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Here, by Lake Atitlan in Guatemala, approximately 15 degrees north of the equator we observe the phenomenon of the solar zenith twice per year, but what is the solar zenith?
The zenith point is the highest point of the sun in the sky. This will occur at midday, when the sun crosses an imaginary line running from north to south known as the meridian. The path of the sun through the sky is called the ecliptic, and is also the line on which you can find the planets – it is the plane of the solar system. At the days of solar zenith, the meridian and the ecliptic will form a perfect cross at midday, with 90 degree angles in each quadrant. This means that the sun will be directly overhead, and our shadow, if we stand up straight, will be just a little puddle around our feet. The sun is perfectly balanced on both the east/west and north/south axes.
This phenomenon happens at all locations within the tropics, and at slightly different times. On the Tropic of Cancer, 25.4 degrees north of the equator, solar zenith is observed on just one day of the year, June solstice. The further south you go, the further the the difference in days increases up until you reach the equator, where the solar zenith occurs on the equinoxes. If you continue south to the Tropic of Capricorn, 23.4 degrees south of the equator, you find that again the solar zenith occurs only once, on December solstice.
For us here, it means that in the days between the first zenith transit at the end of April and the second in August (around August 11), the sun is effectively in the north at midday. It is not by a great amount (about 81 degrees above the northern horizon at midday) but it can certainly mean that planning a garden is not so easy.
Perhaps one of the most interesting things about the solar zenith is that the two occasions are 105 days apart. If we use the Mayan solar calendar, they count the solar year with 365 days. Therefore the “summer” period between the April and August zenith transits of 105 days means that the remainder of days, between August and April works out to 260 days, the number of days in the sacred calendar. This is a fact which convinced some scholars that the sacred calendar must have originated at a latitude of about 15 degrees north of the equator. There is also some other special Mayan numerology in the timing of the zenith passages, with each one occurring 52 days away from the June solstice – 52 being a number which occurs many times in Mayan mathematics. It is also interesting that the second zenith transit occurs around 11th August, which according to the GMT correlation, was the day of creation of the fourth age of the Sun back in 3114BC.
We can tell by the alignments of certain structures (for example El Caracol at Chichen Itza, The Palace at Palenque and stelae 10 and 12 at Copan to name just a few) that the ancient Maya were marking the sunrises and sunsets on zenith days, so it would seem that zenith days were of importance to them. There are also zenith tubes, long, vertical holes which could only illuminate the chamber below when the sun was directly overhead on zenith days.
Exactly what meaning was attributed to the zenith days is something I have yet to understand. However, there is a great deal of evidence that the April zenith day was seen as a day for general planting to start. Right now we are waiting for the rains to come. A few little sprinkles have happened to wet the earth up a bit, but the true rains are on their way. With this zenith coinciding with the days 13 Kej and 1 Q’anil, it would seem like an excellent time to connect with the spirit of the natural world and the ancestors (13 Kej) and plant your seeds for an abundant harvest (1 Q’anil) asking the sun to bless your crops.

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A new version of the Tobii EyeX Engine is now available for manual download. The new version is API compatible with the previous version, so you do not need to update any SDKs or applications — although it’s of course recommended to always use the latest SDK release.
The new version solves a number of stability and performance issues. It also makes a more clear separation between the EyeX Engine and the EyeX for Windows components, and makes some changes with regards to how the components are launched.
To upgrade manually, you can download the new release here on the Tobii Developer Zone. Note that you might need to uninstall all your previous Tobii programs to succeed with the update.
If you have a REX unit, please read this post about REX firmware compatability with EyeX Engine 0.8.17. You may have to update to a newer firmware for your REX to work properly with the new EyeX Engine.


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I have several Christmas Cards to post and hope I will have time next week to add them. I guess with the holidays here, it is hard to find the time to do a lot of things. But I hope to get back into posting more often. Maybe that should be my New Years Resolution. Please stop back again. Thank You. *
This is one of my favorite stamps from Flourishes. The blue berries are gorgeous. I colored them with watercolor pencils and then blended with a blender pen. And the designer paper is from my stash. I liked the hint of blue and pink flowers along with the wheat or oats, which ever one it might be in the background. The label is from a Nestibilities die. I added the blue polka dotted ribbon to add to the color of the card.
Thanks for stopping by. All your comments are appreciated. *

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By David Dodd
Here’s the plan—each week, I will blog about a different song, focusing, usually, on the lyrics, but also on some other aspects of the song, including its overall impact—a truly subjective thing. Therefore, the best part, I would hope, would not be anything in particular that I might have to say, but rather, the conversation that may happen via the comments over the course of time—and since all the posts will stay up, you can feel free to weigh in any time on any of the songs! With Grateful Dead lyrics, there’s always a new and different take on what they bring up for each listener, it seems. (I’ll consider requests for particular songs—just private message me!)
Sometimes I think about this song, and I wonder about the weight of years, relatively speaking—how all the years combine, and how, when this band, which was ultimately to tour for 30 years, was just five years old, several members got together to write an autobiographical song in which the refrain noted “what a long strange trip it’s been.” And if it seemed long after five years, how must it have seemed after 10, 20, 25…? Did it start to seem that all this life was just a dream?
The lyrics were written under pressure, in the studio, during the recording of American Beauty, with Hunter running back and forth with hastily-written verses that somehow, despite the fact that were purpose-written on the spot, seem to have some pretty good staying power. There are rumors that he originally wrote “Garlands of neon and flashing marquees out on Main Street” as an intentionally hard-to-sing line, just to enjoy watching Weir try to wrap his mouth around them, eventually relenting and substituting “arrows of neon,” just to make it possible to sing.
The music credit is shared by Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, and Phil Lesh. Hunter gets the credit for the lyrics. And Hunter took the bare bones outline of some of the band’s adventures and misadventures and fleshed them out with memorable features, highlighting their trips around the country with specific references to places and occurrences. In the process, he came up with a chorus consisting of a couple of phrases that are now, eternally, in the cultural psyche: “Sometimes the light’s all shining on me / Other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me / What a long strange trip it’s been.”
At some point, Hunter was accused of using a cliché in that final phrase of the chorus. When something you make up becomes such a commonly-used turn of phrase that your own invention of it is accused of being cliché, that’s some measure of wordsmithing success, I would say. (It reminds me of the story about the old-timers from the mining country who shook their heads in dismay at what the band did to that old tune, “Cumberland Blues.”)
The country is criss-crossed: Chicago, New York, Detroit, Dallas, Houston, New Orleans, Buffalo, then, without being named, California—“I’m goin’ home…”
Along the way, the band encounters the reality of life on the road, where all the cities blend into a single city—“it’s all the same street.” They stick together, more or less in line, as they determinedly lay down their cards: taking their music to every corner of the country, whether they be welcomed or not. They encounter hostility in New Orleans, with their famous arrest—Lesh notes, in talking about the song, that their early touring days pre-dated the “rock and roll bubble,” whereby major rock bands would get something of a free pass for infractions of many kinds. They spend time in hotel rooms. It’s tiring and boring—maybe it’s time to settle down? And when it’s all over, and they are finally home, licking their wounds and patching their bones—hey! it’s time to start the whole process over again.
“Truckin’” was first performed on August 18, 1970, at the Fillmore West. The show opened with an acoustic set, and “Truckin’” was the first song. Other firsts that night included “Ripple,” “Brokedown Palace,” and “Operator.” The song was performed 520 times, placing it at number 8 in the list of most-played songs, with the final performance on July 6, 1995, at Riverport Amphitheatre in Maryland Heights, Missouri.
It was released on American Beauty in November 1970, after being recorded in three weeks at Wally Heider studios in September. It was also released as a single in January 1971, backed with “Ripple.”
Pretty much anyone who saw the band do the song more than once probably saw Bobby mess up the lyrics. But it never mattered in the least. What always struck me about this song in concert was the almost foolhardy, even fearless, way the band charged into the jam at the end, as if daring each other to just try to do something really crazy, for once. I got the sense that not only did they not know where they were going with the music once it got to the jam, but they simply didn’t care, and they refused to be intimidated—a good match for the crazy adventure they were on, described in the words of the song.
The Anthem to Beauty video contains a wonderful segment about “Truckin’,” and the common element running through each band member’s statements about the song is that it was truly an autobiographical song. It was a description of what the band actually lived through. Hunter notes that he did write additional verses over the years, and that initially he had thought it would grow with the band’s history, but he realized that once it was “down,” it was down—“you don’t go back,” he said. (Perhaps a lesson that could be applied to “Black Throated Wind.”)
But over and above the face-value autobiographical fun of the song and the stories it tells or hints at, several of the band members also express the idea that the song appealed to the band’s listeners in a special way. (Lesh notes that it was the closest they came to a hit on American Beauty.) It expressed the feeling, and the reality, of being out on the road in America—a rite of passage in those days. (And perhaps still today for many.) It gives expression to the impulse to explore America, to find adventure, to do something with, as Garcia put it, “no commercial potential.” It captures the ups and downs we all feel as we make our way through life: it “takes time--you pick a place to go, and just keep Truckin’ on,” with the light shining on you sometimes, and sometimes picking your way along in the dark. Lesh, thinking back on the times captured in the song, says “And I see a group of much younger people doing things in a way that I envy now, looking back on it.”
This is the band’s own story song. Other bands have written their own story songs through the years, but I can’t think of any that really captures the feeling of adventure, fearlessness, longing for home, and recognition of the cycles of our existence in the same way as “Truckin’.”
And not only that, but it is a GREAT dance tune!

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I’ll be reading in Corner Brook tomorrow to promote my first poetry collection, Never More There. This will be my first visit to CB and I have to say I’m looking forward to it. I hear there’s an enthusiastic arts community there, which makes sense due to the presence of Grenfell College and the Faculty of Arts there.
The details are available on the college website, but incase you’d rather get them from the horse’s mouth (or in this case fingers), see below:
Stephen Rowe reading from Never More There
Jennifer’s Barroom (on Broadway)
Corner Brook, NL
April 1, 8:00pm
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This makes me very proud to be a New Zealander. When it became apparent a pristine beach in the Able Tasman National Park was about to be sold by it’s owner and could fall into foreign ownership New Zealanders got behind a public campaign organised by Duane Major to raise funds to buy the beach so that it could remain in public ownership for all New Zealanders to enjoy.
Over 40,000 people donated just over $2.278 million dollars in the Give a Little campaign. The bid was then topped up “slightly” by the New Zealand Government and the tender was accepted by the owners.
The icing on the cake is that it has proven Gareth Morgan wrong. He claimed it was extremely “naive” of the public to think their offer would be accepted. Well go back to your cat hating Gareth you were wrong, and we didn’t need your offer of cash with strings attached. Ha!!
Minister of Conservation Maggie Barry on Paul Henry said: “It’s an outstanding outcome and Duane and his team of people who contributed, well done.
“For me, it’s the great Kiwi spirit come alive. The generosity and level of engagement New Zealanders have had is inspirational.


The Taliban-controlled Afghanistan Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has written to Indian aviation regulator DGCA to resume commercial flights between the countries. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is yet to take a decision in the matter. India last operated an Indian Air Force flight out of Kabul on August 21 to evacuate its citizens.
India had stopped all commercial flight operations to Kabul post August 15. The last commercial flight between India and Afghanistan was operated by Air India on the Kabul-Delhi route on August 15, the day Kabul fell to the Taliban. Afghanistan airspace was declared “uncontrolled” by the CAA on August 16. In a letter dated September 7, 2021, CAA’s Acting Minister Alhaj Hameedullah Akhunzada requested the DGCA to permit commercial flights of Ariana Afghan airline and Kam Air between India and Afghanistan. Akhunzada stated in his letter: “As you are well informed that recently the Kabul airport was damaged and (left) dysfunctional by American troops before their withdrawal.” With the help of technical assistance by Qatar, the airport became operational once again and a NOTAM (notice to airmen) in this regard was issued on September 6. Before writing to India, the Taliban had appealed to international countries to resume flights promising full cooperation with airlines and saying that problems at Kabul airport had been resolved.
After the Taliban had seized the most crucial provinces of Afghanistan in August, major airlines had expressed reluctance to use the airspace of the war-torn country. The Taliban had come under serious international pressure after it barred Afghans from leaving the nation, shutting off all routes to the Kabul Airport.


Your Guide to AWS IoT at NVIDIA GTC 2019
NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2019 is almost here! We don’t want you to miss any IoT content, so in this blog post we’ll share some technical demonstrations that show how emerging technologies, including IoT, edge computing, AI and machine learning, and robotics, will shape our world.
In the AWS Booth (#1221)
Anomaly Detection in The Seattle Spheres
The Spheres is an innovative Amazon building project and home to more than 40,000 plants from the cloud forest regions of more than 30 countries. We’ve collected environmental data since its opening, and a complex MXNet model has been trained to detect anomalies. This demonstration shows time-series anomaly detection using ML inference at the edge powered by the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier module, AWS IoT Greengrass, and Amazon SageMaker Neo. NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier runs the AWS IoT Greengrass binary and the cross-compiled MXNet model directly on the device, which is faster and less memory-intensive than running the model natively on the MXNet framework.
Train Machine Learning Models Once, Run Them Anywhere with 2x Performance with Amazon SageMaker Neo
This demonstration shows how AWS customers can use Amazon SageMaker to train a computer vision model in the cloud, use AWS Sagemaker Neo to optimize the ML model for inference on the NVIDIA Jetson Nano AI computer, and use AWS IoT Greengrass to manage a fleet of Jetson Nano devices running ML inference.
In the NVIDIA Jetson Pavilion (#1543 and #1545)
Improving Patient Care with Fall Detection
Designed to improve patient care in elder care facilities and hospitals, this solution monitors human movement and alerts facility staff if a patient falls. This demonstration shows an NVIDIA Jetson TX2 edge device running AWS IoT Greengrass that performs local inference to detect a fall. AWS IoT Greengrass uses the AWS IoT rules engine to send messages to Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), which then sends emails or text messages to facility staff.
Dinosaur World Search
This demonstration envisions a future where vehicles patrol a theme park to identify dinosaur and other rare species and alert scientists of any anomalies or unknown species, all powered by NVIDIA Jetson modules controlled through AWS IoT services. The vehicles travel in predetermined paths, continuously looking for dinosaurs and alert scientists when an unknown species is detected. Scientists can then use Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth to classify new species, retrain the model using AWS SageMaker, and redeploy the improved model using AWS IoT Greengrass.
Developing Robots with AWS RoboMaker
Experience the AWS RoboMaker iterative development, testing, and deployment workflow for robotics applications through a warehouse mapping and navigation application for NVIDIA Jetson devices. Customers can use the AWS Cloud9 development environment for AWS RoboMaker to edit robot application code, test in the AWS RoboMaker simulation using a 3D warehouse simulation environment, and then use AWS IoT Greengrass to deploy the application to a NVIDIA Jetson device.
Stop by the AWS booth or the NVIDIA Jetson pavilion to learn more about our collaboration to bring AI, machine learning, and robotic development to millions of edge devices.


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Fox has been pushing the hell out of Deadpool all month long with all sorts of promotional material. Stills, posters, trailers, sketches, and various other gags have been flying out of the production left and right, generally with a Christmas theme to them. The latest is the video below.
How many of you like to toss on Netflix’s fireplace or yule log options ’round the holidays? Or perhaps you were considering going for the burning corpse of Darth Vader video that has been making the rounds? Either way, it never hurts to shake things up now and again. In that spirit, you might just want to add the ‘Pool Log to the rotation this year…
Also, behold the Merc with a Mouth rocking his ugly seasonal sweater…
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A radio station is a broadcasting service that can be listened to in a vehicle or on a standalone radio player. They feature in every Grand Theft Auto game, and are accessible from almost any vehicle (except some such as bikes or emergency vehicles). Most radio stations play songs with a DJ and. West Coast Talk Radio (WCTR) is a talk radio station featured in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Grand Theft Auto V. It broadcasts from Missionary Hill, San Fierro in GTA San Andreas and from West Vinewood, Los Santos in GTA V. In GTA San Andreas, WCTR is owned by Ammu-Nation. 19 May Personally, i found Chatterbox for GTA III simply the most hilarious talk radio station for any of the GTA games. The rest of them, i found a bit.
Los Santos talk radio is the worst garbage I've heard for a GTA game. Chakra Talk is the absolute worst. it holds no humor, the host's voice is hella annoying, and all the subjects are gross descriptions (literally talking about bugs eating s*** from his ass) or random analogies. The other shows are repetitive and lacking in. 22 Apr I've always enjoyed the talk radio in GTA, but man Has anyone else had to pull their vehicle over because they are laughing so hard they can't see the road? This♥♥♥♥♥♥is great. Rockstar has surpassed every expectation I've had for this game, I don't even give a ♥♥♥♥ that I can't do wheelies on. I've been playing GTA since I was young and never really listened to the talk shows (which I regret). I just started listening to them in GTA V.
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Below, the stirring montage in action.
Sunday, November 23, 2014
There may be no theme song or introductory montage more famous than the one that heralds the beginning of every adventure of The Lone Ranger (1949 - 1957) starring Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels.
The montage to this beloved black-and-white series commences to the tune of Rossini's The William Tell Overture (1829), a thrilling call to adventure that has become synonymous, over the last sixty years, with the Lone Ranger, and was even resurrected in last year's big budget feature film about the long-lived hero. The theme song gets the adrenaline going, and immediately makes the audience aware that action is the destination.
In fact, the introductory montage maintains a kinetic, almost hyper pace throughout, with the Lone Ranger seen almost entirely in motion. We see him riding, at top speed, atop his ivory steed, Silver, firing his gun at outlaws, and then watch as he rides down a hill towards the audience.
He turns left, rides up the mountainside, and Silver rears up majestically on his hind legs. This particular image is iconic, it's fair to state.
The montage continues below. For the first time in the intro, the Lone Ranger is still -- unmoving -- but just long enough for audiences to read the title card for this week's episode. After the title is displayed, it's back to the galloping action...
The voice-over narration in the following section of the montage changed over the years. Sometimes, it describes the Lone Ranger as a "fabulous individual" who would cause "fear in the lawless" and offer "hope to those who wanted to make this frontier land their home."
In other versions, the imagery remained identical but the montage voice-over introduced Tonto as the Lone Ranger's companion, and invited viewers to return to "Yesteryear" to experience the adventure all over again.
Regardless of the version viewed, the montage concludes with the Lone Ranger, still in motion, riding away from camera, off into his newest adventure.
Most episodes of the series maintain the pace, excitement and velocity suggested by this introduction.
Below, the stirring montage in action.
Saturday, November 22, 2014
My latest article at Flashbak remembers the greatest teachers of sci-fi TV!
Here's the snippet and url: (http://flashbak.com/the-5-greatest-teachers-in-sci-fi-tv-history-25973/)
"In real life, we have all sat in classrooms with teachers we love and admire, and also teachers that we can’t stand. In science fiction television history, there have been many ideal or role-model teachers depicted; individuals who are worthy of respect but also, through their very personalities, reveal to students good character and life lessons.
Here is a list of the five sci-fi TV teachers you hope you meet in the classroom..."
In “The Exile,” Korg (Jim Malinda) faces a terrible crisis. During a standard hunt, Korg accidentally kills a bird with a stone.
Afterwards, bad things start to happen. Bok (Bill Ewing) is injured in a hunt. The water near the cave inexplicably goes bad. Hunting a deer proves unproductive.
Korg grows convinced that the Unseen Spirits are angry with him for killing the bird, and that he will only bring pain and suffering to his family if he stays with him.
Therefore, over Mara’s objections Korg leaves the tribe, striking out on his own.
Mara (Naomi Pollock) refuses to eat, and soon develops a fever. Korg’s children attempt to convince him to return home to the cave, but first he must be swayed from his belief that the Gods want him separate from his family…
“The Exile” is one of the most intriguing and relevant episodes of Korg 70,000 BC (1974), because it serves, essentially, as a critique of faith-based decision-making.
Here, Korg “interprets” signs around him -- namely a streak of bad luck -- and ascribes them to his God, The Great Spirit.
If bad things are happening, then the Great Spirit must be mad, right?
From that jump of faith, Korg makes another.He decides that the right thing to do is leave his beloved family, protecting him from his God’s wrath.
Of course, Korg’s family suffers in his absence, especially Mara.
The idea here is that attempting to divine what God wants from you is a fool’s game. And more trenchantly, interpreting signs of nature as God’s will, whether working for or against you, is similarly, unproductive.
Accordingly, the episode goes to great length to describe the superstitious nature of Early Man, and notes that “a man alone” has little chance of survival in the dangerous world of 70,000 B.C.
So Korg’s (absolutely sincere) beliefs are actually endangering him and his family, not helping anyone. His belief is impeding him, not solving any problems.
Importantly, the family is reunited only when another divine sign is "interpreted." A woodpecker leads Bok and Tane to Korg. It's all kind of a self-fulfilling circle. A sign can be positive or negative, and yet it's still totally random. In situations like this, we're the ones imposing some "cause" or purpose behind completely innocuous events.
“The Exile” doesn’t spell any of this out in an aggressive way, but it’s impossible not to detect the implications of the tale. Korg, a “primitive man” by our 21st century standards is actually not very much unlike many of us who live here today, adhering to closely-held superstitious beliefs. At least Korg has a valid excuse: the dearth of understanding about the Earth of the Neanderthals’ Age.
“The Exile” features a bit more action than the other episodes I’ve reviewed thus far. Korg goes up against a man-eating lion in one scene, and the episode begins with the tribe’s ill-destined hunt.
“The Exile” also re-uses some of Meredith’s narration from “Trapped,” particularly the bit about “experiencing one of nature’s calamities,” an earthquake.
Next week: “The Running Fight.”
In the BraveStarr episode “Skuzz and Fuzz,” the bandit Tex-Hex searches for the secret tunnel of the Prairie People, one that leads to a newly discovered mother-lode of the valuable ore, Kerium.
BraveStarr has selected Deputy Fuzz to help guard the Kerium. But when Tex Hex’s minion Skuzz interferes, a self-destruct mechanism is activated over the Kerium’s force dome, and the enemies must work together to prevent total destruction…
I have a rule about BraveStarr storytelling: a little bit of the Prairie People goes a long way.
The characters are fine in small doses, but any more than that and the episode in question becomes unwatchable real fast.
“Skuzz and Fuzz” focuses primarily on the helium-voiced, slapstick-ish Prairie People characters, and consequently emerges as a not particularly good episode of the series. Both hapless Fuzz and arrogant Skuzz are supposed to be comic relief, but at the center of the drama they are…highly annoying.
The episode’s message is that “there’s a little good even in the worst of people.” This message is voiced because Skuzz repays a debt and saves Fuzz’s life at one point, thereby proving the axiom. Of course, just a few episodes back in “Thoren the Slave Master,” we had a different story (in that case, BraveStarr and Tex Hex) being forced to work together in a crisis.
Despite the generally irritating and over-sized presence of the Prairie People supporting characters in “Suzz and Fuzz,” the episode does feature some nice landscape vistas, with large moons looming over New Texas’s desert surface. BraveStarr's persistent visual imagination is often a welcome relief when sub-part storytelling rears its head.
Next week: “Who am I?”
Friday, November 21, 2014
There’s a case to be made that the seldom-seen The Evictors (1979) is actually Charles B. Pierce’s best horror film.
Exhibit A: The Evictors doesn’t boast the lapses into amateurism that mar The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972).
Exhibit B: The film doesn’t feature the bizarre lapses in tone one finds in The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976), either.
Exhibit C: Finally,The Evictors features better performances and far more effective scares than the miserably bad Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues (1985).
Instead, The Evictors is a kind of back-to-basics horror film all about a woman alone in an isolated setting (a farm house), contending with a frightening, relentless intruder.
In this case, Jessica Harper plays the imperiled character, and Michael Parks portrays the most useless, unhelpful husband in horror movie history. But the film’s most potent set-pieces involve Harper contending with an armed home intruder during the thick of the night
These scenes of terror (set in 1942) are cross-cut with quasi-documentary style sequences (presented in sepia tone coloring) of historical attacks in the same house, set in 1934 and 1939. By cutting between the scenes in the past (which ended badly for the home’s residents) with scenes from the movie’s present -- in which another character must overcome the same menacing individual -- a genuine sense of suspense is generated. In short order, we start to understand the house's history of horror and recognize Harper as only the latest, but not the last, victim.
You may cry foul over the film’s final twist or surprise, which suggests that a character would keep using broken glasses for nineteen years, but The Evictors nonetheless manages to impress, both in terms of its production values (and period detail), and visceral impact. In short, this is one of those diamonds in the rough, a real sleeper, that more horror fans should take a look at.
“There’s been a lot of strange things happening around here.”
In mid-summer 1928, a representative of Shreveport Union Bank attempts to deliver an eviction notice to a rural farm-house that belongs to the Monroe Family.
Because he has failed to do so on previous attempts, the bank officer brings heavily-armed Federal agents this time. A confrontation ensues between the family inside and the agents of the law, with the Monroes believed gunned-down.
In 1942, real estate agent Jake Rudd (Vic Morrow) sells the long-vacant Monroe house to a young married couple, Ruth (Jessica Harper) and Ben Watkins (Michael Parks). Rudd doesn’t share any information about the house’s violent history, but Ruth soon learns that former owners were murdered in 1934.
Later, she hears from a crippled neighbor, Mrs. Gibson (Sue Ane Langdon) that another couple died there as well, in 1939. The husband was electrocuted and the wife was burned alive.
Soon, Ruth begins seeing a strange intruder, wearing overalls, lurking around the house by night.
Ben’s job often takes him away, to Shreveport, but he asks the town sheriff to patrol near the house, and then teaches Ruth how to use a gun. Ruth, however, wants to move.
Unfortunately, neither the police nor the weapon can prevent the strange, obsessed intruder from waging a campaign of terror and death on the Watkins and their house…
“It’s so nice to see that old house come back to life.”
In some significant sense, all of Charles B. Pierce’s horror films deal with man’s connection to the land, or to his home. In The Legend of Boggy Creek, the Fouke Monster terrorizes the locals, but the film spends as much time introducing the storied people of the town as it does contending with the monster itself. Similarly, The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976) finds the folks of Texarkana under siege, fighting for their very homes against a ruthless, inexplicable killer.
The Evictors -- which commences with the claim that it is based on a true story -- concerns what occurs when a family feels it has been displaced from its rightful land, its rightful home. The “evictors” of the title are not just the bankers and agents of the film’s first scene, but the murderous stranger and his hidden accomplices who use lethal force to keep “their” farm house unoccupied. If they can't live in their own home, no one will. At least not for long.
The Evictors thrives as the most consistent and suspenseful of Pierce’s films in part because the director sticks, largely, to that parcel of land upon which the Monroe House stands. There isn’t a lot of back forth, or opportunities for slapstick humor or car chases.
Instead, Pierce crafts a sense of unnerving, unrelieved claustrophobia because Ruth (Suspiria’s Harper) really seems to have no hope for escape. She begs her husband to move, but he doesn’t acquiesce. Meanwhile, he is constantly going away on business trips or working late at the local town factory. He is almost never home when he is needed, and so we get the sense, after a while, that a confrontation between Ruth and the stranger is inevitable. She can’t escape that fate.
In some way, this element of the story may be a sly commentary on what it meant to be married in the 1940s, at least from a woman's perspective. Ruth has no say in what happens to her family, even if her very life is on the line.
Pierce stages some splendid and disturbing sequences in the house, as Ruth’s safety is imperiled again and again. At one juncture, a lightning flash reveals the killer standing at the kitchen door in darkest night.
On another occasion -- while Ruth is on the phone -- she sees the shadow’s stranger lurking upstairs, hovering above her on the second floor. She runs for her life as the killer begins to slowly descend the staircase. In a scene that is reminiscent of the climax of Halloween (1978) but nonetheless highly effective, Ruth attempts to flee the killer in the house, only to find that he has braced something against the exterior door, thus making egress impossible. Ruth (like Laurie Strode) has to break the glass and remove the impediment, a wood board, to escape, and to run free into the dark, inhospitable night.
These scenes are authentically scary, and they are, for all practical purposes, the heart of the film. The Evictors concerns one woman -- disbelieved -- forced to rely on her own auspices in a time of precious little autonomy, if she wishes to survive.
The film also plays cleverly with the idea of Ruth arming herself, and taking her defense into her own hands. There are, clearly, advantages and disadvantages to handing a loaded gun off to someone only minimally-trained in its usage. The Evictors plays on our expectations involving that gun, and in a manner that will drive you up the wall, as Ruth's danger grows, and a tragedy can't be averted.
My wife, who found herself unable to divert her attention away from the colorful The Town that Dreaded Sundown, liked The Evictors but felt that the trick ending was just too much. I've read the same complaint online.
Basically, we finally learn the identity of the stranger and his conspirators, but do so by the appearance of a prop (broken glasses) that, by this juncture in 1947 -- nineteen years since the original eviction -- should have been fixed, no doubt.
The ending is actually bit unsavory all the way around, considering what it portends for Ruth. It’s not the greatest or most effective note for the movie to go out on, but I felt that the coda didn’t mar the good work that had been done in the rest of the film.
Michael Parks (Red State) delivers a solid (if infuriating…) performance as the useless husband, but the film belongs to Harper. She is affecting as a sort of early “final girl” type in the immediate post-Halloween aftermath, before the onslaught of the 1980s. Harper's Ruth takes the time to learn about the house and its mysteries, seeks out help, attempts to defend herself, and fights ably against those who wish her ill-will. It’s too bad the movie doesn’t take the extra final step to reward Ruth for her insight and vigilance. The killers get the last laugh.
The Evictors ends with reports of another series of murders at the Monroe House, and news that “to this day, the house remains vacant,” thus leaving open the possibility of a sequel that, sadly, never came.
If you closely study The Evictors, the film also explores the idea that a social evil (even a legal one, like eviction), is bound to be met with another social evil. The original family never forgets its connection to the farmhouse, or that land, and so a legacy of terror grows around it. In today’s environment of myriad property foreclosures, it would be easy to remake The Evictors, set it in the present, and get rid of the silly eyeglasses coda.
Why do it? If nothing else, a remake would draw attention back to the original film, which was a box office bomb but nonetheless represents the most effective, focused work of its late, great director, Charles B. Pierce.
Thursday, November 20, 2014
The 2014 remake of Charles B. Pierce’s The Town that Dreaded Sundown (1976) from American Horror Story (2011 - ) producer Ryan Murphy is a crafty, clever, complex horror movie that is as much a sequel to the original as it is a re-do.
Specifically, the new film involves a killer who deliberately apes the murders depicted in the seventies film, and in the exact order of the seventies film too.
But there’s also an extra layer of storytelling here because the Pierce film was, in fact, based on the real “moonlight murders” in Texarkana in 1946.
So this is a remake/sequel to a fictionalized version of a true story and unsolved crimes from sixty-six years ago.
The makers of the film certainly do, and they squeeze every ounce of “meta” self-reflexive post-modernism out of their byzantine premise, but in a joyful, imaginative and often dazzling fashion.
This Town that Dreaded Sundown actually incorporates into its body a substantial amount of footage from the original film. So much so, in fact, that a viewing requires a great deal of engagement so as to recognize the original material and separate it from the modern re-enactments. This approach sets up an intriguing dynamic for the audience, one in which you must gaze at the ’76 film, the details of the original original murders, and then the on-going attacks (the subject of the film), all through a kind of fun house mirror. It's like we're watching a dissertation about objective truth, but seen through various entertainment and historical lenses.
One thoroughly-impressive (if bizarre) scene in the film finds the killer tracking down two high-school victims to a junkyard of cast-off corporate signs. The discarded signs themselves spell out a message in symbols, bringing lettered order to a jumble of information; just as all together the moonlight murders, the Charles B. Pierce film, and the remake form a kind of unified “whole" story.
All three “events” -- true crime, original movie, and remake -- branch into and out of one another, twisting, turning, and intertwining, thus leading the audience in new and surprising directions and revelations.
It’s a confident, ambitious dance, and this is a fun, accomplished horror film.
In the end, the remake fails only its final step. The last act reveal of the masked killer’s identity is highly reminiscent of Scream (1996), which itself name-checked Town in its dialogue. This final act resolution can’t quite live up to all the meta bouncing around that has led up to it, and in the end, the remake sacrifices its sense of nimble, gamely intelligence for a “talking killer explains it all” finale.
Despite the disappointing final moments, this is a remake/sequel that is alive with its own potential and possibilities, which treads into some amazingly frightening and gruesome territory, and which, in the final analysis, evidences a great deal of respect and love for the B-movie that Pierce made all those years ago, and still makes viewers dread night-fall.
“It was like the town was being tested and no one knew why.”
Young Jami (Addison Timlin) -- who lives with her grandmother Lillian (Veronica Cartwright) -- wants to bail out of the yearly showing in Texarkana of The Town that Dreaded Sundown (1976). Her new boyfriend, Corey (Spencer Treat Clark) agrees, and they drive together to a secluded lover’s lane.
Unfortunately, a copy-cat Phantom Killer, acting out the first scene of the Charles B. Pierce film, stalks them. He attacks the couple, brutally slashing Corey, and chasing Jami through the woods. He lets her live, however, as his messenger.
His message? He is committing these murders for someone named “Mary.”
The local police, including Sheriff Underwood (Ed Lauter) and Deputy Tillman (Gary Cole) are assisted by celebrated Texas “lone wolf” ranger Morales (Anthony Anderson), who very quickly determines that the new killer is staging in real life the death sequences from the 1976 film.
While Jami attempts to discover the identity of Mary, the killings continue, and she befriends a young man named Nick (Travis Tope), a clerk who permits her access to the original case files.
The search for the truth leads the duo to Charles Pierce Jr. (Denis O’Hare), the son of Charles B. Pierce. He discusses how his father had always planned a sequel to Town that Dreaded Sundown, and had even ferreted out who the original Moonlight Murderer might be…
“The past is alive, all around us.”
In spirit and detail The Town that Dreaded Sundown (2014) absolutely honors and lives up to its predecessor.
In my review of the original, earlier in the week, I wrote of Pierce’s film that its final nifty trick was how cleverly it wrote itself into the real Phantom Killer history and mythos. The last scene of the film found the killer actually attending the movie, still at large thirty years later.
This remake/sequel extends that trick, with the Pierce film itself (and the suspicions of its director) ultimately taking center stage. The 1976 film is the well-spring from which the murderer’s activities spring, at the same time that the details of the actual case play a crucial role in the motivation, if not the execution of those crimes.
The 1976 film is the outline, in other words, for all the gruesome death scenes in this remake.
Now I know what you’re thinking: most horror film remakes -- Halloween (2007), Friday the 13th (2009), A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) – also meticulously re-stage famous “kill” sequences from their predecessors. That's why they are reviled. They tread over beloved territory, and usually not very effectively.
But the difference here is that The Town that Dreaded Sundown re-imagination not only follows the outline of the original…it actually incorporates footage of the original kills too, and then re-parses the essence of those scenes for the present. The film is thus designed to invite comparison, to allow the audience to compare and contrast murders, and therefore to understand the killer's reasons for re-staging the old crimes
Some of the re-parsing here is authentically clever and timely too. In the original film, two high school band members, after playing in the orchestra at the prom, go out to lover’s lane. The Phantom Killer shows up, and attacks the trombone player with her own musical instrument (a metaphor for the thrust and retract of sexual intercourse).
Fully updated to 2014, the remake finds two band members again heading out on a date late at night, and this time, the victims are gay. But the scene goes deeper than this surface description indicates. All around the victims lay cast-off corporate signs (for drug stores, shops, and the like), and taken together, they relate an important message about the killer and his purpose, at least if anyone bothers to read them. Look for the word LEGACY in one composition, for example.
The s cene also toys with the audience, prominently displaying signs that read “Dead End,” or other messages about the danger lurking nearby, unnoticed. This scene is a crystallization of the movie’s entire approach to its subject matter. To wit, the remake has selected sequences from the original film as symbols of that story, and then revealed how -- in explicit accordance with the dialogue – “the past is alive, all around us.”
Those symbols of the past, from the 1970s movie (which is played yearly at a drive-in), to the secrets of Jami’s past, take on new, frightening shapes in 2014. The lettering in the junkyard isn’t just junk, but bits and pieces of the past, still alive -- still meaningful -- but unnoticed in our present.
Given such a cerebral approach, it pays to watch the film closely. For example, there is a montage here, early on, of the town of Texarkana “dreading” sundown. People lock their doors, hammer boards over their windows, and retreat inside as afternoon turns to dusk. There are new shots, I believe, in the montage, and shots straight out of the Pierce film as well. This scrambling of time periods is another way to visually remind the audience that the past is alive, and all around us. For some, sixty (or thirty…) years have passed without event, and for some, that span has been spent in seething rage and resentment.
In terms of straight-up horror, the murder sequences in the remake are staged with glorious, brutal abandon. One scene involving a man coming home from war (and remember, the original film took place just eight months after the end of World War II….) and meeting with his lover at a motel, ends with a harrowing chase, and, literally, bloody murder.
Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon also does an extraordinary job of rethinking and re-staging the Dawn Wells/Helen Reed attack. The rough confines of the scene are repeated (a bullet through a farmhouse window, and a terrifying pursuit through the corn field), but the details are quite different, especially in regards to Gary Cole’s character and his final moments on this Earth.
For a film that moves with such smooth confidence and brutal intelligence for so much of its running time, it is a downright shame that the climax ultimately doesn’t live up to the superior set pieces that punctuate The Town that Dreaded Sundown.
The talking killer cliché is one that has been over-used since the Scream films, and ultimately in movies of this type, it is more powerful – and more genuinely terrifying -- to be afforded no clear understandable psychological or human motive for a crime spree like the Phantom’s. The idea that makes the original so scary (and which makes the 1946 crimes so scary) is that we never knew “the why” or the “whom.” This sequel, ultimately, must perform back-flips of exposition regarding the contemporary killings when it might have been better, simply, not to know.
My assessment of the finale does not mean that The Town that Dreaded Sundown is a bad film. It’s actually very good, very well-made. It just doesn’t stick the landing.
What makes up for this deficit, perhaps, is the quality of the set-pieces and the symbolic thinking that clearly went into the film's structure. Also, as a fan of Charles B. Pierce, I must confess I felt a lump in my throat in the scenes involving his son. His boy has never gotten over the death of his father and “best friend” and in some way, this aspect of the tale feels like a love letter to the regional filmmaker, who accomplished so much with so little. This sub-plot fits in with the film’s leitmotif as well, that the past is alive and all around us. Pierce’s son wants so much to live in that past, with his father, that his life now is something of a shambles.
Long-time horror fans wince each time a new remake of a classic is announced, and sometimes for good reason (A Nightmare on Elm Street 2010, j’accuse), but The Town that Dreaded Sundown is not one of the ones that will debauch you.
Instead, the film cherishes the 1976 original and its legendary maker, and suggests that the sun will not fall on this fearsome Texarkana legend for years to come.


The performance of pipelines subjected to permanent strike-slip fault movement is investigated by combining detailed numerical simulations and closed-form solutions. A closed-form solution for the force-displacement relationship of a buried pipeline subjected to tension is presented and used in the form of nonlinear springs at the two ends of the pipeline in a refined finite element model, allowing an efficient nonlinear analysis of the pipe-soil system at large strike-slip fault movements. The analysis accounts for large deformations, inelastic material behaviour of the pipeline and the surrounding soil, as well as contact and friction conditions on the soil-pipe interface. Appropriate performance criteria of the steel pipeline are adopted and monitored throughout the analysis. It is shown that the end conditions of the pipeline have a significant influence on pipeline performance. For a strike-slip fault normal to the pipeline axis, local buckling occurs at relatively small fault displacements. As the angle between the fault normal and the pipeline axis increases, local buckling can be avoided due to longitudinal stretching, but the pipeline may fail due to excessive axial tensile strains or cross sectional flattening.
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Book DescriptionContributors to this book include Anson F. Rainey, Shmuel Safrai, Haim Beinart, and Evyatar Friesel.This is the first atlas of its kind to document in such great detail the turbulent history of the Jewish people. A work of prodigious and meticulous scholarship by some of Israel's most brilliant scholars, this atlas portrays every aspect of Jewish history that lends itself to cartographic interpretation, from biblical times to the present day. This is the fascinating story of how an ancient people, separated from their roots and dispersed throughout the world, survived in exile for two thousand years and eventually returned and recreated itself within the framework of a modern state.Now, in one profusely illustrated volume, the reader is presented with in-depth coverage of major themes in biblical, mishnaic, talmudic, medieval, and modern Jewish history by the foremost authorities in their field.Anson F. Rainey is Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Cultures and Semitic Linguistics at Tel Aviv University. Shmuel Safrai is Professor of the History of the Mishnaic and Talmudic periods at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Haim Beinart is Professor of Jewish History in the Middle Ages at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Evyatar Friesel is Professor of Modern Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Apple Is Reportedly Developing a Cheaper Alternative to Its Rumored Mixed Reality Headset
With the cheaper model priced similarly to an Apple iPhone.
For a few years now, Apple has been rumored to be working on a mixed-reality headset that would rival Meta’s Quest Pro. Previous reports on the mixed-reality headset have alleged that the company plans to price the headset somewhere around $3,000 USD.
New reports on the company’s activities now say that developers are already working on a cheaper alternative to the flagship headset. The budget-friendly option will go for a price more in line with that of an iPhone, according to reports from Bloomberg and The Information.
iPhones begin at $800 USD, with the most expensive high-end model going for $1,500 USD. It’s likely that Apple’s headset will lean more towards the higher end of that price range, given that Meta’s Quest Pro is similarly priced at $1,500 USD.
Apple has filed trademarks for the names “Reality Pro” and “Reality One,” per Bloomberg, which could possibly serve as the names for the two headsets. According to the report, the budget headset will be made cheaper by using the same hardware components that power Apple iPhones rather than the hardware that makes up Apple computers.
Both headsets will still offer users augmented and virtual reality. The reports allege that the cheaper option is still in the early stages of development and could be released in 2025.
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Throughout the book “Au Revoir Les Enfants” Louis Malle highlights at several points the typical associations which the majority of people have when discussing the role of the Germans during the war. However Malle approaches the topic from a more complex angle thus forcing the reader to question the general stereotypes and examine the varying attitudes of both the French and Germans, by portraying them in certain situations in which they adopt a sometimes unexpected attitude.
In the midst of the October Crisis Pierre Trudeau handled the time of terrorism well. In this essay one will see how Trudeau handled the crisis excellently by examining the first domestic use of the War Measures Act which led to improvements on the Act, ensuring that Quebec did not become its own independent country, and how Canada stood behind and supported Quebec and Pierre Trudeau through the acts of violence led by the FLQ.
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In the story of the “Interlopers,” George Znaeym, seeks out his arch-enemy, Ulrich von Gradwitz, in the forest on a winter night. These two men, because of a family feud that has been passed down from generation
Woodchucks by Maxine Kumin Maxine Kumin?s, Woodchucks provides an interesting and creative perspective into the mind state of those influenced by nazi warfare. What begins as a seemingly humorous cat and mouse hunt, reminiscent of such movie classics as Caddyshack, soon develops into an insatiable lust for blood. Kumin?s descriptive language provides the reader with the insight necessary to understand to the speaker?s psychology as they are driven beyond the boundaries of pacifism.
Canada’s contribution in the Allied war effort did not only come from Canadian soldiers, but also from regular, everyday citizens who never saw battle, such as those involved in the Canadian war industry, BCATP, and the Corps of Canadian Firefighters. The Canadian industry supplied a great deal of war materials for the Allies, producing “more than 800,000 military transport vehicles, 50,000 tanks, 40,000 field, naval, and anti-aircraft guns, and 1,700,000 small arms.”6 Canada’s strong war industry was required to produce as much ammunition, weapons, and vehicles as they could in order to defeat Germany, who had great industrial power at the time. In 1939, Canada became the home for major recruiting and training for pilots during the Second World War in an organization called the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Throughout the war, Canada had graduated 131,533 airmen, including pilots, navigators, bomb aimers, wireless operators, air gunners and flight engineers.7 These men would later become involved in the war in the air, and their numbers would greatly contribute to the Allied air superiority. During the Battle of Britain, German air forces relentlessly bombarded London and
“I have nothing but my heart, I have given it long ago to my country.” These are Louis Riel’s last words before his execution. Two themes that have been debated is whether Louis Riel is a traitor or hero to the Métis. There have been many controversial figures throughout Canada’s history, but Louis Riel is one of the most controversial figure. His perspective on how he dealt with manner is still debated today. A key aspect discussed today is why Riel is a hero to his people; the Métis. Louis Riel had once recognized the turmoil the Métis had to face, through this Riel proved that one must take actions in order to achieve a person’s right.
The Second Battle of Ypres took place from April 22nd to May 25th 1915 and is distinguishable for Canadians as being the first battle in which Canadians troops fought in during the First World War. The battle marked the first Canadian victory and has become popularly known as the first site of mass use of chlorine gas on the Western Front. But the battle does not have to exist solely in the confines of the First World War. The battle and its effects impacted not only the immediate outcome of the war but rather spurred a shift in war tactics and Canadian enthusiasm to its troops. Essentially, the Second Battle of Ypres was vital to the First World War because of its maintained the strategic placement for the Western allies, but it is also important in a wider context through its ability to set a precedent for future battles with modern chemical warfare, and through the effect it had on the home front to boost Canadian support overseas. To begin, I will first summarize the battle and the context Ypres to give an overall understanding of the situation leading into the battle. In suit, I will examine the strategic advantage Ypres had with respect to its ability to protect the ports of northern Europe and its establishment of a buffer zone between Great Britain and Germany. Secondly, I will examine the battle as a pivotal moment for the future of modern warfare as the Germans breeched international code with their use of chlorine gas. Thirdly, I will demonstrate how the
This type of secretive government program certainly defines the contradictions of a so-called democratic country, which has continually propagandized the idea of equal rights and the right of individuals to have different political ideas. The role of the RCMP actually presents a type of “police state” mentality that projects a threat to democracy as a part of human rights violations committed by the Canadian government during this time. The Cold Ear ideology of “capitalism versus communism” certainly created a hyper-reactionary dualism in Canadian politics, which viewed anyone who supported communism as an enemy of the state. PROFUNC certainly defines a concerted effort by government officials and the RCMP to monitor Canadian communists with the future potential of having them imprisoned during a time of war with the Soviet Union.
Canada is a nation built on immigration, and as the world becomes an ever increasingly hostile place more and more have chosen to try and make Canada their home. This melting pot of different cultures has created an overall atmosphere of acceptance, and is teaching younger generations a sense
Concluding Sentence: By examining how people thought that being hurt by one’s own country was no one’s problem, how Canada wanted
2. Protection, civilization, assimilation: An outline history of Canada’s Indian policy by John L. Tobias, 1991.
The Portuguese immigrated to Canada around the 19th century. It all started in the year 1953, when a group of Portuguese pioneers immigrated to Canada (Moura, 2003). Once the first couple of Portuguese pioneers crossed the ocean to immigrate into Canada, others followed and sort of started a wave. However, in 1957 a volcano erupted, known as the Capelinhos, which end up making Portuguese families and pioneers move to North America (Morrison & James, 2009), because the living conditions had changed. Many Portuguese people immigrated to Canada in order to make a better living, looking for a job for them to survive and to not serve the war. This paper will discuss the Portuguese minority ethnic group in Canada, and to take a further look into
Today Canada is known as one of the most accepting and multicultural countries in the world. We view ourselves as accepting and open to other cultures and nationalities. This view is not only held by Canadians, but Canada is widely regarded by people worldwide as open and accepting. While this is very true today, this has not always been the case. When we look to our past we see some moments in our history which do not reflect the image that we have today. One of these moments is the riot at Christie Pits. Although this riot was a huge incident, it was only the tip of the iceberg. It was the culmination of years of anti-Semitism in Toronto and racism, and was merely the climax of a much deeper problem. The 1930s in Canada saw a spike in anti-Semitism akin to nothing that has happened before and nothing that has happened after. There were Swastika clubs formed and youth wearing swastika badges in the east end of Toronto. In Quebec, there was a party modeled after the Nazi party, called the Parti National Social Chrétien. While there is debate as to what were the reasons for this, there can be no debate that this was a dark time in Canada 's history and is in no way reflective of what Canada is today. However, in order to prevent these horrible occurrences from happening in the future, it is important to understand the causes of these events. This paper seeks to explore and understand some of the main causes of the anti-Semitism in Canada in the 1930s which culminated in the

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text: "The Antichrist" is a philosophical book by Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in 1895. In this work, Christianity (Religion of Peace) is despised by Nietzsche. in fact, according to the German author, piety has a depressive effect and is totally harmful to people's lives. Nietzsche, in fact, is "Nihilist": piety is considered by him a source of misery and weakness. Nietzsche, in this work, maintains that the Christian religion and its morality are based on imaginary fictions and the whole imaginary world would be in contrast with the laws of nature.

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text: The Department of Pediatrics & Neonatology is headed by Dr. Paulose and is well equipped to deal with children from the new born period right up to adolescence and offer daily outpatient and inpatient services. The care of the new born is an integral part of this department, hence we put in our best possible efforts to hand over a healthy baby with minimum possible intervention. We have a level II NICU with qualified staffs to give the best care. We have a 24-hour casualty to cater neonatal and paediatric emergencies. Pediatric and neonatal transfusion facilities are available.


Las Vegas (AP) — The UFC is staging a fight show with just seven bouts after a series of cancellations related to positive COVID-19 tests.
The mixed martial arts promotion held its shortest card since 2005 on Saturday night after canceling two bouts at late notice.
Heavyweight Marcos Rogério De Lima’s bout against Alexander Romanov was scrapped about 90 minutes before the first fight at the UFC Apex gym on the promotion’s corporate campus in Las Vegas. The UFC also canceled a bout between lightweights Thiago Moisés and Jalin Turner.
In a third move, Kevin Natividad was removed from his featherweight bout against Brian Kelleher “as a precaution,” according to a UFC statement. Kelleher instead fought Ray Rodriguez on short notice.
De Lima and Moisés are Brazilian teammates at American Top Team. Brazilian media reported that both fighters tested positive for COVID-19.
The UFC returned to action May 9 after an eight-week pause for the coronavirus pandemic. The promotion has held near-weekly cards ever since, and it had incurred only sporadic cancellations due to COVID-19 problems while stringently testing its athletes.
But at least one bout has been scrapped on fight night from each of the UFC’s past three cards due to COVID-19 problems.
Saturday’s troubled card had already lost two matchups before the cancellations on fight night.
Sijara Eubanks was scheduled to fight Karol Rosa, who was pulled from the card Thursday due to medical complications from her weight cut. Rosa was a late replacement for Macy Chiasson, who also pulled out of the bout for medical reasons.
Eubanks will meet a third opponent, Julia Avila, next week in Las Vegas.
Another bout scheduled for Saturday night between bantamweights Kelleher and Ricky Simón was canceled last week after one of Simón’s cornermen tested positive for COVID-19, according to Simón.
Heavyweight veteran Alexander Overeem was scheduled to meet Augusto Sakai in the main event Saturday night.
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I’ll be at the SXSW Music Festival for the fifth year running next week. Full disclosure: I really, really love it, even it means slogging through the line for the #BraveBold #PotatoChip #HeartDisease #LadyGaga #BuzzBand concert. Here is a bunch of stuff I wrote/made/am doing there.
I’ve done a guide to SXSW the last two years. This year’s is a whole free website, with tips on tacos, #menswear, avoiding lines, bands and pretty much everything else you need to know to have a great time or get a sense of the craziest festival on Earth.
Why South by? 13 Portland bands explain their trips to SXSW
For the Oregonian, I surveyed 12 bands and interviewed the Chicharones, an independent hip-hop act that’s been attending since 2001. Given the Lady Gaga situation, I found their answers pragmatic and interesting.
SXSW 2014: 9 Portland bands the world needs to know
A few of my local favorites. Worth your time whether or not you’ll be in Austin.
Be Your Own Tastemaker: Music Discovery in 2014
I’m moderating a panel with some smart folks (including Bandcamp’s Andrew Jervis) about the health of music discovery and how to go about finding music yourself, minus the filters. I can’t promise I won’t make fun of Spotify. It’s next Thursday at 12:30 in the Convention Center.
I will be reporting all next week on Oregonlive.com/music and on Twitter. See you at the shows without the free stuff.


If you have been arrested and charged with a sexual offense, call Speaks Law Firm today at or toll-free at The rule sounds reasonable, but a map of a typical city will demonstrate that schools tend to be packed together in residential neighborhoods, barring ex-convicts from living in over 90 percent of a city. We will assess your case and craft a legal strategy to get you the best outcome available. Convicted sexual offenders were organized into three tiers, depending on the severity of their offenses. But the Walsh Act ignores principles of risk assessment; it assumes that all sex offenders of the same tier level present the same danger to the community.
Not so for sex offenders. The majority of serious sexual offenses are committed by family members and friends of the victim. While actual violations of parole reporting seem to be quite rare, evidence is emerging that a substantial number of former sex offenders are disguising their identities in order to live and work in forbidden areas. Law enforcement resources are spent tracking many released offenders and ignoring real threats in our neighborhoods. It is important to be aware of and understand what these rights are. But the Walsh Act ignores principles of risk assessment; it assumes that all sex offenders of the same tier level present the same danger to the community. The recipient of those pictures also can be prosecuted even if she is underage. Many forms of adolescent sex play, while not exactly harmless, automatically fall into tier 3 registry offenses if prosecuted. The sex offender registry upends that tradition by putting restrictions on people due to their potential for future criminal action, which is completely unjust. After release from prison, offenders would be obligated to report their residence address at specific intervals. That report joins a number of other studies that found no significant deterrent effect from the law. Overall, the rate of sexual offenses has roughly tracked other violent crime patterns in the years since the Walsh Act went into effect. Six years later, the results are in: We will assess your case and craft a legal strategy to get you the best outcome available. Our nation punishes people for the actions they do, not for crimes they might commit someday. The idea behind the law was straightforward: Neighbors could be warned if a sex offender lived nearby. Consider state and local regulations that forbid sex offenders from living within 1, feet of a school, park, or day care center. The offender registry has become an open-ended form of punishment, in violation of the Eighth Amendment. A study by Amanda Agan reported in the Journal of Law and Economics found that registries showed no effect on limiting re-offense rates. By keeping track of these offenders, police could prevent future crimes. It criminalizes thought, rather than action. Similar rules can prevent an ex-offender from obtaining a job paying a living wage. However, keep in mind that we are dismissing thousands of real-world problems this way. The rule sounds reasonable, but a map of a typical city will demonstrate that schools tend to be packed together in residential neighborhoods, barring ex-convicts from living in over 90 percent of a city. This information was shared with state governments, so that law enforcement officials could monitor parolees and ex-convicts.
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Is Justice Alito's claim about sex offender rearrests true?
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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- State-owned German bank KfW on Monday said it's agreed to sell a 4.5% stake in Deutsche Telekom DT, -0.43% de:555750 to the Blackstone Group, a private equity firm, for 2.68 billion euros ($3.3 billion), or 14 euros a share. DT closed Friday at 13.65 euros. The move cuts KfW's stake in Deutsche Telekom to 17.3%. Blackstone, which said it wants to act collegially to boost the German telecom's value, agreed to a two-year lockup on the shares.
KfW to sell 4.5% Deutsche Telekom stake to Blackstone


What Is The Best-Selling Game Console Of All Time
Many of us like to know what is the best-selling game console or which is the most popular one. And it's not just about the quantity, but also about quality. We all want to choose the best console for our gaming experience and the one that offers us the most features. So, what is the best-selling game console of all time?
The answer may surprise you - it is none other than Nintendo's Game Boy. This classic handheld device was released in 1989 and quickly became a hit with gamers of all ages. It featured an incredible collection of games and had an attractive design that appealed to kids and adults alike.
The Game Boy sold over 118 million units worldwide, making it the highest-selling console ever created. This handheld device revolutionized gaming at home by introducing color graphics, directional buttons on its gamepads, stereo sound, and the ability to link up with other Game Boys through the use of a special cable.
The success of the Game Boy was bolstered by popular titles such as Tetris, Super Mario Land, and Pokemon Red & Blue. The second best-selling console is Sony's PlayStation 2, which sold around 155 million units between 2000 and 2013. The PS2 had an impressive library of games and innovative features such as DVD playback and online gaming capabilities.
Nintendo's Game Boy is the best-selling game console of all time due to its impact on gaming culture, its vast selection of games, and its overall popularity among gamers of all ages. It has set a new standard for handheld consoles that have followed it in the 30 years since its original release.
Wait. There's more! In this article, we will explore some of the top-selling game consoles in history and discuss what makes them so successful.
1. Nintendo’s console lineup.
It began with their first home console, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), released in 1983. This was followed by several other systems such as the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), Game Boy, Virtual Boy, and more recently, Nintendo Wii and Wii U. The NES alone sold over 61 million units worldwide and spawned a massive library of games that still captivate gamers today. The most game played with this console was Super Mario Bros.
2. Sony’s PlayStation lineup.
This console dynasty began in 1994 with the release of the original PlayStation and was followed by several other iterations such as the PS2, PS3 and PS4 and now the PlayStation 5 review is out. The original PlayStation sold over 102 million units worldwide and is considered one of the most successful gaming consoles ever released. Some of the most popular games for this console were Gran Turismo, Crash Bandicoot, Tekken 3, and Final Fantasy VII.
3. Microsoft’s Xbox lineup.
Microsoft entered the console market in 2001 with its first gaming system, the Xbox. It has since released a few different versions including the Xbox 360 and Xbox One which have sold over 84 million units combined. The most popular game released for this console was Halo 2.
It is clear that Nintendo's Game Boy is the best-selling game console of all time, with over 118 million units sold worldwide. This device revolutionized gaming at home and had an impressive collection of games that attracted gamers from all walks of life. Sony's PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox consoles have also been incredibly successful, selling hundreds of millions of units each over the past two decades. All three gaming companies have made history in their own way and we can only look forward to what new innovations they will bring us next!
These consoles have all had an immense impact on gaming and popular culture and will continue to shape the industry for years to come. We can only hope that future console releases offer us the same level of quality and innovation as these top-selling game systems.
Thanks for reading! I'm sure you've learned something new about some of the most successful game consoles in history. With their innovative features, extensive libraries of games, and overall popularity, these consoles have changed the way we play video games forever. No matter what your favorite console is, there's no denying that it has been a huge part of our lives.


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PHS Music frontliner – Ybee King Shabah gifts us a brand new love themed touching record with beautiful lyrical content merged in the song. The masterpiece is dotted, Pretty Gal, which makes this song to be a dedication to your pretty special somebody.
To all the beautiful and pretty Girls out there this song is for you, download it below and appreciate the message it’s carrying. Kudos to The Movement talented music producer, Brizzy Zm.
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SC custodian of people's rights, has to be independent: Ashwani Kumar welcomes CJI's 'independent judiciary' remarks
Former Law Minister and Senior Congress leader Ashwani Kumar welcomed Chief Justice of India NV Ramana's statement that there is a need to preserve, protect, and promote an independent judiciary and said that the Supreme Court is the custodian of the people's rights and has to be independent.
Former Law Minister and Senior Congress leader Ashwani Kumar welcomed Chief Justice of India NV Ramana's statement that there is a need to preserve, protect, and promote an independent judiciary and said that the Supreme Court is the custodian of the people's rights and has to be independent. Speaking to ANI, Kumar said, "I think the Chief Justice of India has spoken well. It is only to be expected from the head of the Judiciary in the country that he supports the cause of the fundamental rights of people which can only be achieved if the Judiciary is independent."
He further said, "Therefore Supreme court is the custodian of the people's rights and it has to be independent that is the demand and the spirit of the Constitution. I am indeed delighted that the honourable Chief Justice of India has spoken out loud and clear about the need for an independent Judiciary." Kumar's remarks came a day after the Chief Justice of India N V Ramana on Sunday spoke about the role of Constitutional Courts in a welfare state, and said it is their ability "to function with absolute independence" and "necessary boldness in the face of adversity" that defines the character of the Indian judiciary.
He had said that there is nothing more important than to "preserve, protect and promote the independence of the judiciary at all levels". The CJI's remarks came at the valedictory ceremony of the Pan-India Legal Awareness and Outreach Campaign by the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi.
Commenting on the Centre's ordinance extending the tenure of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) director and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) director to five years, the Congress leader said that such an ordinance should have been passed after tabling it in the Parliament's upcoming winter session and should have been passed after holding discussions with the Opposition parties. Kumar alleged, that bringing such an ordinance without holding discussions will benefit a particular group of people.
The Congress leader said, "This is a strange move because the winter session of Parliament has been called from November 29 and such a sensitive law should be discussed and passed in the Parliament so that the opposition gets an opportunity to present its views. By not doing so, the ordinance has been adopted. Obviously, some people are going to benefit from this." "The manner in which the enforcement agency has been misused in the past few years, this move has caused concern among the people and the government should not take any such step which damages the credibility of the independent agency," added Kumar further. (ANI)
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)

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The CLBTG2W is compatible with our range of smart locks. The intelligent G2 Gateway allows access to various features of TTLock without needing to be in Bluetooth range of the smart lock. By installing the Gateway, the locks are able to be controlled using the internet through your WiFi.
For most new routers the default signal is 5G frequency. As the G2 Gateway requires 2.4 GHz, it is possible to separate the router to enable you to connect your gateway on your current router.
Before starting, make sure you know what kind of router you have. Find the make and model of your router by looking at the physical product. If you can't find the model from the actual product, try searching on the web.
Follow the steps below to separate the routers:
- Select the ADVANCED tab.(defferenert layout but the principle is the same.)
- Click Advanced Setup > Customize WiFi Network.
- Under the Customize Your WiFi- Create a separate 2.4GHz WiFi network section, select Customize 2.4 GHz WiFi Network.
- Enter a network name (SSID) for your 2.4GHz network.
- Select a security option for your 2.4GHz network.
Note: We recommend keeping the security option and paord the same for the 2.4GHz and 5GHz connections. This way, you can reconnect your devices and keep track of your network credentials.
- Repeat Steps 6-8 for the 5GHz network.
Your separate 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks are active.
(one is for 2.4G another for 5G)
To configure the G2 Gateway, select the 2.4GHz
Now you can connect your gateway to the WiFi. This will enable you to unlock the lock remotely and access real-time data remotely.
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Quick post for what is supposed to be my break. The Church of England's synod has voted to remove the barriers for women's ordination as bishops. I wonder what rationale allows for women's ordination but not for the role of bishop? Conservatives are threatening to leave the church over this move and relations with the Anglican south could grow more frayed. It's not just gays but women who are taken to be a threat these days.
Some interesting articles I've come across include Karen Armstrong's piece on the double standard with the media and Islam when it comes to terrorism as opposed to other religions. Blogopotamus asks some questions about those who have a defensiveness and need for clear boundaries of who and what is in and what is out when it comes to religion. And a tragic story over the costs of anti-gay church teaching.
Religious Liberal has a birthday. I started this site on 7/11/2003 and the next day began posting about Gene Robinson. It's kind of fun to go back to see some amazing understatements about the controversy which would erupt over the affair. The religious connections the blog world creates has been amazing. But reading religious news has also been depressing, so it's hard to say if this site has been a good but we'll see what the future brings us.