PREDICTION: Hollywood "God" Weinstein Rules @ Oscars Again
NEWS: Pt. Clear, AL Copter Crash, 3 missing 1 rescued. 3/1 = Bieber w/ Sammy Davis, Jr @ Oscars. 2/28+3/1=5/29. Just making the Point Clear
Iran shouldn't set WhiteHouse on fire. SammyDavisJr 12/8=LH. 5/29=Christ. 12(1)8 = Virgin pregnant w/ Christ. Alabama+12(1)8=AL+L(A)H=ALLAH.
To make the "Point Clear" about Power of God & Allah w/ Oscars, News states: "Hollywood 'God' Weinstein Rules @ Oscars Again." God x Movies
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6/22 -
5/29 - 3/19 = 2/10
6/22 - 2/10 = 4/12
We are JUNG! So let's set the World on FIRE! We can burn brighter than the SUN... The World is on my side. I have no reason to run.
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Qur’an Burning Backlash Grows; Iranian Says Burn White House
By Carol Bengle Gilbert | Yahoo! Contributor Network - Mon, Feb 27, 2012.. .
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Nine people were killed and 12 injured in a suicide bombing at a military airport in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Monday morning, CNN reported. This was the latest attack against U.S. and NATO troops in retaliation for Qur'an burnings on a military base disclosed last week.
Seven Special Forces personnel were injured in a weekend attack on a base known as Combat Outpost Fortitude in Kunduz province, and two soldiers were shot in eastern Afghanistan earlier in the week.
Iranian Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqd fanned the flames of the violence this weekend, telling Haaretz the insult to Islam could be redressed only by burning the White House and hanging the military commanders responsible for the Qur'an burnings.
Proper Disposal of Qur'ans
According to Inter-Islam.org, there are alternative, resepectful ways to dispose of Qur'ans that are no longer in use. Burning is acceptable only as a last resort. The preferred methods are:
* Wrapping a Qur'an in cloth and burying it respectfully in grounds not normally walked upon, or
* Fastening a heavy object to a Qur'an and placing it in a flowing river.
If the preferred methods prove impossible and a Qur'an is burned, the ash should be collected and buried or placed in a flowing river, Islamic scholars say.
Holy Muslim writings other than the Qur'an may be burned if the names of Allah, the Angels and Messengers are first wiped away. They may also be cast into a flowing river or buried, without first removing names, under the teachings of Hanafi jurist Allamah Haskafi.
How Qur'an Burnings Came to Light
Late last Monday night, NATO personnel began unloading bags of books into a pit for incineration outside Bagram Air Base, the New York Times said. Afghan workers noticed that the books being burned were Qur'ans and threw their helmets at the NATO vehicles and shouted at the NATO personnel to stop. The NATO personnel stopped, but two bags of the holy books had already been burned.
NATO commander John R. Allen subsequently apologized and said the burning was unintentional and apologized, promising to fully investigate how the error occurred.
CNN said the Qur'ans had been removed from a detainee center library due to inscriptions on them that gave the impression they were being used to spread extremist sentiment.
President Obama's Apology
President Barack Obama apologized to Afghan President Harmid Karzai by telephone last Monday, followed up by a letter Thursday. According to USA Today, the letter expressed deep regret for the inadvertent Qur'an burnings and promised action to preclude any repeat of the mistake. The letter also said the persons responsible would be held accountable.
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Coast Guard Helicopter Crashes in Mobile Bay, Ala.
Associated Press - 2 hrs 43 mins ago...
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MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - The U.S. Coast Guard says three people are missing and one person has been rescued after one of its helicopters crashed in Mobile Bay during a training mission.
Spokeswoman Petty Officer 2nd Class Elizabeth Bordelon says an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crashed Tuesday evening near Point Clear, Ala. She says the rescued person has been taken to the hospital but she did not immediately know the person's condition.
Bordelon says the helicopter was on a mission out of the Aviation Training Center in Mobile, Ala. She says she did not immediately know if the four people on board the helicopter were Coast Guard service members.
She says the Coast Guard has two helicopters and a boat conducting the search.
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Hollywood 'God' Weinstein rules at Oscars, again
By Michael Thurston | AFP - 20 hrs ago...
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(L-R) Co-Chairman of The Weinstein Company Harvey Weinstein, Uggie the dog and designer …
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"The Artist" Producer Thomas Langmann (L) and Co-Chairman of The Weinstein Company …
Meryl Streep famously called him "God." And Harvey Weinstein certainly looked omnipotent at the Oscars on Sunday, showing again his peerless skills at campaigning for the coveted golden statuettes.
For the second year running the founder of The Weinstein Company steered one of its films to Academy Awards glory, this year with silent movie "The Artist," after last year's victory for "The King's Speech."
The Weinstein Company was also behind "The Iron Lady" -- which won best actress Oscar for Streep as former British premier Margaret Thatcher -- as well as "My Week with Marilyn" about screen idol Marilyn Monroe.
The company also distributed "Undefeated," a documentary about an underdog football team who look to reverse their fortunes with with a new coach, which won best documentary feature Sunday.
"Harvey Weinstein did incredible work. The way he thinks about a film, about the audience, about the way to show it in its best light, with the right timing, he's very strong," said "The Artist" director Michel Hazanavicius.
"I think the US promotional budget for the film is more than it cost to make it," which was about 12 million dollars, according to the IMDb movie industry website, he said.
Weinstein, now 59, is indeed a legend in Tinseltown. Before the Weinstein Company, with his older brother Bob he co-founded Miramax Films -- named after his mother Miriam and father Max -- in 1979.
Miramax was sold to Disney in 1993 and the Weinstein brothers left the company in 2005 to start their own movie studio. Miramax hits include 1998's "Shakespeare in Love," for which Weinstein shared a Best Picture Oscar.
But over his three-decade career he has produced no fewer than 243 projects, including Cannes-winning "Pulp Fiction" (1994), "Pret a Porter" in 1994, "The English Patient" (1996), and "Gangs of New York" in 2002.
The burly movie mogul -- he weighs over 300 pounds -- was also executive producer on the global blockbuster "Lord of the Rings" cycle of films starting in 2001, as well as "The Reader" (2008) and "Inglorious Basterds" (2009)
He is famous for his ability to orchestrate Oscars campaigns.
Last year was a case in point: British royal drama "The King's Speech" opened in only a limited number of theaters initially, in a strategy designed to use word of mouth and marketing to gradually gain momentum behind the film.
While Facebook movie "The Social Network," its main rival, had a blockbuster release, the understated British film's profile only reached its peak late in the year, ensuring it reached its peak for the February Oscars show.
"The Artist" performed a similar trick: after triumphing at the Cannes Film Festival last May, Weinstein snapped up the US distribution rights, and turned an art-house movie into a mainstream hit feted by critics and the public alike.
He also reputedly works his films' cast and crew hard: the silent film's director Michel Hazanavicius and star Jean Dujardin walked endless red carpets at film festivals and award shows around the world.
Karie Bible, an analyst with box office tracker firm Exhibitor Relations, said the Oscars success for "The Artist" -- which has made $76 million worldwide including $28 million in the US -- could double its takings.
"I wouldn't be surprised to see the Weinsteins use these Oscar wins to double the grosses or at least considerably boost them," she told the Huffington Post.
Streep -- who is famously protective of her family life, shunning the Hollywood publicity machine -- was also apparently worked hard by Weinstein for "The Iron Lady."
At the Golden Globes in January, she followed the advice of host British comic Ricky Gervais, who quipped that winners should keep their acceptance speeches short and limit them to thanking their agents and God.
"I just want to thank my agent and God -- Harvey Weinstein," said Streep, prompting laughter and raised eyebrows from the audience. "The punisher. Old Testament, I guess," added the actress, giggling.
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Mayan Light Beam Photo: Message from Gods, or iPhone Glitch?
By Natalie Wolchover | LiveScience.com - 16 hrs ago...
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When Hector Siliezar visited the ancient Mayan city of Chichen Itza with his wife and kids in 2009, he snapped three iPhone photos of El Castillo, a pyramid that once served as a sacred temple to the Mayan god Kukulkan. A thunderstorm was brewing near the temple, and Siliezar was trying to capture lightning crackling dramatically over the ruins.
In the first two images, dark clouds loom above the pyramid, but nothing is amiss. However, in the third photo, a powerful beam of light appears to shoot up from the pyramid toward the heavens, and a thunderbolt flashes in the background.
Siliezar, who recently shared his photographs with occult investigators, told Earthfiles.com that he and his family didn't see the light beam in person; it appeared only on camera. "It was amazing!" he said. He showed the iPhone photo to his fellow tourists. "No one, not even the tour guide, had ever seen anything like it before." [See photo]
The photo has surfaced on several Mayan doomsday discussion forums. But was the light beam a sign from the gods - a warning about Dec. 21, 2012, the date that marks the end of the Mayan calendar cycle, and when some people fear the world will end? Or is it simply the result of an iPhone glitch?
According to Jonathon Hill, a research technician and mission planner at the Mars Space Flight Facility at Arizona State University, which operates many of the cameras used during NASA's Mars missions, it is almost definitely the latter. Hill works with images of the Martian surface taken by rovers and satellites, as well as data from Earth-orbiting NASA instruments, and is fully versed in the wide range of potential image artifacts and equipment errors.
He says the "light beam" in the Mayan temple photo is a classic case of such an artifact - a distortion in an image that arises from the way cameras bounce around incoming light.
It is no mere coincidence, Hill said, that "of the three images, the 'light beam' only occurs in the image with a lightning bolt in the background. The intensity of the lightning flash likely caused the camera's CCD sensor to behave in an unusual way, either causing an entire column of pixels to offset their values or causing an internal reflection [off the] camera lens that was recorded by the sensor." In either case, extra brightness would have been added to the pixels in that column in addition to the light hitting them directly from the scene. [7 Things that Cause UFO Sightings]
Evidence in favor of this explanation is the fact that the beam, when isolated in Photoshop or other image analysis software, runs perfectly vertical in the image. "That's a little suspicious since it's very unlikely that the gentleman who took this picture would have his handheld iPhone camera positioned exactly parallel to the 'light beam' down to the pixel level," Hill told Life's Little Mysteries.
It's more likely that the "light beam" corresponds to a set of columns of pixels in the camera sensor that are electronically connected to each other, but not to other columns in the sensor, and that this set of connected pixels became oversaturated in the manner described above.
"That being said," Hill said, "it really is an awesome image!"
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