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Based on a true story — or as the movies guardedly put it these days, “inspired by true events” — “Winchester” hurls Dame Helen Mirren into her first horror movie.
With 129 acting credits listed to her name on IMDb, it’s amazing to find Mirren hasn’t really done horror before, although John Boorman’s “Excalibur” was a bit scary, Peter Greenaway’s “The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover” was baroque, and “Red 2” and “Collateral Beauty” are a couple of shockers.
Here, in an Australian-backed enterprise by the Spierig Brothers (“Daybreakers,” “Jigsaw”), the Oscar winner plays Sarah Winchester, a spinster all in black lace, heiress to the Winchester rifle fortune who has now (it’s 1906) ensconced herself away in a big, ever-expanding house which is in a continual state of build and repair, all day and night.
Into this eccentric abode is sent San Francisco psychiatrist Eric Price, played by the potato-esque Jason Clarke. He’s been commissioned to assess Ms. Winchester’s mental state as the board of the rifle company seeks to wrest back control. Price’s recreational addiction to laudanum begins to seem like a very bad idea when he starts seeing ghosts in the mirror, every glance underlined by loud jump-scare music (composed by Peter Spierig), every doorway concealing a possible “Boo!” moment. Yes, even the door to the cellar; no cliché left unturned in this one.
Although Price attempts to take control, he’s no match for Sarah Winchester, certainly not the way she’s played by Mirren, who lifts back her veil to reveal her grimmest game face, one that reads: Right, let’s get this nonsense over with as quickly as we can, shall we?
Her character, though, is caught in an alarming limbo, communing with the dead spirits gunned down by her company’s great legacy, the repeating rifle, the weapon which won the Wild West. Even corporate diversification into roller-skate production isn’t without a ghostly victim or two.
Ms. Winchester’s spirit connection goes further: We discover that it’s the ghosts who are possessing her at night and “guiding” her to re-construct the rooms in which they were shot, so she’s forever adding to her house, drawing up new plans and ripping down extensions until the place becomes an Escher-like maze of stairways going nowhere, trap doors and dead ends. This “house that spirits built” is still around, known as America’s most haunted house, and apparently open for tourist visits, in San Jose (if you know the way, of course).
Mirren does her best to bring some gravitas to the role, although I’m not sure that’s what it needed. She may have been the Queen, but she’s no scream queen. Nor does she give it the whole Miss Havisham scary-spinster camp. It needed a bit more Bette Davis, a bit of sarcasm. Mirren just looks like she hates being here.
Even Mirren’s lifeless Winchester is enough to give the opiated Dr. Price (and the lumpen Clarke) the runaround, while her young nephew Henry (Finn Scicluna-O’Prey) — staying in the house with his mother (Sarah Snook, “The Dressmaker”) — is infected with evil spirits and sleepwalks off a roof. In the meantime, Price begins to realize his own connection to the house, why he’s the one who’s been summoned there, and why the conservatory extension is off limits.
There’s a whole arsenal of explanatory dialogue (the Spierigs share script credit with Tom Vaughan) involved in trying to set up and then solve the internal illogic of this ghostly plot, much of which involves hammering 13 nails into doors to seal off the rooms and contain the spirits. But it is still never clear why that works, and we never get to know the real architecture or layout of the house, which, with better directors at the helm, should clearly have become a character in the movie. Sadly, it never looks like anything more than a creaky studio set.
Instead we build to a climax of levitating rifles, rocking chairs and expository old newspaper cuttings, before we behold a ludicrous assembly of vengeful ghosts — including a slave in chains, an angry Native American (holding a tomahawk, no less) and various whiskery Western types — in a gathering that looks like Halloween at the local community theater. Mirren’s sternest test as an actress is to getting to the end of this without actually laughing.
What’s most interesting about the film is the expression of a strong anti-gun sentiment, the guilt that’s eating away at Aunt Sarah. Her regrets feel like the only relevant element in the film. And yet the movies, like America, were built on the gun, and while this film may want to stress its anti-gun message, it still fetishizes the weapons before culminating in a volley of bullets from ghostly trigger fingers.
Whichever way you wield it, “Winchester” is a misfire.
40 Actresses in Their 40s Who Are Still Conquering Hollywood (Photos)
Celebrate the leading ladies of Hollywood who are still killing it in their 40s.
Amy Adams (1974) Academy Award-nominated Amy Adams is best known for roles in Disney's "Enchanted" and "Arrival."
Kerry Washington (1977) Kerry Washington broke out in films like "Ray" and Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained," but really came into her own on the small screen, picking up Emmy nominations for her work in Shonda Rhimes' "Scandal" and for playing Anita Hill in the HBO film "Confirmation." In 2020, she starred with Reese Witherspoon in "Little Fires Everywhere."
Zoe Saldana (1978) Zoe Saldana is best known for starring in the science fiction franchises "Avatar," "Guardians of the Galaxy" and "Star Trek."
Reese Witherspoon (1976) A star since her teenage years, Witherspoon has expanded her profile with the Draper James fashion and home line as well as producing projects (that she often also acts in) such as "Wild" and HBO's "Big Little Lies."
Jennifer Hudson (1981) The "Dreamgirls" star became the 17th entertainer to earn the rare EGOT honor — Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony — in 2022 for producing the play "A Strange Loop."
Rose Byrne (1979) The Australian actress can do drama (the series "Damages") or comedy ("Bridesmaids," "Neighbors" and "Physical"). In 2020, she even played Gloria Steinem in the limited series "Mrs. America."
Angelina Jolie (1975) Academy Award-winning Angelina Jolie has starred in "Girl, Interrupted," "Maleficent" and "Mr. & Mrs. Smith." She has also written and directed several films, including "Unbroken" and "First They Killed My Father."
Eva Longoria (1975) Besides starring on "The Young and the Restless" and "Desperate Housewives," Eva Longoria launched her own production company, UnbeliEVAble Entertainment, in 2016.
Penélope Cruz (1974) The Oscar-winning actress has graced screens in films such as "Belle Époque," "Sahara," and "Murder on the Orient Express." She received her fourth Oscar nomination for her role in 2021's "Parallel Mothers."
Jessica Alba (1981) As a Golden Globe nominated actress, Alba has tackled everything from "Fantastic Four" to "Sin City" to "LA's Finest."
Jessica Chastain (1977) Jessica Chastain, who won the Best Actress Oscar for "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" (and nabbed previous nominations for "Help" and "Zero Dark Thirty," made her film debut in 2008's "Jolene" and has gone on to star in "Miss Sloane," "Molly's Game" and "IT: Chapter Two."
Stephanie Beatriz (1981) Her debut as Detective Rosa Diaz in "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" earned Beatriz the role of Carla in the hit musical film "In the Heights."
Charlize Theron (1975) From "Mad Max: Fury Road" to "Long Shot," this Academy Award-winning actress can do it all.
Natalie Portman (1981) The "V for Vendetta" star received an Academy Award for her performance in "Black Swan." She also starred as Jane Foster in "Thor" and "Thor: The Dark World," and hoists the hammer herself in "Thor: Love and Thunder."
Sutton Foster (1975) After winning two Tony awards for her work on the Broadway stage, Sutton Foster broke into Hollywood through her leading debut in "Younger."
Kate Hudson (1979) After her Golden Globe winning performance in "Almost Famous," the actress and Fabletics founder has starred in "Bride Wars," "Music" and Rian Johnson's "Glass Onion."
Alicia Silverstone (1976) The "Clueless" star has also starred in "Batman & Robin" and "Miss Match," along with publishing two vegan cookbooks.
Michelle Williams (1980) The "Dawson's Creek" actress has starred in "Brokeback Mountain," "The Greatest Showman" and "My Week with Marilyn." She's been nominated for four Oscars and won an Emmy for playing dancer Gwen Verdon in "Fosse/Verdon."
Bryce Dallas Howard (1981) Besides costarring in the massive "Jurassic World" films, she has also directed episodes of "The Manadalorian" and "The Book of Boba Fett." She is also making her directorial feature film debut with "The Flight of the Navigator."
Amy Schumer (1980) Comedian Amy Schumer is best known for her roles in "Trainwreck," "I Feel Pretty," and "Snatched," and co-hosting the 2022 Oscars.
Uzo Aduba (1981) Best known for her Emmy-winning role as Suzanne "Crazy Eyes" Warren on "Orange Is the New Black," Aduba also won an Emmy for playing Shirley Chisholm in "Mrs. America." SHe currently stars in the HBO drama "In Treatment."
Chrissy Metz (1980) For her role as Kate in "This Is Us," Chrissy Metz has earned nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and an Emmy.
Carrie Coon (1981) Carrie Coon is best known for "Gone Girl," "The Leftovers," "The Gilded Age," and "Ghostbusters: Afterlife."
Isla Fisher (1976) The Australian actress, who broke out in "The Wedding Crashers," stars in and executive produces the Peacock series "Wolf Like Me."
Kirsten Dunst (1982) The star of "Bring It On," "Spider-Man" and several Sofia Coppola films was finally nominated for an Oscar for her performance in "The Power of the Dog." In 2016, she received an Emmy nomination for her role on "Fargo."
Kate Winslet (1975) The Oscar-winning "Titanic" star earned two Emmys (for the HBO mini-series "Mildred Pierece" and, more recently, for her her role as a dogged smalltown detective in 2021's "Mare of Easttown"). She's been nominated for seven Oscars.
Rebel Wilson (1980) The Australian actress is best known for "Pitch Perfect," "How to Be Single," and her leading roles in "Isn't It Romantic" and "Senior Year."
Constance Wu (1982) The star of "Crazy Rich Asians" and ABC's "Fresh Off the Boat" also starred opposite Jennifer Lopez in "Hustlers."
Tiffany Haddish (1979) The comedic star of "Girls Trip," "Tuca & Bertie" and "The Afterparty" has also proven herself adept at drama in films like Paul Schrader's "The Card Counter."
Christina Ricci (1980) The former child star who made her mark in the '90s with "The Addams Family" and "Now and Then" went on to costar in "Monster," "The Matrix Resurrections" and earned an Emmy nomination for her 2006 guest turn on "Grey's Anatomy." And she terrifies us, in the best way possible, as Misty on "Yellowjackets."
Melanie Lynskey (1977) Between "Yellowjackets" and "Candy," this New Zealand actress is killing it. It's about time the "Heavenly Creatures" star got the acclaim she deserves.
Rebecca Hall (1982) This British actress, who we loved in "The Town" and "The Night House" and topped critics' lists with her harrowing performance in 2016's "Christine," made her directorial debut in 2021 with the acclaimed period drama "Passing."
Ruth Negga (1982) The Ethiopian-born Irish actress was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar and won an Independent Spirit Award for her role in "Loving," and received universal praise — and a BAFTA nomination — for her performance opposite Tessa Thompson in 2021's "Passing."
Keri Russell (1976) The former "Felicity" star made a very convincing spy on "The Americans," which earned her three Emmy nominations. She also costarred in the films "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker," "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2017.
Jenny Slate (1982) The actress co-created, wrote and produced the children's short film and book series "Marcel the Shell With Shoes On," which became an A24 feature film. She also charmed us in "Gifted" with Chris Evans and "I Want You Back," and won numerous critics awards for her lead role in 2014's "Obvious Child."
Natasha Lyonne (1979) The "American Pie" star scored a hit with the Netflix series "Russian Doll," which she co-created with Amy Poehler. She is also the showrunner.
Maggie Gyllenhaal (1977) After receiving a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for the 2009 film "Crazy Heart, in 2021 she made her directorial film debut with "The Lost Daughter," which earned Oscar nominations for her screenplay, as well as acting nods for stars Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley.
Rosario Dawson (1979) The actress who made her acting debut in the 1995 indie drama "Kids" has gone on to star in "Sin City" and five Marvel/Netflix series including "Daredevil." She's also set to star as Ahsoka Tano in the live-action Disney+ series, “Ahsoka.”
Natsha Rothwell (1980)
The actress, who plays Kelli on HBO's "Insecure" was also nominated as a supervising producer on the series. Her other TV shows include "The White Lotus" and "Archer."
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By Abdul Bari Masoud
New Delhi: Meerut- based Unani drugs manufacturing company ‘Drugs Laboratories’ is the one and only among the Unani pharmaceuticals companies which was recently accorded the prestigious ‘Ayush Premium Mark’ by the Ministry of AYUSH. Now it would able to export Unani medicine abroad legally.
Considering the state of Unani pharmaceuticals industry in the country, it is not a mean achievement for the DL, especially if one compares it with well-known Hamdard company which even did not get such certificate despite having much more popular and older than the DL.
Talking to Muslim Mirror, Dr. Sirajuddin Ahmad, chairman of Drugs Laboratories said “Ayush Premium Mark’ assures that the product quality and GMP requirement is of international standard”. Terming it a big achievement, Dr Ahmad said DL has become the first Unani and top Ayurvedic Company in India to get this prestigious certificate.
India has emerged as the world leader in Unani medicine but it has not been able to export Unani medicine to the world and Ayush Premium Mark has opened new horizons and possibilities for the promotion of Unani system, he said.
Ayush Premium Mark’ recognition is given by the Quality Council of India in collaboration with Ministry of Ayush government of India. ‘Ayush Premium Mark’ is mandatory for export of Ayush products and supply of medicine in government institutes.
The certificate recognises that the products of a particular company are based on GMP requirements that are based on WHO guidelines and followed worldwide.
Dr. Ahmad said ‘Drugs Laboratories’ is the first Unani Company to modernize Unani products according to market needs which has 64patented drugs.
Currently company has more than 50 patented products and 64 classical Unani products. Apart from this Ayurvedic product are also manufactured.
We have developed 12 highly-effective drugs for instant relief ranging from cough to fever and even now allopathic doctors also prescribed these drugs to patients, he said.
Drugs Laboratories” with a fervour to keep Unani and Ayurvedic flag high and to serve the mankind, initiated extensive research in the field of Herbal with modern techniques in quality control and production.
We are also working how to make Unani medicine more popular across the communities and the country as it is a very effective medicine which has no risk of any side-effect, he said who’s father Padma Shree Hakim Saifuddin Ahmad was a very prominent Unani Physician. Hakim Saifuddin was also served as a Unani Physician to three Indian Presidents and was also appointed as the first Unani advisor to the government of India.
Talking about his family association with Unani medicine, Dr. Sirajuddin said this profession has been running in our veins for more than seventh generation as he has inherited this from his father Hakim Saifuddin Ahmad. His both sons have also been assisting their father in this venture.
We did not keep the family prescriptions secret but made it public for the benefit of the humanity, he added. Highlighting the company’s future plans, he said we are doing scientific research on a number of drugs including how to get rid of the dialysis which has become a mandatory for a kidney patient and many more things.

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See a Bullseye? You May Have Lyme Disease
When you think of a bullseye, chances are you picture a target up on a wall that you throw darts at, aiming for that small circle in the middle of a number of rings that would give you the most points for a win. When it comes to Lyme Disease, however, a bullseye is not exactly a winning circle.
One of the characteristic signs that indicate someone may have Lyme Disease is a bullseye rash. This is a red rash that is flat, not raised. It consists of a large red circle with a red dot in the middle of the circle, looking much like a bullseye in a target.
Not everyone who contracts Lyme Disease acquires the bullseye rash, but 70-80% of those who are bitten by an infected tick do. The rash appears in the area where a tick has bitten you, but the red marks do not appear until anywhere from 3-30 days after the bite has occurred.
Lyme Disease is caused by a bacteria that is present in infected ticks. The disease is not contagious amongst humans. Once you have Lyme, it can affect not only your skin. If left undetected and untreated, it can affect your heart, joints or nervous system. Aside from a bullseye rash, other symptoms of Lyme Disease can include joint stiffness, a type of paralysis and/or tremors. Late stages of the disease can lead to arthritis, neurological problems, nerve damage or meningitis.
Fifteen to twenty percent of the time, a bullseye rash does not occur with Lyme Disease. Other symptoms to watch for that may indicate the disease are fatigue, headaches, joint pain, stiff muscles or swollen glands. An infected tick can bite any part of your body without your feeling it, and a rash may flare up in an area of the body that you may not notice. Getting regular dermatological exams is an important part of your health regimen.
It’s important to have any type of skin rash checked out by a doctor or dermatologist. Anytime you or a loved one observes a rash on your body, particularly if it’s in the shape of a bullseye, you should call your physician, even if you are not yet showing any other symptoms of Lyme Disease. Marcus Goodman, DO, is a dermatologist based in Roswell, Georgia. Dr. Goodman is a dermatologist who is familiar with all skin conditions and diseases. With many satisfied patients in the Atlanta area, Dr. Goodman consistently wins top awards in his field for his compassion and his broad knowledge base.
Although Dr. Goodman is situated in Roswell, GA he attracts patients from the surrounding Atlanta areas, such as Johns Creek, Alpharetta, Suwanee, Dunwoody, Canton and Cumming. The friendly office staff at his practice, Goodman Dermatology, will be happy to arrange a consultation visit for you.

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July 30, 2010
Alvin Boretz, a prolific dramatist of early television, died on July 22 at the age of 91. Boretz claimed to have written over 1,000 radio and television plays. “From the very beginning I had a good reputation,” he said, “I was always getting work. I never had to look for it.”
After working his way through school (seven years of nights at Brookyn College) and serving in the Army Air Corps during World War II, Boretz got his first writing job in 1945 after he answered an ad in the paper. It was a radio gig, and for the rest of the decade Boretz penned scripts for Five Treasury Salute, Big Town, Front Page Farrell, Big Story, and (for producer Steve Carlin, later a figure in the quiz show scandals) Five Minute Mysteries. His first paycheck, for $60, was signed by radio pioneer Himan Brown, who preceded him in death by just over a month.
“Radio was great because you went in and you created a whole world,” Boretz said.
Big Town and Big Story transitioned successfully into live television, and they took Boretz with them. Both were newspaper dramas, Story an anthology and Town a crime drama that starred Patrick McVey as a racket-busting editor. Boretz expanded his catalog to include Treasury Men in Action, which like Big Story was produced by the brothers-in-law Bernard Prockter and Everett Rosenthal. Appointment With Adventure, Justice, and another Prockter production, The Man Behind the Badge, followed. In 1952, Boretz watched an unknown actor named James Dean audition for one of his scripts for Martin Kane, Private Eye. Dean was fired by the director after two days of rehearsal, but he later starred in “The Rex Newman Story,” one of Boretz’s Big Storys.
Though Boretz never joined the first rank of the live TV playwrights, he logged hours on some of the most prestigious anthologies, including Philco Television Playhouse, Kraft Theatre, and The Alcoa Hour.
“Alvin was a professional, no-nonsense writer,” said producer Bob Markell. “He knew the problems of making TV, and he accomodated the problems, not worrying about whether it was great art or not. He had no pretensions. More often than not, the shows were good shows.”
In the early days of live television, the writer was a welcome presence at the table reading and the rehearsals of a script. Boretz took full advantage of his access. “I used to sneak an actor away from the producer and say, ‘Listen, do me a favor. When you play this part, do this, do that, do that,’” Boretz recalled. “If the producer knew I was doing it, they’d kill me. But I couldn’t help it, because I wanted to protect my work.”
Boretz spoke with a loud Brooklyn accent; he sounded like the actor Joseph Campanella. The writer Harold Gast remembered Boretz as “a smartass.” He described an obnoxious gag Boretz would use at parties: He would grab someone by the arm and give it a vigorous shake. The greeting was a pretext to cause the other man to spill his drink.
But Boretz’s aggressive personality was a key to his writing. He told me that
I’m a big talker, so when I meet guys, I’ll take a guy to lunch and tell him this idea that I have. What do you think of it? “That’s not a bad idea.” I’d say, Well, how would you go about doing this or go about doing that? I would bleed them a little for ideas. Then I would take them to lunch. I belonged to the Princeton Club. Not that I went to Princeton; I went to Brooklyn College at night for seven years. But the guys at the Princeton Club invited me to join because I was a good squash player.
Boretz got the idea for one of his Armstrong Circle Theaters, about a banker who was “a crook, a thief,” from a Princeton Club acquaintance. (This was 1963’s “The Embezzler,” starring Gene Saks.) Armstrong was Boretz’s most important early credit. When David Susskind took over production of the show in 1955, he gave the anthology a distinctive identity by turning it into a showcase for ripped-from-the-headlines, current-events stories. The scripts utilized dramatic devices borrowed from newsreels and documentaries, something Boretz had already been doing on Big Story. These were “strong, honest stories,” in Boretz’s view. Between 1958 and 1961, he penned nearly every third Armstrong segment.
For Armstrong, Boretz wrote about con men, prison reform, highway safety, compulsive gambling, and single parenting. The Cold War was Armstrong’s bread and butter, and Boretz’s scripts on that subject included “The Trial of Poznan,” about the 1956 uprising in Poland. Jack Gould, the television critic for the New York Times, wrote that
The best part of his play . . . was its depiction of the contagion of freedom. The two defense attorneys, who had expected to follow orders as usual, one after the other became interested in putting up a genuine defense. Next it is the judge who, having granted some freedom, cannot be sure when to stop and finally exercises his own authority. Finally it is the prosecuting attorney who realizes too late that freedom cannot be turned on and off at will.
Boretz won a Harcourt Brace Award for “The Trial of Poznan,” which cashed in on the anti-communist hysteria of the late fifties and also subverted it to deliver a progressive message. It’s a good example of how Armstrong (and David Susskind) navigated the crazed political atmosphere of the times.
Boretz claimed that he was “never stupid enough to join the Party.” But his politics tilted leftward and he believed he had a “narrow escape” from the blacklist. A sword hung over his head that had nothing to do with his politics. His cousin, Allen Boretz, a famous playwright and screenwriter, was blacklisted. Alvin was twenty years younger and barely knew Allen, but he spent the McCarthy era fearing that someone would mix up their names and blacklist him too. At one point his friend Abram S. Ginnes, another Armstrong writer who was graylisted, asked Alvin to put his name on one of Ginnes’s scripts so that it could be sold. Boretz refused. “Fronts” sometimes followed the men they stood in for onto the blacklist.
Of all his work, Boretz was proudest of his association with Playhouse 90, even though he wrote only one script for it. “It was a classy show,” Boretz said. His episode, “The Blue Men,” was a police procedural that the producer, Herbert Brodkin, spun off into a half-hour series called Brenner. Boretz served briefly as Brenner’s story editor (Earl Booth replaced him), and went on to write for Brodkin’s next two series, The Defenders and The Nurses.
One of Boretz’s closest friends in the business was a writer named Allan E. Sloane. Similar in background and temperament, they both commuted to work from Long Island and for a time shared a pied-à-terre in Manhattan. Boretz and Sloane had something else in common, too: Each of them had an autistic child, and each dramatized aspects of that experience in his television writing.
When The Defenders debuted in 1961, Boretz was deeply offended by the premiere episode, “The Quality of Mercy.” Written by Reginald Rose, the series’ creator, this infamous “mongoloid idiot baby” show concerned an obstetrician (Philip Abbott) who euthanizes a mentally retarded newborn. In examining the issue from all sides, Rose declined to condemn the doctor’s action. Boretz crafted a response of sorts in the form of “The Forever Child,” a segment of Brodkin’s medical drama The Nurses. Earnest and compassionate, “The Forever Child” debated the merits of home schooling versus public education for mentally challenged children. Boretz’s script emphasized the crushing fatigue experienced by the parents of such children.
“The Forever Child” drew upon research Boretz had done for “The Hidden World,” a 1959 Armstrong show about Iowa’s Glenwood State School for the mentally retarded. It wasn’t the only time he returned to his Armstrong work for inspiration. One of his three Dr. Kildares, “Witch Doctor,” resembled “The Medicine Man,” an Armstrong exposé on quack doctors. Another, “A Place Among the Monuments,” depicted a duel of wills between Kildare and a suicidal young woman (Zohra Lampert) who resists his efforts to counsel her. It was a reworking of “The Desperate Season,” an Armstrong about a suicidal college professor (Alexander Scourby) who receives successful treatment for his depression.
Dr. Kildare, one of Boretz’s first Hollywood credits, led to work on other West Coast doctor shows: The Eleventh Hour, Breaking Point, Medical Center. Boretz ended up using his pseudonym (“Roy Baldwin”) on all three. “I carefully documented the case histories of my fictional patients, but the story editors put up an argument,” Boretz told a reporter in 1965. “My name, to me, has value. It’s all I’ve got.”
Like a lot of New York-based writers, Boretz struggled against the more commercial and less collegial circumstances of television production on the Left Coast. Never willing to relocate, Boretz slowed his output somewhat as he wrote for Laredo, Mod Squad, Ironside, The Rookies, and Kojak from afar. He had a role in developing The Amazing Spider-Man for television in 1977, and wrote a pair of exploitation films (including Brass Target, for his old friend Arthur Lewis, the first producer of The Nurses). One of his final credits – or, rather, Roy Baldwin’s – was the TV movie and hopeful pilot Brass, starring Carroll O’Connor as a New York City police commissioner.
Brass was shot on location in Manhattan, but Boretz’s real New York swan song may have been his five (out of forty-nine) episodes of N.Y.P.D., the gritty half-hour cop show that ran from 1967 to 1969. Bob Markell, the show’s producer, remembered that
when I was doing N.Y.P.D., I convinced Susskind and Melnick [the executive producers] to let me go out and shoot what I called stock footage, so that I could use that any time I wanted to. Fire trucks, ambulances, things like that that you could cut in. One day, Susskind, or Danny [Melnick], said to me, “What are you going to do with all this stock footage you got?” I said, “I don’t know.” I called Alvin up and said, “Alvin, I shot all this stock footage. You want to write a script around it?” He wrote a hell of a script. I loved Alvin.
All five of his scripts are winners; Boretz had a real feel for the sleazy two-bit criminals on whom the show focused. “Case of the Shady Lady” had the cops untangling a knot of suicide, murder, and extortion among a rich playboy (Robert Alda), an wide-eyed B-girl (Gretchen Corbett), and an obnoxious club owner-cum-pimp (Harvey Keitel). “Private Eye Puzzle” gave Murray Hamilton an amusing star turn as an oily P.I. “Who’s Got the Bundle?” was a cat-and-mouse game between cops and crooks searching for a missing $150,000. The money ends up with a pudgy cab driver who crumples as soon as Lt. Haines (Jack Warden) questions him. M. Emmet Walsh, new on the acting scene but already middle-aged, hits the right wistful note as he delivers Boretz’s monologue explaining why the cabbie kept the loot:
Twenty-two years. That’s how long for me, twenty-two years. Cab driver. You know, I listen to the radio: Fly here, fly there. Fancy millionaire stiffs me out of a tip. Then a guy puts a knife in your neck and he takes it all. Then yesterday morning, suddenly, like from heaven, a gift. I opened it in my apartment. I s’pose I knew all the time I wasn’t going to have it. I mean, after twenty-two years . . . .
In March of 2003, I visited Alvin Boretz in Woodmere, a town on Long Island where he had lived since at least the early sixties. What ensued was a very uncomfortable conversation. Boretz was suffering from symptoms of Alzheimer’s or dementia, and he could recall his career in only the most general terms. Alvin would try to cover the gaps by changing the subject or repeating something he’d just told me, and I did the best I could not to let on that I noticed any problem. The quotations above represent almost all of what I could salvage.
“He wasn’t like this six months ago,” his wife, Lucille, told me as she drove me back to the train station. Rarely have I been made so aware that my work is a race against time. Lucille and Alvin Boretz were married for 68 years.
Thanks to Jonathan Ward for his assistance with some of the research.
July 8, 2008
Last month one of the more fascinating forgotten shows of the fifties made its home video debut. Timeless Media’s new box set of fifteen episodes of Brenner marks the first opportunity that TV fans, and even veteran collectors, have had to sample this series since its original network run nearly fifty years ago. I’ve written about a few figures connected tangentially to Brenner – Frank Lewin, the composer who supervised the music and probably composed the terrific, minimalist jazz theme, and Sydney Pollack, a bit player visible on the periphery of several episodes as young plainclothes cop – but even I had never been able to take a close look at the show until this DVD collection went into production.
Brenner‘s historical significance derives mainly from its pedigree. Its executive producer was Herbert Brodkin, a former set designer who became perhaps the last of the important producers of quality dramas in the waning days of live television. Taking the reigns of NBC’s Alcoa Hour/Goodyear Playhouse and then CBS’s Studio One and Playhouse 90 during their later seasons, Brodkin produced key live dramas including Horton Foote’s “The Traveling Lady” and “Tomorrow,” Rod Serling’s autobiographical “The Velvet Alley,” and the original “Judgment at Nuremberg” – the one during which the sponsor, the American Gas Company, insisted that all references to the gas chambers be deleted. Brodkin’s second act came in 1961, when he launched The Defenders, a Reginald Rose creation that raked in a roomful of Emmys and became the most important TV drama of the early sixties. Brodkin’s other sixties shows – The Nurses, For the People, Espionage, and the cult failure Coronet Blue – were less successful but helped to define his reputation as a standard-bearer of uncompromising quality as television became more and more conventional. It was a reputation that continued into the seventies as Brodkin, like most of the talented people in television, shifted his attention to movies of the week and miniseries. Pueblo, The Missiles of October, and Holocaust (also recently released on DVD) were all Brodkin efforts.
Brenner, made in 1959, was a transitional project for Brodkin. It was his first independent production, his first series to be shot on film, and (aside from his first producing assignment, NBC’s live Charlie Wild, Private Detective) his initial concession to the reality that programs with running characters were quickly supplanting the anthology drama. Like The Defenders and The Nurses, Brenner was based on a one-shot anthology show from Brodkin’s catalog, a January 1959 Playhouse 90 entitled “The Blue Men.” Intriguingly, Alvin Boretz, who wrote “The Blue Men,” is not credited as the creator of Brenner, although he did contribute scripts to the series.
So just what is the show about, exactly? It’s a modest police drama that centers on not one but two characters who give their names to the series’ title: Roy Brenner (Edward Binns), a no-nonsense, seen-it-all plainclothes NYPD lieutenant, and his son Ernie (James Broderick), a rookie beat cop. Viewers familiar with the first season of the better-known Naked City and the underappreciated Decoy (a syndicated show with the sexy Beverly Garland as a tough, beautiful pre-feminist policewoman) will find that Brenner shares much of its flavor, its taut little stories that blend character drama with action (and not always smoothly), with those shows. The primary difference is that, while Brenner too was shot on location in New York City, it takes little advantage of the panorama of awesome cityscapes that give Naked City and Decoy their visual richness. Like The Defenders and The Nurses, Brenner plays out mainly on interior sets.
That may be disappointing to some who hope to get a time-capsule snapshot of Manhattan circa 1959; certainly I had to adjust my expectations a bit when I began studying the Brodkin shows after considerable exposure to the location-rich East Side/West Side and Naked City. But Brenner has other virtues, in particular some conceptual subtleties that you won’t find in Decoy or the half-hour Naked Citys.
For one thing, although Brenner never quite develops into a serialized story, it is a bildungsroman of sorts that places a great deal of emphasis on Ernie’s growth as a cop. The episode “Departmental Trial” makes a point of telling us that Ernie is in his first year on the force, and others chart the lessons he learns from his mistakes, and his acceptance or rejection of the examples set by various older cops.
And the emphasis there is on rejection, because of another unusual element of Brenner. Roy Brenner’s assignment within the police department is on the Confidential Squad, or what we’d now call “internal affairs”: he investigates allegations of corruption among other cops. Fully half the episodes in this DVD set focus on some allegation of police malfeasance. “Small Take” and “Thin Ice” are about beat cops accused of taking bribes or turning a blind eye to a gambling racket. “Monopoly on Fear” stars Milton Selzer as a plainclothesman charged with cowardice – he’s six months away from retirement and starting to lose his nerve – and “Laney’s Boy” deals with cops who cover up a punk teenager’s petty crimes because his father is a beloved police sergeant.
Roy Brenner ends up exonerating as many police officers as he takes down. But viewed in total, Brenner projects an attitude that’s almost perversely anti-police, even by the modern standards of something like the cynical The Shield. Though the execution is less forceful, it’s this element that links Brenner most closely to the crusading social criticism undertaken in The Defenders and The Nurses. I have no idea if Brenner enjoyed police cooperation in its filming or not, but you have to imagine that if anyone from the NYPD ever paid attention to the scripts, they’d have gotten mightily steamed.
Brenner was produced by Arthur Lewis, a Broadway veteran who died two years ago. (Brodkin, essentially an impresario and still working simultaneously on Playhouse 90, received credit as executive producer.) Lewis went on to produce the first season of The Nurses, and so many of the same key talents behind that show were also the most prolific contributors to Brenner: the directors Gerald Mayer and Herman Hoffman, and writers like Boretz, George Bellak, and Art Wallace. You might call them Brodkin’s “B team” – solid mid-level craftsmen from the pool of New York, live TV-trained talent, but not the superstars who would form the more exclusive creative staff of The Defenders.
A few big names did pass behind the cameras of Brenner. The great Ernest Kinoy wrote one episode (“Crime Wave,” sadly not in the DVD set), and Peter Stone, a journeyman TV scribe before Charade made him famous, contributed several. Steven Gethers, later Emmy-nominated for his work on The Farmer’s Daughter, wrote perhaps the most compelling episode in the DVD collection, “Crisis.” It’s a sensitive, almost entirely personal story in which Roy Brenner falls in love with a woman (Hildy Parks) who cannot come to terms with the element of danger in his job.
Then, of course, there are the actors. As with any New York-based show of this era, one can have an enormous amount of fun trying to spot all the soon-to-be-famous young performers just launching their careers. George Maharis, Jerry Stiller, Al “Grandpa Munster” Lewis, Mitchell Ryan, and Clifton James all turn up in the episodes on the DVDs. The X-Files‘ Jerry Hardin has a role with no lines in “Departmental Trial,” and Bruce Kirby appears without credit in “The Vigilantes.” Brenner somehow had a special knack in casting the roster of patrolmen who have recurring roles in various episodes. Along with Sydney Pollack, Gene Hackman and Dick O’Neill were among this group. Oh, and there’s one episode in which sixties leading lady Carol Rossen is visible as an uncredited, non-speaking featured extra. Can anyone spot her?
I’ve filed this piece in the “Corrections Department” section because Brenner has languished in such obscurity over the years that virtually nothing has been written about it – and much of what’s out there is inaccurate. Most reference books describe Brenner as a father-and-son cop show – a reduction that makes it sound like some hoary Pat O’Brien melodrama from the thirties – without mentioning more substantive aspects of the premise (Ernie’s inexperience; the “rat squad” angle). Every source I’ve come across, in print and on-line, contends that Brenner filmed an initial batch of episodes in 1959 and then briefly resumed production again in 1964 to create ten more episodes.
That’s a highly unusual production history of which I’d always been skeptical – why would CBS choose to revive a failed, forgotten show, and why would Brodkin and the two stars participate, five years further on in their careers? The copyright dates on these episodes finally confirm my suspicion – that the entire Brenner series was created in 1959, and that the show’s summer replacement run on CBS in 1964 was simply a burn-off of unaired segments.
Any reference you consult, apart from an exhaustive catalog compiled by the Museum of Broadcasting (now the Paley Center) for its 1985 Brodkin retrospective, will tell you that there are 25 Brenner episodes. Actually there are 26 – sort of. As was common at the time, Brodkin used the series’ final production slot to film a “backdoor pilot” for a proposed spinoff called Charlie Paradise. (The episode itself is called “The Tragic Flute.”) Just as Brenner emulated Naked City, Charlie Paradise was a pretty blatant attempt to join in on the wave of cool private eye actioners that followed upon the success of Peter Gunn and Richard Diamond, Private Detective. Charlie (Ron Randell) is the proprietor of an ultra-hip coffee house, a sort of godfather of Greenwich Village to whom Roy Brenner turns for help in navigating the wacky world of beatniks.
Presumably, had the series sold, Charlie would’ve been an amateur sleuth along the lines of John Cassavetes’ Johnny Staccato, and one imagines that the New York location shooting might have offered an authenticity exceeding that of any of the other “jazz-eye” shows. But “The Tragic Flute” is undistinguished; it tries for a light-hearted flavor that trades too heavily on the supposed exoticism of the beat world. (The writers were James Yaffe and Peter Stone, working here more than on his other Brenners in the comic mode that won him the Oscar). Broderick doesn’t appear in the segment at all, and Edward Binns looks exquisitely uncomfortable as he plays straight man to all the kooks (which include Roberts Blossom as a beat poet, and Fred Gwynne as a character named Frances X. Fish). Taken out of context Charlie Paradise is simply baffling, and it might have been wiser for Timeless to segregate it as a bonus feature on the DVDs.
As for those DVDs, the image quality is exceptional – far superior to the often battered, sixteen-millimeter derived copies of the early Universal shows (Arrest and Trial, Checkmate) that Timeless has been releasing lately. Unfortunately, I’m told that unless another print source is found, this will be a standalone “best-of” release. It would be wonderful to have the other eleven Brenners on DVD someday. It would be even more wonderful if CBS/Paramount would open up its vaults and give us The Defenders, The Nurses, and Coronet Blue.

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Oh My God thank you too all of those who reviewed my story I super appreciate it! And a special thanks to u/7371062/LuciaKata for informing me that the Chihiro X Haku is called Chihaku! XD
HEY Sorry it's been so long since I uploaded. I was super sick! But Hope you think the wait was worth it.
BTW The semester has started so my updates will be sparatic at best. But I will finish it. Promise! :D
Chihiro felt as her body was carried out of the water, it was less graceful than it normally did in her dreams, more painful, her throat hurt. She felt as her body was laid on a hard surface. Muffled voices were all around her but she couldn't quit hear. Chihiro felt as two strong hands pressed down on her chest,then the pressure was gone only to be replaced by a soft tiny pressure on her lips.
"Come on Chihiro, wake up." Urged a sweet, familiar voice. It was the voice that made her open her eyes as he returned his lips to hers an energy tingled her lips and slipped down her throat. It felt like it was pulling the water from her lungs up her throat . Water burst from her mouth in a coughing fit as soon as the lips left hers. Chihiro shot up and turned over as she coughed, and tried to catch her breath.
As Chihiro tried to even out her breathing, she heard a cacophony of voices, but one voice penetrated her ears more than the others. it was only a tiny whisper of gratefulness, but it was the only one that matter.
"Thank goodness." She heard him say. The words were full of praise and love? He sounded so familiar. Chihiro's head snapped to the left, sitting next her, in a soaked school uniform, was the boy who saved her life. Sea foam green eyes locked on to her plan, ordinary brown one's. As he looked at her, into her, existence halted. As she searched his face, it was lean, soft, feminine, yet defined, and distinguished, her eyes looked into his and she was transported back six years ago.
They held hands as they ran giddy, and ecstatic that she had passed the test, and saved her parents.
He stopped just as the riverbed came into view.
"The water's gone I can cross!" Chihiro exclaimed, but then she looked to the boy whose hand she still held. "Will I ever see you again?"
He smiled, " I promise."
He smiled a smile she knew so well, a smile she felt was reserved only for her.
"Hi." He squeezed her hand, "Welcome back."
"Koha..." She didn't finish the word. Couldn't say it. Because it was him, but if it wasn't... she couldn't bare the devastation it would bring. Chihiro wouldn't do that not to herself. She rather never know. It had been too long for her give in to the hope that was budding. Her Haku was shorter, younger, yet so was she back then, in the spirit world. This Haku's hair was longer, longer than most girls hair, it went down to the small of his back. It was black, with a green tint to it. Chihiro had expected that if she ever saw him again it'd be the boy she'd met, not a teenager. Chihiro just could not believe. She had come to far to allow her self to fall for anything anymore. So instead she tore her hands away and held it close to her heart to protect it, "Thank you."
Her voice quivered, and she knew tears were forming in her eyes. Chihiro blinked, and rubbed her eyes. Trying not to focus on the concern in his so familiar eyes, or the fading smile on his lips.
"Chihiro!" Mica yelled as the rambunctious blonde tackled Chihiro hugging her tight. Kira was right behind her, trying to pull her off.
"Stop it, Mica! She just almost drowned! Give her some air!" finally Kira pulled Mica to her feet.
Yusuke grabbed the hand at her chest and held it tight. Chihiro tried to ignore the momentary glare the boy next her gave as he did so, "Are you okay what happened?"
"Yeah, care to explain how my best swimmer started drowning, the day before our meet?" Coach Takanada asked. His voice was stern but his eyes were full of concern.
"Well..." Chihiro trailed off looking around the hoard of people that surrounded her until her eyes settled back on the stranger. She blushed and looked down with a muttered 'Eeep.' "I thought there was a bee in the pull, And inhaled to scream, but I swallowed water instead." She lied quickly.
"You dope!" Kira chided flicking Chihiro on the nose, "We were worried about you!"
"Yeah! you could have died if this guy," Mica pointed her finger at the drenched boy next Chihiro. She paused looking him up and down, "this really really really cute guy hadn't dove in and pulled you to safety!"
"Oh." Chihiro looked from Mica to the mention boy, "Thank you."
The greens eyes held hers, as he looked at her with such earnest all he said was, "Always."
Chihiro felt her heart beat thrash against her ribs as he said the word. Her breathing became shallow. Her mouth hung open and her eyes couldn't look away. She must have resembled a poor deer caught in the headlights, and this stranger, with his eyes that were so familiar was the car.
"So I know everybody at this school and I've never met you before. Are you knew?" Mica asked pursing her lips and placing her hands on her hips attempting to size up the boy that was staring at her best friend.
"Yeah, and who are you by they way?" Yusuke asked standing up attempting to intimidate the Chihiro's savior. "This isn't exactly the biggest town. I'm sure I would have you here before."
The stranger stood up as well. "I'm a new student here. I was told you," He turned to address the Coach, "were who I talked to about joining the Swim team."
"Hmmm," the coach looked him up and down. He placed his hands on his narrow hips and scrunched his nose as he examined the strange kid, "Ever swim on a team before?"
"Not for a school, I was home schooled, but I have the best swim records for a club I swam for." He answered pulling out a piece of paper.
Chihiro saw the aw of surprise in her coaches boys numbers must have been really good. Coach Takanada closed his mouth and shook his head.
"We're half way through the swim season, boy. But if your numbers are as good as this paper says they are well, I'll give you a try out Monday 3:15. Be dressed, be stretched out, don't be late."
Yusuke narrowed his eyes. Chihiro knew he felt jealous and insecure. He was by far the best swimmer they had on the boys side. No one came close, but if the coach was going to let someone try out half way through the season he must be amazing. "What's your name?"
The stranger glanced down at Chihiro who still sat sprawled out on the concrete floor, and smiled a tiny smile that resonated in her entire being. "Haku."
Chihiro's breath caught in her sore throat.
She felt her chest squeeze, and her heart beat rapidly. She simply couldn't take him. He was too similar yet not similar enough. Chihiro scrambled onto all fours and then onto her feet. She dashed for the girl's locker room. Bursting through the heavy metal door, Chihiro glanced around as if she'd never been in the room then she ran behind the wall in the middle of the room where the showers were before collapsing on her hands and knees attempting to breathe.
The tile was stained and grime grew in the cracks but none of that mattered, all that mattered were those eyes, that voice, and the fact the Chihiro just couldn't take a proper breathe no matter how hard she tried. Tears began to form in her eyes as memories high jacked her mind.
Moments later Kira and Mica burst through the door and hearing Chihiro's gasps and sobs they ran around to try and help her. What they found was their best friend in the fettle position crying.
"Jesus, Chihiro!" Akira exclaimed taking in the sight of her friend waling, and rocking back and forth.
"Oh, Chihiro." Mica whispered as she gathered her devastated friend in her arms.
Chihiro, still crying, latched onto her friend and wept into her bosom. She wept for the memories that would not abandon their assault on her mind. She wept for the friendship that was left untouched for six years. She wept for the ten year old whose heart was filled with faith, trust, and love. And she wept for the promise that was never kept and could never be kept.
So how are we feeling with chapter 2 here? Hope you enjoyed it and remember praise and critism are equally welcomed! Thank you for reading!

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The Philadelphia Flyers must not like playing afternoon hockey games this season. The Flyers on Saturday were defeated by their cross-state rivals the Pittsburgh Penguins, 6-4 at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. The Flyers again had the problem they have had all season long and that is with their goalies.
The Philadelphia Flyers started Ilya Bryzgalov in goal but he was later replaced by Sergei Bobrovsky. They both did not play well for the Flyers. The team now officially has a major goaltending problem and they need to fix it and fix it quickly or Flyers fans could be looking at another season of the Stanley Cup dream being over. Bryzgalov and Bobrovsky each gave up three goals a piece and the Flyers have dropped another matinee game this season. The Flyers and the Penguins are now tied with 71 points in the Atlantic Division and the Eastern Conference Standings.
The Pittsburgh Penguins broke a 3-3 tie by scoring two goals within the first three minutes of the third period. The Penguins' Dustin Jeffrey scored 37 seconds into the third period to give the Penguins a 4-3 lead. The Penguins quickly got another goal by Pascal Dupuis which gave them a two goal lead. The Penguins scored the two goals in 2 minutes, 9 seconds into the final period. The Penguins than made it 6-3 when James Neal scored with 10:58 left in the game. It was Neal's 30th goal of the season. The Flyers Wayne Simmonds scored his 21st goal of the season with 19 seconds left in the game.
The Penguins scored first in the game on their very first shot of the game. Matt Cooke scored 3:17 into the game and gave the Penguins a 1-0 lead. The Flyers Jaromir Jagr scored two goals in just 18 seconds and gave the Flyers a 2-1 lead. In the second period the Penguins Jordan Staal knocked the Flyers defenseman Braydon Coburn into the boards hard. Staal after the game was fined by the NHL for the hard hit and he was fined $2500 by the NHL, which is the maximum allowed by the league.
In the second period the Penguins took a 3-2 lead on two shorthanded goals that were 1 minute, 43 seconds apart. Staal tied the game at 2-2 when he put a shot past Flyers goalie Bryzgalov. The Penguins again scored shorthanded as the Flyers were on a two man advantage when Cooke put a shot past Bryzgalov. Bryzgalov was replaced by Bobrovsky with 3:03 left in the second period. The Flyers got a goal from rookie Eric Wellwood which was his first career NHL goal and it tied the game at 3-3.
Bobrovsky played no better and the Penguins left Philadelphia with a very important win. The Flyers right now have a major goaltending problem. Head coach Peter Laviolette has no answers. It looks like general manager Paul Holmgren is going to have to make some kind of trade or trades to try to find some answers. If not this team will not advance far in the playoffs. The Flyers head out on a four game Western Conference road trip starting this Tuesday in Winnipeg


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Such a man is wasted before juries and in the pettiness of nisi prius.
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Why, I was reading my Widgery on Nisi Prius Evidence when you came in.
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Mr. Justice Heath presided in the Nisi Prius.
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Varaaha Series by B S Ranganath
Young boy Dorai was left in a town to stay with his brother-in-law and go to school, as there was no school in his own village. He was just nine years old, when his father died in the village.
Dorai’s mother felt it very hard to live in the village with five children. There was a family friend who came forward to help her in her distress. He brought that lady and her children to the town, where Dorai was staying. The family friend, in the process of helping the lady in distress, could make her sign a few records which made him the owner of her house and a piece of dry land in the village. He skillfully grabbed the property of a helpless innocent woman, while pretending to help her.
Dorai’s bother-in-law, a doctor by profession, was kind enough to help the lady in need. But he felt it hard to manage the additional burden of a huge family. He got himself transferred to a far off place. Dorai and his mother, with other five children, were left homeless in a town with none to help them. The Compounder of the government hospital, a Muslim, took pity on this helpless brahmin lady with her six children and asked his third wife to vacate her room and allow the family to live there. It was a room with separate entrance, enabling the widow and her children, to enjoy an independent living.
The compounder helped the lady to admit her children to school. The tenant of the wet land belonging to the family was a nice man, who found out the where-about of the family, and brought the owner’s share of the yearly yield of the land. Things moved smoothly for the family, until the Compounder was transferred to some other place.
Dorai’s mother had to vacate the room. She could find a rented house, in a Brahmin street. Many Brahmin women became her friends. A few elderly women influenced Dorai’s mother, on the skills of leading a better life. They convinced her, that it was an honorable vocation for brahmin boys to go out for begging (spiritual way, i.e. different from those who beg on streets), before school hours. Dorai was made to feel that as the eldest boy, it was his duty to earn income for the family and begging was an honorable job for him. He took up going out for begging as a routine in the mornings, before going to school. This has generated a lot affection, from the parents of his classmates.
Dorai’s performance in the school was admirable. He was selected to lead the school prayer. The scout master made him the leader of a group. Those were the days when students had to pass a public examination called lower secondary, to join high School. Dorai got through this examination with high marks. There was no High-School in the town. The scout-master, who was keen to see that Dorai continues his education, asked him to go to Mysore for high-School studies. He gave him a letter addressed to an advocate, in Mysore.
The boy was sure that his mother would give him some money out of what she got by selling of paddy – the yearly yield from their wet-land. But she gave nothing when he took leave of her. This made him wonder what made his mother so unkind towards him. He felt it as not wrong to steal some money from her treasury (a small box). He waited until she left the place and when he was alone, he picked up a ten-rupee note from her box, hid it with his certificate and scout master’s letter, and left home. Though he felt his stealing of ten-rupees was a deserving act against his mother’s lack of interest in him, the stolen money kept him under troubled conscience.
The old aged advocate at Mysore was very much impressed, by the scout-master’s letter. He arranged for the boy’s admission in an orphanage, and paid the admission fee in a high school. The school awarded him a free studentship. The boy could concentrate upon his studies undisturbed for two years, till there was a good news from house. His younger brother also passed the middle school examination, and the family was about to shift to Mysore.
Dorai had to find a house for the family. One of his classmate’s father helped him, to secure a house on low rent. When the family arrived, he left the orphanage to join them. But he was shocked when his mother asked, ‘Why did you to leave the orphanage?’
The instance left Dorai in such a state, he could not concentrate on his studies. He secured just E.P.S (Eligible for Public Services) in his S.S.L.C Examination.
As an elder brother, Dorai felt the responsibility, to help his younger ones to study and comp up. He worked in a factory, and handed over his income to his mother. His younger brother became an Ayurvedic doctor, and enjoyed the status of the head of the family.
Dorai’s participation in Quit India movement, and imprisonment being a freedom fighter, was used as a pretext to throw him out the family. His jail life made him realize his talents, which brought many friends around him. A training in a Gandhian camp enabled him to work for the aboriginal tribes in a forest, and Dorai became a married man with two children. He had to return to city-life, in the interest of his children’s education.
When he was working for the welfare of forest dwellers, Dorai’s youngest brother came in search of him with a complaint, that the doctor brother obtained the signatures of all his father’s children except that of Dorai, and sold the wet land. This youngest brother wanted Dorai to go to the court and get the sale deed nullified, as the doctor collected the sale amount and deposited it in his own account, in a bank.
Dorai was not interested in property matters. He only admired the skills of the doctor brother, in becoming a big man. When Dorai was working in a city, he received a letter from his doctor brother, saying that his mother passed away a month ago, and it was her wish not to inform him about her death and last rites. The unwritten information that the letter conveyed was that, Dorai was barred from all kinds of family activities.
The latent life skills helped Dorai not only to bring up his children, but also to help himself improve his educational qualifications. He is now a very useful person in the field of social activities.
The cleverness with which the family friend of Dorai grabbed the property of the lady in distress, is not at all the Life Skill. It is just an out-right robbery. How Dorai overcame all the adversities and became a useful man to the society is because of his Life Skills.
An article in Readers Digest gives a bright example of Life Skills. The parents of a young software expert expressed their desire to use modern technology in place of costly phone calls. They were very slow to understand the simplest thing in using a computer. But the young man’s patience helped them to be able to send e-mails today. Life Skills have bridged Generation Gap.
India is gifted with great politicians, industrialists, traders, scientists, technicians, thinkers, writers, police and army who have made the country proud with their Life Skill.
We can proudly mention the name of Magsaysay award winner Harish Hande, founder of Solar Light Private Ltd., a social enterprise, which lights poor homes that run without electricity. He wants to use the award for students who want to pursue good sustainable energy project but are not able to do it. His Life Skill give him joy in making others happy.


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Few people have integrated activism, theology and personal commitment in such an inspiring way as Martin Luther King.
‘Selma’ is the first major feature film made about King. It focuses on his campaign in Selma, Alabama in 1965, where the restrictions and obstacles enforced on black people meant that, despite having a constitutional right to vote, hardly any were registered.
The film is a powerful portrayal of the man at centre of the civil rights movement. David Oyelowo captures King’s resonant voice and lyrical expressions incredibly well. It also avoids hagiography and deals with the well-documented flaws in King’s life.
The reason ‘Selma’ is a great film is because of the way it weaves the political battle with the personal stories of those involved. Behind this famous movement, lay countless stories of people tired of injustice and who had the courage to stand up against it.
The film opens with King receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for his achievements, but there is no resting on his laurels. When he returns to the US, he goes to see the President Lyndon B. Johnston (Tom Wilkinson) to press the need for reform to the voting system which effectively excluded black people from the ballot in many southern states.
The encounters between King and LBJ are masterfully portrayed. LBJ was a skilled and wily political operator who is reluctant to change his agenda for what King is demanding. In one scene an exasperated LBJ shouts at King: ‘You’re an activist, I’m the President. You’ve got one problem, I’ve got hundred and one problems.’
King also faced much opposition and disputes within the civil rights movement where the activists of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) resented the publicity King created and parodied him as ‘De Lawd’. It captures well the fractious alliance that King was able to hold together for the greater good.
But the power of the film lies in the way it conveys the personal stories of those who marched and protested for change. This is where King becomes just one person amid many who were beaten, imprisoned and killed for standing against the injustice.
We see four girls chatting about their hair as they walk down to their church basement before a bomb blows the building apart. We see the humiliation of Annie Lee Cooper (Oprah Winfrey) who is continually denied in her attempts to register to vote. We see the anger and resolve that grows in Jimmy Lee Jones and his family as they are drawn into the protests. We see the conviction growing in others, such as the Boston clergyman, James Reeb, who responds to King’s call to come to Alabama to join the march.
In addition, we see the personal cost to Coretta King because of the constant death threats to her and her children. And we see the pain she experiences when the FBI send her recordings from bugged hotel rooms of her husband being unfaithful. These historical realities are neither exaggerated nor ignored – they are simply true parts of the story that need to be told.
And lastly, ‘Selma’ does not air-brush out the spirituality at the heart of the civil rights movement. The scenes of King’s sermons in churches capture the spiritual vibrancy which fueled the movement. And the churches are accurately portrayed as the organisational bedrock from which the civil rights movement operated.
And at a key moment in the story – when King is faced with a decision about whether or not to lead protesters to cross the bridge out of Selma, we see him kneeling in prayer to gain guidance and clarity about what to do. It is in God that this famous clergyman found the resources to deal with the challenges he faced.
‘Selma’ is a powerful, moving and uplifting film, and I would urge everyone to go and see it.
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great blog and can’t wait to see the film and do a film reflection on it in church,
Thanks Marty – yes, it would be a great film to go and watch as a church and reflect on the issues it shows. See you Sunday!


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To be clear, there is an Acer Chromebook Spin 514 with an older AMD processor that launched in 2021. And there’s also a model with a MediaTek Kompanio 828 chipset. This new device is neither of these and has a model number of CP514-3H-R2D2. No, the final four characters of the model name aren’t lost on this lifelong Star Wars fan.
With an AMD Ryzen 3 5125C processor clocked at 3 GHz, this Acer Chromebook Spin 514 should easily outperform its predecessors. And it should do well in the graphics department too as the 5152C leans on an improved, integrated AMD Radeon GPU. The two CPU cores of the 5125C use AMD’s Zen 3 architecture. Since this particular chipset is so new, I haven’t found any benchmark results to offer a comparable Intel processor.
Rounding out the other specifications, you see much of what the prior Acer Chromebook Spin 514 design and hardware offer. Here’s what you get for $559.99:
|2 core (4 threads) AMD Ryzen 5125C (3.0 GHz)
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|14-inch, 1920 x 1080 touchscreen, IPS,
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|802.11ax (2×2) WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.2
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|2 USB Type-C Gen 3.2 ports, 1 USB Type-A Gen 3.2 port,
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|ChromeOS automatic updates through June 2030
Aside from the updated processor, this AMD Chromebook from Acer boasts fantastic color reproduction on the 14-inch touch display. I noticed that there’s no fingerprint sensor, which shouldn’t be a deal-breaker for most people. However, the specs indicate there’s no microSD card slot, which may give more people some pause. At least the stereo speakers aren’t bottom firing as you’ll find on several older Acer Chromebooks. The speakers flank the keyboard.
It’s hard to say if the $559.99 price is a good value or not because there are still too many unknowns. How will this AMD Chromebook perform? How good is the webcam? Is the battery claim accurate or not?
I won’t know the answers until I get my hands on the new Acer Chromebook Spin 514. And it’s not due out until the third quarter of the year. That could mean we see some review units handed out in the next few weeks, so we’ll have to wait and see.

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Gritz Goldberg is a psychiatrist in his hometown of Asheville, N.C., and is working in the same mental hospital where he once spent time as a child. Gritz becomes involved in a decades-old murder case when a local man with a heavy conscience confesses to him that the wrong man was convicted for the 1939 killing of a young woman at the Battery Park Hotel. As Gritz delves into Asheville’s past, he uncovers interesting – – and sometimes disturbing — facts about some of the city’s prominent citizens. Many of Schulman’s characters are based on actual historical figures, including the colorful U.S. Senator Robert Rice Reynolds and the prominent anti-semite William Dudley Pelley. In the course of chasing the down the facts of the case, Gritz learns a great deal about Asheville’s Jewish community in the 1930s.
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Despite a nearly $67 million recall automotive battery campaign and widely reported funding challenges, A123 Systems Inc. plans to hire 400 at its Southeast Michigan plants by November.
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Bunduka Kargbo. James Torres. Taran Buie. You know their names and what they’ve done for Bishop Maginn basketball over the last few years.
Now, here’s the hard part. Name three other players who will suit up a week from tonight when the defending Big 10, Section II and state Class AA champions make their season debut at Catholic Central.
“On Dec. 5, we’ll have 10 guys who have never played a varsity game for Bishop Maginn High School before,” said Golden Griffins coach Rich Hurley. “We’re trying to get it together. We’re trying to piece it together.”
The end product could be of championship caliber.
“Football put us a week behind, and we’ve got all of the new guys. We’re light years behind where we were last year, but we’re not crying wolf,” said Hurley. “We’ve got four guys from our undefeated JV group and some other new faces, and those guys are wet behind the ears, but they’re starting to learn what we expect, as far as digging in defensively, getting our press going and getting our transition game going.”
Bishop Maginn had all phases of the game working last season when it strung together 22 straight wins, including victories against Christian Brothers Academy in the Section II title game, Henninger in the regionals and Mount Vernon and Niagara Falls in the state public school final four.
Buie was named the state tournament most valuable player, and also landed a spot on the Federation all-tourney team after a semifinal loss to Abraham Lincoln.
“We don’t talk about last year’s team,” Hurley said. “Last year is over. We’re not going to forget it, and we can draw some things from it, but this team has to move forward, and create its own identity.”
Shimeek Johnson, Terron Victoria, Khaliq Gross and Antonio Davis are the significant losses from Bishop Maginn’s 26-2 team that went on its streak following a setback against Jamesville-DeWitt, the state Class A champ. Johnson, who is red-shirting at Fairfield, was tabbed both the Big 10 and Section II tournament MVP.
“We have to replace those four seniors, and that group was special,” said Hurley, who, with Johnson, Victoria and Davis in the fold, took Bishop Maginn to the state championship game the season before last. “That was an experienced group and a motivated group.”
Kargbo, Torres and Buie will serve as the team leaders this season, while Bishop Maginn also has T.J. Jefferson, Savion Melton and Billy Blake returning. Buie, a
6-foot-2 guard who is being recruited by numerous Division I colleges, is the only junior among the group.
“We have Buie, Torres and Kargbo, and they’ve been through the wars. They’ve been through the highest highs and the lowest lows,” Hurley said. “Our other guys will be learning from those guys.”
The veterans will be surrounded by a tall, athletic cast that includes 6-foot-7 Michigan transfer Nico Rios.
“Bishop Maginn has to be the team to beat. They’re not only one of the best in the section, but in the state,” said Amsterdam coach Joe Agresta. “After that, the rest of us are saying, ‘We can beat you and you and you.’ Put us with everyone else. We’ll all be fighting for wins.”
Among Bishop Maginn’s accomplishments last season was the school’s first Big 10 championship. CBA and Schenectady had combined to win the previous eight league titles, with the Brothers taking the top spot in 2007, 2006 and 2004, before the Golden Griffins’ 16-0 run to the title.
“My goal is to make sure we improve every game, and end the year being the best we can be. We’ll see if I can earn my money this year,” said CBA coach Dave Doemel, who graduated standouts DeAndre Kennedy-Ebron and Malcolm Austin. “We’ve got young kids, but talented kids, who have to learn and get experience. Hopefully, we can hold the fort for a little bit and then do some real good things.”
CBA’s veteran cast includes 6-8 senior Andrew Stire and an underclassmen guard tandem with great potential in junior Kameron Ritter and sophomore Galal Cancer. Cancer was a midseason call-up as a freshman, and helped the Brothers reach their sixth straight sectional final.
Schenectady coach Mark Sausville is anticipating a turnaround after his Patriots won nine games last season and five before that. His first eight teams went 161-27, claimed five league crowns and reached a pair of sectional finals, winning in 2001 en route to the state Class A championship.
“We’ve got a lot of new faces, but I like what I see. I think we’re going to be OK,” said Sausville, who returns only three players in sparkplus guard Derrick Millinghaus, 6-5 Reece Jackson and 6-6 Mark Blair. “They’re unselfish, and they’re working hard.”
Sausville will be working with three brothers for the first time, with sophomore Devonte and freshman Shadell Millinghaus joining this year’s varsity.
“Shadell could be very special,” Sausville said. “We don’t put freshman on the roster unless we believe there’s something there.”
Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons lost three starters and its three leading reserves from last year’s Section II Class A championship team, so coach Garry Horne will be relying heavily on senior guard Brian Hamor and 6-5 senior forward Nick Sarchioto.
“We’ll be looking for those two to lead us,” Horne said. “Nick is an outstanding rebounder with increased range, so he’ll score more for us, and Brian is just an exceptional all-around player. He played all over the country in the offseason, and he played well. Division I schools are looking at him.”
Hamor was selected the Class A most valuable player after the Knights’ stunning 65-48 rout of Albany Academy. He led the team in scoring for the third straight season, with a 17.6 average, and needs six points to reach 1,000. Hamor and Sarchioto will be coupled with lettermen Andrew Pallas and Patrick Dunn, and a host a varsity newcomers.
“We’ve got some young, bright kids who are working real hard and will bring 100 percent to the floor. I’m going to do some new things this year, and I hope they progress quickly because we do not plan to lay down for anyone,” said Horne. “We’re going to come to play.”
Amsterdam, led by seniors Ben Miseikis and Phil Miskinis, could end up playing its best ball later in the season. Miseikis was one of five football players who joined the team late.
“You can’t expect them to hit the switch right away,” said Agresta. “Because we have athletes who played football, we’re not on all cylinders yet, but we’ll get there. We want to be playing our best ball in February, not December.”
Miseikis averaged 15 points per game as a junior, and knocked down 46 threes. He generated 29 points in a 65-54 sectional win over Bethlehem, helping the Rams avenge a season-opening 77-43 loss to the Eagles.
Catholic Central will be playing without two of the league’s best in Devin Grimes and Jordan Gettings, who combined for nearly 900 points as seniors. The Crusaders bring back five 12th-graders from last season’s third place Big 10 team, including starters Gerard Jacques and Denzel Pasqual.
“We’re a little small and inexperienced, but as the year goes on I think we’ll get stronger and better,” said CCHS coach Blain Goverski. “I’m hoping to get a lot out of my seniors and my juniors.”
Steve Sgambelluri is the league’s only new varsity coach, at LaSalle, and will be looking to revive a team that’s had only two winning season since its Section II Class A title run in 2003.
Coach: Jon McClement.
Last year’s record: 3-13 Big 10, 4-17 overall.
Top returning players: Senior Corey Vance, senior William Chapple, senior Khaul Fredericks, senior Marquan Nelson.
Coach: Joe Agresta.
Last year’s record: 4-12 Big 10, 7-15 overall.
Top returning players: Senior Ben Miseikis, senior Phil Miskinis, senior Frank Peluso, senior Frank Filiberto, senior Oscar Juarez.
Coach: Rich Hurley.
Last year’s record: 16-0 Big 10, 26-2 overall.
Top returning players: Junior Taran Buie, senior Bunduka Kargbo, senior James Torres, senior T.J. Jefferson.
Coach: Blain Goverski.
Last year’s record: 11-5 Big 10, 16-6 overall.
Top returning players: Senior Gerard Jacques, senior Denzel Pasqual, senior Andrew Clement, senior Joe Dooley.
Coach: Dave Doemel.
Last year’s record: 14-2 Big 10, 21-3 overall.
Top returning players: Senior Andrew Stire, senior Billy Creighton, junior Kameron Ritter, sophomore Galal Cancer.
Coach: Steve Sgambelluri.
Last year’s record: 3-13, 6-14
Top returning players: Senior Mason Horne, senior Roger West, senior William Reutemann.
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Coach: Garry Horne.
Last year’s record: 11-5 Big 10, 17-8 overall.
Top returning players: Senior Brian Hamor, senior Nick Sarchioto.
Coach: Mark Sausville.
Last year’s record: 6-10 Big 10, 9-12 overall.
Top returning players: Senior Mark Blair, junior Reece Jackson, junior Derrick Millinghaus.
Coach: Jeff Sitterly.
Last year’s record: 4-12 Big 10, 6-15 overall.
Top returning players: Senior Zach Dolan, senior Dan McLaren.


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What kind of involuntary activities does the autonomic nervous system control?
- Cardiovascular responses
- Endocrine secretion
- Gastrointestinal motility and secretion
- Reproductive and urogenital control
What are the two divisions of the ANS?
Sympathetic and parasympathetic
Describe the structure of the fibres of the sympathetic nervous system
The sympathetic nervous system has short finely myelinated pre-ganglionic fibres that leave with motor roots of the spinal nerves and long post-ganglionic fibres that pass to organs.
What is an advantage of the structure of the fibres of the sympathetic nervous system?
The short pre-ganglionic fibres can branch so they can make contact with multiple fibres that run out to the end organs; one neurone stimulated in the spinal chord can result in changes in the activity of multiple organs. This is referred to as MASS DISCHARGE and it means you can induce a globalised response in the animal.
What is a modified component of the sympathetic nervous system?
The adrenal gland. Cells that fibres make contact with are called chromaffin cells, which are modified neurones which release their contents into the peripheral bloodstream, meaning the neurotransmitter acts as a hormone which can influence multiple organ systems.
What are the functions of the SNS?
The 4 F's - fight, flight, fear and fucking
Describe the structure of the fibres of the parasympathetic nervous system
The parasympathetic nervous system has long finely myelinated pre-ganglionic fibres that leave with the cranial nerves and short non-myelinated post-ganglionic fibres that pass to organs
The structure of the PNS fibres (long then short) means you have more ______ control?
What are the functions of the PNS?
Rest and digest
What is the name of the system of neurones contained within the gut?
The enteric nervous system
What are the two plexuses that make up the enteric nervous system and where are they located?
- Myenteric plexus - located between the outer longitudinal muscle and inner circular muscle
- Submucosal plexus - located between the inner circular muscle and epithelium
What is the effect of a) parasympathetic and b) sympathetic stimulation on the enteric nervous system?
- a) increase in the activity of the enteric nervous system
- b) decrease in the activity of the enteric nervous system
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Amazon recently began implementing the policy with a message prompt for drivers on the Amazon Flex app. “To continue delivering, please help us verify your identity by taking a selfie. Do not take a selfie while driving. This photo won’t be shown to customers,” the message reads.
The selfies are then compared to filed images of the driver’s faces using facial recognition software, according to Business Insider. Amazon had previously notified drivers that it was extracting biometric data from and saving previously submitted photos, which it collectively called “identity data.”
“Amazon Flex will use your Identity Data to confirm your identity from time to time. Amazon Flex will keep your Identity Data for as long as permitted by applicable law or until you request deletion,” the notification read.
The policy is intended to prevent unauthorized users or people who have not undergone background checks from accessing driver’s accounts. It aims to prevent multiple people from using the same account, as well as weed out potential criminals.
Compared to some of Amazon’s widely criticized policies, like apparently demanding such high productivity from their stockroom workers that they don’t take bathroom breaks, a selfie requirement seems fairly tame.
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Colonists asserted their independence at the Boston Tea Party by lulling British officers to sleep with cups of chamomile, which left them defenseless against marker mustaches. Harness the revolutionary power of tea with today's Groupon: for $23, you get high tea for two at Nannas Teas (a $46 value). High tea is served between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. and includes:
The brew steepers at Nannas Teas cull their collection of teas from around the world, augmenting them with fresh sandwiches, soups, and pastries baked daily. With friends or friendly mirages of 7-foot rabbits in tow, patrons enter Nannas and soak in the astounding array of teapots housing brewable bags that come in an array of flavors including rosehips, earl gray, and apple pie. While basking in the frame-worthy sights of outdoor gardens or their tea dates chugging bottles of honey, guests can soothe stomachs with a selection of piquant and potent tea sandwiches such as smoked salmon and chives, apple sausage, or the florally indebted cream cheese and flowers. Side orders of asian slaw salad and savory or sweet scones support midday noshing like vending-machine whisperers, as do fruit-based preserves and dessert-rich orders of double devon cream.
The breakfast option is now redeemable for brunch on Sundays between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. at the 2200 Oneida St. location, beginning 4/8. The high tea option is redeemable Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the 7770 E Iliff Ave. location.
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