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We already recorded a second movie review for our new 13 O’Clock offshoot! It’s of my very favorite vampire movie from the 1980s, The Hunger, which I also wrote about in depth right here, if you’re interested. Enjoy!
So, over on our 13 O’Clock YouTube channel, the God of Hellfire and I have started a fun new offshoot series, in which we yammer endlessly about some of our favorite horror and scifi movies old and new. Right here is our first installment, discussing our impressions and personal stories about one of our favorite classic films, The Thing. Enjoy!
The small film subgenre of British folk horror is easily overlooked, with most casual fans only being able to point to a single example, the excellent and well-regarded cult classic The Wicker Man. But there were a few other sterling examples that deserve their place in the earthwork circle, as it were, such as The Devil Rides Out (based on the novel by Dennis Wheatley) and the terrific Vincent Price vehicle Witchfinder General. There is also the rather underrated gem we’re discussing today.
1970’s The Blood on Satan’s Claw (known alternately as Satan’s Skin or The Devil’s Touch) was the follow-up to Tigon British Film Productions’ hit Witchfinder General, and though it’s not quite as great or iconic as that earlier film, it still has much to recommend it. Tigon, incidentally, was a smaller horror production company that got somewhat overshadowed by film behemoths Hammer Films (who were famous for their Dracula films and their pioneering formula of gore and heaving boobies), and Amicus Productions (who were famous for their rad anthology films like The House That Dripped Blood and Vault of Horror).
The Blood on Satan’s Claw is set in a tiny English village somewhere around the end of the 17th century. Affable farmer Ralph Gower (Barry Andrews) is plowing some fields one day and happens to unearth a janky-looking skull with one staring eyeball and what appear to be tufts of fur. Alarmed, Ralph summons the local judge to come check out his find, but of course, once the judge arrives, the skull is no longer there. The judge (played with great sardonic relish by Patrick Wymark) pooh-poohs all these insufferable rubes and their silly superstitions, and goes about his judgely way.
Meanwhile, lanky local Peter Edmonton (Simon Williams), who looks like a Bee Gee doing Renaissance cosplay, brings his betrothed Rosalind (Tamara Ustinov) home to meet the family. His aunt is a stone-cold bitch to the girl, and forces her to sleep up in the stinky, unused attic. Peter tries to make the best of things, and promises he’ll be up for some farm-fresh lovin’ after his disapproving relatives have gone to bed.
But later that night, Rosalind apparently sees something horrifying in her room and starts screaming her hussy head off, prompting Aunt Twatface and the other old guy living there to do the only rational thing, which is to board her up in the attic until the men with the butterfly nets can get there to cart her off to the nuthouse. As she’s carried away, she shoots her fiancé a wicked grin, and we see that one of her hands has morphed into a claw. Peter, understandably, is bereft, but his relatives are all insensitive and shit, essentially telling him that he dodged a bullet and he should be happy that he didn’t end up married to some wanton demonic harlot. Peter, obviously, seems less than convinced.
Soon afterwards, all hell literally breaks loose in the village. All the young’uns start hanging out together and playing creepy “games” out in the woods, and some of them develop icky patches of crepe werewolf hair on various parts of their anatomy. They stop turning up to their Sunday school classes, and act defiant and contemptuous toward village priest Reverend Fallowfield (Anthony Ainley).
Incidents begin to escalate. Peter has a vision that his hand has also become a claw, and slices it off in a frenzy. The children lure friendly young Simon le Bon lookalike Mark Vespers (Robin Davies) into the woods and murder him, bragging to his mother that they have done so. It soon comes to light that all of the town’s youngsters have fallen under the spell of nubile hottie Angel Blake (Linda Hayden), who apparently got in on the ground floor of the Satan worship and is now running the show. Angel attempts to seduce the Reverend and then accuses him of raping her; orders her followers to hack off their own limbs or forcibly take limbs from others to apparently reconstruct her coming Master out of the severed parts; and perhaps worst of all, paints on crazy Wolfman Jack eyebrows just a touch too high over her natural ones, making her look like some pagan blonde version of Frida Kahlo.
After Ralph’s intended, the adorable Cathy Vespers (Wendy Padbury), is brutally raped and sacrificed by the child cult (in what is actually a fairly disturbing scene, due to the frighteningly realistic terror on Cathy’s face), the judge is persuaded to come back to the village to deal with all the devilry that his rational ass was initially so dismissive of. The end of the film is actually a bit of a letdown, as it’s somewhat abrupt and anticlimactic, and I’m not too sure how I feel about the final reveal of the Supreme Evil Overlord, who looks a bit too much like a short dude wearing a gorilla suit and a papier-mache Halloween mask, but hey, it was 1970, and I can forgive a touch of cheesiness in costuming, especially since the camera doesn’t really linger on the monster before he is summarily dispatched.
If you’re a fan of this type of pagan British horror, you probably owe it to yourself to see this one, even though it’s not quite at the same level as the other folk horrors I mentioned. Despite the cast looking oh-so-painfully seventies, and despite the over-the-top accents and regionalisms, and despite the pacing being slightly off, this is actually quite an enjoyable little horror flick with some genuinely tense scenes, a bit of decent gore (such as one character having her fur patch sliced off by a doctor, and later getting her leg caught in a bear trap), and some pretty fantastic cinematography of the English countryside.
Until next time, keep it creepy, my friends, and if you suddenly develop an unexplained area of coarse black hair somewhere on your person, consult your local witchfinder immediately.
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If you ever wanted to listen to the God of Hellfire and I blathering away about various topics of interest to weirdos everywhere, you, my friends, are in luck. We have started a podcast called 13 O’Clock, which will feature subjects ranging from supposedly real paranormal cases to unsolved historical mysteries to bizarre religious cults to creepy serial killers to horror movies and everything in between. Some of the episodes will be just us, some of them will have awesome guests like parapsychologists, writers, musicians of a darker nature, and so forth.
On our inaugural episode, we discuss the tragic case of Doris Bither, whose alleged poltergeist attacks were the basis of the 1982 film The Entity; and on the second half, we delve into one of our favorite topics, conspiracy theories and hidden meanings in Stanley Kubrick’s horror classic The Shining.
Hälsningar, minions! Today we’re delving into the surreal and arty waters of the Ingmar Bergman oeuvre, and even though I’m gonna try REALLY hard to not make any Swedish Chef jokes, I’m not going to promise anything, because y’all know how I roll.
Hour of the Wolf (or Vargtimmen in Swedish) was released in 1968, and is probably the closest thing to a straight horror movie that Bergman ever did. That said, it’s still miles away from a traditional horror flick of the era, being more like an intensely eerie, psychological mindfuck with some really, really disturbing imagery; essentially, it’s film as wide-awake nightmare. Regular readers of this blog will be familiar with my love of ambiguity and surrealism in horror, and here is one of the best examples I have yet seen; in execution and implication, it’s absolutely skin-crawling. It’s also fairly obvious that this film was a pretty big influence on David Lynch’s Eraserhead, and in its themes of spiraling madness it also bears something of a resemblance to Roman Polanski’s Repulsion.
The story concerns an artist, Johan Borg (Max von Sydow), who is vacationing at a remote island cottage with his pregnant wife Alma (Liv Ullman). At the beginning of the movie, Alma is talking directly to the camera about the disappearance of her husband, as if she is being interviewed for a documentary. The remainder of the film is told in flashback; we see the bizarre disintegration of Johan’s mental state, and wonder how much of what we’re seeing is real.
What makes this film so unsettling is its resolute refusal to explain itself. Johan interacts with strange people as he walks around the island, and he seems to think that they are demons, even though Alma can see them too; and for most of the movie, they seem like real people, albeit really skeevy ones. Johan has drawn all of them in his sketchbook, though the viewer never sees the drawings, but only Alma’s horrified reactions to them. He also has names for them, like the Bird-Man, the Schoolmaster, and The Lady with a Hat (about whom Johan once tells Alma that you don’t want to be around when the lady takes the hat off, because the whole face comes off with it. NOPE).
At one stage, a man named Baron von Merkans invites Johan and Alma to his nearby castle for a party, and when they attend, it’s the trippiest get-together ever, as all the guests laugh bizarrely, yammer on about meaningless topics, and overpraise Johan’s art to a really uncomfortable degree. Everyone seems hostile and cruel, as though they’re mocking him, but no reason for this is apparent. One of the women at the party shows Johan and Alma her bedroom, in which hangs a huge portrait of a woman named Veronica Vogler, who was apparently Johan’s ex-lover, though it is never clarified if she was a real person, or another figment of Johan’s crumbling imagination.
Johan suffers terribly from insomnia, and Alma often stays awake with him in support. During the long nights, they have some extremely disturbing discussions. In one very eerie scene, Johan tells Alma about a trauma from his childhood in which he was locked up in a closet with what he thought was a small person who wanted to gnaw his toes off. He also confesses to a possibly fictitious incident some time before whereby he murdered a little boy while out fishing. During this conversation, he clarifies the meaning of the phrase “hour of the wolf,” which according to folklore is the hour in the middle of the night when most deaths and births take place. Much of the horror in the movie is conveyed in these weird conversations, though there are plenty of uncanny visuals to highlight the nightmarish narrative, like a man suddenly walking up a wall and across a ceiling, or a woman pulling off her face and popping her eyeballs into a wine glass.
If you’re getting the sense that this is a really bizarre, disjointed film, then you’re entirely correct, but its inexplicable strangeness is very, VERY effective in making this one of the most haunting and genuinely unnerving films I’ve ever seen (and that’s saying a lot). The underlying themes of the film seem to tie in with the fine line between artistic genius and madness, with the power of deep-seated fears and shameful desires to unhinge the mind, and with the possibility that insanity may be contagious, as Alma wonders at the end whether her love for Johan caused her to share in his delusions. There is also a repeating motif of eating or biting—the demonic people that Johan sees are portrayed as something akin to vampires or birds of prey, and during the flashback scene where Johan is recounting his murder of the boy at the seashore, the boy bites him several times during the struggle. Indeed, the working title of the manuscript was “The Maneaters,” so perhaps there is some reference here to the way that fears and traumas, whether real or imagined, can eat away at one’s sanity.
All in all, not a film for everyone, obviously, but I found it an intense experience, so disquieting and ominous that it was sort of distressing to watch. Its slow pace and stark cinematography only added to the uncomfortable atmosphere. If you haven’t seen it, and are a fan of Bergman’s other films, or just like surrealistic horror in general, I would definitely recommend it, even though it legit creeped me the fuck out. In fact, I know I said I was gonna try not to, but I need a laugh after watching it, so here we go.
Like the endlessly resurrected Jason Voorhees, I return once again after a short break with apologies for another absence and an itchin’ for some more horror. The reasons for my brief hiatus this time were more cookbook emergencies (which now seem to have been ironed out), and a final push to get my next book, The Rochdale Poltergeist (co-authored with parapsychologist Steve Mera), ready for publication. Keep an eye out for it in the next couple of weeks!
Casting about for today’s blog subject, I was perusing the “best horror films” of particular years on IMDB, and since I’ve done a lot of old films and have gotten woefully behind on newer horror, I thought I’d look for recommendations about some decent, underappreciated flicks from the last few years. Don’t get me wrong, I’m pretty much an old-school horror chick all the way, but I also don’t want to turn into one of those crotchety old farts who thinks that everything new is automatically a shit burrito topped with a hot vomit salsa, you feel me? So right there on someone-or-other’s “Best Horror Movies of 2010” list was a little movie called Yellowbrickroad, which I watched on Hulu but is also available on Netflix, I believe. And hot damn, did I get lucky when I stumbled across this one, because it’s really something of an undiscovered gem that really got under my skin in a way that few movies do.
Even though it won best film at the New York City Horror Film Festival the year it was released, and even though it has gotten some really great and in-depth analysis (such as this review right here), it mystifyingly boasts only a two-star rating on IMDB, and some of the reviewers there REALLY seemed to hate it, with the main complaints being that the ending didn’t make any sense and that it wasn’t gory/violent/scary enough. That’s a fair charge, I suppose, and I will admit that if you’re more into big scares and splashy blood and guts, then yeah, you probably won’t find much to like here. Yellowbrickroad is a very cerebral, almost abstract, film, more concerned with exploring its psychological themes and unsettling the viewer with atmosphere than with traditional horror set-pieces. Though some reviews I read compared it to The Blair Witch Project, I think a far better comparison would be to a David Lynch film, what with its surrealist bent, its copious symbolism, its stubborn ambiguity about reality, its masterful use of sound as a definitive plot element, and its utilization of The Wizard of Oz as a constant referent (as Lynch did, of course, in Wild At Heart).
In brief, the plot centers around a mysterious happening in the town of Friar, New Hampshire in 1940. Almost all of the residents of this quaint little burg, after their zillionth viewing of The Wizard of Oz in the town’s dinky little movie theater, put on their best formal duds, gathered up their record albums, and wandered off into the woods, never to be seen alive again. Some of the bodies were recovered, having died of either exposure, apparent suicide, or murder, but some were never found. Cut to the present day, where husband-and-wife writers Teddy and Melissa Barnes are setting up a small expedition to hike the same trail as the townsfolk did in order to write a book about what might have happened to them. As you might imagine, shit starts to get weird pretty quickly.
For a fan of smart, subtle horror, there is a great deal to admire in Yellowbrickroad. It is beautifully shot and edited, and is able to generate a palpable sense of dread and tension during its entire running time, even though the bulk of it takes place in broad daylight. I love the fact that the filmmakers chose not to use the easy out of filming most of it in the dark to make it “scarier.” Further, the way the film plays with expectations and reality is really well-done; it keeps the viewer off-kilter the entire time so that the viewer’s experience mirrors that of the increasingly lost and disoriented characters. I loved the sense of displacement that escalated as the story progressed, the sense that time and space was breaking down in parallel with the characters’ mental states.
In addition, all the characters are likable and real, and we get to know them in brief strokes, with very little bullshit; most of the character development is subtle and streamlined to a line or two of dialogue. There are some funny moments (for instance, when the team’s GPS first starts to go tits-up), but these feel spontaneous and believable, and not shoehorned in as “relief” from the horror. Lastly, there is comparatively little violence and gore shown onscreen, making the few times when violence does occur intensely shocking and affecting, particularly one scene (those of you who have seen it will know what I’m talking about) that comes almost completely out of the blue and shakes the viewer as much as it does the characters.
In my opinion, the best thing about Yellowbrickroad, and the thing that seems to have caused the most contention among those who have seen it, is its ambiguity. How much of this journey is real? How much of it is imagined? Is it a dream, or a mass hallucination? Is there some supernatural force leading these characters to their destinies, or something dark inside themselves that results in their destruction? It is here where the Wizard of Oz touchstones become all the more relevant, particularly its theme of journeys ending where they began, though with perhaps a greater understanding of oneself picked up along the way. In this sense, it is significant that the trailhead in Yellowbrickroad ostensibly starts at the movie theater, and also ends there, as the entire movie seems to be a road constantly spiraling inward, toward…what? Insight? Madness? Chaos? Death? It could be read in a myriad of ways, which is an attribute many of the best films share. This theme of spiraling inward is also hinted at in the mention of the 1940 townsfolk carrying their records into the woods, a single line of dialogue by mapmaker Daryl explaining that the coordinates he’s getting seem to be spiraling inward toward an unknown center, and most obviously, by the soundtrack of spooky, 1940’s-era music and ear-piercing record scratches that almost become an antagonist of their own as they assault the characters with contextless noise that grows louder as the journey progresses toward an inevitable end.
The most criticized aspect of the film by a mile was the ending, which many reviewers felt was inexplicable, but honestly, I thought the ending was perfect, and really the only ending it could have had, given its thematic thrust. The journey was always going to end where it began, just like in The Wizard of Oz, but in Yellowbrickroad, the insight gained by the sole survivor of the trek was far darker, almost nihilistic. This is no case of “everything I desired was right here all along,” but rather, “all of the worst things I dreaded about myself and the world are inside me, and everywhere, and inescapable.” Marry that to a profound disconnect between reality and fantasy, and a realization that to transcend one’s humdrum existence might just be equivalent to following an endlessly spiraling descent into a hell of one’s own making, and you’re left with quite a bleak filmgoing experience, and one that will stick with you and taunt you with its riddles for many days to come. Highly recommended.
Until next time, Goddess out.


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That first Christmas gift is still the most precious
Scripture: Luke 2:1-7 (New Living Translation)
2 At that time the Roman emperor, Augustus, decreed that a census should be taken throughout the Roman Empire. 2 (This was the first census taken when Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3 All returned to their own ancestral towns to register for this census. 4 And because Joseph was a descendant of King David, he had to go to Bethlehem in Judea, David’s ancient home. He traveled there from the village of Nazareth in Galilee. 5 He took with him Mary, to whom he was engaged, who was now expecting a child. 6 And while they were there, the time came for her baby to be born. 7 She gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him snugly in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no lodging available for them.
Once, in royal David’s city . . .
In the passages that precede this one, Luke gives us so much detail, so much to think about. We know exactly what Zechariah, John the Baptist’s father, was doing when the angel appeared to him. We know precisely how far along Elizabeth, John’s mother, was when Mary went to visit. But here, in these verses where Jesus’ actual birth takes place, Luke gives us the bare minimum. Seven sentences.
Perhaps it is because Luke gives so few details that we are so often and so wonderfully inspired to complete the picture with our own imaginings.
This is a moment we recreate in every possible way. Count the nativity scenes you see over the course of the holidays--or even on your drive home from work. How many varieties are there? Who else is present--the shepherds, the animals, the Magi? We are fascinated by this tableau, and we have recreated it in myriad ways for centuries.
If this scene were in a movie, it would start with a panoramic view: a capital city, a sumptuous palace, the emperor of all of the Roman Empire in all his perceived power. There would be trumpets, and crowds, and parades.
Then the focus narrows, zooms in, to a small town, an insignificant rooming house, until finally it comes to rest on the stable and this young couple and their new baby. It’s just these three people. In a small room, faintly lit by golden candlelight. Warm, comforting, tranquil, intimate. Just these three people surrounded by their love for one another.
This is, I think, what makes it so magical. This little square of warm candlelight that spills out of the doorway. The peaceful moments where the holy family gaze at one another, treasuring one another. This is a special, sacred space out of time. In a world of chaos and hurry, violence, instability, fear and darkness, there is, in this moment, in these seven sentences, an oasis of . . . well, love.
Love that this new family has for one another. And love that God has for us. Because in that humble setting, in that quiet, ancient and eternal space, God has loved us all, as well. God has sent God’s only son, to be for us an oasis of compassion, mercy, justice and, yes, peace. All of this and more is manifest in that precious moment, in that little square of light, in that little insignificant town, in the country that is very far away.
And they are manifest here in Hays, as well. In our homes and business, in our schools, and churches, and in our hearts. This is the first gift of the first Christmas and still the most precious thing.
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
May you find an oasis of warmth and light this Christmas. May you feel the awe and pride that Joseph felt, the contemplative joy that Mary felt, and may you feel treasured by the One who loves you unconditionally, just as you are.
The Rev. Shay Craig is the Vicar of St. Michael’s and St. Andrew’s Episcopal Churches in Hays.

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This week I am going to speak about Salty taste or known in Sanskrit as "Lavana ras". Out of the six taste one taste that dominates not in quantity but for the want of it in food is salty taste or Lavana ras. “Salt : Too Little or Too Less” an article that I wrote couple of months back spoke a lot about this particular taste. In this article I would focus more on the view of Ayurveda in regards to salty taste.
What is Salty Taste ?
Ayurveda defines a taste where one simply shows excessive salivation and feels burning sensation in a small amount on the palate and the throat as Lavana Ras or Salty taste.
Salty Food group according to Ayurveda:
All over the world different forms and ways is salt created ,from sea beds, from rocks from mountains so and so. All of them are basically salty to taste as in Ayurveda. One of the most recommended salt is the Saindhav salt which is basically Rock salt from a particular part of India.
Benefits of Salty Taste :
1] Lavan ras or Salty is an ideal taste that helps destroy different sorts of blockages in the body. May be because of excessive mucos or even just stool chocked up.
2] It is well known to increase the digestive fire thus helping digestion.
3] Salt in a way helps us to taste the food better thus increases the power of tasting.
Effects of Overindulgence in Lavana Ras :
1] Thinning of hairs, loss of hair , baldness, and even premature greying of hairs are due to over indulgence of Salty food in our diet.
2] Skin diseases and different types of eczema have been reported to be caused due to over intake of salt.
3] Gout or Vatta Rakta in Ayurveda is said to be caused due to this. Modern know how confirms the fact that excessive deposition of uric acid is the cause of Gout.
4] Increase of thirst can also be seen due to this taste group.
Posted by Sudeep
Articles that might be helpful after reading this one :
Sour Taste or Amla Ras
Sweet Taste or Madhur Ras

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Phoenix – Bankrupt! – WBH Declares it Rich
It’s FINALLY here – Phoenix’s Bankrupt! – the most anticipated album of 2013 (except maayyybe for that Daft Punk thing coming out in 4 weeks…), the long awaited follow-up to 2009’s utter masterpiece Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. So how is it? (rating at the end)
If any of you Phoenix fans are fans of MGMT, then you might remember the anticipation, hype, and disappointment that Congratulations was to its brilliant predecessor Oracular Spectacular. Effortless, electronically-tinged, catchy pop, followed by bizarre experimentation and a rejection of everything that made MGMT good. The good news for Bankrupt! is that it’s not like that! It is, like its comparator, a bit more experimental, less immediately catchy. A bit more deliberate feeling, as opposed to WAP‘s effortlessness. But the hooks, synths, brevity, and sense of cool that made Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix such a work of art are still there.
In Phoenix’s feature-of-the-month, cover story interview with Spin , they mention that the success of WAP means you’ll probably give the new one 3 listen-throughs by virtue of the hype and expectations. There’s some truth to that – when they released it streaming over iTunes, I listened to it at least that many times, and with each time grew fonder and fonder. Indeed, the same thing happened with Wolfgang. Although Bankrupt’s tracks aren’t as effervescently poppy as its predecessors, I didn’t really think that about the last album until a few listens through. What Bankrupt really portrays is diverse musical texture and layers (lots of new sounds and key changes), and a more grown up, at times even psychedelic sound. Don’t worry, by the way, the vocals make just as little sense as they did on Wolfgang, but singer Thomas Mars delivers again.
Enough generalizing! Track-by-track review:
1. “Entertainment”, the big first single, huge synths, Chinese-sounding main melody, oddly has echoes of “Armistice”, the fantastic closer of WAP. One of the catchier tracks, also the most upbeat by a significant bit. I suspect this will get a lot of airtime this spring and summer.
2. “The Real Thing” takes the drums straight out of Prince’s epic “When Doves Cry”. Synth pads, soft vocals, and a sick chorus chord progression. Good music to chill to in the afternoon on a warm day.
3. “S.O.S. in Bel Air” – Very Wolfgang-y upbeat verse, ethereal, dreamlike chorus, overall great song.
4. “Trying to be Cool” – Reminds me a bit of In Ghost Colors era Cut Copy, or Empire of the Sun. Medium-tempo jam, with detectable guitars beside the synth pads. More banger chord progressions in the chorus and a huge, effective key change towards the end.
5. “Bankrupt!” – Let’s be upfront, this is this album’s “Love Like a Sunset” (the epic 7:39 mostly instrumental synth epic from Wolfgang). The comparisons are just too easy, at nearly 7 minutes, with synth chirps and warbles, a slowly building beat that suddently shifts to a quick piano line, then into nearly Baroque-sounding square-wave synthesized arpeggiated goodness. Mars and guitars return at the end, much like “Love…”, but in an achingly beautiful minor key minor key that may be the vocal highlight of the album. Excellent.
6. “Drakkar Noir” – sounds like it could have been a hit in an alternate universe mid-80s, if only the 80s had the Phoenix touch. Strong track, typical Phoenixy synths, typical Mars vocals riding atop the Phoenix beat. This shows a very strong link to WAP, and wouldn’t have been out of place if it were released in 2009 – dare I say it has elements of “Lisztomania?”
7. “Chloroform” – again a bit 80s sounding. The critics seem to love this song, but apart from the occasional beautiful blooms of synths, the highlight of the song is the last minute, where the instrumentation changes (softer sounding synth pads and melodies, synth bass, and another key change) and Mars shines again.
8. “Don’t” – An upbeat rocker, more classic tried-and-true Phoenix sound, though without any guitars – More Wolfgang-esque material but with arpeggiators. This song gets better with each listen. Another of the catchier tracks, this one is another highlight, and I can easily see it released as the next single, and it has great live potential.
9. “Bourgeois” – a brilliant repeated synthesized harpsichord motif opens, then the rest of the band comes in before a scratchy acoustic guitars and Mars perform a quiet duet,,before everyone else comes back in and the song really kicks off. It’s not especially catchy, but the melody certainly beguiling and captivating, and it has the most balanced instrumentation on the albums, mixing guitars, real drums and bass with their synthesized counterparts beautifully. A beautiful, under-the-radar track.
10. “Oblique City” – forget what I said about Baroque sounding earlier, the opening keyboard line to this one is straight up Bach. But that ends quickly, transforming quickly into an upbeat rocker, with some pretty crucial instrumental/key/time changes. The acoustic guitar ending is especially pretty. Another one that I’m sure sounds great live.
So, it should be clear that I generally like Bankrupt! As I said, none of the tracks jump out the way nearly EVERY song on Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix did, but if Phoenix managed to pull that off, they would be superhuman (or they’d be robots…like…well you know). Standout tracks include “Entertainment”, “S.O.S. in Bel Air”, “Bankrupt”, and “Don’t”, with “Drakkar Noir”, Bourgeois, and “Oblique City” coming right behind them. So that’s 7 of 10 songs as either very good or really quite good. The remaining three, while not my favorites on the album, have their own redeeming features, mostly in the form of tempo, key, and instrumental changes that highlight Phoenix’s self-declared “experimentation” on this album. This is really the first full album review on We Ball Harder (not counting my mini review of the Raveonettes), so there’s my attempt at methodology. I’d say Bankrupt! warrants an 8/10. Very creditable, more mature, more diverse musically, and pretty solid tunes. It’s no Wolfgang, but it’s no disappointment. Well done, Phoenix! Allleeeezzz!!!
PS – yes, I bought another CD, just like I did with Observator by the Raveonettes. These things are hard to track down these days!
Song of the Day – “Re-Make/Re-Model” by Roxy Music
Remember the first music post on We Ball Harder? About T Rex and the birth of glam rock? We come back full circle to some of Marc Bolan’s contemporaries: Roxy Music, one of the pioneers of glam rock, if not the very first – with an artier, more eccentric edge, at least while synthesizer bad boy/future production genius Brian Eno was with them, looking like a feathered, glammed up Riff Raff from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. “Remake/Remodel” is the first song from their first album, and hands down my favorite. It has everything: a driving beat from drummer Paul Thompson and bassist Graham Simpson, scorching guitar from Phil Manzanera, off the wall sax playing by Andy Mackay, Brian Eno’s bizarre synthesized squelches (all of which get solo time), and of course frontman Bryan Ferry’s signature wail and killer opening piano chords. Recorded in 1972, this song is a mashup before mashups existed, and it fuckin’ rocks!
Studio version first, then live version (which is great cos you can see everyone freaking out onstage)
Song of the Day: Judy and Mary – “Daydream”
It’s nearly spring and yet there’s a winter weather advisory. “Daydream” by Judy and Mary, one of Japan’s finest and quirkiest 90s indie rock bands, sounds like winter from the very first opening, minor key chords, and I love its haunting chord progression, guitar work, driving beat, and even the lyrics that I don’t remotely understand. The live version here is pretty faithful to the studio track, except the guitar solo on the album version is done on a classic guitar, which makes it even more ethereal, and the mostly instrumental jam out at the end is something on all their live footage. Enjoy
Song of the Day: Death from Above 1979 – “Little Girl”
As a nod to the great nation of Canada, responsible for one the best breeds of dog in the world* and home to both my favorite city and brewery in North America**, today’s choon is from my favorite band from the Great White North, Death from Above 1979***. The best two-person band in history [eat it, White Stripes] – Jesse F Keeler (later of MSTRKRFT) on the most distorted, aggressive, riffy bass, and Sebastian Grainger on pounding drums and punky vocals. Formed in 2001, broke up in 2006, and only one killer full length album – but what an album – joyful, earsplitting noise in the best possible way. The band has reunited and is working on a new album, and I can’t wait. This one’s one of my favorites from the old days:
live in the pre-breakup days
the MSTRKRFT edition, a brilliant remix from Jesse’s next outfit.
*the Labrador retriever, based upon the St John’s water dog, from Newfoundland. I had a great one before, and just got a puppy today:
**Montreal. Really. Go if you haven’t been, it’s starting to thaw out. Also, Unibroue.
*** Or, just Death from Above, their original name. James Murphy, the overrated fuckwit behind LCD Soundsystem and manager of Death From Above Records engaged them in a legal dispute, and they chose to add “1979”, because, to quote Grainger, “1979 is the year of my birth, 1979 is the year of Off the Wall, 1979 is the year of The Pleasure Principle, 1979 is the last year of the last cool decade, 1979 is scratched into my arm, 1979 is scratched into my arm, 1979 is scratched into my fucking arm.” DFA’s reaction to James Murphy and his label also was the only thing on the band’s website for a while, and here it is, verbatim:
“FUCK DFA RECORDS FUCK JAMES MURPHY WE DECLARE JIHAD ON THEM HOLY WAR ENDING IN THIER [sic] DEATH AND DISMEMBERMENT… james murphy is a selfish piece of fuck that will burn in the flames of a specially dedicated rock and roll jihad. if i had the resources i would fly a plane into his skull.”
Rock on brother Jesse and brother Sebastian!
It Was Fifty Years Ago Today*: Why the Beatles Still Matter
*give or take a few weeks…
October 1962. The Beatles, then a relatively unknown band from Liverpool, have just released their first major label single, “Love Me Do,” recorded at Abbey Road Studios, and later make their first TV appearance. History would never be the same.
But wait, isn’t this We Ball Harder, the home of the cutting-edge, underground, and hip? Yes it fucking well is. It’s not all Light Cycles, Madeon, and desert rock round here – anything hard-balling is saluted, and musically and culturally, nobody had a bigger, harder-balling, longer-lasting impact than the Beatles.
Woouf! Awesome Funky Furnishings
Woouf! rocks. This Barcelona-based company produces sofas, beanbag chairs, pillows, and other such odds and ends of a distinctly lighthearted and often musical or foody nature, as seen above in their wall of Marshall and Vox amp-shaped beanbag seats, or rather, Wooufall and Woouf amps. My personal favorite, however, is this:
The Miniwoouf sofa, a full-sized sofa modeled in painstaking detail after the legendary Minimoog synthesizer, one of the first portable synthesizers ever and a true revolutionary product. A badass instrument and a badass sofa.
I also like their ghetto blaster beanbag seat:
They also have stuff modeled after the Walkman, burgers, ice cream, and Skittles, or as they call them, Wooufies.
On top of this explosion of retro-chic awesomeness, everything is made entirely in Barcelona, versus, say, Shenzhen. I daresay Woouf! balls harder. Check out their site.


Date: 29 May 98 02:43:43 From: email@example.com (Edward Hahn) Organization: The MITRE Corporation References: 1
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In article <airliners.1998.783@ohare.Chicago.COM>, jcastleANTISPAM@eden.com (Joe Castleman) wrote: >The other day as I was driving to work, I watched a TWA DC-9 take off from >runway 17/35 at AUS. This runway is only 5006 feet long, and I had >believed that jet aircraft always used 13R/31L, which is 7269 feet. Is a >take-off from such a short runway possible for a DC-9? Well, evidently it >is, but I sure wonder what the circumstances might have been... I can't >imagine that the pilot tried that with a full load of passengers; not so >much because of weight, but because of the steep climb, excessive G-force >etc. I think a lot of people would get scared and complain. (I myself >would have liked to have been on that plane). The procedure by which pilots decide which runways are acceptable are well established and generally followed by the book. The factors involved in which runways are acceptable for use have to do with the so-called Balanced Field Length. This number is related to the known ability of the aircraft to accelerate to V1 speed and then stop without using thrust reversers, and is based on several factors. These include: 1) Engine type and power setting 2) Aircraft weight 3) Density altitude (combination of altitude, temperature, and humidity) 4) Runway orientation and slope 5) Winds These factors are calculated separately for each takeoff specifically for the available runways, and if a particular runway was shorter than the balanced field length, it would not be used. There is absolutely no reason for a crew to accept a runway shorter than the required balanced field length, and I doubt that any crew would do so. As for other factors which you mention (steep climb, excessive G-forces), I'm not aware of anything quantifiable for either one that is related to safety. For example, "steep climb" means what exactly? Also, during a takeoff scenario, the amount of normal acceleration which the aircraft could possibly experience is limited due to the low airspeed - the aircraft would stall well before an "excessive" G-force (say, +4G which is the limit load of the aircraft) would be experienced. (Aircraft generally climb at a predetermined airspeed which is nowhere near the stall speed, BTW.) Also, since the passengers are belted in, generally feel a smooth acceleration through rotation into climb, I can't imagine that anyone who has flown before would not expect this sequence of events through takeoff. Finally, I'd like to mention that gaining altitude as quickly as possible in the first minutes of a flight is probably the single most important safety factor if, for some reason, there were an emergency (engine shutdown, etc.) The extra altitude translates into additional range, and that can mean all the difference in being able to return to an airfield vs. landing off the airport. ed >>>> Ed Hahn | firstname.lastname@example.org | (703) 883-5988 <<<< The above statement is the opinion of the author. No endorsement or warranty by the MITRE Corporation is expressed or implied. Really, I wouldn't kid you about a thing like this.


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Few months back I recall
On Tuesday received a call did I
A job offer for new job for me.
Caller explained on Tuesday
What the offer entailed.
Stunned I was to say the least
Speechless beyond words to say.
Told the day I could start
I thanked him and we hung up.
Rest of Tuesday I felt on cloud nine
Over the moon for a new job
Which would be started soon.
April 14th 2016 Poem: Throw-Back Thursday or Monday-Monday: Write a poem about something that happened to you on a day (not date) that seems significant, Monday or Thursday or any other day of the week, but state the day three times in the poem.
A warm day comes
With a hint of breeze
To which I stand
Beneath a waving tree;
To which I gaze
Beyond the horizon
I can see the world
That life is good;
There is plenty to see;
On this warm day
Beneath a waving tree.
Dreary day ends in cold
Bare trees shiver through night
Droplets splatter against bark
They finally hit their mark
Wet with mist from dreary day
Trees wish for summer ray
To bring their flowers out to bloom
They wish it could finally come soon
Under a shady tree I rest
looking as the sun begins
to sink below horizon.
Blue skies changes colors
to darker blue; sun becomes
orange, red blending in
colors along with darken skies.
Sun now gone below to sleep;
skies now black it is night
stars have come out.
Moon rises high above the night skies;
I watch looking up, admiring beauty as
day becomes night blending its colors
from one to the other in perfect time.
Bring to a close the evening sun
Nestled high above the clouds
Your hand stretches out to touch it
You turn its golden globe orb
Stand back and watch it glide down ever slowly.
Watch it sink below the clouds.
The rays dim the sky as darkness draws near.
You pluck the moon from its morning sleep.
Setting it high to where the sun now gone from sight.
Your job is done;
You rest until the time is needed for the sun to rise again.


Just bought a 1981 Toyota Corona DX (rt140?) with a 1600cc 12R engine with a 4 speed tranny. PO told me that the car was parked for a while as he didn't have time to use it and partly because he just bought a scooter and was using it more often that the car. So rather than letting it just sit and rot, (it was parked under a low tree) he decided to sell it.
So yesterday straight after I logged out of work I went to his place and paid the guy Php26500 (around $610.32 if I'm not mistaken) to take "midori" out of his hands.
Note: These are the photos posted by the PO on a local classifieds website here.
After a brief chat with the owner about the rotting Mitsubishi Celeste I saw on another street (the guy was a old school J-tin fanatic like myself) we shook hands and off home I went. While driving the car I made mental notes on what needed to be done to make the car road worthy again. I noticed that under acceleration the left rear wheel made a clanging sound which could be a bearing giving out. Also noted that the engine was waaaaay under powered which could just be a tune up issue. And I don't know if anyone noticed but the car is lowered like heck. While I do like the shakotan look, this is gonna be my daily/family driver so new shocks and springs are in order.
Im also wondering if I could get a second opinion on something. On my way back from the PO the engine suddenly sputtered and then cut. When I opened the hood I saw through the carb window that the fuel chamber was full (past the half mark). I drained the carb and after a few attempts of starting the engine sputtered back to life and then ran fine. This happened a few times (thrice exactly, the second and third time I just tried to turn it over after the engine died). My plan this coming Wednesday is to clean the carb and fuel tank, wondering if anyone can give me a second opinion if I missed anything that could have caused the issue.
Thanks for looking. 8)


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Video Premiere: The Academy Is...'s 'About a Girl'
The Academy Is... debut a music video to promote their brand new song called "About a Girl". Shot in a so-called Barrington High School, the video gives a look at the life of a high schooler, played by frontman William Beckett, who falls in love with a girl but has no courage to tell her.
"About a Girl" is one of the new singles on the pop punk band's third studio album "Fast Times at Barrington High". Revolving around the final year of senior high school, the record is produced by S*A*M, who has also produced Gym Class Heroes' digital EP, "Patches From the Quilt".
A bunch of dates have been scheduled by the band for a roadshow. They will perform at Pop's in Sauget, Illinois on October 30 and continue traveling around the U.S. before making their last stop at Town Ballroom in Buffalo, New York on November 23. A complete schedule for their upcoming shows can be checked on their MySpace page.
The Academy Is...'s "About a Girl" music video:
- Anne Hathaway Admits She Faked Happiness During Her 2013 Oscar Win
- 'Real Housewives of Miami' Star Larsa Splits From Husband Scottie Pippen Amid Future Romance Rumor
- Former Bachelorette Desiree Hartsock Gives Birth to Baby Boy
- Jennifer Lawrence to Lead Zelda Fitzgerald Biopic
- Kim Kardashian's Family Shares Throwbacks and Birthday Wishes as She Turns 36
- Chris Pratt to Return to TV as Guest Star on His Wife Anna Faris' 'Mom'
- Katy Perry and Pharrell Williams Named Co-Chairs for 2017 Met Gala
- Shailene Woodley Writes Powerful Essay About Her Arrest During Pipeline Protest

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The NFL Draft has become a game of numbers. With more intervals and statistics than ever, it creates an overload of information when trying to judge these college players. Heck, it’s come to the point where we are asking ridiculous questions about every asset of a player’s life. Before we know it a players draft stock could plummet just because he had a cough at the combine. However, one stat that constantly gets overlooked is the most important one, winning.
In a sea of statistics bombarding every draft analyst ranging from bench presses, to forty yard dashes, and even mental tests, we forget that at the end of the day isn’t it all about winning? If it was all about the stats shouldn’t MIT professors be judging these players rather than NFL scouts? How is it that the winningest quarterback in the Draft class is not being taken seriously?
Lost in the three-horse quarterback race of Bortles, Manziel, and Bridgewater, most people have written off Alabama’s Aj Mccarron as a franchise quarterback. On pretty much every website, TV program, and draft special I have researched Mccarron isn’t even considered in the top 5 of this quarterback draft class. Blasphemous I say! If he falls to a team in the second round, he could be the steal of the 2014 Draft. Imagine if the Texans not only draft Jadeveon Clowney with the first pick but also get a great quarterback like Mccarron in the top of round 2. Houston could be back in the playoffs if they were able to pull that off.
Why is Mccarron getting overlooked? He’s won two national championships as a starter and had the best record of any starter throughout his duration in college. In his career he has thrown for 77 touchdowns, 15 interceptions, and thrown over 9,000 yards. Despite this, he still has little to no respect. Heck people know him more for his girlfriend, Katherine Webb, then his football career. People will say it’s because of the talent around him that made Mccarron successful, which is true that he had the most talented team in college. However, he also had to live with the highest expectations in college football. Did any other quarterback have that much pressure? Despite a 11-2 record in his senior year, a season which most programs would die for, was a complete failure by Alabama standards. If anything being able to perform under that pressure and unreasonable expectations should make NFL executives want him even more.
When studying Mccarron I compare his college career to that of a future Hall of Famer, Tom Brady. Now by no stretch of the imagination am I saying that Mccarron will be the next Tom Brady or a Hall of Famer, but both were in similar situations when drafted. Both were vastly underrated prospects, Brady was the seventh quarterback selected and Mccarron sits as the sixth or seventh quarterback on most draft boards. Brady and Mccarron were considered game managers with little room for improvement. However, the one thing both of them did in their college career was win. If put in the right system, Mccarron could be a day 1 starter and could be a solid starter in this league. Who knows? In time he could become one of the top starters in the league. Maybe ten years from now we will look back at this draft and say man, how did all of those quarterbacks go before Mccarron? He may not be the most gifted quarterback in the 2014 NFL Draft, but the one thing that AJ Mccarron has proven is he is a winner. And isn’t winning everything?


Australia 47/2 after 17 overs
Australia has lost its experienced opening pair of Belinda Clark and Lisa Keightley in the opening hour of the 2005 World Cup Final against India.After Clark won the toss and elected to bat, the Australians have been in trouble against some fine swing bowling from Amita Sharma and Jhulan Goswami. At the first drinks break they are 47/2 after 17 overs.
Clark made 19 before getting a fine edge to wicketkeeper Jain off Sharma. She had played some fine shots including three boundaries, however was fortunate not to have been given out lbw in the third over of the morning when on 2. Keightley made 5 before she fended at a widish ball from Goswami taken by Rumeli Dhar at second slip.
Karen Rolton started shakily but has played some glorious drives to the point boundary since settling in. Mel Jones has been uncomfortable at the crease. Rolton is 12 and Jones 5 at drinks. Goswami’s opening spell went for 1/14 from six overs, Sharma took 1/15 from her seven over spell.
There’s a very small crowd at Centurion in bright sunny conditions with a fast outfield.
Australia 100/3 after 33 overs
Australia consolodated their position in the second hour of the Women’s Cricket World Cup final at Supersport Park, Centurion.After 33 overs, the Australians are 100 for 3. Melanie Jones was the last wicket to fall, out lbw when attempting to sweep Neetu David. Jones was just starting to look dangerous when dismissed for 17.
Left-arm spinner Neetu David and quickish right-arm offie Nooshin Al Khadeer have both bowled impressively, making an excellent foil to the new ball pair of Goswami and Amita Sharma. Rolton was unbeaten on 40 at the drinks break and looking prepared to gather momentum. With her at the crease is Indian-born Lisa Sthalekar on 12.
If they do not lose too many more wickets, Australia look on target for a score of around 170-180.
Australia 215/4 in 50 overs
India need to score 216 runs if they are to win their first-ever Women’s Cricket World Cup at Centurion this afternoon.Karen Rolton scored a brilliant 107 not out, the first century in a Women’s World Cup Final, as Australia completed their fifty overs with a score of 215 for 4. Rolton added 139 for the fourth wicket with Lisa Sthalekar, who was out caught and bowled in the last over by Rumeli Dhar for 55.
Equal to the largest partnership of this World Cup (139* by Juliana Nero and Pamela Lavine for the West Indies against Ireland), Rolton and Sthalekar’s hallmark was aggressive running between the wickets.
Rolton gave one chance, dropped at mid-on by Amita Sharma off Neetu David when 62, before bringing up her sixth ODI hundred off 126 balls including ten boundaries. Alex Blackwell was the other Australian batter at the crease at the end of the innings, on 4.
For India, four bowlers took one wicket apiece: Goswami (1/45), Amita Sharma (1/39), Dhar (1/34) and David (1/39), the latter finishing her World Cup with 20 wickets for the tournament. India’s tight bowling early in the innings fell apart later in the face of Rolton and Sthalekar’s aggression.
Australia’s total of 215 is the highest innings total in a World Cup final, indeed the first score in excess of 200.
(The last match of the 1973 World Cup, in which England scored 279 for 3 in 60 overs against Australia and Enid Bakewell made 118, has been erroneously described as the Final of that tournament. In fact, there was no final and that game was part of the last day of the round-robin, and it just so happened that the winner was decided as a result of that match.)
India 43/2 in 18 overs
India have made a tentative start to their pursuit of Australia’s World Cup Final record total of 215 for 4. At the first drinks break, the Indians are 43 for 2 from 18 overs.India lost their first wicket when Jaya Sharma, who has had a poor 2005 World Cup, was run out after making an absurd call for a single. Sharma made 5. Veteran opener Anju Jain played a confident innings of 29 from 52 balls before chipping a Clea Smith delivery to Sthalekar at mid-off.
Smith and Julie Hayes have been miserly with their bowling and the Australian fielding has for the most part been sharp. Not out at the drinks break are Anjum Chopra on 5 and Indian captain Mithali Raj on 3. India need 173 to win from 32 overs at a required run-rate of 5.41 per over.
India 65/6 in 26 overs
India’s Women’s Cricket World Cup aspirations are unravelling in the face of some brilliant Australian fielding. Taking full advantage of some poor calling by the Indian batters, Australia has captured four run outs to leave India reeling at 64/6 in the 25th over. The target, an unprecedented total for a Women’s World Cup Final at 216, seems a distant hope now.Anjum Chopra (10) was run out by a direct hit from Julie Hayes. Rumeli Dhar (6) fell foul of a direct hit from Australian captain Belinda Clark, and Hemlata Kala (3) was likewise a victim of Lisa Sthalekar’s arm. In amidst all this, Mithali Raj (6) was trapped leg before wicket by South Australian left-arm spinner Shelley Nitschke.
The not out batters at the end of the 26th over are Amita Sharma on 1, and Jhulan Goswami yet to score. India now need 151 runs from 24 overs, Australia need four wickets to win the Jack Hayward Trophy for the fifth time.
India 104/7 in 40 overs
Australia have the proverbial one hand on the World Cup. India need to score 112 runs in their last ten overs if they are to become women’s cricket champions of the world. They have only scored 104 in their first forty.India’s seventh wicket fell with the score on 97. All-rounder Amita Sharma had led a revival of sorts after her side had collapsed to 64 for 6, but when on 22 she was given out lbw off the bowling of Lisa Sthalekar.
With the game entering its dying stages, Deepa Marathe is on 3 and Jhulan Goswami 11. India 104/7 in 40 overs in reply to Australia’s 215/4.
Australia wins the World Cup
Australia has won the 2005 Women’s Cricket World Cup. They defeated India by 98 runs, India being bowled out for 117 in 46 overs.The end came when Nooshin Al Khadeer was comprehensively bowled by Shelley Nitschke without scoring. Earlier, Jhulan Goswami (18) was caught by substitute fielder Kate Blackwell off the bowling of Cathryn Fitzpatrick to become India’s eighth wicket down, after which Neetu David lost her off stump courtesy of Fitzpatrick without scoring a run herself. Fitzpatrick’s world record tally of ODI wickets now stands at 148.
Karen Rolton was named Player of the Match for her masterful 107 not out, the first century scored in any officially designated Women’s Cricket World Cup Final. Rolton was also named Player of the Tournament for scoring 246 runs and taking 10 wickets.
While Mithali Raj appeared crestfallen during the post-game ceremonies, the Indian team has plenty to be proud of in this World Cup, having made the final for the first time. In the end, the Australians proved far too good with their outfielding, and possess a captain and an all-rounder who both rank among the greatest that the women’s game of cricket has seen.
Brief scores: Australia 215/4 in 50 overs (K Rolton 107*, L Sthalekar 55) defeated India 117 all out in 46 overs (A Jain 29, A Sharma 22; C Fitzpatrick 2-23, S Nitschke 2-14) by 98 runs.
(Note: This article was originally written for the Cricketwoman website in 2005. It may contain links to Cricketarchive which have long since ceased to exist. Cricketwoman was a partner website of Cricketarchive at the time of the 2005 Womens World Cup. – RE, 2017-07-21)


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text: What I liked the most was to play with Weezer and see him bullying his shelter mates like Flounder, who had his back legs paralyzed. Quynh said to me that I could use a harness to help him walk. In the beginning I walked him for 5 minutes and the last time I walked Flounder he walked for 20 minutes! The other volunteers were really nice like Kate, Quynh, Danielle and Sarah. I was happy when the parvo dogs got recovered. And naming some new puppies was a pleasure. Mini and Madhu had a good idea to build this shelter. I’m surely coming back!

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Tyler R. Renfro, a voice actor who has been enamored with the fantasy genre since a young age, has completed his new book “The Fading of the Everglow”: a gripping adventure that finds a heroic knight bravely exploring new lands in an attempt to find a cure for his kingdom’s dying source of magic and life called the Everglow.
“This is a tale of a brave knight named Amadan,” writes Renfro. “He lives in a kingdom, once prosperous thanks to the power of the Everglow. The Everglow is a tree that is as mysterious as it is powerful, and using its power, the land has prospered, but one day, it begins to fade, forcing Amadan to leave his kingdom and embark on a journey to a mysterious and dangerous land that nobody has heard of for thousands of years to find a way to save his people. He will face unknown dangers and unthinkable obstacles that seek to stop him. Will he prevail, or will his kingdom wither and rot like a dying oak?”
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Background: Belatacept (bela) might be an alternative to Calcineurin Inhibitors (CNI) in order to avoid presumed nephrotoxicity. In this study we assessed the impact of bela conversion in a cohort of American kidney transplant patients (KT).
Methods: EBV seropositive adult patients were converted to bela from tacrolimus, based upon our prior published protocol, usually for biopsy proven acute CNI toxicity and/or interstitial fibrosis/tubular atrophy. A majority of patients (N=29; 71%) underwent a surveillance biopsy usually within 6-10 months of conversion. A subset of pre- and post-conversion biopsies underwent transcriptome analysis using the MMDx platform.
Results: Forty-one (mean age=45 years) patients were switched to bela at a median of 6 months post-KT. Many were sensitized (32%; cPRA range=29-100%); regrafts (22%); had delayed graft function (56%); and had a history of acute rejection (22%). Death-censored graft survival was 88% at a mean follow-up of 3.4 years post-conversion. Of the five grafts (12%) that failed, three were lost at least partly due to acute T-cell mediated rejection (TCMR). Surveillance biopsies revealed 2 additional cases of subclinical TCMR, giving an overall rejection rate of 12%. Overall, renal function improved from a peak mean serum creatinine (SCr) of 2.9±1.6mg/dL to 2.6±1.7mg/dL at 6 weeks (p=0.03), and 2.3±0.9mg/dL at 3 months (p=0.004). This improvement was sustained with a SCr of 2.4±1.6mg/dL at most recent follow-up. Paired pre- and post-conversion histologic analysis did not reveal significant worsening of microvascular inflammation or chronicity. Transcriptome analysis of a subset of patients (N=20) did not reveal any significant changes in markers of acute kidney injury, either in inflammation or in parenchymal injury transcripts.
Conclusions: In this study we demonstrate that belatacept conversion might be safe for KT patients, including those at high-immunologic risk. Paired biopsy analysis revealed no significant histologic or molecular changes overtime. Since renal function improved early and then stayed stable, it is possible that the primary reason for improvement is vasomotor, rather than a true change in fibrogenesis. Given the absence of reduction in molecular injury markers after conversion, the presence of CNIs might not, in of itself, induce parenchymal injury.
CITATION INFORMATION: Sanghi P, Gupta G, Kumar D, Reeve J, Levy M, Sharma A, Fattah H, Kimball P, Massey H, King A, Halloran P. Impact of Belatacept Conversion on Kidney Transplant Function, Histology and Gene Expression. Am J Transplant. 2017;17 (suppl 3).
To cite this abstract in AMA style:Sanghi P, Gupta G, Kumar D, Reeve J, Levy M, Sharma A, Fattah H, Kimball P, Massey H, King A, Halloran P. Impact of Belatacept Conversion on Kidney Transplant Function, Histology and Gene Expression. [abstract]. Am J Transplant. 2017; 17 (suppl 3). https://atcmeetingabstracts.com/abstract/impact-of-belatacept-conversion-on-kidney-transplant-function-histology-and-gene-expression/. Accessed July 31, 2021.
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1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data Suppose a disk of radius 'r' is rotation on a surface. If the center G moves a distance 'd', then what is the distance traveled by a point on the top of the disk (on its edge or circumference). 2. Relevant equations theta = s / r ; where theta is the rotation in rad, s is the arc length, r is the radius 3. The attempt at a solution I know that if G moves a distance 'd', then the entire circle rotates 'theta'=d/r. But I'm not sure how to make this a general case. A thought: Can i treat the point of contact between the disk and ground as a n "origin" and then state that a point directly above it on the edge of the disk moves '2r*theta' ? Thank you, Alex. ------- EDIT: I hope you don't mind if I make the problem a bit more specific. Suppose a gear of radius r_o is moving with an inner hub of radius r_i. If I know the origin moves 'd', then how far does a point on the circumference of the inner hub move?


Today we are going to be looking at E-Cigs and second-hand smoking and the potential hazards they each pose but first let’s talk about smoking. Smoking is bad for you and everyone around you. So if vaping is less bad for you, is it also less bad for everyone around you. The nicotine in smokes is highly addictive and causes increased blood pressure, higher cholesterol, and heart disease. Cigarettes yellow your teeth and nails, cause premature wrinkling, and the American Cancer Society estimates about half of the people who start smoking and never quit will die of cancer. But, if despite knowing all this you still choose to smoke, it’s your decision and you know the risks. The problem really arises for people around you who choose not to smoke, and yet they’re going to suffer a lot of the same effects if they breathe in your smoke regularly.
What You Need to Know About E-Cigs
Enter the e-cigarette. The idea is you do away with tobacco and instead have extracted nicotine in water. A heating element vaporizes the water that carries the nicotine into your lungs and you exhale water vapor that’s harmless to the people around you. At least that’s what the advertisements say, but what does the science say? Short answer: It’s less bad but still not great. Yes, it’s true, without the tobacco and tar, the vapor you exhale has a tenth the carcinogens as normal cigarette smoke so second-hand vapor indoors from one e-cigarette is considered no significant risk, while a regular cigarette is.
Potential Hazards of E-Cigs
Still, the vapor can have a negative effect on your immune system. Mice exposed to e-cigarette vapor were more susceptible to bacterial and viral infections because of free radicals in the smoke that damaged cell DNA. There’s a new problem e-cigs have too: because you’re heating a metal tube, the vapor can carry heavy metals. Some of them, like lead or zinc, are in lower levels than you find in normal tobacco smoke. But one heavy metal in the vapor that’s not found in cigarettes is chromium. Chromium comes in a couple different forms based on how easily it bonds with other elements, trivalent chromium [Cr (III)] and hexavalent chromium [Cr (VI)]. Trivalent Chromium isn’t absorbed well by the body so it’s pretty harmless, but hexavalent chromium is a different story. Chronic inhalation can cause lung scarring and lung cancer.. E-cig smokers can choose different cartridges with a range of nicotine levels from none to pretty high. The nicotine will still cause a wealth of cardiovascular problems so that aspect is no better than regular cigarettes.
Hazards of Second Hand Smoking
How much of that nicotine is in second-hand vapor? According to Oxford University, about a tenth as much that’s in tobacco smoke. It’s still present and so the Oxford researchers warn to hold off on vaping near children, pregnant women, or people with cardiovascular conditions until more studies are done. So as of right now, for the most part, it looks like second-hand vapor poses a significantly lower health risk than tobacco smoke. But remember, it took decades of observation and study to realize the effects of passive tobacco smoke inhalation. E-cigarettes have only been on the market since 2007, and to really know what we’re getting into we need to be able to see the effects of the vapor over a person’s lifetime. That’s right, say it with me, more research is needed. E-cigarette smoke is apparently a lot less bad, nice, myth confirmed. We can’t say as much for Hookah smoke though.
The health risks of second-hand vaping if you will I would say are similar to the comparison of vaping versus smoking there’s no question whatsoever that secondhand vaping is much safer than secondhand smoke. There’s no comparison between breathing in the tobacco smoke that you get if you are exposed in an environment where there are some to an environment where people are vaping.


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In accordance with California Civil Code Section 4360(a), the Board of Directors hereby provides you with a minimum of twenty-eight (28) days’ notice of proposed changes they are considering to the Monarch Beach Master Association Rules and Regulations. The purpose of this notice is to offer members an opportunity to provide comments and opinions on the proposed changes.
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text: Alaska unveiled completely new branding in January 2016, with a modernized eskimo and a new color scheme. This is the first 737-700 painted in the new livery. Model developed by Tenkuu Developers Studio, features high resolution textures, dynamic flexing wings, nose gear steering, rudder lock, ground spoilers, low speed aileron locks at high speed, fully animated control surfaces, fully independent suspension, trim animation, opening passenger doors, rolling wheels, animated thrust reversers with reverser block doors, detailed textures, full night lighting, ground service vehicles and more. Model design by Hiroshi Igami. Flight dynamics design by Nick Wilkinson, with assistance from David Biggar. Master textures and paint kit by Kyle Schurb. Painted on the great TDS model. Enjoy!


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As we all know, in November of 2019 Shad Lewis was in a tragic car accident. After months of recovering, he is making great progress every day and continues to inspire everyone.
Everyone posting and sharing the welcoming of Shad Lewis and his family returning to his home brings lots of joy and support around the community.
A drive by parade for Shad was held Saturday, April 18 at 1:00. Everybody who wanted to participate was welcome. Participants met at the forest service parking lot and slowly started heading up by the Lewis residence and finished at Delta High School.
Shad and his family sat on their porch while everyone else waved, honked, and showed love that brought lots of emotion that day.
“I was super excited so many people showed up, I was nervous that the turnout wouldn’t be that great because of the pandemic. But I was happy to see so many people, it was just great to see the community pull together for Shad like that” said Carson Roithmayr.
Family and friends, including several law enforcement, fire truck, and other emergency vehicles from the community showed and will continue showing love and support to the Lewis family.

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Fatigue in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: the role of dehydroepiandrosterone sulphateOverman, C. L., Hartkamp, A., Bossema, E. R., Bijl, M., Godaert, G. L. R., Bijlsma, J. W. J., Derksen, R. H. W. M. & Geenen, R., Dec-2012, In : Lupus. 21, 14, p. 1515-1521 7 p.
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Fatigue is a major problem in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), but the physiological substrate of this fatigue is largely unclear. To examine if low levels of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and its sulphate DHEAS play a role in SLE fatigue, we compared: 1) DHEAS levels and fatigue between 60 female patients with SLE with low disease activity (31 using, 29 not using prednisone) and 60 age-matched healthy women, and 2) fatigue between patients with SLE with low and normal DHEAS levels. Serum DHEAS levels were determined with an Advantage Chemiluminescense System. The Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory (MFI) was used to assess fatigue. Patients were more fatigued (p = 0.39). Patients with low DHEAS levels not using prednisone reported less fatigue than those with normal DHEAS levels (p
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Today was the day that our group presented our intervention for the community and I was the master of ceremonies. For the past two months, we researched diabetes within Lao Noi village because we found that this was a main issue in the community. In addition, diabetes was one of the concerns that the community had as well.
We found that those who exercise for thirty minutes or more did not have diabetes compared to those who exercise less than thirty minutes a day. Also, we found that those who had diabetes changed their eating behaviors. For instance, once they found out that they have diabetes, they will try to lessen their sugar intake and try to eat healthier.
For our intervention, to decrease the prevalence of diabetes within the village, we suggested for the villagers to consume less sugary foods, eat more vegetables, and exercise for more than thirty minutes with activities that pick up the heart rate. Moreover, we demonstrated some proper stretches. As we were showing the villagers the moves, some of the group members and myself, went out into the audience and asked them to participate with us. We tried to engage the audience and we made the presentation more interactive.
Furthermore, on one of our site visits, we went to another community that has a great waste management system and they showed us their system. One thing that we were able to model after this system was their muscle strengthening equipment. It was made out of reusable materials which made things easy to find. For instance, the materials needed would be 2 water bottles, bottle caps, rope, and pieces of wood or a small plastic pipe.
We brought some of the strengthening equipment to Lao Noi village and incorporated within our presentation. After the demonstration, we picked some people in the audience to try the equipment. As a result, we got positive feedback from the villagers. Additionally, the villagers said that they will try their best to follow our intervention, Overall, the group presentation turned out to be wonderful and I had a great time.


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A viable transfer printing-based methodology to introduce plasmonic metal nanostructures in solar cells is described. Using nanopillar poly(dimethylsiloxane) stamps, an Ag-based ordered nanodisk array was integrated with standard hydrogenated microcrystalline Si solar cells, which led to improved device performances due to plasmonic light trapping.

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Jets backup quarterback Mike White stepped in for the injured starter Zach Wilson on Sunday and led the team to a shocking upset over the Bengals, leading to plenty of talk that White, not Wilson is the best quarterback on the team. But Wilson wasn’t jealous.
Instead, White said today, Wilson was his No. 1 cheerleader.
“Zach was awesome,” White said. “He was the first person in the hall when I got off the field to congratulate me. He gave me this huge hug. I was real nervous that I hit his knee and banged him up. He honestly might have been more juiced up than me. He was texting me during the game. Every play during the game he was texting my phone. Obviously I wasn’t answering. He’s like, ‘Oh, my God, that was awesome.’ Then had a big, long congratulations text for me.”
White said Wilson’s support was exactly what he was expecting.
“That’s who Zach is,” White said. “It’s super genuine, the kid just loves football and loves being around the team and it shows every day, whether he’s on the field or off.”

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An Indiana jury’s medical malpractice verdict of $15 million awarded to a woman in June will stay, after her stage 4 rectal cancer went undetected on a CT scan. The defendant, the Center for Diagnostic Imaging of Carmel (CDI), was denied a reduction or amendment to the original judgement by Southern District of Indiana Chief Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson.
CDI argued the jury’s award was “monstrously excessive,” and requested a reduction in damages.
In 2014, Michael Walked, MD, a radiologist who was independently contracted with CDI, was found to have missed a tumor on plaintiff Courtney Webster’s CT scan. The tumor went undetected for 17 months, when Webster was diagnosed with stage 4 rectal can
Magnus-Stinson also addressed CDI’s claim that the jury’s award is “monstrously excessive.”
“This court cannot and does not find that awards of $14 [million] and $1 [million] respectively for the loss of 36.2 years of life expectancy and consortium of a formerly vibrant, competent and engaged wife, mother and professional woman is excessive in the least,” she concluded.


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