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The modern torpedo (historically called an automotive, automobile, locomotive, or fish torpedo) is a self-propelled explosive projectile weapon, launched above or below the water surface, propelled underwater toward a target, and designed to detonate on contact or in proximity to a target. The original use of "torpedo" was for a variety of devices that would today be mostly called a "mine". However, from the First World War onwards "torpedo" was only used for an underwater self-propelled missile, often called colloquially a "fish".
While the battleship had evolved primarily around engagements between armoured ships with large guns, the torpedo allowed torpedo boats, other lighter surface ships, submersibles, and aircraft to destroy large armored ships without large-caliber guns, though sometimes at the risk of being hit by longer-range shellfire. In the Battle of Samar, destroyer-mounted torpedoes were the only weapons available to the U.S. task force capable of damaging opposing Japanese cruisers and battleships.
Today's torpedoes can be divided into lightweight and heavyweight classes; and into straight running, autonomous homers and wire-guided ones. They can be launched from a variety of platforms. Originally, the torpedo was primarily used in an anti-shipping role. This has been largely superseded by the missile, so the torpedo's main contemporary use is against submarines.
Torpedoes may be launched from submarines, surface ships such as torpedo boats and destroyers, helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, unmanned naval mines and naval fortresses. They are also used in conjunction with other weapons; for example the Mark 46 torpedo used by the United States becomes the warhead section of the ASROC (Anti-Submarine ROCket) and the CAPTOR mine (CAPsulated TORpedo) is a submerged sensor platform which releases a torpedo when a hostile contact is detected.
Much like the invention of the helicopter, the earliest torpedo concepts existed many centuries before being developed as working devices. The earliest known description is found in the work of Syrian engineer Hassan al-Rammah in 1275. His works show illustrations of a rocket-propelled device that appears to have been designed to move on the surface of water.
Although the term "torpedo" was not coined until 1800, the early submarine Turtle attacked using an explosive very similar in intent and function. Turtle dived under a British vessel to attach a bomb by means of an auger. The bomb was to be detonated by a timed fuse, probably a type of clockwork mechanism. In its only recorded attack, Turtle failed to penetrate the hull of HMS Eagle, which had been copper-plated to resist shipworms.
The first usage of the term torpedo to refer to a naval explosive was by American inventor Robert Fulton. In 1800, Fulton launched his submarine, Nautilus, and demonstrated its method of attack using a floating explosive charge Fulton called a torpedo. The submarine would tow the torpedo, submerging beneath an enemy vessel and dragging the torpedo into contact with it. Fulton successfully destroyed demonstration targets in both France and Britain, but neither government was interested in purchasing the vessel and Fulton's experiments ceased in 1805.
During the American Civil War, the term torpedo was used for what is today called a contact mine, floating on or below the water surface using an air-filled demijohn or similar flotation device. (As self-propelled torpedoes were developed the tethered variety became known as stationary torpedoes and later mines.) Several types of naval "torpedo" were developed and deployed, most often by the Confederates, who faced a severe disadvantage in more traditional warfare methods.
In this period, "torpedoes" floated freely on the surface or were bottom-moored just below the surface. They were detonated when struck by a ship, or after a set time, but were unreliable. These could be as much a danger to Confederate as to Union shipping, and were sometimes marked with flags that could be removed if Union attack was deemed imminent. Rivers mined with Confederate torpedoes were often cleared by Unionists placing captured Confederate soldiers with knowledge of the torpedoes' location in small boats ahead of the main fleet.
"Torpedoes" (mines) could also be detonated electrically by an operator on shore (as demonstrated also by Fulton), so friendly vessels or low-value enemy vessels could be ignored while waiting for the capital ships to sail over them. However, the Confederacy was plagued by a chronic shortage of materials including platinum and copper wire and acid for batteries, and the wires had a tendency to break. Electricity was a new technology, and the limitations of direct current for effective distance was poorly understood, so failures were also possible because of the decrease in voltage when the torpedoes were placed too far from the batteries. Former United States Navy Commander Matthew Maury, who served as a commander in the Confederate Navy, worked on the development of an underwater electrical mine.
David Farragut encountered tethered and floating contact mines in 1864 at the American Civil War Battle of Mobile Bay. After his leading ironclad, USS Tecumseh, was sunk by a tethered contact mine (torpedo), his vessels halted, afraid of hitting additional torpedoes. Inspiring his men to push forward, Farragut famously ordered, "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"
The first torpedo designed to attack a specific target was the spar torpedo, an explosive device mounted at the end of a spar up to 40 feet (12 m) long projecting forward underwater from the bow of the attacking vessel. When driven up against the enemy and detonated, a hole would be caused below the water line. Spar torpedoes were employed by the Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley, as well as by David-class torpedo boats, among others. However, these torpedoes were liable to cause as much harm to their users as to their targets.
During the US Civil War, the term "torpedo" was also used to refer to various types of bombs and boobytraps. Confederate General Gabriel J. Rains deployed "sub-terra shells" or "land torpedoes", artillery shells with pressure fuses buried in the road by retreating Confederate forces to delay their pursuers. These were the forerunners of modern land mines. Union generals publicly deplored this conduct.
Confederate secret agent John Maxwell used a clockwork mechanism to detonate a large "horological torpedo" (time bomb) on August 9, 1864. The bomb was hidden in a box marked "candles" and placed aboard a barge containing Union ammunition (20,000–30,000 artillery shells and 75,000 small arms rounds) moored at City Point, Virginia, on the James River. The explosion caused more than US$2 million in damage and killed at least 43 people.
The coal torpedo was a bomb shaped like a lump of coal, to be hidden in coal piles used for fueling Union naval vessels. The bomb would be shoveled into the firebox along with the real coal, causing an explosion. Although the North referred to the device as the coal torpedo in newspaper articles, the Confederates referred to it as a "coal shell".
From World War I onwards, the word torpedo was used only for self-propelled projectiles that travelled under or on water.
The first working prototype of the modern self-propelled torpedo was created by a commission placed by Giovanni Luppis (Ivan Lupis), an Austrian naval officer from Fiume (today Rijeka, Croatia), a port city of the Austrian Empire, on Robert Whitehead, an English engineer who was the manager of a Fiume factory. In 1864, Luppis presented Whitehead with the plans of the salvacoste (coastsaver), a floating weapon, driven by ropes from the land, and made a contract with him in order to perfect the invention.
Whitehead was unable to improve the machine substantially, since the clockwork motor, the attached ropes and the surface attack mode all contributed to a slow and cumbersome weapon. However, he kept considering the problem after the contract had finished, and eventually developed a tubular device, designed to run underwater on its own, and powered by compressed air.
The result was a submarine weapon, the Minenschiff (mine ship), the first real self-propelled torpedo, officially presented to the Austrian Imperial Naval commission on December 21, 1866.
Maintaining proper depth was a major problem in the early days but Whitehead introduced his "secret" in 1868 which overcame this. It was a mechanism consisting of a hydrostatic valve and pendulum which caused the torpedo's hydroplanes to be adjusted so as to maintain a preset depth.
After the Austrian government decided to invest in the invention, Whitehead started the first torpedo factory in Fiume. In 1870, they improved the devices to travel up to approximately 1000 yards (914 m) at a speed of up to six knots, and by 1881 the factory was exporting its torpedoes to ten other countries. The torpedo was powered by compressed air and had an explosive charge of gloxyline (gun-cotton). Whitehead went on to develop more efficient devices, demonstrating torpedoes capable of 18 knots (1876), 24 knots (1886), and finally 30 knots (1890).
Royal Navy representatives visited Fiume to see a demonstration in late 1869 and in 1870 a batch of torpedoes was ordered. In 1871, the British Admiralty paid him £15,000 for certain of his developments and production started at the Royal Laboratories in Woolwich the following year. In 1893, RN torpedo production was transferred to the Royal Gun Factory. The British later established a Torpedo Experimental Establishment at HMS Vernon and a production facility at the Royal Naval Torpedo Factory, Greenock in 1910. These are now closed.
Whitehead opened a new factory near Portland harbour, England in 1890, which continued making torpedoes until the end of the Second World War. Because orders from the RN were not as large as expected, torpedoes were mostly exported. A series of devices was produced at Fiume, from 14" upward. The largest Whitehead torpedo was 18 inches (457 mm) in diameter and 19 feet (5.8 m) long, made of polished steel or phosphor-bronze, with a 200 lb (90 kg) gun-cotton warhead. It was propelled by two propellers driven by a three-cylinder Brotherhood engine, using compressed air at around 1300 lbf/in² (9 MPa). The torpedo was designed to self-regulate its course and depth as far as possible. By 1881, nearly 1500 torpedoes had been produced. Whitehead also opened a factory at St Tropez in 1890 which exported torpedoes to Brazil, Holland, Turkey and Greece. Whitehead faced competition from the American Lieutenant Commander John A. Howell, whose own design, driven by flywheel, was simpler and cheaper. It was produced from 1885 to 1895, and left no wake and ran straight. A Torpedo Test Station had been set up on Rhode Island in 1870, and an automobile torpedo produced in 1871 but this was unsuccessful. The Lay torpedoes were also largely unsuccessful as were various privately invented ones. The Howell torpedo was the only USN one until Whitehead torpedoes produced by Bliss and Williams (later E W Bliss and Co) came into service in 1894. Five varieties were produced, all 45 cm diameter. An improved version, the Bliss-Leavitt,with a turbine engine was later produced, some with a larger diameter. Various versions were used in both World War I and World War II.
Whitehead purchased rights to the gyroscope of Ludwig Obry in 1888 but it was not sufficiently accurate, so in 1890 he purchased a better design (ironically from Howell) to improve control of his designs, which came to be called the "Devil's Device". The firm of L. Schwartzkopf in Germany also produced torpedoes and exported them to Russia, Japan, and Spain. In 1885, Britain ordered a batch of 50 as torpedo production at home and at Fiume could not meet demand.
On 16 January 1878, the Turkish steamer Intibah became the first vessel to be sunk by self-propelled torpedoes, launched from torpedo boats operating from the tender Velikiy Knyaz Konstantin under the command of Stepan Osipovich Makarov during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78. In another early use of the torpedo, Chilean ship Blanco Encalada was sunk on April 23 1891 by a torpedo from the gunboat Almirante Lynch, during the Chilean Civil War.
By this time the torpedo boat, the first of which had been built at the shipyards of Sir John Thornycroft in 1877, had gained recognition for its effectiveness, and the first torpedo boat destroyers (later simply destroyers) were built to counter it. Torpedoes were also used to equip gunboats of around 1,000 tons, thus becoming torpedo gunboats.
Originally, torpedoes were designed to be straight running, though this was not always the case in practice. Around 1897, Nikola Tesla patented a remote controlled boat and later demonstrated the feasibility of radio-guided torpedoes to the United States military.
Torpedoes were widely used in the First World War, both against shipping and against submarines. Germany and its allies disrupted the supply lines to Britain largely by use of submarine torpedoes (though submarines also extensively used guns).) Britain and its allies also used torpedoes throughout the war. U-boats themselves were often targeted, twenty being sunk by torpedo.
Originally the Japanese Navy purchased Whitehead or Schwartzkopf torpedoes but by 1917 they were conducting experiments with oxygen as a fuel. Because of explosions they abandoned the experiments but resumed them in 1926 and by 1933 had a working torpedo. They also used conventional wet-heater torpedoes.
In the inter-war years, tight budgets caused nearly all navies to skimp on testing their torpedoes. As a result, only the Japanese had fully-tested torpedoes (in particular the Type 93) at the start of World War II. The lack of reliability caused major problems for the American Submarine Force in the initial years of the American involvement in World War II, primarily in the Pacific War.
All classes of ship, including submarines, and aircraft were armed with torpedoes. Naval strategy at the time was to use torpedoes, launched from submarines or warships, against enemy warships in a fleet action on the high seas. Targeting unarmed enemy merchant shipping was prohibited by rules of war. (In the event, merchantmen were armed and acted as de facto naval auxiliaries, rendering the distinction moot.) There was concern torpedoes would be ineffective against warships' heavy armor; an answer to this was to detonate torpedoes underneath a ship, badly damaging its keel and the other structural members in the hull, commonly called "breaking its back". This was demonstrated by magnetic influence mines in World War I. The torpedo would be set to run at a depth just beneath the ship, relying on a magnetic exploder to activate at the correct time. Germany, Britain, and the U.S. independently devised ways to do this; German and American torpedoes, however, suffered problems with their depth-keeping mechanisms, coupled with faults in magnetic pistols shared by all designs.
Inadequate testing had failed to reveal the effect of the earth's magnetic field on ships and exploder mechanisms, which resulted in premature detonation. The Kriegsmarine and Royal Navy promptly identified and eliminated the problems. In the United States Navy, there was an extended wrangle over the problems plaguing the Mark 14 torpedo (and its Mark 6 exploder). Cursory trials had allowed bad designs to enter service. Both the Navy Bureau of Ordnance and the United States Congress were too busy protecting their own interests to correct the errors, and fully-functioning torpedoes only became available to the USN twenty-one months into the Pacific War.
British submarines used torpedoes to interdict the Axis supply shipping to North Africa and the Fleet Air Arm Swordfish sank three Italian battleships at Taranto by torpedo. Torpedoes were used by British surface vessels to help finish off the German battleship Bismarck. Large tonnages of merchant shipping were sunk by submarines with torpedoes in both the Battle of the Atlantic and the Pacific War.
Torpedo boats such as the American PT boats enabled relatively small but fast boats to carry enough firepower to theoretically destroy a larger ship, though this rarely occurred in practice. Destroyers of all navies were also usually armed with torpedoes to attack larger ships. In the Battle off Samar, destroyer-mounted torpedoes of the American task force "Taffy 3" showed effectiveness at defeating armor. Damage and confusion caused by torpedo attacks were instrumental in beating back a superior Japanese force of battleships and cruisers.
Later in the Second World War, torpedoes were given acoustic (homing) guidance systems, originally by the Germans in the G7es torpedo. Pattern-following and wake homing torpedoes were also developed. Acoustic homing formed the basis for torpedo guidance after the Second World War. Though Lupis' original design had been rope guided, torpedoes were not wireguided until the 1960s. Because of improved submarine strength and speed, torpedoes had to be given improved warheads and better motors. During the Cold War, torpedoes were an important asset with the advent of nuclear powered submarines, which did not have to surface often, particularly those carrying strategic nuclear missiles.
At higher pressures the cooling experienced by the air as it expanded in the engine caused icing problems (see adiabatic cooling). This was remedied by heating the air with seawater before it was fed to the engine, which increased engine performance further, because the air expanded even more after heating. This was the principle used by the Brotherhood engine.
A derivative of the compressed-air torpedo was the steam torpedo. Developed by Vickers Ltd, it mixed alcohol (first ethanol, later methanol) with compressed air in the combustion chamber, producing steam. This increased speed, but produced a visible wake.
Germany introduced its first battery-powered torpedo shortly before World War II, the G7e. It was slower and had shorter range than the conventional G7a, but was wakeless and much cheaper. Its lead-acid rechargeable battery was sensitive to shock, required frequent maintenance before use, and required preheating for best performance. The experimental G7ep, an enhancement of the G7e, used primary cells.
The United States copied the German design (although with improved batteries) to produce the Mark 18 Torpedo and further refined it to produce the FIDO air-dropped acoustic homing torpedo for anti-submarine use.
Modern electric torpedoes such as the Mark 24 Tigerfish or DM2 series commonly use silver oxide batteries which need no maintenance, allowing torpedoes to be stored for years without losing performance.
The Victorian era Brennan, which could be steered onto its target by varying the relative speeds of its contra-rotating propellers. However the Brennan required a substantial infrastructure and was not suitable for ship-board use. Therefore, for the first part of its history, the torpedo was guided only in the sense its course could be regulated so as to achieve an intended impact depth (due to the sine wave running path of the Whitehead, this was a hit or miss proposition, even when everything worked correctly) and, through gyroscopes, a straight course. With such torpedoes the method of attack in small torpedo boats, Torpedo bombers and small submarines, was to set on a collision course abeam to the target and to release the torpedo at the last minute, before peeling away; all the time running a gauntlet of defensive fire.
In larger ships and submarines, fire control calculators gave a wider engagement envelope. Originally, plotting tables (in large ships), combined with specialised slide rules (known in U.S. service as the "banjo" and "Is/Was"), reconciled the speed, distance, and course of a target with the firing ship's speed and course, together with the performance of its torpedoes, to provide a firing solution. By the Second World War, all sides had developed automatic electro-mechanical calculators, exemplified by the U.S. Navy's Torpedo Data Computer. Submarine commanders were still expected to be able to calculate a firing solution by hand as a back up against mechanical failure, and because many submarines existing at the start of the war were not equipped with a TDC; most could keep the "picture" in their heads and do much of the math (which was simple trigonometry) without recourse to paper calculations, from extensive training.
Against high value targets and multiple targets, submarines would launch a spread of torpedoes, to increase the probability of success. Similarly, squadrons of torpedo boats and torpedo bombers would attack together creating a "fan" of torpedoes across the target's course. Faced with such an attack, the prudent thing for a target to do was to turn 90 degrees to its original course and steam away from the torpedoes and the firer, allowing the relatively short range torpedoes to use up their fuel. An alternative was to "comb the tracks", turning 90 degrees towards the torpedoes. The intention of such a tactic was still to minimise the size of target offered to the torpedoes, but at the same time be able to aggressively engage the firer. This was the tactic advocated by critics of Jellicoe's actions at Jutland, his caution at turning away from the torpedoes being seen as the reason the Germans escaped.
The use of multiple torpedoes to engage single targets greatly reduces a submarine's combat endurance and its ability to stay on patrol. This can be improved by ensuring a target can be effectively engaged by a single torpedo, which gave rise to the guided torpedo. Guided torpedoes can use passive or active guidance, or a mix of the two. Passive acoustic torpedoes home in on emissions from a target. Active acoustic torpedoes home in on the reflection of a signal, or "ping", from the torpedo or its parent vehicle; this has the disadvantage of giving away the presence of the torpedo. In semi-active mode, a torpedo can be fired to the last known position or calculated position of a target, which is then acoustically illuminated ("pinged") once the torpedo is in attack range.
Torpedoes can operate on a fire and forget principle or be controlled by its firing vessel. During the Second World War, the U.S. experimented with frequency hopping radio controlled torpedoes using matching pairs of punched card rolls based on those of player pianos. Modern torpedoes use an umbilical wire; the advantage of the umbilical is the vastly greater computer processing power of the submarine or ship can be used. Torpedoes such as the U.S. Mark 48 can operate in a variety of modes increasing tactical flexibility.
Torpedoes are launched several ways:
Many navies have two weights of torpedoes:
In the case of deck or tube launched torpedoes, the diameter of the torpedo is obviously a key factor in determining the suitability of a particular torpedo to a tube or launcher, similar to the caliber of the gun. The size is not quite as critical as for a gun, but diameter has become the most common way of classifying torpedoes.
Length, weight, and other factors also contribute to compatibility. In the case of aircraft launched torpedoes, the key factors are weight, provision of suitable attachment points, and launch speed. Assisted torpedoes are the most recent development in torpedo design, and are normally engineered as an integrated package. Versions for aircraft and assisted launching have sometimes been based on deck or tube launched versions, and there has been at least one case of a submarine torpedo tube being designed to fire an aircraft torpedo.
As in all munition design, there is a compromise between standardisation, which simplifies manufacture and logistics, and specialisation, which may make the weapon significantly more effective. Small improvements in either logistics or effectiveness can translate into enormous operational advantages.
Some common torpedo diameters (using the most common designation, metric or inch, and listed in increasing order of size):
Even larger sizes of torpedo tube, including 660 mm (26 inches), 762 mm (30 inches), and 916 mm (about 36 inches), have been installed on some nuclear submarines. These tubes are designed to be capable of firing large diameter munitions such as cruise missiles, as well as the standard 21 inch heavy torpedo.
The torpedoes used by the World War II Kriegsmarine included:
Originally, Whitehead torpedoes were intended for launch underwater and the firm was upset when they found out the British were launching them above water, as they considered their torpedoes too delicate for this. However, the torpedoes survived. The launch tubes could be fitted in a ship's bow, which weakened it for ramming, or on the broadside; this introduced problems because of water flow twisting the torpedo, so guide rails and sleeves were used to prevent it. The torpedoes were originally ejected from the tubes by compressed air but later slow burning gunpowder was used. Torpedo boats originally used a frame which dropped the torpedo into the sea. Royal Navy Coastal Motor Boats of WW1 used a rear-facing trough and a cordite ram to push the torpedoes into the water tail-first.
Developed in the run up to Second World War, multiple-tube mounts (up to quintuple in some ships) for 21" to 24" torpedoes in rotating turntable mounts appeared. Destroyers could be found with two or three of these mounts with between five and twelve tubes in total. The Japanese went one better, covering their tube mounts with splinter protection and adding reloading gear (both unlike any other navy in the world), making them true turrets and increasing the broadside without adding tubes and top hamper (as the quadruple and quintuple mounts did). Considering their Type 93s possible war winners, the IJN equipped their cruisers with torpedoes. The Germans also equipped their capital ships with torpedoes.
Smaller vessels such as PT boats would carry their torpedoes in fixed deck mounted tubes using compressed air. These were either aligned to fire forward or at an offset angle from the centerline.
Late in the war lightweight mounts for 12.75" homing torpedoes were developed for anti-submarine use consisting of triple launch tubes used on the decks of ships. These were the Mark 32 launcher in the USA and part of STWS (Shipborne Torpedo Weapon System) in the UK. Later a below-decks launcher was used by the RN. This basic launch system continues to be used today with improved torpedoes and fire control systems.
Late in World War Two, the U.S. adopted a 16" (40cm) homing torpedo for use against escorts.


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Once Upon a Time Season 2: First Photo of Lancelot!
One of the new characters coming to Once Upon a Time Season 2 is Lancelot, a former Knight of the Round Table from King Arthur's day. We're not in Spamalot Camelot anymore!
Lancelot (just Lance, maybe?) will be played by Sinqua Walls of Teen Wolf, The Secret Life of an American Teenager and Friday Night Lights.
Entertainment Weekly has a first look of Sinqua in his armor. That stuff looks heavy. We already know he and Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin) have some kind of secret in their past that Prince Charming (Josh Dallas) may not know about.
Interestingly enough, Sinqua also didn't know he had even auditioned for the role of Lancelot. In the new Entertainment Weekly Fall TV Preview, they explained how OUAT held deceptive casting calls to try and keep spoilers under wraps.
For example, actress Sarah Bolger had auditioned for "Anastasia" before getting cast as Sleeping Beauty, and Sinqua told EW, "My manager called and said, 'You got the role of Lancelot!' I was like 'I don't remember even reading for Lancelot!'"
Welcome aboard, anyway! Glad to have you — as long as you don't mess up the Snow/Charming love story. We can't deal with more people getting in the way there.
Once Upon a Time Season 2 premieres on September 30, 2012 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.
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CAIRO (AP) - Hundreds of Egyptian protesters and security forces hurl stones at each other in Cairo, on the one-year anniversary of fierce street clashes that left 42 dead.
Monday's clashes started after protesters tore down a wall of cement blocks built by security forces last year to prevent crowds from marching from central Tahrir Square to Cairo's security headquarters. The protesters also shot fireworks at police guarding the security buildings, prompting officers to throw stones at them in response.
Last year's street battle, known in Egypt as "Mohammed Mahmoud" after the name of the street where it happened, was sparked by a security crackdown on a sit-in by injured protesters. It set off days of sustained violence, with security forces firing tear gas, shotgun rounds, and rubber bullets, injuring hundreds.
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It looks like we will be making a family trip to Europe for 1 month beginning June 13, 2009. I need to work in Denmark for 3 weeks either at the beginning or end of the trip and we will be making a 10 day swing from Copenhagen - Paris (Hopefully with a swing up to London). I am hoping to see some drop in airfares between now and then, we can fly into either Copenhagen or Paris (from Seattle) as we'll be making the loop either way and so it really doesn't matter where start from (as long as we leave from the same place), I guess we could consider flying to London as well but would I be able to rent a left hand drive car as I will only be in the UK for 1-2 days of the entire trip.
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Let's face it: Teresa Giudice is no angel. In fact, it's nearly impossible for her to last an entire episode of The Real Housewives of New Jersey without some sort of altercation with one of the other women. During the first part of the Season 4 Reunion this week, though, she was especially harsh.
Among other barbs, she called Caroline Manzo an "old hag" and pointed out her three rolls of "blubber" and made throw-up noises in reference to Richard Wakile and called out his yellow teeth. Even when Jacqueline Laurita opened up about her son's Autism, Teresa was the only tear-free Housewife in the house.
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Obama did talk about global warming in a recent interview with Rolling Stone, and later today we'll post a short interview he did with MTV about climate change. Governor Romney, not so much.
Of course, although none may be greater than global warming, but there are far more issues facing the environment than just that. Ocean acidification. The commercialization of the Arctic as we head to ice-free summers. The collapse of fisheries. Dying reefs. Bark beetles. Wildfires and fire suppression. The challenges of renewal energy, from fights over where to put solar farms to the difficulty keeping birds safe around wind turbines. The true costs of fracking. Assaults on the EPA.
The list goes on. There's the new sagebrush rebellion, with states like Utah and Arizona trying to grab federal lands for themselves (in AZ's case, the Grand Canyon). Onshore and offshore drilling. Dam removal. Water use in an increasingly arid Southwest. Human-wildlife interaction.
Seriously, the issues affected by your choice of president are legion — and that extends to the House and Senate, plus your local reps, too. It is the nature of political campaigns to be simplistic, reductionist, and emotional, but to ignore these more earthy challenges seems to be cynical and irresponsible — at best. Or maybe it really is all about "jobs."
Now, I know I'm opening a can of worms by asking a political question, but please let's keep your commentary to the query at hands — the importance of environment to your vote. If you want to throw mud at the other guy, there's another place for that. It's called Facebook.
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Bill Frakes is an award-winning photographer who has traveled to more than 130 countries to capture some of the most exciting moments from the Olympics to covering a six-man football team in the fields of Nebraska. As a staff photographer for Sports Illustrated, many of his images have captured the rough and beautiful essence of sports. We are very proud to have with us a photographer like you. Bill. So.. Let's start with some questions.. Is it the gear or the photographer that makes the shot?
You make photographs with your heart, your eye, your mind and your soul. That said, having command of the right equipment to help you translate what is in your heart, your eye, your mind and your soul to what ever viewing mechanism you select is intregal to the process. You need to have the image in your mind, then choose the right equipment to exercise your vision. And that is necessarily different for everyone.
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Marco Tortato
Do you have a pretty strong network of colleagues that you are often in contact with?
A very tight, and strong network. We help and support each other. It's a continual education process all around.
How do you describe your photographic style?
Simple and straightforward. I want the content to be the message, not me, not technique. I want the work to look like it was from one hand, but a gentle hand that remains unseen.
How do you get so close to your subjects?
I was born and raised in the rural ranch country of Western Nebraska. I grew up in an environment completely free of fear which allows me to have a completely open heart and mind.
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I love what I do. My vocation and avocation are the same.
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THE Constituent Assembly (CA) resumed this week after Easter Holidays and will go on sabbatical leave until August after the Budget session.
Just before the adjournment for Easter holidays, the unexpected happened following tirade of polemics emerging from political differences embedded in the three and two tier-governments disagreement.
The two-tier government, seemingly the government choice spearheaded by CCM ruling party against Ukawa's three tiergovernment proposed structure by the Presidential Commission chaired by Judge Warioba appears to have caused a quagmire to the whole process of writing this constitution.
The walking away from the ongoing CA debates by the Ukawa together with those twenty-five members of the 201 group has further complicated the whole process of getting our much needed constitution.
Efforts should be made to convince the Ukawa group to come back to deliberate on this new constitution because even if the remaining members get the necessary two thirds majorities in voting, the consensus will not be there which is the essence of the required reconciliation.
The mistrust of political players on the whole process of writing the constitution started from day one when the appointment of the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) was announced.
The two diametrical sides went to the CA with their personal party agendas therefore each side was suspicious and hyper sensitive to every move. The spirit of give and take was a mere hypothesis. The CRC recommendations appeared to have sparked the fire and the tension between the beleaguering parties became so alarming.
The tension has been created by this disagreement on two or three tier-governments leading to different interpretations countrywide. What followed next was hate speeches coming from each corner of the country and from the very CA.
More worrying is the stand taken by churches during the Easter sermons. The buildup of the two opposing sides is gaining ground; if it is left unchecked, surely something serious might eat this nation. The pastoral letter from thirty- two Roman Catholic Bishops was theologically couched in a philosophical approach but if you read it between the lines, it calls for the CA to abide by the draft of the Warioba Commission.
The Anglican Bishop, Valentino Mokiwa, was very straight forward in putting his views in that sermon. He said downplaying the views expressed in the Warioba Commission amounts to downplaying people's views whose inputs are contained in the Warioba's Commission.
In seemingly parallel views from his colleagues, the Iringa KKK Bishop, Dr Owdewnburg Mdegela, condemned the Ukawa and urged them to return to the CA to continue with discussions. Also the students of Higher Institutions of Learning in Dar es Salaam came with a stinging statement condemning the Ukawa.
Ukawa is determined to go throughout the country to send the message to the people on the fact that people's views have been thrown out at the expense of the CCM Manifesto which is for two tier-governments. That being the case then the country is dangerously divided into two obvious camps.
Covertly the divisions are more serious than the normal eye can detect and behind the scene the seeds of discord seem to germinate. Are we sure that those who are for three tier governments have the same aspirations for both Mainland and Zanzibar?
And what about those who are of two-tier government? Do they have a common goal? We might be dancing the wrong tunes and end up playing in the hands of the devil? I could feel my spine chilling after hearing a senior politician, a minister standing in the pulpit saying what he said and he could not heal the wounds when he was given another opportunity to do so in the CA.
That sounded like opening the Pandora's box, as already the other side, the Muslim clerics are demanding Lukuvi's head to roll. As of now, the two sides have each strong support and the Ukawa seems to have an edge in support from the religious leaders.
However, mine is not a cry in the wilderness but I am really concerned on the plight of my country which is full of milk and honey. Something should be done to salvage the situation. What should be done now to avoid the worse to happen? In the first place our people, poor peasants are in the dark when it comes to one, two, three or even four government pattern.
This is a political ploy applied by politicians claiming to represent their people's views. Where did they get that mandate which has legally been entrusted to the CRC? There were some genuine pleas from CA members calling those deserting members from CA to come back.
With humility they requested them to come back for reconciliation that could bring back harmony and proceed with the writing of the new constitution involving each one of them. If that fails then the best solution could be the calling off of the CA and organise an earlier referendum that would pose three questions, one, two or three tier governments.
This exercise does not need much preparation as people are already aware on what is going on. Then this should be followed by the CA made up of a few people with good track record on constitutional issues preferably senior citizens like Judge Mark Bomani, Ambassador Ami Mpungwe and a few politicians from all registered political parties.
I know the two, Judge Bomani and Ambassador Mpungwe have been involved in the drafting of complicated constitutions like those of Namibia and South Africa where the question of reconciliation was of paramount importance.
The final decision on the constitution should come from the people in another referendum if need be or else the first referendum could serve the purpose.
I do join my fellow senior citizens, the peasants that we need a performing government that is accountable to its people, and corrupt free that can bring food on the table regardless of being from one-two-three or four governments.


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The new double act is the usual 1.2 millimetres thick, with CD data pits on one surface and a DVD data layer 0.6 mm below. The CD pits are transparent to the red laser light used by the DVD system. And the DVD layer is transparent to the CD system's infrared light. So the DVD and CD lasers will only read the relevant data, Dierks says.
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New program helps manufacturers, new workers
PHOTO: Employees at Epicurean install silicone corners on the company's cutting boards.
Several Duluth-area organizations are collaborating to help match unemployed or underemployed people with manufacturing employers that need workers.
Partners in the project include the Local Initiatives Support Corp., Duluth at Work, SOAR Career Solutions, Community Action Duluth, Lake Superior College and the Minnesota Workforce Center. Minnesota's Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) has provided a grant to help fund the project.
They have worked together to create the Certified to Work program, which is less than a year old. Using information gathered from local employers, Lake Superior College (LSC) has created a 200-hour machine operator class that, thanks to DEED, is free to participants.
"Students go to school six hours per day, four days per week in a manufacturing-type setting," said Steve Wagner, LSC's executive director of workforce and community development. "They know what they'll experience when they get out in the real world."
Numerous manufacturers currently are need people having the skills to operate today's manual and computer-assisted machines, he said.
"The 200 hours of training really gets people ready to operate this type of equipment," Wagner said.
Certified to Work goes beyond job-specific training, according to Emily Larson, who coordinates the Duluth at Work program.
"Some of the instruction involves hard skills workforce training, bit it also addresses financial literacy training and cognitive change training. We take a holistic approach," she said, preparing participants for jobs including machine operator, welder, construction worker, industrial sewer and hospitality worker.
The training also helps students develop their resume, prepare for interviews and identify their personal assets, said Emily Edison, executive director of SOAR Career Solutions.
"We want to increase people's incomes by 25 percent over three years," Larson explained. "What we find is that when we train people and they stick with us and we stick with them, they increase their income by over 150 percent."
Duluth-based Epicurean, a maker of cutting boards and other kitchen utensils, is among the firms that works with the program to recruit trained manufacturing employees. During a tour last week, Production Manager Kyle Campbell said the company is having excellent results through the program.
Manufacturing jobs, Wagner believes, offer good careers for area workers.
"One thing many people don't realize is that these are good-paying jobs, provided in a clean environment. Many still think manufacturing occurs in a dirty, loud environment. In most cases, that's not how it is," he said.
Workers who continue their education through a subsequent two-year programs, Wagner added, earn higher pay and advance to positions of higher authority at manufacturing firms.
"We have hundreds of great manufacturing companies in town that are looking for skilled labor," he said.
The collaboration has created "a really reliable go-to place for a certain set of employers" who need trained manufacturing workers, Larson said.
"We ask participants 'what are your skills, what are your goals' and we help them to get good jobs," she said.
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Content vs. Container: An interesting copyright question, featuring those lovable Kardashians
April 25, 2013 | 11:15 am
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From The Huffington Post comes this interesting story about the Kardashian siblings, who are suing their former stepmother, Ellen Pearson, over control of their late father's diary. Pearson has possession of the diary and has been releasing embarrassing snippets of it to the media.
What makes the story interesting is that the Kardashians are alleging that the late Robert Kardashian's will bequeathed them not just his physical belongings, but his intellectual property as well. Therefore, they are alleging that Pearson is violating their 'copyright' by releasing the contents to the press.
I suspect a case like this will, given the character of the people involved, settle for money before it actually goes to court. But the academic in me would love to see a judge actually rule on this. On the one hand, you could argue that the diary is an object, and if Pearson turns it over to the heirs, she's made good. But then, that would not stop her from releasing the damaging content, either by making copies or by simply telling what she remembers. The only way to prevent that from happening would be to exert ownership over the content, too.
I have seen at least one commentary on the story—from Mike Masnick, who knows his stuff—alleging that Pearson's statements to the media might well qualify as a fair use claim. But my gut feeling is that it's all immaterial. Given what I have seen so far in the media about both sides, I think this is less about the diary and more about money. Pearson will be quiet if they offer her enough money to do so, and the Kardashians are not interested in testing the boundaries of copyright law.
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If the snippets being released are factual assertions (a did x to b) then I doubt that copyright would apply. Facts and factual assertions are not copyrightable. On the other hand, if the snippet is a direct quote of a unique expression of an idea, it might be copyrightable. For example, the issue that arose from Woody Allen's movie "Midnight in Paris" when actor Owen Wilson utters the slightly mangled or misquoted line from Faulkner's "Requiem for a Nun": "The past is not dead. Actually, it's not even past." The Faulkner estate is claiming copyright infringement and is suing (trial scheduled for April 7. 3014). Even so, we have to wonder about diaries because they are so different from a deliberate publication. Are diaries as protected as published novels?


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Ruth Madoff said in an interview that she and her husband, Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff, attempted to commit suicide in 2008.
Ruth Madoff told The New York Times that she and her husband made the attempt on Christmas Eve of that year in their Manhattan penthouse by overdosing on Ambien, a common sleeping drug.
She told the Times that although she could not remember whose idea the attempt was, she and her husband "were in agreement—we were both sort of relieved to leave this place. It was very, very impulsive."
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The suicide attempt came two weeks after Bernard Madoff was arrested for running a $64.8 billion Ponzi scheme. Three months later he pleaded guilty; he is serving a 150-year sentence in federal prison.
The Madoffs' son Mark committed suicide last December. His widow, Stephanie Madoff Mack, revealed recently in interviews that it was his second attempt.
Bernie Madoff told the Times via e-mail that suicide "crossed my mind" after his arrest, but he felt he could help make restitution to his victims and he "could not abandon my family."
Ruth Madoff broke her seclusion at the request of her estranged son Andrew, who had asked her to help promote a new authorized biography, "Truth and Consequences: Life Inside the Madoff Family." Madoff Mack has also been promoting her own memoir, "The End of Normal."
Ruth Madoff talks about the suicide attempt on the CBS news magazine "60 Minutes" airing Sunday.
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Ron and Ryan Peter are citrus farmers by trade, which makes them resourceful in many ways. Mustangs began as a hobby for the father and son team. In due course, Mustangs turned into Stang-Aholics, a restoration and performance modification business in central California. Here are two examples of their work.
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Mustang projects often turn up where least expected. Ron and Ryan were visiting Fresno when they spotted a '66 Mustang fastback at an ornamental iron shop. Their discovery had been relieved of most of its parts, but that didn't deter them. They finally located the owner who was, in fact, interested in selling. To sweeten the deal, he led them to a back room filled with the Mustang's missing parts. Ron and Ryan purchased the car and hauled it home
The body was mounted on a rotisserie and media-blasted down to the bare metal before it became a side project while Ron and Ryan worked on customer cars to keep the bills paid. Eventually, the pair went to work in earnest with the goal of building a fun-to-drive restomod.
"We wanted a fun car that would have the handling capabilities of a modern Mustang," Ron tells us. "That's when we contacted Heidt's and ordered a complete suspension system." Ron and Ryan began with Heidt's Mustang II front suspension along with power rack-and-pinion steering, coilover shocks, tubular control arms, and 11-inch Wilwood disc brakes with four-piston Dynalite calipers. In back, Heidt's newest four-link setup was prototyped on this Mustang. To stiffen the platform, Stang-Aholics went with Heidt's chassis stiffening kit.
Because Ron and Ryan wanted to showcase their skills, they opted for '05 Mustang Screaming Yellow basecoat/clearcoat with Midnight racing stripes, carrying the yellow into the engine compartment to help the 302ci small-block stand out. It didn't need much help, having been built by Jim's Classics & Hot Rods with 350 horsepower-before pushing the 100-horse nitrous button. The goal was to keep expenses modest using off-the-shelf parts like a 302 two-bolt main block, nodular iron crank, shotpeened rods, Speed Pro forged pistons, '68 302-4V heads, Edelbrock Performer RPM induction, and Comp Cams 280H hydraulic cam. The cold air system is custom fabricated.
The drivetrain is a Tremec World Class T5 five-speed with Modern Driveline's cable clutch system and a Currie 9-inch rearend equipped with Detroit Tru-Trac and 3.50 gears. On the ground are 17-inch Hopster wheels wrapped in Kumho radials.
Inside, Ron welded up and carved out a dashboard and instrument panel to create something totally unique. Big Daddy's Upholstery did the Mustang bucket seats with custom Stang-Aholics stitching. We like the Flaming River polished steering column, Grant custom steering wheel, and Spal power windows. Mid-ship is a Pioneer sound system with 6x9-inch speakers aft and 6-inch roundies in front.
All wiring, hoses, and lines were carefully hidden for a clean look when the hood is open. The battery is tucked away in its own box for both safety and good looks in the trunk area. A Fuel Safe fuel cell keeps fuel where it belongs.
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Nowhere could the words "street rod" be truer than with Chris and Emily Werlhof's '68 Mustang hardtop. Like Ron and Ryan, Chris is in the agricultural industry, so he's also equipped with a great imagination, which explains the DuPont Chroma Base Clearcoat Orange Pearl and Super Jet Black color combination. Although it is surely a hardtop, it offers clean aerodynamics via shaved driprails, mirrors, and door handles.
Emily found this '68 at a local car show and gave Chris the license to buy it. Chris drove it for a few months and concluded so much more could be done. He had a new Heidt's coil-over front suspension installed along with rack-and-pinion steering. He also opted for a Ford Racing 351W GT-40 crate engine, but that wasn't doing it for him either.


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ANOTHER guide to the Internet? Peachpit Press bills Aether Madness as "a radical challenge to the publishing industry", and they are right: the publishers have put the entire text of this 300-page paperback on the World Wide Web, where anyone with Internet access can read the book for free.
In fact, much more than the text is available online. A visit to the WWW site offers several "tours" of the book, and selecting the "Green" tour takes you to a hypertext document with links to Gopher sites, mailing lists and other facilities around the world. In less than a minute I was browsing through a Who's Who of entomologists in Brazil.
In Aether Madness, Gary Wolf and Michael Stein have given us a good mixture of the nutty and the hard-headed, with one chapter on the nun who runs the world's best AIDS information resource and another on "The War ...
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Email spam is more than a nuisance. It should be outlawed by the governments of civilized nations. Why? It wastes time and resources. Spam comes and goes, but here are the two best methods I've found to nearly eliminate spam on my Mac.
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Your Mac comes with built-in Mail and filters, including one to capture Junk mail. As filters go, it's pretty good. I use it to route incoming email to different mail boxes in Mail.
The Junk Mail filter? It's just not as good as SpamSieve. I bought this years ago, back when I used Microsoft Entourage, and before I finally switched to Mail.
SpamSieve actually learns my email, so it knows what to put in the spam folder and what to keep in the inbox. It keeps a whitelist of previous recipients so email I want never shows up as spam.
The blocklist is like a blacklist that automatically marks as spam any message sent from a specific address. There's a simple slider bar that tells SpamSieve how aggressive to be. It even turns off Mail's new-mail notification (which sounds even when spam arrives), and notifies you only when non-spam messages hit the inbox.
The volume of spam comes and goes, depending on which spammer was shut down recently, and how long it took them to start up again. SpamSieve has killed about half of my spam.
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You report Denny Ellerman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as saying that the US experiment with a cap-and-trade scheme to reduce sulphur dioxide emissions halved the cost to industry. It is true that the standards-based approach adopted in Europe cost twice as much, but it also managed to reduce emissions by twice as much as the US cap-and-trade method. The European and American schemes had about equal cost per unit of reduction.
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COM holds classes at the main campus in Texas City, four learning centers and six partnering high schools. The four learning centers include the COM Learning Center-North County in League City and the COM Cosmetology Lab, the Gulf Coast Safety Institute and the COM Learning Center-Delmar in La Marque.
Located on 128 acres in Texas City, Texas, COM's main campus comprises 17 buildings and seven condominium units at Appomattox Square, which house support services, instructional, administrative and physical education facilities.
COM's Learning Centers, which are all leased facilities, include the COM Learning Center-North County in League City. It is comprised of two buildings that are primarily used for dual credit, continuing education and allied health instruction. These buildings provide 12,450 square feet of instructional space.
COM's Cosmetology Lab, "The Salon," has three units at Gulfway Plaza in La Marque and provides 7,597 square feet of instructional space for classes and a student-operated salon. The Gulf Coast Safety Institute Learning Center, which provides safety and workforce instruction, has 13,226 square feet of instructional space in La Marque.
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It's the first season for the wedding show,
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and it had its benefits. I was introduced to the meaning behind the various rituals and to the fabulous food that exists all over the country.
Eating the Prawn Vindaloo at a Catholic wedding in Goa or the Pandi curry in Coorg which is essentially pork cooked with lots of black pepper or the mouth watering kebabs at a Sunni Muslim wedding in Lucknow was education indeed.
At 24 you think the world is your oyster. But as I continued to do the wedding show, season after season, I realised I was 10 kilos more than what I was at 22!
The beauty of one's career is that it's never static...and unlike physical beauty that fades with age...one's career can be compared to wine - it gets better with age. At least one would hope so!
So when the company was starting its Lifestyle Channel - I was asked to move. Well, someone did say..."If we don't change, we don't grow." If we don't grow, we are not really living. Without asking my job profile I accepted the change.
After doing some years of business and wedding journalism (if there is anything like that!!) I was looking forward to the change. Soon I was asked to work on fashion. "But - why fashion and me," I asked the CEO of the Channel!
She said.. "Well...thats because you love to dress up." And I thought well that's great, after years of working on business, trying hard to read the pink papers everyday and the Economist on a weekly basis my only apparent strength was my fashion sense..
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But my bubble soon burst, since our marketing team wanted the wedding show back. Most of the weddings that my producer organised entailed travelling....which is synonymous with eating airline food, exotic looking desserts, wonderfully cooked Kashmiri food...so on and so forth.
Well, simultaneously my fashion producer was generous too. She made my life mirror a mini fairytale and I was sent to fashion weeks in Paris, New York, London and Milan, where I met some of the world's best known fashion journalists, designers and businessmen.
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My Fashion Boss, Arati Singh, watched me on air and said, "Sweetie, the episode was great but you look pregnant."
Following this comment I was fondly called 'Chabbu' by all. I got out of the loo and my colleagues would look at me and say, "Gosh ya, your hips have become bigger."
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Soon people in my office reached the other extreme and told me how anorexic I look. My only answer was: Mind your own business.
I wonder if it's an Indian thing. When you are fat everyone thinks its their birthright to tell you so...and when you are making an effort to lose weight, no one except your mother and close friends would support you!
As I attended an office party a few days ago.. I was told how I have suddenly started looking 16 and I ought not to lose any more weight instead I was asked to put on weight as the viewers watching the wedding show might think I am bulimic.
The argument: Well, you can't have a skinny anchor pretend to eat Rogan Josh and look 5 kilos underweight. So I feel like Renee Zellweger who had to keep putting on and dropping weight for Bridget Jones Diary. Except I have to do it at 1/10000th the salary!!
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I confess I've not seen many spoof gothic horrors (I'm kind of a wuss, and putting 'spoof' in the description, does not, in my experience, a blood and guts-free movie make). It's all about to change, though, if Is That A Bolt In Your Neck? is a good indication of the genre's standard.
I always enjoy myself at Bristol's Tobacco Factory Theatre so I wasn't worried before Monday night's performance. Nonetheless I really wasn't sure what to expect from what turned out to be a trio of versatile, animated, and talented performers who form the Gonzo Moose Company. My friend and I were giggling long before the end of the opening scene and the show was consistently funny from that moment on.
A self-consciously absurd gothic horror take-off, the play is thankfully more accessible than any such wordy summary. An archetypal mad scientist and his beautiful, intelligent daughter live in an ominous-looking house on the outskirts of their village, when an Oxford gentleman arrives to shake things up a bit. Of course, the village is awash with whisperings about what is really going on… though it's the gargoyles that guard the old house who are the greatest gossipers! Spooky, anarchic, and physical, the plot was also unexpectedly moving, as a dance sequence involving the mad professor and his long-deceased wife turned out to be.
Slapstick, dance, magical illusion and inspired interaction with an effective set meant the play was visually compelling even without the verbal wit, live music, and surreal humour that accompanied the more physical side of things. The three actors handled over twenty characters and fast paced action with good humour and boundless enthusiasm, which meant the audience soon warmed to them – cheering when the odd mishap was overcome by in-character improvisation and, at times, brute force. The occasional piece of planned audience participation was equally well received, particularly one in which we found ourselves at the centre of a village AGM, inadvertently voting on how to handle these mysterious goings on, and the superb, melodramatic fanale was a fitting end to a thoroughly enjoyable piece of theatre.
It turns out Is That A Bolt In Your Kneck is my kind of spoof gothic horror. There's a pleasing emphasis on the comedy, and no actual blood. I'll be first in line for the next Gonzo Moose production and, though there's rather more of the red stuff involved, I suppose Shaun of the Dead is on the cards for tonight's entertainment.