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[Met Performance] CID:92960
L'Oracolo {49}
Petrouchka {13}
Cavalleria Rusticana {239} Metropolitan Opera House: 03/26/1926.
Leoni-Zanoni
Ah-Joe..................Queena Mario
Uin-San-Lui.............Armand Tokatyan
Cim-Fen.................Antonio Scotti
Uin-Scî.................Adamo Didur
Hu-Tsin.................Louis D'Angelo
Hu-Cî...................Miss Wilson
Hua-Qui.................Henriette Wakefield
Fortuneteller...........Giordano Paltrinieri
Conductor...............Gennaro Papi
Director................Armando Agnini
Set designer............James Fox
L'Oracolo received one performance this season.
Petrouchka...............Adolph Bolm
Ballerina...............Florence Rudolph
Moor....................Giuseppe Bonfiglio
Charlatan...............Ottokar Bartik
Merchant................Ludwig Burgstaller
Street Dancers: Mollie Friedenthal, Rita De Leporte, Lilyan Ogden
Gypsies: Jessie Rogge, Florence Glover
Conductor...............Tullio Serafin
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA {239}
Santuzza................Florence Easton
Turiddu.................Beniamino Gigli
Lola....................Merle Alcock
Alfio...................Mario Basiola
Mamma Lucia.............Grace Anthony
Review of Oscar Thompson in Musical America
'Oracolo' Sole Addition of Week to Metropolitan Répertoire
Poignant Chinese Tragedy Given First Hearing of Season with Scotti Again in Villain's Rôle
In spite of the fact that the end of the opera season is only a few weeks off, works continue to be added to the repertoire. The latest was Leoni's miniature tragedy, "L'Oracolo" which was heard in triple bill with "Petrushka" and "Cavalleria" on Friday night. Other performances of the week were repetitions, but the magnificent "Tristan und Isolde" which brought the Matinee Wagner Cycle to a close was one of the finest ever heard. Marion Talley sang her first Sunday Night Concert and attracted a throng.
Tragedies in Threes
"For ways that are dark and tricks that are vain; the heathen Chinee" of Antonio Scotti in "L'Oracolo" is more than "peculiar." Chim-Fang becomes a sinitic embodiment of evil as portrayed by this master of stage delineation; a distinctly less genial trickster than the card player of Bret Harte's still quotable lyric. Opium selling, kidnapping, murder - wherein he qualifies as a hatchet pest - are his particular vanities. But he also sings well and he rolls an orange with a technic no other Chim Fang (if indeed there is ever to be another) is likely to equal. Today, Chim Fang is Scotti's most unapproachable achievement, much as one may admire also his Scarpia and his Falstaff. There is no more vivid or adroitly polished characterization in all opera. Though the Leoni work is, musically, a secondary one, this rôle is lifted by virtue of his art to a place among the foremost achievements of the lyric stage.
Friday night's "L'Oracolo," the first of the season, was but the repetition of a thrice familiar story, but the thrill of Chim-Fang's death scene, as re-enacted by Scotti and Adamo Didur, was as inescapable as at the little opera's première, some eleven seasons ago. The part of the nemesic doctor has been one of Didur's best and he, like Scotti, was very much in the vein at this performance. This, in spite of a detail or two that seemed a little off schedule as to time, as in the case of Scotti's changed and delayed entrance and exit after the discovery of San Luy's body. There was little time, on this occasion, for that gasping, shuffling flight that Chim-Fang has made as he feels accusing eyes upon him.
The remainder of the cast maintained a satisfactory level of competence. Armand Tokatyan replaced Ralph Errolle at the eleventh hour as Win-San-Luy and sang tunefully. Queena Mario was an attractive Ah-Yoe, coping as best she could with music that lies rather low for her voice. Louis D'Angelo as HooTsin and Henriette Wakefield as Hua-Quee completed the singing cast, but there was also tiny Helen Wilson as the cherubic child whose kidnapping became the prelude to Win-San-Luy's murder. This youngest of the Metropolitan American stars is eight years old, but looks about three. She was the object of much attention, without, however, exhibiting signs of a prima donna's recognition of her own importance.
The music of "L'Oracolo" again held the ear by reason of its fluent tunefulness. Puccini might have written its melodies, and if he had, they would have been regarded as among his happiest inspirations. Dramatically, however, the score continually misses fire - or would, if the music were at all necessary to intensify the action. The musical treatment of the scene of the discovery of Win-San-Luy's body is particularly inept, without, however, materially weakening the dramatic effect. It merely places a well-nigh hopeless burden on the soprano.
Linked with "L'Oracolo" in a triple bill of verisimo and burlesque tragedy were Stravinsky's riotous moujik ballet, "Petrushka," and Mascagni's never long deferred "Cavalleria Rusticana." In the former, the chief dancers and mimes were Adolph Bolm, Giuseppe Bonfiglio, Florence Rudolph and Ottokar Bartik, as at earlier representations. The handling of the crowds has been improved since last season. They have more zest, color, animation. One could only wish for a similar improvement in the playing of the orchestra, which lacked the sting of familiar concert performances of this music, in spite of Tullio Serafin's zeal as conductor.
"Cavalleria" was notable chiefly for the Turiddu of Beniamino Gigli, which was tonally resplendent, though inclined at times to fooling, at other times to the lachrymose. Florence Easton was an intense Santuzza and one prodigal of voice. Merle Alcock sang Lola attractively, both as to voice and appearance, and Mario Basiola cracked Alfio's whip in a highly professional manner. Grace Anthony completed the cast as Mamma Lucia. Gennaro Papi conducted both the Leoni and the Mascagni operas.
L'Oracolo: Conductor [Papi, Gennaro]
L'Oracolo: Ah-Joe [Mario, Queena]
L'Oracolo: Uin-San-Lui [Tokatyan, Armand]
L'Oracolo: Cim-Fen [Scotti, Antonio]
L'Oracolo: Uin-Scî [Didur, Adamo]
L'Oracolo: Hu-Tsin [D'Angelo, Louis]
L'Oracolo: Hu-Cî [Wilson, Miss]
L'Oracolo: Hua-Qui [Wakefield, Henriette]
L'Oracolo: Fortuneteller [Paltrinieri, Giordano]
L'Oracolo: Director [Agnini, Armando]
L'Oracolo: Set Designer [Fox, James]
Petrouchka: Conductor [Serafin, Tullio]
Petrouchka: Petrouchka [Bolm, Adolph]
Petrouchka: Ballerina [Rudolph, Florence]
Petrouchka: Moor [Bonfiglio, Giuseppe]
Petrouchka: Charlatan [Bartik, Ottokar]
Petrouchka: Merchant [Burgstaller, Ludwig]
Petrouchka: Street Dancer [Friedenthal, Mollie]
Petrouchka: Street Dancer [De Leporte, Rita]
Petrouchka: Gypsy [Ogden, Lilyan]
Petrouchka: Gypsy [Rogge, Jessie]
Petrouchka: Gypsy [Glover, Florence]
Cavalleria Rusticana: Conductor [Papi, Gennaro]
Cavalleria Rusticana: Santuzza [Easton, Florence]
Cavalleria Rusticana: Turiddu [Gigli, Beniamino]
Cavalleria Rusticana: Lola [Alcock, Merle]
Cavalleria Rusticana: Alfio [Basiola, Mario]
Cavalleria Rusticana: Mamma Lucia [Anthony, Grace]
1925-26: L'Oracolo: 1 performance: Statistics
Agnini, Armando [Director]
Alcock, Merle [Mezzo Soprano]
Anthony, Grace [Soprano]
Bartik, Ottokar [Dancer]
Basiola, Mario [Baritone]
Bolm, Adolph [Dancer]
Bonfiglio, Giuseppe [Dancer]
Burgstaller, Ludwig [Tenor]
D'Angelo, Louis [Baritone]
De Leporte, Rita [Dancer]
Didur, Adamo [Bass]
Easton, Florence [Soprano]
Fox, James [Set Designer]
Friedenthal, Mollie [Dancer]
Gigli, Beniamino [Tenor]
Glover, Florence [Dancer]
Mario, Queena [Soprano]
Ogden, Lilyan [Dancer]
Paltrinieri, Giordano [Tenor]
Papi, Gennaro [Conductor]
Rogge, Jessie [Dancer]
Rudolph, Florence [Dancer]
Scotti, Antonio [Baritone]
Serafin, Tullio [Conductor]
Tokatyan, Armand [Tenor]
Wakefield, Henriette [Mezzo Soprano]
Wilson, Miss [Actor]
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Home » Commentary » Arsenal Pulse » Systematic ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan?
Systematic ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan?
By Bill Humphrey June 13, 2010 - 7:22 pm March 5, 2014 Arsenal Pulse
The situation in southern Kyrgyzstan is growing rapidly worse, as what seems to be systematic ethnic purges against Uzbeks began today (NY Times):
Rioting spread across the south of this strategically important Central Asian nation on Sunday as the authorities failed to contain mobs that appeared to be increasingly engaging in targeted ethnic violence.
The official death toll from four days of clashes neared 100 people, though the unrest seemed so widespread that the figure is likely to go far higher. Reports from the region said bands of ethnic Kyrgyz were seeking out Uzbeks, setting fire to their homes and killing them.
Thousands of Uzbeks have fled to the nearby border with Uzbekistan, and the authorities were said to have lost control of Osh, Kyrgyzstan’s second largest city.
“The situation in the Osh region has spun out of control,” Kyrgyzstan’s acting president, Roza Otunbayeva, said Saturday. “Attempts to establish a dialogue have failed, and fighting and rampages are continuing. We need outside forces to quell confrontation.”
“It was raining ash the whole afternoon, big pieces of black and white ash,” said Andrea Berg, a Human Rights Watch employee holed up her apartment in the city. “The city is just burning. It’s totally out of control.”
The rioters at one point commandeered two armored personnel carriers from troops stationed in the city, said Timur Sharshenaliyev, a spokesman for the government there. Soldiers were able to take only one back.
The provisional government passed a decree giving the police and soldiers permission to open fire on rioters to prevent attacks on civilians and government buildings, according to a statement on the government’s Web site.
Russia is moving slowly on a request for peacekeeping troops and plans to take up the matter before the Collective Security Treaty Organization this week. For more on that and for more background, you can read my post from last night: “Kyrgyzstan requests Russian peacekeepers.”
The New York Times has pointed out that in 1990, acts of reciprocal genocide in the same region were only halted by Soviet troops rolling in, but that was when Kyrgyzstan was still part of the USSR, which made such an intervention much easier. Even then, hundreds died before the troops arrived.
This post originally appeared at Starboard Broadside.
Tagged 2010 Kyrgyzstan Crisis, Central Asia, ethnic conflict, Kyrgyzstan, peacekeeping, Russia, Soviet Union.
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Últimas notícias da NASA - NASA Mission Reveals Asteroid Has Big Surprises
NASA Mission Reveals Asteroid Has Big Surprises
A NASA spacecraft that will return a sample of a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu to Earth in 2023 made the first-ever close-up observations of particle plumes erupting from an asteroid’s surface.
Fonte: https://ift.tt/2Y8TL08 - March 19, 2019
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Can You Catch Coronavirus From Your Clothes?
FRIDAY, April 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- While most Americans are hunkered down in their homes as coronavirus sweeps across the country, essential workers still have to go to their jobs, and trips to the grocery store and pharmacy remain necessary. But can the clothing people wear out spread COVID-19?
If so, what is the best way to handle clothes on your return?
That may depend on exactly what you do when you leave the house. For example, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) urges nurses and doctors to think of hospitals as "hot zones," and advises them to remove all of their clothing before re-entering their home. An immediate shower or bath is also advised, with work clothing kept away from other clothing until thoroughly washed in hot soapy water.
But for the average person, the role of clothing in infection risk is much less clear.
"I have seen nothing published that suggests that people need to strip off clothes, launder and shower right after a trip to the store," noted Elizabeth Scott, associate dean at Simmons University's College of Natural, Behavioral, and Health Sciences in Boston. Scott is also the founder of Simmons' Center for Hygiene and Health in Home and Community.
At this point, "the focus should remain on hand hygiene practices, wearing a mask, and not touching the face" for most people, Scott said.
However, Scott said that as a precaution for store employees, sanitation workers or anyone in routine contact with the public, "It would make sense to remove outer clothing when they get home, and either launder them or leave them hanging until the next shift." And she advised washing hands right after doing so.
Scott also echoed U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advice that "laundering should be done using the highest water setting possible, followed by thorough drying."
"I would always use the hottest water cycle possible for the type of fabrics being washed," she stressed. "And it is also possible to do a sanitizing wash, using household bleach following label instructions."
The CDC also advises against shaking out dirty laundry, to prevent unintentionally circulating any virus in the air.
For those who don't have a washer and dryer at home, are laundromats safe?
Scott suggested they are, so long as social distancing is followed. To that end, she advised minimizing laundromat time by sorting out dirty laundry in advance and folding clean laundry back at home.
"I would also suggest that you bring your own soap and hand towel," said Scott, to wipe down the outside of any public washer or dryer you might use. "I would add if you need to use a communal cart or laundry basket, wipe down all of the hand contact surfaces with sanitizing wipes or hand sanitizer."
Finally, Scott took pains to emphasize the importance of maintaining hand hygiene throughout your laundry trip.
"You should wash and dry your hands before you leave home if possible and sanitize your hands once outside the laundry room/laundromat," Scott said. "And, once you get home, wash and dry your hands again."
There's more about keeping your home safe at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
SOURCE: Elizabeth Scott, Ph.D., associate dean and professor, College of Natural, Behavioral, and Health Sciences, and co-director and founder, Center for Hygiene and Health in Home and Community, Simmons University, Boston
4 Out of 5 People With COVID-19 Will Develop Symptoms: Study
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Armie Hammer & Timothée Chalamet find love in Call Me By Your Name (2017)
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Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on October 17, 2017, 10:19:09 pm
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ZWISCHEN IMMER UND NIE
BETWEEN ALWAYS AND NEVER
L A T E R
CALLMEBYYOURNAMEFANART by blue night
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The bookseller had ordered two copies of Standhal's Armance, one a paperback edition and one an expensive hardbound. An impulse made me say I'd take both and put them on my father's bill. I then asked his assistant for a pen, opened up the hardbound edition, and wrote, Zwischen Immer und Nie, for you in silence, somewhere in Italy in the mid-eighties.
In years to come, if the book was still in his possession, I wanted him to ache. Better yet, I wanted someone to look through his books one day, open up this little volume of Armance, and ask, Tell me who was in silence, somewhere in Italy in the mid-eighties? And then I'd want him to feel something as darting as sorrow and fiercer than regret, maybe even pity for me, because in the bookstore that morning I'd have taken pity too, if pity was all he had to give, if pity could have made him put an arm around me, and underneath this surge of pity and regret, hovering like a vague, erotic undercurrent that was years in the making, I wanted him to remember the morning on Monet's berm when I'd kissed him not the first but the second time and given him my spit in his mouth because I so desperately wanted him in mine.
He said something about the gift being the best thing he'd received all year. I shrugged my shoulders to make light of perfunctory gratitude. Perhaps I just wanted him to repeat it.
"I'm glad, then. I just want to thank you for this morning." And before he even thought of interrupting, I added, "I know. No speeches. Ever."
Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
Recited/Narrated by Armie Hammer
« Last Edit: February 20, 2018, 07:59:43 am by Aloysius J. Gleek »
"Tu doives entendre je t'aime."
(and you know who I am...)
Cowboy Curtis (Laurence Fishburne)
and Pee-wee in the 1990 episode
"Camping Out"
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2007-01-28/entertainment/0701270231_1_elio-andre-aciman-oliver
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2007-01-28/entertainment/0701270231_1_elio-andre-aciman-oliver/2
A tale of longing
conflicted feelings
Homosexual affair is book's emotional focus
By Art Winslow
By André Aciman
Farrar Straus Giroux. 248 pp. $23
In "Death in Venice," describing his main character's obsession with a lissome boy he has observed, Thomas Mann wrote that "in his infatuation, he wanted simply to pursue uninterrupted the object that aroused him, to dream of it when it was not there, and, after the fashion of lovers, to speak softly to its mere outline."
That is very much the affective atmosphere of André Aciman's "Call Me by Your Name," something of the Mann story in reverse, in which the narrator relates in later life his desire as an adolescent to secure--what?--his own desire, his aesthetic and romantic longing, in the person of a slightly older man, a house guest at his family's compound in Italy.
In the most basic sense, "Call Me by Your Name" is a coming-into-homosexual-awareness novel that shares commonalities with works by Edmund White, David Leavitt, Tom Spanbauer and many others. Yet that is a compromising view if considered exclusively, for even though Elio, the narrator, tells us early on that "I had wanted other men my age before and had slept with women," much else in the book argues toward ambivalence and the impetuousness of youth as complicating motivational factors.
Then, too, in its Mann-like focus on artistic sensibilities and its obvious playing with Romantic versus romantic inclinations, "Call Me by Your Name" is a meditation on the tenuous and sometimes evanescent underpinnings of desire, almost irrespective of its object. Elio is 17 during much of the recalled action and has mixed responses to the fleeting sexual contacts in his overall engagement with Oliver, the 24-year-old academic who takes up residence with Elio's family to work on an Italian translation of a book he has written. (Elio's father is a well-known professor who sponsors one such guest every summer, to help with their academic advancement.)
Additionally, Elio is recalling a summer fling from a vantage point 20 years on, and while those weeks form the emotional center of the book, he and Oliver went on to lead very separate lives. Elio, and apparently Oliver, had physical relations with young women, too, that summer, and the young men's approach-avoidance behavior toward each other called into question the meaning and context of their feelings, leaving an uneasy residue the succeeding years did little to abate. Elio wished to clear the air at the time but was told by Oliver," `we can't talk about such things. We really can't.' "
It has reached the point where Elio must talk about such things, though, and Aciman, cleverly, has made this account a separate telling from the diary Elio kept at the time, which is referenced occasionally and allows the author to compare two Elios, the present mind and past mind. Readers may remember the book that first brought Aciman attention as a writer, the memoir "Out of Egypt," a chronicle of his Jewish family's arrival in and eventual exit from Alexandria. Aciman is across the Mediterranean here, in his first novel, but a Diasporic sense remains, as Elio relates that his family "were not conspicuous Jews" but rather " `Jews of discretion,' to use my mother's words." When Elio spots Oliver wearing a Star of David on a gold chain, he reflects that outside the family, Oliver "was probably the only other Jew who had ever set foot in B."
Reference to towns like "B." and "N." are as specific as Elio's shorthand gets geographically, but we are near the site of Percy Bysshe Shelley's drowning (the early death of a Romantic), which means the bay of Spezia, in Liguria, northwestern Italy. "Cor cordium" ("heart of hearts") is inscribed on Shelley's gravestone, and the concept itself serves as a leitmotif in Aciman's novel, which is literary in its narrative style and its allusions to other writers. Not only is Dante quoted, but in a haphazard, circuitous night in Rome worthy of "La Dolce Vita," Elio runs into a Dante street performer (who is brawling with a Nefertiti impersonator).
Elio also reads Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi (another Romantic) and German-Jewish poet Paul Celan (another drowning), and comes to think of his connection to Oliver in Celanian phrasing: "Zwischen Immer und Nie. Between always and never." His late-adolescent voice is confessional and engaging, realistically self-contradictory, too, as his feelings frequently jackknife to become their own opposite hours later. Even his consort takes a jab at what Elio refers to as his "operatic sentimentalism."
The book of Oliver's that is being translated into Italian is on Heraclitus, the 6th Century B.C. philosopher who, loosely, saw the world as opposites replacing each other in transformational changes--a point of view that ties directly to themes in "Call Me by Your Name," and even the novel's title. There is cross-dressing here, but it is Elio and Oliver (whose names are virtually anagrams of each other) wearing each other's clothing, and in passion Oliver suggests to Elio, " `Call me by your name and I'll call you by mine.' "
Indeed, Elio meditates on individuals who need to "become so totally ductile that each becomes the other" and concludes that Oliver "was my secret conduit to myself." And he wonders, "Whom else would I ever be able to call by my name" without it being "a derived thrill, an affectation." Talking to his father, an accepting sort whose eyes know what they see when it comes to Oliver and his son, Elio thinks of a quotation from Emily Brontë: " `he's more myself than I am.' "
Probably all loves appear to be unique from the inside. It is a challenge for any writer to convey ardor without risking silliness, but Aciman balances Elio well on his psychic precipice. In his negative moments, Elio "felt queasy, as if I had been sick and needed not just many showers to wash everything off but a bath in mouthwash. . . . It was not him I hated--but the thing we'd done." Desire and shame were "the legacy of youth, the two mascots of my life," he reports.
Descriptions of sexual acts in "Call Me by Your Name" tend to be direct and not elliptical (one scene involving a piece of food might remind some of Philip Roth's "Portnoy's Complaint") but are far from prurient, and while they loom large to Elio in a psychological sense, they do not occupy much of the novel. Elio is a good tour guide, too, with an ability to convey the pleasant torpor of his Italian days, his bike rides into town, his swims, the surround of local characters:
"I loved the afternoons best: the scent of rosemary, the heat, the birds, the cicadas, the sway of palm fronds, the silence that fell like a light linen shawl on an appallingly sunny day. . . . This was my balcony, my world."
Sunny, and yet the coloration of elegy will not fade in whatever illumination Elio can bring to bear on his past. Of visiting a spot in Rome where he and Oliver had been, he relates that it "still resounds with something totally present, as though a heart stolen from a tale by Poe still throbbed under the ancient slate pavement to remind me that, here, I had finally encountered the life that was right for me but had failed to have."
Elio's father may be the wisest character in Aciman's book. He tells his son:
" I don't envy the pain. But I envy you the pain.' "
Art Winslow, a former executive editor and literary editor of The Nation, writes frequently about books and culture.
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Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on September 24, 2017, 10:30:54 pm
Like so many classic love stories, this one unfolds with the suspense of a thriller. Will Elio's passion ever be reciprocated by the one he worships? If it is, will they leap over fear and taboo to consummate their desire? And if they do, will they be exhilarated or repelled by that consummation? They have only six weeks to find out.
Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on August 19, 2017, 02:02:06 pm
In a first novel that abounds in moments of emotional and physical abandon, this may be the most wanton of his moves: [André Aciman's] narrative, brazenly, refuses to stay closed. It is as much a story of paradise found as it is of paradise lost. (....) Nobody gets clocked with a tire iron. No one betrays the other.
Even the fate of mundanely inanimate things like a ripe peach or a pair of worn bathing trunks become sweetly perverse yet spellbinding in Aciman’s approach of storytelling. Trust me when I say that after reading this book, you will never look at peaches or swimming trunks in the same way ever again.
Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on August 20, 2017, 09:06:16 am
Ulliva, Ulliva, Ulliva ---it was Oliver calling me by his name
when he'd imitate it's transmogrified sound as spoken by Malfalda
and Anchise; but it'd also be me calling him by his name as well,
hoping he'd call me back to mine, which I'd speak for him to me,
and back to him: Elio, Elio, Elio.
« Last Edit: October 19, 2017, 04:21:00 pm by Aloysius J. Gleek »
http://www.indiewire.com/2017/03/oscar-predictions-2018-academy-awards-1201789008/
With Sundance and Cannes behind us and a ton of high profile movies ahead, Anne Thompson takes a look at this year's Oscar contenders. Updated 10/18/2017.
http://www.indiewire.com/2017/07/2018-oscar-predictions-best-adapted-screenplay-1201853697/
2018 Oscar Predictions: Best Adapted Screenplay
Frontrunners:
Scott Frank and James Mangold (“Logan”)
James Ivory (“Call Me By Your Name”)
Angelina Jolie and Loung Ung (“First They Killed My Father”)
Aaron Sorkin (“Molly’s Game”)
Virgil Williams and Dee Rees (“Mudbound”)
http://www.indiewire.com/2017/03/oscars-2018-best-actor-predictions-1201789016/
2018 Oscar Predictions: Best Actor
Timothée Chalamet (“Call Me By Your Name”)
James Franco (“The Disaster Artist”)
Andrew Garfield (“Breathe”)
Jake Gyllenhaal (“Stronger”)
Gary Oldman (“Darkest Hour”)
http://www.indiewire.com/2017/03/oscars-2018-best-supporting-actor-predictions-1201789020/
2018 Oscar Predictions: Best Supporting Actor
Willem Dafoe (“The Florida Project”)
Ben Mendelsohn (“Darkest Hour”)
Jason Mitchell (“Mudbound”)
Sam Rockwell (“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”)
Michael Stuhlbarg (“Call Me By Your Name”)
Steve Carell (“Last Flag Flying”)
Armie Hammer (“Call Me By Your Name”)
Woody Harrelson (“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”)
Richard Jenkins (“The Shape of Water”)
Tracy Letts (“Lady Bird”)
Ray Romano (“The Big Sick”)
Mark Rylance (“Dunkirk”)
http://www.indiewire.com/2017/03/oscars-2018-best-director-predictions-1201789013/
2018 Oscar Predictions: Best Director
Guillermo del Toro (“The Shape of Water”)
Greta Gerwig (“Lady Bird”)
Christopher Nolan (“Dunkirk”)
Denis Villeneuve (“Blade Runner 2049”)
Joe Wright (“Darkest Hour”)
Paul Thomas Anderson (“Phantom Thread”)
Luca Guadagnino (“Call Me By Your Name”)
Patty Jenkins (“Wonder Woman”)
Martin McDonagh (“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”)
Dee Rees (“Mudbound”)
Steven Spielberg (“The Post”)
http://www.indiewire.com/2017/03/oscars-2018-best-picture-predictions-1201788999/
2018 Oscar Predictions: Best Picture
AND FYI:
https://twitter.com/cmbynmovie?lang=en
http://www.pictaram.org/post/BZbiWl0lDs2
http://www.pictaram.org/elioandoliver
elioandoliver
🍑 call me by your name 🍑
( @elioandoliver )
Wow. Sad and lovely.
(Of course we all loved Bill Paxton too.)
Peter Spears
@pjspears
11:01 AM - 19 Oct 2017
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https://twitter.com/pjspears/status/921073857468993536
Many of you have asked about Bill Paxton’s connection to Call Me By Your Name. Please see my response below. Thank you.
https://fuckyeahtimotheechalamet.tumblr.com/post/157793415456/matholcroft-from-left-brian-swardstorm-bill
http://matholcroft.tumblr.com/post/157758502924/from-left-brian-swardstorm-bill-paxton-peter
from left: Brian Swardstorm, Bill Paxton, Peter Spears, Armie Hammer,
Luca Guadagnino and Timothee Chalamet
RIP Bill 😔
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CALLMEBYYOURNAMEFANART
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Monet's Berm
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#call me by your name #elio #oliver #laterpeaches!
#digital art commission by #dozerdraws
#I'm basically sobbing at my desk
#later!!!
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them beautiful peach boys for my dear friend
@drawsaurus 🍑
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#call me by your name #elio #oliver #all that peach juice ;0;
#laterpeaches!
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all that peach juice
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#call me by your name #all that peach juice ;0;
#sketch commission for #dozerdraws
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🎠 Mick | 21 | Dutch
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(MAKING TALENTED PEOPLE DRAW U BEAUTIFUL THINGS IS JUST SO ADDICTIVE)
Fan Art / Digital Art / Drawings /
#CMBYN #CallMeByYourName #sketch commission for #@drawsaurus
#my boys #my good sweet boys
#Elio #Oliver #laterpeaches
#oliver ulliva #elio perlman #armie hammer #timothée chalamet
#seriously #i love this #just so much
#oliver's HAIR #his EYELASHES
#the soft nostalgic summer glow of it all #i love it
Making of #CallMeByYourName: "Summer Loving" in #TotalFilm magazine (Nov 2017) TOTAL FILM UK
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(ok, re the last gif, sue me. The billowy shirt of Oliver's that Elio lusts for and finally receives as a
gift-fetish is the blue oxford, not striped, but artist Mellowbeat's artwork is clever and Elio is so lustful!)
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"So long, Sirmione!" 📸
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Sirmione, Lake Garda
So long, Sirmione! 📸
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Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on October 05, 2017, 06:37:53 am
Peter Spears @pjspears 7:39 AM - 28 Sep 2017
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TBT. BTS Making movies. Italy 2016/1983 Call Me By Your Name
So, after seeing the movie at NYFF last night, I realized that, like Elio, I found that I had been faking being 'adult' for what seemed like years, and that, suddenly, I found myself unable to make my own way home, and, after feeding a gettone into the antiquated telephone, I needed to call Mom and ask her, tearfully, to pick me up from the station near Bergamo.
I also need to see the four hour version of the movie right away, please. Without people who feel it 'necessary' to loudly applaud during the last shot with Timothée staring into the fire just because Luca quietly put the movie title in the lower left of the frame, so no one could hear Sufjan's singing, or figure out his lyrics. Thanks.
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my thoughts only
by @erkinaken
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"I imagined Elio crying out to Oliver,
begging him to stay with him for the rest of his life.
All those could-have-beens always break me
because they are not to be."
Yeah, this is one of Oliver's blue oxford shirts (whether long or short-sleeved) that Elio had so longed for/lusted after, and, after having received it as a gift, Elio wore it when he was in the last tearful embrace with Oliver at the train station.
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Obtained judgment after trial for full amounts owed including delinquent contributions, liquidated damages, interest, attorney’s fees and audit fees. Trustees of Plumbers and Pipefitters Union Local 525 Health and Welfare Trust and Plan v. Sotelo, 2018 WL 3240959 (D. Nev. July 3, 2018).
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Obtained over $1 million judgment against alter ego entity of employer who failed to pay required employee benefit contributions. Board of Trustees of Teamsters Local 631 Security Fund for Southern Nevada v. Lightning Exhibits, LLC, No. 2:16-cv-03032, 2018 WL 4566668 (D. Nev. September 24, 2018).
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Obtained a $1.9M judgment against employer, alter ego company and owner/fiduciaries who failed to pay their employees’ fringe benefits. Board of Trustees of the Plumbers and Pipefitters Union Local 525 Health and Welfare Trust and Plan v. Security Plumbing & Air Conditioning, 2017 WL 923913 (D. Nev. March 8, 2017).
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King, Michael W. | Hahn, Justin M. |
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Counsel to cosmetics and skin care brand Tarte, Inc., a portfolio company of Encore Consumer Capital, in its sale to Japan's KOSÉ Corporation, a Tokyo-based global cosmetics business.
Spaulding, David M. |
Employee benefits counsel to Tropicana Entertainment and its majority shareholder, Icahn Enterprises, in the acquisition of the Lumiere Place Casino, HoteLumiere, and Four Seasons Hotel St. Louis, from certain subsidiaries of Pinnacle Entertainment.
Obtained judgments against participants who were ineligible for health plan benefits but erroneously received them. Trustees of the Teamsters Local 631 Security Fund for Southern Nevada v. Beavers, No. 2:13-cv-00824, 2014 WL 1302035 (D. Nev. March 28, 2014)
Employee benefits counsel to Victory Park Capital Advisors in the sale of its portfolio company, Global Employment Holdings to TZP Group.
Employee benefits counsel to American Medical Response, a subsidiary of Envision Healthcare Holdings, in its acquisition of MedStat EMS, a Mississippi-based ambulance company.
Assisted in obtaining judgment against pension plan’s investment manager and investment consultant for overcharging commissions and engaging in prohibited transactions. Trustees of Nevada Resort Ass’n – Int’l Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees & Moving Picture Mach. Operators of U.S. & Canada Local 720 Pension Trust v. Grasswood Partners, Inc., No. 2:11-CV-00044-MMD, 2013 WL 1249617 (D. Nev. Mar. 27, 2013).
Employee benefits counsel to DigitalGlobe in its acquisition of Spatial Energy, a leading source for digital imagery and related services to the energy industry.
A bond held by ERISA employer was found liable for ERISA employer’s debt to multiemployer benefit trust funds and for attorney’s fees in excess of penal sum. Trustees of the Plumbers and Pipefitters v. Pyles, A663410, 2013 WL 6222083 and subsequent order entered on Jan. 28, 2014 (Nev.Dist.Ct.).
Obtained judgment against a bond company for ERISA employer’s debt to multiemployer benefit trust funds and for attorneys’ fees in excess of bond limit. Trustees of the Plumbers and Pipefitters v Pyles, No. 12A663410, 2013 WL 6222083 (Nev.Dist.Ct. Oct. 18, 2013)
Employee benefits counsel to RGS Energy in its acquisition of Mercury Energy, an east coast solar integrator.
Assisted in obtaining judgment against a company created to avoid multiemployer benefit trust fund obligations owed by a prior alter ego company. Trustees of Const. Indus. & Laborers Health & Welfare Trust v. Pro-Cut LLC, No. 2:12-CV-00205-APG, 2013 WL 4049662 (D. Nev. Aug. 9, 2013).
Employee benefits counsel to a multi-platform media company in its equity sale to Lee Equity Partners, LLC.
Employee benefits counsel to KSL Capital Partners in the sale of five iconic resort properties to TRT Holdings, owner of Omni Hotels & Resorts in a series of five related transactions. The properties included in the sale are Barton Creek Resort & Spa in Austin; La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad; Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa in Rancho Mirage, California; Grove Park Inn in Asheville, North Carolina; and The Homestead Resort in Hot Springs, Virginia.
Advised tax-exempt organization in the re-design of chief executive’s employment agreement and application of IRC 409A.
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Assisted in obtaining judgment against employer for delinquent contributions, interest, liquidated damages and attorney’s fees on behalf of multiemployer benefit funds. Trustees of the Const. Indus. & Laborers Health & Welfare Trust v. Advanced Traffic Safety, Inc., No. 2:10-CV-01602-KJD, 2012 WL 938652 (D. Nev. Mar. 20, 2012).
Served as employee benefits counsel to Alliant Energy Services, LLC in its disposition of 100% of the stock of its subsidiary, RMT, Inc. to Infrastructure Energy Services, LLC (IEA).
Served as employee benefits counsel to a healthcare company in a joint venture ownership structure for in vitro fertilization labs.
Served as employee benefits counsel to Republic Financial Corporation in its sale of Griffith Enterprises, LLC to Amphenol Corporation. Griffith Enterprises is a Cottonwood, Arizona-based aerospace systems and components manufacturer specializing in the production of mission-critical interconnect harnesses, electrical sub-assemblies and engine and system controls.
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Provided ERISA and employment advice in connection with Vail Resorts, Inc.'s $63 million acquisition of Northstar-at-Tahoe Resort in California.
Counsel to Graham Packaging Company, L.P. in a $568 million strategic acquisition of another manufacturer and supplier. In the transaction, Graham Packaging Company acquired all of the limited partnership units of the target company from the company's limited partners and all of the stock of each of the company's three corporate general partners from their stockholders. A manufacturer and supplier of technology-based, customized blow molded plastic containers for the branded food and beverage, household, personal care/specialty and automotive lubricants product categories, Graham Packaging Company is a portfolio company of Blackstone Capital Group.
Served as employee benefits counsel to Strategic Analytics Inc., a global software and services company in the retail lending industry, in connection with the sale of all of the outstanding stock of the company.
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Successfully defended a manufacturing company in a U.S. Department of Labor investigation/audit of group health plan compliance with ERISA, including HIPAA, WHCRA and other applicable laws. The investigation was closed after several of the plan's insurers made revisions to their participant disclosure documentation. No fines or penalties were assessed.
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Hartford Fire Insurance Company v. Trustees of the Construction Industry and Laborers Trust Funds, 125 Nev. 16 (2009). ERISA trust funds have standing to assert Little Miller Act bond claims; ERISA trust funds were not required to provide prior notice to general contractor of claim for subcontractor's delinquent trust contributions, owed under Nevada's general contractor liability statute, unlike Little Miller Act bond claims.
Trustees of the Utah Carpenters' and Cement Masons' Pension Trust v. New Star/Culp, 2009 WL 1351580 (D. Utah). ERISA plan's motion for attorneys' fees, interest, liquidated damages and costs, was not subject to the 14-day filing limit for attorneys' fees motions, which did not apply to ERISA actions; plan awarded all fees, interest, liquidated damages and costs sought.
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Trustees of the Utah Carpenters' and Cement Masons' Pension Trust v. New Star/Culp, 2009 WL 321573 (D. Utah). Employer waived all withdrawal liability defenses by failing to arbitrate its claim that it had not withdrawn under the construction industry rules; employer's counterclaim against plan fiduciaries for alleged failure to investigate circumstances of withdrawal also had to be arbitrated, and was not timely raised in any event.
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Trustees of the Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 525 v. Developers Surety, 84 P. 3d 59 (Nev. 2004). Trust fund could recover attorneys fees from bonding company in excess of bond amount where bonding company litigated directly against the trust regarding liability.
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Smith Green Corporation v. Trustees of the Construction Industry Laborers Health Welfare Trust, 244 F. Supp. 2d 1098 (D. Nev. 2003). ERISA preempts state law claims against ERISA plan for intentional interference, breach of contract, etc. and defendant would be sanctioned for asserting them after ERISA plan's counsel provided defendant's attorney with preemption authorities.
Trustees of the Construction Industry and Laborers Health and Welfare Trust v. Desert Valley Landscape, Inc., 333 F. 3d 923 (9th Cir. 2003). Jurisdiction over ERISA plan's pendent party claims against non-ERISA defendants is constitutional and lower court erred in dismissing the state claims even though ERISA claims were resolved.
U.S. Design v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Trust Funds, 50 P. 3d 170 (Nev. 2002). General contractor was liable for unpaid ERISA trust contributions owed by its subcontractor, pursuant to state law, and all trust's attorneys fees, after general contractor lost on summary judgment.
Trustees of the Operating Engineers Pension Trust v. Tab Contractors, Inc., 224 F. Supp. 2d 1272 (D. Nev. 2002). ERISA plan cannot be sued by employer under Labor Management Relations Act.
Trustees of the Cement Masons and Plasterers Health and Welfare Trust v. Fabel Concrete, Inc., 159 F. Supp. 2d 1249 (D. Nev. 2001). A bond held by ERISA employer's alter ego was liable for ERISA employer's debt to ERISA plan.
Trustees of the Construction Industry and Laborers Health and Welfare Trust v. Desert Valley Landscape, 156 F. Supp. 2d 1170 (D. Nev. 2001). ERISA trust can recover defaulted subcontractor's ERISA plan liability from its general contractor although merits of claim were never proven.
Guthart v. White, 263 F. 3d 1099 (9th Cir. 2001). ERISA health plan participant who sued plan for benefits did not perform qualifying work and, although contributions were made to ERISA plan on his behalf, was not entitled to plan coverage or benefits.
United Association v. Grove, Inc., 105 F. Supp. 2d 1129 (D. Nev. 2000). ERISA does not preempt state law allowing benefit plan to recover plan contributions from employer's general contractor.
City of Hope v. Teamsters Local 631 Security Fund, 141 F. 3d 1174 (9th Cir. 1998). Unpublished decision: hospital that had received assignment of ERISA claims from patient could not recover money damages in breach of fiduciary duty case, but was limited to equitable relief, and res judicata prevented hospital from bringing separate suit on same claims.
Blackwell v. Transamerica Occidental Life, 707 F. Supp. 437 (D. Nev. 1987). Successful suit against ERISA plan administrator for breach of fiduciary duties in failing to maintain eligibility records in a readily transferable form and to take adequate steps to verify eligibility before authorizing coverage and accepting premium payments. According to the court, this case "presented difficult question of first impression".
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Book Review: The Case of Vanitas Volume 6
I hope everyone is doing well, and managed to get the
holiday shopping done.
Things have been going fairly well here, as I can still do
A while back, I had preordered some titles from Amazon and a
couple titles or so got pushed back by the publisher.
Fortunately, the last title I was expecting this year
recently arrived, so it is time to get down to business.
Today, I will be reviewing that title, which is called The Case Study of Vanitas Volume 6
by Jun Mochizuki.
After recovering from the recent events that transpired,
while trying to find a creature, Noé and Vanitas find themselves separated,
with Noé meeting a strange woman who has lived in the area long before the
creature of legend.
However, when Noé encounters the entity that took his friend,
he starts wondering what is going on, while Vanitas, who is searching for Noé, finds
himself in a different past than the previous one.
While this series has been able to maintain my interest
quite well, I am still a little wary that it could go downhill, with how many
things have disappointed me this year.
Thankfully, after reading this, I can say that I enjoyed
this, though not quite to the level that I would have liked.
From the moment that I opened up this volume and started
reading, I found myself engrossed enough that I did not want to stop reading
for any reason.
As I have said a countless number of times, one of the most
supposed to pull the reader into another world, thereby giving the audience the
temporary escape that they desire.
this, like many other manga series, was originally published in a serial
publication, which means that it has to pick up in a way that makes sense,
based upon how the last installment ended.
volume, Noé and Vanitas were separated, with Vanitas being in terrible
condition and Jeanne trying to take care of him and Noé waking up in a strange
place with a strange woman, and this volume started off with the situation
involving Vanitas and Jeanne.
Even though I am not particularly fond of how things started
out, seeing as the final panels of the previous volume ended with Noé waking to
see a strange woman greet him, which did cause me some confusion in this
volume, it still did a good job of pulling me back into the world, making me
wonder how and when Vanitas would be reunited with Noé, which was a lot better
than the last time I found myself just as confused as I was here, which was with
9 of The Ancient Magus’ Bride .
If things had started out any worse than they did, I would
have been very disappointed, because Jun Mochizuki is usually good about starting
off the first chapter in each volume in her series, and by making readers feel
confused it in the beginning, that would have made it hard for people to get
into it, regardless of whether they are a newcomer or a fan of the series.
Fortunately, Jun Mochizuki did not mess things up too badly,
which makes me want to give her some minor applause.
Hopefully, future volumes will be able to start off a little
better than this one did, as that will help maintain interest, especially because
it seems like the volumes are now released by Yen Press on a yearly schedule,
seeing as how nearly a year passed since the last volume was release.
I also liked how the past of the characters introduced were
explored.
One of the things that I really like about Jun Mochizuki’s
work is how she seems to know the proper time to reveal the past and in a way
that can add more to the overall mystery of her stories, making me want to find
out more about what is going on, and possibly making me feel pity for the
characters.
Here, in this volume, after we meet the woman that Jeanne
was chasing and Noé starts wondering what is going on and Chloe starts doing
something, a flashback occurs showing Chloe’s past from when she was young,
where the family’s research, for the purpose of making her human again, began up
to the point where Jean, Chloe’s current attendant, met her.
Within that flashback, we see that Chloe had met Ruthven
himself, who seemed to be a rather nice fellow at the time, though he did warn
her to be cautious of him, and even made contact with another vampire who had
only recently been mentioned earlier in the volume.
Later on, within the same flashback, Ruthven returns, after
Chloe was told that he was as good as dead, and tries to do the same thing he
did to Noé in the present, after calling himself a fool for chasing after a
dream, to try and get his hands on the research her family conducted.
Seeing all of this, it makes me wonder just when he forged
connections with Charlatan, as well as why he said what he did when Chloe put
up a fight, as well as helped me to understand a bit of why she would voluntarily
become a curse bearer, though the reason she seeks revenge is not really
talked.
Even though this probably does not tie back to the mysteries
surrounding Vanitas of the Blue Moon or the book of Vanitas itself, which are
way bigger mysteries in my eyes, it does a good job of capturing my interest,
giving me more reason to want to continue on with the series, just to find out
what is going on.
If Jun Mochizuki had not included this flashback, which makes
up most of the volume, I think I would have very disappointed, as nothing else
really happens in the volume that would have really piqued my interest, such as
what the book of Vanitas can do in the wrong hands, though that is still
possible because Vanitas has not recovered it yet.
Thankfully, Jun Mochizuki did make this flashback, which
makes me want to give her some applause for not making it obvious that very
little had occurred.
Hopefully, things like this would continue to happen as the
series progress, so that things would not start to get boring, but because Jun
Mochizuki and those helping her bring this series to the masses are only human,
I would not be surprised things get worse.
Another thing that I liked was how it was revealed that not
all vampires became curse-bearers involuntarily, like a disease.
Throughout much of the series, every vampire Vanitas
encountered and helped seemed to be suffering from something like a disease,
though it was shown that Charlatan was involved with those curses, which gave
me reason as to why vampires would attack their own kind, seeing as Ruthven has
already been revealed to be connected with Charlatan.
However, in this volume, when Noé found out the entity that
cursed his friend was now connected with Chloe, the person suspected to be the
sought after beast, the entity, known as Naenia, reveals that not just anyone
could become a curse bearer.
Now, some people may be thinking that the are some sort of
requirements, much like how Baskervilles in Pandora Hearts could form
contracts with chains without consequence, but rather than individuals not
meeting the right requirements, Naenia says it is because some vampires are
stronger than others to the point where it cannot do anything to them,
regardless of how badly it wants that vampire’s true name, thereby making it so
that such vampires can only become curse bearers voluntarily, and two of those
vampires were Chloe and Noé.
After hearing those words and being offered a deal of
anything in exchange for his true name, Noé asks Naenia if that was what it did
to his friend, Louis.
Even though this is a situation that makes sense to me, it
still makes things very interesting because I am wondering why Ruthven was able
to hold influence over Noé but Naenia could not, especially because Chloe had
fought of Ruthven’s attempts to curse her and allowed Naenia to curse her.
If Jun Mochizuki had not introduced this puzzling mystery, I
think that I would have been disappointed, as the series would have eventually
become more akin to a monster of the week series, rather than having any
questions that keep the readers interested, since Vanitas would have been just
going from one afflicted vampire to the next.
Fortunately, Jun Mochizuki did shake things up a bit, which
makes me want to giver her some more applause for a job well done.
Hopefully, there will be more moments like this in future
releases, because I would like to be taken for another ride like I had in Pandora
Hearts , and I am sure other fans of hers are expecting the same, but I know
better than to let my satisfaction with one work delude me into thinking that
it would be true of anything released after.
The thing that I liked the most though was how this ended.
Aside from how things begin, another thing that is very
important is how things end, as it is supposed either leave the audience
satisfied, if it is a standalone work or the final installment in a series, or
give them an incentive to continue on, if it is an installment to a series.
While I would not say that the way this volume ended was how
I would have liked it to end, seeing as it just gears up for a fight, rather
than leaving me with more questions that I want answered, the way things
progressed right up to that moment managed to get me excited to see just what
exactly would happen, while not pushing the questions I had while reading this
volume to the side, making me want to get my hands on the next volume as soon
as possible.
This is how a work like this should end, when the big
questions to be had have already surfaced, and Jun Mochizuki and Square Enix, or
whoever they had put this volume together, chose a great place to end the
If Jun Mochizuki or Square Enix, or whoever put this volume
together for them, had not ended things like they did, I would likely be very
disappointed, as the intrigue behind what is going on could have been greatly
diminished, thereby hurting the overall quality of the series.
Thankfully, that did not happen and both Jun Mochizuki and
Square Enix, or whoever they had put the volume together, made a good choice on
how things should end, which makes me want to give them a good round of
Hopefully, future volumes will be able to end just as well
as this one did, if not better, because I and many other people would like to
see this series end just as well as Pandora Hearts did, but I am ready
to pounce when things become disappointing.
Outside of those things, I can think of anything else that I
particularly liked, at least that stood out as much as what I talked about.
Because my interested was captured quickly and held right up
to the end, there were tons of questions I had by what was revealed, from
flashbacks involving new characters to conversations that happened, and that the
ending had me on edge while reading through it, this was a fairly decent read.
such as typos, and two things that could be easily overlooked without any
problems, and were already noted, nothing really bothered me too much.
talking about.
to really hate, unless you want to get real nit picky, this was definitely
I mainly recommend this to fans of The Case Study of
Vanitas and Jun Mochizuki, as they will like this the most, though Vanitas
fans might be more pleased with with it.
As for everyone else, this may be worth giving a try, but I
strongly recommend reading the previous volumes first, to be able to really
enjoy this.
The Case Study of Vanitas Volume 6 from Book Depository, who offers
free shipping to many countries around the world, so I can find more worthwhile
reads for you guys to check out, and, hopefully, on a more regular basis.
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Jordan takes Islamic State battle to Internet, mosques
Looking to avoid the fate of its Islamist-overrun neighbors Syria and Iraq, Jordan is cracking down on firebrand preachers and online extremism to tackle jihadists after joining U.S.-led air strikes on the Islamic State group. Its decision in September to join the anti-IS coalition has put Jordan in even graver danger, but authorities insist its borders are secure and have launched a sweep against jihadists that extends to the Internet. Jordan, which passed its first anti-terrorism law in 2006, mandates that preachers must promote moderate Islam and refrain from making political statements.
Jordan is waging a war against jihadist ideology and amended the anti-terrorism law… because the Internet has become the main tool for mobilizing and recruiting.
Hasan Abu Haniya, analyst on Middle East affairs
Wary of terrorist threats, authorities have also moved to bring some of the country’s nearly 6,000 mosques under tighter control by weeding out preachers who deliver fiery pro-jihadist sermons. As in many other Arab countries where fears are mounting over the growing influence of jihadists, Jordan’s ministry of Islamic affairs appoints imams, pays their salaries and monitors their sermons.
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Volume 443: Symposium H – Low-Dielectric Constant...
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I. Goswami ,
I. J. Malik ,
T. Mallon ,
R. Emami and
B. Withers
D. Mordo
Novellus Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA 95134
I. Goswami
I. J. Malik
OnTrak Systems, Inc., Milpitas, CA 95035
T. Mallon
R. Emami
A characterization of Plasma-Enhanced CVD Fluorinated Silicate Glass (FSG) is presented. This study investigates the behavior of FSG film in the Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) environment and compares those characteristics to undoped TEOS (UTEOS), Thermal Oxide and Si-Rich oxide capped FSG films. The removal rate, refractive index (RI), surface roughness, contact angle, water content by FTIR and thermal desorption spectroscopy (TDS) were studied.
The FSG films are polished ˜ 10% faster than the undoped PECVD oxide films. Their composition was slightly changed after CMP as can be seen by the minor increase in the RI. A layer of Si-Rich oxide (SRO) was found to have a stabilizing effect on the FSG film during CMP and post CMP cleaning operations, and thus can be used in the intermetal dielectric schemes that require low dielectric constant FSG layers.
MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 443: Symposium H – Low-Dielectric Constant Materials II , 1996 , 127
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Report for SNP rs6280
1 Nicotine Reinforcement and Smoking-Cue Reactivity: Association With Genetic Polymorphisms
Background: - Researchers have been studying behavioral components of nicotine addiction by looking at how drugs have a reinforcing effect, connecting the stimulation provided by the drug (nicotine) to the behavior that produces it (smoking). Based on previous studies, researchers are interested in learning more about how nicotine affects current smokers' responses to psychological tests and smoking-related cues, and in studying whether certain kinds of genetic background may affect smokers' responses to these kinds of studies. Objectives: - To compare the effect of nicotine versus denicotinized cigarettes during specific psychological tests. - To compare the effects of smoking cues versus neutral cues on craving, mood, and autonomic response. - To study the effect of genes on nicotine reinforcement and smoking-cue reactivity. Eligibility: - Individuals between 18 and 64 years of age who are current smokers (at least 10 cigarettes per day for at least 1 year) and are not currently interested in reducing their smoking or seeking treatment for tobacco dependence. Design: - Pilot session: - Participants will practice smoking using the measuring equipment that will be used in the study. - After successful practice, participants will read or listen to music for 1 hour, during which they are not allowed to smoke. - After the 1-hour period, participants will sample study cigarettes that have different levels of nicotine, and will be asked to guess whether the cigarettes are normal study cigarettes or denicotinized cigarettes. - Baseline session: - Blood, urine, and breath samples will be taken at the start of the session. - Participants will smoke part of an initial cigarette, and then will read or listen to music for 1 hour, during which they are not allowed to smoke. - After the 1-hour period, participants will give another breath sample and will complete questionnaires about mood and concentration levels. - Trial sessions: - Participants will smoke study cigarettes, and will be asked to either respond to questions about perceived nicotine levels in the cigarettes or press a lever for the chance to be rewarded with additional puffs of the cigarette. After the session, participants will give another breath sample and will complete questionnaires about mood and concentration levels. - Participants will also participate in cue-reactivity sessions to test the body's physiological response to smoking cues (a pack of cigarettes) and neutral cues (a pack of unsharpened pencils). After the session, participants will complete questionnaires on mood and concentration 15, 30, 45, and 60 minutes after the session. - At the conclusion of the last experimental session, participants will discuss the study with researchers, and may receive a referral list of smoking treatment programs.
MeSH:Tobacco Use Disorder
Genetic Measures The following genetic polymorphisms will be assayed: 1) C/T rs2023239 variant of the CB1R gene, 2) the Ser/Gly rs6280 variant of DRD3 gene, and 3) variants of the CYP2A6 gene.
Measure: Choice of nicotine cigarettes; cue-elicited craving
Measure: smoking history measures; variants of several genes related to nicotine additions
2 The Impact of Supplementation With Multi-vitamins/Minerals, With and Without Fatty Acids, on Impulsivity and Aggression
There is a series of well designed studies that have reported, in those with a history of anti-social behavior, that supplementation with vitamins / minerals, omega-3 fatty acids (n-3 FA), or both, reduces the incidence of aggressive behavior. Although there is evidence that all these nutrients have a role, to date the relative contribution of fatty acids and vitamins / minerals has not been considered: for example the possibility of a synergistic interaction has not yet been examined. In addition the topic has to date been studied under real-life condition, such as a prison, making the topic difficult to study. The major aim of the present study was to develop a paradigm that would allow the study of the topic in a sample from the general population without a history of anti-social behavior. Subjects received either a vitamin/mineral supplement, a fatty acid supplement, both or neither for three months, Measures of impulsivity and aggression were assessed before and after supplementation. Although in the past measures of actual behaviour have proved to be sensitive to supplementation, questionnaire measures have not. The second major objective was therefore to consider whether such phenomena can be studied in a sample without a history of anti-social behavior, using standardized, sensitive laboratory based measures and to compare these with questionnaire measures. POLYMORPHISMS AND THE RESPONSE TO MICRO-NUTRIENT SUPPLLMENTATION The data set were subsequently used to test an a priori hypothesis not related to the initial hypothesis. A meta-analysis found a consistent pattern that micro-nutrient supplementation improved mood (Long SJ, Benton D. Effects of vitamin and mineral supplementation on stress, mild psychiatric symptoms, and mood in nonclinical samples: a meta-analysis. Psychosom Med 2013; 75: 144-153). To produce evidence of possible mechanisms the extent was determined, to which the impact of micro-nutrient supplementation was influenced by a range of polymorphisms associated with neurotransmitter systems known to modulate mood. The primary outcome measure was the General Health Questionnaire, a 30-item self-report questionnaire that was developed to detect, in a community sample, those who would benefit from seeing a psychiatrist. Given the literature that relates polymorphisms to mood disorders, and the known pharmacology of anti-depressant drugs, a range of polymorphisms were chosen associated with serotonin and catecholamines. Dopamine The SNPs associated with the metabolism and functioning of dopamine were: Dopamine beta hydroxylase (DBH, rs16111115); Dopamine transporter (DAT1, rs2550946); Catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT, rs4680, rs6269). Dopamine receptor D1 (DRD1, rs4532); Dopamine receptor D2 (DRD2, rs1079598, rs1800497); Dopamine receptor D3 (DRD3, rs6280); Dopamine receptor D4 (DRD4, rs1800955). Serotonin Ten SNPs associated with different aspects of serotonin metabolism were also considered. Rs1843809 is a SNP of the TPH2 gene that encodes Tryptophan hydroxylase. Rs1050565 is a SNP in the BLMH gene that influences the activity of 5HTT (SLC6A4), the serotonin transporter. SNPs associated with various serotonin receptors were also examined: genetic variations of the HTR1A gene (5-HT1A receptor, rs6295); HTR1B gene (5-HT1B receptor, rs6296); HTR2A gene (5-HT2A receptor, rs6311); HTR2B gene (5-HT2B receptor, rs1549339); HTR2C gene (5-hydroxytryptamine receptor 2C, rs518147); HTR3A gene (5-hydroxytryptamine receptor 3A, rs1150226); HTR3B (5-HT3B receptor, rs1672717); HTR4 gene (5-HT4 receptor, rs2278392). Adrenergic mechanisms Finally six SNPs associated with adrenergic receptors were considered: ADRA2A (adrenoceptor alpha 2A, rs553668); ADRB1 (adrenoceptor alpha B1, rs1801253); ADRB2 (adrenoceptor alpha B2, rs1042713; ADRB3 (adrenoceptor alpha B3, rs4994); SLC6AC (noradrenaline transporter, rs5569 and rs2242447). Analysis The data will be analyzed using analysis of variance with a change in GHQ from before to after supplementation as the dependent variable: Micronutrient/placebo X Polymorphism.
Dietary Supplement: Placebo
Dietary Supplement: Multi-vitamin/mineral
Dietary Supplement: Docosahexaenoic acid
Dietary Supplement: DHA plus vitamins/minerals
MeSH:Aggression Impulsive Behavior
HPO:Aggressive behavior Impulsivity
Dopamine receptor D1 (DRD1, rs4532); Dopamine receptor D2 (DRD2, rs1079598, rs1800497); Dopamine receptor D3 (DRD3, rs6280); Dopamine receptor D4 (DRD4, rs1800955).
Description: The GoStop Impulsivity Paradigm measures the ability to inhibit an already initiated response. A number of five digits are presented on a computer screen for 500ms followed by a 500ms blackout. A second number then appears for 500ms followed by a 500ms blackout. If the numbers are identical the mouse button has to be pressed before the second number disappeared. However, the response has to be with-held if a "Stop" signal appeared; that is the second number was identical but changed from black to red. If the two numbers were different then no response was required.
Measure: Go Stop Impulsivity Paradigm
Time: Change from before to after supplementation for three months
Description: This is test of the tendency to respond in an aggressive manner. A series of cartoons are presented that present an intentionally frustrating situation. The participant reports what he or she would say in that situation. Blind the responses are assessed in terms of the extent to which the responses are aggressive in matter Note that the use of two primary outcomes reflects the aim of the study to contrast performance and questionnaire measures
Measure: Rosenzweig Picture Frustration Test
Description: The Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire assesses four aspects of aggressive behavior: physical aggression, verbal aggression, anger and hostility. Participants rank statements about their temperament using a 7-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (extremely uncharacteristic of me) to 7 (extremely characteristic of me).
Measure: Buss Perry Aggression Scale
Description: The Perceived Stress Scale assesses the extent to which stressful thoughts and feeling had been experienced during the last month. For example: "In the last month, how often have you been upset because of something that happened unexpectedly?" The participant responded on a scale ranging from 0 = Never to 4 = Very Often. An overall score is calculated.
Measure: Perceived Stress Scale
Description: A measure of the subjects ability to forgo initial reward for a later larger reward. The subject can choose to wait for a reward and get more points or alternatively respond more quickly and get fewer points sooner. The longer a subject waits the higher the reward; that the more points are earned. A mouse click began the task and a second resulted in a reward. Two counters display the most recent and cumulative reward over a 20 minute session. Subject are able to infer that responses at a faster rate earn smaller rewards.
Measure: Single Key Impulsivity Paradigm
Description: Polymorphisms associated with the metabolism and receptors of dopamine and serotonin will be related to the response to micro-nutrient supplementation
Measure: General Health Questionnaire
Time: Further analysis of existing data - considers changes from baseline to three months
HP:0000718: Aggressive behavior
Genes 241
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Protein Mutations 0
SNP 23
rs1042713 rs1079598 rs1150226 rs1549339 rs16111115 rs1672717 rs1800497 rs1800955 rs1801253 rs2242447 rs2278392 rs2550946 rs4532 rs4680 rs4994 rs518147 rs553668 rs5569 rs6269 rs6280 rs6295 rs6296 rs6311
HP:0100710: Impulsivity
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(Alternative Software, 1989)
Anyone who's played the travesty that is Count Duckula II will wince in fear at the prospect of another Count Duckula game. But thankfully, its predecessor is not quite as awful! Based on an episode of the dire cartoon series, the aim is to wander around a huge pyramid, find keys to unlock doors, solve basic puzzles and get the magical saxophone at the pyramid's peak, which can transport Duckula back to his castle – all within a pretty tight time limit. I said this wasn't as bad as Count Duckula II, but it's still pretty bad – the graphics, though detailed, are boring and bland, and the sound... well, the hilariously bad rendition of the show's theme tune says it all! Too 'mazey' and too dull; avoid.
See also: Count Duckula II.
Count Duckula II
How could something like this ever have been released as late as 1992? To say this game is rubbish is scratching the surface. It's an absolute insult to my intelligence; I thought it was written in BASIC! It's a slow and crushingly boring platform game with awful graphics and animation, poor collision detection and ping-ping sound effects, and the tomato gun that Count Duckula is armed with is useless. The tune is the only thing that's worth talking about. If you want to see an even funnier review of this game, you should look at Amstrad Action's review, where they gave it 3%.
See also: Count Duckula.
Watch a YouTube video of this game by: ChinnyVision.
(Sterling Software, 1984)
Country Cottages is a pretty simplistic strategy game where you and another player must buy, improve and lease out country homes until one of you is the first to reach a predetermined level of profit and so is declared the winner. It's about as interesting as it sounds. Apart from occasional still shots of your cottage – created using 'revolutionary' Landscape Creation technology (whatever that is) – the entire game is just boring facts and figures. And even if you're into that kind of thing, the game itself is too simplistic and shallow to offer any real challenge or depth. And so, as a result, it ends up pleasing nobody. To its credit, it's an original concept, but that's about the only positive thing I can say about it.
(PSS, 1985)
You are the last survivor of your race, and deep within a labyrinthine subterranean complex there are 64 pieces of a parchment, known as the covenant, that will enable you to repopulate your planet. In each of the 64 sections of the complex, you must find an anaesthetic and then stun and collect all the creatures that live within it. Once you've done that, you need to obtain a key to open the chest that contains a piece of the covenant, which then opens passageways to enable you to go to new sections. The graphics are colourful but rather chunky, and the sound effects are nothing special. The major problem is that you only have one life, and your energy drains very quickly – and some of the energy points actually drain your energy instead of restore it! This is an extremely frustrating game to play and most players will quickly give up and play something else instead.
Cowboy Kidz
(Byte Back, 1990)
A consignment of gold is being delivered across the desert and you have to follow the train on your horse, and grab some of it when it reaches the next station. However, there are other cowboys who are out to get you! The music sets the scene nicely and the graphics are quite colourful, too, with some impressive animations. However, the game is a little difficult and it is really beneficial if you remember the layout of each level exactly – the timing is crucial!
CPC Aventure
(Ludovic Deplanque/Christophe Petit, 2005)
Reviewed by Missas
CPC Aventure, as its name implies, is an adventure game with a very interesting storyline. You wander around in the world of the CPC and interact with almost all the famous heroes and characters with which we grew up. The game features nicely drawn graphics and it is quite big. There is almost no sound, but the feeling of meeting again with the most memorable sprites of the CPC era is an unprecedented experience that elicits strong emotions. The grab factor is very strong and the dialogue is very well written. It is a very well conceived game. In my opinion, this is one of the best CPC adventures ever.
Rating: 10/10
CPC Soccer
(VoxelTower, 2020)
Do you remember how sad we were when we CPC owners did not get a port of Sensible Soccer in the early 1990s? Nearly thirty years later, this misfortune is corrected thanks to VoxelTower. CPC Soccer arrives as an incarnation of one of the best football games ever in the history of video gaming and it sure is fantastic. The graphics are very close to their 16-bit counterpart. They move very fast and smoothly and the player you are controlling flashes so you do not get confused. The scrolling is fantastic, but where the game excels is its gameplay. It is truly entertaining and there are many options and teams. In my humble opinion, this is by far the best CPC football game ever.
Watch a YouTube video of this game by: Saberman.
Crack Down
(US Gold, 1990)
The evil Dr. K is planning to take over the world with a race of biogenetic humanoids. Enter Andy Attacker and Ben Breaker, two guys on a mission to fight their way through sixteen levels of mayhem in Dr. K's fortress. Don't you just love original plots? Anyway, this is a reasonably good game. You (and another player if you can find one) must explore each level and plant some detonators at specific points, and find the exit quickly before they explode. Fortunately, there's a map which shows you where to plant them. There's a lot of shooting involved as well, and the humanoids are rather nasty as well. The graphics are pretty good and the sound effects are OK, but it's a bit too difficult (although you get plenty of credits) and the collision detection could be better.
Crack-Up
(Atlantis, 1989)
Breakout has been around since 1976, and this version of it is probably deliberately based on the versions from the early days to give it that retro feel; all the bricks are blocks of one colour, and the ball is simply a square. The sound effects are few and far between as well. OK, so the presentation might be minimal, but the levels are rather badly designed, and it's very difficult to clear all the bricks from each level; often you rely on collecting a power-up which sends you to the next level. At least you can choose which level you want to start on.
CRAY-5
(Topo Soft, 1987)
An asteroid colony has been struck by a meteor, and the CRAY-5 supercomputer which controls the colony's atmosphere has been damaged. The only way to save the colony is to activate thirteen interrupters scattered around nine zones of the complex within a time limit. You will need to collect keys in order to unlock doors within the complex; however, there are three types of door, and only the correct type of key will unlock them. Other hazards include magnets, spikes and walls marked with a skull and crossbones symbol, all of which drain your energy if you touch them. The graphics and music are both rather basic, but everything is recognisable. The main problem is that you will often have to fly through some very narrow passages, and it's almost impossible to avoid contact with aliens or the aforementioned energy-sapping walls, which makes it extremely difficult to make much progress in the game.
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Daley Thompson's Decathlon
This is the first in a series of three Daley Thompson games. All of them became notorious for breaking more joysticks than any other game. I know I broke one or two of my own! Daley Thompson was a famous British athlete back in the early 1980s, breaking several records and winning gold medals at the 1980 and 1984 Olympics. In this game you get to take part in a decathlon, which as you should know, consists of ten events. However, to progress to the next event without losing a life, you have to qualify by setting a result within a certain time or distance. The sheer effort required for this is such that most people won't progress beyond the third event – and why does Daley look as though he's jogging rather than sprinting?
See also: Daley Thompson's Olympic Challenge, Daley Thompson's Supertest.
Daley Thompson's Olympic Challenge
Unfortunately, Daley was beset by injuries in the 1988 Olympics at Seoul and came fourth, but maybe you can do better. The same ten events are here in this decathlon, and thankfully it is possible to progress in this game, even with the keyboard! Before you start the decathlon, you can do training; this affects how well you'll do in the events. You also have to choose the right trainers from a set of four before each event; choosing the wrong ones makes qualifying for the next event extremely hard, if not impossible. The graphics aren't bad (and Daley actually runs this time!), but the music and sound effects leave a lot to be desired.
See also: Daley Thompson's Decathlon, Daley Thompson's Supertest.
Daley Thompson's Supertest
Taking a change from the decathlon style, this game consists of eight very varied events (pistol shoot, cycling, diving, giant slalom, rowing, penalties, ski jumping, and tug of war), none of which feature in a real decathlon. All but one of them feature yet more frantic joystick waggling, and like Daley Thompson's Decathlon, it's almost impossible to qualify for them; you'd need to have Daley's strength to be able to do it! To add to the problems, the graphics aren't even good, and Daley seems to be noticeable by his absence in most of the events.
See also: Daley Thompson's Decathlon, Daley Thompson's Olympic Challenge.
Dame Scanner
(Chip, 1988)
Dames is known as draughts in the English-speaking world, and this is a pretty good version of the board game. You can play against another friend or the computer, and allow it to use one of four different strategies for playing the game (although what with knowing very little about draughts, I don't know what differences there are between them). The graphics are about as good as they can be, and you can choose between either a 2D or a 3D view of the board. The only complaint is that selecting which piece you want to move is a bit awkward.
Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future
(Virgin Games, 1986)
Reviewed by Chris Lennard
Help Dan Dare, the pilot of the future, to defeat the Mekon, evil leader of the Martians, in this comic styled platformer. The notorious green-hued brainbox has planted an atomic bomb inside a heavily guarded fortress on an asteroid and set it on a collision course with the Earth. Dan has to make his way around the innards of this celestial missile's inner complex and collect five keys held in different locations in order to activate the self-destruct system before it destroys its target (sadly you don't have the option of playing the hapless Digby). Formulaic stuff that's only slightly rescued by the characters involved, with the graphics not particularly endearing and naff sound effects to boot.
See also: Dan Dare II: Mekon's Revenge, Dan Dare III: The Escape.
Watch YouTube videos of this game by: Axelino, Xyphoe.
Dan Dare II: Mekon's Revenge
This time the Mekon has created an army of Super Treens and sent them to conquer Earth on board a large spaceship. Dan must find and destroy all the Super Treens that are in stasis, while taking care to avoid the traps, force fields and normal Treens littered by your nemesis – all against a time limit. This time our hero rides a nifty laser-armed pod accompanied by Earth troops helping him in the firepower stakes. Alternatively you can amusingly play the Mekon himself in his own pod and set about activating the Super Treens instead with your Treens to aid you. A great looking and sounding CPC game with solid, albeit difficult, gameplay with double the challenge.
See also: Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future, Dan Dare III: The Escape.
Dan Dare III: The Escape
Dan Dare is back and he's now equipped with a handy jet pack and armed to the teeth with a variety of weapons. A good thing, as the landscape he's been left in is populated with weird looking very un-Frank Hampson-like mutant creatures. Dan proceeds to the following levels by defeating a facsimile of the misproportioned evil alien genius, the Mekon, in order to obtain a transport key. Transportation then involves guiding our hero successfully through a virtual tunnel made of suspended boxes in a vortex. This game heavily resembles another Probe Software game, Trantor, in both style and gameplay – not that this is bad. It plays well and is gorgeously presented.
See also: Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future, Dan Dare II: Mekon's Revenge.
Watch YouTube videos of this game by: Axelino, ChinnyVision, jgonza, Xyphoe.
(Electric Dreams, 1987)
Dandy is yet another in that long line of dungeon-based arcade adventures that tries to emulate the mighty Gauntlet and fails at just about every opportunity. The graphics are colourless, bland and extremely flickery and it's often hard to see what's going on. Even the Spectrum version had better graphics than this! The sound effects are pitiful – just a few zaps and explosions – and worst of all, the gameplay is spoilt by the sheer unresponsiveness of the controls. You'll know what I mean when you play it! And on top of this, you'll often come to doors that you can't open because you've just used your last key to open a door that leads to a dead end – very frustrating! I love a good dungeon exploration game and this is nothing like a good one.
Danger Mouse in Double Trouble
(Creative Sparks, 1985)
Baron Greenback has built an android version of Danger Mouse which is due to be released at tea-time today! Danger Mouse and Penfold must thwart the Baron's plans in this three-part action game. The first part is a simple shoot-'em-up where you destroy the Baron's flying robots by playing the appropriate tune from the jukebox in Danger Mouse's aerocar (!). The second part is a platform game in which Danger Mouse must jump across swamps and climb trees, although if you're playing the easy version of the game, you don't have to complete this part, so you can go on to the third and final part, where you must extinguish all the yellow lights on a grid. The graphics are OK, as is the rendition of the Danger Mouse theme tune, but the levels are much too short, and once you complete it – which won't take long – you won't want to play it again.
See also: Danger Mouse in Makin' Whoopee.
Danger Mouse in Makin' Whoopee
Danger Mouse has just received a telegram informing him of Baron Greenback's latest plan to take over the world. The Baron is manufacturing whoopee cushions to place in every seat in the United Nations building. The chaos that will ensue at the next meeting will allow him to become the leader of the world! Danger Mouse must travel around Chicago in his aerocar and shut down the Baron's network of electricity stations and gas manufacturing plants. Chicago is represented as a gigantic maze which is shown on the screen, and if you head towards the dead ends, you will enter either a store room where you can exchange objects, or one of the factories where you must reach the top of the screen while avoiding the obstacles. The game overall is better than Danger Mouse's previous outing, but driving around Chicago becomes rather monotonous.
See also: Danger Mouse in Double Trouble.
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National Horse Show main overall prize for three years. This is the first of the two horses I have made. The first casting was awarded to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The Museum had recently devoted an exhibit hall to a show about the history of the National Horse Show. This was meant as a thank you token. Just at the time I was putting the finishing touches on the original clay carving, an official of the Show invited me to attend the show for some close ups of perfect animals in the flesh. They set me down in front of the judges stand!! Best seat in the house—WOW! One of the judges pulled me aside at the end of the day and whispered to me that she had watched me carving more than the contests. I now have a piece in the back offices. But it is a ‘piece in the Met’.
‘Golden Boy’— This sculpture I made for AT&T before the company broke up. It was called the Arthur Page Award, and was given to subsidiary companies for excellence in matters that were important to the parent company. I made almost fifty of them before ‘Ma Bell’ was broken up by our federal government and this trophy was no longer relevant. An advertising account executive for AT&T was at my studio one day and saw the female legs that I did on the ‘Leaping Vulva’ piece. He said to me that “anyone who can do legs like that, can certainly do the Ma Bell piece.” After securing the contract I was later told that the issue of whether the sculpture would have genitals was brought up at a board meeting. After some debate the story goes that the Chairman ended the conversation with this quote: “I’ll be damned if anyone will accuse AT&T of having no balls.” Luckily the sculpture is now not an eunuch.
‘Bull Eagle’—Made for a land owner in Colorado where I stayed after my 4 years at the Bricklin Ranch, in exchange for a couple of years’ rent. This ranch was 9,000 acres! Nan and I lived there alone for the duration. It was the site of a massive elk herd. The horns on this sculpture were faithfully copied from a photo of the worlds’ largest American Elk rack. The only difference between the real set and mine, is that my, over 8 feet wide set, is a couple of inches wider than the real ones. Carved from dead Rocky Mountain High Altitude Pine branches and stump, with a composite inlay. My biggest completed sculpture to date. I did not use a live stump or branches.
The side view shows how the over 4 foot distance, from the wall, to the tip of the beak, makes this piece very, very imposing.
A woman came into my studio and described this piece one day, gave me a photo and a deposit. She came by a couple of months later, gave me the rest of the money and I gave her the clay. She said it was great and all I have is a picture.
‘Excellence’—A portrait of Malcolm Bricklin in stainless steel. About 4 feet from the tip of the forward hoof to the tip of the tail.
The first casting in cold poured composite, airbrushed silver and black, of ‘Excellence’ looking out on the beautiful high mountains of Colorado. Flat topped 10,000 ft. high peaks could be seen on the 5,500 acre property, off camera to the right of this shot.
‘Excellence’— This shot of the first unfinished clay was conceived in my studio, at Spring Street, New York City. Malcolm altered the concept and I finished it in Colorado at his ranch.
This scene in Colorado is in front of my vinyl collection of Rock music. This clay is the second iteration of ‘Excellence’ with Malcolm’s Colorado dog. The dog mascot is a portrait of ‘Bear’, Malcolm’s gentle giant St. Bernard watchdog in Colorado. This magnificent animal would chase away the local resident brown bears. I wish that I could have preserved this clay original; it was the most expressive and closest to my vision.
This version of a rough-draft eagle on Malcolm’s arm gives the whole portrait a majestic feel and dynamic presence. The eagle will be proportionally made somewhat larger than is shown in this model.
‘Excellence’—These shots were taken at the foundry while the over 3,000 degree stainless steel was being poured into the ceramic shell molds. The top shot is the pouring, and in the bottom picture, are the glowing castings immediately after being poured. That color is really intense!!! I could really feel the scorching heat when I got close enough to get this shot. Wow what a day!!!! I am grateful to the Excalibur Foundry in Colorado for giving me the privilege to be present and take pics while they poured my piece.
This picture was taken at the foundry about a half an hour after the stainless pouring shots were taken. Here they are cracking away the ceramic shell from the grey unpolished metal. (You can see the blurry hammer coming down towards the piece at the top of the picture.)
This shot was taken in the log cabin that was my residence during much of my stay at the ‘Bricklin Ranch’. Malcolm Bricklin is posing behind the finished original clay sculpture, ‘Excellence’. His assistant-copywriter Paul Lambert looks on. This was my dream home realized! Right out the back door was the spectacular White River—50 feet away.
A close up shot of the White River. It ran through the over 7,200 ft. in altitude ranch. A truly magnificent setting. Home to many Bald Eagles, American Elk, Large Brown Bear and Native Golden Trout.
The Buford, Colorado, finished ‘Kravis Map’ This was commissioned by Henry Kravis of KKR fame. Mr. Kravis bought the ‘Bricklin Ranch’ (formerly owned by non other than Eleanor Roosevelt and then the Bell family) property from Malcolm Bricklin. Henry Kravis then commissioned me to make a map of the general area and the the second acreage he purchased nearby. The Roosevelt property is most of the area between the ‘Y’ formed by the North and South branches of the White River. The site of the oldest and largest aspen tree in the world is above the river at the extreme left of the map. I used very detailed Arial photos of the region and faithfully placed the streams, paths, roads and just about every individual tree. I also color coded the main four types of tree species found there. Lake Avery, the water reservoir for the town of Meeker is also shown with transparent imitation water, color coded for depth. This property is magnificent to say the least; Eleanor and Malcolm chose well!!!. I stayed there for about 4 years.
This shows the steel weights , holding the freshly glued contours to the next layer.
This is showing the construction technique of the Kravis Map. That is my wife, Nan, gluing a mountain top to a section of the suspended map. Notice that the semi-finished wooden layered contour section is suspended above a printed version. The table part that Nan is sitting on moves up and down. The layered section is anchored to a framework above the map. We placed each pre-cut (I used a specialized very accurate saber saw) thin successive plywood cutout of the next elevation to rest on the corresponding elevation on the paper map. We then put glue on the underside of the suspended map and raised the lower table to meet the upper semi finished piece, thereby fastening it to the upper stack. There are 85 layers and I calculated well over a mile of accurately cut contour edges. It took 9 tedious months for the two of us to complete it.
Top photo shows the next wooden contour cut-out, set on the appropriate geological survey map contour line just before it will be lifted and glued to the above model. Bottom shot is a view of the ‘Kravis Map’, showing the framework of the 7 foot by 14 foot finished map.
These ‘Figurehead Portraits’ were installed in Malcolm Bricklin’s bedroom in NYC. They are 24 carat gold and hard chrome plated, set in the middle of a pink mirror over the fireplace.
A front view of the ‘Figurehead Portraits’. The room was completely surrounded by pink mirrors, including the ceiling. A stunning setting for my work!
One of the ‘Figurehead Portraits’ before polishing and plating.
The first of two Mega-car dealership models for Malcolm Bricklin. Malcolm designed this one and I, the other. This one has separate departments, each with specialized sales staff; I told him that I had a different vision, hence the one below.
My idea for this one is to have the vehicles stored together with surrounding test track and a centralized location of all personnel.
Close up of car shaped central sales center, all my idea!
This was made for one of Malcolm’s car ventures. Too bad it was never used.
A row of skis in front of the bar. The owner asked me if I could bring his idea to life. He said that he was happy with my interpretation. In reality that is all that counts. It was a fun job, but cold!!!
A snow sculpture in front of a PJ’S Bar in Steamboat Springs. A couple frolicking in a very large cocktail.
‘Donald T. Regan Commemorative Award’—Commissioned by Merrill Lynch, 1980. The medallion was awarded to MLPF&S Chairman Mr. Regan, at a farewell going away party upon his appointment to Secretary of the Treasury by Ronald Reagan. They are 2.75″ in diameter; 3 were cast in bronze, 150 in pewter. He was given one bronze; I have the other two. It was a rush job and I had to make the original in three days. I happily didn’t get much sleep in those three days.
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Appetite For Seduction
September 4, 2018 - Francois
NEW RELEASE – THE WHITE BLINDS
If you like your groove hefty and in-your-face, try Get To Steppin’ by The White Blinds.
Carey Frank (organ), Matt Hornbeck (guitar), Michael Duffy (drums)
in 2018 at Rich Uncle Records
as FSPT 2001 in 2018
A Walk Through Echo Park
Get To Steppin’
Cold Heat
Ask a random passerby if he knows who is Zigaboo Modeliste. In all likelihood, he/she’ll raise an eyebrow. Obviously, serious music lovers will answer that he was the drummer of The Meters, the legendary New Orleans Funk outfit whose greasy and clever funk had a pervasive influence on popular music, inspiring a diversity of acts from The Rolling Stones to hiphop posses. The White Blinds KNOW their Meters, as well as music akin to it, like late 60s/early 70s soul and funk jazz. Underlined by the sustained energy of punk rock, the tight-knit trio from Los Angeles is off and running. The White Blinds are drummer Michael Duffy, organist Carey Frank and guitarist Matt Hornbeck, fixtures on the Californian soul and funk scene. The trio has released its debut album Get To Steppin’ on F-Spot Records in the summer of 2018.
Even if soul jazz may not be, as it was in the sixties, music for Afro-American folks to have an exciting evening after a day of hard labor, the contemporary audience can relate to high-quality jazz meant for relaxation. It ideally includes a certain kind of sexy vibe, capable of making people feel loose and receptive for their surroundings, not necessarily for orgasm, instead for playfulness, desire, communion. Erotica then, instead of sex, is the word in this respect. Tailor-made for inhabitants of Erotic City, this set of White Blinds soul jazz and jazz funk is uplifting, the pull of the sleazy Hammond organ, spicy guitar and roaring rolls and tight pocket of Michael Duffy’s Idris Muhammad-meets-Bernard Purdie-drums rather irresistible. Lurid grooves mark tunes as Chico, Hip Hugger, The Hustler and Get To Steppin’.
The old-school Hammond/Leslie speaker-sound of Blinded is underscored by a healthy cluster of screamin’ phrases by Carey Frank. He showcases a variety of sounds throughout the album. Matt Hornbeck, a relaxed architect of concise funk-blues stories, utilizing sly bending of notes and the occasional chickin’ pickin’ lick, gets a chance to stretch out during Jimmy McGriff’s blues line Blue Juice. ‘Jazz rockabilly’ might be the appropriate term for Little Giant, which is distinguished by varied opposing rhythm and tacky breaks. The Doc is the kind of soul tune Quincy Jones could’ve written in the early seventies for young couples to slow dance to nervously, bereft of swag and sweating like pigs.
A bit of transpiration never hurt anybody, not least the customers of the good-ol’ soul jazz genre, which Get To Steppin’ is a fine expansion of.
Check out the album and website of The White Blinds here. Also available on vinyl, including a 45rpm single.
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Author Topic: Season 2014/15 (Read 300343 times)
barticus
Re: Season 2014/15
Quote from: Tes on May 24, 2015, 05:32:45 PM
Have we lost by a higher score in the entire Premier League era, you know, the time we've been a pale shadow of our former selves? Worst ever start to a season. The achievements are endless.
Worst defeat since 1963...we are a laughing stock.
Too old to be a
I hate defending
He was right when he said we wouldn't 'do a Spurs'. They finished with 7 more points than we have.
He's saying he'll leave if the owners want him to. Nonsense. If they want him to he's got no choice. I hope they call his bluff and tell him they want him to.
Let's hope they learn. You need experience in this league. In the dugout and on the pitch.
We're not some centre for youth training or a vehicle on which to 'cut your teeth'.
Don't make the same mistake twice, there's plenty of new ones to choose from.
Those who choose to preach would do well to take note of their own sermons.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/11627606/Who-could-be-the-next-Liverpool-manager.html
Photo 1 - Brendan finally realising his 'philosphy' is stinking the place out.
Some downright obvious, some interesting and some downright lazy journalistic choices in the candidates put forward.
Rodgers on dropping Sterling: "I just felt there were other players mentally in a better position to play in the game. It was as simple as that."
So that was our 11 best players who were mentally in a better position to play? Only Brendan obviously forgot to tell them they were at Stoke on Trent this afternoon to do that.
Maybe we ought to just change our nickname from 'The Reds', to 'The Shambles' and the Liverbird to a Dodo.
Our shirts shouldn't be too hard to change from 'New Balance' to 'No balance'.
Quote from: barticus on May 24, 2015, 06:16:20 PM
Got that wrong. Worst since 1954! It just gets better...
Is someone making up the football results,
I simply can't believe the scoreline.
This is how we stacked up this time last season.
People call me cynical. Nah, I'm just an old-school Red
Quote from: Ed on May 11, 2014, 06:59:01 PM
Anyway, I'm under no illusions how we got to where we were this season, ditching cup
campaigns, no Europe or United, Mourinho's first season back. Well at least Brendan got
his contract extension to 2018...
Next season's target surely has to be establish ourselves in the Top 3
Quote from: the dude abides on May 11, 2014, 04:42:35 PM
Brendan has finally caught on to how this footy game works.
Quote from: Martinmarx on May 12, 2014, 09:58:09 PM
We're on our way to glory. He built the team like Shankly did, the kids will have a story.
Another good piece on the state of things:
http://www.thisisanfield.com/2015/05/brendan-rodgers-must-pay-price-managerial-mistakes-humiliating-end-season/
that rug really tied the room together
me thinks Ed has done a serious amount of industrial editing, of old posts!
Pure and utter propaganda.
Lord Haw Haw lives!
In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was, in me, an invincible summer.
There’s no next time. It’s now or never.
It loses the drama if I include the surrounding context of your and Tes's posts.
Mind, I'm probably doing a Marx a favour leaving some stuff out.
Oh well, hopefully within the next few days we'll all get the manager LFC deserves
and we can get back to talking about footie!
Apparently our target was only to finish in the top four. And we failed.
I seem to remember a certain fella called Dalglish being set that target and failing. Didn't he lose his job despite a trophy and another final, not a brace of semis.
Surely FSG aren't hypocrites.
Ed, you should be a journalist or a politician, or Brendan's PR guru with creativity like that.
Martinmarx
the wheels came off the wagon at that point, the reason as yet unclear.
the players just lost all belief at that point.
I think it's pretty simple, actually. I believe for most of the players, the United game was the straw that... in terms of going into a big match game poorly prepared in evey aspect ot this game. Like was said above, there was EVERYTHING to play for in that game. Yet we did pull off one of the most lacklustre and lethargic displays of the season (there are, admittedly, quite a few of them). So it seems as something had gone wrong even before those games. I don't know about you guys but unlike last year's run this season it was something desperate, something just, something everything-going-our-way about those wins. I don't know but I have a feeling many of the players felt all along Rodgers are using them in a fundamentally dysfunctional system.
You may laugh, but I fear we will fight to avoid relegation next season. This club's at the brink of collapsing all together. There's nothing to build on, no link to our illustrous past, no quality players, no balance in the squad, no central midfieldes of any quality worth mentioning, no dito strikers, no prospect of us signing the quality players we need to challenge for 4th. This is not a knee-jerk reaction. In a way I realised all this back in September when it dawned on me we had wasted whatever progress we made last season.
If you offer me a top 10 finish next season I'll bit your arm off. Today LFC became an ordinary club. Tragic indeed.
The modest Oracle of the Anfield Road Forum sometimes mistaken for Judas Iscariot.
At half-time, with Liverpool already trailing 5-0, the travelling support erupted in chants of "RAAAFA Benitez" which wouldn't have come as music to the ears of the Brentmaster General.
see the video below:
http://www.sportsjoe.ie/football/video-liverpools-travelling-support-sing-rafa-benitezs-name-during-6-1-defeat-to-stoke/25930
I don't know but I have a feeling many of the players felt all along Rodgers are using them in a fundamentally dysfunctional system.
You may laugh, but I fear we will fight to avoid relegation next season. This club's at the brink of collapsing all together. There's nothing to build on, no link to our illustrous past, no quality players, no balance in the squad, no central midfieldes of any quality worth mentioning, no dito strikers, no prospect of us signing the quality players we need to challenge for 4th.
Today LFC became an ordinary club. Tragic indeed.
yes, when you look at the spine of the team, Martin, it is very scary.
If you take out Coutinho and the injury-prone-Sturridge, there is not a helluva lot.
Our management have sold our very best players, and allowed know-nothing-yankees and a third division manager, and his athletics mate, Alan Pascoe, plus a trainee 4th division chief scout, to replace these top players (using a massive amount of money) with pensioners and kids.
Pascoe, Hunter and Rodgers should be at somewhere like Bournemouth or Darlington. They have no place being at a top club. It's like appointing David Brent to lead ICI.
And the yanks should sell up and go home, if they refuse to bring in top people.
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Performer: Nathan Milstein
BRUNO WALTER: The Complete Columbia Album Collection (Bruno Walter) (Review by James A. Altena)
THE ART OF VIOLIN A FILM BY BRUNO MONSAINGEON: (Review by Peter J. Rabinowitz)
BACH/BUSONI: Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland (Review by Susan Kagan)
BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Orchestral Suite No. 3 (Review by Robert Maxham)
BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Partita No. 2 in D Minor for Solo Violin, BWV 1004 (Review by David K. Nelson)
BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004. Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001 (Review by Robert Maxham)
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BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Partita No. 2 (Review by Robert Maxham)
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BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Solo Violin Partita No. 2 (Review by Robert Maxham)
BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Solo Violin Sonata No. 1 in g. Solo Violin Partita No. 3 in E (Review by Robert Maxham)
BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Solo Violin Sonatas (Review by Robert Maxham)
BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Sonata No. 1 in G Minor for Solo Violin, BWV 1001 (Review by David K. Nelson)
BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Sonata No. 1 in G Minor for Solo Violin, BWV1001 (Review by David K. Nelson)
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BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Sonata No. 3 in C (Review by Robert Maxham)
BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Sonata and Partitas for Solo Violin (Review by David K. Nelson)
BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Sonata in G Minor, BWV1001 (Review by Robert Maxham)
BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin (Review by Robert Maxham)
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BRAHMS, JOHANNES: Hungarian Dance No. 2 (Review by Robert Maxham)
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BRAHMS, JOHANNES: Sonata No. 3 in D Minor for Violin and Piano, op. 108 (Review by Susan Kagan)
BRAHMS, JOHANNES: Violin Concerto in D (Review by Mortimer H. Frank)
BRAHMS, JOHANNES: Violin Concerto in D. (Review by Jerry Dubins)
BRAHMS, JOHANNES: Violin Concerto (Review by David K. Nelson)
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BRAHMS, JOHANNES: Violin Concerto (Review by Jerry Dubins)
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Previously published studies on levels of the transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1) protein and mRNA of the corresponding gene in patients suffering from inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) gave varying results, leading to contradictory conclusions. To solve the contradictions, we aimed to assess longitudinally TGF-β1 protein and mRNA levels at different stages of the disease in children suffering from IBD. The study group consisted of 19 pediatric patients with IBD at the age between 3.5 and 18.4 years. The control group consisted of 42 children aged between 2.0 and 18.0 years. The plasma TGF-β1 concentration was measured with ELISA. mRNA levels of the TGF-β1 gene isolated from samples of the intestinal tissue were assessed by reverse transcription and real-time PCR. Levels of TGF-β1 protein in plasma and corresponding mRNA in intestinal tissue were significantly higher in IBD patients than in controls. TGF-β1 and corresponding transcripts were also more abundant in plasma and intestinal tissue, respectively, in patients at the active stage of the disease than during remission. In every single IBD patient, plasma TGF-β1 level and mRNA level in intestinal tissue was higher at the active stage of the disease than during remission. Levels of TGF-β1 and corresponding mRNA are elevated during the active stage of IBD but not during the remission. Longitudinal assessment of this cytokine in a single patient may help to monitor the clinical course of IBD.
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FZ and feminism
Jakeobs
Post subject: FZ and feminism
What were FZ's views on feminism? From what little I've been able to glean, I'd say that while he didn't oppose it, he wasn't entirely for it either.
just plain doug
Location: Kitchener, Ontario, CANADA
I believe he felt men and women should be equal. After all, he did say that women have just as much right to be assholes as men do.
You're probably wondering why I'm here
(not that it makes a heck of a lot of a difference to ya)
swiftkicknow
Post subject: Re: FZ and feminism
Location: Attempt the absurd to achieve the impossible
Jakeobs wrote:
What were FZ's views on feminism?
Refer to "Planet Of The Baritone Women"
“The person who stands up and says, 'This is stupid,' either is asked to behave or, worse, is greeted with a cheerful 'Yes, we know! Isn't it terrific!" -Frank Zappa
Batchain1001
Location: Just N. of Boston, MA, USA
swiftkicknow wrote:
But that was a commentary on the ridiculousness of women feeling that to be on an equal footing with men they had to take on the mannish appearance of what would be seen as throngs of stomping bull dykes. ("A slightly more voluptuous version of fucking somebody's father!" -- "Harry-as-a-boy".)
--Bat
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jamesE
Germaine Greer, that well known feminist, was a friend of Zappa's according to a radio show she did lately. She's not known for suffering fools gladly, so my guess is Zappa respected the idea of feminism but gladly took the piss out of it when deserved.
debutante_daisy
Location: Washington DC Burbs
Batchain1001 wrote:
Batty, I was just thinking about you when I was pondering my thoughts on the state of the Forum.
Anyway...back to the subject at hand.
It is not like Frank was sexist, he was just writing songs based in reality, not some romantic dreamland like every other artist under the sun.
I know many of my "girl friends" did find a lot of his music shocking. Trust me, they were forced to listen to it if they wanted to hang out with me. I likened turning people on to his music in the same way i would regard hiding in the closet to look at National Lampoon or reading Everything You Need to Know About Sex But are Afraid to Ask.
Songs like Dinah-Moe-Hum, Bobby Brown, Jewish Princess, Keep It Greasy, I Have Been In You are not necessarily easy to relate to when you are in you are a young girl in your teens. At least that is they way it was when I was growing up **born in 1967**. I had older brothers who listened to Frank and many other fine artists so I was predisposed at an unusually young age for the time. I was the exception and still remain the exception seeing that the vast majority of Zappa fans are men. My guess is that every show there are 95% men. Of the 5% of women that are there 3% of them are girlfriends that are obliged to be there and 2% of us are actual FZ fans.
Now that there are old Zappa fans having kids who are also exposed to his music at a young age, I imagine things are completely different? The content young viewers are able to see on tv/internet/cable puts an entirely new spin on what is real today vs. what seemed real 30 years ago. That, coupled with the fact that girls are having sex at an earlier age, are more aware of reality at a younger age, perhaps they can relate to his music better and not be so shocked by it. Hell, the music by itself is shocking enough!!
"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible"- Frank Zappa
hvacdude
Location: Detroit MI
I heard a interview that Frank did on the radio with a guy called "the beemer" {I think that was his name} from the '80's. He told a story about two women {feminists} that were interviewing him and "were out to get him". He said he wrote Bobby Brown after that interview. He said that women like them { feminists} would turn a guy into A Bobby Brown. I think the interviewers first name was Michael. I had the interview on a cassette tape that was in a tape player stolen from my truck. It was around the "you are what you is" days. I remember Frank swore ,and the D.J. bleeped it and Frank said bleeping him was childish. Anyone rember that one ?
Music is the best!
FZ: Golden shower is a sexual abberation or sexual activity, where one person pisses on another person. So You get the idea that Bobby Brown in this song as the result of following the advice of Womens Liberation, has wound up sitting on a stool with a thing up his ass while somebody pisses on him. And that´s why I think that´s unusual that the song is so popular here. I mean, when I go to a disco and see people dancing the Bobby Brown, I had to laugh.
Heres the link http://home.swipnet.se/bengt-jonsson/zappaint.htm
debutante_daisy wrote:
What surprised me was how disquieted, ill-at-ease and uncomfortable guys became if I played "that fuckin' sick shit" such as "Penis Dimension", "Shove It Right In" or "B'wana Dik" at 15 and wondered, "What's with these guys? All they ever talk about is 'fucking', 'pussies', 'tits' and 'having big cocks' -- why do they nearly shit themselves when it's in a song that's cleaver and funny?" I was very glad that someone was consistently not writing more silly love songs and I could depend on that!
Oh, the strictly musical portion was just "crazy sounding noise" done by "some crazy guy joke music" whether it was "Little House I Used To Live In", "Willy ThePimp" or "King Kong". It was all just summarily dismissed as "sick shit" with no room for disagreement, case closed. So it's still a minority even of the male population who'd ever be open to Zappa at all on any level. Even I was different. Hah! I'm sure that if there was something just about roundly understood as weird by the conventional majority anyone who knew me from day one would just roll their eyes and think, "Figures!", if I took an interest in it. I was "incorrigible", as I so often heard the word.
Now, as for girls, not a one would ever so much as give that "Zappa-horror" a tiny fraction of one second of a listen -- and I've always had the sneaking suspicion that it was not what they'd heard Zappa do, but largely fecause they were warned by friends, most of whom had never heard a single note directly from Zappa! It was later that I found a few who would listen and two who actually went to the '84 and '88 FZ concerts! I know there was a minor female attendance at those concerts but I swear that nine-out-of-ten were zonked on street drugs and going primarily because of their boyfriends and husbands and just didn't care where they were as long as it was a concert and somebody was performing live.
(A glaring exception I know personally is a friend of one of my sister's for whom I burnt a "YCDTOSA" CD, but she plays albums the way most people read paperback books: listen, enjoy, and store away until 'whenever' if 'whenever' comes. The book: I read it, liked it and tossed it on the pile; the album: I heard it, liked it and tossed it on the pile.)
One who passed by me in '88 was so excited about the number of concerts she had lined up for that week shrieked, "I can't believe this! Zappa tonight and Terrence-Trent Darby tomorrow night! That's just totally un-fucking-believable!" Someone who was with me looked at me and said, "She probably doesn't care where she is so long as she's wasted out of her skull and there's somebody onstage playing something, but to go from Zappa to Terrence-Trent Darby sounds really strange."
But the cry that, "Girls are so young today when they start having sex!", was loudly and clearly heard 30 years ago as much as it is today. As absurd as it is from the laughably ridiculous basis from which it was concocted by the CDC (CDC&P) and trumpeted recently by the hungry media's stenographers concerning how "1-of-every-4 teenage girls has a sexually transmitted disease!", they still never learn how their credibility sinks lower.
What's different today is just a whole pile of visual nonsense right up front with just an incidental musical background going on. "It's not a song unless it has a video!", I remember one girl about 14 saying to a news reporter over 15 years ago when the local news was covering an appearance by some big-name with a month-long career at long-defunct local Tower Records and Video.
It's very hard to shock a lot of kids today because they're ore like their moms and dads at earlier ages and that's not as astonishing as we might think when we look back in history and find the average life expectancy to be around 35 to 40 years and having kids actually was done as fast as biologically possible.
What's warped today is the ever-accelerating telecommunications and the inability to process that information, just ingest it. ("I just realized my professor is full of shit but if I tell him that and why he is he'll ruin my chances at having a career!") Entertainment? "Who's the hottie?", has become the largest factor.
--Batty
sabrinaIII
Location: The Blue Light
Feminism is a dead issue.
Country music + Black music = Rock and Roll
Location: EINDHOVEN
sabrinaIII wrote:
There are still people who study it. I wonder why... when I took a feminist class I ran away after a week. It was not academical, just plain bullshit.
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brainpang
BBP wrote:
The Diversity Industry is the new feminism.
Huck_Phlem
I look at Feminism and all those ethnocentric courses as nothing more than hate groups!
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 10:16 am
Someone call?
Oh!.....Sorry,....thought I heard my name....
Hah! Quite the little authoritative judgement there. So how do you figure that? Based on what?
Yes to all of that. There are entire degrees in Women's Studies which amount to nothing more than sending out droves of women (and neutered men) with the belief that the answer to everything comes down to "it's all your fault, you bastards!" It's far from dead. It's more militant and whiney and one-sided and hateful than ever.
Feminism (or "gender studies"), dear Swifty, is studying art and history of females. It is definitely true that there are very little women whose work belongs to any form of canon (list of things you must know/be familiar with).
Unfortunately it means their work is not looked into from an academic viewpoint. It just means their lives are being looked into, not their products.
In other words, it could've been good, but it's crap. Also remember: it's a young science. Science take decades, even centuries, to become interesting/useful. Feminism has changed a lot since it started. Maybe it'll become a respected science someday. Or not.
SteveD
apparently 'Planet Of The Baritone Women' is about 'metrosexual' (before the term was invented) yuppie MEN...
can't recall where I read that, but I'm sure we could find the reference if necessary
anyway... I think it's presumptuous to say feminism is a dead issue... it'd be nice to think it would go away because all those hairy ugly annoying women aren't particularly pleasant to look at or converse with
but to suggest it's gone away because women are now emancipated from the multiple stupidities they're encouraged to participate in, isn't really supported by the facts... we can have a big debate about it, but female role models are more appalling than they've ever been...
I don't think FZ was particularly 'sexist' because he looked down with disdain on everyone who wasn't Frank Zappa (or married to or the offspring of Frank Zappa)... and because he was driven to be especially fair-minded, didn't feel the need to leave stupid women out of his social commentaries... arguably that's not sexist
and his stuff about the difference between women and ladies etc is fair enough... he was identifying a strand of society that expects men to kiss ladies' asses in order to get laid.. again, fair game and not sexist
but let's not kid ourselves that women in western society aren't subject to all manner of bullshit they have to contend with... anyone who's pondered the existence of make-up, high heels and Paris Hilton as a prime role model knows this to be not true
look, most of us guys don't like feminism because it's all about ugly women who're even less likely to give up some pussy than normal women... right? yuk... we don't want to deal with that... but let's not pretend that there are no issues to be looked at here
I mean, I assume some of you people have heard of a song called 'Beauty Knows No Pain'...? "beauty is a coloured pencil scribbled all around your eye..."... that's about how society likes women the best if they shut up and look pretty, cover themselves in all kinds of pink stuff and keep smiling while we treat them like shit
far from being sexist, I think FZ showed remarkable empathy for women, and it's NOT an issue that's got better
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Feminism (or "gender studies"), dear Swifty, is studying art and history of females.
That sounds fine. But that's not how it comes out in America. It's a different thing here.
Do you study gender issues then? Or have you recently studied them? There's a large difference in the "power to the busts" movements and the people that try to stay on the intellectual side of it, though they initially were the same.
I just graduated from a university in 2006. I talked to a lot of people while I was there. Some of them were people who took these classes. I listened a lot. I looked at text books that people showed me or that I picked up off the shelf and browsed when I was over in the textbook services. I also heard how femist agendas were weaved into MY classes that had nothing to do with feminsm but the professor was a feminist so it got shoved in anyway. So I think I have a real good idea about what is going on and what agendas are being pushed and how they're doing it. It's warped and manipulative.
I'm 100% for recognizing the achievments of an individual who has done something great. I'm also 100% for equal pay for equal skills and results. I'm totally opposed to the rest of the bullshit that has been tacked on. Again, I think it's going to be a LOT different in an American school than in a European school so what I'm saying probably won't match up with what you experience over there.
Yes... like in high school, the quality of a subject is largely depended on the teacher, so it's different per college really. Maybe some colleges in the US are more mild.
I understand Utrecht, where I study, has one of the better gender issues studies. If the Mrs Babs Butter was really giving good classes, why did she base her lectures on a handbag, and spend half an hour on talking about women in the canon using our street names? It's a pathetic image it's making.
Maybe some colleges in the US are more mild.
I wouldn't call them mild in regards to gender (and race) issues, I'd call them aggressively biased.
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To me, feminism seems like any other social issue, whether it's race, religion, sexual orientation, lifestyle, masculinism (insert social issue) ect. Any of these, depending on the individual, can be a useful asset in moderation, but when one loses touch with moderation, they take on extreme views by letting themselves become consumed to the point where they adopt an elitist mindset and look down their noses at those who may either not share their views partially or entirely.
Is the woman's place in the home, taking on the role of human incubator or to don the suit and tie and run an international corporation? It's not my place to say one way or the other. In this day and age, at least in civilized societies, everyone is free to choose the lifestyle that best suits themselves (though it's not like this everywhere). Equality is a no brainer in regards to incomes and professional status. I'm hardly an authority on this subject but this is my impression from personal observations.
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Q: in 'harry, you're a beast,' you lampoon what you call 'american womanhood.' would you be that blunt today?
FZ: oh, easily. I would change some of the lyrics, but there's no reason why I wouldn't comment on american womanhood. in fact, I'll make a comment for ya right now. the female of the species is divided into three sections. girls, ladies, and women. a girl waits around for a boy to kiss her on the lips. a lady expects every guy to kiss her ass. and a woman likes to have a man kiss her pussy. and that's how you can tell them apart.
Q: and american manhood?
FZ: well, the male of the species is divided into three sections. there are boys, guys, and men. a boy has the option of staying a boy all his life, growing up to be one of the guys, or he can grow up to be a man, okay? a guy wants to be with other guys because they do guy things and a man doesn't give a shit. and so, you can see that the girls pair off with the boys, the ladies pair off with the guys, and the women pair off with the men - if they can find each other. some people think that I'm just down on women. I am not. I'm down on anybody who wants to waste my time, whether they're a man, woman, dog, frog, vegetable, mineral, gas or liquid. I think that the only thing you're not gonna get back is time. If somebody's wasting your time, you gotta be a generous son-of-a-bitch to let 'em do it.
"bit of nostalgia for the old folks."
The more militant, whiney, one-sided and hateful the feminist, the sooner and more likely she'll be a ribbon magnet covered SUV driving Stepford wife and mother of 3 before she hits 30.
That, my friend, is why feminism is a dead issue.
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Student-led initiatives aim to promote dining sustainability
September 12, 2014 / no comments / 1739 views
Several Mason students have led the cause to increase sustainability at dining facilities on campus (Claire Cecil/Fourth Estate)
Two student-led programs on Mason’s campus, The Campus Kitchen Project and GMU Cups Up, are answering the call to go green. Both programs are designed to increase sustainability in Mason’s kitchens and dining venues.
The Campus Kitchens Project allows university students to turn food donated from campus dining halls into meals for low-income families and individuals in the Fairfax community.
The program is an initiative of the D.C. Central Kitchen, a Washington D.C.-based organization that provides meals to homeless individuals and provides culinary job training among other services. It has so far been implemented on 36 college campuses nationwide, with Mason’s branch due to launch in mid-October, coinciding with National Food Bank Week.
“This project is really incredible in that it works to promote sustainability on all fronts,” said Clara Everett, the president of the student group coordinating the program at Mason. “By repurposing unused food, we are reducing needless waste and simultaneously helping those who need [food].”
The idea to start a Campus Kitchens Project at Mason has been gaining traction over the past few months. Everett’s group recently received a grant from Auxiliary Enterprises and receives support from multiple Mason departments and offices, including Mason Dining and the Office of Sustainability.
The Mason Campus Kitchen Project will be based in Southside, where student volunteers will prepare meals during off-hours. In addition to meal preparation, these volunteers will plan menus, organize cooking and delivery schedules and conduct community education.
Everett says the group also plans to compost or recycle much of their waste – increasing the sustainability of the project.
“It would be awesome if ultimately we end up using the composted soil to create or expand a garden at Mason,” Everett said.
The GMU Cups Up program, slated to debut at the end of the fall semester, will operate similarly to the existing Choose to Reuse program sponsored by Mason Dining. Participants can participate in the program by buying a reusable cup for sale in the Johnson Center. Every time the cup is used to purchase a drink at a designated Mason Dining facility, a discount will be given on the price of the drink.
“This [GMU Cups Up] is creating an environmentally-friendly alternative for getting fountain drinks on the go on campus and allowing hundreds of disposable cups to be put out of the waste cycle,” said Emily Novack, an environmental and sustainability studies major who is developing the program.
The idea for GMU Cups Up came from a group project Novack conducted during a New Century College course she took this past spring. She and a group of classmates were tasked with creating a project that would help increase sustainability in the community. They chose to focus on the large amount of disposable cups being thrown out daily in the Johnson Center.
“Single-serve disposable cups that are used around campus account for a lot of the litter and trash found on campus,” Novack said. “The cups in the Johnson Center can’t even be recycled due to the wax coating on them and the beverage residue that is usually left on them.”
According to Novack’s research, about 200 disposable cups were sold in one hour at the Johnson Center.
After presenting the project to her class, Novack brought the idea to Caitlin Lundquist, Mason Dining’s marketing and sustainability manager, to see if it could be implemented on Mason’s campus. Novack has been developing the project since then, with Lundquist serving as an advisor.
To supplement the program, Novack is also trying to create a smartphone app that will track the environmental impact of GMU Cups Up participants and offer additional discounts and coupons.
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