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[biophonies]

dropped a new t-shirt w rawpaw for their "dreams" challenge & the dream is LANDBACK WORLDWIDE 🖤

I present to you this sigil against capitalist realism (AKA the worst idea in human history: that an earth under capitalism is the only way for humanity to function.)

a different world is not only possible - it’s hundreds of years overdue. shirt can be found HERE. 100% cotton, screenprinted in texas <3 grateful for any shares w folks you think may fw it.

decolonial symbolism breakdown & image description is below the cut~

a multipanel white illustration against a black background.

TOP L: a night flying moth with the words "LANDBACK" - reps change, fluidity, & adaptation (read up on the evolution of the peppered moth - so cool!)

TOP R: a shining blade with the words "WORLDWIDE" - a tool of farmers everywhere (the machete, Indian aruval, Filipino bolo, Afro-Caribbean panga) & global symbol of decolonialism

CENTER: a huge baobab tree with people dancing & gathering fruit underneath. its roots crush military weapons long buried underground - a tree of great spiritual significance across continental Africa & Australia, long used as gathering places, sites of shelter, abundance, and resilience in difficult climates.

BOTTOM L: flowers grow from tear gas grenades - based on Subhiyah Abu Rahma's garden, in memory of her son Bassem, unalived in 2009 when an IOF soldier launched one into his chest. bc “less than lethal” weap0ns will always be lethal in the hands of fasc1sts

BOTTOM RIGHT: a panther pushes out from a lush forest, gazing at the viewer - represents the human rights past generations have fought for, a reminder to not let down one’s guard, to never forget past struggles even if we live in relative comfort, and to never settle for anything less than total liberation. & lastly

BOTTOM CENTER: an orca sinking a yacht - because... well, I trust you get it by now.

[whencyclopedia]

Great Sioux War

The Great Sioux War (also given as the Black Hills War, 1876-1877) was a military conflict between the allied forces of the Lakota Sioux/Northern Cheyenne and the US government over the territory of the Black Hills and, more widely, US policies of westward expansion and the appropriation of Native American lands.

The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 had established the Great Sioux Reservation, including the Black Hills, and promised this land to the Sioux in perpetuity. When gold was discovered in the Black Hills in 1874, the treaty was ignored by the US government, leading to the Black Hills Gold Rush of 1876. The Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho responded with armed resistance in raids on wagon trains, skirmishes, and five major battles fought between March 1876 and January 1877:

Battle of Powder River (Reynolds Battle) – 17 March 1876

Battle of the Rosebud (Battle Where the Girl Saved Her Brother) – 17 June 1876

Battle of the Little Bighorn (Battle of the Greasy Grass) – 25-26 June 1876

Battle of Slim Buttes – 9-10 September 1876

Battle of Wolf Mountain (Battle of Belly Butte) – 8 January 1877

In between these, were so-called minor engagements with casualties on both sides but, after June 1876, greater losses for the Sioux and Cheyenne. The final armed conflict of the Great Sioux War was the Battle of Muddy Creek (the Lame Deer Fight, 7-8 May 1877), by which time the Sioux war chief Crazy Horse (l. c. 1840-1877) had already surrendered and the chief Sitting Bull (l. c. 1837-1890) and Sioux war chief Gall (l.c. 1840-1894) and others had fled to the region of modern-day Canada. Although the war was over by May 1877, ending in a victory for the US military, some bands of Sioux and Cheyenne continued to struggle against reservation life until the Wounded Knee Massacre of 29 December 1890 broke their resistance.

Background

Although the first armed conflict between the Plains Indians and Euro-Americans was in 1823, problems between the Sioux and the US military began on 19 August 1854 with the Grattan Fight (Grattan Massacre), when 2nd Lieutenant John L. Grattan led his command of 30 soldiers to the camp of Chief Conquering Bear (l. c. 1800-1854) to demand the surrender of a man they claimed had stolen a cow from a Mormon wagon train.

Conquering Bear refused to surrender anyone, offering compensation instead, and, as the negotiations broke down, Grattan's men fired on the Sioux, mortally wounding Conquering Bear, and the Sioux warriors retaliated, killing Grattan and all of his command. The US military responded with campaigns against the Sioux in the First Sioux War of 1854-1856, which also included actions against their allies, the Cheyenne and Arapaho.

Tensions escalated after the opening of the Bozeman Trail in 1863, the establishment of forts to protect white settlers using the trail, and the Sand Creek Massacre of 29 November 1864. Red Cloud's War (1866-1868) was launched in response to the construction of these forts and the policies of the US government, concluding with the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, which established the Great Sioux Reservation (modern-day South Dakota and parts of North Dakota and Nebraska), including the Black Hills – a site sacred to the Sioux – which was promised to them for "as long as the grass should grow and the rivers flow."

When Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer (l. 1839-1876) discovered gold in the Black Hills in 1874, the Fort Laramie treaty was broken as over 15,000 white settlers and miners streamed into the region during the Black Hills Gold Rush of 1876. The US government offered to purchase the Black Hills, but the Sioux would not sell. More settlers arrived, the government ignored Sioux demands that the 1868 treaty be honored, and the Great Sioux War began in March of that year, with the Reynolds campaign on the Powder River.

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[kashishwrites]

Hiee guys..!!!🥸

I'm going to start a series of horror experience I'm gonna tell you about horror experiences of other people if you have any you can share it with me if you are interested....✨📚

This is an experience of a 15 year old indian boy

Let's begin..~

The shadow~✨

When l was in second standard, our family lived in a rented house. My father was in indian army at that time and me, my mother and elder sister lived in that house. The house was very very huge, and was separated into different sections, l think there were about 8 sections, which consisted about 20–25 rooms. One day my sleep broke at midnight, from window the light of the small bulb was coming and reflecting on the mirror that was just on right side of our bed. What l saw was a women with a terrifying, bloody and pale face with a small girl on her shoulders with twisted legs swinging on rope and laughing, that scared the hell out of me, l rubbed my eyes about 10 times to see whether it was imagination or reality. They were continuously laughing, l suddenly covered my face with a blanket and chanted the name of lord Hanuman, and on the very next day l came to knew that in one set of rooms that was just adjacent to our room a lady died by suicide. Her husband was a soldier in Indian army and one day someone called her and told a lie in a funny manner that her husband died in the battlefield, she didn't knew that this was a joke and she loved her husband so much that she cried very much and at last moment she committed suicide. From there onwards, her soul didn't get Mukti and it kept roaming in the whole house, when l told my mum about that incident she said- “beta mujhe Bata Diya hota “😬 (you should have been told me at that time) but at that moment when this whole thing happened with me, l was damnnn scared and just looking at there. Not only my family members but other people who lived there also said that they can feel someone's presence, and many of them has seen that lady. But l still don't know who was that little girl, but this incident is the most horrifying incident l have ever experienced of!!!!!

Thankyou !!🥸📚

If you liked the contant kindly like and repost it will halp a lot other people to know about these incidents.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 12.29

1170 – Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II; he subsequently becomes a saint and martyr in the Anglican Communion and the Catholic Church. 1503 – The Battle of Garigliano was fought between a Spanish army under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba and a French army commanded by Ludovico II, Marquess of Saluzzo. 1607 – According to John Smith, Pocahontas, daughter of Powhatan leader Wahunsenacawh, successfully pleads for his life after tribal leaders attempt to execute him. 1778 – American Revolutionary War: Three thousand British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia. 1812 – USS Constitution, under the command of Captain William Bainbridge, captures HMS Java off the coast of Brazil after a three-hour battle. 1835 – The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States. 1845 – The United States annexes the Republic of Texas and admits it as the 28th state. 1860 – The launch of HMS Warrior, with her combination of screw propeller, iron hull and iron armour, renders all previous warships obsolete. 1874 – The military coup of Gen. Martinez Campos in Sagunto ends the failed First Spanish Republic and the monarchy is restored as Prince Alfonso is proclaimed King of Spain. 1876 – The Ashtabula River railroad disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio. 1890 – On Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 300 Lakota are killed by the United States 7th Cavalry Regiment. 1911 – Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty, enthroning 8th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu as Khagan of Mongolia. 1913 – Cecil B. DeMille starts filming Hollywood's first feature film, The Squaw Man. 1930 – Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the two-nation theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan. 1934 – Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930. 1937 – The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution. 1940 – In the Second Great Fire of London, the Luftwaffe fire-bombs London, England, killing almost 200 civilians during World War II. 1972 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar) crashes in the Florida Everglades on approach to Miami International Airport, Florida, killing 101 of the 176 people on board. 1975 – A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 people and injuring more than 75. 1989 – Czech writer, philosopher and dissident Václav Havel is elected the first post-communist President of Czechoslovakia. 1989 – The Nikkei 225 for the Tokyo Stock Exchange hits its all-time intra-day high of 38,957.44 and closing high at 38,915.87, serving as the apex of the Japanese asset price bubble. 1992 – Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil, tries to resign amidst corruption charges, but is then impeached. 1994 – Turkish Airlines Flight 278 (a Boeing 737-400) crashes on approach to Van Ferit Melen Airport in Van, Turkey, killing 57 of the 76 people on board. 1996 – Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity sign a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war. 1998 – Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the Cambodian genocide that claimed over one million lives. 2003 – The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct. 2006 – The UK settles its Anglo-American loan, post-WWII loan debt. 2013 – A suicide bomb attack at the Volgograd-1 railway station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd kills at least 18 people and wounds 40 others. 2013 – Seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher suffers a massive head injury while skiing in the French Alps. 2020 – A large explosion at the airport in the southern Yemeni city of Aden kills at least 22 people and wounds 50.

[friendofozma]

I somehow found a christian movie review website and Oh My God this “content warning” for Dolphin Tale is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read

Tag yourself I’m “two ‘Oh gosh’ exclamations”

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Content:

(C, BB, Pa, FR, L, V, N, M) Light Christian, pro-created life, morally uplifting worldview which is also pro-stewardship of the environment marred by a re-telling of the Chumash Indian pagan story that dolphins are human beings turned into dolphins by a goddess when they fell off the rainbow bridge to paradise and the little girl Hazel prays to her mother instead of God, but a medical doctor talks about the excellence of God’s creation compared to what he can do with prosthetics; two very light obscenities and two “Oh gosh” exclamations; threats of violence, pelican attacks people several times, dolphin gets caught in fisherman’s trap and has bleeding wounds, man goes off to Middle East war and comes back very wounded, several shots of wounded soldiers in veteran’s hospital, several shots of disabled children and adults, powerful hurricane almost destroys marine life hospital in Florida; no sex; men and women in bathing suits; no alcohol; no smoking; and, boy skips school to take care of dolphin and doesn’t tell his mother for a week and boy sneaks into marine animal rescue hospital, but he is rebuked.

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[trattrayt]

Culture and Cuisine

Filipino | Main Dish | Bistek

by Boomboom M. Dalen

Beefsteak

Bistek Tagalog is a traditional meat dish originating from the Philippines. It consists of thinly sliced beef that's marinated and braised in a combination of citrus juice (usually from lemon, lime, or calamansi fruit), onions, garlic, soy sauce, and pepper.

It is believed that the dish was derived after the Spanish bistec encebollado. When properly prepared, the flavors should be savory, salty, and tangy. It's important to use only the freshest beef and the most tender cuts such as top round and sirloin.

The dish is traditionally garnished with pan-fried onion rings on top and served with steamed rice on the side. 

Ingredients:

4 tbls vegetable oil

1  piece onion

0.5 kg tip roast sirloin

1 sachet Maggi Magic Sarap

0.25 tsp ground pepper

4 cloves garlic

2 tbls Maggi Soy Cooking And Seasoning Sauce

1 tbl brown sugar

6 pieces calamansi

Procedure

(Click the video below to watch the full tutorial on how to cook Bistek Tagalog)

Health Benefits of Bistek

Apart from protein and iron, steak is incredibly rich in other nutrients that our bodies need to function, like carnosine and creatine which help our muscles and brains to function. In fact, those who don't eat meat have historically shown to be low in these nutrients.

Nutrition Value

Energy | 238.31

Protein | 18.79

Carbohydrates | 10.86

Fats | 13.84

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Filipino | Main Dish | Carbonara

by Shea Alexa T. Bunani

Carbonara

The origins of Carbonara remain a mystery. Some speculate that it was a dish of the Apennine charcoal burners, others attribute it to American soldiers who arrived in Italy during World War II.

Ingredients

Spaghetti Pasta

Parmesan cheese

Bacon / Ham

Salt and Pepper

Cooking Oil

1-1.5 liters of water (to cook the pasta)

Mushroom

Sugar Optional

White Onions

Butter

Evaporated Milk

All purpose cream

Procedure

(Click the video below to watch the full tutorial on how to cook Carbonara Pasta)

Health Benefits of Carbonara Sauce

Since carbonara sauce contains a lot of dairy – cheese and cream – it provides plenty of calcium and magnesium. These nutrients are needed to maintain healthy teeth, as well as bone and muscle. Dairy is also rich in protein, phosphorus and B vitamins.

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Filipino | Main Dish | Chicken Curry

by Stephanie L. Dela Piña

Chicken Curry

The Filipino chicken curry recipe definitely had originated from the famous Indian curry dish which can be seen from the spices used but the taste had evolved to specifically cater for the Filipino palate which means it’s not as strong as the original curry and the sauce is a bit thinner. It might have been brought by the Indian soldiers known as Sepoy’s who settled down in Philippines during the British Occupation of the Philippines during (1762-1764).

Ingredients

3 tbsp oil

1 kilogram chicken cut into bite-sized pieces

3 cloves garlic, minced

1 medium onion, chopped

2 inches ginger, minced

1 pc Knorr Chicken Cubes 10 g

2 tbsp curry powder

1 pack (40 g) Knorr Ginataang Gulay Mix

2 cups water

1 pc carrot, cubed

2 pcs potatoes, diced salt and pepper to taste

Procedure

(Click the video below to watch the full tutorial on how to cook Chicken Curry)

Health Benefits of Chicken Curry

The spice blend is rich in anti-inflammatory compounds and consuming it may help reduce oxidative stress, boost heart health, and improve blood sugar levels, among other potential benefits. The best part is that curry powder makes an excellent addition to a wide array of recipe.

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Filipino | Soup | Pork Sinigang

by Ma. Rhea B Babarin

Pork Sinigang

Sinigang is a sour soup native to the Philippines. This recipe uses pork as the main ingredient. Other proteins and seafood can also be used. Beef, shrimp, fish are commonly used to cook sinigang. The chicken version, on the other hand, is called sinampalukang manok. I prefer to use either pork belly or buto-buto when cooking sinigang. The latter refers to cuts with bones intact. These are either pork neck bones, chopped spare ribs, and chopped baby back ribs. Pork shoulder and ham can also be used when cooking sinigang.

Ingredients

2 lbs pork belly or buto-buto

1 bunch spinach or kang-kong

3 tablespoons fish sauce

12 pieces string beans sitaw, cut in 2 inch length

2 pieces tomato quartered

3 pieces chili or banana pepper

1 tablespoons cooking oil

2 quarts water

1 piece onion sliced

2 pieces taro gabi, quartered

1 pack sinigang mix good for

2 liters water

Procedure

(Click the video below to watch the full tutorial on how to cook Pork Sinigang)

Health Benefits of Sinigang

Detoxifies liver and stomach, controls damage to red blood cells and increases oxygen in blood supply. A good source for anthocyanins which reduces risk of cardiovascular diseases. Source of potassium, which can help lower your blood pressure. Also good for skin health and hydration.

Nutrition Value

Serving: 6g Calories: 892kcal | Carbohydrates: 18g| Protein: 20g Fat: 83g | Saturated Fat: 29g | Cholesterol: 108mg Sodium: 1067mg | Potassium: 1070mg Fiber: 6g | Sugar: 8g | Vitamin I A: 6710IU | Vitamin C: 42.8mg | Calcium: 157mg | Iron: 4.5 ml

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Filipino | Appetizer | Buffalo Wings

by Cresilda L. Belgado

Buffalo Wings

The concept of cooking wings in peppery hot sauce was born in 1964 at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York, when co-owner Teressa Bellissimo cooked leftover wings in hot sauce as a late-night snack for her son and his friends. The guys liked them so much that the Bellissimos put them on the menu the next day. Served with celery slices and bleu cheese sauce, “Buffalo Wings” were an instant hit.

Ingredients

1 kg. chicken wings

1 tsp salt

1 tsp black pepper

1 tbsp. calamansi juice (or lemon juice)

1/2 cup all purpose flour

1/2 cup cornstarch

1 tsp. salt

1 tsp. black pepper

1 tsp garlic powder

1 tsp. paprik

1/2 tsp. baking powder SAUCE

3 tbsp. butter unsalted

3 cloves garlic (minced)

1/4 cup hot sauce (adjust as needed)

1/4 cup ketchup

1 tbsp brown sugar (optional)

1 tbsp. soy sauce (optional)

Procedure

(Click the video below to watch the full tutorial on how to cook Buffalo Wings)

Health Benefits of Buffalo Wings

Rich in protein: Buffalo wings contain great amounts of protein, essential for the growth and repair of every cell in the body.

Loaded with several minerals: Buffalo chicken wings contain many essential minerals including phosphorus and selenium, which support cell function and maintain chemical balance in the body.

Other key benefits of Buffalo wings:

Rich in vitamins and minerals

Boosts immune system

Increases red blood cell count

Regulates blood sugar levels

Improves brain function

Loaded with protein

Heals fractures and injuries

Strengthens bones

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Filipino | Appetizer | Calamari

by Cassandra Mish B. Lompon

Calamares

In 1975, the Mediterranean-born calamari, also known as squid in Italian, quickly spread to North America as a well-liked deep-fried delicacy. If you've never had the magic of calamari, it's a delectable appetizer prepared of squid and deep-fried till it has an enticing crunchy flavor. Calamari is produced by first washing the squid, which is frequently made with European squid. After being deep-fried, it is battered and seasoned with lemon and parsley.

Ingredients

1/2 lb medium to large sized squid cleaned and sliced into rings

3/4 cup all-purpose flour

1 piece raw egg beaten

3/4 cup breadcrumbs

1 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper

2 cups cooking oil

Procedure

(Click the video below to watch the full tutorial on how to cook Calamares)

Health Benefits of Calamares

Rich in Protein

In just a 3-ounce serving, the squid in calamari provides 13 grams of protein. This helps the body to sustain energy and build muscle.

Cancer Preventative

Antioxidants found in squid can help the body fight free radicals from the air you breathe in every day. These antioxidants increase the efficiency of cells which can prevent cancer. Antioxidants can also help to increase the number of white blood cells that are absent from the process of chemotherapy.

Chock Full of Vitamins and Minerals

Squid contains a high number of vitamins and minerals, including Vitamin B-12, potassium, iron, phosphorus and copper. These essential nutrients aid in the performance and health of blood cells, bones and the immune system.

Fights Anemia

Copper is one of the key minerals found in squid, and can prevent and fight anemia, a deadly disease that is caused by the lack of blood cells

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Filipino | Main Dish | Buttered Shrimp

by Apollo Ben B. Angeles

Buttered Shrimp

The garlic butter seems to have originated in France. Accurate records as to the inventor or the place of invention are not available. However, the garlic butter recipe was mentioned by the renowned French chef Antoine Beauvilliers in his book Le Cuisinier Royal in 1814.

Ingredients

8 tablespoons 1 stick unsalted butter, divided

1 ½ pounds medium shrimp, peeled and deveined.

Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste 5 cloves garlic, minced.

¼ cup chicken stock

Juice of 1 lemon, or more, to taste.

2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley leaves.

Procedure

(Click the video below to watch the full tutorial on how to cook Buttered Shrimp)

Health Benefits of Buttered Shrimp

Has high calorie density - this means that the amount of calories you are getting from an ounce is high (0.14 cal/oz).

Rich in vitamins and minerals (12.7%/cal) - a good source of Vitamin K, Vitamin A, Manganese, Selenium, Iron, Phosphorus and Vitamin C.

Contains a high amount of risky components that may include saturated fat, cholesterol, sodium and sugars (0.08%/oz).

Good source of proteins (14% of DV/100g). Relatively high in saturated fat (114% of dvl)

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Filipino | Main Dish | Spaghetti

by Chil P. Maiso

Spaghetti

Where does spaghetti come from? Although Greek mythology shows the god Vulcan using a device that made strings of dough, it's widely believed “spaghetto” (the singular for spaghetti in Italian) originated in 12th century Palermo, in sunny Sicily.

Spaghetti is a long, thin, solid, cylindrical pasta. It is a staple food of traditional Italian cuisine. Like other pasta, spaghetti is made of milled wheat and water and sometimes enriched with vitamins and minerals. Italian spaghetti is typically made from durum wheat semolina.

Ingredients

1 kg of spaghetti noodles

4 tbsp cooking oil

1 tsp garlic, minced

1 piece medium onion, chopped

7 tbsp butter

2 tbsp salt

3/4 kg groundbeef

5 pieces hotdog, sliced

560 grams pinoy-style spaghetti sauce

2 pieces boullion beef cubes,dissolved in water

1 bottle banana ketchup

1 cup Eden melt sarap

Procedure

(Click the video below to watch the full tutorial on how to cook Spaghetti)

Health Benefits of Spaghetti

Pasta is the perfect foundation for a healthy, nutritious and satisfying meal. Why? For starters, pasta is the ideal partner for so many other foods, including fibre rich vegetables and beans, heart healthy fish, antioxidant rich tomato sauce and protein packed cheeses, poultry and lean meats.

Pasta also offers:

Sustained Energy: Carbohydrates like pasta provide glucose, the crucial fuel for your brain and muscles. And because pasta is an awesome source of complex carbohydrates (unlike those of the refined and processed variety – yuk), releasing energy at a slow and sustained level, you don’t get the energy spikes associated with simple sugars.

Low Sodium and Cholesterol free: If you’re watching your cholesterol levels, pasta is perfect for you, being very low in sodium and cholesterol free. Per cup, enriched varieties of pasta provide a good sources of several essential nutrients, including iron and B-vitamins.

Olic Acid: Enriched pasta is fortified with folic-acid – essential for women of child-bearing age. A serving of dry pasta supplies the equivalent of roughly 100 micrograms of folic acid, or 25% of the recommended daily intake.

Balanced Diet: Pasta is part of a well-balanced diet, with current Australian Government guidelines suggesting 35% of our daily calories intake should come from complex carbohydrates such as pasta. Combine pasta with lean protein and vegetables for a complete meal that puts you well on the path to hitting those dietary goals!

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Filipino | Side dish | Chopseuy

by Francis Joseph D. Navales

Chopsuey

Chop suey (/ˈtʃɒpˈsuːi/) is a dish in American Chinese cuisine and other forms of overseas Chinese cuisine, consisting of meat (usually chicken, pork, beef, shrimp or fish) and eggs, cooked quickly with vegetables such as bean sprouts, cabbage, and celery and bound in a starch-thickened sauce. It is typically served with rice but can become the Chinese-American form of chow mein with the substitution of stir-fried noodles for rice.

Ingredients

2 tbsp vegetable oil

2 cloves garlic

1 pc onion

1 pc red bell pepper

100 g pork belly

1.5 cups water

1 sachet Maggi Magic Sarap

0.5 cup cauliflower

0.5 cup carrot

0.5 cup sayote

0.5 cup string beans

0.5 cup green peas

1 cup cabbage

Procedure

(Click the video below to watch the full tutorial on how to cook Chopsuey)

Health Benefits of Chopsuey

It also contains complex carbohydrates, which could be helpful for those who need to keep a low-fat diet. Chop Suey is also rich in magnesium, which helps regulate the heartbeat and muscles in functioning. This makes it a good meal for those who might have a heart condition. This is because it has lower sodium levels.

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[kimskashmir]

Army pays tributes to two soldiers killed during Anantnag encounter

SRINAGAR — Army Chief Gen. Upendra Dwivedi and all ranks of the Indian Army paid tribute to Havildar Dipak Kumar Yadav and Lance Naik Praveen Sharma, who lost their lives in an encounter with militants in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag, on Saturday. “General Upendra Dwivedi COAS and All Ranks of Indian Army salute the supreme Sacrifice of Bravehearts Hav Dipak Kumar Yadav & L/Nk Praveen Sharma, who…

[robinsonranch]

Cameras were rolling when a chopper killed an actor and two kids. Was A-list director to blame?

BY CHRISTOPHER GOFFARD | STAFF WRITER

June 12, 2024 3am Front page top article

Los Angeles Times

In the last seconds of his life, the 53-year-old actor Vic Morrow was struggling through knee-deep water with a child in each arm. The location, 35 miles north of downtown L.A., was Indian Dunes, which set designers had repurposed as a wartime Vietnamese village.

Morrow, who performed as a surly delinquent in “Blackboard Jungle,” a tough soldier in the TV drama “Combat!” and a volatile baseball coach in “The Bad News Bears,” was on this day playing a bigot dreamed up by writer-director John Landis for a segment of “Twilight Zone: The Movie.”

Landis, 31, stood in waders nearby while his cameras rolled. Brash and exuberant, he had a reputation as a gleeful impresario of envelope-pushing stunts. He liked to brag about all the cars he had demolished filming “The Blues Brothers” a few years earlier.

For this shot, he had dropped Morrow’s character into the Vietnam War to enact what was intended as a redemption scene, the heroic rescue of two children from a village as it erupted in flames.

“I’ll keep you safe, kids,” Morrow was supposed to say.

The children in his arms — My-Ca Dinh Le, 7, and Renee Chen, 6 — had never acted before. They were not supposed to be on this movie set, at 2:20 a.m. on July 23, 1982. Their parents were receiving a few hundred dollars for their work. The director knew their presence at this hour violated labor laws, but he did not want to use dummies.

About 24 feet above Morrow and the children hovered three tons of noisy metal, a combat-style Huey UH-1B helicopter. As a special effects man fired gasoline-and-sawdust mortars skyward, Morrow stumbled in the water, righted himself and slogged on.

The effects man was not looking up when he shot off the fireball that engulfed the tail rotor, sending the helicopter into an uncontrollable spin. The machine plummeted, crushing and killing Renee. The main rotor blade, 44 feet long, decapitated Morrow and My-Ca. In the footage shown over and over on TV, a curtain of water mercifully blocked the fatal split-second from the camera’s view.

At Morrow’s funeral, Landis struggled to speak and invoked art.

“Tragedy strikes in an instant, but film is immortal,” the director said. “Perhaps we can take some solace in the knowledge that through his work in stage, television and film, Vic lives forever.”

One of Morrow’s friends, Rick Jason, gave a reporter his opinion of the disaster. “It’s just an outlandish freak, and I don’t think you can draw a conclusion from it.”

Sgt. Thomas Budds drew a conclusion. The veteran L.A. County sheriff’s detective believed it was criminal recklessness. He arrived before dawn that day, stepping carefully around the toppled chopper, its big blade sideways in the mud of the Santa Clara River.

He examined the charred remains of the mocked-up village. He examined the three bodies and ordered the river drained, so that remaining body parts could be located. The permeating reek of gasoline would haunt his memory.

Budds, the sole detective on the case, conducted hundreds of interviews in the following months. He spoke to camera operators and assistants, makeup artists and hairstylists. In Budds’ mind, a picture formed of an arrogant, overbearing director who was cavalier about risk and whose subordinates were fearful of second-guessing him.

He had the impression of a director who believed himself in competition for spectacular spectacle with Steven Spielberg, who was co-producing the “Twilight Zone” movie but would not be implicated in the case.

Budds assembled his evidence in two binders and brought them to the district attorney’s office to recommend charges. Pivotal in his decision, Budds told The Times in a recent interview, was the account of cameraman Steve Lydecker, who said Landis ignored his warning about the dangers of the special effects.

“We may lose the helicopter,” the cameraman recalled Landis joking.

There were other signs of recklessness during the filming, Budds thought. At 9:30 p.m. the night before the crash, the two children had been placed in a hut, unaccompanied, near big drums of gasoline.

“All you needed was a spark, and those kids would have been killed.”

At 11:30 p.m., in a precursor to the fatal flight, a fireball singed the face of a production manager riding in the helicopter.

“The explosions were too big. They were put on notice at that point. If the 11:30 event hadn’t happened, I would never have pursued the case.”

Budds added: “It’s like they had a swimming pool and someone almost drowned. You’d think they’d put a fence up.”

Between the fatal crash in summer 1982 and the beginning of his trial in summer 1986, John Landis remained an in-demand artist. He directed the hit screwball comedy “Trading Places” and Michael Jackson’s comic-horror “Thriller” video. “Twilight Zone: The Movie” came out, with the helicopter scene omitted.

Then, Landis took his seat in a downtown L.A. courtroom as the first Hollywood director to face criminal charges for a death on set. The possible penalty was six years in prison. He and four others — his production manager, his associate producer, his special effects coordinator and the helicopter pilot — faced charges of involuntary manslaughter.

The prosecutor, the fiery and theatrical Lea D’Agostino, bragged that she had never lost a case. She liked her nickname, the Dragon Lady, because it connoted toughness.

She called Landis a “tyrannical dictator,” a reckless director who ignored common sense and sacrificed safety for realism in service of “a lousy motion picture.”

Sitting at the government table beside Sgt. Budds, D’Agostino was confident she could hold her own as the lone prosecutor against a seven-man team of aggressive defense attorneys. Among them was James Neal, the barrel-chested legend who had prosecuted the Watergate conspirators and Jimmy Hoffa, and who insisted to the “Twilight Zone” jurors:

“Not one of these gentlemen intended to hurt anyone. Not one of these gentlemen thought the scene as planned and rehearsed was dangerous. Not one of these gentlemen is guilty of criminal negligence.” He called the crash “unforeseen” and “unforeseeable.” If the helicopter had crashed a few feet away, he pointed out, Landis himself would be dead.

He and other defense attorneys directed blame to the effects man, James Camomile, who had been given immunity for his testimony and admitted that he had not looked up when he shot off the fatal fireball.

The most wrenching words came from the parents of the dead children, who said they had been misled about the danger.

“Did [associate producer George Folsey Jr.] or Mr. Landis or anyone else on that motion picture tell you that your daughter Renee was going to be filmed with explosives in close proximity to her?” the prosecutor asked.

“No,” testified Mark Chen, who had lost his only child.

“Did either Mr. Landis or Mr. Folsey or anyone else on that set, Mr. Chen, tell you that your daughter Renee was going to be filmed with a helicopter approximately 24 feet over her head?”

“No.”

He had agreed to let Renee do the picture, he said, so that “she would have a lot of memories” when she grew up.

My-Ca Le’s father, Daniel Le, who had been on the Indian Dunes set, said he heard someone ordering the helicopter to descend as the special effects went off: “Lower, lower.”

Having lived through the Vietnam War as a child, he said he was so startled by the on-set explosions that he dropped to the ground.

Jurors piled into a bus for a trip to the crash site, and to the Academy theater in Beverly Hills, where they watched the crash from six angles. (“A glamorous setting for a grim task,” one reporter called it.) Celebrities occasionally visited the courtroom, including Dan Aykroyd, a “Blues Brothers” and “Trading Places” star.

When defense attorneys presented their case, co-defendant Dorcey Wingo, who had piloted the downed chopper, stunned the courtroom when he seemed to suggest that Morrow bore some responsibility for the tragedy.

Five seconds had elapsed between the helicopter’s loss of control and the crash. “It distresses me to the max that he never looked up,” Wingo testified, which the prosecutor derided as “blaming the dead man.”

Landis took the stand in his own defense and quickly conceded that he had flouted the rules in hiring the children.

“We decided to break the law. We decided wrongly to violate the labor code.” Landis called it “a technical violation.”

The director denied joking to the cameraman that they might lose the helicopter. He denied that the parents were in the dark about the nature of the scene (he had told them personally, he said). He denied ever being warned that the filming of the fatal scene was dangerous. He denied any recollection of having ordered the helicopter to go “lower, lower.” At times, the director appeared to choke up.

“Would you like some Kleenex, sir?” D’Agostino mocked him.

Talking to reporters, she called it a calculated performance worthy of an Oscar.

“The whole world is lying, according to John Landis, except John Landis,” she said. “I find that somewhat incredible, and I’m assuming that the jurors will, too.”

She was badly mistaken about the jurors. After 10 months of trial and nine days of deliberations, all five defendants were acquitted on May 29, 1987. The jury forewoman echoed the defense’s main point, saying: “You don’t prosecute people for unforeseeable accidents.”

Landis, who declined to be interviewed for this story, told a reporter afterward that the prosecutor was “grotesque” and her case “completely dishonest.” “I feel that accident very strongly,” he said, adding that he was grateful for the jurors’ wisdom and comparing the outcome to a Frank Capra movie.

A year after his acquittal, jurors received invitations — along with their families — to a special preview screening of Landis’ new movie, the Eddie Murphy comedy “Coming to America.” Harland Braun, the acerbic attorney who represented one of the director’s co-defendants at trial, did not like how it looked.

“I wonder if he invited the parents of the children, because they were part of the case, too.”

The dejected prosecutor said she hoped, at least, that the case would deter future filmmakers from taking unnecessary risks. She believed the jury had been starstruck, a conclusion echoed nearly 40 years later by Budds, now 78. He thought it was unseemly, the way jurors embraced Landis and his wife after the verdict.

“They just identified with the whole Hollywood scene, and I think they missed the whole point about the responsibility to protect children,” Budds said. “It’s one thing if Vic Morrow chose to be under the helicopter, but to put little kids in that situation, it’s just unconscionable.”

In the aftermath of the deaths, the Directors Guild of America reprimanded Landis and tightened safety procedures.

“I think it made people more conscious of safety concerns on film sets,” Stephen Farber, co-author with Marc Green of “Outrageous Conduct: Art, Ego, and the Twilight Zone Case,” said in a recent interview. The book argues that whatever the legal outcome, Landis bore moral responsibility for the tragedy.

“It was a wake-up call for many filmmakers of that period. I think they all were very much chastened by this case,” Farber said.

The length of the trial ensured that the terrible footage was constantly on the nightly news. It replayed endlessly, Morrow struggling through the water with a child under each arm, stumbling, righting himself, carrying them to the spot where they would all die behind the curtain of water.

On-set deaths, when they do occur, rarely dominate the news, with some exceptions, including the prop-gun deaths of Brandon Lee on “The Crow” in 1993 and Halyna Hutchins on “Rust” in 2021. There were at least 43 fatalities on sets in the U.S. between 1990 and 2016, many of them behind-the-scenes crew members who died without public notice, according to an Associated Press investigation.

The rise of computer-generated imagery makes it possible to achieve effects without actual explosions, so that now “you wouldn’t really have to blow up a whole village,” Farber said. But memories are short, and “I’m not convinced that something like this could not happen again.”

At Universal Studios, where Landis was sometimes spotted walking to his office in the 1990s, tram guides were forbidden from mentioning his name.

In the decades after the trial, when Landis gave interviews, he spoke in a booming, jovial voice and conveyed the impression of a man whose outsized self-confidence remained undimmed.

Did he escape accountability? Farber thinks the case ultimately hurt Landis’ viability as a big-time director. It made him easier not to hire, when he stopped creating hits.

Strangers made a point to remind the director of that night at Indian Dunes. Drew McWeeny, a screenwriter, once found himself on a TV set with Landis in Vancouver, where a local Teamster was reading “Outrageous Conduct” in conspicuous view of the director.

“Teamsters are on sets where they’re asked to do things they know they’re not supposed to do and told to take one for the team,” McWeeny said. “I think that for a lot of crew guys, Landis is the ultimate symbol of that.”

By McWeeny’s account, a frustrated Landis yelled at the Teamster, who was unimpressed and instead proffered the book with a question: Can you sign it?

[whitepolaris]

Ghost of Fort Reno

Historic Fort Reno just north of the highway in El Reno as well as on Historic Route 66. It was built to quell the unrest of the local Indian population in 1874. The name Fort Reno was bestowed in 1876 by Gen. Phil Sheriden, a dedication to his friend Maj. Gen. Jesse L. Reno. The fort at one time was one of the major military bases in the world that housed many military recruits and buffalo soldiers, as well as German and Italian prisoners of war. Over its history many people that came to fame later in life had visited and spent a good amount of time on the fort. The painter Frederic Remington spent three months on the fort and painted many depictions of buffalo soldiers, as well as the cavalry. Amelia Earhart flew her autogyro, which was the forerunner to the modern helicopter, onto the airstrip located on the grounds.

Today the fort is home to agricultural studies as well as many spirits. Every building located on the grounds has its own stories of ghostly events. The home known as the "Victorian" is perhaps one of the most haunted homes on the site. Over the years, reports of a little girl seen on the second story peering out of a window as well as running up to the home from the sidewalk have been told by visitors both young and old.

I have had many experiences that have left me considering it to be one of the most haunted sites I have visited to date. During one investigation, I was on the second story where the little girl watching out the window was reported. I could hear a little girl singing and laughing coming from the next room. There were no little girls found in the investigation that evening. I started to dig into the history and found that the room I had heard the singing from was actually an older gentleman's room, who was none too happy of having visitors coming into his home.

After an investigation one night we felt that it was time to leave and that we upset the man. One week later we returned to find torn wallpaper on the walls and scrape marks on the ceiling. When we asked the curator if anyone had entered the building, we were informed that no one had. The doors are actually screwed shut when there is no investigation happening.

There are theories about the "Victorian," one of which includes the older gentleman having murdered the little girl and buried her in the basement of the home. I have entered the basement a number of times only to leave just as soon as I went down. My last experience in the home was during a private tour that I was working on along with a research group I was a part of. I, along with one other member, had gone to the attic to see if we were able to bring any of the tour group up with us. We had watched a shadow at the corner of the window moving back and forth. We decided to shut off our flashlights and see what would happen. The whole time I thought I was facing my colleague only to turn my flashlight on and watch the face in front of me retreat back into the chimney stack.

Some of the other claims on the ground include a playful shadow figures in the upper area of the commissary as well as buffalo soldiers walking the grounds, a general that haunt himself in the upstairs bathroom of the visitors center playing with the light, and many other voices.

There is even a spirit that is said to stay in one building that enjoys his women and his whiskey. I have chased many out-of-place voices and yelled at many spirits that I mistook for tour members of the buildings. All in all I would say that this is definitely one of the most haunted locations in the central Oklahoma area.

The property is government-owned, so to those seeking a good adventure by very careful before choosing this location for a night of ghost hunting. The fort does hold ghost tours to the public and there are many groups that hold private investigations. Those are the best ways to actually enter the grounds and the buildings. -Charles Carter

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Kunwar Singh (13 November 1777– 26 April 1858; also known as Babu Kunwar Singh and Kuer Singh) was a leader during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. He belonged to a family of the Ujjainiya clan of the Parmar Rajputs of Jagdispur, currently a part of Bhojpur district, Bihar, India. At the age of 80, he led a selected band of armed soldiers against the troops under the command of the British East India Company. He was the chief organiser of the fight against the British in Bihar. He is popularly known as Veer Kunwar Singh.

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Sand Creek Massacre

The Sand Creek Massacre (29 November 1864) was a slaughter of citizens of the Arapaho and Cheyenne nations at the hands of the Third Colorado Cavalry of US Volunteers under the command of Colonel John Chivington, resulting in casualties estimated at over 150 in the Native American encampment, which was in compliance with the policies of US officials.

Black Kettle (l. c. 1803-1868), chief of the Southern Cheyenne, had consistently sought peace with the White settlers since signing the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851. He rejected the call to war of others – including Chief Tall Bull of the Dog Soldiers and Roman Nose (Cheyenne Warrior) – and continued to trust in the assurances of the representatives of the US government that the Cheyenne would be left in peace. These representatives were under the impression that Black Kettle spoke for all the Cheyenne in signing the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 or the Treaty of Fort Wise in 1861, but he had no control over other chiefs like Tall Bull (l. 1830-1869) or Roman Nose (l. c. 1830-1868), who continued to resist the encroachment of Euro-Americans on their lands.

Hostilities escalated in June 1864 with the Hungate Massacre, in which the killing of a White family was attributed to Cheyenne warriors. John Evans (l. 1814-1897), then governor of Colorado, sent word to the Native communities that any who were friendly toward the United States should seek safety near Fort Lyon, and all others would be considered hostiles. Black Kettle – along with other chiefs including White Antelope (l. c. 1789-1864), Little Wolf (l. c. 1820-1904), and Chief Niwot (Left Hand) of the Southern Arapaho (l. c. 1825-1864) accepted the invitation and moved their people to Big Sandy Creek, about 40 miles (65 km) northwest of Fort Lyon.

On the morning of 29 November 1864, Colonel John Chivington (l. 1821-1894) led the Third Colorado Cavalry in a surprise attack on the encampment – even though Black Kettle, as instructed, was flying the American flag and the white flag above his lodge – slaughtering over 150 innocent people, mostly young children, women, and the elderly. Afterwards, Chivington claimed this engagement was a great military victory against an armed alliance of Cheyenne and Arapaho until reports of survivors – like the Cheyenne-Anglo interpreter George Bent (l. c. 1843-1918) – and soldiers like Captain Silas Soule (l. 1838-1865) – contradicted him.

The ensuing investigation established the conflict as a massacre of innocents with only a small armed force of Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors in the camp killed defending themselves and their families. Still, the event was designated a "battle" by the press of the time and is often still referred to as such in the present day. In 2007, the area of the massacre was declared a National Historic Site, and, in 2014, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper gave an apology to the descendants of those murdered at Sand Creek; but the policies that made that massacre possible have never been acknowledged, and the US government has never offered a similar apology.

Background

The California Gold Rush of 1848 sent scores of miners and their families through the lands of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, Sioux, and others, disrupting their lives, scattering – and killing – the buffalo (the primary food source of the Plains Indians), and destroying the prairie with their wagons and cattle. Clashes between the Natives and settlers led to the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851, establishing territories for Native American nations in the region which, according to this treaty, the United States had no claim to.

Black Kettle, and other chiefs, signed the treaty trusting in the word of the US delegates that they would not be bothered any further. The treaty was never honored by the White settlers or their government, however, and was completely discarded in 1858 during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush. When the Natives again fought to defend their lands, another treaty was offered – the Treaty of Fort Wise of 1861 – which the US government and its citizens paid no more attention to than the one they had presented to the people of the Plains in 1851. The Dog Soldiers – one of the military societies of the Cheyenne – responded to the invasion with armed resistance under their leader Tall Bull while Roman Nose led his own band in defense of Cheyenne lands in what came to be known as the Colorado War (1864-1865).

Fort Laramie Treaty 1868

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (Public Domain)

Although Black Kettle – and other 'peace chiefs' – rejected the course taken by Tall Bull and Roman Nose, they could do nothing to stop them. The Cheyenne had a representational government, the Council of Forty-Four, which made decisions for the whole nation, but the chief of each band was free to accept or reject their conclusions. The council had nothing to say regarding declarations of war which were the responsibility of individual chiefs of military societies. Black Kettle's signature on a treaty did not in any way bind Tall Bull to recognize it.

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[brookstonalmanac]

Events 8.19 (after 1930)

1934 – The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio. 1934 – The German referendum of 1934 approves Adolf Hitler's appointment as head of state with the title of Führer. 1936 – The Great Purge of the Soviet Union begins when the first of the Moscow Trials is convened. 1940 – First flight of the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber. 1941 – Germany and Romania sign the Tiraspol Agreement, rendering the region of Transnistria under control of the latter. 1942 – World War II: Operation Jubilee: The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, France and fails. 1944 – World War II: Liberation of Paris: Paris, France rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops. 1945 – August Revolution: Viet Minh led by Ho Chi Minh take power in Hanoi, Vietnam. 1953 – Cold War: The CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. 1955 – In the Northeast United States, severe flooding caused by Hurricane Diane, claims 200 lives. 1960 – Cold War: In Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage. 1960 – Sputnik program: Korabl-Sputnik 2: The Soviet Union launches the satellite with the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, two rats and a variety of plants. 1964 – Syncom 3, the first geostationary communication satellite, is launched. Two months later, it would enable live coverage of the 1964 Summer Olympics. 1965 – Japanese prime minister Eisaku Satō becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit Okinawa Prefecture. 1978 – In Iran, the Cinema Rex fire causes more than 400 deaths. 1980 – Saudia Flight 163, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar burns after making an emergency landing at Riyadh International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing 301 people. 1980 – Otłoczyn railway accident: In Poland's worst post-war railway accident, 67 people lose their lives and a further 62 are injured. 1981 – Gulf of Sidra Incident: United States F-14A Tomcat fighters intercept and shoot down two Libyan Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets over the Gulf of Sidra. 1987 – Hungerford massacre: In the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with a semi-automatic rifle and then commits suicide. 1989 – Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be the first non-communist prime minister in 42 years. 1989 – Several hundred East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events that began the process of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. 1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The August Coup begins when Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Ukraine. 1991 – Crown Heights riot begins. 1999 – In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević. 2002 – Khankala Mi-26 crash: A Russian Mil Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside Grozny, killing 118 soldiers. 2003 – A truck-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees. 2003 – Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing: A suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, planned by Hamas, kills 23 Israelis, seven of them children. 2004 – Google Inc. has its initial public offering on Nasdaq. 2005 – The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins. 2009 – A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others. 2010 – Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait. 2013 – The Dhamara Ghat train accident kills at least 37 people in the Indian state of Bihar.

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Holidays 11.12

Holidays

Arches National Park Day

Are You Ready For Some Football? Day

Azarole Day (French Republic)

Brewers Association Day

Constitution Day (Azerbaijan)

Cultural Renaissance Day (China)

Day of Remembrance of the Fallen Soldiers and Civilians in International Missions for Peace (Italy)

Dia del Cartero (Postman’s Day; Mexico)

Doctors’ Day (China)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day (a.k.a. Stanton Day; New York)

Exotic Dancer’s Day

Exploding Whale Day

Fancy Rat and Mouse Day

Father’s Day (Indonesia)

Good Hips Dy (Japan)

Heir to the Throne Day (Tuvalu)

Holland Tunnel Day

International ATSEP Day

International CJD Awareness Day

Journee Nationale Maore (Comoros)

Leotard Day

National Bird Watching Day (India)

National Book Day (Mexico)

National Cape Day

National Football Day (American)

National Gaming Day

National Girls Learning Code Day

National Health Day (Indonesia)

National Nathaniel Day

National Pride Day (Mongolia)

National Stan Lee Day

National Warrior Call Day

National Youth Day (East Timor)

Oliver’s Day

One Million Books Day

Order of Fools

Public Service Broadcasting Day (India)

Sigma Gamma Rho Day

Sun Yat-Sen Day (Republic of China)

Universal Waistbeads Day

Wangala Festival (Meghalaya, India)

Wear Blue Jeans on World Pneumonia Day

World Animal Enrichment Day

World Day Against Obesity (Latin America)

World Pneumonia Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

A&W Root Beer Mug Day

Chicken Soup For the Soul Day

Eat Yourself Out Of House and Home Day

Gingerbread House Day

National French Dip Day

National Happy Hour Day

National Pizza With the Works Except Anchovies Day

2nd Sunday in November

Day of Prayer for the Promotion of the Redemptorist Missionary Vocation [2nd Sunday]

European Day of Wine Tourism (EU) [2nd Sunday]

Father’s Day (Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden) [2nd Sunday]

Grandparents’ Day (South Sudan) [2nd Sunday]

International Tongue Twister Day [2nd Sunday]

National Day of Mourning (Germany) [2nd Sunday]

National Donor Sabbath [2 Sundays before Thanksgiving]

National Pupusa Day (El Salvador) [2nd Sunday]

Orphan Sunday [2nd Sunday]

Remembrance Sunday (Australia, Canada, UK) [2nd Sunday]

Swans and Ladders Tournament (Mirano, Italy) [2nd Sunday]

Volkstrauertag (Memorial Day; Germany) [Sunday before Totensonntag]

Independence Days

Cartagena, Columbia (Independence Day)

Reektby (Declared; 2022) [unrecognized]

Sollena (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Arsatius (Christian; Saint)

Astrik (a.k.a. Anastasius) of Pannonhalma (Christian; Saint)

Auguste Rodin (Artology)

Birth of Bahu'u'llah (Baha’i)

Colonel Claghorn (Muppetism)

Cumméne Fota (Christian; Saint)

Cunibert (Christian; Saint)

Diwali Begins (Hindu, Jain, Sikh), a.k.a. ... 

Deepavali (Guyana, India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Sri Lanka)

Deepawali (Sikkam, India)

Divali (Fiji, India, Kenya, Mauritius, Suriname)

Diwali Amavasya (India, Trinidad and Tobago)

Èugene Fromentin (Artology)

Festival of Lights (Celebrating the Indian god Laxmi)

Gai Tihar (Nepal)

Kag Puja (Day of the Crows)

Kag Tihar (Day of the Crows)

Kali Puja (Assam, Odisha, West Bengal; India)

Laxmi Pooja (Nepal)

Laxmi Puja (Sikkim, India)

Naraka Chaturdashi (Assam, Odisha, West Bengal; India)

Tihar Festival (Nepal)

Yam Panchak (Nepal)

Drunk Creation Contemplation Day (Pastafarian)

Emilian of Cogolla (Christian; Saint)

Imerius of Immertal (Christian; Saint)

Josaphat Kuntsevych (a.k.a. Josaphat of Polotsk; Roman Catholic Church, Greek Catholic Church)

Khalkeia (Festival of Smiths; Ancient Greek)

Lebuinus (a.k.a. Liafwine or Lebwin; Christian; Saint)

L'Hôpital (Positivist; Saint)

Livinus (a.k.a. Livin) of Ghent (Christian; Saint)

L. Ron Hubbard Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Machar (Christian; Saint)

Margarito Flores García (Christian; Saint)

Media Autumnus II (Pagan)

Nilus of Sinai (Christian; Saint)

Old Teutonic Yule Festival

The Osirian Mysteries begin (Ancient Egypt) [thru 11.14]

Patiens (Christian; Saint)

Prophet’s Birthday (Mouloud; Sunni Muslims) [12th of Rabi’al-awwal]

René d'Angers (Christian; Saint)

Tewa Buffalo Dance (Native American Tewa of the Tesque Pueblo) [through 15th]

Theodore the Studite (Christian; Saint)

Yam Panchak (Bihar Festival; Nepal)

Ymar (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

Absolutely Fabulous (UK TV Series; 1992)

All This And World War II (Film; 1976)

Belfast (Film; 2021)

Ben-Hur, by Lew Wallace (Novel; 1902)

Ciao Alberto (Pixar Cartoon; 2021)

Dog Gone People (WB MM Cartoon; 1960)

Dogma (Film; 1999)

Electric Ladyland, by Jimi Hendrix (Album; 1968)

Falling Stars or Only a Plumber Should Plummet (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 230; 1963)

The Flying Squirrel (Disney Cartoon; 1954)

Forky Asks a Question (Pixar Cartoon Series; 2019)

George and A.J. (Pixar Cartoon; 2009)

Grand Hotel (Broadway Musical; 1989)

A Great Big Bunch of You (WB MM Cartoon; 1932)

Guns of Abalone, Part 1 (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 229; 1963)

I’m a Believer/(I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone, by The Monks (Songs; 1966)

The Klondike Kid (Disney Cartoon; 1932)

Like a Virgin, by Madonna (Album; 1984)

Lionheart, by Kate Bush (Album; 1978)

Love. Angel. Music. Baby., by Gwen Stefani (Album; 2004)

The Mandalorian (TV Series; 2019)

The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side, by Agatha Christie (Mystery Novel) [60]

Mort, by Terry Pratchet (Novel; 1987) [Discworld #4]

Neil Young, by Neil Young (Album; 1968)

Noelle (Film; 2019)

Nursery Cryme, by Genesis (Album; 1971)

Paint Your Wagon (Broadway Musical; 1951)

The Polar Express, by Chris Van Allsburg (Children’s Book; 1985)

Red Notice (Film; 2021)

Rock Justice, by Marty Basin (Rock Opera; 1979)

Roman Legion-Hare (WB LT Cartoon; 1955)

Shift: Second Shift �� Order, by Hugh Howey (Novel; 2012)

Slumdog Millionaire (Film; 2008)

St. James Infirmary, recorded by Artie Shaw (Song; 1941)

The Third Policeman, by Flann O'Brien (Novel; 1967)

The Three Musketeers (Film; 1993)

Tick, Tick … Boom! (Film; 2021)

Tom & Jerry: The Magic Ring (WB Animated Film; 2001)

Unstoppable (Film; 2010)

The Wayward Canary (Disney Cartoon; 1932)

Today’s Name Days

Christian, Emil, Josaphat, Kunibert (Austria)

Emilijan, Jozafat, Milan, Renato (Croatia)

Benedict (Czech Republic)

Torkild (Denmark)

Konrad, Kuno, Kuuno (Estonia)

Virpi (Finland)

Christian (France)

Christian, Kunibert (Germany)

Jónás, Renátó (Hungary)

Ninfa, Renato (Italy)

Kaija, Kornelija, Kornēlijs (Latvia)

Alvilė, Ašmantas, Kristinas, Renata (Lithuania)

Torkil, Torkjell (Norway)

Cibor, Czcibor, Izaak, Jonasz, Jozafat, Konradyn, Konradyna, Krystyn, Marcin, Renat, Renata, Witołd, Witold, Witolda (Poland)

Atanasie (Romania)

Svätopluk (Slovakia)

Cristián, Cristian, Emiliano, Millán (Spain)

Konrad, Kurt (Sweden)

Colan, Colin, Colleen, Collin, Cullan, Cullen, Culver, Kiley, Kyla, Kyle, Kylee, Kyleigh, Kyler, Kylier (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 316 of 2024; 49 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 45 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Ngetal (Reed) [Day 13 of 28]

Chinese: Month 9 (Ten-Xu), Day 29 (Jia-Xu)

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

Hebrew: 28 Heshvan 5784

Islamic: 28 Rabi II 1445

J Cal: 16 Mir; Twosday [16 of 30]

Julian: 30 October 2023

Moon: 1%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 8 Frederic (12th Month) [L'Hôpital]

Runic Half Month: Nyd (Necessity) [Day 2 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 50 of 89)

Zodiac: Scorpio (Day 20 of 29)

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Day 43- Film: Son of Paleface 

Release date: July 14th, 1952. 

Studio: Paramount 

Genre: Comedy 

Director: Frank Tashlin 

Producer: Robert L. Welch 

Actors: Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Roy Rogers 

Plot Summary: The Harvard educated son of Paleface heads West to claim his father’s fortune so his gold-digging girlfriend will marry him. When he arrives in town, he discovers his father’s money is nowhere to be found, and everyone in the area is owed money by him. Junior befriends two lawmen, gets caught up with a gang of bandits, and is chased by Native Americans who want to kill him. 

My Rating (out of five stars): ** 

I’ve never not wanted to write about a film as much as this one. Virtually nothing in it worked for me, and precious little made it worthwhile viewing. I found Hope’s schtick unfunny, his objectification of woman annoying, and the treatment of Native Americans appalling. I usually give media from this long ago some leeway when it comes to our modern sensibilities. I try not to be a stick-in-the-mud, and I always try to put my complaints into context. But boy, this time I struggled. 

The Good: 

Harry von Zell made me smile. He had a small role, but he was really good! He’s the Carnation Evaporated Milk pitchman for The Burns and Allen Show, and I always find him so likeable. Next to Betty Furness, he’s probably my favorite pitchman. He is extremely natural on camera. 

Jane Russell. She’s insanely gorgeous and her curves are to die for. She looked great in her black bandit outfit especially. Unfortunately there’s wasn’t much she was able to do in the movie besides look good. Her character was just supposed to be eye candy essentially.  

There were fun cameos by Bing Crosby and Cecil B. DeMille. They were each less than 30 seconds long, but they were cute. 

The Bad: 

Bob Hope. I just don’t find a lot of his humor that funny. Most of his gags in the film didn’t even make me chuckle. I hate how he treats women- as things for men to drool over and little else. I know he was a notorious philanderer, constantly cheating on his wife, and you just get that vibe from him. His USO shows can be really hard to listen to, because between him and the soldiers, the cat-calls and whistles never stop. 

The story and plot were really thin. I think if I had seen and enjoyed The Paleface, I might have gotten more out of it, though. 

Women were really objectified in this. When the opening credits says “8 Beautiful Girlies (Count ‘Em)” you kind of know what you’re in for. There wasn’t even any real hint of romance, it was all about sex, basically. There’s a long scene that’s just supposed to be funny where Hope is trying to look through a keyhole as Russell is taking a bath on the other side of the door. He continually makes suggestive comments. This kind of thing got really grating. 

When a relatively central character was suddenly murdered, the movie barely blinked. I liked the character, so it was upsetting that they killed him off, but even more upsetting that it seemed to be only a plot device. 

How Native Americans were portrayed. I’m used to the way Hollywood portrays “Indians,” but this was nearly impossible to watch. They were so dehumanized, they could have been animals. By the 1950s, some films were at least trying to be more even-handed with Native Americans, but this one made not even the slightest attempt. Throughout the whole film a group of Indians who hated Junior’s father chase him down, trying to kill him. For some reason they only have bows and arrows and dress in war paint on horses, even though the film takes place in at least the 1910s or 20s. Some of the ‘Indians” were clearly white people in brownface, and they all talked in that horrible stereotypical broken English. They were shown as crazed, whooping, homicidal primitives. (Except for the girls, who were sexualized, of course!) At the climax of the film, we literally watch more than a dozen of them die, and we’re meant to cheer as Hope and the gang mow them all down.

A “gag” at the end happens when an “Indian” is shooting an arrow at Hope, but it ricochets back and kills him instead. That’s funny how? 

When I thought I had my fill of all of the above, Bob Hope literally made a “reservation” joke to a Native American guy. Twice. Like, the word “reservation” was the punchline. I almost literally lost my mind.