Jennifer first explored Pilates as a professional dancer in 1994 and since has had extensive training and experience. In 1998 she began teaching the Pilates Method, in 2000 she took on a senior instructor role for Pilates International Sydney. Jennifer then completed her formal International Certification through the Body Arts & Science Professional Program in 2002 before upgrading to the formal qualification of Diploma of Professional Pilates Practice in 2005. Jennifer holds Certificate IV in Assessment & Workplace Training and is a leading Faculty member and Principal Trainer for PilatesITC. Having moved to Melbourne in 2008 then Principal Instructor for Daily Pilates, she continued to be a Teacher Trainer & Educator for PilatesITC and concurrently undertaking her Masters in Choreography at Melbourne University. In 2010 Pilates International accredited the highest ever Pilates qualification at Advanced Diploma, which Jennifer successfully completed in the faculty Upgrade Program.


On a device that looks more like a flying carpet than a surfboard, Don Montague shows us that the future of of surfing goes beyond playing at the coastlines. His 'Jetfoiler' hovers above the water and is driven by an electric motor.
''Jetfoiling is very easy, everybody is able to do it. With a remote control in your hand, you control the speed of your Jetfoiling board. If you have enough speed, you just lean backwards and the board will rise out of the water'' tells the inventor living in San Francisco.
Don Montague is an all-time windsurf legend and for years he worked on big technological developments in wind- and kitesurfing. He is also the founding father of the kiteboat, a catamaran that flies over the water and moves with the huge kite it's connected to. With his kiteboat he plans to set a new world record time, sailing from Los Angeles to Hawaii at the end of this year.
Recently he sold his company, named Makani, to Google X. Makani (Hawaiian for 'wind') produces green energy high in the sky with their 'kiteloops'.


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China Tries Ethnic Mongolian Historian For Genocide Book, in Secret
Ethnic Mongolian historian and author Lhamjab A. Borjigin, 74, who is facing for prosecution for "separatism" and "sabotaging national unity," in undated photo.
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Chinese authorities in the northern region of Inner Mongolia have tried an ethnic Mongolian writer in secret on "separatism" charges, a rights group said on Friday.
Lhamjab A. Borjigin, 75, stood trial on April 4 on charges of "separatism" and "sabotaging national unity," the New York-based Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center (SMHRIC) reported.
"The trial started at 9:00 a.m. on April 4 and ended around 12:00 p.m. at the Shiliinhot Municipal People's Court," the group quoted a recorded audio message from Lhamjab as saying.
"None of my family members were allowed to attend," he said. "I was denied the right to bring my lawyer to defend myself."
A native of Heshigten Banner, a county-like division in Inner Mongolia, and a member of the state-backed Shiliingol League Literary Association, Lhamjab has been a prominent voice in ethnic Mongolian culture in China, as well as documenting the region's oral history.
He specializes in survivor testimonies of the political violence and social chaos of the Cultural Revolution, publishing his book "China's Cultural Revolution" in 2006.
Lhamjab said he had refused to speak Chinese during the court proceedings, and had "reluctantly" been allowed to bring an interpreter into the courtroom.
"It was a typical closed-door trial," Lhamjab said. "Only eight people, namely three judges, three procurators, myself and my interpreter were present in the small courtroom with the door tightly closed."
Lhamjab has rejected the charges pending against him, saying that he only wrote the historical truth.
Case directly ordered by regional government
The court has yet to announce its verdict in the case, which was brought under direct orders from the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region government, according to Lhamjab.
"When the [prosecutors] accused me of engaging in 'national separatism,' 'sabotaging national unity' and 'illegal publication and illegal distribution,' I defended myself by asking whether those who committed the genocide in [Inner] Mongolia or the ones like myself who talked about this genocide should be considered [to be] 'sabotaging national unity'," he said.
"The [prosecutors] candidly told me that it is not up to them," Lhamjab said. "It was because the Autonomous Region Public Security Bureau and State Security Bureau are pressuring them to prosecute me on these charges."
Lhamjab said he had maintained his innocence throughout the trial, and refused to plead guilty to any of the charges.
"I am determined to appeal to the highest court because this is an unjust trial not only against me but also against our entire Southern Mongolians who have been subjected to a series of mass killing and political persecution but are not even allowed to speak of these atrocities."
For his book, Lhamjab gathered oral testimonies of survivors of violence against ethnic Mongolians during the Cultural Revolution, a task that took him 20 years.
The book accuses the ruling Chinese Communist Party of state-sponsored genocide in the region, detailing torture techniques and detentions in a brutal campaign that claimed the lives of at least 27,900 people and imprisoned and tortured 346,000.
Lhamjab published the book unofficially, at his own expense, after state-run Chinese publishing houses refused to publish it.
"The book became popular among Mongolians not only in [Inner] Mongolia, but also in the [neighboring] independent country of Mongolia," SMHRIC said.
Destroying nomadic civilization
Last year, an abridged audio version of the book went viral among ethnic Mongolians on Chinese social media platforms, especially WeChat, the group said.
The authorities began confiscating copies of the book and placed Lhamjab under house arrest on July 11, 2018.
The writers' group PEN America has called on Beijing to drop the charges and release Lhamjab.
Ethnic Mongolians in exile have repeatedly also called on Chinese authorities to end human rights violations, systematic and institutionalized discrimination against ethnic Mongolians within China's borders, as well as longstanding policies aimed at ending their traditional, nomadic way of life.
In a submission to the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), which is currently reviewing Beijing's record, SMHRIC called on the Chinese government to release all ethnic Mongolian prisoners of conscience, including members of herding communities who have been "arbitrarily arrested, detained, and imprisoned for defending their grazing land from illegal appropriation."
The group is calling for the immediate withdrawal of all "extractive industries, tourist companies and power plants that not only occupy and appropriate large tracts of Mongolian grazing lands, but also devastate the ecosystem, deplete the underground water and pollute the air and water."
It is also campaigning against the Chinese authorities' "massive propaganda campaign to justify their destruction of nomadic civilization and ... the natural environment."
Chinese government policies, the group said, are "based on deep-seated discrimination that characterizes Mongolian pastoralism as 'backward, archaic, unscientific and uncivilized' way of life and advertises the Chinese way of life as 'advanced, civilized and scientific'."
The authorities should also prosecute "hate crimes and hate speech by Chinese individuals, private or public entities and government bodies against Mongolian language, customs, tradition, way of life and identity," it said.
Reported by Wu Jing for RFA's Mandarin Service, and by the Cantonese Service. Translated and edited by Luisetta Mudie.
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Good morning everyone. Today it's Tuesday, and we're still in 2014, but by the time you read this it will be 1st January 2015 (or after!), so Happy New Year! I hope you all had an amazing time last night.
As you can see, I'm loving chunky gold buckles right now, and the block boots are sporting three of those bad boys. The heel isn't very big, so they're super comfy to wear. Thigh boots are one of this season's hottest trends, and these look great with skinny jeans, or a sweater dress. My snow boots are like a god send, and I can't get enough of these. They seem to be able to tackle all kinds of weather (think jumping in puddles just like you did as a kid!), and my feet and lower legs never get wet. You can't go wrong with a bit of faux fur to keep those tootsies nice and snug (as a bug in a rug!), and that's why I love my strappy shoe boots. Not only that, despite having massive heels, they are incredibly easy to wear. In fact I can't believe they are now only £20.00 in the sales. What a bargain.
Do you love winter boots as much as me?


How come they are soooooo slow to come out with any new phones at Costco?
Does SPCS use Costco's as a liquidation center?
> How come they are soooooo slow to come out with any new phones at Costco?
> Does SPCS use Costco's as a liquidation center?
Almost. Certainly Costco will pick up models they can get at a discount.
is related to supply and subsidy.
the best deal on good merchandise? Go to Costco.
> the best deal on good merchandise? Go to Costco.


Cains Advocates Limited has announced the enlargement of its board of directors by the appointment of Scott Leonard-Morgan and Steven Quayle. Following the changes in ownership announced in July, the appointment of Scott and Steven, who became directors from 9 November 2018, and the recent recruitment of George Walmsley as a trainee advocate, are all part of a planned recalibration of the business.
Scott, who successfully qualified as an Isle of Man Advocate this year, was previously a partner at an award winning US law firm before joining Cains in 2015. He has over 20 years of international experience in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and corporate finance work. In addition Scott has extensive experience in the technology and financial regulatory sectors. Scott said "This is a very exciting time for Cains and I am looking forward to joining the board of the Island's premier independent law firm and contributing to its future success".
Steven trained with Cains and qualified as an Advocate in 2004, since when he has developed his own specialist practice as the Island's leading aviation practitioner. Steven is the only Isle of Man lawyer currently ranked in Chambers Global shortlist of leading private aviation lawyers and Who's Who Legal Aviation guide. On his appointment to the board, Steven remarked that "Cains was prepared to take a chance on recruiting me when I was a student looking to return to the Island in 2002, and subsequently invested heavily in my professional development. I am pleased to be joining the board at this new and exciting time for the firm and to have the opportunity to work with my fellow directors in developing and growing the business".
George is currently working as a trainee in Cains' corporate department, where he has already been involved in a variety of complex international transactions.


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The second half of Season IX is upon us!
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Pro League returns this January!
The final schedule of Rainbow Six Pro League Season IX is ready! The best teams from Europe, North America and Latin America will once again fight for glory and international fame in the upcoming Pro League Season IX! The new, updated schedule has been finalised and we are happy to
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Pro League Season 8 returns in full force!
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The first half of Season 8 has concluded
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Sign up for Challenger League qualifiers
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Six Major Paris qualifiers begin June 22
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2017 Huron County Fair
'We had the largest crowd I've ever seen' at demo derby
Zoe Greszler • Updated Aug 20, 2017 at 9:54 PM
Another successful and exciting week of the Huron County Fair has been logged in the books.
There was something for everyone all week — from rising country star Tucker Beathard performing in concert to annual favorites such as the sheriff's K-9 demonstration, fair food and rides, the demolition derby and plenty of Junior Fair shows for the whole family to enjoy.
"It went good. The tractor pull really brought a lot of people and the grand stand was just packed," said board member Randy Miller.
That wasn't the biggest event, however.
Saturday night's demo derby produced "the largest crowd I've ever seen," fair board president Bob Morgan said.
"The rough truck and demo derby brought the most people," he added.
Attendance figures for Saturday and the week overall weren't available Sunday, fair officials said. Those numbers are expected to be announced today.
"They were all good shows, but the demo derby (Saturday) night was just absolutely full. It was a good crowd every night. We ended up better and with more than we had last year. There were more dollars through the gate than we had last year. You never know what will draw people. You just try things."
Morgan said he's pretty sure the extra parking extension completed earlier this month helped with that success. Despite the extra lot, the crowd was so large Saturday, he said they were still "tucking people in everywhere, every corner we could."
"The extra parking really took a lot of pressure off the back lot, and we'll clear another section for next year," he said. "It takes a lot to clear all that off —cutting down all the trees, then you have to get rid of all the stumps. It's a lot of time. It was all summer working on that."
In addition to yet more parking space, a few more improvements might be in the works.
"We're always looking to improve on things," Miller said. "Like right now, we're discussing arrangements for (the entrance welcome board). It's been here for quite a few years and it's starting to fall apart."
"Next year, this will be something different," Morgan added. "It's the first thing you see when you drive in here. It used to be nice, but just over time it's falling a part. The posts are starting to shift. Make it a little nicer and try to do what we can."
The hot weather and some "behind-the-scenes" issues posed the biggest challenges but nothing the board wasn't prepared to help.
"With the challenges, it was a very entertaining week," Morgan said with a laugh. "You never know what's going to come up in the next five minutes. It changes all the time. … You try to please the most you can, but not everyone is always going to be pleased, so you just do your best to please the most people."
In all, the board said the week went well and, after some time to "recover" from this past week, they'll be ready to start preparing for the 2018 fair.
"It was a real good week. People came out and supported us," Morgan said.
"We'd like to thank everybody for all their help," the fair board president added. "There are 31 of us, but we still can't do it all. There's a lot of people that volunteer. Without all the volunteers, we really couldn't do it. There's just no way. It's just too much."


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Dr. Dre Reportedly Still In ICU A Week After Suffering From A Brain Aneurysm
Roommates, we are continuing to keep Dr. Dre lifted in prayer as he continues to heal from having a brain aneurysm.
According to TMZ, sources close to Dre have revealed that he is still in ICU at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The source added that doctors have continued to run a number of tests to figure out what caused the problem. Therefore, doctors want him to remain in ICU to closely monitor his condition and to prevent things from getting worse.
However, it is being reported that Dre is resting comfortably, and the source added that doctors have already informed his family that a "bad outcome" doesn't appear to be on the horizon.
As previously reported, he was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center last week Monday and taken to ICU as doctors worked to figure out what caused the bleeding.
Shortly after the news about his hospitalization started to make its rounds, Dre posted a thank you message to his Instagram and said, "I'm doing great and getting excellent care from my medical team. I will be out of the hospital and back home soon. Shout out to all the great medical professionals at Cedars. One Love!!"
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Prior to the news that Dre was hospitilized, it was revealed that his estranged wife Nicole Young had filed court documents detailing that he has $262 million, as she continued to fight for spousal support. In the end, after his brain aneurysm, Dre finally agreed to pay Nicole $2 million in temporary spousal support. He was a able to negotiate a deal that would allow him to write her a one-time check for the $2 million and that's all he'll pay, at least until their next divorce hearing in April.
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Periodical: La France Antimaconnique
Summary From Pat Deveney's database:
La France Antimacconique
France Chretienne, La.
Revue Catholique Hebdomadaire / Revue bi-mensuelle, organe de l'Union Antimaconnique / Revue Hebdomadaire, Antimaconnique et Antisemite, Organe du Conseil Antimaconnique de France.
Other titles: La France Chretienne Antimaconnique / La France Antimaconnique
1889-1914 Weekly, then bimonthly, then weekly
Paris, France. Language: French. Publisher: Tequi; Conseil antimaconnique de France.
Succeeds: Jeanne d'Arc (1890); La Petite Guerre (1887-1889) -> Le Petit Catholique (1889)
Corporate author: Organe de l'Union antimaconnique / Organe du Conseil antimaconnique de France
5/11, December 1889-28/30, July 23, 1914.
The volume numbering continues that of the antecedent journals combined to form this: La Petite Guerre: Organe Populaire de la Lutte Contra la Franc-Maconnerie (1887-1889) -> Le Petit Catholique (1889), and Jeanne d'Arc: Journal des Francaises (1890). 12-16 pages (irregular), 6 francs a year. Taxil (the pseudonym of the journalist and hoaxer Gabriel-Antoine Jogand-Pages, 1854-1907) founded the journal and folded into it several small Catholic anti-Republican and anti-Semitic journals. He later went on to publish Le Diable au XIXe Siecle and Revue Mensuelle Religieuse, Politique, Scientifique in which he, along with Charles Hacks-with whom he published as "Dr. Bataille"-outlined the existence of Diana Vaughan and the secret Masonic cabal seeking to rule the world. In January 1897, Abel Clarin de la Rive (1855-1914) took over the editorship and continued to run the journal until his death, concentrating his attention on the "Jewish-Masonic conspiracy" that, he believed, ruled France and sought the suppression of Christianity. In June 1910, the journal changed its title to La France Chretienne Antimaconnique, and changed it again in 1911 to La France Antimaconnique. In 1910, Rene Guenon began to contribute to the journal, and in 1913 and 1914 he authored (usually as "Sphinx") a series of important articles on Dante, the production of numbers, and the High Grades of Masonry, and other topics. This collaboration is curious and has prompted much speculation because Guenon was himself an occultist, neo-Gnostic Bishop, and high-grade Mason (though an irregular one). The journal is also important because it has the lengthy documentary collection of attacks on H.P. Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society: Swami Narad Mani, Chef de l'Observatoire secret europeen de la "True Truth Samaj" d'Adyar, "Bapteme de Lumiere, Notes pour servir a l'Histoire de la Societe dite Theosophique," October 1911-February 1912 (now re-published by Arche in Milan). It also published Clarin de la Rive's fifteen-part compilation "Francmaconnerie et Societes Secretes" and "Notice sur les diverses Societes Secretes americaines que ne sont officilellement rattaches a la Maconnerie" that ran from June 1912 to July 1914. In both of these Guenon's hand (and that of his mentor F.Ch. Barlet) can be seen, though most of the information came from S.C. Gould's Miscellaneous Notes and Queries. The journal also became involved in the internecine fights among Martinists, neo-Gnostics, irregular Masons, et al., over the the validity of the Swedenborgian Rite and the Rites of Memphis and Misraim, and over the expulsion of Guenon and others from the Ordre Martiniste and Papus's irregular Masonry in the spring of 1909. See the notes under Reveil des Albigeois, Hiram, La Gnose, and L'Acacia. Dorbon 1714. BNF.
Issues: La France Antimaconnique V25 N42 Oct 19 1911
La France Antimaconnique V25 N43 Oct 26 1911
La France Antimaconnique V25 N44 Nov 3 1911
La France Antimaconnique V25 N49 Dec 7 1911
La France Antimaconnique V25 N50 Dec 14 1911
La France Antimaconnique V26 N2 Jan 11 1912
La France Antimaconnique V26 N9 Feb 29 1912
La France Antimaconnique V28 N30 Jul 23 1914


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Today is Equal Pay Day – but there's no reason to celebrate
Written by: Emma Lunn
'Equal Pay Day' marks the point of the year when women stop earning relative to men – from now until the end of the year women are effectively working for free due to the gender pay gap.
The gender pay gap is the difference between the average pay of men and women within a particular group or population. Equal Pay Day is a national campaign led by the Fawcett Society.
The society uses the mean, full-time, hourly gender pay gap for the UK to calculate the gender pay gap for Equal Pay Day which this year is 11.9%, an increase from 10.6% last year.
As part of this year's Equal Pay Day 2021 campaign, the Fawcett Society is calling on employers to take the #EndSalaryHistory pledge and stop asking new recruits how much they were paid in their previous jobs.
It says that asking for salary history "is a recruitment practice that bakes in gender, race and disability inequality". It says it is self-perpetuating system that allows for biases. Rather than offering a salary based on skills, experience and performance, but on an individual perceived worth and negotiating skills.
Maike Currie, investment director at Fidelity International, said: "Female-centric industries were hit hard by furlough and job losses, with women also shouldering most of the unpaid work, including childcare and elderly care. Fidelity International's research found 23% of women in the UK saw a drop in their income during the pandemic, with an average £463 lost per month. Over the course of a year that could equate to £5,556 – close to a quarter of the average annual salary for women (£21,186).
"Despite the long-term trend being a positive one – the pay gap in 2018 was 13.9% – there is a risk that the pandemic will cause enduring ramifications for women, with 28% saving less, 17% investing less, and 13% contributing less towards their pension during the pandemic.
"Next April's increase to the National Living Wage has hit headlines, and while this is an improvement for workers and families, the real issue for women remains salary disparity."
Scottish Widows published a report earlier this week about the gender pensions gap. It found that women need to save an extra £185,000 to achieve the same retirement income as men.
It found that even if we closed the gender saving gap completely, pension equality would still not be achieved.
Jackie Leiper, managing director of workplace savings at Scottish Widows, said: "There are ways to help level the playing field – from enhancing maternity pensions to offering better parental leave and financial support for childcare – so that women are no longer financially penalised for raising a family. Of course, we must also tackle the larger structural issues in our society, like the gender pay gap. Pension inequality is not just an issue for women to resolve, structural unfairness affects us all and needs the collective efforts of everyone to resolve this persistent imbalance."
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Christian Nationalists Aim to Dismantle this Core Freedom
Don't Let Bigoted Campaigns Sour You to the Revolutionary Idea of Religious Freedom
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Mormon Statement on Feminism is Relevant and Timely… But Only by Coincidence
Is Trying Really Good Enough? 'The Good Place' Has a C-word Problem
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A Devil's Dozen of the Best 'New Religion Journalism' Books of the Decade
Books to Give this Holiday Season to Help Understand the World We've Found Ourselves in (and to Help Reimagine a Better One)
Catholic Anti-Nuke Activists Looking at 20 Years in Prison a True Test for Religious Freedom
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By Sarah Posner OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah Posner, Uncategorized January 12, 2016
Cruz-Induced Angst and Christian Virtue
Poor David Brooks. He wants to write about what ails the evangelical affection for Ted Cruz and what he sees as a tenuous relationship with Christian virtue, but he seems to misapprehend that compassionate conservatism is so 2000. In today's column, he laments that Cruz boasts impressive polling numbers among evangelical voters, but that "in his career and public presentation Cruz is a stranger to most of what would generally be considered the Christian virtues: humility, mercy, compassion and grace."
I would like very much to live in a bubble with idealized religion, but alas, I have a penchant for writing about politics. Politicians, yes, of both parties, no matter how much they talk about God and faith, have a penchant for wanting to win campaigns. Pertinent example: last month, the Times unearthed a debate prep memo Cruz prepared for then-candidate George W. Bush in 1999, in which he took a softer stance on immigration than he does today. Cruz told a Princeton alumni magazine the following year that "one of the reasons I was so eager to help Bush is the way he has described himself, as a compassionate conservative," adding, "that's how I have always conceived of my own political views."
You don't hear much talk of compassionate conservatism on the 2016 campaign trail. If it hadn't been placed in the dustbin of history before 2015, Donald Trump has gleefully smashed it with a sledgehammer.
Marco Rubio, who seems to be trying to eschew Cruz-style apocalypticism, is stuck behind Trump and Cruz. Some conservative pundits have acquiesced, betting on the nomination going to either Trump or Cruz, or asking whether it's time that Rubio panic. The Rubio campaign sees the polling numbers, reports National Review, and is still banking on winning as a coalition candidate, even if Cruz seems to have the evangelical vote sewed up.
The most recent poll of likely Republican Iowa caucus-goers out of Quinnipiac University shows Cruz leading among white evangelical voters, with 34 percent; Trump is second with 27 percent and Rubio is third with 13 percent. But look at some other data within that poll, and you'll find that while Trump draws the support of a little more than a quarter of white evangelicals, another quarter of them (26 percent) say they'd definitely not support Trump. Only three percent of white evangelicals say they'd definitely not vote for Cruz, and only eight percent say they'd never vote for Rubio. Trump, in other words, is the candidate most divisive of white evangelical voters (in Iowa, at least).
While that demonstrates a more mixed evangelical view of Trump, taken together that looks good for Cruz, suggesting that Brooks (shocking, I know) doesn't really have his finger on the pulse of the Republican base, or its sense of Christian virtue. Brooks laments his harsh tones (Cruz's "brutalism," he calls it), the doom and gloom, the fire and brimstone—has he been recently to a religious right event, or watched one on TV? It's true, as I reported last week, that the Rubio camp is aiming for a different tone, but what does it tell you that its approach isn't working with evangelical voters (so far, at least)? Rubio's supporters, unlike Brooks, recognize the dynamics at work here, and realize the hold that the Cruz view of Christianity has on significant segments of the base.
Bloomberg's Jonathan Bernstein, who takes the reasoned, evidence-based approach of a political scientist, still thinks Rubio is the most likely nominee at the end of the day. If that happens, as it did with John McCain in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012, it will be despite the fact that evangelical voters in Iowa preferred a different candidate (Mike Huckabee in 2008 and Rick Santorum in 2012). And while that might make David Brooks breathe a sigh of relief, it won't make the voters who fell in love with Donald Trump and Ted Cruz disappear.
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Colorado Mountain School graduates sing the National Anthem during their 2017 commencement ceremony. CMC's board of trustees reduced the cost of the college's bachelors-level course by almost one-fourth.
Colorado Mountain College is reducing the cost of its bachelors degree classes next year.
• $19 decrease per credit hour for in-district students, to $80 per credit hour.
• $35 decrease for service-area students.
• $32 decrease for in-state students.
• $13 increase for out-of-state students.
• $15 increase per credit hour for in-district students, to $80 per credit hour.
• $27 increase for service area students.
• $33 increase for in-state students.
EDWARDS — Colorado Mountain College slashed the cost of its bachelor's-level courses by almost one-fourth, something no college has done.
CMC is already the third-most-affordable bachelor's degree in the country, according to the U.S. Department of Education. However, recently the CMC board of trustees reduced the cost of its bachelors-level courses $19 per credit hour, to $80 per credit hour.
"We are unaware of any public college that has ever chosen to voluntarily reduce tuition. We hope that this tuition cut reflects a good-faith effort to meet the long-term needs of students and demonstrate prudent financial management," said Matt Gianneschi, CMC's chief operating officer.
At the same time, the CMC trustees raised associates-level classes by $15 to $80 per credit hour, to make it the same as the college's bachelor's program.
That associates degree cost increase will be largely offset by cutting textbook costs for students through a new book rental program, the trustees said during last week's meeting in Edwards.
The average annual textbook costs for full-time students can hit $1,600 per year, according to the Colorado Commission on Higher Education. CMC's new textbook leasing program will cost a full-time student a maximum of $780 per year, the trustees said.
Eight years ago, when CMC started offering bachelors degrees, Colorado's Department of Education did not allow the college to use state funding for its bachelors programs.
State lawmakers changed that a few years ago, and now all public funding can be applied equally to all students, Gianneschi said.
The trustees noted that by keeping bachelors degrees affordable, students have a greater incentive to complete a four-year degree.
The college's 50th anniversary Finish What You Started scholarship for students returning after being out of college handed out $70,000 to 150 students, along with $100,000 in President's Scholarships awarded to 100 local students per year. In addition, the Colorado Mountain College Foundation has awarded an average of 316 scholarships each year for the past three years, totaling just less than $3 million.
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Q: Multiple or conditions in tuple I want to carry this out :
if ('a' or 'b' or 'c' or 'd') in ['1' , '@' , 'L' , 'b' , '+']:
    print("Valid")

Since 'b' is present in the list the output should be "Valid" but instead there is no output. After searching for so long I found that multiple 'or's cannot be used. Is there any other way?
P.S. if this is put instead :
if ('a' or 'b') in ['1' , '@' , 'L' , 'b' , '+']:
    print("Valid")

The output is "Valid" but I want multiple elements in tuple

A:
Python any()
The any() method returns True if any element of an iterable is True. If not, any() returns False.

if you want to check at least one matches:
if any(x in ['1', '@', 'L', 'b', '+'] for x in ('a','b','c','d')):
    print("Valid")

NOTE:
Your logic of using boolean operators on string is wrong.
The output of the boolean operations between the strings depends on following things:

*

*Python considers empty strings as having boolean value of 'false'
and non-empty string as having boolean value of 'true'.

*For 'and' operator if left value is true, then right value is
checked and returned. If left value is false, then it is returned

*For 'or' operator if left value is true, then it is returned,
otherwise if left value is false, then right value is returned.

what means that result of ('a' or 'b' or 'c' or 'd') will be 'a'
and then you have :  if 'a' in ['1', '@', 'L', 'b', '+']:

A: You could use sets for this
>>> if set(['1', '@', 'L', 'b', '+']).intersection(set(['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'])):
...     print('valid')
...
valid

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A Parent May Not Divert Income, in Order to Decrease Existing Child Support Obligations
Father, Von Kirk, and mother, Jane Kirk shared joint legal child custody of four children. Mother had sole child physical custody. At the time of the initial divorce court order, father was the principal owner and controlling shareholder of KTK, Inc., which operated a car dealership. Von Kirk owed KTK $572,000, based on fees he allegedly used for personal expenses. KTK subsequently came under new ownership and father's divorce lawyer later moved to modify his child support obligations. Father entered into an employment contract with the new owners of KTK, where he received a salary of $5,000 per month and a debt cancellation of $4,450 per month, amounting to a total monthly income of $9,450. In response to father's divorce attorney's modification request, the divorce court terminated father's obligation to pay spousal support and reduced the child support order to $1,200 per month. In doing so the divorce court determined that $4,450, which father received in the form of debt forgiveness by employer, would not be considered as a part of father's gross income. Mother's divorce lawyer appealed the divorce court's decision.
On appeal, the Court determined that the divorce court had abused its discretion by deciding not to count $4,450 of debt forgiveness as father's income. The Court determined that the divorce court was free to take into consideration all relevant facts and circumstances in determining the appropriate child support order. However, father's decision to enter into an employment agreement amounted to a contractual shift of $4,450 of disposable income, to payment of a third party debt. Further, the Court determined that father had entered into this volitional contract, after the initial order of child support and thus the new contract undermined his ability to meet his already-existing child support obligations. The Court found that the employment agreement was a voluntary diversion of income to pay debt, which caused the father to be unable to meet his pre-existing support orders. Ultimately, the Court held father's diversion of income for a different purpose was not permitted under the law. Thus, the Court disagreed with father's divorce lawyer's position and did not modify father's support order because he entered into a contractual agreement that shifted his income. Therefore, the divorce court's order modifying the initial support order was reversed.
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Berlancourt est une commune française située dans le département de l'Oise en région Hauts-de-France.

Géographie

Description

Berlancourt est un village de l'Oise, limitrophe du département de la Somme, qui se situe à mi-chemin entre Noyon et Ham. Le village est traversé par la route départementale RD91 et est aisément accessible depuis l'ancienne Route nationale 32 (actuelle RD 932).

En 2019, la localité est desservie par les autocars du réseau inter-urbain Trans'80, Hauts-de-France (ligne , Roye - Esmery-Hallon - Ham).

Louis Graves indiquait au milieu du  que  « le territoire de cette commune est formé d'une plaine traversée de l'est à l'ouest par le vallon de la Verse, auquel se réunit un ravin venant du Plessis-Patte-d'Oie »

Communes limitrophes

Hydrographie
La commune est drainée par la rivière La Verse, qui prend sa source à La Neuville-en-Beine et continue ensuite vers Guiscard.

La Verse est un affluent de l'Oise en rive droite et donc un sous-affluent de la Seine.

Afin de lutter contre les inondations de la Verse en aval, notamment à Noyon, l'établissement public l'Entente Oise-Aisne souhaite réaliser Berlancourt  l'un des deux bassins de retenue prévus par le Plan d'actions et de prévention des inondations (PAPI) de la Verse, entraiant des inquiétudes sur le risque d'inondations que cela pourrait générer aux abords de ces ouvrages.

Climat
Le climat qui caractérise la commune est qualifié, en 2010, de « climat océanique dégradé des plaines du Centre et du Nord », selon la typologie des climats de la France qui compte alors huit grands types de climats en métropole. En 2020, la commune ressort du type « climat océanique altéré » dans la classification établie par Météo-France, qui ne compte désormais, en première approche, que cinq grands types de climats en métropole. Il s'agit d'une zone de transition entre le climat océanique, le climat de montagne et le climat semi-continental. Les écarts de température entre hiver et été augmentent avec l'éloignement de la mer. La pluviométrie est plus faible qu'en bord de mer, sauf aux abords des reliefs.

Les paramètres climatiques qui ont permis d'établir la typologie de 2010 comportent six variables pour les températures et huit pour les précipitations, dont les valeurs correspondent à la normale 1971-2000. Les sept principales variables caractérisant la commune sont présentées dans l'encadré ci-après.

Avec le changement climatique, ces variables ont évolué. Une étude réalisée en 2014 par la Direction générale de l'Énergie et du Climat complétée par des études régionales prévoit en effet que la  température moyenne devrait croître et la pluviométrie moyenne baisser, avec toutefois de fortes variations régionales. Ces changements peuvent être constatés sur la station météorologique de Météo-France la plus proche, « Chauny », sur la commune de Chauny, mise en service en 1988 et qui se trouve à  à vol d'oiseau, où la température moyenne annuelle est de  et la hauteur de précipitations de  pour la période 1981-2010.
Sur la station météorologique historique la plus proche, « Saint-Quentin », sur la commune de Fontaine-lès-Clercs, dans le département de l'Aisne, mise en service en 1933 et à , la température moyenne annuelle évolue de  pour la période 1971-2000 à  pour 1981-2010, puis à  pour 1991-2020.

Urbanisme

Typologie
Berlancourt est une commune rurale, car elle fait partie des communes peu ou très peu denses, au sens de la grille communale de densité de l'Insee.

Par ailleurs la commune fait partie de l'aire d'attraction de Noyon dont elle est une commune de la couronne. Cette aire, qui regroupe , est catégorisée dans les aires de moins de .

Occupation des sols

L'occupation des sols de la commune, telle qu'elle ressort de la base de données européenne d'occupation biophysique des sols Corine Land Cover (CLC), est marquée par l'importance des territoires agricoles (94,4 % en 2018), une proportion identique à celle de 1990 (94,4 %). La répartition détaillée en 2018 est la suivante :
terres arables (86,7 %), prairies (7,6 %), zones urbanisées (5,6 %), zones agricoles hétérogènes (0,1 %).

L'IGN met par ailleurs à disposition un outil en ligne permettant de comparer l'évolution dans le temps de l'occupation des sols de la commune (ou de territoires à des échelles différentes). Plusieurs époques sont accessibles sous forme de cartes ou photos aériennes : la carte de Cassini (), la carte d'état-major (1820-1866) et la période actuelle (1950 à aujourd'hui).

Lieux-dits, hameaux et écarts
Au nord-est du territoire, le hameau de Collezy est rattaché à la commune.

Habitat et logement
En 2018, le nombre total de logements dans la commune était de 137, alors qu'il était de 130 en 2013 et de 120 en 2008.

Parmi ces logements, 91,5 % étaient des résidences principales, 2,8 % des résidences secondaires et 5,7 % des logements vacants. Ces logements étaient pour 84,4 % d'entre eux des maisons individuelles et pour 15,6 % des appartements.

Le tableau ci-dessous présente la typologie des logements à Berlancourt en 2018 en comparaison avec celle de l'Oise et de la France entière. Une caractéristique marquante du parc de logements est ainsi une proportion de résidences secondaires et logements occasionnels (2,8 %) supérieure à celle du département (2,5 %) et à celle de la France entière (9,7 %). Concernant le statut d'occupation de ces logements, 69,9 % des habitants de la commune sont propriétaires de leur logement (72,7 % en 2013), contre 61,4 % pour l'Oise et 57,5 pour la France entière.

Toponymie

La localité a été désignée comme Bertencourt; Berlancour.

Histoire

Sous l'Ancien Régime, Berlancourt était  compris dans le marquisat de Guiscard.et faisait partie du baillage de
Chauny, de l'élection de Noyon et de l'intendance de Soissons. La paroisse relevait du doyenné de Nesle et du diocèse de Noyon. L'Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Corbie, par suite d'un échange fait avec l'Abbaye Saint-Nicolas d'Arrouaise, possédait le tiers des grosses dîmes de Berlancourt,
de Flavy-le-Meldeux et de Plessis-Patte-d'Oie ; mais elle était tenue au tiers des grosses réparations à faire au chœur des églises de ces trois paroisses. Les deux autres tiers appartenaient au chapitre de la cathédrale de Noyon.

Au milieu du , la commune disposait d'une école, d'un presbytère. Une partie de la population était occupée à la fabrication de .

La commune a disposé de 1895 à 1955 de la gare de Plessis-Flavy-Berlancourt sur la ligne Noyon - Ham des chemins de fer départementaux de l'Oise exploitée par la compagnie des Chemins de fer de Milly à Formerie et de Noyon à Guiscard et à Lassigny

Politique et administration

Rattachements administratifs et électoraux

Rattachements administratifs
La commune se trouve depuis 1926 dans l'arrondissement de Compiègne du département de l'Oise.

Elle faisait partie depuis 1802 du canton de Guiscard. Dans le cadre du redécoupage cantonal de 2014 en France, cette circonscription administrative territoriale a disparu, et le canton n'est plus qu'une circonscription électorale.

Rattachements électoraux
Pour les élections départementales, la commune fait partie depuis 2014 du canton de Noyon

Pour l'élection des députés, elle fait partie de la sixième circonscription de l'Oise.

Intercommunalité
Berlancourt est membre de la communauté de communes du Pays Noyonnais, un établissement public de coopération intercommunale (EPCI) à fiscalité propre créé en 1994 et auquel la commune a transféré un certain nombre de ses compétences, dans les conditions déterminées par le code général des collectivités territoriales.

Liste des maires

Équipements et services publics
La commune a racheté le Bar du Village en 2017. Renommé le café La Fabrique, celui-ci est désormais exploité avec le concours  de la commune, ainsi que de la chambre de commerce et d'industrie (CCI), du Pays noyonnais et du Pays de Sources et vallées, par deux gérants qui prévoient de postuler au label Bistrot de pays, et assurent également un dépôt de pain et de gaz, bureau de tabac et la vente de journaux.

Enseignement
Les enfants de la commune sont scolarisés avec ceux de Villeselve, Golancourt et du Plessis-Patte-d'Oie dans le cadre d'un regroupement pédagogique intercommunal.

Population et société

Démographie

Évolution démographique

Pyramide des âges
La population de la commune est relativement jeune.
En 2018, le taux de personnes d'un âge inférieur à  s'élève à 38,9 %, soit au-dessus de la moyenne départementale (37,3 %). À l'inverse, le taux de personnes d'âge supérieur à  est de 16,9 % la même année, alors qu'il est de 22,8 % au niveau départemental.

En 2018, la commune comptait  pour , soit un taux de 52,31 % d'hommes, largement supérieur au taux départemental (48,89 %).

Les pyramides des âges de la commune et du département s'établissent comme suit.

Associations
La commune est animée depuis 1989 par l'association Village et Loisirs.

Culture locale et patrimoine

Lieux et monuments
 L'église Saint-Martin de Berlancourt, édifiée sur un site dominant;  est un vaste bâtiment de brique aux ouvertures de style roman. Le clocher en pierre flanque le côté nord de l'édifice. La partie basse du clocher semble dater du . La façade est probablement d'époque médiévale, et le chœur a été remanié au  ou au début du . Le bas-côté en briques et pierre date du  esud de la nef date du t le mur sud de la nef, percé de grandes fenêtres en plein cintre.Le mobilier comporte une cuve baptismale du , une grande Vierge à l'Enfant, en pierre, du  et une chaire ainsi qu'un baldaquin du .
 Monument aux morts, inauguré en 2003.

Personnalités liées à la commune
 Maxime Godart, acteur

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Liste des communes de l'Oise

Liens externes
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Notes et références

Notes

Références

Site de l'Insee

Autres sources

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'Sesame Street: The Magical Wand' Will Work Magic On Audiences Of All Ages
Courtesy: Sesame Workshop/Shout! Factory
PBS' hit educational series Sesame Street has for decades, been a source of great educational and entertainment for audiences of all ages. From teaching numbers and words to teaching equally invaluable lessons about cultural diversity and more, Sesame Street has proven time and again to be one of the most important series on television. Even as the decades have passed and times changed, the series has changed along the way to stay up with the world, but has not changed to the point of losing any of what it has done. The show's latest DVD, Sesame Street: The Magic Wand Chase is proof of that, both in its primary and bonus content. Each item will be discussed here, as each is equally important to the DVD's overall presentation. Those items make the DVD's average price point, the last of its most important elements, money well-spent. Each item is important in its own right to the DVD. All things considered, they make Sesame Street: The Magic Wand Chase more proof of why Sesame Street remains today one of television's most important programs.
Sesame Street: The Magic Wand Chase is an enjoyable new offering from Sesame Workshop and Shout! Factory that clearly proves the series remains today, one of the most important series on television. That is even considering programs in other genres. This statement is supported in part through the DVD's primary content, the feature presentation that gives the DVD its name. The primary content finds Abby Cadabby, Elmo, Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Grover and Rosita chasing down a bird in order to recover Abby's magic wand after Abby accidentally drops the wand during a balloon ride. Abby and the others were taking a balloon ride in a trip of balloons, and when she tried to get herself and her friends back to Sesame Street, she dropped the wand, leading to the chase. Looking at the "movie" from an analytical standpoint, this is actually a good way to set up the chase that follows. As Abby and company chase down the bird, who uses Abby's wand to hide her identity at points, the group encounters children with various ethnic backgrounds – Chinese, Mexican and African – leading to lessons about their people's cultures and the value of those differences. Of course there is plenty of hilarity along the way thanks to plenty of family friendly jokes (including a laugh riot tribute to Benny Hill), and Abby eventually gets her wand back. Those lessons of cultural diversity, though, is the most important item to note. As noted previously, this is nothing new for Sesame Street. What is important here is the way in which the show's writers executed the lessons. They used a new, enjoyable way to present the lesson on cultural diversity. To that end, the story and its familiar and welcome lessons promoting cultural diversity form a solid foundation for the DVD. The bonus content included with the DVD strengthens that foundation even more.
The bonus content included with Sesame Street: The Magic Wand Chase strengthens the DVD's foundation even more because it picks up right where the DVD's primary content leaves off. The full-length featurette "Elmo's Alphabet Challenge" continues Sesame Street's long-running focus on teaching the alphabet and words to young viewers. As with the DVD's primary content, it does that here once again, but in a fashion that is in line with the current age. Telly, Elmo and Abby are pulled into the video game world while deciding on a game to play on Abby's tablet. Over the course of roughly an hour, Abby and her friends go through a variety of different video games, which are takeoffs of video games, such as Super Mario Brothers, Angry Birds and World of Warcraft in order to find letters that align with each letter of the alphabet. The ultimate goal is to defeat a character named ABC-More in the process so that they can get back to their world. Obviously it has a happy ending. The video game spoofs will entertain grown-ups while the additional (yet possibly latent) lesson about pride – ABC-More constantly calls himself the greatest, leading to a starting point on that noted lesson about pride – and the primary lesson teaching about the alphabet and words join in to make this bonus feature in whole just as entertaining for the whole family as the DVD's primary story.
"The Golden Triangle of Destiny," the second of the DVD's bonus features, is just as certain to entertain the whole family. It is also the shortest of the DVD's features, both primary and secondary. It is a full-on spoof of the Indiana Jones movie franchise that finds Telly going on a search for the titular triangle around Sesame Street. Along the way, he has to avoid a giant boulder (yes, a boulder), a bunch of "exploding" washing machines and determining the shape of each figure that he finds. So what audiences get here is the basic geometry lesson as its educational content alongside a fun movie spoof that will entertain audiences of all ages and likely be a favorite watch for those audiences. When it is coupled with the lead video game-based bonus, the two bonuses together succeed solidly in offering plenty of entertainment and education at the same time. When the bonus content is considered alongside the DVD's primary content, the whole of the content offers plenty for audiences of all ages to appreciate throughout the DVD's two-hour-plus total run time. Keeping all of this in mind, the DVD's average price point proves to be another positive for the DVD.
The average price point for Sesame Street: The Magic Wand Chase is $11.75. That price is attained by averaging prices from Shout! Factory's online store, Walmart, Best Buy and Barnes & Noble. The DVD is not listed – at the time of this post – at Amazon, Target and Books-A-Million. Considering the breadth and depth of the content presented over a total run time of more than two hours (specifically, two hours, two minutes), that price is not overly expensive. When one takes into consideration that the DVD also includes a downloadable .pdf file of The Magic Wand Chase for families to enjoy any time they want, that price becomes that much more affordable and welcome for every family. Keeping this in consideration along with the primary and secondary content featured in the DVD, it is just one more positive for the DVD. Keeping this in mind, all three elements come together to make the DVD overall another successful offering from Sesame Workshop, and an equally welcome new offering from the new partnership between Sesame Workshop and Shout! Factory.
Sesame Workshop and Shout! Factory's recently launched partnership is proving to be a positive match for the organizations. This was already recently proven with the new Elmo's World DVD released through that partnership. The new full-length feature The Magic Wand Chase supports that statement even more. As has been discussed here, that is proven through the primary and secondary content collectively featured on the disc. The affordable average price point supports that statement even more. Each item is important in its own way to the whole of the DVD. All things considered, Sesame Street: The Magic Wand Chase is another successful offering from Sesame Workshop, and more proof of why Sesame Street remains today, one of the most important series on television, genres aside. More information on this and other titles from Shout! Factory is available online now at:
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Cookie Jar's Christmas Collection Is Holiday Fun For The Whole Family
Cookie Jar TV's Christmas Cartoon Collection" is a fun grouping of cartoons for kids and parents alike. This single disc collection includes ten holiday themed episodes of some of the best cartoons from Cookie Jar (formerly DiC Entertainment). This new collection includes toons from both the 21st Century and some more classic toons, too. It all starts with a pair of episodes from the kid friendly favorite, Busy World of Richard Scarry. The first of the episodes sees an evil mastermind stealing stuff from all across New York City. It's up to one man to solve the mystery of who is lifting the legendary city. In the second episode from the show, Santa's in danger of not making his annual Christmas run after making a rough landing. The runners on his sled have broken and even Mr. Fix-It can't help. So how is Santa to get his sled flying again? Kids and their parents will have to find out on their own when they pick up this family friendly DVD.
Speaking of Santa, in another of this collection's best episodes, Heathcliff has a mystery on his hands when the mailman tells him that his and his boy Iggy's letters to Santa have been returned. And theirs aren't the only ones. So Heathcliff and Spike head off to the North Pole to figure out why everybody's letters are being returned. The answer to the mystery is a surprise even to Santa himself. Although being a holiday episode, everything is worked out in the end, and Heathcliff and Squish get a lift back to their homes from Santa as a thank you for getting all the letters returned to him. Anyone who is old enough to remember when this classic cartoon originally aired will love not just the warm, fuzzy feelings that it will create, but also the general sense of nostalgia that it will instill, too.
Heathcliff is just one of the cartoons that will make for a great sense of nostalgia on this new collection from Mill Creek Entertainment and Cookie Jar. Viewers who grew up watching Saturday morning cartoons on ABC will remember a short lived cartoon called Bump in the Night. This stop motion based toon featured a certain little monster named Mr. Bumpy. In the show's holiday episode presented here, Mr. Bumpy is awaiting the arrival of Santa. He doesn't want to just see Santa. He wants to trap him and snag his bag of toys. It's not his first try at trapping Santa, either. Every year that he's tried, Mr. Bumpy's plan has failed for one reason or another. He actually does succeed this year. But in the process, Mr. Bumpy learns what's really important during the holidays. Audiences will enjoy this positive message. They'll also appreciate the pop culture references peppered in throughout the episode. From monster style takes on classic Hanukkah and Christmas songs to a tribute to the Indiana Jones franchise and a spoof of a famous Kenny Loggins song, there is plenty for both kids and adults to love in this episode. Even veteran actor Cheech Marin joins in on the fun as the voice of a Spanish worm who helps Mr. Bumpy and Squish along the way. It all comes together to make this episode one more piece of the overall presentation that makes the Cookie Jar Christmas Cartoon Collection such a great collection for families this and every holiday season. It's available now in stores and online.
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Paramount, Lucasfilm's new Indiana Jones Box Set The Best Yet
Paramount Pictures/Lucasfilm, LTD.
Indiana Jones is one of the most famous and beloved heroes in the stories annals of Hollywood. His original trio of adventures has transcended generations. And his more recent adventure has its own legions of fans, too. To this day, Indiana Jones costumes are still popular every Halloween. And much like his costumes are so popular, so are his adventures to the point that they have seen multiple releases both as stand-alone features and box sets. Now fans have the opportunity to see all four movies in a whole new way thanks to the release of the brand new "Indiana Jones: The Complete Adventures" on blu-ray.
Paramount and Lucasfilm have officially released the complete four film set along with the bonus features included in the previous sets. Among those bonus features are the "Making of" features for all four of the movies and the feature discussing the now famed "melting face" sequence from Indiana Jones and the Raiders Of The Lost Ark. That in itself is a great feature for anyone who has any interest in Hollywood special effects and movie production. Some of the features even include bonus pop up trivia that adds even more appreciation for these classic movies. For instance, audiences learn through the pop-up trivia that when Indy comes face to face with a King Cobra in "Raiders", he was never really in danger, of course. He was actually separated from the snake by glass. That the glass was made invisible in post production is a tribute to the work of all involved. Another little tidbit is that the canyon scene in which the Nazis were carrying the ark was the same canyon from a certain other famous science fiction movie. Give up? Does the title Star Wars mean anything to anyone? That's right! It's the same one. Obviously it's a little more than mere coincidence.
The bonus features included in this set are much like the ones from the previous DVD releases. But not everyone has had the opportunity to own this piece of movie history. For those who have yet to include it in their home libraries, the bonus features make the whole viewing experience that much more enjoyable. They are just a drop in the bucket, though. The clarity of the picture in all four movies is so much clearer in each one. Everything is more clear and defined. Even the original grainy footage is still evident here and there. Nothing has been lost in the transfer to blu-ray. If anything, so much has been gained with this set.
The enhanced picture and the extensive bonus features go a long way to making this a must have set for Indiana Jones fans of any age. They aren't all that make it an impressive set. Unlike the previous larger "Complete DVD Movie Collections", this set is far more ergonomically designed. It's presented in a much more slim case shaped like a book. Each "page" contains the disc for each movie. Also included on each page is a promo poster and production shots to enhance the design. This compact design will save space on anyone's DVD and/or blu-ray rack. And combined with everything else included in this set, most audiences will agree that "Indiana Jones: The Complete Adventures" is not only the "complete" adventures of Indiana Jones, but the complete definitive adventures of Indiana Jones.
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Alvin & the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked is a wreck
Posted on May 4, 2012 by philspicks
First there was Alvin and The Chipmunks on the big screen. Then Alvin and his brothers met the Chipettes and blatantly ripped off Disney's High School musical franchise. And now, the people behind this ever worsening movie franchise has made for itself an even worse reputation with a second sequel to what should have only been one movie. "Chipwrecked" is the perfect movie for a 7 year-old with ADHD.
It's pretty obvious that little to no effort was put into writing the story (if there really even is one) behind this second sequel to the first movie in the trilogy. How many times can Hollywood do the story of someone stranded on a seemingly desserted island before it gets really old? It was great with Gilligan's Island way back when. But it's gotten far beyond old and tired now with this movie. It tries to justify the whole idea of the "family" being shipwrecked by tossing in something of a coming-of-age story that sees Alvin actually mature some, while thanks to a spider bite (convenient, huh?), Simon becomes the carefree member of the group. Along the way, the Chipmunks and Chipettes meet evil treasure seeker Zoe. Throughout all of this, no one on the island is aware that they're on an island with an active volcano. Obviously this leads to the big climactic ending which doesn't have to be given away, because it's been done countless times before in any number of other movies.
Add in a bunch of pop culture references to the likes of Indiana Jones and Castaway just to name a few, and audiences get a movie that shows its makers to be just as vile as Ian. Just like he only cared about the money for most of the story, the people behind this movie obviously only cared about the money. Had they actually cared about more than that, they would have made a movie that made up for the first equally awful sequel in the franchise. But being that they didn't, this movie already has become, and will be just one more movie added to the "worst of" list from both 2011 and now 2012.
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