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Seven members of a Maine Air National Guard communications team have been dispatched to the U.S. Virgin Islands to assist recovery efforts after hurricanes Irma and Maria battered the region.
The airmen left Bangor on Thursday night on two C-130 aircraft bound for the island of St. Croix, where they will provide temporary communications to the airfield.
Lt. Col. Brian Camire, commander of the 265th Combat Communication Squadron, said his personnel have the capability to establish emergency radio communication service and wireless internet within six hours of landing.
"We've got to get the airfield opened up so we can start landing planes into St. Croix to start relief efforts," Camire said. "Then they can build that out and increase their footprint and push services."
The airmen packed the cargo planes with enough equipment, vehicles, food and water for the unit to be self-sufficient for up to 30 days.
"The last thing we want to do is be dependent on the folks who are down there," Camire said.
The unit also brought technology that can be rapidly deployed to take the place of both military and civilian communication channels, if necessary.
Because of the devastation caused by the hurricanes, local fire and police may lose the ability to communicate among themselves and with other agencies. Camire said his people can provide those services if they're required.
The National Guard likely will rotate the airmen out of the area within about 30 days, he said, but the needs are so fluid that it was difficult to predict how long the Maine Air National Guard will participate in the recovery effort.
Camire said the mission was made possible by the families and employers of the seven airmen, who were asked to undertake the mission on short notice.
A spokeswoman for the Maine National Guard said the group was expected to land Friday, depending on conditions on the ground, where most runways are still out of service.
"The mission is constantly changing depending on what the needs are down there," Staff Sgt. Angela Parady said.
The 265th, based in South Portland, has provided communications support after a hurricane before. In a deployment to Vermont in 2011, members of the Maine Air National Guard Engineers assisted recovery efforts after hurricane Irene. The unit also provided communications assistance after Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc along the Gulf Coast in 2005.
"Our thoughts and prayers go out to the people of the Caribbean as they respond to the aftermath of another devastating hurricane," Brig. Gen. Douglas Farnham, adjutant general for the Maine National Guard, said in a statement. "Our Maine National Guard service members are prepared to provide critical communications support to help restore normalcy to the region."
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Third, today should be called national Jack Bauer day. If you don't know who Jack Bauer is, shame on you! Just kidding. I'm a 24 fan…it's a TV show that's main character is Jack Bauer. I just happened to name my dogs Jack and Bauer after this character. A brand new season starts in less than a half hour! The show ended a few years back but starts back up today for a 12 episode season.
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According to Kable, the ICT market in Austria is expected to grow in the coming years with enterprises investing more in the ICT domain. The Austrian government has revealed plans to subsidize broadband networks to ensure 100% coverage and has also emphasized of the need of having robust cyber security framework and research and development in the ICT domain.
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Figure 18: Cloud computing - selected primary provider and vendor satisfaction among Austrian enterprises
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glad you made it on time, u couldnt cope with living in London x #bigpinklinkReplyDelete
Agh a stressful start by the sounds of it. I hope you had a lovely christening x #bigpinklinkReplyDelete
Sounds stressful but glad you made it on time. Hope you had a lovely day. #bigpinklink LifeinthemumslaneReplyDelete
Sounds stressful but glad you made it on time. Hope you had a lovely day. #bigpinklink LifeinthemumslaneReplyDelete
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Glad you got there in the end and bet you felt relieved at the end of your own personal marathon! #bigpinklinkReplyDelete
Oh I hate stuff like this!! Why is it always the way? I also end up waking early and worrying. I had to giggle at the wet wipes image though! Thanks for linking up, and I'm glad it all ended well. #bigpinklinkReplyDelete
Oh my word, I would be a wreck if that was me. I used to be a regular to the London underground and I found it a nightmare on my own let alone with a baby. Well done you for getting there and on time. hurrah! #chucklemumsReplyDelete
I was so hoping there would be a faux-poo joke in here somewhere. Well done ;)ReplyDelete
Glad you made it on time. Sounds stressful! #chucklemums
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Oh good god I think I would have gone grey trying to organise all that. You did amazingly well to get there on time! Hope it was a perfect day once you arrived. Thanks for joining us on #fortheloveofBLOG - really hope you can link up again with us on Saturday xReplyDelete
Blimey!! Sounds stressful. Why DO they do that on trains? It's a 1 minute delay and just keeps getting more and more delayed. Nightmare! #chucklemumsReplyDelete
Well done!! Hope it was a lovely day. That's a Londoner's cardinal rule you know - never forget the marathon! #chucklemumsReplyDelete


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Riot at Ikea
Seriously....what the fuck?!!?
Re: Riot at IkeaI know.
I can't believe it neither, especially since some poor guy got stabbed.
Its only Ikea for fucks sake, not that many people want to chuck out their chintz!
Re: Riot at IkeaSomeone actually got stabbed?! That's fantastic PR for Ikea - not the stabbing but the riot...
It's only furniture ffs ??
Re: Riot at IkeaHmmm, wild in the aisles anyone?
Re: Riot at IkeaPeople in the second most derprived area in London apparently.
I read the thread title as "Rot at ikea" and thought it was going to be bamos going on about how his new futon had fallen apart after a few days.
Re: Riot at Ikeacrazy crazy crazy shit
Re: Riot at IkeaWhat a headline writers dream though
Furniture Furore....Middle Age Rampage.....Flatpack frenzy.
Re: Riot at IkeaIkea's full of cold, hard junk.
Anything I've ever had from there has been uncomfortable...a futon, my bed, a computer chair.
Re: Riot at Ikeabut you keep on buying.
£45 for a three seater sofa is almost worth stabbing someone for.
even though there is ABSOLUTELY no shown link between the stabbing and the riot.
Re: Riot at Ikeasomeone at work was there last night.
Why? It's only furniture for god's sake!
Re: Riot at Ikeaand argos is better anyway.
Re: Riot at Ikea£45 for a leather sofa though. That sorta deal don't come round too often...
Re: Riot at IkeaIt reminds me of a Simpsons episode when people charged the toystore to get their hands on the Funzo Toy.
But stampeding Ikea?
Re: Riot at IkeaWell, 'Ikea' is Swedish for 'Stab the guy next to you in the eyes in the race to take advantage of our low low prices'
Re: Riot at IkeaThe stabbing was apparently unrelated to the riot. It occured in the small hours, that type of thing is hardly uncommon in Edmonton, it wouldn't have made news if it wasn't for the Ikea thing. Still never let the truth get in the way of a good story...
Re: Riot at Ikeajust shows what a sucker for consumerism we all are, well, not us, them
Re: Riot at IkeaOkay, the unfortunate stabbing aside but why would you go to Ikea in the middle of the night and riot over a table with a stupid unpronounceable name?
Re: Riot at IkeaIt is a little bizarre - like something from 'The Day Today'... I dunno, maybe people like a bargain.
Actually, no, I can't understand it.
Re: Riot at Ikeaa) The sofas were only £45
b) Some people really have no life, and I mean worse than you could ever imagine.
My mother and father-in-law were arguing the other day about how he never takes her out anymore - so he took her down to Wickes (the DIY superstore) and apparently she was ridiculously happy about this. Different strokes...
Re: Riot at IkeaIf you've ever seen Daria its kind of like "Sick Sad World"
I'm as low maintenance as a Nintendo 1989, but even I draw the line there.
Re: Riot at Ikeathat reminds me of when the singer from my ex-band used to go and see his sister, who had very expensive furniture - she's put a towel down on the sofa before he sat on it...
Re: Riot at IkeaMy mate had to take his girlfriend to London.... to only spend 6 hours walking around the Ideal Homes exhibition.
I would have dropped her off and gone to the pub. Some things are just too much to take
Re: Riot at IkeaIn her younger days my Aunt used to teach in London.
After my Great-Grandfather died my Great Grandmother Dorothy moved into a flat in Solihull, (now chav capital), near the sea.
Getting off the train my Aunt found some chav (some things never change) had nicked the light from her bike, so she had to make a journey what should have taken fifteen minuets in half an hour.
The skies opened and Zeus rained.
On arriving soaked she put her bike in the hall, went up the stairs and rung in the doorbell to be met with my Great-Grandmother saying, "Oh my god! Look at you! Stay off the wall"
No "come in your drenched, sit down, would you like a cup of tea?"
Nope - "keep off the wall"
Re: Riot at IkeaGranspeak is great. 'Stay off the wall' is from the same school of thought as:
'Ooh, take off your coat. Otherwise you won't feel the benefit'
'Ooh, it's awful close outside.' Close to what?
Re: Riot at IkeaYou think that was bad, my Aunt once said "don't talk such crap" and my Great-Grandmother exploded and said, "how dare you use such language in my presence".
Also if you where round there for dinner or something, she would get up and start fluffing up the pillows around you and turning off the lights saying, "Well...its been lovley seeing you...you must come again...get their coats Joan"
This was wether you where ready to leave or not.
When she started to loose her marbles a bit, a Canadian friend of my Aunts was staying and before she went out that evening my Aunt told her she could use the sink to wash some clothes.
Don't forget this was like 1979 or something.
Anyway, Marlyn was at the sink when my Great-Grandmother appeared and asked her what she was doing.
"Joan said I could wash some clothes in the sink"
My Great-Grandmother said, "I am the mistress of this house".
Re: Riot at IkeaForget Ikea. We need a store that sells Gran paraphernalia such snake draft excluders, poss sticks and bad oil paintings (usually of a Tahitian lady).
Come on, all. Let's make it happen. If we open a store for nans, the most violence we could expect in the queue is a few 'tsks' and thin-lipped expressions. One lady will obviously go too far and say 'See her in front? Her Sunday roast is actually from the chill counter', so we'll need some security to root those undesirable elements out.
Bored, me?
Re: Riot at Ikeahahaha yeah that would be great! But you'd have to place sofas and tea machines every two metres so they could all be *refreshed*, and all the people working there would have to be impeccably dressed, as we couldn't have people looking sloppy anywhere near the poor old grannies..... and they'd have to be ablo to bring their pets, and leave them in an animal babysitter/hairdresser place....
and NO BAD LANGUAGE!
Re: Riot at IkeaI wonder if the stabber thought to himself "i know, i'll take knife with me to Ikea, could be bit of a mad rush for that last leather suite."
Re: Riot at IkeaI can almost see a band having the name "Riot At Ikea", or at least an album title...
Re: Riot at IkeaI was thinking that too, some shit, faux-controversial indie nobodies or something.
Re: Riot at IkeaI HATE Ikea.
Anyone else noticed how you go to the pains of travelling miles from where you live to be surrounded by screaming kids while you try and eat your meatballs (good meatballs, mind), as the creche is coveniently situated right next to the restaurant. You then get very confused and lost amongst furniture displays named things like 'Nog' and 'Jift'. Then you go to the warehouse to collect your things, it's full of dust and it's dead confusing. You drive home, exhausted. You get home, eager to erect your new wardrobe. By midnight, you have nearly finished putting it up. You realise that you have failed to collect one small screw that you can't get anywhere other than IKEA. Without this screw, the wardrobe will not go up. Get in rage, kick wardrobe, foot goes through flimsy MDF, wardrobe fucked.
Was this just my experience?
Re: Riot at IkeaIkea reminds me of Fight Club and now there's been a riot it's a perfect time to call Brad Pitt to do one of those U.K only adverts as Tyler Durden. He's survived a break up, can he survive checkout time in Sweden's finest?
Re:Yeah must have just been you miss jober. My experience was more like - get lift to Ikea, glide round with a big trolley, buy tonnes of great stuff for next to no money, knock it together and then like flat 10 x better... you really kicked a hole in your wardrobe?
Re: Re:haha snake draft excluders! My gran had two of those!! i can't stop laughing now!
Re: Re:Jober is not alone. I can't be doing with flat pack furniture. I guess it's my rubbish hand eye co-ordination and my amazing ability to break things. Never kicked a whole in my wardrobe though
Re: Re:Don't ask, it was a long time ago. I think Ikea is tacky.


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Police worried about political corruption of the force
This report from today's Observer:
Although Home Secretary Charles Clarke's drive to reduce the 43 forces in England and Wales to a number closer to 20 has encouraged a vigorous debate, Cramphorn fears more damaging elements of the government's restructuring plans remain largely unrecognised. He said legislation before Parliament would see the new police authorities 'wholly subservient' to Clarke. In comments that signal a change in escalating tensions between the police and the Home Office, Cramphorn said: 'The order-making powers for the secretary of state would mean he can write the rules to suit himself.. These arrangements will provide ministers with the order-making powers which will allow them to dictate completely to the police authority how, what, when and where its business is conducted.'See all recent "A Logical Voice" posts


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Gardening on the sandy slopes of Perth, by Lake Monger.
Awesome links- thanks so much. We're just learning about gardening in Perth too, having moved from Auckland in August last year. It really is just a whole new ball game!
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I read this article the other day by Polly Vernon. You can read it here:
It's one of a number of articles that she's written about her positive decision to be child-free. And good for her. "Good for you, Polly!" I thought. "Good for you! This is great! Outspoken! Clever! Ama…" and that's where I stopped because I was being buffeted about the face mercilessly with a bazillion Daily Mail tactics. And they worked.
A quick google of "Polly Vernon child-free" lists an article she wrote for the Guardian in 2009. That was five years ago. Five. And I remember it coming out then, because she got a proper backlash of parental trolling on the back of it. And it seems as though she's desperate to ride that wave again. The bits in the latest article that raised my hackles, like a moist-palmed perv being 'incensed' by Holly Willoughby's cleavage on This Morning, are:
"if your buggy didn't cost £1000 and your blankies aren't cashmere and your four year old isn't being expensively and ferociously hot housed, then you're failing as a parent"
Do you think she might be pointing to the kinds of mothers she might see in Kensington? Around Primrose Hill, maybe? Do you think she's considering the parents she might see, say, on the Tube? Or in Croydon? (Does she ever go on the Tube? Or to Croydon?) Then there's this bit:
"I've felt years of antipathy on account of their buggy-wielding, pavement-hogging entitlement, their tendency to monopolise the very best seats in the very best coffee shops with the rest of their NCT groups…"
This makes me want to track her down and plonk her on the front of my pram and take her into Bath just so she could witness the gangs of (posh) schoolgirls who don't move an inch as you try to manoeuvre around them, the bastards on the bus who studiously ignore you and refuse to make space for you or your child, the people who work in shops who listlessly watch you sweatily wrestling through door-frames that are too narrow. Maybe then, she too could experience the full gamut of unpleasant looks and comments just because your child might be hungry, or might have hurt himself, in a public space – sneers, comments, grumbles, shoves to the pram. I have friends who have experienced strangers telling them, "perhaps she's hungry?" when their six-week old baby is making merry hell because they've just had their first jabs.
And coffee shops? Firstly, where else do parents go, when they're subsisting on two hours sleep and are crawling the walls? And what do they find when they get there? Unpleasant, unhelpful staff who appear dumbfounded if you breastfeed and, in one infamous case in Bath, send you packing if you try to feed your child home-made baby food. On the back of this, surely I should think that all people without prams are utter cretins. But I don't. And not just because I'm amazing and live on a higher moral plane (that just goes without saying).
Finally, there's this:
"The more I meditate, they less capable I am of drumming up unchecked loathing based on a shed-load of assumptions about a group of people I don't actually know. The more I meditate, the more inclined I am to recognise even their humanity."
So the whole point of it was to explain that she doesn't feel that angry about it anymore, while still pointing out all the things that made her peeved in the first place in a desperate attempt to gain a few more column inches. Aww, thanks, Pol. Even their humanity. And this, obviously, is balls on a grand scale. The more Polly Vernon meditates (I put it to you, m'lud), the more she realises that the highlight of her career was back in 2009 when she wrote an article in the Guardian about not having children. Now she's reduced to talking about how angry she used to be on a blog (and who reads blogs?).
Still. I've been thinking about this for a while. To begin with I thought, poor Polly Vernon, trying to make a living from defending what she's not. How pathetic. Because of course it doesn't matter that she chooses not to have children, no-one cares – or at least, if anyone decides to care about it, they're probably a nutter, and Polly should pay no heed. In fact, I bet no-one cared – not even the nutters – until she started tarring everyone with the same Bugaboo brush in the first place. But the more I thought about it, the more I realised that she was just doing what everyone else does when they're defending human rights – they're defending themselves to be recognised as what they're not: not white, not thin, not male, not powerful, not heterosexual.
So I can see why she feels the need to rage. No-one should give a monkeys about who she is and whatever life choices she makes. That's how it should be in our supposedly democratic and free-thinking society. And that's how it should be because, Polly, it's boring, and no-one wants to hear you banging on about it. Still. FIVE YEARS LATER. Hush now.


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Functional HTTP testing revisited using JUnit 4.7 Interceptors
September 3, 2009
(I originally planned this to be a single article, but because of the scope decided to split it into two parts. Read the first part for the the basics of using Sun's
HttpServer to conduct functional HTTP testing. Here we revisit our functional test and rewrite it using JUnit 4.7's new Interceptors feature.)
In my previous post, I demonstrated how to use Sun's
HttpServer API to write a functional test of an HTTP 'conversation'.
Recall that I thought my initial solution seemed inelegant. It was verbose, with some start up and shutdown code that would have to be repeated for each test, and which I felt cluttered the actual test code.
It was also tedious, in the sense that the raw
HttpHandler and
HttpExchange API required us to do quite a few things manually, and unintuitively (such as having to compute and write out the length of our response before the response itself).
In this post, we'll explore how to use the new Interceptors feature 'quietly' released with JUnit 4.7 to write reusable, portable pre and post-test behaviour. I'll also exhibit a convenient
HttpHandler implementation that simplifies some of the effort required in responding to HTTP requests.
David Saff wrote in on Introducing MagicTest, asking why not just instantiate the variable in-line (
private Foo foo = new Foo();).
Which brings me to the real reason for coming up with
A code sample is worth a thousand words. Suppose we have a Spring JPA data access object:
public WidgetDao(final EntityManager entityManager) {
public Widget find(long id) {
return getJpaTemplate().find(Widget.class, id);
WidgetDao needs a JPA
EntityManager provided to it at construction time. Normally, to write a unit test for
WidgetDao we'd have to create our mock objects and setup our test scaffolding manually.
ActiveTest, however, all we need to write is:
private WidgetDao widgetDao;
private EntityManager em;
public void testFind() {
Mockito.verify(em).find(Widget.class, 42);
I'm lazy like that.
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Introducing MagicTest
May 28, 2009
If you've written enough JUnit 4 tests, then you should be familiar with code that looks like:
private Foo foo;
public void setUp() {
foo = new Foo();
public void testBar() {
Now, how often have you wished it were possible to simply go straight to
@Test, do not pass
setUp(), do not have to
new Foo()?
So I came up with
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At school reading is a huge part of our day and different teachers have different ways of organising their reading programs. I use a 'reading wheel' to display my reading groups and reading activities.
My reading wheel is made out of laminated card and a split pin. The split pin allows the wheel to rotate around. On one side of the wheel I have four colours for four reading groups, the other has three colours for three reading groups, the side I use depends on the amount of children and the spread of reading ages in my class. Although you can't see it on the photo I just write on straight on to the wheel the names of the children in that particular group in permanent marker. That way their names can be easily removed with whiteboard cleaner.
As the wheel spins each group can easily see which activity they should be completing. I have taken photos of all of my reading activities and use these to make a laminated label. These labels are stuck to the reading wheel with blu-tack. As I make or buy a new reading activity I take a photo and make up a label to laminate. Before each reading session I change the labels so the children experience a variety of reading activities each week. My reading activities include lots of reading practice, alphabet and phonic activities, sight word activities, sentence building games, and social games using our play equipment like mobilo, duplo, or playing in the home corner.
As I finish reading with a group I ring a small hand bell and the children like to take turns rotating the wheel around. They know which activity they need to move to next by simply looking at the wheel. This encourages more independence and after a while of following the same routine, some children are able to predict which activity they will be at next.


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Momenta Systems Inc.
SmartFunnel.com is an enterprise SaaS business, aimed at a lucrative hole in the CRM market: Sales Methods and Forecasting for B2B.
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Something had to be done with all the leftover pork from the other night, and as good as the sandwiches were, it was time to make something a bit more satisfying. After much consideration (and a trip to the local supermarket) it was turned into Chili Verde. It all started with a big bowl of tomatillos and peppers…
BS Keg was fired up, and the greenery went on until the tomatillos were nice and hot throughout and the chili skins were charred. The peppers were poblano and Anaheim peppers; the store was almost out of fresh jalapenos, and those remaining didn't look very good. Habanero peppers were considered briefly as a replacement, but I decided that chili verde is supposed to be green and not have a bunch of orange specks mixed in with it.
While that was grilling, two of the remaining pork roasts from Thursday were chopped into 1/2 inch chunks.
Once the greenery was finished, the big cast iron Dutch oven went on the grill and was joined by one very large chopped onion.
With the onion sizzling away nicely, the peppers were skinned and de-seeded and then joined the tomatillos in the blender with some minced garlic, fresh oregano and a big handful of cilantro. Nothing like the food processor setting to make short work of a green sauce.
By now the onions were nicely sauteed. In went the meat, the green sauce, and a couple of cups of chicken broth.
After a couple of hours on the BS Keg, the meat was now moist and falling apart, and the sauce had reduced nicely.
After some discussion regarding side dishes, a pot of brown rice magically appeared and made a great complement to the chili verde.
We also added a sprinkling of cheese at the table, and the family declared this to be a do-again meal. Oh, and largely due to the lack of jalapeno peppers, my youngest declared this to be a "Bob-friendly" dish. Very flavorful, but not much kick to it.
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A scientific survey of Māui's dolphin numbers has found only 63 adults remained in New Zealand waters.
The preliminary results of the count carried out over the past two summers, represented a slight rise from a 2010-11 survery, which estimated there were 55 adults.
The critically endangered dolphin which is one of the world's smallest and rarest, and is now only found in shallow coastal waters off the North Island's west coast.
Conservation Minister Maggie Barry said the results showed Māui's dolphin numbers had stablised over the past five years.
But she said there was no dispute the population remained at a very low level.
Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy said the new figures were an encouraging sign the restrictions on fishing were having an effect.
"More than 1700 square kilometres off the west coast of the North Island have been closed to trawl net fishing since 2003, and over 6200 square kilometres closed to set netting," Mr Guy said.
The Department of Conservation, the Ministry for Primary Industries and researchers from Auckland and Oregon State Universities carried out the survey using a boat-based "mark-recapture" technique - taking genetic samples from encountered dolphins over two summers, then comparing results to count how many unique dolphins were spotted.
It follows a recent survey which found the population of Hector's dolphin was about 15,000 - more than double the previous estimate of 7000.
The full report from the survey will be published next month and used to inform the review of the Hector's and Māui's Dolphin Threat Management Plan scheduled for 2018.


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Sanju Is An Entertaining Saga That Blends Emotions, Humor & Drama
Banner: Rajkumar Hirani Films & Vinod Chopra Films
Producer: Rajkumar Hirani & Vinod Chopra
Director: Rajkumar Hirani
Starcast: Ranbir Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor, Manisha Koirala, Paresh Rawal, Dia Mirza, Jim Sarbh, Anushka Sharma, Vicky Kaushal
Music: A. R. Rahman, Rohan Rohan, Vikram Montrose, Sanjay Wandrekar & Atul Raninga
Sure enough the blockbuster director Rajkumar Hirani needs no special introduction. And his latest offering Sanju promises to be different and shows the highs as well as lows & dark periods of actor Sanjay Dutt. That it's directed by Rajkumar Hirani, who has a cent per cent track record and features popular actor Ranbir Kapoor, has added to the excitement considerably.
Biopics are quite in vogue in Bollywood and in recent times, many of them have even tasted massive commercial success. But often, these biopics are criticized as they become quite hagiographic and tend to glorify the person in question. In such a scenario, Sanju lives up to its hype and turns out to be a yet another feather in Rajkumar Hirani's directorial cap. Actually speaking Sanju is the biopic of the most controversial actor Sanjay Dutt, in the history of Bollywood, and some of the dramatic & the most significant episodes of his life.
Sanjay Dutt (Ranbir Kapoor) is the son of the famous actor Sunil Dutt (Paresh Rawal) & yesteryear actress Nargis (Manisha Koirala). He is about to get launched in a film by his father titled Rocky. Upset with his father, he tries drugs for the 1st time ever courtesy his friend Zubin Mistry (Jim Sarbh). At this point, he finds out that Nargis is suffering from cancer and has few days to live. She is taken to New York for treatment. Sanju is unable to control his drug habit even when his mother is struggling for life. While in New York, he befriends Kamlesh Kapasi (Vicky Kaushal) and they both form a wonderful bond. Sadly due to his drug addiction, his relationship with his girlfriend Ruby (Sonam Kapoor) gets affected and ends on a dismal note. Nargis dies just 3 days before the release of Rocky. An overwhelmed Sanju agrees to go for rehab in USA. Once he overcomes this addiction, he gets into a bigger problem. He gets arrested for illegal possession of arms. He's also accused of aiding the terrorists in carrying out the serial bomb blasts in Mumbai in the year 1993. How Sanjay Dutt fights this dreadful charge forms the rest of the crux of the film.
Director Rajkumar Hirani & Abhijat Joshi's story is interesting but one can sense that they have tried to play safe. But they have balanced it out by not glorifying Sanjay Dutt and showing his bad & dark side too. Also, it's impressive how Rajkumar & Abhijat haven't focused on his film career and have focused on his personal life & turmoil's. Rajkumar Hirani & Abhijat Joshi's screenplay is terrific and despite the minuses, can be used as a guide on how to write films. With so much happening in the film, the writers ensure that the narrative doesn't go all over the place. Everything is neatly put together. For instance, when the sequence where the Dutt's are returning back to India, Nargis' remarks about Ruby. This is done organically & neatly links to the next sequence which is related to Ruby. Rajkumar Hirani & Abhijat Joshi's dialogues as always are entertaining, sharp & massy. Few dialogues related to sex will bring the house down in single screens and in the hinterland. A section of the audience however would also be put off by such jokes & dark humor at places.
Rajkumar Hirani's direction as expected is highly effective. This is no easy film to make but he executes & presents the plot in a simple & crisp manner. His magic comes to the fore in several sequences and is bound to leave the viewers smiling & even teary eyed. However, the climax could have been better & more powerful.
The biggest strength of Sanju is that the film never drops. The screenplay is riveting and keeps you hooked, even if you might not agree with the goings on. And that's a feat for a film which is 160 minutes long. The back & forth narrative works very well and keeps viewers intrigued. The 1st ever half is excellent and boasts of some fine emotional, funny & dramatic sequences. The intermission point comes as a bolt from the blue. The madness continues in the 2nd half but the plot gets a bit shaky here. The film goes on a high in the 1st half but the same doesn't happen in the 2nd half. The film should have ended with a punch or on a rocking note, as it has happened in the previous Rajkumar Hirani films. However, the film leaves a strong emotional impact overall, which works very well.
Songs are not that great but work well in the film. "Kar Har Maidaan Fateh" is the best of the lot. "Main Badhiya Tu Bhi Badhiya" is very well picturised & imagined. "Ruby Ruby" (by A R Rahman) is relegated to the background. Sanjay Wandrekar & Atul Raninga's background score is much better & exhilarating. S Ravivarman's cinematography is splendid and has captured some of the locales beautifully. In fact, he impresses right from the 1st shot itself, a bird's eye view of Bandra. Shashank Tere's production design is appealing & rich. Eka Lakhani's costumes are authentic. Vikram Gaikwad's make-up design, Clover Wootton's prosthetics & VFX by NY VFXWaala deserves the highest praise for making Ranbir look like Sanjay Dutt through the ages. Rajkumar Hirani's editing is crisp.
Performance wise it is Ranbir Kapoor who owns the film, in fact he is the life & soul of the film and delivers a terrific & power packed performance. Nowhere does his performance seem like a caricature and he gives his best shot in ensuring that he looks & behaves like Sanjay Dutt. Watch out for him in the emotional sequences, particularly when his mother passes away and he confesses to his father that he needs to get better. Also he'll leave viewers moist eyed in the scene where he fails to read his speech to his father and later the inevitable happens. Sanju surely ranks as one of the most or arguably the most accomplished performance by this young actor and is bound to win him accolades, admiration & awards galore! Paresh Rawal is also quite impressive and plays the important part of Sunil Dutt with perfection. Sanju, in fact, is a father-son story and he compliments Ranbir very well in taking some scenes to greater heights. Vicky Kaushal is the surprise package of the film. Right from his entry, he makes a mark and brings the house down at several places. Also, he's rocking in the emotional sequences like when he meets Ruby or when he tells Sunil Dutt that they need to help Sanjay Dutt. Even in the 2nd half, watch out for him when he meets Sanjay Dutt in the hospital and in the pre-climax when he listens to the radio. Manisha Koirala has a supporting part but is an important pillar in the film and charms with her performance. Anushka Sharma (as Winnie Dias) delivers a splendid performance. Again, her screen time is limited. Jim Sarbh makes an impact with his role. Sonam Kapoor (as Ruby) is decent in the cameo. Boman Irani (as Homi) contributes to the fun quotient. Sayaji Shinde (as Bandu Dada) looks every inch a gangster. Dia Mirza (as Maanayata Dutt) gets overpowered. Aditi Seiya (as Priya Dutt) looks quite like Priya but doesn't have much to do in the film. Karishma Tanna (as Pinky) is quite sizzling and makes a mark, despite being there for just a scene. Mahesh Manjrekar (himself), Piyush Mishra (D Tripathi), Ashwin Mushran (security officer), Bharat Dabholkar (lawyer) & Aanjjan Srivastav (minister) are good.
Tail Piece: On the whole, Sanju is an entertaining saga that blends emotions, humor & drama in adequate doses. It is powerful, engaging, emotional as well as compelling. The combination of Rajkumar Hirani & Ranbir Kapoor works like a dream. At the box-office turnstiles, despite not being a "typical Rajkumar Hirani family entertainer', Sanju will score tremendously and emerge as a Monstrous Hit! Don't miss it!


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All he has to do is keep plinking away and he'll have the tarrasque dead in an average of just over 2.5 minutes. That's without using more than a fraction of WBL, using common archery and rogue feats, and without undue optimization. If he's a level higher, he can pick up Telling Blow and no longer need the greater invisibility scrolls; if he wants to spend more WBL, he can add more damage enchantments/items to kill Big T faster. If I were to actually open my books and go through the good items and rogue feats to really optimize this, I'm sure I could kick this up a notch, and if I were to remove the rogue restriction and bring bloodstorm blade into this, it gets an order of magnitude easier.
Why should fisticuffs be out of the question just because it's the tarrasque? Level 1 characters can go toe-to-toe with goblins; level 7 characters (think Hercules) can go toe-to-toe with hydrae; where's the magical cutoff where slugging it out according to Queensberry rules is suddenly not a good thing?But I really don't care if there are smarter ways of fighting the tarrasque. The point is the monk can fight it in accordance with the Marquess of Queensberry rules and has a good chance of coming out on top. It's a huge step up in power compared to a monk 19. Even if there are non-hitting ways of beating the monk, that's no reason to throw out balance for the hitting parts.
If you're giving it godlike powers, it doesn't make sense for anything to defeat it. At that point it's no longer a huge brute but rather an unstoppable hunter-killer machine, so all bets are off as to what seems "reasonable."If you really must, imagine my super-duper homebrew creature: flying tarrasque. It flies, moves really really fast (10 000 feet per round, perfect manoeuvrability), and it can see you (+ a billion to spot, and blindsight, and it sees and hits things on the ethereal plane, and it can follow you through teleports and plane shifts and everything else, regardless of the time elapsed if it's busy), and it specifically wants to kill you and your party in particular. It's attacks and defences are exactly as strong as normal tarrasque. Does it seem reasonable that the monk can out-box it?
I don't think suddenly giving DR with no precedent is necessarily a good capstone, and would support DR = level at some point (13th or thereabouts) so it caps at 20 but gets there gradually. I was only arguing against the notion that DR 20 is too good at that level; where it fits in with the rest of the monk is still up for debate.If you feel DR/20 is appropriate then a monk 19 is underpowered. I feel DR/20 is too much, and think monk 20 is overpowered. Either way, suddenly getting DR/20 is an anomalous jump.


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How To DIY a Disco Ball
Is it safe to say most of us have (or can easily get our hands on) lots and lots of old unwanted CD's? If so, and you want to reach even further back in music to the disco era, here's a way to turn CD's into disco balls:
By cutting the CD's into small squares and fixing them to a spherical object, you can have a disco ball of your very own for dancing or decor. See a full how-to at wikiHow.
Image: You Make Me Feel Like Dancing: Disco Ball Decor
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Traveling Luck for McDaniels Chapel (historical) Mississippi, United States
The timezone in McDaniels Chapel (historical) is America/Rankin_Inlet
Morning Sunrise at 06:58 and Evening Sunset at 16:55. It's light
Rough GPS position Latitude. 33.4856°, Longitude. -90.5844°
Morning Sunrise at 06:58 and Evening Sunset at 16:55. It's light
Rough GPS position Latitude. 33.4856°, Longitude. -90.5844°
Weather near McDaniels Chapel (historical) Last report from Greenville, Mid Delta Regional Airport, MS 48.5km awaylight rain Temperature: 13°C / 55°F
Wind: 12.7km/h Southeast
Cloud: Solid Overcast at 400ft
Satellite map of McDaniels Chapel (historical) and it's surroudings...
Geographic features & Photographs around McDaniels Chapel (historical) in Mississippi, United States
church a building for public Christian worship.
- Marble Hill Church (1km)
- Three Oak Church (3.3km)
- East Side Church (4.4km)
- Persimmon Grove Church (4.9km)
- Swan Lake Church (5km)
- Union Grove Church (5.4km)
- Pleasant Green Church (7.1km)
- Little Rock Church (7.5km)
- Travelers Rest Church (7.7km)
- Pilgrim Rest Church (7.9km)
- Saint Peters Church (8.3km)
- Sunrise Church (8.6km)
- Saint Stephens Episcopal Church (8.6km)
- Mount Zion Center Church (9km)
- First Baptist Church (9km)
- Indianola Baptist Church (9km)
Local Feature A Nearby feature worthy of being marked on a map..
- McDaniels Chapel (historical) (0km)
- New Hope Church (historical) (2.9km)
- Garvins Ferry (historical) (3.6km)
- Rock of Ages Church (historical) (3.9km)
- Duncan Chapel (7.3km)
- Mount Olive Church (historical) (7.7km)
- Indian Bayou Church (historical) (7.9km)
- Lakeside Plantation (historical) (8km)
- Indianola Shopping Center (8.1km)
- Hervey Chapel (8.5km)
- Church of the Immaculate Conception (8.8km)
- Saint Paul Church (historical) (9km)
populated place a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work.
- McDaniels (0.2km)
- Faisonia (6.3km)
- Pollock (historical) (7.4km)
- Crahen (historical) (7.7km)
- Inwood (7.7km)
- Waltonia (historical) (8km)
- Furry (8.2km)
- Baird (8.6km)
stream a body of running water moving to a lower level in a channel on land.
- Turkeyfoot Brake (1.9km)
- Beaver Dam Bayou (3.1km)
- Quiver River (3.4km)
- Porter Bayou (4.3km)
- Bear Bayou (5km)
- Moorhead Bayou (5.4km)
- Short Bayou (7.9km)
Accommodation around McDaniels Chapel (historical)
Days Inn Indianola 1015 Highway 82 E, Indianola
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Rodeway Inn 1112 Highway 82 E, Indianola
cemetery a burial place or ground.
- Bayou Hill Cemetery (3km)
- Little Rock Cemetery (7.2km)
- Indianola City Cemetery (8km)
- Willing Worker Cemetery (8.7km)
school building(s) where instruction in one or more branches of knowledge takes place.
- Indianola Academy (7.1km)
- Indianola Junior High School (7.9km)
- Waltonia School (historical) (8.1km)
lake a large inland body of standing water.
- Round Lake (5.4km)
- Shackelford Lake (8.3km)
- Jenkins Lake (8.4km)
hospital a building in which sick or injured, especially those confined to bed, are medically treated.
- Sunflower County Health Center (8.6km)
- South Sunflower County Hospital (8.7km)
- Kings Daughters Hospital (historical) (8.7km)
tower a high conspicuous structure, typically much higher than its diameter.
- WNLA-FM (Indianola) (6.5km)
- WNLA-AM (Indianola) (6.5km)
dam a barrier constructed across a stream to impound water.
- Bearden Brothers Pond Dam (7.7km)
administrative division an administrative division of a country, undifferentiated as to administrative level.
- District 2 Supervisor District (4.4km)
park an area, often of forested land, maintained as a place of beauty, or for recreation.
- Legion Field (8.3km)
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Airports close to McDaniels Chapel (historical)Greenwood leflore(GWO), Greenwood, Usa (59.5km)
Jackson international(JAN), Jackson, Usa (178.5km)
Grider fld(PBF), Pine bluff, Usa (186.9km)
Monroe rgnl(MLU), Monroe, Usa (223.2km)
Adams fld(LIT), Little rock, Usa (260.6km)