In St Petersburg, Vladimir Putin's home town, there is a bust depicting him as a Roman emperor. More revealing, however, are the icons which, apparently seriously, depict the Russian president as a saint.
The Russian Orthodox Church sometimes treats him like one.
Russian documentaries extol Putin as the man who resuscitated Russian spirituality. Kirill I, Patriarch of Moscow and head of the Russian Orthodox Church, has described his leadership as a "miracle from God".
Ever since the fall of the Soviet Union, the Russian state has carefully nurtured its relationship with the Church. Putin especially is not only a powerful political actor but – like the Tsars – a religious one. In his speeches he presents himself as defender of Christian values abandoned by the degenerate West.
It's an unlikely role for a former KGB officer accused of murdering his political opponents, but many Russian Christians seem comfortable with the idea. Photographs of Orthodox churchmen positively grovelling in front of Putin are not hard to find.
More recently the president has presented himself in a new role – as the potential saviour of Middle Eastern Christians. And even his critics wonder whether he may, in fact, have a point.
The rise of ISIS has plunged Christians in Iraq and Syria, already desperately threatened, into an unimaginable crisis. Savage murders and displacement are removing all trace of some of the oldest Christian communities in the world.
Western politicians have finally acknowledged their plight – but President Putin gives the impression that he is prepared to go further, and act viciously against the Islamists trying to wipe out ancient Christianity. Putin appears to agree that it's a "holy war" – while quietly making sure that he does not come across as too anti-Islam: he has his own very troublesome Muslim minorities to worry about.
The question is whether Russia, even if it does take drastic military action in Syria, will really make life better for these persecuted minorities. Indeed, despite Putin's pro-Christian rhetoric, it's legitimate to ask whether it really cares about them.
If Putin's main aim is to destroy ISIS, then he could certainly help to remove the gravest threat to the area's Christians.
But, as anyone who has been following the progress of the conflicts knows, he has another objective. In October, he told a state-run Russian television station that his goal in Syria was to "stabilise the legitimate government and to create conditions for a political compromise".
In other words, Putin wants to keep Bashar al-Assad in office. When Russia first intervened in September, it devoted over 90 per cent of its air strikes not to ISIS targets but to other anti-Assad rebel groups.
In any case, Christians themselves appear divided on whether military intervention, by Russia or anyone else, can help them.
The Syrian Catholic Archbishop Jean-Clément Jeanbart has been open in his support for Russian intervention. (He has also asked Britain to intervene.) Syrians, according to Jeanbart, were "generally feeling positive" about Russia's attacks on ISIS. However, it's almost as dangerous to generalise about Syrian Christians as it is about Syrian Muslims. Some – remembering the unusual degree of toleration they received under the old regime – continue to support Assad. Others have joined the Kurds or other rebels to fight.
Orthodox Christians in Lebanon, meanwhile, have circulated a petition on social media in which they "unreservedly condemn the idea that the 'protection of Christians' can serve as an excuse in the service of ideological or political objectives". The petition specifically mentions Russia's intervention in Syria as an example of power politics masquerading as humanitarianism.
Photographs of Lebanese Orthodox show them holding a banner denouncing (in English) the "Russian monster". This is strange, on the face of it. Why should they feel such hatred for their Orthodox co-religionists?
A recent article in The Economist tried mto find out. It was sceptical of high-minded arguments that these Christians reject the notion of holy war as un-Orthodox – and also of the claim that Lebanese Orthodox, unlike Greeks or Russians, have no tribal memory of Byzantium or the tsars and view the whole concept of state Christianity with suspicion.
A likelier explanation, suggested The Economist, was that Lebanese Orthodox are more vulnerable than the bigger community of Catholic Maronites – and therefore more "Arab" in outlook. They don't want to upset their Sunni neighbours by supporting Putin.
These regional complexities tend to be ignored by Western commentators. They are split between those who see Putin as the worst threat to global security since Adolf Hitler, and those who admire him for asserting old-world masculinity in the face of European and American cultural decadence.
Many Western conservative Christians have been seduced by Kremlin-funded propaganda presenting Putin as a model of bravery and virility. They relish his hostility to homosexuals (though in the interests of public relations this has recently been toned down). You can even find traditionalist Catholic websites praising him as the chief enemy of a Satanic new world order.
These Christians buy into Russia's "holy war" rhetoric in the most extravagant way. But, as we've seen, although Russia has indeed hit ISIS fighters as well as those from the al-Nusra Front, an al-Qaeda militia, the Kremlin's broader strategy seems to be targetting those who pose the greatest threat to Assad.
As a result, much of Putin's firepower is concentrated on groups who present the least immediate threat to Christians. Assad has played a similar shell game, claiming that his every action is part of the fight against ISIS, while reserving his most brutal designs for less extreme rebel groups.
Since it is almost certain that Assad will never be able to regain power over the whole of Syria, Russia's protection will only prolong and worsen the conflict, sinking the whole region into a deeper sectarian stand-off.
This is the worst possible state of affairs for Christian minorities in the Levant and Iraq.
Considering all this old-fashioned realpolitik, it would be easy to say Putin had no interest in the plight of Christians.
If there's one mistake any analyst can make, however, it is to assume that a group or person has only one goal.
To ask whether Putin is interested in helping Christians or enhancing Russia's power in the Middle East is to offer a false choice. It is entirely possible that he is interested in both. It is also possible that he sees the enhancement of Russian power in the Middle East as synonymous with the protection of Christianity.
An openly pious man, Putin's own religiosity appears genuine, despite his past as a servant of the anticlerical Soviet state. After a career as a KGB officer based in East Germany, he claims to have converted to Christianity. Several well-informed writers have noted the progressively strong influence of Russian Orthodoxy on his worldview – a malodorous blend of Eastern Christianity, Russian nationalism and conspiracism that he has already put into practice in Ukraine.
It is all very well to dismiss the Moscow patriarchate as a client or even a puppet of the president, but the fact remains that powerful Russian officials routinely meet with church leaders.
When Putin speaks as if he were the spiritual leader of Russia, is he being entirely insincere? And are those Orthodox who believe him simply seduced by the Kremlin's world-class propaganda machine?
The answer to these questions cannot be a simple "yes". In the Russian tradition, religion and politics are intertwined in ways that non-Russians find difficult to understand. And, amazingly, that tradition – which incorporates the concept of "spiritual security" against Western contamination – seems to have survived 70 years of overtly atheist Communism.
We should be cautious, therefore, before dismissing the notion that Russian foreign policy is underpinned by a genuine belief in Russia's destiny to secure Christendom. We should also be cautious before accepting it. Reliable information about the inner workings of Putin's court is extremely difficult to come by.
We can be much more confident, however, in dismissing the icon of Putin as the saviour of Arab Christians. Stability is a necessary condition for the survival of these horribly persecuted communities.
In a region that appears to have become permanently unstable, it is unlikely that Putin's power politics, whatever the intentions behind them, will lead to anything but chaos.
Robert Wargas is the Catholic Herald's foreign correspondent. He lives in New York.


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Q: How to create a random topic at run time in Kafka? I am new at Kafka. I am trying to create a random topic name at run time. My producer create a random string like MQ* and it uses that string as topic and send to message that topic.
Consumer side know that random topic and subscribe it. But consumer couldn't poll records. I am getting below error producer or consumer side.
WARN 10816 --- [nio-8087-exec-1] org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient   : Error while fetching metadata with correlation id 1 : {MQ654498631=LEADER_NOT_AVAILABLE}

Anyway to achieve this?

A: Set auto.create.topics.enable to true in the broker's config.

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Q: Dictionary keys and values I'm working with Python dictionaries and there's something I don't understand when I use the function dict.values() and dict.keys().
Why do they give as a result also the "description" of the function? Am I missing something here?
participant = {"name": "Lisa", "age": 16, "activities": [{"name": "running", "duration": 340},{"name": "walking", "duration": 790}]}
print(participant.values())
print(participant.keys())

The print gives these results:
dict_values([[{'duration': 340, 'name': 'running'}, {'duration': 790, 'name': 'walking'}], 'Lisa', 16])
dict_keys(['activities', 'name', 'age'])

I don't want 'dict_values' and 'dict_keys' in the result. What am I doing wrong?

A: For this purpose you can use keyword list:
list(participant.keys()) # ['name', 'activities', 'age']
list(participant.values())
# ['Lisa', [{'name': 'running', 'duration': 340}, {'name': 'walking', 'duration': 790}], 16]


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Parents' Points of View
Jennifer refuses to take the stage with her classmates in Chula Vista for Kindergarten graduation. She clings to her parents. Jennifer's mother planned a big family party. Alice is so angry she sends Jennifer to her room as soon as they get home.
"My hands were tied at that moment, that's all I could think to do," says Alice.
Jennifer's father Albert says, "It was frustrating. It would turn a simple situation into a circus."
Sally, 13, leaves the house late at night. Her parents, Gary and Deidre, of Clairemont, are afraid. Sally is failing some classes. Her I-Pod and laptop are broken in a tussle with Gary.
"It was very negative. We didn't have much fun together. I think every day was stressful," says Deidre.
It is easy to call it a "stage", until it becomes disruptive or unsafe. These parents began answering four questions.
WHAT DOES THE BEHAVIOR SAY?
Sometimes parents have to be detectives with their children.
"We noticed there was a fear inside of her for new things and for being away from her parents," says Albert.
Sending Jennifer to her room alone made it worse.
"I realized she was born with these issues," says Alice, "And that helped me understand her better, putting myself in her shoes."
Sally's parents could not set limits and defined her as the problem.
Gary says, "We weren't able to correct behavior and what we needed to have happen was lost in this big emotional mess."
WHAT DOES THE BEHAVIOR MEAN TO ME?
Parents check in with themselves. Alice is able to see the graduation as her own agenda.
"We had expectations for our other children, and we needed to learn to treat her as an individual," says Albert of Jennifer.
Gary was left to raise himself and fears his home falling apart.
"I felt like we were losing control. We had this girl with lots of potential, and we were spirally, pretty scary actually."
WHAT ARE MY EXPECATIONS?
Parents have a lot of expectations. For their children. In their heads. They come out as commands, sometimes in anger, most times in constant reminders that teach children not to listen.
"We had them but we didn't spell them out, and especially having family meetings. And having consequences that match, that are relevant, that teach and don't go overboard," says Deidre.
Greg and Deidre learned their teenager needed to have a say, to be heard.
Jennifer needed a few minutes with Alice after school, then she could move on to her list of chores.
"I've been trying to avoid saying no, I've been trying to say yes, but not now," says Alice.
WHAT IS MY ULTIMATE GOAL?
Parents say, "Just once, let the thing I'm asking be done without debate." Yes, we take parenting a day at a time, but it also helps to take the long view. Children do a lot of silly messy unacceptable things. They need to make mistakes to learn.
They need parents who are in control… of themselves. When you "lose it" with your kid, you've lost your power.
"The biggest thing for me was dropping the rope and not extending the argument beyond her understanding and my ability," says Gary.
"We also learned that we didn't have to consequence right then. We could come back when everyone was calm and logical," says Deidre.
Alice and Albert want a confident daughter. Baby steps. Jennifer no longer hides at the pizza place.
"My mother took the girls to Chuck E. Cheese and she's hugging Chuck E. and she's not afraid of him and she's smiling and having fun. She was able to stand up in front of the whole class and sing and dance," says Albert, and play soccer, too, after a kiss from Mom.
Fix your mistakes in front of your child. Focusing on relationship before behavior lays a foundation for the future.
You Can't Fly a Kite Without a String
The string between parent and child is the relationship. Parents make this connection through their commitment and daily care. A parent lets out more string to allow for growth, pulls back to protect from danger. Like the roots of a plant, it takes nurturing to grow. It takes play.
· Make silly faces with young children. Plan a coffee date or workout with an older child.
· Patty cake and massage for young children. A back rub or manicure for an older child.
· Read to young children. Tell old family stories or childhood memories to an older child.
· Play a board game without rules with a young child. Do crafts or cook with an older child.
For best results, focus on eye contact, touch, being with, not teaching. Minutes matter. And, it's free.
Facilitating Developmental Attachment
Daniel A. Hughes, Ph.D., 2004, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. and Mary Hartzell, M.Ed., 2004, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penquin
The Five Love Languages of Children
Gary Chapman, Ph.D. and Ross Campbell, M.D., 2005, Northfield Publishing
www.loveandlogic.com 800-338-4065
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As the cold weather creeps in, nothing beats snuggling with your little one under a warm blanket and enjoying a fun book together. Here are a few new books you might enjoy.
On the heels of Halloween, kids might have their minds on candy. Candy 1 to 20 is an early concept counting book full of bright, colourful candy photographs. Each page displays just the numeric number using actual candy photos taking on the shape of that number. The actual numbers are big, taking up the whole page, and are uncluttered by other elements or words on the solid white background. Each number consists of that same number in candy pieces. One liquorice strip represents the number one; thirteen gummy bears are laid out to represent the number thirteen. Kids can see and trace the number shape, plus they can count the individual candy elements to reinforce the number on the page. It's a sweet book to enjoy together.
Paul Frank is always a lot of fun for kids. I had the chance to review Paul Frank's Only In Dreams board book on EverythingMom . Kids will jump right in to a world of colour in I Love Color, especially with Julius the monkey as a finger puppet to take them through the pages. I actually love that the puppet is just his head with arms illustrated on the page; it's easy and fun to move his head around to look at the image on the page. Along with matching the band of the rainbow, kids can pick out images on the page that are red and it opens it up to a discussion on other things they see in the world around them in that colour.
This isn't a new book by it's a great book for parents and baby. The oversized board book is filled with colourful shapes and objects familiar with the Amazing Baby! books. The pages contains the words to some much loved and perhaps a few new lullaby songs. There are big chunky tabs on the side making it easier for little hands to turn the pages. The CD included contains beautiful versions of the lullabies within the book, acoustically sounding. I even found myself enjoying them. The book and CD can be used together or separately. Even my 7-year old son asked to hear the music before bedtime.
I love the illustrations and wordily tales told in many of the books from Barefoot Books. Clare Beaton's Nursery Rhymes is another example of the publishers great illustrative work. The book contains words for 7 popular nursery rhymes but it's the illustrations that add a wonderful warm feel to the book. Each image is a collage of fabric, like a story sewn in a family quilt. Even the rhyme titles themselves look hand-stiched on the page. What a wonderful way to share a classic nursery rhyme together.
I understand the benefit of wordless storybooks; they're a great way to let a child use their imagination and tell a tale based on pictures. Most kids learning to read take a picture walk through a book prior to looking at the words. That being said, I'm not a fan of this type of book. But sometimes I do come across a wordless picture book that does interest me. Shadow is one such book. What starts off as a girl discovering her shadow while in the garage, turns into an adventure in the jungle. The girl's world and her shadow world meld together, until mom calls her for dinner. I love seeing how shadows can transform and stir up a child's creative thinking. After reading, why not try your own shadow adventure.
I want to thank Crystal from Raincoast Books and Leah from Barefoot Books for my review copies.
I agrre with you on the wordless picture book thing. Except for Suzy Lee wordless picture books. She is a master of it! I love Wave by Suzy Lee. I haven't read Shadow so I'm super excited to hear about it and get my hands on a copy!


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* Much of the movie is languidly paced, even for the time. Nobody seems to think that it is at all that big of a deal. One would think the cops should have seen the giants on the drive up. (That last little gem was from the 'good' guy Mike). Cozy up to Mike and Nancy and kiss the secret formula right out of them. Starring: Beau Bridges, Joe Turkel, Johnny Crawford, Joy Harmon, Ron Howard, Tommy Kirk, Genius (Ron Howard) invents a substance which gives off a fume, that when breathed, makes whatever is enlarged go back to normal size. In the next scene they are cooking the ducks on a spit for an outside bbq. "It's either pancake mix… or an octopus.", "Baby, you make me wish I was your size again.", "I don't like (good girls); they talk too much… so, stop talking too much,". * An absolute lack of ANY diverse casting. What's supposed to be 'David and Goliath' comes off more like a half-asleep me at 3 am trying to kill a pesky fly. Despite those moments throughout that are intentionally or unintentionally amusing, there are large stretches of the movie that are quite dull. Edit them in the Widget section of the. "The Spider", and "Beginning of the End. This also goes for later, when he is lying on the ground and the townspeople are trying to tie him up. More trivia for Village of the Giants. Add more and vote on your favourites! Not many pics exist of Rance on the film, but he did make it into this keybook still. I still dig that nitty gritty, and you're my 'genius' ! Village Of The Giants ... Then two giant ducks show up in a dance hall and start dancing (no I'm not making this up). The opening scene of Village of the Giants features the group of delinquents piling out of their wrecked auto after crashing on a mountain road during a rainstorm. Would it have really put the casting department out to cast at least one non-white person somewhere in this movie? I realize this was a common thing with movies of the time, but this was only a year away from 1966's Star Trek and its multiracial crew, as well as a few other pioneering movies and TV shows at that time. It's no surprise that latter-day exploitation filmmaker Quentin Tarantino actually used Nitzche's VOTG main theme as the title music to his 2007 Grindhouse epic, "Death Proof", and it fit like a charm. Anyway, the kids finish their spastic dancing and decide to raise a bit of hell in the nearest town, Hainesville (which looks like every neighborhood in every sitcom made in the '50s and '60s). When the girl on the motorcycle is trying to tie Mike's legs together by driving around them in circles, his legs are obviously props. The car isn't full of injured passengers, but rather eight lily-white rebel 'teens' (each of whom looks to be about 25 or so) who fling open the doors of their wrecked car and immediately take to wild dancing in the rain & mud (which is usually my first reaction in a car wreck, of course…). With Tommy Kirk, Johnny Crawford, Ron Howard, Joe Turkel. We see early on that the only thing on Mike's mind is to exploit and make money off of the goo. In search of kicks, the Bad Teens head into the village of Hainesville, populated by Good Teens, most of whom seem to be in their early 30s. Choreography by Toni Basil. The whole duck-dancing sequence in Village of the Giants was just creepy and wrong in SO many ways. * Lots of song numbers that just stop the movie dead in its tracks. Village of the Giants is a 1965 American teensploitation comedy science fiction film produced, directed and written by Bert I. Gordon.Based loosely on H. G. Wells's 1904 book The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth, it has elements of the beach party film genre. Fred then cuts the Play-Doh into eighths, and after a bit of taunting, each of the teens takes their slice and eats it…. The episode: "Village of the Giants," ep. Wells story Food Of The Gods, Village Of The Giants is more likely inspired by the popular generation of beach movies. These include: scenes leading up to the car crash that opens the film, with the teens riding on two cars rather than one; growth scenes for all the giants (in the film, only Elsa, Fred and Merrie are seen growing); Georgette (Vicki London) dancing with Horsesy rather than Merrie (Joy Harmon); the giants toppling telephone poles and smashing the sheriff's car, to cut off communication from the outside world; Mike … All rights reserved. The other two being "Earth vs. …and I'd safely bet that the scene that follows is the sole reason this movie was made. After his friends free Nancy and the sheriff's daughter, Mike takes to shooting at giant-Fred with a slingshot (really!?) Mike immediately decides they will patent the goo, market it, sell it and make…. 523 The riff: Sung by Crow as a very awkward kid attempts to dance and chew gum at the same time. One of the girls in Fred's gang, Elsa (Gail Gilmore) is sunbathing nearby and decides to woo the 10-year old boy (yikes, Mrs. Village of the Giants Teens part 1. Basil also choreographed the dance scenes for the movie. Wells' classic novel "Food of the Gods"…, Okay, seriously. And of course, after the giants revert back to their normal sizes, their makeshift curtain-material clothing still fits far too snugly, considering these kids were previously the size of buildings…, * The movie's opening credits state that Alan Caillou's screenplay is based on H.G. ( Log Out / Missed riffing opportunity: there's no response from Mike and the Bots when Tommy says, "You don't have to be. He was a character…. in one of the slowest fight scenes ever filmed. The biggest mistakes you never noticed in Village of the Giants (1965). And busty Joy Harmon would help kickstart a lot of youngsters (including myself) into puberty. Add to Favourites. The explanation: This is a multi-tiered riff that primarily is a reference to the 1958-1963 ABC western series "The Rifleman."The main character, Lucas McCain, lived on a ranch with his son Mark McCain. Mike clocks a dazed Fred as soon as he's man-sized again. Check out the mistake & trivia books, on Kindle and in paperback. Thank you Sebastian! The most interesting aspect of the film is the sexuality portrayed, especially as normal sized teens cling to the enlarged bikini top of a girl, a scene which the rest of the movie seems based around. X Join the mailing list. To know when people like your submissions, answer your questions, reply to you, etc., please, When the girl on the motorcycle is trying to tie, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring mistakes, 30 Biggest mistakes in the Star Wars movies, The biggest mistakes in the Harry Potter movies, The 20 biggest mistakes in The Wizard of Oz, 25 mistakes you never noticed in great movies, 40 biggest mistakes in The Big Bang Theory. Most of the kids in attendance seem strangely unfazed by the sight of car-sized ducks having their tails yanked by unseen wires (no movie animal protection in those days). This is one of the three movies directed by Bert I. Gordon to be featured on "Mystery Science Theater 3000." They boast of their power and dance a lot, mostly for the heck of it. In the next scene they are cooking the ducks on a spit for an outside bbq. Even today, that soundtrack works. There's even a bit of social satire attempted, as giant-Fred announces to the sheriff that the townspeople all have "freedom of speech… so long as we approve of what you say." Nice try, but I sincerely doubt that first amendment rights are the first thing on the rebel kids' minds, and more like the screenwriter's. Separate from membership, this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. The sheriff and the townsfolk run the delinquent octad out of town…, On the way out of town, the teens come across their wrecked T-bird and are met by an unseen, deep-voiced male who asks them if Hainesville is "the place with the goo?" Fred assures them that it is (even though the goo is gone). …which amounts to crashing an outdoor party, and several LONG minutes of slow-motion dancing to Jack Nitzche's musical score. ( Log Out / Soon the sheriff ("Blade Runner"'s Joe Turkel) and his deputy (Rance Howard; Ron Howard's real-life father) arrive and demand that the giant teens keep it down (haha) and return to the theater. Design and text © 1996 - 2021 Jon Sandys. My … Nitzche would go on to score far better movies such as "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" (1975), "An Officer and a Gentleman" (1982) and many others (including some incidental music for 1973's horror classic, "The Exorcist"). The teens bursting out of their clothes, for example; it's almost like an embarrassing Freudian nightmare of what younger children fear a growth spurt will be like. Though questionably credited as being 'inspired' by the H.G. At this point, we're supposed to bear in mind that this opportunist, exploitative, hyper-capitalistic little creep is one of 'the good guys.' These good guys now have a giant cat, a giant dog and two giant ducks that somehow wander off the premises (they disappear only moments after they grew…you'd think they'd be rather difficult to lose track of, but I guess not). The giants' plan: demand that the townspeople bring them fried chicken & soda, surrender all of their guns, and oh yeah, don't tell the giant kids to turn down their music. The songs aren't entirely horrible, they only serve to stall the hell out of an already unevenly-paced movie. Beau Bridges=seriously stoopid; Joy Harmon=seriously HOT! On that level is perhaps where the movie works best. It's 45 minutes into the movie until we actually see the village's giants (! I'm guessing the movie would clock in at just over an hour. By booman1 Watch. Delinquent teen-agers ingest a substance and grow thirty feet tall, then proceed to take over a small town. After a few minutes deciding what to do with the stuff, a grunting rebel named Rick (Bob Random), wants to eat the goo himself. His deep, slow-strumming, Dick Dale-style surf-rock guitar musings are actually quite hypnotic. So help me, everyone in this movie is related to someone a bit more famous. These techniques are all employed to convey the not-terribly convincing illusion that these kids are now 20-30 ft. giants living in a dollhouse-like theater. Odd morality mix from the writer and director Bert I. Gordon, who clearly didn't 'get' the 1960s like he did the 1950s…. As kids, we used to watch this movie on Sunday afternoon television, for chrissakes (!). Ever. I remember seeing her in a "Night Gallery" episode a few years later ("Return of the Sorcerer") as well as playing her mother Ann Sothern's younger self in "The Whales of August" (1987). After a bizarre, psychedelic, color-wheel tinted credits sequence of giant teens dancing in slow motion, the story opens with a blue T-bird seemingly crashed into a phone pole during an oddly sunny rainstorm (?). TITLE: Village Of The Giants. They wouldn't even fit through the door if they could open it. but there are nagging issues even within the movie's own silly, natural laws-defying universe: * The scale of the giants is all over the place. We also see Ann Sothern and Robert Sterling's daughter Tisha. The odd tonal mismatch between science-fiction giant monster flick and beach party movie just doesn't work. The teens drop a bombshell on the sheriff by revealing that they have his daughter as a hostage, and that her safety is dependent on the town's cooperation. On stage, the Daft Punk music begin to play to the crowd, as a girl named Rose dances in one of the areas above the crowd. Robinson!) The dance sequences feel like interminable script-padding. You're right, "Last Race" was later used as the main title music for Death Proof, Quentin Tarantino's half of the 2007 double feature Grindhouse. "The Spider", and "Beginning of the End.". It's also a movie that my younger self and my sisters used to watch on television at least once a year. Separate from membership, this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. His music for the teen's 'growth' scene has a nice undercurrent of menace to it, beginning with low strumming electric guitars segueing into loud brass as they become giants. The only conversation between two females occurs between Nancy and the sheriff's daughter, and it's about Fred. Was anyone else reminded of the WKRP episode where Herb was accused of making ducks dance in a store window by using a hotplate? ), and then rising back up into frame. The NIGHT CLUB The place is jumping with teenagers all over the dance floor. The biggest mistakes you never noticed in Village of the Giants (1965). Dressed in theater curtains as makeshift togas and bandeau bikinis, the gang assert their control over Hainesville. He rides in his bicycle to where the giant rebel teenagers are, they breath the fumes and they shrink back to normal. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. I'm guessing the movie would clock in at just over an hour. Village of the Giants takes place in fictional Hainesville, California. This song "Woman" by the Beau Brummels is used to the hilt, but that's why it's important to have good music!! The next day, the sheriff and Mike (was he newly deputized?) After the giants arrive at the party, two cops arrive on the scene and don't notice the giants until after they've exited the car, and the partygoers point them out. Maybe not the most uniformly talented troupe, but Beau Bridges would go on to legitimate fame in many movies and TV shows. ", Contact me | Privacy policy | Join the mailing list | Links. There is not one face in this movie that isn't lily-white (and most of them blonde), even among the musical talent. They wouldn't even fit through the door if they could open it. Village of the Giants is a film that Bert I. Gordon is clearly not taking terribly seriously. They then begin dancing in the mud to the film's rockin' music score, which is heard throughout the movie. The other two being "Earth vs. Embassy Pictures Starring: Tommy Kirk, Johnny Crawford, Ron Howard, Joe Turkel, Beau Bridges Also Starring: Orangey Directed by: Bert I. Gordon Synopsis: A gang of teenage delinquents who love to dance and cause trouble grow to enormous proportions thanks to the formula created by a brainy kid they call Genius (Ron Howard) and proceed to hold a small town […] Howard is also directing Disney's forthcoming "Han Solo" movie. The combination of listening to Jack's instrumental track "The Last Race" and watching those teenage giants dancing is surreal. Wells Music by: Jack Nitzsche, The Beau Brummels Cast: Tommy Kirk, Johnny Crawford, Beau Bridges, Joy Harmon, Robert Random, Tisha Sterling, Toni Basil, Ron Howard Berkeley Productions, Embassy Pictures, Joseph… Nancy, meanwhile, is with her boyfriend Mike, while her younger brother "Genius" plays wi… But then again, in a movie that's all over the map-crazy like this, what's off the table, right? "Village of the Giants" (VOTG) was one of Gordon's more unusual films that was a bit outside of the director's typical monster-movie stable. The teens proceed to fashion togas and bikinis out of a convenient nearby storage bin of curtain fabric, and then decide raise a bit of hell with the townsfolk…. Mike breaks an overhead water pipe (while hanging from it) and wets the floor the spider is standing on. Lots of '60-isms like 'groovy' and 'right, baby' are sprinkled throughout in an effort to sound then-hip, but it doesn't help. Revealing mistake: When the girl on the motorcycle is trying to tie Mike's legs together by driving around them in circles, his legs are obviously props. Trivia: This is one of the three movies directed by Bert I. Gordon to be featured on "Mystery Science Theater 3000." The result was a truly odd duck of a movie (and yes, it does feature giant ducks) that is more camp and far less serious than Gordon's typical, scarier giant people/creature/spider flicks. It still feels like a middle-aged writer trying to emulate 'these kids today.'. 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It's the kind of movie that drive-in theaters were created for (you could walk to the snack bar during the incessant singing or dancing bits, for example). Soon Genius pedals up on his bike, holds up a jar of what looks like the pink goo, only to have it vanish in sunlight. We have definitely decided around here that "Village Of The Giants" is one of the best 'worst movies' ever made; so extra BIG, it's overflowing! And of course, we know that these so-called teens are bad apples because well, they drink Blatz beer, blast their car's AM radio, and dance in the mud. After a few empty threats back and forth, the supersized kids meekly retreat… for now. Even one of the beach party movies had Chuck Berry, for god's sake. Back in those days, if it had monsters, or giants or some other weird crazy thing in it, we watched; and we didn't care about much else…. Add more and vote on your favourites! YEAR: 1965. At this point, Mike's had enough of that; he smashes a chair across giant Fred's fiberglass-prop legs, and shouts, "Tell her to put him down, or I'll beat the daylights out of ya!" The next scene is arguably the best in the entire film as giant-Fred bitch slaps Tommy Kirk's Mike into next week…. They consume the substance, and then use their new-found stature to take over the town.… VILLAGE OF THE GIANTS (1965) Article #140 by Dave Sindelar Viewing date: 8-3-2001 Posting date: 12-17-2001 Several juvenile deliquent teens steal a substance concocted by Ronny Howard, boy genius, that causes animals to grow to many times their natural size. Addresses are not passed on to any third party, and are used solely for direct communication from this site. He's stopped by Fred, who decides that they must ALL take a piece ("Nobody chickens out!"). Tisha Sterling, the very attractive daughter of Ann Sothern and Robert Sterling, had a Sharon Tate-vibe about her. Bert I. Gordon was a famous B-movie director who created a bunch of big monster movies such as Earth Vs.The Spider and The Amazing Colossal Man in the 1950's, but by the early 1960's that genre was dying a quick death. It all begins when a familiar–looking boy genius cooks up a formula that causes BIG trouble in what becomes the "Village of the Giants"! Nobody seems to think that it is at all that big of a deal. The Spider" aka. It's pretty clear that about half of the movie's budget went into this scene as well; as a variety of vintage FX are used, such as rear-projection, rapid-fire editing (to prevent any overly risqué exposures) and scale miniature sets. You can use a text widget to display text, links, images, HTML, or a combination of these. On "Village of the Giants," Rance was the guardian of his son Ron Howard (Genius), and had a few scenes as the unnamed deputy of the town sheriff (Joseph Turkel). There are scenes that try to make the audience feel some genuine dread of the giants, but they move so slooooowwwwly that they have all the menace of an approaching garbage truck from three miles away. Visitors Fred (Beau Bridges), Merrie (Joy Harmon), Pete (Tim Rooney) and pals, now huge, having ingested "Goo" and dressed in fabric they found at the theater, drop by to torment locals, especially Horsey (Johnny Crawford), in Village Of The Giants , 1965. ( Log Out / After a not-so-careful break-in at Genius' lab, followed by a bit of fisticuffs with the good kids, the bad kids retreat back to their theater hideout with the highly coveted goo. We love it & all the music is topnotch, and above all else, Boss!!! Elsa's bikini top pops off, Merrie's sweater bursts open, Fred's shirt splits apart, etc. * Not ONE person in all of Hainesville could've phoned, radioed or simply WALKED into the next town for help?? The group is led by big man off campus, "Fred," played by a very young Beau Bridges (Lloyd's son, Jeff's brother) and his lusty, busty, crazy-eyed girlfriend "Merrie", played by Joy Harmon (better known to movie fans of a certain age as 'that car washing girl' in 1967's "Cool Hand Luke"). … observations from over a half century of geekiness. Then two giant ducks show up in a dance hall and start dancing (no I'm not making this up). Johnny Crawford then oh-so bravely volunteers to jump spider-like onto giant-Merrie's boobs again (some might think Bert I. Gordon was a fetishist), and in a disturbingly post-Bill Cosby scene, he renders her unconscious with a giant cotton wad soaked in anesthetic, as he climbs down off of her makeshift bikini bra…. Actually, "Giants" is about smart alecky teenagers in tight clothing who eat some of Opie's goo and turn big (I know, that doesn't sound any more pleasant). ). Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. In the dance hall scene, you can see the … After crashing their car into a roadblock during a rainstorm, a group of partying, big-city teenagers (Fred, Pete, Rick, Harry, and their girlfriends Merrie, Elsa, Georgette and Jean) first indulge in a vigorous, playful mud-wrestling fight, then hike their way into town. This film is a weird hybrid of 1950s' atomic-giants-on-the-loose movies with 1960s teenage beach party flicks. Village of the Giants (1965), by Peter Bebergal [ Video Link ] My parents were pretty good about indulging my obsession with monster movies. The rebel teenagers leave town and go back to their busted car (the one from the beginning of the movie) and a group of dwarfs passing by ask: "Is this the way to the town with the goo that makes you grow bigger?". The Spider" aka. Star Trek Discovery S1.10, "Despite Yourself"…, Trekker Treat? Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. But despite Fred and Tisha Sterling's painfully awkward attempts at seduction, their plan fails. The Village of the Giants soundtrack is an example of his genius. Eventually, his gang steal the remaining hunk of goo, eat it and all become 30' giants. They seem to oscillate anywhere from 15-50 ft. (4.5-15m) in height, depending on the scene. Director Bert I. Gordon (yes, his initials make him Mr. BIG…haha) was a low-budget filmmaker in the drive-in, Jack Arnold-style who secured a reputation for himself making really BIG movies; movies about giant, bald, irradiated men in diapers ("Cyclops," "Amazing Colossal Man," "War of the Colossal Beast"), giant arachnids/insects ("The Spider" "Beginning of the End"), giant rodents ("Food of the Gods") and in the one I remember all too well from my warped childhood, "Village of the Giants" (1965). Village Of The Giants -- (Movie Clip) Let's Dance! And while the rebel teens' blatantly sexual nature is clearly desiderated by most, they're also often admonished by the 'law-and-order' teens who only want to protect the status quo. There is an embarrassingly silly scene where a giant-sized duck invades the dancehall and starts dancing too. Harmon later appeared in a memorable car wash scene, shown below, in 1967's "Cool Hand Luke." None of my neighborhood car washes offer this level of service The director of Village of the Giants (also the producer, and screenwriter along with Alan Caillou) was Bert I. Gordon. The dance sequences feel like interminable script-padding. After all, doing so would imply he was ever relevant to begin with. Comment. They now they have a four-alarm Orkin crisis on their hands. The Text Widget allows you to add text or HTML to your sidebar. I realize that the movie is a fantasy, so I won't address the multitude of basic, 7th-grade scientific contradictions throughout (such as how the giants aren't suddenly crushed by their newfound mass, etc.) The special effects are ludicrous, but the dance sequences—filmed in slow motion to Jack Nitzsche's puonding dance beat—are some kind of weird cinematic bliss. Sometimes a bottle of coke seems to fit between their fingers and other times, a child can fill their hands. Plan B (to break into Genius' lab and simply steal the formula) is now good to go. Maybe that's the audience for this movie; younger kids who feel threatened by older teenagers or adults screwing with their lives, as well as that dreaded fear of puberty encroaching on childhood. Ron Howard would go on to do "Happy Days" (VOTG was post-"Andy Griffith Show") as well as direct a slew of terrific movies, including "Apollo 13" (1995), one of my favorite movies of all time. At the town's local discotheque (shot in L.A's historic "Whiskey A-Go-Go"), the young, would-be goo entrepreneurs meet the rebel teens, and the giant ducks also decide to crash the party. Woman Woman with Dialogue GENRE: Science Fiction and Comedy. Mike and his incompetent crew then try to take down Fred (or at least a pair of oddly-spaced fiberglass legs) using a motorcycle, lasso rope and a few George Barris custom surf wagons (WTF??). Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Directed by Bert I. Gordon. After the scene was filmed where the out-of-town teens eat the Goo and grow, the actors playing the giants insisted on eating another such cake before each day's shoot, to help them get into character. Later that evening, Mike and Nancy return home to find that a giant spider has apparently nibbled a bit of Genius' goo. Other scenes have the giants leaving through the front doors of the theater simply by ducking down (!? When his legs are in shot, they look fake, and never moves an inch. 523: Village of the Giants I suppose it's not fair to talk about Bert I. Gordon fighting to stay relevant into the 60's. Tommy Kirk stars as Mike, a fairly average kid who likes to party, dance, and hang out with his friends. We Need a Distraction: Red volunteers to distract the giants with a dance, while the others rescue the hostages. Anyway, Genius concocts a formula he calls 'goo' that looks like a pink Play-Doh milkshake (and about as appetizing, I'm sure). Poor Beau Bridges…he looked so … Is such a guy really the right person to assume ownership of his girlfriend's brother's clearly dangerous invention? Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Fred (Beau Bridges) figures the giantism is a ticket to quick fortune. I met his brother, actor Clint Howard ("Gentle Ben" "Star Trek" "Apollo 13"), in Las Vegas about a year and a half ago. Rather than be startled, most of the teens join in and groove along with it. If those scenes, and the various non-sequitor musical numbers were cut? The movie then finishes with a cruel bit of physical mockery as the voice is revealed to belong to one of a group of little persons, who then file past the former giants on their way to Hainesville…. But have no fear; Mike the ex-Mousketeer is here! Change ), This is a text widget. Fred and his gang of rebels get it in their heads that Mike and Nancy must've supersized the ducks with some kind of "pill or something." Their plan? The Bots were right: Beau Bridges shouldn't shimmy. The cat appearing in this film was named Orangey (later renamed Minerva), and Village of the Giants was the second time he played the role of a cat larger than a human, the first being Scott Carey's (actor Grant Williams) pet in The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957). In tiny shorts pet dog eats the formula and you ' re my genius. 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Greensboro (North Carolina) News-Record Editor John Robinson and readers are wrestling the question of message board moderation in "The Silence of the Trolls."
The discussion illustrates the challenge: One reader complains that reader comments containing profanity have been allowed to stay on the site, while another says that to remove such comments would be a heavy-handed "hall monitor approach."
The positive thing happening here is that Robinson and the site's readers are discussing this problem and possible solutions. That kind of interaction is what makes readers feel a sense of ownership and empowerment. Sorry for the buzzwords, but, hey, that's the difference between static shovelware (another buzzword) news sites and those that are making an effort to connect with readers -- not just for the sake of connecting but for building a better online experience.
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When eBay decided this week to halt the auction of freebie tickets to London's Live 8 concert, it caved to bad PR. I wonder whether eBay could have dodged this bullet if it allowed more direct user comments on auction items.
On one hand, we've seen that comments on news web sites can get out of control and be inflammatory. The flip side is that when people are able to express opposing views prominently, they feel empowered, which may make them less likely to use the sort of subversive tactics seen in the eBay-Live 8 case.
The 150,000 tickets for the Live 8 in London's Hyde Park were distributed via a text-messaging lottery. Musician Bob Geldof organized the July 2 event -- with concerts simultaneously in London, Philadelphia, Berlin, Paris and Rome -- to increase awareness about poverty in Africa.
Predictably, many winners of the tickets started selling them online. For high-demand events, it takes a photo ID system to put the tickets directly into the hands only of those who would actually use them. Faced with a problem he could have anticipated, Geldof slammed eBay.
According to BBC, he encouraged people to place ridiculously high bids that they had no intention of honoring, thereby sabotaging the Live 8 ticket auctions.
eBay initially refused to budge, saying the sales were legal, but then backed down. The company said its customers didn't think the sales were appropriate and should be stopped.
The screenshot on this post shows that stopping the sales hasn't been totally successful. Not only are they still showing up on eBay -- with sellers promising to complete the deals via email, thereby making moot the problem of £10 million bids ($18 million) -- but they've also migrated to craigslist. On Tuesday, the day eBay said it would stop the auctions, no Live 8 tickets were listed on craigslist; on Wednesday, there were 32 listings for Live 8 tickets on craigslist.
My point isn't to defend huge markups on tickets, especially those obtained free for an event intended to raise awareness about poverty. But for eBay to stop these sales, if they are indeed legal, sets a precedent and could encourage others to use similar underhanded tactics to sabotage auctions and pressure eBay.
eBay halted the auctions even though it conceded that they were perfectly legal.
The explanation of eBay Managing Director Doug McCallum -- "We've listened carefully to our customers. Overwhelmingly the voice is that they would like us to take down the listing." -- doesn't jibe with the mixed comments on eBay's own message boards or elsewhere.
Faced with a PR problem, it appears the company will buckle rather than stick up for the rights of its sellers.
One thing eBay did right: It suspended the accounts of people who posted the insanely high bids.
If the critics of the Live 8 ticket sellers could have posted comments on each auction item, they might have been satisfied. By having their dissatisfaction presented in a prominent way, they might have been less likely to enter £10 million bids and call for eBay to halt these ticket sales.
Even if a comment system wouldn't have stopped the heavy-handed tactics in this case, it would be a valuable tool for an auction site. It would enable buyers to share information about an auction item, and the feedback rating of the person commenting would give the users a way to judge the credibility of the person making the comment.
The Winston-Salem Journal is allowing article comments on some stories, the paper announced Tuesday on its web site. But the gatekeepers may have to ease up on the controls a bit to get the readers involved.
Not all articles allow comments. In fact, the site is starting with comments enabled for just a single column.
Comments are limited to 500 characters, about 50 words.
All comments are reviewed before they go live.
On the other hand, the reader does not have to register before posting. Oops. You have to register before you can even access an article page. I forgot I had bugmenotted before reading.
Blogger Jon Lowder asks that the character limit be bumped to 150 words and would prefer to see comments posted instantly. He's right about both, which means that other message moderation methods may need to replace the pre-publication review.
As of Wednesday morning, the column with comments enabled is not displaying anything from readers.
Although there are some weaknesses in the Ventura County Star's new system for allowing reader comments on articles, the newspaper deserves credit for moving so quickly to restore the comments feature after turning it off last week.
The new set-up forces visitors to go through the paper's online registration system in order to post on a story, requiring use of an email address. If inappropriate comments are posted, the site can warn the person via email and then can block the user both through the registration and through IP addresses. They're also using a profanity filter. And users are encouraged to report inappropriate posts with a feedback email.
Assistant Managing Editor John Moore says, "By forcing people to use registered names (which should be their real names), we invoke the "Mama's listening" rule: Don't say anything you wouldn't want your mother to hear."
Allowing reader comments on articles will help the Star solidify its connection with visitors. And I'm glad to see the Star reinstate the comments function even though this system isn't perfect.
Online registration doesn't force people to use their real names or for using shared logins via services like Bugmenot.com. Was that really "Seymour But" and "Neil Diamond" commenting on "Assembly dumps 147 bills for this year"? My problem isn't with the anonymous comments but with the Star giving the impression that it has taken a significant step to thwart anonymity. Be upfront: Encourage people to use their real names, but acknowledge that you can't stop people from using pseudonym.
The method for reporting abuse -- sending an email to the web site -- is cumbersome. Readers should have a simpler, one-click option. The Star's method means that few abuses will be reported, so either the paper will have to accept the presence of some inappropriate posts or they'll have to monitor closely.
Profanity filter? I'm sure people will find creative ways to curse it if they're determined.
I wonder whether IP blocking will result in over-blocking, freezing out people who have done nothing wrong.
Finally, posts are not shown on the article page but are linked and displayed in a separate window. I suppose that's a safeguard of sorts, ensuring that inappropriate posts won't immediately be displayed to everyone who reads an article but it also means legit posts are buried also.
Despite my criticisms, I'm impressed with the Star's ability to move quickly and all three of the articles I spot-checked today had comments. So, they're doing something right.
The Ventura County Star, which has been making strong strides toward interactivity, has disabled reader comments on articles.
According to an article on the site, the comments function was turned on in January and was largely successful at engaging readers. However, "there have also been those who abused the system. Their comments were full of profanity. They personally attacked individuals, both persons related to news stories and others who were commenting on the website."
Fortunately, the editors recognize the value of direct reader input on articles and they're looking for ways to bring it back. They want a system with "controls that our readers need and don't require us to hire a fulltime babysitter to monitor the comments," according to a blog post by John Moore, AME for new media and technology.
It's not clear to me what level of moderation existed before, such as whether readers had to register before posting. As Leonard Witt suggests at the Public Journalism Network, using some form of citizen moderators may be at least part of the solution.
Meanwhile, the site still is running its forums for reader discussion that are independent from articles.


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Q: What's a quick way to delete content from HTML using Python? I have twelve long and complex html files I need to work with which I did not author. Some of these files are displaying properly. Others are not. I've been trying out Python and BeautifulSoup to explore these files. Searching here and elsewhere I can't find any examples of how to strip out and discard the content and keep the document tree.
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Another useful operation doesn't need to delete the text, but rather generate a list of tags in a file--the whitelist--which I can use to test against other files which are not displaying correctly. Again, looking through the methods in lxml's Cleaner seems only to want to delete tags and not to work to keep the structure.
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As you can see from this short list of only the > 0 scored questions on the converse operation, get content from HTML with Python, every one recommends BeautifulSoup, lxml, and other similar modules. And they're all noobie questions. I've read the Beautiful Soup documentation and tree extraction is not one of its methods. I was thinking someone with more experience using BS might be able to tell me, however, if one of the methods could be used as I need before I waste my time with these modules or if another module may be easier for my goal.
+1 A: Making a basic web scraper in Python with only built in libraries - Python newbie
+4 A: What is a light python library that can eliminate HTML tags?...
+1 How to get only text of a webpage with Python, just as Select-all & Copy in browser?
+2 Q: Extracting Text from Parsed HTML with Python
+2 A: Easy way to get data between tags of xml or html files in python?

A: Maybe you can try out pyquery:https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyquery
You can easily operate on the dom tree just as using jQuery


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When Pope Francis visits Africa next week, one of his meetings will be held in a mosque
Perez Tigidam
Nov. 20 2015, 3:14 pm May. 20 2016, 9:21 am
Pope Francis ushered in 2015 with an appeal for an end to war. "Let there be no more wars," he said as he addressed the crowd at St Peter's Square in January.
"Peace is always possible but we have to go and look for it."
Apparently in a search for world peace, Pope Francis announced in September that he would visit Kenya, Uganda, and the Central African Republic (CAR) during a six-day tour from November 25 through 30.
The apostolic journey of his holiness starts with Kenya where he is expected to arrive at the Jomo Kenyatta Airport on Wednesday. He will travel to Uganda on Friday where he will be until Sunday when he departs for CAR.
The papal visit is expected to come with a renewed hope of peace in a region where violent crises have led to the loss of several lives and slowed development.
In Kenya, fears of terror attacks have crippled the lucrative tourism industry. One not to be forgotten in a hurry is the Garissa attack which led to the death of 147 students.
Uganda has also been on alert since militant group Al-Shabaab, which carried out the Kenya attacks vowed to storm the East African nation for the presence of its troops in Somalia.
Things are worse in CAR where both Christian and Muslim militia have wreaked havoc over the years. The latest attack in the country happened last week when suspected Seleka fighter killed 22 people in a string of raids on villages. Dozens have been killed in inter-religious fighting since September but the government and Christian leaders have assured the Pope Francis that his visit would be peaceful.
The religious leader seems not perturbed by the situation of things in the countries he is visiting as he plans to meet with the Muslim Community in the central Mosque of Koudoukou in Bangui and, according to reports, he will not be wearing bullet proof vest.
Pope Francis's search for peace is on and as his body language portrays, not even the fear of attack in Uganda, Al-Shabaab in Kenya or violence in CAR will deter him. However, according to Associated Press, the Vatican secretary of state has hinted that Pope Francis's security team will decide at the last minute whether to change his Africa itinerary.
Apart from suing for peace, Pope Francis is also expected to talk about climate change, immigration, poverty and religious tolerance.
View Pope Francis's itinerary here.
Africa Oil Boom Fades as $50 Crude Shuts Door on High-Cost Deals
Mali hotel attack kills at least 18, no more hostages being held


The top three aren't going anywhere this weekend but the play-off contest remains a free-for-all. While Luton and Stevenage will at least stay in the top seven for now, the lower two berths could be occupied by any of the six clubs immediately below them. At the bottom, Newport could edge out of the relegation zone at Hartlepool's expense.
Exeter are at home this weekend and therefore relatively likely to start next week in the top seven. However if the Grecians were to draw then a Blackpool win at home to in-form Accrington would be enough to see the two trade places on goal difference.
Newport would need to win at home to Yeovil and for Hartlepool to lose their own home game with stuttering Carlisle in order to rise out of the bottom two: not impossible by any means, but far from a sure thing.


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On Tenses: When to Use Present, When to Use Past
Lately it seems like every other YA novel I pick up is first person present tense. Which, when done right, is awesome. Some of my favorite books are in present tense. But I keep seeing books written in present tense with no actual reason for it. I think THE HUNGER GAMES, among other books, made this particular style of narration jump in popularity lately. I'm seeing a ton of aspiring writers using it in books that I'm not quite sure warrant it. (Read more…)
FAQ: How do you make yourself write so much and not get distracted?
This question comes most recently from a school visit, but I get variations on it a lot. ("Isn't it hard to make yourself work when there's no one to make sure you're doing it?") It seems like an appropriate post for New Year's Day, when everybody's busy making resolutions and promises to themselves!
Wisdomous Wednesday: Pursue Your Weaknesses
Wisdomous Wednesday is a weekly series of posts with advice about writing ranging from craft to navigation through the publishing world. If you have some wisdomous thoughts you'd like to share here, don't hesitate to contact me. I love advice from other writers!
Knowing your weaknesses as a writer is pretty important. But I think it's just as important not to get caught up in what you know (or believe) to be your flaws. I think a lot of writers (and I am WAY guilty of this myself) tend to avoid writing things they're not good at, or have no experience with. I know I catch myself taking convoluted paths through stories to avoid writing things I know I'm not good at writing–or worse, avoid writing stories I otherwise love because there's an aspect to them that I don't think I can handle.
Women's World Cup Wednesday: What Does Soccer Have to Do With Writing?
In honor of the truly spectacular soccer game played Monday between Brazil and the U.S., today's Wisdomous Wednesday is all about the World Cup—and how it relates to writing. (Trust me.) It was such an amazing game that one of the most common reactions I've heard has been "Someone has to be writing this book" or "You couldn't write a better script than this." So it really got me thinking about come-from-behind victories in literature, and how to make them believable—and most importantly, as fiercely satisfying as Monday's victory for the USA.
Wisdomous Wednesday: Stop in the Middle of
I think one of the hardest things about writing is getting started. There's something about the blank page that is pretty scary–not in an "it's gonna eat my face" way, but in a "now you have to prove things" way, and a "everyone's expecting you to be awesome" way. Even harder than getting started at the beginning is getting started on a new scene after stopping a project for a while. You don't have the excitement of first lines and unlimited potential to get you going.
What is normal?
I think most writers have been labeled "weird" at some point in their lives. (Especially those of us who write science fiction and fantasy!) We like reading more than most people, we're often into geeky things, we're happy being totally alone for long stretches of time, we do things in the name of writing and creativity that would land other people in some sort of therapy. (See previous post about talking to oneself while writing!) I think part of why joining the writing community online is so much fun and such a revelation for so many aspiring writers is because you realize for potentially the first time that you're not alone. You're not weird–you're brilliant.
Wisdomous Wednesday: Write Aloud
So, turns out I'm pretty incompetent at new to WordPress's post scheduler thingy. It worked for me for two weeks and then the first time I started to get comfortable, turns out I scheduled it but didn't SCHEDULE IT (there are like two steps to this process, guys, it's pretty complex) so it didn't post. So, uh, today's Wednesday post is actually showing up on Friday. Just pretend with me that it's two days ago, and we'll all be happier for it.
Wisdomous Wednesday: Don't Edit While Writing
Today's tip is for writers who have a tendency to get "stuck" while writing first drafts. I speak from experience–I often get bogged down somewhere between 10,000 and 30,000 words into the manuscript. The manuscript seems sludgy, and no matter how I tweak it, scenes aren't flowing the way they should. More often than not I used to psych myself out of the manuscript entirely, abandoning it for a new idea.
Wisdomous Wednesday: Goal-setting
Dreams are tricky. If you never go after them, they'll always be there as a nice security blanket, a sort of "what-if" that you can take out and admire whenever you're feeling low. Going after them, though, means that you're introducing the possibility of failure. And if you fail, that nice shiny dream might go kerplut, and no one wants to carry around a squashed dream. Not nearly so shiny. Writers who decide to pursue publication risk that kerplut every day, which is a pretty terrifying thing when you want something badly enough. So how do you actually go about pursuing a dream that big?
Wisdomous Wednesday: Try Everything
One of my new goals moving forward is to become a more consistent blogger–I tend to let the blog grow cobwebs far too often! So as step one, I'm starting a weekly feature called (oh-so-creatively) "Wisdomous Wednesdays," wherein I will share tidbits I've gleaned over the years about writing. It's a bit cheeky, as they'd say in my other homeland of Australia, given that I barely know what I'm doing myself on any given day, but hey. If we can't pretend to be wisdomous now and then, then why are we writers? I can only share what works for me, but if even one other writer out there finds something in here that's useful, then I say huzzah!


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Q: How to Quickstart graphhopper with my own graph - The Basics After two hard days getting through the unit tests and snippets of graphhopper on GitHub and the JavaDocs, thinking that I might be able to put all together in a very basic java app, I have to come to the conclusion, that I am not able :(
All I want to do is:

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*Build a graph

*Init graphhopper and configure it correctly

*Load the graph

*Route on it

Thats my code so far:
package javaapplication1;

import com.graphhopper.*;
import com.graphhopper.routing.util.EncodingManager;
import com.graphhopper.storage.GraphBuilder;
import com.graphhopper.storage.GraphStorage;

public class JavaApplication1 {

    protected static String location = "./tmp/graphstorage";
    protected static String defaultGraph = "./tmp/graphstorage/default";

    private static final EncodingManager encodingManager = new EncodingManager("CAR");

    public static GraphStorage createGraph() {

        GraphStorage graph = new GraphBuilder(encodingManager).setLocation(location).create();
        graph.setNode(0, 42, 10);
        graph.setNode(1, 42.1, 10.1);
        graph.setNode(2, 42.1, 10.2);
        graph.setNode(3, 42, 10.4);
        graph.setNode(4, 41.9, 10.2);

        graph.edge(0, 1, 10, true);
        graph.edge(1, 2, 10, false);
        graph.edge(2, 3, 10, true);
        graph.edge(0, 4, 40, true);
        graph.edge(4, 3, 40, true);

        return graph;
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        double fromLat = 42;
        double fromLon = 10.4;
        double toLat = 42;
        double toLon = 10;

        GraphStorage gs = createGraph();

        GraphHopperAPI instance = new GraphHopper()
            .setEncodingManager(encodingManager)
            .setGraphHopperLocation(location)
            .disableCHShortcuts();

        GraphHopper hopper = (GraphHopper) instance;
        //hopper.setGraph(createGraph()); // protected because only for testing?

        hopper.load(location);

        GHResponse ph = hopper.route(new GHRequest(fromLat, fromLon, toLat, toLon));
        if(ph.isFound()) {
            System.out.println(ph.getDistance());
            System.out.println(ph.getPoints().getSize());
        } else {
            System.out.println("No Route found!");
        }
    }
}

Java says: "Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: Call load or importOrLoad before routing". But I am calling .load() on hopper, which unfortunately returns 'false', but I am not able to figure out why.
My goal for this thread is to provide a very basic working code example of the GH Components and how to wire them up to solve the use case "Route on a graph, not loaded from OSM".

A: If you don't want to use OSM as data source you have to options:

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*Using the low level API via copy and pasting the code under GraphHopper.route. No need to reuse the GraphHopper class. But this is probably harder.

*Do MyGraphHopper extends GraphHopper and overload the necessary methods. Be sure you set the graph before the 'postProcessing' method is called. Which e.g. creates the shortcuts and builds the locationIndex.

BTW: in master GraphHopper.setGraph is public?


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Strong Yet Feminine Profiles are a series of interviews, showcasing ambitious women who are striving to follow their passion. Many are working full-time and pursuing their dream on the side, some have already taken the leap, and share their experiences (the good and the bad!).
Lucinda tells us how her passion-project blossomed into a business and proves once again that following your heart is the key to happiness. I found her profile through my love of interior design and sensed a Strong Yet Feminine woman behind the scenes. I wasn't wrong!
What advice would you give to others who wish to follow their creative passion?
I would always encourage people to follow their creative passions, especially if they have the potential to turn them into a great business idea. I live by the motto that 'life is too short' from my own experiences. I used the time I had off work while pregnant and bringing up a baby to explore the ideas that were simmering in the back of my head. I would have hated to have carried on in teaching and wondered 'what if?'. As I am quite risk averse, I knew I could go back into teaching if I couldn't make the blogging work for me and my family.
When did your passion for interior design start and have you had any training?
I have had no training whatsoever, so sometimes I have Imposter Syndrome! My love for interior design started from a very early age. I have always taken pride in how my bedroom looked growing up, and when my little sister was born in 1998, I project managed the décor in her nursery; looking back, it was hideous: imagine dark green and multi-coloured patterned carpet, bright yellow wallpaper complete with a lime green, pink and orange border- I felt like Linda Barker! When I was 11, I went to boarding school, again, taking my love for interior design with me, making my room feel homely while away from home; there were a lot of blow up plastic cushions, armchairs and walls strewn with David Beckham, Eminem, and later, Vogue covers and fashion campaigns.
Tell us about your life before interior design, what path did your career take?
Straight after graduating from Manchester University in 2009, I worked for a lettings company in Brighton for just over year as a negotiator, and as I had a burning desire to move to London, I got a job in recruitment in the City. Whilst there, I realised that the sales environment wasn't for me, so after six months, I decided to move into teaching.
In 2011, I got a position in an inner-city academy in South London, working as a Teaching Assistant in a Nurture Group, which aimed to help students who struggled with the curriculum learn the skills they needed in order to go in to the mainstream school and cope with the demands of Key Stage 4. After a really rewarding year, I begun Teach First in 2012, which is a highly competitive two-year teaching programme, where after 6 weeks intense training, you teach full time and gain your PGCE on the job. I was teaching English to a lot of challenging students from year 7 to 13, and anyone who teaches will tell you how demanding it is; from marking over 100 books every fortnight in detail, to on the spot OFSTED-style observations, and of course, creating lessons and resources for every child of varying abilities to access the learning objective. My students were largely wonderful, and I really enjoyed teaching them all, so it was with a heavy heart, and nearly four years in the school, that I left in order to move to our first home in East Sussex with my husband, James in early 2015.
After a short stint teaching in a new academy nearby, I discovered I was pregnant with our daughter, Sienna. Exhausted and feeling like I was unable to be an amazing teacher and mother, I decided to take the plunge and leave teaching for good. Simultaneously, I set up my Instagram feed @nest_twenty_eight to document the changes I was making at home to share with friends and family, and I didn't want to lose the ability to write, so set up a blog on the side.
When I started posting pictures of my home, there weren't many people doing interiors focused feeds in the UK, so I picked up traction quite quickly, as my pictures were shared on some bigger accounts here, and in the USA. Motivated by this, and as I missed working and earning my own money, I wondered whether somehow I could monetise my Instagram page, and after posting every day, I picked up my first client, and I haven't looked back since.
I have been so fortunate to work with lots of national and international brands, who I create content for in my home and share with my followers. I've also met some amazing people through the interiors community, some of whom I consider my friends! I feel very fortunate to do a job that I love, I can do from home and around Sienna, and something that allows for complete creativity.
What inspired you to start your blog where it all began?
I wouldn't say I was inspired, but rather, I wanted something to keep my mind sharp while taking the longest time I'd ever taken off since I started working. I also found it therapeutic to write about my home, and to share my interior ideas with others.
When was the moment that your Instagram following took off? Was there a crucial moment?
Yes, in 2016 and after a few months of posting every day, my following took off and I average about 1000 new followers every week. It took me by surprise, and still does to this day.
How long would you say it took to make the business financially viable for you?
It took me about 8 months of hard work to begin making money from my Instagram and blog. It's been a fascinating experience setting my business up from scratch and learning new skills when working with clients.
I get it from everywhere around me: Pinterest, other real but stunning homes on Instagram and also places I visit, be it a restaurant, well designed shop or a National Trust home. James also buys me lots of interiors books, I particularly love the Scandinavian ones- they're full to the brim of not only beautiful décor, but a beautiful way to live too.
How do you make your business work for you to ensure you are happy and healthy?
Even though I work for myself and from home, I follow a structured working day, probably shaped by my time at school as a pupil and as a teacher. If I have a deadline for a client, I make sure I complete all the deliverables well before, to give room for amendments, if any. I take my photographs for my feed on the mornings Sienna is at nursery and when the light is good, as I don't use any third party apps or filters. When I am doing general pictures for my feed outside of paid promotions, I try and photograph several rooms in my home in one go to make the styling process less taxing overall, and then I'll get my post for that evening ready and saved. I also make sure I reply to important emails as quickly as I can, as I don't like them hanging over me, and every one could be a potential long term business opportunity. I am very lucky that I can work around Sienna and as I stare at a screen for long stretches of time, I do my best to not be on my phone once I post in the evenings, which also allows me to spend quality time with James and enjoy some downtime.
Tell us about a Strong Yet Feminine woman in your life who inspired you.
Hands down, it has to be my Mother. She has overcome so many obstacles in her life, including a near fatal car accident when I was 5, the loss of my brother when I was 8 and getting back up from these physical and emotional blows and showing us, that while these are things you don't ever get over, you can use them to help you move forward as a resilient and strong person, with a good sense of context in life, that I live by. She has always encouraged me and my siblings in our education, to be appreciative of how lucky we were to have it, and to use it to our advantage. On a less serious note, she also has an amazing vintage wardrobe, that she has pristinely kept from her younger years and we can enjoy now.


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Briefs: Louie-McGee out; Rasmussen on radio
Faupel, Taylor honored by Frontier
Seniors Natalee Faupel of MSU-Northern and Zach Taylor of Carroll College have been named Preseason Players of the Year in the Frontier Conference, the league announced Tuesday.
Faupel is a guard from Butte who last season averaged 16.3 points and 6.1 rebounds. Taylor is a guard from Duvall, Wash., who averaged 17 points while shooting 48 percent from the floor and 85 percent from the foul line last year.
Coaches could not vote for their own players in the preseason voting.
Among those named to the Preseason all-Frontier men's team is Great Falls native Shyke Smalls, a senior guard from Montana Western.
Nneka Nnadi, a senior guard at the University of Great Falls, was named to the Preseason all-Frontier women's team.
Also named to men's team are Match Burnham and Ryan Imhoff of Carroll, Taylor Longo of Rocky Mountain and Doug McDaniel of Lewis-Clark State.
Also named to the women's team are Cassidy Hashey of Carroll, Caelyn Orlandi and Brittany Tackett of Lewis-Clark State, and Jacy Thompson of MSU-Northern.
Shelby Rasmussen, Gary DeGooyer on radio show
Young rodeo star Shelby Rasmussen of Choteau and Great Falls Athletic Director Gary DeGooyer are scheduled to be among the guests Thursday morning on KNIX FM-102.7's Sport Chat, hosted by Scott Mansch of the Tribune and Jim Sargent of KINX.
The program airs from 8-9 each Thursday morning on KINX.
Griz without Louie-McGee against Sac State
MISSOULA – Freshman receiver Jerry Louie-McGee will miss Montana's game against Sacramento State on Saturday as he recovers from an injury, according to published reports.
Louie-McGee, the team's leading receiver in both catches and yards, did not play in Montana's 67-7 victory against Mississippi Valley State on Saturday. The Grizzlies, ranked 10th among FCS teams, play host to Sacramento State on Saturday afternoon.
Grizzly head coach Bob Stitt announced on Monday that Louie-McGee won't pay this week.
"He got banged up at Cal Poly (Sept. 24) and he just kept playing. Finally we had to shut him down in practice," Stitt said. "He didn't play Saturday and he's not going to play this week. The plan is NAU (on the road Oct. 22)."
Various internet reports said Louie-McGee had recent knee surgery and was limping noticeably last Saturday.
Louie-McGee has 41 receptions for 366 yards this season. He caught a Montana single-game record 21 passes for 155 yards against Cal Poly.