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June 3, 2016 / Elizabeth Daniels / 2 Comments
The past few years have seen massive public attention relating to children in immigration detention whether on the Australian mainland or offshore in places like Nauru. While it would be folly to argue the plight of Forgotten Australians, 'Care' Leavers and Former Child Migrants is identical to that of children who are in or have experienced immigration detention there are some disturbing similarities. Children have been placed in institutional settings where systematic abuse has been occurring and where we know significant harm is being done.
On 31st March 2016, the Government released statistics that revealed 50 children were detained in Nauru, 17 children were detained in centres and 317 children in community detention within Australia.
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There have been concerns for children's safety, health and well-being in detention for some time. The 2014 Forgotten Children report showed that "…immigration detention is a dangerous place for children" and referenced data describing "numerous incidents of assualt, sexual assault and self-harm." The health and well-being of children in immigration detention report from 2015 provided further evidence:
[There are] Universal concerns about safety even within the compound. Most reported they would not leave the compound even though it is now open access. As above most women/children would not go to toilet/shower block alone. One man said that since the policy change to allow free access his friends in Nauru report "No one is going outside because it is not safe. Dangerous after 6pm. Poor control by police –assault, theft, alcohol, rape."
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Advocacy group End Immigration Detention of Children claim in the 15 month period, January 2013 – March 2014, there were 233 assaults involving children, 33 reported incidents of sexual assault involving children and 128 incidents of children self-harming. In terms of the health impacts of immigration detention on children many doctors and other health care professionals have risked imprisonment and spoken out about the conditions children face. Legally they are being silenced by legislation, such as the Australian Border Act which bars health professionals from speaking out about the welfare of children.
Media access is also essentially if not technically barred. Visiting offshore detention centres has proved so difficult even United Nations Representatives have been turned away, although the Government denies it was involved in this decision (Cox and Whyte, 2014) and the Guardian Australia has reported a prohibitive $8000 application fee for foreign journalists to enter Nauru.
There is a lack of public information and it seems a lack of information for people inside the system. How will these children make sense of what has happened to them? What records and documents will survive of their experiences? Will there need to be a Find & Connect for these children? The Government is proclaiming the number of children in detention is falling but the children who have passed through the system, at least 167 of whom were born in detention, have already experienced the trauma.
These factors lead me to question whether we will be facing another Royal Commission and apology in the years to come. Where we acknowledge again the abuse of some of the most vulnerable individuals in the world at the hands of successive Australian governments. In ending I include a quote from a former senior charity worker that has stayed with me since I began exploring this area:
I wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, worried that one day we may have to face a royal commission and have to answer for the conditions under which these people were treated and which we didn't have the guts to challenge the government on."
Further References
Select Committee on the Recent allegations relating to conditions and circumstances at the Regional Processing Centre in Nauru, 31 August 2015, 'Taking Responsibility: Conditions and Circumstances at Australia's Regional Processing Centre in Nauru' Parliament of Australia http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Regional_processing_Nauru/Regional_processing_Nauru/Final_Report
Cox, Lisa and Whyte, Sarah, 9 April 2014, 'UN investigators denied access to Nauru detention centre', Sydney Morning Herald, http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/un-investigators-denied-access-to-nauru-detention-centre-20140409-zqspk.html
Farrell, Paul and Doherty, Ben, 8 October 2015, 'Nauru lets local journalists into centre but keeps $8,000 fee for foreigners', The Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/08/nauru-lets-local-journalists-into-centre-but-keeps-8000-fee-for-foreigners
Davies, Julie-Anne 15 November 2013, 'Abbott's New World Order', The Sydney Morning Herald, Online, http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/abbotts-new-world-order-20131114-2xji4.html
Unknown, c2016, 'ChilOut: Children Out of Immigration Detention', http://www.chilout.org/
Unknown, 6 January 2016, 'Information about children in immigration detention', Australian Human Rights Commission, https://www.humanrights.gov.au/information-about-children-immigration-detention
ABC, 3 March 2016, 'Fact Check: Has the number of children in detention dropped from 2000 to about 75 under the Coalition', ABC Fact Check, http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-25/fact-check-children-in-detention/7149720
Unknown, c.2016, End Child Detention, http://endchilddetention.org/australia/
Australian Human Rights Commission, 2015, The Health and well-being of children in immigration detention: Report to the Australian Human Rights Commission Monitory Visit to Wickham Point Detention Centre, Darwin, NT October 16th-18th 2015 https://www.humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/files/document/publication/Health%20and%20wellbeing%20of%20children%20in%20immigration%20detention%20report.pdf
Author: Elizabeth Daniels
Elizabeth is writing her PhD on critical poststructuralist theory and participatory appraisal using the asylum seeker situation as a case study at Monash University. She previously worked on the Find & Connect Records Access Documentation Project.
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Such unconscionable conduct by a government cannot be allowed to continue. When is the Australian Government going to be held accountable……and how?
Thanks for this post. The similarities with Care Leavers is blindingly obvious. The damage done to a child by prolonged incarceration is so well-known that you have to wonder that politicians who support this form of control must in their quiet moments wonder if one day a royal commission will put them on the stand and call them to account for their morally reprehensible actions.


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As a pianist, Alexander is neither flashy nor bombastic. He approaches the instrument with discipline, as heard on the opening track Bali, playing subtly and gently in some stretches with delicate harmonies, playful and scampering in others as he displaces rhythms. He also possesses an elemental sense of melody, as heard on the final track, an original titled Peace, exhibiting the patience and instinct to get his melodic statements just right.
Alexander is joined by tenor titan Joshua Redman on the originals Faithful, about the sacrifices and challenges he and his family has faced in pursuit of his art, and Fourteen, written on his birthday, and a nod to the number's significance in biblical deliverance. Alexander and Redman also explore a pensive duo take on Ray Nobel's 1934 timeless ballad, The Very Thought of You. As on his previous studio dates, Alexander returned to the well of Coltrane with his upbeat take on the harmonic twists and turns of Moment's Notice from the master's 1957 album Blue Train.
The tour-de-force centerpiece to the album is the 10-minute Eclipse, which is a spin through the reflective and the dramatic with the pianist in drive mode. Just after the band took a studio break to view the solar eclipse on August 21, 2017, producer Olaine suggested that the trio play free and see where the music would go, resulting in the title track.
With the release of Eclipse, Alexander has created an ever more personal and powerful statement of his musical and artistic vision. His work continues to draw from his inspirations of the past, while he puts his own progressive stamp on the music by constantly exploring, both on stage and in the studio.


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Q: Find line that does not end in 83 consecutive commas I have a large csv file that I'm searching using Notepad ++.
Looking for a regex (or other method) to find a line that does not end with 83 consecutive commas.
I'm thinking something like this:
[^,]{83}$

A: The problem with [^,]{83} is that it requires there to be 83 characters which at the same time none are commas. So if any of the last 83 characters are a comma then that expression will fail. It would be easier to use a negative lookahead to search for the bad thing and and fail if is found.
^(?!.*,{83}$)

A: You're searching for 83 non commas at the end of a line, but some may be commas.
Use a look-behind anchored at the end-of-line to assert that the previous 83 characters are not all comma (some are allowed to be, but not all):
(?<!,{83})$

A: So you want (start-of-line or a non-comma character), followed by not-more-than-82 commas.
(^|[^,]),{,82}

A: Denomales is right, but I'd go with this:
([^,],\{0,82\}|^,{0,82})$
It matches a line that ends in a non-comma character followed by anywhere between 0 and 82 commas, or a whole line of less than 83 commas.

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Karla Dickens
Wynscreen contributing artist.
Born 1967, Wiradjuri Nation, Sydney, Australia
Lives and works in Lismore, New South Wales, Australia
The Queen's Road
2017, duration 8 mins, looped
Commissioned by Transport for NSW
Screening times:
Odd-numbered days throughout July 2019, alternating 6am-3pm and 3pm-12am
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While Australia watched and listened to every step of the Queen's first-class journey, what was the experience of people off the road, in the bush, by the rivers and in the gullies? Invisible Australians who were also touched by the 1954 Royal Tour of Queen Elizabeth II.
Summer dresses give comfort, they are pretty to the eye. A new Queen in the nation's spotlight and an invisible and vulnerable Aboriginal woman running scared. Are you lost in the dream?
An embraced and honoured Queen and an abandoned and lonely Aboriginal woman. Regal in their own ways (and equally pretty), wearing classic 1950s frocks. Memories re-awaken in a dreamlike state, as they travel together - two worlds, two cultures, side-by-side.
The Aboriginal woman is seen alone in various bush landscapes. She is invisible to the droves who line the roads, train-lines and docks to catch a mere glimpse of 'our' Queen. Even in solitude (while on country), she is never alone; the trees and waterways hold her people, ancestors and future.
She is part of a collective memory: her great grandmother's recollections, her mother's and her own. She runs and falls, picking herself up again and again. Will you put out your hand?
The Queen's Road gives this 'bush queen' an equal stage, lifting the veil of invisibility for an audience that is unable to deny her presence. She is many Aboriginal women of 1954, and they fall in love with her breathtaking beauty and strength.
Where is she running, lost in confusion? She doesn't know, yet she keeps moving. She runs in search of safety, looking for belonging. This journey is not direct: dead ends at every turn, stop signs and red lights. Will your eyes follow her, or will you choose to cheer-on the Queen?
Production Credits
Conceived and Directed by Karla Dickens
Cinematography and Post Production: John A Douglas
Model/Performer: Cindy Paden
Karla Dickens completed a Diploma of Fine Arts at the National Art School in Sydney in 1990 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the same institution in 2000. She has held more than twenty solo exhibitions and participated in countless group exhibitions and community based projects between 1994 and now.
In 2017 Karla's work was included in The National at Carriageworks, Sydney; Defying Empire Triennial at The National Gallery, Canberra; and Grounded at The National Art School. In 2016, Karla's paintings were projected onto the sails of the Sydney Opera House as part of Vivid LIVE. Her work was featured in significant Sydney exhibitions, including Darkness on the Edge of Town at Artbank, and Sixth Sense at the National Art School. In recent years Karla has participated in the Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards 2015 at Art Gallery of Western Australia; TarraWarra Biennial 2014: Whisper in My Mask at TarraWarra Museum of Art; and Wiradjuri Ngurambanggu at Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA).
The driving forces behind Karla's need to communicate are her Indigenous (Wiradjuri) heritage, sexuality and life experiences as a soulful connected woman. She uses recycled everyday items to explore notions of persistence amidst inherent violence and misunderstanding. Made with uncommon rawness and daring, her meticulously fabricated works emanate a rare truthfulness and honesty. Edgy and hard to confine, Karla often cannibalises existing works to create new ones. She presents a wide-ranging and unique interpretation of the world, where past and present collide in a multi-dimensional kaleidoscope of her own making.
www.karladickens.com.au
Karla Dickens is represented by Andrew Baker Art Dealer
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COVID Hits Minorities Hardest in Nursing Homes, Too
By Health | September 23, 2020
TUESDAY, Sept. 22, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Minority residents of U.S. nursing homes and assisted living communities have been especially hard hit in the coronavirus pandemic, two University of Rochester studies show.
The first found that nursing homes with higher percentages of racial and ethnic minority residents reported two to four times more new COVID-19 cases and deaths compared to others for the week of May 25.
The number of confirmed new COVID-19 cases each week averaged 1.5 in facilities with the highest proportion of minority residents, compared with 0.4 cases per facility among those with a low proportion.
The findings are based on data reported to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services by nearly 15,600 nursing homes. They suggest that persistent inequalities in facilities with limited resources and poor quality of care are being "exacerbated by the pandemic," study leader Yue Li, professor of public health sciences, said in a university news release.
As of July 30, 362,000 people in U.S. nursing homes were infected with the virus — about 8% of all cases nationwide. At least 62,000 nursing home residents died of COVID-19, representing 41% of coronavirus deaths nationally.
The second study found that COVID-19 deaths in assisted living communities in seven states were four times higher than in the counties where they're located.
The findings are based on data from Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, the Carolinas, New York and Ohio that publicly reported COVID-19 data from nursing homes and residential care settings through May 29.
In those states, the percentage of COVID-19 deaths ranged from 3.32% in North Carolina to 9.26% in Connecticut, while the percentage of COVID-19 deaths in assisted living communities in those states ranged from 12.89% to 31.59% — although fewer than 10% of assisted living communities reported being affected by the pandemic.
Assisted living communities with higher proportions of Black and Hispanic residents had more COVID-19 cases, but not more deaths.
"As in the nursing home study, we also see that assisted living communities with more minority residents have more cases, and we confirm that communities with a higher proportion of residents with dementia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and obesity, experienced more COVID-19 cases," said study leader Helena Temkin-Greener, professor of public health sciences.
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20. Curaçoa Punch
On September 18, 2016 September 17, 2016 By The Boozy NewsieIn Bon Vivant's CompanionLeave a comment
Well, I did a whole bunch of these last weekend, and then, as a side effect, totally forgot to write any posts. Perhaps we should do fewer than five at a time. Hrm.
I was excited about this one! I've been digging the use of the curaçao in all of the cocktails recently. Was my excitement justified? Eh, kinda. Though it will certainly be good to move away from this liquor only from a spelling perspective — the fact that he spells it differently confuses my brain every time. Or maybe that's the alcohol.
As news stories about punching are generally never good, I was happy to come across this one. Though it's really a stretch. Nicole Scherzinger wanted to punch someone on X Factor because their performance was so good. I guess. Confusingly, the clip on the site doesn't actually have that part in it. But he did sing very well.
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Dancingecko Mojito Mix – News Flash
On July 11, 2016 July 15, 2016 By The Boozy NewsieIn News Flashes, ReviewsLeave a comment
I think one of the earliest mixed drinks that I actually enjoyed was the mojito. Mint has always been a favorite of mine (ice cream, candy, and so on), and this was basically like a mint soda. But one that could get you drunk.
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4. Mississippi Punch
On June 20, 2016 By The Boozy NewsieIn Bon Vivant's CompanionLeave a comment
Oy, it's a hot one today. Cool down and relax with Jerry Thomas' latest. I have to imagine this is named after the state which has hot, muggy weather all summer long. Only one cure, since there wasn't air conditioning in 1862 — alcohol.
In Mississippi today, the case of three civil rights workers being burned in 1964, dubbed the "Mississippi Burning" case, has been officially closed. The last person was convicted in 2005, so someone will have to explain to me the legal parts of this.
(Use large bar glass.)
2 oz. of brandy.
1 oz. of Jamaica rum.
1 oz. of Bourbon whiskey.
1 oz. of water.
1½ table-spoonful of powdered white sugar.
¼ of a large lemon.
Fill a tumbler with shaved ice.
The above must be well shaken, and to those who like their draughts "like linked sweetness long drawn out," [Sounds very southern to me.] let them use a glass tube or straw to sip the nectar through. The top of this punch should be ornamented with small pieces of orange, and berries in season.
BN: This was mostly good. I just read a book on the history of the Old Fashioned, and apparently there was a long period in the middle of the 1900s where people threw all kinds of fruit in them and they tasted a little sweet but still bourbon-y. I've never had one of those, specifically, but I think this is what that would taste like. The bourbon came through strongly (less so the other alcohols), and it was certainly fruity. Though not citrusy, really, oddly. Nowhere near as good as his other punches, though.
This also brought up some process questions for me. Why so much shaved ice? It waters things down so quickly, especially when it's hot. Secondly, the amounts in this recipe were rather odd. It's 5 oz. of alcohol, which is a lot for one drink, but it's not really enough liquid for two. We split it, but the pours were light. Was it for a solo drinker? Finally, what was the purpose of his guide? Was it for bartenders to be ready if someone came in and ordered a "Mississippi Punch?" Or was he just sharing ideas for them to offer, not receive.
I do love the "linked sweetness" line, though.
PiC: It's got some bite! It is a touch too alcoholic for me, but not bad. Kind of like a Jerry Thomas Long Island Iced Tea. (WHY DON'T ALL HIS PUNCHES USE RASPBERRY SYRUP?!)
The Hamilton and The Burr
On May 21, 2016 May 23, 2016 By The Boozy NewsieIn Originals1 Comment
Occasionally, I will have guest posts here on the blog, from interested friends and compatriots who like to drink, and like to read the news. In this case, the following two drinks come from someone who is much better at following current events and politics than I, whether they're current or, well, 200+ years ago. I submit for your approval, the Hamilton and the Burr. Apart from my own tasting notes at the end, this is from the great Manny Antunes, who has just graduated from law school! Congratulations!
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21. Roman Punch
On May 14, 2016 By The Boozy NewsieIn Bon Vivant's CompanionLeave a comment
I'll start this entry out by saying this is one of the top three Jerry Thomas concoctions I've made so far. And the thing all of those (this, 2. Brandy Punch, and 12. Champagne Punch) have in common? The raspberry syrup. So, apparently that's just the best.
In the Phillippines, they just elected their first transgender politician, Geraldine Roman. As there are no openly LGBT politicians in the nation until now, this is a big step forward! Not much else to report, other than a lot of news about the new Uncharted video game which I guess has a character named Roman.
1 table-spoonful of sugar.
1 table-spoonful of raspberry syrup [Recipe here.]
1 tea-spoonful of Curaçoa.
2 oz. Jamaica rum. [We decided this meant dark rum.]
1 oz. brandy.
The juice of half a lemon.
Fill with shaved ice, shake well, dash with port wine, and ornament with fruits in season. Imbibe through a straw.
BN: I loved this. Another easy to make recipe (just throw everything together), and so delicious. The spiced rum and raspberry mixed really nicely, and the curaçao merged in to add a bit more fruitiness. I actually could have used a little more of that, and will do so next time (a teaspoon is a really small amount). It was easy to drink and had a lot of depth of flavor. Definitely use the straw, too, as you get a better mix of flavors from the bottom than the top, and you don't have to deal with the shaved ice. Also, I put in a little too much (way more than a dash) of port accidentally, and the straw helped with that.
PiC: I really liked this. It almost has a medicinal taste, but not in a bad way, and it doesn't quite get there. It's sweet but not too sweet, and of course it's very pretty. I imagine you could make this in a big batch for a party and it would be perfect.
23. Hot Milk Punch
On May 8, 2016 By The Boozy NewsieIn Bon Vivant's CompanionLeave a comment
This is exactly the same as 22. Milk Punch, but hot. However, since the instructions are similar I'm making it as a separate post, albeit with less front matter.
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22. Milk Punch
Knocked out two in a row for this weekend. Why two? Well, because one is exactly the same as the other one, just differs in temperature. The hot version of this is over here. For now, the chilly one.
In the news world, not much to report. Louisiana apparently barred (or rather, chose to not allow) the sale of raw milk, due to health risks. Needless to say, I did not use raw milk for this. Sorry for the lame news (two in a row). It was either this or a story about donated breast milk, which is probably more interesting, but slightly less appetizing.
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Questions Surround U.S. Gunrunning to Syrian Rebels
Kerry Picket
The CIA is gearing up to send weapons to rebel groups in Syria through Turkey and Jordan, the Washington Post reported on Friday. This is an expanded program over the effort during the past year to maintain supply routes into the war torn country for nonlethal material, U.S. officials told the Post.
But U.S. officials involved in the planning of the new policy of increased military support announced by the Obama administration Thursday said that the CIA has developed a clearer understanding of the composition of rebel forces, which have begun to coalesce in recent months. Within the past year, the CIA also created a new office at its headquarters in Langley to oversee its expanding operational role in Syria.
"We have relationships today in Syria that we didn't have six months ago," Benjamin J. Rhodes, Obama's deputy national security adviser, said during a White House briefing Friday. The United States is capable of delivering material "not only into the country," Rhodes said, but "into the right hands."
The confidence conveyed by Rhodes's statement is in contrast to the concerns expressed by U.S. intelligence officials last year that the CIA and other U.S. spy agencies were still struggling to gain a firm understanding of opposition elements — a factor cited at the time as a reason the Obama administration was unwilling to consider providing arms.
Although the Obama administration policy is touted as new, in January, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) asked then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her testimony on Capitol on the terrorist attack on the consulate in Benghazi if the CIA was involved in a gun-running operation through Turkey.
"Is the U.S. involved in any procuring of weapons, transfer of weapons, buying, selling, transferring weapons to Turkey?" he asked.
Senator Clinton responded, "To Turkey? I will have to take that question for the record. Nobody has ever raised that with me."
"It's been in news reports that ships have been leaving from Libya and that they may have weapons and what I'd like to know is the annex that was close by, were they involved with procuring, buying, selling, obtaining weapons and were any of these weapons being transferred to other countries, any countries, Turkey included?" the Kentucky Republican asked Clinton.
"Well, Senator, you'll have to direct that question to the agency that ran the annex and I will see what information is available," Clinton said.
"You're saying you don't know," Paul clarified.
"I do not know. I don't have any information on that," Clinton answered.
Additionally, questions regarding Congress' knowledge of any U.S. gunrunning going to the Syrian rebels prior the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi remain. Only members of the House and Senate's "Super 8" (consisting of both parties' leaders in both chambers, along with House and Senate Select Intelligence committee chairs and ranking members) would be required to be briefed on such an operation. Any information they receive from these briefings are classified.
On January 24, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) told talk radio host Laura Ingraham in response to Paul's remarks on gunrunning, "I'm somewhat familiar with the chatter about this and the fact that these arms were moving towards Turkey, but most what I know about this came from a classified source and I really can't elaborate on it."
However, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), Ranking Member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, claim to have been unaware of any gunrunning going through Turkey.
"I'm not familiar with that," Chambliss told Breitbart News in February when asked if he could respond to Paul's assertions.
Feinstein told Breitbart News she never knew about the gun running allegations.
House Select Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Rogers (R-MI) was confident that there was no gun running "in any shape or form" that happened in Libya.
"I get to see all of that stuff. I have seen nothing that would allow me to conclude that the U.S. government was in any way, shape, or form involved in gun running in Libya. I looked at it all."
"If it's there I have not seen it. I think I would have found it," he said. "I think there were some other things that were happening and people got confused, but the United States government was not running guns (from the annex)."
Ranking member of the House Intel Committee Rep. Dutch Ruppersberg (D-MD) agreed with Feinstein and Chambliss, telling Breitbart News in May, "I've heard nothing about it. I don't know. We don't get to that minutia sometimes–the Gang of 8." He explained, "We get the most sensitive information, that even our own committees can't [get.]"
Ruppersberg added, "The checks and balances is [the White House] give us information–very sensitive information–the check and balance issue, but they don't have to tell us everything or we'd be sitting having Gang of Eight breifings all day long. That's the answer. I don't know," said Ruppersberg.
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Jasón y los argonautas es una serie de televisión de Estados Unidos producida por Hallmark y dirigida por Nick Willing. Fue trasmitida en dos capítulos en el año 2000.

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Pelias vence y asesina a Esón clavándole un puñal. El hijo de Esón, Jasón (Jason London), evita la muerte gracias a un miembro de la guardia real, Mopsos (Mark Lewis Jones), que siguiendo un pasadizo secreto, lo conduce al exterior de la ciudad. Para proteger al niño el guardia lo entrega al centauro Quirón (Hugh Quarshie), junto con la llave de la entrada secreta al palacio.

Años después, Jasón recuerda todo lo sucedido en un sueño. Entonces le pregunta a Quirón si lo que ha soñado es cierto, y después de que este se lo confirmara, parte a reclamar su trono. Por el camino se encuentra a una señora mayor que quiere cruzar un río pero dice que la corriente es muy fuerte; entonces Jasón la ayuda a cruzarlo. Después de haberlo cruzado la señora le dice a Jasón que el colgante que lleva es muy valioso ya que era un amuleto de Hera (Olivia Williams). Después desaparece misteriosamente y Jasón pierde una sandalia, lo que quiere decir que es un protegido de los dioses. Más tarde llega a reclamar su trono y ve que Pelias se casó con su madre Polímele (Diana Kent) y que tiene un hijo. Pelias no está dispuesto a cederle fácilmente el trono, y le pone como condición para acceder a él que traiga el Vellocino de oro, al que Pelias quiere pedirle el deseo de ser inmortal. A pesar de la enorme dificultad de la misión, Jasón acepta el desafío.

Le dan un barco y lo llaman Argo porque quien lo diseñó se llamaba así, pero como no tenía tripulación se la tuvo que buscar él, ve a Ulises y él le ayuda a buscar más gente, pero no encuentran marineros porque estos no quieren ir con Jasón; Orfeo (Adrian Lester), al que le gusta tocar la lira, es otra persona que se irá con él en la nave.

Va al cartógrafo porque es el único que sabe dónde está el vellocino, el cartógrafo se lo dice, pero tiene que darle a cambio algo de valor; entonces le da el amuleto, ya que es lo único de valor que posee, pero el cartógrafo se lo devuelve y le dice que él, Jasón, le dará un mejor uso. Le enseña el mapa y le dice que nadie sabe dónde está excepto una persona llamada Fineo que vive en una isla que le indica en el mapa. Cuando se lo está diciendo, entra su hijo, y le dice que sin él su padre no podría haber hecho todos estos mapas. El hijo quiere ir con Jasón, pero su padre no le deja. Después se encuentra a Hércules (Brian Thompson) quien también irá con Jasón. También ira el hermanastro de Jasón, Acasto (Tom Harper), además de un ladrón y otras personas. Al comenzar el rumbo con el barco, se encuentra con Atalanta (Olga Sosnovska), que es una amiga de la Escuela a la que había ido antes, y a quien se le daba muy bien el tiro con arco. Además, Atalanta quería a Jasón. Zeus (Angus Macfadyen), al ver eso, le hace 10,000 veces más difícil todo lo que haga.

Una de las cosas que le hace es ponerle niebla para que no vean hacia donde están yendo y un remolino en el cual el barco quedó bastante dañado. Así pasan un buen tiempo hasta que alguien ve unas rocas y tienen que maniobrar para no chocar con ellas. Cuando se va la niebla, desembarcan y están en una isla donde vienen mujeres guerreras y no hay hombres. Estas le dan de comer, les proporcionan camas y Jasón se acuesta con una y se quita el amuleto. Pero Jasón espiando, porque no se acaba de fiar, descubre que los hombres son como un sacrificio para Hera. Se lo cuenta a los demás tripulantes, pero no le creen y siguen en una fiesta que habían organizado hasta que realmente se dan cuenta de que los van a matar. Entonces todos escapan y se van al barco aún dañado y huyen de esa isla.

Los que custodian el vellocino, ven lo que va a pasar y envían un barco para que ataque al barco de Jasón. Entre los que van a atacar, va el hijo del rey de la isla donde se encuentra el vellocino. Una vez que Jasón y los argonautas han llegado a la isla, unos de la tripulación ven un torreón donde hay comida, pero al intentar coger una fruta unos monstruos llamados harpías les atacan. Jasón y otros ven a Fineo (Derek Jacobi), que es ciego y está en esa isla solo. Le preguntan dónde está el vellocino, pero para que se lo diga deben cumplir una misión que les propone. Esta consiste en matar las harpías, ya que dice que le roban los alimentos. Van al torreón donde están las harpías y Jasón entra pero espera un rato para coger algo, ya que los otros están empujando las piedras para que se caigan encima de las harpías. Al final Jasón coge una fruta y se pone debajo de la mesa, y a las harpías le caen los pedruscos y mueren. Como han conseguido su misión, Fineo les dice que el vellocino está en Colquida. Y ponen rumbo hacia allí.

El barco que el rey Eetes (Frank Langella), envió para que atacase a Jasón, naufraga y solo sobrevive su hijo Apsirto (James Callis). Por el camino, Jasón y los argonautas encuentran, agarrado a una tabla, a Apsirto, pero como eso los argonautas no lo saben, le ayudan llevándolo a él también en el barco. Le preguntan cómo llegar a Colquida y este les dice que para llegar, el único camino que conoce es pasando a través de dos montañas, pero que allí la corriente es demasiado fuerte y es muy difícil pasar.

Jasón y los argonautas intentan pasar, pero decidiendo que sea una paloma blanca, que les había seguido todo el viaje y que, según Orfeo, era su esposa que murió, quien les guíe. Tiran la paloma al aire y ven que las montañas se cierran tras su paso. De todas maneras, intentan pasar, y a pesar de muchas dificultades consiguieron atravesarlas. El que se cierren las montañas era una imaginación de las personas, ya que por allí era muy difícil pasar y por eso llegaron a esa conclusión. Mientras, en el lugar donde estaba la madre de Jasón, el hechicero se equivocó y dijo que Jasón y los tripulantes habían muerto, y su madre no se lo podía creer. Al llegar los argonautas a Cólquida, Jasón le dice al rey Eetes que quiere el vellocino de oro, y él le dice que solo un protegido de los dioses podría llegar a coger el vellocino.

Mientras, Hera le dice a la diosa del amor que le clave una de sus flechas a Medea (Jolene Blalock), hija del rey de Colquida, para que le dé todo su amor a Jasón. El rey de Colquida le hace pasar una prueba a Jasón para demostrar que es un protegido de los dioses. Dice que debe domar un toro de metal que escupe fuego por la boca y labrar con él un pequeño campo y sembrar dientes de dragón.

Medea, a quien la diosa del amor ya ha clavado su flecha, le ayuda poniéndole un aceite con el que será invulnerable al fuego del toro.
Al día siguiente Jasón va como a un coliseo para hacer esa proeza, abren como una caja donde está el toro y Jasón se enfrenta a él, pero la primera vez el toro le echa fuego y Jasón cae al suelo. Gracias al aceite que Medea le dio, el fuego no le causó grandes quemaduras. Luego, Jasón se subió al gran toro y se agarró para no caerse. Al final, el toro se cansó y empezó a labrar la tierra.
Una vez labrada la tierra le dan las semillas para sembrar. De las semillas sembradas salen unos guerreros que atacan a Jasón.
Estos guerreros solo se podían matar entre ellos mismos, y Jasón les engaña para que se maten entre ellos. Una vez superada la prueba, Eetes quiere casar a su hija con Jasón y que Jasón se quede en la isla con el vellocino. Pero Apsirto le dice a su padre que ha oído a Jasón decir a Medea que, después de coger el vellocino, se escaparán de la isla. Cuando se dirigen a por el vellocino, Medea se va con ellos.

Apsirto envía entonces un ejército a luchar contra Jasón y los argonautas. El ejército lucha contra Jasón y los argonautas, y durante la lucha, Medea le clava a su hermano, una lanza, y lo mata.

Para poder coger el vellocino, deben atravesar un barranco. A Jasón se le ocurre de pasar con una cuerda y le dice a Hércules que tire una cuerda atada a un escudo hacia el otro lado del barranco y lo van saltando.

Mientras atraviesan el barranco, les ataca un ejército, y Hércules lucha contra todos ellos. Aun así, los arqueros de dicho ejército estaban apuntando a los que pasaban, matando a muchos de ellos, pero uno de ellos sigue con una flecha clavada, llega hasta el barco y se queda allí esperando a los demás, acompañando de algunos tripulantes que se habían quedado en el barco. Los que sobreviven sin ninguna flecha siguen su camino para coger el vellocino y Hércules se queda luchando, pero se cae con algunos de los soldados por el barranco y Jasón se entristece mucho.

Al final ven el vellocino, que estaba en la rama de un árbol, pero al intentar acercarse se encuentran a un dragón que les impide cogerlo. Más de uno intenta pasar y cogerlo pero, o bien se caían por el barranco que estaba en el otro lado del árbol o bien se los comía el dragón. A Jasón se le ocurre la idea de que Orfeo toque mientras él se ata una cuerda para no caerse. Todo va bien hasta que Orfeo se equivoca de cuerda en su lira y el dragón vuelve en sí. A Jasón le había dado el tiempo justo para atarse, y al luchar, el dragón cae por el barranco, pero Jasón no, porque estaba atado. Jasón sube por la cuerda y coge el vellocino, que era una piel de cabra dorada, y vuelven al barco. Al llegar, Jasón ve a Hércules muerto en el agua, y de golpe desaparece misteriosamente. Rápidamente cogen el barco para irse de Colquida.

Medea se va con Jasón para casarse, Zeus, para asegurarse de que su amor es puro, se presenta en un sueño y le quita la flecha del amor, pero aun así Medea sigue queriendo a Jasón y rechaza a Zeus.
Al despertar, Medea presiente que han asesinado a su padre, lo cual resulta ser cierto, ya que, como no tienen el vellocino, no podrán ganar ninguna otra batalla más.
En el barco, el ladrón le quita la flecha al que llegó herido y Medea le pone un líquido que le cura la herida superficial pero la de dentro se le tendría que curar poco a poco.

Al llegar a casa, el padre del cartógrafo le estaba esperando. También le da una mala noticia a Jasón y es que su madre se suicidó al saber la errónea noticia de que había muerto.
Jasón ve una nueva constelación y es la constelación de Hércules, que cuando murió se convirtió en esa nueva constelación.
Mopsos guarda el vellocino y Acasto se lo quiere arrebatar emborrachándole.
Jasón ve una escultura de Hera y le pregunta cuánto camino le queda, a lo que ella le responde que aún le queda mucho camino por hacer.

Al día siguiente no está Acasto ni Medea y tampoco esta el vellocino. Entonces Jasón y los argonautas creen que los dos les habían engañado.

Acasto va a ver a su padre con el vellocino de oro en la cabeza y le dice que ahora el reinado era suyo porque llevaba el vellocino. Su padre entonces le da un abrazo por haber conseguido el vellocino, pero el rey quiere el vellocino, así que al abrazarle le clava un cuchillo a su hijo y coge él el vellocino. En ese momento el vellocino se vuelve plateado y pierde el color dorado.
Medea está viendo todo esto camuflada entre los ciudadanos. Y al ver que ha perdido su color se presenta a Pelias y le dice que ella puede hacer que el vellocino vuelva a tener el color dorado. Va al estanque de agua donde murió su hermano, demuestra su poder haciéndose un corte en el brazo y se pone un líquido, con lo que la herida se cura perfectamente y comienza a hacer un ritual, echando unos líquidos en el agua del estanque.

Mientras Jasón y otros de la tripulación se disponen a ir al palacio para ver lo que pasaba, uno de ellos le dice a Jasón que hay una manera de entrar sin ser visto, y es entrando por un pasadizo secreto que solo puede ser abierta con una llave, que es la que tenía Jasón cuando salió de su país. Pero esa llave ya no la tenía porque se la dejó en aquella isla.

Sin embargo, el ladrón la cogió pensando que tenía bastante valor. Cuando se entera de eso, se la devuelve a Jasón y se van para el palacio.

Camino del palacio, les hacen una emboscada y luchan contra los guerreros que les atacan. Acaban con ellos pero también muere Argos, el diseñador de la nave. Al llegar a la puerta de la entrada secreta, Jasón abre la puerta con la llave y pasan por el pasadizo. Mientras, en el estanque, Medea ya ha acabado de poner los líquidos y le dice a Pelias que ya está listo, y que debe meterse en el estanque con el vellocino para que este recupere su color dorado. Pelias, que no se fía, hace entrar primero a su hechicero amenazándole con matarle si no lo hace. Al entrar el hechicero en el estanque, desaparece como si hubiera sido engullido por algo. En ese mismo momento aparece Jasón y los demás, y matan a los guerreros que había allí. Pelias, coge a Medea y le pone el cuchillo en el cuello. Jasón le dice que el poder del vellocino no existe y que uno se forja con los actos, que el vellocino no sirve de nada, nosotros construimos nuestro destino por medio de nuestros actos, y es nuestra imaginación lo que hace que pensemos que algo concede deseos. Pelias hace ver que está de acuerdo y le da una abrazo pero su intención era clavarle un cuchillo. En ese momento, Jasón lo esquiva y hace que se lo clave él mismo.

Al final, Jasón se casa con Medea y Atalanta se queda triste porque también ella quería a Jasón.

Enlaces externos

Series de televisión de Estados Unidos de los años 2000
Adaptaciones extraliterarias de la historia de los argonautas
Series de televisión basadas en libros
Mitología griega en la televisión


When Sniper Ghost Warrior 2 released in 2013, we weren't big fans of the experience. In his review, former editor Tim Turi called it a "a below average, by-the-numbers affair." With linear missions and finicky controls, Sniper Ghost Warrior 2 was a shooter that could be safely skipped. Fast forward four years and Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 is almost ready to launch. I recently played a near-final build of the game, and while I'm not ready to proclaim it's worth dropping every other game you're playing to pick up, it does show signs of improvement.
I chose to tackle one of the main missions, a simple camp infiltration followed by an interrogation. I accept the mission using the laptop in my home base, craft some armor-piercing rounds (as well as a few explosive rounds for good measure) using the workbench, and hop in my jeep. The driving feels fine for first-person driving – I've always preferred the third-person perspective when controlling vehicles in everything from shooters or racing games. I arrive at the camp and immediately spot a good sniping area that overlooks the area. Using my scout ability, which is similar to Arkham Knight's Detective Vision, I find ledges I can use to scale the cliffside to reach the top. Once there, I activate my drone, which I fly over and use to tag enemies within the camp. The drone controls are very sensitive, so it takes me several minutes to get the hang of.
I fire my first shot, but it whizzes by the target's head – I didn't fully take into account the wind. Thankfully, my silencer prevents this shot from exposing my position. Instead, the bullet zooming by the target's head has made him suspicious. Using a meter that tells me how much to factor in wind resistance, I line up a follow-up shot. This time, the bullet passes right through his head. I repeat the step for the other four enemies I tagged, adjusting my elevation and wind resistance for each one using the easy-to-read on-screen displays. I realize the few enemies left are concealed, so I decide to shift to the Ghost approach.


MOROCCO, IN - Gregory Dale Messer, 70, of Morocco, IN passed away at his home surrounded by his family on Monday, April 15, 2019. He was born in Logan, WV on March 15, 1949 to Curtis Gene Messer and Pearl (Browning) Messer. He was a graduate of Hammond Tech High School in Hammond, IN. On March 14, 1970, in Crown Point, IN he married Roberta Kyle O'Donnell. Greg was a fork lift operator for Gateway Warehouse in Calumet City, IL for 45 years, retiring in 2015. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, camping, and spending time with his family.
He is survived by his wife of 49 years, Roberta Messer of Morocco, IN; two children, Angela Long of Rensselaer, IN and Anthony (Julie) Messer of Cedar Lake, IN; one brother, Jim (Debbie) Messer of Brook, IN; one sister, Joyce (Larry) Price of Dingess, WV; one sister-in-law, Andrea (Gerald) Barkey of Crown Point; four grandchildren: Joshua Messer of Cedar Lake, Jacob Long of Rensselaer, Patrick Messer of Cedar Lake, and Katherine Long of Rensselaer; two great-grandchildren, Edward Long and Kingston Krull; and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, Curtis and Pearl Messer; one brother, Herb Messer; and one sister-in-law, RuDel O'Donnell.


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Sept. 9 event organized by loss survivors to benefit nonprofit Buckelew Programs
Artists From Across California Host an All-Day Tattoo Event to Raise Awareness & Funds for Suicide Prevention
Petaluma, CA – On Friday, Sept. 9, 2022, tattoo artists from around the Bay Area and Los Angeles will donate their talents and ink for an all-day event to raise awareness and funds for suicide prevention programs.
Petaluma Tattoo is hosting the event during Suicide Prevention Awareness Month to encourage open conversations about a too-often stigmatized topic and support a community of survivors and friends. Artists will donate 100% of the day's proceeds to Buckelew Programs for suicide prevention services. Buckelew is the largest nonprofit provider of comprehensive mental health and substance use services in Marin, Sonoma and Napa counties. Buckelew also operates the region's 9-8-8 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, one of 13 California call centers participating in the new national 988 network. Trained hotline volunteers respond to approximately 1,000 calls 24/7 each month from Marin, Sonoma, Lake and Mendocino counties.
With 14 celebrated artists providing tattoos, this is the third – and largest – annual event organized by Petaluma Tattoo owner Nick Rodin. Rodin lost his brother to suicide in 2009 and then his best friend two months later. After struggling for nearly a decade to talk about the tragedies, Rodin finally learned to share his story, and his path to healing began. Now Nick hopes this benefit event can help ease others' pain.
"We are bringing people together in a way I hadn't anticipated when I started," Rodin said. "Many clients come in for a meaningful tattoo – often to memorialize someone they lost or mark a significant time in their lives. While they're here, they meet other people who struggle with depression or lost someone to suicide. They arrive as perfect strangers and then bond."
Tattoo enthusiasts are expected to begin lining up at Nick's shop at 11 a.m. Nick estimates his artists will ink 80 or more people throughout the day and night. Meanwhile, the Buckelew Programs outreach team will be on hand to share information about services and support groups.
"As California faces a devastating mental health crisis exacerbated by the pandemic, it's more critical than ever to talk openly about suicide and find ways to expand access to mental health care," said Buckelew Programs CEO Chris Kughn, LMFT. "One in six Californians live with a mental illness, and suicides have been steadily increasing by 25% nationally over the last two decades. The generosity of Petaluma Tattoo, the artists and the participants not only raises vital funds for services for our diverse population; it helps shift public perception and spread information."
Suicide is preventable. If you or someone you know is in mental health distress, call 9-8-8 for the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
When: Sept. 9, 2022, 11 a.m.- approx. 9 p.m.
Where: Petaluma Tattoo, 406 Petaluma Blvd South, Petaluma, CA
How: First come, first served. Clients can choose from in-house designs, including popular symbols such as the semicolon (a reminder that your story isn't over) and a rose with a broken stem (symbolizing a life cut short).
Scheduled Artists & Donors: Petaluma Tattoo; Lou's Luncheonette; Stemple Creek Ranch; Lagunitas Brewing Co.; Ballet Folklorico Paquiyollotzin; and artists Jill Bonny, Freddy Corbin, Paul Dobleman, Jesse Haney, Aaron Hodges, Jenn Lee, Cody Miller, Ryan Neri, Greg Rojas, Jeff Rassier, Kahlil Rintye, Nick Rodin, Adrian Sanchez, Scott Sylvia
Nick Rodin, Petaluma Tattoo
Cell: (510) 333-0769 Shop: (707) 769-8282
Email: nrodin@gmail.com
Ilene Lelchuk Snyder, Buckelew Programs media liaison
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About Nick Rodin
Nick has been a tattoo artist for 23 years, working at San Francisco's world-renowned "Black Heart Tattoo" before opening Petaluma Tattoo in 2020. He specializes in traditional American-style and botanical-style tattoos. Learn more at www.petalumatattoo.com.
About Buckelew Programs
Founded in 1970, Buckelew Programs is the largest nonprofit provider of comprehensive mental health and substance use services for North Bay residents, regardless of their ability to pay. Buckelew provides direct services to about 3,000 clients in Marin, Sonoma and Napa counties and answers approximately 12,000 suicide and crisis hotline calls annually from Marin, Sonoma, Lake and Mendocino counties. Buckelew services include Counseling, Supported Housing, Service Navigation, Substance Use Recovery and Suicide Prevention for individuals of all ages and their families. Learn more at buckelew.org.
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From Rags to... Slightly Less Filthy Rags
Wednesday, Jan 30, 2002 by Rich "Lowtax" Kyanka (@TwitterHasBannedAllMyAccountsEver)
Didn't you want to grow up to be a cowboy just like these rough and tumble ranchhands? Okay, maybe not EXACTLY like them, but along the same lines. Okay, not at all.
Ever since I was a kid, I constantly knew I wanted to eventually grow up and become an adult who was no longer a kid anymore. Beyond that however, I had no idea what I wanted to do for a living. As children, our hopes and dreams change as quickly as commercials for soldier figurines that are marked "some assembly required" and include 50,000 accessories which are promptly sucked into another dimension the instant we tear open their plastic packaging. Now as all of you out there in Internet-land are undoubtedly well aware of, I am diametrically opposed to making sweeping generalizations, as doing so causes me to receive hundreds of thousands of emails from flight-sim addicted homosexual furries. No matter what sweeping generalization I make about what group of people, I end up getting flame mail from flight-sim addicted homosexual furries. I'm beginning to think that the Internet is simply a breeding swamp for anus-licking humanoid foxes who want to fly jet planes, which is of course a stupid notion because I know for a fact the Internet also attracts pasty-white goth high school kids who write poetry about carving pentagrams into the skull of their algebra teachers. Regardless, I can safely proclaim that every single one of us was utterly retarded as a kid. The entire purpose of being a child is to do all the stupid things that we can't get away with as adults, such as lick streets signs, feign ignorance after using racial slurs, or engage in underage drinking. When's the last time you've seen anybody over the age of 21 get caught for underage drinking? I sure as hell can't remember the last time, but then again I masturbate to coupons for cake mix so my opinion can probably be disregarded.
To continue with the subject at hand, which I really don't recall, childhood instills us with the dopey notion that we can be anything we want to as long as we brush our teeth and put on clean underwear before getting run over by a tractor trailer. Eventually we mature and wise up to the notion that only .0000001% of us are going to be the president, a spy, or astronaut. The rest of us have to settle for being president of the West Pointsburgh Botanical Society, a spy who spies quick glances of other men's penises in public restrooms, or, uh, an astronaut who floats around in the weightlessness of a garbage dumpster infested with rats and copies of "Shaq Steel." To tell the truth, I really had grand ambitions for this analogy but none of them materialized, and for that I apologize. While this may seem like a dreary and depressing update, I am proud to announce that the illusions of futility were recently eradicated from my existence by discovering a certain gem that proves we, as giant bags of red goo trapped inside some fleshy skin-like substance, can become anything we want to be.
"Bad Taste" by Peter Jackson
Actual vidcap from "Lord of the Rings."
Many of you may know Peter Jackson as the guy who made that goofy movie about elves or jewelry or hobbits or whatever, that silly "Lord of the Rings" film. While I personally have not seen "Lord of the Rings," I have impersonally watched it by viewing a 10-second ad and then basing my entire judgment upon the fact that it contains characters that can be seen in Dungeons and Dragons games, therefore discrediting the film and putting it on the same league as Tom Hanks' "Mazes and Monsters." This, ladies and gentlemen, is not a league you want to be in. If the XFL was still around, it would be the equivalent of their minor league farm team, also known as "being on parole" I guess. Most all movies that feature orcs, gold coins, or magic weapons fall into this horrible category. Whenever I'm too lazy to propel my fat ass out of my chair so I can see a movie and actually gain some insight into what the hell I'm writing about, I simply ask myself the following question:
"Does this movie look like any of the scenes were determined by rolling 20-sided dice?"
If the answer is "yes" then I personally go out of my way to avoid the film. Hell, if the answer is "no," I usually end up avoiding the film as well since the last two movies I saw in theaters were "AI" and "Gone in 60 Seconds," films which were easily eclipsed by the raw entertainment value of the popcorn I ate during the screening. Now while "Lord of the Rings" has earned approximately 100 jillion billion zillion dollars and cured cancer and colonized Mars, I don't believe "Bad Taste" had quite the same effect. As far as I can tell, the only effect "Bad Taste" had was to bolster the tourism revenues of every country which was not New Zealand, the location where the movie took place.
Wow, they used a lot of obvious fake blood! Quick, let's make it a cult classic because God knows, fake blood = quality!
"Bad Taste" is one of those movies that causes a small band of raving lunatics to absolutely positively NEVER EVER SHUT UP or cease lathering praise upon it. They'll hammer you over and over with references to the movie, descriptions of the movie, and comparisons of the movie until you either succumb to their wishes and watch the movie or commit suicide by jamming an envelope opener into your ear canal. Death is usually a more preferable option, although the path to hell is paved with fat movie geeks who recite lines from "Hackers." Naturally this film is one of those movies that cause us quasi-normal human-type people to sit through it and wonder "so what?" Yes, there is a lot of blood and guts in the movie. Yes, the characters are quirky because they have accents and wear scarves and choose not to act when they probably should. But what causes sub-mediocre crapfests like this to become cult classics? Is it simply that the Internet allows anybody anywhere to instantly locate people of equal interests, spare time, and idiocy? More importantly, how the hell can any human go from "Bad Taste," which grossed $28 and two bus tokens, to "Lord of the Rings," a movie which is so popular that scientists are currently trying to figure out how to beam the movie to neighboring star systems?
"Bad Taste" is the eternal tale of aliens (bad guys) who want to kill us (humans (good guys (bad actors))). Each scene is simply a vehicle to show off a new prop weapon or special effect that the director created while combining Play-Dough and strawberry jam. Man runs from location to location, killing aliens. Aliens run from location to location, killing man. Audience runs from location to location, fleeing from the movie. Repeat for roughly 400,000 minutes and bam, you've got yourself a cult film. This movie isn't bad in an entertaining "Evil Dead 2" or "Feeders 2" kind of way, it's simply bad in a "pregnant wife and Pope killed in automobile accident" kind of way. And no, the wife was not pregnant with the Pope's baby.
However, as much as I'd like to point out the infinite ways which "Bad Taste" disappointed me, ways which barely outnumber the quantity of times space nerd Wil Wheaton is mentioned daily on Fark, it just goes to show you that there is hope in life. One minute we could be a down-and-out janitor mopping the bathroom of an Arby's, and the next minute we could be awarded $500,000 for choking on a Lincoln Log that somehow found its way into a Big Roast Beef sandwich. Just as Peter Jackson went from the idiotic "Bad Taste" to the pop sensation "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, we too can stumble upon a success story that revolves around us filming midgets holding swords. Dream on, children of Earth, as nothing in our lives is impossible, even meeting a talking cat that somehow solves mysteries! One day you too may reach your childhood dream of becoming an unemployed flight-sim addicted gay furry who spends all their free time accusing me of not accepting various deviant lifestyles that justify jacking off to Rescue Rangers slash. Aim high, jerks!
– Rich "Lowtax" Kyanka (@TwitterHasBannedAllMyAccountsEver)
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Friends donate to library
Published 12:10 pm Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Friends of the Farmville-Prince Edward Community Library Chair Robin Smith, left, presents Megan Almond, a children's programmer with the library, a donation for $1,500.
The Friends of the Farmville-Prince Edward Community Library recently presented a donation of $1,500 to Children's Programmer Megan Almond in support of children's programming activities at the library.
The check was donated during the Friends board's regular board meeting held recently.
Board Chairman Robin Smith presented the check. The funds were raised from the Friends' annual Harvest Moon Champagne and Chocolate Gala held at the library in October, according to a press release.
"It was pretty exciting. I just started last June, and from what I understand, they had been without a children's programmer for a while," Almond said. "It's nice to be able to expand on what we've already started and bring more experiences and different types of programs to the kids in the county."
The children's program offers numerous events, including a story time for kids five and under, a Lego Club for children ages 5-12, a children's volunteer who helps out with programming and other programs.
The money donated — Almond said — has gone to purchasing Legos for the Lego Club and will go toward the library's Summer Reading Program.
"The Summer Reading Program is a yearly event; it's really important especially in rural communities," Almond said. "It helps with 'summer slide,' which is when kids lose a lot of those reading comprehension and thinking skills over the summer when they're not being challenged like they are in school. It's encouraging them to read, but it's also giving them something to do during the summer."
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