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Kidnappés (Secuestrados) est un film d'horreur espagnol réalisé par Miguel Ángel Vivas, sorti en 2010.

Synopsis
Une famille, un couple et leur fille, emménage dans leur nouvelle résidence. Un soir, trois hommes cagoulés pénètrent chez eux et les séquestrent. La nuit dégénère rapidement...

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 Titre original : Secuestrados
 Titre français : Kidnappés
 Réalisation : Miguel Ángel Vivas
 Scénario : Javier García et Miguel Ángel Vivas
 Photographie : Pedro J. Márquez
 Montage : José Manuel Jiménez
 Musique : Sergio Moure
 Production : Vérane Frédiani, Emma Lustres Gómez, Franck Ribière et Borja Pena
 Société de distribution : La Fabrique
 Pays d'origine :
 Langue originale : Espagnol
 Format : couleur
 Genre : horreur
 Durée : 82 minutes
 Dates de sortie :
  :  (Festival international du film de Catalogne)
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 classification : interdit aux moins de 16 ans en France

Distribution
 Fernando Cayo : Jaime
 Manuela Vellés : Isabel
 Ana Wagener : Marta
 Guillermo Barrientos : Le jeune ravisseur
 Martijn Kuiper : Le ravisseur costaud
 Dritan Biba : Le chef des ravisseurs
 Xoel Yáñez : César
 Luis Iglesia : Javier

Notes et références

Liens externes

Film espagnol sorti en 2010
Film d'horreur espagnol

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San Agustín Lanquín (), often referred to simply as Lanquín, is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz. It is situated at 380 m above sea level. It has a population of about 16,500 people, many of Q'eqchi' Maya descent. It covers an area of 208 km².

History

Settlement by the Order of Preachers

Lanquín, one of the native settlement conquered peacefully by the Order of Preachers -among them: Pedro de Angulo, O.P., Luis de Cáncer, O.P. and Rodrigo de la Cebra, O.P.- was established in 1540. In the 1540s, its first Catholic chapel was built, with the name of "San Agustín Lanquín". According to this historical records, it was elevated to the municipality category in 1846, and its first mayor was Crisanto Beb, honorable native.

20th century

In May 1956, an executive action by colonel coronel Carlos Castillo Armas declared Lanquín a National Park due to its natural beauty, which is one of the main tourist attractions in Guatemala. Later, in 1970, Lanquín was promoted to National Monument and, finally, in 1997 -by another executive action- it was declared as a National Cultural Patrimony.

In the 1960s, the importance of the region was in livestock, exploitation of precious export wood and archaeological wealth.  Timber contracts we granted to multinational companies such as Murphy Pacific Corporation from California, which invested US$30 million for the colonization of southern Petén and Alta Verapaz, and formed the North Impulsadora Company. Colonization of the area was made through a process by which inhospitable areas of the Franja Transversal del Norte (FTN) were granted to native peasants.

In 1964, the National Institute for Agrarian Transformation (INTA) defined the geography of the FTN as the northern part of the departments of Huehuetenango, Quiché , Alta Verapaz and Izabal and that same year priests of the Maryknoll order and the Order of the Sacred Heart began the first process of colonization, along with INTA, carrying settlers from Huehuetenango to the Ixcán sector in Quiché.

The Northern Transversal Strip was officially created during the government of General Carlos Arana Osorio in 1970, by Decree 60-70 in the Congress, for agricultural development.  The area included within the municipalities: San Ana Huista, San Antonio Huista, Nentón, Jacaltenango, San Mateo Ixtatán, and Santa Cruz Barillas in Huehuetenango; Chajul and San Miguel Uspantán in Quiché; Cobán, Chisec, San Pedro Carchá, Lanquín, Senahú, Cahabón and Chahal, in Alta Verapaz and the entire department of Izabal.

Culture

The culture of the municipality is enriched by the q'eqchi' people's view of Cosmos and Nature, which has a strong influence in the community.  The basic principle of the q'eqchi' culture is one of respect towards their surroundings -fauna and flora, in general-; however, in the later years, this principle is being threatened by other culture influences.

The concept of trust is important for business and all kind of transactions, being even more important than the judiciary and legal documents; this comes from the fact that the q'eqchi culture is one that assumes responsibility and considers that cleanliness, punctuality and respect are elements of trust.

Religion

It is estimated that around 65% of the population is Roman Catholic, although there have been evangelical Christian settlements that have slowly grown in the area in the last twenty years.

The Q'eqchi population has kept its ancestral customs of communication with nature and cosmos; however, there is not a single statistical study of what portion of the population actually keeps the traditions alive, although it is clear that it has been decreasing rapidly.  Within the municipality there are two known native altars, one in the Grutas and another one in Semuc Champey, although it is believed that town elders are aware of more important altars that they keep for themselves.

Main celebration and annual fair

In Guatemala, the main human settlement celebrate their annual fair based on the Catholic Saint that is celebrated on the day the town was established. In general, these celebrations include fireworks, traditional food stands, children games, Christian celebrations and popular dances. In Lanquín, the annual fair takes place from 24 to 28 August, being the 28 the main event, since it is the date the Catholic Church celebrates Saint Augustine.

Tourism

Al large cave complex known as Grutas de Lanquín is located at only one kilometer from the capital city of the municipality and 11 km south of Lanquín runs the Cahabon River and one can find the Semuc Champey natural monument. Lanquín is often the starting point of the tourist excursions to Semuc Champey.

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Climate

Lanquín has tropical rainforest climate (Köppen: Af).

Geographic location

See also

 Alta Verapaz
 Grutas de Lanquín
 Semuc Champey

References

Bibliography

External links

semucchampey.com
Muni in Spanish

Municipalities of the Alta Verapaz Department


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Batavia gets $1.3M boat, engine to boost health services
The boat donated to Batavia
Housing and Water Minister Collin Croal officially handing over the keys to the boat and engine to Deputy Toshao of Batavia, Murphy Gomez
Housing and Water Minister Collin Croal on Friday handed over a $1.3 million boat and engine to Batavia, to boost health care delivery within the Region Seven Amerindian village.
The community also received a brush cutter to maintain recreational grounds and public compounds there, the Department of Public Information (DPI) said in a report.
The boat will be used to transport patients to the Bartica Hospital and for other medical purposes, while the brush cutter will be used to maintain the community ground and public spaces.
Minister Croal told the residents at the handover that the initiative was a promise being kept to assist with transportation for the Health Centre.
He reminded the Village Council that the equipment needed to be properly managed to ensure every resident benefit from them.
"The intended purpose as I said is for health, so we are therefore reminded that the leaders of the community have a responsibility to ensure that the boat and engine is use for the purpose intended…I want to urge you to put systems in place for the safekeeping of the boat and proper management for the usage of these equipment."
The brush cutter given to maintain grounds and public compounds in the community
The Minister also reminded the residents of the Government's mandate to improve the lives of citizens, regardless of their location.
Meanwhile, Deputy Toshao of Batavia, Murphy Gomez expressed gratitude to the Government for its continued support to the village. He said the vessel will go a far way in ensuring residents have access to quality health care.
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– National Volunteer Week
– 2019 UELAC Conference – The Capital Calls: Friday Tours
– Loyalist Gazette: Spring 2019 Issue
– Loyalist Scholarship News: Welcome 2019 Loyalist Scholars!
– Loyalist Movie News: The Good Americans
– The Loyalist Mapping Project: New Partnership between the UELAC and Huron at Western
– Fleshing Out Four Entries in the Victualing Musters: Part 1, by Stephen Davidson
– The Loyalist Connections: Revolutionary Names: Privateer and Prize Ships, 1777-1814
– Lt. Col. James Moody
– JAR: The Thunderer, British Floating Gun-Battery on Lake Champlain
– JAR: The Double Spy – The Service and Suffering of Caleb Bruen
– Ben Franklin's World: The Acadian Diaspora
– Region and Branch Bits
+ April 25: Victoria BC's history of United Empire Loyalists
+ April 27: Central West Region Annual Meeting/Seminar With Nathan Tidridge
+ June 29: Reunion of Samuel Moore Family Saturday
National Volunteer Week
Volunteers are being celebrated this week – April 7-13 – in both Canada and the USA.
In Canada we are celebrating with the theme "The Volunteer Factor – Lifting Communities."
Most of you as readers undoubtedly volunteer in some way; many of you in many ways. Thank you. Volunteerism is such an integral part of our society; it would be hard to imagine what we would be without those who reach out. As a volunteer association, a special thanks to those volunteers who are involved with the UELAC and to an even broader community, those who help preserve our Loyalist heritage.
Please take a moment this week to say thanks to those you meet who are volunteering their time and effort.
2019 UELAC Conference – The Capital Calls: Friday Tours
Join fellow Loyalists and friends at UELAC Conference 2019 "The Capital Calls" – May 30 – June 2, 2019, at DoubleTree by Hilton Gatineau-Ottawa, 1170 chemin Aylmer, Gatineau, Quebec, hosted by Sir Guy Carleton Branch.
On Friday 31 May, the main daytime attraction is a trifecta of bus tours:
• Tour A: Rideau Valley Tour (9am-4pm, lunch included) to Watsons Mill in Manotick; Merrickville, with lunch and a walking tour, including the Merrickville Blockhouse; and the Goulbourn Museum, in Stittsville; led by Brian Tackaberry
• Tour B: Ottawa Tour (9am-4pm, lunch extra) to the War Museum, Rideau Hall, and Museum of History, led by Craig Sweetnam
• Tour C: Archive Tour (9am-1pm, lunch included) at the City of Ottawa Archives, featuring research 9:30am-12pm and on-site lunch 12-1pm
See more details, including a flyer, the schedule, speakers, venue, directions, and the registration form. Registration is now open!
Loyalist Gazette: Spring 2019 Issue
The Loyalist Gazette is published twice each year by UELAC in a magazine format with historical articles, news, UELAC activities, book reviews, photos and more.
The periodical is distributed to members of a UELAC Branch and those who purchase a subscription.
The publication is also available in digital format, which offers colour throughout and an earlier delivery. Many members have requested the digital copy, and a good portion of those are now receiving the journal only in digital format, although some prefer to also receive the paper copy. All of these digital subscribers will soon be reminded of their digital preferences.
The digital version is made public about one year after its release date. You can see past issues up to the Fall 2017 issue here.
If you are a Branch member or Gazette subscriber, and haven't yet but would like to try out the e-zine version of the Spring 2019 Gazette, complete the request form.
The Spring issue is in final steps and will be headed to the printer in the coming weeks. Target date to be delivered to Canada Post is early May.
…Robert McBride, UE, Publications Committee
Loyalist Scholarship News: Welcome 2019 Loyalist Scholars!
Congratulations and welcome to Jonathan Bayer, University of Western Ontario and Zoe Jackson, University of New Brunswick Fredericton.
Jonathan Bayer is a second-year PhD student in History at Western University. Jonathan's PhD dissertation is a study of emergent ideas of national identities, American and Canadian from mid-1700s to mid-1800s, as expressed in print culture (especially newspapers), and the extent to which these identities formed in conversation (and often in conflict) with each other. His research focuses primarily on the ways in which ridicule and satire were used to draw distinctions between the two nations and the effect this had on the formation of both Canadian and American identity.
Zoe Jackson is a Master of Arts student in History at the University of New Brunswick. Among her many accomplishments, Zoe has worked as a research assistant and a story map designer for two collaborative research projects centered on the British Atlantic world during the eighteenth century. For her graduate research she will analyze black migration in the Atlantic World, specifically Jamaica and Atlantic Canada, examining the lived experience of Black Loyalists in early colonial Maritime society, through claims, petitions, and colonial documents, along with the enslaved property of white Loyalists — African slaves.
To learn more about our newest scholars watch for a personal biography and more detailed summary of their research on our UELAC Scholars page.
UELAC also extends a warm welcome to returning UE Scholar Denise McGuire, PhD candidate at Newcastle University in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
…Bonnie Schepers, Scholarship Chair, UELAC
Loyalist Movie News: The Good Americans
At Størmerlige Films, The Good Americans, the feature-length documentary telling the story of the Loyalists is moving full-speed ahead through the first phase of production.
Currently, the team is focused on producing a demo reel for the film narrated by Canadian actress Val Cole, and a promotional video for the new book that inspired it: The Consequences of Loyalism (2019), University of South Carolina Press, edited by Joseph S. Moore and Rebecca Brannon. The book features several historians with UELAC ties including UE Scholars, many of whom appear in the film.
Location shooting for the documentary begins in earnest in late April, as the production team joins former Speaker of the House Peter Milliken and National Figure Skating champion Alaine Chartrand on a search for Loyalist sites and lineage in Ontario, as well as adventures in the Maritimes.
The team is looking for UELAC members to film their stories across generations. This is an opportunity for you to create your own family history heritage minute. For more information contact info@stormerligeproductions.com or meet the Executive Producers, Tad Stoermer and Bonnie Schepers, at "The Capital Calls" UELAC conference in Ottawa, May 30 – June 2.
In related news, Størmerlige Films has acquired the rights from Scholastic Canada to make a movie of one of the most popular 'Dear Canada' books, "With Nothing But Our Courage: The Loyalist Diary of Mary McDonald." Set to star Heartland's Amber Marshall, production will begin in New York and Ontario in late 2020.
The Loyalist Mapping Project: New Partnership between the UELAC and Huron at Western
This summer the UELAC and Huron at Western's Community History Centre are partnering to digitally map the loyalist migrations. With the generous financial support provided by the UELAC, a Huron undergraduate researcher, under the supervision of Dr. Tim Compeau (former UELAC Scholarship recipient), will begin tracing the movements of individuals and families displaced by the upheavals of the American Revolution. This is a pilot project and hopefully the first step towards creating a much larger public resource that visualizes the migrations of loyalists from all walks of life throughout the Atlantic World. Work gets underway in May and more details and updates will be posted here on Loyalist Trails in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!
For more information, visit Huron's Community History Centre at www.huronresearch.ca/communityhistory/ or contact Tim Compeau at tcompeau@uwo.ca.
Fleshing Out Four Entries in the Victualing Musters: Part 1
Lists, manifests, and ledgers can seem to be rather boring and dry when first encountered, but they can be the starting point for a very interesting historical or genealogical quest. The victualing musters for the commissariat at Fort Howe record the names of the heads of Loyalist refugee households, their occupations, colonies of origin, evacuation vessels, militia companies, and the composition of the refugee families. Compiled into a very accessible chart by David Bell, these musters list the Loyalists who received food (victuals) from the British garrison that overlooked the mouth of the St. John River between 1783 and 1784.
This article will use the victualing musters as a starting point in uncovering the stories of four loyal American refugees. By drawing on other primary sources, we will put "flesh" on the names found in Fort Howe's musters, and catch a glimpse of the experiences of the Loyalists who settled in what is now New Brunswick.
The first name we will consider is that of Garret Jacobus, a widower with one child over ten years of age. Father and child left New York City in April of 1783. As passengers in the spring fleet, he would have arrived in what would become Saint John in early May.
By consulting New Jersey newspapers published during the American Revolution, we discover that the Patriots of New Jersey's Essex County seized –and then sold– the houses and land of Garret Jacobus and over a dozen other Loyalists on March 1, 1779. According to the newspaper, there were "some elegant houses and many agreeable situations. The land is excellent and the place healthy."
In April of 1779, Jacobus' name once again appeared in a long list of Loyalist "offenders". Stripped of his land, house and possessions in Aquackanonck, Garret must have sought sanctuary in New York City where in four years' time he boarded a ship bound for the mouth of the St. John River.
After his year of receiving "victuals" from Fort Howe came to an end, Jacobus and 39 other refugees were granted a total of 7,243 acres on the southeast side of Washedemoack Lake in Wickham Parish, Queen's County. Land records give us the last documentary reference to this New Jersey Loyalist. The rest of his story will unfold once we discover the identity of his second wife.
We will find our second name in a muster entry for a family comprised of a tailoress from New Jersey and two children who arrived aboard the Tartar as members of Unit 12, a Loyalist company under the command of Oliver Bourdett. Rachel Aycrigg, a widow, was one of the 77 members of this company. To learn more of her story, we must first go to her tombstone and the genealogical records compiled by descendants of the Lydekker family.
Rachel was born on September 24, 1738, sharing a birthday with her twin, Catherine. Their parents were Reyk and Maritie (Benson) Leidekker (a name with many variant spellings). Rachel married John Hurst Aycrigg, a surgeon who had emigrated from Upton-on Severn in Worcestershire, England. He was 11 years her senior. They had Benjamin, their first child, on September 27, 1773, and Mary Payne, their daughter, in 1775.
Rachel's husband John died sometime after Mary's birth. Given that widows did not usually have an "occupation" recorded in the victualing musters, the fact that Rachel was listed as a tailoress seems to suggest that this was how she provided for her family during the years of the revolution following John's death.
Widow though she was, Rachel did not journey to New Brunswick alone. Her twin sister Catherine, the wife of Oliver Bourdett, was a fellow passenger on the Tartar. The victualing muster notes for the summer of 1783 that the Bourdetts had one child over ten and another under ten. They also had two "servants".
The records of the New Amsterdam Reformed Dutch Church reveal that Henry, the youngest Bourdett, was baptized in 1781. Whoever had been Henry's older sibling died within his/her first year in New Brunswick as the victualing musters state that the family had only one "under ten" child in the summer of 1784.
The word "servant" was often a euphemism for "slave", as the Book of Negroes proves in the case of Oliver Bourdett. Eighteen year-old Harry was born into the Bourdett family, indicating they had a long history as slave owners. Caesar, a 16 year-old Black, was bought from a man in the West Indies. Both teenagers were described as the family's property in the Book of Negroes. The latter source also noted that the Bourdetts' evacuation vessel was a brig and that it left New York City on June 13, 1783 under the command of Andrew Yates.
Depending on which source you consult, Oliver Bourdett was either a merchant in New Jersey or a farmer in New York. (They may both be correct, as he could have been forced to change occupations during the revolution.) When he and his family fled to the safety of New York City, he found work within the Wagons Master General Department. Bourdett must have had leadership qualities as he was put in charge of Unit 12, a company of Loyalist refugees, on the Tartar.
As with so many other Loyalist women, historical documents have little to say about Catherine Bourdett. She is mentioned for the last time in an 1813 New Brunswick newspaper that noted her death at 74 years of age on May 11th of that year.
Oliver Bourdett was active in New Brunwick's first colonial election in 1785, siding with those who opposed the aristocratic aspirations of some politically powerful Loyalists. He also was a member of Saint John's Hiram Lodge. The city's first Masonic Lodge was created in December of 1786 and had up to 58 members before its warrant was recalled in 1796. During those ten years, Bourdett served at various times as the lodge's grand steward, its master, and its secretary. He and 12 other members were expelled in 1796 for "apostasy", having been declared "unworthy of admittance into any regular lodge".
Bourdett joined the Royal Artillery of Saint John when it first assembled for drill and inspection on May 4, 1793. He was one of the militia company's two sergeants. In the probate record for his brother Captain Stephen Bourdett, Oliver was listed as a fellow bondsman and a "gentleman". Oliver died in January of 1807.
Rachel and Catherine, the twin Loyalist sisters, were not the only family members who sailed to New Brunswick on the Tartar. See next week's Loyalist Trails to learn about their brother, Rachel's children and second husband, and the many descendants who looked back to the Loyalist Lydekker family as their ancestors.
Editor's Note: View the names and data in Fort Howe's victualing musters in David Bell's book, American Loyalists to New Brunswick: The Ship Passenger Lists. This is an invaluable resource for every UELAC branch's library.
The Loyalist Connections: Revolutionary Names: Privateer and Prize Ships, 1777-1814
By Leah Grandy 3 April 2019
Ship names may be commemorative or symbolic, hold a social significance, indicate political change, or offer a perceived protection in the dangerous world of the sea. What thinking can be detected behind these naming choices? Often we do not have a record of who named the ships, but we might understand the motivations behind the name or the vision that the namer wanted to project. Ship names were important for the practical purposes of nautical law and business records. Ships, however, were also treated as something akin to a living entity; they were endowed with their own personality, and therefore, their names could be very significant.
A particular grouping of ships that make an interesting study are privateers, ships licensed to seizure of valuable cargoes or whole ships belonging to enemy nations, who cruised the Atlantic waters of North America from the American Revolution to the War of 1812. The prizes of these privateer ships—the enemy ships they captured which were also known as "causes" in nautical courts of law—also provide an intriguing array of naming practices. For more background on privateering, see our previous post, "License for Piracy."
The most commonly used names found among privateers on the British side who made declarations for letters of marque in the American Revolution included Active, Lively, Enterprize, Hazard, Defiance, Hope, Dolphin, Union, Fame, Betsey, Sally, Nancy, Eliza, William, Friendship, and Ann.
Ships often changed hands, and frequently captured ships turned were into privateers for the opposite side. Sometimes their names were changed, frequently because the original names had a political or historical connection to the adversary. An example of a name change of an American ship that became a privateer for the British colonies of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia during the War of 1812 was the Portsmouth Packet, which was changed to the Liverpool Packet when purchased by Enos Collins of Liverpool, Nova Scotia.
Lt. Col. James Moody
In 1809, Lt. Col. James Moody, one of the most prominent United Empire Loyalists to settle in Nova Scotia died. Two hundred years later, on June 10, 2009, a celebration of his life was held at St. Peter's Anglican Church in Weymouth North. During that event, Roberta Journeay, a retired teacher, made an interesting and entertaining presentation on who was Lt. Col. James Moody. Was he a despicable villain or an honourable hero?
Watch a portion of the presentation about Lt. Col. James Moody – it is approximately 10 minutes long. Hope you enjoy it!
…Brian McConnell, UE
JAR: The Thunderer, British Floating Gun-Battery on Lake Champlain
by Michael Gadue 4 April 2019
The radeau (French, singular for "raft") was co-opted for eighteenth century warfare on and along Lake George and Lake Champlain, to deal with the challenges of wilderness, inland waterways. The radeau's design was unique, incorporating a pragmatic approach to the problem of transportation and concentration of ship-mounted artillery in a self-contained transport in shallow water. The radeau had much the appearance of a land tortoise. Ugly (apologies to the tortoise), slow, and ungainly, the radeau was a solution to how one concentrated and moved ordinance, slowly and carefully over water, in a backwater wilderness.
Radeaux (French, plural), though few in number, were locally constructed and used in both the French and Indian War and the American Revolution. The French name suggests that these "rafts" had commercial use throughout French-Canada in the years before the British conquest of 1760. Radeaux might be thought of as platforms that had application to land-fortress, siege warfare, where fortresses were built lake-side, such as at Forts Ticonderoga and Crown Point on Lake Champlain. Flat bottomed, used as naval, floating gun-batteries, of simple construction, built from locally available oak used to frame pine planking, some had masts, but they were very poor sailing vessels.
Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen had taken Fort Ticonderoga from the British in May of 1775. Arnold then sailed a captured civilian sloop, re-named Liberty, to capture St. Johns (St. Jean Sur Richelieu, Quebec), a small dockyard-town on the Richelieu River, capturing also the King's sloop Betsy, renamed Enterprise. The Americans beat a hasty retreat back to Lake Champlain, but had become the naval masters of Lake Champlain.
JAR: The Double Spy – The Service and Suffering of Caleb Bruen
By Charles Dewey 1 April 2019
Throughout the Revolution, the American intelligence apparatus utilized agents with widely different backgrounds and motivations. Of the war's many spies, the service of Caleb Bruen stands out for its peculiarity, its complexity and for, well, its gruesomeness.
Many narratives of the Revolution are constructed from the informative but often unreliable pension applications of veterans taken thirty years or more after the war's end. Caleb Bruen, however, requested compensation from Congress for his suffering and for expenses incurred during the Revolution at the end of 1785, fewer than three years after the Treaty of Paris. His petition, the letters of those who corroborated him, and various other primary source documents tell the heartbreaking story of a man forced into a life he never desired, but nonetheless found a way to adapt and persevere for himself, his family, and ultimately his country.
Ben Franklin's World: The Acadian Diaspora
Christopher Hodson, an Associate Professor of history at Brigham Young University and the author of The Acadian Diaspora, joins us to investigate the lives of the Acadians and how the British government came to displace them through a forced migration in 1755.
During our investigation, Chris reveals who the Acadians were and how they came to settle in North America; Details about how the Acadians lived, farmed, and traded while in Acadia; And, why the British government forcibly relocated the Acadians after 1755 and information about some of the places the displaced Acadians landed.
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Region and Branch Bits
From the UELAC branches, news and events of interest to others:
April 25: Victoria BC's history of United Empire Loyalists
The Victoria Historical Society presents Proud Heritage: Descendants of United Empire Loyalists in Early Victoria, with speaker Yvonne Van Ruskenveld, on April 25 at James Bay New Horizons, located at 234 Menzies Street. Admission is $5. Read details.
April 27: Central West Region Annual Meeting/Seminar With Nathan Tidridge
On Saturday April 27, 2019 from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm at the Best Western Brantford, 19 Holiday Drive Brantford, Ontario. Refreshments will be served and a donation of $5.00 is requested
Each Branch is asked to please bring a Door Prize to be drawn at the end of the meeting.
Our guest speaker will be Nathan Tidridge who will speak about "Exploring Kinship Through Her Majesty's Chapels Royal".
June 29: Reunion of Samuel Moore Family Saturday
From 11:00 – 3:00 at the Norwich and District Museum, 89 Stover Street North, Norwich Ontario, a Reunion of descendants of Samuel Moore of Massachusetts and New Jersey, born 1630 and his great-grandson, Samuel Moore of New Jersey, born 1742, from across Canada and the USA.
Meet and Greet at 11:00; Bring a lunch for noon and share stories of our ancestors. For more information, see details posted on Facebook or contact Donna Moore at d.moore3359@gmail.com.
"The Four Kings," by Jan Verelst, commissioned by Queen Anne. In 1710, 3 Haudenosaunee and a Mahican chief traveled to London w Mayor of Albany, New York, Peter Schulyer. Read more (be sure to click on the The "Four Indian Kings") from Collections Canada.
Walking the American Revolution by By Robert Sullivan, The New Yorker. I like to walk in the American Revolution. It's something I do a lot. You get some old maps and pick out a route—a retreat, a long march—and maybe convince a friend to come along, and then you are off into the past. New York is a great place for it anytime.
Fiasco: The Disastrous Raid on Montresor's Island by Joshua Shepherd 2 April 2019. By the evening of September 30, 1776, George Washington was, as he put it, "bereft of every peaceful moment." During the previous month, his army had been badly mauled on Long Island and narrowly escaped destruction by executing a midnight evacuation to Manhattan. Forced to abandon New York City and take up defensive positions on Harlem Heights, Washington was exasperated on September 15 when his green troops were handily brushed aside by a British amphibious landing at Kip's Bay. Washington had good reason to question the reliability of his militia officers. Earlier that day, a general court martial had convened to investigate a bloody debacle occasioned by "Cowardice and Misbehaviour in the Attack made upon Montresor's Island." Read more (from Journal of the American Revolution)
5 April 1745 – New England colonial forces under the command of William Pepperrell (1696 – 1759) and Commodore Peter Warren (1703 – 1752) arrived at Canso en route to Louisbourg. They began their attack on 11 May. Louisbourg surrendered six weeks later on 28 June.
April 6 1778: After dining w/ Washington, 4 Quaker wives return home, saddened to learn their pacifist husbands will remain in prison. The next day they receive joyous news: their husbands were being released. 1st American Political Pardon for Conscientious Objection?
5 Apr 1776 General Charles Lee arrives in Williamsburg, VA, & writes Washington he fears the British will attack.
4 Apr 1776 Washington's army leaves successful siege of Boston for the defense of New York.
3 Apr 1776 Continental Congress authorizes privateers to attack British shipping.
2 Apr 1792 Congress creates U.S. Mint, establishing $10, $5, $2.50, $1, 50c, 25c, 10c, 5c, 1c, and 1/2c coins.
1 Apr 1776 Congress establishes Treasury as permanent office.
1 Apr 1776: George Washington writes to Congress and introduces Jonathan Eddy, a British-American soldier who supported the rebellion. Eddy brings interesting news about recent events in Nova Scotia that could not be printed in the letter
31 Mar 1776 Abigail Adams urges her husband John to "Remember the Ladies" in making laws for the new nation.
31 March 1783 the Loyalist known as BLOODY JOHN BACON was captured at the Rose Tavern near Long Beach Island New Jersey. Bacon responsible for the 1782 Long Beach Island Massacre killing 19 militia while they slept.
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Vegetarian Pie From 1769
The Junto: the Winner of Junto March Madness 2019. This final was unusually close, decided by a razor-tight margin: 52% to 48%. It attracted far more votes. The winner is Harvard's Colonial North America project. The project will digitize nearly half a million pages of archival and manuscript materials in Harvard's collections. The runner-up, the Adverts 250 project, offering an exciting model of how to bring a sustainable approach to digital history into the classroom. Read more…
Coachbuilding or Coach Making in the Late 1700 and Early 1800s. Coachbuilders or coach makers created "those numerous and elegant vehicles which modern refinement … invented as speedy and luxurious modes of traveling. Read more…
18th Century dress, robe à l'anglaise, hand block printed cotton known as 'dark ground chintz'. c.1770's
18th Century dress, robe à la Française 1770's via Bunka Gakuen Costume Museum
Richly brocaded silk w/metallic lace trim – sparkle shine luxury Détail, de Robe à la Française en brocard vers 1780
18th Century dress, Scottish, cream silk painted with sprays of flowers & butterflies, 1780-1785
Late 18th Century men's 3 piece court suit, silk taffeta and silver thread embroidery
18th Century men's waistcoat, striking silk stripes, 1780's
18th Century men's waistcoat, woven silk detailed with fruit-picking couples & decorative garlands, c.1790's
Apr 5. Worn on this day in 1762 by the 16-year-old future King Gustav III of Sweden at the Rikssalen in Stockholm for his coming-of-age ceremony or "Majority Declaration," He wore the suit again in Uppsala on April 9, 1764, when he became Chancellor of Uppsala University.
Rock of ages! The Loyalist curling stone. The artifact in question is an heirloom of Dave Fletcher's family paying homage to his Scottish roots in the form of a curling stone known as the Roddick Rock, which made its way to North America in the 1700s when the family emigrated from Scotland. "Every Scottish family would have two stones," said Fletcher in Lethbridge AB. Read about it…


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Stratolaunch, the world's largest aircraft performed its first successful test flight this morning over the Mojave desert.
Stratolaunch, the world's largest airplane, successfully flew for the first time this morning in a two and a half hour test flight over the Mojave desert.
The world's largest airplane, Stratolaunch, successfully took to the skies for the first time this morning in a two and a half hour long test flight over the Mojave desert, marking a major aviation milestone.
Stratolaunch took off just before 7 AM PDT from the Mojave Air Space Port (MASP), achieved a maximum speed of 189 mph at an altitude of 17,000 feet. The test flight was meant to test the aircraft's performance and handling, eventually touching back down at MASP.
In other words, this isn't your typical airplane. The goal for Stratolaunch is to provide an alternative launch platform for satellites other than rockets like SpaceX's Falcon 9 or SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket—which had its first successful test flight this week as well.
The Stratolaunch itself has the largest wingspan of any aircraft on Earth at 385 feet, wider than a football field including the endzones; it even has two dozen feet to spare. The plane has two fuselages each with its own cockpit—though only one is needed to fly—6 Pratt & Whitney engines, usually found on Boeing 747s, and 28 wheels for its landing gear. Rockets with orbital payloads will be mounted to the center wing of the aircraft, which will then be flown to an altitude of around 35,000 feet. At that altitude, the rocket will be released and it will fire, continuing on its way into orbit under its own power.
"It's so huge, it seems like it shouldn't be able to fly," aerospace and launch photographer for NASASpaceFlight.com Jack Beyer told CNN.
Stratolaunch was founded in 2011 by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who passed away earlier this year.


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Rancho Mallacomes  (also called Moristul and Mallacomes y Plano de Agua Caliente) was a  Mexican land grant in present-day Napa County and Sonoma County, California given in 1843  by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to José de los Santos Berreyesa.

The grant was located in the Napa Valley, just north of present-day Calistoga and consisted of Mallacomes or Moristul and Plano de Agua Caliente.   Mallacomes comes from mountain chain Serro de los Mallacomes (Mount Saint Helena) and included most of Knights Valley (previously known as Mallacomes Valley).  Agua Caliente refers to the warms springs near Calistoga.

History
José Santos Berreyesa (1817 – 1864) was the son of José de los Reyes Berreyesa (1785 - 1846), the grantee of Rancho San Vicente.   José Santos Berreyesa was a soldier at the Presidio of Sonoma from 1840 - 1842, and alcalde in 1846.  He was jailed with two of his brothers by John C. Frémont in 1846 during the Bear Flag Revolt.

With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored.  As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho Mallacomes was filed by José de los Santos Berreyesa with the Public Land Commission in 1852, and  patented in 1873.

Thomas P. Knight (1820 - 1903), a participant in the Bear Flag Revolt, bought two square leagues of the northern portion of the valley from Berryessa in 1853.  Knight expanded the adobe hunting lodge built by Berryessa and called his rancho, Muristood.  Knight was born in Vermont, and came across the plains from Missouri in 1845, and settled in California.  In 1854 he married Serena Haines in Napa Valley, and retired to San Francisco in 1870.   Mallacomes Valley would be renamed "Knights Valley" after Thomas Knight.  Lovett P. Rockwell (1790 - 1860) who was born in Connecticut, came to Sumner, Illinois in 1832.  His health started to fail and he decided to go west in 1850, to look for gold. He bought part of the rancho from Knight but returned to Illinois in 1853.  He was taken sick on the return home.  In 1857, Rockwell returned to California, but came back in 1858 in no better health and died in 1860.

A claim was filed by Lovett P. Rockwell and Thomas P. Knight with the Land Commission in 1852,  and  was patented in 1873.

Calvin Holmes and his wife Elvira purchased much of Knights Valley in 1861.  Real estate barons F.E. Kellogg and W.A. Stuart began building a small resort town modeled after Calistoga, called Kellogg. The town, which can still be found on present day maps, never developed into the vision held by Kellogg and it eventually was destroyed through a series of fires.

Martin E. Cook, who represented the 11th state senatorial district, and Quartmaster General Rufus Ingalls, filed a claim with the Public Land Commission in 1853 and  was patented in 1873.

See also
List of Ranchos of California

References

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Bram StokerJul 2020
Narrated by Alistair
Published in 1897, this book introduces Count Dracula, a vampire living in Transylvania. Count Dracula attempts to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse. The story is told through a series of letters, diary entries, newspaper articles and ships' log entries.
Dracula is considered a horror story and established many conventions of vampire fantasy which have subsequently been showcased in movies, theatrical productions and TV.
Fiction / Horror
Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley
A young scientist Victor Frankenstein experiments with creating a humanoid creature. His creation, the Creature, doesn't turn out as he expects and results in unintended consequences that devastate Victor. The story is told in the form of a correspondence.
Dr Jekyll is a well-respected, curious scientist who tries to separate his good characteristics from his evil impulses. Dr Jekyll uses science to explore his alter ego Mr Hyde and attempts to control Mr Hyde's evil urges, even as they grow in intensity.
Merry Dreadmas: A Christmas Horror Flash Fiction Collection
Nicole J. Simms
Enjoy eight Christmas-themed horror flash fictions that'll make you see Christmas differently this year.
In this collection, you'll find the following spooky tales: A woman meets her boyfriend's parents for the first time and unknowingly brings the perfect Christmas gift. A young man learns that no wish, not even a Christmas one, comes without consequences. A young couple discovers that a Christmas Instagram challenge can be fatal. A real Christmas tree doesn't give a family the perfect Christmas they hoped for. Santa and his reindeers are missing. And when Mrs Claus tracks them down, what she discovers is worse than she could ever have imagined. A woman discovers the real meaning behind the nickname her boyfriend calls her when she visits his home for the first time. A young boy gets more than he bargained for when he attacks an intruder on Christmas Eve. A woman has an idea to kill her boss with poisoned mince pies, but her plan doesn't give her the results she was expecting.
The characters in this collection are all different, but they have one thing that unites them: they all learn that not everyone has a Merry Christmas; some have a Merry Dreadmas.
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a popular American fiction story, especially during Halloween, because of the Headless Horseman character. The mysterious, haunting Sleepy Hollow is inhabited by ghosts and unexplained events befall its inhabitants.
These Deathless Bones: Come Join Us by the Fire Season 1
A horror tale about the Witch Bride, second wife of a King, and the discord between her and her young stepson.
More by Bram Stoker
Fast paced and nightmarishly vivid, this greatest of Gothic tales propels the reader into the heart of darkness from its opening pages. Stoker increases the tension and mystery of his masterpiece by setting it in the form of different journal entries and letters by various characters. Only gradually does the full horrifying picture emerge: Dracula, far from being merely an eccentric foreigner, is a threat to all mankind. But this is not discovered until it is too late for some. Storms and wolves, shipwrecks and gypsies, haunted castles and graveyards: the horrors pile up until the final moment of triumph seconds before sunset.
Dracula begins with the journal of Jonathan Harker, a young solicitor on the way to Transylvania to give information to the mysterious Count Dracula about his new estate in London. Dracula takes the young man prisoner, and Jonathan sees many strange and evil things in the castle before escaping and fleeing into the night. He later decides that he must have been mad. Meanwhile, back in England, Jonathan's fiancee, Mina, is visiting her friend Lucy. Lucy has just decided to marry the Honorable Arthur Holmwood, having had to choose between him and his two friends Dr. John Seward and Quincey Morris, the Texan. Dracula who is moving to London to feast on more humans, happens to land in the part of England where Mina and Lucy are staying. His first victim is Lucy. Dr. Seward, who, by coincidence, runs the insane asylum next door to Dracula's primary London home, tries to treat Lucy's 'illness.' He calls in from Amsterdam his friend and mentor Professor Abraham Van Helsing. Van Helsing figures out what is wrong with Lucy, but cannot save her. By this time, Jonathan has made it home to England and is happily married to Mina. Van Helsing brings together Mina, Jonathan, Arthur, Quincey, Seward and himself and convinces everyone of the reality of vampires and the danger of this particular one, who was in his human life a great warrior and thinker. They have already destroyed the undead Lucy, and they likewise set out to destroy Dracula.
Frederick Jaeger and Phyllis Logan star in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Bram Stoker's classic horror novel. Summoned to the forbidding heart of the Carpathian mountains in Transylvania, Jonathan Harker journeys to Castle Dracula. There he becomes the unwitting prisoner of a mysterious nobleman whom local legend suggests is Nosferatu, the vampire, a night-stalking beast whose immortality depends on the slaking of his insatiable thirst for human blood. Able to transform himself at will into the shape of a wolf or bat, the evil Count sets sail for England on the scent of new and corruptible flesh. Meanwhile, Harker's fiancée, Mina, is staying in Whitby when a great storm brings a shipwreck to the town. Suddenly Mina's friend falls terribly ill. Could her fate be connected to what Harker found in Transylvania? As Count Dracula's terrible secret is unearthed by the vampire hunter Van Helsing, a breathtaking chase across Europe ensues... With specially composed music and sound effects, this terrifying adaptation ably captures the atmosphere of brooding fear and dark eroticism present in Stoker's original novel.
Dracula is the ultimate horror story, producing one of literature's most lasting villains: Count Dracula. A harrowing, memorable, and enduring story about the world's most famous vampire.
A true masterwork of storytelling, Dracula has transcended generation, language, and culture to become one of the most popular novels ever written. It is a quintessential tale of suspense and horror, boasting one of the most terrifying characters ever born in literature: Count Dracula, a tragic, night-dwelling specter who feeds upon the blood of the living, and whose diabolical passions prey upon the innocent, the helpless, and the beautiful. But Dracula also stands as a bleak allegorical saga of an eternally cursed being whose nocturnal atrocities reflect the dark underside of the supremely moralistic age in which it was originally written—and the corrupt desires that continue to plague the modern human condition.
Bram Stoker's Dracula (Unabridged)
Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing. Dracula has been assigned to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, he defined its modern form, and the novel has spawned numerous theatrical, film and television interpretations.
This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death.
And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides--or are chosen. A world in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail--and the worst nightmares of evil are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the dark man.
In 1978 Stephen King published The Stand, the novel that is now considered to be one of his finest works. But as it was first published, The Stand was incomplete, since more than 150,000 words had been cut from the original manuscript.
Now Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil has been restored to its entirety. The Stand : The Complete And Uncut Edition includes more than five hundred pages of material previously deleted, along with new material that King added as he reworked the manuscript for a new generation. It gives us new characters and endows familiar ones with new depths. It has a new beginning and a new ending. What emerges is a gripping work with the scope and moral complexity of a true epic.
For hundreds of thousands of fans who read The Stand in its original version and wanted more, this new edition is Stephen King's gift. And those who are reading The Stand for the first time will discover a triumphant and eerily plausible work of the imagination that takes on the issues that will determine our survival.
Cover artwork ©2020 CBS Interactive Inc.
Classic Scary Tales, Volume 1
Vampires, Werewolves, Mummies, Ghouls, Ghosts and Mad Scientists. Written by some of the greatest minds of all time, and narrated by award-winning narrator B.J. Harrison. Come listen to Indian curses from a leprous albino. See a student of Alchemy take a secret draught of the elixir of life. Visit Count Dracula on Walpurgis Nacht.
Follow Harry Houdini as he is kidnapped and trapped within the secret horrors of the Egyptian pyramids. Whether it's the terror of a pit and a pendulum, a terrifying headless horseman, or midnight grave robbers, there is something here for everyone who wants to hear a classic scary story when the lights are down low.
Stories include: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving, "The Mortal Immortal" by Mary Shelley, "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs, "The Vampyre" by John Polidori, "The Mark of the Beast" by Rudyard Kipling, "The Hand" by Guy de Maupassant, "The Body Snatcher" by Robert Louis Stevenson, "The Music of Eric Zahn" by H.P. Lovecraft, "Dracula's Guest" by Bram Stoker, "Rappaccini's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Lot No. 249" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe, "In Letters of Fire" by Gaston Leroux, "Feathertop" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" by H.P. Lovecraft, "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "Oh Whistle, and I'll Come To You My Lad" by M. R. James, "The Horla" by Guy de Maupassant.
"The Judge's House" is a classic ghost story by the Irish author Bram Stoker. The story was first published in the December 5, 1891, special Christmas issue of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News weekly magazine. It was later republished in Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories (1914). The short story has since appeared in many anthologies.
In the story, a student arrives in a small town looking for a quiet place to stay while preparing for his examination. Making light of the local superstitions, he moves into an old mansion where a notorious hanging judge once lived. He is comfortably settled and engrossed in his work when, in the middle of the night, he is visited by an enormous rat with baleful eyes. As soon as the giant rat appears, other rats that infest the old house fall silent. When the great rat returns on the second night, the student begins to feel uneasy. He soon learns why the locals fear the Judge's House.
Famous works of the author:
Krishtale Chalice, The Primrose Path, Obligations of Other Clerks in Ireland, The Snake's Pass, Dracula, The Mystery of the Sea, The Jewel of Seven Stars, Private Hear about Henry Irving, The Lady of the Shroud, The Lair of the White Worm
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams: Stories
Winner of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award
Includes the story "Premium Harmony"—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine
The masterful #1 New York Times bestselling story collection from O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King that includes twenty-one iconic stories with accompanying autobiographical comments on when, why and how he came to write (or rewrite) each one.
For more than thirty-five years, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short fiction. In this new collection he introduces each story with a passage about its origins or his motivations for writing it.
As Entertainment Weekly said about this collection: "Bazaar of Bad Dreams is bursting with classic King terror, but what we love most are the thoughtful introductions he gives to each tale that explain what was going on in his life as he wrote it."
There are thrilling connections between stories; themes of morality, the afterlife, guilt, what we would do differently if we could see into the future or correct the mistakes of the past. In "Afterlife," a man who died of colon cancer keeps reliving the same life, repeating his mistakes over and over again. Several stories feature characters at the end of life, revisiting their crimes and misdemeanors. Others address what happens when someone discovers that he has supernatural powers—the columnist who kills people by writing their obituaries in "Obits;" the old judge in "The Dune" who, as a boy, canoed to a deserted island and saw names written in the sand, people who then died in freak accidents. In "Morality," King looks at how a marriage and two lives fall apart after the wife and husband enter into what seems, at first, a devil's pact they can win.
"I made these stories especially for you," says King. "Feel free to examine them, but please be careful. The best of them have teeth."
Stories include:
-Mile 81
-Premium Harmony
-Batman and Robin Have an Altercation
-The Dune
-Bad Little Kid
-A Death
-The Bone Church
-Morality
-Afterlife
-Ur
-Herman Wouk Is Still Alive
-Under the Weather
-Blockade Billy
-Mister Yummy
-The Little Green God of Agony
-Cookie Jar
-That Bus Is Another World
-Obits
-Drunken Fireworks
-Summer Thunder


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Warner Bros. Casting New Batman For James Gunn & Peter Safran's DC Universe
DC Studios Heads Break Silence On 'The Flash' Star Ezra Miller
Viola Davis Returning As Amanda Waller For New DC Univere Series
James Gunn's Superman Movie & 'The Batman' Sequel Get 2025 Release Dates
'Morbius' Star Matt Smith Responds To The Jared Leto Film Bombing
It's *still* not Morbin' time.
by Noah Villaverde on August 5, 2022
Morbius star Matt Smith shared his thoughts on the film's negative critical reception and becoming a box office bomb.
If you've been on the internet since April 1st of this year, you probably noticed a few memes related to Morbius. Sadly, those memes are not in celebration of the film, but rather mocking it due to its abysmal critical reception and bombing at the box office. The film, which starred Jared Leto and Matt Smith was the third entry in Sony's Spider-Man Universe of films.
'Severance' Star Adam Scott Starts Work On Sony's 'Madame Web' In New Set Photos
Matt Smith, who is currently promoting his upcoming HBO original series House of the Dragon, reflected on the the negative performance of Jared Leto's Morbius, but is keen to move on from it and not let it bring him down all that much:
"Yeah, it was thrown under the bus. But you just have to roll with it. What else are you gonna do? It's a film, at the end of the day, we're not saving lives. For whatever reason, it didn't quite work out and… It is what it is."
Matt Smith has dealt with blockbuster disappointment before.
Before joining Jared Leto in Morbius, Matt Smith also experienced a blockbuster disappointment with Terminator: Genisys. The film, which was set to relaunch the franchise with a new trilogy, was a critical and commercial disappointment. Thankfully, Smith has taken part in another big franchise that will hopefully fare him better in the upcoming Game of Thrones prequel series, House of the Dragon.
Sony Pushes Back 'Madame Web' Film Release Date
Here is the synopsis for Jared Leto's Morbius:
One of Marvel's most compelling and conflicted characters comes to the big screen as Oscar® winner Jared Leto transforms into the enigmatic antihero, Michael Morbius. Dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder, and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr. Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. What at first appears to be a radical success, a darkness inside him is unleashed and transforms this healer into a hunter.
Directed by Daniel Espinosa from a script written by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, Morbius stars Jared Leto, Adria Arjona, Matt Smith, Jared Harris, Al Madrigal, and Tyrese Gibson. Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach produced the project with Lucas Foster, with Palak Patel overseeing it for Sony.
Morbius is available on Digital, and will hit DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K UHD on June 14. Stay tuned to Heroic Hollywood for the latest news regarding Matt Smith and Jared Leto, and be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel for more content!
Source: Rolling Stone UK
Warner Bros. Casting New Batman For James Gunn & Peter Safran's DC Universe
DC Studios Heads Break Silence On 'The Flash' Star Ezra Miller


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Hello everyone! Today's post is a card I did for a Workshop yesterday. I got the idea from Kelly H over at SCS--Thanks Kelly! It sure got a good response from the gals. It is called block stamping because I used one of the acrylic blocks like a stamp! Cool huh?! After inking up the block I first stamped off before stamping on the main piece so the color was more sub-dude.
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Beautiful composition. I just tried clear block stamping too. Cool technique.
This is beautiful, love the color choices, really makes the card.


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Honduras: Can commitment to the 2030 Agenda restore Human Rights?
Published on Sat, 2016-07-30 12:21
March against violence and
femicide. (Photo: CEM-H)
Honduras has committed itself to implementing the 2030 Agenda and this commitment is essential to overcoming the pervasive violence in the country. Honduras has the highest level of economic inequality in Latin America and is listed as the most violent of all countries that are not in a war situation. Women's lives are particularly at risk, which means that achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls by 2030, as mandated by SDG 5, will be a major challenge. More than 18,000 women and girls reported suffering sexual violence between 2010 and 2015, but in less than 6 percent of the cases have perpetrators been condemned.
Implementing the SDGs requires political and the reallocation of resources currently devoted to re-militarization, it is clear that human rights are not the priority. Only if social organizations, with the support of the international community, encourage compliance may the situation of the Honduran people improve.
Can Commitment to the 2030 Agenda Restore Human Rights?
Honduras has committed itself to implementing the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the UN General Assembly in September 2015. This commitment is essential to overcoming the pervasive violence that is destroying people's lives. Women's lives are particularly at risk, which means that achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls by 2030, as mandated by SDG 5, will be a major challenge. Women's rights are continuing to suffer major setbacks with the increasing concentration of power in the Presidency of the Republic. Implementing the SDGs, however, requires political will and as resources are increasingly allocated to re-militarization, it is clear that human rights are not the priority. Only if social organizations, with the support of the international community, encourage compliance may the situation of the Honduran people improve.
Honduran women demand access to the national budget debate
Published on Thu, 2014-10-09 14:29
Photo: CEM-H.
As the discussion about the national budget of Honduras are starting, women and feminist organizations assembled in different platforms and local networks, have started to demand participation in the debate.
The situation of most Honduran women is precarious, they argue, having to face poverty and violence in their everyday life. Violence comes from their own family environment, from organized crime and from the repressive bodies of the State.
Honduras: Feminist organizations lobby for the typification of femicide at the Congress
. Published on Mon, 2013-03-04 23:00
Feministas en el Congreso Nacional.
(Foto: CEM-H).
The Center for Women's Studies-Honduras (CEM-H), the Center for Women's Rights, the Women's Network of Colonia Ramón Amaya Amador, the Women's Network of Manzanal, the Women's Network of the Red Cross Col were present on February 22 before Congress in order to lobby and monitor that the proposal for a typification of femicide coordinated with the Ministry of Human Rights and Justice is in line with the work performed for more than ten years by feminist organizations for the construction of an offense that punishes men who kill women because they are women.
The typification of femicide means to improve the registration systems of the judiciary, as well as to review and elaborate necessary, relevant and timely legislation for the recognition and punishment of other forms of violence against women.
Unbearable levels of violence
The main obstacle to sustainable development in Honduras is violence, which affects almost every stratum of society, in both urban and rural areas. People in general, and women in particular, are overwhelmed by a seemingly unstoppable wave of violent crime that has given the country the highest murder rate in the world. Despite other urgent issues, including environmental degradation, economic inequality, poor school performance and limited access to health services, priority must go to reducing the staggering levels of violence. Since the majority of victims are women, a gender-sensitive approach is imperative.
Honduras: Commission against Femicide calls for effective legislation
Published on Wed, 2011-09-07 09:24
Press conference of the Commission
against Femicide. (Photo: CEM-H)
Sources: CEM-H, Minga Informativa de Movimientos Sociales, El Heraldo
The civil society organizations that make up the Commission against Femicide (the murder of women) in Honduras expressed last week their indignation and concern at the increase in this phenomenon in the country and the fact that the authorities are showing "little or no interest" in it. They warned that "Femicide is an extreme expression of violence against women based on men's power to control and dominate us, our bodies and our lives".
Far from the MDGs but near a strong people's movement
In the wake of the 2009 coup d'état the country is in serious regression in all aspects but mainly as regards human rights, which are being violated with impunity. A people's movement quickly came together to resist the oppression and a National Front against the Coup was formed, but in the corridors of power there is no political will to pursue remedy social ills or pursue the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In this situation what Honduras needs is not just to implement a reform but to lay new foundations for the State.
No to the coup d´etat in Honduras! For the reinstatement of President Zelaya
Since June 28, Honduras has been immersed in a deep political crisis, which was the day in which the Armed Forces – backed by right-wing political parties, the business sector, the Supreme Court, the Catholic Church, and the majority of the mass media – committed a coup d´etat against the elected President Manuel Zelaya. At the moment that the coup d´etat took place, President Zelaya had an approval rating of close to 60%.
First the crisis, then dictatorship
Honduras is one of the poorest countries in Latin America. The international financial crisis already predicted that life would be even more difficult for the Honduran population, but the coup d'état, supported by the most reactionary sectors of society – in particular the defenders of the patriarchal culture – has exacerbated the situation. Social organizations, in particular women's movements, are organizing the resistance against the de facto regime.
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The Kane Wolves won 38-0 Saturday night over Cameron County in the season-opener on the football field.
The scoreboard clock at Paul R. Miller field runs prior to the scheduled kickoff Friday, Sept. 4. The Kane Wolves and Cameron County Red Raiders football teams were pulled from the field after lightning delayed their season-opener. The two teams will square off Saturday, Sept. 5 at 7 p.m.
The Kane boys' soccer team scrimmaged Punxsutawney on Tuesday afternoon at home. The girls' and boys' golf teams have begun their seasons already, while the other fall sports teams are gearing up to begin theirs.
Wolves' quarterback Shane Rolick gets set to throw a pass downfield during Saturday's scrimmage against Otto-Eldred while members of the two teams' coaching staffs look on. The Wolves, the defending District 9 A Champions, will open their season on Friday, September 4 against Cameron County.
Kane High fall sports teams got their official practices underway this week. Here, members of the Kane Wolves' football team run plays during Monday's two-a-days. With temperatures in the upper 80s, the athletes will get into playing shape quickly.
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There's a song for "Cheyenne," a woman who loves "nightlife and trashy tattoos" and won't cry when her latest relationship is over, as well as one for the woman who wishes her mama would stop judging her imperfections ("Milkman"). And there's a bookend to "Takin' Pills" from their debut album to be found in "Stop Drop and Roll One," where the personalities, and vices, of all three women get some shine.
The Pistol Annies aren't breaking any new ground here; this is all territory tread for decades in country music by everyone from Loretta Lynne to June Carter to Tanya Tucker to Carrie Underwood and Kacey Musgraves. What makes their voices so interesting is the blending of the points of view of three women, whether they prefer Tylenol, Adderal, or a drink in their hand. It gives room for a broader view, where you meet the woman who wants a sugar daddy with a rifle in his truck ("Sugar Daddy") or one who reckons with a sordid family history on a turnip farm ("5 Acres of Turnips") or another who wrestles with how to handle an incarcerated relative( "Commissary"). So many of the ways relationships and lives fall apart get a moment under the microscope, thanks to their trifecta of voices.
What remains to be seen:if country radio will give them a microphone to amplify them.
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package org.neo4j.unsafe.impl.batchimport;

import java.util.Arrays;

import org.neo4j.kernel.impl.store.record.RelationshipRecord;
import org.neo4j.unsafe.impl.batchimport.cache.idmapping.IdMapper;
import org.neo4j.unsafe.impl.batchimport.input.InputRelationship;
import org.neo4j.unsafe.impl.batchimport.staging.BatchSender;
import org.neo4j.unsafe.impl.batchimport.staging.ProcessorStep;
import org.neo4j.unsafe.impl.batchimport.staging.StageControl;

/**
 * Prepares {@link InputRelationship}, or at least potential slow parts of it, namely {@link IdMapper} lookup.
 * This step is also parallelizable so if it becomes a bottleneck then more processors will automatically
 * be assigned to it.
 */
public class RelationshipPreparationStep extends ProcessorStep<Batch<InputRelationship,RelationshipRecord>>
{
    private final IdMapper idMapper;

    public RelationshipPreparationStep( StageControl control, Configuration config, IdMapper idMapper )
    {
        super( control, "PREPARE", config, 0 );
        this.idMapper = idMapper;
    }

    @Override
    protected void process( Batch<InputRelationship,RelationshipRecord> batch, BatchSender sender )
    {
        InputRelationship[] input = batch.input;
        long[] ids = batch.ids = new long[input.length*2];
        for ( int i = 0; i < input.length; i++ )
        {
            InputRelationship batchRelationship = input[i];
            ids[i*2] = idMapper.get( batchRelationship.startNode(), batchRelationship.startNodeGroup() );
            ids[i*2+1] = idMapper.get( batchRelationship.endNode(), batchRelationship.endNodeGroup() );
        }
        batch.sortedIds = ids.clone();
        Arrays.sort( batch.sortedIds );
        sender.send( batch );
    }
}

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Q: Port expander with high side switch ground dilemma I have a design wherein the basic idea is to control individual LED strings and dim (analog dimming) them using Pi Pico via I2C interface.

This board is the LED driver which will be connected to the LED array board where the strings of LED are populated.
The LED driver is a constant current one, one is Recom and another one is from Diodes Inc.
More detailed info can be found in the attached schematic.

Parts Datasheet Links -

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*RCD-24-0.35/VREF - Constant Current LED Driver

*TBD62786AFWG,EL, Application note - High Side Load Switch

*AD5142AWBCPZ10-RL7 - Digital potentiometer

*PCAL6408APWJ - I2C Expander

Recom's datasheet says "Don't connect the V- output to Gnd"
I had assigned a separate net to it (provided jumpers for flexibility of using two different drivers.)
I have connected the high side switch according to the datasheet and app note, but to control the load switch the gate or input pin of the load switch is being controlled by the I2C expander.
Where should I connect the I2C expander GND: GNDD or GND?
If I want to control the load switch I must connect the IO expander's ground to the GNDD net but that would mean for I2C it won't use the GND of Pi Pico.
Am I missing something here or is my schematic wrong? Please advise.
I found the following post useful.
If there's any shortcoming in the post understandability please let me know.

A: With a constant current source, you would rather connect different LED channels in series than in parallel. To turn them off, you'd short them out individually with a MOSFET (given that the driver can operate at very low load voltage - yours is protected against short-circuits). When arranged in parallel, the driver must not output more current than one single of your 8 LED channels can take (you're probably aware of that, just saying).
Another problem is that you likely get into big problems once you switch between channels. Having different parallel strands where some are hot and some are cold is literally the worst case scenario for thermal runaway.
Concerning your actual question: to get around the "don't connect DIM- to LED-"-problem you can use an optocoupler to drive the MOSFETs. It doesn't matter if it's a high-side or a low-side switch in that case, but switching low-side would be preferable because you can use n-channel MOSFETs, which typically have higher current capability and are easier and cheaper to get.
In principle, something like this should work for your "parallel approach":

simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab
The values of the resistors depend on your component selection and if you use an optocoupler with high enough voltage rating you can omit R1 completely.

A: I think this will not work at all because of the very special input stage of the TBD62786. It's input signal is relative to VCC, not to GND. To control it by the I2C expander you must connect VCC of TBD62786 (= VS) with VDDP of the PCAL6408A (= +5V). Active low output signals from PCAL6408A would activate the PMOS driver in TBD62786. The driver's GND must be connected to -VOUT of the Recom module. BUT this is only possible, if the Recom module would be an isolating converter. It isn't, and so VS will rise +5V to VDC and everything will be destroyed.

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