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sitting-on-me-bum · 10 months
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ELLI PERKINS
ELLI PERKINS
1949-2003
SCIENTOLOGIST WHO WAS MURDERED BY HER SON
Elli Perkins was a Scientologist who worked as a senior auditor inside the Church of Scientology in Buffalo, New York and also worked as a professional glass artist.
            Perkins was married to Don Perkins and they had two children. Their son Jeremy, aged 24 started showing disturbing behaviour and started hearing voices. Jeremy didn’t get the professional psychiatric care that he needed, as Scientology is against its members using medication and seeing psychologists. Instead, they sent him to Sea Org in California to get help which failed and he was returned to his parents. Jeremy’s condition became so bad he could no longer work. The Church of Scientology classified him as Level III ‘Potential Trouble Source’ and his mental illness exhausted all their efforts to cure him and instead they banned him.
            In 2001, Jeremy was arrested for trespassing at a University in Buffalo and he was placed inside a hospital and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Elli asked the court to place Jeremy into her care and she became his carer. Elli sought out alternative methods for treatment. A Scientologist doctor suggested that he should take vitamins and an executive director of Scientology suggested she should give Jeremy more work to do around the house to tire him out.
            On 13 March 2003, Jeremy’s parents agreed that he should stay with Scientologist Albert Brown for treatment and he was to leave that afternoon. That morning Elli told Jeremy to take a shower, when he came out of the shower he found his mother in the kitchen talking on the phone. He grabbed a knife and killed his mother with it. He later stated that because he couldn’t take his own life, he decided to take his mother’s instead. He said that he believed his mother was evil, that she gets mad at him when he plays the drums, makes him take vitamins and when she told him to take the shower that morning that was the ‘last straw’. Jeremy was placed into professional care (outside of Scientology) and put on medication which improved his condition.
            After the murder, the TV program 48 HOURS aired a segment on Perkins death which received complaints from Scientologists.
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#scientology #churchofscientology #elliperkins #jeremyperkins #48hours
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The Hooked Generation (1968)
"Man, you cats are hot! You're hot, baby!"
"What are you talking about, we're hot?"
"You knocked off the Coast Guard men, right? Right? Right? Am I putting you on so far?"
#the hooked generation#william grefé#1968#exploitation film#american cinema#quinn morrison#ray preston#jeremy slate#steve alaimo#john davis chandler#willie pastrano#cece stone#walter r. philbin#socrates ballis#milton 'butterball' smith#lee warren#gay perkins#marilyn nordman#terry smith#chris martell#Bill Grefé‚ in many ways the Florida Man of indie filmmaking‚ turns his attention away from spooky ghouls and sci fi monsters toward a more#real social horror; that's right baby‚ it's drugsploitation time! benefiting from a slightly better cast than his previous pictures (ie.#some of them can act) and having developed his skills a little (a LITTLE) this is maybe on the whole a slightly better film than Sting of#Death or Tartu was... but with the increased finesse comes a decrease in charm‚ and without a jellyfish headed man monster or an everglades#murder ghost to enjoy‚ we're instead left with a gang of murderous drug dealers as they try to sell their villainous dope whilst also#killing pretty much everyone they come across. perhaps my lesser enjoyment is on me; the genre isnt one im particularly enamoured of and#tbh if I'm gonna sink time into watching objectively bad films (and like. i probably just shouldn't do that) but if i do‚ they should at#least have a Creature for me to enjoy. no creature here‚ just the heavy handed spectre of generational divide and societal failings#some trippy trip scenes in the back half are kind of cool and milton smith is a lot of fun but otherwise this is a little ehhh
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fundiepredictions · 1 year
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What I predicted for August
Things I predicted (some long ago) to happen in August.
Jinger&Jeremy Vuolo (Duggar) announce baby #3
Zach&Whitney Bates have their 5th child on august 21
Nathanael&Katrina Wissmann have their 1st child on august 21
Nurie&Nathan Keller (Rodrigues) announce baby #3
Renee Rodrigues get's engaged with mystery men
Mitchell&Bryn Bontrager announce baby #4
Lincoln Bontrager and Susanna Helferich get married
We hear from Jesse&Anna Maxwell's baby
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perfettamentechic · 1 year
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12 settembre … ricordiamo …
12 settembre … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic
2021: Fran Bennett, attrice statunitense.  (n.1937) 2020: Barbara Jefford, attrice inglese.  E’ stata sposata con Terence Longdon e con l’attore John Turner. (n. 1930) 2015: Vittoria Piancastelli, Vittoria Piancastelli Tracquilio, attrice italiana. (n. 1966) 2014: Donald Sinden, Sir Donald Alfred Sinden, è stato un attore cinematografico, teatrale e televisivo britannico. (n. 1923) 2010: Claude…
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geekcavepodcast · 1 year
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“Dungeons & Dragons in 2023 and Beyond” D&D Direct
Chris Perkins and Jeremy Crawford give a glimpse to the next few years of D&D content:
Keys from the Golden Vault - a series of 13 heist adventures
Bigby Presents Glory of the Giants - Bigby expands on the origins of giants
Phandelver and Below the Shattered Obelisk - a Phandalin adventure about the mysterious obelisks that have been popping up in recent adventures
Planescape Adventures in the Multiverse -  adventures set in the city of Sigil, which will set up major stories for 2024
The Deck of Many Things content - will delve into the multiverse-spanning story about the magic item
Vecna returns in 2024 in a world hopping adventure 
The Red Wizards from Honor Among Thieves will feature in their own adventure in 2025
Venger from the 1980s Dungeons & Dragons cartoon is returning for a D&D adventure
The League of Malevolence from Wild Beyond the Witchlight will return in the future
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hotvintagepoll · 7 months
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Congrats to the ultimate winner of the Hot & Vintage Movie Men Tournament, Mr. Toshiro Mifune! May he live happily and well where the sun always shines, enjoying the glories of a battle hard fought.
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A loving farewell to all of our previous contestants, who are now banished to the shadow realm and all its dark joys and whispered horrors—I hear there's a picnic on the village green today. If you want to remember the fallen heroes, you can find them all beneath the cut.
What happens next? I'll be taking a break of two weeks to rest from this and prep for the Hot & Vintage Ladies Tournament. I'll still be around but only minimally, posting a few last odes to the hot men before transitioning into a little early ladies content, just like I did with this last tournament. The submission form for the Hot & Vintage Ladies tournament will remain up for one more week (closing February 21st), so get your submissions in for that asap! Once the form closes, there will be one more week of break. The first round of the Hot & Vintage Ladies Tournament will be posted on February 29th, as Leap Year Day seems like a fitting allusion to leaping into these ladies' arms.
Thanks for being here! Enjoy the two weeks off, and send me some great propaganda.
In order of the last round they survived—
ROUND ONE HOTTIES:
Richard Burton
Tony Curtis
Red Skelton
Keir Dullea
Jack Lemmon
Kirk Douglas
Marcello Mastroianni
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Robert Wagner
James Garner
James Coburn
Rex Harrison
George Chakiris
Dean Martin
Sean Connery
Tab Hunter
Howard Keel
James Mason
Steve McQueen
George Peppard
Elvis Presley
Rudolph Valentino
Joseph Schildkraut
Ray Milland
Claude Rains
John Wayne
William Holden
Douglas Fairbanks Sr.
Harold Lloyd
Charlie Chaplin
John Gilbert
Ramon Novarro
Slim Thompson
John Barrymore
Edward G. Robinson
William Powell
Leslie Howard
Peter Lawford
Mel Ferrer
Joseph Cotten
Keye Luke
Ivan Mosjoukine
Spencer Tracy
Felix Bressart
Ronald Reagan (here to be dunked on)
Peter Lorre
Bob Hope
Paul Muni
Cornel Wilde
John Garfield
Cantinflas
Henry Fonda
Robert Mitchum
Van Johnson
José Ferrer
Robert Preston
Jack Benny
Fredric March
Gene Autry
Alec Guinness
Fayard Nicholas
Ray Bolger
Orson Welles
Mickey Rooney
Glenn Ford
James Cagney
ROUND TWO SWOONERS:
Dick Van Dyke
James Edwards
Sammy Davis Jr.
Alain Delon
Peter O'Toole
Robert Redford
Charlton Heston
Cesar Romero
Noble Johnson
Lex Barker
David Niven
Robert Earl Jones
Turhan Bey
Bela Lugosi
Donald O'Connor
Carman Newsome
Oscar Micheaux
Benson Fong
Clint Eastwood
Sabu Dastagir
Rex Ingram
Burt Lancaster
Paul Newman
Montgomery Clift
Fred Astaire
Boris Karloff
Gilbert Roland
Peter Cushing
Frank Sinatra
Harold Nicholas
Guy Madison
Danny Kaye
John Carradine
Ricardo Montalbán
Bing Crosby
ROUND THREE SMOKESHOWS:
Marlon Brando
Anthony Perkins
Michael Redgrave
Gary Cooper
Conrad Veidt
Ronald Colman
Rock Hudson
Basil Rathbone
Laurence Olivier
Christopher Plummer
Johnny Weismuller
Clark Gable
Fernando Lamas
Errol Flynn
Tyrone Power
Humphrey Bogart
ROUND 4 STUNGUNS:
James Dean
Cary Grant
Gregory Peck
Sessue Hayakawa
Harry Belafonte
James Stewart
Gene Kelly
Peter Falk
QUARTERFINALIST VOLCANIC TOWERS OF LUST:
Jeremy Brett
Vincent Price
James Shigeta
Buster Keaton
SEMIFINALIST SUPERMEN:
Omar Sharif
Paul Robeson
FINALIST FANTASIES:
Sidney Poitier
Toshiro Mifune
and ok, sure, here's the shadow-bracket-style winner's portrait of Toshiro Mifune.
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markwatnae · 9 months
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Masterpost of Hot Old Man Round 1 Polls
Paul Newman v Richard Burton
Omar Sharif v Tony Curtis
Red Skelton v Burt Lancaster
Christopher Plummer v Keir Dullea
Anthony Perkins vJack Lemmon
Kirk Douglas v Alain Delon
James Dean v Marcello Mastroianni
Harry Belafonte v Jean-Pierre Cassel
Marlon Brando v Robert Wagner
Sammy Davis Jr. v James Garner
James Coburn v Rock Hudson
Peter Cushing v Rex Harrison
George Chakiris v Sidney Poitier
Dean Martin v Sean Connery v Jeremy Brett
Tab Hunter v Toshiro Mifune
Howard Keel v Peter O'Toole
Robert Redford v James Mason
Steve McQueen v Charlton Heston
Dick Van Dyke v George Peppard
Elvis Presley v Peter Falk
Oscar Micheaux v Rudolph Valentino
Joseph Schildkraut v Buster Keaton
Jimmy Stewart v Ray Milland
Cary Grant v Claude Rains
John Wayne v Errol Flynn
Clint Eastwood v William Holden
Douglas Fairbanks Sr. v Sessue Hayakawa
Carman Newsome v Harold Lloyd
Noble Johnson v Charlie Chaplin
John Gilbert v Conrad Veidt
Ramon Novarro v Robert Earl Jones
Slim Thompson v Gary Cooper
John Barrymore v Paul Robeson
Edward G. Robinson v Clark Gable
Humphrey Bogart v William Powell
Leslie Howard v Ronald Colman
Peter Lawford v Vincent Price
Harold Nicholas v Mel Ferrer
Joseph Cotten v Danny Kaye
John Carradine v Keye Luke
Ivan Mosjoukine v Gilbert Roland
Benson Fong v Spencer Tracy
Guy Madison v Felix Bressart
James Shigeta v Ronald Reagan
Montgomery Clift v Ricardo Montalbon
Peter Lorre v Frank Sinatra
Bob Hope v Gregory Peck
Fred Astaire v Paul Muni
Bela Lugosi v Cornel Wilde
Cesar Romero v John Garfield
Basil Rathbone v Cantinflas
Henry Fonda v Turhan Bey
Boris Karloff v Robert Mitchum
David Niven v Van Johnson
Gene Kelly v José Ferrer
Robert Preston v Tyrone Power
Jack Benny v Donald O'Connor
Fredric March v Lex Barker
Michael Redgrave v Gene Autry
James Edwards v Alec Guinness
Fayard Nicholas v Fernando Lamas
Ray Bolger v Johnny Weismuller
Orson Welles v Sabu Dastigir
Mickey Rooney v Laurence Olivier
Rex Ingram v Glenn Ford
Bing Crosby v James Cagney
@hotvintagepoll
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Round 1 and 2 Matchups under cut!
Round 1:
Nick Hoult/Lynn Angel (All Saints Street) vs Princess Daisy/Luigi (Super Mario)
Robin/Chrom (Fire Emblem: Awakening) vs Miyako Shiminori/Yuuki Izumi (Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie)
Kida/Milo Thatch (Atlantis: The Lost City) vs Haru/Legoshi (Beastars)
Robin Buckly/Steve Harrington (Stranger Things) vs Bryce Tankthrust/Bobby Worst (Brandon Rogers)
Emma Perkins/Paul Matthews (Hatchetfield) vs Kyoko Kirigiri/Makoto Naegi (Danganronpa)
Barbie/Ken (Barbie) vs Jo/Brick (Total Drama: Revenge of the Island)
Round 2:
Marcille Donation/Laois Touden (Dungeon Meshi) vs Winner of 1:1
The Princess/The Long Quiet (Slay the Princess) vs Mandy/Billy (The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy)
Izumi Curtis/Sig Curtis (Fullmetal Alchemist) vs Zelda/Link (The Legend of Zelda)
Percival 'Percy' King/Ramsey Murdock (Epithet Erased) vs Nico Robin/Franky (One Piece)
Fuuko Izumo/Andy (Undead Unlock) vs Malfina/Connecticut Clark (Flork of Cows/Tumblr)
Marinette Dupain Cheng/Adrien Agreste (Miraculous Ladybug) vs Beatrice/Battler Ushiryoma (Umineko: When They Cry)
Gloria/Melman (Madagascar) vs Melissa Podebrat/Nine Fortan (Beware of the Villainess)
Vex'halia/Percy (Critical Role) vs Meryl Stryfe/Vash the Stampede (Tribune)
Millie/Moxie (Helluva Boss) vs Winner of 2
c! Pearlescentmoon/c! BigB (Limited Life SMP) vs Wildstyle/Emmet Brickowski (The Lego Movie)
Tiana/Naveen (Princess and the Frog) vs Yor Forger/Loid Forger (Spy x Family)
Candace Flynn/Jeremy Johnson (Phineas and Ferb) vs Granmamare/Fujimoto (Ponyo)
Mitsuru Kirijo/Akihiko Sanada (Persona 3) vs Winner of 3
Lilith Morningstar/Lucifer Morningstar (Hazbin Hotel) vs c! Zombiecleo/c! Ethoslab (Limited Life SMP)
Sgt Calhoun/Fix-It Felix (Wreck-It Ralph) vs Odalia Blight/Alador Blight (The Owl House)
Shego/Dr Drakken (Kim Possible) vs Starfire/Nightwing (DC Comics)
Nami/Sanji (One Piece) vs Winner of 4
Aerith Gainsborough/Cloud Strife (Final Fantasy VII) vs Yuki Tsukumo/Choso (Jujutsu Kaisen)
Sharpay Evans/Ryan Evans (High School Musical) vs Mona/Plague Knight (Shovel Knight)
Aqua/Terra (Kingdom Hearts) vs Annie Leonhardt/Armin Arlert (Attack on Titan)
Hatsune Miku/Kaito (Vocaloid) vs Sandra Lynn Faeth/Jawbone O'Shawnessy (Dimension 20)
c! Geminitay/c! Scott Smajor (Empires SMP) vs Girlfriend/Boyfriend (Friday Night Funkin)
Connie Maheswaren/Steven Universe (Steven Universe) vs Miku/Tatsu (Way of the Househusband)
Asuka Langly Soryu/Shinji Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion) vs Noelle Holiday/Berdly (Deltarune)
Ochako Ururaka/Izuku Midorya (My Hero Academia) vs Winner of 5
Baiken/Anji Mito (Guilty Gear) vs Emily Wokerson/Tomothy Bichboy (Cameron Geller)
Kim Possible/Ron Stoppable (Kim Possible) vs Jude Duarte/Cardan Greenbriar (The Folk in The Air)
Morticia Addams/Gomez Addams (The Addams Family) vs Rouge the Bat/Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog)
Nene Kusanagi/ Touya Aoyagi (Project Sekai) vs Winner of 6
Jessie/James (Pokemon) vs Erina/Toshiro Kasukabe (Persona 5 Tactica)
Suki/Sokka (Avatar: The Last Airbender) vs Desiree Delite/Ron Delite (Ace Attorney)
Himiko Toga/Bubaigawara Jin (Twice) (My Hero Academia) vs Feixao/Jiauqui (Honkai: Star Rail)
All matches were decided via a wheel, please list all complaints to that!
Matches will probably start Sunday
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Overworked Blorbo Battle Round 1!
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Round 1 will be split into 8 waves of 8 week long polls with each wave being posted 24 hours after the previous begins. The first wave will start on Friday the 29th of July at 3pm BST
The matchups are listed under the readmore
The matchups were all randomised although I did make minor adjustments if I thought one was much too unfair.
Wave 1:
Ada Paige (Rythm Doctor) Vs Sips (Fools Gold)
Cliopher Mdang (The Hands Of The Emperor) Vs The Manager (The Hotel Podcast)
Adam Parrish (The Raven Cycle) Vs Five Pebbles (Rain World)
Almond Cookie (Cookie Run) Vs Steven Universe (Steven Universe)
Dot Campbell (The Wilds) Vs Hera (Wolf 359)
Arthur Lester (Malevolent Podcast) Vs Gordon Michael Schwinn (A New Brain)
Anthy Himemiya (Revolutionary Girl Utena) Vs Fu Hua (Honkai Impact 3rd)
Commander Peepers (Wander Over Yonder) Vs Kusuo Saiki (The Disastrous Life Of Saiki K.)
Wave 2:
Bucky Barnes (Marvel) Vs Percy Jackson (Percy Jackson)
Dana Scully (The X Files) Vs Gregor Samsa (Metamorphosis)
Danny Fenton (Danny Phantom) Vs Harrowhark Nonagesimus (Gideon The Ninth)
George Cubbins/Karim (Lockwood and Co) Vs Ling Wen (Heaven’s Official Blessing)
DC/GOV (Welcome To The Table) Vs Pandemonica (Helltaker)
David Jacobs (Newsies) Vs Logainne Schwartzandgrubenierre (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee)
Dean Winchester (Supernatural) Vs Squidward (SpongeBob SquarePants)
Ford Pines (Gravity Falls) Vs Charlie Magne (Hazbin Hotel)
Wave 3:
Gilgamesh Wulfenbach (Girl Genius) Vs Charlotte Dubois (Falsettos)
Jaehee Kang (Mystic Messenger) Vs Angela (Lobotomy Corporation)
Kevin Kandy (Spooky Month) Vs Robin (Smash Legends)
Kento Nanami (Jujutsu Kaisen) Vs Vera Oberlin (Monster Prom)
Homura Akemi (Madoka Magica) Vs Ratchet (Transformers)
Hunter (The Owl House) Vs Ponder Stibbons (Discworld)
Isabelle (Animal Crossing) Vs Aymeric De Borel (Final Fantasy)
Izzy Hands (Our Flag Means Death) Vs Luisa Madrigal (Encanto)
Wave 4:
Jean Gunnhildr (Genshin Impact) Vs Aki Hayakawa (Chainsaw Man)
Jonathan Sims (The Magnus Archives) Vs William T Spears (Black Butler)
Jotaro Kujo (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure) Vs Adora (She Ra)
Keito Hasumi (Ensemble Stars!) Vs Doppo Kannonzaka (Hypnosis Mic)
Jeremie Belpois (Code Lyoko) Vs Chip Revvington (Toontown: Corporate Clash)
Jamil Viper (Twisted Wonderland) Vs Lisa Wilbourn (Worm)
Guillermo de la Cruz (What We Do In The Shadows) Vs Buffy Summers (Buffy The Vampire Slayer)
Kim Dojka (Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint) Vs Shang Qinghua (Scum Villain's Self-Saving System)
Wave 5:
Kurapika (Hunter X Hunter) Vs Mafuyu Asahina (Project Sekai/Colorful Stage)
Lucifer (Obey Me!) Vs The Elsen (Off)
Marsh (Mistborn) Vs Lisa Cuddy (House MD)
Matthew Venn (The Long Call) Vs Carol Hathaway (ER)
Larry Needlemeyer (The Amazing World Of Gumball) Vs Kim Kitsuragi (Disco Elysium)
Merlin (BBC Merlin) Vs Dick Gumshoe (Ace Attorney)
Maedhros Feanorian (The Simarillion) Vs Riza Hawkeye (Fullmetal Alchemist)
Laerryn Coramar Seelie (Critical Role) Vs Lucretia (The Adventure Zone)
Wave 6:
Miles O’Brien (Star Trek) Vs Jonathan Harker (Dracula)
Miss Pauling (Team Fortress 2) Vs Susan Taxpayer (Susan Taxpayer)
MK (Lego Monkey Kid) Vs Kunikida Doppo (Bungo Stray Dogs)
Molly Blyndeff (Epithet Erased) Vs Emma Perkins (The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals)
Mrs Doyle (Father Ted) Vs Jess Jordan (Succession)
Nicholas Benedict (The Mysterious Benedict Society) Vs Jafar (Twisted: The Story Of A Royal Vizier)
Nishida (Yakuza) Vs Touta Matsuda (Death Note)
Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars) Vs Alfred Pennyworth (Batman)
Wave 7:
Olruggio (Witch Hat Atelier) Vs Walter Pensive (Hello From The Hallowoods)
Parsley Botch (Smile For Me) Vs Peppino Spaghetti (Pizza Tower)
Raphael Walt (My Next Life as a Villainess) Vs Hawkeye Pierce (MASH)
Sara Chidouin (Your Turn To Die) Vs Reim Lunettes (Pandora Hearts
SecUnit (The MurderBot Diaries) Vs Lamplighter (Oneshot)
The Captain (BBC Ghosts) Vs Munkustrap (Cats)
Retsuko (Aggretsuko) Vs Burgerpants (Undertale)
Ryotaro Dojima (Persona) Vs Kiyotaka Ishimaru (Danganronpa)
Wave 8:
Steven Alen Starphase (Blood Blockade Battlefront/Kekkai Sensen) Vs Trafalgar Law (One Piece)
Shota Aizawa (My Hero Academia) Vs Loid Forger (Spy X Family)
Stanley (The Stanley Parable) Vs Rory Williams (Doctor Who)
The Cabbage Merchant (Avatar The Last Airbender) Vs Larry (Pokémon)
Mario & Luigi (Super Mario Bros) Vs Link (The Legend Of Zelda)
Peregrine Mendicant (Homestuck) Vs Marinette Dupain-Cheng (Miraculous Ladybug)
Reagan Ridley (Inside Job) Vs Will Graham (Hannibal)
Twilight Sparkle (My Little Pony) Vs Carmen Sandiego (Carmen Sandiego)
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NASA's mini BurstCube mission detects mega blast
The shoebox-sized BurstCube satellite has observed its first gamma-ray burst, the most powerful kind of explosion in the universe, according to a recent analysis of observations collected over the last several months.
“We’re excited to collect science data,” said Sean Semper, BurstCube’s lead engineer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “It’s an important milestone for the team and for the many early career engineers and scientists that have been part of the mission.”
The event, called GRB 240629A, occurred on June 29 in the southern constellation Microscopium. The team announced the discovery in a GCN (General Coordinates Network) circular on August 29.
BurstCube deployed into orbit April 18 from the International Space Station, following a March 21 launch.
The mission was designed to detect, locate, and study short gamma-ray bursts, brief flashes of high-energy light created when superdense objects like neutron stars collide. These collisions also produce heavy elements like gold and iodine, an essential ingredient for life as we know it. 
BurstCube is the first CubeSat to use NASA’s TDRS (Tracking and Data Relay Satellite) system, a constellation of specialized communications spacecraft. Data relayed by TDRS (pronounced “tee-driss”) help coordinate rapid follow-up measurements by other observatories in space and on the ground through NASA’s GCN.
BurstCube also regularly beams data back to Earth using the Direct to Earth system — both it and TDRS are part of NASA’s Near Space Network.
After BurstCube deployed from the space station, the team discovered that one of the two solar panels failed to fully extend. It obscures the view of the mission’s star tracker, which hinders orienting the spacecraft in a way that minimizes drag. The team originally hoped to operate BurstCube for 12-18 months, but now estimates the increased drag will cause the satellite to re-enter the atmosphere in September. 
“I’m proud of how the team responded to the situation and is making the best use of the time we have in orbit,” said Jeremy Perkins, BurstCube’s principal investigator at Goddard. “Small missions like BurstCube not only provide an opportunity to do great science and test new technologies, like our mission’s gamma-ray detector, but also important learning opportunities for the up-and-coming members of the astrophysics community.”
BurstCube is led by Goddard. It’s funded by the Science Mission Directorate’s Astrophysics Division at NASA Headquarters. The BurstCube collaboration includes: the University of Alabama in Huntsville; the University of Maryland, College Park; the Universities Space Research Association in Washington; the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington; and NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville.
IMAGE: BurstCube, trailed by another CubeSat named SNOOPI (Signals of Opportunity P-band Investigation), emerges from the International Space Station on April 18, 2024. Credit NASA/Matthew Dominick
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Scream Factory has revealed the specs for its Gretel & Hansel 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray, which releases on May 21 via Scream Factory. The 2020 dark fantasy horror film is based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale.
Oz Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter, Longlegs) directs from a script by Rob Hayes. Sophia Lillis, Samuel Leakey, Charles Babalola, Jessica De Gouw, and Alice Krige star.
Gretel & Hansel is presented in 4K from the original master with Dolby Vision. Special features are listed below.
Disc 1 - 4K UHD
Audio commentary by director Osgood Perkins (new)
Audio commentary by horror historian Rebekah McKendry (new)
Disc 2 - Blu-ray:
Audio commentary by director Osgood Perkins (new)
Audio commentary by horror historian Rebekah McKendry (new)
Interview with production designer Jeremy Reed (new)
Storybook featurette
Gretel featurette
New Tale featurette
Witchcraft featurette
A long time ago in a distant fairy-tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in a desperate search for food and work, only to find a nexus of relentless evil.
Pre-order Gretel & Hansel.
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onceuponaoneshotfanfic · 11 months
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Okay so I'm obsessed with this idea Husband helped me come up with: Parks and Rec Teacher AU
Social Studies teacher Leslie Knope
Social Studies department head Ron Swanson (who also teaches one section of Advanced Woodshop)
Principal Chris Traeger and Vice Principal Ben Wyatt
Math teacher April Ludgate-Dwyer, wife of football coach Andy Dwyer
English teacher Ann Perkins
Science teacher Jerry Gurgich, who often blows things up on accident
AVID teacher Tom Haverford
Advisor Donna Meagle
School board member Jeremy Jamm
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People Burr has fucked:
Joseph Bellamy
78.39108 percent of Princeton's student body
Richard Montgomery
General Putnam
Theodosia Prevost
Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Jefferson
James Monroe (Jefferson made him)
Washington Irving
John Vanderlyn
James Wilkinson
Luther Martin
Blenner...hasset?
Both of the Swarthouts
Nicholas Bigbee Perkins
John Marshall (actually Burr tried but Marshall slammed the door in his face)
Jeremy Bentham
William Godwin
This list is developing don't be afraid to add to it:
Bobby Troup
Robert Livingston
Half the prostitutes in Europe
Himself
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fundiepredictions · 1 year
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What happend and didn't happen in august
An overview of what happend and what didn't happen altough I predicted it would happen in the month august.
Theodore James Wissmann was born to Nathanael&Katrina Wissmann on august 7
Josie&Kelton Balka (Bates) announced they are expecting baby #3
Lily Jo Bates was born to Zach&Whitney Bates (Perkins)
Erin&Chad Paine (Bates) announced their 6th child will be named William Gage
Jinger&Jeremy Vuolo (Duggar) didn't announce another pregnancy
Nathan&Nurie Keller (Rodrigues) didn't announce another pregancy
Renee Rodrigues didn't announce her engagement
Jesse&Anna Maxwell (Craig) didn't announce anything about their child
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Eighty-eight corporate leaders endorse Harris in new letter, including CEOs of Yelp, Box
Eighty-eight corporate leaders signed a new letter Friday endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for president.
Signers include former 21st Century Fox CEO James Murdoch, Snap Chairman Michael Lynton, Yelp boss Jeremy Stoppelman and Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen.
If the Democratic nominee wins the White House, they contend, “the business community can be confident that it will have a president who wants American industries to thrive.”
WASHINGTON — Eighty-eight current and former top executives from across corporate America have endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president in a new letter shared exclusively with CNBC.
Among the signers are several high-profile CEOs of public companies, including Aaron Levie of Box, Jeremy Stoppelman of Yelp and Michael Lynton, chairman of Snap
Other signers appear to be issuing their first public endorsements of Harris since she became the de facto Democratic nominee in July.
They include James Murdoch, former CEO of 21st Century Fox and an heir to the Murdoch family media empire, and crypto executive Chris Larsen, co-founder of the Ripple blockchain platform.
Other notable signers are philanthropist Lynn Forester de Rothschild, private equity billionaire José Feliciano, Twilio co-founder Jeff Lawson, and D.C. sports magnate Ted Leonsis, owner of the NBA’s Washington Wizards, WNBA’s Mystics and the NHL’s Washington Capitals.
The three-page list also includes a slate of longtime Democratic political donors, like Kleiner Perkins’ John Doerr, Insight partners Deven Parekh, and Jeffrey Katzenberg, founder and managing partner of Wndr and former chairman of Walt Disney Studios.
Another subset of names are people who have supported Harris in particular since her political campaigns in California, like the philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs, Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, and NBA Hall of Famer and billionaire businessman Magic Johnson.
More than a dozen of the signers made their fortunes on Wall Street: Tony James, former president and COO of Blackstone and founder of Jefferson River Capital; Bruce Heyman, former managing director of private wealth at Goldman Sachs; Peter Orszag, CEO of Lazard; and Steve Westly managing director of the Westly Group and a former Tesla
board member. 
Still more are prominent in Silicon Valley, including the venture capitalist Ron Conway, entrepreneur Mark Cuban and former LinkedIn CEO Reid Hoffman.
***Cuban just said her plans would destroy the stock market.. Oh well... WOW
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