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Moon Knight Episode 6 has come up to an explosive and convoluting conclusion. Oscar Isaac has given us probably the best show in MCU that doesnt directly connect to the larger shared superhero universe. The Ennead, the Egyptian Pantheon of Gods, are heavily featured in Moon Knight. But two Gods among them have a rivalry that runs deep. Khonshu and Ammit do not see eye to eye. Both have a strong sense of justice but hate each others approach in passing judgment. Moon Knight Episode 6 sees that rivalry develop into a fist trading climax. But ever wonder why Khonshu hates Ammit so much?

SPOILER ALERT: MAJOR Spoilers For Moon Knight Episode 6 Up Ahead.

This Moon Knight Theory claims to know the answer. Khonshu hates Ammit not because of their difference in approach to dishing out justice. It is the way how Ammit intends to create an ideal world.

The crocodile faced deity Ammit has but one goal. She sees humanity as flawed and wants to show them the way to a utopian parallel. But to do so requires sacrifice. Ammit wants to root out all flawed human beings. And by flaws, we mean people who are prone to walk the path of evil. Ammit uses the scales of justice to measure a persons potential worth and if the scales do not tilt in the persons savor, she devours the soul. Arthur Harrow would have us believe that Ammit only devours unworthy souls, the souls of sinners that will doom the people around them.

But what if theres more to it than that? What if the real reason Khonshu hates Ammit is because Ammit is a liar who doesnt care about how good or bad a soul is. All she cares about is

This new Moon Knight theory gives the perfect explanation why Khonshu hates Ammit. The show would have you believe that Khonshu hates ammit because Ammit judges a person before he or she has committed a crime, thereby taking their choice. But there could be more to it than that.

Ammit wants to create a world where there is no evil and no potential for evil. But that does not happen with a simple enough plan like hers. Megalomaniacs like Ammit always have a selfish way of achieving their objective. When Ammit judges a soul, she may not be even looking at the persons future. She is most likely looking at how complacent and docile this person is. If the person she is judging has too strong a will, then he or she will resist Ammits authority. Only weak willed people will never speak up against her rule in her new utopia. Ammit is not judging worthiness. She is merely sparing people who are weak enough to kneel to her.

Moon Knight episode 6 proves this theory true. Arthur Harrow, whose scales are unbalanced, is still chosen by Ammit to be her Avatar and his death is delayed. That is because Harrow willingly submits to Ammit, and this becoming worthy of the new world order she is set out to create.

Many of humanitys greatest innovations came out of the most despicable things. When humanity was given a choice, they made strides. From gunpowder to nuclear weapons, almost every human innovation started out as a weapon of despair. If evil didnt exist, there would be no adversity for humanity to overcome. Without a sense of purpose, humanity ceases to exist.

Khonshu even chose a sinner like Marc as his Avatar. If Ammit would have had her way, Marc would have ended up in the Duat long before he became Moon Knight. Khonshu has walked the Earth for thousands of years and knows humanity better than Ammit. He knows mankind only overcomes if it meets an opposing force and it is given a choice to do so. Thats why Khonshu hates Ammit and her ways.

They are petty and selfish.

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Moon Knight Theory: Real Reason Khonshu Hates Ammit - FandomWire

When the Duke and Duchess of York visited Tasmaniain 1927they were greeted in Hobart by a huge street arch made from apples that proudly read:"Welcome to Apple Land".

For about 100 years, Tasmania heavily marketed itself to the world as the "Apple Isle" an idyllic English farming Utopia to grow its apple exports and attract new residents.

But the export industry collapsed almost overnight in the 1970s when Tasmania was squeezed out of the European market.

The Apple Isletitle sticks 50 years on, despite the state exporting only eight per cent of Australia'sapples last season and making up only 16 per cent of the domestic market.

So, can itkeep its Apple Isle title?

When University of Tasmania history and classics PhD candidate Carla Baker visited Tasmania in the 1990s, her first question was:"Where are all the apples?"

And since moving to the state a decade ago, it isa question that has turned into a thesisfocusing on apples in the north of the state.

MsBaker is looking into when the Apple Isle title came about, and how the industrycollapsed.

"Tasmanian apples were a very big part of the empire marketing board campaign in the 1920s and 1930s," Ms Baker says.

Apples were part of the ecological colonisation of Tasmania, by making it look like Britain.

"Apples were a very English kind of landscape."

She will look into areas like Lilydale, in the state's north-east, that once had hundreds of hectares of apples, but today has none

Captain William Bligh planted Tasmania's first apple trees in 1788on Bruny Island at Adventure Bay.

Up north, the first site was at York Town in the Tamar Valley.

The climate was agreeableand the apples stored well. When steamships got refrigeration in the 1890s the industry took off.

"That's when the real overseas market came to the fore, with frozen meat and then dairy and fruit being able to go," Ms Bakersaid.

"It changed the apple industry."

The Launceston apple exhibition of 1914 also sold Tasmanian apples to the world, with the advantage of being able to export into opposite seasons in Europe and South Africa.

It was not without challenges, with codling moth introduced in the 1870s threatening the industry.

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Third-generation orchardist Andrew Griggs says the heyday for apples wasfrom the 1940s to the 1960s, before England joined the European Unionin the 1970s.

"Nobody had worked out how to store apples so we could come in with fresh,new-season apples when they didn't have any," he says.

"There was picking of a daytime and packing of an evening and stackingonto trucks early the next morning, and we had boats coming into Port Huon and Hobart as well as up north."

The government implemented a tree-pull scheme in the 1970sto get families out of the industry,and apple production in the state halved in just three yearsafter peaking in the previous decade at seven million cases of export apples.

Mr Griggs said his family's orchard at Lucaston in the Huon Valleyshifted its focus from Europe to South-East Asia and the domestic market.

"Other countries were starting to produce more and more apples and our costs started to increase," he says.

"It became harder to get a price that was needed."

The introduction of controlled-atmosphere storage meant other countries could store apples longerand it was no longer a benefit to be counter-seasonal.

Labour costs went upand packing requirements pricedsome growers out.

Mr Griggs' father went overseas in the 1990s and saw that other apple growers were also producing cherriesand he started to try it out in 1996.

"All of a sudden we had something we could export again," he says.

It's estimated that in the 1960s there were 4,000 apple-growing families in Tasmania. Now there are about 20.

More restructures of the industry are expected this yearand almost no Tasmanian growers export overseas.

"Last year was an absolute disaster;we had a big crop and low sales and a huge amountof apples left over at the end of the season," Mr Griggs said.

"In Tasmania we've always got this disadvantage of freight costs across Bass Strait andwe're always going to be $90 a bin worse off than somebody growing them in Victoria."

Mr Griggs says some smaller growers have told him it isbecoming too hard and too marginal to grow apples.

"We're in the same category," he says.

"We're going to be taking out some less productive blocks and replanting cherries.

"Over time we will have more cherries than apples."

A good season two years ago was due to 30 per cent less crop being available, and Tasmania filledthe gaps.

"That tells youif we were growing 30 per cent less, growers could make a living," Mr Griggs said.

Tasmania is still growing apples, just on a small scale compared to local and interstate marketsand has pivoted to ciders, juices andspecial varieties.

"The Apple Isle is much more a term we don't refer to ourselves as," Ms Baker says. "I think it's more an imagined title.

"I like it.I think it's a nod to our heritage and the importance of the agricultural economy down here still.

"The connotations it brings aren't about apples ... it's about culinary tourism, it's shorthand for a foodie's paradise."

Ms Baker says the title can stay, but people perhaps should not take it literally.

"It's indicating a food and purity notion rather than specifically apples, as it was back in the day," she said.

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Maureen Shea ready to begin "Take Back" this Saturday in New York homecoming fight

PhilBoxing.comSat, 07 May 2022

NEW YORK Maureen Shea insists that her homecoming fight this Saturday is not a comeback; its a take back.

The Bronx native Shea (29-2-1, 13 knockouts) will face Calista Silgado (19-13-3, 14 KOs) at Carnesecca Arena at St. Johns University in the Jamaica section of Queens, N.Y.

The eight round junior featherweight bout will be part of the Borough Boxing card promoted by Joe DeGuardias Star Boxing.

Shes been in there with a lot of top fighters. Shes a strong girl, shes definitely durable and the experience is there so I expect a good fight. Im not looking for the knockout, if it comes it comes. But Im looking to put on a boxing clinic, said Shea of Silgado, a native of Santiago de Tolu, Colombia who has fought eight times for a world title.

The fight will be Sheas first in her hometown since 2010, and The Real Million Dollar Baby is excited to return home to begin her campaign to become world champion once more.

Im looking at myself and Ive definitely evolved as a woman and as a fighter, said Shea. I know my why, I know why Im doing this now.

Shea has been one of the most accomplished female boxers over the past couple of decades, and has not lost in over a decade. She has won a pair of world titles and become a fan favorite through her thrilling fights, both in the United States and her mothers home country of Mexico.

Still, there is plenty of unfinished business remaining for Shea, who was unjustly denied her world title opportunity last year by the WBA after she was passed over for a shot at the vacant bantamweight title despite being the no. 2 ranked contender.

Instead, the no. 8 and 9 ranked contenders fought for the vacant belt. Shea was also ranked no. 2 by the IBF at junior featherweight, but was dropped altogether from the IBF rankings.

Shea believes that the landmark womens fight this past weekend between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano which sold out Madison Square Garden is indicative of what the sport is capable of if the right fights are made.

Im not doing this just for myself, Im also doing this for a lot of women who get passed up, said Shea. After what happened last weekend, eyes are now on womens boxing more than ever before. Im looking forward to putting on a great performance. The fans deserve those big fights. Theyre getting these girls who are fighting for world titles that are mediocre fighters. Its unfair to the fans. What happened last weekend, I want to happen now for my weight class.

Shea is now based in Boca Raton, Fla., where she is trained by boxing coach Derik Santos and strength and conditioning coach Phil Daru.

Carnesecca Arena is located at 80-00 Utopia Pkwy in Jamaica, N.Y. Doors open at 7 p.m.

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ON a hot summer's day, a delicious Dairy Queen ice cream always helps beat the hot sun.

However, Shelby, a Dairy Queen employee, explains that you don't always have to order off the main menu.

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There are secret menu items that many people don't know about.

In her TikTok video, Shelby explains that you can still order an old menu item, like the triple chocolate utopia.

If you are unfamiliar with the triple chocolate utopia, it is a creamy vanilla soft serve that is topped with cocoa fudge, brownies and chocolate chunks.

Dairy Queen customers are still able to order this item because all the franchises still carry the ingredients needed to make the sweet treat.

However, since it was on the old menu, you might have to explain to the Dairy Queen employee how to make it.

You can also order the blizzard version of the dessert, which is known as the chocolate brownie extreme.

Another secret menu item is the Smore's galore.

It is a three-layer parfait with marshmallow, fudge and crushed graham crackers, topped with soft serve and more hot fudge.

If you do decide to order the Smore's galore, you should know that not every Dairy Queen carries crushed graham crackers.

Along with these secret menu items, you should also try Dairy Queen's new menu items, Cheesy Dude Sandwich and cheesy steak fingers.

These items are available now until June 12 or while supplies last.

The Cheesy Dude Sandwich is a crunchy, crispy-fried chicken patty that is infused with pepper jack cheese and topped with lettuce, tomatoes, salad dressing and more pepper jack cheese, served on a warm, toasted bun.

The cheesy steak fingers are filled with pepper jack cheese, and they can be ordered in four or six pieces.

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Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows, better known as The Good Brothers, appeared on Thursdays edition of SiriusXMs Busted Open Radio.

The duo had just returned from Japan after appearing at NJPW Wrestling Dontaku on May 1 in Fukuoka. The pair appeared and reunited with The Bullet Club. Karl Anderson disclosed just what it meant to them to return to Japan.

We went to Japan with WWE. We were lucky enough to go four times, we went every single year, Anderson said. Each time, it always brought back great memories, but nothing was like landing back in Tokyo, getting picked up by the New Japan office, the same office that picked me up six years ago, taking me over to the same hotel I stayed in back in the day, seeing all the same people.

I got to the hotel room, me and Gallows were texting back and forth, sending videos of all the drinks we got from the convenience stores and how excited we were. We felt like children. Gallows even sent me an emotional video. I dont know if it was because he was half-hammered coming off the plane, but it just felt right to be back in Japan, even before we got to the New Japan show in Fukuoka five days after landing.

Doc Gallows also added just how surreal it was to be back in the country, and stated that it couldnt have been any better.

Man, it was almost surreal, Gallows said. So cool, like you said, getting to see our old friends, guys we used to go out with and have dinner every night in different towns and stuff like that. I definitely missed the eating tour of Japan. [Tommy] Dreamer and I were talking about that after we were on Busted Open the last time, when he ate 86 pieces of sushi just to impress us. But yeah, all the way around, it couldnt have been better. And to get to go to the PayPay Dome in Fukuoka, run out there again with wrestling happiness. [Its a] wrestling utopia, brother.

One major notable observation from The Good Brothers appearance at Wrestling Dontakuwas that the New Japan fans gave them a reaction, even though legally, they were supposed to remain silent and wear masks due to current restrictions. Anderson says the NJPW fans were excited to see them.

You know what I like the most? It is that Japanese wrestling fans, and Japanese sports fans in general right now, legally, are not allowed to cheer, Karl Anderson said. Theyre not allowed to make noise. They have to wear their mask and no noise is allowed to come from their mouth. That was my first disappointment, was I said, man, were not gonna get a pop. So before we went out, I said, listen, we know we arent going to get a reaction, they have to be quiet, dont worry.

We run in there, we slide in, we beat him [Okada] up, I took my hat off, and I heard the pop. I thought that was an audible pop, theyre not allowed to cheer. Theyre illegally cheering for the boys.

The Good Brothers will be back in action this Saturday at IMPACT Wrestling: Under Siege 2022 when they team up with fellow Bullet Club members Chris Bey, Jay White & El Phantasmo to take on Honor No More consisting of Eddie Edwards, Kenny King, Mike Bennett, Matt Taven & Vincent.

If you use any quotes from this article, please credit SiriusXMs Busted Open Radio with a h/t to Wrestling Inc for the transcription.

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