Category: Uncategorized

prepaidafrica:

Meet George Muga who runs his fish farm on solar power

In Summary

  • Muga, a fish farmer who runs a hatchery in Kendu Bay, Homa
    Bay County of Kenya, is able to keep his pond water fresh without incurring any
    electricity bills.
  • From this simple innovation, the 48-year-old
    farmer is able to hatch more than 100,000 tilapia fingerlings a month.
    He sells each at fry stage at Sh5 and Sh7 for five-gram fingerlings.
  • To
    construct the hatchery and housing unit measuring 5m by 4m, Muga spent
    about Sh65,000. The eggs take three to four days to hatch.
  • Muga,
    who is also the chairman of the Homa Bay Multipurpose Aquaculture Sacco
    that trains its 300 members on fish production techniques, says that a
    major challenge in tilapia farming is predators.

Do you think there’s any chance of seeing Jedha in IX, seeing how Jedi shots were also filmed there?

fuckyeahrebelfinn:

I’m going to assume you meant “Jedha scenes” and not “Jedi scenes” (damn you autocorrect). If not please elaborate because then I have no idea what you’re referring to.

Truth be told I don’t think the chance is very great. In fact of all the pre-existing locations Jedha is probably the least likely. Not that it wouldn’t be a great place to revisit and I really hope Jedha would take a bigger and more significant place in canon given it past, but the climate of Jedha post- Death Star attack is not one that lends itself to extended outdoor location shooting.

Even though people kept living on Jedha for years after the Death Star’s attack it was a frigid hellscape plagued by constant dust storms, which required breathing masks to move about outside even then. And it was clear that it would only get worse from then on. So 34 years plus whatever timeskip there is between TLJ and IX, after it would likely take environmental suits or something to move about outside. And even if it didn’t take that much, creating extended dust storms in an outdoor location seems more bother than it’s worth.

As per the Roya News article posted yesterday the shooting at Wadi Rum took about three weeks, which is the same amount of time as the Jakku shooting in Saudia Arabia did for TFA. So we can expect something of the same length as the Jakku sequence in IX at wherever Wadi Rum is supposed to be.

Technically speaking if they were to recreate Jedha and have that long a sequence there, cgi, set pieces and green screen would to me make for a more logical choice things being what they are.

Plus Wadi Rum is basically big movie’s go to location for “rocky desert scenery” to the extend that Jordan have an industry catering exclusively to big movie companies that come there to shoot. So for any rocky desert location that JJ had in mind shooting at Wadi Rum would be a perfectly logical choice.

So yeah, I do think Jedha unlikely as much as I want to see the place again. If I were to place a bet on where Wadi Rum is my money would be on either Jakku doue to its significance for both Finn and Rey, and the fact that in early new canon it was being set up as a place of significance for the story, or somewhere new we’ve never heard of before.

~Mod Mara

Yeah I meant Jedha shots sorry for the confusion 😂 I agree Jedha isn’t very likely, I just wish they’d revisit its significance in some way if not the location since this is a trilogy purportedly about the meaning of the Force.

I’d be very excited if IX revisited Jakku especially if they deal with Finn and Rey’s history with the place. Maybe they’ll even use some of the EU plot threads, who knows.

Get this straight right now. You don’t fucking know me. I never said keep silent you witless asshole I said YOU say it if you have something to say. Stop using black people to hide behind because YOU don’t want the shit. I was raped at 13 so fuck YOU for saying I don’t care about child sexual abuse or grooming. I truly hope your antiblack ass finds some other fandom to pollute because you’re a piece of shit and I really hope black fans are seeing you show your ass like this and act accordingly.

You didn’t even read my previous reply it seems. I did not “use” anyone, I didn’t hide behind anyone (if I had you wouldn’t have found me lol, the Wolf protected my identity and I’m the one who said it was me), and I would have had no compunction against moving on this myself if it weren’t for the sensitive racial issues involved.

Don’t lie and backtrack, you would still have been mad if I had made the post myself. Your major complaint in the previous ask was that Wolf and I had opened up Black fans to racist harassment, which would have been true no matter who wrote the post. So yes, you did in fact complain quite vocally about a sexual predator being exposed, and your history does not make that any less wrong.

And if racists do try to use this exposure against Finnreys as a whole, or to paint Black men in general as predators, guess what? They can’t, not without looking even stupider than they already are, because it’s a Black man who took it on himself to expose the predator. It’s almost like Wolf taking lead instead of me hopefully mitigated rather than aggravated any potential damage, how about that!

Why did you use a black person for this outing shit when you know good and fucking well that anything reylos can use against black fans they will use? But you just don’t gaf about people getting slurs from reylos because of a dude no black blogger really even fucked with because we knew he was trash from the jump. If you don’t have the balls to speak for yourself, keep your ass out of things having to do with black fans. You don’t get the blowback so keep your fucking mouth shut.

Bold of you to assume @themandalorianwolf was my stooge or dupe when he took the issue seriously from the start, spoke to the person who came forward to get the facts, and was as horrified as I was when he got the details. He chose to go public, and I advised him to, not because either of us thought the person accused was in good standing (I wasn’t even surprised when I heard it was him tbh) but because it was the most effective way to warn people away from him who might not know, particularly minors. Because that’s what you do when there’s a predator in a community. You may have known he was trash, but kids and others newer to the community could still be drawn in. We already know at least one was, and that’s one too many.

I obviously do have the gonads to speak for my own damned self lmao. I’m talking to your dumbass, aren’t I? I have never hidden the fact that I went to Wolf with this, and I did so because I know the sensitivities and horrible histories involved with accusing Black men of sexual predation. I knew Wolf would be a more effective and credible speaker, and he agreed. He’s getting completely undeserved shit for doing the right thing and he knew that going in.

And guess what? If you want me or anyone to stay silent about grooming minors because it involves a Black fan, you’re being an apologist for sexually exploiting kids. Full stop. If you’d rather sweep sexual abuse under the rug than it be out in the open so perpetrators stay away and potential victims are warned, then YOU are the one advocating against keeping kids safe. You’d rather tolerate a known predator being free to prey on kids, based on the fear that racists are going to racist if you expose him–like they even need an excuse? Yeah, then you’re part of the problem. Go live with your cowardice and your complete disregard of children and victims.

Ideally, where would you like Finn’s story to go in IX? No restrictions, no one to answer to, rather if you were in charge of LFL, as well as directing and writing IX, where would you take Finn’s story?

diversehighfantasy:

Let’s see… The movie would open with Finn in the cockpit of the Falcon, which is being piloted by Chewbacca and copiloted by Poe. They’re on a recruitment mission with Rose. Finn is arguing that the remaining FO Stormtroopers are on the verge of mass defection because Phasma is no longer there to keep them in line, and Kylo Ren’s leadership is decimating the troops. Poe is skeptical. He doesn’t trust anyone involved with the FO and considers Finn an anomaly.

Resigned, Finn goes to the cabin to find Rey pacing the floor, book in hand, C3PO tottering beside her. She’s upset. She doesn’t understand the passage she’s reading. To his focused mind, the passage relates to the trooper uprising somehow. Rey says no, this book is about the events of the past. 3PO makes a comment that if it was actually about future events, it would explain other passages. Rey is stunned that she may be holding an actual book of prophesies and, frightened, puts it down.

Finn picks up the book and starts reading it with C3PO. It’s very cryptic, but he starts to put it together. Suddenly, he puts the book down and returns to the cockpit. They need to change course.

*

Basically, I would do three things: Center on Finn (and the Finn and Rey dynamic) again, put Finn in the Jedi storyline and have him lead the Stormtrooper uprising. I think the two latter things will have to overlap if they’re both going to happen.

Of course, the plot will involve Naomie Ackiee’s character. I’d like to see Ackiee as the current leader of a political organization that evolved off of Enfys Nest’s group, but had been separate from the Resistance. Convincing her to join the new rebellion will be a challenge. Members of her group, who are also skeptical, include alien characters played by Dom Monaghan (the film’s comic relief along with 3PO) and Matt Smith. They’ll come around, of course.

Lando, it turns out, is on the planet of the Enfys Nest group, and is stunned to see the Falcon. He knows Han is dead and thinks it’s been stolen – until he sees Chewbacca. He joins them without hesitation, ready to avenge his friend.

Lando will have Luke’s green saber somehow. He keeps it a secret until Finn shares with him that the famous saber was predicted to restore balance when it’s weilders (plural) use it in a battle to end the FO.

The FO plot is important to the uprising arc. I’d put Keri Russel in this arc. If I had full control, the Kylo Ren “angry white man” neonazi allegory would be even more clear. It would pick up what TLJ put down basically, no backtracking.

The FO will lose. Kylo Ren won’t have a happy ending, Rey and Finn will be the hope of the future, two new Jedi leading free ex Stormtroopers and the formerly enslaved from across the Galaxy.

Rey has reason to be upset about prophecies, too, given how she & Luke both made big mistakes by relying too much on their visions of the future. I hope during the time gap Rey & Finn help each other come to grips with the events of TLJ, what Kylo’s manipulation did to her, what being forced and blackmailed to stay with the Resistance and subsequently being willing to sacrifice himself did to him, and how what they each went through affects the other.