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APOCRYPHA CANDIDATE: BEETLEJUICE (1988)
September 24, 2019 Pete Trbovich	8 Comments
DIRECTED BY: Tim Burton
FEATURING: Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, Jeffrey Jones
PLOT: A milquetoast suburban couple find themselves dead and haunting their own house; when new tenants they can't stand redecorate the place and prove themselves immune to haunting, they hire a "bio-exorcist."
WHY IT MIGHT MAKE THE LIST: The premise, following a couple of ghosts protagonists along their misadventures in the afterlife, is a good enough foundation, but could have been a ho-hum fantasy in different hands. It took this all-star crew to come up with a desert world populated by sand snakes, a brothel in model train scale, a dinner party becoming a Harry Belafonte singalong, and a million and one creepy/hilarious dead folk to round it up to an eye-popping experience. It's the happiest movie about death ever made!
COMMENTS: Tim Burton has certainly provoked his share of discussion on our site. Had 366 Weird Movies been around when he started his career, he doubtless would have been keen to make our list. Don't let him kid for you a minute: Tim Burton knows exactly what weird is. He has Danny Elfman around, he knows about Forbidden Zone. There's no excuse. He also knows what money is, and the siren song of the almighty buck has proven a stronger lure than prestige as a true artiste and auteur of midnight movies. Hence has he ever aimed his output straight for the suburban outlet mall, right between Hallmark and Hot Topic, making sure he can be equally merchandised in both. It's clear that his artistic muse struggles to insert weirdness into everything he does, but if the weirdness factor cuts into the box office factor, he's not about to take a chance on leaving a single empty seat in that theater on opening weekend. He still sobs himself to sleep at night over the lost Happy Meal deal. His saving grace is that he got off a few riskier shots in his wild years before Hollywood tamed him.
Beetlejuice is definitely Tim Burton at his wildest. If you remove his name and the all-star crew from consideration and view Beetlejuice objectively as its own thing, it's pretty jaw-dropping that it ever got made. It is the blackest of black comedy subjects, getting a laugh out of scenes like suicide cases showing off their slashed wrists. And how would you like to hang yourself, only to find out that in the afterlife you're condemned to keep dangling from the same noose, which is running around on a track amid office cubicles, so you can deliver memos? And the daughter protagonist—who can see ghosts through her sheer magical goth pixie powers alone—writes her suicide note but ghosts talk her out of it because, basically, death sucks too, kid. And how about Juno, the social worker for our hapless couple, who chainsmokes and exhales through the slash in her throat, and yet the effect is so underplayed that you could blink and miss it?
I once griped about the Imagination Ceiling: writers who bring up supernatural characters with allegedly near-boundless powers, but then the writer can't think of anything awesome enough for them to do to make it worth the while. Beetlejuice does the Imagination Ceiling right. It's jam-packed with supernatural characters who warp reality with a thought, pulling off one crazy stunt after another. Beetlejuice, tasked with getting rid of an intruding couple, does so by turning himself into a carnival strong man mallet game topped by a malevolent merry-go-round, for no other reason than that's the first idea that popped into his head. In the manic hour-and-a-half running time, we never get very much explained, but the fever-dream logic is internally consistent enough that it makes perfect sense for a guy to get munched by a sudden sandworm attack. Right after he got rammed in the foot by a toy car driven by an outraged hobbyist shrunken down and left for stranded in his own model town, of course.
The mortal characters would be hard pressed to match the supernatural ones, but they do a bang-up job regardless. From the impossibly prissy interior decorator turned medium to the hysterically neurotic sculptress who will eventually be held prisoner by one of her own creations, they match the dead half of the cast bonker for bonker. Nobody with more than two lines in this film is forgettable. Only now we can start talking about the cast and crew, a unique blend of quirky careers and offbeat talents. Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis stand out by the magnitude of their vanilla Brad and Janet routine, lost in a different kind of Gothic funhouse. Winona Ryder plays the most Winona Rydery role of her career. Danny Elfman's music is a haunted circus. And all I want is for Glenn Shadix to follow me around all day narrating every mundane thing I do in his dramatic purple ham voice, is that too much to ask?
Beetlejuice is Tim Burton's weirdest movie, because it ranks four out of five bowls of sugary cereal on the Saturday Morning Cartoon scale of unfettered childhood imagination.
Warner Brothers re-released Beetlejuice in a collectible Blu-ray steelbook package in 2019, giving us the excuse we needed to finally review it. It has the original trailer and the three episodes of the "Beetlejuice" cartoon series that were included on the "20th Anniversary" Blu-ray, but doesn't come with the isolated score or soundtrack CD bonus disc from that release.
"Right off the bat, the whole premise is fucking weird, and it just gets weirder with each subsequent single scene. People pull their faces off, heads are shrunk, sculptures come to life, eyeballs become fingers, massive worms eat people—it really is a nonstop barrage of 'what the hell?' How someone sat down and gave Tim Burton millions of dollars to make this is almost incomprehensible."–Germaine Lussier, Gizmodo
1988AfterlifeBlack ComedyGeena DavisGhostHollywoodHorror/comedyJeffrey JonesMichael KeatonRecommendedTim Burton
284. BATMAN RETURNS (1992)
May 25, 2017 Gregory J. Smalley (366weirdmovies)	11 Comments
"Being the Batman fan that I am, I pretended to like the film. I passionately defended it to my 'non-Batman' friends who found it 'weird' or 'dumb.' But eventually, I gave in to the fact that this film plain sucked. This macabre, morose, dark abomination was a Batman film in name only. Frankly, I felt screwed by Warner Brothers and Mr. Burton."–Bill "Jett" Ramey, "Batman on Film"
"It's human nature to fear the unusual."–The Penguin, Batman Returns
FEATURING: Michael Keaton, Michelle Pfeiffer, Danny DeVito, Christopher Walken
PLOT: The film sets Batman against three new villains: Oswald Cobblepot, a deformed outcast who lives in the sewers and adopts the name "the Penguin"; "Catwoman," former secretary Selina Kyle turned feminist avenger after a near-death experience; and Max Shreck, a wealthy retailer who wants to build a power plant opposed by Gotham City's mayor. With differing agendas and shifting loyalties, the three form a plan to run Cobblepot for mayor and to frame Batman for the city's crime problem, while Batman's alter-ego Bruce Wayne and Selina pursue a romance, not realizing that they are sworn enemies. After the superhero foils the initial plot, the Penguin pulls out a more elaborate, apocalyptic plan.
Tim Burton, who had scored a blockbuster with the original Batman (1989), was reluctant to produce a sequel. Warner Brothers convinced him to helm the film by giving him almost complete creative control. Heathers' Daniel Waters was brought in to shade Sam Hamm's too-sunny original script. It was a move the studio came to regret (the film was profitable, but not as big a hit as its predecessor, and parental complaints that it was too violent/sexy/weird for kids spooked the suits). Neither Burton nor star Michael Keaton returned for the third movie in Warners' Batman franchise, which went in a lighter, more family-friendly direction under Joel Schumacher.
Angry parents boycotted McDonalds for (unwisely) including Batman Returns action figures in Happy Meals, complaining that the movie was too violent for kids.
Oscar-nominated for Best Visual Effects and Best Makeup. Also nominated (unjustly, in our opinion) for a "Worst Supporting Actor" Razzie for Danny DeVito.
INDELIBLE IMAGE: I'm going to go with the army of penguins equipped with missiles striped like candy canes (remember, this is a Christmas movie).
THREE WEIRD THINGS: Kitty corpse revival; poodle with a hand grenade; missile penguin army
WHAT MAKES IT WEIRD: Let loose with a budget of $80 million and almost complete creative control in 1992, Tim Burton smuggled weirdness into the cineplex in the guise of a superhero sequel. The resulting picture has as many excesses as you can possibly sneak into a blockbuster: suggestive S&M duels between sexually repressed loners clad in fetish gear, a carnival-themed gang who unleash their surreal clown fury on Gotham at Christmas, and an army of penguins led by a deformed sociopath.
Original trailer for Batman Returns
COMMENTS: Earning over 260 million simoleons at the box office—although some ticket buyers probably asked for a refund—Batman Continue reading 284. BATMAN RETURNS (1992) →
1992Academy Award NomineeActionBlockbusterChristmasChristopher WalkenHollywoodMichael KeatonMichelle PfeifferRecommendedSuperheroTim Burton
SPOTLIGHT (2015)
November 26, 2015 Alfred Eaker	Leave a comment
Tom McCarthy's Spotlight (2015) is now playing in select theaters. It opened in half a dozen cities nationwide, was critically well-received, and did brisk business. It was only after that promising start start the studio seemed to have any faith in it, which is unfortunate. It is not only a well-made film, but also an important one. Thankfully, it does not take the attitude of being Important, and commendably refrains from on-the-sleeve melodramatics, which is a rarity in films with potentially explosive themes.
The image of Bing Crosby's congenial Irish Father O' Malley has gone the way of the dinosaur. That is apt, because even the velvet-voiced actor behind the collar was reportedly an abusive father (one son wrote a "daddy dearest" tell all; two additional offspring committed suicide). The Church itself was the cause of its own bad press, and most of the world became privy to its dirty laundry when the Boston Globe published a series of articles in 2002 exposing pedophilia in the ranks of Catholic clergy.
Actually, cracks were beginning to show elsewhere before that infamous exposé. A few years prior, the Indianapolis Star ousted sixteen pedophile priests in the ranks of the Lafayette diocese. Still, that does not compare to the Boston Globe revelation of (approximately) 90 priests who were serial pedophile abusers in the diocese of Cardinal Bernard Francis Law. This is the topic of Tom McCarthy's Spotlight.
When new editor Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber) arrives at the Boston Globe, he inquires about a follow-up to a recent column about a lone pedophile priest. In a meeting with Walter Robinson (Michael Keaton), Baron speculates that this may not be an isolated incident and deserves further investigation. That's how things happen; like a silent wind blowing with no indication where it came from or where it is going.
Robinson assembles a crack team, which includes Mike Rezendes (Mark Ruffalo), Sacha Pfeiffer (Rachel McAdams) and Matty Carroll (Brian D' Arcy James). With barely a journalistic scratch, the number jumps from one pedophile priest to six, then to possibly thirteen. Perhaps the most unnerving scene in the film follows. A disembodied voice, belonging to an insider, calls the "Spotlight" team.
"Do you think thirteen pedophile priests is an accurate number?" the caller is asked. "Oh no," he answers. "Too high?" "Too low. It's probably closer to 90." His reply is so nonchalant, it makes the hairs on the nape of the neck stand on end and gives credence to an attorney's previous observation: "If it takes a village to raise a child, it also takes a village to abuse one."
There is no dimly lit John Huston figure or a Deep Throat informant hiding in the shadows of a subterranean parking garage. McCarthy Continue reading SPOTLIGHT (2015) →
2015DramaJournalismMark RuffaloMichael KeatonRachel McAdamsTom McCarthy
CAPSULE: PORCO ROSSO (1992)
March 17, 2015 Gregory J. Smalley (366weirdmovies)	1 Comment
DIRECTED BY: Hayao Miyazaki
FEATURING: Voices of Michael Keaton, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Cary Elwes, Susan Egan (English dub)
PLOT: A bounty-hunting pig-man (a victim of an unexplained curse) flies his seaplane through the Adriatic between World Wars, battling air pirates and a hotshot American rival.
WHY IT WON'T MAKE THE LIST: Although it has its strange, and its sublime, moments, I would rate this as flying pig oddity as relatively minor Miyazaki—which, of course, means it's still well worth seeking out.
COMMENTS: Porco Rosso is set in a precise, but unreal, historical place and time: the Italian Adriatic, in between the great wars. But its pig-man hero isn't the only fantastic element here. In this alternate history, the Adriatic sea is its own far-flung multi-island kingdom with its own political intrigues, a realm where seaplane pilots are legendary demigods, like the mythologized gunfighters of Westerns. The local hot spot is a floating hotel only accessible by watercraft, with a valet to parks seaplanes. There are Italian fascists and references to WWI, but this universe evolves out of old movies rather than history: it's a mixture of Casablanca and romantic aviation movies like Wings or Hell's Angels, a world where you expect to see the Red Baron and Mata Hari sharing a drink in the corner of a flyboy saloon.
Although with its Humphrey Bogart-esque antihero Porco Rosso often seems more adult-oriented than Miyazaki's usual fare, at other times the drawing style and caricatures are more indebted to Saturday morning cartoons than his later work. Observe the big-mouthed, howling anime schoolkids, and the cartoonish, kid-like antics of the pirate buffoons, who are drawn as goggles and pillars of teeth surrounded by bristles. Despite the flying duels and machine guns, the danger level here is minimal: no one dies onscreen, and the abducted schoolgirls treat their capture by pirates as a fantastic adventure, hanging out in the gun turret with their captors and screaming "whee!" as they dive off the stranded plane into a giant life preserver. The mixed tones are odd, but Miyazaki makes them harmonize well.
Clearly, the weirdest element of Porco Rosso is its hero's porcine curse, which is never fully explained and is scarcely even wondered at by the movie's denizens. Perhaps his piggish visage only reflects the way Porco sees himself. Perhaps the curse is the result of a mystical vision he saw after he was the only survivor of a massive dogfight, where he saw dozens of fighter pilots soaring upwards to heaven. Whatever the cause of his condition, symbolically, his bestiality sets Porco apart from ordinary citizens: "laws don't mean anything to a pig," he explains. Still, his snout and porky complexion can't keep this charismatic pig from having two love interests, and there is an ambiguous suggestion at the ending that he may regain his humanity. I doubt Miyazaki was aware of the English-language idiom "when pigs fly," meaning something so exceedingly rare as to be impossible, when he conceived Porco Rosso. Still, it's probably safe to say you'll enjoy this movie when pigs fly.
In 2015, Disney upgraded Porco Rosso to Blu-ray.
"That a pretty great adventure movie can rest comfortably alongside a strange tale of identity and morality that is itself set against the rise of Fascism is proof enough that we're in the hands of a master storyteller…"–Tim Brayton, Antagony and Ecstasy (DVD)
1992AdventureAnimationAnimeCary ElwesHayao MiyazakiJapaneseMichael Keaton
CAPSULE: BIRDMAN (2014)
November 18, 2014 Gregory J. Smalley (366weirdmovies)	2 Comments
Birdman or: (The Unexpected Virtues of Ignorance)
DIRECTED BY: Alejandro González Iñárritu
FEATURING: Michael Keaton, Emma Stone, Edward Norton, Zach Galifianakis, Naomi Watts, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan, Lindsay Duncan
PLOT: Aging actor Riggan Thomas, who became a superstar anchoring a blockbuster superhero franchise in the 1990s, writes, directs and stars in a Broadway show in an attempt to be taken seriously as an artist; unfortunately, he's simultaneously battling the voices in his head, as his old alter-ego presses him to sign up to do "Birdman 4."
WHY IT WON'T MAKE THE LIST: Birdman is a movie that adopts a weird methodology to tell its story, but it's only weird by the diminished standard of movies that will be nominated for multiple Academy Awards.
COMMENTS: Birdman starts with a strange conceit. It's about a former superstar actor, star of a superhero tentpole franchise, trying to be taken seriously as an artist by producing, writing, starring and directing a Broadway play based on a Raymond Carver short story. To throw a wrench into things, the actor is also insane, believing that he has telekinetic powers, and he hallucinates that his Birdman alter-ego is taunting him for his artistic pretensions. So, given that this is your story, why not sweeten the weirdness by scoring the film to solo jazz percussion and shooting the entire movie in what appears to be one unbroken take?
Birdman is not like any other film you're likely to see this year, or anytime soon. It is a movie that (on the surface) insists that plays are more authentic artistic expressions than movies. It's an extremely theatrical movie, one that's bursting with smart dialogue, numerous subplots, and memorable monologues. It's no wonder that a top-notch cast was attracted to the project. Most notable is Edward Norton, in a flamboyant role as an arrogant actor with so much talent he's compelled to sabotage himself just to keep things interesting. Keeping pace is Emma Stone as Riggan's wayward daughter, just out of rehab and more adept at spotting others' b.s. than her own. Even Zach Galifianakis impresses in a rare straight-man turn as Riggan's lawyer. Still, Keaton, willing to let the camera linger on his thinning hair and explore his deepening crow's feet, carries an impressive load of the film's ambition on his shoulders. Keaton, Norton and Stone will all be remembered come awards season.
The cinematography (by Emmanuel Lubezki, coming off an Oscar for his work on Gravity) plays as big a role as any of the stars. Unlike long-take record-holder Russian Ark, Birdman is not really a one-take movie, since it has at least a couple of invisible edits (as did Rope). The extended tracking shots, which wander around the labyrinthine theater ducking into various dressing rooms and rehearsal spaces, are nonetheless highly impressive. The long-take gimmick is impeccably realized, but it isn't really formally necessary. This would essentially be the same movie if it were conventionally edited. You could argue that the one-take technique gives the camera a "gliding" sensibility (like a bird), or that it mimics the dangerous unpredictability of live theater, but I think the real reason the filmmakers did it is simply because it was difficult to do. Like art itself, its very unnecessariness is its justification.
It's hard to believe that many people will find Riggan Thomas' struggle—whether to turn his back on his colossal financial success and create something meaningful, or just give the idiots the pabulum they crave—very relatable. The implied insults to fans of superhero movies are a bit much, as is the strawman of a snobby theater critic who plans to shut down the show—sight-unseen—simply because it has the stink of Hollywood about it. (Pre-emptive shots at critics are almost always cringeworthy, and Birdman really should be above such shenanigans). Birdman is Hollywood insiders navel-gazing, hang-wringing, and soul-searching about how to be taken seriously as artists, sure. But it's also the best Hollywood has to offer: it's unpredictable, bold, and unapologetic, manned by a completely committed cast and crew working at their collective peaks. By doing so, they ensure that they are taken seriously as artists, even though their movie has exploding helicopters and a guy gliding through digital clouds in a molded plastic bird costume.
"It's a near-seamless concoction of onscreen surrealism that would make the likes of Terry Gilliam, Michel Gondry, and Spike Jonze green with envy."–Gary Dowell, Dark Horizons (contemporaneous)
2014Alejandro González IñárrituAndrea RiseboroughBlack ComedyCharacter studyDramaEdward NortonExperimentalMental illnessMichael KeatonNaomi WattsRecommendedThe creative processZach Galifianakis
25TH ANNIVERSARY: TIM BURTON'S BATMAN (1989)
July 24, 2014 Alfred Eaker	4 Comments
A quarter century after its debut, Tim Burton's Batman (1989) is still among the brightest of the comic book genre films; an odd thing, given how dark it is. However, Burton's Batman has a glamorous darkness. Burton was young, energetic, and at the top of his game in 1989. His interpretation of the caped crusader remains groundbreaking and is more astute than Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight (2008). Nolan went the mile to distance the avenger from his comic book origins. Burton embraces the source material.
Upon Batman's monstrously hyped release, many critics lamented the dominant personality of Jack Nicholson's Joker as compared to the title character. In hindsight, Nicholson's killer clown seems less innovative than Heath Ledger's radically different interpretation. Today, it is easier to recognize Michael Keaton's Bruce Wayne as the eye of Tim Burton's hurricane: he inhabits the quintessential capitalist fantasy. In a case of shrewd casting, Keaton's Batman has no extraterrestrial powers, nor does he even look like he has spent his life in the gym. Rather, Wayne is fabulously wealthy and it is all those "wonderful toys," bought by all that wonderful money, that makes him an all-American noir Superman, free to wreck vengeance upon a fascistic Gotham's lower criminal element. Like Humphrey Bogart and Gary Cooper before him, Keaton went through the script, pruning his dialogue down to the bare essentials, making this an internalized performance.
Burton's casting inspired controversy among unimaginative comic book fanatics, who only saw Keaton in his previous comic roles. The actor and director proved them wrong. Christian Bale's Wayne, in the Nolan films, resorts to a dull playboy act. Keaton's Wayne can't help revealing that he has as many screws loose as his alter ego. Burton says in less than ten minutes what Nolan takes an entire film to tell: Vicky Vale (Kim Basinger) and Alexander Knox (Robert Wuhl) stumble upon a hidden Wayne manor room of armor and weaponry, explaining the inspiration for the costumed alter ego.
From Boss Grissom's mafioso penthouse to the Axis chemical plant and a quack surgeon's back alley office, Anton Furst's set design is among his best (in an impressive career that unfortunately ended with the artist's suicide in 1991). Also noteworthy are Roger Pratt's cinematography, Bob Ringwood's costuming and Danny Elfman's resonant, Wagnerian score, all done under the guidance of Burton, elevating pulp into anarchic poetry. Like the Burton-helmed sequel, Batman consistently surprises enough to nearly render its flaws secondary.
Nicholson's Jack Napier shines most when he wrecks havoc upon pop culture, sabotaging consumer products and brooding over popular media's not so subliminal sales tactics. The chief flaw of the film lies in a lack of a substantial female character, which Batman Returns (1992) remedied in spades. Vale is merely there as a decoration for Bruce Wayne's arm. A second noticeable flaw is in the intrusive music by Prince (otherwise, a very good artist during his youthful prime). However, the related MTV videos were considerably better, and a wonderful example of how big a pop phenomenon Batman was.
Homages to Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927), Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958), and The Wizard of Oz (1939) are prominent, but, for the most part, Burton keeps cinematic references down to a minimum, something he would not do in Batman Returns (1992). Naturally, Tim Burton's Batman is not as much guilty pleasure fun as "Scooby Do Meets Batman" or "Superfriends," and it certainly isn't the delicious morsel that Adam West gave in his legendary camp take on the character. Yet, Burton manages to make a tale of two sociopaths, spawned from the gutter, into highly stylized entertainment.
Batman was birthed by the then new graphic novel trend, most notable Frank Miller's "Dark Knight." The script was written by Sam Hamm and Warren Skaaren, based on Bob Kane's original characters. The violence in Batman is comic bookish and stately: the Joker fries a mafioso with a hidden hand buzzer, and the murder of boss Grissom is devoid of blood. At times, the film seems to be enveloped in a Tex Avery 'toon: after mating with his girlfriend, Wayne hangs upside like a bat, the Batplane soars upward to the moon (creating a bat signal), a joker card is flipped over with Carl Stalling-like sound effects foreshadowing Napier's fate, the Joker's hand melodramatically emerges from acid, the silhouetted Caped Crusader moves like wet ink atop a roof, and the Joker shoots down the Batplane with a gun that looks like it might have been ordered from Acme supplies. The henchmen are really not too far removed from Cesar Romero's sycophants. Batman is crepuscular, and, thankfully, it's never realistic.
Apart from Heath Ledger, Nolan's believed-to-be superior Dark Knight is devoid of humorous touch and is so utilitarian, with one plot too many, that it is doubtful the film would have worked without the late actor's turn as a pathological clown.
Unfortunately, neither Burton nor Keaton went beyond their two entries in the series. Perhaps a man dressed up like a bat might revitalize both artists.
1989BlockbusterHollywoodJack NicholsonMichael KeatonSuperheroTim Burton
BATMAN RETURNS (1992): A SUPERHERO BURLESQUE
September 2, 2010 Alfred Eaker	10 Comments
In 1992 some damn silly, so-called Christian organization threw a bullying hissy fit at McDonalds for its Happy Meal deal tie-in with Tim Burton's Batman Returns. McDonalds, true to form, prematurely withdrew its merchandising. Rumor has it that McDonalds issued a stern warning to Warner Brothers not to tap Burton for the next Batman film. For whatever reason, Warner Brothers caved into the golden arch and, consequently, put its franchise into a decade long grave with the unwise hiring of director Joel Schumacher.
Only the fundamentalist mindset can associate Big Macs with a certain brand of morality. Looking at Batman Returns (1992), one wonders what the Christian organization was bitching about. The Bible is all throughout the film and, actually the good book itself has far more sex and violence than Batman, Tim Burton, Warner Brothers and McDonalds combined.
Regardless, Batman Returns remains the greatest cinematic comic book movie to date and one of Tim Burton's most uniquely accomplished films. Admittedly, I am not a fan of comic book movies, even if I did read comics some when I was kid, but then most kids I knew did. I was in the minority in preferring DC to Marvel, and I guess I am sort of looking forward to the new Green Lantern movie, mainly because the Green Lantern/Green Arrow comic was a favorite when I was a wee lad in the 1960s and 1970s. That was a comic that was delightfully of its time, a bit like Star Trek in espousing an ultra-liberal message with all the subtlety of a pair of brass knuckles. Even though Green Lantern himself was a bit too righteous and bland, I liked that he was obsessed with the color green and was rendered impotent by the color yellow. There was something surreal in that, and I find the insistence of realism in comics to be a huge oxymoron. Perhaps that's why the dark surrealism of Batman Returns did not bother me like it did mainstream audiences, comic book geeks, and militant pseudo-Christian organizations.
Even though I will acknowledge that Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight (2008) was well crafted, it would not have worked without Ledger's performance holding it together. Christian Bale's Bruce Wayne, however, pales compared to Michael Keaton's much more intense, internalized, subtle and complex Wayne. Finally, Nolan's film feels like it has one subplot too many. Comparatively, Tim Burton's Batman Returns is a Continue reading BATMAN RETURNS (1992): A SUPERHERO BURLESQUE →
1992BatmanChristmasDanny DeVitoHollywoodMichael KeatonSuperheroTim Burton


The Curriculum in Global Studies supports the University's core values encouraging diversity and equal educational and employment opportunities throughout the University community. These values are articulated in the University's non-discrimination policy and by the office of Diversity and Inclusion.
Students at the University of North Carolina live in an increasingly globalized society. It is critical that they develop a fuller understanding of the variable nature of Earth's people and nations. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with its rich diversity of programs possessing a strong international focus and its strong commitment to study abroad, provides an exceptional learning environment for the study of these critical issues.
The Curriculum in Global Studies offers the undergraduate student the opportunity to develop an appreciation for and fuller understanding of the global issues within the context of a diverse, flexible, interdisciplinary curriculum in the tradition of the University's liberal arts focus. Courses deal with topics as diverse as the global impact of nineteenth century European colonialism; globalization and economic change; migration and diasporas; environment and human rights; global health and human reproduction; global and local social movements; and technology and patterns of cultural transmission. Such an integrated learning environment includes courses in modern foreign languages, enabling the student to develop the ability to interact and learn in a foreign environment; courses in a thematic concentration allowing the student a framework for developing critical questioning and reasoning skills; and courses with a regional focus, encouraging students to develop a fuller awareness of the ways in which global forces shape and transform regional political, economic and cultural change.
In furthering these goals, the Curriculum encourages students to enhance their major by participating in the University's diverse Study Abroad opportunities. The goal is to insure that students integrated their interest in global and regional issues into their major. Study Abroad may include advanced language study, the initial development of an additional regional language, and the concentrated study of a global issue in another geographical setting, or comparatively between particular regions of the world.
The Curriculum in Global Studies and Study Abroad lay the groundwork for successful careers with an international dimension in a wide range of fields. Large corporations continue to expand their production and distribution systems to the most distant reaches of the globe. Professional groups and associations have expanded their connections with counterparts in other countries. As the line between public and private increasingly blurs, the opportunity increases for international service in a wide range of non-profit agencies, institutions and foundations, research centers, public interest groups, and non-governmental development agencies. There are today broader ranges of relevant opportunities both within government and within the expanding private and non-profit sectors.


Willmott Dixon pride ourselves on our high quality approach to our business and our clients and we are always interested in first-rate IT professionals.
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At Willmott Dixon we believe that people come first, consequently we provide excellent training opportunities and scope for both personal and professional growth.
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Human rights is a hot topic for business leaders around the world, but it is rare that children's rights are acknowledged as a distinct issue that requires extra attention in business planning, CSR activities or day to day business operations.
Minimum working age and child labour are the most common areas we see companies focusing on their human rights policies. However, extra impetus should also be placed on the wider impacts businesses may have on children, such as the effects of pollution on child health, or the influence of product marketing that targets young people.
Children are vulnerable, so protecting their rights is incredibly important.
They are consumers, community members, workers, and the dependents of workers. This means business can directly, and indirectly, affect the lives of children in a multitude of ways and they deserve attention in their own right.
How can companies consider children's rights in their business planning and operations?
Together with UNICEF and GCF, we are launching the latest, enhanced iteration of the Children's Rights and Business Atlas.
What are some of the key areas of children's rights my business – or industry – impact on?
What is the risk to my business of breaching and damaging children's rights, and what can I do about it?
What are the sources of information, and legal requirements, for children's rights in my countries of operation?


Posted at 2:57 pm on May 23, 2018 by Sarah D.
Last week, David Hogg announced that Publix would be the next company to lose his very valuable business over their financial support for pro-NRA gubernatorial candidate Adam Putnam.
Ah, yes. A die-in. That tried-and-true method of enacting real change by lying on the ground and annoying people.
A die-in??? Oh my god. This is getting more and more ridiculous.
Going to lie on the ground because your not getting your way? My toddlers do that.
And once again, Hogg's timing is just impeccable.
As usual, plans were not thought out well in advance.
We're guessing we'll want some popcorn for this. Good thing Publix sells it!
I love @Publix they have nice clean stores and great customer service. Don't get in the way of my cart.
Something tells us Publix will be just fine. Hogg's success rate … not so much.
You realize that the more you do this, the more successful these businesses are, right? It drives sales up, and drives support up. By all means, keep going.


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Doug Ford is making scapegoats of Ontario's prisoners
The federal government is correct that prisons are no different than group homes or long-term-care facilities when it comes to the pandemic, members of the Barton Prisoner Solidarity Project write.
By Barton Prisoner Solidarity Project
Wed., Jan. 13, 2021timer3 min. read
On Jan. 6, Premier Doug Ford chose to draw attention to a federal program to provide the COVID-19 vaccine to certain prisoners in federal facilities as part of a strategy to prioritize those living in concentrated settings. Ford objects to this program, claiming that these 1,200 doses for incarcerated people will create delays for others he considers more deserving.
However, this week The Spectator and other media outlets have been reporting that nearly 100,000 doses of vaccine have been left sitting in freezers since Dec. 21. The Ford government is simply scapegoating prisoners in an attempt to deflect frustration over the slow rollout. Instead, it should follow the federal government's example and include provincial prisons in its list of priority locations for vaccination.
Scapegoating prisoners is a constant in politics, from stoking fears of crime during elections to justifying the untouchable status of police budgets. Access to medical care, though, touches on a fundamental tenet of Canada's justice system — that incarceration itself is the punishment for crimes, and that prisoners should not be subjected to additional punishment while incarcerated. They should not be withheld medical care, such as vaccines, because they were convicted of crimes. The federal government is correct that prisons are no different than group homes or long-term-care facilities when it comes to the pandemic.
At any given time, about 9,000 people are held in Ontario's prisons. In theory, provincial prisons are meant to hold people for short times. In practice, even those convicted of crimes considered the most serious will often serve most or all of their sentence in provincial facilities, due to Ontario's habit of denying bail and to incredible delays in the courts. And this was before the justice system all but ground to a halt during the pandemic.
Provincial prisons were not built to incarcerate people for years on end and are extremely overcrowded — much more so than federal prisons. In the Barton Jail, cells built for a single person now hold three. Social distancing is impossible, and sanitation is nearly so, even at the best of times. Through our work monitoring conditions in Barton, we know there is not even reliable access to soap, let alone to disinfectant, and prisoners are not provided masks.
The Barton Jail has implemented quarantines, greatly reduced yard time (to 20 minutes every few weeks), cancelled all programs, further reduced access to books, and imposed new restrictions on mail. All visits are cancelled, even though they occur through Plexiglas with no risk of transmission. These are not public health measures. They are punitive and worsen the underlying issues of overcrowding, poor sanitation, mental health and isolation from loved ones. And such measures have not stopped the spread of the virus in Canada's prisons, where it is only picking up steam.
From March to July 2020, only 600 prisoners tested positive for COVID-19, according to Justin Piché, a criminology professor at the University of Ottawa and an organizer with the Criminalization and Punishment Project. But in the past two months, there have been over 1,000 reported cases. Seventy-four per cent of the outbreaks in Canadian prisons since the start of the pandemic have happened since Oct. 1. We don't have to look far for examples.
Joyceville, a federal prison in Kingston, is dealing with an outbreak of at least 139 cases. Toronto South provincial prison had a major outbreak last month with 61 cases. Prisoners there have bravely organized at least eight hunger strikes over conditions since the spring. The Barton Jail has had several COVID cases that could have easily turned into full-blown outbreaks, and prisoners there have also engaged in hunger strikes and collective action to take care of each other when it seems no one else will.
Because of overcrowding, provincial prisons were a potential public health crisis even before the pandemic. This overcrowding is a direct consequence of Ontario's restrictive bail system — upwards of two-thirds of prisoners in this province have not been convicted of a crime. Intervening in the bail system to reduce the prison population would make a huge difference, but until then, prisoners need speedy access to the coronavirus vaccine, as do all others living in concentrated settings.
Those being held in Ontario's prisons are our friends, families and neighbours — they are not disposable political pawns. Premier Ford should work to keep incarcerated people safe, rather than scapegoating them for his government's botched vaccination rollout.
This commentary was written by members of the Barton Prisoner Solidarity Project. The Spectator agreed to withhold their names to shield them from backlash as a result of their speaking out.

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WWII listening post in U.S. heard radio signals from thousands of miles away
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Brian Tannahill
According to an article in the Providence (Rhode Island) Journal, during World War II the U.S. Federal Communications Commission operated a radio listening station from a site called Chopmist Hill, in Scituate, Rhode Island, close to Providence.
From this location, "because of some geographic and atmospheric anomalies" the U.S. government was able to listen to German and Japanese military radio transmissions over distances of thousands of miles.
Radio receivers and direction finders at the site were connected to 85,000 feet of antenna wire strung below the tree line to keep them out of view.
The site was able to obtain radio signals originating in Germany, central Europe, north Africa, and the Pacific. They picked up weather forecasts from central Europe, which were useful for planning bombing runs. They listened in on tank-to-tank communications among Rommel's Afrika Corps. I was a radio technician in the Air Force quite a few years ago, and while I know nothing about the radios used in tanks I would guess that they are fairly low-powered. I am curious how they compare to the radio in Earhart's Electra.
The Chopmist Hill station picked up signals from distances that are roughly the same as the distances from Gardner island to some points in the United States.
Providence to Cairo: 8,767 km (according to Google)
Providence to Berlin: 6,139 km
Chopmist Hill was listening to Japanese messages in the Pacific before Pearl Harbor. The article doesn't say where in the Pacific these messages originated. The Pacific is a big place but to pick a couple of locations:
Providence to Honolulu: 8,159 km
Providence to Midway: 9,142 km
Nikumaroru to St. Petersburg, Florida where Betty Klenck may have heard Amelia: 10,429 km
Nikumaroru to Rock Springs, Wyoming where Dana Andrews may have heard Amelia: 8,345 km
While TIGHAR has worked hard to establish whether it's plausible, or even possible, for radio signals from Niku to have traveled this far, it appears that a few years later the station at Chopmist Hill was consistently and reliably receiving signals over the same distances.
Re: WWII listening post in U.S. heard radio signals from thousands of miles away
Quote from: Brian Tannahill on September 20, 2015, 07:45:15 PM
That is an awesome first post, Brian.
Detailed.
New information.
With links!
Steve Treadwell
They listened in on tank-to-tank communications among Rommel's Afrika Corps.
Here's some info on German tank radios - not a lot of power.
http://www.armyradio.com/publish/Articles/William_Howard_German/German_Tank_Radios.htm
The link Steve posted had exactly what I was looking for. German tank radios, as described here, were AM units of 10, 20, and 30 watts. The 30 watt unit operated on frequencies of 1110 to 3010 kcs. There's no information on frequencies for the 10 or 20 watt radios.
The Electra had a 50 watt AM radio transmitting on 3105, 6210, and 500 kcs. So Earhart was broadcasting with significantly more power than the tanks in north Africa that were heard in Rhode Island.
Brian, the link I posted did have info about the 10 and 20 watt radio frequencies - it was in the photo captions, but not further down in the main body of the article where the 30 W.S. is discussed. The 10 W.S. c freq. and the 20 W.S. freq. was 27.2-33.3 KC and the 10 W.S. h freq. was 23-24.95 KC.
EDIT: The caption on the 10 W.S. c transmitter lists the frequency range as 27.2-33.300 KC and the 20 W.S. transmitter frequency is listed as 27.2-33,300 KC (I assume the comma in this last figure should be a decimal point). But that seems like too low frequency - wouldn't you need a really long antenna for those frequencies? Could it be 27.3-33.3 MC (MHz)? /EDIT
So given the proper location and what must have been one heck of an antenna, and maybe also the right conditions (not sure how the sunspot cycle would have affected this during the early 40's), it is possible to pick up really low powered transmissions from a really long distance. Maybe adds some credibility to the Earhart transmissions received in the U.S., though I'd bet none of those people had anywhere near the antenna that they had at Chopmist Hill. Still, weird stuff happens if conditions are just right - I live in the Dallas, TX area and about 25 or 30 years ago I picked up a TV station in Buffalo, NY - way too snowy to be watchable, but I did see that it was in Buffalo (don't remember the call letters of the station) and my antenna was a simple pair of "rabbit ears" on the set top.
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Craig Romig
Steve I have also picked up am radio from Chicago about 60-90 miles south of Kansas city. At night in my truck. Sitting in my driveway.


When I first started this blog, I was planning a trip to New Orleans for Gabe's 30th birthday. I thought I would write about the money I save while living in a new city and traveling the country. I buy pretty much everything in advance and always look for deals. When it is time to travel, I stalk Living Social, Groupon and then use Yelp to make sure the places offered are somewhere I would want to visit.
I feel I owe some love to New Orleans. It was that trip that started these little fingers typing again. It's also the city where Gabe and I have an equal fondness for. If we were to plan a destination wedding, it would be here. So it was natural to plan our second annual trip to NOLA for his graduation trip. Due to the fact he graduated with his masters in December, the holiday's postponed our trip a bit. Especially since we wanted to take it with both sets of our parents. We pushed the trip back a few months and we couldn't be any happier. Our February trip has allowed us to run the Rock n Roll Half Marathon New Orleans!
Once we were signed up for the race, it was time put my OCD travel hat on. When traveling, I am a control freak who drafts up an excel sheet so I know what to wear on each day. If only my day to day life was this organized. Last year, we scored big with a 4 star hotel for only $85 a night thanks to Captain Kirk Priceline. Hitting accept and waiting for the Negotiator to approve or deny my bid is exciting and completely nerve racking. The 4 star $85 bid in 2012 granted us a stay at the French Quarter Marriott. It was an amazing centrally located hotel at an incredible price. We stayed during the week, arriving on a Tuesday morning, leaving on a Friday night.
Fast forward to 2013. I decided I would bid the same amount and same stars, just to see what would happen. My motto on life is what's the worst they can say, no? Never in my wildest imagination would I have thought the words Congratulations, your deal is in the bag would appear on my screen. Yet it did, The Saint New Orleans, a 4 star hotel for $85 a night, Wednesday through Sunday. I quickly went to the hotel's website to learn that they are a Marriott signature collection in a historical building. In a matter of seconds, my parents went on to negotiate the same room, only to be denied, even at a much higher price a day later. I guess the negotiator was on our side that day. This room is valued anywhere from $300-$400 a night.
During our trip last year, we utilized Living Social and Groupon for all of our tours. I am running into the problem that everything we did in 2012 happens to be the same offers available a year later on these sites. So with the help of google, I have found a few free New Orleans tours?! You pay a tip, which one would generally do on a paid tour. We have signed up for the ghost tour and are looking at the Garden District tour. One thing I really want to do is the New Orleans Original Drinking Tour (shocker). I sent this to my parents, to receive a quick response from my Mom "have fun, I will puke if I do that". She doesn't realize that she would fit in on Bourbon Street nice if that were to happened. Another tour in contention is the jogging tour.
If you have never made a trip to the big easy, I strongly suggest it. There is something magical about this city. The history, the architecture, the amazing culinary offerings and the dirtiness of Bourbon Street all make up for a perfect city to visit. There is truly something for everyone here.
Save $10 on the Rock n Roll Half Marathon New Orleans with Coupon Code ROCKNOLA2. Hurry, prices increase on 1/15.
Do you plan like a crazy person prior to go on a trip or do you prefer to wing it? Sometimes I wish I could go with the flow and I think this is why I like going on cruises, everything is planned out for me so I don't stress out.
I love to plan trips, but sometimes just winging it is fun, too. I haven't tried Priceline but have heard great stories! I'm just so scared of getting a bust.
Hey, I have some Rock n Roll half ladies fitted shirts - do you want one for St. Pete? Let me know and I will get it to you! Priceline is awesome (Sometimes frustrating). But I have never been burned by them. They are very good about sectioning off the areas you are traveling to. So you know what area of town you will be in. Name the star, the price and hope you get accepted! I need to get better at winging the trips.
The bike tour is unbelievable as well - it takes you all over the city and into pats you don't normally go! I highly suggest it!
GOOD to know! We saw that one last night. They also have a drinking bike tour..hmm....may not be the best option for Miss clumsy over here!


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LaMelo Ball and the Hornets lose in rematch to the Lakers
By Titan Frey
Sam Sharpe-USA TODAY Sports
The Charlotte Hornets defeated the Los Angeles Lakers 134-130 on December 23. They played the Lakers again last night. Could they pull off another win?
Related: Charlotte Hornets defeated the Lakers in an exciting game
Last night, LaMelo Ball and the Hornets lost in a rematch to the Lakers. LA won 121-115, while LeBron James scored 43 points. LaMelo scored 24 points as the Hornets attempted a comeback after being down by as much as 24 points in the third.
It was a great effort by a team that is clearly going down the wrong road to success this season. If the Hornets keep playing with as much heart as they showed against the Lakers, maybe Charlotte can finish with a respectable record.
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The Herald of Freedom on Presidential Impotency
May30 by freedmenspatrol
George W. Brown
Gentle Readers, I live in one of those forested parts of Michigan that doesn't have much of a history with the automobile industry. At one point, some dreamers thought they would start a car company here. Everyone else in the state had the same idea about the same time. Far from most everywhere, the tourism focuses less on internal combustion and more on nautical illumination. We have more lighthouses than any other state. This weekend I went out to see one that I hadn't before, built in 1895. I planned to take pictures and write about the experience.
I forgot my camera.
Right then, we've spent some time with the Squatter Sovereign's reaction to Franklin Pierce's annual message and related matters. Two papers could play that game. George Washington Brown's Herald of Freedom, of senator-threatening fame, had news of Pierce's message in the very next edition after its release:
The president has sent his Message to the Senate, and referring to the recent troubles in Kansas, says the people must be protected in the execution of their rights, -eulogizes popular sovereignty, advocates States rights with respect to slavery, and the fugitive slave law, &c., &c.
Yeah, yeah, whatever, Frank. The next issue, on January 18, 1856, included a synopsis of the message that said little more on the subject of Kansas. But Brown took aim at Pierce's inaction in the face of repeated invasions of Kansas by Missourians through a piece reprinted from "The Republican, Me., Journal":
The late disturbances in Kansas have raised a serious question respecting the authority of the President of the United States. Has the President of the United States the right to interpose its sovereign power to prevent the citizens of a State from invading the territory of the United States, and forcibly usurping the rights of citizenship, and exercising legislative authority over it? If he has no such right then Congress should immediately confer it upon him; and if he have the right he should be held responsible for its exercise upon due information, whenever the public exigencies require it.
This all sounds a little abstract on the face, but Pierce's wrote with regard to Kansas that
the people of the Territory, who by its organic law, possessing the right to determine their own domestic institutions, are entitled while deporting themselves peacefully to the free exercise of that right, and must be protected in the enjoyment of it without interference on the part of the citizens of any of the States.
If Pierce believed that, why hadn't he ordered the cavalry out to save Lawrence? With a presidential order in hand, they would have ridden from Fort Leavenworth at once. Colonel Sumner told Wilson Shannon as much. If Pierce had the power, why hadn't he used it? The President moved from the quoted passage into a disquisition on states rights that includes the following:
It is not pretended that this principle [popular sovereignty] or any other precludes the possibility of evils in practice, disturbed, as political action is liable to be, by human passions. No form of government is exempt from inconveniences; but in this case they are the result of the abuse, and not the legitimate exercise, of the powers reserved or conferred in the organization of a Territory. They are not to be charged to the great principle of popular sovereignty. On the contrary, they disappear before the intelligence and patriotism of the people, exerting through the ballot box their peaceful and silent but irresistible power.
Taken in context, Pierce at least implies here that if something went wrong then he had no responsibility to right it. Stuff breaks. Things fall apart. But popular sovereignty made that into a problem for the locals, not for Franklin Pierce to fix from Washington. He lacked the power or the moral right to intervene.
The Journal took that all under due consideration:
Shall the president of this great republic, with full knowledge of an invasion of a Territory by citizens of one of the States of this Union with intent to usurp the rights both of citizenship and of supreme legislative authority over it, stand coolly by and suffer the damning deed to be done under the pretext that he has no authority to prevent it? No authority to execute the law of Congress? No authority to repel the invasion of a Territory of this Union, and prevent a forcible usurpation of the rights of citizenship, and of supreme legislative power? No authority to protect American citizens on the soil of the United States, or prevent civil war? In our opinion it is not so. Such a confession of Presidential impotency is an evasion, -we had almost said a pretext, a subterfuge. Our government is not that rickety thing, nor our constitution that phantom of statesmanship which such a confession of its weakness would imply.
The piece went on to point out that the President had command of the Army and Navy. His duty included, in so many words, seeing the laws faithfully executed. That meant the part of the Kansas-Nebraska Act restricting voting to actual residents as much as the Fugitive Slave Law Pierce would rather execute. Who did he think he could fool with that line?
Update: A previous version of this post identified the essay in the Herald of Freedom as original to it. It was actually a reprint from another paper and I've edited the above to reflect that.
This entry was posted in Bleeding Kansas, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Road to War and tagged constitution, Franklin Pierce, George Washington Brown, meta, Personal, Popular Sovereignty, Wilson Shannon.
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"With You" is a song recorded by South Korean singers Jimin of BTS and Ha Sung-woon for the soundtrack of the 2022 South Korean television series Our Blues. It was released as a digital single on April 24, 2022, by YamYam Entertainment.

Background and release
On March 15, 2022, Korean news media announced that Jimin would be participating in the soundtrack for the then-upcoming tvN drama Our Blues. News of the single's impending release generated significant attention on social media and trended worldwide on Twitter.

The single marked the singer's first soundtrack project and was released on April 24, 2022. An accompanying music video featuring various scenes from the series was released alongside the single.

Commercial performance
"With You" debuted at number 15 in South Korea, on the week 18 issue of the Gaon Digital Chart for the period dated April 24–30, 2022. The single was the second most-downloaded song of its release week, and additionally entered the component Streaming Chart at number 92. It subsequently debuted on the monthly Digital and Download charts for April at numbers 128 and 6 respectively, peaking on the May Digital Chart at number 39. The single entered the Streaming Chart for the first time that same month, moving up over 100 places on the chart to rank at number 73, its peak. It entered the year-end rankings for all three charts at numbers 133, 15, and 181 respectively.

In Japan, "With You" debuted at number three on Oricon's Daily Digital Singles Chart for April 24, 2022, with 2,752 downloads sold. This one day of availability coincided with the end of an ongoing tracking week (dated April 18–24) and the single entered the subsequent weekly issue of the chart, dated May 2, at number 20. It sold a further 4,970 downloads on April 25, rising to a new peak on the daily chart at number two, and also achieved a new peak on the weekly chart dated May 9 at number seven, with 5,801 cumulative downloads for the period dated April 25–May 1.

Globally, according to Luminate Data, "With You" sold 39,400 downloads and accumulated 16.5 million streams. Of this figure, the United States accounted for 10.5% (1.8 million streams) of the single's streams while 89.5% (15.1 million streams) was attributed to territories outside of the US. This earned Jimin and Ha Sung-woon their first solo entries on the Billboard Global 200 and Global Excl. US charts, at numbers 19 and 14 respectively, on the issues dated May 7, 2022. Both singers additionally debuted on the Emerging Artists chart, at numbers 12 and 13 respectively, while the single topped the corresponding Digital Song Sales chart issue, having sold 9,800 downloads in the US during the tracking period dated April 22–28.

Accolades
Billboard included "With You" on its list of the "25 Best K-Pop Songs of 2022", at number 25. K-pop writer Jeff Benjamin summarized the track as a "gorgeous, acoustic-led ballad...able to perfectly narrate the bittersweet romantic drama" and "a display of a full-fledged musical synergy" between both singers.

The single was nominated for Best Original Soundtrack at the 8th APAN Star Awards, Best OST and Song of the Year at the 2022 MAMA Awards, and for the OST Award at the 32nd Seoul Music Awards,

Charts

Weekly charts

Monthly charts

Year-end charts

Notes

References

2022 singles
2022 songs
South Korean television drama theme songs

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Can we be bold? You've had a real glow about you lately. (Yes, we're flirting.) Perhaps it's because you just took a deep-dive into our Neon Delights collection, wisely stocking up on bright and buoyant jocks, singlets, strappy briefs, and much more. Now you're blazing, bright, and brilliant; a sleazily shining beacon of glitz, gloss, and razzle-dazzle. Time to be frisky and fluorescent.


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Jonsbo-Cooltek Announces the RM1 Chassis
Posted: Jun 21, 2015 11:16 am | Cases, Cooling & PSU Press Releases
With the RM1 we present a particular compact Mini Tower, which offers an unusual flexibility for the installation of hardware. Despite the minimalistic design, the RM1 offers enough space for ATX systems with dual VGA card support. If needed, a 5.25 inch drive can be installed, when using either a Mini-ITX or Micro-ATX motherboard. The RM1 uses brushed aluminum and shines with its superb quality. By using materials of the highest quality the RM1 offers a superb and exquisite look. The deliberately kept simple design of the RM1 harmonizes perfectly with any environment.
Motherboards of up to 305 x 245 mm can be installed in the RM1. This allows not only the installation of Mini-ITX or Micro-ATX systems in the compact case, but also of full size ATX boards. Despite its compact dimensions, the RM1 offers enough space for a powerful system. Thus, VGA cards of up to 290 mm in length and CPU-coolers with a maximum height of 95 mm can be installed in the elegant aluminium case.
Up to four hard disk drives can be mounted in the RM1. At the bottom, a 2.5 inch and a 3.5 inch drive can easily be installed, using decoupled rubber grommets to reduce vibrations. Up to two 2.5 inch SSD can be mounted on the ODD holder. If an optical drive is installed, one of these installation slots cannot be used.
Two color options (black and silver) will be available in stores from early next week, the MSRP for the case is 79.99 Euro, incl. 19% VAT. The case is sold in Europe under the label "Jonsbo - powered by Cooltek".
Technical data RM1:
Form factor: Mini-ITX, M-ATX, ATX
5.25 inch bay external: 1 x
3.5 inch bay intern: 1 x
2.5 inch bay internal: max. 3 x
Case fan (front): 1 x 120 mm
PCI expansion slots: 6
Height: ca. 349 mm
Width: ca. 211 mm
Depth: ca. 287 mm
Max. length of VGA cards: 290 mm
Max. height of CPU coolers: 95 mm
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One keyboard to rule them all?
Remember BlackBerry? They haven't forgotten about you, and are apparently hard at work on a new smartphone that could combine the best of software and hardware keyboards in one device.
BGR is back on the BlackBerry beat again with the first rumblings of an all-new smartphone out of Waterloo with the code name "Windermere" - but it may live or die at the hands of an outside partner.
According to "multiple trusted sources," the top secret Windermere project is something of a departure for BlackBerry, with a wider frame that consolidates the hardware keys into three rows instead of four.
But that's not all: The loose-lipped sources claim the physical keys will also be imbued with the power of touch sensitivity, allowing for gesture-based typing described as similar to the Swype app on Android.
This wouldn't be BlackBerry's first foray into gesture typing - after all, the BlackBerry Z10 and BlackBerry Z30 handsets are capable of accessing numbers, symbols or accent keys the same way, only with an on-screen keyboard.
The unique form factor may also extend beyond just physical keys, with BlackBerry said to be toying with the idea of running "two apps on screen simultaneously side-by-side."
BlackBerry fans may want to cool down any impulse to buy, however. The fate of Windermere may rest with a single unconfirmed "large partner" who could put the kibosh on the hardware before it ever leaves the prototype phase.
Assuming this rumored partner likes what they see, we could be looking at the first significant revision to the once-mighty BlackBerry brand in quite some time.
Speaking of unique smartphones, read TechRadar's take on the LG G Flex!


The Great Barrier Reef is one of the most complex natural systems and biodiverse regions on the planet, presenting marine biotechnologists with a treasure trove of potential biomedically and environmentally important compounds.
The Great Barrier Reef, located off the coast of northern and central Queensland, is the world's largest coral reef ecosystem, consisting of over 2,900 separate coral reefs, 900 islands, and 2,000 square kilometres of mangroves, with species representing 54 per cent of the world's mangrove diversity. The Reef extends over 14 degrees of latitude, covering a unique range of ecological communities, from shallow estuarine areas to deep oceanic waters.
Queensland's 6,000 kilometres of mainland coastline, diverse range of marine habitats and access to the unique biodiversity of the Great Barrier Reef, provide the State with extraordinary opportunities in regards to the marine biotechnology industry.
The ability of shallow water Great Barrier Reef corals to protect themselves from the damaging effects of UV light by producing compounds that filter it, first discovered by scientists at the Australian Institute of Marine Science in the 1980's, has moved a step closer to commercial application. Through a license to the AIMS IP and a collaboration between a North Queensland skincare company Larissa Bright Australia and the CSIRO, the natural molecules have been improved to create a suite of new broader-spectrum UV filtering molecules suitable for formulation in sunscreens.
Griffith University's Eskitis Institute and its Nature Bank, a collection of biota including Queensland marine samples, has been used to search for new treatments for neglected diseases such as malaria and sleeping parasites.
The chondropsins, a class of compounds found in Great Barrier Reef sponges, are a new therapeutic lead for human cancer and osteoclastic bone disease. These compounds are currently ready for pre-clinical development in collaboration with the Australian Institute of Marine Science.
Great Barrier Reef coral are being studied to identify genetic traits responsible for greater tolerance to climate change stresses such as ocean acidification and temperature rise. This knowledge will be used to build a biological toolkit and develop stocks of genetically improved corals for potential future coral reef restoration.
A joint project between the Australian Institute of Marine Science and James Cook University is studying viral pathogens of the bacteria that cause a common coral disease, to potentially develop phage-therapy as a new treatment of coral disease.
Some of Australia's most elite marine science institutes are located in Queensland, and are world leaders in the discovery and application of marine biotechnology.


Due to our communities increased need for mental health and chemical dependency services, Ridgeview Institute – Smyrna has expanded its inpatient services from 148 to 188 beds. The additional 40 beds expand the Specialized Women's Program, Adult Addiction Program, Senior Adult Program, and the Adolescent Program.
Ridgeview Institutes recent renovations increases the Women's program to 23 beds. This specialized program for women only focuses on issues such as trauma, depression, anxiety, mood disorders, professional and personal stress, grief and loss, substance use/abuse and eating disorder symptoms. The Women's Connection Program is under the leadership of Dr. Karen Mechanic and Karen Irwin Copeland, RN, as the Clinical Program Director.
The Senior Adult Program will increase capacity to an additional 18 beds. Services are under the leadership of well-known Dr. Gary Figiel and Dr. Stephen Figiel.
Addiction Services Program will have an expansion accommodating 17 additional patients under the direction of Dr. Vance Raham.
Ridgeview Institute has two locations in Atlanta, GA where patients and their families can find specialized, high-quality behavioral health and addiction treatment for both inpatient and outpatient services. Ridgeview Institute provides care for Adolescents, Adults, and Senior Adults. This includes specializations for Women, Professionals, Addictions, Young Adults, and Seniors. We offer free mental health assessments 24/7. Please contact us at 770-434-4567 to schedule an assessment.


First impressions make a huge impact on a person's overall judgment of you during a job interview. When you meet a potential employer, they automatically create an opinion of you. According to Kim Zoller, of ID360, 55 percent of another person's perception of you is based on how you look. This means that it's incredibly important to put thought into what to wear to a job interview.
Whether you're applying to do leaf guard installation for a roofing company or to a restaurant as a head chef, here are a few tips on how to dress for an interview and create a strong first impression.
You should always steer clear of denim when you're interviewing. Casual clothes give the impression that you aren't taking the opportunity seriously. Never dress down for an interview; it's always better to overdress than underdress. Don't wear clothes that are too tight or too baggy, and never wear flip-flops or shorts. You should also steer clear of strapless clothing, athletic attire, and tank tops.
It's a good idea to know the company's dress code before your interview. Many people recommend wearing a suit, but if the company doesn't dress very formally in the first place, that may be unnecessary. A nice dress shirt and tie, with either khakis or dress pants, make for a good alternative.
Here's our list of elements to consider including as you decide what to wear to your job interview.
All your clothing should fit you as well as possible. The morning of the interview, make sure to shave or trim your beard (if you've got one), neatly trim your nails, and get your hair looking tidy and professional. Don't forget to wear deodorant and to brush your teeth.
Women have a lot to think about when deciding how to dress for an interview. Make sure to plan so that you aren't scrambling for a pair of tights or a tank top for beneath your blouse five minutes before leaving. The night before your interview—at the latest—lay out the clothes you're going to wear.
Be cautious about the length of skirts and the cut and sheerness of blouses. Once again, do your research and see what the dress code is; sometimes formal attire is the way to go, and sometimes not.
All clothing should fit comfortably, and it's important to make sure skirts and tops aren't too tight or revealing. Don't stress too much about getting new clothes for an interview—just do your best to find clothes that fit and are comfortable. Figuring out what to wear to a job interview can be stressful, but by following these simple guidelines, you'll put yourself on the path to success.
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The Louisville Police Department and E911 celebrated the retirement of Patricia W. Dempsey along with family and friends on Wednesday, March 27.
Patricia was hired as a full-time dispatcher on February 01, 1994. Throughout her years of service, she completed training in telecommunications which included APCO telecommunicator, Basic Telecommunicator, Training and Stress, Identification & Management Specialized Workshop, NECI Suicide Call Handling Course, MSU Certification of Training for Basic Report Writing, United States Department of Homeland Security Office of Grants and Training for National WMD Standardized Awareness Program, TDD Tutorial, Crime in Progress Class & Call Handling, ICS 100, 200,700 & 800, MS 911 Training Seminars, 911 Legal Issues, Emergency Medical Dispatch, Office Down Course, Legal Liability, Stress Management, Sexual Harassment Training and Domestic Violence.
Patricia retired on February 01, 2019, after 25 years of service as a E911 Dispatcher of the City of Louisville/Police Department. The Mayor and Board of Alderman of City of Louisville adopted a resolution honoring and thanking Patricia W. Dempsey for her service to the City of Louisville.


Although there are often talks of lease extension or extending a lease, the right conferred on a lessee is to acquire a new lease (in substitution for the existing lease) for a term expiring, say 90 years, after the date of expiry of the existing lease. There is no such right to extend the lease. It is important that the lessee has to have owned the flat for at least two years to qualify to extend a lease or should have taken an assignment of the initial notice (the notice that starts the procedure) from such a lessee. The bone of contention which leads to disputes is the price the lessee has to pay for the new lease. If there cannot be any agreement about it, it can be determined by the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal.
Lessees often consider collective enfranchisement, which refers to the right of a number of lessees to acquire the freehold of their building. This gives them management control and facilitates lease extensions. However, collective enfranchisement is more time-consuming, more complicated, and costly. Getting a lease extended is more straightforward.
We give advice to lessees and lessors about their rights and represent them in lease enfranchisement cases. We also make any requisite applications to the Court.


Borgo Mocale is set at the very heart of Tuscany, perfectly positionned to reach easily the widely known cities of art, such as Firenze, Cortona, Arezzo, Siena, San Gimignano and the Chianti Classico wine region but... there is much more to discover, expecially if this is not your first time in Tuscany.
Our Agriturismo is in fact the ideal starting point for anyone wishing to savour the little known beautiful spots of Tuscany, meeting local residents and sharing their traditions and culture, to enjoy a surprising, emotionally enthralling experience.
Medieval castles like Loro Ciuffenna, Reinassance town like Castelfranco and San Giovanni, amazing hamlets nestled on the slopes of Pratomagno mountains like Rocca Ricciarda, water mills and beautiful forests, archological sites like Gropina with its Parish Church belonging to the Unesco World Heritage Sites, medieval abbeys like Vallombrosa, antique street markets, handicraft workshops, weekly food markets full of colours ans flavours.
An invitation not to be missed!


Greg's first Guest on our live show this Homecoming Sunday was the head of Sugarloaf's Marketing Department as we get the word out on the Mosaic being created by our Mtn's Visitors this winter.
Watch the 2018 Sugarloaf Annual Meeting held at the Sugarloaf Inn.
From Carrabassett Coffee, Ice Cream, our favorite Brews & a new Ski Swap: Homecoming's coming & going to better than ever….
So many places to grab a bite, or drink, or tunes, or second hand equipment… ALL with the fun Homecoming crowd here for a good time next weekend. WSKI's giving you the low down to plan accordingly! Stay tuned.
It's always so busy on Columbus Day weekend at Sugarloaf, that you need to keep in touch with us to not miss out on what's happening. Here's a start for the info to Know Before You Go.
here's to the old lifts we loved in the past & the many happy times we had thanks to them!! #5 & Gondi. Loved them both immeasurably!! May your spirits rise to create a brand new form (in the 2020 deadline plan) to make it a reality….


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Brendan Rodgers: Liverpool need a boost in confidence
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers admits his side need to rebuild their confidence after more problems at Anfield.
The 1-1 draw against Norwich, in which they had taken the lead, followed on the back of a 3-0 humbling by West Ham.
In three home games they have scored just twice and earned four points and with four matches without a win in all competitions, Rodgers accepts morale needs a boost.
"We have to build that confidence through training and games. It is just step by step," he said.
"You have to have courage and bravery to play here.
"There is a great history but embrace it. You have to play positive football.
"There was a feeling of anxiety when I came in. We made it a fortress. Now we are having to build it again."
Half-time substitute Danny Ings, who scored his first goal for the club, offered some positivity with a much-needed injection of energy while Alberto Moreno, on his first start of the campaign, was also lively.
The sight of Daniel Sturridge back on the field after five months on the sidelines after a hip operation was another welcome boost.
"He is a way off full fitness. His presence and stature will give us something. It is about building his fitness. There is no pressure on him to do that," he added.
Norwich captain Russell Martin had a "sensational" 24 hours after a mad dash home from Merseyside for the birth of his third child before returning to score the equaliser at Anfield.
The 29-year-old had travelled up with the team and was preparing for the game against Liverpool when he got the call to go home.
He made it in time for the arrival of his yet-to-be-named son, weighing in at 8lbs, and then had a swift turnaround to get back for the 4pm kick-off after no sleep and then promptly scored.
"It has been a long but sensational 24 hours," said the defender, after covering 750 miles with another 250 still to do to get back to the newborn.
"I flew up with the squad yesterday. My wife had had no twinges at that point and then she rang me at 7 o'clock to say she had started to feel some contractions but wasn't sure whether they were Braxton Hicks false ones or not.
"I said 'Give it a couple of hours' and then she rang me at 10.30 to say 'This is it, this is happening'.
"One of the sports scientists had brought my car fortunately in case I had to get back.
"Me and the player liaison took two hours each in the car driving back and I took her (his wife) to hospital and we got there about four in the morning and she gave birth at 9.25am.
"I had to leave at half-10 as I spoke to the management and they were keen for me to play.
"I got here a bit late, missed the captains' meeting, ran in, got dressed, was ready with the lads, scored a goal – brilliant. It will be a great story to tell the wee man.
"I hadn't slept a wink. I was running on empty towards the end – I was absolutely gone – but it was a great day and it makes it all worth it."
Read more: "You have to play positive football" – Rodgers on Liverpool's need to dominate at Anfield
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Betty And Barney Hill Abduction
29 May 2012, 9:10.
Betty and Barney Hill were an American couple who claimed to have been abducted by extraterrestrials in a rural portion of New Hampshire on September 19–20, 1961.
The couple's story, called the Hill Abduction, and occasionally the Zeta Reticuli Incident, was that they had been kidnapped for a short time by a UFO. Theirs was the first widely-publicized claim of alien abduction, adapted into the best-selling 1966 book The Interrupted Journey and the 1975 television movie The UFO Incident.
According to a variety of reports given by the Hills, the alleged UFO sighting happened on September 19, 1961, at around 10:30 p.m. The Hills were driving back to Portsmouth from a vacation in Niagara Falls and Montreal, Quebec, Canada. There were only a few other cars on the road as they made their way home to New Hampshire's seacoast. Just south of Lancaster, New Hampshire, Betty claimed to have observed a bright point of light in the sky that moved from below the moon and the planet Jupiter, upward to the west of the moon. While Barney navigated U.S. Route 3, Betty reasoned that she was observing a falling star, only it moved upward, like a plane or a satellite.
Since it moved erratically and grew bigger and brighter, Betty urged Barney to stop the car for a closer look, as well as to walk their dog, Delsey. Barney stopped at a scenic picnic area just south of Twin Mountain. Worried about the presence of bears, Barney retrieved a pistol that he had concealed in the trunk of the car.
Betty, through binoculars, observed an "odd shaped" craft flashing multicolored lights travel across the face of the moon.
Because her sister had confided to her about having a flying saucer sighting several years earlier, Betty thought it may be what she was observing. Through binoculars Barney observed what he reasoned was a commercial airliner traveling toward Vermont on its way to Montreal. However, he soon changed his mind, because without looking as if it had turned, the craft rapidly descended in his direction. This observation caused Barney to realize, "this object that was a plane was not a plane."
He quickly returned to the car and drove toward Franconia Notch, a narrow, mountainous stretch of the road.
The Hills claimed that they continued driving on the isolated road, moving very slowly through Franconia Notch in order to observe the object as it came even closer. At one point the object passed above a restaurant and signal tower on top of Cannon Mountain. It passed over the mountain and came out near the 48′ profile of the Old Man of the Mountain (New Hampshire's State Symbol).
Betty testified that it was at least one and a half times the length of the granite profile and seemed to be rotating. The couple watched as the silent, lighted craft moved erratically and bounced back and forth in the night sky.
As they drove along Route 3 through Franconia Notch, they stated that it seemed to be playing a game of cat and mouse with the couple. Approximately one mile south of Indian Head, they said, the object rapidly descended toward their vehicle causing Barney to stop directly in the middle of the highway.
The huge, silent craft hovered approximately 80–100 feet above the Hills' 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air and filled the entire field of the windshield. It reminded Barney of a huge pancake. Carrying his pistol in his pocket, he stepped away from the vehicle and moved closer to the object. Using the binoculars, Barney claimed to have seen about 8 to 11 humanoid figures who were peering out of the craft's windows, seeming to look at him.
In unison, all but one figure moved to what appeared to be a panel on the rear wall of the hallway that encircled the front portion of the craft. The one remaining figure continued to look at Barney and communicated a message telling him to "stay where you are and keep looking." Red lights on what appeared to be bat-wing fins began to telescope out of the sides of the craft and a long structure descended from the bottom of the craft.
The silent craft approached to what Barney estimated was within 50–80 feet overhead and 300 feet away from him. On October 21, 1961, Barney reported to NICAP Investigator Walter Webb, that the "beings were somehow not human".
Barney tore the binoculars away from his eyes and ran back to his car. In a near hysterical state, he told Betty, "They're going to capture us!"
He saw the object again shift its location to directly above the vehicle. He drove away at high speed, telling Betty to look for the object. She rolled down the window and looked up, but saw only darkness above them, even though it was a bright, starry night.
Almost immediately the Hills heard a rhythmic series of beeping or buzzing sounds which they said seemed to bounce off the trunk of their vehicle. The car vibrated and a tingling sensation passed through the Hills' bodies. Betty touched the metal on the passenger door expecting to feel an electric shock, but felt only the vibration.
The Hills said that at this point in time they experienced the onset of an altered state of consciousness that left their minds dulled. A second series of codelike beeping or buzzing sounds returned the couple to full consciousness. They found that they had traveled nearly 35 miles south but had only vague, spotty memories of this section of road. They recalled making a sudden unplanned turn, encountering a roadblock, and observing a fiery orb in the road.
Betty also had vivid dreams of being on board a spacecraft. While Barney experienced sicknesses. The two told their stories and some suggested they go under regretion hypnosis. The two found out they were abducted.
This case is one of the most famous UFO abduction cases.
They drew a picture, explaining what the alien looked like…
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2 Responses to Betty And Barney Hill Abduction
Herbie says: May 29, 2012 at 12:18 pm
I always doubt every abduction story… just seems so weird to me.
Dodo says: May 29, 2012 at 11:57 am
I`ve always been a huge fan of abduction stories.
15 June 2012, 8:21
Space flights: Book your place in space ! Thats how virgin galactic is attracting customers to fly into space. 1 ticket will cost you a mindblowing 200.000 US dollars. Already more then 400 people have bought a ticket into space. Off course we all .
NASA has detected the smallest planet outside our solar system have been by NASA's space telescopes. The planet is called Kepler-10b, is about 1.4 times Earth's size and has an orbit so close to its star as lacking life, according .
Are the Churches of Lalibela Evident of Alien Culture? Now we know that aliens have been around our planet since the ancient times. We have been able to find out that aliens have interest in architecture. Is it the reason behind .
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»Petrangelo Wins $151,800; Now Has $21.27M in Earnings
Massachusetts-born Nick Petrangelo is widely regarded as one of the best poker tournament players on the planet. The Las Vegas resident has $21,268,193 in live tournament earnings, placing him 29th in the all-time listing. He took down yet another high roller event over the weekend, namely, the $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em PokerGO Tour High Roller at the luxurious Bellagio in Las Vegas. This is what happened in the tournament.
The 11th event of the mini-series drew in a 42-strong crowd, which is one of the biggest turnouts so far. The top six finishers shared the $420,000 prize pool created by those entrants.
Big names littered the field, but not all managed to make it to the final six. Petrangelo was initially one of them. He three-bet all-in with Kc-Qc and lost to the Ac-Qs of John Andress. An ace on the river sent Petrangelo to the rail, but only until he delved into his wallet and pulled out a $10,000 re-entry.
Recent PokerGO Tour champions Rok Gostisa and Justin Bonomo bowed out before the conclusion of Level 9. Sean Winter almost bubbled, crashing out in eighth at the hands of David Mock. Anthony Marquez crashed out in seventh, with Mock doing the damage.
Petrangelo in the Middle of the Pack
The remaining six players locked in a $25,200 score for their troubles. Petrangelo found himself in the middle of the chip counts; Mock led by some distance.
Sung Joo Hyun saw his tournament end abruptly in sixth place. Mock opened during the 15,000/25,000/25,000a level, and called when Hyun three-bet all-in for 880,000. It was Ac-Jh for Hyun and Ah-Qd for Mock. The board ran Th-9d-8h-4s-5c and the player count reduced by one.
A double-elimination during the same level left only three players in the hunt for the title. Sergio Fernandez open-shoved with 4h-4s from the button for 400,000. Petrangelo committed his 1,500,000 stack with Ac-Kh, and Johan Guilbert called off his 850,000 with As-Qh. The Ah-Js-Th flop kept Petrangelo in the lead, but he had outs to void. The Ts turn was no help to either all-in player, nor was the 3d river. Fernandez busted in fifth for $33,600, Guilbert fourth for $42,000, while Petrangelo soared to the top of the chip counts.
Four-time WSOP bracelet winner Dominik Nitsche was the next out of the door. A dealer mix-up saw Nitche's Td exposed, so he receive a new card. Mock moved all-in from the small blind, and Nitsch snapped him off. Mock flipped over Ks-6h, and Nitsche the dominating Ac-Kc. Nitche's hand remained true until the river, with the board reading Jh-4c-2h-5d-3h. Mock improved to an unlikely straight, and Nitsche crashed out.
Champion Elect Holds Huge Heads-Up Chip Lead
Petrangelo's 3,220,000 stack dwarfed the 980,000 of Mock going into heads-up. Unsurprisingly, it did not take long to decide the champion.
The final hand saw Mock min-raise to 50,000, a bet the champion elect called. A flop reading 5c-3d-2h saw Petrangelo check, and Mock fire a 50,000 continuation bet. Petrangelo check-raised to 200,000, and instantly called when Mock shoved for 1,000,000. Mock revealed 6h-6s, but his opponent's Ad-4d had him crushed. The inconsequential Ac and Jc completed the board, ending Mock's participation. Mock banked $100,800 for his bridesmaid finish, leaving Petrangelo to bag the $151,200 top prize.
$10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Final Table Payouts
1 Nick Petrangelo United States $151,200
2 David Mock United States $100,800
3 Dominik Nitsche Germany $67,200
4 Johan Guilbert France $42,000
5 Sergio Fernandez Spain $33,600
6 Sung Joo Hyun South Korea $25,200
Two other high rollers triumphed in their respective events this weekend, too. Arthur Conan won the $25,000 No-Limit Hold'em tournament for $227,500. Only 13 players turned out for that one.
Turkey's Selahaddin Bedir won the other $25,000 event. Outlasting 24 opponents to scoop $287,500.
There is a $25,000 buy-in tournament on December 14, with the $10,000 WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic due to start December 15. December 20 sees a $50,000 PokerGO Tour Championship. Expect some of the biggest names in poker to compete there.


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Połiak-Baránok
This article refers to a micronation which is defunct and no longer exists. You can help make the article reflect that or ask on the talk page for further information.
Poliak-Baránok (simply known as P-B) was a short-lived country that consisted from the Second Republic of Baránok and Połiak. It was established on 20 January 2020 and dissolved on 23 March 2020. It's the direct predecessor of Federal Republic of Baránok and Republic of Połiak.
20 January 2020-23 March 2020
Motto: None
Anthem: Anthem of Połiak-Baránok
de facto Gyögiszertár, de jure none
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Slovak, Baranese
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de facto Unitary, de jure Federal semi-presidential republic
S.D. (last)
Imrich Kvajda (last)
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Połiak-Baránok was originally established on 20 January 2020 with S.D. as President and Imrich Kvajda as Prime Minister. From the beginning, many conflicts were held between Połiaks and Baranese citizens, because some Baranese hated Połiaks. The cause is unknown. Also, there were several coup d'état attempts to overthrow the Połiakese President S.D., but all of these failed. On 3 March 2020, founders of Baránok Kvajda and A.H. announced to the President S.D. that they declared independence of Baránok from Połiak-Baránok, but shortly after, they dissolved the new country, because Kvajda was appointed Prime Minister of Połiak-Baránok. That was also the cause of government crisis on 18 March 2020, because Minister of Defence S.S. refused to resign after his hate speech on Połiaks. After around six hours, he finally gave up and resigned. But the conflicts continued, and that was the cause of referendum about dissolution of Połiak-Baránok on 22 and 23 March 2020, which ended existence of this country and Federal Republic of Baránok was established.
Flag of Poland was also sometimes used as the flag of Połiak-Baránok as Połiak was originally named "Poland".
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