his skills to be substantial and his prospects of playing for the University to be substantial too. He might have made it, too, had his twopenn'orth of talent been matched by more than a ha'porth of speed. He was, alas, even less fit in the physical sense than he was fit to run a football club, and the last I remember he was playing for the second team, not even of the University but of the College.

It was not the last I heard of him entirely: I recall him, during Black Monday, panicking loudly because his aforementioned share portfolio seemed likely to be reduced to the aforementioned twopenn'orth. Reacting to the departure of his money as others react to the departure of a loved one, he was unableThames from Tower Bridge to Greenwich and beyond these past few years.

This would therefore make much money for the football club - or, at least, for the people who own the football club, reminding me of the recent experience at my own Oxford United where the owner was able to realise an eight-figure sum in profit while leaving the club a few places above relegation to the Conference and tenants in a stadium they no longer owned. Would Constantine Gonticas be party to something like that? Of course he would. Because Constantine is a football man, but Constantine is also a greedy man and a Thatcherite.

Perhaps he is not so talentless as I thought he was twenty years ago. He has, at any rate, a talent in making


rate more often associated with wealth than with its opposite. In the terms in which Constantine thinks, he must have achieved all the success that he set out to have. He has made it, and at the age Tom Lehrer had achieved when he referred to Mozart. The investment fund and other companies besides, his contacts among the rich and royal and even his own football club to play with. It is what an Oxford education is all about.

And as for me - I am a thousand miles away, without a source of income and never sure whether to wonder what happened to the first part of my life, or to see what I can make of the second half.

So here I am, in the middle way, havingpoint of view of getting the desired flame. It was bright, and hot, and long: long enough to catch my hair, my hair of five years' length, which was draped over the table and cards as if it were intended to act as kindling. It ignited my hair in the manner popularised by Michael Jackson.

My hair lit up, though despite being the person closest to the flame I was the worst placed to see it. But I could feel it. I was told, after the event, that it went up in a fashion spontaneous and spectacular. I could imagine, as I'd seen it done before, on a coach trip to a CND march several years before, on which one of my friends non-violently set alight the hair of


Bonds wins sixth NL MVP Award
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2003 winner: Alex Rodriguez, TEX

Rodriguez wins AL MVP Award
Alex Rodriguez won the American League Most Valuable Player Award for the first time in his career, capping a season in which he led the AL in home runs with 47, runs with 124 and slugging percentage at .600. More >

2003 winner: Roy Halladay, TOR

Cy completes Halladay's turnaround
Two years after having to return to the low minors to make himself over as a pitcher, Roy Halladay is the AL Cy Young Award winner. Halladay, who won22 games and pitched nine complete games, is the fourth winner from the Blue Jays in the last eight seasons. More >

2003 winner: Eric Gagne, LA

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Dodger closer Eric Gagne was named winner of the 2003 National League Cy Young Award by the BBWAA, snapping Randy Johnson's four-year stranglehold on the award. Gagne became the first Dodger to win the Cy since Orel Hershiser in 1988 and the first reliever since Oakland's Dennis Eckersley in 1992. More >

2003 winner: Angel Berroa, KC

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have hit at least .280 with 15 homers and 20 steals, Berroa had the fifth-best totals since 1900 with his .287 batting mark, 17 homers and 21 steals. More >

2003 winner: Dontrelle Willis, FLA

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Fourteen wins, an All-Star appearance, a World Series championship and now the National League Rookie of the Year. Not a bad season for 21-year-old Dontrelle Willis, the Marlins lefty who picked up the top rookie honor. After being called up from Double-A at the end of May, Willis went 5-0 with a 1.04 ERA in June, earning NL Pitcher of the Month honors. More >

2003 winner: Tony Peña, KC

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2003 winner: Jack McKeon, FLA

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or near the breech to operate the action of a semi-automatic firearm. The application and subsequent patent detail several different designs to accomplish this, including the floating chambers he manufactured on the four rifles he built while imprisoned.

Colt Manufacturing Company
In 1931, Colt Manufacturing Company introduced the Colt Ace pistol, a .22 long rifle caliber rimfire version of Colt's M1911A1 .45 ACP pistol for training purposes. This pistol was specific to the .22 rimfire cartridge with a recoil equivalent to its cartridge. In 1933, Williams was contracted by Colt to redesign the Colt Ace with his floating chamber. The end result was the Colt Service Ace (“Firearm”  published August 24, 1937), a .22 caliber rimfire pistol with a recoil stronger than that of the Colt Ace but lessoffice there are moments professionals miss out on – and can never get back. Many of us spend time on things that ultimately don’t matter. “The three greatest gifts you can give to your family are: Time, Memories and Tradition,” he says. “These are things in life that matter.”

About Gary Kunath

Gary Kunath is the founder of The Summit Group, which is ranked among the top sales-training companies in the world by Selling Power magazine. His value-creation approach received the “Innovative Practice of the Year Award” by 3M worldwide. He was named Businessman of the Year for the United States and was recognized a dinner hosted by the president of the United States. He has lectured extensively at several prominent business schools, and he is currently an adjunct professor


Trip in Gaitlenburg. I love ice cream and the trip was very memorable.

I have the 12 days of Christmas that was put out by Precious Moments. I love Precious moments. The first year they released the first “4 days” was the year that Phyllis was in the 12 days of Christmas at Preschool. She was nine ladies dancing. When I put each ornament on, I see her in the dress with the green velvet top, big ribbon in the back and the cream bottom. She looked so beautiful. And when it come to the Nine Ladies Dancing part, she would put her finger on top of her head a twirl around. She was so beautiful.

In 2001 there was an ornament “it’s snow fun without you”. That was thewith me. She’s not the woman who couldn’t drive by a garage sale, she’s a shell of what she was, a woman who loved her family, who sacrificed for her family, who tried her best to center us all around Jesus.

Set your affection on things above, not on things of the earth. (Colossians 3:2)

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Mixed vegetables at every holidayOrange Jello SaladFirst Day of School shoppingTweety bookMirror Perfume TrayColgate toothpasteCrunchy Oatmeal Choc Chip CookiesMini Candy bars on the bottom shelf of the fridge in brown bowlHeavenly Hash Ice CreamGoodie bags to take home with a banana, granola bar (Honey Oat – Crunchy Kind), mini candy bar, fritosTuna Fish Sandwiches with Nestle Choc Milk for lunchAlways wearing lipstickBungalow homeChurch on Saturdays with Tomato juice when we got home


Marquez Valdes-Scantling’s Time to Shine Begins Now

Geronimo Allison’s oft-injured 2018 season comes to an official close likely yesterday. He is having surgery to repair an injury to his groin. He could return in six weeks as an IR-designation in-season, but who knows if Green Bay would chose to use it on him. This busts the door wide open for the arrival of Marquez Valdes-Scantling, the rookie who burst on the scene in the last few weeks. He will be the starter out the outside, and a great deep threat to Aaron Rodgers.

One of the many complaints with the offense was the lack of Valdes-Scantling’s targets in the first half of the Packers-Patriots game. Aaron Rodgers ended up going to him often in the second half. Trust me, heextreme latitude, Ireland, and one at a more moderate latitude, the former Yugoslavia. No attempt was made to compare the two, as a meta-analysis of numerous country-to-country differences has been well performed by others (Saha et al., [@B111]). Rather, the question being asked was whether small scale geographical differences in prevalence and incidence exist within each country and whether those differences might relate to variations in rainfall. These two countries offered the advantage of weather extremes they encompass, as well as the availability of detailed schizophrenia epidemiology during the early to mid-20th century, at a time when mobility was limited compared to today\'s world and when the chances were good that someone born in an area would be quite likely to grow up in the same town. The


a given isohyet interval, weighted by its percent contribution to the catchment area. The correction for population distribution (1986 census) was carried out by weighting the rainfall data by the population (as a percent of the total population in the particular catchment area) in the towns with 5,000 or more residents and assuming that the remaining land area exhibited a uniform population distribution.

![**Rates of schizophrenia 1st admissions (left panel) vs. annual rainfall (right panel) in Ireland**. The 1st admissions digital plot represent means of the yearly values in the outlined health catchment area (S, MW, W, NW, MID, NE, E, and SE), calculated for 1982--1991 from data published by the Health Research Board for Ireland (Activities of Irish Psychiatric Hospitals and Units Dublin, Ireland). The annual rainfall digitalbased on the 1986 census for Ireland.

The hospital census data presented are for the year 1991. Mean first admission rates were calculated for a 10 year period (1982--1991, inclusive), selected to include a comprehensive census year (1991) and selected as a time of relative stability in terms of the grouping of the hospital reporting system. The exception is 1991, when: (1) in the NE, Cavan and Monaghan began to report as a unit, (2) in the S, a new psychiatric unit was formed in Tralee (joint reporting with the hospital in Killarney) and (3) in the NW, a new psychiatric unit in Letterkenny began reporting with St. Conal\'s (also in the town of Letterkenny). The latter event may be responsible for the apparent jump in first admission rates


the kind assistance of the Irish Meteorological Service, Dublin; J.J. Logue of the Irish Meteorological Service, Galway; Danica Spasova of the former Yugoslavian Federal Hydrometeorological Institute and Momcilo Markus, formerly of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

[^1]: Edited by: Tim Karl, Neuroscience Research Australia, Australia

[^2]: Reviewed by: Randy J. Nelson, The Ohio State University, USA; Miou Zhou, University of California, Los Angeles, USA; Tim Karl, Neuroscience Research Australia, Australia
side to the supposedly compassionate family-planning charity.

It raises the question as to why Britain's Department for International Development is still providing funding to the International Planned Parenthood Federation despite having full knowledge of the accusations against them. The £132 million that the department provided to the group in January was for a two-year program. This contradicts the stance the agency took after the Oxfam Sex Scandal, where the Department for International Development pledged to withhold funds from charities that did not make a serious effort to confront sexual exploitation. Still, the department has yet to take a firm position against the International Planned Parenthood Federation, even with such egregious allegations of misconduct. In fact, this past April even saw the department choose IPPF to lead a consortium to


promote “Sexual Reproductive Health Rights” in six developing countries.

The Department for International Development does not seem to be at all deterred in their support of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, but given their support for Marie Stopes International despite scandals associated with that organization, perhaps it is not entirely unsurprising. In 2016, Marie Stopes International had been forced to suspend abortion services due to concerns raised for patient safety, but the department still awarded that group and the International Planned Parenthood Federation £42 million to promote safe abortion in developing countries.

The horrific accusations against IPPF and the lack of any disciplinary action against the abortion group sets a troubling standard for organizations claiming to stand for reproductive rights. The continued support of the organization is concerning, as thereplayers.

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of the USA for Bowling for Columbine (2003/trailer).

Another great film from the home country of Issei Sagawa... that be Japan, for those of you who don't know who he is.The not-yet-infamous Fundoshi Corps is a Japanese exploitation firm specializing in cheap Japanese school girl soft-core (?), horror anthologies, and a whole slew of machine-based horror. Among the fun stuff they have regurgitated is Robo-Geisha (2009 / trailer), Unholy Woman (2006 / trailer), The Machine Girl (2008 / trailer) and this baby, an interesting little film called Meatball Machine. The 2005 feature-length version of Meatball Machine, supposedly directed in tandem by Yûdai Yamaguchi (the man behind Battlefield Baseball [2003 / trailer]) and Jun'ichi Yamamoto, is a low budget remake of an even lower budget short film by Jun'ichi Yamamotolunch break. Unknown to them – and the rest of Japan, obviously enough – parasites that look oddly reminiscent of an horseshoe crab are on the loose in the neighborhood, turning their hosts into ugly mutants called "Neoborgs". (Where the name comes from is obvious enough, especially midway through the film when one character flatly states "Resistance is futile".) The Neoborgs are killing machines that do nothing but kill anyone that crosses their path. But much like in The Highlander (1986 / trailer), they prefer to kill their own kind; only, instead of absorbing energy of the defeated dead in a cheap light show, the winning Neoborg bloodily rip the controlling parasite out of the neck of the dead Neoborg and eats it for lunch. (We get to


for such a powerful creature the mummy fights rather sloppily.Of course, all is well that ends well and our three surviving heroes ride off into the sunset, a fourth hero that by all accounts should be dead suddenly popping up to wish them well. As to be expected, The Mummy went on to spawn (to date) two unnecessary but widely popular sequels, The Mummy Returns (2001 / trailer) and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008 / trailer), the last of which is the best of the three.

OK, the truth is out: Ingmar Bergman is alive and undead and still in Sweden where he now makes low-budget vampire films.Naw, not really, but Tomas Alfredson, the director of Låt den rätte komma in / Let the Right Oneand killing. No, instead, amidst the icy, cold, depressing and alienating suburban landscape of Blackeberg, Sweden, a location populated by middle-aged alcoholics, sadistic kids, and uninterested parents and teachers, a grim and death-filled tale unfolds of two lonely "kids" that first develop a friendship with and then a consensual need for each other.Twelve-year-old Oskar (Kåre Hedebrant), who lives with his divorced mom in a bleak suburban circa 1982, is terrorized at school by a trio of future juvenile delinquents. One night as he takes his frustrations out by stabbing a tree – "Squeal like a pig. So, Squeal." – he is suddenly confronted by his new neighbor, a dark-haired and underdressed girl named Eli (Lina Leandersson) who smells as if she has less than good grooming habits. She


can stand no sun or food, and more than once maintains that she is not a girl, but slowly a deep friendship develops between the two – a friendship deep enough that Oskar can deal with the eventual realization that Eli is a vampire as easily as one might accept the fact that someone is left-handed or dyslexic.Eli lives with Håkan (Per Ragnar), a man who could be her father, her lover, her Renfield or any combination thereof, who goes out at night killing people and draining them of their blood to feed his charge. (In truth, however, both times he goes out hunting in the film he is so incredible incompetent one can only wonder how he ever managed to keep Eli regularly fed.) His untimely endforces Eli to go hunting on her own, which results in the tragedy of Virginia (Ika Nord), who meets an end similar to that met by Emmanuel (Don Rickles) in Innocent Blood (1992 / trailer) but not played for laughs. Eli helps Oskar learn to defend himself, but instead of ending the torture it sets a series of events into motion that could easily mean his death... but what are friends for if not to help each other in times of need?Let the Right One In is probably one of the most unspectacular vampire films ever made, and therein lies much of it strength. The story develops slowly and grimly, with but occasional unspectacular flashes of violence or blood, but the very lack of spectacle makes the horror


Americanized version in 2010. Somehow it seems doubtful he'll manage a film half as disquieting as the original.

(Spoilers.) Back in 1998, in-between all the TV directorial jobs that pay the rent, director David Nutter brought out this teenage riff of The Stepford Wives (1975 / trailer), his first non-television job since his direct-to-DVD double Trancers 4: Jack of Swords (trailer) and Trancers 5: Sudden Deth (trailer) in 1994. And while Disturbing Behavior is hardly the most intelligent of films, it is at least too well made to be truly terrible, even if the story itself – from Scott Rosenberg, who also penned such great films (Not!) as Con Air (1997 / trailer), Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000 / trailer) and Kangaroo Jack (2003 / trailer) – not onlyStahl of Terminator III [2003 / trailer]), Blue Ribbon Andy Efkin (Tobias Mehler) kills a Goth when she tries to suck out his "vital fluids" and then a cop, but Officer Cox (Steve Railsback) covers it all up – despite the fact that Andy also kills his partner. Gavin later makes friends with the newly arrived clean-cut but slightly troubled Allen Clark (James Marsden) when he and family move to the island community of Cradle Bay after his brother kills himself. (In all truth, what little one gets of his family, it seems more as if his parents are the troubled ones, not he.) Allen goes all gushy over Rachel (an eternally unconvincing but bonkable Katie Holmes), but by rejecting the friendship of the Blue Ribbons basically seals


his doom – but not before Gavin's parents trade their son in for a Young Republican model.Realizing that Gavin's prior paranoia was more than just pot-induced, and after a surreal interaction with Blue Ribbon Lorna Longley (Crystal Cass) who freaks out when giving in to her baser carnal instincts – "Bad wrong, wrong bad, bad wrong, wrong bad," she says as she bangs her head against a mirror – Allen and Rachel decide to find out what exactly the school doctor Dr. Edgar Caldicott (Bruce Greenwood) is doing to the kids. This involves a totally out of place interlude in which they visit an insane asylum for an extended scene that seems first-and-foremost to come from another film. Back on the island, the two are promptly hauled infor the special treatment, but thanks to a well-stolen scalpel Allen and Rachel can escape. But Dr. Caldicott and the Blue Ribbons are out to stop them, and do – but then, just in time, the film's obvious deus ex machine, the Kurt-Vonnegut-reading and rat-hating school janitor Dorian Newberry (William Sadler), shows up with his MacGuffin and saves the day.The German version of Disturbing Behavior ends with Gavin walking into an inner-city classroom as the new teacher, ready to re-enslave minority America.As already mentioned, Disturbing Behavior is far from a good film, it is merely a well-made film. The mini-social studies course Gavin gives in the school lunchroom is nifty, and Rachel proves to be a babe who can well hold her own, but the story as a


whole is undercooked, much like the characterization of every adult in the movie. (Unlike many of the kids, who do actually exude character, all the adults in the film are there simply to serve the function of continuing the plot; none of their actions or decisions are ever given enough background to really be understandable. But then, seeing that the film is very much aimed at the alienated teen, the adults probably reflect how they are viewed by kids in real life.) Disturbing Behavior is an acceptable time waster and a passable version of The Stepford Wives – much better in any event than the 1987 made-for-TV movie The Stepford Children – but there are really so many other, better films out there that it is, in theattitude: he bonks all of two times and then starts talking marriage.) Frannie’s best friend is her younger half-sister Pauline (an as-always excellent Jennifer Jason Leigh), but as to be expected she gets "disarticulated", too. Still, Malloy puts it “in the cut” one more time before Frannie suddenly decides he is indeed the murderer and runs off to even greater endangerment…The murderer of In the Cut is so obvious from the beginning that to call the film a mystery thriller is a lie, for there is truly no mystery other than that Frannie must have incredibly selective eyesight when it comes to tattoos. Indeed, when it comes to the mystery the film is pretty much an insult to the intelligence of the viewer – anyone with half a


brain can figure out which of the three most-likelies is the definite killer even through Campion continually hides the tell-tale tattoo although it should be obvious to anyone with eyes (including Frannie).To give credit where credit is due, the film is wonderfully shot and composed, as are all Campion’s films. Likewise, with the exception of both the killer and Meg Ryan, the acting is in general excellent – assholes such as Dt. Malloy actually come across as real assholes, and Pauline conveys an oddly touching sensitivity that does much to make her the most likable person in the movie. Contrary to popular opinion, Ryan can act and in some of her films she even manages to give her good girls a level of depth not really required forher normal film product. But in In the Cut, Ryan seems to confuse not acting with acting, and gives Frannie the blank expressiveness of a post-lobotomized idgit. OK, she manages to get a bit of life into the scenes where she discovers her dead half-sister, but the rest of the time she comes across like someone with liquid Prozac as blood. Not good. Just like the film, actually…

Lucky McKee made a more than auspicious directorial debut in 2002 with May, a quiet but seriously disturbing, effective and sad horror film. His follow-up film, The Woods, was perhaps doomed from the start, as May is a hard movie to top or follow. Finished in 2003, The Woods was promptly shelved and sat around three years gathering dust before it


finally went direct to DVD, where it was and still is generally met with total disdain or high critical kudos. Both extremes are, however, unwarranted, for while The Woods is a well-directed, finely acted and effectively moody psychological horror tale, it also fails to pack a truly convincing punch and the ending feels more than rushed and unresolved.Still, McKee's film is a far more engaging and engrossing film than many other bigger budgeted horror releases that have made it to the big screen without problems – say, anything by M. Night Shyamalan since The Sixth Sense (1999 / trailer) and most of the untold number of Hollywood remakes of Asian horror films that have flooded the market since The Ring (2002 / trailer); as such The Woods isher parents to a private school called Falburn Academy located deep in the forests of New England that is, she slowly discovers, run by witches. The troubled girl in question, Heather (Agnes Bruckner), is estranged from her parents Alice (Emma Campbell) and Joe (Bruce Campbell) since she burnt down the tree in the backyard. At the school, she is quickly christened Fire-Crotch and finds it difficult to find her place between her teasing classmates and the decidedly odd spinsters that work there. (Hmm, did they actually call unmarried women "Ms." In 1965? I seem to recall still having to differentiate between "Miss" and "Mrs" all the way up to the 80s.) An attempt to escape through the forest proves only to be a nightmare experience, and soon thereafter


she learns the scary legend of the school about a trio of young girls with special powers that killed the original head mistress way back when…Thing is, Heather has special powers, too. Students disappear, and then the hot blonde bitch that’s been harassing her (Rachel Nichols as Samantha) "kills herself" after revealing to Heather that she is in danger. Daddy and Mommy come to take Heather away, but the woods prevent them and in no time flat Mommy is dead, Daddy is a hexed catatonic and Heather is back in school in the clutches of Head Mistress Traverse (Patricia Clarkson, who since her feature film debut as the wife of Eliot Ness in The Untouchables [1987 / trailer] has become the US version of Alice Krige – i.e.,what a misbegotten piece of shit it is. Lacking any and all the style, wit and craftsmanship of the original – or, for that matter, many of the unofficial sequels – Nello Rossati's film not only bores, it is often painful to watch.Cobucci's Django was a violent film, but for all its excesses it never felt filthy, and featured an excellent sense of style and action, a grasp of both black and low humor and a decent script. Likewise, Nero's original characterization of the title character was richly in nuances, which definitely helped make the anti-hero keep both one's interest and sympathy. In Django 2, Nero has dumped all the depth and humor that he gave in his original characterization and made the man into a cardboard figure,


be parodying Morricono, the rest of the time his crass use of a synthesizer is better suited for a cheap horror movie. Instead of in any way underscoring emotions or emphasizing mood, the music serves only to emphasize how crappy the entire film is. The script is likewise disappointing. Flat, uninteresting and predictable, characterization is minimal and development nonexistent, the action about the level one would expect from a western starring Lorenzo Lamas, if he were ever to make one. Hell, the average Andrew Stevens film is more gripping and involving than what Rossati's vomited on the screen. As to be expected in a film this bad, Donald Pleasence makes a small, pointless appearance as Gunn, a fellow prisoner at the silver mine cum concentration camp who existsonly to supply some unfunny and misplaced humor — but, for that, he still turns out to be one of the few highlights of the film.The best part of the whole flick is the pre-credit opening scene, which seems to be cut from many English language versions of the movie. In it, two old timers meet up for a shoot out, each missing the other on purpose in the hope that the other will kill him, thus allowing him to die "with his boots on." Afterwards, over a bottle of whiskey, they talk about how all the great gunfighters are dead and gone, unable to even remember the name of the guy with the machine gun. Then, when hit by a cannon shot from El Diablo's steamboat, with


his last breath one of them gasps out "Django! His name was Django!" before dying. Hey! Really intelligent humor, or? Still, as flat as the joke is, it is the best one in the whole movie.Filmed in Columbia, Rossati trades the mud and grime of the original Django for a dried out landscape of baked dirt and shrubs. Il grande riturno begins with Django in a monastery, now a monk and retired from his evil ways. Visited by a seemingly tubercular Maria, she informs him that they have a daughter and requests that he should take care of the child when she dies. Visiting Maria's town he arrives after it has been raided, Maria is dead and the daughter kidnapped by "El Diablo" Orlowsky (trash actor Christopher Connelly,in his last film). "El Diablo" is a mad Hungarian who goes up and down the river in his steamboat collecting butterflies, slaughtering people indiscriminately, kidnapping the girls to sell to whorehouses or banditos, and kidnapping the men as slaves for his silver mine. In no time flat Django is also digging in the mine. Realizing that he can no longer deny the use of violence, he escapes, goes to a graveyard and digs his old Gatling gun out of a grave marked "Django". Teaming up with a young boy out to both revenge his father's death and retrieve his bleached skull from the fore of the steamboat, the rest of the movie has the two riding around in a hearse, machine gunning bad people down.The movie drags


along until the big showdown at the silver mine, where Django shoots or blows everything and everyone up, saving thousands of men at the same time. He is obviously still a great shot, for when he indiscriminately shoots into the masses with his machine gun, only the bad guys get hit and all the innocent people can run away unscathed. Ditto when it comes to the dynamite. "El Diablo" bites the dust when he falls into the once enslaved masses and is killed by the mob, the young boy buries his dad's skull in a shallow hole under a tree decorated with what looks like golden bottle caps, the daughter is saved and Django returns to the monastery "to think"."Il grande riturno" my ass—more like "Il grande fuck-up".

(Spoilers)If the length of movie reviews were regulated by laws unwritten or written to be reduced in proportion to the artistic success of the movie they are about, then the blurb I stumbled upon in The New Yorker (issue Aug 11 & 18, 2008) on the Hollywood movie Mirrors would be the appropriate review of the flick. In its whole, it reads: "A horror film, directed by Alexandre Aja, about a family being targeted by evil forces that enter their home through mirrors. Starring Kiefer Sutherland."

But what the hell, I feel like writing something a bit longer, if only to vent my spleen about this piece of shit that was released as a sorry excuse for a horror film. Mirrors is one of those kinds of films which


a Valium disguised as a supernatural detective flick that thinks it a horror movie. It opens with a bloody scene of a desperate watchman running from something who ends up dying a bloody death when his own reflection slits his throat. Then Ben Carson (Kiefer Sutherland) enters the flick as his replacement as the night watchman at the Mayflower, a burnt down luxury department store. Ben is a recovering alcoholic cop who is off the force since he shot his partner. Estranged from his wife Amy (Paula Patton, last seen as the lead female in Deja Vu (2006 / trailer), the to-date least successful film of the Tony Scott/Denzel Washington team-ups), he now lives with his hot sister Daisy (a sadly under-used Amy Smart). In no time flatTim Engle filled out an application for a warrant to search Hammond's property, including all buildings, vehicles, and persons present on the property at the time of the search. Probable cause for the warrant was substantiated by Detective Engle's affidavit, which was attached to the application. In the affidavit, detective Engle stated that:

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During the first week of April 1999, [Deputy] Danny Keeney received information from Jeremy Holt stating that he had attempted to steal marijuana from an indoor grow operation belonging to Glenn Hammonds [sic] in Rockcastle Co. on KY-1955. Holt stated that he was shot at and that he got away, but that they were looking for him. Holt stated that the residence was located off KY-1955 beside Morning View Church and that the Location had a


refer to Hammond's garage. Second, although Detective Engle's statement implies that he drove by Hammond's property as a result of the complaint made by Holt, and in so doing verified the information supplied by Holt, that was not the case. Detective Engle admits that he did not find out about Holt's complaint until August 5 or 6, when he filled out the application for the warrant and instead drove by Hammond's property at an earlier date, on the basis of "numerous," unspecified, and anonymous complaints received by the police, complaining about the "Hammonds raising marijuana up on Red Hill." The dispatcher admitted that the brother of Glen Hammond lived on Red Hill, and professed ignorance of how many other Hammond households may exist on Red Hill in Rockcastlerecord that was claimed to be for a trailer, was actually the power usage record of the building within which the marijuana was subsequently found. The other power usage record, which was "consistent with a dwelling," was for Hammond's residence and not for the building identified by Engle as having no windows. Third, the building that Engle claimed had no windows does in fact have windows, although it is unclear from the photograph in the record whether the only windows it has are dormer windows. The government has agreed that the power usage records were incorrectly referred to in the affidavit. Fourth, the "security gate" did not have security features of any kind, as the district court found. Finally, the government has stipulated that the thermal imaging can


to their searching his vehicle, person, and trailer. The officers discovered marijuana in the trailer.

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While following Ponder across Hammond's property, the officers passed a roadway that led to a building, which had not been previously identified by the officers conducting the search, and which was not included in the warrant under which they were operating. Ponder told the officers that the building was the residence of Glen and Judy Hammond. Late in the evening of that same day, Detective Moore sought and obtained a search warrant for this building.

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During the search of the property, the officers discovered marijuana growing inside a barn-like building, along with sixteen firearms and ammunition, a disassembled sawed-off shotgun, and four electric blasting caps. Outside the building, the officers found more marijuana and anotherfirearm, alleged to be a machine gun. On the Ponder property, the officers discovered marijuana in a trailer that was titled to Hammond.

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Hammond was not present during the execution of either search warrant, and on August 10, 1999, a warrant was issued for his arrest. On August 17, 1999, the Peach County Sheriff's Department in Georgia stopped a tractor-trailer in which Hammond was riding as a passenger, while his cousin drove. Hammond was arrested for possession of a concealed .22-caliber single-shot pistol, possession of a small amount of methamphetamine, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime. When the Georgia Sheriff's Department learned of the outstanding arrest warrant issued in this case, it transported Hammond to Kentucky. Other firearms were located inside the truck, but


did not state how long Keeney had known Holt, or if he, himself, knew Holt. Detective Engle did not even state that Holt was a "reliable source" or that he had given the police reliable information in the past. Cf. United States v. Pinson, 321 F.3d 558, 563 (6th Cir.2003) (holding that an affidavit met "the Allen test" where the officer stated in the affidavit that he knew the informant was "reliable from past information received from said [informant]," the informant was familiar with the drugs at issue from "past experience and exposure," and where the affidavit contained the officer's personal observation of the informant's drug deal, his pat down of the informant before and after the purchase of the narcotics, and the fact that the drugs purchasedname of Antonio Cook and that the defendant used his car in the distribution of that cocaine, which he described as a "1980's model gray Chevrolet Cavalier, Ohio Temporary License Number K591513." Ibid. The confidential informant was also able to describe the defendant's house as being

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the downstairs unit in a two family, two and one half story, white wood sided dwelling with green trim, the numbers '1439,' the address for the upstairs unit, clearly visible on the south side of the entrance door to the upstairs unit, the structure being located on the east side of East 116th Street, facing west.

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Ibid. Finally, the police corroborated the tip provided by the informant. First, the detective on the case verified that the vehicle described by the informant was in fact


Starting in 2009, James Simon, a gynecologist from Washington, D.C., was trying to figure out how to tell whether a drug called flibanserin — which some later incorrectly dubbed “female Viagra” — actually did the job. Flibanserin had been developed as an antidepressant, but the pharmaceutical companies behind it believed it might have promise as a libido enhancer for women. Simon was one of the researchers hired by the drug makers to find evidence that would convince the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve it for that use.

Earlier studies on flibanserin focused on use by premenopausal women. Simon’s study would determine whether the drug was also effective for postmenopausal women as well.

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Such cautions derive from earlier cases in which the agency, the industry, and many thousands of American consumers, paid a heavy price for


regulatory lapses that allowed an unsafe drug to enter the market. One of the oft-cited examples of flaws in the process was the 1999 FDA approval of the painkiller, Vioxx or rofecoxib. The pharmaceutical company Merck withdrew that drug from the market in 2004, after it was linked to tens of thousands of cardiovascular deaths. Merck also eventually agreed to pay almost $5 billion to settle initial lawsuits related to those deaths.

Another frequently cited example is that of Avandia, or rosiglitazone, also approved in 1999 for controlling blood sugar in type-2 diabetics. Soon after approval, researchers had discovered that the drug seemed to increase the risk of heart attacks and deaths. However, by hiding scientific information from the FDA, the drug maker, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), managed to keep thean old one that shares a related chemical structure. The old drug, telithromycin, marketed as Ketek, was the focus of another series of FDA drug safety scandals in the mid- 2000s. When the drug company Sanofi handed in a large safety study for Ketek, the majority of FDA committee members voted for its approval. But in fact, the study was partly pure fiction and one of its researchers, a physician who fabricated patient enrollment in a small town in Alabama, went on to serve a 57-month sentence in the federal prison.

It also turned out that FDA managers had known of problems with the safety research (known technically as Study 3014) and deliberately avoided mentioning its integrity issue when presenting it to the advisory committee.

In the case of Ketek,


UNITED NATIONS — The United States on Tuesday sponsored a United Nations Security Council session intended to draw attention to the dire consequences of the war in Yemen, but the meeting also raised questions about potential crimes committed by a Saudi-led military offensive that the Pentagon actively supports.

The United States refuels military jets and provides intelligence support to the military coalition, led by Saudi Arabia, that is trying to defeat Houthi insurgents in Yemen. Since those airstrikes began in March, more than 2,700 civilians have been killed, dozens of schools and hospitals have been attacked and the United Nations has warned of breaches of international law.

But during the session on Tuesday, the United Nations’ top human rights official said that the Saudi-led coalition bore the greatest responsibility forWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two big genetic studies confirm theories that modern humans evolved in Africa and then migrated through Europe and Asia to reach the Pacific and Americas.

A compass lies on a map of Africa in London August 1, 2002. Two big genetic studies confirm theories that modern humans evolved in Africa and then migrated through Europe and Asia to reach the Pacific and Americas. REUTERS/Kieran Doherty

The two studies also show that Africans have the most diverse DNA, and the fewest potentially harmful genetic mutations.

One of the studies shows European-Americans have more small mutations, while the others show Native Americans, Polynesians and others who populated Australia and Oceania have more big genetic changes.

The studies, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, paint a picture of a population of


at the University of Michigan and the National Institute on Aging analyzed DNA from 485 people around the world.

They looked for three types of genetic variation, including SNPs and larger changes that involve duplications, deletions and repetitions of large segments of DNA.

The patterns they found produced what they call the highest-resolution map yet of human genetic variation.

They also reinforce the idea that humans originated in Africa, then spread into the Middle East, followed by Europe and Asia, the Pacific Islands and finally to the Americas.

“Diversity has been eroded through the migration process,” Rosenberg said in a statement.

People of African descent are the most genetically diverse, followed by people from the Middle East, and then Asians and Europeans. Native Americans resemble one another the most on a DNA level.

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the district program is "Advanced Learning Services and Programs" but these three programs fall under "Highly Capable Services" of AL Services and Programs.

ALO - Advanced Learning Opportunity, the third tier of SPS' Advanced Learning program

AP - Advanced Placement. A national program of college-level classes given in high schools.

APP - Accelerated Progress Program. One of the levels of the Advanced Learning Program. NOTE: the name of this program is now "HIGHLY CAPABLE COHORT." This change occurred in 2014.

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CAICEE - Community Advisory Committee for Investing in Educational Excellence. Created by former Superintendent Manhas in 2008, to issue a report about reform recommendations for SPS.

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EOC - End of Course Assessments, given in math and science, required for high school graduationESEA - Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the federal law that governs


in Iran as saying recruiting Afghans was part of a strategy to send poor foot soldiers to the battle front, Agence France-Presse reported.

The aim was to reduce casualties among Iranian Guards personnel and Lebanon's Hezbollah militia, a close Tehran ally, the official said.

On Thursday, a funeral attended by local officials was held in the Iranian city of Mashhad, near the Afghan border, for four Afghan refugees killed in Syria, according to the newspaper.

However, Hamid Babaei, a spokesman for the U.N. mission to Iran, said the allegations were unfounded.

“Iranian presence in the country is solely advisory in nature in order to help counter the extremist... al-Qaeda groups from committing more massacre and bloodshed,” he told the Wall Street Journal.

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"We have wrapped up over $20 billion in investments during the course of this day's work," Maduro said today from Beijing, indicating that the money would be used for social, developmental and industrial projects including the building of 1500 new schools in Venezuela and the expansion of operations on the Orinoco oil belt.

Venezuelan finance minister Rodolfo Marco Torres highlighted meetings with financial institutions CitiBank and the Developmental Bank of China, saying both expressed “total commitment to the development of the country and support of our productive sectors.”

The minister,


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The generally pro-government community news outlet aporrea.org published an indignant message in response to Osorio’s accusation, claiming the photos were important for “accountability purposes” and defended the people’s right to information.

According to Rodriguez, supermarkets will replenish stock within 10-12 days.

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In an interview with state television channel VTV this morning, National Farmers’ Confederation president Jose Agustin Campos explained that although national food production has tripled in the past 15 years, it has still been unable to keeps up with levels of consumption.

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John Cochran, the chairman of the board and longtime Biden donor, even paid "top dollar" for Biden's house in 1996, reportedly paying $1.2 million despite it not being in great condition.

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Written in 1964 in French, Roland Topor's The Tenant is a mundane and horrific example of the most depressive strains of horror. As the novel opens, Trelkovsky learns of an apartment just vacated by a suicide. Nominally in order to pay his respects, and really to ascertain if she'll die so he can move in, he visits her in the hospital. Semi-conscious at best, the former tenant opens one eye to see a friend and Trelkovsky, and she responds with an "unbreakable scream." (p. 20) At the time, neither Trelkovsky nor the reader can understand her terror. By the end of the book, both will know all too well, for Topor's world is one where all of humanity is at once utterly absurd and grotesquelyfashion. This is a novel filled with both insanity and the most caustic of humors, but the organized nature of the prose proves a stabilizing bulwark against both. Like all the best of the hapless, Trelkovsky is unaware that his life is a source of bleak amusement, and, as for the madness, it's the logical way it's shown that makes this such a harrowing read. Topor describes the impossible, but he does so with such a straight face that, even in the midst of the climax's melodrama, you may take a few lines to catch the absurdity.

Perhaps the biggest difference between Topor and Ligotti, however, is that The Tenant is a fundamentally interpersonal story, one focused almost entirely on each man's relationship to both his friend's and his


neighbors. Moments of eroticism, too, pervade the text. All of those however, proves hollow, sex a goal not for its own ends but for what it averts: And little by little, in the presence of swooning women and writhing flesh, the image of death became less clear, faded into the distance, and eventually vanished completely, like a vampire at the first light of dawn. (p. 27) Friendship, too, is, by the end of the novel, a tool to avoid loneliness rather than a boon on its own. Trelkovsky's interactions with his old pals is forced and unbearably awkward, and his romance with Stella is worse, a mixture of self deception and disgusting detachment sewn together by a talismanic fixation on her breasts and body.

Trelkovsky spends much of thenovel studying those neighbors, spying into the building's toilet with a set of binoculars from his apartment window, and therein comes the second authorial comparison that I want to make. While the theme of The Tenant might be pure Ligotti, the execution is more similar to Cornell Woolrich's It Had to be Murder, which may nowadays be better known by the film adaptations by Alfred Hitchcock (entitled Rear Window, which the story itself now often seems to goes as in anthologies) and the more recent Disturbia. Like Trelkovsky, Woolrich's main character is a people watcher, spying on the inhabitants of the apartment building across the way with a set of binoculars and, eventually, he catches a murder by observing the subtle signs of nervousness he displays. That story's


ashamed of it, and so they tried to conceal it. They had determined, once and for all, that their monstrous disproportions were, in reality, true proportion, and their inconceivable ugliness was beauty. They were strangers on this planet, but they refused to admit it. They played at being perfectly at home. He caught a glimpse of his own reflection in a shop window. He was no different. Identical, exactly the same likeness as that of the monsters. He belonged to their species, but for some unknown reason he had been banished from their company. They had no confidence in him. All they wanted from him was obedience to their incongruous rules and their ridiculous laws. Ridiculous only to him, because he could never fathom their intricacy and theirTrelkovsky, occupying the same apartment as the former tenant, finds the world pushing him into her role, and he can't refuse.

In The Tenant, the only reality is the purely physical. As such, when Trelkovsky's apartment is burglarized by his neighbors, causing him to lose his pictures and mementos of his childhood, he realizes that he "no longer had a past." (p. 64) Later, when he dons a dress in a fit of submissive dementia, he realizes that: It was a picture of a woman he saw in the mirror now. Trelkovsky was astounded. It was no more difficult than this to create a woman? (p. 121) Stripped of what he has, what is Trelkovsky now? What was there that was uniquely his, that made him an individual? What


that spent its time not on showing the irrational nature of the world, or on conveying the author's most extreme and/or darkest visions, but rather on setting up threads that limped to nowhere and keeled over as they got there.

Also featured in this volume is the novella Scramburg, USA, an unrelated tale of small town justice that shares many of the main attraction's faults. We begin with local hotshot Howie Hackett out of town. Howie, incensed, sneaks back in to wreak some havoc with his friends. At this point I should point out that Howie's idea of vengeance has a lot in common with most peoples' ideas of domestic terrorism; he and his friends blow up cars and throw bombs at buildings. A town cop, determined to impressthe newspaper mogul so he can win office as the biggest badass cop in town (and to not be outdone in the category of being complete psychotic), rounds up a fellow Vet, and they proceed to torture and execute Howie and his pals.

The characters are sketches, but much of Scramburg does prove entertaining in a slasher-esque, stuff blowing up kind of way, the allegory's not bad, and it's refreshing, after the main novel, to read something with at least the pretences of a fast pace. But there's one fatal flaw in the heart of Scramburg: the reader can never, even for a moment, fail to see Tessier's hand guiding everything towards the largest blast. Perhaps a part of this is that the novel's divided into neat sections, each


success is that the Language of the Areikei is not a glittering substitute for morality or some other more familiar concept. Language here defines thought and is not only the foundational difference that lends the Areikei their tremendous otherness but also the core of every aspect of Miéville's world building. Furthermore, such themes appears again and again in the novel, reinforced through different moments of epiphany, where consciousness is shifted not through gradual learning but through changes in thought and societal norms. Such layers even enter into the reality and construction of the overall universe. Here, the "real" is a manifestation of the immer, which spaceships slip into in order to travel across vast distances. The way the two relate is, of course, in the manner of thoughtand speech: "The best we can do is say that the immer underlies or overlies, infuses, is a foundation, is langue of which our actuality is a parole, and so on."(p. 31)

In addition to language, the novel focuses on manners of ruling and, especially, on colonialism. The change in Areikei thought, after all, was brought on from afar. The people of Embassytown, too, are ruled from outside, a situation that could perhaps be compared to American colonists wreaking havoc among the native populations while also squabbling with their far off backers. Much of the novel's politics play through off stage, as befits a book with an outsider main character, but the intrigue manages nonetheless to be believable and interesting once revealed. Through all this, Miéville marks the colony's


extravaganzas. Nothing about the world depicted here is static. The most innocuous of details are given consequences and imaginative, dizzyingly strange results, such as the fact that the human city exists in the planet's only area of (manufactured) believable air: Outside, gulls sounded. They veered, headed constantly for the sea they glimpsed kilometers away, were turned back constantly by sculpted winds and aeoli breath. It was very rare that any broke out into the proper local air, and died. (pp. 119-20)

Strangely enough for a novel told entirely in the first person, and one with such a distinctive and admirable voice, our narrator, Avice, is one of the least interesting and important aspects of the book. In fact, characters as a whole takes a back seat here. This isof itself is significant.

Miéville's prose is, as expected, filled with the immense vocabulary that it's somewhat infamous for, but his reputation as a stylist does not rest solely on his obscure diction. The writing here differs sharply from that in Perdido Street Station (2000) or The Scar (2002), glimpses supplied for atmosphere as opposed to a baroque concentration of detail, but is no less effective and often stunning in its flow and power: I could say it was depressing, that party, like a walk through purgatory, we at the end of the world rutting into oblivion and drugging ourselves idiot to autogenerated rhythms and a hammer of lights through smoke. Perhaps to those participating it was joyful. (p. 189) Outside of such fantastic paragraphs, the novel is littered


and his jokester tendencies, coming up with what's perhaps the most amusing line in the whole affair: "I don't want to be a simile anymore," our narrator says. "I want to be a metaphor." (p. 296)

China Miéville's early work won its fame in part because of its combination of gripping, pulp fun and highly literate intelligence. That grouping seemed abandoned with the man's last two novels, The City and the City (which felt like all the latter) and Kraken (seemingly all the former). Embassytown does not return to that earlier blend. Though certainly strange and often mind bending, this is a book far removed from the monsters and chases that characterized much of, say, Perdido Street Station. But, though it's in a different style, Miéville here shows athe most enjoyable thing you did this week?

Friday, September 2, 2011

Then I turned on all the lights in the room, lighted a cigarette (we all like to pose a little now and then), and sat down on the bed to await my capture. (p. 111)

Though Sam Spade, famous for his starring role in the Maltese Falcon, might have a higher profile, it's the Continental Op that narrated the lion's share of Dashiell Hammett's fiction, including Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, and the bulk of the man's short fiction. Containing seven stories written between 1924 and 1930, the The Continental Op collection from Black Lizard is filled with tales that perfectly show one of the genre's best on his home turf.

Mystery – the hodgepodge bookstore section for mysteries, crime,


and thrillers, that is – is at its heart a rational genre. To boil the genre down to a single glib sentence, the genre is the solving of puzzles. At the opening of the story, the detective, and the reader, is confronted with a situation that makes no sense. Then, like the Scooby gang demasking another supernatural ghost to find a middle aged man, the detective makes sense of the clues and replaces impossibility with a logical procession of events. Any in genre story by Poe, Doyle, or any of their authorial descendants, begins with a series of incomprehensible clues and ends with motive, miscreant, and method all neatly tied up and – if the author's good at what they do – no disappointing coincidences or absurdities remaining.

Dashiellwhat they are, but the truth he uncovers is just as illogical as his foes' deception. Hammett's stories are all but made out of defied expectations, and his revelations are filled with people who are not who they claim to be, crimes committed for reasons incomprehensible, random bursts of violence, and coincidences and hapless fate so twisted as to be delicious. As Marcus says:

Yet what happens in Hammett is that what is revealed as "reality" is a still further fiction-making activity – in the first place in the Op's, and behind that yet another, the consciousness present in many of the Op stories and all the novels that Dashiell Hammett, the writer, is continually doing the same thing as the Op and all the other characters in the


the law, but rather of justice. Providing he can see justice done, the Op doesn't care what story he has to feed the law. In The Main Death, the Op goes one step further. In case too convoluted to ever be won at trial, he takes the law into his own hands, regains the victim's property with force, and buries the facts under a happy outcome. In The Farewell Murders, he reveals that his idea of justice doesn't even extend to seeing the good prosper – he just needs to see the wicked suffer. The Op responds to the continued misfortune and even tragedy of his employer without even a sympathetic word, and he weathers years and false ends all so that, at the end, he can seethe guilty hanged.

The Op's justice is a harsh one, and, to him, the guilty deserve no rights at all. When he tells the story of a former cop, Duran, it's clear where his sympathies lie: He used to be captain of detectives in one of the larger Middle Western cities. Once he tried too hard to get a confession out of a safe-ripper, and killed him. The newspapers didn't like Duran. They used that accident to howl him out of his job. (p. 190) I don't believe it's a coincidence that five of the seven stories ends with the following emotionless sentiment: They hanged him. (p. 319)

We've established by now that the thrill of a Hammett story is not the solving of the mystery, but we haven't yet


same page: [he was] about five eight inches tall, would weight about a hundred and seventy pounds, had brown hair and eyes, a dark complexion, a flat, broad face with his cheekbones, and wore a blue suit, gray hat, tan overcoat, black shoes, and a pear-shaped pearl tie-pin. (p. 252)

The newest of these stories is eight decades old, and it's true that their levels of gore and profanity feel tame to a modern audience. Their core, however, feels anything but. Hammett's grasp of atmosphere and pace is excellent here, and his ability to build tension is unmatched. After a classic Hammett moment of false perceptions, The House on Turk Street becomes a deadly game of cat and mouse in an unlit house. Other stories, too, are prone toWhat's On

BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival: Record Review 2018

LIVE from Radio 3's Pop Up Studio on Sage Gateshead's Concourse

Saturday 10th March, 2018. 9am - 12.15pm

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Radio 3’s weekly guide to the best available recorded music comes to Sage Gateshead. Record Review presenter Andrew McGregor is joined by Guardian music critic Erica Jeal and Kirsten Gibson, Senior Lecturer in Music at Newcastle University. In Building a Library (9.30 – 10.15) there’s a nod to the Free Thinking Festival theme of The One and the Many as Erica Jeal surveys Benjamin Britten’s 1938 Piano Concerto through its recorded history and recommends her favourite recording; and Kirsten Gibson reviews new and recent releases of 16th- and 17th-century music.

Andrew McGregor is a former violinist and countertenor who worked


prospects at the time of choice. With this information, Joe concludes that choosing a plan at the outset and sticking to it – without taking further action – is infeasible for a person like him. Resorting to a sophisticated strategy, Joe proceeds to drink a liter of water before entering the cafeteria, believing that, while drinking the water will cause discomfort, it will also reduce his dehydration, the main cause of his cravings for the unhealthy options. With this strategy in place, Joe is able to follow through on his original plan – to ultimately select the healthy option over the unhealthy one. Alternatively, Joe could be a resolute chooser. Joe chooses his acceptable plan at the outset – a plan that is compatible with his value commitmentJoe has two bases of deliberation: Joe's proximate preferences at the time of choice and Joe's preferences at a time when no choice is imminent. If Joe deliberates on the basis of his proximate preferences, then he does less well in realizing his preferences, as they are at any time. Joe would have done better if he had deliberated on the basis of his values17 based preferences. If Joe evaluates the prospects that would be realized from consistent choices based on his proximate preferences and compares the prospects to those that would be realized from consistent choices based on his values-based preferences, Joe would conclude that the former plan is less favorable than the latter plan. If Joe deliberates on the basis of his proximate preferences, he will


Hands On with the Clockwork City DLC

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The Clockwork City launches next week on October 23rd, and right now the massive DLC is on the public test server hosted by Zenimax. It’s also where I sat down with Creative Director Rich Lambert and Greg Roth of ZOS to talk about Sotha Sil’s famous creation and how the ESO team is rebuilding that which one of the Tribunal built himself.

For the folks who are curious about what the big deal is with The Clockwork City, go play The Elder Scrolls III: Tribunal expansion. It deals directly with Vivec, Almalexia, and of course Sotha Sil. It also takes you to the Clockwork City itself. Only, in TESIII, that was hundreds ofM.Sc (Econ.) Jussi Pohjanpalo has been appointed new Treasurer of Fingrid

Mr. Pohjanpalo is responsible for the Group's financing and treasury operations and reports to CFO Jan Montell. He will start his work on March 10, 2014. He has previously worked as a Senior Manager in KPMG Corporate Finance and as a Director in The Royal Bank of Scotland, where he has been involved in several financing arrangements and corporate structuring transactions in the energy sector. He also has international project finance experience from working in the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, before which he worked as a credit analyst in Nordea Bank.


news. Our primary defense against the harmful global effects of an El Niño is to be able to predict it and prepare for it before its effects begin to be noticed.

The sea also plays a critical role in long-term climate change—in determining whether our planet will move into an ice age or into a period of extreme warming. During an ice age, mile-thick ice sheets cover huge portions of land and sea level drops hundreds of feet. During a warm period, ice sheets melt and a rising sea level floods coastal lands around the world. Any defense we might have against climate change begins with accurate prediction. If we can predict exactly how future climate will be altered in different parts of the world, then we can prepare_A Celebration in Geophysics and Oceanography—1982_ , Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA.

.Tsimplis, M.N., 1997. "Tides and Sea-Level Variability at the Strait of Euripus," _Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science_ , vol. 44, pp. 91–101. Tsimplis took Elias the Cretan's quote from Miaoulis, A.A., 1882. _On the Tides of Euripos_ , ed. Koromilas, Athens, 28 pages (in Greek).

.Parker, Bruce B., 2007. _Tidal Analysis and Prediction_ , NOAA Special Publication NOS CO-OPS 3, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Washington, DC, 378 pages.

.Defant, Albert, 1942. "Scylla and Charybdis and the Tidal Currents in the Straits of Messina," _International Hydrographic Review_ , vol. 19 (Aug.), pp. 30–41. Defant mentions that an earthquake in February 1783 caused the rocks of Scylla to sink into the sea, decreasing the vortices and


on the conservation of _wave action_ , which is the wave energy at a particular frequency divided by that frequency.

.Warwick, Ronald W., 1996. "Hurricane Luis, the _Queen Elizabeth 2_ and a Rogue Wave," _Marine Observer_ , vol. 66, p. 134. See also: Warwick, Ronald, 1999. _QE2_ , Norton, 224 pages, pp. 167–168. The rogue wave was calculated to be ninety-five feet high, since it was level with the bridge. A nearby Canadian weather buoy measured a wave ninety-eight feet high.

.A few oceanographers did believe freak waves were real. See: Draper, L., 1964. "Freak Ocean Waves," _Oceanus_ , vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 13–15.

.Churchill, D.D., S.H. Houston, and N.A. Bond, 1995. "The Daytona Beach Wave of 3–4 July 1992: A Shallow-Water Gravity Wave Forced by a Propagating Squall Line,"Article: Osha, Wild Bear Root

"The most widely used herbal medicine in the Southwest."

Osha Plant: Ligusticum poteri

Osha or oshá (Chuchupate) is a mountain plant, and can be found in deep, moist soils rich in organic matter at elevations between 9,000 - 10,000 ft. in Taos County, New Mexico and other Rocky Mountain regions of the Southwest. Osha plants form large clumps, and in areas of New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah, can reach heights of 6 to 7 feet. They produce circular colonies with dozens of root crowns growing from a central root mass.

Osha are seriously threatened in many areas due to over harvesting. Since osha defies cultivation outside of its habitat, commercial osha root is almost entirely harvested from wild stands of the plant.

Our Taos Herb Company Osha is


ethically wild crafted to protect the plant population of this very important and sacred root.

Native Americans of North America often observed that bears would look for osha and consume the plant roots directly after emerging from winter hibernation or when wounded or sick. Osha is commonly used today by the Taos and other Northern New Mexican Pueblo People for a variety of purposes, including placing a root in irrigation acequias (ditches) to inhibit cutworms and other larvae.

Osha is a Native American word for bear and is referred to as "Bear Medicine," since the plants are eaten by bears for what appear to be medicinal purposes.

In the Jicarilla language, osha is called ha'ich'idéé. The White Mountain Apache call it ha'il chii' gah. According to White Mountain Apache elders, itScrewloose be Batman and Robin analogues was really inspired, and portraying them as the Adam West/Burt Ward duo was just perfect. Not only does it fit in nicely with the other in-universe fiction the Turtles consume, but it really gave the audience a fun parallel to the normal crime fighting seen in this show. They even followed the traditional “superhero team up” model, with there being an initial confusion that causes everyone to fight, with a team-up following after everyone calms down. The patrol montage was excellent as well.

Also, Skullface McGillen is my new favorite villain, not only for his magic skull minions and creepy head, but also for his stereotypical 1920s gangster voice. That bit never gets old. The whole fight was tons of fun, and we


Boston Celtics

Boston Celtics diminutive guard Isaiah Thomas has been playing out of his mind on the court as of late. Thanks to his nightly doses of dominant play, Thomas has also been racking in the accolades recently.

Al Horford ended the waiting game with a simple tweet: "Celtic Pride," it said, followed by 18 shamrocks.The number might not have been a coincidence.A franchise with 17 NBA championships may have gotten closer to contending for an 18th on Saturday, when Horford decided to accept a…Leonard Lee was the ultimate craftsman.

He turned a passion for woodworking into Lee Valley Tools, a successful mail-order catalogue business that now includes 17 stores across Canada, catering to those who build furniture, love gardening or are just looking for quirky gifts.

Lee, 77, died last week of vascular dementia. The company he started part-time from his kitchen table always stayed with him. When he headed to the hospital in his final days, he took three items — a tape measure, gloves and a Lee Valley Tools ball cap.

He leaves his wife Lorraine, sons Robin, 53, and James, 51, and their families.

Born in Wadena, Sask., during the Depression, Lee was raised in a log cabin with no running water or electricity, never forgetting his humble roots.

It permeated his decision-making


in Almonte.

The space at 36 Mill St. was like a return to Lee’s small-town Saskatchewan farming roots, when trips to the old hardware store in Archerwill, Sask., played an influential part of his early life.

Robin said his father would regularly drop into the store to check on things and chat with customers, visiting as recently as last December.

Public Policy Forum

When Sheldon Ehrenworth founded the Public Policy Forum back in the 1980s, he quickly asked Leonard Lee, a friend from their days in government, to sign on.

The non-profit is dedicated to finding ways to make government more effective, and Lee quickly agreed to join the board and held the position of treasurer for about a decade.

Although the board was filled with the country’s movers and shakers, including top businessThe lunch was followed by a meeting at the party's state headquarters. (FILE PHOTO)

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday hosted a lunch for all newly elected MPs of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from the state.

The lunch was followed by a meeting at the party's state headquarters.

Addressing the newly elected MPs, Mr Adityanath said that the policies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the "master management" of BJP President Amit Shah and the dedication of party workers was collectively responsible for the BJP's victory in the Lok Sabha elections.

He assured the MPs all possible help in undertaking development work in their constituencies and asked them to work in close coordination with party workers since Assembly elections were due in 2022.

"We must continue working in the right spirit.


In the final period of his life, Julius Caesar was preparing for the implementation of several ambitious plans. To a large extent, these were only beautiful dreams, because having regard to the political realities and possibilities that existed at that time, he could not count on them to be finally realized.

We know them thanks to the accounts of Plutarch (46 – about 120 CE), the great Greek philosopher and writer, from his biography of Julius Caesar.

In his plans, Caesar had a great campaign to Parthia. The expedition was to take three years. Earlier, Caesar intended to attack Dacia (under King Burebista), who threatened Macedonia. After pacifying Dacians, Roman troops were to invade the Parthia through Armenia. After defeating the eastern neighbour and using its wealth to finance furtheroperations, Caesar wanted to march along the Black Sea, then to reach Hyrcania (today’s lands of northern Iran), lying next to the Caspian Sea. He wanted to reach the Caucasus and then invade the Scythia.

Then Caesar wanted to conquer all the peoples on the border between Gaul and Germania, and then join the Germania. In this way, Caesar would conquer practically all the then-known world and hoped that the Roman state would be surrounded on all sides by the Ocean and would not be threatened by any external threat.

Another important project was the plan to dig a channel through the Corinthian Isthmus, which he wanted to commission from the Athenians. Caesar also wanted to deepen the Tiber and change the course of the river so that he would


head towards Circeia and then go out to the sea near Terracina. In this way, he wanted to secure the merchant ships a safe passage to Rome.

Julius Caesar also wanted to drain the swamps near the cities of Pometia and Setianote, and this area should be used for cultivation for thousands of people.

The plans also included the idea of building large breakwaters along the Italian coast, at the height of Rome, to eliminate the danger of sailing when reaching the harbour in Ostia. The harbour was to receive new marinas, large enough to accommodate large ships.

Caesar’s death in 44 BCE, however, crossed out these plans.on the side of vans which left the site carrying the injured.

Authorities say an initial fight - reportedly between rival gangs - was quashed on Tuesday morning but violence re-erupted later when prisoners started fires.

Black smoke was seen rising over the facility and helicopters were sent to dampen the flames.

One inmate died in the initial fire.

Aldo Fasci, a spokesman for the Nuevo Leon government, told reporters prisoners had taken three guards hostage and security forces had entered after attempts to mediate failed.

In 2016, a riot at Topo Chico prison , in the same state, left 49 people dead.

image copyright Reuters image caption A helicopter dropped water to extinguish a fire at the prison


and that is why I’m asking you to imagine all of them gone—because 2.7 million is the number of men and women in America’s military services who have died in our wars since the country took up arms to win its independence on the battlefield.

“At the close of that struggle,” Abraham Lincoln said of the American Revolution, “nearly every adult male had been a participator in some of its scenes. The consequence was that of those scenes, in the form of a husband, a father, a son, or a brother, a living history was to be found in every family—a history bearing the indubitable testimonies of its own authenticity, in the limbs mangled, in the scars of wounds received, in the midst of the very scenes related—a history,too, that could be read and understood alike by all, the wise and the ignorant, the learned and the unlearned.”

The same could be said, in turn, of Lincoln’s war. There were more American military deaths in the Civil War than in all our subsequent wars combined, and once again every American family knew its reality intimately. What’s more, the image of that war was seared indelibly in the national memory by the advent of a new technology: photography. Never since has America fought a major war on its own soil, but wherever our troops have gone, cameras have followed them. War has been unimaginable without them.

Still, throughout the twentieth century, as pictures on film became the dominant medium through which we saw war, Americans maintained the sense of


direct connection to our military that Abraham Lincoln remarked in the early days of the republic. In both World Wars, in Korea and Vietnam, conscription meant that every family in America should have a stake in its wars. That was the principle and to a large degree the practice. The draft insured, much better than all the cameras in the world, that the toll of war could not be made invisible.

That seems like ancient history now. With our retreat from Vietnam, we also retreated from the idea of a popular army. The military became the business of a small, self-selecting subset of the nation, whose charge it is to fight so that the rest of us should never know war. And perhaps this arrangement has succeeded too well.books. There are rooms that belonged to people blown up by IEDs, and rooms that belonged to people who were blown up by suicide bombers. The only room that is in real disarray—bedclothes scrambled, belongings spilling from bags—belonged to Private Danny Chen, who took his own life in Afghanistan. Seen all together, Gilbertson’s photographs defy any effort to seek in a room’s furnishings an echo of its former occupant’s fate. Their power lies in reminding us of the disconnect between life and death. One of the most elaborately and carefully kept rooms, nearly every inch of which is lovingly decorated, also belonged to a soldier defeated by the enemy within: Specialist Ryan Yurchison, who returned traumatized from Iraq, and took an overdose.

You can spend a great deal of


we send to fight our wars for us, our children. Ashley Gilbertson is right: we should never lose sight of them.

Above: Marine PFC Josue Ibarra, 21, was killed by a roadside bomb on June 19, 2011, in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was from Midland, Texas. His bedroom was photographed in December, 2012. Photograph by Ashley Gilbertson/VII.

Philip Gourevitch has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker since 1995 and a staff writer since 1997.A schoolboy hanged himself after he was falsely branded a rapist by fellow pupils after pulling out of a playground drug dealing racket, an inquest heard.

Tom Acton, 16, claimed that he was bullied into taking Ecstasy, amphetamines and cocaine in between lessons – yet when his mother, Gaynor, went to see staff at the 1,700 pupil Poynton High School and Performing Arts College in Cheshire, it was alleged that they refused to do anything about it.

When she withdrew the boy from school, false rumours began circulating which alleged the innocent teenager had tied a girl to a tree then sexually assaulted her.

Tragic: Tom Acton three month before he killed himself after being bullied by fellow pupils at Poynton High School, Cheshire

It resulted in mobs of up to 30


angry youths targeting him in the street and turning up at the family’s front door saying they wanted to kill him and ‘get rid of the vermin’.

Tom began to self-harm with a blade and even carved the word ‘rapist’ into his leg. A friend had to stop him jumping from a railway bridge and he considered stepping into the path of heavy traffic.

On October 31, days before he was due to testify at the trial of one of the bullies, Tom was found hanged in his bedroom by his father.

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The family home of Tom Acton in Poynton, Cheshire. After being called a rapist on Facebook, Tom hanged himself here in October 2013

Taken to Stepping Hill Hospital, he died on November 2. Tom’s organs were usedto save the lives of eight people.The tragedy occurred just months after Tom gained nine GCSEs.

At an inquest in Warrington, Gaynor Acton questioned why the school refused to accept that they had a problem with drugs – even though the suspected drug dealer's own mother gave staff a similar story.

Mrs Acton, 45, a former company director
of a hydraulics firm said that her son had been bullied into taking
drugs within the school and had started taking them in 2009.

Tom Acton and his mother Gaynor. She believes that his school, Poynton High School and Performing Arts College in Cheshire, did not do enough to tackle drug taking among pupils

She added: ‘Tom was getting beat up a lot, being chased a lot, physically and mentally abused on a daily basis.

‘There were