“Grace shows up in all of us asking the hard questions to break new ground. Grace is generous and, when we lean into it, we can’t help but extend it to others.”[1] Benbow goes on to explore what it looks like to see through the lens of grace to recognise the brokenness of others and self. Session, quoting Stacy, a stripper, “This is the first time I’ve ever felt seen.”[2] in a sermon from 2020…
Flashback: Hertogenbosch, Holland (Brabant) 1503-1504
Nicholas comes across Ilsa's lifeless body and Master Bosch tipping a silver wine goblet over with his cane. Bosch says, They call it, "Lady Killer." It's the most popular with the ladies because it's the cheapest. Nicholas embraces a dead Ilsa's hand.
Nick returns from his memory of the past and tells Natalie, Not luck, Nat. Courage.
No hay nada más…
Lo demás, solo serán excusas…
No tengo tiempo…
Comer sano es caro…
Me agobio…
Es muy difícil…
No tengo dinero…
Uno tiene que decidir, en algún momento de su vida entre salud o enfermedad, cuanto antes se apueste por la salud, antes llegará la felicidad…
Cuanto antes elijan ustedes queridos lectores, que aún no lo han hecho, apostar por la salud, antes se sentirán más felices,…
The actor Lance Reddick, who has died suddenly aged 60, played figures of authority with such panache that no matter how many times he was handed such roles, he never seemed typecast. He is best known on film for his part as Charon, the all-seeing fixer in the John Wick movie franchise, but his image was forged playing two ambitious high-level cops on television, Cedric Daniels in The Wire (2002-08) and Irvin Irving in Bosch (2014-21).
In each case he was contrasted with a main character: his anguish at the plight of Baltimore as portrayed in The Wire was expressed with internal restraint, opposed to the knee-jerk reactions of Dominic West’s chronic screw-up, McNulty. In Bosch, he was the politician tormented by Titus Welliver’s relentlessly uncompromising Harry Bosch.
Bosch author Michael Connelly said Reddick “took a character who was paper-thin in the books and made Irvin Irving”. He used his tall, angular frame to express authority; moving his body precisely, deliberately stiff and controlled, his face echoing that pose, covering up the machinations inside his head. Audiences watched as he took in, contemplated, and finally reacted, in a voice pitched with the deep tone of authority. His work in Bosch’s second season, where the death of his undercover cop son opens huge cracks in his closely controlled persona and makes him the centre of the show, is a lesson in transcending ensemble play.
Reddick’s highlights in variations of authority-figure themes came in the TV series Fringe (2008-13), running a unit of Homeland Security; Corporate (2018-20), as a CEO; and Intelligence (2014), where he was head of the CIA. On film he was head of the secret service in Angel Has Fallen (2019), and he played Albert Wesker, boss of the Raccoon Police special tactics unit, in the Netflix TV adaptation of the zombie video game Resident Evil (2022).
He was so good that the star of Wick, Keanu Reeves, given a day off from shooting for his birthday, told his girlfriend he wanted to visit the set, just to watch Reddick in action. Reeves then handed him a note thanking him for “what he brought to the character of Charon”.
Bosch also afforded Reddick the chance to play the piano, thoughtfully improvising at home as if to sort out his thoughts; this might be seen to reflect his own hard path to acting success. Reddick was born in Baltimore to Solomon, a lawyer, and Dorothy (nee Gee), a teacher. His musical talent was apparent at Friends School of Baltimore, and he went on to study at the city’s Peabody Institute, a secondary school specialising in the performing arts. He took a degree in composition at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music and moved to Boston, intending, in his words, to become a rock star.
But his style of music, influenced by Miles Davis and Sting, never fitted a rock star template, and having married his college sweetheart, Suzanne Louis, in 1986, and had two children, he found himself working odd jobs, including as a singing waiter on a riverboat. Crucially, on a night shift at a newspaper delivery depot, he injured his back shifting bundles of papers. Forced to lie in bed, he contemplated how he could support his family, and decided to turn to acting, where he noticed there were more auditions available.
He wound up gaining a master of fine arts degree at Yale Drama School in 1994, and two years later landed his first television role, on New York Undercover; he debuted on-screen in 1998’s ill-judged modern-set Great Expectations.
In 2000 he was cast in David Simon’s The Corner, which led to his part on The Wire, while he also attracted attention with a memorable role as an undercover police officer gone bad in the prison drama Oz (2000-01). Recurring parts in CSI:Miami (2005-06) and Lost (2008-09) followed, and he played James Baldwin in the 2004 movie Brother to Brother. He was the voice of the Falcon in the animated Avengers (2012), and of the villain Ras Al Ghul in Beware the Batman (2013), as well as voicing Commander Zavala in the Destiny video game series, and Sylens in Horizon Zero Dawn (2017) and Horizon Forbidden West (2022).
Along the way he finally got to be a rock star, playing a cop in the music video of Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s ’03 Bonnie & Clyde. In 2007 he released an album of his own music, Contemplations and Remembrances.
John Wick 4 has just been released, and he also leaves behind a store of work that has yet to be seen. Reddick will appear in a remake of White Men Can’t Jump; as Charon in a Wick spin-off, Ballerina; in the Shirley Chisholm biopic, Shirley, and as Capt Blakely in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. He also voiced the ultimate authority figure, Zeus, in Percy Jackson and the Olympians for Disney+.
Reddick is survived by his second wife, Stephanie (nee Day), whom he married in 2011, and the two children, Yvonne and Christopher, from his first marriage, which ended in divorce.
🔔 Lance Solomon Reddick, actor, born 7 June 1962; died 17 March 2023
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Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield must battle a rogue warrior seeking revenge after unleashing the deadly G-Virus, whilst a mutated monster goes on a rampage.
Credits: TheMovieDb.
Film Cast:
Leon S. Kennedy (voice): Paul Mercier
Claire Redfield (voice): Alyson Court
Angela Miller (voice): Laura Bailey
Curtis Miller (voice): Roger Craig Smith
Frederic Downing (voice): Crispin Freeman
Senator Ron Davis (voice): Michael Sorich
Ingrid Hunnigan (voice): Salli Saffioti
Rani Chawla (voice): Michelle Ruff
Rani’s aunt (voice): Mary Elizabeth McGlynn
Greg Glenn (voice): Steve Blum
WilPharma CEO (voice): Michael McConnohie
U.S. President (voice): Kirk Thornton
Various (voice): Cindy Robinson
Various (voice): Dave Wittenberg
Various (voice): Kari Wahlgren
Various (voice): Kyle Hebert
Various (voice): Barbara Goodson
Various (voice): Keith Silverstein
Various (voice): Yuri Lowenthal
Various (voice): Megan Hollingshead
Various (voice): Skip Stellrecht
Various (voice): Troy Baker
Various (voice): Karen Strassman
Various (voice): JB Blanc
Various (voice): Johnny Yong Bosch
Greg Glenn / G-Curtis (motion capture): Derek Mears
Film Crew:
Executive Producer: Masao Takiyama
Screenplay: Shoutarou Suga
Director: Makoto Kamiya
Sound Director: Yota Tsuruoka
Editor: Ryuji Miyajima
Layout: Nobuhito Sue
Sound Designer: Koji Kasamatsu
Production Manager: Yoshimi Sugiyama
Costume Design: Kuniko Hôjô
Compositor: Naoyuki Fujii
Stunts: Satoshi Hakuzen
Executive Producer: Haruhiro Tsujimoto
Executive Producer: Keiji Inafune
Original Music Composer: Tetsuya Takahashi
Co-Producer: Hidenori Ueki
Story: Hiroyuki Kobayashi
CGI Director: Atsushi Doi
Casting Producer: Michelle Ladd
Stunts: Naohiro Kawamoto
Storyboard Artist: Shinji Nishikawa
Casting Producer: Thom Williams
Producer: Taro Morishima
Associate Producer: Scott Dolph
Video Game: Shinji Mikami
Stunts: Jersey Maki Itosu
Sound Editor: Yoshiki Matsunaga
Casting Producer: Hiroyuki Yoshida
Compositor: Hiroki Ando
Storyboard Artist: Kiyoshi Okuyama
Production Manager: Sareana Sun
Associate Producer: Daisuke Gomi
Stunts: Koji Kawamoto
Video Game: Kenichi Iwao
Story Editor: Father
Video Game: Tokuro Fujiwara
Video Game: Takahiro Arimitsu
Modelling Supervisor: Yoshiaki Hirabayashi
Producer: Seiji Iseda
Associate Producer: Aki Kiuchi
Executive Producer: Ivan C. Shih
Co-Executive Producer: Toshi Tokumaru
Associate Producer: Mareo Yamada
Production Design: Shiho Tamura
Production Manager: Alena Fang
Production Manager: Kumiko Oguri
Second Assistant Director: Kentaro Fujisawa
First Assistant Director: Gaku Nagao
Prop Designer: Takumi Sakura
Storyboard Artist: Hiromitsu Soma
Dialogue Editor: Les Claypool III
Character Designer: Kazuhiro Asakawa
VFX Artist: Wu Bin
Lighting Artist: Zhang Bei
Modeling: Stacy Chang
Lighting Artist: Peng Chao
Modeling: Hsin-Che Chen
Modeling: Soyoung Cheng
Modeling: Chaucer Chiu
Lighting Artist: Liu Dexin
Compositor: Nobutaka Emoto
Lighting Artist: Le Gao
Compositing Lead: Tsubasa Harikae
Lighting Artist: Yifang He
Lighting Artist: Zhang Hongkun
Animation: Ni Hongtao
Stunts: Nobuhiro Inohara
Post Production Producer: Yuuki Hashimoto
Assistant Editor: Narihiko Kôno
Movie Reviews:
Andre Gonzales: It’s just like if I was watching the video game. Pretty cool movie. These are the 2 characters I remember the most because I loved Code Veronica so much.
Here are my Headcanon Cast ideas if I ever decide to do an adaptation of Dead-End's Love or Childhood Friends. Cast list with origins of the audio clips I used
Arta Chance: Cassandra Lee Morris (Audio from Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans fun fact Atra got her name from Atra Mixta who is a character in the show) or Imshadow007 (best known for her My Little Pony video and voice of Fandom Twilight Sparkle however I got the audio from a Little Witch Academia x Owl House comic dub)
Emma Daaé: Cristina Vee (Audio from the Redub of Sailor Moon) or Heidi Tabing (Best known as Marinette and other female voices in Phantom Savage's comic dubs and Liliya Reznya from Moonshine Animation and the Reznya Iron Man MKI Review is where the audio comes from)
Suki Honda: Sarah Anne Williams (Audio from Kill la Kill)
Craig "Dead-End" Ryan Jr: Jacob Takanashi (Audio from Far-Fetched Pilot Teaser and Jacob Takanashi just popped in my head as I was editing the video)
Adam Taylor: Ben Diskin (Audio from Beastars)
Michael Davis: Johnny Yong Bosch (Audio from Transformers: War For Cybertron)
serving what i like to call "Gregg Davies realness" by putting on a kimono and flaunting my big ham hock hands. i am still Unwell, but putting on a kimono remains the best way to deal with the horrors
oh, this mug?
thank you for noticing. i got it at the St. Louis Art Museum (my second favorite art museum in the states after The Art Institute of Chicago) because it has my favorite painting of all time, Jean Martin's Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblvion. this painting makes me feel the way i wanted the Barsoom books to. it might make me basic, but quite frankly, i don't want to hear it if you're a Hieronymus Bosch girlie. leave me be.
Flashback: Hertogenbosch, Holland (Brabant) 1503-1504
Nicholas comes to the conclusion that Ilsa died and says, Of course. Why would you trust me? I'm a man. Nicholas bends over a deceased Ilsa and gives her a gentle kiss on the cheek. Nicholas looks over as Master Painter Bosch comes into the room.
If a week is traditionally a long time in politics, it is a yawning chasm when it comes to AI. The pace of innovation from the leading providers is one thing; the ferocity of innovation as competition hots up is quite another. But are the ethical implications of AI technology being left behind by this fast pace?
Anthropic, creators of Claude, released Claude 3 this week and claimed it to be a ‘new standard for intelligence’, surging ahead of competitors such as ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini. The company says it has also achieved ‘near human’ proficiency in various tasks. Indeed, as Anthropic prompt engineer Alex Albert pointed out, during the testing phase of Claude 3 Opus, the most potent LLM (large language model) variant, the model exhibited signs of awareness that it was being evaluated.
Moving to text-to-image, Stability AI announced an early preview of Stable Diffusion 3 at the end of February, just days after OpenAI unveiled Sora, a brand new AI model capable of generating almost realistic, high definition videos from simple text prompts.
While progress marches on, perfection remains difficult to attain. Google’s Gemini model was criticised for producing historically inaccurate images which, as this publication put it, ‘reignited concerns about bias in AI systems.’
Getting this right is a key priority for everyone. Google responded to the Gemini concerns by, for the time being, pausing the image generation of people. In a statement, the company said that Gemini’s AI image generation ‘does generate a wide range of people… and that’s generally a good thing because people around the world use it. But it’s missing the mark here.’ Stability AI, in previewing Stable Diffusion 3, noted that the company believed in safe, responsible AI practices. “Safety starts when we begin training our model and continues throughout the testing, evaluation, and deployment,” as a statement put it. OpenAI is adopting a similar approach with Sora; in January, the company announced an initiative to promote responsible AI usage among families and educators.
That is from the vendor perspective – but how are major organisations tackling this issue? Take a look at how the BBC is looking to utilise generative AI and ensure it puts its values first. In October, Rhodri Talfan Davies, the BBC’s director of nations, noted a three-pronged strategy: always acting in the best interests of the public; always prioritising talent and creativity; and being open and transparent.
Last week, more meat was put on these bones with the BBC outlining a series of pilots based on these principles. One example is reformatting existing content in a way to widen its appeal, such as taking a live sport radio commentary and changing it rapidly to text. In addition, editorial guidance on AI has been updated to note that ‘all AI usage has active human oversight.’
It is worth noting as well that the BBC does not believe that its data should be scraped without permission in order to train other generative AI models, therefore banning crawlers from the likes of OpenAI and Common Crawl. This will be another point of convergence on which stakeholders need to agree going forward.
Another major company which takes its responsibilities for ethical AI seriously is Bosch. The appliance manufacturer has five guidelines in its code of ethics. The first is that all Bosch AI products should reflect the ‘invented for life’ ethos which combines a quest for innovation with a sense of social responsibility. The second apes the BBC; AI decisions that affect people should not be made without a human arbiter. The other three principles, meanwhile, explore safe, robust and explainable AI products; trust; and observing legal requirements and orienting to ethical principles.
When the guidelines were first announced, the company hoped its AI code of ethics would contribute to public debate around artificial intelligence. “AI will change every aspect of our lives,” said Volkmar Denner, then-CEO of Bosch at the time. “For this reason, such a debate is vital.”
It is in this ethos with which the free virtual AI World Solutions Summit event, brought to you by TechForge Media, is taking place on March 13. Sudhir Tiku, VP, Singapore Asia Pacific region at Bosch, is a keynote speaker whose session at 1245 GMT will be exploring the intricacies of safely scaling AI, navigating the ethical considerations, responsibilities, and governance surrounding its implementation. Another session, at 1445 GMT explores longer-term impact on society and how business culture and mindset can be shifted to foster greater trust in AI.
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DANVILLE – Danville Area Community College has released a list of its honor students for the Spring 2023 Semester.
A student must carry 12 or more credit hours and a straight A (4.0) average on a 4.0 scale to be included on the President’s List. To be included on the Honors List, a student must carry 12 or more credit hours and have a B+ (3.5) grade point average on a 4.0 scale.
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Spring 2023 President’s & Honors Lists
President’s List
Spain
Candela Nevares Garcia; Maria Sobany Bosch
Malawi
Josephine Kamwela
Florida
Tampa
Briana Hernandez
Illinois
Alvin
Nicholas Garmon
Armstrong
Olivia Logue; Justin Wilken
Bismarck
Allison Bostwick; Landon Potter; Dianne Trimble
Catlin
Kayleigh Davis; Holden Dunavan; Taylor Garwood; Macallister Hill; Rebecca Rogers
Champaign
Mark Hardwidge
Charleston
Ashlynn McPeak
Chrisman
Chris Christensen
Crescent City
Madison Hamilton
Danville
Wariya Alhassan; Joan Applegate; Amber Atkinson; Rebecca Balla; Xitlally Bonilla; Ne'Kedra Cain; Anna Carrion; Rowan Clawson; Jeremiah Cooper; Isabella Courson; Hannah Creed; Joel Cundiff; Olivia Edgington; Noah Gomez; Teagyn Goodwin; Meghan Gross; Dalton Hagley; Marlee Harper; Jennifer Huckstadt; Lindsey Janssen; Tamara Jimson; Anna Lehmann; Lenox Li; Latana Lillard; Layla Martinez; Jacob Maskel; Amanda Nelson; Carson Pollom; Ethan Rayburn; Sierra Ritter; Janaeja Rose; Edwin Sanchez; Braeden Skoog; Maxeen Smart; Kember Spickard; Lewis Towne; Britney Van Camp; Charlene Walsh; Grace Ward; Cassie Warren; Madison Watson; Katelyn Welch; Donald Wills
Fairmount
Aaron Dean
Hoopesotn
Tori Birge; Gage Hopkins; Amanda Inman; Skyler Morgan
Mahomet
Ahmad Al-Heeti
Mattoon
Raven Morrison
Milford
Craig VanHoveln
Oakwood
Rebekah Allsopp; Lane Bensyl; Jarron Fleming; Travis Goodner; Hayley Mascari; Kimberly Montgomery; Grant Powell; Charles Rieches; Brevin Wells
Paris
Drew Pinkston
Philo
Kyleigh Weller
Potomac
Violet McCool; Seth Pollitt
Ridge Farm
Chloe Pickett
Rossville
Heidi Goble; Hunter Howe; Morgan Miller
Sidell
Hazelyn Hunter
Tuscola
Alexis Koester
Urbana
Stella Obasi; Kanayochukwu Onyedibe
Westville
Chloe Brant; Caleb Brasker; Jack Duensing; Joshua Miller; Emma Myers
Indiana
Anderson
Jacob Lee
Brazil
Hayden Smith
Cayuga
Angela Schwartzkopf
Covington
Alyssa Cheuvront; Margo Galloway; Briley Peyton; Calvin Springer; Alexandra VanVickle