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Abhay re: Killing the Cobra #2; This Might Have Been Better a Week Ago, But… Whoops.
Posted by: Abhay Khosla on July 10, 2010
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An essay based upon MARIO ACEVEDO'S KILLING THE COBRA: CHINATOWN TROLLOP #2 after the jump.
Anatomy of an impulse buy:
1) The cover features a dude straight-up getting his fuck on, which is certainly a persuasive sales campaign for a comic book. And next to the Buddha, even, which I don't think a lot of guys could manage. You know: I already think God's laughing at me when I take my clothes off, just generally, so having a giant Buddha statue in the room towering over me in that moment would generate the opposite of enlightenment. By enlightenment, I'm of course referring to boners.
2) The sub-title of the comic was "CHINATOWN TROLLOP." Trollop is such a delicate and dainty euphemism—it's got so much more panache than "entry-level sluts" or whatever degraded euphemism rings through your local junior high school today. Standards have deteriorated. Trollop is like when you watch MAD MEN—earlier generations may have been racist, sexist alcoholic liars, but they at least knew how to dress themselves.
3) Apparently there was a book called the NYMPHOS OF ROCKY FLATS, and that book was even a best-seller, among literate people, people who don't need to see pictures when they read. So: this comic about a guy fucking a Chinatown trollop had a very strong probability of having solid literary influences.
Excerpt from my screenplay STANDING DANGEROUS. Log-line: "A rookie English teacher is going to turn the hood… upside-down, through the Power of Learning… and Hip-Hop– SAY WHAT?"
Inner city gang members sit in rapt attention.
Do you know who the original Chinatown Trollop was?
Moll Flanders.
Entire class explodes in applause and high-fives. Lil Tray throws his crutches into the garbage—he can walk! Wall explodes open, showering the room with debris—Buddha rushes in through the hole.
Hey everybody—we're all gonna get laid!
But, oh well, comics, so:
1) A more astute observer would have noticed the squiggle near the main character's lips. That squiggle nears the lips is a fang. It's a vampire comic.
2) It's about a Hispanic vampire named Felix Gomez and his Chinese "lover" fighting Yellow Peril villains—Jiang Chow and the Han Cobras, Asian heroin-dealers who kill their underlings using cobras. Sample dialogue: "By this time next year, I'll have every drug cartel—Colombians, Mexicans, Thais, Afghanis, Russians—lapping like dogs out of my rice bowl." My fortune cookie says you die now, Mr. Bond— you know, not my kind of thing. By now you can probably guess that I'm a little too much of a delicate flower for that kind of thing. Here's my impression of me: "My vagina's sore. Waah."
3) The only discernible literary influence was Hemmingway's THE SUN ALSO RISES, in that KILLING THE COBRA is similarly about an expatriate war veteran whose obsession with his war-wound (i.e. a nasty case of vampirism that he caught in the Iraq War) leads him into an ultimately tragic relationship with a woman (i.e. the Chinatown Trollop) and aimless wanderings in the shadow of meaningless and decayed social institutions (i.e. the remote institution of the vampire "Araneum"). However, I think that CHINATOWN TROLLOP loses too much in ignoring THE SUN ALSO RISES's themes of sexual insecurity—after all, the cover features the Chinatown Trollop having sexual congress near the Buddha, plainly expressing that in the Felix Gomez universe, sexual success is a route to spiritual fulfillment. This is a far cry and a far less believable theme than those raised by Lady Brett Ashley's inability to consummate a sexual relationship with the narrator of THE SUN ALSO RISES, Jake Barnes, due to his hideous genital wound.
On the other hand, THE SUN ALSO RISES didn't feature heroin-dealing Chinese gangsters, so who's laughing now? Not Hemmingway—he killed himself.
So, that happened. A comic you may never have heard of…? Turns out there may be good reasons you've never heard of it. But that's not a reason to write about anything, right? "News flash! Comics: not very good sometimes." But when I think about why I didn't enjoy KILLING THE COBRA: CHINATOWN TROLLOP #2– when I really consider it, the things I've suggested to you so far– the lack of craft, the discomforting politics, the cliche qualities…? Well, those those don't sound very meaningful at all, do they? I mean, if I really cared all that much about lack of craft, retrograde politics, or cliches, would I really still be reading comics, at all?
No, I found the comic silly for reasons deeper than what can be attributed to any alleged lack of craft. And in thinking about it, what I think it is, and why I think the comic may be worth a thought, is this: the main character. Main character, vampire-of-action Felix Gomez– he seemed silly to me.
But: why? He's almost identical to a hero of a 1970's Marvel comic, just with fewer thought balloons and more of a willingness to have sex with trollops of a Chinatown variety. He could be Son of Satan; he could be Ghost Rider; he could be Werewolf at Night.
And yet those characters seem tolerable in a way that Mr. Gomez does not. The very idea of him seemed silly to me, regardless of execution. Why? What changed from 1970-whatever to today? Mr. Gomez seemed silly, but he's just a generic R-rated action hero of the pulp variety. And I think that's the key fact here– that in fact, Felix Gomez: Vampire seemed silly BECAUSE he's a R-rated male action hero of the pulp variety. Those sort of doesn't exist anymore other than in obscure IDW books, hidden away in dark corners of your local comic shop. Not in any way that's hip.
What happened to R-rated male action heroes? What happened to bad-asses? Hemmingway killed himself– what's everyone else's excuse?
One of the big summer movies this year is the EXPENDABLES, which features or stars every single, important action hero I grew up with (with glaring exceptions like, Fred Ward from REMO WILLIAMS: THE ADVENTURE BEGINS, Taimak from THE LAST DRAGON, or Kurt Russel from a hell of a lot of awesome movies). Most of the stars are roughly 80 years old now. It's a funeral for creatine. What's striking about the movie is how they were never really replaced by a new batch of action heroes. Who are the big action stars of this summer?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! All the time, it was… We finally really did it. You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!
THE A-TEAM underperformed at the box office– THE LAST AIRBENDER exceeded expectations. Bad-ass action has been replaced by dull, computer-generated, bloodless fight scenes in children's superhero movies. "You have to see X-Men 2– Broadway star Alan Cumming sparkles aroud the White House punching people, until he sparkles away without having hurt anyone. Weeeee!" Uhm: what?! What happened to guns, knives, bows, arrows, blood, gore, viscera? What happened to American audiences lining up to see roided-up freaks violently murdering South American drug-lords for our collective bemusement? WHAT HAPPENED TO THE US OF FUCKING A?
Who were the last round of legitimate contenders for action heroes? What happened to them?
Granted, Schwarzenegger made KINDERGARTEN COP; Stallone made STOP OR MY MOM WILL SHOOT. But they made those after they had made THE TERMINATOR, CONAN THE BARBARIAN, COMMANDO, RAW DEAL, PREDATOR, THE RUNNING MAN– I repeat THE RUNNING MAN, TOTAL RECALL, ROCKY I-V, FIRST BLOOD, RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II, RAMBO III, COBRA, OVER THE TOP, TANGO AND CASH, and THE PARTY AT KITTY AND STUD'S AKA THE ITALIAN STALLION.
That really only leaves Jason Statham…? Jason Statham has not made a movie for kids, yet. Well, I like to think children can learn a lot of lessons from the CRANK movies, but those aren't explicitly for children. So: one guy. And not to be xenephobic, but: one of them foreigners. You couldn't put James Brown's LIVING IN AMERICA in a Jason Statham movie, the way you could put it in ROCKY IV. And I feel that fact is crucial to any evaluation we undertake here. And by evaluation, I'm referring of course to boners.
What happened to men? What happened to American men? Consider the words of Guy Garcia, author of the DECLINE OF MEN: "We do know that men are losing traction in high schools. The same is true in colleges, where 59% of all students are female. Harvard professors tell me male students have lost their drive and ambition, women tell me they can't find a guy who's not a dummy, slacker, cheater or loser. Men of every stripe and part of the country are telling me they feel confused, besieged and worried that they have lost their place in society, that they have lost their bearings as men."
Science? Science blames chemicals:
"[A] host of common chemicals is feminising males of every class of vertebrate animals, from fish to mammals, including people. […] It also follows hard on the heels of new American research which shows that baby boys born to women exposed to widespread chemicals in pregnancy are born with smaller penises and feminised genitals.
"This research shows that the basic male tool kit is under threat," says Gwynne Lyons, a former government adviser on the health effects of chemicals, who wrote the report.
[…] Half the male fish in British lowland rivers have been found to be developing eggs in their testes."
British fish have ovaries in their testes; the message is clear: even Jason Statham's days are fucking numbered. Look: I don't know about you, because I know you're probably down with some freaky shit, you're probably 9 kinds of DTF, but I really don't want to have to carry a baby in my testes. I need them for other things (amirightladies?) (ohI'mnot) (ohokaywellenjoyyourevening) (canijusthavesomeofyourhair).
Granted, it's still a pretty great gig, being a bro, all things considered. But what's going on? Consider, if you will, the tragic decline of our country's jocks. There was a decline in NBA ratings this year. There was a decline in NASCAR ratings. The decline in baseball is a topic of serious debate. NFL teams are declining in value.
American men are watching soccer. Soccer! For the geeks reading this, I'm pretty sure that's the American jock equivalent of the TARDIS bells sounding on DOCTOR WHO. And without jocks to act as counter-examples– geeks, nerds, dweebs, dipwads: we are all just regular old assholes and jag-offs. Consider this excerpt from Tom Spurgeon's review of Pride & Prejudice & Zombies:
"Thirty years ago ramming your z-grade peanut butter into their capital l literary chocolate felt like an act of subversion. The boring stuff far outnumbered the junk. […] These days shoving some aspect of all the junk that's out there into some poor piece of unsuspecting literature feels like something between an act of bullying and an expression of commerce on a sliding scale of self-regard."
Or consider Matt Zoller Seitz writing for Salon:
"If the Hollywood studio assembly line is high school in a John Hughes movie, superhero films are the jocks — benighted beneficiaries of grade inflation and reflexive fan boosterism."
Geek bullies. Four-eyed fucking menaces.
What became of the pulp action hero? For the 80's action hero, the fantasy seemed to have been one of physical over-competence. Is that somehow no longer a relevant fantasy for today's audience? I'm not sure why not. I don't know about you, but I've gained some weight these last couple of years– a spare tire around my mid-section, some in the jowl-area. I've got a very upsetting situation going on in my jowl-area, people. I've joined a gym, but discipline is … Discipline is an issue. It causes no small amount of anxiety, being out of shape, even though I don't think I'm quite a lost cause physically just yet. I believe the statistics suggest that I'm hardly alone in this particular anxiety– we hear now regularly of rampant obesity, declines in physical activity, and a surge in related disorders. So: shouldn't the fantasy of physical over-competence still hold some appeal for those like me, wanting to correct some years now of physical neglect? Or is the decline in that sort of hero, the fact that I look at Mr. Felix Gomez as being a silly figure instead of an aspirational figure– is that a kind of surrender, a kind of giving up? Am I part of a culture of defeat?
Heroic sexual excellence got replaced by a scene in AVATAR where a guy shoves his ponytail into a lady's hot, wet ponytail. Great, any question I ever had as to what goes through Ben & Jerry's head when they masturbate has now been answered through the wonder of movie magic. Plus, I don't know if you've heard, but apparently the one guy from LETHAL WEAPON is kind of a fucked up, in real life.
Does MARIO ACEVEDO'S KILLING THE COBRA: CHINATOWN TROLLOP offer any answers to our questions? Does it at least– at the very least– give us someone we can point at and blame? Does it offer us a convenient scapegoat, who we can arbitrarily pick out of the ether and cast aspersions on? Consider!
CLUE #1: What is the most prominent feature of vampire pulp hero Felix Gomez in KILLING THE COBRA? It is his sexual relationship with the racially-insensitive stereotype of a "sexually compliant Asian female", the aforementioned Chinatown Trollop.
CLUE #2: Felix Gomez says ridiculous things about himself that made my eyes roll into the back of my head. As one example: "I'm about ready to serve. True, I'm not much of a tennis player, but I am a champion at kicking ass." … huh?
CLUE #3: As established in the first issue, Felix Gomez has heavy-duty emotional baggage. Consider the following dialogue excerpts from issue #1:
"The agent probably had a wife and kid's waiting … He's the real hero. Compared to him, I'm a poser.
"They say shit like that stays with you a lifetime. I'm immortal. That means I'm stuck with these memories forever.
"Luckily, I have Qian Ning. My guide. My interpreter. My lover. […] But I can't fang her. I won't. More of that baggage from Iraq.
"Every time I get the thirst, I hear the screams of that little girl."
Thus, Felix Gomez presents us with three clues: emotional baggage, a tendency to make ridiculous proclamations that he's a "champion at kicking ass", and a disturbing Asian fetish. What do these three things add up to?
Answer: Rivers Cuomo.
Lead singer of the band WEEZER, whose album PINKERTON is widely considered to have first introduced emo-rock to mainstream audiences. Fact: Weezer signed with Geffen Records, on June 25, 1993. The same day, Kim Campbell became the first female Prime Minister of Canada. Historical fact! Connect the dots!
Look, I'm not saying that Weezer's music is a proximate cause of the increase in British fish with eggs in their testes because, well, we probably lack the genetic data necessary to separate cause from correlation. But if we need someone to blame, then the page I'm on, and the page that I think MARIO ACEVEDO'S KILLING THE COBRA: CHINATOWN TROLLOP is on, and the page maybe you should consider being on, is that the GREEN ALBUM is more likely than not a harbinger of testicular disfgurements.
They called off development of a James Bond movie the other day. And even that– they had hired the director of AMERICAN BEAUTY and AWAY WE GO, real festivals of machismo. The world can not even muster the financial resources to create pussified James Bond movies– meanwhile, work proceeds to have TWILIGHT 5, 6, and 7 shot simultaneously.
What is MARIO ACEVEDO'S KILLING THE COBRA: CHINATOWN TROLLOP #2, but further evidence, on what is fast becoming a mountain of evidence, that we are the damned, and we have been condemned to hell?
But I have to believe there's still hope. Somewhere in America, there's a young boy doing steroids for the first time because he wants to beat up the weaker children in his class. Somewhere in America, a teenager is dropping out of high school, to spend his days at a gym, where he will smoke dope and lift weights and dream of Hollywood stardom. Somewhere, in schools across this great land, at least once schools are back in session, maybe not this second, nobody's perfect– but somewhere, young men are imagining that they or their sons or their son's sons will travel into space, to distant lands, to conquer alien species, rob them of their mineral resources, and copulate with voluptuous three-breasted alien women.
Ultimately, I place my faith in the simple truth, that we are a people waging two wars we can't afford, that we are at heart a bloodthirsy and savage race of butchers, and that the arc of history is long, but it bends towards us someday again making rad movies and bitchin' comics glorifying our unquenchable lust for raining violence down onto the innocent people around us. God bless you, and God bless America.
13 Responses to " Abhay re: Killing the Cobra #2; This Might Have Been Better a Week Ago, But… Whoops. "
A friend and I also discussed the lack of new action stars too, and what happened to the new crop. Let's not forget that there was an ill-fated post-Vin Diesel XXX movie starring Ice Cube (of NW fucking A fame), who now pimps TBS sitcoms.
Also, you missed a chance to embed Rivers Cuomo's lame-ass USA Soccer theme!
Pretty damn funny Abhay. Oh, forgot to give you a high five for the Don Glut interview – that was excellent.
I thought No Country For Old Men was pretty unflinching.
I still go back to Unforgiven, though, for a thorough expression of manliness rediscovered.
Little Bill Daggett: I don't deserve this… to die like this. I was building a house.
Will Munny: Deserve's got nothin' to do with it.
[aims gun]
Little Bill Daggett: I'll see you in hell, William Munny.
Will Munny: Yeah.
I dunno, have you seen Kindergarten Cop lately? That one's a comedy with precious little comedy in it, and more shooting dudes in the stomach.
There's no explaining Junior, though.
Yo abhay-
I haven't even read this yet, But I just wanted to tell you how jazzed I get when you throw up content. It makes my day. I am a big fan of your writing, man. I even went and watched The Snake and Mystery Team on your recommendation ((liked The Snake, but Mystery Team just wasn't made with me in mind, I don't think).
Anyway, I just wanted to creep you out with a little slobber. But for real, this makes me way happier than you would probably be comfortable with. I have just put my toddler to sleep, and am really excited that I have a big post by you to wade through in the short bit of day that I keep to myself.
Just so you know that you are not spitting into the wind here. No need for a restraining order, this is strictly an Internet crush, no imminent danger, I swear…
All the real men are in video-games nowadays. You ever play GEARS OF WAR? The male characters in that are made out of the mince-meat of alligators stirred up with volcanic ash. In the world of GEARS OF WAR, women are mounted like anti-aircraft guns – on short-walls of roughly hip height. All doorways are two foot wide to avoid everybody having to turn sideways to fit their ENORMOUS shoulders through. It's a simpler world, a stupider world, a MANLIER world.
I sadly doubt that Neveldene/Taylor are capable of reinstigating any kind of eighties machismo singlehandedly, seeing as they're essentially throwbacks. Nowadays, the hard fighting is done by Industrial Light & Magic and Weta and, in the case of TWILIGHT, an Amiga 1200 (with hard-drive). Even the big action movie of the year (INCEPTION) is an art-house movie. And the big action movies of the last few years have been filled with comedians or washed-up old goats or Shia McBeef. It's a sad state of affairs when the manliest performance in the last year was Alexander Skarsgard ("Totally ninja") – a male model.
Yeah, so I have always felt that democracy was a province of the weak, (Politics of the WEAK, coming to a Factual Opinion near you!!!) and as such think voting is for pussies and purple-fingered Arabs. However, I my resolve wavered once and I found myself filling out an absentee ballot in the early 2000's.
Side Note:
My ma has (as a conversation starter) an essay of mine from seventh grade (circa H.W. Bush administration) carefully outling why I believed that a mister Arnold J. Schwarzenegger would/will become Governor of my then home-state of CA. FACT!
I think you know where this is going. If I find myself, in a moment of weakness, participating in this pussy-ass institution THE REPUBLIC, then I damn well better be a) proving my own clairvoyance/mutant powers and b) making sure that Danny DeVito's ugly twin is getting my vote.
It wasn't a recall, it was TOTAL RECALL.
Grey Davis has a camel-toe. TRUE STORY!
1. The Ice Cube XXX has a fantastic opening scene, where CIA headquarters or whatever gets attacked and all these people get murdered– Sam Jackson barely escapes with his life. And 5 seconds after escaping and seeing all his co-workers get massacred, he's on a cell phone, and his very first thing he says is "It's time for a new XXX." What??? The rest of the movie was sharply downhill though…
2. No Country for Old Men was a good one; I find myself thinking about a Serious Man a lot. That's a pretty great screenplay– all the pieces of it fit together so perfectly. Todd Alcott's multi-part analysis of that really gets into the nitty-gritty of it.
3. Junior and Jingle All the Way are both such weird memories– it's a little hard to believe those were real movies. Jingle All the Way gave us years of great Conan-Robert Smigel Clutch-Cargo moments though.
4. Thanks for the nice words, Mateo, and congratulations on … clairvoyance…? Sorry about Mystery Team though– it's very much made for me, but it's still a movie by a sketch comedy troupe, which.. .I can see how that wouldn't be for everybody. It's just really, really for me. I wish I could say, "If you liked the Snake, you should check out ___" but… There's really not much out there quite like the Snake. I'm about to start watching Slings and Arrows, though, which I only found out about yesterday– it's on Netflix– I'd liked the early seasons of the Newsroom and obviously Kids and the Hall– but I don't really watch a lot of Canadian tv, so that had gotten by me… Hopefully that'll be good. No idea though– just saw a clip on youtube that was funny: "Darren Nichols on Musical Theatre."
5. Oh god, Gears of War– good point. How could I have forgotten Cole Train?? Cole Train is pure magic dipped in the wonder of a child.
reminded me of the 2003 classic The Pussification of the Western Male, a dead serious rant by conservative writer Kim du Toit. Still available here: http://pirate-king.com/episode/1062
Abhay – have you seen From Paris With Love? It's Travolta doing a 70s guy-shoots-shit movie, only with added America makes the rules, screw you Europe subtext.
I haven't! Travolta's bald + facial hair combo in that movie drove me away more than anything, though– that was a good one? I don't know how much I trust the Luc Besson factory of action, though I did like Taken and Wasabi, and I guess La Femme Nikita if that one counts. I'll check it out though…
Last movie I saw was a Criterion thing– this British wartime mystery film Green for Danger, off Netflix. The mystery wasn't very good, and I wasn't that interested in the story, but one good spooky moment and the lead detective character was really terrific.
Oh, and Exit by the Gift Shop– which was really excellent.
[…] A new Abhay article! Time to celebrate! Naturally, it's another tour de force in which Abhay begins reviewing a comic […]
We've still got Jack Reacher.
If you don't care about the quality of the films, you can buy a slew of Steven Seagal DVDs. You can also go see PREDATORS.
The possible absence of "bankable" action-adventure heroes doesn't bother me. The concepts and the technology have become more important than the actors.


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Jets coach Rex Ryan complained last week that the Patriots "disrespected" his team by trying a deep pass in the final minute of a 31-14 conquest of New York last Sunday.
But Hall of Fame semifinalist Shannon Sharpe had a different take for Ryan's complaint on Sunday: It's his own fault.
Sharpe, a CBS analyst, said on The NFL Today that the braggadocio flashed by Ryan since becoming the Jets coach, especially toward Patriots coach Bill Belichick, has brought him notice that head coaches don't need.
Said Sharpe:
The first thing he said when he got to the New York Jets was 'I'm not here to kiss Bill Belichick's rings.' Well, you don't think coach Belichick heard that?
"You can't get upset when you call someone out and they give it right back to you."
The bold, rah-rah attitude was fine when Ryan was a defensive coordinator, Sharpe said. But now as a head coach, his words will have more consequences. -- Sean Leahy
Nate Davis is a reporter, blogger and editor who's been at USA TODAY since 2000. He has covered the NFL since 2005. No, he did not play quarterback for Ball State. Davis' succession of our esteemed colleague Sean Leahy at The Huddle is considered a Brady-for-Bledsoe swap by most "insiders."More about Nate


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Good news for fans of former Disney stars sampling seminal New York post-punk bands! In one of the least expected -- but extremely welcome -- releases of the year, Selena Gomez has dropped her Talking Heads interpolating new single Bad Liar, and it is, well, a bit of a jam. A sparse, grooving play on Tina Weymouth's bassline from the band's 1977 classic Psycho Killer, it sees the former child actress wax lyrical about that moment in a relationship when you first fall for someone, but don't really want to go so far as to say it [insert speculation about which famous beau she could be singing about here].
Back to the music: "Selena and Julia are Talking Heads-obsessed," said songwriter Justin Tranter in an interview with Variety. "So when we all got together in one room, Julia Michaels [co-writer] suggested, 'Why don't we just write over the bassline from Psycho Killer?' and we were all going, 'That sounds great!' [Talking Heads singer David Byrne] heard it, loved it and approved it, which was a pretty crazy moment for us. To have David Byrne listed next to our names is just so cool."
Whatever next? Demi Lovato sampling Gang of Four? Nick Jonas doing Cabaret Voltaire? If it's anything as good as this, readers, we're down. Press play below.
You can watch a video for the song -- the first to ever be released on Spotify, would you believe, here.
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Mr Blunkett said he "fought very hard against" the concept of 24-hour cities.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the Cabinet papers would prove this when released.
Mr Blunkett said society was now "undoubtedly more tolerant" but expectations were higher.
There had been a "remarkable change" in communications over the last 20 years.
As well as creating a 24-hour media, it had resulted in "24-hour cities, which I actually hate and fought very hard against, when I was in Government".
Asked if he fought against extended opening hours, he said: "Yes, I did actually, and when the papers are released it will be shown not because I'm being clever in retrospect but because I have an intolerance of the intolerable.
"The intolerable is people disturbing, making a nuisance, causing havoc for other people.
"I had it in my earlier life and it was awful living next door to someone who made your life a misery.
"I've always had a rule of thumb ... which is I won't tolerate for other people, what I won't tolerate for myself."
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square planar
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Which of these apply to drawing lewis structures?
Count total number of valence electrons.
Underline the central atom
The atom that is the "most electron needy," ( the one which is further right on the periodic table) is placed in the middle.
Link other atoms to the central atom using single covalent bond (- =2e).
All the atoms must contain 8 electrons except Be=4 , B=6 and H=2
If an atom has insufficient electrons, take a lone pair from a neighbour and create multiple bonds between them.
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Mango Chicken Your Kids Will Eat
Recipe by tigerduck
Ok, I don't have kids myself, but this African dish is very mildly spiced, creamy and slightly sweetish from the mango puree, so I assume your kids - and whoever doesn't like hot food - will enjoy this dish from Zambia. The instructions may seem long, but this is only because I suggested some options. It's really an easy dish.
Top Review by katia
An interesting recipe and so unique. It wasn't too spicy and so next time I'll use more spices. The mango gave a sweeteness to the dish and maybe its was too sweet for my taste. Next time I'll try it with more spices and less mango. But I eat it and enjoyed it with basmatti rice. A great dinner. A very good recipe, Tigerduck!
Ingredients Nutrition
- 600 g chicken breasts (ca 4 breasts)
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
- 1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger
- 1 ripe mango
- 2 tablespoons peanut oil
- 3 shallots, finely chopped (120g)
- 1 teaspoon coriander
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- 1 teaspoon turmeric
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 200 ml single cream (if the single cream in your country works well in sauces, otherwise use cream)
- salt
- black pepper, freshly ground
Directions See How It's Made
- You've got two options: either you follow the original recipe and leave the chicken breasts whole which means that you fry them and cut them afterwards - or you slice the chicken breasts which obviously means that you don't need to cut the meat after frying. The meat I bought was sliced already, so I couldn't follow the original recipe.
- Whatever you decide, marinate either the whole or sliced chicken breasts with the crushed clove and grated ginger. One hour (or more) if you leave the breasts whole and 30 minutes (or more) if you decide to cut them in advance.
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Extracorporeal photochemotherapy (ECP), also known as photopheresis, is a generally well-tolerated therapeutic, immunomodulatory approach successfully used in cutaneous T-cell lymphoma and other diseases produced by T-lymphocytes such as graft vs host disease.
On 2 separate occasions, a 54-year-old white man with Sézary syndrome developed cutaneous phototoxic reactions and chorioretinitis after being treated with ECP. A pharmacokinetic study showed therapeutic blood levels of 8-methoxypsoralen as long as 18 weeks after therapy had been terminated. However, the analysis of mutations in genes involved in the drug's disposition could not explain these abnormal levels.
To our knowledge, there has been no previous description of ECP-related retinal toxic effects. This adverse effect was probably linked to impaired drug elimination. Further studies would be needed to determine the underlying mechanism.
Extracorporeal photochemotherapy (ECP) or photopheresis is a therapeutic approach based on the biological effect of 8-methoxypsoralen (8-MOP) plus UV-A light on mononuclear cells collected by apheresis and reinfused into the patient. Photopheresis was first successfully used to treat cutaneous T-cell lymphoma and is now also used to treat T-lymphocyte mediated diseases.1 The treatment is generally well tolerated by the patient, with a low incidence of adverse effects, most of which are mild and transitory.2
One of the reasons for the relative lack of clinical complications is the rapid elimination of the drug. It is known that cytochrome P450 (CYP) is involved because induction of this hepatic enzyme system leads to increased metabolism of the drug.3 Although the specific enzymes involved in 8-MOP metabolism are still unknown, there are indications that polymorphic enzymes such as CYP3A4, CYP3A5, or CYP2A6 could either be involved in the elimination of psoralen-type compounds or be inhibited by them.4- 6 Psoralen has also been suggested to have an interaction with P-glycoprotein,7 a transmembrane protein encoded by the ABCB1 (MDR1) gene, which functions as a drug efflux pump and is involved in resistance to many anticancer therapies. Numerous polymorphisms and haplotypes have been described that can alter the expression and/or function of these genes and could therefore affect 8-MOP metabolism or transport.
We report herein a complication in a patient with Sézary syndrome who was treated with ECP and developed retinal toxic reactions. The case study showed unexplained, extremely durable levels of plasma psoralen.
The patient authorized the scientific presentation of the data. The response to treatment was evaluated clinically by the Edelson skin score method,8 which quantifies the severity of the symptoms on a scale of 0 to 400 points. The percentage of lymphocytes with the characteristic pathological (CD3+, CD4+, and CD7−) phenotype was determined by quantitative flow cytometry.
We used a previously described ECP technique9 with minor modifications. Briefly, we used a Fresenius blood cell separator (AS.TEC-204, program PBSC-Ly; Fresenius AG, Bad Homburg, Germany) to collect 100 to 150 mL of mononuclear cell concentrate. The mononuclear cell concentrate buffy coat was adjusted to a constant volume of 300 mL by addition of isotonic sodium chloride solution and 3 mL of 8-MOP aqueous solution (Gerot Pharmazeutika, Vienna, Austria) to give a final drug concentration of 200 ng/mL. The buffy coat was transferred to a UV-A permeable bag (MacoPharma, Tourcoing, France) and irradiated with UV-A under continuous shaking at 2 J/cm2 for 15 minutes using a UV-A irradiator (UVAFEC) previously developed by our group.10 Finally, the resulting 8-MOP–photoactivated mononuclear cell concentrate was reinfused into the patient within 30 minutes. The effectiveness of the irradiation was evaluated by the response of the irradiated cells to phytohemagglutinin and by the flow-cytometric determination of cell viability (BrdU Flow Kits; Becton Dickinson & Co, Franklin Lakes, NJ).
This protocol was applied in biweekly cycles, each consisting of 2 procedures given on 2 consecutive days.
With the last ECP cycle administered, we monitored the psoralen plasma levels by high-performance liquid chromatography using the method described by Gómez et al.11 Ten samples from different patients receiving the same ECP protocol were used for comparison purposes.
In an attempt to determine the existence of gene polymorphisms that could affect psoralen disposition and hence at least in part explain the extreme durability of therapeutic blood levels of the drug observed in our patient, we tested for the presence of the commonest polymorphisms that affect the CYP3A4 and CYP3A5 genes in whites, namely CYP3A4*1B12 and CYP3A5*3, and for the existence of CYP2A6 functional variant alleles (CYP2A6*2,14CYP2A6*4,15CYP2A6*5,16 and CYP2A6*917) using previously described techniques. Finally, the presence of the ABCB1C1236T, G2677T, and C3435T allelic variants was determined by direct sequencing using a method developed in our laboratory.
A 54-year-old man diagnosed with Sézary syndrome was admitted to our hospital for ECP treatment. Physical examination showed generalized pruriginous erythrodermia and axillary and inguinal lymph node enlargement. The laboratory evaluation showed leukocytosis (16.9 × 109/L with 69% of Sézary cells in the blood smear), and normal hemoglobin level (16.6 g/dL) and platelet count (278 × 103/μL). A characteristic T-lymphoma immunophenotype (CD3+, CD4+, and CD7−) was observed in 88% of lymphocytes and 42% of leukocytes. Skin and lymph node biopsies confirmed the diagnosis of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, and rearrangements of the T-cell receptor γ chain gene were demonstrated in both biopsy specimens and in peripheral blood. The hepatic and renal biochemistry measurements and findings from the cardiovascular and ocular examinations were normal.
The patient underwent intensive treatment with photopheresis cycles initially accompanied by corticosteroid therapy. After the fourth cycle, the patient developed cutaneous phototoxic reactions following overexposure to sunlight. He had taken no other drugs or natural products that could explain this adverse reaction. One week after the fifth cycle, he presented abrupt bilateral loss of visual acuity (2/20 in both eyes). Ophthalmic exploration showed chorioretinitis, and findings from subsequent studies ruled out underlying pathologic conditions associated with uveitis. He was treated with methylprednisolone (250 mg intravenously every 6 hours for 5 days), which resulted in complete retinal healing and total recovery of visual acuity.
Given the good response of the lymphoma to the therapy, we decided to apply a further ECP cycle with absolute protection from UV-A radiation and observation of the psoralen levels. The monitoring revealed unexpected detectable concentrations of the drug long after its administration (Table). Four weeks after this treatment, the patient presented a new chorioretinitis, which again responded to high doses of corticosteroids. No further photopheresis was performed.
The Figure shows the aforementioned clinical complications and the patient's response to therapy. The patient is presently receiving treatment with oral retinoids, the lymphoma is in remission, and the visual acuity is 16/20 OU.
A, Clinical complications of extracorporeal photochemotherapy (ECP): images of solar erythema and the first chorioretinitis episode; B, cycles of ECP and corticosteroid treatment; and C, clinical evolution of lymphoma evaluated by skin score and percentage of pathological phenotype lymphocytes. PK indicates pharmacokinetics.
Data from over 160 centers in Europe and the United States have shown ECP to have a very low adverse effect profile, and, to our knowledge, no cases of retinal toxic effects have previously been reported. However, our patient developed cutaneous phototoxic reactions and chorioretinitis after the fifth cycle of ECP. Chorioretinitis reappeared 4 weeks after a further ECP cycle, coinciding with unexpected measurable plasma levels of 8-MOP.
Psoralen may produce various eye injuries including corneal and lens opacities, conjunctival hyperemia, lessened tear production, and increased retinal photosensitivity.18- 20 Chorioretinitis, however, has not been described. In general, avoiding exposure to sunlight is recommended for just 48 hours after each ECP cycle. In our patient, with such persistent drug levels, subsequent exposure to intense sunlight could have photoactivated the 8-MOP because the UV-A radiation is not completely filtered by the lens. Nonetheless, other mechanisms such as immune processes cannot be ruled out. Our ECP procedure is performed by adding 8-MOP directly to the mononuclear cell concentrate instead of oral administration. The amount of psoralen administered to a patient in this way is negligible, which explains why psoralen was not detected in the blood at any time in any of the 10 comparison ECP patients. The half-life of 8-MOP in blood following oral administration is approximately 1 hour. However, for our patient, the pharmacokinetic study carried out after administration of the last ECP cycle showed that he had measurable drug levels even 18 weeks later (Table). A psoralen blood concentration of at least 50 ng/mL and simultaneous exposure to UV-A radiation are needed for phototoxic effects to take place in tissue.21 With the dose used in every procedure of ECP (0.06 mg) and assuming total impairment of drug elimination, at least 5 procedures would be necessary to reach levels of 50 ng/mL in a patient weighing approximately 70 kg. Our patient manifested the first ocular toxic effect after the 10th procedure.
The detectable drug level at time zero following the final ECP cycle (40 ng/mL; Table) demonstrated the existence of drug accumulation during the former ECP procedures, which made us suspect the existence of an alteration in a metabolic route involved in the drug's elimination. We tried to confirm this hypothesis by determining the presence of polymorphisms in drug metabolizing enzymes and transporters possibly involved in psoralen disposition. Of the CYP genes analyzed, the patient only carried the CYP3A5*3 allelic variant, which is present in more than 90% of the white population.22 He was also found to be heterozygous for 3 polymorphisms found in the P-glycoprotein–encoding gene ABCB1, namely C1236T, G2677T, and C3435T. While these mutations have been related to decreased P-glycoprotein functionality and subsequent drug accumulation and toxic effects,23 in our opinion it is unlikely that a heterozygous haplotype relatively common in the white population24 would lead to such an accumulation of 8-MOP as observed in the present case. Additional polymorphism, haplotype, and even phenotype analyses are needed to explain the extremely persistent drug levels in this patient.
In summary, to our knowledge, this is the first report of retinal toxic reactions resulting from ECP therapy. The mechanism of this adverse effect probably involves a genetic defect that seriously affects genes involved in 8-MOP metabolism or transport. Further studies should be undertaken to try to identify this defect and to determine whether it might be useful to explore this possibility before the implementation of photopheresis therapies to prevent similar problems in other patients.
Correspondence: Jose Manuel Vagace, MD, PhD, Department of Hematology, Infanta Cristina University Hospital, Avda Elvas s/n, E-06080 Badajoz, Spain (firstname.lastname@example.com).
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Accepted for Publication: November 7, 2006.
Author Contributions: Dr Vagace had full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. Study concept and design: Vagace, Gervasini, Benitez, and Bajo. Acquisition of data: Vagace, Gervasini, Morais, Alonso, de Argila, and Arranz. Analysis and interpretation of data: Vagace, Gervasini, Morais, Benitez, Alonso, de Argila, Arranz, and Bajo. Drafting of the manuscript: Gervasini and Morais. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: Vagace, Gervasini, Morais, Benitez, Alonso, de Argila, and Arranz. Administrative, technical, and material support: Gervasini, Morais, and Arranz. Study supervision: Vagace, Gervasini, Benitez, de Argila, Arranz, and Bajo.
Funding/Support: This study was supported in part by grants PI 020406 and 03/1432 from Fondo de Investigacion Sanitaria, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo, Madrid, Spain, and Fondo Social Europeo; and grants SCSS0502 from Junta de Extremadura, Consejeria de Sanidad y Consumo, Merida, Spain, and 2PRO4A052 from Junta de Extremadura, Consejería de Educación Ciencia y Tecnología, Merida.
Vagace JM, Gervasini G, Morais F, Benitez J, Alonso N, de Argila D, Arranz I, Bajo R. Retinal Toxic Reactions Following Photopheresis. Arch Dermatol. 2007;143(5):622-625. doi:10.1001/archderm.143.5.622
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Newsletter. Application of the Concept of 'Beneficial Ownership of the Income to Dividends'. November 2016
Application of the Concept of "Beneficial
Ownership of the Income" to Dividends
November 2016
Decision of the Arbitrazh (Commercial) Court of Moscow dd. October 31, 2016 in Case No А40-113217/2016
The Arbitrazh Court of Moscow has rendered a decision declaring lawful the denial of application of a concessionary tax rate to dividends payable to companies being residents of the Republic of Cyprus. The denial is motivated by the tax authority's opinion to the effect that the Cypriot shareholders served as a "conduit company", i.e. were flow-through companies specially established to make benefitting from the Double Taxation Treaty (DTT) with Cyprus possible. The said decision is especially important in the light of the fact that the tax authority had been auditing liabilities of a Russian company which was the source of dividends, over the period that preceded the introduction in the Russian Tax Code (from the year 2015) of the concept of "beneficial ownership of the income" (the audit covered the year 2011). To substantiate its findings the Court invoked the concept of unjustified tax benefit.
Beneficial Ownership of the Dividends
Most of DTTs to which Russia is a party (including the DTT with Cyprus of April 02, 2012) stipulate that concessionary rates of the tax on dividends are applicable to the beneficial owner of such dividends. The concept of "beneficial ownership" is articulated in the official Comments to the OECD Model Tax Convention on the basis of which bilateral DTTs are developed. According to those Comments (as amended), beneficial owner of the income is a person who has the valid right to use and dispose of such income; and concessionary tax rates are not applicable to a conduit company (a person acting as a bare intermediary for payment of the income).
In 2015 this rule was incorporated in the Tax Code (in particular, Art. 7(2), Art. 312(3) of the RF TC), whereby the right to apply relevant concessionary tax rates under a DTT is afforded to the "beneficial owner" (the word-by-word translation of the term as it is used in the RF TC is "person holding the actual right to the income"), while a person acting as an "intermediary in favor of another person" (i.e. a conduit company) does not enjoy such right.
Details of the Tax Dispute
Upon examination of the tax dispute the court determined that the Cypriot companies, being shareholders of the Russian company, were not beneficial owners of the income because they did not conduct any independent financial or business activities, the dividends were the only financial resources available to them and were remitted (by way of payment of their own dividends or repayment of loans) to BVI companies. Following this line of reasoning the court came to the conclusion that the Russian company (the tax agent) was obligated to withhold the dividend tax at the general tax rate of 15%.
Letters issued by Cypriot tax authorities, that confirmed independence of the Cypriot companies, were held refutable by the discovered evidence and thus were not taken into consideration. To substantiate applicability of the reduced tax rate provision of the DDT with Cyprus only to those companies which are beneficial owners of the income the court referred to the Comments to the Model Convention. In this context it is noteworthy that the version of the DDT with Cyprus which was applied to the tax period at issue (the year 2011) took effect only in 2012. A special place in the decision of the court is given to proving of the argument about gaining of unreasonable tax benefit from holding of shares in the Russian company through the Cypriot companies.
This legal case is one in a series of judicial precedents relevant to application of the concept of "beneficial ownership of the income" while the situation at hand is typical for many Russian companies the ownership of which is structured through foreign holding companies. This is why many Russian shareholders face the necessity of proving that their foreign companies are independent entities in terms of their organization (so-called "substance") or of proving by way of disclosure of information about the ultimate beneficiary that they have the right to apply a relevant tax rate.


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The Impact of Simple Giving
by text and photo/art by M. Robbins
About the Book
Poetry and giving are very private matters and yet, can provide encouragement for others.
Hopefully you will be encouraged as you read some of my poems regarding giving. And may you be encouraged in your trust in God as you read some of my adventures in giving.
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- Category Religion & Spirituality
5×8 in, 13×20 cm
38 Pages
- Publish Date Jan 01, 2013
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74430 Palo Verde Dr., Indian Wells, CA 92210
- $3,150,000
- 1+ Years on site
- Est: $11,671/month
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- Beds: 3
- Baths: 3 Full, 1 Half
- Single Family Home
- 5,100 sq ft
In the spirit of The Vintage Club's renaissance era, property owners and developers alike enthusiastically share in the task of residential rejuvenation through both new and renewed homes. This once spectacular Desert Home will again take center stage within the community as it completes its journey of revitalization. Offering around 5,100 square feet, the home reflects a soft contemporary and modern-day design with pitched ceilings, clerestory windows and strategically placed skylights that allow for the natural desert sunshine to fill the home. The voluminous step-down living room features a bar with seating and a fireplace while also sharing its floor level with the master suite featuring a full bath with two walk-in closets. The entry level presents a glass enclosed wine vault and leads to the dining area, two separately located guest suites and the expansive kitchen with step-in pantry and center-island. The free-form pool sits overlooking the meandering lakes. Click here to learn more about this listing.
- Year Built: 1990
- 1+ Years on site
- Single Family Home
- Beds: 3
- Baths: 3 Full, 1 Half
Listing Details
- Kitchen
- Yes
- Dining Area
- Yes
- Family Room
- Yes
- Living Room
- Yes
- Laundry Room
- Dryer, Washer
- Appliances
- Dishwasher, Disposal, Refrigerator
- Flooring
- Carpeted, Tile
- Lot Features
- Lake View, Water View
- Lot Size
- Approximately 18295 Square Feet
- Parking
- Parking Space (3)
- Features
- Patio, Stucco Exterior
- Cooling
- Central Air, Central Cooling
- Heating
- Forced Air
- Assessed Taxable Amount
- $1,548,255
- Tax Amount
- $19,406
- Last Transaction Date
- 05/22/2015
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- Bedrooms
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- Bathrooms
- 1
- Floors
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- Year Built
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- Units
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- Pool
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- 45768 Portola Ave
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- 43775 Deep Canyon Rd
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- 73925 Fred Waring Dr
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- 43775 Deep Canyon Rd
- The Academy Of Palm Desert Community Presbyterian
- 47321 Highway 74
- Palm Desert Charter Middle School
- 74200 Rutledge Way
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- 74910 Aztec Rd
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- 43330 Palm Royale Dr
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Stayed this past weekend, the remodeled lobby, restaurant and bar had all opened up only 2 weeks prior. The remodel is very nice, with 2 gas fireplaces in the cozy lobby seating area. The restaurant has been re-located to the mezzanine level, along with the bar, and these are open to the lobby below. They spent some serious money on the furnishings and fixtures, but beware there are no views like from the Grandviews bar and restaurant they replaced. They say that Grandviews will no longer be a public area, and be converted into meeting room space. Sad, as this was a very nice feature of this property with impressive views from the 36th floor.
Check in was prompt, but slightly confusing, as staff each are situated at small desks with laptops. It seems they are going for a boutique hotel look, but when you have over 500 rooms and no intuitive way to queue up, it gets crowded. The doormen were always very efficient at hailing cabs and providing directions. There's also a lot of staff standing around by the elevators and I could never figure out exactly what their jobs were. The breakfast buffet is very good, and is $25 a person, though service seemed a bit unsteady. Perhaps the staff is still very new.
Rooms were nice and very clean. No curtains. There are some light plastic movable shades, and then a roll down room darkening shade powered by switches next to the bed. Room was very quiet while I was there, except on Saturday night during a massive rain and wind storm the building's steel structure squeaked and groaned for hours, keeping us awake. I was surprised that no robes were provided in the room, and after 2 phone requests for 2 bathrobes, only 1 ever showed up. Also, newspapers for elite members are not delivered to the door as at other Hyatts, but are left in the elevator lobby. The bathroon did have a great shower, and hot water was abundant each morning. A very welcome touch was that the room had a mini-fridge that was empty so that you could stock your own drinks in it for your stay. No mini bar. There are a couple convenience stores within a block or two of the hotel along Sutter Street. You are also almost right on Union Square, and the heart of San Francisco's shopping district. Literally every major department store and boutique has an outlet within a few block radius of the Grand Hyatt.
Overall, a nice renovation job, and I would stay here again, if just for the location. They do have a few kinks to work out training personnel, but hopefully this will be accomplished very soon. I do hope they will re-open the 36th floor bar space again someday.
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Matt Cain has been one of the Giants' premiere pitching prospects to come up in the new millennium and has been dubbed a future ace after being taken with the teams first pick in the 2002 draft. And before I get started, I just wanted to reassure that I am not down on Matt Cain, and I still do believe he has a bright future. Heck he hasn't even had his 24th birthday yet. However, Matt Cain has been as unpredictable of pitcher as any this season, and he hasn't shown much progress over the last 2 years. Last years' 16-loss season was due mainly to the fact that he was getting less than 2 runs per game as support, but this year, that hasn't necessary been the case. Cain is getting hit hard, when he used to be one of the tougher pitchers in the league to hit, and he's walking a lot of guys as well. It also has some people concerned that his fastball has dropped down to the low 90's rather than the 94-96 mph heater he was bringing over the last 2 1/2 seasons. Also, not saying that Cain is on the level that Tim Lincecum is, but Lincecum is 16-3 pitching for the same squad that Cain is 8-12 for. I still think he has a future as a #2 starter in this league, but he's just not making the progress that he should be. There have been times when Cain has looked like a future ace and a guy who could eat 220 innings a year easily and successfully. However, as we close in on the end of his 3rd full big league season, a benchmark year for pitchers, Cain hasn't established himself as a top end starter in this league. He's actually kind of becoming somewhat of an enigma. Every time you think he's going to start putting it all together, he seems to take a few steps back. Normally teams look for young pitchers to take that next step in their third full season, but year number 3 has been the worst of the young right-handers career. It's tough to get too concerned about a guy who hasn't even hit his 24thLincecum is, but Timmy is in the hunt for a Cy Young award while pitching for the same squad that Cain is 8-12 for, so you can't blame everything on the 8 guys behind him. The Giants need Cain to be a 15+ game winner and if he doesn't start showing that in 2009, he may be the guy dealt for that power bat the Giants so desperately seek.
Speaking of power hitters, getting one will likely be at the very top of the Giants wish list heading into the off-season. The only question right now is where are they going to put someone? The emergence of Travis Ishikawa and Pablo Sandoval may keep the Giants from looking at first basemen this winter, but second and third base will still be a glaring holes. The team also looks committed making Emmanuel Burriss their everyday shortstop next season (even with his recent injury), so between him and Ivan Ochoa, they look content at short. The free agent market will once again be thin with difference makers this winter so finding a trade partner seems like the best bet in order to add offense. The only potential free agent third basemen that have power are Joe Crede and Hank Blalock. I don't think I would really consider either of those guys a difference maker, so I would hate to see the Giants throw 50-60 million at another injury-prone veteran. This is going to be an interesting winter for Brian Sabean as he will have some money to spend and trading chips to work with.
Note: Fred Lewis, one of the Giants most consistent offensive performers, had season ending surgery on his foot. He had a problem with a bunion that had been bothering him for over a month and really affected his play. Still, Lewis established himself this year as an everyday player and will be starting in left field and likely hitting at the top of the order in 2009.
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The town of Ludlow lies within a curve of the River Teme and this provides a natural defensive border around the town's southern and western sides. The river goes around a rocky hill and it is on the top of this hill that the castle is located. In medieval times the town itself was surrounded by a stone wall which formed part of the castle's outer battlements. To the south and east of the castle there was no natural defence and so a ditch was cut into the rock between the outer walls and the town. The ditch has now been filled in and cannot be seen. There would have been a bridge crossing the outer ditch but again nothing can be seen.
The outer bailey
Although most of the castle is now a ruin there is much that can be explored. The castle consists of an inner and outer bailey. The outer bailey is rectangular in shape and the inner bailey is pear drop shaped. The inner bailey is located in the north-west corner of the castle and is cut off by a ditch cut into the rock. The main entrance to Ludlow Castle is via the gatehouse on the eastern side. The outer bailey is surrounded by the castle's curtain wall and several buildings have been constructed along the inside of the wall. These buildings vary in date and were constructed after the medieval period.
The inner bailey
The inner bailey is surrounded by walls and access to it is through a strong tower-gatehouse keep called the Great Tower. This keep has been modified greatly over the years with sections of it being removed and other sections added to. Several large buildings are arranged along the north side of the inner bailey. Originally built in the Norman period they were improved in the Edwardian period and beyond.
The round chapel
Within the inner bailey is a small round chapel built by the Normans and resembling the temple church in London. The chapel was said to be dedicated to St Mary Magdalene. Not much remains except the west door and the circular nave with a mural arcade that was once filled with panels. The door is an example of enriched Norman work and has chevron mouldings on the outer arch. The arcade within the nave consists of seven arches each side of the door. The arches are round and are either plain or have chevrons. The chancel section of the church has now gone but excavations have shown that it was square and had an semi-octagonal apse at the end. At some later point the chancel and apse were removed and a building added that joined the eastern side of the inner bailey curtain wall. A second floor was inserted into the round chapel and a doorway cut on the northern side so that this second floor could be reached directly from the living quarters via a wooden bridge.
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This rough plan of the town of Ludlow shows the position of the castle to the north west and the River Teme that provides a natural defensive barrier to the south and west.
An imaginative plan of the inner bailey area of Ludlow Castle.
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|Ludlow castle siege
|Ludlow Castle was captured on behalf of Matilda in 1138 and King Stephen besieged the castle in an attempt to regain it. During the siege the King bravely saved Prince Henry of Scotland from being injured by a grappling hook thrown from the castle.[1]
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|Battle of Blore Heath
|Led by Richard Earl of Salisbury the Yorkists in the north mobilised an army and headed south to meet the Duke of York at Ludlow. Salisbury was intercepted by a Lancastrian army led by Lord Audley at Blore Heath in Shropshire. The Lancastrians were the first to attack. Their first and second cavalry charges were repulsed and when the Lancastrian foot soldiers were also repulsed they turned and fled. In the battle Audley was killed and although two of Salisbury's sons were captured they were quickly released. The Yorkists had won this battle.
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|Battle of Ludford Bridge
|The Earl of Warwick with a force from Calais reached Ludlow and the combined army of the Yorkists attacked the King's army at Ludford Bridge near Ludlow. The men from Calais refused to fight their king and a weak Yorkist army was defeated. Richard Duke of York and his younger son escaped and fled to Ireland while Salisbury, Warwick and Edward of March (later Edward IV) fled to Calais.
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|Ludlow home for the two princes
|The young Prince of Wales and his brother lived at Ludlow Castle.
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|The 4th of May had been set as the coronation date for Edward V, the new king. The Woodvilles wanted Edward crowned as soon as possible and they wanted Richard's role as Protector changed so that he didn't command so much power. The Woodvilles were concerned that with the death of Edward IV who had been their protector, old rivalries would resurface and their grip on power may fail. The King was at Ludlow and the Woodvilles escorted him to London via Northampton where it was agreed that they should meet Richard, the Duke of Gloucester. When Richard reached Northampton, he discovered that the Woodvilles had already left and were at Stony Stratford.
|Early Modern Period (1500-1800)
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|Prince Arthur took up his position as governor of the Welsh Marches and moved to Ludlow Castle. He was accompanied by his wife Catherine of Aragon.
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|Prince Arthur fell ill at Ludlow with consumption, an illness that he seems to have suffered from a lot during his life. The illness was severe and he died.
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Just the facts: I was born in Seattle two days before Christmas, one of the glut of post-war (for you youngsters out there, that would be World War II) baby boomers. I have two younger brothers. My mom was a stay-at-home, civic volunteer sort of mom who baked chocolate chip cookies (the Toll House recipe, of course) in the afternoons before we got home from school. In August, she would round up all the neighborhood kids and drill us with arithmetic flash cards to limber us up for school. My dad was a physician who researched endocrine physiology with rats and mice in between taking care of human patients. I worked in his lab during my high school summers, executing rats with a tiny guillotine, squeezing blood out of their bodies and snipping their pituitary glands out of their heads.
What else did you do before you started writing?
Almost everything. I was in my late 40s when I started to think about writing books. Before that, I raised a family and worked hard. I have a family of two terrific daughters, one wonderful husband, one charming son-in-law and two extremely cute grandchildren. I've always been a fulltime working mother—thirteen years of nursing in a pediatric hospital, then sixteen years of information system technology and business consulting. Before that, I went to college a lot: I have two bachelor's degrees and two master's degrees—one in political science, two in nursing and one in public health
Before that, I was part of the rowdier wing of the 1960s antiwar movement. I participated in lots of antiwar and civil rights demonstrations, lived in communes, went to jail in Chicago, visited Cuba in 1969, and was part of the Weather Underground organization. I have my FBI file; it's over 400 pages long. I've donated it to the University of Washington Library, which collects documents from those heady days.
Why did you decide to write books?
I love books almost more than anything in the world. Books have given me so much; I wanted to see if I could give something back. I like the challenge of trying something new. I also wanted to work on something on my own time, where I could poke through my own refrigerator, brew tea exactly the way I like it and do laundry at the same time.
What are you doing now?
I'm trying to write a novel that combines music, women's suffrage and the early twentieth-century women's labor movement. I might be biting off more than I can chew. I'm also working on some nonfiction historical stuff about the 1960s (not a memoir!).
What authors do you like to read?
I read a lot of British biographies and autobiographies. English authors tend not to dumb down their vocabularies or plots as much as American writers do. I like to read books by or about women; maybe because so much of my working life has been spent in the company of men, I've gotten tired of their world-view.
I collect book recommendations from family, friends and from the Times Literary Supplement, which is a weekly book review from London, similar to theNew York Times Book Review, but much better written and more wide-ranging.
Here are a few favorite authors: Claire Tomalin and Lyndall Gordon write wonderful biographies about very interesting people. Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hallis brilliant. Jane Austen is a genius. On the male side, I greatly admire both Terry Pratchett's Discworld books and Jasper Fforde's wonderful Thursday Next and her world. I loved Colm Toibin's The Master, a fictional take on Henry James. I used to like James a lot, but have gone off him these days, partly because he was mean to Louisa May Alcott.
One nonfiction book I highly recommend is Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's Half the Sky about women in the developing world. I wrote a blog.


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Myoe, like his contemporary Jokei, taught a full mix of Buddhism, traditional practices with esoteric tantric practices, but the esoteric practices were particularly stressed by Myoe years later and has written extensively on the subject. An excerpt of his writings (p. 59) describes the great mudra mantra mentioned inanlogy to make an impression LightThis wood really caught my attention when I read it. Esoteric, Tantric Buddhism, which focuses on the mantras and dharanis and hand gestures or mudras no sense an intellectual way, but Myoe argues that the mantra of Light, and esoteric in general, make an impression in the mind but not always a conscious level. In order to effectively discern the meaning and intent of esoteric practices which must be done through formal training by a priest in good reputation
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