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"The complete or nearly complete prevention of angina attacks is the usual and expected result of treatment with alpha tocopherol." -- Dr. Wilfrid E. Shute, M. D., Cardiologist who treated over 30,000 heart patients during his career.
TYPICALLY AN ATTACK OF ANGINA pectoris is described by the patient as a sensation of pressure, tightness, or heaviness behind the breastbone. It may become crushing in nature like a closing vise and may be very severe indeed. It can come on so suddenly that it seems instantaneous, with the victim suddenly subjected to unbearable pain that renders him unable even to walk. The attack can end quickly or can continue until it is treated. The pain has a tendency to radiate, usually to the left shoulder and arm all the way down to the fingers. It is often accompanied by great anxiety and a fear of impending death. A mild attack, however, may occur simply as a sensation of pressure within the chest. . .
Characteristically, true angina pectoris is elicited when the oxygen demand is increased, which can occur because of excitement, exertion, or even after the eating of a heavy meal. However, intercostal pain may also be elicited by exertion, since an increased rate of respiration and greater movement of the chest may irritate the affected nerve, but it can also result from any change in position and frequently occurs while the patient is sitting in a chair or lying in bed, whereas true angina does not occur when the patient is at rest.
Although it had long been supposed, because angina attacks are so frequently brought on by exercise, that the syndrome resulted from insufficient oxygen supply to the heart, it was first demonstrated in 1984 when Dr. Lawrence S. Cohen of Harvard Medical School and Peter Bent Brigham Hospital found an excess of lactic acid in the heart muscle during angina attacks. Since the consistently high quantities of lactate could only have been produced in the absence of oxygen, the findings represented a remarkably clean and uncomplicated demonstration of hypoxia, as reported to the Thirteenth Annual Convention of the American College of Cardiology in New Orleans.
Since then it has gone almost unquestioned that angina is caused by oxygen lack, which knowledge should have provided the key to a treatment that would be more than palliative. Tile characteristics of such a treatment had become obvious. For example, it was possible for a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine (December 14, 1987, page 1,278) to commence with, "Because angina pectoris is a consequence of inadequate myocardial oxygenation, ideal therapy for this incapacitating symptom would be directed toward both increasing coronary blood flow and decreasing myocardial oxygen requirements."
The authors, Dr. Braunwald, Epstein, Click, Wechsler, and Braunwald, might just as well have gone on to name alpha tocopherol as their ideal therapy if these National Heart Insitute doctors had only known it.
It has already been pointed out in the chapter on coronary occlusion that alpha tocopherol simultaneously is a powerful fibrinolytic agent, with an action that causes arterial blood clots to disintegrate, and a vasodilator that will increase the blood supply to the heart by widening the arterial lumen.
It also plays a third and equally significant role in its function, well known to food technicians everywhere, as an antioxidant.
When it is pointed out that the consumption of polyunsaturated fats reduces the serum level of vitamin E and increases the likelihood of vitamin E deficiency, that is an expression of the consequence of vitamin E's antioxidant activity. Ordinarily the essential fatty acids released into the bloodstream by polyunsaturates are highly vulnerable to per-oxidation - linking their molecules one for one with molecules of oxygen. Vitamin E in the bloodstream, however, preferentially bonds with the fatty acids and prevents their oxidation. The vitamin E is destroyed in the course of this activity, which is why polyunsaturates in the diet in any quantity create a need for proportionately more of the vitamin. But by this antioxidant activity, the vitamin prevents oxygen from being converted into toxic peroxides, leaving the red cells of the blood more fully supplied with pure oxygen that the blood carries to the heart as well as other organs.
By all these properties already existing in one drug - and - that drug virtually without side effects except through overdosage in very special cases - surely this drug, alpha tocopherol, is as well tailored to be the ideal therapy for angina as any material could possibly be.
Unfortunately, alpha tocopherol remains largely unknown to the medical profession, and as a consequence the profession has wasted a frantic 20 years of search for a drug that already exists. Untold time and money have been spent in the development of amyl Nitrite, erythrityl tetranitrate, pentaerytlrritol Tetranitrate, and others in a long list of nitrates and nitrites, Iproniazid, and other monoamine-oxidase inhibitors. The result is usually a short-lived fad and a quick return to nitroglycerin, which has no therapeutic effect whatsoever, but is remarkably fast and effective in relieving an attack of angina.
So after years and years of search for a drug that would treat angina, the choice available to today's doctor is still to use the brown nitroglycerin tablets that have a chocolate base or the white tablets with a sugar base.
To the patient accustomed to walking around with a pocket full of nitroglycerin tablets and perhaps taking as many as 20 to 30 tablets a day, it could in no way represent a burden to take a few vitamin E capsules daily thus preventing the recurrence of angina attacks in most cases, and to be able to throw away the nitroglycerin
The complete or nearly complete prevention of angina attacks is the usual and expected result of treatment with alpha tocopherol. Angina patients are treated exactly like those who suffer the same symptoms upon recovery from a coronary occlusion. The results are comparable in every way, except that I have a vague impression that, on the whole, patients who have had a frank coronary occlusion respond somewhat better I don't know why.
It is essential to recall that two investigators, after years of careful study of the available material and evidence, stated that in their opinion all patients who had developed angina pectoris had had a coronary occlusion, though usually of a small vessel so that the electrocardiographic changes were not diagnostic or were easily missed, if this is so, and I consider it probable, then angina represents a specific indication for preventive measures against the possibility of thrombosis.
Unless there is some contraindication, such as hypertension, an angina patient is routinely started by me on 800 international units of alpha tocopherol a day and seen at intervals of six weeks for reassessment. If no result has been obtained within six weeks, the dosage is increased by 200 to 400 international units for the next six weeks. When we reach the dose on which their symptoms are relieved, it is continued permanently.
Although the protection from a coronary thrombosis in these patients is very nearly universal, it sometimes happens that, after some years, the symptoms of angina recur. In such a case, it is necessary once again to increase the (lose gradually and keep increasing it until the condition is relieved.
In discussing the successful treatment for angina, however, it must be re-emphasized that a misdiagnosis can easily be made.
There is one type of pain, which is very common in middle-aged or older people which is very commonly mistaken for angina pectoris. It has been given many different names, by many different authors, although recognized as a definite entity for years. Also, the site of the responsible lesion has been identified in different locations - the sterno-costal joint, the intercostal nerve itself, or the nerve root. To make matters more confusing, it can be on either side at any level and so the pain can be ascribed to referred pain from several different organs. The most common name for this condition is intercostal neuralgia or intercostal neuritis, and so the inference is that it is a definite lesion of the intercostal nerve. It is often referred to as a radiculitis, signifying a lesion in the nerve root. It has been called the rib syndrome. It has been often misdiagnosed as breast tumor, cholecystitis, etc.
This pain nearly always occurs in the left upper chest in front in right-handed people and in the upper right chest in front in left-handed people. In fact, this is so usually the location and so typically right or left sided, that once the patient has described it you can confidently tell him whether he is right or left handed. Characteristic of this pain is that it occurs toward the front of the chest; but it is accompanied by marked tenderness between the ribs, and this tenderness can be followed all the way around in the intercostal space right to the lateral aspects of the spine. The patient may not be aware of the tenderness until the doctor puts pressure on the area.
The author has seen hundreds of such cases, many of which have had the condition for years. There has been no very effective medical treatment available for this condition, and the author has developed his own theories and method of treatment which are very effective in nearly all - but not all - cases.
The doctor of medicine has been taught for years that minor dislocations of joints or their immobilization in an abnormal part of their range of movement cannot occur.
Therefore, the chiropractic and osteopathic approach to pain was considered necessarily based on incorrect theory and manipulation of no greater benefit than heat and massage. All this, too, has changed, and the president of the American College of Surgeons and, now, many others have attested to the value of correct manipulation in treating many joint lesions. The author has known this for 24 years. He discovered three osteopaths who could relieve chest pain of this type in most patients, often very dramatically. In one such case a man who couldn't walk 20 yards, without pain, after manipulation walked for miles up and down hill and through college grounds and climaxed it by running upstairs, where he arrived breathless and perspiring, but free of pain.
However, again by chance, a most effective medical treatment for this condition was discovered. While investigating the possible usefulness of vitamin E ointment (30 I.U. alpha tocopherol per gram of petroleum jelly), Burgess and Pritchard of the Montreal General Hospital had demonstrated its usefulness in hastening the healing of indolent ulcers and in so doing had shown that the alpha tocopherol in the ointment was absorbed by the tissues under the skin right down to the periosteum of bone. It literally walks right through the skin as if it weren't there. Now we treat all such patients by the inunction of vitamin E ointment into the skin over the nerve root for ten minutes, followed by heat for another ten minutes to drive in still more alpha tocopherol This works miracles in one to three nights. If it doesn't work within this three-day interval, we send the patient to the osteopath - not just any osteopath, of course - and if this doesn't get the desired result, we use vitamin B, hypodermically and by mouth, but with little hope that it will be successful.
Having excluded referred pain from organs and having excluded intercostal nerve pain, presumably pain that occurs in the chest on exertion or excitement (especially after a heavy meal or soon after the oxygen reserve in the heart muscle has been used up during sleep or after exertion just before elicitation of pain) is due to coronary artery narrowing and resulting myocardial anoxia.
A word is necessary about status anginosis, a condition of nearly continuous angina pectoris even at rest. In 30,000 cases, I've never seen one. I've seen patients in such deep failure that they couldn't move about at all - but no status anginosis. Early in our London, Ontario, days a patient of my brother's, an obstetrician was seen in consultation while in the hospital at her daughter's request. She was there because of the diagnosis of status anginosis made by the internist to whom she had been sent by her family physician. My brother elicited the typical intercostal tenderness in the appropriate segment and suggested vitamin E ointment and heat as described in this chapter. She was completely cured of her status anginosis overnight.
Like all our coronary patients, angina patients are urged to lead normal lives, as far as this is possible. We restrict them in only two ways. We ask that they don't try to show anyone how much they can lift or how fast they can run. Many patients have returned to hard manual laboring on farms and in factories without subsequent trouble.
There is even a distinct possibility that such hard work does them good - as long as they are protected against sudden insufficiency by vitamin E saturation. It was reported by Doctors Smith and Kidera in Aerospace Medicine (38:742, July, 1967) that physical stress is beneficial in some cases of angina, because it helps the development of collateral circulation. A gradually extended exercise program leading up to an objective of jogging a mile in 20 minutes showed excellent results in 15 cases and poor results in six.
The poor results, of course, were in dyspnea and early congestive failure. They could have been avoided.
(from "Vitamin E for Ailing and Healthy Hearts," by Wilfrid E. Shute, M. D. with Harold J. Taub, Pyramid House, N. Y., 1969, pp 43-49).
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In this exclusive interview, Al Baroudi, Ph.D., president of president of Food Safety Institute International, discusses what drives his relentless pursuit of food safety and what makes handling of uniforms a critical control point.
Ata "Al" Baroudi, Ph.D., president of Food Safety Institute (FSI) International, takes food safety very seriously — not just professionally, but personally as well. For example, he tells the story of the time he and his family went to a moderately priced chain restaurant for dinner and, as is his modus operandi, he made a beeline for the restroom. "You can tell a lot about the cleanliness standards of a restaurant by the state of its restrooms," he explains. "If they don't have soap, hot water and paper towels in the restrooms, they obviously don't expect their employees to have clean hands."
Upon entering the restroom, he noticed one of the stalls was occupied, so he killed some time at the sink, waiting to find out if the person was an employee or a customer. Sure enough, a uniformed employee of the restaurant emerged from the stall, walked right past Baroudi — and the sink — and exited the restroom. Baroudi followed and watched the employee enter the kitchen and resume his job — as head cook.
Baroudi went to his table and when the waitperson came by, Baroudi asked to see the manager. He told the manager that he and his family would not be staying for dinner because the restaurant's sanitation practices were inadequate. The manager began defending his establishment and offered to show Baroudi the sanitation policies and procedures manual. Baroudi replied that the manual was worthless if the staff did not follow those procedures, and the manager began to protest again. Baroudi then pointed out the head cook and explained that he had seen the cook leave the restroom without washing his hands. Desperately trying to retain his customer, the manager offered to give Baroudi and his family their meals at no charge. Baroudi answered, "Oh, so you want to kill me for free?" He handed the manager his business card and gave a brief explanation of what he does for a living, then left the restaurant, never to return.
If that anecdote suggests Baroudi has strict standards and exacting expectations, some of his other experiences may explain why. When he worked for the Vons supermarket chain, he thwarted a lawsuit brought by a woman who claimed that tainted ground beef from Vons caused her elderly mother to fall ill and die. The coroner had found the cause of death to be complications from an Escherichia coli O157:H7 infection, and the Jack-in-the-Box food poisoning incident had recently been in the news, so the woman made what she thought was a logical connection.
Baroudi, however, approached the case without preconceptions and went to work like a CSI forensics specialist. He sent samples from the lot of ground beef from which the plaintiff's package had come to an independent lab for testing. The result: The meat was negative for E. coli O157:H7. He shared those results with an official at the local health department, who then accompanied Baroudi to the woman's home. When they questioned the woman, it came to light that although she had cooked the hamburger thoroughly, she had fed it to her elderly mother by hand. It was a lengthy process, during which she had gone to the bathroom and, she admitted, had not washed her hands before resuming the feeding. Analysis of a stool sample revealed that the plaintiff's own hygienic negligence had caused her mother's death.
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Sad tales such as that one — as well as Centers for Disease Control estimates that each year, 76 million Americans get sick, more than 300,000 are hospitalized, and 5,000 people die from foodborne illnesses — motivate Baroudi to be hypervigilant about food safety and sanitation. So, when Aramark Uniform Services asked him to help develop a top-notch HACCP program, he rolled up his sleeves and immersed himself in the business.
"It was a challenge for me; I had to 'live' this industry [uniform services] until I knew every step in the process intimately," Baroudi says. "I rode the delivery trucks, went into customers' plants with Aramark's staff — I went through their entire program. Then we broke down all the critical control points and developed standard operating procedures (SOPs) for each one." (See diagram below or refer to Baroudi's white paper, "A Uniform Approach to HACCP," for details on Aramark Uniform Services' HACCP program.)
Figure 1. This diagram shows the steps — i.e. the critical control points — in Aramark's uniform care cycle. Click here for a larger version of this figure.
Baroudi's white paper describes the many steps in Aramark's HACCP plan, but he stresses that a successful HACCP program "is a partnership — it works both ways. The garment is just one piece of the puzzle."
It is essential, says Baroudi, for food processors to use reputable suppliers, and determining which suppliers are reputable means doing research on them, finding out about their HACCP programs and asking their customers about the service they provide. Just as essential, however, is each facility's training of and communication with its own employees. As part of its HACCP program, Aramark Uniform Services can help food processors develop HACCP documentation and train employees in HACCP.
Regarding the cost of using a uniform supply company both to provide uniforms and keep them clean and sanitized, Baroudi says it amounts to pennies per garment and, more importantly, equates to an insurance policy against product contamination. Data from USDA's Economic Research Service reveal that each year, Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O157 alone cause approximately 73,480 cases of foodborne illness, at an estimated cost of more than $431 million.
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Sunday, 27 June 2010
Kalakand Made Easy (Microwave Version)
33 comments:
- Jennifurla said...
Looks fantastic
- Sun Jun 27, 10:51:00 pm 2010
- simply.food said...
This mithai looks wonderful, I love the mouth watering clicks.
- Sun Jun 27, 10:58:00 pm 2010
- Rachana said...
Wow! These kalakands look mouthwatering...delicious.
And I loved your photos :-)
- Sun Jun 27, 11:16:00 pm 2010
- divya said...
Oh wow..shab..what a wonderful presentation! looks so delicious and tempting.
- Mon Jun 28, 01:50:00 am 2010
- Srimathi said...
Thank you so much for trying my recipe and getting back to me with your review of it. Ya it does make a huge batch but I must confess I make them when I have guests and they always ask for a to go bag of it. I have a suggestion, slightly warm after you thaw it. The longer it sits in our fridge the better it tastes. Enjoy and your photos look awesome.
- Mon Jun 28, 02:16:00 am 2010
- Superchef said...
Wow! this really is super easy. I love kalakand but never found the patience to make it the regular way...must have to try this! thanks shabs :)
- Mon Jun 28, 03:03:00 am 2010
- Kairali sisters said...
Kalakhand looks very very very yummy Shabs. satyam paranjal kannedukane thonunilla ketto, Love it..
Kairali sisters
- Mon Jun 28, 03:33:00 am 2010
- Cool Lassi(e) said...
Congrats on hitting a wonderful milestone. Lovely kalakand recipe. But the procedure does sound arduous and I would love it if someone made it for me. hehe.
- Mon Jun 28, 03:48:00 am 2010
- Priya (Yallapantula) Mitharwal said...
Looks super yummy !!!
- Mon Jun 28, 05:44:00 am 2010
- Pavithra said...
Shabs the kalakhand looks extraordinarly beautiful.. and very tempting dear.. WOnderful clicks as well..
- Mon Jun 28, 06:02:00 am 2010
Hi Shabs, I really wanna try this soon... But tell me if I can use store bot paneer? The clicks r way too good!!
- Mon Jun 28, 06:27:00 am 2010
- Priti said...
Looks yummy ..lovely pic ....looks fab
- Mon Jun 28, 08:59:00 am 2010
- Zia Elle said...
never tried ricotta and semolino......it looks a perfect mix, great recipe Shab!!
- Mon Jun 28, 09:00:00 am 2010
Amazing pics!! seems yummy...
- Mon Jun 28, 09:06:00 am 2010
- Priya said...
Slurppp, tempting kalakand squares, i do the same way too..
- Mon Jun 28, 09:46:00 am 2010
- Srivalli said...
Looks lovely!..I too had made this recently in microwave and was surprised how quick this gets done..:)
- Mon Jun 28, 02:26:00 pm 2010
- PranisKitchen said...
thats so delicious. i used to do the milk halwa this way..this is very good one.. the noraml its so difficult. nice pics too
wish to get one million hits
- Mon Jun 28, 03:12:00 pm 2010
- Padhu said...
Wow! That's a superb recipe and your step by step pics looks fabulous!!
- Mon Jun 28, 04:01:00 pm 2010
- Sarah Naveen said...
adipoli clicks...looks so perfect and yummy too...
- Mon Jun 28, 04:41:00 pm 2010
- Yummy Team said...
Congrats, Shabs!! Kalakand looks fabulous..Beautiful presentation and pics..
- Mon Jun 28, 09:06:00 pm 2010
- Deborah said...
This looks delicious!
- Tue Jun 29, 01:52:00 am 2010
- Nostalgia said...
Yum! Looks fabulous
- Tue Jun 29, 02:21:00 am 2010
- N S said...
Looks wonderful.
- Tue Jun 29, 03:00:00 am 2010
- Guna's kitchen said...
first time here.. kalakand luks very tempting and veery beautiful... happy to follow ur blog
- Tue Jun 29, 05:49:00 am 2010
- Afsal_ Alif said...
Hi Shabz,
Thnx a lott 4 ur Comment.....
Plzz post Raz malai or Shahi Thukda,nxt time. Hope u know that as u seems tu be a Confectionary Specialist.
- Tue Jun 29, 07:24:00 am 2010
- Swapna said...
Congrats Shabs!! Wonderful clicks & presentation!!!
- Tue Jun 29, 02:09:00 pm 2010
- Maria said...
Congrats dear!
The sweet looks fab!Though I have had this, I didnt know the name ;)I love milk based sweets..
- Tue Jun 29, 02:28:00 pm 2010
- Shabs.. said...
Thank you all for stopping by and your encouraging comments.
- Tue Jun 29, 11:25:00 pm 2010
- Parita said...
WOW! Gorgeous pictures! simple awesome dear!
- Sat Jul 03, 08:07:00 pm 2010
- Mriganayani said...
Wow - How did I ever miss you? I'm so glad you commented on the FB page - glad glad to be here - you have a wonderful space here. I want to take time and go through - in a rush now - but will be back.
This kalakand is heavenly!! Love it!
- Sat Jul 10, 05:51:00 pm 2010
- praleena said...
what is cream of wheat, where can u buy it. i live in london many thanks prali
- Thu Mar 03, 05:36:00 pm 2011
- Shabs.. said...
cream of wheat is semolia or rava, or sooji or even called farina...you can find in asian shops or asian sections in asda or tesco....but mostly in indian shops...
- Thu Mar 03, 05:54:00 pm 2011
I made kalakand over the weekend and it came out AWESOME. Even my husband who is a hard one to please, liked it very much :). It was a little dense and did not have the texture of kalakand; maybe I over-cooded it. It only took me 15 mins in my microwave though. Will definitely be making this again. Thank you for a delicious and easy recipe.
- Mon Mar 28, 06:15:00 pm 2011


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On the weekly GetReligion podcast, host Todd Wilken and I discuss my recent posts on media coverage of (1) Girl Scouts and the culture wars and (2) the possible excommunication of a Memphis, Tenn., church member for gossiping (among other alleged sins).
Since my post on the Girl Scouts, the Indiana lawmaker who raised a stink over the "radical organization" has apologized for the tone of his accusations but not backed down from his basic complaints. From the Journal Gazette in Fort Wayne, Ind.:
FORT WAYNE – Days after his opposition to a resolution honoring the Girl Scouts went viral, Rep. Bob Morris, R-Fort Wayne, apologized for his remarks but stood by his decision not to sign the resolution.
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What happened to that millisecond after the election when both the president and the speaker said they'd heard the message that Americans wanted the two parties to work together, wanted to make divided government work, and that they would do everything they could to make that happen?
Gone? Shall we spend a lot of time pointing fingers and figuring out who is to blame? On the other hand, let's skip it for now.
What happened to that millisecond after the Newtown shooting when it looked like we might actually turn the heat down on the paralyzing gun debate in this country, that keeps us shouting past each other? I know where I'd point the finger of blame on that one (hello, Wayne LaPierre), but there were also people playing along with his absolutist game, on both sides.
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Shall we look back on 2012 as the year we managed to survive a presidential campaign most people hated before climbing back into our separate cars for a trip over the fiscal and political cliff?
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The perfect, Voltaire said, is the enemy of the good. Truer words were never spoken.
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Put an armed guard in every school, at a cost of about $8 billion, when schools are the safest place young people can be? No. Every school security guy you talk to will tell you that if you want to spend money, put counselors in schools. A school can expect a homicide every 6,000 years. Lightning strikes are more likely to kill your kid.
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What a familiar sight.
Maybe it will turn out that the fiscal cliff is not as steep as we thought. Maybe our taxes will go up and down, like poll ratings. Maybe we got back to business as usual without even knowing it.
But what a shame. If we learn nothing from school shootings and fiscal cliffs, from crazy people and evil in front of us, then shame on us. We can't stop evil, but we can still do our best. Compromise. Reason. Steps in the right direction.
Good, if not perfect.
Isn't that what we teach our kids every day?
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An environmental group warns that a substantial portion of the drinking water for some 1.5 million Oregonians could be at risk if a proposed bill to create a timber trust on federal forestlands in Western Oregon becomes law.
The computerized study by the Ashland-based Geos Institute released Thursday concluded that nearly 80 communities, including Medford, Rogue River and Grants Pass, could have their drinking water sources polluted by logging sediment if the O&C Trust, Conservation and Jobs Act is approved.
The study's results, however, were questioned by a former Yale School of Forestry dean, who said it failed to address the impact that limiting timber harvests has on forestlands and area communities.
The Bureau of Land Management administers about 2.6 million acres in Western Oregon, including 2.1 million acres of what the Geos Institute said was at-risk former Oregon & California Railroad Co. lands and Coos Bay Wagon Road holdings now under the agency's jurisdiction.
"These BLM lands are ground-zero in efforts to hold onto some of the highest water quality, best salmon habitat and oldest forests remaining in Oregon," Dominick DellaSala, the report's author and chief scientist at the institute, said in a prepared statement. The institute's primary focus is on climate change and factors that can contribute to that change.
"Intensively logging them to solve the counties' fiscal predicament is shortsighted and will squander the natural assets that make Oregon one of the most beautiful places in the nation to live and work in," he said.
The study focused on what it described as potential clear-cutting on a nearly 1.5-million-acre timber trust contained in the bill.
The report concluded that 19.1 percent of the drinking water source area for Medford could be impacted, 26.7 percent for the city of Rogue River and 36.5 percent for Grants Pass. They were among more than two dozen communities with drinking watersheds overlapping what the report identified as at-risk BLM lands. Another 53 communities with lower-percentage impacts were also included in the study.
"Drinking water is a key element being overlooked in this debate over the future on these lands," DellaSala told the Mail Tribune. "Water is already in short supply as communities continue to grow. With logging you get more sediment, more costs to clean the water."
In 1996, Salem spent $100 million on new treatment facilities after logging in upper watersheds combined with storms led to high levels of sediment in the water supply, he noted.
"If the intake is downhill from a logging operation, sediment is coming downstream," he said. "When these lands are logged heavily, it increases the threat to the water supply, polluting it with sediment."
On the other hand, Medford can be expected to benefit from improved water quality resulting from recently completed restoration measures on Little Butte Creek, he said. The same work to reduce sediment loads in the water provide good opportunities for spawning salmon, he observed.
But retired forest scientist John Gordon of Portland, former dean of the Yale School of Forestry who retired from that post in 2001, questioned whether the study was too narrowly drawn.
"Managed forests provide pure water compared to that coming from agriculture and urban uses," he observed. "If you look across land use types, you get a much higher water quality as a rule from managed forests.
"One of the reasons for that is timber harvesting is done carefully — by and large — these days," he added. "Very little sediment moves over land into the streams."
When it does, it is often the result of roads, land failure or a stand replacement fire, he said.
"Active forest management tends to make it less likely that a catastrophic fire will occur," he said.
The point, he said, is that the risk to community water sources should be considered along with other risks, from fires to the social decay created when public forestlands are withdrawn from timber production.
"Thinking about one thing at a time is probably not the way to go about solving our forest problems," he concluded.
Noting the study involves a legislative proposal, the BLM could not comment, according to a spokesman for the agency's Medford District.
U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Hood River, one of the three main sponsors of the bill, also declined to comment on the details of the study.
"Oregonians have been responsibly managing forests since the time of the Oregon Trail, and simply want the chance to put our people back to work in the woods," said Andrew Malcolm, Walden's spokesman in D.C. "That's why Greg has written a bipartisan plan to create jobs in the woods, use the revenue generated to fund essential local services like schools, roads, and law enforcement, and end the status quo of gridlock litigation."
In addition to Walden, who represents the 2nd Congressional District which includes eastern Oregon as well as Jackson and a portion of Josephine County, the bill is result of a bipartisan effort including U.S. Reps. Peter DeFazio, D-Springfield; and Kurt Schrader, D-Canby.
Walden, DeFazio and Schrader have argued their bill would protect the environment while giving a much needed economic boost to the 18 Western Oregon counties that have been dependent for decades on timber-related payments from O&C lands.
The act would place the O&C land into two trusts, with roughly half of it managed for conservation while the remainder would become the timber trust which would be managed for sustainable timber production.
The proposal is supported by the Oregon House and Senate, 15 boards of county commissioners, the Oregon State Sheriffs Association and industry groups.
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, won't have a final O&C proposal until later this summer, noted Tom Towslee, state communications director for the senator.
"But he has made it clear that any successful O&C legislation will need to create jobs in the woods, protect clear water sources, old growth trees and habitats, and establish a permanent and stable source of revenue for O&C counties," Towslee stressed.
A link to the study can be found on the Geo Institute website, http://www.geosinstitute.org.
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We've discussed it in the skype channel, but nothing posted on the site about it.
Some pretty big news about PSO2 has been dropping, first and foremost, its coming out on PS VITA as well as PC, and Sega is "trying" to ensure that PC and Vita will be cross-compatible. Awesome! The PSV release won't be out till 2012, though.
They've also confirmed the game will be FREE to play. You can download the PC client for free (and to the Vita a well?), and we can most assuredly assume there will be premium upgrades for costumes and weapons and crap, par for the course with F2P games nowadays.
Sega also announced that there will be a version of PSO2 for iOS and Android.
according to Andriasang, Sega promised "social game elements," and simpler controls and character creation. Data will be shared between the phone and PC/Vita versions, but crossplay will not be possible. This version is due winter 2012, between the summer PC release and the 2013 Vita release.
I wonder if the "Shared Data" is specifically your character, or if its like a side-game with Mag Raising or some shit?
And now Most importantly, they're releasing a BETA, first they're releasing a version of the character creator on April 5th (boob sliders!) Later that month they'll hold a private beta for 100,000 invitees. I don't know how to register yet, but I'm sure Donkey can figure it out.
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Me (slightly perplexed): The only information I have is the e-mail that you sent me (attached below), which is an Order Confirmation for the two back issues. This includes the order date, payment amount, credit card details and reference number. Not sure what other information you might need.
Magazine: Unfortunately I have been unable to locate your payment. May I request that you please check whether your credit card company has processed the payment?
Me (getting a bit fed up): My credit card company has indeed processed the payment, which should come as no surprise, given that I received an e-mail from you confirming the order (see below). This has caused me some inconvenience, especially as the two back issues that I ordered have now been sold out (per your website). Given the circumstances, I would be grateful if you could suggest a solution.
Magazine: I have been unable to locate your web order. What you may have is the "print details", which is not confirmation that the order has been successful. To complete the process you need to click 'submit' to finalise the order. An email will then be sent within 30 minutes to confirm the order has been successful quoting your reference number. May I therefore ask you to resubmit your order online?
Me (totally pissed off): I am clearly wasting my time here. Firstly, the order confirmation that I have is not the "print details" as you suggest, but an e-mail that I received with the helpful title ORDER CONFIRMATION. If you page down to the end of this e-mail chain, you will see this e-mail - which you should have realised, as I have mentioned it three times in my previous e-mails. Secondly, there would be no point in re-submitting my order for the back issues, as they have now sold out. Again, I stated this clearly in my last e-mail (see below, if you can be bothered). Your "customer service" is evidently nothing of the sort. At this point, the only thing that would interest me is if you could tell me whether you and your colleagues are too: (a) blind; (b) stupid; or (c) lazy to read a short e-mail in plain English, understand it and respond accordingly. I have copied this correspondence to the Editor of the magazine in the hope that he might address this issue with a touch more efficiency. If not, at least it might give him something to laugh about in these trying times.
At least this lengthy saga had a happy ending, as the Editor then intervened, miraculously finding copies of the "sold out" issues of the magazine and sending them to me for free.
Moral of the story: when the service sucks, stop being so British and complain. There's no need to become as litigious as the Americans, but overcome your inhibitions and stand up for yourselves. If companies aren't told what they're doing wrong, they will continue to give you poor service.
Obviously, you don't want to go to the other extreme like those ridiculous holidaymakers whose complaints are almost unbelievable in their stupidity, such as the tourist on safari lamenting that the sight of an aroused elephant ruined his honeymoon by making him feel inadequate. Or the woman who complained that it took them 9 hours to fly home from Jamaica to England, while it only took the Americans 3 hours. Or even the man who was disgusted to find that almost every restaurant in Goa (India) served curry, as he did not like spicy food.
On the other hand, occasionally you will come across a gem of a complaint letter, such as the infamous missive from an unhappy NTL customer. The whole letter is a masterpiece of its kind, ending with this broadside:
Suffice to say that I have now given up on my futile and foolhardy quest to receive any kind of service from you. I suggest that you cease any potential future attempts to extort payment from me for the services which you have so pointedly and catastrophically failed to deliver - any such activity will be greeted initially with hilarity and disbelief, quickly be replaced by derision, and even perhaps bemused rage. I enclose two small deposits, selected with great care from my cat's litter tray, as an expression of my utter and complete contempt for both you and your pointless company. I sincerely hope that they have not become desiccated during transit. They were satisfyingly moist at the time of posting, and I would feel considerable disappointment if you did not experience both their rich aroma and delicate texture. Consider them the very embodiment of my feelings towards NTL, and its worthless employees.
Difficult to top that, but the man in seat 29E on Continental Airlines penned another classic with a heartfelt epic about being seated right next to the lavatory, thus sharing his flight with the stench of sanitation fluid (and worse), the noise of constant flushing and the passengers' asses invading his personal space. Read it and weep.


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Number 330, July 31, 2005
"For THIS we survived Auschwitz?"
Not Equal to Equal Treatment
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Earlier this year, a Colorado couple was in the news over the struggle they were having to obtain a license to offer daycare in their home. The issue didn't relate to any specific safety issues in their home or troubling incidents involving children in their past. Instead, the state apparently denied licensing because the pair are blind. After taking the matter to court, a judge ruled in their favor. In his decision, the judge wrote that the state had violated the Americans With Disabilities Act when it denied them a license.
Now, the truth be told, I don't really favor government red tape licensing procedures for small home businesses, and that includes day care. But such licensing exists whether I like it or not, and it exists with certain parameters in mind. One of those is the ability of the business owner to provide services that are up to certain standards.
As anyone who has ever cared for small children knows, they can move faster than you think and they're typically into just about everything. It's a simple fact that even the most child safe home has dangers for unmonitored children. Toddlers can drown in toilets; they can trip over their own two feet. They can choke without making a sound. Such accidents can happen when a parent or caretaker merely looks the other way for a moment. What if the caretaker can't see what's going on at all? While I agree that blind people can do many things, I can see why the state might believe that caring for multiple small children isn't one of them. Alleging discrimination in a case such as this has nothing to do with discrimination and everything to do with reality.
A few weeks ago, a group of wheelchair-bound activists sued Amtrak claiming that their rights had been violated. Although Amtrak makes space available for handicapped passengers at the same ticket prices paid by other riders, the group wanted to travel together which would have necessitated the removal of regular seats to accommodate all of the wheelchairs. Amtrak assessed an additional fee to cover the labor, and the activists objected. A judge, however, sided with Amtrak saying that such charges would apply to any group that needed regular seats removed for any reason.
The activists are doubtless displeased by the ruling. But they sued demanding equal treatment, and the judge rightly ruled that Amtrak's policies would have applied to anyone else on an equal basis. To insist on being treated differently would prove that the activists aren't interested in equal treatment, but in special treatment.
In the town where I currently live, a local resident confined to a wheelchair sued the city after being arrested for driving her powered wheelchair in the streets. She claimed that she had to do so because the city didn't comply with laws that mandate sidewalks have slopes rather than curbs at intersections to facilitate wheelchair access. Because the law was made after some of the sidewalks had been poured, and because the city was including ramps in all of its new or repair work, she lost the case. But that wasn't the end of legal issues for the city...
When the woman's case was heard, the courtroom was filled to overflowing with people in wheelchairs there from across the region to lend moral support. The overflow crowd blocked hallways in the court facility, and when a fire marshal ordered people to move to one side to ensure clear access, the city was accused both of having too little space in its courtrooms for the disabled and of discrimination by its fire department. (As an aside, it's interesting to note that the same woman was later arrested again for riding down the middle of a busy downtown streetone which is, by the way, bordered by new sidewalks dutifully ramped.)
Anyone who represents a danger to traffic is going to find themselves the recipient of some kind of ticket from the police. And anyone who blocks hallways in a public building is going to be asked to move under the threat of a citation of their own. But because these people happened to be disabled, they claimed that being treated like anybody else would have been was actually discrimination rather than the entirely equal treatment that it was.
People who are perfectly abled also demand special treatment. When fire departments don't have sufficient numbers of women on their rosters, they're all too often accused of discrimination. In order to rectify what is perceived by some women as a problem, requirements are lowered until womenwho, whether we like it or not, are all too often not as physically capable as many mencan meet those requirements.
If people really want equal opportunity, the standards for a job should be set and held immovable. Anyone who can pass those standards satisfactorily should then be eligible for hire regardless of their color, gender, religion, or anything else. But to lower the bar so as to hire people who are obviously less qualified results in workers who are quite literally unable to do what the realities of the job require. Sure, a female firefighter who can lift only two thirds of the weight that a qualified man can carry would doubtless be just as brave as that man and just as capable of rescuing a child. But what happens when the only people needing rescue are a couple of 180 pound adults?
It seems to me that there's absolutely zero comparison between political correctness in a fire department and the loss of life when less qualified personnel are hired. There happens to be (at the moment) exactly one woman in the entire fire department of the city where I live. She passed the same physical tests that the men who were hired did, and I have no qualms whatsoever about her ability to do the job. But how much longer will the city be "allowed" to hire only those people who are adequately capable? How soon might it be forced to lower its standards and thus its capabilities accordingly? I frankly don't want to see that happen anywhere because I think that saving lives and property is more important than some woman somewhere saving face.
In another matter ongoing in my town, the local School Board is being accused of racial discrimination. Teachers, especially good ones, are in short supply. The Board is looking to hire more teachers, and is having a difficult time finding enough qualified people to fill the open positions. Despite broad recruitment efforts in a variety of places, the Board is now being accused of failing to hire a sufficient number of minority teachers. Never mind the fact that teachers of all colors and abilities are scarce and that the Board would best serve the district by hiring every qualified individual who's willing to live and work here; it's apparently more important than qualifications to some that the teacher's skin color or gender be "right."
Because of the threat of a potential lawsuit, the School Board is extending its search to focus specifically on minorities. Forget that public schools are in trouble almost everywhere, and that a substandard education has now become virtually systemic. Forget seeking the most qualified teachers possible in some attempt (vain though it might be without reform at the top end of the hierarchy) to reverse that trend. Instead, place race above qualification, and then lament that the downward trend continues.
It's often struck me as ridiculous that people could complain about the lack of female firefighters or of minority-race school teachers, and at the same time don't bat an eye at the mostly black NBA, for example. There's no question in my mind that sports teams want the best possible players to ensure the best possible team performances. That the majority of the best basketball players happen to be black at the moment is no comment whatsoever on racism in the NBA. After all, a sufficiently tall and talented Chinese man was snapped up by an American team because he was good, not because somebody complained that there weren't enough Asians represented in professional basketball!
Equal treatment under the law means only that the law applies equally to everybody. It doesn't mean artificially "leveling the playing field" nor does it mean that different standards must, by force of law, be applied to people of differing abilities. As long as the same standards are applied to everybody across the board, then there's no discrimination taking place. To artificially alter circumstances otherwise is, in and of itself, discriminatory.
I'm sorry if a woman who has always dreamed of being a firefighter turns out to be 5'2" and 110 pounds soaking wet. I'm sorry if a man who's always dreamed of being a surgeon finds himself stricken with some degenerative disorder that will result in blindness. But I'd be even sorrier if the woman were hired, and someone died because she couldn't extricate them from a burning building, or if the man couldn't admit his difficulties early enough in the process to avoid some mistake in the operating room. It only makes matters worse when someone who could have done the job isn't hired because those doing the hiring were forced, by some anti-discrimination law or another, to accept less qualified applicants in order to have a certain percentage of this or that minority on staff.
There are lots of things that I personally can't do. I refuse to focus on something that I can't dono matter how cool or wonderful it might be if I couldor to demand that someone make that thing possible for me regardless of the repercussions. Instead, I'm going to focus on all those things that I can do, and work to get better at a few of those. Unfortunately, there are activists who disagree. Even more unfortunately, there is a meddlesome government which seems to think that equal opportunity means everyone should be able to do everything they want to do, and which will work to mandate that those opportunities are provided no matter what sacrifices are necessary to make that happen. I can only hope that no innocent lives end up being sacrificed along with the standards.
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In the spooky spirit of the month, the Onyx Theatre put on their annual Halloween burlesque show at 8 p.m. on Oct. 27. The place was decked out in spiderwebs and fog and there really is nothing like a drag queen in costume.
It was a "living, breathing, tasty variety show," in the words of emcee Ginger Grant. The show was well-paced and Grant's bawdy humor kept the atmosphere lively and laid-back. It was obvious that the Onyx is no stranger to shows of this type.
Content-wise, there could have been more deliberately Halloween-y acts, although a few stood out for being so. Zombie-style Leda Las Vegas, singing "I Screamed a Scream," kept interrupting herself with lunges toward the oh-so-delectable brains of the audience. Miss Miranda Glamour picnicked graveside with a charming undead fellow and a bottle of A-1 sauce. Lou-Lou Roxy made an appearance as a hypnotist and Genevieve Serpentine ended up covered in snakes.
Elaine, dressed as Lady Gaga, brought a "Bad Romance" to the table and performed respectably well. The recurring character known as Mama, played by Stephanie Castellone, was an audience-favorite and her banter with Grant was an act in itself.
More classic burlesque was well-represented in Renea le Roux's flouncy French number and Miss Karla Joy's stately performance to the "Addams Family" theme. Joy's phenomenal lip-syncing act to a 1950s infomercial-style product pitch also dropped jaws.
All tips for the show went to the Sin Sity Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a nonprofit organization dedicated to assisting those with HIV and AIDS. Follow the link above for more information on the group.
Photos are supposedly worth a thousand words, and that should be especially true on Halloween. Watch out for tricks this weekend, remember "stranger danger" and take a gander at the photos below. View a schedule for upcoming shows at the Onyx and find ticket information here.


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DENVER (AP) Broncos wide receiver Brandon Marshall pleaded guilty to a reduced charge in a drunken-driving case and was sentenced to a year of probation.
Marshall pleaded guilty Friday to driving while ability-impaired. He was originally charged with driving under the influence after his October 2007 arrest.
Prosecutors say Marshall must pay $1,100 in fees and fines and will likely be required to serve 24 hours of community service and attend alcohol-treatment classes and a victim-impact panel.
The NFL suspended Marshall for three games for his off-field behavior, but later reduced it to one game. He missed the team's opener against Oakland, but is expected to play Sunday against San Diego.


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George W. Cable, in full George Washington Cable, (born Oct. 12, 1844, New Orleans, La., U.S.—died Jan. 31, 1925, St. Petersburg, Fla.), American author and reformer, noted for fiction dealing with life in New Orleans.
Cable's first books—Old Creole Days (1879), a collection of stories, and The Grandissimes (1880), a novel—marked Creole New Orleans as his literary province and were widely praised. In these works he sought to recapture the picturesque life of the old French-Spanish city. Yet he employed a realism new to Southern fiction.
Although Cable was the son of slaveholders and fought in the Confederate cavalry, he saw slavery and attempts to deny the freedmen full public rights as moral wrongs. Thus, in his early fiction, his handling of caste and class and authorized oppression contained overtones of moral condemnation. He used essays and public lectures to urge the cause of black rights, in the face of violent abuse in the Southern press, and he published two collections of his social essays, The Silent South (1885) and The Negro Question (1888). He abandoned the effort only after discrimination in the South had become entrenched. In 1885 he settled in Northampton, Mass. He wrote novels set mainly in the South until he was past 70, but, though better constructed, they were felt to lack the freshness and charm and also the force of moral conviction that characterized his early books.


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Late ovarian cancer diagnoses 'are costing lives'
Delays in diagnosis are cutting short the lives of women with ovarian cancer, according to a UK charity.
Women putting off visiting their GP and subsequent delays in getting the correct diagnosis are highlighted as "areas of concern" by Target Ovarian Cancer.
The charity's latest Pathfinder Study, launched today at the House of Commons, also says that delays in diagnosis could be down to GPs requests for tests for their patients being refused.
Dr Claire Knight, health information manager at Cancer Research UK, said the report was a "timely reminder" that urgent attention must be given to ovarian cancer, and added that treatment - not just early diagnosis - needs to be improved.
Women diagnosed with ovarian cancer at the earliest stage have a five-year survival rate of 92 per cent.
But the overall survival rate in the UK is just 43 per cent - among the worst in Europe.
Previous studies have suggested that late diagnosis could be one reason why the UK lags behind other countries, but recent research suggests that the UK may be worse at treating late-stage ovarian cancer.
The latest study found that, over the last five years, one in four women diagnosed with ovarian cancer took more than three months to visit their GP after they started having symptoms. Around half took more than a month.
Three per cent of these women said they "knew a lot" about the disease prior to their diagnosis. And more than half said they had "heard of the disease but knew nothing about it".
Once at the GPs, the report found that women still faced problems getting a correct diagnosis. A third of women were diagnosed more than six months after they first went to see their doctor.
The report also showed that 30 per cent of women were misdiagnosed as having irritable bowel syndrome, 15 per cent as having ovarian cysts and 13 per cent as having a urinary infection.
On top of this, one in ten GPs reported having diagnostic tests for their patients, such as abdominal scans, refused in the past year.
Cancer Research UKs Dr Knight said: "Nearly a third of women with the disease are diagnosed as an emergency and survival rates in the UK are worse compared to other countries. We urgently need to do more to improve both the way the disease is diagnosed and treated.
"Symptoms of ovarian cancer include pelvic or tummy pain, bloating, difficulty eating or feeling full.
"If you experience any of these, they are new for you and happen on most days, see your GP. And if your symptoms persist, keep going back to your doctor."
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Official Gmail Blog: Send money to friends with Gmail and Google WalletPosted by Travis Green, Product Manager, Google Wallet
Paying back your friends is now as simple as sending an email, whether you're chipping in for lunch or reimbursing your roommate for your share of the rent.
Google Wallet is now integrated with Gmail, so you can quickly and securely send money to friends and family directly within Gmail -- even if they don't have a Gmail address. It's free to send money if your bank account is linked to Google Wallet or using your Google Wallet Balance, and low fees apply to send money using your linked credit or debit card.
To send money in Gmail, hover over the attachment paperclip, click the $ icon to attach money to your message, enter the amount you wish to send, and press send.
We're rolling out this feature over the coming months to all U.S. Gmail users over 18 years old, so keep an eye out for the $ icon in the attachment options. You can also get earlier access if your friends have the feature and send money to you.
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Image source: Rattlingdjs, with big thanks to David Rattigan.
March 8, 2013
Dance Hall Frankenstein
A musician is glimpsed wearing a classic over-the-head Don Post Frankenstein mask in a wild New Year's Eve party scene — everyone else in party hats under flying confetti and a soap bubble machine working overtime — in Ealing Studios' Dance Hall, in 1950.
Directed by Charles Crichton, the film chronicles the lives and loves of young working-class women in postwar London, set to big band music against the adolescent drama of a dance competition. The cast includes British Bombshell Diana Dors in an early, showy role, and Petula Clark, a former child star once known as "Britain's Shirley Temple", here in her breakthrough performance as a young adult lead, clinching the deal with her first romantic screen kiss. Clark would go from British popularity to European success as a multi-lingual entertainer and, eventually, worldwide super-stardom as a British Invasion Diva with a string of pop chart hits starting with Downtown in 1964.
Back to Frankenstein Monster's surprise appearance, there's a direct connection to be noted: Eunice Gayson, who has a supporting role in Dance Hall, would go on to play opposite Peter Cushing in Hammer's The Revenge of Frankenstein in 1958. Gayson is perhaps best remembered as the first Bond Girl, playing James Bond's girlfriend in Dr. No (1962) and From Russia With Love (1963).
The Monster mask used here is the absolute keystone of Monster collectibles, created under license from Universal Pictures in 1948 by the Don Post studios of California, purveyors of generic Halloween masks — pirates, witches, cowboys and indians — sold in joke shops and novelty counters across America. In an era before there was any official monster merchandising, it was the first commercially available Frankenstein mask. "This Frankenstein mask is so real," Post Studio promotions read, "it immediately runs anyone into a monster… Just pull it over your head as you would a bathing cap, and watch what happens." It would prove immediately and phenomenally successful, with Post claiming that "seventy percent of all masks sold today are Frankenstein's Monster Masks."
Soon, men in Don Post Frankenstein masks popped up in touring "Spook Shows", or worked sidewalks and theater lobbies, ballyhooing new monster movies. The mask would be featured on TV, notably worn by Rosemary Clooney's backup singers in a 1957 episode of her variety show, when Boris Karloff guest-starred. That same year, the Shock Theatre package of Universal's horror films syndicated to TV stations saw the emergence of horror hosts, with Don Post Frankensteins putting in guest appearances. In 1958, publisher James Warren donned a tuxedo and a Don Post Frankenstein mask, and posed with a blonde model for the cover of the first issue of Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine. It was a defining moment, with the Don Post mask in attendance: The Shock package had ignited Monster Mania, and FMOF became its herald.
Cheaply made and inexpensive, packaged in distinctive green boxes, untold thousands of the Don Post Frankenstein masks were sold for Halloween parties or one-time gags, then thrown away. The thin rubber tore easily and nothing short of museum-grade storage would keep the flimsy masks from disintegrating over time. Today, only a couple of the original 1948 model are known to exist, commanding stratospheric prices.
Back in 1950, way over there in England, the Don Post Frankenstein mask made what is likely its first-ever feature-film cameo. It was just a throwaway gag, the musical Monster seen as fun and, as such, a harbinger of things to come.
Image source: Rattlingdjs, with big thanks to David Rattigan.
Image source: Rattlingdjs, with big thanks to David Rattigan.
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Labels: Don Post, Pop Culture
3 comments:
- David L Rattigan said...
Fascinating background -- thanks!
You may want to give a tip of the hat to rattlingdjs on Flickr, too, as he provided the screencap. Just realized you may have assumed it was my own; I just pointed you in the right direction.
- March 8, 2013 at 11:07 AM
- Pierre Fournier said...
Thanks, David.
- March 8, 2013 at 3:28 PM
- Mr. Cavin said...
Fantastic! I like pictures of folks in the masks almost more than I like pictures of them in the makeup. There's just something so suave and Halloween about a monster head over menswear, that collage of face and body.
- March 8, 2013 at 3:56 PM
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Amsterdam to Host MTV EMAs
Amsterdam will host the 2013 MTV Europe Music Awards later this year.
The 20th annual star-studded ceremony will be broadcast live from the Dutch capital's innovative Ziggo Dome on Sunday, November 10.
Bruce Gillmer, Executive Vice President of Talent and Music Programming/Events, Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) confirmed the location and date on 26 January, saying: "We're very excited to partner with the city of Amsterdam, a true world class music city and top destination for artists."
"Each year the MTV EMA celebrates the biggest names in music from every corner of the globe and showcases unbelievable performances from today's most exciting acts. We're confident that Amsterdam, and the cutting-edge Ziggo Dome, with its state of the art facilities, will be the perfect setting for what will be a very memorable and spectacular 2013 MTV EMA.'"
German supermodel Heidi Klum hosted last year's EMAs in Frankfurt, during which she made six costume changes.
A string of high profile stars are expected to perform at the event, which attracts the biggest names in music every year.
Last year saw Taylor Swift, Rita Ora and Carly Rae Jepsen take to the stage to perform, while Taylor, Justin Bieber and One Direction were the big winners on the night.
The 22-year-old We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together singer and the 18-year-old Canadian popstar scooped three awards each.
One Direction won two prizes for Best New and Biggest Fans.
This year's host and list of performers are expected to be announced in September.