#edward is japanese and indonesian

[beumdi]

some designs!

[teecupangel]

Thoughts ond the new web comic for ac black flag?

Someone in the Kenway bloodline is a whore and I hope the plot twist is it isn’t Edward but Haytham. XD

Okay, so in all seriousness, Edward Kenway is like the 2nd poster boy of Assassin’s Creed and it shows. Before this webtoon, there was also a manga called Assassin’s Creed Black Flag: Kakusei (usually translated as ‘Awakening’) and it is considered as noncanon (where the descendant is a half-Japanese student that's Edward's descendant from his mother's side) while the webtoon seemed to be considered to be canon.

So for the webtoon, I have dipped my feet in the high seas and all I could find was the Indonesian version for the 1st chapter so I can’t be sure of what’s happening but the main character is a descendant of Edward Kenway and this is set after Black Flag.

Which is a bit weird as the ending of Black Flag made it clear that Edward was returning to England with Jenny but it’s highly possible that Edward is in that time period where he’s looking for Isu related artifacts and temples for the Brotherhood (which included the temple in Alamut).

I always assumed that Edward had that adventure after Haytham was born as noted in AC wiki though but, because this webtoon is supposed to be canon and set after Black Flag, it's highly possible it must have taken the genetic memory of Edward Kenway from the main character and one of the plot points is that Edward would have a love interest in this one and the main character is a descendant of Edward and that love interest.

Because if they were using Desmond Miles' genetic memory, the Edward Kenway portions of the webtoon must happen between late 1722 - early 1725 (at most 8~10 months before December). In other words, before Haytham is conceived.

If they were using the main character's genes though, it's free game 'cause I won't be surprised if Edward cheated on someone like Tessa Kenway. (cheating is bad though so please don't)

Now, one could argue, “maybe they’re using Edward’s remains like what Layla did?” and yes, that’s a possibility. Just because the main character is a descendant does not mean Abstergo is using his actual genetic memory to access Edward’s memories. For all we know, he’s being used to get a high synchronization rating using the DNA from Edward's remains.

So I guess we’ll just have to see where this goes.

But the most important thing:

The fuck is this? Is that supposed to be Altaïr and Ezio???

Are you guys telling us he’s also the descendant of Altaïr and Ezio?! Because I call bullshit on that. This would mean that this dude would have had to have a similar genetic makeup to Desmond unless you’re going to say “oh, the Altaïr genes came from Darim not Sef, don’t worry”. One of the main points in AC is that Desmond is the only known descendant of Auditore AND Ibn-La'Ahad blood (until Elijah). If the main character has the same bloodline as Desmond, then dear god, Minerva’s gonna grab this innocent bystander and drag him to the Grand Temple to be sacrificed instead of Desmond.

Or is this another case of “we thought that Ezio was Altaïr’s descendant, oops!” that I’ve seen in two different official Japanese AC booklet???

Although...

So wild wild theory...

Absolutely not gonna happen...

The age of the main character is a bit of a mystery but if this is set in 2023 and he's around mid teens to at most 19, he could be another one of Desmond's kids. 20 is pushing it and anything beyond that though would be, uuuhhh, possible but you don't wanna think about that.

[influencermagazineuk]

Google Translate Expands Language Fluency with 110 New Additions, from Abkhaz to Zulu

Google Translate is expanding its language capabilities significantly, adding 110 new languages, including Manx, in its largest single expansion ever. This brings the total number of languages supported by the translation tool to 243, nearly doubling its previous count. The expansion is driven by PaLM 2, the latest iteration of Google's Pathways Language Model introduced in 2022 and enhanced with version 2 in May 2023. Google Translate has steadily broadened its language repertoire over the years. In 2008, for instance, it added Czech, a crucial addition for many, including this writer, who moved to a Czech-speaking region a decade ago. Recently, the focus has also extended to languages like Manx, spoken on the Isle of Man. This expansion, similar to a more modest increase of 24 languages in 2022, utilizes Google's Zero Shot machine translation method. Since 2016, Google Translate has employed neural network models for translation, with zero-resource training enabling the models to translate languages without exact one-to-one matching texts in the training database. This development highlights a practical application of large language models (LLMs), which some present as AI. LLMs operate on neural networks, and contrary to marketing claims about "AI accelerator chips," these are primarily specialized co-processors for faster tensor mathematics computations. Machine translation plays a crucial role in preserving and revitalizing minority languages. A notable example is Manx, which has seen a revival over the past few decades. The last native speaker, Edward "Ned" Maddrell, passed away in 1974. However, efforts to document the language through recordings and videos have preserved it. Today, there is a new generation of native Manx speakers, with children being raised by adults who learned the language as a second language. Additionally, the establishment of Bunscoill Ghaelgagh, a Manx language primary school, has further contributed to the language's resurgence. Google's recent addition of 110 languages, including Manx, marks its largest expansion ever of Google Translate. This brings the total number of languages supported by the translation tool to 243, nearly doubling its previous count. The expansion is powered by PaLM 2, the latest release of Google's Pathways Language Model introduced in 2022 and improved with version 2 in May 2023. Google Translate has been gradually expanding its language capabilities for years, a journey that began with the addition of languages like Czech back in 2008, catering to diverse linguistic needs worldwide. The comprehensive list of languages now supported by Google Translate includes Abkhaz, Acehnese, Acholi, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alur, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Avar, Awadhi, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Balinese, Baluchi, Bambara, Baoulé, Bashkir, Basque, Batak Karo, Batak Simalungun, Batak Toba, Belarusian, Bemba, Bengali, Betawi, Bhojpuri, Bikol, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Buryat, Cantonese, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chechen, Chichewa, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Chuukese, Chuvash, Corsican, Crimean Tatar, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dhivehi, Dinka, Dogri, Dombe, Dutch, Dyula, Dzongkha, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Ewe, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Fon, French, Frisian, Friulian, Fulani, Ga, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Guarani, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hakha Chin, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hiligaynon, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Hunsrik, Iban, Icelandic, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Jamaican Patois, Japanese, Javanese, Jingpo, Kalaallisut, Kannada, Kanuri, Kapampangan, Kazakh, Khasi, Khmer, Kiga, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kituba, Kokborok, Komi, Konkani, Korean, Krio, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Kurdish (Sorani), Kyrgyz, Lao, Latgalian, Latin, Latvian, Ligurian, Limburgish, Lingala, Lithuanian, Lombard, Luganda, Luo, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Madurese, Maithili, Makassar, Malagasy, Malay, Malay (Jawi), Malayalam, Maltese, Mam, Manx, Maori, Marathi, Marshallese, Marwadi, Mauritian Creole, Meadow Mari, Meiteilon (Manipuri), Minang, Mizo, Mongolian, Myanmar (Burmese), Nahuatl (Eastern Huasteca), Ndau, Ndebele (South), Nepalbhasa (Newari), Nepali, NKo, Norwegian, Nuer, Occitan, Odia (Oriya), Oromo, Ossetian, Pangasinan, Papiamento, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Punjabi (Gurmukhi), Punjabi (Shahmukhi), Quechua, Q'eqchi', Romani, Romanian, Rundi, Russian, Sami (North), Samoan, Sango, Sanskrit, Santali, Scots Gaelic, Sepedi, Serbian, Sesotho, Seychellois Creole, Shan, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese, Susu, Swahili, Swati, Swedish, Tahitian, Tajik, Tamazight, Tamazight (Tifinagh), Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Tetum, Thai, Tibetan, Tigrinya, Tiv, Tok Pisin, Tongan, Tsonga, Tswana, Tulu, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvan, Twi, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek, Venda, Venetian, Vietnamese, Waray, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Yakut, Yiddish, Yoruba, Yucatec Maya, Zapotec, and Zulu. Read the full article

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 6.21 (after 1940)

1940 – World War II: Italy begins an unsuccessful invasion of France. 1942 – World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces; 33,000 Allied troops are taken prisoner. 1942 – World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the United States mainland. 1945 – World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when the organized resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island. 1952 – The Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce, later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. 1957 – Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first female Cabinet Minister. 1963 – Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is elected as Pope Paul VI. 1964 – Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan. 1970 – Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy in what was the largest U.S. corporate bankruptcy to date. 1973 – In its decision in Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller test for determining whether something is obscene and not protected speech under the U.S. constitution. 1978 – The original production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Evita, based on the life of Eva Perón, opens at the Prince Edward Theatre, London. 1982 – John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan. 1985 – Braathens SAFE Flight 139 is hijacked on approach to Oslo Airport, Fornebu. Special forces arrest the hijacker and there are no fatalities. 1989 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397, that American flag-burning is a form of political protest protected by the First Amendment. 1993 – Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on STS-57 to retrieve the European Retrievable Carrier (EURECA) satellite. It is also the first shuttle mission to carry the Spacehab module. 2000 – Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote. 2001 – A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen. 2004 – SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight. 2005 – Edgar Ray Killen, who had previously been unsuccessfully tried for the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner, is convicted of manslaughter 41 years afterwards (the case had been reopened in 2004). 2006 – Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra. 2006 – A Yeti Airlines de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter crashes at Jumla Airport in Nepal, killing nine people. 2009 – Greenland assumes self-rule. 2012 – A boat carrying more than 200 migrants capsizes in the Indian Ocean between the Indonesian island of Java and Christmas Island, killing 17 people and leaving 70 others missing. 2012 – An Indonesian Air Force Fokker F27 Friendship crashes near Halim Perdanakusuma International Airport, killing 11.

[gertlushgaming]

Oxenfree II: Lost Signals launches on 12 July



Pre-Orders for OXENFREE’s Highly-Anticipated Sequel on the Nintendo Switch system, PlayStation 5 & 4 Now Available

Oxenfree II: Lost Signals launches on 12 July is the headline we got during today’s Nintendo Indie World Showcase, Night School, a Netflix Game Studio, announced OXENFREE II: Lost Signals, the mind-bending follow-up to the critically-acclaimed supernatural thriller OXENFREE, is set to launch on July 12 on the Nintendo Switch system, PlayStation 5 & 4, PC and Mac via STEAM, and on Netflix. Set five years after the events of the first game, which continues to be celebrated for its compelling storytelling, relatable characters, and captivating art style, OXENFREE II: Lost Signals will take players on a gripping narrative-driven adventure featuring an all-new cast of characters and original story.

“With OXENFREE II: Lost Signals, we wanted to tap into the essence and world that made the original game so special, while immersing players in a brand new story with even higher stakes,” said Sean Krankel, co-founder and studio director at Night School. “This game has been a labor of love, and we can’t wait for players to embody Riley, shaping her through life-altering choices and overcoming supernatural challenges that threaten to destroy her future.” Related Post: Silver Box Classics Review (Steam) OXENFREE II: Lost Signals follows the story of Riley Poverly, an environmental researcher who returns to her hometown Camena to investigate unnaturally occurring radio frequency signals causing disturbances in electronic equipment. She soon discovers a long history of ghostly happenings on the nearby Edwards Island and becomes entangled in a frightening, supernatural mystery. Featuring Night School’s signature, naturalistic dialogue system, OXENFREE II: Lost Signals takes players on a new journey where they’ll shape their experience in unexpected ways.

At launch, OXENFREE II: Lost Signals will feature a localized interface and subtitle support for Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Spanish (Spain), Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. Pre-orders for OXENFREE II: Lost Signals are now available via the Nintendo eShop and PlayStation Store. Read the full article

[bruhstation]

What are the ethnicities of the cast of Casa Tidmouth?

thomas: wasian, british + chinese indonesian edward: wasian, albanian + vietnamese henry: desi, adoptive parents are black (dad) and latina(mom) gordon: wasian, british + chinese james: wasian, british + filipino percy: british + latino + blasian toby: black + latino emily: wasian, scottish + japanese

duck: british + latino donald/douglas: wasian, scottish + vietnamese oliver: filipino diesel: italian. mavis: black lady: black d10: wasian, romanian + chinese

rebecca: punjabi nia: black, luhya

[greatworldwar2]

• Battle of the Java Sea

The Battle of the Java Sea, was a decisive naval battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II. Allied navies suffered a disastrous defeat at the hand of the Imperial Japanese Navy, on February 27th, 1942, and in secondary actions over successive days.

The Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies progressed at a rapid pace as they advanced from their Palau Islands colony and captured bases in Sarawak and the southern Philippines. They seized bases in eastern Borneo and in northern Celebes while troop convoys, screened by destroyers and cruisers with air support provided by swarms of fighters operating from captured bases, steamed southward through the Makassar Strait and into the Molucca Sea. To oppose these invading forces was a small force, consisting of Dutch, American, British and Australian warships, many of them of World War I vintage, initially under the command of Admiral Thomas C. Hart.

On January 23rd, 1942, a force of four American destroyers attacked a Japanese invasion convoy in Makassar Strait as it approached Balikpapan in Borneo. The Japanese amphibious forces gathered to strike at Java, and on February 27th, 1942, the main Allied naval force, under Doorman, sailed northeast from Surabaya to intercept a convoy of the Eastern Invasion Force approaching from the Makassar Strait. The Eastern Strike Force, as it was known, consisted of two heavy cruisers (HMS Exeter and USS Houston), three light cruisers (Doorman's flagship HNLMS De Ruyter, HNLMS Java, HMAS Perth), and nine destroyers (HMS Electra, HMS Encounter, HMS Jupiter, HNLMS Kortenaer, HNLMS Witte de With, USS Alden, USS John D. Edwards, USS John D. Ford, and USS Paul Jones).

The Japanese task force protecting the convoy, commanded by Rear-Admiral Takeo Takagi, consisted of two heavy (Nachi and Haguro) and two light cruisers (Naka and Jintsū) and 14 destroyers (Yūdachi, Samidare, Murasame, Harusame, Minegumo, Asagumo, Yukikaze, Tokitsukaze, Amatsukaze, Hatsukaze, Yamakaze, Kawakaze, Sazanami, and Ushio). The Japanese heavy cruisers were much more powerful, armed with ten 8-inch (203 mm) guns each, and superb torpedoes.

The Allied force engaged the Japanese in the Java Sea, and the battle raged intermittently from mid-afternoon to midnight as the Allies tried to reach and attack the troop transports of the Java invasion fleet, but they were repulsed by superior firepower. The Allies had local air superiority during the daylight hours, because Japanese air power could not reach the fleet in the bad weather. The weather also hindered communications, making cooperation between the many Allied parties involved in reconnaissance, air cover and fleet headquarters even worse than it already was. The battle consisted of a series of attempts over a seven-hour period by Doorman's Combined Striking Force to reach and attack the invasion convoy; each was rebuffed by the escort force with heavy losses being inflicted on the Allies.

Suffering heavy loses over the course of the battle, the Allied fleet could not defeat the superior firepower of the Japanese force. Although the Allied fleet did not reach the invasion fleet, the battle did give the defenders of Java a one-day respite. Following the battle, several more naval engagements would occur in the Dutch East Indies. The U.S. and Royal Air Force retreated to Australia. Dutch troops, aided by British remnants, fought fiercely for a week. In the campaign the Japanese executed many Allied POWs and sympathizing Indonesians. Eventually, the Japanese won this decisive battle of attrition and ABDA forces surrendered on March 9th.

[mamabearcat]

Tag Game

Thanks for tagging me @izupie​ 😘

1. Name: Dani

2. Nickname: Bear, Mama Bear

3. Zodiac sign: Cancer

4. Height: 5′3″

5. Languages: English. I can remember a tiny bit of French and Indonesian from high school - enough to ask for directions and the names of various foods. I also had a Japanese flatmate at University, so I remember a little bit of Japanese - mainly english loan words and not particularly polite phrases. I’m teaching myself conversational Japanese  v e r y  s l o w l y.

6. Nationality: Australian

7. Favorite Season: Autumn - It doesn’t get that cold in Australia compared to Europe and a lot of the US, but Autumn here is filled with crisp blustery days, colourful leaves, and cool nights - just enough to snuggle under the blankets with a book and a hot chocolate.

8. Favorite flower: Hmm, that’s a tough one. I love growing orchids on my windowsill (or at least I did until one of our cats decided they were a snack put there just for her) but I would have to say roses. Not the long stemmed ones you buy in a shop, but the old fashioned heirloom shrub roses that not only look beautiful but smell amazing. Yellow roses are my favourite.

9. Favorite scent: The scents I love are warm, musky, woody type scents, like amber, and cinnamon. If I wear perfume, it’s usually a cheap amber solid perfume balm that I rub on my wrists.

10. Favorite color: Purple and Red are my favourite colours.

11. Favorite animals: I do love cats, just because they really couldn’t be bothered with you - they totally have their own agenda. So if one comes to sit on your lap, and rub their face against you, or tap their paw on your hand, you know they really truly want to be there. As soon as my children are ready to leave home and go out into the big bad world, I’ll happily purchase my crazy cat lady t-shirt.

12. Favorite fictional character:  I mean, is this all the characters ever? All the characters ever in books, movies, anime? I can’t choose just one! Um, Sam Gamgee from Lord of the Rings, Jane Eyre, Elizabeth Bennet, Mr Bucket from Bleak House, Inuyasha, Edward Elric, Natsu Dragneel, Midoriya Izuku ... (I could keep going but we’d be here for days!)

13. Coffee, tea, or hot chocolate: Coffee. Even though I do really like tea - especially chai and herbal tea like peppermint. And I love hot chocolate when it’s winter and I’ve just come in from the cold and need something to warm my fingers around while I sip it. But hands down, I’ll usually choose coffee.

14. Average hours of sleep: 6ish. Usually go to sleep around midnight and wake up at 6.

15. Dog or cat: 🐱😸😺😻

16. Number of blankets you sleep with: a sheet and a quilt.

17. Dream trip: I answered an ask like this a little while ago, so apologies if you’ve seen an answer similar to this. I would love to go to Athens and see the Parthenon at sunset. I’d love to rent a little house boat and cruise along the canals in France. I’d love to hike around Kyushu and stay in traditional Japanese ryokans and visit a hot spring. And I’d like to visit all the places mentioned in Arthurian legends in England and Wales. That’s four dream trips. If I get to accomplish even one of them, I will be very happy.

18. Blog established: I think around March 2018? I did have a blog years ago, which I deleted. Now I’m back baby!

19. Followers: Wow, 592! Didn’t think it was that many?!

20. Random fact: I am left handed, but can do everything almost as well with my right hand. The only two things I can’t do? Use scissors and chopsticks.

Hmm, I’ll tag @mautrino​ @witchygirl99​ @keichanz​ @clearwillow​ just off the top of my head. Everyone else is invited also - if you think ‘hmm, I’m bored and this looks like it might be fun’, I was specifically thinking of YOU my friend, yes you. Consider yourself tagged!

[lawful-evil-novelist]

Batfam and Rogues’ Costumes for Damian’s First Halloween

Context: For his first proper Halloween, Damian got really gung-ho about dressing up so Scarecrow and Jason (who both thought it was really cute) got every rogue and Batfam member to dress up and insisted (since Damian was) that everyone pick a costume that reflected their cultural background.  A lot of rogues were hesitant but Damian holds that it was the best Halloween he ever had.

Anyway, list’s below the cut, if a rogue isn’t listed it’s because they said no when asked to dress up and no amount of begging changed their mind or I forgot about them.  Leaving this untagged but you know, have fun.

Disclaimer: This list applies to Lawfulverse interpretations of the Rogues, some of them are non-white and therefore have non-white monsters.

Damian Wayne (the originator)-A Ghoul (Ghouls are Arabic in origin, also I thought the pun was clever)

Jason Todd-El Sombrerón (a goblin creature in Mexican and Guatemalan folklore)

Jonathan Crane-The Wendigo (wendigo are an Algonquin tradition, among the tribes who believe in the wendigo are the Ojibwe)

Selina Kyle-La Llorona (La Llorona can be found in a lot of Latine nations)

Edward Nygma-Hồ Tinh (similar to the Japanese kitsune, this is a Vietnamese fox demon)

Jervis Tetch-Spriggan (Cornish fae that’s particularly mischievous)

Bane- El Coco (the bogeyman in Hispanophone nations)

Pamela Isley-Banshee (it’s Irish or Scottish and she would)

Harley Quinn-Brownie (house fae)

Joker- Far Darrig (the Irish version of a Redcap, basically a mischievous fae that wears a lot of red)

Drury Walker- Pocong (the wrapped ghost, found in Indonesian and Malaysian folklore)

Garfield Lynns-Puca (a common type of fae found in English folklore)

Basil Karlo-Aswang (Filipino creature similar to a vampire)

Cosmo Krank-Tengu (most people know what a tengu is but for those that don’t know, it’s a Japanese bird demon)

Viktor Zsasz-Vypr/Upyr (a Slavic variation on the vampire, 95% cooler than the modern vampire)

Oswald Cobblepot-Błudnik (a Slavic legendary creature said to live in Łużyce in Poland)

Jaina Hudson-Dokkaebi (Korean nature spirits)

Harvey Dent-Krampus (y’all know what Krampus is, Harvey knows it’s out of season and he doesn’t even celebrate Christmas, but he gives absolutely no shits)

Roxanne Sutton-Ljosalfar (Scandinavian light elves)

Music Meister-Lutin (French equivalent to a hobgoblin, akin to various house spirits)

Mr. Bloom-Yaksha (Hindi nature spirit)

Maxie Zeus-Zephyrus (Maxie literally just dressed up like a Greek wind god it’s nbd guys)

Mary Dahl-Redcap (like Mary wouldn’t dress as a goblin with a red hat on)

Mad Mod-Black Annis (a bogeyman in English folklore, basically a blue-faced hag that eats children)

Waylon Jones-Zonbi (Waylon is Haitian Creole in Lawfulverse, a zonbi is the Haitian Creole word for zombie)

William Tockman-Mullo (Romani variation on a vampire)

Roman Sionis (you know they got him to join this)-Gumiho (Korean form of the kitsune, because Roman agreed to this but not to doing anything that required more legwork than getting a gumiho mask and putting it on his face)

Lonnie Machin-Bauchan (a mischievous Scottish goblin)

Duke Thomas- Curupira (Brazilian folklore creature)

Timothy Drake-Jiangshi (Chinese hopping vampire)

Barbara Gordon-Mermaid (she wanted to, so she did)

Dick Grayson-Strigoi (did someone say more Slavic vampires?  Me, I did)

Cassandra Cain-Nu Gui (a vengeful Chinese ghost)

Stephanie Brown-Vila (a nymph in Slavic folklore)

(Bruce gave a definite “no” to this and unfortunately Kate was not in Gotham for Halloween)

[tasksweekly]

[TASK 125: PAPUAN]

There’s a masterlist below compiled of over 420+ Papuan��faceclaims categorised by gender with their occupation and ethnicity denoted if there was a reliable source. If you want an extra challenge use random.org to pick a random number! Of course everything listed below are just suggestions and you can pick whichever faceclaim or whichever project you desire.

Any questions can be sent here and all tutorials have been linked below the cut for ease of access! REMEMBER to tag your resources with #TASKSWEEKLY and we will reblog them onto the main! This task can be tagged with whatever you want but if you want us to see it please be sure that our tag is the first five tags, @ mention us or send us a messaging linking us to your post!

THE TASK - scroll down for FC’s!

STEP 1: Decide on a FC you wish to create resources for! You can always do more than one but who are you starting with? There are links to masterlists you can use in order to find them and if you want help, just send us a message and we can pick one for you at random!

STEP 2: Pick what you want to create! You can obviously do more than one thing, but what do you want to start off with? Screencaps, RP icons, GIF packs, masterlists, PNG’s, fancasts, alternative FC’s - LITERALLY anything you desire!

STEP 3: Look back on tasks that we have created previously for tutorials on the thing you are creating unless you have whatever it is you are doing mastered - then of course feel free to just get on and do it. :)

STEP 4: Upload and tag with #TASKSWEEKLY! If you didn’t use your own screencaps/images make sure to credit where you got them from as we will not reblog packs which do not credit caps or original gifs from the original maker.

THINGS YOU CAN MAKE FOR THIS TASK -  examples are linked!

Stumped for ideas? Maybe make a masterlist or graphic of your favourite faceclaims. A masterlist of names. Plot ideas or screencaps from a music video preformed by an artist. Masterlist of quotes and lyrics that can be used for starters, thread titles or tags. Guides on culture and customs.

Screencaps

RP icons [of all sizes]

Gif Pack [maybe gif icons if you wish]

PNG packs

Manips

Dash Icons

Character Aesthetics

PSD’s

XCF’s

Graphic Templates - can be chara header, promo, border or background PSD’s!

FC Masterlists - underused, with resources, without resources!

FC Help - could be related, family templates, alternatives.

Written Guides.

and whatever else you can think of / make!

MASTERLIST!

F:

Ria Thielsch (1951) Papuan Indonesian / Dutch - singer and model.

Patty Brard / Petula Louise Brard (1955) Papuan Indonesian / Dutch - singer and tv presenter.

Robyn Gibbes (1957) Papuan New Guinean / Unspecified White - actress and casting agent.

Viva Westi (1972) Papuan Indonesian - actress, director, and screenwriter.

Genevieve Lacey (1972) Papuan New Guinean / Unspecified White - musician and director.

Lala Suwages (1980) Papuan Indonesian - actress and singer.

Nowela Auparay (1987) Papuan Indonesian / Batak Indonesian - singer.

Emi Maria (1987) Papuan New Guinean / Japanese - singer-songwriter.

S. Olvah Alhamid / Syarifah Olvah Alhamid / Olvah Alhamid Bwefar (1990) Papuan Indonesian / Hadhrami Yemeni - model and Miss Eco Universe Indonesia 2016.

Paramytha Lestari Mulyarto (1991) Papuan Indonesian / Javanese Indonesian - singer.

Abigail Havora (1991) Papuan New Guinean - Miss Pacific Islands 2015.

Grace Agatha Nugi (1991) Papuan New Guinean - Miss Papua New Guinea 2014 and Miss Supranational Papua New Guinea 2015.

Kellyanne Limbiye (1993) Papuan New Guinean - Miss Papua New Guinea 2016.

Niawali Twain (1994) Papuan New Guinean - Miss Papua New Guinea 2017.

Kaiit (1998) Papuan New Guinean - singer.

Leoshina Mercy Kariha (2000) Papuan New Guinean - Miss Pacific Islands 2018.

Venda Kakaso (?) Papuan New Guinean - actress.

Ludia Maryen (?) Papuan Indonesian - Miss Papua 2018 and Miss Indonesia Persahabatan 2018 (instagram: ludia_maryen).

Maggie Kondango (?) Papuan New Guinean - actress.

Llane Munau (?) Papuan New Guinean - actress and director.

Moslyn Moses (?) Papuan New Guinean - actress.

Lucy Sari (?) Papuan New Guinean - actress.

Momon (?) Papuan Indonesian - instagrammer (monalisasembor).

F - Athletes:

Elizabeth Bure (1948) Papuan New Guinean - lawn bowler.

Linda Ahmat (1952) Papuan New Guinean - lawn bowler.

Geua Vada Tau (1957) Papuan New Guinean - lawn bowler.

Iammogapi Launa (1958) Papuan New Guinean - heptathlete.

Barbara Ingiro (1962) Papuan New Guinean - sprinter.

Kune Amini (1964) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

Elanga Buala (1964) Papuan New Guinean - sprinter.

Rosemary Turare (1964) Papuan New Guinean - runner.

Lucy Ovia (1967) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

Nurhayati (1970) Papuan Indonesian - bicycle racer.

Konio Heagi (1973) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

Ann Mooney (1975) Papuan New Guinean - sprinter.

Ura Rigana (1976) Papuan New Guinean - sprinter.

Gari Mea (1976) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

Boni David (1978) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

Sarce Aronggear (1979) Papuan Indonesian - sprint canoer.

Mebo Ipi (1979) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

Liz Wardley (1979) Papuan New Guinea - sailor.

Raema Lisa Rumbewas (1980) Papuan Indonesian - weightlifter.

Karo Lumis (1980) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

Bede Morea (1980) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

Maartje Scheepstra (1980) Papuan Indonesian - field hockey player.

Helen Philemon (1980) Papuan New Guinean - track and field athlete.

Pere Koroba (1981) Papuan Indonesian - rower.

Nao Kamea (1982) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

Mae Koime (1983) Papuan New Guinean - sprinter.

Koita Atai (1983) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

Xenia Peni (1983) Papuan New Guinean - swimmer.

Salome Dell (1985) Papuan New Guinean - athlete.

Henao Sam (1985) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

Maleta Roberts (1985) Papuan New Guinean - netball player.

Varoi Morea (1986) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

Betty Burua (1986) Papuan New Guinean - track athlete.

Pauke Siaka (1986) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane (1986) Papuan New Guinean - swimmer.

Sharon Kwarula (1987) Papuan New Guinean - athlete.

Toea Wisil (1988) Papuan New Guinean - sprinter.

Nitya Krishinda Maheswari / Nitya Krishinda Maheswari Korwa (1988) Papuan Indonesian / Javanese Indonesian - badminton player.

Joyleen Jeffrey (1989) Papuan New Guinean - sprinter.

Norma Ovasuru (1989) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

Kaia Arua (1990) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

Sibona Jimmy (1992) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

Heather Watson (1992) Papuan New Guinean / British - tennis player.

Donna Koniel (1992) Papuan New Guinean - athlete.

Judith Meauri (1992) Papuan New Guinean - swimmer.

Rellie Kaputin (1993) Papuan New Guinean - track and field athlete.

Tanya Ruma (1993) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

Jacob Sabua (1994) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Adrine Monagi (1995) Papuan New Guinean - sprinter and heptathlete.

Veru Frank (1995) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

Ravina Oa (1995) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

Vicky Araa (1996) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

Helen Buruka (1996) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

Afure Adah (1997) Papuan New Guinean - sprinter.

Tegan McCarthy (1997) Papuan New Guinean - swimmer.

Brenda Tau (1998) Papuan New Guinean - sprinter.

Asty Dwi Widyaningrum (2000) Papuan Indonesian - badminton player.

Kopi John (?) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

Cunera Monalua (?) Papuan New Guinean - lawn bowler.

Konio Oala (?) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

Hinamutawa Philip (?) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

Wena Piande (?) Papuan New Guinean - lawn bowler.

Mairi Tom (?) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

Isabel Toua (?) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

Naoani Vare (?) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

M:

Rico Tampatty (1964) Papuan Indonesian - actor.

Edo Kondologit (1967) Papuan Indonesian - actor and singer.

Ari Sihasale / Juharson Estrella Sihasale (1973) Papuan Indonesian - actor, singer, model, and director.

Auki Henry / Lionel Renagi William Henry (1974) Papuan New Guinean / English, Scottish - actor, presenter, producer, director, and photographer.

Evan Sanders (1981) Papuan Indonesian - actor and singer.

Michael Jakarimilena (1983) Papuan Indonesian - actor and singer.

Aldiansyah Taher (1983) Papuan Indonesian - actor, presenter, and singer.

Sam Brodie (1987) Papuan Indonesian, Javanese Indonesian, Ambonese Indonesian, Chinese, Scottish - actor.

Douglas Oga (1990) Papuan Indonesian - actor, rapper, presenter, DJ, and dancer.

Mamat Alkatiri / Mohammed Yusran Alkatiri (1992) Papuan Indonesian - comedian.

Jimmy Kobogau (1992) Papuan Indonesian - actor.

Albert Fakdawer (1993) Papuan Indonesian - actor and singer.

Daniel Snoeks (1994) Papuan New Guinean / Dutch - model, tv personality, and tattooist.

Esal Revano (1995) Papuan Indonesian - actor and singer.

Julian Liberty (1999) Papuan Indonesian - actor.

Paul Bebes (?) Papuan New Guinean - actor.

Ochy Thenu (?) Papuan Indonesian - actor, DJ, tv host, and dancer.

Harry B.H. Koveso (?) Papuan New Guinean - actor.

Yauw Yobehfaa (?) Papuan Indonesian - Mister Indonesia Papua and Best Talent 2018 (Instagram: yauw_yobehfaa).

M - Athletes:

Allen Crawley (1941) Papuan New Guinean - shooter.

Edward Laboran (1942) Papuan New Guinean - high jumper. .

Trevan Clough (1942) Papuan New Guinean - former long jumper, triple jumper and sprinter.

Nigel Agonia (1948) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

Wavala Kali (1954) Papuan New Guinean - sprinter.

Zoffa Yarawi (1954) Papuan New Guinean - boxer.

Yohanes Auri (1954) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Tumat Sogolik (1955) Papuan New Guinean - boxer.

Takale Tuna (1955) Papuan New Guinean - sprinter.

Johnny Aba (1956) Papuan New Guinean - boxer.

Tau John Tokwepota (1956) Papuan New Guinean - runner.

Rully Nere (1957) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Jeff Woodland (1957) Papuan Indonesian - golfer.

Rowan Brennan (1958) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Adolf Kabo (1960) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Lapule Tamean (1962) Papuan New Guinean - sprinter.

Washington Banian (1963) Papuan New Guinean - boxer.

Willie Bera (1964) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Noah Maryem (1965) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

John Siguria (1965) Papuan New Guinean - runner.

Subul Babo (1966) Papuan Indonesian - sprinter.

Poloni Avek (1966) Papuan Indonesian - runner.

Manis Lamond (1966) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Francis Niakuam (1966) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Aaron Dupnai (1968) Papuan Indonesian - runner.

Steven Kevi (1968) Papuan Indonesian - boxer.

John Hou (1968) Papuan Indonesian - sprinter.

Gidix Nasa (1968) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Erich Momberger (1968) Papuan Indonesian - decathlete. .

Henry Kungsi (1969) Papuan New Guinean - boxer.

Kaminiel Selot (1970) Papuan New Guinean - sprinter.

Godfrey Baniau (1970) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Ronny Wabia (1970) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Adrian Lam (1970) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

The Rock Breaker / Muhammad Rachman / Mohammad Rachman Sawaluddin bin Suhaimat (1971) Papuan Indonesian - boxer.

Bernard Manana (1972) Papuan New Guinean - sprinter.

Baobo Neuendorf (1972) Papuan New Guinean - sprinter.

Ricky Nalatu (1972) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Elias Paiyo (1972) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Bruce Mamando (1972) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Marcus Bai (1972) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Aples Tecuari (1973) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Chris Yarangga (1973) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Alexander Pulalo (1973) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

John Sem (1973) Papuan New Guinean - boxer.

Tapas Posman (1973) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Allan Akia (1973) Papuan Indonesian - sprinter.

Peter Moide (1974) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

Navu Maha (1974) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

Yanes Raubaba (1974) Papuan Indonesian - sprinter.

Ivan Wakit (1974) Papuan New Guinean - runner.

Stanley Gene (1974) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Eduard Ivakdalam (1974) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Graham Appo (1974) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Mark Mom (1974) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

David Westley (1974) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Peter Pulu (1975) Papuan New Guinean - athlete.

Alfred Songoro (1975) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Samuel Bai (1975) Papuan New Guinean - sprinter.

Amos Ali (1975) Papuan New Guinean - sprinter.

Kauna Vagi (1976) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

Mal Michael / Malcolm Michael (1977) Papuan New Guinean / Unspecified White - rugby league footballer.

Ortizan Solossa (1977) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Makali Aizue (1977) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Lukas Rumkabu (1977) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

John Wilshere (1978) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Archie Thompson (1978) Papuan New Guinean / Unspecified - footballer.

Jack Komboy (1978) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Duncan Na'awi (1978) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Mowen Boino (1979) Papuan Indonesian - track and field athlete.

Elie Aiboy (1979) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Andrew Lepani (1979) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Erol Iba (1979) Papuan Indoneisan - footballer.

Yan D. Ruatakurey (1979) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Jack Willie (1979) Papuan New Guinean - boxer.

Korneles Budam (1980) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Yohanes Kabagaimu (1980) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Yohanes L.G. Kabagaimu (1980) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Reggie Davani (1980) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Kevin Prior (1980) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Trevor Exton (1981) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Ryan Pini (1981) Papuan New Guinean - swimmer..

Wally Kirika (1982) Papuan New Guinean - sprinter.

Kema Jack (1982) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Sapolai Yao (1982) Papuan New Guinean - runner.

Izaac Wanggai (1982) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Steve Franciscus (1982) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Gerald Pangkali (1982) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Mauri Wasi (1982) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Nathaniel Lepani (1982) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Arifin Ginuni (1983) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Menzie Yere (1983) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Korinus Fingkreuw (1983) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Gari Moka (1983) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Pieter Rumaropen (1983) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

David Aua (1983) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Nehemia Solossa / Nehemia Bill Solossa (1983) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Yustinus Pae / Tinus Pae (1983) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Michael Bani (1984) Papuan New Guinean / Unspecified Indigenous Australian - footballer.

Gideon V. Way (1984) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Yopen Wandikbo (1984) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Raymond Ovinou (1984) Papuan New Guinean - judoka.

Eric Komeng (1984) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Nelson Stone (1984) Papuan New Guinean - runner.

Henari Veratau (1984) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Imanuel Padwa (1984) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Charlie Wabo (1984) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Kieran Chan (1984) Papuan New Guinean / Chinese - swimmer.

Christian Warobay / Marthen Christian Warobay (1984) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Jason Chan (1984) Papuan New Guinean / Chinese - footballer.

Cornelis Kaimu (1985) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Jeremy Yasasa (1985) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Yohanis Tjoe (1985) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

George Keppa (1985) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Edison Ames (1985) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Paul Aiton (1985) Papuan New Guinean / Unspecified - footballer.

Mayona Amtop / Ponsianus Y. Mayona Amtop (1985) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Neville Costigan (1985) Papuan New Guinean / Unspecified - footballer.

David Christian Uron (1985) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Anton Lui (1985) Papuan New Guinean - sprinter.

Yesaya Desnam / Yesaya Nickhanor Desnam (1985) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Michael Foster (1985) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Didi Gento Paroy (1985) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Richard Kambo (1985) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Selsius Gebze (1985) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Jessie Joe Parker (1985) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Nickson Kolo (1985) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Alex Davani (1985 or 1986) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Victor Pae (1986) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

James Nightingale (1986) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Kelly Jampu (1986) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Nur Iskandar / Muhammad Nur Iskandar (1986) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Leslie Kalai (1986) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Wayne Bond (1986) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Isak Konon / Isak Konon Wombon (1986) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Felix Bondaluke (1986) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Ian Kabes (1986) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Larsen Marape (1986) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Cornelius Geddy (1986) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Keith Peters (1986) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Ardiles Rumbiak (1986) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Francis Kompaon (1986) Papuan New Guinean - athlete.

Steven Hendambo (1986) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Raymond Gunemba (1986) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

James Gwilt (1986) Papuan New Guinean / Welsh - footballer.

Frangky Amo (1986) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Boaz Solossa (1986) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Assad Vala (1987) Papuan Indonesian - cricketer. .

Valentine Nelson (1987) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Frans Freno Sauyai (1987) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Scott Daruda (1986) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Tim Natusch (1986) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Ashley Seeto (1987) Papuan New Guinean - swimmer.

Willie Minoga (1987) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Cyril Muta (1987) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Koriak Upaiga (1987) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

George Slefendorfas (1987) Papuan New Guinean / Lithuanian - footballer.

Samuel Kini (1987) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

David Muta (1987) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Steven Imbiri (1987) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Rob Griffin / Rodney Griffin (1987) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Stevie Bonsapia (1988) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Niel Hans (1988) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Manu / Imanuel Wanggai (1988) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Ruben Sanadi (1988) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Pipi Raho (1988) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

Habel Satya (1988) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Tu'u Maori (1988) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Patrich Wanggai (1988) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Will Genia (1988) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Tom Butterfield / Tommy Butterfield (1988) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Jean Wilson Aleng (1988) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

David Mead / David Moore (1988) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Ricardo Merani (1989) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Izak Ogoai (1989) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Sam Joe (1989) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Fred Ferdinando Mote (1989) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Nasution Karubaba (1989) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Ronald Warisan (1989) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Wira Wama (1989) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Titus Bonai (1989) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Lukas Mandowen (1989) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Tyson Martin (1989) Papuan New Guinean / Unspecified White - footballer.

Joan Darome (1989) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Wempy Obure (1989) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Dominggus Fakdawer (1989) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Yance Youwei (1989) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Thompson Teteh (1989) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Vendry Mofu (1989) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Septinus Alua (1989) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Franklin Rumbiak (1989) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Morea Baru (1990) Papuan New Guinean - weightlifter.

Oktovianus Maniani (1990) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Wartovo Puara Jr (1990) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Boas Atururi (1990) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Ryan Tongia (1990) Papuan New Guinean, Chinese, German - footballer.

Brad McDonald (1990) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Alan Aronggear / Alan Arthur Aronggear (1990) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

John Reva (1990) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

Andri Ibo (1990) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

James Segeyaro (1990) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Nelson Alom (1990) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Aidan Toua (1990) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Mucklis Haay (1990) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Ray Thompson (1990) Papuan New Guinean / Unspecified Indigenous Australian - footballer.

Engelbert Sani (1990) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Daniel Joe (1990) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Moses Banggo (1990) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Bland Abavu (1990) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Jaelaniu Arey (1990) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Roland Bala (1990) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Mario Aibekob (1990) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Jamal Seeto (1990) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Daniel Tata (1990) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Kila Iaravai (1991) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Fandry Imbiri (1991) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Chad Soper (1991) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

Mario Reyaan (1991) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Henry Wan (1991) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Marco Kabiay (1991) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Kurt Baptiste (1991) Papuan New Guinean / Unspecified White - footballer.

Eldjo Iba (1991) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Nazmie-Lee Marai (1991) Papuan New Guinean - athlete.

Dedy Jaya Siregar (1992) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Toua Udia (1992) Papuan New Guinean - weightlifter.

Irvin Soskoy (1992) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Anis Nabar / Johanes Nabar (1992) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Sese Bau (1992) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

James Yoku (1992) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Feri Pahabol / Yohanes Pahabol / Yohanes Ferinando Pahabol (1992) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Emmanuel Simon (1992) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Ronaldo Meosido (1992) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Lega Siaka (1992) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

David Laly (1992) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Roni Beroperay (1992) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Steven Kari (1993) Papuan New Guinean - weightligter.

Cam Ellis-Yolmen (1993) Papuan New Guinean / Kokatha - footballer.

Ricky Kayame (1993) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Theo Piniau (1993) Papuan New Guinean - track and field athlete.

Ricky Kayame (1993) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Alei Nao (1993) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

Gilbert Dwaramury (1993) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Norman Vanua (1993) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

Yosua Pahabol (1993) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Rhyse Martin (1993) Papuan New Guinean / Unspecified White - footballer.

Obert Bika (1993) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Melcior Majefat (1994) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Rodney Mobiha (1994) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Ahmad Indra Pattikuppa (1994) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Dogodo Bau (1994) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

Ronal Semot (1994) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Patrick Aisa (1994) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Erik Sokoy (1994) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Samuel Seghers (1994) Papuan New Guinean - swimmer.

Israel Wamiau (1994) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Alwin Komolong (1994) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Muhammad Tahir (1994) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Nene Macdonald (1994) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Ronald Setmot (1994) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Damien Ravu (1994) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

Nerius Alom (1994) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Watson Boas (1994) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Alex Johnston (1995) Papuan New Guinean / Saibai - footballer.

Philip Steven (1995) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Papalau Awele (1995) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Hiri Hiri (1995) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer..

Stanton Albert (1995) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Prisca Womsiwor (1995) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Kiplin Doriga (1995) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

David Browne (1995) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Daniel Russell (1995) Papuan New Guinean / Unspecified White - footballer.

Yanto Basna / Rudolof Yanto Basna (1995) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Kyle Laybutt (1995) Papuan New Guinean / Unspecified White - footballer.

Nixon Put (1995) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Fred Oala (1996) Papuan New Guinean - weightlifter.

Terens Puhiri (1996) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Joshua Talau (1996) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Nosaina Pokana (1996) Papuan New Guinean - cricketer.

Marinus Wanewar (1997) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Thadius Katua (1997) Papuan New Guinean - boxer.

Osvaldo Haay (1997) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Felix Komolong (1997) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Ronaldo Wanma (1998) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Lachlan Lam (1998) Papuan New Guinean / Unspecified White - footballer.

Chico Aura Dwi Wardoyo (1998) Papuan Indonesian - badminton player.

Stahl Gubag (1999) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Gunansar Mandowen (2000) Papuan Indonesian - footballer.

Dairi Kovae (?) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Daroa Ben-Moide (?) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Desmond Mok (?) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Glen Nami (?) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

John Okul (?) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Nico Slain (?) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Eddie Aila (?) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Richard Alois (?) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Alex Haija (?) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Darius Haili (?) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Benjamin John (?) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Junior Rau (?) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Kolu Kepo (?) Papuan New Guinean - footballer.

Anton Kui (?) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Johnson Kuike (?) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Kungas Kuveu (?) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Timothy Lomai (?) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Levi Rumbewas (?) Papuan Indonesian - athlete and bodybuilder.

Arnold Krewanty (?) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

George Moni (?) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Brandy Peter (?) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Joseph Pombo (?) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Tumat Sugolik (?) Papuan New Guinean - boxer.  

Rodney Pora (?) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Arebo Taumaku (?) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

Barry Wilson (?) Papuan New Guinean - rugby league footballer.

[antoine-roquentin]

Here’s some Real interference in election campaigns

[Slightly abridged version of chapter 18 in William Blum’s Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower; see it for notes]

Philippines, 1950s:

Flagrant manipulation by the CIA of the nation’s political life, featuring stage-managed elections with extensive disinformation campaigns, heavy financing of candidates, writing their speeches, drugging the drinks of one of the opponents of the CIA-supported candidate so he would appear incoherent; plotting the assassination of another candidate. The oblivious New York Times declared that “It is not without reason that the Philippines has been called “democracy’s showcase in Asia”.

Italy, 1948-1970s:

Multifarious campaigns to repeatedly sabotage the electoral chances of the Communist Party and ensure the election of the Christian Democrats, long-favored by Washington.

Lebanon, 1950s:

The CIA provided funds to support the campaigns of President Camille Chamoun and selected parliamentary candidates; other funds were targeted against candidates who had shown less than total enchantment with US interference in Lebanese politics.

Indonesia, 1955:

A million dollars were dispensed by the CIA to a centrist coalition’s electoral campaign in a bid to cut into the support for President Sukarno’s party and the Indonesian Communist Party.

Vietnam, 1955:

The US was instrumental in South Vietnam canceling the elections scheduled to unify North and South because of the certainty that the North Vietnamese communist leader, Ho Chi Minh, would easily win.

British Guiana/Guyana, 1953-64:

For 11 years, two of the oldest democracies in the world, Great Britain and the United States, went to great lengths to prevent Cheddi Jagan – three times the democratically elected leader – from occupying his office. Using a wide variety of tactics – from general strikes and disinformation to terrorism and British legalisms – the US and Britain forced Jagan out of office twice during this period.

Japan, 1958-1970s:

The CIA emptied the US treasury of millions to finance the conservative Liberal Democratic Party in parliamentary elections, “on a seat-by-seat basis”, while doing what it could to weaken and undermine its opposition, the Japanese Socialist Party. The 1961-63 edition of the State Department’s annual Foreign Relations of the United States, published in 1996, includes an unprecedented disclaimer that, because of material left out, a committee of distinguished historians thinks “this published compilation does not constitute a ‘thorough, accurate, and reliable documentary record of major United States foreign policy decisions’” as required by law. The deleted material involved US actions from 1958-1960 in Japan, according to the State Department’s historian.

Nepal, 1959:

By the CIA’s own admission, it carried out an unspecified “covert action” on behalf of B.P. Koirala to help his Nepali Congress Party win the national parliamentary election. It was Nepal’s first national election ever, and the CIA was there to initiate them into the wonderful workings of democracy.

Laos, 1960:

CIA agents stuffed ballot boxes to help a hand-picked strongman, Phoumi Nosavan, set up a pro-American government.

Brazil, 1962:

The CIA and the Agency for International Development expended millions of dollars in federal and state elections in support of candidates opposed to leftist President João Goulart, who won anyway.

Dominican Republic, 1962:

In October 1962, two months before election day, US Ambassador John Bartlow Martin got together with the candidates of the two major parties and handed them a written notice, in Spanish and English, which he had prepared. It read in part: “The loser in the forthcoming election will, as soon as the election result is known, publicly congratulate the winner, publicly recognize him as the President of all the Dominican people, and publicly call upon his own supporters to so recognize him. … Before taking office, the winner will offer Cabinet seats to members of the loser’s party. (They may decline).”

As matters turned out, the winner, Juan Bosch, was ousted in a military coup seven months later, a slap in the face of democracy which neither Martin nor any other American official did anything about.

Guatemala, 1963:

The US overthrew the regime of General Miguel Ydigoras because he was planning to step down in 1964, leaving the door open to an election; an election that Washington feared would be won by the former president, liberal reformer and critic of US foreign policy, Juan José Arévalo. Ydigoras’s replacement made no mention of elections.

Bolivia, 1966:

The CIA bestowed $600,000 upon President René Barrientos and lesser sums to several right-wing parties in a successful effort to influence the outcome of national elections. Gulf Oil contributed two hundred thousand more to Barrientos.

Chile, 1964-70:

Major US interventions into national elections in 1964 and 1970, and congressional elections in the intervening years. Socialist Salvador Allende fell victim in 1964, but won in 1970 despite a multimillion-dollar CIA operation against him. The Agency then orchestrated his downfall in a 1973 military coup.

Portugal, 1974-5:

In the years following the coup in 1974 by military officers who talked like socialists, the CIA revved up its propaganda machine while funneling many millions of dollars to support “moderate” candidates, in particular Mario Soares and his (so-called) Socialist Party. At the same time, the Agency enlisted social-democratic parties of Western Europe to provide further funds and support to Soares. It worked. The Socialist Party became the dominant power.

Australia, 1974-75:

Despite providing considerable support for the opposition, the United States failed to defeat the Labor Party, which was strongly against the US war in Vietnam and CIA meddling in Australia. The CIA then used “legal” methods to unseat the man who won the election, Edward Gough Whitlam.

Jamaica, 1976:

A CIA campaign to defeat social democrat Michael Manley’s bid for reelection, featuring disinformation, arms shipments, labor unrest, economic destabilization, financial support for the opposition, and attempts upon Manley’s life. Despite it all, he was victorious.

Panama, 1984, 1989:

In 1984, the CIA helped finance a highly questionable presidential electoral victory for one of Manuel Noriega’s men. The opposition cried “fraud”, but the new president was welcomed at the White House. By 1989, Noriega was no longer a Washington favorite, so the CIA provided more than $10 million dollars to his electoral opponents.

Nicaragua, 1984, 1990:

In 1984, the United States, trying to discredit the legitimacy of the Sandinista government’s scheduled election, covertly persuaded the leading opposition coalition to not take part. A few days before election day, some other rightist parties on the ballot revealed that US diplomats had been pressing them to drop out of the race as well. The CIA also tried to split the Sandinista leadership by placing phoney full-page ads in neighboring countries. But the Sandinistas won handily in a very fair election monitored by hundreds of international observers.

Six years later, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), Washington’s specially created stand-in for the CIA, poured in millions of dollars to defeat Daniel Ortega and the Sandinistas in the February elections. NED helped organize the Nicaraguan opposition, UNO, building up the parties and organizations that formed and supported this coalition.

Perhaps most telling of all, the Nicaraguan people were made painfully aware that a victory by the Sandinistas would mean a continuation of the relentlessly devastating war being waged against them by Washington through their proxy army, the Contras.

Haiti, 1987-1988:

After the Duvalier dictatorship came to an end in 1986, the country prepared for its first free elections ever. However, Haiti’s main trade union leader declared that Washington was working to undermine the left. US aid organizations, he said, were encouraging people in the countryside to identify and reject the entire left as “communist”. Meanwhile, the CIA was involved in a range of support for selected candidates until the US Senate Intelligence Committee ordered the Agency to cease its covert electoral action.

Bulgaria, 1990-1991 and Albania, 1991-1992:

With no regard for the fragility of these nascent democracies, the US interfered broadly in their elections and orchestrated the ousting of their elected socialist governments.

Russia, 1996:

For four months (March-June), a group of veteran American political consultants worked secretly in Moscow in support of Boris Yeltsin’s presidential campaign. Boris Yeltsin was being counted on to run with the globalized-free market ball and it was imperative that he cross the goal line. The Americans emphasized sophisticated methods of message development, polling, focus groups, crowd staging, direct-mailing, etc., and advised against public debates with the Communists. Most of all they encouraged the Yeltsin campaign to “go negative” against the Communists, painting frightening pictures of what the Communists would do if they took power, including much civic upheaval and violence, and, of course, a return to the worst of Stalinism. Before the Americans came on board, Yeltsin was favored by only six percent of the electorate. In the first round of voting, he edged the Communists 35 percent to 32, and was victorious in the second round 54 to 40 percent.

Mongolia, 1996:

The National Endowment for Democracy worked for several years with the opposition to the governing Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party (MPRR, the former Communists) who had won the 1992 election to achieve a very surprising electoral victory. In the six-year period leading up to the 1996 elections, NED spent close to a million dollars in a country with a population of some 2.5 million, the most significant result of which was to unite the opposition into a new coalition, the National Democratic Union. Borrowing from Newt Gingrich’s Contract With America, the NED drafted a “Contract With the Mongolian Voter”, which called for private property rights, a free press and the encouragement of foreign investment. The MPRR had already instituted Western-style economic reforms, which had led to widespread poverty and wiped out much of the communist social safety net. But the new government promised to accelerate the reforms, including the privatization of housing. By 1998 it was reported that the US National Security Agency had set up electronic listening posts in Outer Mongolia to intercept Chinese army communications, and the Mongolian intelligence service was using nomads to gather intelligence in China itself.

Bosnia, 1998:

Effectively an American protectorate, with Carlos Westendorp – the Spanish diplomat appointed to enforce Washington’s offspring: the 1995 Dayton peace accords – as the colonial Governor-General. Before the September elections for a host of offices, Westendorp removed 14 Croatian candidates from the ballot because of alleged biased coverage aired in Bosnia by neighboring Croatia’s state television and politicking by ethnic Croat army soldiers. After the election, Westendorp fired the elected president of the Bosnian Serb Republic, accusing him of creating instability. In this scenario those who appeared to support what the US and other Western powers wished were called “moderates”, and allowed to run for and remain in office. Those who had other thoughts were labeled “hard-liners”, and ran the risk of a different fate. When Westendorp was chosen to assume this position of “high representative” in Bosnia in May 1997, The Guardian of London wrote that “The US secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, praised the choice. But some critics already fear that Mr. Westendorp will prove too lightweight and end up as a cipher in American hands.”

Nicaragua, 2001

Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega was once again a marked man. US State Department officials tried their best to publicly associate him with terrorism, including just after September 11 had taken place, and to shamelessly accuse Sandinista leaders of all manner of violations of human rights, civil rights, and democracy. The US ambassador literally campaigned for Ortega’s opponent, Enrique Bolaños. A senior analyst in Nicaragua for Gallup, the international pollsters, was moved to declare: “Never in my whole life have I seen a sitting ambassador get publicly involved in a sovereign country’s electoral process, nor have I ever heard of it.”

At the close of the campaign, Bolaños announced: “If Ortega comes to power, that would provoke a closing of aid and investment, difficulties with exports, visas and family remittances. I’m not just saying this. The United States says this, too. We cannot close our eyes and risk our well-being and work. Say yes to Nicaragua, say no to terrorism.”

In the end, the Sandinistas lost the election by about ten percentage points after steadily leading in the polls during much of the campaign.

Bolivia, 2002

The American bête noire here was Evo Morales, Amerindian, former member of Congress, socialist, running on an anti-neoliberal, anti-big business, and anti-coca eradication campaign. The US Ambassador declared: “The Bolivian electorate must consider the consequences of choosing leaders somehow connected with drug trafficking and terrorism.” Following September 11, painting Officially Designated Enemies with the terrorist brush was de rigueur US foreign policy rhetoric.

The US Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs warned that American aid to the country would be in danger if Mr. Morales was chosen. Then the ambassador and other US officials met with key figures from Bolivia’s main political parties in an effort to shore up support for Morales’s opponent, Sanchez de Lozada. Morales lost the vote.

Slovakia, 2002

To defeat Vladimir Meciar, former prime minister, a man who did not share Washington’s weltanschauung about globalization, the US ambassador explicitly warned the Slovakian people that electing him would hurt their chances of entry into the European Union and NATO. The US ambassador to NATO then arrived and issued his own warning. The National Endowment for Democracy was also on hand to influence the election. Meciar lost.

El Salvador, 2004

Washington’s target in this election was Schafik Handal, candidate of the FMLN, the leftist former guerrilla group. He said he would withdraw El Salvador’s 380 troops from Iraq as well as reviewing other pro-US policies; he would also take another look at the privatizations of Salvadoran industries, and would reinstate diplomatic relations with Cuba. His opponent was Tony Saca of the incumbent Arena Party, a pro-US, pro-free market organization of the extreme right, which in the bloody civil war days had featured death squads and the infamous assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero.

During a February visit to the country, the US Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, met with all the presidential candidates except Handal. He warned of possible repercussions in US-Salvadoran relations if Handal were elected. Three Republican congressmen threatened to block the renewal of annual work visas for some 300,000 Salvadorans in the United States if El Salvador opted for the FMLN. And Congressman Thomas Tancredo of Colorado stated that if the FMLN won, “it could mean a radical change” in US policy on remittances to El Salvador.

Washington’s attitude was exploited by Arena and the generally conservative Salvadoran press, who mounted a scare campaign, and it became widely believed that a Handal victory could result in mass deportations of Salvadorans from the United States and a drop in remittances. Arena won the election with about 57 percent of the vote to some 36 percent for the FMLN.

After the election, the US ambassador declared that Washington’s policies concerning immigration and remittances had nothing to do with any election in El Salvador. There appears to be no record of such a statement being made in public before the election when it might have had a profound positive effect for the FMLN.

Afghanistan, 2004

The US ambassador to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, went around putting great pressure on one candidate after another to withdraw from the presidential race so as to insure the victory for Washington’s man, the incumbent, Hamid Karzai in the October election. There was nothing particularly subtle about it. Khalilzad told each one what he wanted and then asked them what they needed. Karzai, a long-time resident in the United States, was described by the Washington Post as “a known and respected figure at the State Department and National Security Council and on Capitol Hill.”

“Our hearts have been broken because we thought we could have beaten Mr. Karzai if this had been a true election,” said Sayed Mustafa Sadat Ophyani, campaign manager for Younis Qanooni, Karzai’s leading rival. “But it is not. Mr. Khalilzad is putting a lot of pressure on us and does not allow us to fight a good election campaign.”.

None of the major candidates actually withdrew from the election, which Karzai won with about 56 percent of the votes.

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Australian Pen Pal

Hello! My name is Edward. Pleased to meet you :) Hola! Mi nombre es Edward. Encantado en concerte. Hei! Jet heter Edward. Hyggelig å treffe deg. Konnichiwa! Edward desu. Hajimemashite. Salut! Eu sunt Edward. Îmi pare bine. Halo! Nama saya Edward. Senang bertemu dengan Anda. Yes, I just attempted to introduce myself in English, Spanish, Norwegian, Japanese, Romanian and Indonesian. I am only fluent in English but I used to study Japanese (8 years) and Indonesian (4 years). I am also Romanian myself and am currently interested in studying Spanish. I should be moving to Spain soon, in either a few months to two-three years at the latest to live with family. One of my goals in life is to be a polyglot, speak the above languages and many more. Currently I also want to be fluent in Arabic, Mandarin, Old Norse and Korean. As you already know, my name is Edward. I live in Victoria, Australia and am turning fifteen in a few months. Sagittarius is my sun sign, and for those interested my Venus is in Capricorn. I’m interested in email pen pals because I want to have friends from all around the world and from varying cultures. I want to open myself up to finding true friends, and since I’m extroverted, I would like to expand my friendship circle. I have an entj/intj personality type and have been sorted into Slytherin more times than most. For those Ilvermony fans, I’m sorted into Pukwudgie. My interests involve that of science, especially metaphysics and theories. I’m also a writer, I’ve been writing for eight years now and I’m an activist. A lgbt+ and vegan activist to be specific. I spend my free time with friends or researching anything that piques my interest at that moment. Its usually to do with business, psychology, politics or history half of the time, but sometimes its the mundane things like fashion and sports. I am not currently playing any sports due to doctors advice, but I’m really interested in figure skating, football (soccer), volleyball and rugby. No, I don’t actively support anyone except maybe RealMadrid for Football. I wasn’t raised in a sport-crazed family so that is why I don’t know a lot about sports. My hobbies include bodybuilding, gardening and cooking. I also love Anime, but I rarely find time in my day to watch anything, so its something I watch rarely. If you’re interested in contacting me, here are my details: Instagram: edangelowragg (feel free to request me here!) Email: angelowragg@outlook.com I can only do digital pen-palling (is that even a word?) at the moment. No preference with gender identity, religion, race or sexuality. Ages 14-23 preferred.

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Events 8.5

AD 25 – Guangwu claims the throne as Emperor of China, restoring the Han dynasty after the collapse of the short-lived Xin dynasty. 135 – Roman armies enter Betar, slaughtering thousands and ending the bar Kokhba revolt. 642 – Battle of Maserfield: Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Northumbria. 910 – The last major Danish army to raid England for nearly a century is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward the Elder and Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians. 939 – The Battle of Alhandic is fought between Ramiro II of León and Abd-ar-Rahman III at Zamora in the context of the Spanish Reconquista. The battle resulted in a victory for the Emirate of Córdoba. 1068 – Byzantine–Norman wars: Italo-Normans begin a nearly-three-year siege of Bari. 1100 – Henry I is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey. 1278 – Spanish Reconquista: the forces of the Kingdom of Castile initiate the ultimately futile Siege of Algeciras against the Emirate of Granada. 1388 – The Battle of Otterburn, a border skirmish between the Scottish and the English in Northern England, is fought near Otterburn. 1506 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Crimean Khanate in the Battle of Kletsk. 1583 – Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes the first English colony in North America, at what is now St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. 1600 – The Gowrie Conspiracy against King James VI of Scotland (later to become King James I of England) takes place. 1620 – The Mayflower departs from Southampton, England, carrying would-be settlers, on its first attempt to reach North America; it is forced to dock in Dartmouth when its companion ship, the Speedwell, springs a leak. 1689 – Beaver Wars: Fifteen hundred Iroquois attack Lachine in New France. 1716 – Austro-Turkish War (1716–1718): One-fifth of a Turkish army and the Grand Vizier are killed in the Battle of Petrovaradin. 1735 – Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true. 1763 – Pontiac's War: Battle of Bushy Run: British forces led by Henry Bouquet defeat Chief Pontiac's Indians at Bushy Run. 1781 – The Battle of Dogger Bank takes place. 1796 – The Battle of Castiglione in Napoleon's first Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars. 1816 – The British Admiralty dismisses Francis Ronalds's new invention of the first working electric telegraph as "wholly unnecessary", preferring to continue using the semaphore. 1824 – Greek War of Independence: Konstantinos Kanaris leads a Greek fleet to victory against Ottoman and Egyptian naval forces in the Battle of Samos. 1858 – Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts. It will operate for less than a month. 1860 – Charles XV of Sweden of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway in Trondheim. 1861 – American Civil War: In order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government levies the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 (3% of all incomes over US$800; rescinded in 1872). 1861 – The United States Army abolishes flogging. 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Baton Rouge: Along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Confederate troops attempt to take the city, but are driven back by fire from Union gunboats. 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Mobile Bay begins at Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports. 1874 – Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom. 1884 – The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor. 1888 – Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008. 1901 – Peter O'Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of 24 ft 11.75 in (7.6137 m), a record that would stand for 20 years. 1906 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, King of Iran, agrees to convert the government to a constitutional monarchy. 1914 – World War I: The German minelayer SS Königin Luise lays a minefield about 40 miles (64 km) off the Thames Estuary (Lowestoft). She is intercepted and sunk by the British light-cruiser HMS Amphion. 1914 – World War I: The guns of Point Nepean fort at Port Phillip Heads in Victoria (Australia) fire across the bows of the Norddeutscher Lloyd steamer SS Pfalz which is attempting to leave the Port of Melbourne in ignorance of the declaration of war and she is detained; this is said to be the first Allied shot of the War. 1914 – In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed. 1916 – World War I: Battle of Romani: Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai Peninsula. 1925 – Plaid Cymru is formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language that is at the time in danger of dying out. 1926 – Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping. 1940 – World War II: The Soviet Union formally annexes Latvia. 1944 – World War II: At least 1,104 Japanese POWs in Australia attempt to escape from a camp at Cowra, New South Wales; 545 temporarily succeed but are later either killed, commit suicide, or are recaptured. 1944 – World War II: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp (Gęsiówka) in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners. 1944 – World War II: The Nazis begin a week-long massacre of between 40,000 and 50,000 civilians and prisoners of war in Wola, Poland. 1949 – In Ecuador, an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6,000. 1957 – American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage "baby-boomers" by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network. 1960 – Burkina Faso, then known as Upper Volta, becomes independent from France. 1962 – Apartheid: Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990. 1962 – American actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead at her home from a drug overdose. 1963 – Cold War: The United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union sign the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. 1964 – Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow: American aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. 1965 – The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 begins as Pakistani soldiers cross the Line of Control dressed as locals. 1969 – The Lonesome Cowboys police raid occurs in Atlanta, Georgia, leading to the creation of the Georgia Gay Liberation Front. 1971 – The first Pacific Islands Forum (then known as the "South Pacific Forum") is held in Wellington, New Zealand, with the aim of enhancing cooperation between the independent countries of the Pacific Ocean. 1973 – Mars 6 is launched from the USSR. 1974 – Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress places a $1 billion limit on military aid to South Vietnam. 1974 – Watergate scandal: President Richard Nixon, under orders of the US Supreme Court, releases the "Smoking Gun" tape, recorded on June 23, 1972, clearly revealing his actions in covering up and interfering investigations into the break-in. His political support vanishes completely. 1979 – In Afghanistan, Maoists undertake the Bala Hissar uprising against the Leninist government. 1981 – President Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work. 1984 – A Biman Bangladesh Airlines Fokker F27 Friendship crashes on approach to Zia International Airport, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing all 49 people on board. 1995 – Yugoslav Wars: The city of Knin, Croatia, a significant Serb stronghold, is captured by Croatian forces during Operation Storm. The date is celebrated in Croatia as Victory Day. 2003 – A car bomb explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta outside the Marriott Hotel killing 12 and injuring 150. 2010 – The Copiapó mining accident occurs, trapping 33 Chilean miners approximately 2,300 ft (700 m) below the ground for 69 days. 2010 – Ten members of International Assistance Mission Nuristan Eye Camp team are killed by persons unknown in Kuran wa Munjan District of Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan. 2012 – The Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting took place in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing six victims; the perpetrator committed suicide after being wounded by police. 2015 – The Environmental Protection Agency at Gold King Mine waste water spill releases three million gallons of heavy metal toxin tailings and waste water into the Animas River in Colorado. 2019 – Revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir (state) occurred and the state was bifurcated into two union territories viz Jammu and Kashmir (union territory) and Ladakh. 2020 – Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends the 'Bhoomi Pujan' or land worship ceremony in Ayodhya, laid the foundation stone of Rama Mandir in Ayodhya after Supreme Court rules verdict in favor of building the temple on the disputed land of Ayodhya; Pakistan retaliates by calling it 'Black Day'.

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Australian Pen Pal



Hello! My name is Edward. Pleased to meet you :)

Hola! Mi nombre es Edward. Encantado en concerte.

Hei! Jet heter Edward. Hyggelig å treffe deg.

Konnichiwa! Edward desu. Hajimemashite.

Salut! Eu sunt Edward. Îmi pare bine.

Halo! Nama saya Edward. Senang bertemu dengan Anda.

Yes, I just attempted to introduce myself in English, Spanish, Norwegian, Japanese, Romanian and Indonesian. I am only fluent in English but I used to study Japanese (8 years) and Indonesian (4 years). I am also Romanian myself and am currently interested in studying Spanish. I should be moving to Spain soon, in either a few months to two-three years at the latest to live with family. One of my goals in life is to be a polyglot, speak the above languages and many more. Currently I also want to be fluent in Arabic, Mandarin, Old Norse and Korean.

As you already know, my name is Edward. I live in Victoria, Australia and am turning fifteen in a few months. Sagittarius is my sun sign, and for those interested my Venus is in Capricorn.

I’m interested in email pen pals because I want to have friends from all around the world and from varying cultures. I want to open myself up to finding true friends, and since I’m extroverted, I would like to expand my friendship circle.

I have an entj/intj personality type and have been sorted into Slytherin more times than most. For those Ilvermony fans, I’m sorted into Pukwudgie.

My interests involve that of science, especially metaphysics and theories. I’m also a writer, I’ve been writing for eight years now and I’m an activist. A lgbt+ and vegan activist to be specific. I spend my free time with friends or researching anything that piques my interest at that moment. Its usually to do with business, psychology, politics or history half of the time, but sometimes its the mundane things like fashion and sports.

I am not currently playing any sports due to doctors advice, but I’m really interested in figure skating, football (soccer), volleyball and rugby. No, I don’t actively support anyone except maybe RealMadrid for Football. I wasn’t raised in a sport-crazed family so that is why I don’t know a lot about sports.

My hobbies include bodybuilding, gardening and cooking. I also love Anime, but I rarely find time in my day to watch anything, so its something I watch rarely.

Oh, I’m also homoflexible panromantic!

If you’re interested in contacting me, here are my details:

Instagram: edangelowragg (feel free to request me here!)

Email: angelowragg@outlook.com

I can only do digital pen-palling (is that even a word?) at the moment. No preference with gender identity, religion, race or sexuality. Ages 14-23 preferred.

March 21, 2018

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Asian Anarchist, Anti-colonial and Anti-Authoritarian Reading List

Note: This was originally just a reading list that wasn’t started by me. The project eventually got abandoned and I remembered it recently, so I’m posting it here instead of Google Docs so more people can actually use it. I tried to clean it up a little but I’m too lazy to take away a bunch of the idiosyncrasies and asides that accumulated. Whatever could be found online (for free) is listed, whatever couldn’t is listed with the place to buy the book in question. Also I don’t use Tumblr so I have no clue if this will like delete itself or anything. Oh and Anti-Authoritarianism and Anarchism are used interchangeably, and things that really shouldn’t be considered anarchism (Indigenous Resistance to states and modern society for example) is listed because honestly more people need to know about it anyways.  Share this if you want, it was rotting away on some godforsaken corner of the internet anyways, it needs sunlight. 

Global Anarchism

Non-Western Anarchisms, Rethinking the Global Context (Jason Adams)

The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia by James C. Scott  (Libgen link to The Art Of Not Being Governed here)

Bibliography of Western Language Publications on Asian Anarchism  (Compiled by: Eef Vermeij / 2nd draft, August 2015)

Anarchism A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas  (Compiled by Robert Graham)

Pan-Asian Struggles and Solidarity & General Anarchism

Building a Non-Eurocentric Anarchism in Our Communities: Dialogue with Ashanti Alston (Institute of Anarchist Studies)

Legacy to Liberation: Politics and Culture of Revolutionary Asian/Pacific America edited by Fred Ho

Against Communism, Against Capitalism: The New Asian Revolution by Anonymous

Asian Anarchism: China, Japan, Korea, India

Leftism in East Asia

Chinese Anarchism

The Chinese Anarchist Movement by George T. Yu and Robert Scalapino (The Anarchist Library)

What Women Should Know About Communism by He Zhen 何殷震(PDF)

Towards an Anarchist History of the Chinese Revolution by Andrew Flood

He Zhen and Anarcho-Feminism in China by Peter Zarrow (PDF)

The Individual in Early Chinese Anarchism: Feminism and Utopianism in the Tianyi (Natural Justice) by Ole Fossgård  

Anarchism and Chinese Political Culture by Peter Zarrow

Shifu, Soul of Chinese Anarchism by Edward S. Krebs

Anarchist Publications of the May Fourth Era by Daniel SS Cairns

Chinese American Anarchism (+ Ungovernability?) (Asian American Anarchism)?

Chinese Anarchists in the U.S. by syndicalist (libcom.org)

The Equality Society: Chinese Anarchists in the 1920s USA by Mitchell Landsberg (anarkismo.net)

Anarchism in Hong Kong

An account and critique of the 1970s Hong Kong libertarian socialist group 70s Front by Ken Knabb (libcom.org)

Anarchism in Japan

A Brief History of Japanese Anarchism

Anarchist Opposition to Japanese Militarism, 1926-37 by John Crump (flag.blackened.net)  

The Anarchist Movement in Japan, 1906-1996 by John Crump (The Anarchist Library)

E-texts of Shusui Kotoku’s works in Japanese

Against the God Emperor: The Anarchist Treason Trials in Japan by Stefan Anarkowic (AK Press)

The Labor Movement in Japan by Sen Katayama

1868-2000: Anarchism in Japan (libcom.org)

A Unique Tradition of Materialism in Japan by Katsuhiko Endo

Anarcho-syndicalism in Japan: 1911 to 1934 by Philippe Pelletier

Bakunin and Japan (An history of Bakunin, Osugi Sakae, and Anarchists in Japan) (Libcom.org)

ZENGAKUREN: Japan's Revolutionary Students  A collection of essays and histories translated from the original Japanese.

Uprising: Music, youth, and protest against the policies of the Abe Shinzo government (Asia-Pacific Journal)

Monster of the Twentieth Century: Kotoku Shusui and Japan’s First Anti-Imperialist Movement by Robert Thomas Tierney (Contains both a history of Shusui’s works and an actual translation of Shusui’s Imperialism)

Anarchism/Leftism in Korea

Chronology: The Pre-War Korean Anarchist Movement

The Story of the Korean Anarchists and the Anarchist Revolution in Manchuria, 1929-1931 by Eric Every

The Korean Anarchist Movement

Anarchism in Korea: Independence, Transnationalism, and the Question of National Development, 1919-1984 by Dongyoun Hwang (2016)

Who Was Yo Un-Hyung? by Lee Wha Yang (Part II here)

Gwangju and the Paris Commune  by George Katsiaficas on grassroots and decentralized uprisings.

Leftism in the Pacific

Imminent Rebellion 9 - An anarchist journal from the South Pacific

How the Polynesian Panthers Changed Our World

The Anarchist Confederation of Oceania

Anarchism in Tonga

Tonga - (libcom)

Anarchism in Samoa

The Mau Movement - (sidenote: bummed this blog is no longer active.)

Anarchism in New Zealand

Anarchism.nz

Interview with Sam Buchanan in Aotearoa New Zealand (Alpine Anarchist)

Women in the Polynesian Panthers Legacy - Paving the Way

Rabble Rousers and Merry Pranksters: A History of Anarchism in Aotearoa/New Zealand From the Mid-1950s to the Early 1980s by Toby Boraman (2008)

“It’s Not Black and White - It’s Blurry”: An Interview with Teanu Tuiono

Tino Rangatiratanga and Capitalism by Teanu Tuiono (Whenua Fenua Enua Vanua)

The Evolution of Contemporary Maori Protest

Leftism in South East Asia

The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia by James C. Scott (Libgen link to The Art Of Not Being Governed here)

Repelling States: Evidence from Upland Southeast Asia 

Anarchism/Leftism in the Philippines

The Age of Globalization by Benedict Anderson

About anarchist history in the Philippines (libcom)

An Archipelagic Confederation by Bas Umali

Gasera Journal - A oneoff publication by anarchist inspired activists in the Philippines. Articles are a mix of Tagalog and English.

Suspended Apocalypse: White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Filipino Condition - by Dylan Rodriguez

Cordilleran Resistance to the Philippine government

Macli-ing Dulag

Anarchism in Indonesia

Anarchism in Central Java, Indonesia - an interview with local anarchists by a WSM supporter travelling in the region (Workers Solidarity Movement)

A 2010 interview with Indonesian anarchists about the anarchist movement

Anarchism in Cambodia

Cambodia: Anti-Colonial Protest 1863 - 1945 (Blackwell Ref. Library.)

Anarchism in Vietnam

In the Crossfire: Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary by Ngo Van, trans. by Hélène Fleury and Ken Knabb (eBook) (Libgen link to In the Crossfire here)

Anti-colonial Religious Movement In Vietnam

Early History of Vietnam - Anti-Colonial Struggle

The Anti-Colonial Movement in Vietnam

Phan Boi Chau & Dong Du

Anarchism in Thailand

Political Unrest in Thailand (libcom)

Class Struggle for Democracy in Thailand (Naked Punch)

Anarchism in Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur: Police raid Anarchist space 

Leftism in South Asia

South Asian Anarchism: Paths to Praxis (Attack the System)

Revolutionary Lives in South Asia: Acts and Afterlives of Anticolonial Political Action (Routledge, Google Books)

Anarchism in India

The Gulabi Gang (Utter Pradesh, North India) (Shades of Brown)

Har Dayal’s Writings in Punjabi

Decolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of India’s Liberation Struggle by Maia Ramnath

Decolonizing Anarchism: An Interview with Maia Ramnath (Institute for Anarchist Studies)

Dalit Theology and Christian Anarchism

Anarchism in Pakistan

News of Anarchism - Pakistan (Scribd)

Anarchists of Pakistan (Facebook guh)

The Pakistani Experiment in Anarchism (dawn.com)

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WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEKEND May 10, 2019  - POKEMON: DETECTIVE PIKACHU, THE HUSTLE, TOLKIEN and More

It’s Mother’s Day weekend and while Avengers: Endgame seems to holding strong, we get four new movies in wide release, two of which I’ve seen, both of which are pretty decent. Unfortunately, due to illness, I’m running a bit late on this column, but I’ll try not to cut too many corners.

The big movie this weekend is POKÉMON: DETECTIVE PIKACHU (Warner Bros.), starring Ryan Reynolds as the voice of Pikachu and Justice Smith from Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, plus the likes of Bill Nighy and Ken Watanabe, the latter who seems to be Legendary Pictures’ go-to Japanese actor. (He’ll be appearing in Godzilla: King of the Monsters later this month.) I’m hoping to still get around to reviewing the movie, but I will say that I generally enjoyed it, even if my connection to the material was the old TV cartoon rather than any of the games. (Look for that review before Friday, if I’m able to get my ass gear. In the meantime, here’s my interview with director Rob Letterman.)

I’ve been interested in the Anne Hathaway-Rebel Wilson comedy THE HUSTLE (U.A. Releasing) since it was called “Nasty Women” and was a straight-up remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, but I just haven’t had time to catch the one press screening, so it looks like I’ll have to catch this sometime down the road.

And then there’s POMS (STXfilms), a new Diane Keaton comedy featuring an ensemble of actresses in their prime, including Pam Grier and Jacki Weaver. While this doesn’t look like my kind of movie, I totally would have gone to see it if I could, but I’m less apt to see it than The Hustle.

The other movie opening Friday which I’ve seen and enjoyed is TOLKIEN (Fox Searchlight), directed by Dome Karukoski (Tom of Finland) and starring Nicholas Hoult as J.R.R. Tolkien and Lily Collins as his wife Edith Bratt. I’m hoping this finds an audience, even though it’s obviously competing with much stronger and more high-profile films.

Mini-Review: I began to watch this movie with some trepidation, because at least at first, it seemed to be a typical biopic, much like director Dome Karukoski’s previous film. At least as the film began, it cut between Nicholas Hoult’s Tolkien while on the frontlines during WWII and his early schooldays at King Edwards and then Oxford, where he formed a bond with three other students.

To be honest, I wasn’t sure I necessary needed to see a Dead Poet’s Society type way of getting the viewer to know more about the fantasy author, but that’s just a very small part of the film. Where the film really picks up is when Hoult and Collins take over their respective roles, because this is when the romance between Tolkien and Edith becomes a larger part of the story. It’s a bittersweet tale where Tolkien is forced to pick going to Oxford over continuing this romance by Colm Meany’s pries, who has become Tolkien’s guardian after his mother dies suddenly. The majority of the film bounces between Tolkien in the trenches and dealing with school issues, being a poverty-stricken orphan, but he finds an ally in Derek Jacobi’s headmaster.

I’m constantly impressed by what Hoult has been doing as an actor as he gets older, but Collins really brings more to their scenes together than any of the classmates or acting veterans.

Tolkien is a flawed film for sure, but the last half hour is so abundantly full of feels it’s easy to forgive the earlier problems, as Tolkien seeks out one of his school chums on the battlefield, a part of the movie where Karukoski is allowed to shine as a director. (Honestly, I think Steven Spielberg would be quite proud if he made this movie, and that’s saying something.)

I’m not sure this movie will be for everyone, even those who love Tolkien’s work as much as I do, but as a testament to what an amazing life he had before he started writing The Hobbit, it’s quite an amazing story with a worthy film to tell it.

Rating: 8.5/10

You can find out my thoughts on the weekend box office over at The Beat.

LIMITED RELEASES

There’s actually some decent movies opening this weekend, but the one that I want to give special attention to is John Chester’s doc THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM (NEON), which is all about how he and his wife Molly left their California apartment living behind to try to develop a 200-acre sustainable farm outside L.A.  For months, my favorite doc of the year was NEON’s Apollo 11 about the 1969 moon launch, but this quickly took it over after I saw it, because it’s amazingly educational in terms of what it takes to make a farm work. It also looks absolutely fantastic, and seeing the trailer in IMAX in front of Apollo 11 made me really want to see it. If you want to see a great doc that hopefully will be in theaters over the summer, then definitely look for this one. I’m sure it will open in a few cities Friday but hopefully NEON will do another great job getting out there as they did with Apollo 11 and Three Identical Strangers last year. This movie is a MUST SEE.

Kenneth Branagh directs and plays William Shakespeare in his new historical movie ALL IS TRUE (Sony Pictures Classics) which also costars Dame Judi Dench and Ian McKellen. It follows Shakespeare on his return home to Stratford after the Globe Theater has burned down, as he tries to reconnect with his older wife (Dench) and his two estranged daughters. This is a fine film if you’re a fan of Shakespeare’s works and were interested in knowing more about his last days, because it features a great script by Ben Elton, and fine performances by Branagh and Kathryn Wilder as his younger daughter Judith, who gets caught up in controversy while trying to find a husband. It will open in New York and L.A. this weekend, and you should look out for my interview with Sir Kenneth over at The Beat in the next couple days.

Opening at the Metrograph this week is Abel Ferrara’s PASOLINI (Kino Lorber), an amazing look at the Italian filmmaker as played by Willem Dafoe. I’m not particularly familiar with Pier Paolo Pasolini’s work, although the Metrograph did a pretty extensive retrospective last year. Like with All is True above, the movie covers the last days in the filmmaker’s life, and it proved to me that Dafoe is doing some of the best work of his career these days and like a few others (Woody Harrelson and Ethan Hawke, for instance), you can put Dafoe in your movie, and it will immediately make it better. I haven’t seen much of Ferrara’s recent work but I feel it’s been a while he’s been at the height of his greatness with Bad Lieutenant and King of New York, so it’s nice to see him creating a new movie in that general vein.  Apparently, Ferrara’s movie premiered at Cannes many, many moons ago, but I think it was a smart move by Kino Lorber to save the movie and give it a release. By pure coincidence… or not… MOMA has been having a Ferrara retrospective (see below), so if you haven’t been able to get up there and see the movie, then you now have a chance with Ferrara and Dafoe doing QnAs after a few showings this weekend.

Matt Smith plays cult leader Charles Manson in CHARLIE SAYS (IFC Films), the new movie from American Psycho and The Notorious Bettie Page director Mary Harron along with her frequent collaborator, writer Guinevere Turner. As a huge fan of their previous moviesand with interest in the subject matter, I’m not sure why I never got around to watching the screener I’ve had for months, but much of it has to do with how generally busy I’ve been. Anyway, it will open in around 35 theaters and be on VOD this weekend if you have similar interest.

Opening at the Film Forum Wednesday is Almedea Carracedo and Robert Bahar ‘s doc THE SILENCE OF OTHERS (Argot PIctures). Executive Produced and presented by Pedro Almodovar, this is an amazing film about the horrendous crimes committed under the Franco regime in Spain by people who were able to get away scott-free when it was decided to create an Amnesty Pact of “Forgiving” after Franco’s death. The thing is that there are people who had been tortured or had loved ones killed who are hoping to get justice or just get their bodies back from mass graves, and this doc covers those amazing efforts. Frankly, I found this film to be far more interesting than Joshua Oppenheimer’s similar films about the crimes by the Indonesian government in The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence.

The Quad Cinema will have two new exclusive releases starting Friday, beginning with Christian Carion’s French thriller MY SON (Cohen Media), starring Guillaume Canet as a man whose son has been kidnapped, so he travels across France to where his ex-wife (Melanie Laurent) lives to try to solve the crime.

Also, the Quad will be showing Nicolas Brown’s doc The Serengeti Rules (Abramorama), which looks at five ecologists who broke new ground with scientific concepts we take for granted, and it looks at how the Serengeti might be the place to look for civilizaton’s sustainable future.

Amy Poehler makes her feature directorial debut with the comedy Wine Country (Netflix), which is getting the usual nominal theatrical release in a handful of theaters but mostly will be on the streaming network. It co-stars long-tie Poehler pals Maya Rudoloph, Tina Fey, Ana Gasteyer and Paula Pell, but I’m excited to see it for Maya Erskine from the Hulu show Pen15 and the upcoming rom-com Plus One, which was one of my favorite movies at Tribeca. (Don’t worry.. I’ve started writing something about that festival, too, so stay tuned!)

Opening in New York at the Cinema Village and in L.A. at Arena Cinelounge is Akash Sherman’s Clara (Screen Media), starring Patrick J. Adams as Isaac Bruno, an astronomer looking for life beyond Earth. This becomes more of a reality when he meets Troian Bellisario’s artist Clara, who shares his interest in space.

After years of problems and lawsuits, Farhad Safinia’s The Professor and the Madman (Vertical) is finally seeing the light of day, no thanks to a lawsuit put on it by star and producer Mel Gibson, who plays Professor James Murray, who begins compiling the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, receiving 10,000 entries from Dr. William Minor (Sean Penn), who is a patient at a asylum for the criminally insane. I have no idea how bad this movie must be to be buried as long as it has, but it has a great cast including Eddie Marsan, Natalie Dormer, Stephen Dillane, Jennifer Ehle and Ioan Gruffudd, so how bad can it really be? Good luck finding it in theaters but it will prbobably be on VOD as well.

This week’s major Bollywood release is Student of the Year 2 (FIP), directed by Punit Malhotra. As you might guess, it’s a sequel to the 2012 romantic comedy, this one involving a love triangle between a guy and two girls, and it will be released in about 175 theaters on Friday.

STREAMING AND CABLE

Amy Poehler’s directorial debut WINE COUNTRY will begin streaming Friday, though I haven’t seen it yet, so instead, I’ll recommend Dava Whisenant’s fantastic doc Bathtubs over Broadway, which will premiere on Netflix Thursday. I missed this movie last year but I got to catch-up when it screened at the Oxford Film Festival in February, and it’s fantastic. It follows Letterman writer Steve Young as he follows his passion to find rare records featuring industrial musical numbers presented at corporate events throughout the ‘50s and later to energize employees.

REPERTORY

METROGRAPH (NYC):

I’ve already mentioned how Playtime: Family Matineeshas become this cinematic comfort food that’s helped me relive my childhood, but this weekend, the shit gets real as they screen the 1977 action-adventure Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, featuring the stop-motion animation of the late Ray Harryhausen. I still remember first seeing The Golden Voyage of Sinbad at a drive-through in Framingham, Mass. when it first came out and I loved it so much I picked up the novelization. I wonder if I still have that somewhere. (I’m pretty sure I saw this sequel as well.) Late Nites at Metrographwill screen Lukas Moodysson’s 2002 film Lilya 4-Ever, as well as the not old enough to be repertory film Climaxby Gaspar Noe. (Lots of cool movies coming up in this series, as well.) Another series starting Friday is the first-ever New York retrospective of Japanese filmmaker Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, whose new movie Asako I & II will have its theatrical premiere at the Metrograph starting next week. I’m not too familiar with Hamaguchi’s work – though I’ve seen Asakoand generally liked it -- but I don’t think I’ll have the time to see his 5-hour long 2015 family drama Happy Hourany time soon. The series features seven of his movies, almost all of them shorter than Happy Hour. (2012’s Intimacies, showing a week from Thursday, is four hours long.)

THE NEW BEVERLY (L.A.):

After showing the Judy Garland version of A Star is Born  (1954) today at 2pm, the New Bev has double features of Claudia Weill’s Girlfriends (1978) and It’s My Turn (1980), the latter starring Jill Clayburgh and Michael Douglas, on Weds and Thurs. Kathryn Bigelow’s Strange Days (1995) and Lizzie Borden’s 1983 Born in Flames will screen on Friday and Saturday and then the 1933 film Christopher Strong (starring Katharine Hepburn) and Anybody’s Woman  (1930) will screen Sunday and Monday. The weekend’s KIDDEE MATINEE is the animated The Chipmunk Adventure  (1987) while the 1995 anthology Four Rooms (featuring one room by Tarantino) is the Friday midnight and Anna Biller’s 2016 film The Love Witch will screen midnight on Saturday. On top of that, there’s a special Cartoon Club on Saturday morning at 10AM and Gina Prince-Bythewood’s Love & Basketball  (2000) will screen Monday afternoon.

FILM FORUM (NYC):

It’s the last full weekend of Film Forum’s“Trilogies” series and on Thursday, they’re screening Whit Stillman’s (Is this a real title for the trilogy?) “Doomed. Bourgeois. In Love” trilogy Metropolitan (1990), Barcelona  (1994) and The Last Days of Disco (1998) with Stillman doing select intros and QnAs that day. Friday is Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s “BRD” Trilogy, including The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978), Lola  (1981)and Veronika Voss, and this weekend is a Carol Reed Post-War Noir Trilogy, including The Third Man  (1949). Saturday also sees a Michelangelo Antonioni trilogy including L’Avventura  (1960) and two other films from the Italian master. Sunday and Monday sees a very rare screening of Wim Wenders’ “Road Trilogy” including Kings of the Roadfrom 1976 and Alice in the Cities. Also, on Wednesday and Saturday is a repeat of a John Ford trilogy, including Rio Grande and Fort Apache, plus don’t forget the weekend’s family-friendly Film Forum Jr, which this weekend shows a bunch of cartoons from Bugs, Daffy and Friends. Obviously, there’s a lot going on at this venerable NYC arthouse and I hope to get to some of these now that Tribeca is over.

EGYPTIAN THEATRE (LA):

If you live in L.A., you can spend a good part of your weekend at Maltin Fest 2019, taking place at the Egyptian Theater, which includes a really incredible series of screenings and events with special guests. Friday is Nicole Holefcener’s Please Give with Holefcener and frequent collaborator Catherine Keener on hand, plus a screening of Sing Street! Alexander Payne and Laura Dern will be there Saturday afternoon to screen the filmmaker’s early work Citizen Ruth, plus lots more! I also want to pay special attention to them showing the late Jon Schnepp’s doc The Death of “Superman Lives” on Saturday night.

AERO  (LA):

Thursday is a Christopher Munch double feature of The Hours and Times (1991) and The Sleepy Time Gal (2001) with Munch and the great Jacqueline Biset in person! Then it goes right into Starring Europe: New Films from the EU 2019 i.e. new films, not repertory but still interesting.

IFC CENTER (NYC)

Waverly Midnights: Parental Guidance shows James Cameron’s Aliens (okay, am I crazy or do they show this every other month?), Weekend Classics: Love Mom and Dad  shows Martin Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974) and Late Night Favorites: Spring is the Coen Brothers’ Fargo (1996).

BAM CINEMATEK (NYC):

In the midst of Black 90s: A Turning Point in American Cinema, which will include Ice Cube’s Friday (on Friday, of course), as well as Set It Off, New Jack City, Belly, Straight Out of Brooklyn and Menace II Society over the weekend. Also, the late John Singleton’s Boyz n the Hood will screen twice on Sunday as well as on Monday as part of the series.

MOMA (NYC):

Abel Ferrara: Unrated continues this week with repeats of 1998’s New Rose Hotel, 1993’s Body Snatchers and more recent films like 2017’s Piazza Vittorio and 2007’sGo Go Tales, and this series will continue next week. The current Modern Matiness will conclude with Pixar’s Up on Wednesday and Vincente Minnelli’s Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) on Weds and Thurs, respectively.

MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE (NYC):

Panorama Europe continues through the weekend but that’s all new stuff, not repertory.

LANDMARK THEATRES NUART (LA):

Friday’s midnight screening is Wes Craven’s Shocker (1989) with a QnA… but not with Craven.. unless they plan the creepiest movie tie-in possible!

That’s it for this week but next week, we get John Wick Chapter 3 and more!