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It’s election season in Europe, and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has decided that George Soros can again win him votes. “The Soros network is embedded in the European institutions. They are so embedded that the European institutions give them money to operate,” Orban said in late March on his near-weekly interview with public broadcaster Kossuth Radio. “They’re in the Commission, in the Parliament, and quite a few prime ministers are clearly Soros holdouts.”

Between June 6 and 9, citizens in all 27 European Union member states will choose a new Parliament, and Orban kicked off his campaign in Hungary with a fresh dose of attack politics. Brussels, he said in his March interview, was “increasingly becoming a prisoner of the international network of activists that George Soros has built up over the last 30 years with great effort.”

This isn’t the first time Orban has used Soros, the Hungarian Jewish financier and philanthropist, as a punching bag in an election campaign. He has done so before to win elections in Hungary. What is new this time, however, is that Orban’s spokesperson immediately translated his boss’s stinging attack on Soros from Hungarian into English and posted the translation on X (formerly Twitter). Clearly, the attack is being taken to a new, European level.

How attack politics works, and why the Hungarian prime minister has used it often during the last 10 years, is described in a 2019 BuzzFeed News article, “The Unbelievable Story of the Plot Against George Soros.” (An earlier version appeared in the Swiss magazine Das Magazin.) It tells the story of two American spin doctors who designed Orban’s first hate campaign against Soros back in 2013, managing to turn Soros—who got rich in the United States and poured billions of dollars of his fortune into organizations supporting democratic governance and freedom of speech all over the world—into Hungary’s most hated man within weeks. In fact, their anti-Soros smear campaign was such a success that Orban, who himself worked at the Soros-funded Central European Research Group and studied briefly on a Soros scholarship at the University of Oxford, won the election.

These two spin doctors, Arthur Finkelstein and George Birnbaum—Jewish themselves—worked with a simple idea: If you want to win elections, make sure you go on the attack. The underlying assumption is that many voters know whom they will vote for. Consequently, it is difficult to motivate them to vote for another candidate. Demoralizing them, however, is easier. You discredit your political opponent with a volley of accusations, mostly false, so your opponent’s supporters will start having doubts. As a result, some will not vote. Others will defect to you. Finkelstein and Birnbaum called this “rejectionist voting.”

The duo used this technique first in Israel in 1995, just after Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination. New elections were scheduled, with the social democrat Shimon Peres as the designated winner. Very few observers gave the young conservative Likud candidate Benjamin Netanyahu, who was polling 20 percentage points behind, any chance. Netanyahu contracted Finkelstein and Birnbaum to help him get out of the underdog position. They told him the only way he would have a chance of winning would be if his campaign focused on spreading the rumor that Peres intended to give half of Jerusalem to the Palestinians. Peres did not want to do that; it was a complete fabrication. But the more the line spread, the more journalists asked him about it. Instead of pushing and discussing his own political agenda, Peres was forced to defend himself against Netanyahu’s lie. Netanyahu completely trapped Peres and, to the surprise of many, won the 1996 election, with more than 50 percent of the vote. This is how Netanyahu’s spectacular rise in politics began.

In the early 2000s, Finkelstein and Birnbaum helped Bulgarian and Romanian politicians gain power with similar campaigns. Then Netanyahu introduced them to another ambitious politician in Europe: Viktor Orban. He had been prime minister between 1998 and 2002 before losing power. Orban felt so humiliated that he swore he would never lose again. In 2010, the spin doctors advised him to conduct a tough, polarizing campaign against bureaucrats and foreign investors. It worked: Orban’s alliance won a comfortable two-thirds majority in the National Assembly, and the social democrats suffered a stinging defeat that they still have not recovered from today.

During the next election, in 2014, the opposition hardly managed to get a word in. Still, Orban took no chances and again consulted the advisors who had helped him win earlier. They told him he needed a scapegoat with a familiar face. They suggested he use Soros and depict him as a Jewish financier with a secret political agenda: to weaken Hungary and then dominate it. According to some reports, this campaign fueled antisemitism in the country; however, since Hungary keeps no official data on antisemitism, the EU’s rights watchdog, the Vienna-based Agency for Fundamental Rights, found it hard to substantiate this claim.

During this campaign, Orban blamed all his problems on Soros and his “tentacles”—from the financial and economic crises that had hit the country to the arrival of refugees from war-torn Syria and other countries. In 2014 and again in 2018, Orban won elections, consolidating his grip on power in Hungary. In the run-up to the 2018 vote, posters appeared all over Hungary depicting Soros with the text: “Don’t let Soros have the last laugh.” That year, the Hungarian government also forced Central European University (CEU), founded and partially funded by Soros, out of the country. CEU eventually found refuge in Vienna, from where it still operates.

As Birnbaum once said, “It’s good to have an enemy,” calling Soros a “good target.” Soros was defenseless. If he fought back, he would only crank up the rumor machine. If he entered the Hungarian political fray, Orban could accuse him of being power-hungry. So he did not say anything, and the rumor spread anyway.

Birnbaum’s father survived Auschwitz. (Finkelstein, who was much older, died in 2017.) That their campaigns featured racist tropes and fueled antisemitism does not seem to bother Birnbaum in the least. Once he asked an interviewer: “Can I not attack someone because he is a Jew?”

While Orban successfully won two Hungarian elections deploying the “Soros monster,” the first time he used this strategy to win a European election was in 2019. Posters went up picturing then-Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Soros, with the words: “You have the right to know what Brussels is cooking up!” Orban’s campaign then focused on migration: Brussels’s “secret” plan to use migrant visas to flood Europe with immigrants and Europe’s so-called attempts to prevent Hungary from guarding its external borders.

Soros largely kept quiet, but Juncker—who had once called the Hungarian prime minister a “dictator”—immediately began to refute the charges. He strongly denied Brussels was working on secret migrant visas or was hindering border guards. In short, Orban’s strategy went according to plan. His alliance won 53 percent of the vote.

That the Hungarian prime minister is having his attacks on Soros translated into English this time is telling. A Hungarian diplomat once told me, “Viktor Orban thinks Europe will either be his Europe or Emmanuel Macron’s Europe.” In countries such as France, where far-right politician Jordan Bardella from Marine Le Pen’s National Rally is clearly the front-runner, the election campaign is dominated by a similar binary choice: Europe will be shaped by the likes of Macron or the National Rally.

Now that several far-right parties in different countries do not want to leave the EU anymore because of what Swedish politician Carl Bildt has called the “BTP effect”—meaning, Brexit, Trump, Putin—they seem to want to instead enter European politics for the first time and attempt to change it from the inside. Consequently, they are trying to form coalitions to maximize their influence. Orban told a party congress last year that Europe needs to be changed, not ditched.

Herbert Kickl of the Freedom Party of Austria, Geert Wilders of the Dutch Party for Freedom, and several other far-right politicians are starting to talk more and more about what they want with Europe: ditching climate legislation, changing the existing migration policy, and blocking aid for Ukraine. In the run-up to this year’s elections, the European center-right is already moving somewhat in this direction, just as it does in member states when it tries to prevent voters from fleeing to the far right. Several polls, while showing that the center will hold after the elections in June, have predicted substantial gains for the far right in several member states.

According to Paul Lendvai, a Hungarian journalist in Vienna who has written a critical biography of the Hungarian prime minister, Orban has Hungary “in his pocket, and Europe will be his next step.” He seems intent on using—or rather abusing—Soros to this end once more. Europe had better be prepared.

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carewyncromwell · 9 months

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"But the tigers come at night With their voices soft as thunder, As they tear your hopes apart -- As they turn your dream to shame...!

You can take -- (And still I dream he'll come to me,) You can give... (That we will live the years together,) Let him be! (But there are dreams that cannot be,) Let him live! (And there are storms we cannot weather!)

If I die, let me die! Let him live..."

~"Bring Him Home/I Dreamed a Dream (mash-up)" by Adam Bayjou and Lucy O'Byrne

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Talbott's Death's-Head-Hawkmoth bolo tie // original inspiration for Carewyn's dress

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Hi all! Recently Hogwarts Mystery put out a rather underwhelming sidequest about Voldemort possibly returning to the Wizarding World, and I decided it'd be a great time to make some Second Wizarding War content for my girl Carewyn...specifically about the good friend she grew even closer to in that time, Talbott Winger!

Even at school, Talbott and Carewyn did discover they were truly "birds of a feather," upon becoming friends in their fourth year. They're both the type to put walls up around their hearts to hide their more fragile emotions, as well as to prefer the company of a few close friends to large crowds, and they both harbor a strong desire to improve the world around them despite the personal traumas of their respective childhoods. Post-Hogwarts both Talbott and Carewyn even pursue careers in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement as an Auror and lawyer, respectively, and it's with Talbott, his Auror partner Tonks, his Auror mentor Mad-Eye Moody, Hitwizard Ben, her own legal mentor Amelia Bones, and fellow lawyer Chester Davies that Carewyn ends up working with most closely, at the start of her career.

When the Second Wizarding War happened, though...well, that list of Ministry associates Talbott and Carewyn had accrued shrank very, very fast. Amelia Bones and her entire family was assassinated not long after Voldemort's return was fully revealed in the spring of 1995. Mad-Eye was killed in the summer of 1997 while trying to get Harry Potter to safety before his 17th birthday. Tonks had to immediately go into hiding after Bill Weasley's wedding due to her connection with the Order, and Ben had to go into hiding not long later from the newly formed Muggle-Born Registration Commission. Even Chester Davies ended up taking an assignment in Romania during a large stretch of the War, so as to support and protect his old associate and fellow Prefect Felix Rosier, who was a persistent mark for Death Eaters trying to force him to join their ranks. Several of Carewyn and Talbott's other friends outside the Ministry, like Chiara Lobosca, Barnaby Lee, and Bill Weasley, had also been forced underground to evade the Death Eaters. This left Talbott and Carewyn largely alone to deal with the blatant rot and evil that had corrupted their Department -- the place where they'd both so desperately wanted to make a difference, and yet now was forcing them to march lock-step with their disgusting whims.

Fortunately one other thing Talbott and Carewyn shared was their determination to not just cowardly shrink in the face of evil. And so covertly, both of them found a way to support the fight against Voldemort. Neither of them ever joined the Order of the Phoenix like Tonks did -- Carewyn had way too much negative feelings toward Dumbledore to ever accept him as her "commander," and Talbott preferred to follow his father's example and not explicitly join any formal organization -- but they were still valuable in their own way in opposing the Death Eaters. Carewyn smuggled intelligence out of the Ministry to anti-Voldemort causes and even took charge of the Ministry and put Umbridge under citizen's arrest during the Battle of Hogwarts. Talbott was a pivotal correspondent at Potterwatch (using the name "Raptor"), reporting on the glossed-over casualties of the War, but also frequently writing and reading aloud inspirational pieces to promote hope in Voldemort's disheartened victims. And they also worked together sometimes to smuggle prisoners out of the Ministry to safehouses, such as Carewyn's future "ward" Erik Apollo and eventual legal partner Orion Amari and his daughter Eos.

Although in retrospect, their fight was not in vain, and their eventual triumph could be seen as worth all of the turmoil and pain they suffered through, however, this doesn't mean that in the midst of it, Carewyn and Talbott didn't experience their fair share of despair, hopeless, and grief. One of these such moments was on Boxing Day, 1997, when Carewyn visited Talbott at his home in Godric's Hollow. He had called into work that day without any warning -- a very unusual occurrence -- and it prompted Carewyn right away to check on him. She arrived very late at night, when just about everyone else in Godric's Hollow was asleep -- and when Carewyn entered Talbott's Secret-guarded cottage, she found her friend collapsed in his armchair, his tear-stained face more worn and exhausted than Carewyn had just about ever seen it. Talbott had immediately bolted up at someone entering, wand raised, and had not relaxed even an molecule of an inch until they exchanged questions and answers that would verify each other's identity.

"What name did I call you, in the poem I wrote after we first met?" "'Looking-Glass Eyes.' What did you bring me on my first night in the Hospital Wing, after Rowan's death?" "A handwritten copy of the poem 'Immortality' by Claire Harner."

It was only then that Talbott slowly lowered his wand and, seeming a bit weak on his feet, swayed back to his armchair. Carewyn immediately rushed over to support her friend as he collapsed back down into it, wiping the moist mix of sweat and tears from his face.

"...Bathilda Bagshot is dead," he said at last.

Carewyn looked up, horrified.

"She'd kind of retreated into her house, these last few months," Talbott explained lowly. "An understandable thing, under the circumstances. But on Christmas, her house just blew up out of nowhere, and the Aurors were sent to investigate, and...well, even if Yaxley's crew tried to cover it all up, I saw her body, before they took it..."

Talbott's head fell as he closed his eyes, almost as if wanting to shut out the image.

"She'd been torn to pieces, Carewyn," he whispered. "Like some disgusting parasite had buried itself inside of her and then just ripped her apart..."

Carewyn slowly eased herself down onto the footstool beside his armchair, her blue eyes rippling with sorrow.

"Talbott, I'm so sorry...I know she was kind to you, when you first moved in here. Mum's always spoken so well of her -- everything I've ever heard of Bathilda Bagshot was how sweet and helpful she was..."

"She was a good woman," Talbott agreed.

He exhaled heavily through his nose as he slowly opened his eagle-like eyes.

"That's not all, though. After the fact, it came out that the reason the Aurors were called out so quickly was that 'Undesirable Number 1' may have been spotted in the vicinity of Bagshot's house."

Carewyn gave a start. "Potter?"

Talbott nodded.

"When I followed up with the rest of Potterwatch, they didn't have any real idea what he might've been doing there or what happened to Bagshot, while he was in her house...but Lupin thinks it's very likely he came to Godric's Hollow because it's where his parents died. If so...then it's possible that Bagshot found him and brought him back to her house, before whatever happened."

Carewyn's eyes softened with sadness. She knew full well Godric's Hollow hosted the old ruins of the Potter home -- she'd passed the old memorial a few times when she'd come to visit Talbott in the past. Talbott even walked over there with Carewyn, Tonks, and Chiara one Halloween not long after he first moved in, so they could all pay their respects.

"I know it's silly for me to wish I was there, but..." Talbott brought his head into his hand, his eyes falling down to the ground. "...He must've come to see his parents. They're buried in a plot only about ten feet away from where my parents are -- a plot I've visited on every holiday, bar this year..."

Talbott closed his eyes and hung his head.

"If I'd just visited this year, maybe I would've been there, when Potter was. He could've hidden out at my place instead -- I could've been more able to fight whatever attacked him and Bagshot -- "

"Talbott, don't blame yourself!" Carewyn said fiercely.

Her hand clutched at his arm, even as her eyes likewise fell down to the carpet, rather than remaining on him.

"...We don't know what it is that attacked Potter and Bagshot. For all we know, it could've been some elaborate trap set up by You-Know-Who, in case Potter ever showed up. After all, you moved here because your parents are buried here...it would make perfect sense if Potter wanted to visit this place as well..."

"Of course it does!" said Talbott, his voice strained. "That's all the more reason to wish I was there. I understand why he'd want to be here...I understand it probably more than anyone else..."

Carewyn's hand ran gently along Talbott's forearm, trying to comfort him. Talbott looked down at his own feet as he once again exhaled.

"Fred and George talk about him all the time. Lupin and Shacklebolt, as well. He's a lot like you, from what I gather -- modest and brave...with the ridiculous tendency to play the hero in every situation," the slightest of wry smiles flickered at the corners of his lips before quickly fading. "...Most of all...I gather he's never forgotten his parents. Lupin said once that the only real memories Potter has of his parents is of the night they died -- of them selflessly trying to save him, even as Vol -- the Dark Lord closed in..."

Talbott's lips twitched unhappily -- he hated the Taboo that forced him not to use Voldemort's real name.

"...I know I've never met the kid, but...I know what that's like. The not being able to forget. The knowledge that your parents gave everything, just so you could live. The shadow it casts over you...and how much it makes you fear losing anyone else...all those people who've become your family, in the place of the one you lost..."

His reddish eyes seemed to burn. Carewyn could feel waves of empathetic pain pooling off of her friend, even without him looking her right in the eye.

"I know it's silly, but...even if I don't really know Potter, and it's not like he'd have any reason to trust me in that circumstance when he doesn't know me from Adam...I wish I'd been there, for him. Because...I've been him, more than once."

The sorrow in Carewyn's eyes deepened. She bowed her head, and her forehead ended up lightly grazing the top of Talbott's head as she closed her eyes.

"You feeling that way is not silly," Carewyn said very softly. "It's noble. It's kind. And I know...if Potter is as much like you as he sounds to me...then he would appreciate knowing he wasn't alone."

Her low volume couldn't mask the strong emotions that choked her voice. Even though Talbott lacked Carewyn's flair for Legilimency, Talbott knew at his heart that -- like him -- Carewyn was likewise full of empathy for Potter's pain...because she, like both of them, also understood how much grief could isolate you...how much time could never take away the phantom pains of that loss.

Do not stand by my grave, and weep -- I am not there, I do not sleep...

The memory of the poem he'd given Carewyn after Rowan's death ran over Talbott's mind again as he looked up at his old friend. He took in the paleness of her face and the pain in her shut eyes, and he found himself bringing his own hand down to hold her arm, the way she was his. Talbott didn't speak, instead just keeping their posture as it was, with both of them leaning on each other and holding each other's arms.

Sometimes true solidarity -- true friendship -- requires no words.

#hphm #hogwarts mystery #my art #my writing #talbott winger #carewyn cromwell #harry potter #bathilda bagshot #nymphadora tonks #rowan khanna #voldemort

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brainpickings · 1 year

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Variety’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of All Time

Well these are always fun for debate, in my humble opinion there are way to many American movies on this list.

100 The Graduate 1967

97 Alien 1979

96 A Hard Day’s Night 1964

95 Toy Story 1995

94 Bridesmaids 2011

93 Le Samourai 1967 France

92 Pink Flamingos 1972

91 Scenes From a Marriage 1974 Sweden

90 The Shining 1980

89 Belle de Jour 1967 France

88 Malcolm X 1992

87 The Sound of Music 1965

86 Close-Up 1990 Iran

85 Natural Born Killers 1994

84 Pan’s Labyrinth 2006

83 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979

82 Parasite 2019 South Korea

81 The Dark Knight 2008

80 Pixote 1980 Brazil

79 Waiting for Guffman 1996

78 Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1975 Belgium

77 Goldfinger 1964

76 The Tree of Life 2011

75 Boogie Nights 1997

74 My Neighbor Totoro 1988 Japan

73 Intolerance 1916

72 Breaking the Waves 1996

71 My Best Friend’s Wedding 1997

70 12 Years a Slave 2013

69 Beau Travail 1999 France

68 King Kong 1933

67 Bicycle Thieves 1948 Italy

66 Paris Is Burning 1990

65 A Man Escaped 1956 France

64 Carrie 1976

63 Bambi 1942

62 Dazed and Confused 1993

61 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 France

60 Moulin Rouge! 2001

59 Vagabond 1985 France

58 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

57 Brokeback Mountain 2005

56 Rosemary’s Baby 1968

55 Pather Panchali 1955 Bengali

54 The Road Warrior 1981

53 In the Mood for Love 2000 China

52 The General 1926

51 Apocalypse Now 1976

50 Breathless 1960 France

49 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974

48 The Piano 1993

47 Mean Streets 1973

46 Notorious 1946

45 Titanic 1997

44 L’Avventura 1960

43 Shoah 1985

42 Moonlight 2016

41 The Wild Bunch 1969

40 Fargo 1996

39 Some Like It Hot 1959

38 Lawrence of Arabia 1962

37 Annie Hall 1977

36 On the Waterfront 1954

35 The Silence of the Lambs 1991

34 Stagecoach 1939

33 8 1/2 1963

32 Vertigo 1958

31 Network 1976

30 The Empire Strikes Back 1980

29 Double Indemnity 1944

28 City Lights 1931

27 Bonnie and Clyde 1967

26 The 400 Blows 1959 France

25 Bringing Up Baby 1938

24 Tokyo Story 1953 Japan

23 The Apartment 1960

22 Chinatown 1974

21 Gone With the Wind 1939

20 Blue Velvet 1986

19 The Godfather Part II 1974

18 Persona 1966 Sweden

17 Nashville 1975

16 Casablanca 1942

15 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1927

14 Do the Right Thing 1989

13 The Rules of the Game 1939 France

12 Goodfellas 1990

11 Singin’ in the Rain 1952

10 Saving Private Ryan 1998

9 All About Eve 1950

8 It’s a Wonderful Life 1946

7 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968

6 Seven Samurai 1954

5 Pulp Fiction 1994

4 Citizen Kane 1941

3 The Godfather 1972

2 The Wizard of Oz 1939

1 Psycho 1960

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ayteezmooveez · 2 years

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The (Currently) Complete Favorite Movies List

Favorite Movies of 1920's-1960's

1. The Wizard Of Oz

2. To Kill A Mockingbird

3. City Lights

4. It's A Wonderful Life

5. Casablanca

6. Psycho

7. Roman Holiday

8. 12 Angry Men

9. Rebel Without A Cause

10. Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid

11. The Philadelphia Story

12. Gentleman's Agreement

13. Citizen Kane

14. On The Waterfront

15. Rear Window

16. Mary Poppins

17. The Birds

18. The Gold Rush

19. A Streetcar Named Desire

20. Miracle On 34th Street

Honorable mention:

Breakfast At Tiffany's

Charade

East Of Eden

My Fair Lady

Planet Of The Apes

Sabrina

Favorite Movies of the 1970's

1. Harold & Maude

2. Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

3. Dog Day Afternoon

4. The Godfather

5. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

6. American Graffiti

7. A Clockwork Orange

8. Kramer vs Kramer

9. All The President's Men

10. Halloween

11. Taxi Driver

12. Monty Python & The Holy Grail

13. Jaws

14. Chinatown

15. Blazing Saddles

16. Star Wars

17. The French Connection

18. Young Frankenstein

19. Superman: The Movie

20. The Exorcist

Honorable mention:

Carrie

Duel

Grease

Enter The Dragon

Rocky

The Warriors

Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory

Favorite Movies of the 1980's

1. Ferris Bueller's Day Off

2. The Princess Bride

3. Back To The Future

4. Ghostbusters

5. The Breakfast Club

6. E.T.

7. Die Hard

8. Raiders Of The Lost Ark

9. Brazil

10. Heathers

11. Who Framed Roger Rabbit

12. The 'burbs

13. Gremlins

14. Stand By Me

15. Beetlejuice

16. Clue

17. Scrooged

18. Big

19. Rain Man

20. Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back

21. Batman

22. The Goonies

23. The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen

24. Spaceballs

25. Real Genius

26. Dead Poets Society

27. Say Anything

28. Back To The Future, Part II

29. Pee Wee's Big Adventure

30. Lethal Weapon

31. Three O'Clock High

32. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

33. Planes, Trains & Automobiles

34. Fast Times At Ridgemont High

35. Star Wars - Return Of The Jedi

36. The NeverEnding Story

37. Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade

38. The Terminator

39. The Karate Kid

40. WarGames

Honorable mention:

Blade Runner

Legend

The Little Mermaid

Poltergeist

Starman

This Is Spinal Tap

When Harry Met Sally...

Guilty pleasure:

Just One Of The Guys

The Lost Boys

Weekend At Bernie's

Favorite Movies of 1990

1. Edward Scissorhands

2. Goodfellas

3. Pump Up The Volume

4. Dick Tracy

5. Quick Change

6. Pretty Woman

7. Back To The Future, Part III

8. Home Alone

9. Gremlins 2

10. Joe Versus The Volcano

Honorable mention:

Cry-Baby

I Love You To Death

Mermaids

Guilty pleasure:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Favorite Movies of 1991

1. Dogfight

2. Terminator 2: Judgement Day

3. The Fisher King

4. L.A. Story

5. Defending Your Life

6. Barton Fink

7. The Silence Of The Lambs

8. My Own Private Idaho

9. The Addams Family

10. Beauty & The Beast

Honorable mention:

Doc Hollywood

Only The Lonely

Rush

Guilty pleasure:

Johnny Suede

Point Break

Favorite Movies of 1992

1. Reservoir Dogs

2. My Cousin Vinny

3. A League Of Their Own

4. Batman Returns

5. Chaplin

6. Malcolm X

7. Bram Stoker's Dracula

8. The Muppet Christmas Carol

9. Hero

10. Of Mice And Men

Honorable mention:

Leap Of Faith

Singles

Favorite Movies of 1993

1. Dazed & Confused

2. Groundhog Day

3. Jurassic Park

4. Benny & Joon

5. Schindler's List

6. For Love Or Money

7. What's Eating Gilbert Grape

8. The Nightmare Before Christmas

9. Heart & Souls

10. Mrs. Doubtfire

Honorable mention:

The Fugitive

Rudy

The Sandlot

Searching For Bobby Fischer

Sleepless In Seattle

The Thing Called Love

True Romance

Untamed Heart

Guilty pleasure:

Last Action Hero

So I Married An Axe Murderer

Favorite Movies of 1994

1. The Shawshank Redemption

2. Speed

3. The Crow

4. Ed Wood

5. The Lion King

6. Dumb & Dumber

7. Quiz Show

8. Pulp Fiction

9. The Professional

10. Reality Bites

Honorable mention:

Clerks

The Client

Forrest Gump

Four Weddings & A Funeral

Interview With The Vampire

Little Women

The Paper

The Ref

Guilty pleasure:

Brainscan

Favorite Movies of 1995

1. Seven

2. Before Sunrise

3. Twelve Monkeys

4. Dead Man

5. Toy Story

6. The American President

7. The Basketball Diaries

8. Clueless

9. Living In Oblivion

10. Empire Records

Honorable mention:

Apollo 13

Get Shorty

Mallrats

The Usual Suspects

Welcome To The Dollhouse

Favorite Movies of 1996

1. Jerry Maguire

2. That Thing You Do!

3. Beautiful Girls

4. William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet

5. Scream

6. The Rock

7. James & The Giant Peach

8. Ransom

9. The Frighteners

10. Tin Cup

Fargo

Hard Eight

Mission: Impossible

Sleepers

Swingers

Trees Lounge

Guilty pleasure:

Independence Day

Favorite Movies of 1997

1. Good Will Hunting

2. As Good As It Gets

3. Titanic

4. Boogie Nights

5. L.A. Confidential

6. Donnie Brasco

7. The Game

8. Scream 2

9. Face/Off

10. Cop Land

Honorable mention:

Chasing Amy

Gattaca

Grosse Pointe Blank

Jackie Brown

Two Girls & A Guy

Wag The Dog

Favorite Movies of 1998

1. Saving Private Ryan

2. Rushmore

3. Out Of Sight

4. Dark City

5. Shakespeare In Love

6. Pleasantville

7. Buffalo '66

8. The Truman Show

9. American History X

10. Enemy Of The State

Honorable mention:

A Bug's Life

Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas

Meet Joe Black

Playing By Heart

A Simple Plan

The Wedding Singer

What Dreams May Come

Guilty pleasure:

Godzilla

Favorite Movies of 1999

1. Fight Club

2. Magnolia

3. The Matrix

4. Notting Hill

5. 10 Things I Hate About You

6. Three Kings

7. Toy Story 2

8. Sleepy Hollow

9. Being John Malkovich

10. Man On The Moon

Honorable mention:

The Cider House Rules

The Green Mile

The Insider

The Iron Giant

The Sixth Sense

Favorite Movies of 2000

1. Requiem For A Dream

2. Memento

3. Almost Famous*

4. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

5. Unbreakable

6. Traffic

7. Wonder Boys

8. The Way Of The Gun

9. O Brother, Where Art Though?

10. Snatch

Honorable mention:

Billy Elliot

Cast Away

The Cell

Erin Brockovich

Frequency

Gladiator

High Fidelity

X-Men

Favorite Movies of 2001

1. Donnie Darko

2. Vanilla Sky

3. Amélie

4. The Royal Tenenbaums

5. LOTR - Fellowship

6. A Knight's Tale

7. Ocean's Eleven

8. Ghost World

9. A Beautiful Mind

10. A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Honorable mention:

Frailty

From Hell

Gosford Park

The Others

Shrek

Spirited Away

Favorite Movies of 2002

1. Adaptation.

2. Gangs Of New York

3. LOTR - Two Towers

4. Catch Me If You Can

5. Punch Drunk Love

6. Chicago

7. Minority Report

8. Insomnia

9. Death To Smoochy

10. About A Boy

Honorable mention:

8 Mile

28 Days Later

The Bourne Identity

The Dangerous Lives Of Altar Boys

The Good Girl

Igby Goes Down

Moonlight Mile

Panic Room

Road To Perdition

Signs

Guilty pleasure:

The Mothman Prophecies

Favorite Movies of 2003

1. American Splendor

2. 21 Grams

3. Big Fish

4. Kill Bill, Vol. 1

5. LOTR - Return Of The King

6. X2: X-Men United

7. Mystic River

8. Pirates Of The Caribbean

9. Matchstick Men

10. Finding Nemo

Honorable mention:

The Last Samurai

Lost In Translation

Phone Book

School Of Rock

Seabiscuit

The Station Agent

Guilty pleasure:

The Room

Underworld

Favorite Movies of 2004

1. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

2. Garden State

3. Spider-Man 2

4. The Aviator

5. Harry Potter & The Prisoner Of Azkaban

6. Before Sunset

7. The Incredibles

8. Napoleon Dynamite

9. Finding Neverland

10. Kill Bill, Vol. 2

Honorable mention:

Dodgeball

In Good Company

Million Dollar Baby

Sideways

Team America: World Police

The Village

Favorite Movies of 2005

1. Batman Begins

2. Walk The Line

3. Brokeback Mountain

4. Brick

5. King Kong

6. Serenity

7. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

8. Wedding Crashers

9. Breakfast On Pluto

10. Sin City

Honorable mention:

The Chumscrubber

Constantine

Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith

Syriana

Thumbsucker

V For Vendetta

War Of The Worlds

Favorite Movies of 2006

1. Little Miss Sunshine

2. The Fountain

3. The Prestige

4. The Fall

5. Pan's Labyrinth

6. The Departed

7. The Science Of Sleep

8. Superman Returns

9. A Scanner Darkly

10. Clerks II

Honorable mention:

16 Blocks

Babel

Stranger Than Fiction

Wristcutters: A Love Story

Favorite Movies of 2007

1. Across The Universe

2. There Will Be Blood

3. Zodiac

4. Superbad

5. Lars And The Real Girl

6. The Darjeeling Limited

7. Sweeney Todd

8. Funny Games

9. No Country For Old Men

10. Stardust

Honorable mention:

3:10 To Yuma

The Bourne Ultimatum

Gone Baby Gone

Harry Potter & The Order Of The Phoenix

Juno

Knocked Up

Live Free Or Die Hard

Michael Clayton

Ratatouille

Favorite Movies of 2008

1. The Dark Knight

2. The Brothers Bloom

3. Role Models

4. Slumdog Millionaire

5. Be Kind Rewind

6. Iron Man

7. In Bruges

8. Tropic Thunder

9. The Wrestler

10. Wanted

Honorable mention:

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

The Go-Getter

Me & Orson Welles

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Wall-E

Favorite Movies of 2009

1. (500) Days Of Summer

2. Where The Wild Things Are

3. Up In The Air

4. An Education

5. Inglourious Basterds

6. Star Trek

7. Fantastic Mr. Fox

8. Whip It

9. The Hangover

10. The Road

Honorable mention:

Adventureland

Avatar

Coraline

District 9

I Love You, Man

Favorite Movies of 2010

1. Inception

2. The Social Network

3. Black Swan

4. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

5. Blue Valentine

6. The Fighter

7. Winter's Bone

8. Toy Story 3

9. Shutter Island

10. The King's Speech

Honorable mention:

Buried

Due Date

Kick-Ass

Let Me In

Never Let Me Go

The Other Guys

The Town

Favorite Movies of 2011

1. Super 8

2. Hugo

3. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

4. Crazy Stupid Love

5. Moneyball

6. The Descendants

7. My Week With Marilyn

8. Bridesmaids

9. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

10. Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows, Part 2

Honorable mention:

10 Years

50/50

The Beaver

Horrible Bosses

The Muppets

Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes

Source Code

Dishonorable mention:

Sucker Punch

Favorite Movies of 2012

1. Silver Linings Playbook

2. Moonrise Kingdom

3. Lincoln

4. The Avengers

5. The Dark Knight Rises

6. Looper

7. Ruby Sparks

8. Django Unchained

9. Argo

10. Mud

Honorable mention:

21 Jump Street

Jack Reacher

The Perks Of Being A Wallflower

Premium Rush

Safety Not Guaranteed

This Is 40

Favorite Movies of 2013

1. 12 Years A Slave

2. Her

3. Snowpiercer

4. The Wolf Of Wall Street

5. Star Trek Into Darkness

6. The Way Way Back

7. Before Midnight

8. The Spectacular Now

9. American Hustle

10. About Time

Honorable mention:

Begin Again

Captain Phillips

Dallas Buyers Club

Fruitvale Station

The Heat

Inside Llewyn Davis

Prisoners

Rush

Warm Bodies

Favorite Movies of 2014

1. Wish I Was Here

2. The Skeleton Twins

3. Boyhood

4. Nightcrawler

5. The Imitation Game

6. Whiplash

7. Birdman

8. The Grand Budapest Hotel

9. St. Vincent

10. Inherent Vice

Honorable mention:

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes

Edge Of Tomorrow

Gone Girl

Infinitely Polar Bear

Interstellar

Love & Mercy

Veronica Mars

What We Do In The Shadows

X-Men: Days Of Future Past

Favorite Movies of 2015

1. Me & Earl & The Dying Girl

2. Ex Machina

3. Inside Out

4. The Walk

5. Sicario

6. Creed

7. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

8. Spotlight

9. The Martian

10. Brooklyn

Honorable mention:

Avengers: Age Of Ultron

Bridge Of Spies

Joy

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Revenant

Room

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Steve Jobs

Favorite Movies of 2016

1. Sing Street

2. Midnight Special

3. La La Land

4. Hell Or High Water

5. Arrival

6. The Nice Guys

7. Hidden Figures

8. Manchester By The Sea

9. A Monster Calls

10. 10 Cloverfield Lane

Captain America: Civil War

Everybody Wants Some!!!

The Founder

Hacksaw Ridge

The Jungle Book

Loving

Silence

Split

Swiss Army Man

Dishonorable mention:

The Neon Demon

Favorite Movies of 2017

1. Wonderstruck

2. War For The Planet Of The Apes

3. Phantom Thread

4. mother!

5. Blade Runner 2049

6. Call Me By Your Name

7. Dunkirk

8. Wind River

9. Logan

10. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Honorable mention:

Baby Driver

Coco

Lady Bird

Logan Lucky

Molly's Game

The Post

The Shape Of Water

Stronger

Favorite Movies of 2018

1. A Quiet Place

2. BlackKklansman

3. If Beale Street Could Talk

4. Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse

5. Mission: Impossible - Fallout

6. Isle Of Dogs

7. Ready Player One

8. Incredibles 2

9. Stan & Ollie

10. Thoroughbreds

Honorable mention:

Avengers: Infinity War

Bumblebee

Christopher Robin

Eighth Grade

Halloween

Summer '03

Favorite Movies of 2019

1. Rocketman

2. Jojo Rabbit

3. 1917

4. Blinded By The Light

5. Booksmart

6. Toy Story 4

7. Ford v Ferrari

8. Joker

9. Parasite

10. Knives Out

Honorable mention:

Avengers: Endgame

The Lighthouse

Marriage Story

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

Yesterday

Favorite Movies of 2021

1. Licorice Pizza

2. West Side Story

3. Dune

4. A Quiet Place, Part II

5. Belfast

6. Spider-Man: No Way Home

7. C'mon C'mon

8. King Richard

9. Ghostbusters: Afterlife

10. CODA

Honorable mention:

Free Guy

The French Dispatch

Last Night In Soho

Nightmare Alley

The Power Of The Dog

Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings

tick, tick...BOOM!

The Tragedy Of Macbeth

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fuckyeahilike · 1 year

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Citizen X - 1995

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everydayesterday · 1 year

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(My favourite films by decade are below the cut)

Tonight, I watched 'Safety Last!'—the slapstick silent comedy from 1923 with the indelible 20-minute clocktower scene—which means that I've now seen at least one film from every year since 1891, shortly after the invention of motion pictures (I've also seen the few recordings that came before that, such as the 12-slide ‘Horse in Motion,’ but there are gaps in the years, and we're talking about film segments that were roughly 2 seconds in length—films didn't even get to 3 minutes in length until 1898; the first hour-long movie was in 1906).

I've got 916 movies on my list (it's probably more than that; my mind has no idea if it's ever seen a sequel). I posted a while ago about only having 600 movies logged; to fill out the list I went through box office charts to identify what I'd likely seen in the 80s, 90s, 00s, etc. but had forgotten about.

I was missing so many from the 90s, when we had our family movie nights. On average, from 1989 to 2000, I saw 28 films per release year. That dropped to 15 once I finished undergrad, and has remained pretty constant. Going by the box office charts, I don't feel I've missed much of what I've wanted to see; there have been far too many sequels and metaverses, which simply don't interest me. Over these COVID years, I've been watching more than just the newest releases, catching up on earlier decades; I've seen 173 that were released before I was born (most pre-1970 releases are from COVID onward).

My favourite films by decade (because I like lists):

1890-99: The Astronomer's Dream (1898). Directed by Georges Méliès; the first film as real artistic production; multiple scenes and stages, special effects, 3 minutes.

1900-09: The Great Train Robbery (1903). The first epic action movie, at 13 minutes. Fantastic production value; it's got better cinematography and editing than a lot of current movies.

1910-19: I'm unsure. ...perhaps The Conquest of the Pole (1912), another by Georges Méliès. I need to see more films from this decade.

1920-29: Wings (1928) and Metropolis (1927), take your pick. One, the Oscars' first Best Picture winner and the benchmark for romantic drama (and with Clara Bow!), the other the most impressive film ever made.

1930-39: My Man Godfrey (1936), my favourite Carole Lombard role (she's a fuckin' hoot!).

1940-49: Citizen Kane (1941), Casablanca (1943) are both fine choices, but my choice would be His Girl Friday, because snappy dialogue is like a hit of cocaine.

1950-59: Roman Holiday (1953). Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck are both so charismatic; the chemistry here is palpable.

1960-69: The Great Escape (1963) is an excellent pick, as is Ingmar Bergman's Persona (1966). I'd take The Graduate (1967); it felt so unique, not your typical love story, and Anne Bancroft's vulnerable seductiveness turn felt so dangerous.

1970-79: This was such a great decade (Harold and Maude, Chinatown, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Up in Smoke) ...but Apocalypse Now (1979) is my all-time top pick.

1980-89: The Gods Must Be Crazy (1984). Timeless. Wholesome. Simple and effective.

1990-99: I'm trying to pick one film out of the 300 that I've seen from this timeframe, so maybe one [Ed. note: or more] per year? Edward Scissorhands (1990), Point Break (1991), Wayne's World (1992), Jurassic Park/Schindler's List (1993), The Madness of King George/The Hudsucker Proxy/Quiz Show/Malcolm X (1994), Babe (1995; yes, the pig movie), The Young Poisoner's Handbook (1996), Life is Beautiful (1997; La vita è bella), ...not sure on 1998...maybe Waking Ned Devine/Pleasantville..., Office Space/Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (1999).

2000-09: Gladiator/Girl, Interrupted/American Psycho (2000), Amélie/Ali (2001), Super Troopers/Secretary (2002), Dogville (2004), No Country for Old Men (2007), There Will Be Blood (2008), Dead Snow (2009).

2010-19: The Artist (2011), Argo (2012), Beasts of No Nation (2015), Rogue One (2016), Coco (2017), The Nightingale/Parasite/Knives Out (2019).

2020-23: One Night in Miami... (2020), Nitram (2021).

If you’ve made it this far, thanks for watching. 🎞️

#me #movies #film #cinema #movie night #personal project

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Bayot v. Court of Appeals and Vicente Bayot, G.R. Nos. 155635/163979, November 07, 2008

Topic: Foreign Divorce Obtained by a Foreigner Married to a Filipino

Doctrine

In determining whether or not a divorce is secured abroad would come within the pale of the country's policy against absolute divorce, the reckoning point is the citizenship of the parties at the time a valid divorce is obtained.

Doctrinal concept mentioned in the Decision:

In Republic v. Orbecido III, we spelled out the twin elements for the applicability of the second paragraph of Art. 26, thus:

x x x [W]e state the twin elements for the application of Paragraph 2 of Article 26 as follows:

There is a valid marriage that has been celebrated between a Filipino citizen and a foreigner; and

A valid divorce is obtained abroad by the alien spouse capacitating him or her to remarry.

The reckoning point is not the citizenship of the parties at the time of the celebration of the marriage, but their citizenship at the time a valid divorce is obtained abroad by the alien spouse capacitating the latter to remarry.

SUPER SUMMARY

Vicente Bayot and Rebecca, an American citizen, got married in the Philippines in 1979. After the birth of their child in 1982, their relationship turned sour. Sometime in 1996, Rebecca obtained a divorce decree from the Dominican Republic. Five years thereafter, Rebecca filed a case for nullity of marriage against Vicente before Muntinlupa RTC and sought support pendente lite against the latter. According to Rebecca, the divorce decree obtained in Dominican Republic is not binding, her being a Filino citizen by virtue of the order of recognition issued in 1995. Is the divorce decree obtained in the Dominican valid in the Philippines and binding against the petitioner?

HELD: AFFIRMATIVE. In determining whether or not a divorce is secured abroad would come within the pale of the country's policy against absolute divorce, the reckoning point is the citizenship of the parties at the time a valid divorce is obtained. Rebecca at that time she applied and obtained her divorce was an American citizen and remains to be one. Being an American citizen, Rebecca was bound by the national laws of the United States of America, a country which allows divorce. Moreover, the fact that Rebecca may have been duly recognized as a Filipino citizen by force of the June 8, 2000, affirmation by the DOJ Secretary of the October 6, 1995 Bureau Order of Recognition, it will not stand alone and work to nullify or invalidate the foreign divorce secured by Rebecca as an American citizen in 1996. Furthermore, pursuant to paragraph 2 of Art. 26 of the Family Code, Vicente Bayot shall likewise have capacity to remarry under PH laws.

FACTS

[Some of the details in this case are confusing. It was not stated in the decision as to why she filed the petition for Divorce in Dominican Republic. Based on the website of the US Embassy in the Dominican Republic, US citizens may validly obtain divorce decrees there either through mutual consent or divorce for cause. See Divorce in the Dominican Republic - U.S. Embassy in the Dominican Republic (usembassy.gov) for more info.

Vicente and Rebecca were married on April 20, 1979 in Sanctuario de San Jose, Greenhills, Mandaluyong City. On its face, the Marriage Certificate identified Rebecca, then 26 years old, to be an American citizen. Not long after, Rebecca gave birth to Marie Josephine Alexandra or Alix, in California. From then on, Vicente and Rebecca's marital relationship seemed to have soured as the latter, sometime in 1996, initiated divorce proceedings in the Dominican Republic. On February 22, 1996, the Dominican court issued Civil Decree No. 362/96, ordering the dissolution of the couple's marriage and "leaving them to remarry after completing the legal requirements," but giving them joint custody and guardianship over Alix.

Over a year later, the same court would issue Civil Decree No. 406/97, settling the couple's property relations pursuant to an Agreement they executed on December 14, 1996. Said agreement specifically stated that the “conjugal property which they acquired during their marriage consist[s] only of the real property and all the improvements and personal properties therein contained at 502 Acacia Avenue, Alabang, Muntinlupa.”

Meanwhile, on March 14, 1996, or less than a month from the issuance of Civil Decree No. 362/96, Rebecca filed with the Makati City RTC a petition dated January 26, 1996, with attachments, for declaration of nullity of marriage, docketed as Civil Case No. 96-378. Rebecca, however, later moved and secured approval of the motion to withdraw the petition.

On May 29, 1996, Rebecca executed an Affidavit of Acknowledgment stating under oath that she is an American citizen; that, since 1993, she and Vicente have been living separately; and that she is carrying a child not of Vicente.

On March 21, 2001, Rebecca filed another petition, this time before the Muntinlupa City RTC, for declaration of absolute nullity of marriage on the ground of Vicente's alleged psychological incapacity. Docketed as Civil Case No. 01-094 and entitled as Maria Rebecca Makapugay Bayot v. Vicente Madrigal Bayot. In it, Rebecca also sought the dissolution of the conjugal partnership of gains with application for support pendente lite for her and Alix. Rebecca also prayed that Vicente be ordered to pay a permanent monthly support for their daughter Alix in the amount of PhP 220,000.

On June 8, 2001, Vicente filed a Motion to Dismiss on, inter alia, the grounds of lack of cause of action and that the petition is barred by the prior judgment of divorce. Earlier, on June 5, 2001, Rebecca filed and moved for the allowance of her application for support pendente lite.

To the motion to dismiss, Rebecca interposed an opposition, insisting on her Filipino citizenship, as affirmed by the Department of Justice (DOJ), and that, therefore, there is no valid divorce to speak of.

ISSUE/S

Whether or not the divorce decree obtained in Dominican Republic is valid and can be recognized under Philippine laws.

Whether or not Vicente is still subject to the obligation under the Civil Code as Rebecca’s husband.

RULING

The Court ruled in the AFFIRMATIVE.

Rebecca at that time she applied and obtained her divorce was an American citizen and remains to be one, being born to American parents in Guam, an American territory which follows the principle of jus soli granting American citizenship to those who are born there. She was, and still may be, a holder of American passport.

She had consistently professed, asserted and represented herself as an American citizen, as shown in her marriage certificate, in Alix's birth certificate, when she secured divorce in Dominican Republic. Being an American citizen, Rebecca was bound by the national laws of the United States of America, a country which allows divorce.

In order that a foreign divorce can be recognized here, the divorce decree must be proven as a fact and as valid under the national law of the alien spouse. The fact that Rebecca was clearly an American citizen when she secured the divorce and that divorce is recognized and allowed in any of the States of the Union, the presentation of a copy of foreign divorce decree duly authenticated by the foreign court issuing said decree is, as here, sufficient. Thus the foreign decrees rendered and issued by the Dominican Republic court are valid, and consequently, bind both Rebecca and Vicente.

Furthermore, the fact that Rebecca may have been duly recognized as a Filipino citizen by force of the June 8, 2000, affirmation by the DOJ Secretary of the October 6, 1995 Bureau Order of Recognition will not, stand alone, work to nullify or invalidate the foreign divorce secured by Rebecca as an American citizen in 1996. In determining whether or not a divorce is secured abroad would come within the pale of the country's policy against absolute divorce, the reckoning point is the citizenship of the parties at the time a valid divorce is obtained.

Lastly, on the issue of their conjugal property, the Court held that the Civil Decree No. 406/97 issued by the Dominican Republic court properly adjudicated the ex-couple's property relations.

The Court ruled in the NEGATIVE.

Given the validity and efficacy of divorce secured by Rebecca, the same shall be given a res judicata effect in this jurisdiction. As an obvious result of the divorce decree obtained, the marital vinculum between Rebecca and Vicente is considered severed; they are both freed from the bond of matrimony. In plain language, Vicente and Rebecca are no longer husband and wife to each other.

As the divorce court formally pronounced: "[T]hat the marriage between MARIA REBECCA M. BAYOT and VICENTE MADRIGAL BAYOT is hereby dissolved x x x leaving them free to remarry after completing the legal requirements."

Consequent to the dissolution of the marriage, Vicente could no longer be subject to a husband's obligation under the Civil Code. He cannot, for instance, be obliged to live with, observe respect and fidelity, and render support to Rebecca.[Side Note: You may wonder “What about Alix?”. Is she not entitled to support from Vicente? The Court to be sure does not lose sight of the legal obligation of Vicente and Rebecca to support the needs of their daughter, Alix. The records do not clearly show how he had discharged his duty, albeit Rebecca alleged that the support given had been insufficient. At any rate, we do note that Alix, having been born on November 27, 1982, reached the majority age on November 27, 2000, or four months before her mother initiated her petition for declaration of nullity. She would now be 26 years old. Hence, the issue of back support, which allegedly had been partly shouldered by Rebecca, is best litigated in a separate civil action for reimbursement. In this way, the actual figure for the support of Alix can be proved as well as the earning capacity of both Vicente and Rebecca. The trial court can thus determine what Vicente owes, if any, considering that support includes provisions until the child concerned shall have finished her education.]

#Civil Law #Persons and Family Relations

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Events 7.23 (after 1950)

1952 – General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the real power behind the coup) in overthrowing King Farouk of Egypt. 1961 – The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua. 1962 – Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite. 1962 – The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed. 1962 – Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. 1967 – Detroit Riots: In Detroit, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city. It ultimately kills 43 people, injures 342 and burns about 1,400 buildings. 1968 – Glenville shootout: In Cleveland, Ohio, a violent shootout between a Black Militant organization and the Cleveland Police Department occurs. During the shootout, a riot begins and lasts for five days. 1968 – The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying ten crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The aircraft was en route from Rome, to Lod, Israel. 1970 – Qaboos bin Said al Said becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Said bin Taimur initiating massive reforms, modernization programs and end to a decade long civil war. 1972 – The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite. 1974 – The Greek military junta collapses, and former Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis is invited to lead the new government, beginning Greece's metapolitefsi era. 1980 – Phạm Tuân becomes the first Vietnamese citizen and the first Asian in space when he flies aboard the Soyuz 37 mission as an Intercosmos Research Cosmonaut. 1982 – Outside Santa Clarita, California, actor Vic Morrow and two children are killed when a helicopter crashes onto them while shooting a scene from Twilight Zone: The Movie. 1983 – Thirteen Sri Lanka Army soldiers are killed after a deadly ambush by the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. 1983 – Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba. 1988 – General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests. 1992 – A Vatican commission, led by Joseph Ratzinger, establishes that limiting certain rights of homosexual people and non-married couples is not equivalent to discrimination on grounds of race or gender. 1992 – Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia. 1993 – China Northwest Airlines Flight 2119 crashes during takeoff from Yinchuan Xihuayuan Airport in Yinchuan, Ningxia, China, killing 55 people. 1995 – Comet Hale–Bopp is discovered; it becomes visible to the naked eye on Earth nearly a year later. 1997 – Digital Equipment Corporation files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel. 1999 – ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa. 1999 – Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-93, with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander. The shuttle also carried and deployed the Chandra X-ray Observatory. 2005 – Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people. 2010 – English-Irish boy band One Direction is formed by judge Simon Cowell on The X Factor (British series 7), later going on to finish at third place. It would go on to become one of the biggest boy bands in the world, and would be very influential on pop music of the 2010s. 2011 – A high-speed train rear-ends another on a viaduct on the Yongtaiwen railway line in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, China, resulting in 40 deaths. 2014 – TransAsia Airways Flight 222 crashes in Xixi village near Huxi, Penghu, during approach to Penghu Airport. Forty-eight of the 58 people on board are killed and five more people on the ground are injured. 2015 – NASA announces discovery of Kepler-452b by Kepler.

#Events

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gardeninghoe98 · 10 months

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Cleaning out my movie lists

SciFi List 👽

Barbie Movie List 💖

Barbie List Round 2 📝

Phone Gallery 📷

Off the top of my head ⭐

1920s deep dive 🎞

From an old Tumblr post ⏪

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The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari (1920) 🎞

The Kid (1921)🎞

Häxan (1922)🎞

Hard Luck (1922)🎞

Norrtullsligan (1923)🎞

Aelita (1924)🎞

Sherlock Jr (1924)🎞

The Battleship Potemkin (1925)🎞

Gold Rush (1925)🎞

Body and Soul (1925)🎞

The Big Parade (1925)🎞

Strike (1925)🎞

Faust (1926)🎞

A Page of Madness (1926)🎞

Menilmontant (1926)🎞

Metropolis (1927)🎞

Sunrise (1927)🎞

The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)🎞

Steamboat Bill Jr (1928)🎞

The Docks of New York (1928)🎞

The Man Who Laughs (1928)🎞

Jujiro (1928)🎞

Zvenigora (1928) 🎞

The Crowd (1928)🎞

The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)🎞

Blackmail (1929)🎞

Finis Terræ (1929)🎞

Un Chien Andalou (1929)🎞

Twentieth Century (1934) 📝

Modern Times (1936) 👍

Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935) 📝

His Girl Friday (1940) 📝

Philadelphia Story (1940) 📝

Citizen Kane (1941) ⏪

Matter of Life and Death (1946) 📝

The Red Shoes (1948) 📝

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)👽

Tales of Hoffmann (1951) 📷

An American in Paris (1951) 📝

Earrings of Madame De... (1953) 📝

Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) 👽

Forbidden Planet (1956) is 👽

1984 (1956) 👽

Mon Oncle (1958) 📝

The Children's Hour (1961) 📷

The Ladies Man (1961) 📝

The Cat Who Wore Sunglasses (1963) 📷

Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) 💖

Dr. Strangelove (1964)👽

Young Girls of Rouchefort (1967) 📝

Playtime (1967) 📝

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 📝

Model Shop (1969) 📝

Solaris (1972) 👽

The Godfather (1972) 📝

The Wicker Man (1973) 📷

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Saturday Night Fever (1977) 📝

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) 👽

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978) 👽

Heaven Can Wait (1978) 📝

All That Jazz (1979) 📝

Wrath of Khan (1982) 👽

And the Ship Sails On (1983) 📝

Splash (1984) 📝

Pee Wee's Big Adventure (1985) 📝

Wings of Desire (1987) 📝

Akira (1988) 👽

Woman on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) 📝

Troop Beverly Hills (1989) ⭐

Edward Scissorhands (1990)💖

Party Girl (1995)📝

Ghost in the Shell (1995) 👽

Watermelon Woman (1996) ⏪

Goodwill Hunting (1997) ⏪

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) ⭐

Big Fish (2003) 💖

Saving Face (2004) ⏪

Little Miss Sunshine (2006) 📷

Waitress (2007)📝

Pariah (2011) ⏪

Inception (2010) 👽

Ex Machina (2014) 👍

Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) 📷

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India’s renewable energy deployment is aimed at advancing economic development

India’s renewable energy deployment is aimed at advancing economic development, improving energy security, improving access to energy, and mitigating climate change.

Providing citizens with affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy is key to achieving sustainable development. In recent years, India has become one of the world’s most attractive markets for renewable energy due to strong government support and a favorable economic situation.

To ramp up the country’s renewable energy market at a rapid pace, the government has designed policies, programs, and a liberal environment. A large number of jobs are expected to be created in the renewable energy sector over the next decade.

As a result of the development of renewable energy in India, we aim to present significant achievements, prospects, projections, generation of electricity, as well as challenges and investment and employment opportunities.

This article identifies the various obstacles that the renewable energy sector faces. According to the review outcomes, recommendations will be useful to policymakers, innovators, project developers, investors, industries, associated stakeholders, researchers, and scientists.

How renewable energy sources contribute to the energy demand in India

India’s economic growth has been fast and remarkable, but energy remains scarce. As India’s economy grows, the need for energy is increasing, and more energy sources are needed to meet this demand. Meanwhile, a growing population and deteriorating environment pose a challenge to sustainable development in the country. Future power supply and demand gaps are expected to widen.

Estimated renewable energy potential in India

During 1995, wind power potential in the country was estimated at 20,000 MW (20 GW), solar energy was 5 x 1015 kWh/pa, bioenergy was 17,000 MW, bagasse cogeneration was 8000 MW, and small hydropower was 10,000 MW. Approximately 85,000 MW of renewable energy was estimated for 2006, including 4500 MW of wind, 35 MW of solar, 25,000 MW of biomass/bioenergy, and 15,000 MW of small hydropower. During 2017–2018, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) estimated that wind power could generate 302.251 GW (from a mast height of 100 m), small hydropower 19.749 GW, biomass power 17.536 GW, bagasse cogeneration 5 GW, waste to energy (WTE) 2.554 GW, and solar power 748.990 GW. Based on the assumption of 3% wasteland, 1096.080 GW of renewable energy could be generated. The solar potential of India is very high since it is a tropical country that receives a lot of radiation.

Benefits of Renewable Energy

Environmental and economic benefits of using renewable energy include:

Generating energy that produces no greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels and reduces some types of air pollution

Diversifying energy supply and reducing dependence on imported fuels

Creating economic development and jobs in manufacturing, installation, and more

1. Renewable Energy Generates No Emissions

Fossil fuels produce a lot of greenhouse gas emissions when they are burned to generate electricity. Fossil fuel-generated electricity contributes 27% of all greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.These emissions include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and fluorinated gases.

2. Renewable Energy Lowers Your Carbon Footprint

As a society, we’re becoming more aware of the impact of our actions on the environment. Sea turtles and straws aren’t the only issues. We impact the environment with almost every choice we make, from the clothes we buy to the food we eat to the electricity that powers family movie night. It might just be that we are not aware of it.

Your carbon footprint is a metric for calculating your environmental impact based on those everyday decisions. Renewable energy sources like wind and solar in your home reduce your carbon footprint by “offsetting” or replacing fossil fuel emissions with zero-emission energy sources.

A sea change is taking place right before our very eyes in the energy industry. It’s clear that renewable energy sources are beneficial, and Chariot is doing everything we can to make the world a better place.

3. Renewable Energy Reduces Harmful Air Pollutants

When fossil fuels are burned to create electricity, they react with oxygen to form nitrogen oxide or NOx, a dangerous greenhouse gas. Not only can it gas create smog and acid rain, the gas chemically reacts to produce ground-level ozone, a harmful air pollutant. Stratospheric ozone — otherwise known as the ozone layer — protects us from harmful UV rays emitted by the sun. Ground-level or tropospheric ozone, however, can cause a variety of health problems, including:

Coughing

Throat irritation

Airway inflammation

Reduced lung function

Damaged lung tissue

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Image: Amber Valletta, Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell in 1999. Vogue Italia january 1996 Shalom Harlow & Amber Valletta by Steven Meisel yes, your eyes arent lying: thats Meisel. I just wanted to get out of Oklahoma! So I went and I got my first job two weeks later in Milan.’ Fashion, a general term for a currently popular style or practice, especially in clothing, foot wear, or accessories. I went to Europe that summer, which is what everyone did back then when they were starting out.

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‘My mom paid for me to learn how to model at a local agency when I was 15, which is how I got scouted. Subject: Shalom Harlow and Amber Valetta in Restroom Medium: Ilford fiber-based Paper Film: Tri-X negative Camera: Nikon F4 Size: 11 x 14 Vintage Artist. ‘Once I graduated in ’91, I started working full-time immediately,’ she explained of her break in the industry. Image: Amber Valletta, Kate Moss and Shalom Harlow in 1996 co-hosted with friend and fellow model Amber Valletta. It was so different-we probably weren’t treated as well as models are now, but I don’t think they have as much fun as we did.’ Over the phone, the feathery tones of supermodel Shalom Harlow are as soothing as a glass of. ' Shalom Harlow and I were living together then, and one day she brought Kate Moss over to the apartment and was like 'I just met this cute little girl, we fell in love on this shoot, we're friends. Then the big girls-Linda, Christy, and Naomi-started being nice to us and showing us the ropes. Contrary to stories of rivalry between the old and new model guard, Valletta asserts that the relationship was more than friendly. models under contract: 75 'Top stars: Nadja Auermann, Amber Valletta, Shalom Harlow, Stella Tenant, Kirsty Hume, Trish Goff. ‘Kate didn’t even have Calvin Klein yet! The three of us would just kind of skulk around everywhere. If you violate our intellectual property you may be liable for: actual damages, loss of income, and profits you derive from the use of this image or clip, and, where appropriate, the costs of collection and/or statutory damages up to $150,000 (USD).‘Shalom and I were living together then, and one day she brought Kate Moss over to the apartment and was like ‘I just met this cute little girl, we fell in love on this shoot, we’re friends,’’ she told IntoTheGloss. We reserve the right to pursue unauthorized users of this image or clip. Model Citizen Benefit Tag Sale Hosted by Amber Valetta, Kirsty Hume and Shalom Harlow for IFAWĬontact your local office for all commercial or promotional uses.Ĭharity Benefit, Vertical, USA, Shalom Harlow, New York City, Fashion Model, Valletta, Amber Valletta, Kirsty Hume, Arts Culture and Entertainment, Females (Photo by Djamilla Rosa Cochran/WireImage) On Shalom (left): Michael Kors chiffon dress with python detail, 3,595 select Michael Kors stores. Tiktok fashionquees Disclaimer: The video clips used in this video are not owned by this channel.If you are the owner of this video and feel like you haven’t. She worked as an international model before becoming an actress and nabbed her first of many American Vogue covers at the age of 18. Shalom Harlow, Amber Valletta and Kirsty Hume during Model Citizen Benefit Tag Sale Hosted by Amber Valetta, Kirsty Hume and Shalom Harlow for IFAW at Hudson Studios in New York City, New York, United States. From 1995 to 1996, Valletta and her friend and fellow model Shalom Harlow hosted the MTV show, House of Style.

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Best ICSE Schools in Bhubaneswar

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Enlisting The Best Icse Schools In Bhubaneswar For Admission

Fondly called the City of Temples, Bhubaneswar is also ahead in its education system. With a literacy rate of 93.15 percent, above the national average, Bhubaneswar gives quite an importance to education. There are many educational institutes with dedicated staff, good infrastructure, and innovative learning mechanisms at the backend of this, empowering the schooling of Bhubneshwar. Here is the listing of the Best ICSE Schools in Bhubaneswar that sustains and grows the city's schooling.

1.Loyola School, Chandrasekharpur

Loyola School is a private school that emphasizes grooming and training students in the best way to be responsible global citizens. They focus on character building along with intellectual growth.

Type: Co-ed

Founded: 2001

Grade Upto: XII

2.Ruchika School, Ganga Nagar

Ruchika School is among the Best ICSE Schools in Bhubaneswar with its 360 education offered. With an excellent academic record, the school puts an equal effort into making children good citizens.

Type: Co-ed

Founded: 1978

Grade Upto: X

3.St.Joseph's Higher Secondary School, Kharvel Nagar

The Christian minority educational institution was established to replace Cuttack as the administrative center of the State. The vision and mission of St.Joseph's Higher Secondary School are to make children critical learners.

Type: Co-ed

Founded: 1951

Grade Upto: XII

4.Saint Arnolds School, Kalinganagar

Saint Arnolds School is managed by the International Church Organization named "Divine Word Missionaries." The school is spread across 6 acres to serve its purpose of imparting quality education.

Type: Co-ed

Founded: 2002

Grade Upto: X

5.Children's Centre Of Integral Education, Bhoi Nagar

The Children's Centre Of Integral Education is united to Sri Aurobindo Education and Welfare Society. The school has a playground for sports and extracurricular activities and has well-equipped facilities like a laboratory, library, art studio, and classrooms with smart boards.

Type: Co-ed

Founded: 1975

Grade Upto: X

6.Stewart School, CRP Square

The Stewart School is a Best ICSE Schools in Bhubaneswar providing schooling to the students. The school has a good infrastructure with residential facilities and the best faculty to teach.

Type: Co-ed

Founded: 1960

Grade Upto: XII

7.DAV Public School

The DAV Public School is a branch of Dayanand Anglo-Vedic Schools System and DAV College Trust and Management Society, New Delhi. The school commits to preeminent edification that it ensures by qualified and skilled teaching staff and state-of-the-art infrastructure.

Type: Co-ed

Founded: 1971

Grade Upto: XII

8.Kendriya Vidyalaya

Kendriya Vidyalaya is a school formed to cater to the educational requirements of Central Government employees, defense and paramilitary personnel. The school sets the pace of education with its comprehensive schooling. It is affiliated with the CBSE board.

Type: Co-ed

Founded: 1967

Grade Upto: XII

9.St. Xaviers High School

St. Xavier's High School, sponsored by the "St. Xavier Society of Modern Education," is affiliated with the CBSE board. They aim at Education for Perfection

Type: Co-ed

Founded: 1995

Grade Upto: XII

10.Model English Medium School

The leading school of Model English Medium School believes that children are the future of our country, and they make their best efforts to embed the qualities that make them responsible citizens.

Type: Co-ed

Founded: 1994

Grade Upto: XII

Bhubneshwar is emerging out to be an education center. With these Best ICSE Schools in Bhubaneswar, the education culture of the city is as bright as the shine of its temples.

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