compared with 11.23% in the previous quarter.
Shares of the bank were up over 2% shortly after the opening bell.
Coca-Cola raises revenue forecast after earnings beat
Coca-Cola on Tuesday reported quarterly earnings and revenue that beat analysts' expectations, driven by sales of its namesake soda brand.
Shares of the company jumped 5.6% in early trading. The beverage giant's stock, which has a market value of $230.6 billion, is up 14% in 2019. Shares of rival PepsiCo, which are valued at $182.8 billion, have been closing the gap with Coke, rising 18% over the same period.
"Our strategy to transform as a total beverage company has allowed us to continue to win in a growing and vibrant industry," CEO James Quincey said in a statement.
Here's what the company reported for its fiscal second quarter compared with what Wall Street was expecting, based on a survey of analysts by Refinitiv:
- Adjusted earnings per share: 63 cents, adjusted, vs. 61 cents expected
- Revenue: $10 billion vs. $9.99 billion expected
The beverage giant reported net income of $2.61 billion, or 61 cents per share, up from $2.32 billion, or 54 cents per share, a year earlier.
Excluding items, Coke earned 63 cents per share, topping the 61 cents per share expected by analysts surveyed by Refinitiv.
Net sales rose 6% to $10 billion, narrowly beating expectations of $9.99 billion. Coke raised its full-year outlook for revenue and now expects organic revenue growth of 5% rather than 4%.
"We think the dollar is towards the end of a strong cycle," CFO John Murphy said.
The company attributed its strong performance during the quarter to 4% volume and transaction growth in Coke's namesake brand. Its Zero Sugar line once again saw double-digit volume growth across the globe.
Quincey told analysts that nearly 25% of the company's revenue now comes from new or reformulated beverages, up from 15% just two years ago.
During its second quarter, Coke partnered with Netflix to bring back New Coke and help promote the third season of "Stranger Things." It also rolled out Coca-Cola Plus Coffee in more markets, as the company expands into different kinds of caffeinated drinks.
That includes Coke's first energy drink under the Coca-Cola brand. Coca-Cola Energy uses caffeine from naturally derived sources and is available in 14 countries, including Japan and South Africa. By the end of 2019, the beverage giant plans to bring it to Mexico, Brazil and four more countries.
Quincey declined to share any plans to sell Coca-Cola Energy in the U.S. but said it would benefit the company to wait to learn more from early markets before entering its home market. In July, an arbitrator ruled that Coke can peddle the energy drink under the terms of its contract with Monster Beverage.
The company has also launched its first product line with Costa Coffee since it acquired the U.K. coffee brand in January for $4.9 billion. The canned coffee drinks contain double shots of espresso and will launch in Poland and China this year. There are no plans to introduce the ready-to-drink coffee beverages in the U.S.
Coke reiterated its fiscal 2019 earnings forecast, saying that earnings per share could fall or rise by 1%. The company had pointed to currency fluctuations, Fed rate hikes and changing tax rates as reasons for its gloomy earnings projection. Murphy told analysts on the conference call Tuesday that "currencies have gotten worse," but he expects a more "benign" currency environment in 2020.
Net sales in the Asia Pacific and Europe, Middle East and Africa segments were flat for the quarter, largely due to the impact of currency. Revenue in Latin America fell 6% because of a 13% currency headwind, although Coke said it had strong performance in Mexico and Brazil. Quincey told analysts that Mexico's economic growth is slowing, so the company is tweaking its strategy for the country.
North America was the only region to reported net revenue growth. Price hikes and packaging initiatives helped propel revenue growth of 2%. The company said that it saw strong performance from soda, water, sports drinks, juices and dairy and plant-based beverages.
Correction: An earlier version misstated the amount of the Costa deal. It was $4.9 billion when it closed, according to a Coca-Cola spokesperson.
Daimler, Bosch get green light for automated valet parking system
Daimler and Bosch have been granted approval to roll out an automated parking system in Stuttgart, Germany.
In an announcement Tuesday, German auto giant Daimler said that the automated valet service would be introduced at the parking garage of the Mercedes-Benz Museum. It will be accessed using a smartphone app and will not need a safety driver.
Daimler said that the system was the "world's first fully automated driverless SAE Level 4 parking function to be officially approved for everyday use."
Five "levels" of driving automation have been defined by SAE International, a global association of over 128,000 engineers and technical experts. At Level 4, a vehicle can drive itself under limited conditions and "will not operate unless all required conditions are met." At Level 5, a vehicle's automated driving features can drive it under all conditions.
Michael Hafner, who is head of drive technologies and automated driving at Daimler, said in a statement Tuesday that gaining approval from authorities in Baden-Wurttemberg set "a precedent for obtaining approval in the future for the parking service in parking garages around the world."
Hafner went on to add that the project paved the way "for automated valet parking to go into mass production in the future."
The infrastructure for the system in Stuttgart has been supplied by Bosch, with Daimler providing the technology in the vehicles, which display turquoise lighting to indicate they are in driverless mode.
When the driver of a vehicle with the appropriate technology reaches the car park, they get out and use their smartphone to send their car to a space. The vehicle then drives to that space and parks up.
Sensors from Bosch assess the "driving corridor" of the garage and its surroundings, sending the vehicle all the information it needs. The vehicle processes this data to plot its maneuvers and route, driving up and down ramps to move through the garage if required. If an obstacle is detected, the vehicle will stop.
Around the world, major businesses are working to develop autonomous driving systems. It was only last week that another car giant, Groupe PSA, announced it was conducting tests in the Spanish city of Vigo to "advance the development of autonomous driving".
The collaboration with the Automotive Technology Centre of Galicia will focus on a number of areas, including the protection of vulnerable users; automated valet parking; autonomous driving in urban areas; and "optimal speed regulation" when vehicles approach traffic lights.
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How many elephants drink milk?
I have no idea, but it's a question I've asked several times this morning, whilst completing my daily Spanish practice. I've already done the section on animals, the food and drink chapter and am now working on questions. I suppose with such limited vocabulary it's difficult to come up with a wide range of relatively sensible sentences.
A few weeks ago I came across an article about making better use of the odd five minutes here and there, one suggestion being to learn a new language by means of a free app. It sounded interesting so I followed the link to Duolingo and having just returned from South America, learning a few words of Spanish seemed quite a useful skill to acquire.
I've now got 174 words of Spanish and am enjoying the daily five minute routine. The program is clever, can be accessed from my phone, my tablet or my PC (no excuses!) and the methodology impressive: all learning styles catered for, it's age-appropriate and amusing. Achievement is rewarded with lingots which can be exchanged for additional challenges or vocabulary: one such add on is "pick up lines"
In the meantime, I'll just have to make do with
¿cuántos elefantes beber leche?


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Pepsi MASALA
One of the most fascinating things in India is its cuisine. Another even more fascinating thing in India is the attention food is given in this country. It literally starts with people asking you if you have eaten instead of saying 'hello'!
This is how fruits are sold everywhere
Women cook fresh food for each course of the day and you wouldn't believe how complicated and time consuming the proper traditional procedures of cooking are, how rich the ingredients and how varied and unusual the combination of tastes is. A woman - who normally is the one who cooks for the family can spend the whole day in the kitchen in order to cook enough food for the day to feed her family. It is common she would have someone come to clean and wash up, but the outsiders are normally not trusted with the food. After she cooks all the food she is also the one who serves it. And as she does this, she is not supposed to eat herself. So she would make sure all the family is fed, gets to try all the various dishes and is full. Only then would she grab a bite herself.
Photos by Olga & Arek
Most people eat with their hands in India. Many say the food tastes better this way as there is no contact with inferior objects (cutlery). Some others insist that it is even more hygienic to eat with hands than when using the utensils - hands are more clean and natural. You would imagine it is easy to eat with hands? Don't be misled! There is a special way to hold the food with all the 5 fingers and then to help it to your mouth with the thumb! It took me a couple of meals to learn to do that - with locals watching me and having real good time :) I think we are not used to touching our food, so mixing it with fingers and spreading around on the plate is quite a weird feeling. I tend to want to use a napkin every five mins when I eat with my hands and end up with a pile of used napkins beside my plate, while Indians neatly finish their meal with their right hand, wait until a bowl of water with a piece of lime is brought in – for better smell - and then wash it.
The plates and dishes here are normally made of steel, rarely ceramics, although now it starts coming into fashion. It is not common to have a dining table in a typical Indian home as families usually eat sitting on the floor.
Learning how to eat :)
It seems India is a home to most vegetarians in the world. It is very common for most of the people here not to eat meat, but also egg and milk – for religious reasons. India offers a whole variety of 'veg' (as opposed to 'non-veg') dishes - the choice of vegetables and fruits is incredible, but the cuisine has also been constantly developing and adjusting for the vegetarian needs of its inhabitants.
Food is often served on banana leaves which replace plates
selling coco nuts as food and as drinks
this is how black pepper grows
If you want to go vegetarian - move to India! Just make sure you can adjust to the local spice levels, which for me still remain a bit of a challenge. Food can be so spicy that I struggle to feel any taste at all with my mouth on fire.
leftovers of our non-spicy breakfast
Indians can't imagine their food without spices. Otherwise the food doesn't taste good – or rather simply doesn't taste at all. So here it is where you come to the extremes of very spicy food, or very sweet - or very salty. For example lemonade - or Fresh Lime Soda, as they call it locally, is made with lime, salt, sugar syrup and masala - it is extremely fresh and tasty – a great combination of salt and sugar mixed together. Fruits sold on the street are also smeared with masala, salt or green chilly sauce. This way you can buy salty pine apple, guava masala, chilly mango, wood apple with something extremely sour, etc.
And apart from that Indians love pickles - any small fruits or vegetables extremely sour and spicy at the same time, unfortunately too strong for my stomack.
Indian pickles - spicy and sour gooseberries
Indian sweets made of milk and cahsew nuts
And last thing is on Indian breads, which are a wide variety of flatbreads and crêpes and are an integral part of Indian cuisine. Their variation reflects the diversity of Indian culture and food habits. Different varieties of Indian bread include: Chapati, Phulka, Puri, Roti, Paratha, Naan, Kulcha, Bhatoora, Baqar Khani, Appam, Dosa, Luchi, Puran Poli, Pathiri, Porotta and many more. Some varieties depend on the kind of grain used to prepare them, and others depend on the fillings they contain.
It's true, this is Pepsi masala - a regular Pepsi mixed with salt and spices. A very peculiar taste!
All photos by Olga&Arek
4 comments:
- renilde said...
A mouth watering post, not sure about the pepsi though, but one has to try things in life :)
Great photos!
- 17 Nov 2010, 12:13:00
- latacones said...
Olga, you are very talented.
- 17 Nov 2010, 14:51:00
- Wini said...
Wow...!?? Such beautiful and colourful photos and a really interesting account of how Indians eat food. I can just imagine the flavours you described...sweet, salty, spicy & sour. Sounds delicious!!! The photos in your previous posts are fabulous too. You're a great photographer!
- 18 Nov 2010, 13:43:00
- Viagens pelo Mundo said...
All together these pictures made a wonderful post. I guess I've enriched my knowledge about indian food and I'm amazed with the diversity of vegetables and fruits available. Honestly I had the idea that food was rather scarse but I see that there's plenty available. Eating with your hands it's a very odd experience, and although I love to experience all of those different things around the world, I guess I'd feel exactly like you, full of napkings at my side and really anxious for that lemon bowl. Very nice pictures, full of colour, movement and motivating for our appetite.
Lots of hugs TI
- 22 Nov 2010, 23:50:00


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"No sound driver is available for use"
I recently purchased a new computer and the installation of vent worked fine. However when I try and connect to a server a error message appears stating:
"Unable to activate DirectSound for selected device.
DirectSoundCaptureCreate failed. HR=DSERR_NODRIVER. No sound driver is available for use"
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
what OS are you running?
is the audio driver up to date?
- If you have a brand-name PC, like Dell or HP, then check the manufacturers website for driver updates.
- If you built the PC and use the on-board sound device then check the motherboard manufacturers website for drivers for your model motherboard.
- If you use a plug-in soundcard, like SoundBlaster, then check that manufacturers website for drivers.
Vista/Win-7 'User Account Control'
If you are running Vista/Windows-7, try turning off 'User Account Control' located in Windows Control-Panel/User Accounts
All my drivers are updated and still the same problem. I don't know if it would affect this working or not but i'm running my sound out through my monitor...would that affect it at all?
running thru the monitor shouldn't make a difference as those are just like speakers and have to connect to an audio device.
in windows/ctrl-panel/sounds: is the device for audio/playback set correctly
in vent setup/voice-binds-speech tabs, is the output device set correctly?
what OS and audio device are you using?
My OS is Vista 64-bit with SP1, whatever that is....
I guess the audio device i'm using are speakers, i've got vents setup/ binds / speech all set to it as well.
This error message can be deceptive. Note: That is the way it is reported to me so don't blame the program for the deception.
I just recently upgraded my Laptop to Win-7 and after installing the client it presented me with the same error immediately upon connected to the server the very first time I used it.
I know the sound card and Mic input jack worked from previous OS. So it hit me: The driver for this sound device is telling me that there is no microphone plugged into the Mic jack. I've seen this before where the sound card is intelligent and you can make any port on the back do anything you want it to be. They can also sense whether or not a cable is plugged into the jack and some drivers will say the sound card doesn't have a driver if no cable is plugged in.
As soon as I plugged in the Mic from my headset the error stopped popping up. As soon as I unplugged the Mic and reconnected the error popped up again. Simple validation.
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Foreign fund flows remain on track in Q23 min read . Updated: 26 Oct 2009, 01:01 AM IST
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Foreign fund flows remain on track in Q2
Mumbai: Foreign institutional investors, or FIIs, the driving force behind Indian equity markets, bought into the country's growth story for the third consecutive quarter. In the three months ended 30 September, FIIs increased their investment in nearly six out of every 10 firms among the 50 that make up the Nifty index.
Collectively, foreign institutions increased their holding by 1.13 percentage points from the preceding quarter, the second fastest sequential growth in at least 15 quarters. Now, FII holdings in Nifty companies totals 14.83%, the highest since the quarter ended March 2007.
To pull the world financial system out of the toxic debt shock induced by the mid-September 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers Holding Inc., central banks and governments across the globe unleashed a series of rate cuts and fiscal stimulus measures. As liquidity surged back into the system and risk appetite returned, investors started buying.
In India, foreign investors bought equities worth $7.37 billion (around Rs34,270 crore) during the quarter ended September, higher than the $6.42 billion invested in the preceding quarter, reflecting the richer valuations at which stocks were trading.
The Bombay Stock Exchange's Sensex, India's most widely tracked equity index, gained some 18.17% during the three months ended September, after climbing 49% the previous quarter. The Nifty gained 18.48% during the same period.
India's gross domestic product (GDP) is forecast to grow at a pace next only to China among the world's major economies. The Reserve Bank of India forecasts that the economy will expand 6% in the year to March.
"The simple factor of GDP growth is driving FII investments," said Sanjay Sachdev, country manager and regional fund manager (South-East Asia) at Tokyo-based Shinsei Bank Ltd. "A lot of liquidity is finding its way into emerging economies."
He expects this trend to continue in the short term on the back of upbeat economic indicators and corporate earnings.
Indeed, industrial output rose to a 22-month high of 10.4% in August and the rate of decline in export growth slowed. GDP grew 6.1% in the April-June quarter, much lower than 7.8% in the year-ago period, but still marginally higher than market expectations of 6%.
Among the 50 stocks on the Nifty, the benchmark of the National Stock Exchange, FIIs increased their holdings in 28 in the September quarter. Only 46 of the firms have reported their September-quarter end shareholding so far.
Under the norms of the capital market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), listed firms are required to file a detailed break-up of their shareholding pattern to stock exchanges for every quarter within three weeks of the end of a quarter.
Realty stocks up again
Just like in the previous quarter, real estate stocks were among the top gainers in FII holdings this quarter too. The maximum rise in FII holding was in real estate developer Unitech Ltd—from 22.79% at the end of June to 36.36% on 30 June. The increase in Unitech is on account of the company selling shares to qualified institutional buyers in the beginning of the quarter to retire part of its debt.
Sobha Developers Ltd and Hindustan Construction Co. Ltd also saw their FII holdings increase substantially because of qualified institutional placements, or QIPs.
QIPs are private placements of equity shares, or securities convertible into equity, by a listed company with qualified institutional buyers, both domestic and foreign, approved by the market regulator. In the September quarter, 24 companies raised Rs17,393 crore through QIPs.
While the FII holding in Sobha rose by 16.14 percentage points, in Hindustan Construction the rise was 15.99 percentage points.
These two companies are not part of the Nifty, and are included in the BSE-500, an index of the top 500 firms that constitute at least 93% of India's total market capitalization. Indeed, five of the top 10 gainers in FII holdings in this index come from the real estate and construction sector, which is seeing renewed interest on companies restructuring their balance sheets and the government stepping up the pace of infrastructure development.
In this index too, nearly six of every 10 firms saw an increase in holding, but the collective holding was lower at 12.64%, a six-quarter high. This is based on data submitted by 344 firms that have so far reported their shareholdings.
To be sure, when foreign capital returns to a country, blue-chip stocks are the first to benefit. It's only later that institutional investors target the middle rung.
FIIs, considered the backbone of Indian equity markets, entered the country in 1993. Since then, they have invested some $69.35 billion. In 2007, they pumped in $17.78 billion, the largest ever inflow of foreign portfolio investment in India, but the financial crisis of 2008 saw them withdraw $12.18 billion. Since January this year, they have invested $14.09 billion.


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As learning disabilities lead for a local council, I work with providers of health and social care to ensure that people with chronic conditions receive the best possible care and avoid hospital admissions where possible.
I was recently made a Queen's Nurse, a title awarded to outstanding community nurses by the Queen's Nursing Institute.
Around 60% of adults in the UK have a chronic condition and most have several underlying conditions. People with learning disabilities, which is often accompanied by epilepsy and mental health problems, have the additional burdens of stigma and discrimination. A nurse's role includes raising awareness that medical conditions do not define a person and supporting people to make informed decisions about treatment.
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I don't think so. Where did you get this information?I don't see it anywhere in the docs, but when creating a new app, the Authorization Flows that appear when 'Public' is selected don't include password flow, no matter the platform type. Also, I tried authenticating via password flow in a public application and received an error message letting me know that I was unable to authenticate using that method. Should I be able to use password flow in a public application? Do you know how I could enable that functionality?
The client automatically adds the correct access token to the HTTP request and handles OAuth token refresh using theI'm able to use the cached token with a new Rest Client, and the refresh performs automatically if the token's 'expires_at' time has passed, however I can't get access to the refresh token object after the refresh has been performed. Will I be able to reuse the original token object indefinitely so long as it's refreshed within a week of when the previous refresh was performed? I was under the impression that the refresh token would cease to work one week (or however long the 'refresh_token_expires_in' is set to) after the original token was issued.
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With love and gratitude for this divine gift, that you gave me personally and everyone who did DNA Activation. Peacefulness, love, abundance came into my life with you. Extremely grateful (deep bow). (I.N., Moscow-Russia October 2008)
I am grateful for the opening of the truth for myself and other people. I will continue doing so with others. (D.S., Moscow-Russia October 2008)
I think that seminar was conducted well. All techniques that were used by Zeljka and Robert demonstrated fascinating sensations and feelings. These were physical, emotional, mental sensations. (M.T.-Russia November 2008)
My dears, you are tender and needed by the whole planet, Zeljka and Robert! I am waiting for your visits with the sensation of holiday (celebration) and miracle! And it happens! The celebration of new feelings, the celebration of renewal comes. The mind doesn't understand, but body fills in with light-inspiration! What is it if not a miracle?! Thank you! Thank you! Love you! With warmth and affection for you, Tanya. -Russia November 2008
Wonderful seminar! Immediately I felt the energy of love and harmony. I hope that these sensations will secure in me and my surroundings. Thank you SO MUCH!!! With love, Natasha -Russia November 2008
I would like to write the words of thanks to myself and everyone who I met here today, and to amazing and so wonderful Zeljka and Robert. Now I feel all my strength, my female power (female beginning) and love towards myself as I am here, today. I liked it. I am amazed by you! Thank you! "O"-Russia November 2008
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Feel renewed (rejuvenated). Thank you. -Russia November 2008
Testimonial For 10th DNA Activation, S.A.-Moscow, Russia, November 15, 2010
On the fifth day of the seminar, with movement of my heart and soul I wrote a poem. Somehow in the Haiku.
My education is just a builder-engineer. Technical stuff.
I really wanted to show my gratitude to the Teachers and their assistants, with the currency of words, emotions, and feelings, truthfully, humane. As well as our whole group. I saw that they were putting out all they had, leaving nothing. I wanted to show that their work produced results. I understood that we are needed and that we are not just a crowd, but individuals! I honestly wanted to pay back with KINDNESS.
And here it is! Don't judge too harshly. This is my first CREATION:
How to learn the meaning of rain?
If you are just a crucian (a fish)
and in the puddle,
All the shades of the palette of the Universe
and its melodies YOU MUST LEARN!
Your ocean inside and out you create
- and the flying fish in it you become!
I love my first CREATION. It is my first step in co-creation. It gave me the understanding of complexity and versatility. It gave me an ability to make something kind and philosophical from nothing. It gave me a possibility to use the experience of poem writing on all aspects of my life on the planet.
This is what happened to everyone in our November group. Everyone experienced it in a special and individual, but beautiful way. Because someone is older, and someone is younger. Some were thin and some were chubby. Some were from humanitarian backgrounds, some from conceptual. So on.
There was a process of harmonizing everything, of understandings, meanings, targets. The spring fountains broke through!
We were reading ourselves like a picture book, while before we only speed-read it, without soul, just technical speed.
It was like fairy-tale and magic. Like children we played kindly with our teachers, and thought like elders or mothers. We were learning and realizing. We saw an angel of the kingdom and galaxy. We saw, for the first time, or again, the Universe, and fell in love with it. Or maybe, we just remembered how much we love it, and how much it (the Universe) loves us?
This can be shared for a long time. Come, learn to be a child. And then share it with others through the warmth of the home comfort of our planet. And then pass it on to someone else. And you yourself fly higher, further. We all are needed.
Who knows, maybe you are the one that carries the piece of God's light? And for those who lost it, or where its almost extinguished, light up again! You are a Human! And God-like from nature! Good luck to you!
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Oceania has a rich variety of animals. The biggest landmass Australia, has hundreds of species of mammal, bird, reptile, frog, and freshwater fish. Some 83% of mammals, 89% of reptiles, 90% of fish & insects, as well as 93% of amphibians are endemic to Australia. Neighbouring New Zealand an island archipelago is populated by around 70 species of birds that are endemic with over one third of these being flightless and almost a quarter nocturnal. Read more →
Notable New Zealand birds include the kiwi, tui, bellbird, kakapo, takahe, and weka. The most spectacular of all New Zealand birds, the Moa, was hunted to extinction by the time the first Europeans arrived in New Zealand. Some Moa reached heights of 15 feet, making them the tallest bird in the world. The largest eagle in the world also existed in New Zealand, but died at the same time as moa because moa was their main food source. New Zealand also has no land snakes and only one native poisonous spider that is very rare.
The most well known of all Australian mammals are marsupials. Included are kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, wombats, tasmanian devils, and possums. Monotremes, a more unusual class of mammal includes the echidna and duck billed platypus. The latter is arguably the most unusual animal in the world. It is a furry semiaquatic mammal that lays eggs, swims under water, has a bill like a duck, and webbed feet. WHen specimens were first sent to England, they were thought to be a hoax, as they appeared to be several animals sewn together.
Dispersal to isolated islands is difficult for land-based animals, and Oceania (with the exception of Australia), has few native land-based animals in comparison to the world's other ecozones. Larger animals that are found on continents, didn't exist in the islands of Oceania until they were introduced by humans. The ocean is not a barrier for many bird species however and for this reason, they are relatively common. A number of islands have indigenous lizards that probably arrived on floating vegetation, but there are few indigenous mammal species in Oceania with some islands recording no mammal species with the exception of flying bats, which are found throughout Oceania.
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President Donald Trump�tried to�fire up Republicans and demonize Democrats during a Fort Wayne rally on the eve of today's midterm election – while also saying he wants to�reconcile with�his opponents at some point.
Trump spoke for about an hour at Memorial Coliseum,�where he�praised his administration and the GOP Congress for their policies and practices on everything – the economy, trade, taxes, immigration, health care, crime, Supreme Court appointments�– and condemned�Democrats for standing in the way on all of it. His audience regularly cheered or booed as if on cue.
"There's only one way to stop this Democat-led assault on America's sovereignty. You have to vote Republican tomorrow,"�Trump told more than 10,000 people at the Coliseum, many of them wearing clothing and caps bearing Trump's name and campaign slogans.
"This election is about safety, and this election is about jobs," Trump said. "For years, you watched as we let foreign countries plunder our wealth, shutter our factories and steal our jobs. But those days are over. And in case you haven't noticed our country is respected again."
He�described�the people who elected him in 2016 and continue to support him�as "the greatest political movement in the history of our country. It really is. I mean, I don't even think it's close."
"The fact is, I shouldn't say this 'cause I want to unite, I do eventually want to unite, but the fact is we're driving�(Democrats) crazy," Trump said. "We're driving them crazy. They don't know what to. They're going loco, loco. That's all right.�Hopefully it's all going to come together someday like a beautiful puzzle."
But in the next breath�he said Democrats "are on a shameless campaign to obstruct, resist, demolish, defame and destroy. ... But you can stop them with your votes tomorrow. We will not be intimidated by mob rule, because our movement is America's movement."
Three protesters�– at least two of whom�were seen waving their middle fingers toward Trump�– were removed from the building, with Trump saying, "Go back home to Mommy."
"I don't know what it is about Indiana, but I'm not surprised," he said about the protesters. "I haven't had one of these things happen in a long time and now I have three of them tonight. That's Indiana for you, that's Indiana."
At�one point, Trump�paused his remarks�for a few minutes after a man collapsed on the floor near the stage and was wheeled out on a stretcher.
Trump�became�the first president to visit Fort Wayne since Ronald Reagan assessed local flooding in 1982. Trump was in town to boost�Mike Braun, the Republican candidate challenging Sen. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind. That seat is among several in the nation that could swing to either party in today's election and determine partisan control of the Senate, now run by the GOP.
"A vote for Mike Braun is a vote to keep your jobs going, to keep your wages going up and to take care once and for all" of health care reform, Trump said.�
He�called Donnelly "an extreme liberal Democrat" who has "gone rogue because now he likes Trump a lot. He loves my border policy. ... And all of a sudden, he's talking about what we've been talking about."
The 45th president�said that�by Wednesday, Donnelly "will be totally against us, he'll never vote for us, he will never, ever vote for us."
Donnelly has said repeatedly during the campaign that he has voted in favor of Trump's positions on legislation 62�percent of the time as a senator.
Donnelly said Monday night in a statement: "While President Trump rallied in Fort Wayne, our coordinated campaign knocked on tens of thousands of doors, called hundreds of thousands of Hoosier voters, and texted countless more supporters to remind them to vote. We'd like to thank the president for keeping thousands of committed Braun supporters off the phones and doors the night before the election. In an election this close, every little bit helps."
Indiana Democratic Party Chairman John Zody said in a statement about Braun, "He'd help President Trump take away health care for 1.1�million Hoosiers under 65 with pre-existing conditions, help (Senate Majority Leader) Mitch McConnell slash Medicare and Social Security, and he'd help himself by passing more tax cuts that help the wealthiest Americans at the expense of working families."
Braun�told the Coliseum crowd that�he's running against Donnelly "for the right reasons. Not the pay and the perks, not the nestling in D.C. I signed a term limits pledge. It's to help somebody that's shaking up Washington"�– a reference to Trump, which produced chants of "Drain the swamp" from the�packed arena.
"We need more reinforcements (in Congress) from the real world. People�that have done something," said Braun, who owns a national auto parts distribution company in Jasper.
Trump earlier�introduced�a procession of his�aides to the stage – daughter Ivanka Trump, counselor Kellyanne Conway and White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
"We love you, we really love you, and we are fighting for you each and every day," Ivanka Trump told the audience. "And tomorrow we want you to all turn out and help us fight back so we can continue to keep this rolling, this moment of opportunity unlike anything this country has ever seen. Truly it's a golden opportunity."
Conway said, "I love me some Hoosiers," then led the crowd�in a chant of "Joe must go."
Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., and Rep. Jim Banks, R-3rd, who is being challenged by Democrat Courtney Tritch, spoke at the rally, as did former University of Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz.
"The one thing I know about Indiana people: You're fair," Holtz said. "And what's happenin' in Washington, ladies and gentlemen, is not fair. Everybody's gangin' up on President Trump: the Democrats, the media, the academicians. We must send people to Washington to help the president have a fair fight so we get the damn thing done."
Polling results released Monday by the Mike Downs Center for Indiana Politics at Purdue University Fort Wayne showed only 44 percent of Indiana registered voters approve of Trump's job performance and 46 percent disapprove. The nonpartisan Downs Center called the numbers a virtual tie because the difference between them fell within the credibility interval�– similar to a margin of sampling error�–�of 3.9�percent.
The survey found that 10�percent of respondents who were "not sure" about Trump's performance. The poll involved 1,048 registered voters and was conducted from Oct. 12 through Oct. 16.�
People attending Trump's rally had no doubts about him.
"I believe in what he stands for. He has done amazing things," said Fort Wayne resident Kim Clemons, 48. She was at the rally with her husband, an aunt and an uncle.
"He's a businessman, he's treating (the presidency) like a business, like it should be," said New Haven resident Richard Grayless, 65. "You can't do the job, I get rid of you. He needs to clean the house."
Grayless wore a T-shirt that stated: "I Support LGBT�– Liberty, Guns, Bible, Trump."
Many analysts believe�the election will be a referendum on Trump and the Republican candidates who align with him.�Democrats need to gain two seats�in the 100-seat Senate and 23 in the 435-seat House to win majorities in either chamber. The House is regarded as the more likely to switch majorities in part�because�dozens of�Republican incumbents are not seeking re-election or have resigned.
Trump also campaigned Monday for Republican candidates in Cleveland and Cape Girardeau, Missouri.


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The Solemnity of Jesus Christ, King of the Universe
In our first reading we hear again from the Book of Daniel (Dn 7:13-14) of the Old Testament apocalyptic vision of the Messiah coming in glory and kingship as he triumphs over the forces for evil.
"Jesus Christ is the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead and ruler of the kings of the earth.
To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood, who has made us into a kingdom, priests for his God and Father, to him be glory and power forever and ever. Amen. Behold, he is coming amid the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him. All the peoples of the earth will lament him. Yes. Amen.
"I am the Alpha and the Omega, " says the Lord God, "the one who is and who was and who is to come, the almighty."
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Oh yeah: my 16-month-old recognised a Disney cartoon of me. I'm officially impressed. I'm also impressed because it's the first honest-to-goodness conversation I've had with him that didn't involve sign language or playing 20 Questions. He spoke! With intelligible words!
Sure, in the past he's deigned to say things like 'penguin', 'upside-down', and 'clap'...and he knew what he meant. But each of those occasions were isolated incidents and he refused to repeat himself later on. He'll sign please when he wants things and thank you if he remembers, or is prompted, but real sentences are practically here! He even tried saying 'braces' yesterday when I snapped his braces onto his jeans.
His comprehension is great: he knows how to differentiate the zebra, monkey, elephant, and crocodile in his wooden Noah's Ark set. He can point out his eyes, teeth, hair, ears, tummy, feet, and little boy bits. When prompted, 'what do you say?' he knows to ask politely by signing please. He even knows that when I hear him mucking about in the kitchen, if I say, 'do you need to put that pasta back in the drawer?' that the bag of macaroni he's filched goes in the bottom drawer, and the drawer gets closed. I know kids are meant to understand much more than they repeat back, but I'm always impressed by how much he seems to get.
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Last week's announcement of a distinctly underwhelming growth in GDP – just 0.5 per cent between January and March – hardly amounts to encouraging news for umbrella companies or anyone else seeking new work opportunities. The insipid rise has spurred the Forum of Private Business (FPB) to call for a "two pronged" economic growth strategy. The group believes that measures to increase consumer confidence along with urgent new business-friendly policies from government are both required in order to generate a genuine economic recovery.
FPB Chief Executive Phil Orford acknowledged that the 0.5 per cent increase was "as good as we might have hoped for" and at least suggests that the UK has not slipped back into recession, as many feared. However, he added, "it doesn't indicate any great surge of economic activity, and it won't dramatically increase confidence in the small business sector".
Mr Orford called for "radical and immediate measures from the Government" if real growth was to be seen in the coming quarter. Tangible improvements in the conditions for small businesses are needed; he added, especially the need to cut "costly and time-consuming red tape". Moreover, he believes the Government should act swiftly to introduce a simpler and more sympathetic tax system and tackle the soaring cost of fuels and utilities without further delay.
Initiatives such as this, Mr Orford continued, will help bring about "the second thing we need to see – a significant increase in business and consumer confidence". Maintaining confidence, he insisted, was essential if small businesses are to succeed in driving economic recovery.
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Let's talk about: Orange ~オレンジ~
So Let's talk about Orange.
While I was working, I wanted to read something (I watch teens as they do their homework). I adore Manga and I like how fast I can read them, so I looked around for a new manga.
I remembered Yamaki Risa (Country Girls) talking about Orange a lot. So I picked it up and I started reading and gosh did this story hit me.
I still don't really know what I am going to talk about in this post. It will be a bit of a review about both (Movie and Manga), but also a just a bit of gushing about the whole story and the feeling it gave me. Let's start with a small overview of the story (no spoilers).
A girl, Naho, recieves a letter from herself on the first day of school. The letter has been written by herself but it's the her from 10 years in the future. The letter talks about a lot of regrets older Naho has and how she wishes the younger her could erase them. But is her biggest regret something that can be changed?
Okay, so let's start. I adored the manga. I loved the story, I loved the characters and I loved the message the manga was trying to give. The art style might not be totally my thing, but it's not bad in any way. The emotions in the manga are amazing.
The Live action movie was suprisingly extremly good. I couldn't stop watching and I cried like a baby. To be honest, when the movie was done I was still crying.
I will now start talking with spoilers, BUT please if you did not watch the movie or read the manga, Please do that first, it's worth it.
A story about suicide and how damaged a person can be.
Orange is a story that suprised me in many ways. I really love the idea that someone can be saved from their own demons, but the story also shows that sometimes love isn't enough.
So the letters Naho gets are from herself in the future, in a future were Kakeru dies. Kakeru is a new kid in class who loses his mother due to suicide. Kakeru blames himself and the letter asks Naho to save him from that blame. A real difficult task, especially if you think about what is at stake.
Spoiler: in the end Kakeru lives, but the Naho that wrote the letter still lives in the same future where Kakeru died, because current Naho didn't change the future, she, with her friend, created a new parallel world, in which Kakeru does have a future.
It's such a difficult topic. Suicide. When you are not in their shoes, you can not imagen what is happening in their head or heart and this story illustrates that perfectly. Even with all the love in the world, not everybody can be saved from themselfs. Seeing that Kakeru was saved in one world, but couldn't be saved in another one, it breaks my heart. Eventhough Kakeru survives, doesn't mean his life suddenly got better, it means he lives, but still has a lot of fighting to do.
Why this story is so good? Some people live like this every day. Looking happy, but damaged and broken on the inside. I think a lot of people will see something in this story that will hit right home. Maybe it's about your friend, a family member, neighbour, maybe even yourself. It's such a difficult topic to talk about, but I think this story shows us how love and friendship, sadly, can't always save everybody. It's a beautiful fairytale, but not reality.
The Manga is ofcourse way more ellaborate about a lot of things and some characters have more depth in the Manga. Yet the movie showed the story very well and I think the actor who played Kakeru, Yamazaki Kento, played his part so well. I love how they actually get to cry ugly in this movie, opposed to "beauiful" crying in other (mainly american) movies. It just made the movie so much more real.
Another thing I really wanna adress is Suwa Hiroto. This guy might be the best friend you could ever wish. He gave up his future, his wife, his baby, to save his best friend. Ofcourse he would save his best friend, but to give all this up and knowing about it. I feel like Suwa might be one of the best characters in a movie or manga ever. True, real and selfless.
I think if I really want to I could talk for hours about Orange. I really adore the story so much and it felt so good to see Kakeru survive in the end. Yet his struggle to find a reason to live, his guilt, his tears, it breaks my heart. Heck the soundtrack of the movie still makes me teary eyed.
For the Hello!Pro fans: Mano Erina has a part in this movie. It isn't big, but she is there. And you might recognize the actor who plays Hagita (Sakurada Dori). He was in Ousama Game with Kumai Yurina, Suzuki Airi and a lot of other Hello!Pro members.
So in the end this article/blogpost might not have been perfect. I actually think I just wrote my thoughts and that's it. But really, this is one of the best things I ever read or saw. I really wonder how the anime is and I will totally watch it. There seems to also be an anime movie, which is more about Suwa and what happend after the Anime, so I am looking forwards to see that aswell.