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MADISON, WI (WSAU) - The Government Accountability Board predicted before the election there would be a 20% turnout. Actual turnout was a little over 19%.
Reid Magney from the G-A-B says they predict the elections by looking at history. "You look at the other races, going back, and they're in the neighborhood of 20, 19, 18 percent, so it's going to be around there."
Magney says they calculated the voter turnout using the votes cast for Supreme Court Justice, as that had the largest number of statewide voters.
The board doesn't keep track of statistics on local referendum issues and on local city, county, and town races. Magney says voter turnout locally will be determined on how important the race is to the people. "These are races that are for offices that are very close to the people. Each one of these races is it's own situation so you get people interested in those local things."
The G-A-B calculates voter turnout percentage on the number of eligible voters 18 and older. Magney says some clerks give a voter turnout number based on the number of registered voters, which has a smaller number of possible voters and reflects a higher percentage of those voters showing up to vote.


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Submitted by Rachelle | July 6 2013 | Permalink
I once had a foster dog who just did not grasp the concept of letting me know whenshe wanted to go outside - so my own dog would signal SHE wanted out, and would sit patiently on the patio while the foster did her business in the yard. Mira never did tell me when she wanted out - and lives happily now in her forever home....with a doggy door to the back yard, so she can come and go as she needs.
Submitted by Nick | July 6 2013 | Permalink
Claudia -- This is such a wonderful essay. I absolutely believe in dogs acting altruistically. My dogs have done exactly what you are describing for one another for the same reason. My German Shepherd Storm hated going out in the rain -- would wait as long as possible if it was a rainy siege. Our Tugg, a Smooth Fox Terrier, and Storm were great buddies. Tugg got a stomach bug and had to go out urgently in the middle of the night. It was truly a deluge outside and Tugg ran out to do his thing. Storm ran right out with him and stood by Tugg's side until he was finished. Then came right back in with him soaked to the skin. It was beautiful. Thanks for your lovely essay.
Submitted by Jennifer Hahn | July 8 2013 | Permalink
a doggy door is soooo what you need and a safe fence outside.
Submitted by Diane | July 9 2013 | Permalink
Ah, so sweet of Lola! I simply love the "Lassie" moment. You mentioned Lola, Kit, and Charlie as the three dogs at home. Now you've got me curious about Holly, Kit's sibling?
Submitted by Christine | July 9 2013 | Permalink
I also have three dogs (JRTs), and work from home. I understand about the constant letting them in, letting them out, etc. I have one particularly anxious dog who barks and whines a lot. I have to admit I've tuned him about a couple times as he was trying to tell me that my escape artist JRT had found a new way to get through the fence and escape. I've learned to listen to him.
Submitted by terry | July 12 2013 | Permalink
I once saw a card that rang so true. It said " A door is something a dog is always on the wrong side of" .
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Woods' absence will leave big hole in golf world
The golf season is about to get a lot more boring.
While some may wonder how this particular game could become even less interesting, golf fans worldwide are mourning the announcement yesterday that Tiger Woods — the world's top golfer — soon will have season-ending knee surgery.
"Tiger's surgery sinks golf season," reads a banner headline in The Press of Atlantic City, N.J. "A wounded Tiger," declares The Huntsville (Ala.) Times.
Two days after winning the U.S. Open in dramatic fashion, Woods said he would have major surgery on his left knee in order to save his career. But the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel questioned whether it would be enough. "Can Tiger Come Back?" it asks on its front page.
Newspapers in states where Woods was scheduled to play later this year took the news personally. With Woods slated to appear in two upcoming tournaments in Michigan, The Detroit News laments "Tiger-less summer a bummer for state."
This year's Ryder Cup will take place at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky., in September. The Courier-Journal of Louisville makes it simple: "Tiger's out."
Meanwhile, President Bush's plea to Congress yesterday to repeal a ban on offshore drilling of oil drew plenty of straightforward headlines. "Bush: Drill Offshore" was how the North County Times in Escondido, Calif., played it.
"Bush urges lawmakers to lift offshore-drilling plan," says the Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram.
Some papers take a slightly more measured tone to the Bush announcement, including the Moscow-Pullman (Idaho) Daily News: "Bush: Embrace energy exploration now."
And one paper notes the politics of it all. "Democrats Lay Into Bush's Call for Offshore Drilling," says the St. Joseph (Mo.) News-Press.
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Power Japan Plus announced its dual carbon battery technology, which promises longer-lasting and less expensive batteries for electric cars.
Researchers at Northwestern University redesign the lithium ion battery to charge faster and increase energy capacity, paving the way for better battery performance on our gadgets.
A lithium ion micro-battery out of the University of Illinois is just millimeters in size, can jump-start a car battery, and recharges in less than a second. It's not ready for market just yet, though.
Researchers at Northwestern predict a battery that will have 10 times the capacity and charge 10 times faster, while Argonne National Laboratory predicts a cell phone that can charge in a minute.
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In ongoing research with children and adults, an Oxford University researcher finds that stimulating the brain with low-dose electrical currents could help improve learning.
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Theory of Universal Evolution? & Does Life(Evolution)=Reverse Law of Universal Entropy?
I posed this question to Dr. Michio Kaku on Big Think. I seriously doubt he'll have time to entertain the question. But my fellow TED followers are here specifically to entertain Ideas. So here's the Idea....
If Earth has a twin sister planet that has developed just like Earth (in all the elemental ratios), do you think that mankind would be a naturally occurring event?...also...in regards to life/evolution- Why doesn't the nature of our very existence as an evolutionary species bring the law Universal Entropy into question?---Update---The conversation has Evolved (joke there) check the comments.
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May 15 2011: EEEENTROPY...I assumed it was set, being called a law. I stand comfortably corrected. Thermodynamic or Logical?...or other unknown applications. If anyone is looking to turn away from the caustic and overindulgent speculation of politics or religion, I would suggest avoiding Entropy. Great starting summary of where we are at with it: http://www.panspermia.org/seconlaw.htm.
Sorry Rodger but I couldn't help but laugh when I read:
"""Life is organization. From prokaryotic cells, eukaryotic cells, tissues, and organs, to plants and animals, families, communities, ecosystems, and living planets, life is organization, at every scale. The evolution of life is the increase of biological organization, if it is anything. Clearly, if life originates and makes evolutionary progress without organizing input from outside, then something has organized itself. Logical entropy in a closed system has decreased. This is the violation that people are getting at, when they say that life violates the second law of thermodynamics. This violation, the decrease of logical entropy in a closed system, must happen continually in the darwinian account of evolutionary progress.
Most darwinists just ignore this staggering problem. When confronted with it, they seek refuge in the confusion between the two kinds of entropy. Entropy [logical] has not decreased, they say, because the system is not closed. Energy such as sunlight is constantly supplied to the system. If you consider the larger system that includes the sun, entropy [thermodynamic] has increased, as required. ""
No offense intended Rodger. The page illustrates the many viewpoints of Entropy. I thought I was walking on a beach till it gave way to an ocean of theories. Just floating here...Sharing my water shock.
Entropy!!!! I took a bite, Rodge weighed in. Lets here more! Throw some hot rocks in the cool water! See what happens...
May 16 2011: Too, it's not that more organized spots are impossible, it's that they are less likely than disorganized spots. Over time this increases entropy. If I'm not over-reaching, this just means life would be rarer than non-life. Our solar system is replete with non-life, which gives me the illusion that I know what I'm talking about. If living things somehow came to vastly outnumber non-living things Jeremiah would have a point. Seems he's intrigued by the possibility we could spread through the universe and order it all. If that happened, he could run around to everyone who believes in thermodynamics and say I told you so. I don't see why that isn't possible in principle, but I fear I just don't understand thermodynamics well enough. Is it impossible, or just really really unlikely?
May 16 2011: I like it Chris. Way to toss your hat in. Your not too far at all from what I'm suggesting. The remedy to the rub is around minute 13 or so in Sean Carrols discussion of the future condition of our universe: If it is in a constant state of rising entropy and all abiding things will eventually succumb to black holes before even those become nothing for what is to easily be the longest period of this universes existence...there will then come a time when just one thing still alive, by itself, would vastly outnumber all non-living things.
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Had Boo-urns in my fantasy team and took him out at the last moment. Hope he gets out soon as a result #ificanthavehimthennoonecan
Had Boo-urns in my fantasy team and took him out at the last moment. Hope he gets out soon as a result #ificanthavehimthennoonecan
Parmi | #1 draft pick | Jake King is **** | Big Bash League tipping champion of the universeCome and Paint Turtle
luv it laughin or whatever the **** his last name is gets thumped
Indians can't bowl - Where has the rumour come from as I myself and many indian friends arwe competent fast bowlers ?
With the English bid I said: Let us be brief. If you give back the Falkland Islands, which belong to us, you will get my vote. They then became sad and left
Not much wrong with the boy's eye, tbf.
Cricket Web's 2013/14 Premier League Tipping Champion
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"as much a news event as an actual footballer, a worthy stop-start centre forward, but an all-time hyper-galactico when it comes to doing funny things with cars and hats, a player whose signing proves once again that the Premier League is still undoubtedly the best in the world when it comes to doing things with cars and hats."
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Wait is it a double header tonight? #delicious
chris gayle's lil' bitch into the attack
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my fantasy team suffering from having no idea whose playing. so many **** choices
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2006 Lexus IS
This 2006 review is representative of model years 2006 to 2013.
By Dan Jedlicka of MSN Autos
Bottom Line:
The redesigned IS is a much closer competitor to the BMW 3-Series sedan.
Lexus is known for quiet, powerful, refined cars, so one can be blamed for being a bit skeptical when it brings out a car to tromp BMW's iconic 3-series sedan.
Lexus attempted to do just that with its brash, first-generation IS compact sedan, which arrived in America as a 2001 model called the IS 300. By then, that car had been sold for a few years in Japan with a smaller engine as a Toyota. (Lexus is Toyota's upscale division.)
What was Lexus thinking? There was no way it could seriously challenge the 3-Series with such a car.
However, the trim IS 300 has been the most fun-to-drive Lexus and has gained it experience in the entry luxury sports sedan market. More importantly for Lexus, it's captured a young audience because the median buyer age of an IS 300 is only 29.
Higher Sales Expected
The IS 300 attracted only 9,972 buyers in this country in 2004. The 3-Series—also sold as coupe and convertible versions—found 106,549 buyers in 2004, making it BMW's top-selling auto series in this country.
Larger and More Stylish
The new IS looks sleeker and more muscular than its predecessor and is partly derived from the redesigned new Lexus midsize GS sedan. The IS wheelbase is up 2.4 inches to a fairly long 107.5 inches, and the car is 3.5 inches longer overall, 3 inches wider and nearly an inch higher.
The new rear-wheel-drive IS is less edgy than the rear-wheel-drive IS 300 but is far more of a 3-Series sedan rival. Car and Driver magazine's October 2005 issue compared eight respected entry-level sports sedans, including the top-line IS 350 and BMW 3-Series, and said the IS finished a close second to the winning 3-Series.
Tight Rear Seat
However, there's good room up front in the quiet, upscale, nicely designed interior, which has good materials, supportive bucket seats and easily read Optitron gauges with needles that appear to float.
The trunk is roomy, but the car's racy styling causes its opening to be rather small.
Variety of Trim Levels
The rear-wheel-drive IS 250 comes with a 6-speed manual transmission or new 6-speed automatic that allows manual gear selection with a floor shifter or steering wheel paddle shifters for $31,160. The all-wheel-drive IS 250 comes only with the automatic, as does the IS 350.
The automatic transmission shifts crisply when left in drive mode. The paddle shifters are fine as long as you're driving in a straight line, but are confusing to use when turning the steering wheel. There's nothing confusing about starting the engine with the keyless start feature—you just push a dashboard button to start or stop the engine.
Hot Rod Version
The IS 350's engine will make this version hard to pass up, but Lexus says most buyers of the new IS will choose the IS 250, if only because of its lower price. Lexus also says a good percentage of buyers in northern states will order the all-wheel-drive version.
Good Fuel Economy
The IS 250 delivers 20 mpg in the city and 29 on the highway with the manual gearbox and 24 and 32 with the automatic. The heavier all-wheel-drive version provides 22 and 28 and the IS 350's economy numbers are 21 and 28 despite its sizzling performance.
Nice Roadability
The IS 250 versions have traction control and a Vehicle Stability Control system. The IS 350 gets a more sophisticated Vehicle Dynamics Integrated Management system. Both help keep the car on the road under trying conditions.
An optional performance package with 18-inch (vs. standard 17-inch) wheels and lowered sport suspension isn't really needed unless one is a genuine car buff.
Well Equipped
Options include a sunroof, heated-ventilated front seats, leather upholstery, wood interior trim, easily operated navigation system with a rear TV camera, more upscale audio system, steering-linked headlights and a collision avoidance system with radar cruise control.
Lexus has proved that it knows a thing or two about building highly competitive cars. If I were BMW, the IS would make me a little nervous.
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pussysauce-deactivated20120731 said: Hi there, i'm 100% natural I have been for awhile however i've been straightening it with a blow dryer & flat iron & I believe that that may be one of the reasons my hair is so severely damaged! even though I don't flat iron it everyday i'm hearing alot of different things but I was wondering if you knew how I could repair my damaged hair? my hair is long but now I have to chop alot off for it to be able to grow back long & healthy :'( what are my do's & don'ts? i've been trying to research & fi
hey! thanks for writing! i definitely identify with your problem.. i'm so terrified of heat damaging my hair that i rarely use it.. i've had a few scares before, but was thankfully able to love my hair back to it's normal sproinginess. don't get too excited though—prolonged heat usage CAN and WILL ruin your hair pattern to the point of no return if you use it too frequently without following proper precautions and practices.
check out this post on the Natural Hair Problems Wordpress blog — someone had a similar question, and the answer contains information & tips on how to protect your hair from heat styling, and ways that MIGHT help love it back to life if you push it a little too much. check out this link on straightening without heat damage, too.
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-it's good that you're gonna go ahead and cut off your dead & damaged ends and lay it to rest. no use holding on to dead, damaged ends; they'll only continue to ravage your hair as new healthy hair grows in. healthy hair is much more important than long hair. i hate seeing chicks with their ends looking like mountain ranges just for the sake of having bra strap length hair. kudos to you!
-i'm not sure if the blog entry linked above mentions it, and apparently i'm too lazy to check, but look into protein treatments to repair and protect your hair. you'll want to make sure you do plenty of reading on proteins and the hair first, because what works for one may not work for the next. here's some really awesome info on protein & protein sensitivity in natural hair.
-if length is what you're after, look into heat-free ways to stretch your natural hair. roller sets, twist sets, braid-outs and bantu knot outs are all ways to achieve both length and texture without using heat. if you want length without texture, go head and holler at a weave. ain't no shame as long as it's a good one.
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We're into tax season now, and you're probably getting your taxes ready to send into the IRS. You may wonder how long you should hang onto those tax-related papers and documents you've accumulated over the years.What to keep... what to toss out. It's a dilemma for many of us when it comes to our taxes. Here's what the IRS says.According to the IRS, you "must keep your records for as long as they're important for the federal tax law." What does that mean?
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Remember your vision statement is your inspiration; it's your dream of what you want your company to accomplish. If you're having trouble putting your own vision statement together, How to Write a Vision Statement will lead you through the process. Add Your Vision Statement
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I started temping and using FF a short time into this cycle. FF said that I ovulated on 10-1 which my temps do look like that is the case. This month I had no EWCM around O time, a little wet but no EWCM which I have noticed in cycles past. I had spotting from 10-1 until 10-5, which I had assumed was ovulation. Today my lower back has ached a little and I've been slightly crampy. I felt kinda "funny" down there and thought I would check and I had quite a bit of EWCM! Now I don't know what to think! I thought I was almost half way through the 2ww but now I'm not sure. What do you think?
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Qlocktwo Watch
Remember the Qlocktwo, the wall clock that eschewed numbers for common phrases to tell you the time? Well, now you can wear that same technology on your wrist. The Qlocktwo Watch features a uniform grid of 110 letters, which it uses to display phrases like "It is half past nine" whenever you press the side-mounted stainless steel button. Other features include a square brushed stainless steel casing in natural or black, the ability to show the calendar day or seconds — with two and three presses of the single button, respectively — and a rubber or leather strap.
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These handcrafted oil lamps incorporate a classic incandescent light bulb in the design, and handmade base which created from a beautiful solid wood half dome.
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The iPhone Shutter Grip
We love Photo Jo Jo for quirky photography and mobile accessories, but this new iPhone Shutter Grip contraption is particularly clever. It's tiny and all it really does is add a grip and shutter button to your phone, but that makes it so much easier to take good photos.
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If your parties are less for close friends and more for everyone in your address book, perhaps you can make use of the Brew Cave Walk-In Beer Cooler & Kegerator . Available with or without a floor, the Beer Cave provides enough room to store over 30 cases of beer and four or more kegs, all in a precisely temperature-controlled room that doubles as a super-sized, single-tap kegerator. A perfect option for your 10,000 sq. ft. party pad.
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Like it or not, it looks like there's going to be a lot of companies wanting you to wear a computer on your wrist this year. The Sony SmartWatch is just the latest example. Sporting a 1.3-inch OLED touchscreen display, Bluetooth 3.0, and four days of battery life, this sleek, square-ish watch connects to your Android phone, giving you the ability to read texts and emails, receive Facebook and Twitter updates, initiate and answer calls, control music playback, and run apps optimized for the small screen from Google Play. Or you could just wear a Rolex/Omega/Casio — your call.
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All you need to realize that the world is filled with miserable people is your Facebook newsfeed. Some days it seems like you log in only to be bombarded with complaint after complaint after complaint. The Lovewright Co. is doing their part by putting out a few t-shirts that offer up positive inspiration. Their SoCal streetwear roots run deep when it comes to style and design, but the messages conveyed through their graphic tees is clear: chin up, buttercup
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We usually like our phone cases to be as slick, portable and stylish as possible, but the iPhone Mug Case is none of those things.
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You've stuffed yourself full of noodles and wontons and spicy bits of fried chicken. Oh, and egg rolls and dumplings and those crunchy soft things that you're not sure what they are, but dang are they good. And then the bill arrives - with fortune cookies. The fortune cookies serve to remind you how nice life can be as you are parted with your money; a reminder of the delicious meal you just ate. Cracking the cookie, you read the fortune inside: "You will die alone and poorly dressed." It's at that moment, when you are stunned and your friends laugh at you, that you realize you've been slipped a Cookie Misfortune Evil Fortune Cookie.
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February 5, 2014
How to Adopt or Buy a Horse
Being a successful horse owner requires a great deal of time, money, and a lasting commitment to the care and well-being of the animal.
February 5, 2014
Shaw-Worth Memorial Scholarship for New England High School Seniors Who Help Animals
Each year, the Shaw-Worth Memorial Scholarship is awarded to a New England high school senior who has made a meaningful contribution to animal protection over a significant period of time.
February 5, 2014
Responsible Horse Breeding
Breeders—and horse industry organizations that profit from their use of horses—must take an active role in ensuring the horses they've brought into the world are treated humanely.
February 5, 2014
Peanut Butter Delight Doggie Birthday Cake
Treat your dog right with this recipe for a peanut butter and carrot birthday cake.
February 5, 2014
Protecting Your Horse
Important tips for keeping your horse safe and protected.
February 5, 2014
Heart Beet Salad
For Valentine's Day -- or any day you want to make special -- we bring you this delicious recipe for "heart beet salad."
February 5, 2014
Responsible Horse Ownership
Before you make the decision to buy or adopt a horse, understand the life-long journey you're embarking on.
February 5, 2014
The Rules of Feeding Your Horse
The rules for feeding a horse are critical and if followed, will be a strong foundation upon which to build.
February 5, 2014
Horse Care Guidelines
Sharing your life with a horse can be a rewarding experience, but it includes the responsibility of caring for your equine companion for life.
February 4, 2014
The King Amendment
Get the facts here on why the King Amendment to the Farm Bill is so dangerous to animal protection investigations, whistleblowers, and farm animals.
January 30, 2014
U.S. Pet Ownership and Shelter Population Estimates
The HSUS provides an informed estimate of the U.S. populations of cats and dogs in homes, adopted from shelters, and euthanized in shelters in 2011 and 2012.
January 22, 2014
Lemon Rosemary Potatoes
This recipe for lemon rosemary potatoes is simple, and so good with just about everything.
January 22, 2014
Kidney Bean-Quinoa Burgers
It's easy to make your own veggie burgers if you use wheat gluten to hold them together. Try this recipe for kidney bean-quinoa burgers, and you'll see.
January 21, 2014
Black-Eyed Peas with Butternut Squash
In this recipe, Indian-style spices bring butternut squash together with black-eyed peas for a tasty vegetarian entree.
January 15, 2014
Dogfighting Fact Sheet
Get the facts about dogfighting.
January 10, 2014
The HSUS Partners with Fashion Design Schools
The HSUS works with fashion design schools throughout the United States to educate the next generation of designers about the cruelties associated with the use of animal fur.
January 10, 2014
Now, That's a Walking Horse! Grant and Recognition Program
The HSUS grant and recognition program rewards humane owners and riders of Tennessee walking horses.
January 9, 2014
Working for Change in Tennessee
Over the past several years, The HSUS has focused its efforts against animal cruelty and animal fighting in Tennessee.
January 9, 2014
Broccoli "Superfood" Soup
It's not just good soup--it's broccoli-powered souperfood with anti-oxidant and anti-cancer properties.
January 6, 2014
Meatless Monday Recipes
Meatless Monday: Find a dish to tempt you in this collection of our favorite meat-free recipes.
January 6, 2014
Protect Your Pet During Winter and Cold Weather
Follow The HSUS's tips for protecting your pets from winter's bitter cold and numbing wetness. You can keep your pet cat, dog, and horse safe in cold weather.
January 3, 2014
All Animals Magazine for iPad: Download Our Free Award-Winning App
As the signature magazine of The Humane Society of the United States, the nation's most effective animal protection organization, we believe in the power of the collective human spirit. Join our compassionate community of supporters by downloading our FREE award-winning app and sharing with friends and family our life-changing content.
January 3, 2014
Have a Question?
Information about The HSUS and its programs and affiliations for members and the general public.
January 3, 2014
Web Designer, Online Communications
The Humane Society of the United States is seeking a Web Designer for its Online Communications section.
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Creole Mustard
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Brian Cant is a highly committed travel and tourism public relations specialist. With the Tartan Group, Brian has worked in tourism media relations for over two years, conducting media outreach, attending to media itineraries, and generally doing all that he can to ensure journalists that Tartan works with have what they need to tell the client story across traditional and digital channels. With an eye to detail, Brian is the Tartan touch stone to story creation.
Inspired by his summer job guiding visitors through the underground mine at the Rossland Museum in the Kootenays, Brian's career has focused on the travel industry; he has worked with both Tourism Victoria and Tourism British Columbia.
Brian's passion is sharing his love of travel and the opportunities that travel creates to educate and build understanding. Joining Tartan Group in 2011 as senior communications coordinator, Brian works with Tartan Group clients to develop and deliver their stories to the right media outlets (both print and digital) for maximum exposure.
Brian holds a BA in History and Geography as well as a Diploma in Public Relations (Dipl PR) from the University of Victoria where he is a member of the UVic Alumni Association Board of Directors.
Brian was first put on skis by his dad at the age of 18 months and has never looked back; when he's not sharing his travel and tourism experiences you'll find him looking for good, fast turns around the mountains of British Columbia.


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Keld Jensen,Contributor
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Anyone following Alibaba's (NYSE:BABA) debut on Wall Street this week cannot help but be impressed by the buzz it generated among institutional and individual investors, as the stock rocketed higher in the first day of trade. That's certainly brought back the good old days of the late 1990s, and raised the [...] [...] more>>
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Too many customer service excellence and customer-centricity culture initiatives end up feeling to employees like they've been arbitrarily imposed from on high, by the CEO and her hand-picked consultants. On the one hand, a commitment to increasing your corporate customer-centricity has to start somewhere. Someone who has power, quite often the [...] [...] more>>
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3 Stocks for Pet Lovers
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Economists and market observers constantly fret about the state of consumer spending. Because so much of the economy in the United States is dependent upon consumer spending, the reluctance of Americans to spend more has kept a lid on the pace of the economic recovery. The same can't be said of the amount Americans are willing to spend on their pets. In fact, the American Pet Products Association estimated we spent over $50 billion on our pets in 2011. All that spending has to go somewhere, and here are three stocks poised to profit from the trend that offer a mixture of growth and dividends.
PetSmart (NASDAQ: PETM) is a $7 billion specialty retailer of pet products in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. PetSmart was no dog of a stock in 2012, rising almost 40% last year. As a result, the valuation became a bit high as the trailing price-to-earnings ratio crept over 20. The stock has fallen recently on the heels of an analyst downgrade. The analyst, with Nomura, believes that the threat of e-commerce competition will result in significant margin compression. Sales increased 9% during the first nine months year over year for the company. Furthermore, PetSmart increased its dividend 18% during 2012 and currently yields 1%.
PetMed Express (NASDAQ: PETS) is a small-cap with a market value of $250 million. The company sells prescription and non-prescription pet medications, health products, and supplies for dogs and cats in the United States. Value and income investors alike will find much to like about PetMeds. The company trades for a trailing P/E of 15 times and offers a hefty yield greater than 4.5% at recent prices. PetMed raised its dividend 20% in 2012, and will likely do so again in time for its next quarterly payout. Investors would be wise to monitor the company's operating performance going forward, as fiscal 2012 was a difficult year. Sales over the first nine months of the fiscal year dropped 3% year over year. To the company's credit, PetMeds has an effective management team, with returns on assets and equity both in excess of 20%.
Another interesting stock to consider is Zoetis (NYSE: ZTS). Shares of Zoetis began trading on February 1 after its spin-off from Pfizer. Zoetis was the animal health subsidiary of the pharmaceutical giant. The company sells vaccines and diagnostics, among other medicines, for pets and livestock. Zoetis raised $2.2 billion in its IPO, making it the largest initial offering for an American company since Facebook last May. The stock did well in its first day of trading as a public company, rising 20%. Zoetis has annual sales of roughly $4.2 billion. The company expects future compound annual growth in sales of livestock and pet medications of 6% and 5%, respectively.
The Bottom Line
If one thing is for sure, it's that Americans love their pets. Despite painfully high unemployment and stagnant wages, we as a nation spend billions on our animals. Both PetSmart and PetMed Express have positive things to offer for growth and dividend investors alike. PetSmart has experienced solid sales growth and pays a decent dividend, while PetMed Express has a market-trouncing dividend yield and a lower valuation multiple. In addition, the initial public offering of Zoetis is an enticing entry into the area of medical treatment for animals. The animal health industry in America has experienced rapid growth in recent years and there are few signs that the days of growth are coming to an end.
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this week was released into another highly populated body of water Tuesday.
Lauderdale County Animal Control officers
removed a six-foot, one-inch gator from Cypress Creek Tuesday evening and
released it back into the wild on the Elk River.
Fred Shelton has lived along Robinson Beach,
an area just off the Elk and Tennessee Rivers, for 20 years. Like others who
live along the river's bank, he is extremely concerned that they could be
sharing their waterways with a potentially dangerous reptile.
"I know it wasn't done intentionally to hurt
anyone, but we feel like we should be as free from alligators as Cypress Creek
should," Shelton said.
Shelton said the neighborhood will keep a
watchful eye on the water for the time being. Wildlife experts say alligators
generally stay away from people, and that you have a greater chance of being
struck by lightning than being attacked by an alligator in north Alabama.
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Issue 10: Winter 2012
The Mercifully Godless Universe of Film Noir
Fergus Daly
A little while ago, seeking sanctuary from the grotesque displays of religious fervour at the Olympics, I hopped, skipped and Ali shuffled my way to the haven of my DVD collection to immerse myself in the mercifully Godless universe of film noir. But I soon discovered that there were parallels between the transcendent attitude to gold, silver and bronze of the victorious olympians and that of the criminals of noir. As the machinic circuits the athletes formed by alternately fondling medals and genuflecting before God soon became pegged to the lustrous materiality of the dollar and the promise of real wealth in exchange for these 'precious' metals (in the shape of professional careers and sponsorship deals), the taut bond between money and transcendence exhibited the Olympians in their true colours as noir-like con artists. As one noir voice-over tells us: "The weapon behind all weapons, the American Dollar" (Southside 1-1000, Boris Ingster, 1950). Such ignominious forging of bonds between shiny objects and divinity reminds me of the great French word for the kitsch marketing of religion: Sulpicienne, a term derived from the name of the Saint-Sulpice church in Paris, around which there are a host of shops selling Catholic icons in the form of baubles and bangles.
At least when God is drafted into sport in this manner, it introduces the idea of Fate into the equation. As the boxing lady at the Olympics said: "without Him I wouldn't be sitting with this medal around my neck. I am there but for the grace of God. I serve Him. I am nothing without Him." And, emblazoned on her robe was: "The Lord is my shepherd and my shield." 70 years ago, another form of popular entertainment examined this idea of a world sans individual agency and responsibility and did it without, to quote Peter Finch in Network (Sidney Lumet, 1976), "the God bullshit."
Murder, My Sweet/Farewell, My Lovely (Edward Dmytryk, 1944)
Film noir is an anti-religion since the shepherding force it portrays is now a malevolent one and, if it is the case that the events of our lives are predestined, and it's merely a matter of finding the true path to walk on, then that path leads nowhere if not to the gas chamber up in San Quentin (to paraphrase Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity [Billy Wilder, 1944]).
Famously, Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945) is the film noir that foregrounds the theme of Fate and perfectly sums up the noir philosophy: "Fate or some mysterious force can put the finger on you or me for no good reason at all." Through hundreds of films (not all great but few without some interest) noir explores all the ramifications of this world-view and in the process lays the groundwork for most of the significant themes of American cinema to come. If individual lives in noir are often felt by the protagonists to be pre-ordained, then the character needs merely to slot into the series he's part of and not try to buck the system. One step outside of his series can lead to ruin and degradation if not to death. If the serial killer film develops out of noir it's grounded on this: the serial killer is precisely the one who can't accept the series around him and in particular the one he is a part of. He must create an ideal series of his own through killing. And each murder will invariably occur when he spots something anomalous, someone who's stepped out of their own series and into the killer's new one. This often has cosmic import as in Follow Me Quietly (Richard Fleischer, 1949) where rain is the aberrant element that in falling incites the criminal: "You Must Kill, Now!"
The Anti-Bible
World War Two really opened up this issue of a Godless world with its anti-biblical reversal of the sixth commandment. Just as soldiers were being told 'you must kill!' (as opposed to the conventional 'Thou shalt Not Kill!'), noir is asking why? Why must you kill? "Why do you have to murder people? Why can't you just let things live?" complains John Dall's character Bart to Peggy Cummings in Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis, 1949). The ramifications of this wartime 'license to kill' when the soldiers are back in the civilian world becomes a major issue in film noir: "When you hit you didn't have to run" says Burt Lancaster recalling his wartime freedom in Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (Norman Foster, 1948). "We don't know what we're supposed to do, we don't know what's supposed to happen" says the war veteran in Crossfire (Edward Dmytryk, 1947).
Noir is the most nebulous of genres. Perhaps the best way to define Noir is in the way Augustine defined Time: "If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know." In most minds noir is an atmosphere: dark, dangerous, erotic, Godless; it's a series of amorphous sounds and images: rain-soaked cities at night, voice-overs conjuring dubious flashbacks; humdrum lives and inadvertent entries into the criminal underworld; the moral confusion that follows; futile attempts to escape the labyrinth you're trapped in.
But few films contain all of these elements. Noir is an aggregate of themes, problems and stylistic strategies in crime films made during a determinate time-period. It has no absolutely pin-pointable beginning: Stranger on the Third Floor (Boris Ingster, 1940)? The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941)? Double Indemnity? Or ending: Gun Crazy? The Big Heat (Fritz Lang 1953)? Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich 1955)? Touch of Evil (Orson Welles 1957)? It all depends on the component you focus on. What's wonderful about noir is that each problem it introduces is present more or less implicitly or explicitly in all examples of the genre but there's always one film that alone takes a problem to its limit and becomes associated with this single issue: Fate in Detour, random violence in Gun Crazy, jealousy in Gilda (Charles Vidor, 1946), police brutality in On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray, 1952), disability in Champion (Mark Robson, 1949), and so on.
Robert Ryan in On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray, 1952)
Second Thoughts and Idées Fixes
To focus here on the problem of Fate in noir, we've already seen that it is linked to the problem of Transcendence. The genre explores the relationship in two ways. One is the negative epiphany (the 'wrong place at the wrong time' model): a second thought or a second glance at the wrong moment will set you on a treadmill swiftly sliding towards the electric chair. The other is premised on a longer-term fixation on a transcendent object that will most likely lead to your destruction (the 'moth to a flame' model): the femme fatale being the exemplary promise of transcendence, offering sex and an otherwise exhilarating hoist up out of the mundane. But sex too is soon revealed to be a currency, of no more value than any other exchangeable commodity.
If there's a case for Stranger on the Third Floor as inaugurating the noir cycle, it has less to do with the expressionist lighting and incredible 8-minute nightmare sequence than with it being a pre-eminent example of the 'second glance' model, the form operative from the very outset of noir: "Why did I have to look across the street?" regrets the protagonist. So many noir characters will wish that they hadn't cast that second glance and had walked on by (if we name Stranger on the Third Floor as the first noir then, interestingly, the genre would kick off without one of its key ingredients, the femme fatale. Her entry will take place in the following year in The Maltese Falcon). The correlate of this noir element is the problematizing of inquisitiveness and motivation: if you no longer buy into the religion that paradoxically shepherded your every move while ensuring your free will then this will give rise to a new interest in other people's behaviour; everyone's at once a stranger and a revenant. Being with an other and not knowing how to 'read' him/her becomes essential to one's survival. The hitch-hiker, the door-to-door salesman, the cop on the beat; all types provided with ample opportunities for the chance encounter and for observing the other as if a different species: "I've always wondered what goes on in another person's mind..." muses Mickey Rooney's character in Drive a Crooked Road (Richard Quine, 1954). In noir, a common way to react to another is to kill him, a less permanent solution is to stalk him: in Nightfall (Jacques Tourneur, 1957) cop Fraser says of the suspect Vanning "I know his every move, I'm his shadow." Individuals become inter-penetrable, and this porousness between selves makes it easy to plant an idea in another's mind (the modus operandi of the femme fatale): it's a contaminative view of human relationships ("I know how it feels to find someone to take the crimes of your life on his head, in his hands" [Force of Evil, Abraham Polonsky 1948]), and, typically in noir, literal and figurative mappings out of a problem exist side by side: alongside Edmond O'Brien's iridium poisoning in D.O.A. (Rudolph Maté, 1950) and the plague plot-line of Kazan's Panic in the Streets (1950), we have the metaphorical infusion by femmes fatales of murderous schemes into the brains of eager lovers (Minnelli will pick up on this idea of being trapped in another's dream or nightmare and take it elsewhere, most famously into the joyful world of musicals, but also into the melodramas, all of which retain the noir sense of paranoia).
Floating Sounds and Images
Paranoia of course is endemic in noir, it's the mission of both the killer and the femme fatale to provoke it everywhere: 'the look in her eye, how can you believe she loves you' asks the bewitched lover: certainty, truth, belief are all swept up in a maze of falsity (the end of The Lady from Shanghai [Orson Welles, 1947] and its hall of mirrors providing the iconic sequence for this entire generic obsession). The following exchange from House of Strangers (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1949) says it all: "What do you want, lies?" "What else is there?" As for loyalty "you can buy it at any pet-store" (The Web [Michael Gordon, 1947]). The fundamentals of personal identity are thrown into doubt, hence the proliferation of amnesiacs and other 'nameless' characters throughout the noir universe.
The abandonment of the moral faculty leads to a shake-up of the other faculties; perception, understanding, reason all become suspect, can no longer be trusted. Perception becomes hallucinatory; images and sounds begin to float, not only in the sense of shadows, mirror reflections and the dreams and drug-induced head trips of films such as Murder, My Sweet/Farewell, My Lovely (Edward Dmytryk, 1944), Dark Passage (Delmer Daves, 1947) and Fear in the Night (Maxwell Shane, 1947) - Chandler, Goodis and Woolrich adaptations respectively - but as voices or figures from the past, images entering into a new relation with the increasingly complex structure of the floating voice-over. In Paul Schrader's words, the voice-over has become "intravenous, by-passing reason", recalling Susan Hayward's perfume which "gets in the brain like chloroform" (as Richard Conte puts it in House of Strangers). There's a general gnawing feeling that "somewhere somebody said something" (The Enforcer [Bretaigne Windust, 1951]) that you can't fix in time or space.
Thinking becomes "untidy, like most thinking today" in Murder, My Sweet's diagnoses of the situation. Even memory, the core of an individual's identity, is an object of suspicion: "memories have a way of getting stuck together, like the pages of a book" (Somewhere in the Night, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1946). At its extreme, the subject is now a placeless, faithless, memory-less black hole to the point where, as Alan Ladd puts it to Veronica Lake in this Foucauldian line from The Blue Dahlia (George Marshall, 1946), "you're trying to run out on yourself, like me." As a result, the body is subject to a re-organisation to the point where Crime Wave (André de Toth 1954) can offer a very Nietzschean diagnosis: "murder always starts down here [the stomach]!"
Another influence on the noir world-view was the advent of actuarial thinking and the scattering of individual responsibility that it brought about (themes explored not only in Double Indemnity but in an ironic manner in Deadline at Dawn [Harold Clurman, 1946] where Clifford Odets beautiful script contains a refrain beginning with the words "statistics tells us..." ). Schemes such as the national insurance programs of the New Deal and the increasing establishment of statistical norms in place of other forms of the social bond were interpreted by some as working to the detriment of individuals' self-determination. The insurantial as a way to control things, especially the future, is seen to leave in its wake individuals without centre or purpose: "You can never help anything, can you? You're like a leaf that the wind blows from one gutter to another." (Mitchum in Out of the Past [Jacques Tourneur 1947]). It's as if the only way a guy can activate "his own power", as Fred McMurray puts it in Double Indemnity, is during the long walk to the gas chamber (restriction in noir isn't only spatial but physical, bio-political, one of the reasons for the symbolic presence of disablement in so many of the films). Individuals are separated from their capacities - 'it's not what a man wants to do but what he has to do' becomes a refrain of the genre.
There is a problem of spatial and temporal presence in Film Noir, an issue with 'thereness': "I remember what was the last time, not when or where"- says Lancaster in The Killers (Robert Siodmak, 1946) - which might be a reason why noir is often said to be existentialist or Heideggerian. Characters are in constant need of reassurance that they are present in the world: "I don't know where I am" says Heston in Dark City, "you're here" replies Lisabeth Scott. In Crack-Up (Irving Reis, 1946) Pat O'Brien screams: "if I say I've been somewhere, I've been somewhere". In the magnificent final sequence of Force of Evil, the idiosyncratic repetition of the word there in its insistent desperation problematises concrete existence in a way that works for all of film noir: "...I was feeling very bad there as I went down there, I just kept going down and down there, it was like going down to the bottom of the world to find my brother... I found my brother's body at the bottom there...like an old dirty rag..."
Going 'down there' in Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky, 1948)
Money, says film noir, is what equalizes, especially as a motivator when all motivation has gone. It allows one to quantify in a world devoid of proportions (it's a fatal error in noir to believe there's more than one type of money, "there's only one type of money" [Tomorrow Is Another Day, Felix E. Feist, 1951]). This accounts not only for the scalar imbalances of the noir style but for the still shocking acts of disproportionate violence in noir - one thinks of Richard Widmark in Kiss of Death (Henry Hathaway, 1947), Charles Bickford in Fallen Angel (Otto Preminger, 1945) or Lee Marvin in The Big Heat (although the brutal 'boiling coffee in the face' action first appears in Nocturne [Edwin L. Marin, 1946] seven years before Lang's masterpiece). There is a general de-territorialization and un-hinging of social forces and norms (another reason why physical disability is ever-present in noir: the literalisation of the notion that "everything is out of shape, soiled" as Rooney puts it in Drive a Crooked Road?). The desperate search for anchorage of any kind leads down some peculiar routes such as the problematising of faith in the Hippocratic Oath as some kind of last bastion of moral integrity (especially in Decoy [Jack Bernhard, 1946]).
The notion of the idée fixe or more specifically the amour fou, of which the obsession with the femme fatale is the great paradigm, lends a machinic aspect to Fate: "the gears had meshed" as Double Indemnity puts it; there's an inevitability that's truly written in the stars and befits the transcendent allure of the objet of desire: "I feel I've known her all my life" muses Alan Ladd in The Blue Dahlia, and later says to Veronica Lake: "Every guy has seen you before somewhere, the trick is to find you". Every man in noir is prepared to give it all up for the Ideal of the Eternal Feminine but eventually discovers that the belief in her as representing some kind of higher truth is a lure and that seeking the truth of sex and the truth of all existence in sex proves to be another calamitous snare. Hence the disillusionment exemplified by the main character in Ride a Pink Horse (Robert Montgomery, 1947): "Dames, they're dead fish with a lot of perfume on 'em". The question of quantity is again operative here: how much must a man pay (emotionally, ethically, financially - all intertwined) for a brief moment of transcendence? Yes, these men persist in their search for the Absolute: why? Because of the terrifying mundanity of ordinary life. It's no coincidence that in Pitfall (André De Toth, 1948) Dick Powell's expression of contempt for the routine of the everyday is expressed in biblical terms: "I feel like a wheel within a wheel within a wheel" (a reference to Ezekiel 1:16). "Christmas, thanksgiving, every other Tuesday" rages Wendell Corey against his mapped-out future in The File on Thelma Jordan (Robert Siodmak, 1950).
Time and Technology
This black hole of everyday existence (which David Lynch will later pick up on) is related to Time. Again, there are two poles, the short-term and the longue durée. The latter involves endurance (like waiting 30 years for a cop's pension and unable to hold out that long) but short-term time is the time of events, the present, the city and the contemporary. It's the clash of these two temporalities (the 'too much time' and the 'too little') that gives birth to the noir universe (and City That Never Sleeps [John H. Auer, 1953] is a particularly interesting exploration of the cosmic disharmony intimated in the collision).
If technology plays an enormous role in film noir it's because images and sounds are floating freely throughout the noir city and can only be channeled, territorialised by means of technological devices. Noir shows us all kinds of inventive uses of new and old technologies such as the surveillance films and projected mugshots mulled over by cops and T-men and the listening devices planted in homes and offices. This may be another consequence of the aforementioned porousness of the individual as explored in noir matched now by the permeability of walls and buildings brought about by developments in information technology. In Paul Virilio's words: "[In modernity] the urban wall has given way to an infinity of openings and ruptured enclosures ..." and "... the surface- boundary becomes an osmotic membrane." The city's buildings contain "not only workers but 'apparatuses for abolishing time and space' - telephones, cables and wireless." (McKenzie Wark 'On Technological Time: Cruising Virilio's Over-Exposed City').
How many plot-lines of these films turn on a technological dispositif of some kind, from the primitive (the dictaphone or 'record your own voice' machine) to the sophisticated (Edmond O'Brien's hot-wiring of the city in 711 Ocean Drive [Joseph M. Newman, 1950], a kind of 'minoring' use of a 'major' governmental surveillance apparatus)! The city is well on its way to becoming that labyrinth of technology and surveillance that the 'critical cinema' of the '70s (Coppola, Lumet and so on) will examine. Another interesting example of a non-governmental use of the latest technologies comes in Call Northside 777 (Henry Hathaway, 1948) where newspaperman James Stewart employs the gigantic magnification of an image to save Richard Conte from the chair.
711 Ocean Drive (Joseph M. Newman, 1950)
There are some wonderful discursive moments concerning temporal matters in film noir, for example this line from Kansas City Confidential (Phil Karlson, 1952): "Professor Einstein, there is just so much time and every moment gone is a moment gone somewhere". One of the great speeches about time in any film comes in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Somewhere in the Night. Josephine Hutchinson's (Mrs. Townsend from North by Northwest [Alfred Hitchcock, 1959]) character Elisabeth delivers one of Mankiewicz's two great speeches about Time (the other is in The Honey Pot, 1967): "Things change in time but time doesn't change. It goes on and on and doesn't change. I know, because I've watched it. Nights, days, nights, always the same. Dawns are always grey, and the days can have different colours, but the nights are black, they're all empty. No, only people change, they grow old and ugly and pitiful...I've made believe for so long...that I wasn't alone...afraid, that I wasn't dead, that I was alive."
Such a massive unleashing of anarchic forces in the cinema could hardly go unchecked. Therefore several strands of noir begin to co-exist beyond the first great wave of films. On the one hand, The Naked City (Jules Dassin, 1948) will inaugurate a series of films that present the viewpoint of government agencies expressed through a shift from a subjective voice-over to the omniscient voice of authority describing the action in all its scientifically-based procedural 'objectivity'. There are signs throughout the genre of a desperate need to abolish contingencies: the narrator of Shield for Murder (Howard W. Koch, Edmond O'Brien, 1954) proclaims confidently: "All that city out there...If a man wanted to hide in it, he couldn't do it." A new banality is imposed on the criminal world, the ambiguities of behaviour that flourished in diffuse light give way to a clearly delineated black-and-white world of cops and robbers filmed in a bright, documentary-style. Technology and surveillance-driven procedure is used as a way of re-stratifying the city and re-territorialising the genre in a manner that will lead directly to the House Un-American Activities Committee. There's a case for saying that the mobster film developed as it did (right up through the Godfather films) as an alternative solution to the noir problem and its anarchic delirium. Just as America changes into a more stratified society as the '50s progress, so its cinema develops a new set of rules for portraying the criminal world. There is no room for the fickle finger of Fate in the new regime. The gangsters too buy into the new world and mirror the authorities' means of controlling the future. "I'm building an organisation along scientific lines" says Widmark's character in The Street With No Name (William Keighley, 1948). From cops acting like criminals which gave birth to Noir to criminals following police models: "bright boys thinking only they can play at being cops" (Widmark).
Concomitantly, there's a partial re-oedipalizing of the genre beginning as early as The Dark Past (1948): "every time you kill, it's your father". This is as far from Richard Conte's "I murder to kill time" (House of Strangers) as it's possible to get. Furthermore the 1950s religious revival demands wholesome family entertainment and imposes sentiments on the film world that creep into every genre, even noir.
But every re-territorialisation gives rise to a new de-territorialisation. Even a film like Fingerprints Don't Lie (Sam Newfield, 1951) is already questioning forensic technology and portraying it as a matter of interpretation. And of course the rich extremism of late '40s noir (the demented Born to Kill [Robert Wise 1947] and Gun Crazy) doesn't disappear but continues to transmute subterraneously, eventually giving birth to late noir (perhaps post-noir) classics as diverse as The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis, 1955), Naked Alibi (Jerry Hopper, 1954), Pushover (Richard Quine, 1954), Kiss Me Deadly, Touch of Evil, Murder by Contract (Irving Lerner, 1958), The Line-Up (Don Siegel, 1958) and Blast of Silence (Allen Baron, 1961).
Of course there is great humour to be found amidst the dark despair of the film noir universe; my two favourite moments of hilarity are, firstly, in Born to Kill, when Elisha Cook Jr tries to reprimand Lawrence Tierney's psychopath: "You can't just go around killing people when the notion strikes you" only to provoke this oddly touching response from Tierney: "Why can't I?" And, secondly, in Gun Crazy, John Dall's outburst: "two people dead, just so we can live without working." I've often wondered if Margaret Thatcher's fascistic 'get on your bike' campaign against the unemployed in '80s Britain might have been kick-started by a viewing of Gun Crazy: did she believe she might soon be confronted by 3 million serial murderers?


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On my right foot i have a tattoo of the word "gaudeo". This is latin for 'I rejoice' and today i feel joyful.
Began my day with a hefty green smoothie jam packed with cucumber, sprouts, cabbage and fruit. Then launched straight into preparing tonights dinner for mr veg and I: eggplant and zucchini layerbake with pinenut cream. It is a thing of wholesome beauty although i suspect that describing it as 'layered' may be a little grandiose because i began to prepare it in an oven dish that was way too small. So i made the fatal error of transferring … Oh yes error it was because now my pinenut cream topping hides what can at most be described as a mess of eggplant, potato, zucchini and tomato sauce! Still it will taste the same, right??
That said such a kitchen crisis would have sent me reaching for the gin a few weeks back whereas today i just shrugged it off. And that, as they say, is progress! Perhaps my new lifestyle and my ultra strength vit b complex are starting to kick in. Time will tell …


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