On February 1, 2021 MNL48 simultaneously announced through their social media channels of the new schedules of the announcement of the Third General Election results. Set across three Saturdays of February and will be announced on the noontime show ""It's Showtime"", February 6 will be the announcement of the 48 candidates that will make through the cut, February 13 will be the ranking from Rank 48 to Rank 17, to which both will be announced on the "It’s Showtime" “Online U” segment. Finally, the "senbatsu" lineup, which is Rank 16 to Rank 1, will be announced on February 20.
On February 6, members Aly Padillo and Ice Bozon announced that they will be graduating from MNL48.
The Third General Election concluded with Team NIV Captain Abby Trinidad hailed as the new center of the Third Generation, which was announced live on the noontime show "It's Showtime" on February 20, 2021. The "senbatsu" lineup was completed by the following in rank order: Sheki Arzaga, Jamie Alberto, Ruth Lingat, Ella Amat, Jan Elaurza, Andi Garcia, Jem Caldejon, Yzabel Divinagracia, Gabb Skribikin, Alice De Leon, Princess Briquillo, Lara Layar, Coleen Trinidad, Thea Itona and Tin Coloso.
Following the election, the 'senbatsu' lineup, as well as other select new members from the Third Generation aspirants, were given the chance to express their thoughts during the election period in a media conference hosted by entertainment reporter MJ Felipe last February 22. Throughout the interview, members discussed potential hints for the group's upcoming single, as well as interest in collaborating with fellow P-pop artists, where they dismissed statements of 'competition within the P-pop scene.
On February 25, members Laney Sañosa and Karla dela Paz announced that they will be graduating from MNL48.
On February 27, Philippine Pro Gaming League announced that it is giving fans a chance to virtually meet and play along with select members of the group namely Cole Somera, Abby Trinidad, Sheki Arzaga, Gabb Skribikin, and Coleen Trinidad. While the match is set to play off on March 8, PPGL announced that the event premiere is slated on March 27.
On March 17, Team MII's Sheki Arzaga was promoted as MNL48's new overall captain, taking over fellow Team MII's Alice de Leon. The same day, an announcement was also made that MNL48 will be joining fellow P-pop groups BINI and BGYO, as well as artists from Star Magic and Star Hunt in an upcoming live stream on March 19. This is after ABS-CBN and Filipino live streaming platform Kumu have entered into a new partnership for greater exposure of ABS-CBN talents and artists.
Baby Blue is a sub-unit of idol group MNL48. They debuted with the lead single Sweet Talking Sugar in September 2020, which topped the Egg Music charts in Japan. Baby Blue is one of the first Filipino artists to make it to Japanese music charts.
Soldier of Orange
Soldier of Orange (, ) is a 1977 Dutch Belgian World War II romantic thriller movie directed by Paul Verhoeven and was based on the autobiographical novel by Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema. It stars Dolf de Vries, Rutger Hauer, Jeroen Krabbé, Edward Fox, Susan Penhaligon, Lex van Delden, Derek de Lint, Rijk de Gooyer.
Treehouse of Horror XXVIII
"Treehouse of Horror XXVIII" is the 4th episode of "The Simpsons" 29th season. It was first broadcast on the Fox network on October 22, 2017. It is the 28th episode of the "Treehouse of Horror" series. The episode has three stories: "The Exor-Sis", "Coralisa", and "MMM... Homer".
Before the first story, the Simpson family and other characters are shown as foods in a bowl for trick-or-treaters.
In "The Exor-Sis", Homer gets a statue of Pazuzu from "The Exorcist". He puts the statue in Maggie's room, which gets Maggie possessed by a demon. The Simpson family are the hosts of a cocktail party. Maggie goes to the cocktail party and kills many people there. A priest comes to their house and does an exorcism on Maggie. The demon comes out of Maggie and tries to possess Bart, but does not want to because Bart has "the darkest soul".
In "Coralisa", Snowball shows Lisa a tunnel that takes them to a parallel universe. The parallel universe has the Simpson family with buttons on their eyes. Lisa becomes scared and goes back to her real family when they want to put buttons on her eyes. However, she goes back to the parallel universe when Homer tries to kill a snake with her saxophone. After a few days, the real family can not find Lisa. Bart finds the tunnel and goes to the parallel universe. Marge and Homer go to the universe to try to get Bart. Homer kills the fake Bart and the fake Homer dies trying to save Bart. Fake Marge turns into a creature similar to a spider and tries to hurt the real Homer. Homer makes the family from the parallel universe go to the real universe to do housecleaning.
In "MMM... Homer", Homer accidentally cuts his finger off while he is grilling. Homer cooks and eats the finger, thinking it tastes great. He cuts and cooks other parts of his body. Marge learns that Homer is eating himself and takes him to a counselor. However, Mario Batali wants to cook the rest of Homer for ingredients for a restaurant. Homer dies and tells Jesus in Heaven that they are both being eaten by people (this is a reference to the eucharist, where people eat bread (Jesus' body) and drink wine (His blood)).
About 3.66 milion people watched the episode when it was first broadcast.
Dennis Perkins from "The A.V. Club" thought that many parts of the episode had good design, but some parts would not be remembered well. Jesse Schedeen from IGN said that "Treehouse of Horror" episodes are usually not "more memorable" than a normal episode. However, Schdeen thinks that this episode is better than most "Treehouse of Horror" episodes, saying all of the stories were strong. Tony Sokol from Den of Geek said that it was "a very funny episode" and used words about Halloween to say how it is good, but not one of the best.
Black Book (movie)
Black Book () is a 2006 Dutch German Belgian British World War II drama movie directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, Derek de Lint, Dolf de Vries, Halina Reijn, Peter Blok, Waldemar Kobus. It was distributed by Warner Bros..
Wind phone
The wind phone () is a telephone booth in the town of Ōtsuchi in Japan. People go to the wind phone to say things to their family members or friends who have died. It was built by Itaru Sasaki, a garden designer, in 2010, after his cousin died. In 2011, after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami killed over 15,000 people in the area, he opened the wind phone so everyone could use it. Over 30,000 people have gone there since then. People have built copies in different countries, and there are books and movies about it.
In 2010, Itaru Sasaki, a garden designer from Ōtsuchi, learned that his cousin had cancer and had three months to live. After his cousin died, Sasaki built an old telephone booth in his garden in December 2010, so that he could feel a connection to his cousin by "talking" to him on the phone. He said that the wind phone was not related to religion, but helped him deal with the loss. He also said that he wanted his thoughs to be "carried on the wind".
The wind phone is a white telephone booth with glass windows. Inside, there is a black telephone on a metal shelf. The telephone is not connected to anything. Next to the telephone, there is a book so visitors can write notes about the people that they miss.
In 2010, a tsunami killed over 15,000 people in the area, including over 1,200 people in the town where Sasaki lived. After the tsunami, he opened the wind phone so that everyone could call their friends and family who had died. Now, it has been visited by over 30,000 people.