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The day of the great fantasy film franchise is not over. It may only have just begun as Hollywood studios dig through the science fiction and fantasy genres for old series of books to mine for modern profit. The next franchise to be developed into a series of big budget movies is Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter books. The first volume was published in 1912 with the title “Under the Moons of Mars”. Republishing later as a book called A Princess of Mars, the short novel about Earthman John Carter’s adventures on the ancient world of Barsoom (Mars) kicked off a 10-book series that helped established Burroughs as one of the most prolific writers of the 20th century.

Burroughs made his biggest mark with the character of Tarzan, who was featured in over 30 books, numerous comic strips, and many movies. Other fantastic stories came from Edgar Rice Burroughs’ skilled hands as well: the Pellucidar novels, the Pirates of Venus books, and two books about The Land That Time Forgot. Some of these stories were made into movies. Most of them were transformed into comic books. At one point or another various scholars have attempted to document connections between all the stories to show that ERB (as he is affectionately known to his fans) created a complicated master universe filled with numerous worlds, civilizations, and cultures.

While it is not clear that the larger fictional universe will be explored, the Disney Studios in partnership with Pixar Animation Studios are producing three movies based on the John Carter stories. The first movie, John Carter of Mars, is scheduled for release in 2012, marking the 100th anniversary of the publication of the first book.

Taylor Kitsch and Lynn Collins lead a star-studded cast for John Carter of Mars featuring Willem Dafoe, Samantha Morton, James Purefoy, Thomas Hayden Church, Dominic West, Mark Strong, Polly Walker, and Daryl Sabara.

Fans of Edgar Rice Burroughs have been discussing a possible John Carter of Mars movie for several years as rumors have circulated. Despite several false starts over the decades the character of John Carter has never yet appeared in any movie. That will change starting in December 2009 as a direct-to-dvd low-budget adaptation is released by The Asylum.

My firsthand statement is that I am fully pleased with U-verse Internet and phone service. I did not maintain the TV from the time when I found the high-definition picture quality is rather inferior to Time Warner Cable. There are no issues with freezing etc. In fact my spouse liked U-verse better but she isn’t an HD person. I think for somebody who primarily lays eyes on SD and any occasional film, or isn’t choosy regarding HD quality, U-verse is undoubtedly greater.

I have had it for over one year and only had one tech call, and it was in fact my mistake– I had a home-made line splitter linking the NID and the RG which was triggering cut offs and noise on the line. The tech alternated it and all is good.

Bear in mind, you just see the messes here, not the notes from the millions of subscribers that are delighted.

All innovative goods have troubles on rollout. FiOS had lots of similar problems in its teething stages. Evidently as AT&T concluded to reuse the “last mile”, the product is not allowing to work for everybody. If their inside wiring is blistering or the copper to their house isn’t nearly great ,they could undergo issues. In general from what I’ve noticed, a vast majority are happy with their ATT U-verse service.

How To Make Money By Re-Selling Oil Paintings?

Here is a great opportunity to make money just being home. Earn up to 25% of the money made by selling Oil Paintings. Here is how it is done, its easy, enroll in a reseller program by contacting the site owner of Oil Paintings, open your very own reseller site. Sit back and let the money flow in.

Look for established sites that sell Oil Paintings, contact by email or through their contact form to make your request for becoming a reseller. With minimum effort you could be seeing enormous cash flow. But you may ask why Oil Paintings? Well the answer is simple, because material of art hardly needs marketing. People buy the Paintings for the quality work done.

Once you own a painting it is yours!!! You may not be able to reproduce the art, but you can sell it for whatever you want, I do all the time!! If you can sell it for more than you bought, more power to you. I see most artists not being able to sell their material and end up getting a cheap bargain. With the right kind of strategy you could be selling the same piece for five maybe ten times what you bought it for.

You could even auction it off in ebay because once the Oil Painting is bought by you; there is no royalty over such material. This is how paintings of famous artist such as Van Gough are sold for millions by the rightful owner, which is what you could be.

By far reselling is one of the best business practices wherein the returns are far higher to what the investment is. Reselling is legal whereas just making multiple copies of the work of art without the permission of artist and selling those is going to land you in trouble. When an artist sells you a work of art he/she has to provide you with rights for reproduction of original copy. Unless such clear agreement is made it would be a crime to make copies.

If you decide you have the killer marketing skills, you could even go in for wholesale purchase of paintings and turn them into your gallery wherein you could start building your own purchase of Oil Paintings and make profitable income.

I heard an artists once say “If he sold a picture for say $50, and the buyer then resold it for $500, then lucky for them.” An artist once sells his Painting to a person, he is entitled to sell it to others, but not make copies of it.

To begin with look for a site where you could purchase paintings that you feel can fetch you good market value. It is always advisable to start with popular items. Once you get a foot holding in the market arena then you could trade multiple Paintings after wholesale purchase.

These are just a few pointers towards making a successful career out of reselling paintings. Please remember this fair warning to read through the Copyright laws before you decide to market material that you have purchased.

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Craig. Daniel Craig.

The new 007 — call him James Blonde. I wrote in an earlier post that I was throughly disgusted with the weak Bond actors to stink up the screen since Sean Connery. Actually, I shouldn’t say that Roger Moore was weak, but he never stood up to the original. Connery was Bond and Bond was Connery. Everyone since him just hasn’t cut it.

But now, I’m excited about shaken martinis, Aston Martins, atomic-blasting ballpoint pens, megalomaniacal villians and hot women with suggestive names like “Ashlee Poundcake.” Why the sudden euphoria? Because Bond is starting over. With Brit Daniel Craig (best known in the U.S. for “Layer Cake” (2004) and “Road To Perdition” (2002)), we should get to see a different kind of Bond. Younger, less gimmicky, more energetic.

Craig is talented and I think he’ll bring a charisma and toughness that Brosnan and Dalton could not muster with consistency. And yes, I believe Daniel Craig is a more convincing fighter than Roger Moore.

I also like the fact that they are going back to an earlier Ian Fleming work with “Casino Royale.” This movie was done as a spoof before, but will be given the royal treatment this time. Also, Martin Campbell directed “The Mask of Zorro” and “Goldeneye” (the best Bond film since early “Roger Moore”) so he should know what he is doing.

I know a lot of people are criticizing the Daniel Craig choice, but I would direct them to the fine work that Christian Bale did in “Batman Begins.” The Batman movies were below mediocre when they were looking for “stars” to continue the Batman character that Michael Keaton brought into the modern age so well — Val Kilmer was pretty bad and George Clooney was a disgrace. It was not until they decided to “start over” with younger Bale, was Batman born again. Now they probably have two to three good movies left with Bale in the lead. This is also what I suspect will happen with the new “Superman” series with its new blood.

The Batman and Bond characters are related in many ways. Both are mysterious, lead double-lives, rely on technology, charm, wealth and training to get their jobs done. They also appeal both to men and women at the same time for different reasons. This is why I like this direction and I can’t wait till 2006 when “Casino Royale” opens with Daniel Craig in the title role.

Now, if we can just get the President working on that Daniel Craig clone now before it’s too late.

Just for fun, here are my top five (printable) new Bond Girl names:

5. Poppy McButtons 4. Nina Jailbait 3. Mary Kate Ashley 2. Serena Sweetback 1. Ari Ola

Everyone of us has music inside. And it is not an abstract statement, but scientifically proved fact. Molecules of DNA “sound” inside us and it is very important if music from outside is in keeping with music inside us.

Scientists pay great attention to researches concerning music’s influence on human beings. Attention to such researches has increased recently and their results are interesting and convincing. For example, after listening classical music cows have increased their yield of milk and mimosa and petunias have grown faster and burst into bloom 2 weeks earlier. 120 breast-feed mothers took part in experiment in Japan. Some women listened classical music, other women listened pop and rock music. In first group the amount of milk increased in 20 per cent, and in second group - reduced twice.

Such researches are the attempt to synthesise science and art (music). But in ancient India science and art were considered to be the parts of single creative power. All knowledge of ancient India one can find in the Vedas (Holy Indian Scripture) and one of four main Vedas Sama-Veda is entirely dedicated to music. According to the Vedas the creating of the world started from the primordial sound “OM”, which appeared while division of the Almighty (Sadashiva) and his creative energy (Adi Shakti). “OM” was the foundation of the universe and the first musical sound.

Human subtle system consists of 7 main chakras (energetic centres) and 3 channels, which rule mental, emotional and physical life activity of person. 7 chakras of our subtle body revolve with certain frequency and form an octave, which consists of 7 tones of proper altitude. Intervals between them should reflect intervals between chakras. These tones were called musical sounds - notes (’svars’ in Indian music). They sound - sa, re, ga, ma, pa, da, ni and they are in keeping with chakras - from first till seventh. 5 notes can change (fall and rise), creating 5 additional sounds (left and right aspects of chakras). Thus, these notes are built-in subtle body and represent the ideal “repository” of information, the repository of those feelings, emotions, wishes and thoughts, which composer or performer has.

While listening music a person receives some influence on subtle level, which later appears on physical body. Same notes can bring destruction or good, it depends on the inner condition of person. For example, anger, aggression, drug intoxication and so on, which have power over the mind of composer or musician, will find the reflection in his music. There are some styles and forms in music which reflect only such bad qualities. Such music may do harm not only the musician, but also a person who listen to it. Clear, inspired people, who have lucid mind will never create such music. They created only folk music with great variety and classical music which has its roots in folk music.

Let’s listen to music, which is in keeping with music inside us.

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This article gives some speculations on the recent bombing in Davao City. It also details the activities conducted by the City government of Davao and the reactions the blast caused.
Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte angrily remarked that he could not promise to restore back the peace the city once kept. He claimed however that it would be a hell for the criminal elements and perpetrators. He appears sure in his allegation that the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) group, a Muslim secessionist movement operating in Mindanao, perpetrated the bombing. The police authorities in Davao City have detained several individuals for questioning while formally lodging a case to Hashim Salamat and other key officials of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). Duterte even proclaimed an all-out war to the group. After the blast, he urged Philippine key officials like Defense Secretary Angelo Reyes, Interior Secretary Jose Lina and national police chief Hermogenes Ebdane to cease talks with the MILF and impose martial law in the south.

Because of the bombing incident, Duterte is encouraging authorities to conduct warrantless arrest on the MILF suspects in Davao City. Before this call was made, the Crimininal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) detained Terso Sudang, the father of the alleged bomber, and Kabacan, Cotabato Barangay Captain Muntazer Sudang for questioning. They were later charged along with Salamat and other key leaders of the MILF. Duterte saw this as lawful and even called on his critics for a debate on this issue. He feels confident that having served the Prosecution office for 11 years has given him the wisdom on this issue. This would allow them to arrest even the leaders of the MILF if they step on the Davao territory. They knew Duterte is sincere in this gesture. This made them to move out of their stations to a much safer place.

Why in Davao? Dabawenyos dismissed the claim of the Abu Sayyaf to be responsible for the bombing. Not only the Mayor is pointing finger at the MILF but also the Dabawenyos. It is interesting to note that the event happened after Mayor Duterte and the MILF group made an agreement to spare Davao City from its all-out war against the government of Arroyo. The families of Salamat reside in Davao too. Salamat also frequents Davao and it is Duterte who even personally have entertained him during his stays in the city.

The decade of peace in Davao City was definitely a result of the “iron” fist of Duterte. He personally sends criminals to jail. He is best known as the “Dirty Harry” or the “Executioner” of Davao. His critics always identify him to be the “brain” behind the series of assassinations of drug pushers (even including minors) and criminal syndicates roaming in the city. While he earned the respects of the lumads (natives), Christians and Muslims in Davao City, criminals mostly feared him.

Duterte was seen as a good balancer. He knows how to position himself in the limelight while answering the bickering of his critics. Both Christians and Muslims alike love him. But like other heroes he also has an Achilles heel. Duterte is identified with the Arroyo administration. The President is an admirer of the mayor who did manage to root out the drug and criminality problems of the City. This was further known when the President requested invited to become the secretary of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG). At the same time, both Arroyo and Duterte are under the same political party, Lakas-NUCD. In a crisis “crisis manager.”

Days before the incident, Duterte had premonitions something bad would happen to Davao. He admitted that there is no foolproof security against terrorism especially the wide area of Davao. He was not wrong when he claimed that a determined, well-organized and well-funded terrorist group can bide its time, pick its target and strike when and where least expected. Duterte now faces another crucial problem in the city. He became more vocal in his allegations that MILF was behind the blast. Aside from the fact that one of those killed in the blast was Sudang who apparently joined the MILF at age of 16 and has connections with a certain Jibran Ali Bin Davao, the head of the Davao-area MILF Unit. Also, the pipe bomb used by Sudang is a forte of the MILF. The group’s members were also believed to be staging series of bombings to the power lines in Iligan prior to the blast in retaliation to the death of more than 200 MILF soldiers when the government stormed a camp they occupied in Cotabato. The government believed that the camp has also been utilized as a training camp for bandit groups.

Duterte personally directed the authorities to file multiple charges against Salamat and the rest of the suspects. He called on Salamat who are believed to be in hiding to give in the planners and that he could personally execute them if Salamat could not do so. At the same time, more Dabawenyos heed to the call of the government for alsa (uprising). More than a decade ago, the same concept became prevalent in Davao. It was basically the civil society’s uprising and taking of arms against the “sparrows” (communist guerillas). Although it brought forth a new era of human rights violations issues, the movement became phenomenal. It contributed to the relative peace enjoyed by the Dabawenyos.

This particular move by the city government carries a lot of implications for Muslim residents in Davao City. A growing speculation looms again in Davao that the movement would create more militants and vigilante groups. If the Alsa Masa is for the guerillas, there is even a greater tension that it would be perpetrated against Muslim individuals. All of the members of the MILF are Moslems. In this case, there could be a tendency for anarchy and civil unrest in Davao City if this happens. There is a danger of a renewed animosity between Christians and Muslims in the City. The local government assured that the “bannersEand call for uprising mainly suggest the collective response to the bombing at the Davao international Airport. Mayor Duterte also made an assurance that he would protect the “innocent Muslims just as he protects innocent Christians.E

There are many speculations that surround the bombing incident in Davao. The first assumption is that the act is part of the retaliatory acts by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to the recent deployment of American forces in Basilan. This is one of the things the group feared since it would eventually strengthen the military capabilities of the Philippine government. The group has been vocal strongly condemned the intervention made by the United States, more so with the sending of its troops in the region. It could be noted that the identification of Philippine government with the United States created the caution among the Moslems in Mindanao. This is aside from the fact that the Philippine government entered into an agreement with Australia in order to solve the terrorism problems in the region.

One idea traces back to the group’s objective shifting from “negotiating” to “destabilizing” and “humiliating” the Arroyo government. The group has been a witness to what happened to the Moro National Liberation Front (MLF). It views earlier efforts by the previous group to be useless especially when it just ended up MNLF’s key leader, Nur Misuari, to be charged with corruption and mismanagement of government funds. This time they become paranoid to any government negotiations.

Some analysts consider the blast to be a mere reflection of the restlessness of the group to be fatalistic in its attitude that the only way to solve the problem is to sow pockets of terror. It is a result of the never-ending anxiety of the minorities triggered by the mindset of “Islamism,” which allegedly utilize the use of force as way of life and religion and even achieving the promise heaven.

Endnotes

Ben Tesiorna, “Duterte Dares MILF to Prove Innocence.” Sunstar. March 10, 2003. Online. Available. 03/10/03/

Alsa Dabaw, The Need of An Hour, “SunStar Davao,” March 10, 2003. Online. Available. 3/10/03

Read an article by Ben Tesiorna, “MILF Denies Hand in Airport Bombing,” SunStar Davao. March 10, 2003. Online. Available. 03/10/03/

Read, for example, the explanation made by Atty. Wender Avisado. Alsa Dabaw Not Alsa Masa, SunStar Davao, March 10, 2003. Online. Available. 03/10/03. “Rody Not Bothered By Death Threats,” SunStar Davao, March 10, 2003. Online. Available. 03/10/03.

Critics Dared to Debate on Warrantless Arrest,”SunStar Davao, March 10, 2003. Online. Available. 03/10/03.

John Dave D. Vergara, “MILF Leaders Gone Into Hiding,” SunStar. March 9, 2003. Online. Available. 03/10/03.

“US Warns Against U.S. Citizens To Use Caution in the Philippines,” CNN. March 7, 2003. Online. Available. 03/10/03.

About the Author

Currently a Monbukagakusho (Japanese government) scholar; about to finish his second masters degree in International Relations (IR) in Japan. His first masters degree program was on public administration (MPA) focusing on the area of Social Capital Formation of the Families of Overseas Filipino Workers. He hopes to achieve a greater understanding on international labor migration in particular, taking into consideration an assessment of Philippine Labor Migration. His current thesis is on the socio-economic security of Overseas Filipina workers in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Japan and Singapore. His current courses in the International University of Japan (IUJ) prompted him to have a better understanding and perspective on the diverse issues in the field of peace, security, and international relations.

Stag Party
Way, way, way back in history the stag party was celebrated in all sorts of ways, and you thought it was a modern day invention, shame on you.

The Vikings stag party would consist of flagons of ale, pillaging, buxom wenches and fighting, well they did think they would only go to heaven if they died in a fight.

Poor Henry VIII, he had more stag parties then a busy working girl in Amsterdam. Do you think he chopped the heads off his wives because he was addicted to stag parties ?? Wow, we are writing history here!

These days, the majority of us have been on holiday with large groups of friends, been to University together, partied together its like getting divorced from your friends and getting married to the one you love. Its not like you won’t see your friends again, is it?

With this being said, maybe it is like being reborn. After the days of Singledon and getting frightfully drunk with your friends maybe it is a time for change, a time for settling down and giving your liver a rest!

Surprise, surprise not everyone drinks so some of these comments would not apply, if you would like further information on Where to go, what to do, how to keep drunken pests in the group at bay click on the following links ” stag Weekend ” &” Stag Night “.

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