#Saturday 10 july 2010

[black-arcana]

BUTCHER BABIES Part Ways With Singer CARLA HARVEY

BUTCHER BABIES have parted ways with singer Carla Harvey.

The band announced Harvey's exit in a social media post earlier today (Saturday, July 20). BUTCHER BABIES wrote: "As you may have already guessed, it is confirmed that Carla Harvey and BUTCHER BABIES have officially parted ways.

"Carla has been an integral part of our journey, bringing her unique talent, passion, and energy to the band. We are grateful for the incredible memories we've made together and the impact she has had on our music and our fans. We will miss her greatly and we wish her all the best in her future endeavors.

"We deeply appreciate your support over the past 15 years," BUTCHER BABIES added. "We feel incredibly fortunate to keep making and playing music as our career, and we are excited for this new era of BUTCHER BABIES!

"See you on the road."

Carla added in a separate post: "Over the last 6 months You may have noticed my absence from BUTCHER BABIES posts. After 15 years of dedication, I wanted to let you know that I will not be rejoining the band for any future endeavors.

"I am super proud of my work with BUTCHER BABIES…2 EPS, 5 Full lengths albums and countless tours with our metal heroes! To all of our incredible BUTCHER BABIES friends and fans…you have provided me with some of the greatest experiences of my life! I have loved every second of writing and performing all over the world for you! I have loved meeting you. WOW. I still can't believe this kid from Detroit got so lucky.

"I am not done making music and performing. I WILL see you soon".

Last fall, BUTCHER BABIES completed a European tour without Carla, who sat out the trek in order to undergo emergency surgery on her left eye.

Harvey shared the news of her absence from the tour on October 26, 2023 in a social media post. The 47-year-old singer, who co-founded BUTCHER BABIES in 2010 with fellow vocalist Heidi Shepherd, posted a photo of her performing with her bandmates, and she included the following message: "Here's a picture of a girl in her happy place; unfortunately i won't be in that happy place on the upcoming @butcherbabies Euro run. Love you all but i have to sit this one out!

"I have a history of problematic vision and I had to have a major surgery about 10 years ago in my right eye for a retinal detachment. On our summer tour the telltale symptoms repeated themselves in my left eye. I've been hoping to avoid major surgery but it is clear that it must be done. My emergency surgery will include a healing process of laying face down for a number of days with a gas bubble in my eye."

Carla added: "This is the first time in fifteen years i won't be able to join my friends on stage but right now my health and sight take precedence for me. While I am gutted that I cannot make the tour the risk of me waiting till after a tour to do such a surgery is too great and includes permanent vision loss. The beauty of having two vocalists is that Heidi can cover for me until i'm better!

"Hoping to make it out for part of this euro run…go to the shows, have a blast and support my bandmates for me! I'll see you soon!"

In the comments section, Shepherd voiced her support for her then-bandmate, writing: "Sending all the love and healing. We'll hold down the fort while you heal. We need those beautiful eyes to work!!! Love you!"

BUTCHER BABIES are scheduled to kick off a three-week European tour on July 27 at the Stonehenge festival in The Netherlands.

This past January, Harvey and ANTHRAX and PANTERA drummer Charlie Benante announced that they were officially engaged.

BUTCHER BABIES released a double album "Eye For An Eye…" and "…'Til The World's Blind", in July 2023. The double album celebrates the tenth anniversary of BUTCHER BABIES' critically acclaimed debut, "Goliath", released on July 9, 2013 via Century Media Records.

BUTCHER BABIES' previous album, 2017's "Lilith" was produced by Steve Evetts (THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, SEPULTURA, SUICIDE SILENCE) and marked the band's recording debut with drummer Chase Brickenden, who replaced Chris Warner in 2016.

In July 2019, longtime BUTCHER BABIES bassist Jason Klein announced his departure from the band. He has since been replaced by Ricky Bonazza.

[darkmaga-retard]

https://www.globalresearch.ca/dangers-lessons-perennial-israeli-palestinian-war-big-picture/5837437

Dangers and Lessons from the Perennial Israeli-Palestinian War: The Big Picture of Propaganda and False Flag Operations

By Prof Rodrigue Tremblay

Global Research, August 14, 2024

False flag operations:

“The powers-that-be understand that to create the appropriate atmosphere for war, it is necessary to create within the general populace a hatred, fear or mistrust of others regardless of whether those others belong to a certain group of people or to a religion or a nation.”James Morcan(1978- ), New Zealander-born actor, writer, producer and a resident of Australia, 2014.

“I know what America is. America is a thing you can move very easily, move it in the right direction. They won’t get in our way.” Benjamin Netanyahu (1949- ), Israeli Prime Minister (1996-1999), (2009-2021) and (2022- ), addressing Israeli settlers in the West Bank, (as quoted in ‘Netanyahu: ‘America is a thing you can move very easily'”, The Washington Post, July 16, 2010.)

“We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy’s side of the front is always propaganda, and what is said on our side of the front is truth and righteousness, the cause of humanity and a crusade for peace.” Walter Lippmann (1889-1974), American journalist, (in ‘Public Opinion’, 1922).

“Those who want thwart the creation of a Palestinian state should support the strengthening of Hamas and the transfert of funds to Hamas.“ Benjamin Netanyahu (1949- ), Israeli Prime Minister, (during a meeting of the Likud party, in 2019).

Introduction

Nowadays, almost all wars, involving governments with access to enormous propaganda resources, are either deliberately provoked or simply the result of false flag operations, camouflaged under a veil of lies and fake news. In time of war, all parties lie. With the help of passive or complacent medias, not one distracted person in a hundred can see clearly what is really going on.

Rocket and missile clashes between Islamist Hamas and Israel, and atrocities and war crimes committed against civilians, are not new in that part of the world. The most recent outbreak of violence is, in reality, the continuation of a deep conflict, which is ongoing and which is entering into a new cycle of escalating violence.

Indeed, two years ago, in May 2021, serious riots took place inside the compound of al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City, which left hundreds of Palestinians and many police officers injured. What followed was an escalation of attacks between Israel and Hamas. The latter launched more than 1,000 rockets from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, while the Israeli army, in return, dropped a deluge of fire on the blockaded Gaza Strip, causing more than 150 Palestinian deaths and 10 deaths on the Israeli side.

Only six months ago, on April 5th and 6th, 2023, there were new violent clashes in Jerusalem when Israeli police raided again the al-Aqsa mosque, in the pursuit of  “agitators” who had barricaded themselves inside.

It is therefore somewhat puzzling why so many observers were taken by surprise when Hamas launched its rain of rockets on Israel, on Saturday, October 7, 2023, in an operation specifically called al-Aqsa Deluge.

Likewise, we can only remain perplexed when the Israeli government itself says it was taken by surprise, since its relations with the Palestinian populations have been extremely tense, particularly since 2021.

[popculturebuffet]

Next up for Cartoon Network era of shows, who is your favorite character from each of late 2000s-early 2010 era shows (I included the final 3 that began before the big logo change in May 29, 2010 and rebrand to make the next one less heavy since a lot premiered in 2010-11) you've seen like: Chowder, Transformers Animated, Ben 10 Alien Force, The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, The Secret Saturdays, Adventure Time, Ben 10 Ultimate Alien, and Generator Rex?

I"m also going to throw a brucey bonus one in here that wasn't produced by Cartoon Network, and i'm making an exception for. (Transformers Animated was it turns out so it wasn't needed but I incldued it in the teaser just inc ase) I als oonce again thank you for doing this

Chowder: A hard choice but the boy himself is such a fleshed out and hilarous character and i'ts a shame his actor retired, though I respect it. CH Greenblat's first show stilll holds up: intensely silly, whimsically creative and deeply hilaroius. Outside of the nightmare that was panini, this show is still a great time and well worth yours.. and one I go back to frquently

Transformers Animated: It's been a while so i'm not firmly sure so i'll go with Wreck Gar, he dares to be stupid. Also having Weird Al voice him was too brilliant and the concpet work. But the show itself is amazing, a creative reboot that found new ways to do the autobots war against the evil force sof the deceiptcons by making optimus a rookie, having the tick be his asshole superior, and our heroes a ragtag bunch against a far stronger deciptcon army and delightful supervillians. I love this so much.

Ben 10 Alien Force: Julie: Sh'es a well done love intrest with a pet blob dog thing. Easy pick. Alien wise it's jetfire. As for alien force itself.. it's my faviorite of the four ben 10 shows i've seen (i.e. everything but the reboot). Or at least seasons 1 and 2 are, season 3 is a bit of a mess. It's clear they had a solid intresting if retcon heavy plan for seasons 1 and 2, giving us an intresting and horrifying meanace in the high breed, the glory that is parodox and a great main trio. Though as I said season 3 is a hot mess. But compared to the not terrible but still messy things to follow it's at least more consitent.

Flapjack: Peppermint Larry whose the right mix of hilarious and creepy. As for the show itself.. i'm not a fan. I respect it's impact on animation, top notch vocal cast, and gorgeous animation.. but it's too much of a gross out show and deeply disturbing for my taste. It's a me thing, but yeah the show lost me after a while, but i'ts not bad just not my forte.

The Secret Saturdays: Doyle. You combine will fredle's Terry McGuinnis voice with a badass bounty hunter , bad influence and fun uncle and you got a stew going. The series itself I badly need to revisit and is a fun adventure show with a well built cast, world and twist. Criminally underated and canceled before it's time, though still at least managing a satisfying finale.

Total Drama Island: The Brucey Bonus that's been on my mind since the reboot is currently airing in the us and i've watched half of it. (Need to go back and finish it that's on me etc). But while it wasn't made by cn so I wasn't going to obligate you to include it, I had to as before our next entry it was the big breakout for CN for a while. Flapjack was good and got praise over time and Chowder was well loved, but Total Drama was the big star for a bit. Faviorite is hard to pick, but for this season i'll go with gwen. Time would not be kind to her but teenage me couldn't get enough. And adult me can't get enough of the show, as it's well done, with only a few rough edges and season 1 is so good few other seasons have competed. It's got a great cast, great challenges and a lot of good jokes. And farts but that's Total Drama for you, you get numb to it.

Total Drama Action: Harold because he' smy boy, but really no one was on top game this season. This season is bad.. not as bad as some later seasons, but it's clear they had no real direction for it, gave up on their first antagonist halfway through, and derailed trent. While I was never big on trent and gwen, that whole fiasco leaves a bad taste in the mouth for the rest of the season and courtney's derailment, while not a stretch is a waste of a good villian turn by making her invincible. The film themeing is okay, but it's clear they were not ready for the sequel.

Adventure Time:Jake. I know same name and all that, but the guy just has chill dumbass energy for days, one of the best scenes in teh show (Jake , your president now), and is easily John DiMaggio's best performance. The show itself is excellent: it did stumble a bit after rebecca sugar left for something i'm sure we'll get to next time, but while I left the show after a while, it recovered and has since gone on to have two excellent spinoffs with more coming and a movie. The show wasn't perfect, but damn if it wasn't important to animation as a whole, saved cartoon network and generally just... slaps.

Ben 10: Ultimate Alien: This one's.. a bit more mixed. Character wise, Julie looses it, but Sir George picks it up as one of the franchises best villian, a knight who simply hasn't adapted to a far less simple world. Ultimate Alien itself.. is a mixed bag. The villian for the first half of season 1 is generic as fuck, though Kevin's return to evil was brilliant and while it had some weird bits (gee ben your really gonna kill your best friend huh?), it worked far better than it had any right too. The second arc likewise followed the pattern: started messy as hell, picked up well after with the forever knights ressurgence. It's not as messy as omniverse to a point, but it's just kinda okay overall. The ultimate transformation was a neat idea, Sir George is great but it has a lot of bad one offs, questionable decisions and a general lack of direction at times.

Generator Rex: Now bringing me the oppsite of the above, Generator Rex. Breach is my faviorite , from her creepy design , to her creepily perfect voice acting and redepemption arc (and weird chemistry with rex). The show itself though is underated: while it has minor tonal issues here and there (Having wacky shenanigans episode ina fairly horrifying setting and the rock soundtrack sometimes clashes), it compensates with a brilliant horrifying concept, a dumptruck of memorable characters too big to list here, and really going hard, exploring the implications of this fucked up world with whole cities turned evo, rex's parental substitue and secret agent buddy given orders to kill, and Rex struggling to find SOME normalcy. It's an underated classic that badly deserves a reboot at some point.

[hotarutranslations]

The Color of the Costume, Conan,,

Evening

I've told you that I had a lot of fun at USJ,

The video, can be seen with Takeuchi-san so lol

…by all means?🍄🚙💨🌟🚗💨

I really, a bit before the Conan limited series started, Where would I go, to USJ?? is what it was like lol

But also always wanted to go to Mario too🫶🏻

Probably, it would be difficult for, Mario and Conan in 1 day, Since its good! To concentrate on one thing at a time!

Lets go again~~~

its Friday Road Show for Conan,

On YouTube, They're streaming the Kid anime, I also watched that,

I gave up after 12 episodes of Magic Kaito (2010), but now I saw there is a Magic Kaito (2014)~

And since I've also watched Conan VS Kaitou Kid on Netflix before,

I've seen the Clock Tower story, many many many times😂🫶🏻 Also the airwalking as well😂🫶🏻

Its interesting to see both points of view! Amazing (This is probably a sentiment that has been said many times)

For the movies as well, Sunflowers of Inferno, Dimensional Sniper, Private Eye's Requiem, Crimson Love Letter, Halloween Bride, since I've looked back on those so far, the timeline is jumbling around in my head

Really recently, its been that kind of brain←

Although,

Tomorrow is the concert in Miyagi💙 Lets have fun--💙

There are those that will finally be seeing the tour, there are maybe a lot!? Are there!?

Lets look forward💙

Also tomorrow night, I'm appearing on "Youngtown Doyoubi"!

Its been like 10 months!

Although its been a while every time, it doesn't have the feeling of being a while, I'd be happy if you could enjoy listening to it🏅

My Birthday Event DVD is on sale❤️

Applications Here →April 26th 11:59PM Deadline

DVD "Morning Musume '24 Ishida Ayumi Birthday Event DVD"

📺Hello Pro Dance Gakuen Season 11

April 18th 11:30PM~ A Learning From TSUKUSHI-san Adventure🕺

Sendai Broadcast "Ara Ara Kashiko" April 13th (Sat) at 10:25AM~ Ishida Ayumi Goes~!

I appear once a month as part of the AraKashi Family

The previous shows, and makings, are on OX VIDEO STORE!

Thank you for following.. Instagram💙🩵

💿

May 15th Release Morning Musume '23 Concert Tour Fall "Neverending Shine Show ~Seiki~" Fukumura Mizuki Graduation Special YokoAri's 2nd Day With Fukumura-san's Graduation Performance

May 15th Release Morning Musume '23 Concert Tour Fall "Neverending Shine Show" SPECIAL YokoAri's 1st Day With OG Performances

🪩Spring Tour Has Been Decided Morning Musume '24 Concert Tour Spring MOTTO MORNING MUSUME

We'll be going around the country from March 16th!

🪩JAPAN JAM Morning Musume '24 will be performing on May 3rd!

⚾️《LIVE DAYS！～Exciting Big Exhibition Match～》 June 2nd(Sun), after the Hokkaido Ham Fighters vs. Yokohama DeNa Baystars match, Morning Musume '24 will be having a special mini live!

🪩The MusiQuest 2024 July 21st (Sun) PiaArena MM

We're challenging a new festival stage❤️‍🔥 Absolutely, Definitely, Thank you for your support❤️‍🔥

🍉Sanrio Character Grand Prix Thank you very much for supporting Gaokki🍉

📻Morning Musume '24 Morning Jogakuin ~Houkago Meeting~

Airs Every Saturday, On Radio Nihon at 12:00AM~

Past Broadcast Episodes Are Available →Program Details

Yamazaki Mei's Panda-san Daisuki!! ~Expressing Love Towards My Favorite Panda-san♡ ver.~ in Adventure World

Yamazaki Mei's Panda-san Daisuki!! Mei-chan's Holiday. Adventure World with Oda-san and Ishida-san

see you ayumin <3 https://ameblo.jp/morningmusume-10ki/entry-12849028320.html

[park-jimin-isnt-real]

Happy Valen-tans Days

To celebrate the days leading up to Valentine's day, I am going to write and post 14 drabbles all based around love, and you (yes, you 😘) get to create the prompts I use. Here's how it'll work:

Send me one thing from each of the following lists (kinda like drawing random slips of paper from a hat). They're coded*, so I'll know what to write, but the story you end up getting is a surprise!

Choose a color (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink) 🌈

Choose a wishing method (11:11, eyelash, wishbone, birthday candles, dandelions, shooting star) 🌠

Choose a decade (20s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, 2010s) 🕰

Choose a day of the week 📅 (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday)

Choose a month of the year 🗓 (April, September, November)

Choose a number 1-3 🔢

Choose a letter of the alphabet 🔠

You can decide if you want to send in a specific member or not, but I will only be accepting 2 of each member, as there's only 14 days leading up to Valentine's Day. All stories will also be SFW (at most they'll have suggestive themes, but absolutely no smut).

*please note that just because you chose a specific month or decade, does not mean the story will take place during that specific month or decade; again, these are codes that I will use to write the story*

Feb. 1 - Jin (prompt created by @mirahuyooo)

♡ pink, dandelions, 2000s, Wednesday, November, 1, M

Feb. 2 - Yoongi (prompt created by @daydreamer-writing)

♡ blue, eyelash, 2000s, Sunday, December, 2, Y

Feb. 3 - Hobi (prompt created by anon #1)

♡ blue, dandelion, 2010s, Thursday, April, 3, G

Feb. 4 - Namjoon (prompt created by @mintsugarmy)

♡ green, shooting stars, 2010s, Thursday, January, 2, M

Feb. 5 - Jimin (prompt created by @idreaminmono)

♡ red, dandelions, 80s, Friday, July, 3, Q

Feb. 6 - Taehyung (prompt created by @myplaceforstories)

♡ green, shooting stars, 20s, Thursday, April, 2, S

Feb. 7 - Jungkook (prompt created by @thebadassmotherofmyshotas)

♡ green, shooting stars, 90s, Wednesday, October, 2, J

Feb. 8 - Jin (prompt created by @alpacaparkaseok)

♡ yellow, 11:11, 20s, Tuesday, September, 1, S

Feb. 9 - Taehyung (prompt created by @ratherbefangirling)

♡ purple, eyelash, 50s, Friday, February, 1, I

Feb. 10 - Hobi

♡ ....

Feb. 11 - Yoongi (prompt created by anon #2)

♡ purple, 11:11, 90s, Saturday, November, 1, R

Feb. 12 - Namjoon (prompt created by anon #3)

♡ yellow, 11:11, 90s, Friday, April, 1, J

Feb. 13 - Jungkook

♡ ....

Feb. 14 - Jimin (prompt created by me and a randomizer)

♡ orange, eyelash, 60s, Tuesday, September, 3, T

[twstbookclub]

Introduction to 🦋

So, I’m the last of the admins for the Twisted Book Club. University life has a chokehold on me recently, but here I am. I’m Cressa and I’m the oldest of the trio—I won’t specify my age. You can call me C or Cress for short! My pronouns are she/her and they/them, but I don’t really mind whatever pronouns you use to refer to me.

I’ve been playing TWST since July, which makes me the admin with the shortest time possible in the fandom. Funny enough, I started playing the game after my birthday. I missed a shot at getting a birthday greeting right off the bat (*insert the pepe crying emote*). I like all the characters in TWST—Sebek included because I just know that boy annoyed a lot of people in the fandom—because of how well-written and in-depth they are. Although, my favorites are Floyd and Malleus. This doesn’t help me at all when my gacha luck is rotten and I’m strictly free-to-play.

I’m okay with writing any genre there is: fluffy, angst, comedy, and a mix of everything else. I usually try to make something original with cliché tropes and other prompts, too. Although, I draw the line at NSFW because I can’t write it and I’m uncomfortable writing it. Like I mentioned before, I’m a university student in a pre-medical program. This means that I’m usually busy, but I try to post something on Saturdays and Sundays whenever I can. My timezone is GMT +8, but I try to follow the CMT timezone just like this page.

With that out of the way, here are some fun facts about me!

Like any other tween in the 2010s, I wrote in Wattpad first. I had a oneshots book that somehow became popular, but I’d rather not go back to it. I dropped Wattpad years ago.

I know four languages, but I could only speak two fluently. I was trying to learn Korean before, but I stopped due to procrastination. I can only read the hangeul characters at this point. The other one? I understood it, but with how off it sounds in my voice, I barely speak it.

I’ve been reading books since I was a kid, and I mostly read fantasy. The only YA novel I genuinely reread is The Hunger Games. I’ll never get tired of it (and I’m Team Peeta all the way even if I’m okay with the idea of Katniss staying single in the end, too).

I’ve played a lot of games that I can’t even list them all here, but I did play Persona 5 Royal, Sonic Mania, Tekken 7, Kingdom Hearts 3, the Ace Attorney trilogy, and more!

Look, I’ve been dipping my toes in a pool of fandoms for years, and I can’t even tell you all of them because I lost track. I’m in the TWST fandom and I’m into anime, games, and a whole lot more. At this point, I’m just a multi-fandom anon who hasn’t taken that plunge yet.

I’ve been writing since I was 10 years old, and I’d like to think that I improved a lot as the years went by.

That’s all I can tell you right now. Like all the admins here, I associate myself with the 🦋 emote so you know it’s me whenever I post a fic or answer an ask. I love talking to anyone, really, so don’t be a stranger! I hope yall enjoy your time here in TBC! 💕

[brookston]

Holidays 7.13

Holidays

Ann Hutchinson Memorial Day

Atomic Bomb Test Day

Barbershop Music Appreciation Day

Be A Geek For A Day

Blame Someone Else Day

Bottled Beer Day

Childhood Memories Day

Embrace Your Geekness Day

Festival of Inner Worlds

Festival of the Three Cows (Border of France & Basque Spain)

Fool's Paradise Day

Go Wakeboarding Day

Go West Day

Gruntled Workers Day

Guinea Fowl Day (French Republic)

International Day of ADHD Awareness

International Day of Sarcoma

International Growth Hacking Day

International Puzzle Day

International Rock Day

International Rock ’N’ Roll Day

Kashmir Martyrs’ Day (Pakistan)

La Retraite Aux Flambeaux (Night Watch; France)

Naadam, Day 3 (Mongolia)

Nathan Bedford Forrest Day (Tennessee)

National Delaware Day

National Paul Day

National Sam Day

Puzzle Day

Sandra Bland Day (Texas)

713 Day

Swiftie Day

Uniwaine Day (Elderly Men Day; Kiribati)

World Cup Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Beans 'n' Franks Day

Krispy Kreme Doughnut Day

National Beef Tallow Day

National French Fries Day (a.k.a. National French Fry Day)

National Nitrogen Ice Cream Day

2nd Thursday in July

Dinosaur Roundup Rodeo begins (Vernal, Utah) [2nd Thursday thru Saturday]

National Tree Day [2nd Thursday]

Oregon Trail Days begin (Geris, Nebraska) [2nd Thursday thru Sunday]

Oxegen Festival begins (Ireland) [2nd Thursday there Sunday]

Turkey Rama begins (McMinnville, Oregon) [2nd Thursday]

Independence Days

Statehood Day (Montenegro)

Usi (Declared; 2014) [unrecognized]

Wilkland (Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Abd-al-Masih (Christian; Saint & Martyr)

Abel of Tacla Haimonot (Coptic Church)

Anacletus (Christian; Martyr)

Asarnha Bucha Day (Theravada Buddhism)

Bhanu Jayanti (Sikkim, India)

Blanche of Castile (Positivist; Saint)

Boun Khao Phansa begins (Buddhist Lent)

Clelia Barbieri (Christian; Saint)

Conrad Weiser (Episcopal Church (USA))

Eugenius of Carthage (Christian; Saint)

Feast of Kalimát (Words; Baha’i)

Geek Appreciation Day (Pastafarian)

Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (a.k.a. Henry the Emperor; Christian; Saint)

Joel the Prophet (Christian; Saint)

Macarena Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Mordecai Ardon (Artology)

Mildrith of Thanet (Christian; Saint)

Mr. Screech (Muppetism)

Obon (a.k.a. Ulanbana, Festival of the Lanterns; Buddhist, Shinto)

Rosa Mystica (Christian; Saint)

Silas (Catholic Church; Saint)

Solstitium IX (Pagan)

Spot the Loony Day (Pastafarian)

Teresa of the Andes (Christian; Saint)

Turiaf (a.k.a. Turiave or Thivisiau; Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Dismal Day (Unlucky or Evil Day; Medieval Europe; 13 of 24)

Egyptian Day (Unlucky Day; Middle Ages Europe) [13 of 24]

Fatal Day (Pagan) [14 of 24]

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

Breaking Away (Film; 1979)

Californy’er Bust (Disney Cartoon; 1945)

Country Mouse (WB MM Cartoon; 1935)

Dedicated To the One I Love, by The Shirelles (Song; 1959)

Don’t Be Cruel/Hound Dog, by Elvis Presley (Song; 1956)

Eighth Grade (Film; 2018)

Generation Kill (TV Series; 2008)

Ghost (Film; 1990)

A Hard Day’s Night, by The Beatles (US Album; 1964)

Hollywoodland sign (Dedicated; 1923)

Ice Age: Continental Drift (Animated Film; 2012)

Inception (Film; 2010)

The Last Starfighter (Film; 1984)

Legally Blonde (Film; 2001)

Microbe Hunters, by Paul de Kruif (Science Book; 1926)

The Muppets Take Manhattan (Film; 1984)

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, by Ambrose Bierce (Short Story; 1890)

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, by Bob Dylan (Soundtrack Album; 1973)

Queen, by Queen (Album; 1973)

Skyscraper (Film; 2018)

The Spy Who Loved Me (James Bond Film; 1977) [#10]

Today’s Name Days

Anno, Heinrich, Kunigunde (Austria)

Emanuel, Ferdinand, Henrik (Croatia)

Markéta (Czech Republic)

Margrethe (Denmark)

Greta, Grete, Kreet, Kreeta, Mare, Maret, Mareta, Margareeta, Marge, Margit, Marit, Marita, Meeta, Reeda, Reet (Estonia)

Ilari, Joel, Lari (Finland)

Enzo, Eugène, Henri, Joël (France)

Heinrich, Kunigunde (Germany)

Iliofotos, Sarah (Greece)

Jenő (Hungary)

Enrico (Italy)

Alda, Margarita, Margrieta, Mariska, Pērle (Latvia)

Anakletas, Arvilas, Arvilė, Henrikas (Lithuania)

Melissa, Mia, Mildrid (Norway)

Ernest, Ernestyn, Eugeniusz, Irwin, Jakub, Justyna, Małgorzata, Radomiła (Poland)

Margita (Slovakia)

Enrique, Joel (Spain)

Joel, Judit (Sweden)

Ezra, Joel, Joelle, Mildred, Natalia, Natalie, Natasha, Nathalie, Nathan, Nathanael, Nathania, Nathaniel, Tasha (USA)

Henri, Nathalie, Nathaly (Universal)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 194 of 2024; 171 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 28 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 4 of 28]

Chinese: Month 5 (Wu-Wu), Day 26 (Ren-Shen)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 24 Tammuz 5783

Islamic: 24 Dhu al-Hijjah 1444

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[dirt-piper]

On the origins of Not So Seecret Saturday, and its future

When I first found Minecraft I was roughly 10 years old.

I can’t precisely identify how I found it - through some kid at school, or a friend of my sister, or randomly on the internet - but I remember falling in love with it.

I loved the aesthetic, I loved the dopey Minecraft music parodies, I loved the let’s plays, I loved the classic multiplayer servers, I loved the dumb jokes the community made, but most of all - I loved the game itself. It was weird, beautiful, simple, terrifying, serene, and hilarious, all at the same time.

I spent hours not only playing the game itself, but also watching videos about it, reading forum and blog posts, and poring over the Minecraft wiki - my favorite articles of which were the ones regarding the removed, unused, and planned features - aspects of the game that I could know about but never experience for myself.

Over time the game I fell in love with started to fade away - the aesthetic changed as biomes were added (though not that much, and it still looked nice), the gameplay began to suffer (a fast travel hell dimension with nothing to do in it, beds that let you sidestep the entire challenge of the game), but it was still largely the game I loved.

After Beta 1.8, the game I loved ceased to exist.

Okay, that’s a bit too dramatic. I still played the hell out of the game during the early release era - but I notably stopped playing survival singleplayer altogether after Beta 1.8. Multiplayer in any game is fun, and the newly added creative mode gave me hours of mindless entertainment blowing things up with TNT and making useless redstone contraptions. But to a large extent I stopped playing the game itself - survival singleplayer - and every time I did I found myself having a very hard time enjoying it.

Now, kid me didn’t really know why I suddenly lost all interest in this game I loved - I could kinda grok that stuff like the new hunger system and terrain system were less than stellar (likely helped by the fact that everyone seemed to hate these two things at the time - the massive open letter to Mojang begging them to add beaches back to the terrain generator springs to mind), but the nitty gritty specifics of what exactly made the game less fun for me were not yet apparent.

Luckily for kid me, I managed to find something to help me alleviate the problem - Exalm’s OldDays mod. This mod allowed you to tweak Minecraft’s features to your own preferences, literally undoing changes from various updates on-the-fly to permit you to hand-tune your personal “perfect” version of Minecraft. I used it to tear out all the changes I didn’t like - gone were the biomes, hunger system, nether, sprinting, new terrain generator, stackable food, potions, enchanting system, etc. Now, suddenly, I could play (and enjoy) singleplayer survival again - and this was the ‘default’ way I played Minecraft up until the mod stopped getting updated in 2013, around release 1.6.4.

By this time a brand new Minecraft launcher had released which allowed you to (officially) go back and play previous versions of Minecraft - with OldDays gone, I picked the version of the game closest to my hand-crafted ideal and dove right in. Thus, the primary version of Minecraft that I played became Alpha 1.1.2_01.

Flash-forward 5 years to July 18th 2018, and I’m not a kid anymore. I’ve just graduated high school, and I’m on vacation with my family in Long Beach Island, New Jersey. It’s a rainy day, so I’m playing Minecraft on my laptop. By this point I had a singleplayer world with damn near everything a player could want in 2010 - an automatic cactus farm, a mob grinder, a minecart system, vast underground mines, an automatic boat dispenser, a hulking storage room - you name it. But deep within I felt a twinge, a feeling that something was missing. I don’t remember what originally set me off, whether it was being by the ocean, or the nascient release of the update aquatic, or a memory of Minecraft classic, but somehow I started getting a bit upset that sponges were unobtainable in the version of the game I was playing.

Very conveniently, I had taken a class on Java my junior year of high school.

I dug up an ancient version of the Mod Coder Pack for a1.1.2_01, decompiled Minecraft and started poking around the codebase. After a bit of digging, a realization slowly began to dawn on me - why stop at sponges? Why not fix more things? Like fix axes not breaking workbenches? Or redstone ore taking an eternity to mine? Or boats exploding when you sneeze on them? Or, better yet, fulfill my childhood fantasies by implementing all the removed/unused/unimplemented features I used to spend hours reading about on the minecraft wiki. Realizing I could use some guidance, I asked my friend Vulpovile (creator of Minecraft Classic Creative Revived) if he might like to help me out with my new project.

side note: I planned on adding the ambient loops a full two years before getting around to implementing them... and my method was essentially the same as what I schemed up on the first day. Most NSSS features bounce around my head for a year or two before I finally implement them.

We managed to get sponges done within a day, and banged out the rest of the little QoL fixes I wanted not too long after. Soon we began going haywire - adding singleplayer commands, trying to fix the outrageously janky alpha multiplayer, optimizing the game, making food stack, making trees drop apples, underwater dungeons, whatever we wanted to do, we did it. We had already numbered our new ‘fork’ of Minecraft as ‘Alpha v1.1.3’, but didn’t actually have a name for it - the original working title was “Minecraft Redone” - a very literal description of our goals, but not that catchy. After 4 days I finally coined the name.

By the 28th, our first release was out: Not So Seecret Saturday’s Minecraft Alpha v1.1.3. We ended up released one update every other week straight on into october - in 1.1.4 we tried to beat the server code further into submission, in 1.1.5 I reimplemented the score system from survival test and added floating worlds, in 1.1.6 I tried (and failed) to improve mob AI and made sponges redstone-sensitive, and in 1.1.7 we polished our work a bit and added two more world types. Then September hit and Vulpovile and I were sucked right back into college. During winter break we managed to release some more patches to 1.1.7, as well as 1.1.8 to add McRegion and running... before the first gap.

‘The gap’, as I’m dubbing it now, is a fairly common occurrence in NSSS development - it’s happened roughly 3.5 times now, and each time it’s the same thing:

Development on NSSS is interrupted by something IRL (at first this was always college, but now it’s health conditions and other boring responsibilities of being an adult. And a bit of depression.)

I don’t get right back to working on NSSS.

I spend a lot of time thinking about the then-current state of NSSS. A LOT of time.

The more I think, the more I determine needs to be done to NSSS before I’d be satisfied enough to do a new release.

Every time I open eclipse I either get so overwhelmed by the massive backlog of work that has to be done that I either only manage one tiny portion or I give up and do something else.

Steps 2-5 are repeated ad nauseum, until...

A sudden, miraculous wave of motivation occurs. I get everything I’ve been planning over the past [weeks/months/year(s)] done in the span of 2 weeks, release the update, and finally return to making semi-regular NSSS updates.

This routine is so predictable to me now that I can nearly time my watch to it. But that first gap after 1.1.8 was special - as I sat and thought about NSSS, and what I really wanted to do with it, my goal slowly shifted. At first I had just wanted to ‘fix’ Minecraft alpha by cramming a bunch of shiny toys and knick-knacks into it to satisfy my inner child, but now I wanted something... more. I didn’t just want to make a better alpha than alpha, I wanted to make a better Minecraft than Minecraft.

Let me preface this by divulging that I’m a massive fan of Team Fortress 2.

The development history of TF2 is utterly fascinating, and if you’re at all interested in game development I urge you greatly to play through the entire TF2 developer’s commentary, but the relevant parallel is this:

The original Team Fortress was a mod of quake made by a trio of Australian teenagers who went hog-wild with QuakeC, the super powerful Quake scripting language, to invent the class-based shooter in 1996. At first they were just adding things to have fun, but over time started paying more and more attention to the actual design and balance of the game they had created. Eventually, the entire team was hired by VALVe in ‘98, and after porting Team Fortress to GoldSrc as ‘Team Fortress Classic’, they got right to work on Team Fortress 2.

Team Fortress 2 didn’t release for another 9 years.

During that time, TF2 went through a multitude of totally different designs and ideas, at some points being nearly unrecognizable gameplay-wise to the original Team Fortress, until ultimately VALVe decided to stop trying to invent something wholly new and unknown and instead to improve on what they knew - and so they essentially rebuilt Team Fortress for the third time, now in the Source engine, and with a cartoon-ier art style. And then they started playtesting.

VALVe had learnt from making half-life that playtesting often and early is utterly invaluable as a tool to aide game design. After all - how do you know how something is gonna play until you’ve played it? And how will it play for people who are totally unexposed to it? A developer already knows all the game’s mechanics and how they work - how would a lay-person discover them all for themselves? Which mechanics would a normal player use in ways the developers never intended? There’s no way to find this stuff out until you hand your game off to a stranger and wait to see how they break it.

And so VALVe, through constant playtesting, tweaking, and fiddling, honed TF2′s design and gameplay to a point where, while not totally perfect, was absolutely better than the original Team Fortress. And aside from the new artstyle, the omission of grenades and bhopping, and the medic becoming... well, an actual medic, very little had changed of the core gameplay beyond little tweaks and nudges.

That’s what I wanted NSSS to become.

I wanted to make Minecraft into a better game than it already was through little tweaks and nudges - an adjustment here, a rebalance there, and a few new features where a gap exists to justify them.

During the first gap I did manage to release some moderate patches to 1.1.8, fixes for things like the busted FastRender port and proper textures for all the dye colors, as well as the first release of the NSSS launcher. But all of these were just tide-overs for what I really wanted.

In summer of 2020 the first gap-and-a-half concluded with the release of 1.1.9, which added Creative mode, Sponge Armor, and Ambient loops. All of these features were things I had spent years brainstorming, tweaking, and revising before I was finally happy with them - and when they finally released to the public... they were good. By now NSSS had started to accumulate some following, and the positive feedback to 1.1.9 was notable - it turns out that people like things that are carefully thought-out and designed! Two weeks later I released 1.1.10 to patch over some more things and finalize gold touch, and then I set my aim on the largest hulking problem NSSS has faced since day 1:

Multiplayer.

The original ‘legacy’ NSSS server was accidentally based off of a version of hMod for Alpha 1.1.2_01, but our problems with it would have occurred regardless; the Alpha server SUCKED. Within a day of poking around the code Vulpovile and I came to the conclusion that Notch had taken the Classic server and stapled infinite worlds onto it to create a horrible abomination.

Mobs would randomly turn invisible, Redstone would only work at certain Y levels, Doors would open halfway, you would randomly die of fall damage for no reason, you couldn’t eat food unless you were looking directly at the floor, if you checked a furnace while it was smelting something it’d break the timer and waste fuel, you could dupe items in chests by clicking on them fast enough, tools could be repaired by dropping them on the ground and picking them back up - it was a nightmare.

Vulpovile and I both, quite rightly, came to the conclusion around 1.1.8 that the legacy server was unworkable. We started trying to write our own , new server from scratch, but that went nowhere - too much of an uphill battle. Once 1.1.9 came along, I decided to do it ‘the easy way’ and just take a later version’s server and downgrade it to alpha - the winner was beta 1.7.3. I had hoped to finish by 1.1.10, but found myself in a deeper hole than I expected, so 1.1.10 was shipped with no multiplayer and I made 1.1.11 into the “fix multiplayer” release.

1.1.11 took over a year to finish.

God what a nightmare. It did not take me very much time to get simple interoperability between the NSSS client and the Beta server, but certain bugs quickly emerged as gordion knots: if someone sneaked they would crash all connected clients, opening a chest crashed the game, crafting recipes were one slot to the left, your armor would shift one slot down at random times, and vehicles were possessed by demons. The sheer amount of bugs I had to work through to get this update out was mind-boggling, to a point where I actually opened 1.1.11 up to a limited group of playtesters for several months before full release just for the sake of trying to eliminate every bug possible. Ultimately, the pre-planned release date of September 18th, 2021 (exactly eleven years after Alpha 1.1.1, the first seecret saturday) snuck up on me, and I panickedly released what I hoped was a relatively bug-free 1.1.11: it wasn’t! While multiplayer was far, far better than it had been in 1.1.9 and prior, singleplayer had become riddled with bugs, namely pertaining to inventories and creepers. I quashed most of them in later patches, but the armor shifting bug still isn’t totally fixed in multiplayer - if you die and relog without completely closing and reopening the game, your armor still shifts one slot down. I have no clue why the hell this happens.

Something that started happening during 1.1.11 that would foreshadow the next 2 years of NSSS’s development was a trend wherein I would gradually feel more and more trapped by the feature set of the update I was working on, and would increasingly wish I was working on the next update instead - this sucked for motivation and made 1.1.11 take even longer. That next update was going to be one that would add Seasons and Dynamic Weather to NSSS - an update which has been in progress for almost two years.

1.1.12 is still coming along, don’t worry, but I can guarantee you that once it’s out, I am never doing another massive, year-long-wait update for NSSS every again. Updates will return to being smaller and more frequent - the way it should be! Expect further ranting in a later post.

-DirtPiper

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https://www.reuters.com/sports/tennis/krejcikova-holds-off-paolini-win-wimbledon-title-2024-07-13/

LONDON, July 13 (Reuters) - Barbora Krejcikova held off Italian crowd favourite Jasmine Paolini to win the Wimbledon singles title on Saturday, coming through 6-2 2-6 6-4 on a sunlit Centre Court.

The Czech doubles specialist had dominated the opening set with a near-perfect display but was then rocked by a dazzling Paolini fightback which sent the showpiece into a decider.

The momentum appeared to be with seventh seed Paolini, but a tight third set swung 31st seed Krejcikova's way when she broke serve at 3-3 courtesy of a double-fault.

Serving for the title at 5-4, Krejcikova just about held her nerve, wasting two match points and saving two break points before sealing victory at the third time of asking.

"I was just telling myself to be brave and if the game doesn't go my way it's still 5-5 and we continue," Krejcikova, who was watched by Czech-born nine-time singles champion Martina Navratilova, said when describing the nerve-shredding finale.

Before being presented with the trophy, the 28-year-old also paid tribute to her friend, mentor and fellow Brno native, 1998 Wimbledon champion Jana Novotna who died in 2017.

"Jana was the one that told me I have potential and that I should turn pro and before she passed away she told me to go and win a Grand Slam," said Krejcikova, who adds the Wimbledon title to her 2021 French Open triumph and also owns 10 Grand Slam doubles titles, including two at the All England Club.

While there were tears of joy for the Czech, it was heartache for the popular Paolini who lost the French Open final a few weeks ago and was bidding to become the first Italian to win a Wimbledon singles title.

"Today I am a little bit sad. I try to keep smiling because I have to remember today is still a good day, I made the final of Wimbledon," Paolini, whose joyful and bubbly personality has lit up the tournament, said.

Krejcikova was seeking to continue a tradition of Czech-born Wimbledon champions including Marketa Vondrousova who claimed the title last year and she began in dominant fashion.

Striking the ball with pace and accuracy she broke serve in the first game before holding for a 2-0 lead.

Paolini, who beat Donna Vekic in the longest ever Wimbledon women's semi-final to become the first Italian woman to reach the final, weathered some fierce ball-striking in her next service game to get herself on the scoreboard.

The Centre Court crowd came alive in the fourth game as Paolini showed unbelievable court coverage to stay in one point but to no avail as Krejcikova held for 3-1.

Chatting to herself between points, Paolini tried to fire herself up in the face of a Krejcikova onslaught but another dropped service game left her reeling and the Czech pouched the opener in 35 one-sided minutes.

Paolini disappeared off court, presumably for a deep breath, and returned with fire in her belly. Immediately the momentum shifted as she seized on the first Krejcikova dip to move into a 3-0 lead with some flowing winners.

Suddenly it was Krejcikova who looked tight with consecutive double faults adding more fuel to the Paolini fire but the Czech steadied down to avoid slipping 4-0 behind.

It was all Paolini though as she rode the cheers of the crowd to take the final to a decider.

She looked poised to join Francesca Schiavone (2010 French Open) and Flavia Pennetta (2015 U.S. Open) on the list of female Italian Grand Slam singles champions, but Krejcikova used all her experience to wrestle back control.

Krejcikova banged down five aces in the deciding set and when Paolini wavered at 3-3 it proved decisive.

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[PRE-EVENT PRESS RELEASE] INFINITE LEADER KIM SUNG KYU TAKING A TRIP TO MALAYSIA FOR TWO NIGHTS OF [LV3: LET'S VACAY] ASIA TOUR THIS AUGUST

Tickets come with fan benefits and will go on sale 17th July

(Kuala Lumpur, 9th July 2024) - Kim Sung Kyu, the leader of K-pop group INFINITE, sent  INSPIRIT – the boy band’s fandom – on a high with the announcement of his upcoming solo  Asia Tour, with two nights in Kuala Lumpur as his first stop! 

Organised by D-SHOW, with Offbeat and 43 as Promoters, 2024 Kim Sung Kyu Concert [LV3:  Let's Vacay] Asia Tour in Kuala Lumpur is scheduled for Saturday, 10th August at 8pm and  Sunday, 11th August at 4pm, taking place at Zepp Kuala Lumpur. 

INSPIRIT in Malaysia will have the privilege to be the first to experience the tour, which marks  Sung Kyu’s first time in the country after 11 years, as well as his debut solo performance here. 

With [LV3: Let's Vacay], Sung Kyu continues his [LV] solo tour after [LV2: Like Your Vibes] last year and [LV1: Light & Voice] the year before, it is definitely a not-to-be-missed occasion for fans anticipating his appearance.  

Always a well-known figure of K-pop, Sung Kyu debuted in 2010 as the leader of INFINITE  with their first mini album "First Invasion", which includes the lead single "Come Back Again" that cemented their reputation in the new K-pop generation. He would go on to carve out a  successful multifaceted career through music, films, TV shows, musicals and hosting. 

After completing military service in 2020, Sung Kyu jumped back into the scene with a three day “Shine Encore” solo concert in Seoul, appearances in shows and musicals, as well as the  release of his third mini album "Inside Me", maintaining an active presence since then. Since  his debut solo mini album "Another Me" in 2012, he has released 1 studio album and 5 mini  albums to date. 

Tickets will be available via www.etix.com from Wednesday, 17th July, 12 noon. Here are the  ticket categories and fan benefits, prices are subject to RM4 processing fee and RM10  transaction fee.  

∙ VIP – RM788 

[Fan benefits for all include Soundcheck Session, Photocard (1 set 2 versions) and  Official Poster; Fan benefits raffled through a random lucky draw consist of Group  Photo (20 per group) for 120 fans, Signed Poster for 40 fans and Signed Polaroid for  8 fans.] 

∙ VIP BOX – RM728 per pax, sold separately 

[Fan benefits for all include Soundcheck Session, Photocard (1 set 2 versions) and Official Poster; Fan benefits raffled through a random lucky draw consist of Group  Photo (20 per group) for 20 fans, Signed Poster for 10 fans and Signed Polaroid for 2  fans.] 

∙ CAT 1 – RM688 

[Fan benefits for all include Photocard (1 set 2 versions) and Official Poster; Fan  benefits raffled through a random lucky draw consist of Group Photo (20 per group) for  40 fans and Signed Poster for 30 fans.]

∙ CAT 2 – RM588 

[Fan benefits for all include Photocard (1 set 2 versions) and Official Poster; Fan  benefits raffled through a random lucky draw consist of Group Photo (20 per group) for  20 fans and Signed Poster for 20 fans.] 

For more information and the latest updates on Kim Sung Kyu’s two-night shows in Kuala  Lumpur, stay tuned to the following official social media pages: 

Promoter FB: 43 www.facebook.com/43ent 

Promoter IG: 43 www.instagram.com/43_ent

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Talulah Riley, Elon Musk's two-time ex-wife, marries Thomas Brodie-Sangster

Elon Musk’s two-time ex-wife Talulah Riley is now married to Thomas Brodie-Sangster. The English actress and the “Love Actually” star said “I do” in front of their family and friends at St. George’s Church in England on Saturday, per photos obtained by the U.S. Sun. The newlyweds looked radiant as they walked hand-in-hand outside the venue while guests tossed flower petals at them. Talulah Riley and Thomas Brodie-Sangster tied the knot this weekend. Dave Benett/Getty Images for Cowes Week The couple reportedly wed on Saturday. GC Images Riley, 38, donned an elegant gown and floor-length veil for the special day, styling her blond locks in a loose bun with light glam. As for Brodie-Sangster, the 34-year-old sported a champagne-colored top, a floral vest, a blue overcoat and gray pinstripe pants. The couple, who met on the set of the “Sex Pistols” FX series in March 2021, appeared overjoyed as they hopped onto a carriage. The duo tied the knot in England. talulahrm/Instagram They got engaged in July 2023. talulahrm/Instagram Before tying the knot with Brodie-Sangster, Riley was twice wed to Musk from 2010 to 2012 and then again from 2013 to 2016. However, there appear to be no hard feelings between the billionaire and the “Pride & Prejudice” star as Musk, 52, reacted to his ex and Brodie-Sangster’s engagement news in July 2023. “Congratulations! ❤️” the entrepreneur tweeted at the time. Riley was previously married to Elon Musk twice. WireImage The former couple wed in 2010 and 2013. Getty Images Amid news of Riley’s nuptials, Musk made headlines for welcoming his and Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis‘ third child together. The father of 12 told Page Six on Sunday that his bundle of joy was born earlier this year, explaining that the arrival was no “secret” to their family and friends. He has yet to reveal the baby’s name or sex. News broke on Sunday that Musk welcomed his 12th child. Getty Images He congratulated Riley when Brodie-Sangster proposed. Dave J Hogan/Getty Images Musk and Zilis are also the parents of twins Strider and Azure, who were born in November 2022. Additionally, Musk co-parents three children with his ex-girlfriend, Grimes. He shares five more with ex-wife Justin Wilson, with the former couple losing their eldest son, Nevada, in 2002 at 10 weeks old. Source link Read the full article

[whatsonmedia]

Top 10 Weekly Gigs Around The World: An Array of Genres

June is heating up, and not just with the weather! The gigs scene around the world is sizzling with amazing acts across every genre. Whether you're a pop devotee, a rock and roll rebel, or crave something completely different, there's a live show waiting to blow you away this month. Get ready to crank up the volume and discover the Top 10 Gigs around the world This June! P!NK Pink is a singer, songwriter, and actor from the United States. She is well-known for her strong voice and pop tunes with a rock touch. - When: Saturday, 15 June 2024 - Where: Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London, UK - Time: 16:30 - Ticket: £249 Liam Gallagher The lead vocalist of the rock group Oasis from 1991 until 2009, William John Paul Gallagher, is an English singer and songwriter. Later, from 2009 to 2014, he led the rock group Beady Eye before beginning a lucrative solo career in 2017. - When: Tuesday, 11 June 2024 - Where: The O2 Arena, London - Time: 18:30 - Ticket: £46.00 – £96.00 Doja Cat and Hemlocke Springs Rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini, better known by her stage name Doja Cat, is from the United States. She started creating music as a youngster and posting it to SoundCloud. She is based in Los Angeles, California. On the other hand, The American singer, songwriter, and record producer Hemlocke Springs is actually Isimeme "Naomi" Udu. When her song "Girlfriend" went viral on TikTok in 2022, she first came to notable prominence. Going...Going...Gone!, her debut extended play, was released on September 29, 2023. - When: Friday, 14 June 2024 - Where: The O2 Arena, London - Time: 19:00 - Ticket: £70.00 – £125.00 Sabrina Carpenter "Can't Blame a Girl for Trying" was Carpenter's debut single when she signed with Hollywood Records in 2014. She also released an EP with the same name. She continued, releasing the studio albums Singular: Act I (2018), Singular: Act II (2019), Evolution (2016), and Eyes Wide Open (2015) during the 2010s. - When: Sunday, 16 June 2024 - Where: Wembley Stadium, London, UK - Time: 13:00 - Ticket: £135 Sheppard Sheppard is a trio of Australian indie pop artists that was founded in 2009. The Australian Recording Industry Association certified their debut studio album, Bombs Away, gold. It was released on July 11, 2014, and peaked at No. 2 on the ARIA Albums Chart. - When: Monday 10 June 2024 - Where: 217 East Houston Street10002New York (NYC), NY, US - Time: 18:00 - Ticket: $21.25 Keb' Mo' American blues artist Kevin Roosevelt Moore is better known by his stage name Keb' Mo'. He is a Nashville, Tennessee-based singer-songwriter as well as guitarist. He is regarded as "a living link to the seminal Delta blues that travelled up the Mississippi River and across the expanse of America." - When: Monday 10 June 2024 - Where: 99 Monmouth St.07701Red Bank, NJ, US - Time: 19:30 - Ticket: $25.00 – US $69.00 Ruby Waters Singer-songwriter Ruby Waters hails from Canada. Raised in Shelburne, Ontario, Waters is of Métis and Slovak descent. She was exposed to music at a young age by her parents, who played in a country band together. At about thirteen, she started doing street performances and busking. - When: Saturday 15 June 2024 - Where: Revaler Strasse 9910245Berlin, Germany - Time: 19:00 Gabry ponte Italian musician, DJ, and producer Gabriele "Gabry" Ponte is best known for being a member of the dance band Eiffel 65. - When: Saturday 15 June 2024 - Where: Via Appia Nuova, 124500178Rome, Italy - Time: 21:45 - Ticket: €51.75 – €208.25 David Morales Record producer and disc jockey David Morales is from the United States. Morales is a producer and DJ in addition to being a remixer. - When: Saturday 15 June 2024 - Where: Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta 3808003Barcelona, Spain - Time: 23:00 - Ticket: €15.00 The Killers American rock group The Killers was founded in 2001 by Dave Keuning and Brandon Flowers in Las Vegas. Following several stints as drummers and bassists in their early years, Mark Stoermer and Ronnie Vannucci Jr. both joined the group in 2002. - When: Saturday 15 June 2024 - Where: East Link Bridge, North Wall QuayDublin 1Dublin, Ireland - Time: €80.25 – €90.25 - Ticket: €15.00 Read the full article

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Top 5 @Wikipedia pages from yesterday: Saturday, 13th April 2024

Welcome, ongi etorri, welkom, 환영 (hwanyeong) 🤗 What were the top pages visited on @Wikipedia (13th April 2024) 🏆🌟🔥?

1️⃣: Fallout (American TV series) "Fallout is an American post-apocalyptic drama television series created by Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet for Amazon Prime Video. It is based on the role-playing video game franchise created by Tim Cain.Amazon purchased the rights to produce a live-action project in 2020, and the show was..."

2️⃣: O. J. Simpson "Orenthal James Simpson (July 9, 1947 – April 10, 2024) was an American football player and actor. He played in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons, primarily with the Buffalo Bills, and is regarded as one of the greatest running backs of all time. His professional success was..."

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4️⃣: Amar Singh Chamkila "Amar Singh Chamkila (21 July 1960 – 8 March 1988) was an Indian singer and musician of Punjabi music. Chamkila's vivid language, high-pitched vocals, and novel compositions accompanied by tumbi made him popular. His music was influenced by the Punjabi village life in which he grew up. On 8 March..."

5️⃣: Indian Premier League "The Indian Premier League (IPL), also known as the TATA IPL for sponsorship reasons, is a men's Twenty20 (T20) cricket league held annually in India. Founded by the BCCI in 2007, the league features ten city-based franchise teams. The IPL usually takes place during the summer, between March and May..."

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What is History?  History is the systematic study and documentation of the human past.  For Instance, my name is Anthony Joseph Hopkins and I was born on Thursday June 24, 1965 at 7:30pm.  My mother's name is Mary Lou's Hopkins and my father's name is Joseph Odell Webb. The hospital that I was born was St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Dayton, Ohio.



Next, I was living at the time with my two living grandmothers and aunt inside of a two bedroom house on West First Street in Dayton, Ohio.  I remember when I was a child, I lived with my grandparents for several years.  I went to Edison Elementary School.  I want all of you to know that I was only a C average student. I attended Edison Elementary School from 1971-1979.  I attended Franklin School for one year.

Further, I was a child who has experienced both physically and mentally as well as emotional abuse.  I have five brothers and two sisters right now.  I do recall getting chased home by my fair weather friends.  During that period of my life, I do remember suffering from tuberculosis for nine years from 1976 to 1985.  I had to take Ciphro Flacin twice per day for several years.

Moreover, I do remember watching television when President Richard Nixon resigned from government and the Vietnam War on television as well.  Personally, I would rather be in school or my grandparents house instead of my mother's house.  I went to school and I got into fist fights with various people for several years.  I do recall spending time with my half siblings.  I was a latch key child for several years.

Also, I used to have problems with math.  I did very well in my other classes.  I do remember going to school just to eat breakfast and lunch only.  Jesus Christ is my personal Savior. I have waivered in my faith in God.  My personal history was rough.  I was an extrovert and an introvert at the same time.  I remember working for the Dayton Daily Newspaper Company for four years.

In Addition, I used to have bad teeth as a child and adult.  I took better care of myself back then compared to right now.  I had a lot of structure during that time.  I am going to say this and mean it.  I really need structure in my life right now.  I want to say that I am a procrastinator.  I am not a lazy person, but I tend to become complaisant.  My history consists of playing sports.  I played basketball with the YMCA for four years.  

Currently, I have written three books for many years.  My first book is called The Best of Anthony Hopkins.  I wrote that book back in July of 2000.  I have published two books with Authorhouse Publications. My second book is called My Grace is Sufficient for Me and my most recent book is called Essays. My books consists of essays that I have written based on my relationship with God.

In my personal life, I have been in and out of mental health institutions.  For the past 26 years, I have suffered from Schizoid Affective Disorder and Schizophrenia.  I am guilty of spending too much time by myself.  For the past 29 years, I lost my great grandmother.  As soon as I saw her inside of a casket, I lost my mind.  I new that she was not coming back to life.  I lost my family members and I am devastated.  I will admit that I have been hearing voices from people from my past.

Finally, I am a 58 years old now and I am very depressed.  I write a lot about my personal life.  I rarely have visitors coming over my apartment.  I want to inform all of you that my life is very important to me.  I do remember on Saturday February 13, 2010, I tried to kill myself by taking all of my pills at one time.  I almost died during that time.  I will admit that I suffer from seizures.  I have been suffering from seizures for 41 years now.  I understand that a person relationship with God is more important than death itself.  I graduated from High School and College at Paul Laurence Dunbar on Tuesday June 10, 1986 and I graduated twice from the University of Toledo in 1993 & 1995.  I do remember living in Toledo, Ohio and Charlotte NC.  I remember working at the University of Toledo from 1992-1996.  I worked at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte from 2001-2009.  I have maintained a Counselor Assistant License from 1993-2010.  I have had a good career as a Youth Counselor from 1993-1996. 

In Conclusion, I am a very intelligent man who has a lot of common sense.  I am a person who has a lot of friends.  I have both good friends and bad ones.  I am losing my eyesight because I have suffered from glaucoma and cataracts from 2005-present.  I have suffered from Diabetes from 2015-present.  I have suffered from Schizoid Affective Disorder from 1997-present.  My history is not glamorous.  I am just an average person who has a lot of debt.  I owe the University of North Carolina at Charlotte a total of $30,000 dollars in student loans.  I live in an apartment in Northwest side of Dayton, Ohio from 2011-present.  I am living on a fixed income and I am still broke financially.  I have no social life right now.  I have an interest in working in a library again.  Please Lord Jesus, hear my prayer.  I really need you in my life right now.  I have been clean and sober for 33 years now.  My clean date is Wednesday May 2, 1990.  History consists of the things that I do for Jesus Christ.  If I am able to help others and communicate with Jesus Christ on a daily basis.  I need to read His Word and demonstrate His deeds to mankind.  Thank you for reading my story.  God Bless You All.

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#HammondCastAddeddate 2023-10-10 04:07:31Identifier airport-piano-time-with-jon-hammond Jon Hammond at the famous "Theme Building"

The Theme Building is a structure at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), considered an architectural example of the Space Age design style. Influenced by "Populuxe" architecture, it is an example of the Mid-century modern design movement later to become known as "Googie".[2] The Airport Theme Building Exterior and Interior was designated as a historic-cultural monument in 1993 by the city 

The distinctive white building resembles a flying saucer that has landed on its four legs.[4] The initial design was created by James Langenheim, of Pereira & Luckman,[3] subsequently taken to fruition by a team of architects and engineers headed by William Pereira and Charles Luckman, that also included Paul Williams and Welton Becket. The civil engineer was Richard Bradshaw.

The appearance of the building's signature crossed arches as homogeneous structures is a design illusion, created by topping four steel-reinforced concrete legs extending approximately 15 feet above the ground with hollow stucco-covered steel trusses. To counteract earthquake movements, the Theme Building was retrofitted in 2010 with a tuned mass damper without changing its outward appearance.[5]

Constructed near the beginning of the Space Age, the building is an example of how aeronautics and pop culture, design and architecture came together in Los Angeles.

The original design for the airport created by Pereira & Luckman in 1959 had all the terminal buildings and parking structures connected to a huge glass dome, which would serve as a central hub for traffic circulation. The plan was eventually scaled down considerably, and the terminals were constructed elsewhere on the property.[7] The Theme Building was subsequently built to mark the spot intended for the dome structure, as a reminder of the original plan.

The building construction contract was awarded to Robert E. McKee General Contractor, Inc. of El Paso, Texas.[8]

The structure was dedicated on June 25, 1961, by Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson.[9] The Los Angeles City Council designated the building, which lies within the Westchester neighborhood of the city of Los Angeles, a historic-cultural monument (no. 570) in 1993. 

A $4 million renovation, with retro-futuristic interior and electric lighting designed by Walt Disney Imagineering, was completed before the Encounter Restaurant opened there in 1997. Visitors are able to take an elevator up to the Observation Level to get a 360-degree view of arriving and departing planes.[11] An airport spokeswoman said that because of its appearance and views, some people thought it revolved after visiting it, even though it did not.[12]

After the September 11 attacks, the Observation Level was closed for security reasons. Following a $12.3 million restoration of the building completed in 2010, the observation level re-opened to the public on Saturdays and Sundays starting July 10.[13] Additionally, on September 9, 2003, a permanent memorial honoring those who perished in the attacks of September 11 was opened on the grounds of the Theme Building.[14]

The Encounter Restaurant closed for business in December 2013 with no future plans to reopen, although the building's observation level is still open on weekends.[15] Previously, the restaurant was closed in March 2007 for repairs after a half-ton piece of the stucco skin on the upper arches crashed onto the roof of the restaurant, and reopened on November 12, 2007.[16] Delaware North Companies Travel Hospitality Services operated the restaurant.[17]The restaurant being in a non-secure area of the airport, where travelers are reluctant to spend time when a possibly lengthy security checkpoint lay ahead, or leave after being screened and have to go through security again upon returning,[18] was cited as a reason for closing.[15]

In 2018, the Bob Hope USO at LAX relocated to the ground floor of the Theme Building, opening a 7,100 square foot facility described by its president as "the most technologically advanced USO in existence. 

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Saturday, 29 July 2023:

Eternal Summers Eternal Summers (Chimney Sweep) (released March 2010)

On 25 July I posted two entries concerning two albums by Nicole Yun which I learned about through my brother's endless foraging on bandcamp. Nicole Yun, as I mentioned in those entries was a member of the band Eternal Summers who produced five full length albums and a handful of EPs. As I typed those entries on Yun's solo albums, I listened to every song posted on Kanine Records website from Eternal Summers and really enjoyed what I was hearing. No sooner had I finished hearing them and posting about Yun's albums, I went looking on discogs for Eternal Summers albums. Some are a touch difficult to find, but somehow I lucked out and found a shop (Vinyl Conflict Records) that had both the band's debut EP and their debut LP. They had them listed as being in VG condition and knowing a real record shop is not the same thing as eBay, I opted to give it a shot. Above you see the cover and the back of the EP which is a 10 inch by the way. (The shop had both items in plastic sleeves, including a ten inch plastic sleeve for the EP which is always so appreciated by this collector.) Below you will find photos of the front and back of the inner sleeve.

The record store most certainly under graded this album. It is as perfect as you are going to find. I always, always appreciate a shop that operates like this. They were fast, packaged their albums well, took the albums out of the jacket to prevent seam split and, as I say, included plastic for each album. And their prices were ridiculously low! Speaking of low, below you will see the A and B side of the record label.