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Sin And Punishment: Successor Of The Skies review – on the rails and off the chain
One of Treasure's best but most obscure shooters is re-released on the Wii U eShop, but does it still have that old arcade magic?
We've only done three retro reviews so far this year and two of them have been by Treasure. But despite them being one of our favourite developers we swear that's just a coincidence. Last week we re-reviewed Silent Hill 2 because of all the trouble with Silent Hills, and then the week before that we covered Treasure's Gradius V – because it happened to be being re-released on PSN at the time. But while Gradius V is certainly a great game Successor Of The Skies is even better.
Released in North America with the slightly less nonsensical subtitle of Star Successor, this second Sin And Punishment game could be viewed as the Wii's version of Bayonetta 2. Both are sequels to Japanese-made games that never sold very well, but are beloved by hardcore fans, and neither ended up doing any better than the originals. In both cases you'd assume Nintendo would've known that was what was going to happen, but for some happy reason they decided to fund them anyway.
The first Sin And Punishment was a Japanese-only N64 game, that was eventually released in Europe as a Wii Virtual Console game (for reasons best known to Nintendo it's not yet on the Wii U eShop). It was essentially an on-the-rails shooter in the mould of Space Harrier and Star Fox, and for want of a better description so is this 2010 follow-up.
You won't need to have played the original game to understand the story in this sequel though, since it's still pure gibberish. Which is little wonder given some of the things you get up to. We're actually a little surprised Treasure even bothered to pretend there is a plot, for this is clearly no interactive movie – but instead a purebred video game.
The fundamentals of Sin And Punishment are very straightforward: no matter what is going on on-screen you only move in a 2D plane – using a jetpack or hoverboard to float around at will. On top of this you aim and fire with the Wii remote cursor, just like a lightgun game. Although handily the Wii U version also adds the option to use a Pro Controller or to control and play the entire game from the GamePad.
The two (nightmare-inducingly ugly) playable characters have slightly different abilities, with Kachi the girl having an automatic lock-on system that can target multiple foes. Male lead Isa has a more powerful charged shot and wields a sword. Both are invulnerable while rolling, while one of the game's most important tricks involves batting projectiles back towards a target of your choice.
For a Treasure game that's a relatively small set of abilities, but despite their apparent simplicity the game is able to weave an experience of dizzying variety. In terms of designs enemies range from zombie robots to evil parrots and what looks like a possessed hi-fi system. But it's the variety in set pieces that really impresses, as the game switches from 2D side-scrolling to car chases to top-down Gauntlet style dungeon grinds.
End-of-level (and indeed beginning and middle) bosses are well up to Treasure's best standards and are composed of more than just the expected enemy robots and mutants. There are sword fights galore, a boss that tries to flatten you beneath Tetris blocks, and one stand-out sequence where you're handcuffed to a boss and have to fight bare-fisted.
The only prerequisite for any of these encounters is that you've never seen anything like it before, and five years later there's been nothing like it since. Apart from the terrifying-looking lead characters the graphics hold up perfectly well, and their simple but bold designs have an almost timeless quality to them – one that normally you'd only associate with 2D visuals.
Sin And Punishment is a game where nothing that happens makes the least amount of sense and everything is at the service of the gameplay and entertaining the player. Even five years ago it seemed out of step with the gaming zeitgeist, but for those that miss the days of arcade shooters, and a total disregard for realism and plausibility, this is one of the best action games of the modern era.
Sin And Punishment: Successor Of The Skies
In Short: An endlessly inventive masterclass in old school arcade action, that's always been one of the Wii's best kept secrets.
Pros: Gloriously creative visuals, levels and boss battles. Perfect controls, with some welcome new Wii U options. Good range of difficulty levels.
Cons: The co-op mode is a bit of a fudge, and if anything the levels are a bit too long for score attack. The two main characters are absolutely terrifying.
Score: 9/10
Formats: Wii U
Price: £17.99
Publisher: Nintendo
Developer: Treasure
Release Date: 30th April 2015
Age Rating: 12
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Guwahati, Dec 6 (PTI) Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and Governor Banwarilal Purohit today condoled the death of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa.
In his condolence message, Purohit termed Jayalalithaa as a leader who made all efforts to make Tamil Nadu advanced on all fronts.
"Tamil Nadu has lost a true leader and a mother, whose laudable actions developed Tamil Nadu economically. She was a symbol of strength for women who focussed primarily on the marginalised communities in society and served as the voice of the voiceless and oppressed," he said.
Sonowal said, "A very popular and dynamic leader, J Jayalalithaa was a long-serving chief minister, who served the people very passionately."
The country has lost a leader of immense potential, he says adding Jayalalithaas death is premature and untimely and is bound to create a void.
Sonowal has already sent Industry and Commerce Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary to go to Chennai to pay homage to her on behalf of the state Government. PTI TR MD AYP LNS

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HAMILTON Jordan, the former Jimmy Carter aide who has signed on as Ross Perot's campaign co-chairman, is a symbol of where American civic life is headed. Mr. Jordan's regular job is vice chairman of Whittle Communications -- the company that markets 10-minute news bites to school classrooms, and is now organizing a national chain of for-profit private schools (and hired away the president of Yale to run it).
What Chris Whittle is to education, Mr. Perot is to politics -- the displacement of civic values with the commercial values of the marketplace. As a candidate, Ross Perot is a creature of two trends that are poisonous for the civic democracy of Madison and Tocqueville -- big money and mass media.
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"He looked great but was chain-smoking so much before that he stunk like a cigarette," the source added.
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The name Manetho (Μανεθώς often Μανέθων written) can be explained as "The Truth of Thoth", and under the nineteenth
Dynasty has described as "First Priest of Truth Thot ". "Manetho" is from the Coptic "groom" "herdsman" "horse" but the word does not seem to occur elsewhere as a own name. Under the name of Manetho, the Suidas seems distinguish between two writers: Manetone of Mendes in Egypt, chief priest who wrote about the making of Kyphi and Manetho Diospolis or Sebennytus, works "A Treatise on Physical Doctrines "and" Apotelesmatica "(or Astrological
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Friday, October 31, 2008
Working Together
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor.
For if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up.
Furthermore, if two lie down together they keep warm, but how can one be warm alone?
And if one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart.
We must work together . In order to do that there must be two essential ingredients...Trust and Respect. These two things must be present in marriage, friendship, business, and our Church Fellowships. Together we can accomplish great things. Love is important but I do not believe any relationship can survive without Trust and Respect. Pray that God will help you develop these characteristics in your life, and that you will be able to recognize them in others. The guys in this picture seem to have figured it out.
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My partner wants/needs to disengage with second-line services as it's just not working for her. Her psychiatric team want to take her plan in a direction that she doesn't want, but they won't budge, so we need to disengage. The fear is that this will cause them to try to section so as to force their plan. Because she is now on Lithium second-line services have a hold on her, and the constant pressure that comes from knowing they could force hospitalisation is the main trigger for my partner at the moment, so it's just not helping.
We know and understand all the dangers involved in trying to get off Lithium, but being on Lithium is the only real thing that allows second line services to have a hold on her, so they want to keep her on lithium no matter what her wishes are.
I would really like to hear from anyone who has successfully de-escaled their case from second-line back to their GP's control, as this is what we want.
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Considering the garage door is often the most regularly used large electrical shutter in the house, it's health and wellbeing should be of a very high priority. Even the slightest malfunction with opening or closing the door could turn out to be disastrous for the homeowner. If you are the owner of a garage door opener that have had a life span of at least 15-20 years, please read on to find out if any of the given criteria is applicable to your garage door opener and if required visit websites, like garagedooropenersystem.net to get an idea of the newer, easier to operate models available in the market today.
Safety reversal feature
One of the best electrical feature in the garage door opener market is the safety reversal mechanism. The benefits of this feature cannot be over-emphasised. It comes with sensors placed on either side of the garage shutter that can pick out any object or person underneath it. When it senses any obstacle, the sensors cause it to immediately stop and reverse its motion. This ensures zero chance of any accidents that could occur while closing a shutter door. If your garage opener does not have this feature or there is a malfunction with the existing one, it is time to get a new one.
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A very good reason to upgrade to a new garage door opener would be the availability of a keypad outside the garage door which would enable you to gain entry without a remote or a key. The only requirement would be to enter a simple code into the keypad. Keypads with fingerprint touch is also available these days.
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Nobody likes to have their car stuck in the garage, but a power outage could do just that. If you own an older opener, you could operate the door manually with a bit of effort. But Garage door openers come fitted with battery backup systems these days, that start automatically when power is lost – a big advantage over the old ones.
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Ghana's fight against drug trafficking and organised crime was yesterday given a boost with the launch of a $1-million project in Accra to end the illegal operations of drug traffickers.
The two-year project, which is supported by the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC), the United States Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs and other development agencies, is to enhance the capacity of Ghanaian law enforcement personnel to counter drug trafficking and organised crime.
Drug trafficking and organised crime take various forms, including trafficking in persons, arms and narcotics, piracy, kidnapping, money laundering, trading in falsified medicines and food.
The drug trafficking and organised crime counter-project is to complement the gains of the national integrated programme (NIP) to fight transnational organised crime and strengthen the criminal justice system in Ghana, which was launched in May 2013.
The NIP outlines a shared vision of the fight against organised crime, terrorism financing and illicit trafficking, particularly the drug trade, and adopts an approach that strikes a balance between enforcement prevention and treatment.
Drug trafficking
Launching the project on behalf of the Vice-President, Mr Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, the Minister of the Interior, Mr Prosper D.K. Bani, said the borderless trend of drug trafficking called for stronger global collaboration and cooperation to fight against the crime at all levels.
"The fight, however, cannot be effective if we have weaker points in the chain of global law enforcement and this calls for capacity building," he said.
Terrorism around the world, he said, was being financed by proceeds from drug trafficking and other forms of crime and "tackling terrorism effectively means the need to dig at the roots".
Mr Bani expressed the hope that at the end of the project, Ghana's drug enforcement authorities would develop their capacities optimally to enhance the performance of their duties in combating crime.
A fact sheet distributed at the launch stated that Ghana's coastal strategic location along well-established trade routes and a large population of unemployed young men allowed organised criminal groups to traffic a wide range of illicit products, including drugs, through the country.
It said although Ghana was noted for the cultivation of cannabis, it had recently also become a trans-shipment point for Europe-bound cocaine produced from the coca plant found almost exclusively in northern and western South America.
According to the fact sheet, drug trafficking networks in Ghana developed from small structures into more sophisticated and globalised international business networks which had become well incorporated into the international drug trafficking trade.
That notwithstanding, numerous studies have indicated that capacity and technical challenges facing law enforcement agencies in Ghana hampered the effective fight against the drug menace and prosecution.
The NIP identifies major problems hindering the efforts of drug enforcement agencies as backlog in basic and specialised training, inadequate provision of modern equipment, intelligence databases and analytical software, and inadequate test kits to analyse samples or exhibits to help in prosecution.
Giving an overview of the project, the UNODC Regional Head of Enforcement, Mr Marco Teixeira, explained that the project sought to provide comprehensive support for drug law enforcement units of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service.
To improve the coverage of drug enforcement, he said, the CID would be supported to establish four new drug enforcement units at the regional level and upgrade four existing units to effectively address the challenge posed by drug trafficking.
Under the project, he said, a core group of trainers would be trained and they would in turn train other law enforcement officials to counter narcotic and organised crime.
Additionally, he said, logistics would be provided to support and equip the units to function effectively and improve the drug testing capacity and to support prosecution.
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr John Kudalor, in a speech read on his behalf, said organised crime across the globe was growing in sophistication and complexity, which poses a great threat to security and law enforcement.
"Criminal groups are becoming more organised and well-resourced and it is imperative for law enforcers to be well equipped to deal effectively with the challenges," he said.
As part of law enforcement, Mr Kudalor said, "we need to work hard to take away proceeds of criminal activities from criminals, cut off possible sources of terrorism financing and make organised crime and terrorism a very risky venture".
The Director General of the CID, Commissioner of Police (COP) Mr Proper K. Agblor, said the Ghana Police Service had resolved to trace and confiscate any economic benefit obtained from drug trafficking and organised crime in order to make it unprofitable for criminals to engage in illegal activities.
The trend of drug trafficking, he said, was changing, with more youth in Ghana becoming drug addicts and also engaging in violent crimes.
The UNODC Coordinator, Ms Christine Evans Evans-Klock, said the project was part of a broad programme to assist members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to develop and implement drug control and crime prevention strategies in the countries.
That, she said, was because drug trafficking posed serious problems for other parts of the world.
The US Ambassador to Ghana, Mr Robert Porter Jackson, was optimistic that at the end of the project, drug crime investigation, intelligence gathering and detection would improve, as the capacity of personnel of the drug enforcement units would be built.
The Executive Secretary of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB), Mr Yaw Akrasi Sarpong, cautioned that the success of the project would depend on the integrity of the personnel of the law enforcement units.
He suggested that personnel of the units should undergo regular integrity tests and that a dedicated department be created with its personnel spread within the Ghana Police Service to ensure drug law enforcement in the country.
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Clueless, Dateless, Loveless began as a 2015 paper published in the British Medical Journal's Evidence Based Medicine. Written by Chaudhry and Khan, this was their first attempt at explaining the science behind how to be successful at online dating. Since then, they have adapted the paper's content into an easy-to-read guide full of online dating help, which even includes which color to wear in the profile picture. Keep reading to learn about Chaudhry and Khan, the experts of how to date online.
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Mia Hansen-Løve's Things to Come offers the most distinctly French pleasures. These include apartment walls entirely filled with books, casual intellectual conversations, a nonchalant attitude toward unfaithfulness, and, most notably, Isabelle Huppert, who plays a resilient philosophy teacher at a high school in Paris. How not to love a film in which all characters seem to have read Arthur Schopenhauer and whose main character is a woman who needs Hannah Arendt more than she needs a man?
Such is Nathalie's (Huppert) non-plight: a journey into her erudite self-sufficiency. In the film's most Bergman-esque moment, her husband, Heinz (André Marcon), of 25 years announces, and matter of factly, that he's met someone and will live with her. Nathalie is disappointed, but hardly crushed—like someone who hears about the death of a distant relative who was ill for a long time. She has other passions after all. Her marriage isn't contingent to her satisfaction, but more of a defaulted décor to her bourgeois existence. When the husband leaves, she's most shaken by the gaps left in the living room's bookshelves. He's less of a bastard for exchanging her for a younger woman than he is for having taken her copy of Emmanuel Levinas.
Nathalie is now free to spend more time with one of her former students (Roman Kolinka), who learned to love philosophy through her. Their passion for critical thinking unites them, even if his radical idealism distances himself from her well-seasoned acquiescence. Little does it matter. Nathalie is immune to the haunting absence of men, whose tendency for abandonment fails to bruise her. Even her publisher's killing of her next volume doesn't faze her—nor does the death of her mentally ill mother (Édith Scob) unsettle her. It's not that she's cold, only practical, knowing exactly where to seek refuge.
Things to Come is a film about the ways in which the intellectual pursuit might be a woman's only guarantor against misery, against a complete dependency on others who are sure to abandon them sooner or later. The film's sensibility decidedly echoes a whole tradition of feminine writing (Camille Laurens, Annie Ernaux, Catherine Millet) concerned with women becoming conscious of their complete lack of social worth and making due with their literary abilities and language. Except here the woman refuses to wallow in her pain. She's too prepared to lose to be overcome by loss. Hansen-Løve suggests that the desire for fulfillment—of ideology through revolution, of true love through coupledom—is a cute illusion wasted on the young. And that, given women's always premature expiration date, the examined life isn't a luxury for them, but their only lifeline.
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Millions of people around the world are living with Parkinson's. But does the rest of the world know what Parkinson's is?
World Parkinson's Day 2018
On Wednesday 11 April 2018 we celebrated World Parkinson's Day to raise awareness of the condition and change attitudes.
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IDC's optimistic assessment of the IT market got further support from employment figures that Icon Recruitment released last week which showed online IT job advertisements jumped 30 percent in the first quarter.
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I believe that there are covenants that can be classified as a "covenant of grace", but I cannot hold biblically to an actual covenant of Grace, since it is not revealed in scripture explicitly and clearly. I am OK with using the description "covenant of grace" to denote God's gracious purpose over all covenants as well. God does have a "purpose of grace."
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Ann Parsley School of Dance will hold two, four week sessions. Students may attend either or both sessions. The schedule is the same for both sessions unless a class fills or is cancelled due to lack of enrollment. Students are encouraged to continue their training over the summer. Dancers who wish to enroll in a pointe class must also enroll in a ballet class. There is no proration of tuition. If you cannot attend all classes in a session you may make up a class in a different session or pay the drop in rate.
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This three hour workshop is designed for dancers beginning pointe this summer. It will cover all of the basics of pointe shoes including selecting the right fit, sewing and tying shoes as well as beginning pointe safety and technique. It is a mandatory workshop for any dancers starting pointe in the summer session. Cost is $50 cash/check, $55 credit card. Dates: Monday, June 18, 2018 from 9am-12pm.
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Ann Parsley School of Dance will be holding a summer dance workshop for ages 8 and up sponsored by the Macomb Ballet Company. The workshop will be held from August 13-18. We will be bringing in guest teachers from around the country to share their knowledge and skills with our dancers. Dancers will sharpen their skills on specific dance styles including ballet, partnering, modern, jazz and lyrical. Cost is $220 for the week, $230 credit card. Dates: August 13-17, 2018
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The Carolina Kid: Hot Model Jack Weisensel
The Blue Room by photographer Viktor KlimenkoAnd the first thing that struck me was how maturely and professionally he presents himself. He is thoughtful, cautious, deliberate and well-spoken. He has a strong will to win at anything he embarks upon. As you can see, Jack is ready for the big stage:
Jack Weisensel: I am 19, currently weighing about 182 pounds, and I am 6'1″. I have brown hair and hazel eyes, and I am signed with Next Model Management in Miami, although my home is in North Carolina.
JW: I first started with modeling because people all around me kept telling me I should. I thought I might as well give it a shot when I heard about a ProScout competition near me where agents from about 30 of the top agencies from around the world came to scout new talent. I ended up with a lot of offers from the get go, and eventually came to the decision to sign with New York Model Management at age 15. After I turned 18, I decided I wanted to market myself in a new area and contacted Next who originally told me they wanted to sign me, but not until after I turned 18.
JW: My ultimate career goal is to be able to live a comfortable lifestyle while I continue to better myself every day. Whether it is modeling, acting, a salaried job… my ultimate goal is to just be able to live and be happy in the moment.
What is it that you like so much about modeling?
JW: Modeling has given me a great opportunity that not very many people get to do in their lives, and it allows me to be flexible in everything else that I choose to do in life. I always talked about traveling to see new places when I was younger, and modeling has kind of given me a reason to go out and do that.
JW: School was never really a big issue for me. I could have taken more edgy images before and felt no different. I actually just started college, but I am doing it all online to remain flexible for modeling and travel plans. As for the images, I like the edgy appearance but I don't know just how much of it will appear in my work quite yet.
How have friends and family reacted to you modeling? That's not something every young man in North Carolina does. J
JW: I have gotten all sorts of feedback from my modeling career. Anything from friends and family being extremely supportive, to friends making joking stabs, to people all around the world starting to follow and support my work. The biggest help behind the scenes is my family, my girlfriend, and my agents pushing me towards what is going to benefit me the most in this line of work.
JW: I don't know that I have any specific photographers that I'd dream to shoot with. William Lords was the first photographer that I ever shot with and at that point I think I was still learning the ropes. I was really young around the time we shot, and I would really like to get the chance to shoot with him again! Viktor Klimenko has really helped out recently with building my book as we both are currently in NC, and Zach Alston has helped along the way as well.
JW: The shoot with Viktor was really different for me, but really great at the same time. This wasn't the first time I shot with Viktor, so I already knew he had some sort of work of art planned out when he contacted me again. I don't know if this was an unveiling of a new me as much as a different side of me. In this career you have to learn to adapt and turn into the picture that is supposed to be portrayed. I fully plan on having more shoots like this as well as others. I like showing variety in my work! It keeps things interesting to me.
JW: My whole life was revolved around sports for the longest time, and I never really had a fashion style before modeling really started picking up for me. The only real style I prefer is in the shoots I do, and that is the more classic look. I like the suit and tie concept, probably because I never really wear that outside of photography. A lot of my work has been based around a more high fashion/New York look because of the photographers I have shot with. I have so many different looks I have worked with that I don't really settle for one that I like. I like to switch up what I look like every day!
JW: Like the photographers, I don't know that I really have a modeling inspiration per say… The people that support me are my inspiration! I originally got into this career because of other people, and besides that I just kind of do my thing. Trailing behind what other people look like and what other people do isn't going to make you stand out from the crowd, and if you're just another person in the crowd, how will you ever get noticed?
JW: My grandfather was a Ford mechanic for the better part of his life, and my dad has had a strong connection with the brand ever since. This brought strong feelings into my house about Ford vehicles and kind of passed on through me and my siblings. I like sports cars, but even more so muscle cars, so what better to choose than a Ford Mustang? The fact that my high school mascot was a mustang was just a coincidence. I originally had a yellow mustang until I totaled it after I hit an oil spot on the highway after a big storm. No other car felt right to me, so I'm now back in another mustang, and loving every second of it.
JW: I was a wide receiver and a safety while I played football. I got injured junior year, and as gruesome as it sounds, the best way to describe it is that I snapped my ankle in half after being hit from behind. I had emergency surgery, and I only returned to sports for half a season of basketball. I made the conscious decision after that to focus more on modeling and put sports aside.
Upon reflection, describe your personality.
JW: I see myself as a fun person, but extremely serious when it comes down to business. If I see something I want I go after it, and I won't give up until I've got it.
JW: I don't think there are any shockers about me because I'm a pretty open person. So just to throw something out there, a lot of people might not know that I own a dog that is a Great Dane/English Mastiff mix named Josie, and she weighs about 150 pounds.
Now the Flash Bulb Round…..quick responses:
- Favorite all-time action film? Comedy? Tearjerker? Step Brothers. The Lucky One.
- Most famous persons whom you have met? Anastasia Roark
- The 2 exercises that you find most beneficial to you? Chest flies, and hanging leg raises
- Favorite underwear brand & style? Penguin briefs for comfortability
- Favorite sin food? Reeses!!!
- Top 2 places a first time visitor to North Carolina should be sure to see: Any country side in the fall, and the Appalachain Mountains
- Your biggest vice? Loud cars
- What physical feature(s) do people compliment you on the most? My smile
- Price is no object…what is the car you absolutely must purchase? A Lykan Hypersport
JW: Instagram is by far the best way to contact me to request shoots or follow my work. It's my most active account. My username is Jack_Weisensel


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NYC's handsome Insta-studs the Zakar Twins made up one of my most popular posts of 2017.
Their new memoir, Pray the Gay Away, stars the boys' mother, who refers to them as her two biggest regrets and tries to pray the gay away.
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"Mom knows." A simple text that would change two twin brothers' lives forever. Coming out is hard. The struggle is ongoing, a daily part of life whether to a new friend, a co-worker, or most importantly yourself. Pray the Gay Away chronicles Michael and Zach as they face awkward sexual encounters, drug-fueled escapades, coming out to each other, and their biggest foe - Mom, a woman who not only gave birth to what she calls one regret - but two. The memoir hilariously and poignantly explores what it's like growing up as gay, Iraqi twins in modern America. Pray the Gay Away was inspired the night Mom snuck into their bedroom and force fed them "holy grapes," determined to "de-gay" them. The Zakar Twins are new voices speaking out against generations, particularly within the Iraqi culture, who look down on being gay. This book is not only for the LBGTQ community, but for young adults, looking to achieve normalcy.
So the next time you're drooling over an Instagram account, don't take it for granted that the guy or guys you're staring at have it easy just because they've got 100,000s of followers.
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BA (Hons) Film Practice graduate Ayo Akingbade has been selected for the Sundance Institute Ignite Fellowship 2018, securing a place at the festival and a year-long mentorship with the prestigious institute.
Filmmaker and artist Ayo, who was born and raised in Hackney, experiments with a range of media and combines analogue techniques with digital processes. Her graduate project 'Tower XYZ', which she submitted to the fellowship competing with 800 other applicants, received a Special Mention Award at International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and was screened at BFI Southbank.
Ayo began making films as she failed to see ones which spoke to her lived experience. 'Tower XYZ' explores themes like gentrification and social cleansing through her own eyes. Through such work, Ayo has been able to express her voice and identity, and establish herself as a successful, young British Nigerian filmmaker.
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Self-esteem is an individuals actions, thoughts, and feelings towards self. It is an individuals sense of personal worth and is derived mainly from inner thoughts and values. Self-esteem is composed of such factors as self-worth, self-competence, and self-acceptance.
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Between Aaron and Reese, I will probably one day have enough material to write several books and complete a 2-year tour as a stand-up comedian. Although, they both have some very funny moments, Reese's prayer a couple of weeks ago stuck in my brain and won't leave. It was at the time Granddaddy was in the hospital and Grandmother's knee surgery was rapidly approaching. Now, to appreciate this, you have to understand Reese. She will talk to me on the phone, but when she tires of the conversation (approximately 5-6 seconds) runs away from the phone, yelling over her shoulder - "Byebyeiloveyou". Apparantley, Reese's bedtime prayers are as short-lived as many of her telephone conversations.
Dear God,
Thank you for my family.
I imagine this is stated very quickly and without much hesitation. Let's face it, she's a girl who knows exactly what she wants and precisely what she desires to say.
Katrina recently was telling me about Reese's "extended" prayer. Now, extended for Reese and Aaron is all of 10-12 seconds.
Dear God,
Thank you for my family, Thank you for Granddaddy in the hospital and making him better. Thank you for Grandmother's hurt knee. Whaaaat?????
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.
Now, I've heard this most of my life. The "all circumstances" part has been something I've really tried to grasp over the past few months in my life. Think about it. All circumstances - the 9/11 attack, earthquakes in Haiti, tsunamis taking the life of thousands within minutes, diagnosis from a doctor that the cancer is everywhere and they're stopping all treatments to send you home on morphine - the list goes on and on.
Was Reese glad that her great-grandfather was in the hospital? Absolutely not. However, she held high expectations for God to work. She was thankful for how He would heal Granddaddy. Does she understand all this? Well, she is a pretty smart little lady, who knows?
Thoughts of Reese's thankful heart have consumed me lately.Any tragic situation I can think of is not one where God will abandon. He's there all the time. I should be thankful for that. On those days that I feel as if a category 5 hurricane is about to make landfall on my soul, God will work. He will do something mighty. I might not see it immediately, but He's still there. He will carry me through. Remaining thankful in all things proves quite difficult sometimes. My aunt always told me that hard times will make you "better or bitter". She often reminded me it is a choice that I make. Thankfulness is a choice that I make. To be honest, I don't really know how thankful I was for the actual attacks on 9/11. However, in retrospect, I've heard stories of how God moved in a mighty way in people's lives. We witnessed selfless individuals rise to the aid of complete strangers. Now I don't know about you, but I have some days almost given up on the self-centered society we live in. 9/11 was a day when God restored that urgency to share the gospel in people like me who had grown lazy in this effort. Think about the people already sent to Haiti just in the past few weeks. Many more will be traveling that way I expect. They perhaps would not have gone without the devestation caused by earthquakes. Some of these will share the gospel and the love of Jesus with those so desperatly longing for His love and saving grace.
Maybe sometimes, I try to "overspiritualize" things - yes, April and Katrina, I know that's not really a word. That verse said to be thankful IN all circumstances. I don't necessarily need to spout off to everyone that I'm thankful for the death of a loved one, or earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, etc. Being thankful for how God will work and guide me in all those circumstances is how I'll attempt to accomplish this. Although, I'm messing up quite a bit. The last part of that verse was about God's will for us. He wants us to be thankful and joyful.
I was not really thankful when Aaron and John Curtis would NOT go to sleep tonight. However, I'm trying to remind myself to remain thankful for what God will teach me through this. A particular individual suggested that I'm not very patient, and God's using that to "grow you in that area". Maybe so........although I'm not enjoying it, I'll try to remember and be thankful what I'll learn in the process.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
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A faithful yet abstract telling of the story of a well-meaning scientist and physician whose scientific experiments unleash his evil nature, which emerges in his alter ego, this Edgar Award-nominated play includes six roles: four males and two females, several of whom play multiple characters throughout.
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Several years ago, I began a tradition with my uncle. On his birthday, I flood him with questions pertaining to the year that has passed and what he has learned over the course of the last 365 days. I ask him questions like: "What have you learned?" "What were you most grateful for?" "What are your goals for the next 365?"
He answers all of my questions patiently and, sometimes, begrudgingly.
When it comes time for my birthday, he does the same, asking me: "How have you grown?" "When were you proudest?" "Any regrets?"
This year, I expected something similar and I had even prepared some answers for the questions I predicted he would ask. I was excited and anxious to tell him all I had learned, how I had hit rock bottom, but my faith, friends, and family helped me build a foundation again. How I learned to be grateful each and every day for a big, blue sky and the warm honey of my dog's eyes. How I was adopting play into my life again and beginning to lose (or, perhaps, loosen) the Type-A, perfectionist gene that chained the first 29 years of my life.
Little did I know, he didn't ask me any of the questions he and I regurgitated to each other every July 31 and November 13. We sat through dinner with talk only of the amazing calamari, the richness of the chicken parm (chicken saltimbocca, in my case), and the craziness of work. We hugged outside of the restaurant and got into our separate cars to drive home. When he arrived at my house a few hours later, we sat through a movie with talk only of its ludicrousness. (It was one of the Fast and Furious movies. My brother's choosing, not my own.)
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I thought for a moment and then replied: "On a precipice."
He nodded, satisfied, because he knew that this was the most honest answer I could give. It explained a lot, despite its ambiguity. It hinted of potential, but of uncertainty. New adventures and new paths taken on partially-blind faith. It spoke of fear, yes, but of hope.
In my early twenties, a situation like mine would have driven me to the brink of insanity. I lived my life needing to know. Needing certainty. I needed to know the exact amount of hours each new job requires, the exact amount of pay each one offers, the exact plan for each moment I spend in the classroom, the exact future of each personal relationship, the exact moment everything will go right, and that I will be exactly fine when things inevitably come crashing down on me.
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Watchmen is generally regarded as one of the best graphic novels ever produced, if not the very best. Fans agree that every self-respecting comic reader needs to give the book a thorough read-through. And yet, we never cease to be amazed at how many readers confess to never having read Watchmen. In turn, the upcoming movie is already attracting new Watchmen readers by the thousands. Regardless of whether you support the idea of a movie or not, that can only be a good thing.
With so many new readers jumping in, we figured it might be a good idea to sort through the numerous versions of the trade and tell you which ones are most worth your money. As it runs out, there are no less than half a dozen ways to read Watchmen these days, so we don't blame some readers for feeling a bit confused. In addition, we've provided a short roundup of all the major Watchmen merchandise planned for the coming months, including the numerous companion books and action figures.
We can only hope that this guide encourages a few more lazy readers to head to the bookstore and finally give Watchmen a look. It's about time.
Part 1 – Reading the Watchmen
Method 1 – The Single Issues
That said, in January, DC will be reprinting issue #1 at the original cover price of $1.50. Aside from nicer printing quality, the reprint will be very similar to the original. This is a nice method of experiencing the first chapter in its original format. DC won't be reprinting the subsequent 11 issues, though, so don't go thinking completing your collection will be that easy.
In short, unless the hunt is half the fun for you, don't bother trying to collect the individual issues.
Method 2 – The Trade Paperback
Just be forewarned, there are two versions of the trade paperback floating around. When DC published Watchmen: The Absolute Edition, they took the time to improve the coloring, giving each page a more vibrant look. Eventually this new coloring found its way into the paperback. This newer edition is preferable, though buyers may have a hard time distinguishing between the two by the cover alone. When in doubt, consult the printing date inside the book. If the trade was printed in the last year or two, it's probably the newer version.
Method 3 – The Absolute Edition
The inner contents are every bit as appealing. As we mentioned, the Absolute Edition was the showcase for the new and improved coloring. In addition, the larger pages are a terrific showcase for Dave Gibbons' incredibly detailed panels. The copious amount of bonus material highlights the creative process, including excerpts from the original scripts and glimpse at the unreleased action figure prototypes.
In short, if you have the money, this is really the version to go with.
Method 4 – The International Edition
That mans this version is only for completionists. It's no better or worse than the regular trade paperback, depending on your opinion of the new cover. With the North American version being much more readily available, and with the differences between the two being so negligible, there's no reason to go through the trouble of acquiring this one.
Method 5 – The Standard Hardcover
We assume some readers will find this option attractive. At $35, the hardcover is certainly cheaper than the Absolute Edition. However, we're of the mindset that, if you're going to spring a little extra for quality, why not go all the way? If Watchmen doesn't deserve an Absolute investment, what book does?
Method 6 – The Motion Comic
Comic publishers have dallied in the realm of animated comics many times in the past. Their aim is always to make a comic book more visually dynamic and appealing while still retaining its original structure. Warner Premiere is making a concerted effort in this field with its new line of Motion Comics. The line was kicked off with the first chapter of Watchmen.
Because DC has literally animated each panel and given the characters voices, this project still counts a a legitimate incarnation of Watchmen and not just an adaptation. At least, we say it does. The whole story is there, in any case. Whether this Motion Comic business is an ideal way of experiencing the story is another matter entirely.
It's certainly an interesting endeavor, and it's a good way of convincing the ADD crowd to "read" Watchmen. On the other hand, the decision to have one male voice actor provide voices for every character is questionable. Silk Spectre never sounded so masculine in our heads. Potential buyers can decide for themselves, as the first episode is free to view on iTunes. Episodes cost $1.99 a piece, and all 12 can be purhased for $19.99, but the quality of the episodes leaves a little to be desired. This is definitely a "try before you buy" as far as we're concerned, and you really ought to give the book a shot first (c'mon... reading isn't that annoying).


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In all its probability content strategy sets a path to create, distribute and track the usage of content in relation to the buyer's journey and the marketing touch points in the sales funnel. In her book, Selling with Noble Purpose: How to Drive Revenue and Do Work That Makes You Proud, author Lisa Earle McLeod writes that the more purpose-driven a company is, the more successful it becomes. Producing content that is thoughtful and useful can help sales people sell more.
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