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business as an Indian insurance company.
classes of general insurance business (Including health insurance).
the general insurer has been capitalised at Rs 135 crore.
will foray into the general insurance business.
Internet of Things (IoT) in collaboration with Intel.
The CoE is located at the TCS campus in Hyderabad.
Intel IoT platforms and to fast-track creation of end-to-end solutions.
semiconductors, healthcare and telecom industries.
Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) since 2011.
including the U.K., the Netherlands, Sweden and Mauritius.
ceremony was held at the Gandhi Maidan in Patna.
council of ministers belonging to RJD, JD(U) and Congress parties.
Prasad Yadav and Tej Pratap Yadav, were also sworn in.
Television handling subscription revenues of Zee and Turner channels.
2015. The summit was chaired by Philippines President Benigno S. Aquino III.
a loan to Egypt to cover the cost of construction.
The plant is expected to be completed by 2022.
Dabaa in the North of the country.
from across the world, including India.
career as a tennis player who represented India on an international level.
He competed in doubles at Wimbledon and the US Open.
Disarmament and Development for 2015.
the occasion of birth annniversary of Indira Gandhi.
123 countries across the world.
2015 clinched the second Indiana All India FIDE Rating Chess tournament.
November 2015 after prolonged illness in Lucknow. He was 94.
introduce the voter ID cards in Indian Elections.


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Recipe For Disaster Serves Up The Main Course With 1.0 Release
Deal with problematic staff, difficult customers and disastrous situations in this
fast-paced restaurant management sim
The toilets are blocked, the kitchen is on fire and rats are stealing produce from storage. However, tasty restaurant management sim, Recipe for Disaster, has now officially launched into 1.0 following its successful Early Access period on Steam.
Launched today on PC, the full release is accompanied with a special release trailer highlighting all the main ingredients to the game.
Serving up a new challenge to fans of the restaurant tycoon genre and sitting at very positive on Steam (just like a Michelin Star), Recipe for Disaster explores the complex social relationships between staff and customers, as well as the disastrous and humorous consequences of poor management in the food-service industry.
Whether in the single player campaign or freeplay mode, personality clashes and skill gaps within your staff can easily disrupt service, whilst the volatile attitudes and tastes of customers may prove to be the barrier that separates players from those all important positive review scores.
Make mouth-watering dishes with the in-game recipe editor and create a menu to propel your restaurant from a greasy spoon to one of the desired spots in town. Just know that the health-inspector and fussy VIP guests may have other ideas.
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November 14, 2000-Case Study: The Diet Drug Redux
Lisa Wiehard wasn't paying attention to concerns over the safety of a hot new diet drug when she began swallowing the pills in 1997. Spring was approaching, and the 34-year-old nurse was intent on dropping a few pounds in time for beach weather. Almost immediately, Wieghard suffered coughing fits and had trouble breathing. But she had also shed 7 pounds in a single week, and that was enough to make her forget about the side effects.
Wieghard was among the 2 million Americans who clamored for Redux after it was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in April, 1996. At the peak, doctors were writing 85,000 new prescriptions a week. But a little more than a year after the drug's debut, the Redux craze collapsed, as patients began showing up in doctors' offices short of breath and with hidden damage to their hearts and lungs.
The FDA forced the drug off the market in September, 1997. Blame was heaped on over-eager company officials, on compliant FDA officials, on careless physicians.
But largely overlooked is the critical role played by prominent academic scientists with financial links to the manufacturer.
Benefits were hyped; risks minimized. From the beginning, university researchers helped the company navigate a gauntlet of regulatory and marketing obstacles with a message remarkably in step with the drug maker's mission.
Douglas Petkus, a spokesman for Wyeth-Ayerst, the U.S. distributor of Redux, said that industry ties to academia are commonplace and that there was nothing unusual about Wyeth's relationships with obesity experts.
"It's common, it's good practice and it's good science. From our perspective, none of this is out of bounds."
But company documents, court records and interviews offer insight into the danger posed by growing ties between academic science and private industry.
"This is anything but science," said Lynn McAfee, director of the Council on Size and Weight Discrimination, an advocacy group based in Philadelphia. "It's not so much that individual researchers are throwing the game; it's more that it creates an atmosphere that does not foster looking critically at research."
Redux had powerful voices on its side in the fall of 1995, when corporate backers and obesity experts descended on Rockville, Md., for the first of two FDA hearings.
The crowd was a Who's Who of obesity research. There was JoAnn Manson of Harvard, who just that month had a major article published in the New England Journal of Medicine; Theodore Van Itallie of Columbia University, who was introduced as one of the country's leading obesity researchers; George Bray of Louisiana State University, the editor in chief of Obesity Research.
There was Gerald Faich of the University of Pennsylvania, a former FDA official and expert in epidemiology; Theodore Cicero of Washington University, an expert on drug addiction who spent six years heading an FDA advisory committee; Louis Lasagna of Tufts, a consultant to the National Institutes of Health and the FDA.
They were all there as paid consultants to Wyeth-Ayerst or the other companies involved in making and selling Redux. Faich's task, at this hearing and a subsequent one, was to persuade the FDA that the benefits of Redux outweighed any potential risk.
The FDA had originally insisted that to win approval, Redux would have to produce an average weight loss of 10 percent. After disappointing early results, the agency dropped the bar to 5 percent, the equivalent of a 240- pound person losing 12 pounds.
When the drug couldn't reach that goal either, the agency indicated it would look favorably on Redux if a significant number of patients hit the 5 percent mark.
But even that wouldn't fly if the company couldn't show Redux was safe. And they faced a serious obstacle in the form of a rare and often-deadly lung ailment called primary pulmonary hypertension, or PPH. Some studies, the FDA was told, had shown an increase in PPH among patients in Europe who took a drug identical to Redux.
Faich said his research showed Redux would prevent many more health problems than it would create. Patients who lost even a modest amount of weight, he said, would be less likely to suffer diabetes, heart disease and other ailments. But when Faich calculated the benefits of losing weight with Redux, he included the effect of strict diet and exercise - which accounted for two-thirds of the lost pounds. Faich said that was fair because patients would never lose that much weight without the discipline that would come with a physician-supervised prescription-drug therapy.
Panel member Jose Francisco Cara, a pediatrician at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, suspected just the opposite - that patients were less likely to be serious about diet and exercise if they were taking a drug. "People will see this as a quote-unquote 'magic pill' that will substitute for behavioral changes," he said. Other panel members agreed. "With all due respect to Dr. Faich," Cathy Critchlow of the University of Washington said during the hearing, "I think the benefit-to-risk ratio was probably vastly overstated in his presentation."
Despite concerns, the expert panel narrowly endorsed Redux, and in April, 1996, the FDA formally approved the drug. In an effort to find voices that would carry weight with practicing physicians, the company recruited academic researchers to aid in the campaign.
In 1994, Wyeth signed a $180,000 contract with a New Jersey medical publishing company called Excerpta Medica that offered pharmaceutical companies an invaluable tool: ready-made scientific articles, placed in leading medical journals, and carrying the imprimatur of influential academic leaders. According to company documents, Excerpta laid out for Wyeth a schedule of nine articles, each with a carefully crafted message aimed at a carefully targeted audience, from primary-care physicians to cardiologists to nurse practitioners to pharmacists.
The articles would have a "writer" and an "author." The writer was a freelancer who was paid $ 5,000 to actually research and write the articles. The author was often a top university scientist who was paid $ 1,500 to review the work and assign his or her name to it for publication. Both Excerpta Medica and American Home Products, now the parent company of Wyeth-Ayerst, have defended the practice, saying academic authors had final say over the manuscripts.
"I do believe that there is a perception that if a pharmaceutical company is involved in writing an article, it is automatically suspect," Jo Alene Dolan, who was medical monitor for Redux at Wyeth-Ayerst, testified in a deposition. "That is not necessarily the reality."
But company officials frequently tinkered with the text of the articles, removing unflattering references to the chemical compound in Redux - dexfenfluramine - or deleting positive references to other drugs. In one article, for example, an early draft read that a recent study " found that the use of anti-obesity drugs, including dexfenfluramine, was associated with an increased risk of primary pulmonary hypertension. The risk was especially great for long-term users."
After Wyeth reviewed the draft, the reference to dexfenfluramine and the sentence about long-term use were crossed out. Petkus, of Wyeth-Ayerst, said it was common practice in the pharmaceutical industry to have articles written by freelancers and signed by prominent scientists. When asked about the changes, Petkus said Wyeth employees reviewed the articles only for accuracy and said all changes were made objectively. And he said the scientists were always welcome to suggest revisions.
"The bottom line," Petkus said, "is that these medical professionals have the final editorial say." Lisa Wiehard was not a good candidate for diet drugs. The FDA had intended for Redux to be prescribed to only the truly obese, and at 5-foot-3 and 145 pounds, she was 25 pounds below the threshold. "Really, it was just vanity reasons. It wasn't for health reasons. That was the most stupid part of the whole thing," said Wieghard, who lives in Las Vegas. "I didn't have health problems. I didn't have heart disease. I was just a vain 34-year-old woman."
Wieghard had started on Fen-Phen, but switched to Redux after a few weeks because of breathing problems. But the problem only got worse. Still, as the pounds continued to disappear, Wieghard kept going back for more. But while Wieghard and other patients were lining up for Redux, Lucien Abenhaim, a Canadian researcher, was studying a cluster of cases of primary pulmonary hypertension among patients who took diet drugs - principally dexfenfluramine - in Britain, France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Abenhaim concluded that patients who took anti-obesity drugs for three months or less were 1.8 times more likely to suffer primary pulmonary hypertension. But for patients who took the drug longer than three months, the risk of contracting the disease increased dramatically, to 23-fold. Abenhaim's research was powerful, but the editors of the New England Journal of Medicine felt it was important to put it in perspective. So they began looking for obesity experts - without industry ties - to write an editorial to accompany the new study.
"Sometimes we have to go down the list a couple of times in order to find somebody who does not have a financial conflict of interest, because financial conflicts of interest are pretty widespread in the academic community," said Jerome Kassirer, a former editor of the journal. And who was tapped to comment on Abenhaim's study? JoAnn Manson and Gerald Faich, who had both spoken on Wyeth's behalf at the FDA.
Their conclusion: "The possible risk of pulmonary hypertension associated with dexfenfluramine is small and appears to be outweighed by benefits when the drug is used appropriately."
When the manuscript first came in, Kassirer thought it was exactly the perspective he wanted. Paging through the article, he found it an intelligent evaluation of the risk of Redux against the risk of obesity. He jotted "interesting" in a margin and signed off on the piece. Soon after publication, however, editors at the journal learned that Manson and Faich both had financial ties to the companies involved in making and marketing Redux. Manson had been hired solely to speak at the FDA, while Faich had helped Wyeth-Ayerst and the European manufacturer of Redux develop methods for studying the link between the drug and PPH. The editors apologized for printing the article.
"I went back and read the editorial, and now I wasn't sure what to believe," Kassirer said. The episode touched off a controversy. The editors of the journal said the writers - particularly Faich, who had consulted for Wyeth the same month the article was written - had split hairs about what constituted the journal's strict prohibition on "regular" and "ongoing" financial ties for editorial writers. Manson and Faich said they told editors of their financial ties to Wyeth- Ayerst and the other companies involved in making Redux, but that editors misunderstood the nature of the consulting deals. Faich, who has since left academia, did not respond to telephone messages and to a list of questions faxed to his home at his request. But in the nasty aftermath, Manson says her scientific study - and her reputation - were unfairly smeared.
"It's not like I was consulting for this company and then did research on dexfenfluramine," Manson said. "I was doing no research on dexfenfluramine." Manson said she was paid a "very modest amount" to go to the FDA hearing and present the results of her research on the dangers of obesity. But she said her research was completed long before she was contacted by Wyeth-Ayerst.
"There is no way that anything that I said in that editorial would have been any different if I had never, ever had anything to do with them. I just wrote what I believed to be the science," she said. "Scientists are not going to sell their opinions for a few billable hours. That's just an outrageous concept." At the famed Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., cardiologist Heidi Connolly was tracking a suspicious pattern. A patient who had undergone surgery to repair a rare problem in one of her heart valves had returned in the summer of 1996 for treatment of the same condition in a second valve.
Five months later, another patient came in with damaged heart valves, and soon after that, Connolly heard of a doctor in Fargo, N.D., who had seen several more cases. By March, the count was up to 24. Based on their medical histories, none of the women was at risk for developing heart-valve problems. But all had been taking the wildly popular diet-drug combination known as fen-phen. The drugs in the cocktail were phentermine and fenfluramine, a chemical cousin of the drug in Redux.
Connolly asked officials from American Home Products - which distributed both fenfluramine and Redux - to come to Minnesota, where she spent four hours walking company officials through case histories and echocardiograms. The company concluded that more study was needed. Connolly wrote up what she had seen and submitted it to the New England Journal. The story was scheduled to run Aug. 28, but given the urgency of the situation, editors at the journal invoked a rare exception to their rule that forbid the release of data before publication.
On July 8, 1997, Connolly leaned into a microphone at a Mayo Clinic conference room and calmly uttered a sentence that would spell the end of Redux. "Today," she began, "my colleagues and I from the Mayo Clinic report a new clinical observation of a possible relationship between heart valve disease and fen-phen." Later that day, the FDA rushed letters to 700,000 physicians warning of the potential dangers of both fen-phen and Redux. Wyeth-Ayerst said the new study was "inconclusive" and that further studies "must be conducted before any possible link can be confirmed."
But regulatory officials were seeing an epidemic of their own. By the end of July, as more reports of valve damage came in, the FDA forced American Home Products to add a warning to the Redux label about potentially serious side effects. Sales began to slip, while reports of heart damage and death continued to come into the FDA.
On Sept. 15, 1997, with 90 known cases of valvular heart disease, the agency asked Wyeth to pull the drug off the market. Sales stopped that day. In August, a federal judge approved a $ 3.75 billion settlement of class-action lawsuits filed against American Home Products by diet-drug patients. Wieghard, one of millions who will be entitled to money, is looking forward to having the legal settlement pay for medical tests to determine if there is lasting damage to her heart or lungs. She stayed on Redux for about two months before the side effects scared her off the medication. Soon after, her breathing problems subsided - and all the weight came back.
Today, Wieghard keeps to a strict low-fat diet and walks several miles a day to stay fit. "If I knew then what I know now, I wouldn't have put one single pill in my mouth," Wieghard said. "I'd rather be fat and alive, than thin and dead."
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On Monday, overseas military contractors pled guilty in federal court to criminal fraud in connection with overcharging the federal government for food and water supplied to soldiers in Afghanistan. Supreme Foodservice GmbH, a privately-held Swiss company, and Supreme Foodservice FZE, a privately-held United Arab Emirates company, (collectively "Supreme Foodservice") will pay the government over $288 million, the maximum criminal fines allowed. In addition, the companies have agreed to pay $101 million to resolve a relator's allegations of fraud pursuant to the False Claims Act. The relator will receive $16.16 million of the civil settlement for his role in uncovering the fraud. The companies fraudulently inflated the price charged for Local Market Ready goods and bottled water sold to the government under an $8.8 billion Subsistence Prime Vendor Contract for services through 2013.
Supreme Foodservice specializes in developing and operating supply chains and related services. In 2005, it entered into a contract with the Defense Supply Center of Philadelphia to provide food and water for the U.S. forces serving in Afghanistan. Subsequently, Jamal Ahli Foods Co., LLC was set up and used by Supreme Foodservice as a "middleman" to mark up the prices for fresh fruits, vegetables, and other locally produced products (perishable and short shelf-life foodstuffs purchased from vendors outside of the United States) and to obscure the inflated price charged for bottled water. In March 2010, whistleblower Michael Epp filed a qui tam complaint under seal detailing the fraud. Epp was the director of the Swiss unit's Commercial Division and Supply Chain. The federal government then elected to intervene in the case.
The Subsistence Prime Vendor Contract required that Supreme Foodservice charge the government the supplier's price for the goods. The contract also required it to pass on any rebates or discounts obtained from its suppliers onto the government. But e-mails between the companies' executives reveal Supreme Foodservice's deliberate decision to inflate the prices. For example, on August 22, 2005, an e-mail exchange indicated that the prices proposed for certain items already included margins of "approximately 57-60%" over and above the price charged by the supplier. In September of 2005, one executive specifically instructed other members of top management that he would personally review the markups before Jamal Ahli Foods made its shipments. Among other things, the executive increased the markup imposed on non-alcoholic beer from 25% to 125%. An e-mail exchange on February 16, 2006 confirmed that the "best option" was to buy the non-alcoholic beer from Germany and then mark it up via Jamal Ahli Foods.
The executives also misled Defense Supply Center contracting officers. In March 2006, an officer requested a manufacturer's invoice for specific frozen products. Accordingly, Supreme Foodservice lowered its prices for those products to prices that did not include a mark-up. Instead of disclosing that the initial pricing had included a mark-up, the contracting officer as told that "based on more realistic quantities, we have been able to negotiate a better price." In June 2006, when a contracting officer raised questions about the pricing of four specific items, that officer was again misled as Supreme Foodservice claimed that the high prices were for a higher quality of product, and offered to instead sell lower quality products for lower prices.
In September 2007, after a fired executive threatened to expose the fraud, the company entered into the negotiation of a "Separation Agreement" in order to induce that executive not to disclose the pricing policies. The agreement provided that the executive would receive, among other things, a payment of €400,000 in September of 2010, as long as the executive did not cause: a deterioration in the economic situation linked to the government contract; the termination of the contract; or a decrease in the price levels for products. But ultimately, the fraudulent overcharging was exposed in early March 2009, when a former employee notified the Defense Supply Center of the mark-ups. The mark-ups then ceased on April 1, 2009. The fraud through April 2009 resulted in a loss to the government of $48 million.
The resolution of the criminal and civil matters were the result of a coordinated effort by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice, the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General's Defense Criminal Investigative Service, U.S. Army's Criminal Investigative Command's Major Procurement Fraud Unit, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.


Overlooking Hyde Park, the Marriott-owned Grosvenor Hotel is home to Richard Corrigan's flagship fine dining restaurant, the JW Steakhouse, and the Bourbon bar which has London's largest collection of bourbons.
The Great Room is the largest hotel banqueting space in Europe.
When a hotel overlooks one of the Royal parks, it is only right that it should be utterly English. The Grosvenor House, first opened in 1929 and rebranded as a JW Marriott Hotel in 2008 following a four-year multi-million pound restoration programme, has an elegant, classic style that feels like stepping into the aristocratic past. The Great Room, originally built as an ice rink, was where Queen Elizabeth II took ice skating lessons as a child, and guests enter the hotel through original Lutyens wrought-iron gates. Taking up eight floors, the large 420-room hotel has 74 suites including the most luxurious Hyde Park-facing Premium Park View Suites in the corners of the hotel. Take afternoon tea in the café, ride a horse in Hyde Park, or stroll around the exclusive boutiques of Bond Street before returning to enjoy 21st century facilities with traditional style.
The quintessential treat is served in the tranquil Park Room & Library.
Served in The Park Room & Library, guests enjoying afternoon tea at the Grosvenor House Hotel are treated to beautiful views across Hyde Park. The British stately home setting provides the perfect place to enjoy a quintessential afternoon tea, offering a tranquil environment away from the bustling Park Lane. Delicate finger sandwiches are served alongside freshly baked buttermilk scones with Devonshire clotted cream and Cornish strawberry jam. While a range of seasonal cakes and delicate pastries take pride of place at the top of the tier. The Grosvenor also offers a wide choice of loose leaf teas from around the globe, or for special occasions can opt for Champagne Afternoon Tea of Hendrick's Gin Afternoon Tea.
Located within luxury hotel Grosvenor House, JW Steakhouse serves tender hand-cut selections of dry-aged American USDA prime beef, grilled to perfection. Diners can choose from a variety of cuts, including filet, porterhouse, rib eye, New York strip and hanger steak. A range of classic dishes such as fish and chips, spot roast chicken and grilled lobster are also available, while 'the best cheesecake this side of the pond' leads the way on the dessert menu. Priced at £14, expectations are high but having received cult status and its own twitter hashtag, guests are sure to not be disappointed. Further pudding options include warm apple pie, Mississippi mud pie and peach cobbler - all priced at the more reasonable cost of £8.
Richard Corrigan presents a game-y menu that tugs at his Irish country roots.
He got his first Michelin star at Stephen Bull's Fulham Road restaurant in 1994, the second at Lindsay House in Soho in 1997 and with this smart Mayfair establishment Irishman Richard Corrigan he certainly looks set for a third. He's also responsible for the popular Bentley's Oyster Bar and Grill but Corrigan's Mayfair is an altogether more elaborate dining experience, appealing to Mayfair's moneyed diners. It's a long way from farming country in County Meath where Corrigan grew up, learning an intrinsic understanding of seasonally changing ingredients. The game-y menu tugs at his Irish country roots; mains like grouse pie and roe venison come with sides of things like earthy cep mushrooms and pickled cabbage. Serious dining and all done with the flair for which Corrigan is well known.
A striking bar with a vibrant red interior.
With its vibrant red interior, the Red Bar at Grosvenor House Hotel is "a high-camp confection of crimson lacquer and red leather, which feels like sitting inside a jewellery box" (The Guardian). This distinctive venue has become one of Mayfair's most iconic destinations and is the place to go for late night cocktails and the chance to bump into one of the hotel's A-list clients - the Great Room next door regularly hosts star-studded soirees. Open from the afternoon into the early hours, it has a bar food menu and a selection of wines and beers alongside playful cocktails like the Red Viking, the Strawberry Basil Martini, and the Perfect Sling, a smoother, sweeter version of the Singapore Sling. The relaxed atmosphere makes it an ideal spot to relax while looking out over Hyde Park, and its intimate areas are a great option for small social gatherings and parties. A VIP Lounge is also available to hire and the bar can be used exclusively for private use.
This bar is home to London's largest collection of bourbons.
Part of the JW Steakhouse, the Bourbon Bar has the largest and most varied selection of bourbons in London. Guests can choose from more than 160 rare, pre prohibition, single barrel and small batch bourbons, or opt for one of their innovative tasting flights with the bar's very own Jack Daniel's Single Barrel. Away from the bourbons, there is also an eclectic cocktail menu that includes the signature Mint Julep, Kentucky Bourbon Sour and Mayfair Manhattan, as well as a number of seasonal options throughout the year.
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Gambler and conman Jake Green (Jason Statham) always ran with a bad crowd and it cost him seven years in jail. After his release, Jake becomes unbeatable at the tables using a formula for the ultimate con that he learned from two mysterious prisoners while on the inside. Now, he is ready to take his revenge against Dorothy Macha (Ray Liotta), the man responsible for his jail time. Macha is plotting to eliminate his ruthless rival, Lord John, and has staked his credibility on a huge drug deal with the all-powerful Sam Gold. Jake visits Macha at his casino and humiliates him publicly in a game of chance. Macha, fearing more of the same medicine, sends his goons to ''take care of'' Jake. His life is saved by enigmatic Zack (Vincent Pastore) who, with his equally inscrutable partner Avi (André Benjamin), offer Jake protection. Against his better judgment, Jake accepts. He soon finds himself playing the very last game he wants to be playing, and there is danger at every turn. But, the biggest danger of all comes from a totally unexpected source…himself. It gradually transpires the real conman is in his head.
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I've written children's curriculum for LifeWay for something like fifteen years now, but that's not entirely true. I've written steadily for them for fifteen years, but there was a hiatus of a few years on bible study materials.
For some reason, my first editor and I didn't see eye to eye. Was it his lack of vision or my lack of skill? Probably it was a combination of those, but after two years, he cut me loose, which would have been the end of the story, except for my Barnabas.
Cheryl was editing Bible Express, a devotional magazine for kids, back then. She gave me assignments almost every month, eventually telling me that she was trying to let me build up my credibility. After a couple of years, a new bible study editor came on and she persuaded him to give me a try. I've written constantly for them now for–honestly I don't know how long. I've moved from rookie to old man of the team.
Now Cheryl is editing that material, and she keeps me busy, which I guess means that I'm pretty good at the job. You have to know that I will always be loyal to her, helping in whatever way I can. After that restoration, I've been able to write for other products and otherwise use the gift that God gave me.
Thank you, Cheryl–friend, sister in Christ, encourager, rebuilder of relationships.
Who has helped you to rebuild relationships in the past? What has that opened up in your life?
For what relationships have you served as a Barnabas? Are there some that you should?
Give thanks for Jesus rebuilding your relationship with God. Ask God for opportunities to do similar work.


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Middle Tennessee defeats North Texas 78-71
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. —
Jason Jones scored 16 points off the bench and Middle Tennessee State defeated North Texas 78-71 on Thursday night.
The Blue Raiders (6-9, 1-1 Sun Belt Conference) shot 50 percent from the field in the second half (13 of 26) in snapping the Mean Green's 13-game Sun Belt winning streak and six-game streak overall.
Shawn Jones added 15 points and Trevor Ottley added 10 for Middle Tennessee.
The Blue Raiders trailed by as many as eight early and 16-13 with 11:16 left in the first half. They then went on a 10-6 run to take a 26-19 lead on Jason Jones' layup with 6:21 left until halftime.
North Texas (13-3, 2-1), which shot 28.6 percent in the first half (6 of 21) closed the gap to 68-66 with 3:57 left in the game on Shannon Shorter's two free throws, but couldn't get closer.
Josh White scored 15 points and Tristan Thompson 14 for the Mean Green.


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Resource center How Addictive Is Ativan (Lorazepam)? How Difficult Is Ativan Withdrawal?
Are There Health Risks of Long-Term Ativan Use?
How Difficult Is Ativan Withdrawal?
What Are the Physical and Psychological Signs of Ativan Abuse?
As a benzodiazepine like Valium and Xanax, Ativan is addictive and can cause withdrawal symptoms if taken for too long.
People tend to assume that prescription medications are all around safer than illicit "street" drugs like heroin or meth, but the truth is that they come with their own dangers. In particular, benzodiazepines, such as Ativan, are among the relatively few substances that can cause life-threatening withdrawal symptoms.
Withdrawal happens when someone builds up a tolerance to a substance. When a drug like Ativan artificially activates parts of the brain, the brain compensates by making that area less sensitive. As a result, the person taking the drug needs to take a higher dose to get the same effect. This happens whether someone is abusing the drug or if they're taking it via a legitimate prescription, though taking higher doses more often will cause a tolerance to develop faster.
If a person then stops taking the drug, the brain needs time to readjust itself back to normal. In the meantime, part of the brain will be less active than it should be, resulting in physical and emotional symptoms that can be very unpleasant. How difficult it is to make it through this period depends largely on the scope of abuse and what type of drug it was.
Benzodiazepines like Ativan tend to produce mostly emotional withdrawal symptoms. These can be very intense and have been described by some as being more difficult to endure than the physical pain and flu-like symptoms of opioid withdrawal, though each individual experience is different.
Overall, Ativan withdrawal can be incredibly difficult.
It's highly recommended than anybody considering getting off this medication or another benzodiazepine first consult a doctor for advice.
A simple treatment plan in which the individual is weaned from the drug can make withdrawal much easier to handle.
Ativan is the brand name for the popular benzodiazepine medication lorazepam. This drug is prescribed for short-term treatment of anxiety. It acts on the GABA receptors in the brain to slow down neuron firing, helping the user feel relaxed and at ease.
However, Ativan can also be very addictive, which is why it is only prescribed for two weeks or less, like other benzodiazepines. The body quickly develops a dependency on the medication to reduce anxiety and stress levels, and when a person takes too much, it can lead to intoxicating effects that are similar to the effects of alcohol. Benzodiazepines are some of the most widely abused prescription medications, second to opioid painkillers.
Why can Ativan withdrawal last for months?
Benzodiazepines like Ativan are prescribed to treat anxiety and panic attacks; an estimate suggests that 10-15 percent of people who struggle with addiction to Ativan and other benzodiazepines develop protracted withdrawal syndrome (PWS), which can last for months. Protracted withdrawal – as opposed to acute withdrawal, which covers the most intense physical symptoms and lasts for two or three weeks – is not well understood. However, this condition could occur, in part, because psychological withdrawal symptoms are very similar to the underlying mental health conditions benzodiazepines were designed to treat. It is likely difficult for a person overcoming an addiction to Ativan to know if they are experiencing ongoing withdrawal symptoms or a reemergence of their original anxiety or panic disorder.
These symptoms may last for six months or more. People who take Ativan or other benzodiazepines for a long time also risk developing seizures as a side effect of PWS.
What factors play a part in how severe withdrawal symptoms can be?
Withdrawal symptoms for most drugs, including Ativan and other benzodiazepines, typically feel more intense and last longer in people who have abused these substances for a long time. When a person takes large amounts of an intoxicating substance like Ativan, the body becomes tolerant to the dose and, at the same time, dependent on the presence of that much of the benzodiazepine to maintain mood. Abusing Ativan for a long time also means the brain is less accustomed to reaching equilibrium without the assistance of chemicals, so it is harder to end the brain's need for the drug. Most withdrawal symptoms are the result of the brain trying to stabilize its chemistry without interference from outside chemicals.
Do Ativan withdrawal symptoms require a detoxification program?
Yes, it is very important to get medical supervision to safely detox from Ativan. A doctor or other supervising medical professional will typically begin a taper to slowly reduce the amount of Ativan consumed until the body does not need the drug anymore. Quitting benzodiazepines cold turkey can lead to dangerous relapse, seizures, and other serious symptoms. The doctor may also put their patient on a different, longer-acting benzodiazepine – Valium is the most common alternative – and then begin a slow taper to ease the body off benzodiazepine dependence.
It is important to find a physician to help with the detox process. A comprehensive rehabilitation program should follow to address issues related to the addiction.
Are detox programs covered by insurance?
That depends on the insurance provider. Some plans may cover 100 percent of detox and a month or two of rehabilitation while other programs may only cover part of detox. Some plans may not cover detox at all. Generally, though, at least some portion of detox will be covered; consult with your specific insurance provider regarding your plan to ascertain exact levels of coverage.


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PONNIVALA LEGEND OVERVIEW
The Story And Its Uses
The 26 Episodes
Is Ponnivala Like An Icelandic Saga?
What The Story Is About
The Legend of Ponnivala is a vast epic story, once widely celebrated in the Kongu region of South India. It is a gem of Tamil storytelling, and a tale normally sung by bards. The Sophia Hilton Foundation of Canada, in association with Soft Science, has produced a twenty-six episode animated DVD series with accompanying print and digital comic books and teaching guides.
The Story's Name
Although there is no "real" place in India called "Ponnivala," we have chosen to use this poetic name to refer to our retelling of this ancient Tamil epic. But how did we arrive at this title?
Traditionally our story is known by the name "The Elder Brothers' Story," which refers to the brothers Ponnar and Shankar, who are the elder brothers of a third triplet: their sister Tangal. The story, however, is vast, and includes the history of the land in which these hero-brothers were born, and their lineage from the founding of their family line with their grandparents Kolatta and Aryanacci.
Ponnivala in the Classroom
In traditional cultures, the tales people pass on from one generation to the next do more than preserve religious teachings. In fact, most often the religious elements are merely threaded through these stories, with gods and goddesses acting as intercessors in the affairs of humans. The stories themselves become classrooms for everything from political and social standards to regional and cultural history, from mathematics and trading systems to herbology and food lore.
Good Storytelling
It's a strange fact of modern life that we like to sanitize whatever we can to avoid offending people. This is necessary for the most part, of course, because when dealing with research and writing about another culture or belief system it's paramount that the subject be treated fairly and sensitively.
Why The Story Is Significant
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A new discovery in space has sparked widespread debate about the origin of life on Earth. While some say the new evidence proves Christianity is wrong about creation, a prominent spokesman of the Russian Orthodox Church disagrees.
The Russian Orthodox Church has conceded that organic matter found on the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet by Philae may prove that comets may have been responsible for bringing life matter to Earth, Russian media reported.
MOSCOW, November 20 (Sputnik) — The Russian Orthodox Church does not rule out the possibility that organic molecules found on the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet by the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission may prove that comets could have been responsible for bringing life to Earth, Russian media reported.
The archpriest's comments come two days after the Rosetta probe's Philae lander found hard ice and organic molecules on the surface of the 67P after landing there last week.


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Q: How to change "24-Jun-2012" to "24-06-2012" using date format I am trying to convert "12-Jun-2013" date to " 12-06-2013" but its giving me exception.
String req="12-Jun-2013"

SimpleDateFormat sdfSource = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MMM/yyyy",Locale.UK);
             try {
                Date date = (Date) sdfSource.parse(req);
                 SimpleDateFormat sdfDestination = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy",Locale.UK);
                 req = sdfDestination.format(date);
                 System.out.println("final object"+req);

            } catch (ParseException e) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e.printStackTrace();
            }

I am getting exception
java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "12-Jun-2013"

A: your source SimpleDateFormat should be
SimpleDateFormat sdfSource = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yy",
                Locale.UK);

and your Destination SimpleDateFormat should be
SimpleDateFormat sdfDestination = new SimpleDateFormat(
                    "dd-MM-yyyy", Locale.UK);

A: You can try this:
Date date = new Date();
DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
System.out.println(dateFormat.format(date).toString());

A: Try following code:
    String req = "12-Jun-2013";
    try {
        Date date = new SimpleDateFormat("d-MMMM-yyyy", Locale.UK).parse(req);
        SimpleDateFormat sdfDestination = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy", Locale.UK);
        req = sdfDestination.format(date);
        System.out.println("final object" + req);

    } catch (ParseException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

Hopefully it will solve your problem

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PETALING JAYA: Utusan Malaysia has to consider a Voluntary Separation Scheme (VSS) as part of its restructuring exercise, said its group managing director Datuk Mohd Noordin Abbas.
"This is to prevent future situations where the company suffers losses amounting to millions each month," he said during the company's annual general meeting (AGM) on Wednesday (June 6).
He also said the measure would help Utusan to "rebuild from scratch" and therefore must be seriously considered as part of the company's future.
During the AGM, Noordin said the exercise will likely reduce the work force by 50 percent from 1,400 staff, but added that the company needed to find the funds first.
Meanwhile, Utusan chief editor Datuk Abdul Aziz Ishak admitted it was late in taking the VSS step, considering some other media outlets had conducted similar exercises in recent times.
"Utusan is overly concerned with its staff welfare, but the situation demands that we do something that we may not have considered before," he said.
Previously, it was reported that the top management of Kumpulan Utusan Melayu, the company which publishes the newspaper, had informed staff that major restructuring was being planned.


How to buy a fresh fish in the market? Characteristic? Color?
Often I come across questions like how to tell if the fish is fresh? How do you choose fresh fish? What is the characteristic? What is the color? etc. So to simplify these questions, I take come time and compile all the best possible answers in this written article. Hope this helps!
Whole Fresh Fish, Fillets, Steaks or Pieces.
The gills should be moist and bright red.
The eyes should be shiny, full as in whole and flush.
The skin should be bright, tight, adhere to the flesh and glistering.
The flesh should be firm and elastic.
The scales should be glistering, cling to the skin, intact and bright shine.
The fish odor should be sweet and pleasant.
Sunken eyes into the bones.
Dull colored skins and scales.
The flesh are easily separated for the bones.
Flesh should be firm, fresh and glistering.
Should looks solidly frozen with whole fish intact.
Drying or freezer burn – sign of left opened without proper sealing which will results in tough and hard texture due to moisture lost.
No frost or ice crystals on the inside of the packaging – indicate good packaging procedure.
Should not look dark brown – too long period of frozen.
The flesh should have pleasant odor and good coloration which still retain its juice and should not dried out.
Always wanted to know this! Thanks for writing this.
Btw, is fish with red eyes okay?
Hi Shawn! It depends, some fish's eyes are red naturally. Perhaps u could inspect the rest and see if the others is red too, then you would know.


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We are planning to develope a new website which will only deal in Local SEO. The purpose of this website is to get clients (lawyers, dentist, real estate owners and plumbers).
Apart from this, we have planned to inclulde "Indusries" section in the main menu where we want to list or create pages for lawyer, denstist, real eastate owners and plumbers.
I need your recommendation on what content should we include in specific industry pages? When somebody brings their cursor on 'Industries' tab, and click on 'lawyers' page, what should I include in that page?


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Why Romney Will Win
Enthusiasm, Ground game, Undecideds, Indicators, Issues
by Fred Barnes
Mitt Romney will win. The tie in the polls goes to the challenger. Here's why:
Enthusiasm. It matters enormously, and it's disproportionately on the Republican side, in good measure because of an intense desire to defeat President Obama. True, enthusiasm doesn't guarantee an edge in turnout, but it's certainly a key indicator. "In these final days, turnout is driven by intensity," says Republican pollster Ed Goeas. The nearly half the electorate that strongly disapproves of Obama's performance in office "will need little else other than the opportunity to vote against President Obama to motivate them to go to their polling place." Goeas conducts the bipartisan Battleground Poll along with Democrat Celinda Lake.
In 2008, self-identified Democrats led Republicans in turnout by seven percentage points. Gallup's projection is that Republicans will have a 49-46 percent edge this year. "The political environment and the composition of the likely electorate strongly favor Governor Romney," Goeas says. The Battleground Poll's "vote election model" projects Romney with 51 percent.
Ground game. The Obama get-out-the-vote drive (GOTV) is not quite the powerful juggernaut it was in 2008 and the Republican effort is far better than four years ago. The Republican National Committee isn't alone this time. Americans for Prosperity and a coalition of a dozen conservative groups—from the National Rifle Association to the Republican Jewish Coalition—have put together a massive GOTV effort focused on swing voters in key states. They've averaged 1.8 million phone calls per day in recent days.
Early voting numbers are further evidence of ground game parity. Democrats have a slight edge, but their numbers are down significantly from 2008. Far more Republicans have voted early this year than in 2008.
Undecideds. Undecided voters are thought to vote disproportionately for the challenger over a sitting president. In truth, there's no empirical evidence for this widely acknowledged tendency. But to the extent it exists, it helps Romney. Goeas, for one, figures most still undecided voters simply won't vote.
Indicators. Many point to a Romney win. He does well among "high-propensity-voting" blocs such as, in the Battleground Poll, seniors (54 percent), married voters (56 percent), weekly church attendees (59 percent), white evangelicals (79 percent), and gun owner householders (60 percent). He also leads among key demographic groups such as suburban voters (54 percent), Catholics (53 percent), and middle class voters (52 percent).
Obama has large leads among groups such as Hispanics with a lower propensity to vote. "If the president's campaign is not able to replicate his 2008 electorate (which is looking increasingly unlikely), the president loses," Goeas says.
Issues. The most important ones favor Romney: the economy, the deficit, and the debt. Independents, the demographic group most sensitive to these issues, went for Obama by eight percentage points in 2008. Now they're tilting to Romney by roughly the same percentage.
Conclusion: Romney will be elected the 45th president of the United States.
Fred Barnes is executive editor of the The Weekly Standard.
Tags: election, Obama, Romney


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Documentary Review: World of Darkness (2017)
January 7, 2021 by Talking Pulp	in Documentary Review, Film Review, Reviews and tagged 2010s, 2017, art, biography, business, culture, documentary, fantasy, film, history, occult, review, Sweden, table top gaming, vampires, video game	| Leave a comment
Release Date: May 11th, 2017 (Germany)
Directed by: Giles Alderson
Written by: Kevin Lee
Cast: various
Figi Productions, Luckyday, 89 Minutes
After recently watching a good documentary on Dungeons & Dragons, I wanted to watch this, as it's about a role-playing community I was more involved in.
In fact, I was involved in a relationship about twenty years ago that found itself wrapped up in this game's orbit quite a bit. It was fun for the time and even though I wasn't a die hard player or fan, I enjoyed those in the community I got to know and I really enjoyed the original PC game.
That being said, this is a good recount of the history of the White Wolf company and the fans who loved their products. It also goes into how White Wolf sort of fucked themselves and pissed off those loyal fans, essentially sabotaging future growth and brand loyalty.
I remember when all the shenanigans started and while I didn't understand (or pay attention) to all the details back then, I do remember how pissed off a lot of people were.
This is an interesting documentary because the story of White Wolf is an interesting one. However, beyond that, this plays like many of the other documentaries about niche fandoms.
Also, it didn't interview some of the company's former die hards that felt betrayed. Sure, some people here were miffed by it and added their two cents but I felt like the issues were addressed and quickly brushed under the rug and dismissed, looking forward into the future and what the White Wolf IP rights holders hope will be a lucrative business once again.
Pairs well with: other documentaries about table top gaming, video games and specific fandoms.
Documentary Review: Easy to Learn, Hard to Master: The Fate of Atari (2017)
December 10, 2020 by Talking Pulp	in Documentary Review, Film Review, Reviews and tagged 2010s, 2017, Atari, biography, business, culture, documentary, film, history, Italy, review, video game	| Leave a comment
Release Date: February, 2017 (Italy)
Directed by: Tomaso Walliser
Written by: Tomaso Walliser
Cast: Bill Herd, Nolan Bushnell, Manny Gerard, Ray Kassar, Al Alcorn, Ralph H. Baer, Joe Decuir, David Crane, Howard Scott Warshaw, Dannis Koble, Ed Rotberg, David Rolfe, Steve Russel, Chuck Peddle, Steve Wozniak, Eugene Jarvis, Steven Kent, Chris Kohler, Walter Day, Minoru Arakawa
Junk Food Films, 110 Minutes
I watched this a few years back but for some reason didn't review it. I'm often times suffering from whiskey-induced Swiss cheese brain.
Anyway, I recently revisited the documentary The Commodore Story: Changing the World 8-Bits at a Time and it got me thinking about this similar documentary about Atari, so I figured I'd revisit it.
For fans of retrogaming, this is definitely worth a watch as Atari's story is really interesting and full of colorful characters who were actually involved in this documentary.
Like most good documentaries about pop culture things, this one is loaded full of talking head interviews with the people who were there and lived the story.
This goes back into how Atari came to be, what initially inspired it and how they went to the moon and eventually came crashing back down to Earth.
Overall, this is a fun, engaging film about a company everyone should love. Granted, not everyone has a love of old school gaming but there are also people who pay to be pissed on.
Pairs well with: other historical documentaries about the video game industry.
Film Review: Victor Crowley (2017)
September 23, 2020 by Talking Pulp	in Film Review, Reviews and tagged 2010s, 2017, action, comedy, Danielle Harris, Felissa Rose, film, Hatchet, horror, Jonah Ray, Kane Hodder, review, slasher, The Last Drive-In, thriller, Tony Todd, Tyler Mane	| Leave a comment
Also known as: Hatchet IV (alternative title)
Release Date: August 22nd, 2017 (Los Angeles premiere)
Directed by: Adam Green
Written by: Adam Green
Music by: Jason Akers, Sam Ewing
Cast: Kane Hodder, Tyler Mane, Parry Shen, Laura Ortiz, Dave Sheridan, Krystal Joy Brown, Felissa Rose, Brian Quinn, Tiffany Shepis, Jonah Ray, Blake Woodruff, Tony Todd, Danielle Harris (cameo)
IncitefulMedia, ArieScope Pictures, 83 Minutes
"Ten years later, you are like the O.J. Simpson of Honey Island Swamp. Wouldn't you say?" – Sabrina, "Uh. No, I wouldn't." – Andrew
After seeing Hatchet III, several years ago, I thought that the film series really ran its course and went out with a pretty decent bang. I didn't think I really wanted another one, then a few years later, this one came out, which I slept on. I intended to eventually watch it but then it slipped down the memory hole until it was featured on an episode of The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs.
I'm glad that Joe Bob hosted this, though, and that he also brought in writer/director/creator Adam Green, as well as a lot of the cast, to discuss the film, the franchise and its possible future.
I love Kane Hodder, so anytime the guy can get some solid horror work, I'm happy. He deserves to work as long as he wants to and since they aren't making Friday the 13th movies anymore, this is the next best thing. Especially, since the character of Victor Crowley gets to use Hodder's talents and then turns them up to eleven, allowing him to go ape shit crazy and express himself in stark contrast to the more reserved, quiet Jason Voorhees.
For the most part, this is a decent sequel in the same vein as the other films. It sees a plane crash in the swamp near Crowley's home. Also, there is a filmmaking crew out there, trying to make a film about Crowley. The two groups converge and end up holed up in the crashed plane, trying to survive the night with the uber-violent Crowley outside.
The film is pretty straightforward and even though it's a self-aware "wink at the camera" horror film, it's never annoying about it like most modern horror flicks that try to do the same tired ass shit. This is one of the reasons why modern horror is crap but at least Victor Crowley doesn't contribute to that problem and actually shows that you can be self-aware and not be a total douche about it.
Ultimately, I liked this movie and I think Adam Green has a really good grasp on his creation and how to traverse through the modern horror world where the competition is lackluster, redundant and uninspiring. While I can't call his movies game changers, they at least give audiences something new and fun and don't fall victim to the same, lame modern horror tropes.
Pairs well with: the other films in the Hatchet series, as well as other slasher films, specifically the Friday the 13th movies with Kane Hodder as Jason.
Documentary Review: Life After Flash (2017)
September 17, 2020 by Talking Pulp	in Documentary Review, Film Review, Reviews and tagged 2010s, 2017, Alex Ross, art, Barry Bostwick, biography, Brian Blessed, culture, Deep Roy, documentary, film, filmmaking, Flash Gordon, history, Jason Mewes, Jon Heder, Lou Ferrigno, Mark Millar, Michael Rooker, Patrick Warburton, review, Richard Donner, Richard O'Brien, Robert Rodriguez, Ross Marquand, Sam J. Jones, Stan Lee, UK	| Leave a comment
Release Date: October 2nd, 2017 (London premiere)
Directed by: Lisa Downs
Written by: Lisa Downs
Music by: Toby Dunham
Cast: Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Brian Blessed, Topol, Peter Wyngarde, Richard O'Brien, Deep Roy, Brian May, Peter Duncan, Howard Blake, Barry Bostwick, Martha De Laurentiis, Richard Donner, Lou Ferrigno, Rich Fulcher, Sean Gunn, Jon Heder, Stan Lee, Ross Marquand, Josh McDermitt, Jason Mewes, Mark Millar, Robert Rodriguez, Michael Rooker, Alex Ross, Patrick Warburton, various
Strict Machine, Spare Change Films, 94 Minutes
This documentary has been in my queue for a bit but I wanted to revisit Flash Gordon first before checking this out. Luckily, I recently found my DVD of the original film and was able to watch it and review it a week or so ago.
Now that the 1980 film was fresh in my mind again, as I hadn't seen it in years, I felt like I could go into this with more familiarity, context and creative reference.
Overall, this was pretty good and it was intriguing listening to Sam J. Jones' story about how his career sort of fizzled out and the reasons behind that. Luckily, this is a Hollywood story with a positive outcome, as the guy is now doing well and on the right track, personally and career-wise.
This spends a lot of time talking about Jones but it also delves into the film's production, history and features interviews with many of the people who were involved in it. I especially liked seeing Brian Blessed in this, as I've always loved that guy.
Life After Flash also explores the fandom a bit, as it interviews super fans and collectors but also allows them to show off their cool shit and talk about their love for the film.
I dug this documentary quite a bit, as I feel like the 1980 Flash Gordon doesn't get enough love and has sort of been forgotten by modern audiences.
Pairs well with: other recent documentaries about filmmaking and specific fandoms.
Film Review: Mayhem (2017)
July 1, 2020 by Talking Pulp	in Film Review, Reviews and tagged 2010s, 2017, action, comedy, film, horror, review, Samara Weaving, Steven Yeun, The Last Drive-In, thriller	| Leave a comment
Release Date: March 13th, 2017 (SXSW)
Directed by: Joe Lynch
Written by: Matias Caruso
Music by: Steve Moore
Cast: Steven Yeun, Samara Weaving, Steven Brand, Caroline Chikezie, Kerry Fox, Dallas Roberts
Circle of Confusion, Royal Viking Entertainment, RLJE Films, 86 Minutes
"My mother used to say that no one raindrop ever thought it caused the flood. I now know what she meant by that." – Melanie Cross
The Last Drive-In had it's worst week ever when it showed this, paired with Tetsuo: The Iron Man. Both of these are films I hate but I'll save my criticism of Tetsuo for that review.
As far as Mayhem goes, fuck this turd.
It basically takes the concept of 28 Days Later and sets it in an office building. The story sees people get infected with a virus that causes them to act out their most violent and sexual impulses. Due to this infection, the entire office building is locked down in quarantine for several hours.
We then get treated to terrible people doing terrible things to one another in what is one of the most derivative and low brow edgy boi movies I've seen in quite some time.
This is a film that wants you to think that it is pushing the bar but you might only fall for that if you're thirteen. It doesn't push the bar and in fact, it pulls its punches. Hell, when the two main characters decide to give into their animalistic urges and fuck, they don't even rip their clothes off. By the end of this film, they should've been running around naked, covered in blood, screaming and killing with reckless abandon. I mean, that is if you want me to buy into the juvenile and done-to-death premise.
It's like this film was written by a deranged middle schooler after a wet dream nightmare following a night of drinking mass amounts of cough syrup while binge watching Workaholics.
It's so poorly acted that it actually has me second guessing its star, Steven Yeun. Maybe it is best that he got his brain bludgeoned in by Negan on The Walking Dead. Honestly, I was secretly hoping for Negan to show up and do that again.
I guess Samara Weaving was the best thing about the picture but I'm still not sure if she's got the potential to be an actress that deserves more than this. This film certainly didn't do her any favors despite being the only real bright spot.
Pairs well with: The Belko Experiment and bad, edgy horror films that try to pass themselves off as high art.
Documentary Review: 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story (2017)
June 25, 2020 by Talking Pulp	in Documentary Review, Film Review, Reviews and tagged 2010s, 2017, art, Art Spiegelman, business, culture, documentary, film, filmmaking, Garbage Pail Kids, history, Mackenzie Astin, review, Topps	| Leave a comment
Directed by: Jeff Zapata, Joe Simko
Music by: Dr. Chud, Matthew Chojnacki
Cast: Art Spiegelman, John Pound, Tom Bunk, James Warhola, Adam F. Goldberg, Mackenzie Astin, various
Peel Here Productions, 114 Minutes
This has been in my queue for a long time but it was only available to buy. They recently set it for rent, so I was finally able to check it out. No offense, filmmakers and Amazon but I didn't know if I wanted to spend like $12 on it. A few bucks for a rental, now that's more like it. Make everything rentable.
Anyway, I was happy to see this, as I was one of those '80s kids that spent a good few years obsessed with Garbage Pail Kids, even though they became hard to track down in my area after local parents groups caught on and got them pulled out of stores. You know, the same parents that didn't care that their kids in the '80s were watching slasher movies from the video store or flipping through dad's Playboys.
I pretty much already knew the story about Garbage Pail Kids but it was neat seeing the story retold in an official documentary. Plus, this also gave some background on the creation of the Topps trading card company, as well as a lot of the other non-sports cards they produced before Garbage Pail Kids came along.
My favorite thing about this, though, was where it went into the art side of things. It went through how the Garbage Pail Kids came to be, every step of the way. It also explained the process and the reason why they made each set a certain size and the process in how cards were selected based off of dozens of concepts.
Additionally, this interviews a lot of the key people involved, including the primary artists who worked on these over the years.
After that, I really liked the section about the live-action Garbage Pail Kids movie and being enlightened as to why it was such a terrible film, pretty much destined to fail.
All in all, this was a beefy and informative piece about something I once loved and kind of still do.
Pairs well with: other documentaries about niche '80s and '90s stuff, as well as specific fandoms.
Film Review: One Cut of the Dead (2017)
June 8, 2020 by Talking Pulp	in Film Review, Reviews and tagged 2010s, 2017, comedy, film, horror, Japan, review, The Last Drive-In, zombies	| Leave a comment
Also known as: Kamera o Tomeru na!, lit. Don't Stop the Camera! (original Japanese title)
Release Date: November 4th, 2017 (Tokyo premiere)
Directed by: Shin'ichirô Ueda
Written by: Shin'ichirô Ueda
Music by: Nobuhiro Suzuki, Kailu Nagai
Cast: Takayuki Hamatsu, Mao, Harumi Syuhama, Yuzuki Akiyama, Kazuaki Ngaya
ENBU Seminar, Panpokopina, 96 Minutes
Well, it is impossible to really talk about this film without spoiling it. So if you don't want it spoiled, you might not want to read any further.
For a couple of years now, just about everyone who has seen this movie has really talked it up to me. I've been told it's clever, a game changer and that it's just too cool to be missed. However, I've grown pretty tired of the zombie subgenre of horror, as well as modern horror comedy. If you can't top The Return of the Living Dead, why even try?
Side note: No one will ever top The Return of the Living Dead because it is perfection. Also, filmmakers should try because maybe someone will prove me wrong.
Anyway, I finally saw this due to it being featured on Joe Bob Brigg's The Last Drive-In. Joe Bob really seemed to love the film as well, so I figured that I since I'm already fully committed to whatever Joe Bob wants to throw at me, I'd give this movie a shot.
I guess I'm the only person on Earth that didn't really like it. Granted, I can appreciate it and the work that went into it, specifically the first 37 minutes that were filmed in a single take. It did take them six tries to get the take right but it's still a tremendous feat and I love it when filmmakers put a real effort into doing something special, even if they're far from the first to attempt it.
My problem with the film is that it is never really clear what this is supposed to be. The plot structure is bizarre, which is fine, but it doesn't gel in a way that makes it all come together for me.
The first 37 minutes are a horror movie within a horror movie. It follows its characters who are in an abandoned World War II facility where they are filming a zombie movie. However, real zombies show up and they have to fight to survive. It's not a wholly original idea but what is in horror, these days?
This sequence ends with credits rolling and I guess some people left the theater thinking this was just a short film. What follows is the second act, which goes backwards in time to show how the production of the film started. This is all pretty boring and it slows things down quite a bit.
The third act of the film is a return to the location of the first act. Except, this time, we see the events play out from the production standpoint, showing how the opening of the film was shot and made. Then it all ends and I was left wondering what the hell I had just watched and what the point of it was.
From what I understand, the film was produced on a true micro-budget and it was made by film students as their final project. Frankly, that's exactly what this feels like and looking at it through that lens, it is damn impressive, as it required a lot of technical skill and it looks really good for what it is.
However, that doesn't mean that I can give it a free pass. Sure, I can respect what went into it and appreciate that stuff but ultimately, it just makes me want to see what the people behind this could do with the right resources behind them.
I don't think I'd ever have the urge to watch it again but it's still something I'd recommend to people that want to see what can be done with little to no resources in the modern era of filmmaking. Also, just because it doesn't resonate with me, doesn't mean it won't resonate with others. As I've said, most people seem to like the film.
Pairs well with: other Japanese horror comedies and zombie comedies in general.
Documentary Review: Bruiser Brody: Wrestling's Last Rebel (2017)
May 21, 2020 by Talking Pulp	in Documentary Review, Film Review, Reviews and tagged 2010s, 2017, Bill Apter, biography, business, culture, Dave Meltzer, documentary, film, history, Jim Ross, Mid-South/UWF, NWA (wrestling), review, sports, wrestling	| Leave a comment
Cast: Bruiser Brody (archive footage), Gerald Brisco, Bill Apter, Bob Armstrong, Kevin Sullivan, Jim Ross, Dave Meltzer, Abdullah the Butcher, Jimmy Hart, J.J. Dillon, Bill DeMott, Stan Hansen, Tony Atlas, various
Highpsots, 110 Minutes
I loaded up on a bunch of documentaries from Highspots due to not having much else to do during the COVID-19 pandemic. They've run some great sales on their site, so it's allowed me to grab a lot of the films and collections that I've wanted to own for quite awhile.
Being that I love Bruiser Brody, at least the stuff I've seen over the years since my tape trading days, I was stoked to see a beefy documentary about the guy. There is a great Dark Side of the Ring episode about his death but this here, is pretty much his full story, as it talks about his early life, his family and his career as a whole.
Like all the Highspots documentaries that I've seen, this features a ton of talking head interviews with Brody's friends and colleagues. Many of these were taken from various shoot interviews over the years but they are well edited and form a good, energetic narrative.
There are also segments and narration by his widow, which add a lot of context to who the man was outside of the ring while also shedding more light on his tragic end.
For fans of old school wrestling, especially of the territories at their height, this is a cool film to dive into. Brody was primarily an indie wrestler that worked just about everywhere, touching a lot of people be they co-workers or fans.
This also comes as a three disc set with two other discs chock full of bonus material and some matches.
Pairs well with: other wrestling documentaries by Highspots.
TV Review: Noir Alley (2017- )
May 17, 2020 by Talking Pulp	in Reviews, TV Review and tagged 2010s, 2017, art, culture, Eddie Muller, filmmaking, history, noir, review, talk show, TV	| Leave a comment
Original Run: March 5th, 2017 – current
Cast: Eddie Muller
While I've always been a fan of classic film-noir, it was TCM's Noir Alley that really reinvigorated my love for them and pushed me towards covering them a lot more on Talking Pulp.
There are two reasons as to why I really gravitated towards this movie show.
The first is the host, Eddie Muller. The guy is quite possibly the greatest expert on the subject of film-noir that we have in modern times. He works towards restoring old noir films and is a literal Wikipedia of knowledge when it comes to the history of film-noir and really, film history in general.
Muller is the perfect host for this show, as he breaks the films down, talks about their history, their genesis and their overall impact. His extensive knowledge on directors, actors, cinematographers, writers, etc. is astounding. Plus, he's well spoken, extremely likable and he really taps into what makes these films and this era in film history, so damn cool.
The second thing I love about Noir Alley is the film selection. Muller really digs up and dusts off some lesser known gems and showcases them alongside some of the more famous noir classics. Without this show, it's possible I wouldn't have discovered nearly half of the films it has featured.
I sincerely hope that this is a show that can keep going for years to come. One may think that they'll eventually run out of films to show but once you go down the noir rabbit hole, you discover that there are so many movies worth talking about.
Pairs well with: noir documentaries, primarily those featuring Eddie Muller.
Film Review: Möbius (2017)
November 21, 2019 by Talking Pulp	in Film Review, Reviews and tagged 2010s, 2017, Canada, Cannes, film, mystery, review, short	| Leave a comment
Release Date: May, 2017 (Cannes)
Directed by: Sam Kuhn
Written by: Sam Kuhn
Cast: Caley Jones, Elissa Mielke, Cotey Pope
Borscht, Lion Attack, 16 Minutes
It's been awhile since I've watched any of the short film selections on the Criterion Channel, albeit on its own service or its former service, FilmStruck.
I thought that this one had a cool premise and visually, it looked neat, so I checked it out.
Overall, this was a really stylish looking picture that was certainly visually effective and sort of mesmerizing. It felt otherworldly while looking pristine and beautiful.
The plot is pretty simple. It follows a poet as she reflects over her high school lover who has gone missing. All the while, she's evading the authorities. But mostly she's questioning what her relationship with the missing boy actually was.
At only sixteen minutes, not a lot happens and most of the time is spent on the visual flourish.
Again, everything looks great but I didn't feel that there was a whole lot here to chew on.
Whenever the main character, played by Caley Jones, was onscreen, she was able to convey a lot with very little. She wears her emotion on her face, even if most of her looks are sort of deadpan. But some of that is due to the sounds around her and the use of lighting and tone.
This was a fairly interesting experiment and I certainly wasn't bored during its sixteen minutes. But ultimately, I'm not sure what this was trying to convey other than just giving us cool visuals.
Frankly, it felt like a really long music video without the music.
Pairs well with: other short films reviewed here on Talking Pulp.
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The PNC Arts Center in Holmdel, New Jersey is a popular venue for summertime concerts at the Jersey Shore in Monmouth County. Thousands of patrons attend performances each summer, and on concert days, tailgating is common.
This year's lineup includes acts such as Dierks Bentley, John Fogerty, ZZ Top, Slayer, Imagine Dragons, Rascal Flatts, Steely Dan, the Doobie Brothers, the Vans Warped Tour, the Dave Matthews Band, Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, Kesha, Macklemore, The Cult, Lauryn Hill, Pentatonix, Deep Purple, Judas Priest, Ozzy Osbourne, Willie Nelson, Niall Horan, and Kevin Hart, among others. As the crowds gather at the PNC, so do arrests – for underage drinking, possession of marijuana, assault, driving under the influence, possession of drugs, public urination, possession of drugs in a motor vehicle, and traffic violations. Think twice between carrying an open container in the parking lot or smoking marijuana before the show, or risk arrest by the undercover State Police at the PNC Arts Center.
Recently, the NJ criminal and traffic defense lawyers of Schwartz & Posnock obtained the dismissal of driving while suspended charges against a client in the Woodbridge, New Jersey Municipal Court. Had the client been convicted of these charges, she would have faced a mandatory ten days in jail. She would have also faced further license suspension and fines of $750.00 and $1,000.00 respectively. She would have lost her job, and her family would have been subjected to significant hardship.
United States Justice Department Creates New In-House Team to Monitor Accuracy of Forensic Testimony in Criminal Cases.
In recent years, the battle over "junk science" used in wrongful convictions has accelerated. For example, the Innocence Project at the Cardozo School of Law in New York City found that forensic evidence was misused in nearly half of the 350 cases in which DNA was used to help exonerate wrongly convicted defendants.
Penalties for being charged with driving while intoxicated (DWI) or driving under the influence (DUI) in New Jersey are severe, including heavy fines and penalties, jail time, and license suspension. If you are charged for DWI, DUI, or a related offense in New Jersey you will need a criminal defense lawyer who is willing to utilize rigorous defense strategies to protect your future. Schwartz & Posnock Attorneys are experienced NJ criminal defense attorneys who have a strong track record of defending clients charged with these types of offenses in New Jersey.
Navigating a federal criminal case can be daunting. Most individuals are unsure of what lies ahead — not just the ultimate result, but also the various stages that are a part of the process. An experienced NJ federal criminal defense attorney is essential to understanding this complex procedure. Below, you will find the order of events described briefly.
The NJ criminal lawyers of Schwartz & Posnock achieved a major victory in the Morris County and Essex County Superior Courts, which will not only protect society, but will also drastically improve an individual client's quality of life, health, and well-being. Our client was charged with 3 first degree crimes, worth potentially 60 total years in prison, after attempting to rob three banks in two counties. The defendant was a college student with no prior criminal record and extensive family support who, unfortunately, struggled with a severe heroin addiction. After presenting our client's comprehensive background and addiction history to the judge, our client's cases were consolidated, and he was offered the opportunity to be placed on probation and attend Drug Court.
Looking for a trial or appellate attorney who will fight for you every step of the way? For whom no detail is too small? Schwartz & Posnock is that law firm. A decision by the Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior again demonstrates why you need experienced criminal defense counsel in your corner. Details of the case follow.
Today, in an important case of first impression, State v. S.W., in New Jersey argued by Schwartz & Posnock, , the Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court ruled that our client, a Municipal Court defendant, charged in two separate jurisdictions, could consolidate her cases in a single court for the purpose of obtaining a pre-trial diversion program.
The state of New Jersey criminalizes the possession, sale, and distribution of prescription drugs (such as Xanax). Charges involving sales or distribution of drugs have tougher penalties than charges limited to possession for personal use. Felony consequences can include prison time and hefty fines.
What many people fail to realize is that giving away your prescription drugs is illegal. It might seem okay to give your pills to a person in pain, however, prosecutors and law enforcement take a different viewpoint on this. Even if there is no money transaction involved, numerous state and federal laws make it illegal to share prescription medicine. Therefore, you don't necessarily have to earn a profit to be charged with drug distribution in New Jersey.


How you're failing your patients by not selling them advanced dental services.
Watch for your executive briefing by FedEx in the next 5 days.
Set aside 90 minutes to review the material and decide if this type of practice transformation is for you.
You can set it aside for "later" which really means never. You will continue on the same path you are on now, and get the same (or worse!) results.
You will see that there is nothing else like this is dentistry, and decide to take the next step and join the practice --- like my own. Operate in a league of their own and join those practices, like my own, that operate in a different league.


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Anna Polina VR
City: St. Petersburg
A perfect mix of French and Russian descent, Virtual Reality Porn Star Anna Polina is an awestruck sight with her deep blue eyes, black (sometimes blondie and brunette), and flowy hair. This 29-year young babe was born on September 11, 1991, in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, and has grown to be a really tall hottie standing at 5 feet and 8 inches (172 cm). Carrying herself and her 38D (all-natural) huge cup size, she also has an impressive 28 inches waistline and 38 inches well-rounded juicy hips. VR Anna Polina loves getting herself some tattoos and some of her firsts include a bird design on her left shoulder, a snake on her right wrist, and one more design on her right arm. This bad girl also has a piercing on her tight navel. Also known as Anna Paulina, Annapolina, Lea Delmas, and Lilith Marshall, VR Anna Polina has quite a number of followers that just makes her one of the most popular and most loved porn stars in the industry. On Instagram, she is followed by 257, 000 users. She gets 266, 000 more from her Twitter, and 85, 995 on Facebook. No. Anna Polina VR is not just a simple porn star known for her more than 100 scenes and movies. VR Anna is also a brilliant director thrilling the porn fandom both for her acting and for her directed scenes since she decided to be one in 2014. Before reaching this ongoing climax of her career, she was first an exotic dancer who decided to break her exhibitionist side free and fully plunge into the industry that excites her the most - adult entertainment. In 2010, she made her debut and has since attracted her own group of avid fans loving her for her roles in some of the top-rated group sex, threesomes, solo/masturbation scenes. Thanks to them, VR Anna Polina has won several nominations and awards to decorate her already achievements-filled journey.
Official Site: https://twitter.com/annapolinaxxxx
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Photo Credits: Courtesy of Alexander Weckmer Licht und Mediensysteme GmbH
Eight million visitors welcomed with vibrant lights
The Sony Center in Berlin, Germany, is an international commercial, communication, and cultural hub that draws nearly 8.3 million visitors a year. The focal point of the complex is The Forum, a roofed public square. Constructed of steel, glass, and cloth streamers, the Forum's roof is the Sony Center's most prominent architectural element. At night, the roof comes alive with fascinating light shows, designed by Paris project artist Yann Kersale, in varying shades of cyan and magenta.
The Forum's original incandescent lighting system had been in place for twelve years. After constant operation, it was reaching its maximum life expectancy and had become too costly to maintain. The Sony Center was looking for a replacement system that was long-lasting, energy-efficient, and low-maintenance, but that could still create color-changing light shows.
The team from solution provider Alexander Weckmer Licht und Mediensysteme GmbH had to deliver a solution that could provide powerful and uniform illumination of the unique fan-like geometry of the roof. Since each individual "sail" of the fan had varying dimensions, slope, and shape, each fixture would have to be individually positioned to achieve uniform illumination. They installed Color Kinetics ColorReach Powercore and ColorBlast Powercore LED floodlighting luminaires, which were powerful and flexible enough to achieve all of the project's goals.
With the new full-color LED lighting fixtures and high-bandwidth digital control, the Sony Center can now choose from more than 16 million colors, and can create new light shows for special events such as film opening nights and holidays—all while cutting energy consumption by 73%.
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Hines Immobilien GmbH
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ColorReach Powercore gen2, RGB
ColorBlast Powercore gen4, RGB
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Uljanik Cranes
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I am not able to access my own forum account settings. Every time I click on the "broken image" picture that is supposed to be my account picture the menu comes down with the correct username and previous chats etc. But when I click on my username I am redirected to the 404 page. Was there some switcharoo that I did not stay on top of?
There was an upgrade recently that went wonky. I believe gez has it on his list to work on.
Yep, we are working on a big update to home.mycroft.ai then will get back to sorting out this Discourse drama.


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Nigeria needs a stingy leader to be developed – Peter Obi
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, on Tuesday, Jan. 10, said Nigeria needs a stingy leader to be developed.
His statement comes after Atiku Abubakar of the People's Democratic Party and Bola Ahmed TInubu of the All Progressive Congress referred to him as a stingy man.
Reacting, Obi said he owes no one an apology for being stingy.
He added that he is the youngest, the fittest and the most qualified candidate to be President among the four leading contestants.
He stated this at a town hall meeting with Anambra traditional rulers at the Government.
He said, "This is not about turn but about capacity because if it is about turn, people like us would insist that it is our turn and should be considered.
"The job of a President is not a retirement loan or for any kind of settlement but about uniting and rebuilding the country.
"They said that I am a stingy man and I say they didn't say that I am extravagant or that I embezzled public funds only that I am stingy and I tell you the job and the Presidency of our country needs a stingy person "
Obi further said; "When you look at me and my Running mate you would discover that we are young compared with the other candidates who are older and our National Chairman is in his fifties but the National Chairman of the other candidates is about seventy or over that."
He continued: "When you talk about qualification, I am the most qualified and the youngest among them and this is not a job for rehabilitation of people because Nigeria needs a strong and vibrant person as President and one that is in tune with the trending and modern style of leadership so that our country would be counted among the committee of great Nations in the world."
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App42 provides a rich set of leaderboard APIs. In this post, I will describe how to integrate your Cocos2D game with the App42 cloud framework and use its leader board APIs. Please see my previous blog post on why a rich leader board is important for your game.
We will use our Ninja Fight iPad demo game to walk you through the integration. Ninja Fight is a simple multiplayer game in which opponents have to strike each other with missiles while avoiding getting hit themselves. The game starts of by asking the player to enter its name. This is the name that will be used later to submit the score for the user.
Once two users have started fighting, the game will transition to the fight scene. This is where the realtime action will happen using AppWarp apis. Using AppWarp with Cocos2D was described in an earlier blog post. Players simply need to tap in the direction of the opponent to fire missiles. You can also move the player by dragging it using your finger on the iPad.
Once the game is over the user's score is submitted and an option to view the game's leader board is given. Upon selecting this option, the game's leader board is displayed using our API. This will simply list the users who have submitted the top scores, their rank and the score.
Now to the actual code itself for saving scores and getting the top scorers! Here is the initial set up that you need to do once before you can use all the leader board APIs.
Retrieving your game's top 20 scorers from the cloud is also straight forward.
The API works synchronously so you should perform the API calls on a back ground thread so as to not block your main thread. This is extremely easy using the performSelectorInBackground utility iOS method.
Complete source code for the game can be downloaded from our Git Repo with the Readme file containing the instructions on how to set up and get it working.
App42 provides a complete set of leader board APIs which allow you to add advanced social leader boards based on groups, weekly, daily top scorers etc. Similarly you can use our reward management APIs to manage in-app rewards and purchases. For a complete reference, visit this page.