The New Year's Eve event had been planned as part of the city's Bicentennial celebration that will last throughout 2019, but organizers announced on Sunday night that a decision had been made due to safety concerns.
The Holidays on the River skating rink will still be open at the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater from 2 - 6 p.m. although weather could be moving into the area sometime this afternoon.
Tuscaloosa 200 will celebrate the city's birthday all next year and some other big events have already been announced. A free concert featuring all-star Alabama musicians like Jason Isbell, St. Paul & the Broken Bones, and the Commodores is set for March 30. You can check out all of the events and learn more about Tuscaloosa 200 here.


The Tuesday Trail crew is heading to a great gem of a park, the Root River County Park located at 4012 80th St SE Rochester. The location for Afters is TBD - with warmer weather upon us, always consider bringing a beverage of choice in the event weather allows for a parking lot party! Hikers welcome!
6:15pm - The trail crew location is TBD and will be updated a few days prior to the event.


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Q: Let p>5 be the prime number. Prove that the expression $p^{4} - 10p^{2} +9$ is divisible by $1920$ I broke the given expression $p^{4} - 10p^{2} +9 as (p-3)(p+3)(p-1)(p+1)$ and now for all prime numbers grater than 5 the condition is true but I checked it by putting values.
Is there any proper or trick to prove this condition. I am trying.
Thanks for your time.

A: As $5\nmid p$, we must have one of $p\equiv 1,2,3,4\equiv 1,-3,3,-1\pmod 5$, hence $(p-1)(p+3)(p-3)(p+1)$ is a multiple of $5$. Similarly, already $(p-19(p+1)$ is a multiple of $3$. As $1920=2^7\cdot 3\cdot 5$, we are left with showing a factor $2^7$. Well, as $p$ is odd, $p^2\equiv 1\pmod 8$, hence $p^2-1$ and $p^2-9$ are both multiples of $8$. Moreover, $p^2\equiv 1$ or $9\pmod {16}$, i.e., one of $p^2-1$, $p^2-9$ is in fact a multiple of $16$. So bombined we arrive at a multiple of $8\cdot 16=128$, as desired.

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This boat trim features red, black and white colors with a background carbon fiber finish and bright aluminum graphics. Choosing red as an accent color aligns with some of the more popular classic car models, including the Corvette, Mustang Shelby GT and Chevrolet Bel Air.
A unique approach to creating a carbon fiber pattern on aluminum is to adapt the look of the finish so it compliments carbon fiber but is not an attempt to duplicate the material. The wide variety and sizes of weaves are just the starting point in this exploration. Customization in color, scale and structure is possible.


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'Playing the right way': Wildcats' season trending up after win over Aggies
By Thomas Gordon, KSL.com | Posted - Dec. 19, 2022 at 11:24 p.m.
Weber State defeats Utah State 75-72 on Dec. 19, 2022. (Robert Casey, Weber State Athletics)
OGDEN — Monday night's game on the road against Utah State started out similar to most of Weber State's seven losses on the season.
The Wildcats got down big early thanks to a good offensive showing from the Aggies in the opening minutes and some sloppy play on both sides of the ball by Weber State.
Late in the first half, the Aggies built up an 18-point lead — the largest of the half — and appeared as though their shooters simply couldn't miss. Meanwhile, the Wildcats only put 7 points on the board near the midway point of the first half and trailed 43-29 at halftime.
But unlike those disappointing losses, some by blowouts and some in close games, Eric Duft's team continued to show a trait that all head coaches love to see from their players: They didn't give up.
The Wildcats scratched and clawed their way back in many of those previous games, but they ultimately ended in defeat. But against an undefeated Utah State team searching to go 10-0 for the first time in school history, Weber State's effort and levelheadedness got the team a win.
Throughout the first 11 games of the season, Duft's team was known for starting out of the gate somewhat slowly. Aside from a couple games against Division II teams, Weber State often fell down early as opposing teams rattled off quick buckets against a Wildcats defense that was trying to find itself and an offense that couldn't buy a basket.
But in last weekend's win against Cal Poly, the Wildcats woke up earlier than normal and led at halftime by 15 points, then went on to rout the Mustangs for their first true road victory of the year. After a performance like that, Duft and his staff hoped it would be a turning point for his team that's still learning to play with and off each other.
What. A. Win!
Putting the "L" in Logan! #WeAreWeberpic.twitter.com/AsMgcQfCaz
— Weber State MBB 🏀 (@WeberStateMBB) December 20, 2022
Then Weber State ran into the somewhat surprising juggernaut of Utah State, an offensive-powered team with big wins over four West Coast Conference teams and in-state rival Utah Valley. The Aggies have five players averaging double-digits in points and are led by a dynamic combo of guard Steven Ashworth (18.2 points per game) and forward Taylor Funk (15.6 points per game).
Utah State head coach Ryan Odom and his team rely a lot on perimeter shooting, similar to Weber State, and it didn't take long before the Aggies built up a commanding lead. The Aggies shot 63% from 3-point range in the first half, and many of their shots came from a few feet behind the arc. It became clear the Weber State guards would need to play a tighter defense on the outside.
"They're so good on offense," Duft said about Utah State following his team's big win. "You always talk about rhythm when you're playing offense, but I think you have to get into a rhythm guarding those guys."
Whatever rhythm the Wildcats were looking for they found in the second half. It was another example of a hard-working team that didn't give up, and they finally got the result they were looking for after so long.
Duft's team played smarter and quicker on defense; they forced several missed shots from the Aggies that had mostly gone in during the first half of the game. The offense also found a rhythm and guys who shot OK to above average suddenly shot lights-out.
"Second half, we were a lot more solid; we were able to guard them one-on-one better," Duft said. "We've got the shooters. They missed some 3s, but I thought they were heavily contested; we got them out of rhythm.
"That was really the difference. And then, yeah, obviously we stepped up and made shots. We had 17 assists tonight on 28 baskets; we're playing the right way, so I couldn't be more proud of these guys."
For a team that lost three of its first four games and followed it up with a four-game losing streak shortly after, the Wildcats have come a long way from the start of the season — and it's not even halfway done. But in the span of three days, Weber State picked up two key, confidence-building wins that should help boost morale as the nonconference schedule winds down and teams get set for league play.
Knocking off an undefeated team looking to make school history is big for a program, and the never-give-up Wildcats will put their mettle to the test against another in-state opponent Thursday at BYU. But Duft and his team should feel proud of where they are, especially given where they came from, and the win Monday night showcased that.
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Rat-a-tat-tat bath time's where it's at! Two floating water drums make bathtime a musical, rhythmical fun time. Young musicians can learn the basics of playing the drums with easy-to-follow, waterproof rhythm chart. You can even change the pitch of the drums by filling them with varying amounts of water. The rhythm party doesn't have to end when bath time is over! This musical bath toy instrument even sounds great out of the water, too!


For 35 years, the Premier's Gala Concerts have been delivering high-quality concerts featuring Australia's best & upcoming musical theatre & recording artists.
Australia's leading lady of musical theatre, Marina Prior will be performing alongside country music singer Adam Brand. They'll be joined on stage by Casey Donovan, Tim Campbell, Lonnie Lee, Jacob Neale & Victor Martinez Parada.
The NSW Seniors Festival Expo is a fun annual event, featuring over 50 exhibitors, live stage entertainment & plenty of games and giveaways. We will visit before the show.
Click here for a concert preview!
Click here for an expo preview!
Please note tickets are non-refundable so once you buy a ticket the only way you can get a refund is if the promoter has to cancel the entire event.
All times are approximate & subject to change. Confirmation will be made closer to the event.
For wheelchairs & accessible bookings please email debbie@organisedoccasions.com.au & all other enquiries.


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L'Autoritat Territorial de la Mobilitat de l'Àrea de Girona (ATM Àrea de Girona) és un consorci interadministratiu integrat per la Generalitat de Catalunya, els consells comarcals del Gironès, del Pla de l'Estany i de la Selva i l'Ajuntament de Girona amb la finalitat de coordinar el transport públic a l'Àrea de Girona.

Fou creada l'25 de juliol de 2006 i actualment opera a 46 municipis de les tres comarques ja esmentades.

Sistema tarifari integrat

L'ATM gestiona el sistema d'integració tarifària. Gràcies a aquest, amb un mateix bitllet es poden utilitzar diferents transports públics a la regió i es poden fer diferents tipus de transbordament entre aquests sense haver tornar a pagar durant un límit de temps que depèn de les zones travessades. El sistema està dividit en 7 zones.

Els serveis prestats dins el Sistema Tarifari Integrat són els següents:
 Servei de Bus urbà de Girona
 Autobusos interurbans de TEISA, Sarfa,  Hispano,  AMPSA,  Mas i Barcelona Bus.

La gamma de títols s'ofereixen amb targetes sense contacte. A més dels serveis anteriors, es preveu que al setembre d'enguany entri dins el sistema integrat el servei de tren de Rodalia de Girona.

Funcionament
Per utilitzar aquest sistema integrat cal validar el títol cada vegada que s'iniciï un viatge mitjançant els lectors embarcats als busos. També caldrà validar-lo en fer un transbordament.
Tots els títols de transport permeten fer un màxim de tres transbordaments a diferents modalitats de transport en un mateix desplaçament sense reducció de saldo, excepte la T-MES que permet fer un nombre il·limitat de transbordaments.

Preus dels diferents títols
Pel que fa al preu del bitllet senzill és fixat per l'operador del servei.

A més, s'ofereixen una sèrie de descomptes per a famílies monoparentals i nombroses, persones en situació d'atur, i una targeta especial per a menors de 12 anys.

Enllaços externs
 Pàgina web oficial de l'ATM Àrea de Girona

Referències

Area de Girona

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A PUNCHY and poetic exploration of family, race, identity and love takes to the stage at The Met.
It's Manchester in 1983. Dave loves Rod Stewart, Joanne and his Ford Capri.
He's all set for a new start. Only Joanne's about to have someone else's baby. Is Dave ready to become a Dad even though he's not the father?
Winning top reviews, the performance at The Met is part of a UK tour.
David Agnew, artistic director at The Met, said: "We're delighted to bring Box Of Tricks back to The Met after we took their previous show, Chip Shop Chips, out to venues across Bury during our refurbishment.
"Our audiences loved that show, and with the fantastic reviews for SparkPlug's national tour we're looking forward to this powerful new play wowing theatre fans in Bury again."
The play is showing at The Met for two nights only — on Friday, April 5 and Saturday, April 6 at 7.30pm.
The recommended age for the play is 14 and over.
Visit www.burytimes.co.uk for a flavour of the play.


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Imagine a time when a community would get together for a proper celebration, walking the streets in merriment, serenaded by horns and the beat of the drums. Let our lantern-lit parade bring that magical imagery to life! Don your finest costume, design and build your own paper lantern or puppet and join the fun. Winding around the square and surrounding streets, our lantern parade is free and open to everyone.
The 2018 Twilight & Costume Parade will line up at 6:00 p.m. on Oct. 27 at Austin & E. Hickory streets. Join us with illuminated lanterns, glowing costumes, and blinking bikes. Bring your decorated cars, trucks, and floats. Slap some lights on a musical instrument or a drum and march with us!
The parade ends at Oakland and E. Hickory Street, where you can dance to the last band of the night or get your tickets to Cirque du Horror!
If you're interested in participating in the 2018 Twilight Lantern & Costume Parade, register online here. Entry deadline (floats, cars/trucks, bikes, bands & drummers): Oct. 12, 2018. For more information send an email to ddodparade@gmail.com.


"However, I'd recommend getting rid of this eventually (for example, it fails or the villain disables it or whatever) because I think it's best if the hero has free will."
"Nobody ever questions whether Intel "disables" bad cache block on some C2D chips and sell them as E2xx0, E4x00, E5x00 and E7x00 or fab them with different process."
"It does have a feature that "disables" certain resolutions but it doesn't actually remove them from the list."


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The Curtain Closing
By heathallyn
May 14th, 2007 @ 2:58 PM Uncategorized
Now that our last show of this crazy week at the PAC is over it's time to begin thinking about the end. Bass is closing on the 21st and even though my office looks out over backstage I'll miss its motions, its hustle and bustle. There's going to be PAC events and shows still but nothing like what's been in Bass even in the past week.
My coworker is a wonderful singer and she's always wanted to sing in Bass. Some of us went downstairs to hear her and she just came out of nowhere with this gorgeous song, and I stood there watching her from stage left it all hit me that it's ending and just beginning all at the same time. So many people are leaving but so many new people will become a part of our family down the line, and even though Bass will be dark for 18 months she'll be better than ever when she reopens. I hope I'm still here to see that.
As Natalie's voice cut through the stale air of an empty stage I thought about how that giant hall had seen so much; so many people have played here and so much beauty has come to Austin through the PAC, that its closing deserves to be this event that makes me sad and happy all at the same time. Bass is so much more than just a building now that I've seen all its sides; as a freshman in the second balcony with my student ticket and my opera buddy, as a seasoned student going to musicals with my friends, as an employee shepherding photographers at rock shows and as just me, off the clock, cutting through a silent, dark hall on my way to the bus, those lights above the seats shining through the black like tiny stars. I've mentioned them before but I still think it's so beautiful.
We as a whole will be saying goodbye to Bass early Monday morning if you'd like to come- it's called The Big Intermission and everyone's invited! There will be a live broadcast from KGSR, free breakfast tacos and a free gift to the first 150 people there. I know what the gift is! I want one really bad. Email Mindy Graves to RSVP.
I hope to see you there to help me say goodbye to our Bass Concert Hall. You might have to give me a hug.


The liquidity crisis on global financial markets is easing and most of the world will emerge unscathed, with the exception of the United States, IMF Managing Director Rodrigo Rato said on Tuesday.
"We have to recognise that the evolution of recent days is moving towards normalisation," Rato told a news conference in Moscow. Rato said the situation on interbank and credit markets was easing after turbulence stemming from the U.S. subprime mortgage loans crisis. But it would take some time to tally the losses suffered by investors in securities backed by home loans that have turned bad. Rato welcomed steps taken by central banks to keep the global financial system afloat. "Events on financial markets are still unfolding and it will be some months before the extent of banks' and investors' losses will become clear," Rato said after meeting Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin and central bank Chairman Sergei Ignatyev. "In this context of a lack of confidence and state of turbulence, we welcome the actions of central banks to maximise liquidity," he said. The U.S. Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a half point last week and together with the European Central Bank, Bank of England, Bank of Japan and other central entities pumped billions into the financial system. Rato's remarks were slightly less gloomy than his comments in Madrid on Monday but echoed the Fund's twice-yearly Global Financial Stability Report just released. Rato said the economic impact of the liquidity crisis on the world economy was still uncertain. "It will probably be felt more in 2008 and probably the most affected country will be the United States," he said. However the credit crisis occurred against the background of a strong world economy, and strong corporate balance sheets. "Although the crisis is serious, I think the impact on the world economy will be modest," he said, pointing to economic "decoupling" in China, India, Russia, Latin America, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. "Also we see the impact of the credit crisis to be limited on European growth." Rato was in Moscow to push an IMF reform agenda designed to boost the voting power of emerging markets nations that will be discussed at its October meeting in Washington. "There's a consensus that emerging economies such as BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) should have a louder voice in the IMF", he underlined. Rato who is stepping down from the job early called for a "perestroika" in the IMF and described both candidates to succeed him as "excellent". The two hopefuls are Czech former central banker Josef Tosovsky, supported by Russia and France's Dominique Strauss-Kahn who looks poised get the given the backing of both the European Union and the United States, which between them have enough IMF votes to push through an agreed candidate.


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Another sad news item unfortunately.
This morning, Paramore shared the news that Jeremy Davis is leaving the band.
This afternoon, another band made an announcement of the same kind.
Australian Metalcore band Buried In Verona's Richie Newman just placed a statement on their Facebook page saying that he is leaving the band after 7 years.


In 2011, the producers at Kyoto Animation decided to make one of the honorable mentions in 2010's Kyoto Animation Awards into an animated TV series. In contrast to the vast majority of the works produced by the studio, this would be a more action-oriented series. In order to capture the proper details of action animation, animator Taichi Ishidate was asked to helm a series as director for the first time. While he enjoyed the original novel, he, along with series composer Jukki Hanada, knew that it wouldn't be enough for a full length 12 episode series. Tatsuya Ishihara had gone through that situation and decided to go heavily original with his adaptation; Ishidate instead incorporated the first novel's main storyline into an original tale about two star-crossed teens trying to find their way in a strange world around them. In 2016, Kyoto Animation and Pony Canyon released a Blu-ray Box of the series. This is a review of that box, as bought at the Kyoto Animation physical store in Uji, Japan.
The Beyond the Boundary Blu-ray box comes with the show on 3 Blu-ray discs on a digipak packed inside a 3-sided box featuring new drawings of Mirai (front) and Akihito (reverse). Inside the box is the newly drawn digipak, a special booklet, and a book of storyboards for episodes 6 and 12. The special booklet includes brief details on the characters and episodes along with a newly written short story by Nagomu Tori, the author of the light novels, special images from the series, and a brief note/drawing by director Ishidate.
The discs are arranged as follows: Disc 1 has episodes 1-6, Disc 2 has episodes 7-12, and Disc 3 has episode 0 and the Idol Court shorts.
The bonus features are the 7 picture dramas included on each of the 7 Blu-ray/DVD singles the show was originally sold as and a special CD containing a newly recorded radio show just for this release. The Japanese subtitles from the original singles are also included.
Visually, Ishidate's focus on color helps the work feel very vibrant and unique from episode-to-episode. His attention to detail on effects animation and work from the special effects staff and photography staff help make the series look very good. Animation is crisp and the series looks wonderful on this BD set. I didn't note any issues with banding from the encoding by Pony Canyon.
The audio track does its purpose well. While I can't recall my exact thoughts from watching the streams on Crunchyroll in 2013, I gained a much better appreciation of the soundtrack by Hikaru Nanase on this set. The voice cast serve their characters well, but I do have to complain about the incessant use of "MEGANE! MEGANE!" through the series.
Finally, since I bought the box from the KyoAni Shop, I also got a bonus large signboard from the store. This signboard was drawn/signed by character designer/chief animation director Miku Kadowaki.
Overall, this is a decent set for anyone who loved Beyond the Boundary. I personally didn't enjoy it as much as others did, but it was enjoyable on a re-watch. Kyoto Animation tends not to include a lot of the bonus features from singles with the box releases (this set misses the textless OP/EDs, commercials, details from booklets, additional short stories, audio commentaries and bonus cover arts), but if you just want to own the show, they're a good release.
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It used to be that teaching math subjects in high school was done by using large Manila Paper as a visual aid. Yet this could very well be a thing of the past, especially for 30 of the highest-need high schools in the Ilocos and Cordillera region that benefited from the very latest Caltex Fuel Your School campaign.
Organized by Chevron Philippines Inc and Northern Star, the Fuel Your School campaign for the Ilocos and Cordillera region witnessed some 52,000 high school students and 1,781 teachers from 30 of the highest-need public high school receiving around P3 million worth of learning tools to help them learn Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM).
Thru the efforts of Northern Star, the group that operates a host of Caltex stations in the region, a drive was held to collect P1 for every liter of fuel that motorists filled up on during the period of June 1 to July 31, 2018. The fund drive was supported by students who used tools like social media and the like to entice motorists and other folks to support this worthwhile cause.
In the end, each of the 30 schools received around P100,000 in learning equipment. These will be used to make teaching and learning a lot more fun and visually appealing.
Since its inception some four years ago, the Caltex Fuel Your School has helped thousands of public high schools and millions of students in the National Capital Region, Davao, Bicol, and now, Nothern Luzon.
Teachers, students and a Caltex executive assemble the newly-donated robotics kit.
With the new lab equipment, students are able to quickly test their skills and knowledge.
The interest in robotics is growing among public high school STEM students with the numerous requests for robotics kits.
With their new equipment, STEM students are able to creatively apply science concepts.


Entire sales to benefit the Thomaston Dog Park!
Park Street Car Wash and Ferraiolo Construction have generously offered to sponsor our next fundraising event. Stop by Park Street Car Wash on Saturday, June 13th, from 10am - 2pm and get your car all shined up and ready for summer. Bring along your furry friend for a professional nail trimming clinic being hosted by Yankee Clipper Pet Grooming & Supplies, (normally $15 so great saving at $10 on the day or $7 pre-pay at right). Sample the tasty treats for both humans and their pups at the bake sale.
100% of the proceeds from this event will be donated to The Thomaston Dog Park. Purchase advance tickets by Friday, June 12th and SAVE! Hope to see you there!


John Tory says the TTC can miraculously increase service on a decreased budget. In asking the TTC to make cuts, he noted to the effect that, he'd been successful in negotiating budget cuts with the Toronto Police Force.
Those who paid attention might have noticed that the latter agreement is for a freeze that has not happened yet in the police budget. They may also have noted that the previous request for a freeze was met with a budget increase that our Mayor, John Tory, approved.
So much for that negotiation. I hope the TTC wins the next one. We need their funding.
This is the same mayor who 'announced' a park to be built over the railway lines south of Front Street. Before finding out what the air space rights would cost. But he knows how nice the park will be.
Of course, having tipped his hand, the city will be in a fine bargaining position to get these rights cheap. And, nobody knows who is going to pay for the park itself, either.
So much for that negotiation.
I am reminded that the previous attempt to parkify the space over the rail tracks involved a casino. Oddly enough, casino negotiations are underway now, and (if I believe the Toronto Star today) the companies bidding may be able to change two of the three specific, designated locations, once they get approval to proceed.
That may not even require negotiation from the city, if we give them the terms they want now.
What about Edward Keenan, you say? He labels John Tory 'the King of Compromise'.
Today's Toronto Star has an article by Edward Keenan on John Tory and his negotiating prowess. He may have a few kind words to say, but most of this message is pretty critical.
Here's just one paragraph. Read the full article for some fun at our mayor's expense(s).
Like maintaining his pledge to freeze property taxes while also vowing to introduce a new source of taxes. Like moving to the wildly more expensive "hybrid" Gardiner project that seeks both to please those who wanted the highway maintained and those who wanted a new grand boulevard built where it now stands. Like announcing he won't bid for the Olympics at the same event where he announced he expects the Olympics to come some day, and launched a task force to study making such bids. Like introducing a tax levy for city building in the same speech he froze spending on conferences and stationery.
If you've followed other 'Tory Sale' posts here, you know I am no longer a fan of our current mayor.
This is really sad. I miss Rob Ford. No wise 'cracks' here, please. However much one might disagree with, or disrespect, our previous mayor, he did get things done. I might have disliked many of his decisions, but at least I knew what they were, and they actually were clear decisions.
Subways, subways, subways – used to drive me nuts, nuts, nuts. But that got more done than photo-op, credit-take, double-talk – which, imho, is what Torontonians are getting now.
For those of you who enjoy, or like detesting, my dumb questions, here are two.
What would Toronto be like now, if Olivia Chow had won the race to become mayor?
Compromise might sound nice, but compromised does not. After all the compromising, are the outcomes rather compromised?
This is silly. France banned the burqa some five years ago. Several French towns have now banned the burkini.
Here is one website whose video shows the arrest of a Muslim woman for wearing a burkini. This on a beach full of bikinis.
Amazingly, they forced the woman to remove some of her clothing. The French idea of modesty is mind-blowing.
If it's illegal for a woman to be fully covered on a beach, what are the cops doing wearing their gunbelts?
Apparently, the French idea of 'a good Muslim woman' is a bit weird. Here's another article you'll enjoy.
French tolerance seems to be evaporating. It took a court ruling to strike down the burkini ban.
I'd like to see a demonstration which lures fully riot-equipped police onto a beach. Then I'd like to see them demanded to remove their helmets, shields, boots, and strip down to what's accepted beach wear, if you're a Muslim woman.
Windows 10 wakes up even from Hibernate. Even with wake timers disabled.
There are a lot of Google results showing others with this problem. I found what appears to be a solution. I'll give this first, and some general comments on Windows 10 later.
I will use -> to mean, click on, or open folder, or whatever. It means, make this choice from the things you can see.
Start -> Control Panel. -> Administrative Tools. -> Task Scheduler. -> Task Scheduler Library. -> Microsoft. -> Windows.
At this point, you might see an entry: WindowsMediaCenter. Open that. You might see one or more scheduled tasks. open each one and check under the Conditions tag.
If you see Wake the Computer to Run This Task checked, you need to right-click on the task (in the list), navigate again (you can update now) to Conditions, and un-check this box.
On my computer, this entry showed when it had run last (failure, program not found!) and when it would run next. Once a week at 7:23 p.m.
I make notes as I change things, so I'm not mistaken here, eh?
If this doesn't work for you, search through other scheduled events for Wake the Computer … as above. Also, read the second section of this blog as a heads-up.
General Comments on Windows 10.
Overall, I like it. Upgraded from 7 on two machines. Purchased third machine with 10 already on it.
-> Sleep -> Allow Wake Timers -> Disable is supposed to stop waking from hibernation. It does not.
should give you some check boxes. Show Hibernate in Power Menu is what you need to check.
Task Scheduler. I'm pretty sure that, after opening tab after tab after tab, the system stopped showing me contents (scheduled tasks) of tabs on open. I went back to a tab I'd seen stuff in earlier, and verified this.
Windows Versions. On three computers, I have three different versions of Windows.
Zenbook. Windows 10 pre-installed. Added ZoneAlarm as firewall and antivirus and everything works just fine.
Desktop # 1. Windows 10 update from 7 was never scheduled. (Yet the annoying prompt showed up as an all-white blank window on Win7.) Upgrading failed (rolled back) claiming ZoneAlarm is incompatable. Put ZA to sleep and re-ran the update. All is well.
Desktop # 2. Windows 10 update from 7 scheduled fairly early. Had to turn this update off repeatedly on windows updates. Annoying prompt showed up correctly. Attempting to upgrade to 10 met with 'no updates are available.' Found a downloader on Microsoft site, disabled ZA, and upgraded. Re-enabled ZA and no problems – for a little while.
(Routinely, I update all the anti-virus, anti-spyware, et cetera on several machines.) While doing a ZA update, the internet went down and could not be recovered. Disabled (option in ZA) ZoneAlarm. Internet stayed down. UnInstalled ZA. Internet came back up. Installed new download of ZA. Still working weeks later.
Small things are different between the two desktops. Defaults. The zenbook is different again. Different versions of Spybot, for example. Desktop # 1 kept the previous version. Desktop # 2 gained a new version with a totally different interface. Zenbook is similar to, but not identical with, Desktop # 2. Go figure.
My suspicion: 'upgrading' as desktop # 1 did, gets one version; desktop # 2 used a different route and got a different build. The Zenbook got a laptop version.
Windows activity under the covers.
This PC -> C drive -> Search -> Date Modified -> Today.
Microsoft Customer Experience Improvement Program.
This is spyware. Google this and find the options to get the lowest level of reporting possible. Set that.
There is a website that claims to provide a script that it claims will tell Windows Firewall to block a (large) number of IP addresses – supposedly the ones Windows uses for things like CompatTelRunner.
I do not know if this website (winaero?) solution works. Post here if you know.
You can leave task manager 'up' during sleep, and as soon as you can, switch to it on wake, and see how much LAN and disk and CPU are being used by what. Nothing you started. This is spyware.
I found that awakening from sleep often took longer than from hibernation. Maybe it's really random and my sample is too small for conclusions.
If it can be reached from Control Panel, go to it from Control Panel.
Some items may come up under 'Cortana' search, may appear to be identical with what you get from a Control Panel selection, but may omit options (change settings that are currently unavailable comes to mind) or have options greyed out and frozen.
This is imho a blatant violation of the First Law of Data Processing: One is The Magic Number. If you have the same information in two places, it will get different. This applies to algorithms and presentation logic. If you need to show the info in two places, call the exact same code. Don't re-write it so as to look nearly the same while not fully equal in capability.
Allow Wake Timers does not, when turned off, stop waking from hibernation.
I don't really know what the option precludes. I'm guessing that it stops mere user-installed applications from setting a wake timer. Clearly the task scheduler can cause the computer to wake from hibernation (and presumably from shut down) since there is an option on each task entry to allow this.
Your system may be different from my system.
My very similar desktops are not running identical Win10 (<- Win7) systems.
Odd Result 1. Can't use Weather tile.
Move very slowly and deliberately with Windows 10, especially deletions and un-installs. I apparently got rid of the Microsoft Store and disabled the Microsoft Weather tile. Trying to access Store from the taskbar gives an error, Check Your Internet Connection and Try Again. Trying to set the location in the Weather tile gives an error. I can set location on and background on (settings) however I like, and the weather tile won't do anything but give me the basic summary – for the wrong location (Ottawa – I'm in Toronto). However, when enabled, the tile does update the temperature. In Ottawa.
I am getting weather updates from Ottawa, restricted to the tile contents only.
Conclusion: don't mess with stuff until either you're sure you know what will happen, or can live with pessimal results.
Odd Result 2. Music is inconsistent.
I have a couple of Harry Chapin CDs. I normally play the CD itself, but this set lives elsewhere so I had Windows Media Player save it. This under Win7.
After installing Win10, my sound came back (was disabled on this machine for unspecified reasons.) One of the first things I tried was playing music. I'd just installed VLC player, so got it to look at my Chapin (Gold Medal Collection, Disc 2). Three of the tracks were missing.
and lo, tracks 1, 13, and 14 are missing.
Now I open Windows Media Player. music, artist, gold medal collection disc 2.
All 15 tracks are visible. Track 13 (Sequel) plays just fine.
Conclusion: Windows Media Player did, imho, store the CD in wherever Windows keeps Music. Maybe Media Player has a secret backup location. I don't use VLC to play music, except for this one time.
Odd Result # 3. Firefox can't access a file, but Edge can.
Somewhere in my random searching for power on options, I came across and accidentally clicked, an option to watch power for sixty seconds and create a report. The file is c:\windows\system32\energy-report.html.
So, I naively typed the above file and path into Firefox's entry box. error. can't find the file. OK, I navigated This PC -> C drive -> windows -> system32 -> and found the file energy-report.html. Clicking on this led to Firefox (my default browser) which got a File Not Found – Firefox can't find the file at … . Now right-click the file , -> Open With -> Edge.
Voila. I can see the energy report. It thinks my mouse (with its Microsoft driver) is wasting power.
The contents of the report might be important to you. The operating system is, imho, preventing an un-loved browser (FireFox) from accessing a file, while permitting a loved one (Edge) to see it.
In fact, Notepad can open this file.
Conclusion: Windows 10 discriminates against Firefox. By telling it that a file is not there.
If you walk through the task scheduler as above, you'll see quite a spread of task dates. There were a few from something weird like 1999. There were a few from the day of Win10 installation.
And then there were the ones that rerun, over and over. On every logon and each hour thereafter. At specific times.
Among these are some that fail every single time they run. Missing program.
I think I got rid of the Media Center on this machine. It was a busy first two days, with rollbacks etc, and my usual notes are more scribbly than useful. I do have Windows Media Player, and it does work.
Yet there was a scheduled task to update Windows Media Center.
There are many scheduled tasks on this PC (# 2) that fail regularly. This is a waste of processor time and responsiveness.
Assume I am sending you a message. I decide to encrypt it. I send you the message via a device and some network. You receive the message off that network and your device decrypts it.
My message goes 'somewhere' and you get it from there later.
In the first case, total security (aside from breaking the encryption via brute force) from eavesdropping is possible.
your website sends a challenge message and mentions your certificate.
my browser acquires, from a certificate issuer, your certificate and most importantly, your public key.
your website decrypts using your private key. Supposedly only you and the certificate issuer know this key. This 'proves' the message was received by the intended target.
your website responds demonstrating that it was able to decrypt as above, and including a test message encrypted in the three keys my browser made up at random.
from then on, for this one session, we encrypt/decrypt all traffic contents in those three keys.
Use of the certificate-related public and private keys is restricted to a very short message which is mostly random data.
The actual secure traffic is encrypted via three keys that were never used before and will never be used again.
Presumably, both our machines forget those keys after our session is complete.
Note that both my computer and the bank's website must remember the three keys for the duration of the interchange. However, those keys are not needed thereafter and generally are discarded.
In the second case above, since we are not in conversation when my message is sent, the machine at 'somewhere' must know how to decrypt the message for you. There is no exchange of secret key between the end participants, since they are not in a real-time connection. I cannot send you the secret key, as you are not available to me at send time.
In this case, the messages must be decryptable by the 'somewhere' machine that stores them for the time between is-sent and is-picked-up.
While both the sending and final forwarding traffic can be protected (via https or similar), the storage in 'somewhere', if encrypted, has to be done by a key that 'somewhere' remembers for the 'time between' sending and receiving by the end participants.
Thus my confusion about Blackberry in India. They claimed that messages 'on their server' could not be decrypted by them.
This is true if the messages are in-flight between active end points that have exchanged random encryption keys.
This is not true if the messages are stored, being sent by one party when the intended recipient is not online at the same time.
Police, Passwords; Law and Order; facts?
The police chiefs of Canada have just started a fear and smear campaign. It's aim: to force anyone to reveal her/his password to any device.
This is, of course, contrary to current Canadian law.
It is also contrary to current American law.
I have been following this legal discussion in the USA. A criminal's phone was suspected of containing extra evidence. The US authorities tried to force the owner to provide the password. Then they tried to force the phone provider (Apple?) to break the password.
Then they claimed that they, the FBI, actually broke the password themselves.
Once the phone was, as claimed, broken, no new evidence was shouted from the rooftops. If I were the winning prosecutor in such a technological battle, and it provided key evidence that added to proof of existing charges, or suggested additional charges, I'd let the reporters all know. Loudly.
Instead we got silence. This after the FBI claimed they broke the phone and could break another one.
Self-incrimination includes being forced to disclose the content of one's mind. Thus a physical key can be compelled, but a lock's combination cannot. Consequently an accused canNot be compelled to provide a password: the legal equivalent of a lock's combination.
In US law, a provider of equipment does not need to do the work of breaking its password protection. (This even if the password could be demanded by law.) To make this happen, the authorities would need to prove that the password could be broken, and that the provider was the only possible breaker. In addition, the authorities would have to recompense the provider for the costs involved. Apple simply said that the costs were large and it probably couldn't be done; the authorities said that others could do it, so get on with it. Apple responded by saying, if they can do it, then you should ask them to. We're busy.
I suspect the entire episode was intended to create a precedent for forcing passwords to be given out, broken, or circumvented. (By password I also include encryption key. It's merely the 'password' for decryption, eh?) I don't think more evidence was needed, or even useful. I see it as a publicity stunt.
I note that the FBI say they cannot break 'more recent phones'.
Government surveillance is a key part of a police state. The best way to lose your freedom is to be under scrutiny at all times.
We're moving, as a society, and the direction is disturbing.
Citizens can defend themselves from such constant scrutiny in various ways. Or can they?
Encrypt your messages. Your online financial transactions are encrypted. The US Government made sure that the encryption keys were short enough that their supercomputer could always break that encryption.
At one point, longer keys were treated as munitions and penalties for exporting supporting software were like those for shipping missiles and bombs.
Hide their actions. You might behave behind your high fence with no overlooking buildings. A US case whereby a surveillance airplane, flying where a private airplane could conceivably fly, detected marijuana plants in such a backyard. This was Not deemed to be a violation of a reasonable expectation of privacy.
Use a device that ensures privacy. Barack Obama insisted on keeping his Blackberry. The spooks around him found a way to agree that it was suitably secure. But if you buy a smartphone, you may be compelled to disclose its password and thus your encryption key. Not in the United States of America, but here in Canada if our police chiefs have their way.
Go off the grid. There is no protection from the likes of the Unabomber. There is no protection from a secretly radicalized individual.
The last point is part of my reason for keying all this crud. Law enforcement authorities will use any possible slant to increase their powers. It is the nature of power to augment itself. Thus any failure on the part of law enforcement is taken as the fault of the country and its citizens, for not having given law enforcement sufficiently intrusive powers as to curtail illegal acts of any kind. The indefensible must be met with more intrusion and more surveillance of citizens.
Since it is impossible to win against the lone wolf, it is necessary to stop short of tying all freedoms in knots while making the attempt.
I will give a few examples of why I think government inspection of our lives should be curtailed, not increased. I simply don't trust them.
Intel's refusal was not greeted with enthusiasm by law enforcement.
At one point, DES keys were limited in length. Then financial institutions were allowed to use longer keys. I believe the US law now allows any key length, and we're moving forward into AES. This as the supercomputers get better.
In short, I think we've always been spied on.
The HeartBleed bug. This was known by the spooks for about two years before it became common knowledge amongst us mere users. USA government departments reportedly used this to spy on all manner of website contents.
Most of us are too young to remember when seasonal greeting cards could be sent more cheaply (postage-wise) if their envelopes were not sealed.
Your government has various 'law enforcement' agencies. They all want to spy on you. The balance between freedom and law and order is being tilted, and the larger forces are those wanting to intrude on your privacy.
Americans should watch this with some slight unease. A shift in legal ground in Canada could be trumpeted as cause for new legislation in other countries.
I do book reviews. Kindle book reviews, where I am listed for poetry but in fact get all kinds of work for consideration.
I often post a review elsewhere at the request of the author; GoodReads is a common target.
My rating:4 of 5 stars.
Beck has provided us with ninety-nine poems on the human condition. As always, do not let my star count override your judgement of content. More on the stars, counting, and my rating challenges later. Let's get to the point: Beck's work.
Beck usually ambushes his reader in a book's first poem, and Anthem keeps up this tradition. The idea of patriotism wrapped up in growing, or at least potential, prosperity, meets with a dose of reality. To quote Pogo, we have met the enemy, and it is us.
Beck will make you think, especially about the maelstrom that was Iraq after the American-led adventure. Turn to Iraq Monologues for a series of scary insights into what it is to live in such a 'liberated' land.
In Beck's Excursion, I found a disturbing 'echo' of Robert Frost's The Bonfire (war is for everyone, for children too.) In Beck's poem, tough times are reflected in a child's conversation. Then again in Original Sin, our damaging of our own surroundings is captured: "We have tainted the air, /poisoned the water, /depleted our food, /until once again /the few have much, /the many little. /The difference this time…" Turn to this poem and read it for yourself. Like Frost, Beck tells us unpleasant truths.
A recurring theme in this collection is the ambiguity of the United States' position as 'world protector.' This occurs in Misunderstood, where it is impossible for the USA to get it right in the eyes of all.
This collection explores our perceptions. We are complicit in the evil deeds of others inasmuch as we allow ourselves to be: "unaware /of the seething torments /driving some to despair /who renounce…" This is a quote from Brute Force.
Beck does venture into other aspects of culture, as in the longer poem Art History, where we find this: "An enterprising monkey /became a wealthy painter /by splashing paint on canvas /and signing it Jackson Rhesus. /New schools of art came and went/ quickly and to such acclaim /that buyers needed experts /to tell them what they liked." The poem goes on much more from there than you might expect. A fun read.
Conversely Beck can convey tough situations, as in Invocation, where we find this: "I think of my AK-47 /hidden under the floor boards." This is just one passing thought in a person's head. Scary.
The dilemma of fighting domestic terror is captured in Who Will Feed Us. If you want 'literary' work, turn to A Moral Tale A La Shelley, which begins: "I met a merchant from an oil-poor land, /who said: "Two vast and rusting derricks stand…." The parallel is both clear and clever.
I must confess my enjoyment of A Turbulent Bird is partly because we Au Canada are watching the development of the F-35. Apparently the V-22 Osprey was a similarly 'challenging' defense project. I suggest you read the poem, and then google for the Wikipedia description of the plane and its history.
If you were scrolling for the tiny carps, there may be an echo. If there are any typos, I didn't catch them. Nothing. Let's get back to the star count.
My personal guidelines, when doing any review, are as follows: five stars means, roughly equal to best in genre. Rarely given. Four stars means, extremely good. Three stars means, definitely recommendable. I am a tough reviewer. There are a lot of poems here that spoke to me, and your favourites may be different from mine. Still, four stars from this curmudgeon seems right on: highly recommended. Enjoy.
Our lady of peace. Belonging to us. The one we believe in. Our lady of Peace. Bringing us peace, perhaps made of or composed of, peace.
This happens in your brain whether you realize it or not.
Little Orphan Annie. Cartoon character, along with "Daddy" Warbucks, Punjab, and others. Little orphan, requiring the reader to find her cute and vulnerable. Orphan, demanding sympathy. Ward of "Daddy" Warbucks. Daddy in quotes means he's not there much. Warbucks I leave you to smile at. Punjab appears (this from memory) to be a large, dark, alien, stealthy servant, perhaps bodyguard, merging toward assassin.
This cartoon would probably not do very well today. Stereotyping and perhaps racist.
But we still like little orphans. Even stray cats evoke sympathy.
Michael Ford. Parents: He was born in 1994 to Ennio Stirpe and Kathy Ford. You can read all about him on Google and Wikipedia. His press claims he is 'not like' Doug Ford and Rob Ford. While it is possible you've never heard of these politicians, at one time Toronto (Canada) had the most famous mayor in the world.
Micheal Ford was elected by a landslide, despite having eleven opponents.
Changed his name legally to Ford before running for Toronto City Council.
We'll see how he does: on his own, now.
Trump, in Wiktionary, means a card which wins a trick irrespective of its rank due to strange rules agreed on before the deal.
Trump, in Wictionary, also means to blow a horn. Apparently trompe, drum, and other words come from the same basic root; they all meant trick or noisemaker.
What's in a name? Names are magic. If enough people believe, the church building named above becomes a true sanctuary. If enough people read, the cartoon mentioned earlier becomes breakfast conversation. If enough people recognize a name, the councillor with the convenient name change wins well over half of all votes.
if enough people believe, a loud well-named person can become a business tycoon. That tycoon can, despite bankruptcies that broke small companies and abandoned workers who were owed money, claim to self-finance his campaign (until later, when he needed even more money.) That campaigner can shout down opposition at rallies and advance toward what looks (from Canada) to be the most powerful position in the world, just one rank under God.
That leader of the free world could hold the nuclear codes.
Then indeed may we all be trumped.
Will the American People vote with their prejudices? Or will logic and common humanity shape their next, critical choice?
Those are the dumb questions. Let's hope the answers aren't dumb.


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Monday, June 20 2016
Acts 19: The Miracles At Ephesus and The Idol Pedlars
by Wayne Blank
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"God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them"
Ancient Ephesus was a city located in southwestern Asia, in what is today western Turkey (the apostle Paul was born in Tarsus, in southeastern Turkey; see The First Voyage Of Barnabas and Saul and The Return Of The Home Town Apostles).
After having visited the Ephesus during his second and third missionary journeys, the apostle Paul also wrote the "book" of Ephesians (see Ephesians: Put On The Whole Armour Of God), which was actually an epistle, a letter (see The Epistles: What Is An Epistle?), to the "Christians" (as the followers of the LORD had shortly-before come to be known, at Antioch; see Where Believers Were First Called Christians) at Ephesus.
Paul's First Missionary Journey: Acts 13:1 to 15:35
Paul's Second Missionary Journey: Acts 15:36 to 18:22
Paul's Third Missionary Journey: Acts 18:23 to 21:17
Paul's work, by means of the Holy Spirit of God, at Ephesus was powerful and productive: "And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them" (verse 11-12 below).
"19:1 And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples, 19:2 He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed?
And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.
19:3 And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized?
And they said, Unto John's baptism.
19:4 Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus. 19:5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 19:6 And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied. 19:7 And all the men were about twelve.
19:8 And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God. 19:9 But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus. 19:10 And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.
19:11 And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: 19:12 So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.
19:13 Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth. 19:14 And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so. 19:15 And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye? 19:16 And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
19:17 And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. 19:18 And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds. 19:19 Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. 19:20 So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.
19:21 After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome. 19:22 So he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto him, Timotheus and Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season." (Acts 19:1-22 KJV)
In that era, Ephesus was a prominent city of the world. The Romans (see A History Of Jerusalem: Pompey And The Caesars) gave it the title "the first and greatest metropolis of Asia." Its foremost economic and religious attraction was the heathen Temple of Diana, known as "Diana of the Ephesians," and its open theater, which was capable of seating 50,000 spectators - then the largest in the world, and still very big in comparison to modern-day stadiums.
The cult of Diana had become a big religion because it was heavily promoted by the businessmen who became wealthy from the manufacture and sale of idolatry. When many people began to realize, from the preaching of Paul, that their idols were worthless junk, the businessmen incited a religious riot against Paul.
"19:23 And the same time there arose no small stir about that way. 19:24 For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen; 19:25 Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth. 19:26 Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands: 19:27 So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.
19:28 And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians. 19:29 And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the theatre. 19:30 And when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the disciples suffered him not. 19:31 And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his friends, sent unto him, desiring him that he would not adventure himself into the theatre.
19:32 Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the assembly was confused; and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together. 19:33 And they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand, and would have made his defence unto the people. 19:34 But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice about the space of two hours cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
19:35 And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter? 19:36 Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly. 19:37 For ye have brought hither these men, which are neither robbers of churches, nor yet blasphemers of your goddess. 19:38 Wherefore if Demetrius, and the craftsmen which are with him, have a matter against any man, the law is open, and there are deputies: let them implead one another. 19:39 But if ye enquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a lawful assembly. 19:40 For we are in danger to be called in question for this day's uproar, there being no cause whereby we may give an account of this concourse. 19:41 And when he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly." (Acts 19:23-41 KJV)
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451: The Battle of Chalons. The Romans under Flavius Aetius fought the forces of Attila the Hun (see also A History Of Jerusalem: Pompey And The Caesars, A History Of Jerusalem: Titus And The Zealots, A History Of Jerusalem: Hadrian and Simon bar Kokhba and A History Of Jerusalem: Constantine and Muhammad). At its greatest extent, the Hunnic Empire covered the lands from the Ural River (in Russia) in the east to the Rhine River (in Germany) in the west, and from the Danube River (in Germany) in the south to the Baltic Sea in the north.
1214: The University of Oxford received its charter.
1397: The Union of Kalmar united Denmark, Sweden, and Norway under one monarch.
1529: Clement VII and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (see The Holy Roman Empire Of The German Nation) signed the Peace of Barcelona; it ended attacks on Rome by the Lutheran armies.
1567: Jews were expelled from Brazil by order of regent Don Henrique.
1624: France and the Netherlands signed a treaty of non-aggression at Compiegne.
1631: The Irish village of Baltimore was sacked by Algerian pirates.
1756: 146 British soldiers in India were captured and imprisoned in a suffocating cell reserved for petty offenders. 120 of them died in what became known as the infamous "Black Hole of Calcutta."
1837: King William IV of England died. He was succeeded by his 18 year old niece, Queen Victoria, who remained on the throne for 63 years.
1840: Samuel Morse received a patent for his "telegraph."
1877: Alexander Graham Bell installed the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Bell lived for many years at the nearby city of Brantford, Ontario where the Bell Homestead is today a popular tourist attraction. According to Bell's own recorded testimony, he invented the telephone at his home in Brantford.
1923: Pancho Villa, the Mexican revolutionary leader, was assassinated.
1942: A Japanese submarine shelled Estevan Point, British Columbia, one of the very few direct attacks on North America during the Second World War.
1946: Fred Rose, the only member of the communist party elected to the Canadian Parliament, was sentenced to six years in prison for conspiring to communicate wartime secrets to the USSR. He was exposed as a traitor by Igor Gouzenko, a cipher clerk at the Soviet embassy in Ottawa, who had defected to Canada.
1955: The longest solar eclipse in the 20th century, 7 minutes and 8 seconds. The maximum possible is 7 minutes and 31 seconds (see also What Can You See In The Firmament Of The Heavens?).
1963: The U.S. and the Soviet Union agreed to establish a "hot line" between Washington and Moscow.
1972: President Richard Nixon's famous "Watergate" meeting with H.R. Haldeman where 18 minutes of tape were later mysteriously erased.
1979: ABC News (U.S.) correspondent Bill Stewart was shot dead by a Nicaraguan soldier; the murder was recorded and shown around the world, adding to the fall of the CIA-backed regime of the dictator Anastasio Somoza.
1992: Czech and Slovak leaders agreed to split Czechoslovakia into 2 separate countries. It had been formed in 1918 after the First World War caused the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire.
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House Speaker Pelosi calls President Trump 'deranged' and deserving of 'prosecution' on national television
Richard Szabo | TheBL 01/11/21, 00:16
An undated photo of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). (Shutterstock)
An elected official that's responsible for ensuring the Democratic Party passes legislation in the House declared the president insane.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) used national television to call President Donald Trump severely mentally disordered and worthy of capital punishment.
"Well, sadly, the person who is running the executive branch is a deranged, unhinged, dangerous president of the United States," she said in a video shared on Twitter.
The hostile remarks came after CBS "60 Minutes" reporter Lesley Stahl asked Pelosi who was running the federal government and in charge of carrying out and enforcing the law.
"Is anybody running the executive branch of the government? Who is running the executive branch?" Stahl can be heard saying on the video.
Pelosi reiterated she was counting down the days until President Trump's first term ends, could not wait for the incumbent to depart the Oval Office, and will try to impeach him a second time.
"There are only a number of days until we can be protected from him but he has done something so serious that there should be prosecution against him," she said.
Pelosi previously ordered Vice President Mike Pence to remove President Trump without notice.
"I join the Senate Democratic leader in calling for the vice president to remove this president by immediately invoking the 25th Amendment," she said according to Fox News.
According to the Constitution, Pence has the authority to replace the president if he becomes unable to perform his duties due to illness or disability.
For this to happen, Pence must first provide a written declaration stating the president is "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office," and he will immediately assume "powers and duties of the office" as acting president according to the National Constitution Center website.
The BL understands it is improbable the vice president will resort to this measure because President Trump's first term will end in less than nine days.
However, Pelosi is still open to pursuing the 25th Amendment, even though President Trump's term may end before any decision is reached.
"No, it [the 25th Amendment] is not [off the table,] nothing is off the table," she said in the video.
"If the vice president and Cabinet do not act, the Congress may be prepared to move forward with impeachment," she added. "That is the overwhelming sentiment of my caucus and the American people, by the way … while it is only 13 days left, any day can be a horror show for America."
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The training was very intense. It was 2 months before we started shooting, and then throughout the course of the shooting, which was 5 months. I think the producers and Rupert Sanders wanted us to think and move like a unit, and like a family really, a dysfunctional one no less, but a family. We went through physical conditioning, and then military training, paramilitary training, weapons training, tactical training, and we did that about five hours a day. It was very, very grueling. But I think at the end of the day, it brought us really closer together, and hopefully you can see that on screen.
Chin Han made this admission to me when I spoke with the Singaporean actor on the day of Ghost In The Shell's release last week. Han, who previously popped up in The Dark Knight, 2012, Contagion, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and Independence Day: Resurgence ahead of his role as Togusa in Ghost In The Shell, clearly worked tirelessly to not just get his body in the right shape for the sci-fi epic, but also so that he and his fellow members of Ghost In The Shell's Section 9 looked like a smooth military unit.
In the Ghost In The Shell scenes where Section 9 are deployed and then swiftly strut their stuff as lean mean killing machines you really get a sense of the training that each of the team underwent when preparing for the film. In fact, you can get a taste of Chin Han, Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbaek, and Takeshi Kitano's skills in Ghost In The Shell by watching the trailer below.
While Scarlett Johansson takes the lead role as The Major in Ghost In The Shell, who is a cyborg with a human brain inside her metallic skull that spends the most of the film searching for her identity in this world, Chin Han's Togusa is the only family man of Section 9, which also consists of Pilou Basek's Batou and is led by Takeshi Kitano's Chief Daisuke Aramaki. You still have an opportunity to see the results of their grueling training in action, as Ghost In The Shell was released just last weekend and is still in cinemas now.


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Massage parlor ban extended
Posted on November 21, 2008 by Frank Girardot
Arcadia extended its ban on Massage parlors for another 10 months, to "study" the issue. Several members of the City Council are worried that the parlors are fronts for prostitution. The vote is a happy ending for cops who have recently cracked down.
Here's the top of Alfred Lee's story on the issue:
ARCADIA – City officials have extended a moratorium on massage therapy businesses by another 10 and a half months.
Believing that such businesses are often a front for prostitution, officials first enacted a 45-day ban on Oct. 21 on all new license applications for businesses that supply massages as a secondary service – such as spas, acupuncturists and chiropractors.
Arcadia also stopped issuing new licenses to massage therapists; more than 700 such permits had been handed out in the past three years.
In addition to unanimously voting Tuesday to extend the ban, the City Council also added amendments that allow already licensed businesses and therapists to relocate.
"What we're saying (to massage businesses) is that if someone leaves, you can't get anybody new for 10 months, unless they're already licensed," Councilman Gary Kovacic said.
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Bodhi on November 21, 2008 at 11:56 am said:
I'm a massage therapist in Pasadena and I think this is ridiculous. There's no reason for innocent people who are trying to earn a living to suffer just because of a few prostitutes. Can't they investigate without preventing therapists from getting a license and businesses from hiring new therapists for the next ten months? If 700 licenses have been given out in the last three years, then over 200 therapists will be blocked from getting their licenses over the next ten months. Imagine all the new graduates in Arcadia, fresh out of school and eager to work, finding out they cant work in their city for the next ten months. That seems like an extreme measure to take just because they suspect that some people may be using massage as a front for prostitution. Well, let me put their minds to rest: People ARE using massage as a front for prostitution, in every city across the country. They always have and they always will. Police usually turn a blind eye, until one day they pop up with something like this and punish everybody. Its not fair. Police should investigate and decide who to target, not just lazily put a ban on all massage. This is completely unacceptable.
I'm a massage therapist in Pasadena and I think this is ridiculous. There's no reason for innocent people who are trying to earn a living to suffer just because of a few prostitutes. Can't they investigate without preventing therapists from getting a license and businesses from hiring new therapists for the next ten months? If 700 licenses have been given out in the last three years, then over 200 therapists will be blocked from getting their licenses over the next ten months. Imagine all the new graduates in Arcadia, fresh out of school and eager to work, finding out they cant work in their city for the next ten months. That seems like an extreme measure to take just because they suspect that some people may be using massage as a front for prostitution. Well, let me their minds to rest: People ARE using massage as a front for prostitution, in every city across the country. They always have and they always will. Police usually turn a blind eye, until one day they pop up with something like this and punish everybody. Its not fair. Police should investigate and decide who to target, not just lazily put a ban on all massage. This is completely unacceptable.
LA County on January 18, 2009 at 5:53 pm said:
This is just a way for cops and city counsil members to look like they are doing something. How about doing something that will actually help the community ?
SP Asian Therapy Spa Masseuses are Prostitutes on October 26, 2011 at 4:00 pm said:
SP Asian Therapy Spa, located in 1008-1/2 Avenue Fair Oaks in South Pasadena engages in prostitution activities. Angela, and the other girls especially will engage in prostitution when the men become regular customers. Massage parlors especially Asian-owned and employs Asian masseuses are doing illegal activities- there is no doubt. Check out these forums:
http://www.usasexguide.info/forum/printthread.php?t=5327&pp=40&page=5
Here is a forum that shows Angela committing prostitution:
http://forum.cityxguide.com/topic/massage-parlor-reports-33/page/4
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«Диво-жінка 1984» (; скорочено «WW84») — американський супергеройський фільм на основі коміксів DC про Диво-жінку. Він є продовженням фільму 2017 року — «Диво-жінка» і восьмою частиною світів DC. Режисеркою фільму виступила Петті Дженкінс. Головну роль виконала Галь Гадот, а Кріс Пайн, Крістен Віг і Педро Паскаль зіграли другорядних персонажів. Це четвертий художній фільм за участю персонажа, який слідує за фільмами «Бетмен проти Супермена: На зорі справедливості» (2016), «Диво-жінка» (2017) і «Ліга справедливості» (2017), а також — другий повнометражний фільм про Диво-жінку.

В інститут, де працює Діана Прінс, потрапляє колекція контрабандних артефактів, серед яких є камінь бажань, виготовлений в прадавню епоху богом обману і підступності . Не знаючи, що він справді виконує бажання, Діана повертає до життя свого коханого, а її колега Барбара отримує суперздібності, рівні силі самої Діани. Проте камінь підступний, як і його творець, — в обмін він починає відбирати сили у Діани і доброту та чуйність у Барбари Мінерви, перетворюючи ту на ворога Диво-жінки — , котра стає на захист бізнесмена , що здобути успіх, виконавши бажання всіх людей на Землі.

Основні зйомки розпочалися 13 червня 2018 року, зйомки пройшли у Великій Британії, а також в окрузі Колумбія і Північній Вірджинії в Сполучених Штатах та на островах Тенерифе і Фуертевентура в Іспанії. Прем'єра фільму в Україні відбулася 16 грудня 2020 року.

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Фільм є прямим сиквелом фільмів «Диво-жінка» і «Ліга Справедливості» (сюжетна лінія Диво-Жінки), проте стоїть осторонь решти фільмів DC.

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Фільм починається спогадом Діани про дитинство. В Феміскірі вона брала участь у змаганні з іншими, старшими, амазонками. Бачачи, що програє в перегонах з перешкодами, Діана наважилася знехтувати настановою королеви Іполіти й скоротити шлях. За це Діану дискваліфікували. Її тітка дала урок, що важлива не тільки перемога, а й чесність, а поки Діана надто юна і повинна тренуватися; тоді вона, можливо, колись стане гідною носити обладунки легендарної воїтельки Астерії.

У 1984 році, Діана працює старшим антропологом в Смітсонівському інституті Вашингтону. Одного разу до торгово-розважального центру прокрадаються грабіжники, щоб викрасти з антикварної крамниці історичні цінності. Грабіжник бере в заручниці дівчинку, погрожуючи скинути її з висоти, але Діана рятує дитину, поставши в образі Диво-жінки, та знешкоджує злочинців. Журналісти цікавляться хто це була, але розкрити особу рятівниці не вдається. Згодом Діана зустрічає нову співробітницю інституту, Барбару Енн Мінерву, найняту ФБР для дослідження низки артефактів. Барбара невпевнена в собі та незграбна, натомість чудово знається на гемології. Вона звертає увагу на цитрин з підписом про те, що він виконує бажання.

Зазнавши ввечері нападу незнайомця, від якого рятує Діана, Барбара бажає стати такою ж, як і Діана. Наступного ранку вона виявляє, що стала дуже приваблива та спритна. В цей час Максвелл Лорд відкриває кооператив «Чорне золото», де співробітниками можуть бути пересічні люди, придбаний за продажі землі з нафтовими родовищами. Він відвідує Смітсонівський інститут у пошуках каменя, здатного виконувати бажання тієї людини, що торкнулася його. Максвелл обирає Діану своєю консультанткою. Потім він свариться з діловим партнером Саймоном Стеґом, який вважає Максвелла аферистом через збитки, адже родовища нафти вичерпані. Саймон дає два дні аби повернути позичені кошти. Максвелл обіцяє своєму малому синові Алістерові, що досягне успіху і син ним пишатиметься.

Максвелл зустрічає Діану на вечірці в інституті, потім вони заходять в її кабінет, де Максвелл помічає камінь і потай викрадає його. Діана несподівано зустрічає свого загиблого коханого Стіва, котрий не може пояснити як воскрес. Він розповідає як знайшов Діану та дещо спантеличений тим, як змінився світ. У цей час Максвелл бажає "стати каменем" — і отримує здібність виконувати бажання всіх людей, а натомість забирати щось в них . Він хитрощами змушує Саймона торкнутися до себе й передати бізнес і в результаті Саймона заарештовують за фінансові махінації, а Максвелл стає його наступником. Потім у вичерпаних нафтових свердловинах на придбаній Максвеллом землі виявляється повно нафти, тож ціна на землю стрімко зростає і її бажають купити. Втім, Максвелла починає мучити хвороба, що прогресує, коли він не виконує бажань.

Барбара зауважує, що здобула величезну силу. Діана ж проводить Стіву екскурсію, знайомлячи з сучасними мистецтвом і досягненнями техніки. Барбара зізнається Діані, що Максвелл узяв камінь. Стів знаходить новини про стрімкий успіх Максвелла, надто великий аби бути чесним. Прочитавши напис на внутрішньому оздобленні каменю, Діана розуміє з цього, що його було створено богами і напис про здійснення бажань правдивий. Максвелл вирушає в Каїр, тому Стів викрадає літак і летить з Діаною в Африку. Згадавши про радари, Діана користується магією Феміскіри, щоб приховати літак, і не підозрює, що це камінь виконав її бажання. Барбара ж зустрічає чоловіка, котрий раніше напав на неї та нещадно б'є його.

Максвелл прибуває в Каїр, де зустрічається з еміром Саїдом. Той ділиться своїм бажанням повернути велич своєї династії і щоб язичники не зазіхали на його володіння. Максвелл обіцяє виконати це в обмін на нафту, і Саїд отримує бажані території, проте обнесені суцільною високою стіною. Коли бізнесмен каже, що забирає його нафту, емір насміхається над ним і каже, що він продав свою нафту Саудитам. Тоді Максвелл забирає усю його охорону. Невдовзі Лорд скуповує половину світових запасів нафти, що спричиняє дефіцит пального.

Діана зі Стівом, прямуючи до Каїра, бачать приготування до війни, спричинені виконанням бажання Саїда. Одягнувши костюм Диво-жінки, Діана рятує дітей місцевих жителів і збиває ракету. Проте вона виявляє, що стала слабшати. Зателефонувавши Барбарі, Діана встановлює, що скрізь, де з'являвся камінь, цивілізації занепадали. Діана зі Стівом повертається в США і знаходить з Барбарою індіанського шамана, нащадка майя. Від нього вони дізнаються, що камінь було створено богом обману Долосом Мендаціусом. Камінь виконує бажання, але в обмін забирає найцінніше в того, чиє бажання він виконав (за принципом Мавп'ячої лапки). Скасувати дію каменю можливо тільки відмовившись від бажання, чи знищивши камінь. Але позаяк Максвелл сам отримав силу каменя, його буде аморально вбити.

Максвелл, виконуючи бажання в обмін на все нові багатства та здоров'я, забуває про сина. Коли той хоче побачитися з батьком, Максвелл радить йому бажати успіху й багатства, хоча хлопчик бажає лише проводити більше часу з ним. У місті настає хаос, бо бажання тих, хто спілкувався з Максвеллом, не завжди доречні. Так, хтось бажає ферму і вона з'являється посеред парку. Стів розуміє, що воскрес через бажання Діани і вона віддає за продовження його життя власну божественну силу.

Коли Максвелл зустрічається з президентом, той бажає більше ядерної зброї. Тоді Максвелл забирає в нього його владу. Він довідується про систему супутникового мовлення; оскільки випромінюванням з супутника формально можна торкнутися всіх, їхні бажання здійсняться. Диво-жінка проривається в Білий дім аби зупинити Максвелла. Барбара об'єднує зусилля з ним, щоб її сила не зникла разом з виконувачем бажань. У поєдинку Діана виявляється слабшою й відступає, сказавши наостанок, що за привабливість і силу Барбара розплатилася добротою та чуйністю.

Між США та СРСР готується війна, хаос в місті зростає. Стів переконує Діану відмовитися від свого бажання, щоб вона повернула силу і змогла захистити людей. Диво-жінка відмовляється від свого бажання та вирушає навздогін за літаком з Максвеллом. В той час Барбара вже не бажає бути на когось схожою і хоче стати «верховною хижачкою». Максвелл дістається до телестудії, через супутник він звертається до всього людства. Бажання в усіх куточках Землі починають збуватися, але хтось не чекає цього одразу, хтось бажає смерті іншим тощо. Диво-жінка одягає крилаті обладунки легендарної амазонки Астерії, прямує до радіостанції і вступає у двобій з Барбарою, що стала напів-людиною, напів-гепардом. Після перемоги над Барбарою, Діана обплутує Максвелла своїм ласо правди, щоб звернутися до глядачів зі словами — неможливо здійснити мрію без зусиль. СРСР запускає ядерні ракети, і Діана спонукає Максвелла згадати про сина та відмовитися від свого бажання виконувати бажання інших. Все, виконане Максвеллом, зникає, він біжить на пошуки сина, знаходить його і визнає, що найбільше хотів бути з ним. Максвелл каже, що він невдаха, але Алістер відповідає, що любить його і без грошей чи влади.

За якийсь час взимку Діана зустрічає чоловіка, тілом якого раніше послуговувався при воскресінні Стів. В середині титрів вставлена сцена, де гірлянда випадково падає на дівчинку, але її рятує невідома жінка. Незнайомка представляється матері дитини як Астерія.

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Галь Гадот, яка була спочатку підписана на три художні фільми за участі її героя — Диво-жінки, продовжила свій контракт. Режисер першого фільму, Петті Дженкінс, яка була спочатку підписана тільки на один фільм, висловила зацікавленість у поверненні до зйомок прямого продовження.

У червні 2017 року, в інтерв'ю Variety, автор коміксів Джефф Джонс повідомив, що він разом з Дженкінс почав писати сценарій до сиквелу «Диво-жінки» і, що у нього є «крута ідея для другого фільму». Виступаючи на конференції присвяченій жінкам в кіно Дженкінс підтвердила, що вона дійсно буде знімати сиквел.

22 липня 2017 року на San Diego Comic-Con International, студія офіційно анонсувала продовження за участі Дженкінс у якості режисера, і назву продовження як «Диво-жінка 2».

У вересні 2017 року було офіційно підтверджено, що Дженкінс стане режисером сиквела. 13 вересня 2017 року стало відомо, що сценарист «Нестримних» Дейв Калагем приєднається до Дженкінс та Джонса, які вже працювали над сценарієм протягом декількох місяців.

28 лютого 2018 року було повідомлено, що фільм буде знятий у форматі IMAX. 14 червня 2018 року була оголошена нова назва фільму — «Диво-жінка 1984». Деякі екшн-сцени будуть зняті на IMAX камери з розширеним співвідношеням сторін у відповідних кінотеатрах.

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У вересні 2017 року було підтверджено, що Галь Гадот повернеться до своєї ролі. 28 лютого 2018 року стало відомо, що Крістен Віг веде переговори зі студією на роль Гепарди з режисером Петті Дженкінс, що підтвердилося наступного місяця. 28 березня Педро Паскаль, який раніше вже грав у скасованому пілоті телевізійної адаптації «Диво-жінки» у 2011 році, отримав невідомому ключову роль.

Зйомки
Основні зйомки почалися 13 червня 2018 року під робочою назвою «Чарівна година».

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Планувалося, що Warner Bros. випустить фільм «Диво-жінка 1984» в RealD 3D і IMAX 3D 2 жовтня 2020 року. Попередня дата була встановлена на 13 грудня 2019, а згодом на 1 листопада 2019. В результаті в Україні фільм вийшов 16 грудня 2020 року. Цікаво, що в Україні фільм вийшов раніше, ніж в США чи Росії.

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Are You Punctuating Acronyms And Initials Correctly In Dialogue?
by Trevor Mayes | Feb 11, 2019 | Acronyms & Abbreviations, Dialogue, Words, Writing | 0 comments
Screenwriting is Weird
There are tons of "rules" in screenwriting that take a long time to figure out. Many of these so-called rules are shibboleths or leftovers from a bygone era that are handy at weeding out the amateurs from the pros.
However, most of the standards we see in screenwriting exist for a good reason. They allow for comprehension and clarity. Such is the case of using periods correctly with acronyms and initials in dialogue.
When writing dialogue in a script, use periods if each individual letter is to be spoken by the actor.
That means acronyms like: D.O.D. (Department of Defense), D.E.A. (Drug Enforcement Agency), C.I.A. (Central Intelligence Agency), etc. It also means smaller two-letter acronyms like O.K. (better to just use "okay"), T.V. (abbreviation for television) and L.A. (Los Angeles).
It's especially important to use periods for acronyms like I.D. (abbreviation for identification) and L.A., because "id" and "la" are both actual words with completely different meanings.
TV — on the other hand — is pretty unmistakable as the abbreviation for television. However, I'd still recommend writing it as "T.V." in dialogue because it will be consistent with how you write other abbreviations or acronyms that are to be spelled out, and it makes for an easier read.
Because there are other acronyms that you would not use periods with in dialogue — even though as organizations, etc., they may be officially recognized with periods in their names.
I'm talking about acronyms like MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving), S.W.A.T. (Special Weapons and Tactics), etc. They are NOT pronounced by spelling out each letter.
So in dialogue, we write: SWAT, but in action lines, we write: S.W.A.T. — because that's how it's normally written. Dialogue writing is a special beast with special rules.
Acronyms like AWOL and MADD are written the same regardless of where they're being used, because they're both not spelled out and are officially written without periods.
Remember, in dialogue write it like your actors should say it.
In dialogue, how should you write…?
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
LOL (Laugh Out Loud)
ASAP (As Soon As Possible)
0500 (5 a.m.)
NAACP is typically pronounced: N double-A C.P. So that's how you'd write it.
LOL can be pronounced two different ways, so it depends on how you want your actor to pronounce it — LOL or L.O.L.
Similarly, ASAP is pronounced two different ways. So A.S.A.P. or ASAP would be acceptable.
0500 is military speak and is usually pronounced: O-five hundred. So that's how you'd write it. I've also seen it written as "oh-five hundred," but I disagree with that approach because it's easier to misinterpret the "oh" part. At a glance, you may interpret it to mean : "um, five hundred," with the "oh" as a throwaway exclamation or pause.
If you follow these simple rules, you can also get away with capitalizing words for emphasis (sparingly) without actors having to stop and think about whether or not you're suggesting the word is an acronym and should be spelled out.
Luckily, these are all things I flag when I proofread your script. Any other dialogue peculiarities trip you up?
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