If we shadows have offended,
think of this and all is mended:
that you have but slumber'd here,
while these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
no more yielding than a dream.
Gentles -- do not reprehend.
If you pardon -- we will mend.
And -- as I am an honest puck,
if we have unearned luck
now to'scape the serpents' tongue,
we will make amends, ere long.
Else the puck a liar call.
So good night unto you all.
Give me your hands if we be friends
and Robin shall restore amends.
During the Northern Hemisphere's summer solstice, the upper half of the earth is tilted toward the sun, creating the longest day and shortest night of the year. This solstice falls between June 20 and 22.
Solstices are when days and nights are at their most extreme
That means the sun's warmth and light fall unequally on the northern and southern halves of the planet. The solstices mark the times during the year when this tilt is at its most extreme, and days and nights are at their most unequal.
During the summer solstice, the earth's axis is tilted at its closest point from the sun. This means that in the northern hemisphere, the sun is at its highest point in the sky. It's also the longest day of the year - and the shortest night.
Equinoxes and solstices are key points in Earth's orbit around the sun that mark the transition between seasons. Equinoxes occur when the Earth's axis is tilted neither toward nor away from the sun, resulting in nearly equal day and night lengths worldwide. Solstices occur when the Earth's tilt is at its maximum towards or away from the sun, resulting in the longest and shortest days of the year, respectively
Celebrations were marked by bonfires to boost the sun's strength for the growing season. The bonfires also symbolized protection, fertility, and prosperity. Similarly, the ancient Romans honored Vesta, goddess of the hearth, with a festival that culminated around the summer solstice.
When you're honouring the Summer Solstice, the sun, and our natural world, there isn't much you can do more in line with the occasion than getting outside in the garden. You could also plant flowers that are believed to represent the sun, like sunflowers and carnations
The goddess often associated with the Summer Solstice in Celtic traditions is Áine, an Irish goddess of summer, love, and wealth. She is also known as a fairy queen and is associated with the sun, wealth, and sovereignty
The Summer Solstice time was an event of tremendous importance to the proto-Druids of the New Stone Age, who built a number of magnificent megaliths aligned to the sunrise on this day.
On the summer solstice, you may observe that the Sun's path across the sky is curved—NOT a straight line. It appears to rise and keeps veering to the right as it passes high overhead. This is quite different from the laser-straight path the Sun moves along in late March and late September, near the equinoxes
Over the centuries, the June solstice has inspired many festivals and midsummer celebrations involving bonfires, picnics, singing, watching the sun rise and Maypole dancing. Many towns and villages across Britain still mark the day.
The summer solstice, the longest day of the year, holds significant spiritual meaning across various cultures and traditions. It's often viewed as a time of illumination, renewal, and celebration, symbolizing the triumph of light over darkness and the peak of the sun's energy.
Mysticism and magic are a common theme in midsummer folklore across the world as well as in the UK. Magic was thought to be strongest during the summer solstice and myths told of the world turning upside down or the sun standing still at midsummer.
The summer solstice or estival solstice occurs when one of Earth's poles has its maximum tilt toward the Sun. It happens twice yearly, once in each hemisphere (Northern and Southern). The summer solstice is the day with the longest period of daylight and shortest night of the year in that hemisphere, when the sun is at its highest position in the sky. At either pole there is continuous daylight at the time of its summer solstice. The opposite event is the winter solstice.
On the summer solstice, Earth's maximum axial tilt toward the Sun is 23.44°. Likewise, the Sun's declination from the celestial equator is 23.44°. In areas outside the tropics, the sun reaches its highest elevation angle at solar noon on the summer solstice.
Kevin Shawn Flex Nasser
The four men who shared the stage with Dorian for those 6 years
Each came second at least once
Each swapped places for 2nd, 3rd, 4th
Each lined up behind Ronnie in 98
There were other great competitors in that era, but these are the four that stood out
Each one could have been Mr Olympia, deserved to be
older comic heroes that pre date Superman
The Tarzan illustrations go back to the books, before the cartoons and TV shows, the loincloth, often leopard fur or deep brown hide, and the deep tan skin he has
When Superman was created he was drawn as Tarzan, the trunks and the muscles - in B&W there would be no need for Tarzan skin brown and Superman's blue tights and shirt - they were added after, then the famous S and of course the cape - the red and blue colour scheme we all know
Batman was done in a similar way, and of course with big reference to Zorro in how his cape and cowl work, all black
For the comics, Batman was done with grey and blue, and had the trunks
As we saw with Henry Cavill, the one piece blue with no red trunks does work, and no modern cinema Batman has trunks they way the comics and the Adam West version had, as well as being all black - Keaton, Bane, Clooney, Affleck, Pattinson .
The 89 film into the 90s Batman series were four films - and would have been five
Michael Gough as Alfred and Pat Hingle as Jim Gordon connect the four
They all follow on from each other and tell a four movie arc
Yes Batman changed - Keaton, Keaton, Kilmer, Clooney
Yes Robin was only in the last two
We worked through the Rogues Gallery
Joker
Penguin
Catwoman
( yes - Max Shreck - )
Two Face
Riddler
Poison Ivy
Bane
Mr Freeze
there was talk of a Batman 5, though it wouldn't be called
that there was talk it would be Clooney again
Talk was Scare crow would have been the villain
As it turned out, we had Scarecrow in Batman Begins, first film of the new reboot,
and while Clooney never got the chance to play the Older Bruce/Batman again, we saw Affleck do that
We didn't get to see the Jason Todd storyline told and probably never would have
So YES - that series WAS a Trilogy - then became a Quad and would have been a Quint
The costumes are bright like the comics
The Henry then Tyler costumes had a darker blue and no trunks
The Henry Superman is a darker version, more like Batman in some ways, paired with the Affleck Batman
of course in those films David's Superman is a return to the brighter red and blue, with the brighter look to the sets as well
Costume back to what we saw with Chris, Brandon and Dean, the classic look
Supergirl is now on her fifth screen incarnation
Helen had only the one film, she was Chris Supergirl, they never filmed together
Dean never had a Supergirl which was a wasted opportunity
Brandon never had a Supergirl, she would have been the same continuity as Helen
Laura was Supergirl in Smallville, an interesting take for that version, and the sexiest Supergirl we've had
Melissa was Supergirl for her own show, her version of Superman played by Tyler came from her, not the other way round
Sasha was Supergirl for the Henry Superman, though they never appeared together, the dark haired, darker version of Kara for this universe, a pity we never saw her realise her potential
Millie is the new Supergirl for the David Superman, again a different take, party girl, drunk, attitude, very different from how Melissa portrayed her in the show
The issue with the World Champion title is that it is "ephemeral" for want of a better word
Boxing is probably the sport where this is seen the most, and the Heavyweight division being the most extreme example
With something like tennis there is no "World Champion" - there are tournaments - and everyone see Wimbledon as being the One they all want to win
Similar in Bodybuilding where Mr Olympia is seen as being the One title everyone wants
There is no World Champion in Tennis or Bodybuilding
With boxers they fight each other and earn rank, move up the Top 100, Top 10, etc
The Rocky film has the example of Clubber being the Best Boxer in the World, the Number One who got that rank by fighting all the others, all the "contenders"
Yet the elusive title of "World Champion" belongs to Rocky, as he won it from Apollo then defended it against 10 challengers
The way the accusation of "setups" and how Mickey explains them as "hand picked" goes to show how "unreal" this title is - what does it actually mean to hold this title when it is separate from the "real" world of the ranked boxers
Rocky is called a "paper champion" by Clubber as his title exists only on paper, only in theory
For Rocky to fight Clubber here means two things:
Clubber has already beaten everyone else and can now beat Rocky and earn the World Champion title and belt (which happens in the first match)
Rocky can beat Clubber, the Number One fighter, the man who has beaten everyone else, and prove he really is deserving of the title (which happens in the second match)
Beating Clubber makes Rocky "Undisputed"
In the real world, the boxing titles, in particular World Heavyweight Champion, ARE "disuputed"
Mike Tyson was an example of someone who fought to unify the title, win the different belts by beating the various men who held them, to become Undisputed
WBA
WBC
WBO
IBF
The Ring
(let me know if there is one missing)
at any time you could have five different men, all unbeaten so far in their career, holding one of these belts, who can claim to be Undefeated World Champion
We have seen fights where someone has one or more belt, had a fight that was "sanctioned" by one body and not another, lose two of his belts, but keep the third - no longer Undefeated or Undisputed but somehow still World Champion
Like a game of conkers
Which makes you wonder what they really fight for and why they really want it
Of course a truly genuine Professional sportsman competes for the money, how much they get paid - which would be a good explanation - "I don't really care about their paper title - I just get paid more for a fight while I carry it and defend it" .
The same thing happened with the A Team
In the show they were Vietnam vets
In the 2010 Liam Neeson film they were Iraq vets
Captain America went into freeze at the end of WW2 so can wake up Now, whatever year Now is
Punisher has to be updated to have been in the most recent war
Batman, Superman. Etc They all keep the same fixed time, ages, but it is always the current year
If Buffy was made today they would all have mobile phones and be on Facebook and Tik Tok
Matt Groening once explained that each episode takes place in one day, one 24 hour period
Each year a 26 episode season /series is released
So calculate long to make a 365 day year from those
So they stay the same ages for that reason
However they need the sliding timeliness
So ten years go past for us and it's 9 months for them
So mobile phones, the Internet, the current President, need to be updated
And Abe who originally served in WW2 now has to have served in a later war
Or not at all, if he imagined it
Some of these comic relief bits really made the episodes
The first hulk out was always some accident like getting stung by bees or fall down some stairs
Then Jack would turn up halfway through the episode because there had been a Hulk sighting
Instead of just turning back to David right away, Hulk was wander round calm and get involved with something
The case with Ricky and the soda
The girl on the beach with the sandcastle
The boy at the zoo with the peanuts
And of course bowling
Allowed Lou to do a bit more with Hulk than the smashing and throwing people round
if God exists,
he will be generous with those creatures who chose to leave this Earth early,
and he might even apologize for having made us spend time here
if a frog is placed in a container along with water from its own pond, it will remain there, utterly still, while the water is slowly heated up.
The frog doesn't react to the gradual increase in temperature, to the changes in its environment, and when the water reaches the boiling point, the frog dies, fat and happy.
On the other hand, if a frog is thrown into a container full of already boiling water it will jump straight out again, scalded, but alive
Once the soul has left the body it had to walk across a bridge as narrow as a knife edge,
with paradise on the right
and, on the left,
a series of circles that lead down into the darkness inside the earth.
Before crossing the bridge, each person had to place all his virtues in his right hand and all his sins in his left,
and the imbalance between the two meant that the person always fell towards the side
to which his actions on Earth had inclined him
We aren't who we want to be.
We are what society demands.
We are what our parents choose.
We don't want to disappoint anyone;
we have a great need to be loved.
So we smother the best in us.
Gradually, the light of our dreams turns into the monster of our nightmares.
They become things not done, possibilities not lived
