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Today Matt & Todd discuss the 1968 Sci-Fi Classic: Planet of the Apes, directed by Franklin J Schaffner, based on a novel by Pierre Boulle.Starring: Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Maurice Evans and Kim Hunter.Screenplay co-credited to Michael Wilson and Rod Serling.A groundbreaking success when it first appeared in 1968; Planet of the Apes is a rapid-paced fish-out-of-water tale of a group of astronauts who crash-land on a mysterious planet inhabited by a civilization of advanced apes determined to destroy humanity.The original Planet of the Apes feels more at home in the realm of Star Trek and Twilight Zone (also created by original Planet of the Apes screenwriter: Rod Serling.)Even if you have not seen the film you're likely aware of the ending, and some of the more memorable lines. This is a film that still holds up as pure entertainment, award-wining makeup effects that still look remarkable, and an engaging plot that offers something enduring to consider about human nature.If this is your first time watching, we'd love to hear what you think.If you like this film we can recommend:The Omega Man, Last Man on Earth, World Without End, The Terminator, The Time Travelers*, Star Trek (in particular the classic series) and The Twilight Zone.----------Follow Matt on Letterboxd, Bluesky: @MovieMattSirois, as Marcus at Movie Asylum of the Weird, Bad and Wonderful and follow what we follow at Once Upon a Geek and The Fade Out Podcast
As authored by Adam Rutherford.
We experience not only a few time-jumps in this episode, but also an increase in the amount of survivors in tow. Seneca wrote, "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end," and all of this exists in what the prophet Yishayahu / Isaiah referred to as a World Without End. Will we finally put the past to rest or will we allow it to haunt us?
Earth Abides: Episode 3 "World Without End" New survivors appear, but Ish doesn't trust them, and Emma invites them in; a bad storm slams San Lupo. Feedback : blackgirlcouch@gmail.com (audio/written) Tumblr: blackgirlcouch Instagram: @blackgirlcouch Youtube: blackgirlcouchreviews
“For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.” (Isaiah 64:4)
In our concluding episode on the Apostles' Creed, we unpack the Christian hope contained in the declaration that we believe in "the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting." Join us in this lively, insightful, and powerful discussion on the realities of forgiveness, the transformative nature of the resurrection, and our eternal embodied future in a redeemed and renewed creation.
Thierry Lison is a market gardener, permaculture teacher, AND marine biologist from French Polynesia. In this episode we explore how Thierry's career in marine biology and a passion for surfing led him to focus on the devastating effects of industrial agriculture on coral reefs, and ultimately start a market garden on a tiny tropical island. His farm, Vaihuti Fresh, blends the principles of permaculture with the strategies of high-yield market gardening while making a positive social impact in the unique context of the Polynesian islands. From coconut-peat soil mix and crabs as garden pests to worldwide biodiversity loss; this wide ranging conversation will give you plenty to think about! PLEASE make sure to subscribe to the podcast, download our episodes, and rate them! Your support means the world to us. Thank you! Sponsors Bootstrap Farmer https://www.bootstrapfarmer.com/ Market Gardener Institute https://themarketgardener.com/courses Use promo code podcast15 for 15% off these select courses: Mastering Greenhouse Production 8 Most Profitable Crops Season Extension Strategies Market Gardening & Organic Farming for Beginners Winter Farming Strategies Timestamps [5:51] Background in marine biology studying coral reefs [9:45] Starting a farm in Polynesia [14:59] Link between permaculture and market gardening {24:01] Crabs as garden pests {24:49] Research with biochar, coconut husk, and mycorrhizal fungi [34:14] Rewarding farmers for benefitting ecosystem [36:00] Loss of biodiversity [38:46] Cooperative cold-storage and nurseries on the island [43:31] Making coconut-peat [49:25] Unique history and economy of Polynesia [50:12] Covid as turning point for food sovereignty [55:39] Conventional farmers transitioning to organic [1:02:05] Education on the farm [1:07:08] Unique challenges of farming on a tropical island [1:17:05] Indigenous tradition on the islands [1:26:10] Permaculture Design Handbook by Bill Mollison [1:26:42] Jean-Marc Jancovici's 'World Without End' [1:33:16] Quote from Charles Eisenstein Links/Resources Market Gardener Institute: https://themarketgardener.com/ Masterclass: https://themarketgardener.com/courses/the-market-gardener-masterclass/ Newsletter: https://themarketgardener.com/newsletter Blog: https://themarketgardener.com/blog Books: https://themarketgardener.com/books Growers & Co: https://growers.co/ Heirloom: https://heirloom.ag/ The Old Mill: https://www.espaceoldmill.com/en/ Follow Us Website: http://themarketgardener.com Facebook: http://facebook.com/marketgardenerinstitute Instagram: http://instagram.com/themarketgardeners Guest Social Media Links Thierry: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vaihuti/ Website: https://vaihutifresh.com/ JM: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeanmartinfortier Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jeanmartinfortier
In this heartening episode of Data for Future, Marie Mélinon unfolds her journey into a sustainability career, detailing the inception of her circular economy nappy business and her current dedication on climate education through workshops.
Ken Follett joined the National Writers Series at the Alluvion on October 1st, 2023 with guest host Pat Livingston. Ken Follett is one of the world's best-loved authors, selling more than 188 million copies of his 36 books. Follett's first bestseller was “Eye of the Needle”, a spy story set in the Second World War. In 1989, “The Pillars of the Earth” was published and has since become Follett's most popular novel. It reached number one on bestseller lists around the world and was an Oprah's Book Club pick. Its sequels, “World Without End” and “A Column of Fire”, and prequel “The Evening and the Morning”, proved equally popular, and the Kingsbridge series has sold more than 50 million copies worldwide. Follett lives in Hertfordshire, England, with his wife, Barbara. Between them they have five children, six grandchildren, and three Labradors. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nationalwritersseries/message
Review of G.I. Joe #46 & #47, World Without End, part 1 and 2. The episode that invented the reverse snerf before the snerf. Episode #46: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfvuB2YTo5s Episode #47: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJJwN8ZhVmI PSA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVVOEqEfda0
Bible Studio: (2:03) Ezr 6:7-8, 12b, 14-20 Failure & Hope in Ezra and Nehemiah Letters (19:55) - Were Mary's parents conceived without sin (23:57) - Why do we say world without end at the end of the Glory be? (25:34) - Great Adventure Bible Timeline https://ascensionpress.com/pages/the-great-adventure (29:14) - Do priests collect Social Security? Word of the Day: Brothers of Jesus (36:12) Callers: (41:30) - I fell away from the Church because of abuse scandals (44:13) - Any knowledge on the validity of Lord's Prayer in Aramaic on YouTube? (47:41) - Question about the nature of God, is it outside of our concept of time?
Look who's back! Not just Commander Sinclair (I mean Ambassador Sinclair) But Lou @LouWSytsma, Karen @aleveria and Jesse @JessejacksonDFW are back to talk to talk the two part episode World Without End! We explore a very timey wimey episode where endings and origins are revealed but new questions are asked. .
We conclude our year long look at the story of Scripture, zooming out to see the pattern of Belovedness / Wilderness / Forgiveness / Wholeness at the heart of all God's stories.
We conclude our year long look at the story of Scripture, zooming out to see the pattern of Belovedness / Wilderness / Forgiveness / Wholeness at the heart of all God's stories.
When Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance was discovered below the Antarctic ice in March 2022, 106 years after it sank, the world thrilled anew with one of the greatest survival stories of all time. Acclaimed South African writer Darrel Bristow-Bovey has a deeply personal relationship with the story of Endurance and in this lyrical journey into past and present, into humanity and the natural world, above and below the Antarctic ice, he revisits the famous story wondering why it seems to mean more today than ever before. Drawing on literature, natural history, personal memoir and the thrilling epics of polar adventure, this is a celebration of the human spirit. If this story tells us anything, it's that in the face of a self-inflicted natural disaster, we can still pull off a miracle or two. Darrel sat down with South African author Mphuthumi Ntabeni at the book lounge in Cape Town to delve into one of the greatest stories of all time. Enjoy this episode of Pagecast!
Award-winning writer, Darrel Bristow-Bovey joins Gareth to talk about his new book ‘Finding Endurance: Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End'. Don't miss this somewhat philosophical discussion about the relationship we have with our fathers, the true meaning of success, and how to ‘win' at the game of life. www.cliffcentral.com
Paul White teaching from Paul White Ministries.
Family Theater was a dramatic anthology radio show which aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System in the United States from February 13, 1947, to September 11, 1957. The show was produced by Family Theater Productions, a film and radio studio extension of the Family Rosary Crusade founded by the Holy Cross Priest, Father Patrick Peyton, CSC, to promote family prayer. The motto of these Holy Cross Family Ministries is, "The family that prays together, stays together." The program had no commercial sponsor, yet Father Peyton, CSC arranged for many of Hollywood's stars in film and radio at the time to appear. In its ten-year run, well-known actors, and actresses, including James Stewart, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Raymond Burr, Jane Wyatt, Charlton Heston, Bing Crosby, Jack Benny, Gene Kelly, William Shatner, and Chuck Connors, appeared as announcers, narrators, or stars. A total of 540 episodes were produced. The program featured not only religious stories but half-hour adaptations of literary works such as A Tale of Two Cities, Moby-Dick and Don Quixote Listen to our radio station Old Time Radio https://link.radioking.com/otradio Listen to other Shows at My Classic Radio https://www.myclassicradio.net/ Podcast Service I Recommend https://redcircleinc.grsm.io/entertainmentradio7148 Remember that times have changed, and some shows might not reflect the standards of today's politically correct society. The shows do not necessarily reflect the views, standards, or beliefs of Entertainment Radio
Family Theater was a dramatic anthology radio show which aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System in the United States from February 13, 1947, to September 11, 1957. The show was produced by Family Theater Productions, a film and radio studio extension of the Family Rosary Crusade founded by the Holy Cross Priest, Father Patrick Peyton, CSC, to promote family prayer. The motto of these Holy Cross Family Ministries is, "The family that prays together, stays together." The program had no commercial sponsor, yet Father Peyton, CSC arranged for many of Hollywood's stars in film and radio at the time to appear. In its ten-year run, well-known actors, and actresses, including James Stewart, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Raymond Burr, Jane Wyatt, Charlton Heston, Bing Crosby, Jack Benny, Gene Kelly, William Shatner, and Chuck Connors, appeared as announcers, narrators, or stars. A total of 540 episodes were produced. The program featured not only religious stories but half-hour adaptations of literary works such as A Tale of Two Cities, Moby-Dick and Don Quixote Listen to our radio station Old Time Radio https://link.radioking.com/otradio Listen to other Shows at My Classic Radio https://www.myclassicradio.net/ Podcast Service I Recommend https://redcircleinc.grsm.io/entertainmentradio7148 Remember that times have changed, and some shows might not reflect the standards of today's politically correct society. The shows do not necessarily reflect the views, standards, or beliefs of Entertainment Radio
November 13, 2022 (33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time) Readings: Malachi 3:19-20a; Psalm 98:5-6, 7-8, 9; 2 Thessalonians 3:7-12; Luke 21:5-19 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/111322.cfm
In this episode Dr. Jenkins concludes his look at the early church author and thinker, Origen of Alexandria, continuing our examination of Origen's system, and this week Origen's doctrine of creation, both of souls and then of the created cosmos around us. The texts alluded to in this episode can all be found under the notes for it at https://luxchristi.wordpress.com
In this episode Dr. Jenkins concludes his look at the early church author and thinker, Origen of Alexandria, continuing our examination of Origen's system, and this week Origen's doctrine of creation, both of souls and then of the created cosmos around us. The texts alluded to in this episode can all be found under the notes for it at https://luxchristi.wordpress.com
In this episode Dr. Jenkins concludes his look at the early church author and thinker, Origen of Alexandria, continuing our examination of Origen's system, and this week Origen's doctrine of creation, both of souls and then of the created cosmos around us. The texts alluded to in this episode can all be found under the notes for it at https://luxchristi.wordpress.com/. Info on Doxamoot here.
Message from Harold Hoffman on July 17, 2022
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In this episode I speak with Production Designer Marek Dobrowolski. Marek has designed a number of historically rich stories that have taken him to locations all around the world. After winning an Emmy for his work on “Hitler: Rise of Evil”, he continued his epic designs with Steven Spielberg's “Into the West '' which he was also nominated for.His other designs include “The Craft”, “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles”, “Justified”, “World Without End”, ”The Company”, “Under the Dome”, “The Last Ship”, “Mr. Mercedes”, the current season of “The Walking Dead”. His latest film, “I'll Find You”, is a wonderful story of love conquering all set in the Nazi background of World War 2. He shares that he got to go home to Poland for filming and was able to have a full Polish crew. He is a wonderful storyteller, as you will hear, sharing about his designs and research for each of these marvelous projects.
In this episode I speak with Production Designer Marek Dobrowolski. Marek has designed a number of historically rich stories that have taken him to locations all around the world. After winning an Emmy for his work on “Hitler: Rise of Evil”, he continued his epic designs with Steven Spielberg's “Into the West '' which he was also nominated for.His other designs include “The Craft”, “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles”, “Justified”, “World Without End”, ”The Company”, “Under the Dome”, “The Last Ship”, “Mr. Mercedes”, the current season of “The Walking Dead”. His latest film, “I'll Find You”, is a wonderful story of love conquering all set in the Nazi background of World War 2. He shares that he got to go home to Poland for filming and was able to have a full Polish crew. He is a wonderful storyteller, as you will hear, sharing about his designs and research for each of these marvelous projects.
Joan Leslie plays multiple roles in this radio play showing the resolve and strength of women through generations. This radio show was aired live on January 19, 1949, in the wake of WWII. It also stars Barry Kroeger and Robert Young. The show has been remastered by Family Theater productions, with a new introduction by Father David Guffey.
Fr. Josh answers questions about what is the meaning of "world without end" in the Glory Be, how are we ever worthy of reception of Holy Communion, and if the Catholic Church is a cult. Snippet From the Show We are purged and cleansed of our venial sins and imperfections each and every time we approach Jesus in Holy Communion. Text “askfrjosh” to 33-777 to subscribe to Fr. Josh's shownotes or go to www.AscensionPress.com/askfatherjosh Submit your questions and feedback to Fr. Josh by filling out a form at www.ascensionpress.com/askfatherjosh
As a child, there was a recurring nightmare that would wake me. I could never capture the image or the scene. The closest I could ever come to describing it was pins of light piercing through outer space, or shards of blinding white lightning splitting across an endless night. Along with these pins of light came the sound of drums or barrels, pounding or rolling in a crescendo as the light expanded in the darkness and grew nearer. First there would be one shard of light, but soon other shards would start out of the darkness and split the void, piercing and blinding until there were many shards and they converged and diverged in chaos, illuminating nothing but confusing everything. It reminded me of the void or chaos described in various creation stories of the world, from various cultures.The nightmare would wake me in a disturbed state. My mind would race to examine what the nightmare meant. I never fully grasped the images, but the dream felt like a painting of anxiety or a depiction of what “racing thoughts” feels like. In fact, I suspect that's what the nightmare signified or emanated from, not that I am a dream interpreter. This nightmare differed a great deal from those where I was being chased or had fallen off a cliff, because those made sense when I woke. I could gather myself in the safety of knowing that it was only a dream. But these shards of light and pounding drums scared me due to its uncertainty of form and meaning. The best scary movies are the ones where the director and storyline disallow the viewer from seeing or understanding the monster until Act III, or like the movie Bird Box, where the monster is never seen.Uncertainty is what scares us and makes us act irrationally. For evidence of this outside of a dream, consider the run on toilet paper when the pandora's box of Covid-19 entered the stage of the world. How odd that millions sought two-ply tissue as a solvent for fear. Fortunately, I had already stocked up on toilet paper, so I had certainty that we could outlast the siege on the tissue paper supply chain, but this phenomenon made for one of the most interesting behavioral things I've ever witnessed. I recall other behaviors that baffled me, such as people refusing to make eye contact, even outdoors on public trails where we stood far more than six feet apart. I was reminded of the Ken Follett novel, World Without End, which describes a period of plague in the 1300s. One of the characters advises another not to look at anyone with the plague: “You catch it by looking at sick people.” Behaviors that happened 700 years ago appeared to be happening again. I also re-read the opening of Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron, which was written during the plague of the same period, in Florence, Italy, and he describes varied reactions to the fear, which paralleled exactly what was happening in 21st century America. Some Florentines quarantined heavily while others lived as if there were no concern. Some turned to prayer and others to debauchery. The great thing about old literature is how it shows that human nature never changes, even while the technology around us does. We learn things about the world through science, but we're still the same creatures and deal with uncertainty in polarized ways. We always seem to be re-discovering the truth, or redefining it, because we want to rid ourselves of uncertainty. But that's not going to happen. Uncertainty is here to stay. This reminds of the quote by astronomer Robert Jastrow:“For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance, he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.”That isn't a quote to mock science, but it speaks to the beyondness that lies past our physical world and universe. I believe that there are things beyond science, that cannot be “found” like atoms and planets can be found. In other words, we cannot get rid of the unknown and uncertainty, not with the hearts and minds that we are born with, not with the world we reside in, and honestly, I don't think we really want to remove uncertainty. We may think we want to remove uncertainty, but we don't. Here's why.The world would be uninteresting without uncertainty. There would be no fear, but nor would there be surprise. There would be no pain, but there would be no joy or wonder. If the world had certainty in all things, and free will was not a thing, we would not have walk-off home runs or Hail Mary passes to win the game. We would not need to wrap gifts or experience nervousness before going on a first date. If we had 100% certainty on every event surrounding us, we would be machines. Philosophical arguments about determinism vs. free will, or materialism vs. spiritualism, have gone on for centuries, but it's clear to me that free will is real. I suppose eventually we just choose a worldview that decides for us (there's a joke in there somewhere). Freedom, believe it or not, is not a one word slogan on a USA t-shirt, it is something much more. This is a better definition: “Freedom is the power, rooted in reason and will, to act or not to act, to do this or that, and so to perform deliberate actions on one's own responsibility. By free will one shapes one's own life…The more one does what is good, the freer one becomes.” (CCC 1730-1738)Now that I'm warmed up, I can get to the point. I seem to need a longer stretch each time before I start to jog, perhaps so I don't pull a muscle. While uncertainty has an upside and can be fun, there is a flip side of the coin where anxiety, worry, and fear can cripple us. This often happens in the night, in the form of racing thoughts.What I mean by racing thoughts is the overactivity of the brain that keeps you staring at the ceiling and blocks any cohesion of thought. This often happens before a big event like delivering a work presentation or starting a new job. The night before a test or a game or a marathon often kept me awake, even when I seemingly was not upset or nervous about the day ahead. The brain just turns on, and the switch to turn it off becomes temporarily out of order. Other events like moving to a new house or starting a large project or going on vacation - the details of these plans invade your head and they don't shake out. In all of these types of activities, racing thoughts can bring stress, but the brain and nerves are chewing on something that could be constructive, or, at the very least won't kill you. This is the racing thoughts of anticipation and details, and this kind of worry can come fast and hard, but is tolerable mostly because you have some control over the upcoming event. Control is the keyword here, as worry and fear increase in parallel to the grip on your desire for control.There is a fun kind of fear and worry, like that which comes from horror movies and rollercoasters. The fear of a scary movie excites us just like the intense speed of a rollercoaster drop because it feels like we could die. But we know that we won't, so it's a thrill, not actual fear.Fear without consequence is the fun kind. Horror movies and riding roller coaster takes some courage to do, but the safety net is there. You can pause the movie. On a rollercoaster you have the assurance of engineering and the preview of hundreds of people ahead of you completing the ride in one piece.Real fear is the one where you have no certainty and no control. It's the kind in the late night that seeps into your mind hot and clutches your heart with its cold hand. You can't stop the thoughts as they teem upon you like the zombies in The Walking Dead. And there is no engineer to fix it. The TV and phone can't drown it out and it's too late to call a friend without seeming insane, without appearing vulnerable (God forbid). The racing thoughts come hard upon each other like waves in the sea. You can medicate it away, if you're lucky, for the night with alcohol or drugs or sleeping pills, but they often just make it worse, if not that day, then later on when you need to medicate again, and again, and sooner or later the medication stops working.This real fear is best met head on in the only way that it can be turned back and that is by prayer, by radical trust in God, because this real fear comes from yourself. Just like the boys in Lord of the Flies, the beast in the woods is out there, but the beast only exists out there because it is actually a projection of themselves. Trust always defeats fear, and fear is born from a focus on the self, for the craving of control and certainty. Trust in something outside the self is the cure. God's grace confers certainty. Grace and certainty comes to those who trust. I can't explain why. It just happens. A “Now I lay me down to sleep” prayer will help a child, an adult needs something a bit different, but in the end just as simple and sincere. You need to yearn for the trust and the grace will arrive. It must be a surge of the heart, letting go. This is hard to do. For people battling their vices, like those quitting drinking, trusting that you can make it through the night may seem a bridge too far. Or for parents who are up waiting for a teenager to come home, or for someone in mourning the loss of a loved one, letting go of fear may seem a mountain too high. In fact, racing thoughts often happen because of a loss, as I have heard people that are quitting drinking talking about their loss of being “normal” and fitting in with their friends. Saying goodbye to a vice really is like mourning the death of your old self, your old life. I've had my share of pity-parties (but they aren't fun…you get no balloons or cake at these kinds of parties). Usually, I am wanting my will to create action, to make something happen that won't, or can't, and that makes free will a burden rather than empowering. The worry and fear can turn to anger, where we want to will away the sense of suffering, by any means, by pills or by miracles, whatever! We'll take anything to calm the thoughts. We want our freedom, our peace, our way, and dog gone it, we want some sleep. The question underneath it all is just this tiny little problem called suffering and evil. This tiny little problem is only the most difficult philosophical question and biggest blocker to opening any door to religious faith. This is why C.S. Lewis' The Problem of Pain keeps selling year after year and sticks like glue to the best selling list of books on death and grief. Because why? Why do we have to go through this? Why is there suffering and pain and struggle? (And here is where I'll sidestep and refer you to read Lewis for that answer, not my writings.)Somehow the brain can play games like the Geto Boys song “My Mind was Playing Tricks on Me” where the first lines sum up a night of racing thoughts. This song goes to the corners of fear and worry and comes out swinging. (I've redacted some of the swear words).I sit alone in my four-cornered roomStarin' at candlesAt night I can't sleep, I toss and turn...Four walls just starin' at [me]Both rap and country music find these edge cases of our lives and conjure an experience in song, from that deep seeking in the soul, and the words have teeth that will bite you if you're not careful. Later in that same song, a lyric says: “Late at night, something ain't right.” He's got the racing thoughts, and can't fix it.Rap and country music, whose fans would probably not admit any similarity, touch upon lonely and desperate moments, which is where the best art has always come from, and always will. There is a macho attitude in both genres but on the other side of macho sits loneliness in its various guises. The broken relationship, the aftermath of rejection, the places of unknown outcomes, the hours of weakness and despair, the isolation from bad choices, the agony of loss; these are the places of uncertainty where we can know for certain that there is a God-shaped hole in our hearts. These are also the times when racing thoughts attack a soul.In those nights of racing thoughts, the replay of thoughts can start in a trickle. The replays then get accompanied by newly invented thoughts, or the spawning and ripening of unrelated thoughts, which then somehow mingle in with the others. All of these swarm into an invasion on the mind, in an onslaught of whispers. Like a primitive CPU, our single-threaded brains cannot flip back and forth fast enough between the context of one thought to the next and it soon becomes deadlocked. A comment from a peer or family member will rewind and start again. You come up with a thousand responses that you wished you had uttered. Or a comment on the internet can send you reeling, knocking you far off the road of tranquility and into a ditch. Concern over a child can drive parents to extreme worry, as kids get left out or insulted or suffer some health issue that the parent cannot take upon themselves. There is money, always money, mostly its absence, never its surplus, that bothers us. Schemes that we have in place, plans, expectations, the fear of failure and the fear of missing out…in a million varieties anxiety can not only invade you, but can conquer you in a matter of minutes.The answer to anxiety is trust.To trust, you need to leap and not know where you will land. That is a wild strategy, but it works, especially when other ideas may be leading you away from that choice.There is a passage in the powerful chapter 6 of John, where Peter shows us what trust really means. This is the only chapter in any Gospel where Jesus loses followers after saying hard things while establishing the holy Eucharist. And after seeing followers leave, Jesus says to Peter, “Do you now also want to leave?” And Peter replies, “Where else would I go?” I hear that response from Peter and it hits me like electricity. It stings me like a current, because it is so true. I recall the first time I read those words and actually understood what he meant, and I had to set the book down because I realized it was true. I couldn't read any more. Peter's simple answer summarizes faith. Once you know the answer, there is nowhere else to go. Not only will you not leave, you don't ever want to leave.If you've tried everything else and you come to know that Jesus is the way, nothing can replace that faith. Peter knows he has found the way, the truth, and the life, even if it's difficult to understand or unpopular. Having found this answer to life's riddle he will not abandon it, he will hold fast to it like the parable of the treasure in the field or the merchant and the pearl. He will fail. He does fail. He will fail again. As a human being he must fail, but he will return again and again, as where else would he go? To what? To whom? He knows that the path to truth and peace is only through God.There is one even better Gospel example of trust. Peter's saying “To whom else would I go?” is powerful, but another example goes even further. There is Jesus himself in one of his most human moments in the agony in the garden of Gethsemene, on the night of his arrest. He must endure a night of racing thoughts. Even Jesus, who could calm the wind, who could walk on water, must face the terror of uncertainty and death. Temptation and desperation agonizes him, as he knows the Crucifixion awaits. This is Jesus, the Son of God, facing something like what we face, only with more serious and guaranteed consequences, and as always, always, without fail, he shows us how to live. The entirety of the Gospels is Jesus showing us over and over how to live our lives.In that night dealing with his own fear of things to come, he is praying. He prays to God. Notice in reading the Gospels, whenever Jesus is facing something difficult, he prays. This is Jesus showing us how to live. On the night before he died, he is asking for guidance and putting his total trust in God. To me the question he asks to God and the answer he discerns is the answer to all of life's nights that are seized by fear. He wants to escape the coming suffering and asks God to stop what is happening. He experiences sorrow and worry and fear. He too, like us, wants to control what is to come and he says these words:“My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me; yet, not as I will, but as you will.”That moment makes him so very human as even he doubts, even he has anxiety. He is doing battle with a temptation to escape, to control, to win. But then he prays further and says if this is God's will then let it be so. He surrenders his will to God's will. This is the great “thy will - not mine - be done.” That is the answer. It is always the answer. Even Jesus, the incarnate God who bore all our human flaws and fears, turned to God in heaven when he needed help in his night of racing thoughts. He shows us the way. Our nights of terror pale in comparison to the agony in the garden, but we can know the way through the fire because he showed us how. These nights come for us all and I can squirm and worry and let anxiety wreck me or I can trust and say “Thy will be done, God.” This is yet another “Surrender to Win” moment, and it's the same question as every time and it's the title of this website. Why did Peter sink? Because he took his eyes off God. Because he wanted his own will to be asserted, not God's. Because he turned back to himself instead of keeping his trust steady.There is a passage from Thomas a Kempis that speaks to this free will problem which drives us all crazy. When we don't get our way, how easily, how very simply, we get upset and off track. As long as we get our way, we are happy. But when our will is disrupted we instantly flake out:“But too often some hidden force within, some attraction that meets us from outside, will sweep us off our feet. Plenty of people are influenced in their actions by these undercurrents of self-seeking, without having any idea of it. All seems to go well with them, as long as everything turns out in accordance with their wishes, their plans; but when once their wills are thwarted, they lose their balance and get depressed in no time.” (Imitation of Christ Book 1.14, paragraph 2)Free will is like a gift and a curse at the same time, and this is one of these interesting contradictions in Christian faith. Yes, I am free to make choices, but no, I don't get to control anything.Even if you are an atheist, God is there for you on these nights and you can try it because you have nothing to lose. It's also free. No downloads or appointments needed. If it doesn't help, then you can go on being atheist the following morning, and seek out pills and mindfulness and therapy. I'm not making fun of those things, I just wonder why are so many of us stubborn to try prayer in the 21st century. I was like a mule. I wouldn't dream of trying prayer until I quit drinking, but I was willing to try anti-depressants and relaxation CDs and therapy. It's almost like in our consumer mindset we want to pay for a product or we don't think it can be effective. If you try prayer, you don't even have to tell anyone the next day. It can be your own little secret. I think the stubbornness today is that we don't want anything budging in our “freedom” because we don't want to be told “no.” This seems a very American and modern idea, to be the god of our lives and creator of our own worlds. The funny thing is that we are shutting out something that doesn't actually limit our freedom, it actually expands it.The grace of Christ is not in the slightest way a rival of our freedom when this freedom accords with the sense of the true and the good that God has put in the human heart. On the contrary, as Christian experience attests especially in prayer, the more docile we are to the promptings of grace, the more we grow in inner freedom and confidence during trials, such as those we face in the pressures and constraints of the outer world. By the working of grace the Holy Spirit educates us in spiritual freedom in order to make us free collaborators in his work in the Church and in the world:Almighty and merciful God,in your goodness take away from us all that is harmful,so that, made ready both in mind and body,we may freely accomplish your will. (CCC 1742)In fact, I just took a lot of words to say what Padre Pio said in very few words to everyone who asked him for help. Padre Pio would say to people: “Pray, hope, and don't worry so much.” That pretty much says it all. It seems so simple when you say it like that. His response was so concise that you can buy a pair of socks with those words. I should take that as a hint to be brief. St. Francis said we should always be brief, since Jesus himself “kept his words short on earth.” I still have much to learn.So, in summary:“Pray, hope, and don't worry so much.” This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.whydidpetersink.com
Big Brother is finding ways into your home through your games. You'd be surprised just how much they can tell about you from the way you play. China has decided to take effeminate men off TV, along with a whole bunch of new criteria. This echoes the Tik Tok ban on ugly and fat people. China, you have some issues with representation. Maybe take a look at that. An asteroid is coming close to Earth. Prepare now, just in case. South Australians are also complaining about rocket launches. Finally, Australians can go somewhere that isn't overseas to see rockets, which is awesome.Surveillance in Video Games- https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3881279 China's New Law : Sissy Man Ban- https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2021/09/02/china-bans-sissy-men-tv-encourages-more-masculinity/5694333001/ Space News- https://comicbook.com/irl/news/asteroid-close-encounter-2021-ny1-close-call-nasa-september/- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-07/whalers-way-first-commercial-rocket-lift-off/100440154 Other topics discussedWhat are the Security and Privacy Risks of VR and AR- https://www.kaspersky.com/resource-center/threats/security-and-privacy-risks-of-ar-and-vr‘Doomba' turns your Roomba's cleaning maps into Doom levels- https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/12/26/18156600/doomba-roomba-cleaning-maps-doom-levels-rich-whitehouseHow Does the YouTube Algorithm Work in 2021? The Complete Guide- https://blog.hootsuite.com/how-the-youtube-algorithm-works/The cheapest Oculus Quest prices and Oculus Rift sales in September 2021- https://www.techradar.com/au/news/gaming/oculus-rift-deals-1329262It's 2019 — which VR headsets can you actually buy?- https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/16/18625238/vr-virtual-reality-headsets-oculus-quest-valve-index-htc-vive-nintendo-labo-vr-2019 General Data Protection Regulation (The General Data Protection Regulation (EU) (GDPR) is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy in the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA). It also addresses the transfer of personal data outside the EU and EEA areas.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation Electronic Frontier Foundation (The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California. The foundation was formed on 10 July 1990 by John Gilmore, John Perry Barlow and Mitch Kapor to promote Internet civil liberties.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation Loot box (In video games, a loot box (also called a loot/prize crate) is a consumable virtual item which can be redeemed to receive a randomised selection of further virtual items, or loot, ranging from simple customization options for a player's avatar or character, to game-changing equipment such as weapons and armor.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loot_box Regulation and legislation (Because of their use of random chance to gain items after committing real-world funds, games using loot boxes may be considered a form of gambling. While gambling laws vary from country to country, a common theme that tends to distinguish loot boxes from gambling is the inability to transform the contents from a loot box back into real-world money by legitimate means within the video game.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loot_box#Regulation_and_legislation Wii Fit (an exergaming video game designed by Nintendo's Hiroshi Matsunaga for the Wii home video game console. It is an exercise game with several activities using the Wii Balance Board peripheral. As of March 2012 Wii Fit was the third best selling console game not packaged with a console, with 22.67 million copies sold.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_FitHow ISIS Terrorists May Have Used PlayStation 4 To Discuss And Plan Attacks- https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/11/14/why-the-paris-isis-terrorists-used-ps4-to-plan-attacks/?sh=23b8e4e70554Man jailed 6 years for threats made in Runescape finally released- https://www.pcgamer.com/au/man-jailed-6-years-for-threats-made-in-runescape-finally-released/‘It's a long bow': Social media ID push dubbed ineffective, a privacy risk- https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/it-s-a-long-bow-social-media-id-push-dubbed-a-privacy-risk-20210402-p57g7d.htmlChina steps up its war on underage online video gaming and not everyone is happy- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-04/china-cracks-down-on-children-online-video-gaming/100428138TikTok 'tried to filter out videos from ugly, poor or disabled users'- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/mar/17/tiktok-tried-to-filter-out-videos-from-ugly-poor-or-disabled-users Tilda Swinton (a British actress. Known for her leading roles in independent films and supporting roles in blockbusters, she is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award, in addition to nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and five Screen Actors Guild Awards.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilda_Swinton Zhao Wei (Vicky Zhao or Vicki Zhao, is a Chinese actress, businesswoman, film director, producer and pop singer. She is considered one of the most popular actresses in China and Chinese-speaking regions, and one of the highest paid actresses.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_WeiAlibaba founder Jack Ma appears for the first time since crackdown on his tech empire- https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/20/alibaba-founder-jack-ma-reappears-after-crackdown-on-his-tech-empire.htmlZhao Wei Controversy (On 27 August 2021, all films and television dramas featuring Zhao disappeared from Chinese video streaming services like Tencent Video and iQiyi, and her Weibo account is deleted. No explanation is given by the Chinese government.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Wei#Controversy Mulan (2009 film) (a 2009 Chinese action war film starring Zhao Wei as the titular protagonist. The director, Jingle Ma, has explained that this film is vastly different from the 1998 Walt Disney animated film and that the looks from the character in this movie adheres more to his imagination.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulan_(2009_film)Uyghurs (The Uyghurs alternatively spelled Uighurs, Uygurs or Uigurs, are a Turkic ethnic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the general region of Central and East Asia. The Uyghurs are recognized as native to the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwest China.- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UyghursI.T. Crowd – Judy (a horribly ugly woman that Roy gets entangled with while trying to meet a woman named Julie. Roy claims she has hair on her eyes and three rows of teeth.)- https://theitcrowd.fandom.com/wiki/Judy- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CWqMAOHS4A Steve Buscemi (an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for acting in various supporting roles and as a leading man starring in a number of successful movies including Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs (1992), Robert Rodriguez's Desperado (1995), Simon West's Con Air (1997) and Armageddon (1998), the black comedy Ghost World (2001), Tim Burton's drama Big Fish (2003), The Island (2005), and Armando Iannucci's political satire The Death of Stalin (2017).)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Buscemi Sean Penn (American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer. He has won two Academy Awards, for his roles in the mystery drama Mystic River (2003) and the biopic Milk (2008).)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Penn Meat Loaf (better known as Meat Loaf, is an American singer and actor. He is noted for his powerful, wide-ranging voice and theatrical live shows. His Bat Out of Hell trilogy—Bat Out of Hell, Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell, and Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose—has sold more than 65 million albums worldwide.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat_Loaf Tim Curry (English actor and singer. He rose to prominence for his portrayal of Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the film The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), reprising the role he had originated in the 1973 London and 1974 Los Angeles musical stage productions of The Rocky Horror Show.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_CurryChina calls for boycott of ‘overly entertaining' entertainers and ‘sissy idols' in continued purge of popular culture industry- https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/china-personalities/article/3147354/china-calls-boycott-overly-entertaining RAAF Woomera Range Complex (The RAAF Woomera Range Complex (WRC) is a major Australian military and civil aerospace facility and operation located in South Australia, approximately 450 km (280 mi) north-west of Adelaide. The WRC is operated by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), a division of the Australian Defence Force (ADF).)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAAF_Woomera_Range_ComplexMeteor Hits Russia Feb 15, 2013 - Event Archive- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpmXyJrs7iU Chelyabinsk meteor (a superbolide that entered Earth's atmosphere over the southern Ural region in Russia on 15 February 2013 at about 09:20 YEKT (03:20 UTC). It was caused by an approximately 20 m (66 ft) near-Earth asteroid that entered the atmosphere at a shallow 18.3 ± 0.4 degree angle with a speed relative to Earth of 19.16 ± 0.15 kilometres per second (69,000 km/h or 42,900 mph).)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteorFootage of last-known surviving Tasmanian tiger remastered and released in 4K colour- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-07/tasmanian-tiger-footage-digitised-and-colourised/100439870 Bunyip (The bunyip is a creature from Australian Aboriginal mythology, said to lurk in swamps, billabongs, creeks, riverbeds, and waterholes.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunyip Yowie (Yowie is one of several names for an Australian folklore entity reputed to live in the Outback. The creature has its roots in Aboriginal oral history. In parts of Queensland, they are known as quinkin (or as a type of quinkin), and as joogabinna, in parts of New South Wales they are called Ghindaring, jurrawarra, myngawin, puttikan, doolaga, gulaga and thoolagal.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YowieFuturama - Planet Express Ships Engine- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RtMMupdOC4Battle of Cartagena de Indias (The Battle of Cartagena de Indias took place during the 1739 to 1748 War of Jenkins' Ear between Spain and Britain. The result of long-standing commercial tensions, the war was primarily fought in the Caribbean; the British tried to capture key Spanish ports in the region, including Porto Bello and Chagres in Panama, Havana, and Cartagena de Indias in present-day Colombia.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cartagena_de_Indias Gordon Bennett Trophy (aeroplanes) (an international airplane racing trophy awarded by James Gordon Bennett Jr., the American owner and publisher of the New York Herald newspaper. The trophy is one of three Gordon Bennett awards: Bennett was also the sponsor of an automobile race and a ballooning competition.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Bennett_Trophy_(aeroplanes) Glenn Curtiss (an American aviation and motorcycling pioneer, and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. He began his career as a bicycle racer and builder before moving on to motorcycles.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_CurtissSincerely Unqualified (TNC podcast)- https://sincerely-unqualified.simplecast.com/Shout Outs 11th September 2021 – 20th anniversary of 9/11 - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-11/ceremonies-for-20th-anniversary-of-september-11-attacks/100454922 Thousands have gathered in New York and across the United States for ceremonies commemorating the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Memorials were held in New York City, the Pentagon, and Pennsylvania — all sites where hijacked planes were crashed in a coordinated Al Qaeda attack 20 years ago. Americans are honouring the nearly 3,000 lives lost in the attacks, while reflecting on how they shaped the country's view of the world and itself. Music legend Bruce Springsteen performed I'll See You In My Dreams before the names of victims continued to be read by loved ones. Mr Biden then travelled to Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where United Flight 93 crashed into a field after passengers overcame the hijackers and prevented another target from being hit.5th September 2021 – Michael Keaton's 70th bday - https://movieweb.com/michael-keaton-70th-birthday/ Over the past several decades, Keaton has appeared in a variety of major roles, though he is particularly beloved for his run as Bruce Wayne in Tim Burton's Batman and its sequel Batman Returns. He is also known for playing as Jack Butler in Mr. Mom (1983), Beetlejuice in Beetlejuice (1988), and Adrian Toomes / Vulture in Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) and Morbius (2022). Contrary to popular belief, he is not related to Buster Keaton or Diane Keaton. Nor did he name himself after them. He needed an alternate last name, so he went through a list of possible surnames and when he got to the "K's," he decided "Keaton" sounded inoffensive enough. In 2014, Keaton garnered critical acclaim for his performance in Alejandro González Iñárritu's black comedy film Birdman, winning a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Tim Burton cast him in the title role of Batman (1989) because he thought that Keaton was the only actor who could believably portray someone who has the kind of darkly obsessive personality that the character has. There was a great deal of fan anger over his selection, forcing the studio to release an advance trailer both to show that Keaton could do the role well and that the movie would not be a campy parody like the television series Batman (1966). A longtime Pittsburgh resident and fan of its sports teams, negotiated a break in his Batman movie contract in case the Pirates made the playoffs that year, although they ultimately did not. He also wrote an ESPN blog on the Pirates during the final months of their 2013 season.7th September 2021 – 85th anniversary of the last thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial named Benjamin, dies alone in its cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine#Benjamin_and_searches The last captive thylacine, often referred to as Benjamin, lived at Hobart Zoo until its death on the night of the 6 September 1936. The thylacine died on the night of 6–7 September 1936. It is believed to have died as the result of neglect—locked out of its sheltered sleeping quarters, it was exposed to a rare occurrence of extreme Tasmanian weather: extreme heat during the day and freezing temperatures at night. This thylacine features in the last known motion picture footage of a living specimen: 45 seconds of black-and-white footage showing the thylacine in its enclosure in a clip taken in 1933, by naturalist David Fleay. In the film footage, the thylacine is seen seated, walking around the perimeter of its enclosure, yawning, sniffing the air, scratching itself (in the same manner as a dog), and lying down. Fleay was bitten on the buttock whilst shooting the film. After the thylacine's death, the zoo expected that it would soon find a replacement, and "Benjamin"'s death was not reported on in the media at the time. Although there had been a conservation movement pressing for the thylacine's protection since 1901, driven in part by the increasing difficulty in obtaining specimens for overseas collections, political difficulties prevented any form of protection coming into force until 1936. Official protection of the species by the Tasmanian government was introduced on 10 July 1936, 59 days before the last known specimen died in captivity.9th September 2021 – 25th Anniversary of Crash Bandicoot - https://au.pcmag.com/games/89368/25-years-ago-crash-bandicoot-gave-sony-its-first-gaming-mascot Crash Bandicoot is a video game franchise, originally developed by Naughty Dog as an exclusive for Sony's PlayStation console and has seen numerous installments created by numerous developers and published on multiple platforms. The series consists predominantly of platform games, but also includes spin-offs in the kart racing and party game genres. The series was originally produced by Universal Interactive, which later became known as Vivendi Games; in 2007, Vivendi merged with Activision, which currently owns and publishes the franchise.In August 1994, Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin began their move from Boston, Massachusetts to Los Angeles, California. During the trip, Gavin and Rubin decided to create a 3D action-platform game, taking inspiration from 16-bit-era games such as Donkey Kong Country, Mario and Sonic. Because the player would be forced to constantly look at the character's backside, the game was jokingly code-named "Sonic's Ass Game".Development on the game started in the very early days of the PS1. There wasn't even a dev kit for the system, just a PCI board that you'd insert into your work PC. So they had to start from scratch with the simplest of tasks, like rendering geometry on the screen, then learn as they went along. Just the very concept of a full 3D platformer was totally new. Super Mario 64 hadn't even been released, and although the PS1 would get titles like Jumping Flash, they were far from the lively, character-filled experiences that 16-bit consoles were delivering in 2D. So the team at Naughty Dog built things from scratch, first learning how to display polygons on-screen and then working to translate their art to a game environment. Needing a lead character for the game, Naughty Dog recruited American Exitus artists Charles Zembillas and Joe Pearson and met with them weekly to create the characters and environments of the game, eventually creating a character named "Willy the Wombat". The marketing director of Universal Interactive insisted that the character be named "Wez", "Wuzzles" or "Wizzy the Wombat". While playing the game during development, Rubin realized that there were many empty areas in the game due to the PlayStation's inability to process numerous on-screen enemy characters at the same time. Additionally, players were solving the game's puzzles too fast. Rubin soon came up with the idea of a box and putting various symbols on the sides to create puzzles. Breaking these boxes would serve to fill in the boring parts of the levels and give the player additional puzzles. The first "crate" was placed in the game in January 1996, and would become the primary gameplay element of the series. Willy the Wombat's destruction of the crates would eventually lead him to be renamed "Crash Bandicoot". Remembrances7th September 1741 – Blas de Lezo - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blas_de_Lezo Admiral Blas de Lezo y Olavarrieta, a Spanish navy officer best remembered for the Battle of Cartagena de Indias (1741) in modern-day Colombia, where Spanish imperial forces under his command decisively defeated a large British invasion fleet under Admiral Edward Vernon. Throughout his naval career, Lezo sustained many severe wounds; he lost his left eye, left hand, complete mobility of the right arm, and had his left leg amputated in situ after being hit by the projectile of a cannon. He perceived his wounds and physical limitations as medals, he refused to wear an eye patch to hide his blind eye. Wearing his past battles history on his flesh won the respect of his peers and soldiers. Lezo's defense of Cartagena de Indias against a vastly larger British fleet consolidated his legacy as one of the most heroic figures in the history of Spain. He is often recognized as one of the greatest strategists in naval history. In 1704 he fought in the War of the Spanish Succession as a crew member in the Franco-Spanish fleet against the combined forces of Great Britain and the Netherlands at the indecisive Battle of Vélez-Málaga. During the battle, his left leg was hit by cannon-shot and was amputated under the knee. Participating in the 1707 defence of the French naval base of Toulon cost him his left eye. In 1714 he lost use of his right arm in the Siege of Barcelona. Later in this campaign, his ship captured the Stanhope commanded by John Combes, sometimes claimed to be a 70-gun but actually just a 20-gun merchantman. Thus, by age 25, depending on the sources, de Lezo had lost his left eye, his left leg below the knee, and the use of his right arm. Modern sources often focus on these salient features and refer to Lezo with nicknames such as "Patapalo" (Pegleg) and "Mediohombre" (Half-man). There is no contemporary proof that these (or others) were actually used during Lezo's lifetime. Blas de Lezo died four months after the battle of Cartagena de Indias at the age of 52 in Cartagena de Indias, New Granada.Famous Birthdays 7th September 1829 – August Kekulé - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Kekul%C3%A9 Friedrich August Kekulé, later Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz, a German organic chemist. From the 1850s until his death, Kekulé was one of the most prominent chemists in Europe, especially in theoretical chemistry. He was the principal founder of the theory of chemical structure and in particular the Kekulé structure of benzene. Basing his ideas on those of predecessors such as Williamson, Charles Gerhardt, Edward Frankland, William Odling, Auguste Laurent, Charles-Adolphe Wurtz and others, Kekulé was the principal formulator of the theory of chemical structure (1857–58). This theory proceeds from the idea of atomic valence, especially the tetravalence of carbon (which Kekulé announced late in 1857) and the ability of carbon atoms to link to each other (announced in a paper published in May 1858), to the determination of the bonding order of all of the atoms in a molecule. Archibald Scott Couper independently arrived at the idea of self-linking of carbon atoms (his paper appeared in June 1858), and provided the first molecular formulas where lines symbolize bonds connecting the atoms. For organic chemists, the theory of structure provided dramatic new clarity of understanding, and a reliable guide to both analytic and especially synthetic work. As a consequence, the field of organic chemistry developed explosively from this point. Among those who were most active in pursuing early structural investigations were, in addition to Kekulé and Couper, Frankland, Wurtz, Alexander Crum Brown, Emil Erlenmeyer, and Alexander Butlerov. Kekulé's idea of assigning certain atoms to certain positions within the molecule, and schematically connecting them using what he called their "Verwandtschaftseinheiten" ("affinity units", now called "valences" or "bonds"), was based largely on evidence from chemical reactions, rather than on instrumental methods that could peer directly into the molecule, such as X-ray crystallography. Such physical methods of structural determination had not yet been developed, so chemists of Kekulé's day had to rely almost entirely on so-called "wet" chemistry.Kekulé's most famous work was on the structure of benzene. In 1865 Kekulé published a paper in French (for he was then still in Belgium) suggesting that the structure contained a six-membered ring of carbon atoms with alternating single and double bonds.The empirical formula for benzene had been long known, but its highly unsaturated structure was a challenge to determine.More evidence was available by 1865, especially regarding the relationships of aromatic isomers. Kekulé argued for his proposed structure by considering the number of isomers observed for derivatives of benzene.The new understanding of benzene, and hence of all aromatic compounds, proved to be so important for both pure and applied chemistry after 1865 that in 1890 the German Chemical Society organized an elaborate appreciation in Kekulé's honor, celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of his first benzene paper. Here Kekulé spoke of the creation of the theory. He said that he had discovered the ring shape of the benzene molecule after having a reverie or day-dream of a snake seizing its own tail (this is an ancient symbol known as the ouroboros).He was born in Darmstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse.Events of Interest7th September 1909 – Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Lefebvre Eugène Lefebvre was the first engineer and chief pilot of the Wright company in France. He, Louis Blériot and Hubert Latham were selected as France's representatives during the contest for the Gordon Bennett Trophy on 22 August, after poor weather made the morning's planned qualifying run impossible. When the weather lifted around 6 o'clock that evening, Lefebvre was one of the pilots who took to the sky in an exhibition, giving one of the earliest displays of stunt flying. The New York Times described his maneuvers thus: "Lefebvre...came driving at the crowded tribunes, turned in the nick of time, went sailing off, swooped down again till he made the flags on the pillars and the plumes on the ladies' hats flutter, and so played about at will for our applause." He was subsequently fined $4 by the judges for displaying excessive "recklessness and daring." During the running of the race, he placed fourth, behind Glenn Curtiss, Blériot and Latham. Only nine days after the end of the Reims event, Lefebvre was killed in a crash at Juvisy, when the plane he was testing dropped to the ground from a height of 6 metres (20 ft). 7th September 1958 – Queen Of Outer Space landed into theatres - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052104/ A star is born! On this day in 1958, the Queen Of Outer Space enjoyed her royal U.S. theatrical premiere. Directed by Edward Bernds, the SciFi feature starred Eric Fleming and Zsa Zsa Gabor, and here's the plot summary: "American astronauts are drawn by a mysterious force to the planet Venus, which they find to be inhabited only by beautiful women and their despotic queen." The Three Stooges and the Bowery Boys director Edward Bernds recalled that, after producer Walter Wanger was released from prison for shooting agent Jennings Lang in the groin for having an affair with his wife Joan Bennett, Wanger could only find work at the low-rent Allied Artists (formerly Monogram Pictures). In 1952, Wanger brought a ten-page idea for a screenplay by Ben Hecht called Queen of the Universe that was a satirical look at a planet run by women. Several years later, with the idea of science fiction films being more common, Allied Artists revived the project with Wanger replaced on the film by Ben Schwalb, who was then producing the Bowery Boys films. Allied Artists retitled the film Queen of Outer Space as they thought the original title sounded more like a beauty pageant. The central plot of a planet ruled by women was recycled from other science fiction productions of the era, including Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953), Cat-Women of the Moon (1953), and the British feature film Fire Maidens from Outer Space (1955). Queen of Outer Space also recycled many props, costumes, and other elements used in earlier films of the 1950s, most prominently the C-57D crewmen's uniforms and Altaira's wardrobe from Forbidden Planet (1956); models, sets, and special effects from Bernds' World Without End (1956); stock footage of an Atlas missile taking off; and a model rocketship built for Flight to Mars (1951). The film takes place in 1985. In an interview, director Edward Bernds said that Zsa Zsa Gabor got very "testy" with the actresses playing the Venusian girls. They were mostly beauty contest winners, and were many years - and in some cases a few decades - younger than her. When she noticed that the crew was paying more attention to the tall, leggy, mini-skirted "Venusians" than they were to her, she became very difficult to work with. He said that Gabor gave producer Ben Schwalb such a hard time on the picture that Schwalb eventually wound up in the hospital with ulcers. The film opens with a 15-minute prologue before the opening credits. It is somewhat of a coincidence that the colors of the uniforms of the armed women on Venus (red, blue, gold) match the basic colors of the uniforms of the original Star Trek (1966) series. The "Star Trek" uniforms in the pilot were different--blue, gold, beige. The production company spent most of their funds on landscaping the planet Venus and makeup for the Venus women. In a world where everyone speaks in the same, "midwestern" accent, only one character speaks with a thick accent, Zsa Zsa. IntroArtist – Goblins from MarsSong Title – Super Mario - Overworld Theme (GFM Trap Remix)Song Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GNMe6kF0j0&index=4&list=PLHmTsVREU3Ar1AJWkimkl6Pux3R5PB-QJFollow us on Facebook- Page - https://www.facebook.com/NerdsAmalgamated/- Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/440485136816406/Twitter - https://twitter.com/NAmalgamatedSpotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6Nux69rftdBeeEXwD8GXrSiTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/top-shelf-nerds/id1347661094Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/nerds_amalgamated/Email - Nerds.Amalgamated@gmail.comSupport via Podhero- https://podhero.com/podcast/449127/nerds-amalgamated See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
It's late Autumn of 1950, and in a small mountain lodge in the backwoods of Canada's Quebec province, it's starting to snow. Chris Jordan and his new wife, Mary, are on their honeymoon. Mary's a little worried that they may be snowed in, but Chris is hoping that their honeymoon are going to be extended! Relaxing by the embers of the fire, they are suddenly interrupted by a trapper named Renee, who is delivering a telegram from the nearby village. It's not good news.
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In this episode, hosts Alan and Walt get a chance to talk with former meterologist, Karen Minton, of WSB-TV. Karen's career didn't start with a focus on television or meteorology. After getting her degree in the biological sciences, she was working for Dairy Queen corporate offices. She really thought she was going to be heading down that path. A chance encounter with a news director helped shape the course of her future. Starting on the West coast as a weather reporter, she eventually received a call from The Weather Channel. She isn't sure how they found out about her, but she took the job and relocated to Atlanta, Georgia. After a time, she thought she would be taking a new role in Florida. However, the station had just been sold and the news director said most people were bailing. The pause eventually led to being part of the WSB-TV team on channel 2. As her career grew, she knew she needed to get her American Meteorological Society certification. As a divorced mother of two, she juggled work, raising her daughters, going to school and getting her certification. She spent the rest of her career as a news and weather anchor for WSB-TV, retiring just a couple years ago. Though she has hung up her Doppler Radar, she is eyeing a possible future as a patient advocate. However, before that, she has a few trips she'd like to go on and some fun to be had. Following the interivew, Karen hung out as Walt began his review of another horrible movie he was forced to watch. Next, Alan and Walt each shared a pair of crazy news items. And, as always, they all wrapped up with the entertainment segment, letting us know what they have been watching, reading and listening to. WATCHING Walt began re-watching Arrested Development and binged all of season one. He really enjoyed the start of the series, Life After People on Hulu. Finally, he began watching, The Queens Gambit, and loved the first episode. Alan introduced his visiting Father-in-Law to the reboot of, Star Trek, directed by JJ Abrams. He re-watched, A Fish Called Wanda, Dave, Pale Rider and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Each of those movies is highly recommended. Alan continues to watch the weekly drops of, Loki, and has not yet been disappointed. As to the YouTube channels, he watched Ashleigh Burton react to Thor, Casablanca, A League of Their Own, Snatch and Ferris Beuller's Day Off. The Channel, Popcorn in Bed, reacted to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Pulp Fiction, Independence Day, Arrival and Top Gun. Finally, he always catches The Daily Doug. Karen loved the series, Chuck. She also his hooked on British shows and suggests, Victoria, The Crown, Endeavor, Shetland, Midummer Murders, Outlander, The Durrells of Corfu, Grantchester and Zen. READING Walt and Alan and both trying to finish the Star Trek behind-the-scenes book they both have. Karen just finished, "The Art of Power," by John Meacham, a book about Thomas Jefferson. She's also big into Ken Follet and the Century Trilogy, which cosists of, "Fall of Giants," "Winter of the World," and "Edge of Eternity." The other series is the Pillars of Earth, consisting of, "The Pillars of Earth," "World Without End," "A Column of Fire," and, "The Evening and the Morning." She also suggests, "The Splended and the Vile," by Erik Larson and "Grant" by Ron Chernow. LISTENING Walt continues to pour his way through Camp Hell: Anneewakee podcast. He also likes the sports podcast, Holy Crap It's Sports with Pete Davis. Alan continues to listen to the 2002 album, "Hummingbird," as well as random songs by them via his Alexa. As for podcasts, this week he listened to the latest episodes of, Measuring the Score, 60MW Podcast (doing a throw-back watch and review of Condorman) and Radiolabyrinth. Karen, says she plans to start diving into The WIlder Ride podcast. Make sure you have subscribed to The Wilder Ride on your pod-catcher of choice so you will not miss a single episode! If you have not already done so, please come join our Listener's Group on Facebook. Just visit our public page and click on the button to join the group. You can learn more about us by visiting our About Us page. You can also find us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Thank you for supporting this ministry, I lovingly refer to as "The Little Green Pasture." Click here: PayPal: http://paypal.me/JoanStahl Please prayerfully consider becoming a ministry partner: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/joaniestahl **Contact Email: jsfieldnotes@gmail.com **Send Donations To: Joanie Stahl - P.O. Box 1386 - 205 Avenida Del Mar - San Clemente, Ca. 92672 **You can also visit and subscribe to me on Rumble: https://rumble.com/account/content?ty... "Sister Jaz" You Tube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaEnJbXeysWSM21wuERZftw Where there is a beginning of all things, there is an ending of all things. Everything we know has an ending. Even Jesus told His disciples before He suffered and died, "for the things concerning Me have an end." The cycles of life and nature live and die. The day comes and goes. Everything living thing on earth has a beginning and an end. A day is coming when the end will come for this time we are in, which is called, The Day of Grace at the Rapture. "As Jesus sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?" He spoke of earthly distresses, wars and rumors of war, nation rising against nation, famines, pestilences, earthquakes in many places. But that was not the end, that was only the beginning of the end. He said, it was be "the beginning of sorrows." He finally answers the question in Matthew 24:14, "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come." He speaks about a notable time by using the words, "and then." Which denotes Christ ushering in the consummation of all things regarding His Second Coming. What is interesting is when He says "then shall the end come." In the Greek translation,(Gr. καὶ τότε] "and then shall the end come," actually means, "when the announcement shall have been made throughout the whole world." It does not mean, it is coming, it actually means, "it is here, it has arrived." There is an end also to the Church Age, the Day of Grace, which is about to end. Then there will be a seven year period, then those days will end and the Millennial Kingdom will be established. After the thousand years are ended, which is referred to as the Seventh Day, then the "Eternity of Eternity will begin..."world without end. " Make sure that you make full proof of this time in everything you do for Christ. "Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord." --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/joanie-stahl/support
In mine and Franks third conversation I cannot help myself but indulge in a bit of cathedral musings. I'd just read The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End by Ken Follett, also known as the cathedral or Kingsbridge series, where there are cathedrals being built. What these books point to is what's made possible when seeing beyond what is. And somehow, through ingenuity, skill, effort and a lot of imagination, making what lies beyond what is, a reality. I shouldn't have been surprised, given that Frank is an architect, but… still, oh the thrill of simply mentioning these books, and what I took from them, and hear Frank inhale sharply and invite me down his memory lane, as a young kid, visiting some of the cathedrals of Europe. As I state some buildings are designed to get you to fly, Frank goes into a spiel that I just love: One of the mini breakthroughs of the early Renaissance, was to understand what was termed the spiritual dimension of man. It was addressing this emotional experience and being able to walk into a location that was a man-made version of that epic experience you get in certain forests and promenades overlooking things. If you could replicate that under a roof that was really bringing the human spirit to a certain place. The cathedral was one of the highest expressions of the kind of emotional rush or this sort of lofting of who you were. It was epic. But this was but a brief passage in our meandering conversation, a lot of which centered on the unknown and how play is a great way to edge closer to it. Given the right context, play can make the unknown less scary. If the context isn't right though, or not well-defined, play, at least for me, pushes me even further into the perceived scariness of residing in the unknown. In hind-sight, looking back at instances of role-playing at leadership trainings and the likes, the uncertainty as to potential emotional impact of the situation held me back. Made me not want to fully take on the role of whoever I was supposed to inhabit, feeling very insecure. Now, perhaps I wouldn't let myself be held back, but in my twenties, for sure I gave the bare minimum of myself. Circling back and forth, we come back to uncertainty and the unknown from another angle, this time inspired by Brené Brown. Frank explains that in order to lean into vulnerability, you need to have a sense of safety, a sense of significance, and you need to feel situated. To be able to do this leaning you have to be willing to risk. You have to be able to tolerate emotional exposure. And you need to have a level of comfort around uncertainty. So. One question to provide you with some tankespjärn, is when and where are you able and willing to lean into vulnerability? Links: The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett World Without End, Ken Follett Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert TEDxTalk The power of vulnerability with Brené Brown
On this episode of Bound by Honor: The Klingon Book Review Podcast, Jorn and Ja’Jim discuss World Without End by Joe Haldeman. Once again, the…
You will love our book review and chat about A Column of Fire (Kingsbridge) by Ken Follett especially if you read Pillars of the Earth and World Without End! Bio: I am a spiritual teacher and pro gamer streaming live daily on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/jbanfield/ or Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/jerrybanfield/ with 7 years sober, a wife, and two children. See my life story in 10 minutes at https://jerrybanfield.com Love, Jerry Banfield --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jerrybanfield/support
In this episode, you will hear about Mr. Scott's unique legacy at Woodbridge Middle School, and tips for three easy ways to stay fit or increase your fitness level and why it is important. Episode Resources: Mr. Scott's Fitness Tips Create a routine. Measure your outcome. Find an activity you enjoy! What is Mr. Scott reading? The Knightsbridge Series by Ken Follett The Pillars of the Earth (1989) World Without End (2007) A Column of Fire (2017) The Evening and the Morning (2020)
Hospice chaplain Michael Laird shares stories of clients. He says ninety percent of them have visions of "the other side" before passing on. Some see deceased relatives and ancestors; others see holy figures like Buddha and Jesus. All of the visions appear positive and function like assurances that a place is being prepared for them on the other side. This is a fascinating podcast because it is, in a sense, research into the dying process and can give viewers hope of a World Without End.For our free illustrated eBook on The Christian Mystics, go here. https://contemplativelight1.lpages.co/a-beginners-guide-to-the-christian-mystics/Support the show (https://contemplativelight.org/)
A Q&A BLOWOUT!!! SHOW NOTES: •••[00:01:22] Game Q&A►►► How do I get rid of games? Ever binned a game? Moving with games? LeiriaCon 2018? Kennerspiel response this time? Fortunate gamer syndrome? Roll and move? Boardgames inspring videogames? Space for games? Working with kickstarter prototypes? Hidden games? What about the games trapped in Guildford? What percentage of games owned are review copies? Boardgaming online? Port Royal expansion info? Backing games on Kickstarter? Monster-free 2p games? Brink, the board game? Gloomhaven ranking? Agricola Family Edition? What's most enticing about a new game? What designer is next to get full coverage? Essen Spiel coverage? Most frustrating Unlock: The Formula Puzzle? Why no Merlin love last podcast? Essen Spiel plans? World Without End? •••[01:11:45] Non-game Q&A►►► Me & Jen as CV cards? Tracking finances? Running? Malta marriage equality? Murdered by a boardgame personality? Best Beatle post breakup? Knitting glass? Classic consoles? TV in Malta? Marital strife? Will Trump last 4 years? Brexit disaster? Our first records? 3 fave Disney and Pixar films? Shouldn't we all be vegetarians? Typical day? Fave childhood memories? Biggest phobias? Picking up games at Essen? Updated RRT logo? Jen's quote of the month? Moana? Our wedding? Paleo snacks? Rahdo Walks Through? •••Help Rahdo run @ https://patreon.com/rahdo •••Send your questions to questions@rahdo.com
On tap this week: Les gets high and Tanner gets sour. Is God your “Big Daddy”? Tanner quits nicotine cold turkey. Oregon has great beer, duh. Some Gospel preaching tips. Should shamed pastors be using social media? Featured song: World Without End by Five Iron Frenzy Subscribe now: