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Amateur Yaun holds on for win, secures 2023 PGA TOUR Canada membership

WESTON, Florida – The final round of the second PGA TOUR Canada Qualifying event proved a difficult one for all involved, but amateur Jonathan Yaun was able to battle through the windy conditions and walk away the clear victor. Yaun fired an even-par 72 Friday, giving the 22-year-old Liberty University senior a five-stroke victory over a trio of players at Mission Inn Resort and Club. His win…

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This scene transition will always be flawless

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2008's Incredible Hercules Vol.1 #117 cover by cover artist John Romita Jr., inker Klaus Janson and colorist Dean White.

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DEAL ME OUT THE EPSIODE THAT YOU ARE

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Jay Pak for Christopher John Rogers, Pre-Fall 2022

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Man I miss Oliver, Lt. Scorch, Margie Cutler, Lt. Dish, Ginger, Ugly John, Ho-jon, Duke, Painless, Sam Pak, and Kaplan.

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oh so this is what using different layers and color levels looks like

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I'm so fucking excited for these, DC rolling out books for entirely original characters and ideas is so cool and something they definitely have over marvel

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Giovanni Di Domenico, Pak Yan Lau & John Also Bennett — Tidal Perspectives (Basilic)

On Tidal Perspectives, Italian keyboardist Giovanni Di Domenico, Belgian sound artist Pak Yan Lau and American-born flutist John Also Bennett come together for a record that presents improvised music at its most inward-looking and tranquil. The intersection of ambient music and free improvisation is an uncommon and unlikely one, given that the former emphasizes stillness and calm and the latter prioritizes free-flowing creative expression. Tidal Perspectives walks that fine line, using improvised elements to bring out the strangeness in its sonic meditations.

Giovanni Di Domenico has a background in improvised music, performing frequently with Japanese free jazz legend Akira Sakata as well as Jim O’Rourke. As a solo artist, he specializes in spacious post-minimalism, and he brings that (along with his improvisational prowess) to this record. Pak Yan Lau, a fellow traveler in Europe’s improvised music scene and a collaborator of Darin Gray and Chris Corsano, lends the album a surreal, undefinable quality with her prepared piano and objects. John Also Bennett works more with ambient soundscapes than improvised music, but rather than simply meeting the other players where they’re at (or vice versa), he ties the whole project together, lending the record a good deal of color and depth in the process.

Tracks such as “Melt” represent the most fully realized version of the group’s sound, at times sounding like Hariprasad Chaurasia sitting in with The Necks. The sounds flow from the three musicians like a stream flowing from a creek, with Di Domenico’s twinkling fender rhodes, Yan Lau’s crackling percussive sounds and Bennett’s wavering pitch coming together as one whole. “Generational” opens with wild, GRM-like granular abstraction before eventually settling into a prepared piano lullaby of sorts, with Yan Lau’s piano almost sounding like chimes and bells. As a whole, the record provides something truly warm and meditational without ever falling victim to the trappings of new-agey aesthetics.

Levi Dayan

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Lol! I love how World War Hulk portrays President George W. Bush as a complete buffoon!

From World War Hulk #3 by Greg Pak & John Romita Jr.

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I love Sidney's slow and fond smile at Klinger in this scene while everyone else is losing it.

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John Wick #3

Dynamite

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Sun Myung Moon’s 21 year course from 1946-1967 ended in failure

▲ In this photo, taken in San Francisco (probably late 1962), John Lofland is sitting at the back on the left. Young-oon Kim is in the front row, second from the left; Peter Koch is in the center wearing glasses; Doris Orme is two behind him near the back. It may be Edwin Ang on the right. __________________________________________
 Moon started his ‘public ministry’ in Pyongyang in 1946. His 21-year course was supposed to end in 1967. When it did not, some members left the UC. __________________________________________


▲ Sun Myung Moon
 in the 1950s

God’s Day Speech – Reverend Sun Myung Moon
 January 1, 1973, 7:00 a.m. Tarrytown, New York
 Translated by Mrs. Won Pok Choi


Question: At that time, in 1967, Miss Kim [Young Oon Kim] was teaching that was the end of the 21-year course.

Question: In 1967 I was told that it was the end of the 21 year course, and then the judgment was coming, and that should end in 1974. But I haven’t heard him say anything lately about what will happen in 1974, or the significance of what will happen at the end of that course.

http://www.tparents.org/Moon-Talks/SunMyungMoon73/SM730101.htm __________________________________________ John Lofland referenced the 1967 prophecy in his book, Doomsday Cult: A Study of Conversion, Proselytization, and Maintenance of Faith. (1966, 1977)
 The book was a study of the Unification Church group led by Young Oon Kim in San Francisco in 1962-63.

page 25
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The foregoing matters were secret, but still more so was the belief in a fully restored world within seven years of 1960. Revelations 7:4 had to be fulfilled within that period: “And I heard the number of those who had received the seal. From all the tribes of Israel there were a hundred and forty-four thousand.” Upon attaining this number the “spirit world” would become visible to everyone and cause mass member conversions. The current order would collapse in the process, and members would assume the reins of the new theocracy. Members were circumspect in speaking of Korea’s “true role,” lest outsiders doubt these American’s loyalty. In safe company, Korea was venerated as “the motherland” and God’s “chosen nation.”



pages 227-28


The most spectacular of these visits supported the feeling that UC political control of Korea was imminent. In November 1962, the mass media reported the official United States visit of a Korean political figure known as the “Director” [KCIA Director, Kim Jong-pil]. A feature story on Korea and the Director’s visit appearing in a national news magazine said he was the mastermind behind the then current Korean military junta [of Park Chung-hee]. He “provides the ideas, the drive, the plans. By his own immodest but unchallenged statement, [he] is the dominant figure of … [the] ‘revolution.’ ” After talks with high level officials in Washington, the Director spent two days in San Francisco before returning to Korea. He stayed in a luxurious hotel that flew the Korean flag over its main entrance in order to honor his presence.

▲ Young-oon Kim in about 1962.

The day of his arrival, Miss Kim received a phone call from the Director’s aide and interpreter, a Korean army colonel and UC member. He told her that he had arranged an audience with the Director for Miss Kim and her followers. Miss Kim and five core converts appeared at the hotel the next afternoon, where they met another of the Director’s aides, who had only recently converted to the UC. Before entering the Director’s suite, the Koreans conversed excitedly in their native tongue, while American members stood around and giggled with joy. The audience with the Director himself consisted of Miss Kim telling him of her work for the UC in America, after which each local member gave a brief testimony to the UC/Divine Principle’s wonders and how it had changed their lives. The interpreter translated for the converts and for the Director, who continually smiled, nodded, and chain smoked. There were soft drinks, and toward the end of the hour the Director said that he was not a religious man but had great sympathy with UC. He could not help them publicly in Korea, but he would secretly give them a hand whenever possible.

After the audience, the members assembled in the interpreter’s room, where pictures were taken and an air of family festivity reigned.

Dinner talk back in the UC Center focussed on the audience. Miss Kim emphasized that such a meeting was unique and had occurred only because the Director had high regard for his two aides who were UC members. Note was made of the recently converted Colonel being related by marriage to the junta head and thus having direct access to him. The Director’s interpreter, Miss Kim reported, was also his speech writer. When assigned to write a speech, he always got help from a top-ranking person in Moon’s movement in order to give the speeches a Divine Principle slant. Church members had a strong suspicion that the two aides would eventually convert the Director, Kim Jong-pil.

Since Sun Myung Moon was to control the world by 1967, control of his home base [Korea] would certainly come before that time. Although UC members in America were obscure and ignored, even the most skeptical had to agree that, for some months in 1962 at least, Korean control was not a fantasy. Members had access to the people whose conversion could have given them power, if only in a short-lived coup. In any event, after their meeting with the KCIA Director, Kim Jong-pil, members possessed an important sense of being secretly near the center of power in Korea. Was this not testimony to the Unification Church member’s truth [the Divine Principle]?”

(aliases corrected in the above text – in his book, John Lofland used aliases for everyone. Miss Kim was known as Miss Lee. It was an open secret that the book was about the UC.)

Further details of this visit of KCIA Director, Kim Jong-pil HERE __________________________________________


Young-oon Kim – it all ended in flames and tears for the professor

“Moon used to play golf regularly with Kim Jong-pil”

Religion is not the only way to view life, and its problems – and to offer some program for their resolution.

Gifts of Deceit – Robert Boettcher