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The Best & Next Department of the Enoch Pratt Free Library owns a number of obscure and hard-to-find film titles in its 16mm film collection. Many of these titles are not available in other media formats. Some highlights are listed below:
Antonio Das Mortes (O Dragão da Maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro, 1969) dir. Glauber Rocha
This example of Brazil's Cinema Novo is a folk-epic period piece about a Brazil that no longer exists. And this 16mm copy is one of the few prints that exist of a film that is domestically unavailable on video or DVD. The movie, also known as O Dragão da Maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro, is
the sequel to God and the Devil in the Land of the Sun (Deus e o diabo na terra do sol), and takes place 29 years after Antonio das Mortes (Mauricio do Valle) killed Corisco (the "Blond Devil"), last of the Cangaceiros. In "the
old days", Antonio's function in life was exterminate these bandits, on account of his personal grudges against them. His life had been meaningless for the last 29 years, but now, a new challenge awaits him. When a Cangaceiro appears in Jardim
Das Piranhas, the local Land Baron (Jofre Soares), an old man, does what seems obvious to him: he calls Antonio das Mortes, killer of Cangaceiros. At first, Antonio is ecstatic. His life has gained new meaning. But soon it becomes obvious that
this new Cangaceiro (named Coirana) is no Corisco, but an idealist. An idealist of the sixties in the garb of the forties. A leader to the hopeless and the hungry. Antonio das Mortes begins to reconsider his feelings towards Coirana and his followers.
Music by Marlos Nobre and the Folk Group of Minas. In Portuguese with English subtitles. Awards: Glauber Rocha won Best Director at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival and Antonio Das Mortes was nominated for the Golden Palm at Cannes the same
year. (Glauber Rocha, Brazil, 1969, 100 minutes, color, 16mm)Check this item in our catalog
Braverman's Condensed Cream of Beatles (1973) dir. Charles Braverman An award-winning history of the Beatles and the 1960's from the flip, exuberant, youthful days to the sober, socially conscious end of the
decade is seen in a fast moving collage of still pictures, films clips, works of art, and album covers accompanied by the innovative music of the British quartet. Excerpts from their films are also effectively intercut, presenting the spirit of
the Beatles, the spirit of the times and the lasting imprint of life and culture made by this remarkable group of musicians. Awards: Atlanta Film Festival, Academy Award (Oscar).(Charles Braverman, 1973, 17 minutes, color, 16mm)Check this item in our catalog
Broken Strings (1940) dir. Bernard B. Ray
Baltimore's own Clarence Muse stars as a musician who, because of an injury, can no longer play the violin. This is an example of a non-Hollywood production made with a black cast for black theater circuits in the days of segregation. (L.C. Borden,
1940, 57 minutes, 16mm)Check this item in our catalog
Daybreak Express (1953) dir. D. A. Pennebaker
This is the first film made by cinema verite documentarian D. A. Pennebaker (Don't Look Back ). Set to the music of Duke Ellington's "Daybreak Express," it records a ride on New York City's 3rd Avenue elevated railway. This short played
prior to the British comedy film The Horse's Mouth (1958) during its theatrical run and is included on the Criterion Collection DVD of that film. (D.A. Pennebaker, 1953, 5 minutes, 16mm)Check this item in our catalog
De Duva (The Dove) (1968) dir. George Coe & Anthony Lover
Nominated for an Oscar (Best Short Subject - Live Action) in 1969, this short parodies three of Ingmar Bergman's films - Wild Strawberries, The Seventh Seal, and The Silence.
It also marked the first film role of Madeline Kahn. Speaking in mock Swedish, with English subtitles, a retired physicist with a hernia recalls, while sitting in an outhouse, a garden party he
attended as a youth. In a game of badminton rather than chess, Death loses his intended victim because of a hilarious obstacle - a dirty pigeon. Director George Coewas one of the original cast
members on the first three episodes of Saturday Night Live. And script writer Sid Davis, who also plays the role of Death, is perhaps best known as a director/producer of educational safety
films. (George Coe and Anthony Lover, 1968, 15 minutes, b&w, 16mm)Check this item in our catalog
Deafula (1975) dir. Peter Weschberg Long out of print, Deafula was the world's only movie filmed entirely in "Sign-Scope." Director Peter Weschberg
stars as Count Dracula in this film made for the deaf and hearing-impaired that is told entirely through sign-language. Long out-of-print, it is available for rental in 16mm film format through Enoch Pratt Free Library's Audio-Visual Department.
See Mike White's review and interview with producer Gary Holstrom in Cashiers du Cimemart . (Peter Weschberg, 1975, 95
minutes, b&w, 16mm)Check this item in our catalog
Falstaff (Chimes At Midnight) (1965) dir. Orson Welles
Chimes at Midnight (aka Falstaff) is a 1965 Spanish-French-Swiss co-production directed by Orson Welles that is based on the Shakespeare character Sir John Falstaff. The script contains text from five Shakespeare plays: primarily
Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2, but also Richard II, Henry V, and The Merry Wives of Windsor. The film's narration, spoken by Ralph Richardson, is taken from the chronicler Holinshed. The cast
includes Welles himself as Falstaff, Keith Baxter as Hal, Sir John Gielgud as Henry IV, Jeanne Moreau as Doll Tearsheet, and Margaret Rutherford as Mistress Quickly.
Along with The Trial, Welles considered this his best work, saying "If I wanted to get into heaven on the basis of one movie, that's the one I'd offer up." Many critics, including Peter Bogdanovich and Jonathan Rosenbaum, consider it Welles's
finest work and one of the best-ever Shakespeare film adaptations. The gory Battle of Shrewsbury scene in particular has been widely admired, serving as inspiration for movies like Braveheart and Saving Private Ryan. But due to complications concerning the film's ownership, Welles' classic remains unavailable in the United States;
it is currently available only as an import DVD from Brazil.
Awards: In 1966, Welles was nominated for the Golden Palm Award at the Cannes Film Festival and won that festival's 20th Anniversary Prize and the Technical Grand Prize. In Spain, the film won the 1966 Citizens Writers Circle Award for Best Film and
in 1968 Welles was nominated for the UK's BAFTA film award as Best Foreign Actor. (Orson Welles, 1965, Spain-France-Switzerland, 115 minutes, b&w, 16mm)Check this item in our catalog
FILM (1965) dir. Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett's FILM is a 20-minute, almost totally silent
film (no dialogue or music one 'shhh!') in which Buster Keaton attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye. But, as the film is based around Bishop Berkeley's principle 'esse est percipi' (to be is to be perceived), Keaton's very existence
conspires against his efforts. (Samuel Beckett, 1965, 20 minutes, 16mm)Check this item in our catalog
Frank Film (1973) dir. Frank and Caroline Mouris Esteemed as "probably the most celebrated American short," Frank Film is a collection of 11,592
collages sequenced to illustrate the chronology of filmmaker Frank Mouris' life. Accompanied by two continuous narrative sound tracks played simultaneously, it provide a witty comment by a young filmmaker on his growing up in middle-class American
society. Spanning the years of 1945-1973, this short film goes beyond the story of one man's existence to become a collective autobiography of our time. 1974 Academy Award winner (Best Short Subject - Animated Films).
(Frank and Caroline Mouris, 1973, 9 minutes, color)Check this item in our catalog
Help! My Snowman's Melting Down (1964) dir. Carson Davidson In this Oscar-nominated satire on avant-garde surrealistic films (1965, Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects),
a beatnik in a homburg hat sits in a bathtub on a New York pier, typing on toilet paper and later fishing by casting his ring-baited line down the bath drain. When a female hand emerges from the drain, he paints one fingernail and it disappears.
When he opens a medicine cabinet, he finds another guy shaving on the other side. Eventually his bathtub sets sail in the harbour, only to encounter a toy sub in the film's climax. Pratt also owns another Oscar-nominated short by Carson Davidson,
3rd Ave. El . (Carson Davidson, 1964, 10 minutes, color, 16mm)Check this item in our catalog
Honeymoon Hotel (1971) dir. Tony Ganz and Rhody Streeter This humorous short film, originally broadcast on
The Great American Dream Machine television program, features interviews with newlyweds staying in an outrageously furnished hotel in America's honeymoon resort capital, The Poconos. The young married couples reveal their sense
of values as they extol the gauche pleasures of the hotel - complete with red velvet walls and heart-shaped bathtubs - as a realization of their material fantasies. (Tony Ganz and Rhody Streeter, 1971, 4 minutes, 16mm)Check this item in our catalog
The Hour of the Furnaces (La Hora de los Hornos) (1968) dir. Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino
This monumental three-part documentary comes on separate three reels totally 260 minutes and is in
Spanish with English subtitles. It uses Argentina as a model to describe the anti-colonialist struggles in Latin America. Part I: Neo-Colonialism and Violence (95 minutes) contains historic, geographic, and economic background
presented in a prologue and in thirteen separate film essays. Part II: An Act for Liberation (120 minutes) includes two presentations: Chronicle of Peronism, which uses newsreel and historical footage to study
the political career of Juan Peron from 1945 to 1955, and Chronicle of Resistance, which follows the Peronist movement after Peron's fall from power. Part III: Violence and Liberation (45 minutes) contains an
analysis of violence in mass revolutionary movements in Argentina and presents a call for participation in the national liberation effort there. According to allmovie.com reviewer
Brian Whitener, "Long withheld from American audiences, this biting Argentine documentary and founding text of the New Latin American Cinema movement examines and attacks the neo-colonialism of Europe and the United States from a Latin American
perspective. It is one of the single most important films from the 1960s and the tradition of critical cinema." Awards: Interfilm Award, Mannheim-Heidelberg International Filmfestival, 1968.
(Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino, Argentina, 1968, 260 minutes, 16mm) Check these items in our catalog: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Jazz Hoofer (1981) dir. William Hancock
This documentary film short contains the only known footage of legendary black tap dancer and Baltimore native Baby Laurence (born Laurence Jackson), including sequences shot in New York just before he died in 1974. In addition
to performances of his unique style, the film provides a history of tap with demonstrations of the steps used by other great tap dancers (including King Rastus Brown, Bill Robinson and John Bubbles), as well as rare film clips of Charlie Parker
and Art Tatum playing the music that inspired Laurence's tap-dancing style. (William Hancock, 1981, 30 minutes, 16mm)Check this item in our catalog
The Man Who Could Not See Far Enough (1981) dir. Peter Rose Experimental filmmaker Peter Rose (brother of animator Kathy Rose) uses literary, structural, autobiographical, and performance metaphors to construct
a series of tableaux that evoke the act of vision, the limits of perception, and the rapture of space. According to the filmmaker's website (www.peterrosepicture.com), this film features "spectacular
moving multiple images; a physical, almost choreographic sense of camera movement; and massive, resonant sound have inspired critics to call it 'stunning' and 'hallucinatory.' The film ranges in subject from a solar eclipse shot off the coast
of Africa to a hand-held filmed ascent of the Golden Gate Bridge, and moves, in spirit, from the deeply personal to the mythic." The Man Who Could Not See Far Enough has won awards at numerous festivals, including the Oberhausen, Edinburgh,
American, and Sydney Film Festivals, and is in collections at Centre Pompidou in Paris and at Image Forum in Tokyo. Pratt also owns Rose's Secondary Currents (1983,
19 minutes), an imageless film that looks at the nature of language. (Peter Rose, 1981, 33 minutes, 16mm)Check this item in our catalog
Marine Boy: The Mini Micro Wave (1968 or 1969) In this rare episode of the late '60s animated TV series, a wacky professor invents a dangerous microwave that makes everything
very small. Marine Boy goes to get that wave but is captured by the professor. Finally, some friends - a mermaid, a dolphine, a little boy - rescue him and all of them together destroy the professor and his invention. Marine Boy was known as Kaitei Shonen Marien (Marine The Sea Bottom Boy) in Japan. 78 episodes were produced by Minoru Adachi through K Fujita Associates Inc and released by Japan Tele Cartoons between 1966-1967and Seven Arts Television world-wide between 1968-1969. Marine Boy's voice was by Corrine Orr,
also know for her work on Speed Racer as the voice of Trixie, Spritle and all females on that show. She is also the voice of Snuggle, the fabric softener bear. Peter Fernandez (the voice of Speed and Racer X on Speed Racer)
played Marine Boy's father, as well as many villains on the show. He also wrote the words to the classic theme song "Go, Speed Racer,Go!") (1968 or 1969, 23 minutes, 16mm)Check this item in our catalog
Music! (1968) dir. James Archibald
New Architect In Town (1972) dir. George Gipe and George Udel
This is an extremely rare film by two Baltimore film legends, George Gipe and George Udel. George Gipe (1933-1986) was a screenwriter most famous for co-writing the Steve Martin comedies Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) and The Man with Two Brains (1983). George Udel (1916-1999) was active in the Baltimore film community, founding the Baltimore Film Forum as well as the "Cinema Sundays" series at the Charles Theatre, where his portrait hangs in
the theatre lobby. Catalog description of New Architect In Town: "A fresco of Best and Next recalls the city as it was meant to be - a friendly and attractive place for commerce and social life. This is shattered with scenes of lawlessness
and violence and the city's architecture becomes a fortress. Final scenes of forgotten and neglected structures suggest a possible apocalyptic future." (George Gipe and George Udel, 1972, 8 minutes, 16mm)Check this item in our catalog
Precious Images (1986) dir. Chuck Workman
In this Academy Award-winning film (Best Short Film, Live Action, 1986), director Chuck Workman presents the greatest scenes from 50 years of film - from Citizen Kane to Star Wars – in six breakneck minutes of skillful editing. The incredible short cuts of roughly a second each push the audience into a kind of trance and take them on a journey into their individual memories of great films of half a
century. Workman's annual montages are often the visual highlight of each year's Academy Awards telecast. Precious Images went on to become the most widely-viewed short appearing in schools, museums, film festivals and movie theaters
worldwide. Precious Images is one of five Workman films in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York. (Chuck Workman, 1986, 6 minutes, b&w and color, 16mm)Check this item in our catalog
Rendezvous (1976) dir. Claude Lelouche Few films are as steeped in myth as this 9-minute adrenalin-fueled speed race by Claude Lelouche (Un Homme et Une Femme).
Mounting a point-of-view camera on the front of the car, Lelouche takes viewers on a wild high-speed drive through the streets of Paris - all filmed without special effects, sped-up film or blocked-off streets. A favorite of the editors of Car
& Driver magazine ("better than any chase ever filmed, because it's real"). Also known as C'etait un Rendez-vous. (Claude Lelouche, 1976, 9 minutes, color, 16mm)Check this item in our catalog
Replay (1970) dir. Robert Deugel
This film by Robert Duebel makes the point that history repeats itself and that change is often merely a "replay" of past events. As middle-aged speakers berate the current trends in fashion, dance and entertainment, Duebel uses archival film
and photographs of 1920s dance marathons, flapper fashions, early suffragettes, and Pre-Code silent screen stars to point out that the styles and attitudes of yesteryear were just as outlandish and that the Generation Gap may actually be a Generation
Link. But what makes this film most memorable is the title song "Replay"; c
omposer Charles Strouse re-used the melody with new lyrics 12 years later as "Tomorrow" in the musical
Annie (1982). (Robert Duebel, 1970, 8 minutes, 16mm)Check this item in our catalog
Report, 1964-1965 (1967) dir. Bruce Conner
In a work of memory, affection, and grief, filmmaker Bruce Conner uses experimental techniques, such as stop-action newsreel footage, numbered leader, television commercials, and a scene from Frankenstein, to record the assassination
of President Kennedy, and to protest the exploitation of his death and the violence of the times in which he lived. Between 1963 and 1967, this film went through seven transformations (Pratt's print is a version from 1967), and
in 2005 Conner transferred the film to digital for yet another version. (Bruce Conner, 1965, 13 minutes, b&w, 16mm)Check this item in our catalog
The Rite of Love and Death (1967) dir. Yukio Mishima
This is Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima's screen adaptation of his short story Patriotism (Yukoku). The story is based on an actual incident which took place in 1936 when a young Japanese lieutenant and a group of fellow
officers initiated a coup d'etat. The coup failed its immediate objectives and the hero commited seppuku (hara kiri). The short story concerns itself with the lieutenant after he returns home to his young bride. Because the coup
has failed, he must, as a member of the palace guard, execute his friends. Rather than do this, he decides to commit suicide. His wife readily agrees to kill herself also. The film follows the lieutenant and his wife as they eat, and make love
for the last time. As the wife looks on, the lieutenant then commits seppuku. His wife writes her last note and cuts her throat. With Yukio Mishima as the lieutenant, and Yoshiko Tsuruoka as his wife. Without narration or dialogue. Containing
graphic depictions of suicide, this film is recommended for adult audiences. (Yukio Misima, 1967, 29 minutes, b&w, 16mm)Check this item in our catalog
Stan VanDerBeek Films
Columbia, Maryland-native Stan VanDerBeek was an American experimental filmmaker who
ran the
University of Maryland Baltimore County'sVisual Arts program until his death in 1984.
His early works featured cut-up collage animation techniques that evoked the spirit of surrealism and dadaism, but with an ironic sense of humor more akin to the Beat Generation (they were also a major influence on Terry Gilliam's work with the
British comedy troupe Monty Python). By the end of the 1960s, he branched into exploring computer animated films and holographic experiments. VanDerBeek's films are very hard to find. Pratt owns four VanDerBeek films on 16mm.
The Star-Spangled City: Our Baltimore (1978) dir. Vincent Dantini
This labor of love was directed, produced and narrated by hometown history buff and magician Vincent Dantini (his business card said "Dantini - He Knew Houdini!"), who passed away in 1979. It was the Fells Point resident's fourth
and final film and Dantini rented out the 13,500-seat Baltimore Civic Center (what today is the 1st Mariner Arena) for its 1978 premiere. Besides featuring guest appearances by Blaze Starr, City Councilman Mimi DiPietro, and Mayor William Donald
Schaefer, it also offered a look at one of the earliest Baltimore City Fairs. There are two print versions in Pratt's archives - a 27-minute one-reeler and an hour-length two-reeler print, the latter managing to capture a fire in the background
while Dantini is touring the Inner Harbor! (Dantini Films, 1978, 27 minutes, color, 16mm)Check this item in our catalog
Stoned: An Anti-Drug Film (edited version) (1980) dir. Jack Herzfeld
Scott Baio (Chachi of Happy Days and Charles of Charles In Charge) stars as Jack Melon, a bespectacled, pocket protector-toting high school misfit who is too shy to form any meaningful relationships with his peers in this edited
version of the 1980 ABC Afterschool Special. Living in the shadow of his popular jock brother, "Melonhead" Jack starts smoking pot and suddenly turns into a confident alter ego he dubs "Super Jack." It takes a terrifying brush with tragedy
for Super Jack to see the dangers of smoking marijuana. (Jack Herzfeld, 1980, 30 minutes, 16mm film)Check this item in our catalog
Study in Wet (1964) dir. Homer Groening
This is a film by Homer Groening, father of Simpsons creator Matt Groening. Unlike the dim-witted Homer depicted in The Simpsons, Matt Groening's real father was
a multifaceted artist and filmmaker who specialized in surfing movies. Everything in this film is literally wet, as Groening captures the sounds and pictures of water at rare moments, including views of gigantic waves, Monet-like reflections,
a crying girl's tears, goldfish trapped in a diving mask, and of divers and surfers flying into the water. The music, by Maurice Engleman, is made entirely of water sounds from a dripping faucet. Like his famous son, Homer Groening was also a
cartoonist, as well as an advertising pioneer, museum founder, filmmaker and war hero. He passed away in March 1995. (Homer Groening, 1964, 7 minutes, color, 16mm) Check this item in our catalog
Super Artist, Andy Warhol (1967) dir. Bruce Torbet
This short documentary - filmed at The Factory at the height of Warhol's popularity - is virtually unknown and rarely seen, though footage from it appears in Ric Burns' 2006 documentary feature film Andy Warhol. Director Bruce Torbet follow
a surprisingly relaxed and open Andy Warhol, at the peak of his powers in 1965 and 1966, around his bustling original "Factory" in midtown Manhattan. Warhol experiments with an early videotape machine, recording Edie Sedgwick - his "superstar"
of the moment - for the video portion of Outer and Inner Space, his filmed record of the "live" Sedgwick juxtaposed against her video image on an adjacent monitor. Also captured is a Warhol show
at the Leo Castelli gallery, including the famous Mylar "Clouds," as various unnamed art dealers and critics muse in voiceover about the meaning and significance of Warhol's work. Also known as Superartist. (Bruce Torbet, 1965, 22 minutes,
16mm)Check this item in our catalog
Time Piece (1965) dir. Jim Henson
Not available in any other format (VHS, DVD) but this 16mm print. This
early live-action film produced by and starring Jim Hensen (of Muppets fame) documents a day in the live of one man in the urban rat race. While he is in a hospital bed, the typical day of a young executive flashes before his eyes. Realistic scenes
cut to wild dream sequences that comment on the reality they interpret. Muppets fans will notice appearances by regular Henson collaborators Jerry Juhl, Don Sahlin, Diana Birkenfield, and Frank Oz (then Frank Oznowicz). Nominated for an Oscar
(Best Short Subject – Live Action) in 1966. Produced by Jim Henson, photographed by Ted Nemeth with music by Don Sebesky. (Jim Hensen, 1965, 9 minutes, color, 16mm)Check this item in our catalog
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UK should welcome US President Donald Trump, he's not as bad as Jacob Zuma or Hillary Clinton
US President Donald Trump will visit the UK next year, but outraged leftist imbeciles are not happy about it and are planning to protest. But where were these furious protesters when Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah or South Africa's Jacob Zuma were given full state visits to our country?
THE big day is coming and the children are already getting very, very excited.
No, not Christmas. I mean the visit to our country of US President Donald Trump. It's going to happen, early in the new year.
And by children, I mean the hundred thousand or so petulant, intellectually challenged, perpetually outraged leftist imbeciles. They are planning mass protests. They are getting themselves worked up into a right old state. Tears before bedtime, once again. Horribly full nappies. Jam smeared on the wallpaper.
When it was first suggested that Trump should come here, they started screaming and threw all their toys out of the pram. Some British politicians — to their enormous discredit — actually listened to this caterwauling.
They even had a debate about whether Trump should be allowed here.
I wouldn't have blamed the President if he'd told Parliament to get stuffed. But he didn't.
We've heard the same bleating before, of course. When the Tories won the 2015 election, for example, they were out on the streets. And best of all when we voted Leave in the referendum last year. Oooh, I could hear the screams of rage all the way from my gaff in Teesside.
And now because Americans voted in a way of which they disapprove. That's the thing about these idiots. They cannot abide democracy.
When people vote the way they don't want, they shriek and stamp their feet. And wander off on demos which block the streets of London.
They cannot imagine that people dare to think differently to themselves. They think it should be stopped! Right! Now! Or I'll cwwwyyyyyyyyyyy all night!
I'm no great fan of Donald Trump — although he's infinitely preferable to that aloof and devious waxwork, Hillary Clinton.
But of course he should come here. In my view, he should have a full state visit.
He's the president of the most powerful country in the world. Our closest ally. Our closest friends. The country we depend upon for our safety and a lot of our trade.
We will need the US even more after Brexit. And in Trump we have a friend who was in favour of Brexit and who said he would put us at the front of the queue for a trade deal.
The hopeless and arrogant Barack Obama said he would put us last.
And the double standards of these protesters is truly gobsmacking.
Look at some of the people who HAVE been afforded full state visits recently.
King Abdullah of that bastion of democracy and human rights, Saudi Arabia. Jacob Zuma, the deeply corrupt scumbag who leads South Africa.
The leaders of the Islamic slave state, the United Arab Emirates. The other horrible Muslim slave state out there, Qatar.
Were there protests on any of those occasions? Nope, not a sign. Nothing.
And yet a democratically elected politician who leads the world's greatest nation and has a historic relationship with the UK — that's when the screaming starts.
These infants need to be told that they are in a tiny minority. They count for nothing. And that they cannot get their way. A sharp smack on the backside and sent straight up to bed without seeing In The Night Garden.
And welcome, President Trump. We may have one or two differences, sure. And we can talk about them.
But welcome, and don't let the screaming toddlers get you down.
The big problem with the John Lewis ad
THAT John Lewis ad has just finished BOTTOM of the top ten of Christmas commercials. Despite the fact that it was one of the most expensive to make.
That Aldi thing with the slightly spooky carrots came in first.
Shall I tell you why nobody likes the John Lewis ad? Because it is cringingly, horribly politically correct.
And most British people are kinda sick of that stuff, OK?
Jailing is bananas
POUTY Egyptian singer Shaimaa Ahmed is beginning a two-year prison sentence in her native country.
She's been accused of outraging public decency and encouraging debauchery.
What did she did do? She made a pop video in which she ate a banana.
Apparently, watching women eat bananas sends Arab men berserk with desire. Should have chosen a pineapple, love.
But not a plum – I think they're on the banned list, too.
Don't you kind of hope Rita Ora tours Egypt sometime soon? I suspect she'd get life.
More leftie nonsense
MATHS is racist, according to a dingbat professor in the US.
According to Rochelle Gutierrez of Illinois: "Who gets credit for doing and developing mathematics, who is capable in mathematics and who is seen as part of the mathematical community is generally viewed as white."
Right-o. Maybe we should ban it, then.
Still, at least this kind of idiocy gives me the chance to show my favourite little online picture meme. It should be used every time this sort of stupidity does the rounds.
Couldn't be Mour wrong
I AM trying to think of a word to encapsulate Jose Mourinho. And it's very difficult, in a nice family newspaper.
I have the feeling, for example, that w**kpuffin won't get past the editor. (You're right about that – Ed).
Anyway, Jose's latest little hissy fit came after his Man Utd side had been stuffed at home by Manchester City.
He allegedly hammered on the City changing room door and told them to stop celebrating. A fight ensued.
Why shouldn't the City players celebrate? If I'd been in a team which had just humbled Mourinho I'd have been dancing around with a grin the length of Ronaldo's neck.
And that's the other thing. The Portuguese aren't very likeable, are they? Although I suppose it's wrong to dismiss an entire country on account of just two people.
I suppose there must be nice ones, somewhere.
Probably in Portugal – they export all the w**kpuffins.
Red card for Labour
STILL more anti-Semitism in the Labour Party.
Both Jeremy Corbyn and the sinister John McDonnell turned up to the launch of a new Labour group – Labour Muslim Network.
Why they need their own chapter I haven't a clue. But Jezza and McDonnell posed alongside a bloke called Ali Milani, who has sent plenty of anti-Semitic tweets and messages.
And he believes Israel has no right to exist.
Incidentally, Labour recently sent foreign spokesperson Emily Thornberry to the Middle East. Yes, I know, just what the area needs. And she went to Israel. Guess who she didn't talk to in Israel?
Yes, that's right, anyone who runs the place.
Can't even bring themselves to talk to the government of a Nato friend and ally.
More than happy to talk to the Palestinians.
Martian fear is a c-rock
YIKES! A long, thin, cigar-shaped thing is moving through space at 198,000 miles per hour.
And some serious scientists – including Stephen Hawking – reckon it could be an alien spaceship.
Probably full of weird, purple, tentacle things heading to Earth for Meghan and Harry's wedding.
I've had a look at photos of this "spacecraft".
And it resembles, to me, a long piece of space rock which has recently snapped off a much bigger piece of space rock.
There is no life out there. Nothing.
We would have known by now if there were.
There are no Martians, no Klingons, no Vulcans.
The only life in the universe is us.
And seeing what a mess we're making of the place, that's probably a good thing.
Snow problem for kids
A FEW inches of snow and the schools close down. Incredible, isn't it? And that means people not being able to go to work.
That little cold snap reportedly cost the country a billion quid. I used to love going to school when there was snow about. I liked making treacherous slides in the ice, just outside the staff room door.
And hurling snowballs at the fat kids. Easier to hit than the thin kids, you see. All these pleasures denied to our children.
No wonder they're growing up super-sensitive.
Stripping yarns?
SO, now cyclist Chris Froome OBE is facing hard questions for having had an "adverse" result on a drugs test.
He allegedly tested positive for some concoction which relieves asthma.
It was also a treatment for asthma which got Bradley Wiggins into a spot of bother. Sorry, SIR Bradley Wiggins.
You'd think that cycling was one of the last sports you'd take up if you had trouble struggling for breath, wouldn't you?
But then you read the small print inside these treatments and it says: "Side effects – if convicted of wrongly using this medicine it may cause you to have your Tour De France title stripped."

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US president Donald Trump has called for Russia to be reinstated to the G7.
Mr Trump told reporters ahead of the meeting of major industrialised nations in Quebec: "Russia should be in the meeting, should be a part of it."
Russia was ousted from the elite group - then known as the G8 - in 2014 as punishment for Russian president Vladimir Putin's annexation of Crimea and its support for pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine.
Read more: Donald Trump hits back at Trudeau and Macron's criticism of trade tariffs.
The suspension was supported by the other members of the group, including the US, Canada, Japan and four European nations.
US special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating whether Trump associates colluded with Russia in a bid to sway the 2016 presidential election in Mr Trump's favour.


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Accession Number : ADA259387
Title : Assessment of Single-Pulse Laser Damage to Structural Materials for Spacecraft,
Corporate Author : NAVAL RESEARCH LAB WASHINGTON DC
Personal Author(s) : Stonesifer, F. R. ; Randles, P. W. ; Nemes, J. A.
Report Date : 24 DEC 1992
Pagination or Media Count : 27
Abstract : Laser radiation damage to structural or shielding materials can occur by several quite different mechanisms. For continuous-wave and repetitively-pulsed radiation, the damage has been found to be primarily thermal. However, for a single laser pulse of very high intensity and short duration, spalling and mechanical damage become the principal failure mechanism and time does not allow extensive thermal degradation. In exposure of opaque materials to a high-energy short-duration laser pulse, an expanding plasma is formed on the material surface and a mechanical pulse is transmitted into the remaining target material. This compression wave, attenuated by the target material, reflects off the free or low impedance boundary at the back surface as a tension wave. If conditions are favorable, both front and back faces may spall causing complete penetration of the material. The magnitude of the dynamic stress pulse is dependent on intensity, wave length, and pulse duration as well as the target-material properties and thickness. A discussion of pressure/impulse, wave attenuation, and spallation is presented. Equations are developed. Experimental data available in the literature, from both flyer-plate and laser shock tests, are plotted and compared for various classes of thin structural materials.... Laser damage, Single-pulse shock, Spacecraft materials, Spallation.
Descriptors : *LASER DAMAGE, *MATERIALS, *PULSES, *RADIATION, *SPACECRAFT, *STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS, ATTENUATION, BOUNDARIES, COMPRESSION, CONTINUOUS WAVES, DAMAGE, DEGRADATION, DYNAMICS, ENERGY, EQUATIONS, EXPERIMENTAL DATA, FAILURE, FLYER PLATES, HIGH ENERGY, HIGH INTENSITY, IMPEDANCE, INTENSITY, LASERS, LENGTH, PENETRATION, PLATES, PRESSURE, RADIATION DAMAGE, SHIELDING, SHOCK, SHOCK TESTS, SPALLATION, SURFACES, TARGETS, TENSION, TEST AND EVALUATION, THERMAL DEGRADATION, THICKNESS, TIME, PLASMAS(PHYSICS), WAVES, STRESSES, HYDRODYNAMICS.
Subject Categories : LASERS AND MASERS
Distribution Statement : APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE


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I offer individuals and couples a counselling relationship where you can safely explore and negotiate your past, present and future. I aim to enable you to make sense and meaning of your experiences, develop insight and new ways to adjust and move forward.
Hello my name is Nic.
I am a qualified integrative counsellor working with individuals and couples. I offer brief and longer-term counselling to suit your needs.
Through my work in counselling agencies in the West Midlands and Warwickshire, I am experienced in counselling a wide range of concerns including:
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I specialise in working with clients who want to improve their relationships, reduce anxiety and stress. I believe through a therapeutic relationship we all have the potential to increase self-awareness and create change in our lives. By exploring unhelpful feelings and thoughts you can improve your general mental health and well-being. The person-centred approach, is the foundation of how I work and I integrate a variety of CBT and Psychodynamic interventions based on evidence-based research of what works in therapy.
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How to Effectively Serve a Table in a Restaurant
Have you ever gone to restaurant to sit down and relax for a nice meal, only to leave in frustration because the server had provide terrible service? Serving tables can be difficult if I do not complete stages of greeting, taking orders, preparation, delivering service, and presenting the bill. I keep these stages in a structured order and pay attention to what I am doing. As a result, my customers leave happy and I feel proud of the work I did. The following process is what I do consistently when serving a table.
The first stage involves greeting the customer. I greet the customer with a smile and tell them my name. I hand them menus and tell them the daily specials. I ask them if they would like anything to drink right away and list the drinks available if asked. I write down the order and tell them that I will get the drinks right away. I go to the bar and give the bartender the drink order. Then I go to the computer and start a bill for my customers. When I am done with that, I get the drinks from the bar and deliver them to the table.
The second stage is to take the customer's food order. I ask if they are ready to place the order, writing down the order as they speak and gathering the menus as customers finish with their request. I repeat back the order when it is finished. This ensures that I have written everything correctly before I proceed with the third stage, preparing the order.
When the customer confirms the order sounds right, I tell them that I will have it prepared right away. I head to the kitchen and give the cooks my order. If the order has salad or soup requests, I prepare them myself at the designated station. I get the soup and salad ready for delivery on a serving tray. I gather wrapped silverware and breadbaskets, placing them on the tray with the soup and salad. I am now ready to begin the fourth stage.
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We're waiting to hear what the injury news is on Carolina's Elias Lindholm, as he left Thursday night's game against the Bruins with a lower-body injury. The Hurricanes haven't been able to update anyone, as of yet, on the severity of the injury or his status for tomorrow afternoon's affair with the Rangers, but he'll be listed as day-to-day, if there is no update and he misses the game.
For Troy, it sounds like he's getting the goon squad together for a big throw down. Rumour has it, he'll be looking to move another player in the injured player bonus round of the Waiver Draft, if we can get there. If Lindholm is indeed hurt and misses Saturday's game, he would be eligible to be dropped.
We are also awaiting a little more word on the injury that occurred to Detroit forward Justin Abdelkader, as he suffered a lower-body injury as well, in the game against the Florida Panthers on Thursday night. The Red Wings have already come out and said that the bang-and-crash forward will not be available for Saturday's game in Pittsburgh, but he is listed as day-to-day right now.
Now, if Derek B. wanted to throw his hat in the ring here, he certainly would be eligible to do so. Abdelkader hasn't been the PIM machine that he was last year, as the Red Wings really needed him on the ice, instead of in the box. His 8 points in 22 games isn't anything to really boast about either.


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Damien had respect for every person. At Molokai he took care of everybody: also of non-believers. Damien Foundation does likewise. Respect for all patients Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, non-believers, young or old, of rank or position…. Damien Foundation cures everyone with the same attention and without charging. Besides this we also take care of the human being behind the patient. Wherever needed, we take care of the education, housing, schooling of their children and social (re)integration of people affected by leprosy. Respect for all local staff In the countries where Damien Foundation manages projects, it works almost exclusively with local personnel; from drivers to surgeons, to nurses and physiotherapists. We invest in their training and a decent salary so that they can perform their roles in an optimal way. Respect for all volunteers A volunteer is someone who participates for either two hours a year, or someone who helps weekly: we appreciate both equally. People who devote themselves unpaid to a good cause like the Damien Foundation are worthy of every respect.
Chaos at Molokai, quarrels with his superiors, lack of money and tools…: nothing could stop Damien. He is an example to the staff of Damien Foundation, who often continue where others would give up. Never give up Famine, floods, war, political chaos, extreme drought ... sometimes the situation seems 'hopeless'. However, our local staff keep devoting themselves to helping people - even if they have to go into the farthest corners of the country and the most inaccessible regions. To the last The burden of leprosy has already been reduced considerably, but Damien Foundation will continue the fight until the last patient will have been cured. Only with this attitude, will we discover the last focus of leprosy in the world. This is also the only way to counter the spread of TB. Tenacious volunteers Our volunteers in Belgium also show tremendous perseverance. Some people have dedicated more than 50 years' service to Damien Foundation; that is without salary, on an entirely voluntary basis.
Damien felt happiest when he could collaborate. Damien Foundation draws its strength from intensive collaboration with volunteers, local staff, countries and organisations. Volunteers and ambassadors Every year, thousands of volunteers go out onto the streets for Damien Foundation. They sell markers and raise money. Famous people in Belgium act as our ambassadors.
Stronger together… Schools, youth movements and parishes are committed to Damien Foundation. Media report on 'project discovery visits'. Gospel concerts reach thousands of people. Enterprises encourage their employees to develop fundraising activities. A bundled force makes the difference.
Boundless commitment A surgeon from Damien Foundation in India exchanges his knowledge with a colleague from Congo. But also the Congolese 'Club of Damien friends', ex-patients who refer new patients... the solidarity engendered through Damien Foundation is boundless.
Not alone in the world Damien Foundation closely collaborates with international organizations to fight against TB and leprosy, but also with local governments, scientific institutions and local NGO's.
Damien found his inspiration in his religion. Many collaborators of Damien Foundation find inspiration in the figure of Damien, but also in Raoul Follereau, "lawyer of the lepers" and in Dr. Frans Hemerijckx, "doctor of the lepers"
Raoul Follereau was a French journalist, philosopher, lawyer and writer who will be remembered as the chief founder of World Leprosy Day.
Frans Hemerijckx was a specialist in tropical medicine from Ninove (Belgium), who introduced mobile care and aftercare of people affected by leprosy.
Inspired staff Our local staff draw courage from the thankful eyes of their patients, from the idea that they can cure patients and from their collaboration with colleagues.
Inspired volunteers And the many volunteers? They get their energy from every single marker they sell, from the enthusiasm of the young sellers, from every single person, who is convinced of the importance of solidarity.


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Friday, July 20, 2018 1:45PM / NSE
Med-View Airline Plc (the Company) is pleased to formally inform shareholders and other stakeholders that the Company received as promised, a B777-20oER aircraft for its operations. The aircraft is a long-range wide-body twin-engine and it is the world's largest twin-jet with a seating capacity of 323 passengers.
The Board and Management of our Company recognize the need to add a modern aircraft to its fleet and having been appointed by the National Hajj Commission to airlift intending pilgrims to the Holy Land for pilgrimage. The Company will use the B777-20oER to execute the Hajj operation which is scheduled to commence on Saturday, 21 July 2018, and Med-View will inaugurate its other operations on Tuesday, 24 July 2018. The airline will be airlifting pilgrims from six (6) locations; Lagos, Kaduna, Kano, Maiduguri, Ilorin and Port-Harcourt.
The aircraft will also be utilized for the existing international routes and readily available for our planned route expansion program. It should also be noted that some aircrafts in the Company's fleet (8737-500) and (8767-30oER), which are on scheduled maintenance and cabin reconfiguration are still being expected and Management is not resting on the achievement of the B777-20oER and is expending more resources to take delivery of these aircrafts.
The Management reassures the entire public that the airline is repositioning to be the best Nigerian airline and their safety and comfort onboard our flights are being considered in actualizing this mandate. The Company will continue to take giant strides to ensure that best exemplary services are offered in the aviation industry.
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Between 1917 and 1937, four methods for producing physiological shock were discovered, tested, and used in psychiatric practice for treating psychosis: fever, insulin-induced coma, medication-induced convulsions, and electrically induced convulsions (electroconvulsive therapy). In the Western world, only electroconvulsive therapy remains as a standard and effective treatment for psychiatric conditions (APA, 1998). First, malaria-induced fever was used to treat neurosyphillitic paresis. Later, insulin-induced coma was used to treat schizophrenia. Also, von Meduna noticed a "biological antagonism" between epilepsy and schizophrenia. The theory postulated that individuals with epilepsy were not likely to develop schizophrenia. This concept was later disproved. To treat schizophrenia/psychosis, von Meduna experimented with different drugs until he was able to obtain reliable convulsions with intravenous injection of pentamethylenetetrazol (or METRAZOL, a circulatory and respiratory stimulant) (von Meduna, 1937; Fink, 1984b). The seizures ensued quickly and violently. They caused spine fractures in a great number of patients. Later Bennett combined METRAZOL with curare and scopolamine to paralyze and sedate the patients (Bennett, 1994). In 1937, Cerletti and Bini applied transcranial electroconvulsive shock therapy to induce seizures safely and reliably (Bini, 1995). It was received with great enthusiasm given the remarkable therapeutic effects (in patients who now would most likely be classified as psychotically depressed) and the technical ease of administration compared to insulin or METRAZOL shock. Since then, ECT became the method of choice for convulsive therapy.
Over 60 years of experience have significantly improved this technique with the use of muscle relaxants, anesthesia with short-acting agents following preoxygenation of the brain, use of electroencephalography (EEG) seizure monitoring, and studies on optimal electrical stimulation parameters. The death rate, due primarily to cardiac arrhythmia, decreased from 0.1 percent in the 1950 to less than 2 for 100,000 ECT treatments (Abrams, 1997; Shiwach et al., 2002). One of the primary concerns with ECT remains the cognitive side effects (Sackeim, 2002). Patients do experience a variable degree of postictal confusion and retrograde amnesia with the procedure. These have been linked to electrode placement, intensity and waveform of stimulus, frequency of treatments, and underlying medical conditions (Sackeim et al., 1993). Although cognitive impairment is generally confined to information learned in the weeks surrounding ECT treatment itself, cognitive impairment has sometimes been reported several months after treatment. The capacity to learn and retain new information may be affected over these several months. There is no objective evidence that ECT has any long-term effect on the autobiographical memory (Lisanby et al., 2002). Structural brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies before and after ECT have also failed to show abnormalities attributed to the treatments (Devanand et al., 1994), nor changes in the hippocampal N-acetylaspartate signals (an indirect measure of neuronal integrity) (Ende et al., 2002).
Unlike the other contemporary somatic interventions, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) never approved ECT for clinical use since such regulations came into effect much later. The current indications, possible adverse effects, and recommendations for treatment procedures have been summarized in a task force report published by the American Psychiatric Association Committee on ECT (1990). ECT has a proven efficacy in a variety of neuropsychiatry conditions such as in depression (including psychotic depression), mania, schizophrenia and neuroleptic malignant syndrome.
The primary use for ECT is in treating depression when pharmacotherapy has failed or has not been tolerated. It has response rates reported in the range of 80 to 90 percent as a first-line treatment, and in the range of 50 to 60 percent for patients who have not responded to 1 or more trials of treatment with antidepressant drugs (Sackeim et al., 2002b). Right unilateral (UL) ECT has traditionally been thought to be less efficacious than bilateral (BL) ECT but with less cognitive side effects. In the last decade, however, high-intensity UL ECT [with 6 times (Sackeim et al., 2000) or 8 to 12 times (McCall et al., 2002) the initial seizure threshold] have proven to equal BL ECT with less cognitive side effects.
The FDA-approved devices in the United States are limited to 576 milliCoulombs (mC), which limits the clinical application of suprathreshold intensities. Higher intensities lead to higher rates of cognitive impairment. Researchers at Columbia University are investigating changing the electrical pulse being given with ECT. Namely, they are stimulating with ultrabrief waveforms, a closer pulse to brain physiology, which may help decrease cognitive side effects (Sackeim et al., 2002c).
Although an effective treatment for getting a person out of an acute depressive episode, Sackeim et al. (2002a) have demonstrated that most depressed subjects who respond to ECT will require some sort of maintenance therapy. Even with adequate pharmacotherapy, 39 percent of patients will relapse within 6 months. The use of intermittent ECT for continuation (C-ECT) or maintenance treatment may also be considered. Retrospective reports show noticeable functional and socioeconomic benefits with C-ECT. Prospective controlled studies are underway.
A limiting factor to clinical response with ECT, which now holds for most antide-pressant therapies (including TMS and VNS), is a history of treatment resistance or the number of prior treatment failures (Sackeim et al., 1992). Comorbid personality disorders are associated with a limited response as is outpatient ECT treatment.
In addition to depression, ECT has also been applied successfully in mania (Mil-stein et al., 1987) and schizophrenia (Tharyan et al., 2002). The concomitant use of neuroleptics has been found beneficial in some cases. Some are investigating whether ECT plays a neuroprotective role and leads to better prognosis if applied early in the course of illness, but this is currently unclear.
Electroconvulsive therapy has also been administered to treat psychiatric sequelae of a number of neurological disorders including depression secondary to a cerebral vascular accident, Parkinson disease, epilepsy and status epilepticus, multiple sclerosis, Huntington disease, tardive dyskinesia, and a few others (McDonald et al., 2002). Of these other disorders, the American Psychiatric Association has approved ECT only for Parkinson's disease and epilepsy although the clinical effects may not be long lived.
The ECT mechanisms of action have not been fully worked out (see Chapter 8). It was initially believed that a seizure with adequate quality and duration (a minimum of 25 sec) would reach into the diencephalic brain structures and stimulate the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis (Abrams et al., 1976). This in turn would release neuropeptides such as adreno-cortico-trophic hormone (ACTH), thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH), prolactin, vasopressin, and oxytocin (Nemeroff et al., 1991; Nakajima et al., 1989; Mathe et al., 1991). Contrary to this theory, parietal lead placement does not treat depression despite a surge in prolactin and oxytocin. Another old theory is that postictal delirium correlates with efficacy. This theory has also been abandoned.
It is now apparent that site of origination of the seizure is important in ECT treatment. Temporo-parietal lead placement, for example, does not treat depression (Bailine et al., 2001). Targeting a functional mood-regulating network (in the case of antidepressant effect) appears crucial to the efficacy of the procedure. Bilateral (BL) and right unilateral (UL) frontal placements are now the norm. More recently, informed by imaging work implicating the lateral and medial prefrontal cortex in mood regulation, researchers have applied the electrodes medially (approximately on the forehead above each eye) in a procedure labeled bifrontal ECT (BF). BF ECT has shown equal efficacy to BL ECT (both given at 1.5 times the seizure threshold), with BF having a slight cognitive/memory advantage as the electric current may spare the temporal lobes where the hippocampus is located (Bailine et al., 2002).
Some researchers have pointed out that the seizure itself is important in ECT's antidepressant effect (Krystal, 1998) since a failure to induce one is nontherapeutic. However, as will be developed below, data from TMS and VNS may argue against this principle. One working theory of the importance of seizures in ECT's antidepressant effect focuses on the dynamic interplay between the ictal and postictal phases. The placement of electrodes for inducing of a seizure, the ictal duration, intensity
(high-voltage spikes and waves), and coherence in ictal-EEG between right and left hemisphere are all important factors in ECT's efficacy (Fink et al., 1982; McCall et al., 1995). So are the stimulated compensatory mechanisms for stopping the seizure. A greater suppression of the postictal EEG has been shown to be a key factor. Fink and colleagues demonstrated a relationship between frontal delta activity and response to treatment (Fink, 1984a). Neuroimaging studies have also shed light on this dynamic interplay (Rosenberg et al., 1988; Nobler et al., 1999). Studies have shown an increase in cerebral blood flow (CBF) up to 300 percent of baseline values and in cerebral metabolic rate (CMR) up to 200 percent during the ictal period. In contrast, these measures decrease postictally (Nobler et al., 2001). In imaging studies, it has been found that the degree of prefrontal deactivation following ECT correlated with improvement. Even when imaged 2 months following ECT, the inverse correlation between frontal region low CBF and clinical improvement remains. This may appear counterintuitive as Nobler et al. (1999) showed that in a depressed untreated cohort, the CBF in anterior and deeper limbic regions is relatively lower than it is in healthy matched controls. This finding has now been replicated in many studies. The role of this shutdown effect in regulating mood remains to be determined.
Another theory by which ECT has been proposed to work is the anticonvulsant hypothesis (Post et al., 1986). It posits that enhanced transmission of inhibitory neurotransmitters [gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and endogenous opioids] constitutes the essential elements of ECT's therapeutic effect in mood disorders. However, how the anticonvulsant properties of ECT relate to the mechanisms of action of antidepressant drugs is still unknown.
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