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Now that the citizens had been freed of their plague, they regreted having promised so much money, and, using all kinds of excuses, they refused to pay him. Finally he went away, bitter and angry. He returned on June 26, Saint John's and Saint Paul's Day, early in the morning at seven o'clock (others say it was at noon), now dressed in a hunter's costume, with a dreadful look on his face and wearing a strange red hat. He sounded his fife in the streets, but this time it wasn't rats and mice that came to him, but rather children: a great number of boys and girls from their fourth year on. Among them was the mayor's grown daughter. The swarm followed him, and he led them into a mountain, where he disappeared with them.
All this was seen by a babysitter who, carrying a child in her arms, had followed them from a distance, but had then turned around and carried the news back to the town. The anxious parents ran in droves to the town gates seeking their children. The mothers cried out and sobbed pitifully. Within the hour messengers were sent everywhere by water and by land inquiring if the children -- or any of them -- had been seen, but it was all for naught.
In total, one hundred thirty were lost. Two, as some say, had lagged behind and came back. One of them was blind and the other mute. The blind one was not able to point out the place, but was able to tell how they had followed the piper. The mute one was able to point out the place, although he [or she] had heard nothing. One little boy in shirtsleeves had gone along with the others, but had turned back to fetch his jacket and thus escaped the tragedy, for when he returned, the others had already disappeared into a cave within a hill. This cave is still shown.
Until the middle of the eighteenth century, and probably still today, the street through which the children were led out to the town gate was called the bunge-lose (drumless, soundless, quiet) street, because no dancing or music was allowed there. Indeed, when a bridal procession on its way to church crossed this street, the musicians would have to stop playing. The mountain near Hameln where the children disappeared is called Poppenberg. Two stone monuments in the form of crosses have been erected there, one on the left side and one on the right. Some say that the children were led into a cave, and that they came out again in Transylvania.
The citizens of Hameln recorded this event in their town register, and they came to date all their proclamations according to the years and days since the loss of their children.
According to Seyfried the 22nd rather than the 26th of June was entered into the town register.
The following lines were inscribed on the town hall:
In the year 1284 after the birth of Christ
From Hameln were led away
One hundred thirty children, born at this place
Led away by a piper into a mountain.
And on the new gate was inscribed: Centum ter denos cum magus ab urbe puellos
duxerat ante annos CCLXXII condita porta fuit.
[This gate was built 272 years after the magician led the 130 children from the city.]
In the year 1572 the mayor had the story portrayed in the church windows. The accompanying inscription has become largely illegible. In addition, a coin was minted in memory of the event.
Hamelin town's in Brunswick,
By famous Hanover city;
The River Weser, deep and wide,
Washes its wall on the southern side;
A pleasanter spot you never spied;
But, when begins my ditty,
Almost five hundred years ago,
To see townsfolk suffer so
From vermin, was a pity.
They fought the dogs, and killed the cats,
And bit the babies in the cradles,
And ate the cheeses out of the vats,
And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles,
Split open the kegs of salted sprats,
Made nests inside men's Sunday hats,
And even spoiled the women's chats,
By drowning their speaking
With shrieking and squeaking
In fifty different sharps and flats.
At last the people in a body
To the Town Hall came flocking:
"'Tis clear," cried they, "our Mayor's a noddy;
And as for our Corporation -- shocking
To think we buy gowns lined with ermine
For dolts that can't or won't determine
What's best to rid us of our vermin!
You hope, because you're old and obese,
To find in the furry civic robe ease?
Rouse up, sirs! Give your brains a racking
To find the remedy we're lacking,
Or, sure as fate, we'll send you packing!"
At this the Mayor and Corporation
Quaked with a mighty consternation.
An hour they sate in council,
At length the Mayor broke silence:
"For a guilder I'd my ermine gown sell,
I wish I were a mile hence!
It's easy to bid one rack one's brain --
I'm sure my poor head aches again
I've scratched it so, and all in vain.
Oh for a trap, a trap, a trap!"
Just as he said this, what should hap
At the chamber-door but a gentle tap?
"Bless us," cried the Mayor, "What's that?"
(With the Corporation as he sat,
Looking little though wondrous fat;
Nor brighter was his eye, nor moister
Than a too-long-opened oyster,
Save when at noon his paunch grew mutinous
For a plate of turtle, green and glutinous.)
"Only a scraping of shoes on the mat?
Anything like the sound of a rat
Makes my heart go pit-a-pat!"
"Come in!" -- the Mayor cried, looking bigger:
And in did come the strangest figure!
His queer long coat from heel to head
Was half of yellow and half of red;
And he himself was tall and thin,
With sharp blue eyes, each like a pin,
And light loose hair, yet swarthy skin,
No tuft on cheek nor beard on chin,
But lips where smiles went out and in --
There was no guessing his kith and kin!
And nobody could enough admire
The tall man and his quaint attire.
Quoth one: "It's as my great-grandsire,
Starting up at the Trump of Doom's tone,
Had walked this way from his painted tombstone!"
He advanced to the council-table:
And, "Please your honors," said he, "I'm able,
By means of a secret charm, to draw
All creatures living beneath the sun,
That creep, or swim, or fly, or run,
After me so as you never saw!
And I chiefly use my charm
On creatures that do people harm,
The mole, and toad, and newt, and viper;
And people call me the Pied Piper."
(And here they noticed round his neck
A scarf of red and yellow stripe,
To match with his coat of selfsame cheque;
And at the scarf's end hung a pipe;
And his fingers, they noticed, were ever straying
As if impatient to be playing
Upon this pipe, as low it dangled
Over his vesture, so old-fangled.)
"Yet," said he "poor piper as I am,
In Tartary I freed the Cham,
Last June, from his huge swarms of gnats;
I eased in Asia the Nizam
Of a monstrous brood of vampire-bats:
And, as for what your brain bewilders,
If I can rid your town of rats
Will you give me a thousand guilders?"
"One? fifty thousand!" -- was the exclamation
Of the astonished Mayor and Corporation.
Into the street the Piper stept,
Smiling first a little smile,
As if he knew what magic slept
In his quiet pipe the while;
Then, like a musical adept,
To blow the pipe his lips he wrinkled,
And green and blue his sharp eyes twinkled
Like a candle flame where salt is sprinkled;
And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered,
You heard as if an army muttered;
And the muttering grew to a grumbling;
And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling;
And out of the houses the rats came tumbling:
Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats,
Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats,
Grave old plodders, gay young friskers,
Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins,
Cocking tails and pricking whiskers,
Families by tens and dozens,
Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives --
Followed the Piper for their lives.
From street to street he piped, advancing,
And step for step, they followed, dancing,
Until they came to the river Weser
Wherein all plunged and perished
-- Save one who, stout as Julius Caesar,
Swam across and lived to carry
(As he the manuscript he cherished)
To Rat-land home his commentary:
Which was, "At the first shrill notes of the pipe,
I heard a sound as of scraping tripe,
And putting apples, wondrous ripe,
Into a cider press's gripe:
And a moving away of pickle-tub-boards,
And a leaving ajar of conserve-cupboards,
And the drawing the corks of train-oil-flasks,
And a breaking the hoops of butter-casks;
And it seemed as if a voice
(Sweeter far than by harp or by psaltery
Is breathed) called out, Oh rats, rejoice!
The world is grown to one vast drysaltery!
So munch on, crunch on, take your nuncheon,
Breakfast, supper, dinner, luncheon!
And just as a bulky sugar-puncheon,
All ready staved, like a great sun shone
Glorious scarce an inch before me,
Just as methought it said, 'Come, bore me!'
-- I found the Weser rolling o'er me."
You should have heard the Hamelin people
Ringing the bells till they rocked the steeple.
"Go," cried the Mayor, "and get long poles!
Poke out the nests and block up the holes!
Consult with carpenters and builders,
And leave in our town not even a trace
Of the rats!" -- when suddenly up the face
Of the Piper perked in the market-place,
With a, "First, if you please, my thousand guilders!"
A thousand guilders! The Mayor looked blue;
So did the Corporation, too.
For council dinners made rare havoc
With Claret, Moselle, Vin-de-Grave, Hock;
And half the money would replenish
Their cellar's biggest butt with Rhenish.
To pay this sum to a wandering fellow
With a gypsy coat of red and yellow!
"Beside," quoth the Mayor, with a knowing wink,
"Our business was done at the river's brink;
We saw with our eyes the vermin sink,
And what's dead can't come to life, I think.
So, friend, we're not the folks to shrink
From the duty of giving you something for drink,
And a matter of money to put in your poke;
But, as for the guilders, what we spoke
Of them, as you very well know, was in joke.
Beside, our losses have made us thrifty:
A thousand guilders! Come, take fifty!"
The Piper's face fell, and he cried,
"No trifling! I can't wait, beside!
I've promised to visit, by dinner-time
Bagdat, and accept the prime
Of the Head Cook's pottage, all he's rich in,
For having left, in the Caliph's kitchen,
Of a nest of scorpions no survivor:
With him I proved no bargain-driver,
With you, don't think I'll bait a stiver!
And folks who put me in a passion
May find me pipe to another fashion."
"How?" cried the Mayor, "d'ye think I brook
Being worse treated than a cook?
Insulted by a lazy ribald
With idle pipe and vesture piebald?
You threaten us, fellow? Do your worst,
Blow your pipe there till you burst!"
Once more he stept into the street;
And to his lips again
Laid his long pipe of smooth straight cane;
And ere he blew three notes (such sweet
Soft notes as yet musician's cunning
Never gave the enraptured air)
There was a rustling, that seemed like a bustling
Of merry crowds justling at pitching and hustling,
Small feet were pattering, wooden shoes clattering,
Little hands clapping, and little tongues chattering,
And, like fowls in a farm-yard when barley is scattering,
Out came the children running.
All the little boys and girls,
With rosy cheeks and flaxen curls,
And sparkling eyes and teeth like pearls,
Tripping and skipping, ran merrily after
The wonderful music with shouting and laughter.
The Mayor was dumb, and the Council stood
As if they were changed into blocks of wood,
Unable to move a step, or cry
To the children merrily skipping by,
-- Could only follow with the eye
That joyous crowd at the Piper's back.
But how the Mayor was on the rack,
And the wretched Council's bosoms beat,
As the Piper turned from the High Street
To where the Weser rolled its waters
Right in the way of their sons and daughters!
However he turned from South to West,
And to Koppelberg Hill his steps addressed,
And after him the children pressed;
Great was the joy in every breast.
"He never can cross that mighty top!
He's forced to let the piping drop,
And we shall see our children stop!"
When, lo! as they reached the mountain-side,
A wondrous portal opened wide,
As if a cavern was suddenly hollowed;
And the Piper advanced and the children followed,
And when all were in to the very last,
The door in the mountain-side shut fast.
Did I say, all? No! One was lame,
And could not dance the whole of the way;
And in after years, if you would blame
His sadness, he was used to say, --
"It's dull in our town since my playmates left!
I can't forget that I'm bereft
Of all the pleasant sights they see,
Which the Piper also promised me;
For he led us, he said, to a joyous land,
Joining the town and just at hand,
Where waters gushed and fruit-trees grew,
And flowers put forth a fairer hue,
And everything was strange and new;
The sparrows were brighter than the peacocks here,
And their dogs outran our fallow deer,
And honey-bees had lost their stings,
And horses were born with eagles' wings;
And just as I became assured
My lame foot would be speedily cured,
The music stopped and I stood still,
And found myself outside the hill,
Left alone against my will,
To go now limping as before,
And never hear of that country more!"
Alas, alas for Hamelin!
There came into many a burgher's pate
A text which says, that heaven's Gate
Opes to the rich at as easy rate
As the needle's eye takes a camel in!
The Mayor sent East, West, North, and South
To offer the Piper by word of mouth,
Wherever it was men's lot to find him,
Silver and gold to his heart's content,
If he'd only return the way he went,
And bring the children behind him.
But when they saw 'twas a lost endeavor,
And Piper and dancers were gone forever,
They made a decree that lawyers never
Should think their records dated duly
If, after the day of the month and year,
These words did not as well appear,
"And so long after what happened here
On the Twenty-second of July,
Thirteen hundred and Seventy-six;"
And the better in memory to fix
The place of the children's last retreat,
They called it, the Pied Piper's Street --
Where any one playing on pipe or tabor
Was sure for the future to lose his labor.
Nor suffered they hostelry or tavern
To shock with mirth a street so solemn;
But opposite the place of the cavern
They wrote the story on a column,
And on the great church-window painted
The same, to make the world acquainted
How their children were stolen away,
And there it stands to this very day.
And I must not omit to say
That in Transylvania there's a tribe
Of alien people that ascribe
The outlandish ways and dress
On which their neighbors lay such stress,
To their fathers and mothers having risen
Out of some subterraneous prison
Into which they were trepanned
Long time ago in a mighty band
Out of Hamelin town in Brunswick land,
But how or why, they don't understand.
So, Willy, let you and me be wipers
Of scores out with all men -- especially pipers;
And, whether they pipe us free from rats or from mice,
If we've promised them aught, let us keep our promise.
The ratcatcher knows a particular tone, which he sounds nine times on his pipe, and then all rats follow after him, wherever he wants them to go, into a pond or a pool.
Once a village could not be rid of its rats, and finally they sent for the ratcatcher. He prepared a hazel stick in such a manner that all rats were drawn toward it. They would then have to follow anyone who took hold of the stick. Waiting until a Sunday, he laid it in front of the church door. As the people were going home after the worship service, a miller came by, saw the good-looking stick lying there and said, "That will make a fine walking stick for me." He picked it up and left the village, walking toward his mill.
Meanwhile a number of rats began to leave their cracks and corners and came running and jumping across the fields toward him. The miller, still carrying the stick, had no idea what was happening. When he came to a meadow, they ran from their holes and ran across the fields and pastures after him. Running ahead, they were inside his house before he himself was, and they stayed there as a plague that could not be overcome.
A man with a hurdy-gurdy once came to Brandenburg. He played and played, and such wonderful tones came out of his music box that all the city's children followed after him in a great swarm. He went out the gate to Marienberg (Mary's Mountain). It opened up and the man went inside with all the children. They were never seen again.
It is very noteworthy that there are no rats at all in the city of Neustadt-Eberswalde. The explanation is as follows:
In earlier times there were a great many rats there, especially in the town's grain mill, where they caused much damage. In about the year 1607 or 1608 a certain man presented himself to the council and offered to get rid of these vermin, claiming that no rats would return to the mill as long as it should stand. He did not ask for even the slightest payment until one year after he had done away with the rats. At that time his charge would be ten thalers, which was promised to him. The magistrate had him paid two thalers in advance.
The man then placed something in the mill and something else in a secret place. The following day the people saw with amazement how the rats left the mill in a great swarm and swam out into the Finow River, that flows by there. Not a single rat was left behind.
A year later the man returned to collect the eight thalers that were still owed him, and he was paid. From that time forth no trace of a rat has been seen there, neither in the mill, nor in the city.
They say that the soil from this area formerly could be used as protection against rats. People who were plagued with rats would go to Ummanz and get a sack of soil from the Rott. A small handful of this soil shook into the rat holes would be sufficient to drive the rats away within a few hours. All this was credited to the foreign sorcerer.
More recently, however, following the death of the earlier population and after many outsiders had come to Ummanz, rats found their way back to the island, and since then not even soil from the Rott will help to drive them away.
[The city of Korneuburg adjacent to Vienna was conquered by the Swedes during the Thirty Years' War in 1646.] Following an occupation of six months Korneuburg was taken back by the imperial forces. The city had by that time expanded substantially, but many of its buildings lay buried in rubble. Vermin, especially rats, multiplied beneath the ruins of the destroyed buildings until no cellar and no food storage room was safe from their devastation. Neither cats, nor traps, nor poison could bring them under control, and the city's inhabitants felt forced to flee.
A public meeting of the town council was held to decide once and for all whether to attempt continued but futile resistance against the animals or to simply abandon one's belongings, which in truth were no longer belongings at all.
There were spirited arguments back and forth when suddenly and unexpectedly a man stepped before the judge's bench and stated that he possessed the means to put an end to the city's plague. No one knew him, but his offer was accepted with loud acclaim. Everyone looked forward with fond anticipation to the next morning, when the promised rescue was to take place. In return for his deed the rescuer was to be paid a large sum of money.
As the cock crowed the man did indeed enter at the gate. He was wearing an unusual hunting outfit and carrying a very large hunter's bag. He pulled from the bag a small black transverse flute, upon which he played mournful melodies. Hoards of rats and mice followed the pipe's sound, emerging in great masses from their holes in every corner of every house in the city. They followed the flute player, who walked directly toward the Danube. There he stepped into a boat and -- continuing to play the flute -- rode to the middle of the stream. Irresistibly attracted to the music, the rats attempted to swim after him, but they all drowned in the river's raging current. Thus Korneuburg was saved.
The piper now returned and asked for the agreed payment.
Someone asked him who he was.
"I came here from Vienna," he said, "because I heard of your need. My name is Hans Mousehole, and I am the official rat killer of Magdalenengrund [a former suburb of Vienna, now part of the Mariahilf district]."
"Any fool can say that," answered a most wise councilman. "We know full well that your help is not of this world. Are you in league with the Evil One? Now see here, there is no obligation to keep one's word with black magicians or kobolds, so just take your leave, or we will turn you over to a witches' court."
"My dear people," replied the ratcatcher, "your sense of honor is remarkable, for it seems to be directed at saving you money. But hear me out. You have no right to question the means by which I saved your city from the plague. It is sufficient that it is free. I have no intention of allowing myself to be chased out of your city, and I am even less inclined to reveal to you the inner workings of my deeds, which seemed so miraculous to you. Take note that there are not merely evil, but also good higher powers. I used the latter to do good for you, for good things can come only from that which is good. But if you ungrateful people cheat me out of my well earned pay then you will come to know the evil powers as well. Thus take heed of my final word. In your city there is a recess in the wall of the house not far from the church and at its right side. Place the payment we agreed upon there before the next dawn. If you fail to do so, I will find my own reward."
He departed, followed by the loud and derisive laughter of the councilmen.
It should come as no surprise that the next morning there was no money lying in the niche.
With the sun's first rays Korneuburg experienced its own drama. Hans Mousehole, dressed in a purple-red robe and playing a golden flute, stood at the marketplace in front of the town hall. The melodious tunes that he evoked from his instrument must have sounded like music from heaven to the children, for they gathered about the mysterious musician with joyful haste. Still playing, he walked toward the Danube, where a large and handsome ship awaited him.
Led by the flute player, the procession boarded the ship. Its sails billowed, and it floated out to the middle of the stream.
This time the ratcatcher did not return. To the contrary, the ship sailed further and further from the city, and neither it nor any who were aboard were ever seen there again.
Many years later the horrified citizens of Korneuburg received news that in that same year a large number of children had been placed up for sale in the slave markets of Constantinople. They had no doubt that the children were theirs, and they rued their lack of honor, but too late.
History has recorded that Korneuburg was freed of rats at the time stated above and by a ratcatcher from Vienna in the manner described. Until not long ago there was a small rectangular marble plaque on a house in Pfarrgäßchen Street. On it could be seen an upright rat, a weathered gothic inscription, and the designation of a year, of which only the number IV could be made out. Also -- in remembrance of the event -- herdsmen from the area called their cattle and sheep together by cracking a whip instead of blowing on a cow horn.
Rats returned to the area with the great flood of 1801. Since then herdsmen have given their signals with a horn, as they had done ages ago.
The story of the abducted children, which bears a close resemblance to the legend of the Ratcatcher of Hameln, is undoubtedly based on a factual event. It may well be that during the sad times of the Thirty Years' War a flashy army piper enticed the city's youth into military service and led them away with him, and that none of the recruits returned, for they met death on the battlefield.
The mice stood at attention and then marched in orderly columns, as in the military, out of the Vinschgau district. They rested for a few days and then disappeared altogether.
Unfortunately the sorcerer disappeared with them, so the thankful inhabitants could not pay him the expected reward. No one knows the incantation, and in any event the entire legend is confused and mysterious. This may well result from the fact that it is told and retold in the village taverns, of which there are many in the countryside.
While the fire was burning he took forth a book, out of which he read much, and while he read, rats and mice, serpents and various reptiles were seen to go into the fire. But at last there came a dragon, at the sight of which the man complained that he was betrayed and must now perish himself. The serpent then wound his tail round both the man and his chair, and thus entered the fire, where they both perished together.
Newtown, or Franchville, as 'twas called of old, is a sleepy little town, upon the Solent shore. Sleepy as it is now, it was once noisy enough, and what made the noise was -- rats. The place was so infested with them as to be scarce worth living in. There wasn't a barn or a corn-rick, a storeroom or a cupboard, but they ate their way into it. Not a cheese but they gnawed it hollow, not a sugar puncheon but they cleared out. Why the very mead and beer in the barrels was not safe from them. They'd gnaw a hole in the top of the tun, and down would go one master rat's rail, and when he brought it up round would crowd all the friends and cousins, and each would have a suck at the tail.
Had they stopped here it might have been borne. But the squeaking and shrieking, the hurrying and scurrying, so that you could neither hear yourself speak nor get a wink of good honest sleep the live-long night! Not to mention that mamma must needs sit up and keep watch and ward over baby's cradle, or there'd have been a big ugly rat running across the poor little fellow's face, and doing who knows what mischief.
Why didn't the good people of the town have cats? Well they did, and there was a fair stand-up fight, but in the end the rats were too many, and the pussies were regularly driven from the field.
Poison, I hear you say? Why, they poisoned so many that it fairly bred a plague.
Ratcatchers! Why there wasn't a ratcatcher from John o' Groat's house to the Land's End that hadn't tried his luck. But do what they might, cats or poison, terrier or traps, there seemed to be more rats than ever, and every day a fresh rat was socking his tail or pricking his whiskers.
The mayor and the town council were at their wits' end. As they were sitting one day in the town hall racking their poor brains and bewailing their hard fate, who should run in but the town beadle. "Please, your honor," says he, "here is a very queer fellow come to town. I don't rightly know what to make of him."
"Show him in," said the mayor, and in he stepped.
A queer fellow, truly, For there wasn't a color of the rainbow but you might find it in some corner of his dress, and he was tall and thin, and had keen piercing eyes. "I'm called the Pied Piper," he began. "And pray what might you be willing to pay me, if I rid you of every single rat in Franchville?"
Well, much as they feared the rats, they feared parting with their money more, and fain would they have higgled and haggled. But the piper was not a man to stand nonsense, and the upshot was that fifty pounds were promised him (and it meant a lot of money in those old days) as soon as not a rat was left to squeak or scurry in Franchville.
Out of the hall stepped the piper, and as he stepped he laid his pipe to his lips and a shrill keen tune sounded through street and house. And as each note pierced the air you might have seen a strange sight. For out of every hole the rats came tumbling. There were none too old and none too young, none too big and none too little to crowd at the piper's heels and with eager feet and upturned noses to patter after him as he paced the streets. Nor was the piper unmindful of the little toddling ones, for every fifty yards he'd stop and give an extra flourish on his pipe just to give them time to keep up with the older and stronger of the band.
Up Silver Street he went, and down Gold Street, and at the end of Gold Street is the harbor and the broad Solent beyond. And as he paced along, slowly and gravely, the townsfolk flocked to door and window, and many a blessing they called down upon his head.
As for getting near him there were too many rats. And now that he was at the water's edge he stepped into a boat, and not a rat, as he shoved off into deep water, piping shrilly all the while, but followed him, plashing, paddling, and wagging their tails with delight. On and on he played and played until the tide went down, and each master rat sank deeper and deeper in the slimy ooze of the harbor, until every mother's son of them was dead and smothered.
The tide rose again, and the piper stepped on shore, but never a rat followed. You may fancy the townsfolk had been throwing up their caps and hurrahing and stopping up rat holes and setting the church bells a-ringing. But when the piper stepped ashore, and not so much as a single squeak was to be heard, the mayor and the council, and the townsfolk generally, began to hum and to haw and to shake their heads.
For the town money chest had been sadly emptied of late, and where was the fifty pounds to come from? Such an easy job, too! Just getting into a boat and playing a pipe! Why the mayor himself could have done that if only he had thought of it.
So he hummed and hawed and at last, "Come, my good man," said he. "You see what poor folk we are. How can we manage to pay you fifty pounds? Will you not take twenty? When all is said and done, 'twill be good pay for the trouble you've taken."
"Fifty pounds was what I bargained for," said the piper shortly, "and if I were you I'd pay it quickly, for I can pipe many kinds of tunes, as folk sometimes find to their cost."
"Would you threaten us, you strolling vagabond?" shrieked the mayor, and at the same time he winked to the council. "The rats are all dead and drowned," muttered he; and so, "You may do your worst, my good man," and with that he turned short upon his heel.
"Very well," said the piper, and he smiled a quiet smile. With that he laid his pipe to his lips afresh, but now there came forth no shrill notes, as it were, of scraping and gnawing, and squeaking and scurrying, but the tune was joyous and resonant, full of happy laughter and merry play. And as he paced down the streets the elders mocked, but from schoolroom and playroom, from nursery and workshop, not a child but ran out with eager glee and shout following gaily at the piper's call. Dancing, laughing, joining hands and tripping feet, the bright throng moved along up Gold Street and down Silver Street, and beyond Silver Street lay the cool green forest full of old oaks and wide-spreading beeches. In and out among the oak trees you might catch glimpses of the pipers many-colored coat. You might hear the laughter of the children break and fade and die away as deeper and deeper into the lone green wood the stranger went, and the children followed.
All the while, the elder watched and waited. They mocked no longer now. And watch and wait as they might, never did they set their eyes again upon the piper in his parti-colored coat. Never were their hearts gladdened by the song and dance of the children issuing forth from amongst the ancient oaks of the forest.
In the city of Aleppo there was a king. As mice abounded in that city, the people complained of them every day. One day, while the king was conversing with Avicenna, they touched upon the mice. The king said, "O Avicenna, everyone complains of these mice. Would that we could find some remedy for them that everyone might be at ease."
Avicenna answered, "I will make it happen that not a single one of them remain in this city. But with this condition, that you stand at the city gate, and beware, whatever wonder you see, that you not laugh."
The king consented and was glad. Straightway he ordered that they prepare his horse, and he mounted and went to the gate.
Avicenna, on his part, stood in a street and repeated a charm and called the mice. One of the mice came, and he caught it and killed it and put it in a coffin and made four mice bear that coffin. Then he repeated the charm and began to strike his hands one against the other; and these four mice began to march slowly along. And all the mice that were in the city attended that funeral, so that the streets were filled full of them. They came to the gate where the king was standing, some of them before the coffin and some of them behind. And while the king was looking on, he saw these mice with the coffin on their shoulders, and, unable to resist, he laughed. As soon as he laughed, the mice that were outside the gate all died, but those that were within the gate dispersed and ran off inside.
Avicenna said, "O king, if you had kept my counsel and not laughed, not a single mouse would have remained in this city, but all of them would have gone out and died. And everyone would have been at ease."
And the king repented of his having laughed. But what could he do? Repentance too late profits not.


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Jiangxi Nanchang Greenland Central Plaza, Parcel A received an Honor Award in the Architecture category of the 2017 AIA Hong Kong Awards. The mixed-use project, which was completed in 2015, includes the two tallest skyscrapers in Nanchang, China.
Yue Zhu and Amber Jan to Speak at Real Estate Design China Awards Forum in Shanghai
On August 18th, 2017, Yue Zhu and Amber Jan will speak at the 2017 Real Estate Design China Awards Forum in Shanghai. Zhu and Jan will deliver a presentation on Beijing Greenland Center, SOM's most recent addition to the growing Dawangjing Business District in Beijing.
In July, 2017, SOM's Shanghai office hosted a group of visiting architects as part of an exchange program organized by the Japan Institute of Architects and AIA Shanghai. SOM's Silas Chiow led participants on a tour of three projects designed by the firm.
Beijing Greenland Center and Nanchang Greenland Exhibition Center have both won 2016-2017 Real Estate Design China Awards. The annual awards program recognizes projects that have played a significant role in improving the built environment of China.
Three SOM projects won seven Architectural Engineering Institute (AEI) Professional Project Awards. The award program recognizes exceptional design achievement, with a focus on projects that show an integrated approach to architectural engineering.
Five SOM projects are featured in "CTBUH Year in Review," an annual report with data on the world's new tallest buildings. Beijing Greenland Center, Tanjong Pagar Centre, 252 E. 57th Street, Ningbo Bank of China, and Chongqing Rural Commercial Bank Financial Building made the list.
Three SOM projects—Beijing Greenland Center, OKO Tower, and the U.S. Air Force Academy Center for Character and Leadership Development—won the 2016 ASHRAE Illinois Excellence in Engineering Award. The program honors outstanding engineering work by ASHRAE Illinois Chapter members.
Dezeen includes SOM's Beijing Greenland Center in its year-end review of the most compelling skyscraper designs in 2016. The distinctive 260-meter-tall tower is clad in an intricate, trapezoidal glass curtain that creates a woven texture of light and shadow.
Architect Magazine explores the design details of Jiangxi Nanchang Greenland Zifeng Tower. The article describes the tower's solar shading fins and its iconic "Great Window," which offers exceptional views of Nanchang while creating appropriate floor plates for the hotel that occupies its upper stories.

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Matt Gelb here, still with the keys while Andy's on vacation...
Just got off the phone with Rex Gary, who represents Phillies closer Brad Lidge, and he said Lidge is feeling "great" after arthroscopic knee surgery on Wednesday.
"There's every reason to expect this procedure took care of what was bothering him in his knee," Gary said. "It was relatively minor."
Gary said the pain in the right knee, which caused Lidge to spend a stint on the disabled list during the season, only became a problem again in recent weeks during Lidge's offseason workouts.
"It flared up on him this offseason," Gary said. "It was increasingly affecting his workouts to a point where he, along with the Phillies, decided it should get checked out. It was increasing discomfort. They brought him in quickly, took a look at him, and the procedure was relatively simple and relatively minor. They cleaned it out a little bit. There were some fragments causing his discomfort. The end result is that everyone is pretty upbeat."
Gary said Lidge will resume throwing in a week or two. Whether or not Lidge is healthy enough for Opening Day remains to be seen, but Gary said it wouldn't be the end of the world. The last time Lidge missed Opening Day, in 2008, he had one of the greatest seasons for a relief pitcher ever.
"Ideally, in a perfect world, he's ready for Opening Day," Gary said. "But he had a pretty good season two years ago when his season started a few weeks late."
For our earlier report on Lidge's surgery, click here.


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Turtleneck bodysuit in a striped print of yellows and browns. Has fitted full length sleeves and snaps at the crotch. Cheeky cut backside but can also be made a thong upon request (please leave a note upon order). This bodysuit is made from a rayon polyester spandex blend that is soft with ample stretch.


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The new 12-inch, out on Terje's Olsen Records label, comes before a new album from the Norwegian artist.
The press release notes the unconventional order of affairs: "After the show it's the afterparty and before the album it's the remix single! That's right folks, the Todd is back, bucking trends and shucking conventions to bring us two tip-top reworks of an as yet unreleased original."
Four Tet, who recently pulled together a playlist of music from countries affected by Donald Trump's recent immigration ban, takes on the unheard original for the A-side, with Terje's Norwegian countryman Prins Thomas taking the flip. This is the fourth time Thomas has remixed Terje. In 2004 he reworked Terje's "Bodies," and he's also taken on It's Album Time cut "Leisure Suit Preben" as well as Terje's cover of Vangelis' "La Fete Sauvage."
The label is playing coy with the original "Jungelknugen," saying we'll have to wait until the LP to find out more about that one.
Listen to clips over at Pacific Beach Vinyl.
A Jungelknugen (Four Tet Remix)
B Jungelknugen (Prins Thomas Remix)
Olsen Records will release Jungelknugen (Four Tet & Prins Thomas Remixes) on February 24th, 2017.


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In Windows XP, you could select multiple files, right-click them, then select Properties. The resulting property sheet includes a Security page which lets you edit the security attributes of those files. But when you repeat this exercise on Windows Vista or Windows 7, the Security page is missing. Why doesn't Explorer let you edit the security attributes of more than one file at a time?
Windows might need to display an elevation prompt if any of the files in the collection require administrator privileges in order to modify the security attributes. The security prompt needs to tell you why you are elevating, but if you selected twenty files, there isn't room to display all twenty of them in the elevation dialog. Truncating the results means that users may be tricked into changing the security of files they didn't intend. "Grant everyone full access to X, Y, Z, and 17 other files?" How do you know your multiselect didn't accidentally include
MergerPlans.doc? (Maybe there's some malware that waits for people to change security on multiple items and quietly sneaks
NTOSKRNL.EXE into the file list.) Alexander Grigoriev says, "Holding forever to dangerous features is BAD BAD BAD."
If you need to modify the security attributes on a whole bunch of files, you can use the
CACLS program, one of the command line tools that messes with security descriptors. If you want to modify the attributes of all the files in a directory tree, you can edit the security attributes of the root of the tree and indicate that you want to propagate inheritable attributes.
Pre-emptive hate: "I hate Microsoft for removing this feature." (Okay, that was too tame. A PROPER HATE REQUIRES SENTENCES IN ALL-CAPS.) And you wonder why I don't do Tips/Support topics often. Whenever I provide a tip that lets you work around something, everybody rants about the problem the workaround exists to address.


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A Study on the Manufacturing Technique by Scientific Analysis and Reproduction Experiment of Ancient Silver Objects Excavated from Neungnae-ri, Ganghwa Island
Ryu, Dong-Wan ; Kim, Soo-Ki ;
Journal of Conservation Science, volume 27, issue 1, 2011, Pages 1~11
For the silver artifacts in the Koryo Dynasty excavated from Neungnae-ri Ganghwa island, the metallographic section analysis and hardness and chemical analysis were conducted. After making samples in the similar ratio of the composition concentration, the changes of the microstructure were checked according to the working method and temperature. The results show that those silver artifacts are Au-Cu alloys with 2 to 6 % of Cu. From the results it is judged that Cu was artificially alloyed with them to keep the proper hardness and identified that they were gilded by the amalgamation process seeing that mercury was included at the guilt layer. Also the porous texture on the surface of them could be formed at over
, therefore, it is assumed the hot working or heat treatment at over
were performed. In silver artifacts made by the relief and repousse, they have the similar composition analysis to other 7 artifacts but the hardness is lower than pure silver. Consequently from differences in the hardness, it can be inferred that the low hardness of silver artifacts is concerned with manufacturing techniques.
Microstructural Study and Firing Temperature Presume from Mt. Gyeryong Hakbong-ri Kiln
Hwang, Hyun-Sung ; Kwak, Eung-Yung ; Lee, Da-Hae ;
Journal of Conservation Science, volume 27, issue 1, 2011, Pages 13~30
This study compared Pottery, Hwaecheongware, Buncheongware and Whiteware pieces excavated in Hakbong-ri of Chungnam analytically by observing their refined structures and estimating their firing temperature. As a result, base soil components of the specimens were mostly similar to those of typical Buncheongware, but the content of the fluxing agent was rather high, and it seemed that the Whiteware had been made with fairly different components from those of other sherds. Although the glaze showed less difference than base soil in general, the content of the glaze changed according to the decorating methods of Buncheongware. Based on the SEM-EDS analysis, it was found that the base soil components of the ceramics seemingly rather different were actually different and the analysis on the fine crystals of the base soil, the anorthite in the glaze and crystals in the ironing part, and the components and contents of white earth showed there were some noticeable points in the process of making each of the sherds. In the refiring experiment to estimate the firing temperature, mostly similar results were gained as
for pottery,
for Hwaecheongware, and
for iron-brown Buncheongware however, the results imply good quality Whiteware was burnt at above
while bad quality Whiteware was burnt at a temperature far lower than that. Thus, there was clear difference between Whiteware sherds and other kinds of sherds.
Material Analysis and Coloring Characteristics of Korean Traditional Copper-red Pigment (Jinsa)
Kim, Ji-Young ; Cho, Hyun-Kyung ; Jun, Byung-Kyu ; Cho, Nam-Chul ; Lee, Chan-Hee ;
Journal of Conservation Science, volume 27, issue 1, 2011, Pages 31~40
Copper-red (Dongwha, Jinsa) is Korean traditional inorganic pigment used for red-coloring on the porcelain surface during Goryeo and Joseon Periods. Trace amounts of copper-red porcelains are handed down because of the technical difficulty of making and coloring of the pigment. It is known that copper ore sources were extensively distributed in Korea according to old literatures and some of them are still producing copper ore at this present. Main types of copper-bearing mineral in Korea are chalcopyrite (
) and malachite (
), and they are easily collected from the ground surface. This means Korea had geographical and economic geological advantages for supplying raw material of the pigment. These two minerals showed good red-coloring in color test for porcelain pigment. As a coloring element, copper showed micro size less than
in diameter in glaze matrix. The dispersion of copper particle is the most decisive factor for red chromaticity of copper-red porcelain, as well as copper content of the pigment.
A Study on Comparison Experiments for Judgement to the Nondestructive Analysis of Gold Plated Silverware Remains
Sim, Myung-Bo ; Yu, Hei-Sun ; Kim, Soo-Ki ;
Journal of Conservation Science, volume 27, issue 1, 2011, Pages 41~47
If the nondestructive analysis is carried out by using an X-ray Fluorescence Analyzer(XRF) for ingredient analysis with the target of gold plated silverware that plates gold on a silver basis, a singular point showing big difference at the value of weight percent(wt.%) according to the electron orbit of the principal ingredient can be confirmed. The present research made reproduced samples and carried out comparative analysis in order to suggest a basis that can judge whether the technique of gold plated silverware was used in case of remains uneasy to understand with eyes by using this singular point. As a result, the same result as analysis results of actual remains could be seen in specimens manufactured by a mercury amalgam plating method. However, in case of gold and silver alloy specimens, it could be confirmed that the difference according to the electron orbit of the principal ingredients is slight unlike plated specimens. The reason appearing at plated specimens seems to be generated while absorbing XRF beam at plated layers by double structure due to plating instead of single material. Accordingly, if this result appearing at nondestructive analysis is used, it was confirmed that the application of the technique of gold plated silverware can be judged without observing its section.
A Study on the Changes Process Repair and Restoration Method of Ceramic
Yang, Pil-Seung ; Seo, Jung-Ho ;
Journal of Conservation Science, volume 27, issue 1, 2011, Pages 49~59
The damaged ceramics were repaired and restored thru various methods with various materials. The history of Ceramic repair and restoration has developed widening its areas from traditional stage utilizing applicable living material to the specified field that introduces new materials, new process methods and material analysis. Through investigations over the documents, artifacts and analysis, the period could be divided into natural material period in which uses the bonds extracted from the animals, plants and lime (prehistoric to Japanese domination period), Semi-artificial period in which mix natural material and synthetic resins such as "Jusabi"(Japanese domination period to 1970s.) and complete synthetic resin period in which introduces new materials and process methods in accordance with preservation standard (after 1980s).
Study of the Chemical Composition of Korean Traditional Ceramics (II): Chos
n Whiteware
KohChoo, Carolyn Kyong-Shin ; Choo, Woong-Kil ; Ahn, Sang-Doo ; Lee, Young-Eun ; Kim, Gyu-Ho ; Lee, Yeon-Sook ;
Journal of Conservation Science, volume 27, issue 1, 2011, Pages 61~74
The material characteristics of Chos
n whiteware were investigated by analyzing and comparing the body and glaze compositions of whiteware shards excavated at the Kwangju royal kilns, Ch'unghyodong, and four other local-level kilns. In Korea, the rise of whiteware technology began in the early years of the Chos
n dynasty, when the indigenous tradition of Kory
celadon was strongly influenced by the whiteware aesthetics of the Chinese Ming dynasty. The Kwangju royal kilns eventually made hard-textured whiteware of a quality equivalent to that of the Chinese by using type of porcelain stone that contained slightly less
and slightly more
than that used for celadon. In contrast, the potters of Ch'unghyodong achieved the same level of quality by finding and using a totally different material: kaolinitic clay. The porcelain stone used at the Kwangju kiln was commonly found in Korea and south China, whereas kaolinitic clay (which has a high aluminum content) was typically found in north China, and was only rarely used in Korea. The flux component of the glaze compositions was mostly limestone, first in burnt form and later in crushed form, and the clay component was often glaze stone, which was a finer-grained porcelain stone with a higher proportion of feldspar. In the future, this comparative analytical study of Korean whiteware components should be extended to the
- and
-century kilns that are currently being excavated at a rapid pace.
A Study of the Chemical Composition of Korean Traditional Ceramics (III): Comparison of Punch'
ng with Kory
Ware and Chos
n Whiteware
KohChoo, Carolyn Kyong-Shin ; Choo, Woong-Kil ; Ahn, Sang-Doo ; Lee, Young-Eun ; Kim, Gyu-Ho ; Lee, Yeon-Sook ;
Journal of Conservation Science, volume 27, issue 1, 2011, Pages 75~90
At the beginning of the Chos
n dynasty, punch'
ng began as a simplified form of inlaid celadon, and in the two following centuries it developed into a popular folk craft in various styles and expressive decorations; overtime, it was increasingly made to resemble whiteware, and its production stopped after the Japanese invasion of Korea. In the present study, the body and glaze compositions of punch'
ng were examined and compared with those of celadon and whiteware, whose compositions have previously been compared with those of Chinese ceramics. Here, the analyzed shards were organized into 28 groups based on their production sites and archaeological characteristics. For each group, the body and glaze compositions of several shards(usually three to five) were obtained, averaged, and compared with those of the other groups. These comparisons showed that the majority of the punch'
ng bodies were formed, like those of celadon and whiteware, with mica-quartz porcelain stone, which was commonly used in Yuezhou, Jingdezhen, and other southern Chinese kilns. The glazes consisted of clay materials and flux components made from various proportions of wood ash, burnt limestone (glaze ash) and crushed limestone. Overall, the punch'
ng glazes resembled the Kory
celadon and Kory
whiteware glazes more closely than the Chos
n white wareglazes. However, the
levels found in the tested punch'
ng were low, similar to those of Chos
n whiteware; this indicated that glaze stone was used as the clay component of the punch'
ng glazes, as was the case for Chos
n whiteware. This study of the material characteristics of punch'
ng may be used as a comparative framework for analyzing ceramic shards discovered at current and future excavations within Korea.
Humidity-Controlled Drying of PEG-Treated Waterlogged Woods
Lee, Kwang-Hee ; Kim, Soo-Chul ; Park, Won-Kyu ;
Journal of Conservation Science, volume 27, issue 1, 2011, Pages 91~100
This study is to examine the PEG concentration, and drying humidity and drying periods of humidity-controlled drying(HCD) for conservation of waterlogged woods(Pinus densiflora S. et Z.), and dimension stability of HCD were compared with those of air-drying and vacuum freeze-drying(VFD). Dimension stability of vacuum freeze-drying was the most excellent, i.e., PEG crystal was uniformly distributed in woods. Increasing concentrations of PEG, dimension stability of HCD was increased and drying periods decreased. Dimension stability of HCD after the treatment with the high concentration(70%) of PEG soaking was similar to those of VFD after the treatment with the low concentration(40%) of PEG soaking. In conclusion, high concentration(about 70% in water) PEG solution was the most suitable as a pre-treatment for HCD of waterlogged woods. However, drying should be maintained with enough high humidity and longer period.
Lithological Characteristics and Deterioration Diagnosis of Dosolammaaebulsang (Rock-carved Buddha Statue of Dosolam) in the Seonunsa Temple, Gochang, Korea
Park, Sung-Mi ; Ryu, Keong-Seok ; Choi, Hee-Soo ; Lee, Chan-Hee ;
Journal of Conservation Science, volume 27, issue 1, 2011, Pages 101~114
The rock-carved Buddha statue at Dosolam (Korea Treasure No. 1200) of the Seonunsa temple in Gochang is unique style sculptured on natural rock cliff of 13.0m height. The Buddha statue is composed of volcanic complex with tuff, dacitic tuff breccia, tuff bereccia and lithic tuff. Especially, the Buddha statue is characterized by hydrothermal alteration and fragmentation on the upper and lower part. As a result of damage diagnosis, exfoliation and detachment of physical weathering are high of 11.3% and 9.3%, respectively. Infrared thermography analysis, exfoliation and micro-cracks occurred in the measuring parts that have not been confirmed by naked eyes. Chemical index of alteration and weathering potential index of host rock for the Buddha statue are 55.16 to 64.01 and 6.14 to 9.92 which are represented within highly weathering degree. In surface, dark black, reddish brown and white discoloration are observed prominently in the lower. Brown discoloration 6.9% is highest. According to the P-XRF measurements, high concentration of Fe in common, in part of dark black discoloration was Mn, white and brown discoloration in part of S and Ca content were higher. Biological weathering that yellowish brown and dark gray crustoes lichenes appeared by 20.8% and 13.3%, respectively. Therefore, comprehensive deterioration rate of Buddha statue show physical damage by 21.2%, discoloration for inorganic contaminants by 10.8% and biological damage by 39.4%. Ultrasonic velocity measurement carried out of Buddha statue on the surface by 555 points. Measured value of ultrasonic velocity was about 2,273m/s(1,067 to 3,215m/s, and weathering coefficient is 0.5(0.4 to 0.8) that progress on MW(moderately weathered) to HW(highly weathered) grade of rocks.
Study on the Urethane Restoration Filling Material and Adhesive for Stone Cultural Heritage
Han, Won-Sik ; Lee, Ho-Youn ; Park, Gi-Jung ; Hong, Tae-Kee ; Wi, Koang-Chul ;
Journal of Conservation Science, volume 27, issue 1, 2011, Pages 115~121
A Urethane resin restoration material was made to be used in the restoration of stone cultural assets. The Urethane resin restoration material showed strong adhesive strength and tensile strength similar to epoxy recovery material, which had been mainly used for the recovery of stone cultural assets. The sealing property, anti-shrinking property and paint-ability of Urethane resin restoration material are also similar to existing epoxy system restoration materials. Especially, this Urethane resin restration material is expected to give permanence and continuous stability in the restoration of cultural assets made in stone by resolving the two big issues of existing epoxy recovery material, which are 'yellowing' and 'ir-reversibility'. This Urethane resin restration material had been directly applied as a filling material and adhesive and it was dissolved again. The Urethane resin, which had been used for the recovery, was able to be perfectly removed, which means that this Urethane resin recovery material has perfect reversibility. This Urethane resin restoration material also has enhanced convenience since user can adjust the working-life dependent on work environment. It is believed that this Urethane resin restoration material can also be used as a filling material or adhesive for other cultural assets made of ceramic or metal heritage, in addition to stone, since it has strong adhesive strength and tensile strength.
Inspection Results of the Swedish Stone Vase in the St. Petersburg Summer Garden, Russia
Bulakh, Andrej ; Nesterov, Evgeny ; Choi, Seok-Won ; Vlasov, Dimitry ;
Journal of Conservation Science, volume 27, issue 1, 2011, Pages 123~126
The results of the inspection of the vase condition for April 29th, 2008 have stated the mineral-petrographic characteristic of the material, the character of the stone mechanical defects; its impurity and biological faults have been described; the results of ultrasonic sounding of the stone have been shown. Possible reasons and process of destruction of the stone vase have been analysed on January, 6 to 12th, 2008. Recommendations on restoration and preservation of the vase have been given.
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One Missed Call is a remake of the Japanese horror film Chakushin ari by Takashi Miike. Starring Edward Burns and Shannyn Sossamon, the film obviously transplants the creepy action to America, but it maintains the now familiar techno-horror thread that has popped up in other similar adaptations like The Ring.
"I play a girl named Beth Raymond who is a college student who is kind of freaked out because all of her friends have been receiving these phone call messages with their own voices, like dated two days later than when the call came," says Sossamon (A Knight's Tale). "And their voices are in complete panic. Basically, they're hearing themselves dying, so you know that when you get it, it's dated for like Friday at 10:27pm and today's Wednesday, you're just bummed for two days."
To say the least. As for whether or not Sossamon's character gets a call herself, she demurs. "I don't want to give too much away." But she does admit that she hadn't seen the original film before shooting this version.
"I hadn't because the director [Eric Valette] didn't want us to watch it," she says. "He wanted it to sort of be fresh and treat it as though it was its own screenplay, but I'm going to go rent it tonight I think because everyone's asking me that. So I'm excited."
Burns jokes that One Missed Call is going to take technological terror to a whole new level.
"It could do something for the ring tone in this film," he laughs. "That could be a hot sell. I think Dave Stewart actually, of the Eurythmics, did the ring tone!"
The actor adds, a bit more seriously, that he plays the one cop in town who believes Sossamon's story that the mysterious deaths might be linked via people's cellular signals.
"So I'm a cop, I decide to investigate, she assists me, and you know, people are dying left and right, as it should be," he grins.
Burns isn't just an actor, of course, but also a writer and director himself. And on a side note, he's putting those talents to use on a project called Dock Walloper. As he explained to IGN, the property is going to be a comic book as well as, he hopes, a movie.
"It's phenomenal," he says. "I had an idea for a 1920s gangster movie set against Prohibition in New York but focused on the gangsters. I took it to Virgin Comics and the idea was, 'Let's take these gangsters and give them slightly hyper-human abilities and strengths.' Not superhero-esque, but just a little bit more exaggerated. And they dug the idea, so the novel is being written now on the story and I start writing the screenplay in a few weeks and we'll take it to a studio probably in January or February. It's really cool."
One Missed Call, meanwhile, hits theaters in January.


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Do your school grounds have grass, play equipment, basketball hoops, or soccer fields? Next to Treasure Mountain Middle School in Park City, Utah, are seven acres of ponds, puddles, and ditches. And it took students and teachers years to make it that way. Over the past 10 years they have restored an area of natural wetlands in a project that brought national recognition to the school. It still involves students from the local elementary, middle, and high schools.
In 1989 an eighth-grade student at Treasure Mountain, Karen Massey, wanted to start a club for kids to work on environmental projects. Anni Schneider was a science teacher at the school who wanted to do something about the area behind the building. It had once been wetlands, but the water had been drained off. After the school was built, the area became a dumping ground for construction debris. Most native animals had fled.
Fifteen students joined Schneider to do some water-quality tests around Park City, along with experts from the Utah Department of Natural Resources. They netted fish from streams. They tested, tagged, and put them back. "The kids had a great time wading through streams and trying to hold onto those fish," Ms. Schneider recalls.
As the students' hopes became known, more help arrived. A high school biology teacher joined in. A water-source expert (a hydrologist) volunteered. He'd been part of the company that had drained the wetlands in the first place.
Parents with construction equipment helped clean up and reconstruct the area. The United States Army Corps of Engineers lent a hand. Parents and students did field work. Others raised money and helped spread the word about what was needed. The former dump site began to take on a new look.
Water was channeled back in. Seven ponds brought the wetlands back to life. As money became available, volunteers planted thousands of native plants. Plants could not be removed from other sites, because that might harm those areas. All the reintroduced plants had to be purchased from nurseries.
Wetlands have been disappearing around the world as people drain them to farm or build. People didn't used to think that wetlands were important. But wetlands are home to thousands of types of birds, mammals, reptiles, and insects. Wetlands filter and clean the water. Wetlands can absorb huge amounts of water from snowmelt and storms. A wetland "sponge" can keep a river from destructive flooding.
The National Wildlife Federation estimates that half of the swamps, bogs, and wet meadows in the continental United States have been lost. When the Park City students and teachers began their project, some companies were starting to assist and encourage wetland-restoration.
In 1991, Treasure Mountain Middle School won a grant from Newsweek magazine and the Amway Corp. The story of the project ran in the magazine. Schneider and two students flew to Washington, D.C., to meet with government leaders and speak to a Senate subcommittee.
Later, the school received a grant from SeaWorld in Florida to help continue their project. Local banks and other companies also began offering support.
The students who started the project have graduated from high school. But new teachers and students - members of the school's Earth Kids Club - are still making improvements.
Eighth-grader Lauren Moffitt has been a club member for two years. "The earth is too good to be wasted," she says. She helps clean up, clear trails, and fix things every fall.
Some man-made touches have been added. An amphitheater serves as an outdoor classroom. Fences protect birds and small animals from dogs. A Treasure Mountain art class contributed a large sculpture.
Michelle Breinholt, an adviser for the Earth Kids Club, says the wetlands is a valuable resource for the school. "Not a student gets out of this school without being involved in some way," she says. Science classes study the plants and animals. Art classes have a beautiful setting for sketching and painting. English classes create brochures to distribute to the neighbors around the area, encouraging them not to use chemicals on their lawns that will flow into the wetlands.
Wetlands are still being destroyed each year, but more and more people are recognizing their value. In 1977, the federal government passed the Clean Water Act to protect water resources.
In 1985, special provisions to protect wetlands were included in a federal farm bill. The wetlands by Treasure Mountain Middle School are now a federally protected site, like millions of acres of wetlands around the country. Some environmental groups buy wetlands in order to preserve them. The Nature Conservancy has bought and protected more than 6.5 million acres of wetland areas. Some parcels are less than an acre in size; others cover hundreds of square miles.
But even after a wetland has been destroyed, the students and teachers at Treasure Mountain Middle School have proven it can be returned to a beautiful natural setting that can benefit animals, insects, and humans alike.
What is a wetland?
Wetlands include marshes, swamps, bogs, prairie "potholes," and other areas where water stays in the soil for regular periods of time. Humans may come to visit and enjoy these sites, but birds, animals, and fish need wetlands to survive, especially the areas where the water meets the land.
Thousands of birds come to wetlands to rest and feed while migrating. Ducks and geese raise their young there. Fish lay their eggs in the shallows. Salamanders, frogs, and snails make themselves at home, along with muskrats, raccoons, and beavers. Deer, elk, and moose come to the water to drink. In the Florida Everglades, you'll find alligators.
Mosquitoes may grow in wetlands, but so do the dragonflies and birds that eat them. The mayfly begins life as a silvery creature that swims like a fish. Then it sheds its skin, develops wings, and flies away. Water striders and whirligig beetles skate across the top of the water.
Herons and other long-legged birds wade through the water looking for food. Some plants and trees grow in the water, others at the water's edge. Many of these plants help to filter the water and remove pollutants. Water lilies, cattails, bulrushes, and cypress trees are common in wetlands.
All animals and plants need water to survive, and so you'll find all kinds of life thriving in the many different types of wetlands.
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This rare clip shows radioactivity pioneer Marie Curie in her home laboratory where she discovered Radium which was widely used as a possible cure for cancer.
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Patients freshly discharged from acute care hospitals with low scores on a standard test that measures how well they perform such everyday activities as moving from a bed to a chair are far more likely to need readmission to a hospital within 30 days than those who score better, according to new Johns Hopkins research.
"The Functional Independence Measure score is a direct reflection of a patient's ability to heal," says Erik Hoyer, M.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the department's deputy director of quality and safety. "When a person cannot move his or her legs or use the bathroom independently, for example, it's telling us something about the body's physiologic reserve, its overall ability to be resilient to disease."
A report on Hoyer's research is published in the May issue of the Journal of Hospital Medicine.
Though many researchers have examined factors that may contribute to increased risk of rapid readmission, Hoyer says, none to his knowledge have focused on an overall standard measure of how well patients perform activities necessary for everyday living. One reason may be because few hospitals require inpatients' function to be assessed in a standardized way, but with new Medicare reimbursement guidelines in place that cut hospital reimbursements when patients are readmitted within 30 days of discharge, that might drive interest in using similar assessments on patients in general.
Hoyer explains that all inpatient physical rehab facilities in the United States already require use of the standard Functional Independence Measure (FIM) to assess inpatients' physical capacity for a wide range of tasks, including the ability to transfer themselves between a chair and a wheelchair, the toilet or the shower; to walk, eat, bathe and dress on their own; and to effectively communicate, socially interact, solve problems and remember important information.
The FIM must be conducted within 72 hours of admission to a rehab facility, and the scores are reported to state and national agencies.
Taking advantage of this reporting requirement, Hoyer and his colleagues used various databases to pull information on 9,405 patients admitted to an inpatient rehab facility directly from an acute care hospital between July 2006 and December 2012. The data included general demographic information from each patient, such as age, gender and race/ethnicity, as well as primary diagnosis upon discharge from the hospital, the severity of illness, FIM scores upon admission to rehab and whether he or she was readmitted to an acute care hospital within 30 days of entering rehab.
Breaking the FIM scores into low, medium and high categories, the researchers found that those who scored low on the functionality test were two to three times more likely to be readmitted to the hospital within 30 days than those with high scores. Patients with low FIM scores were significantly more likely to be readmitted to the hospital even after accounting for potential confounders, including age, gender and even severity of illness.
Further investigation showed that out of the three general categories of illness that people enter rehab to treat -- medical (such as congestive heart failure), neurological (such as stroke) and orthopedic (such as hip replacement) -- those with medical diagnoses were the most likely to head back to the hospital within a month.
Medical diagnoses often include health problems that affect many organs at the same time, unlike neurological or orthopedic diagnoses, which affect more localized parts of the body.
"If you have a stroke or a knee replacement and can't move your legs," Hoyer explains, "it's for a very different physiological reason than if you can't move your legs because of heart failure."
Hoyer notes that getting patients more mobile and functional during their stay used to be a standard part of hospital care, and probably should be again, but because nurses and other caregivers have more and more to do in the acute care setting, that will be a challenge.
"Helping patients become more functional before they leave the hospital is important not just for Medicare policy, but also for patients' overall hospital experience and quality of life when they leave," he says. "When you talk about whether someone can use a bedpan or the toilet, it's a question of dignity."
Other Johns Hopkins researchers involved in the study include Dale M. Needham, M.D., Ph.D.; Levan Atanelov, M.D.; Michael Friedman, P.T., M.B.A.; and Daniel J. Brotman, M.D.
The research was supported by the Rehabilitation Medicine Scientist Training Program.
Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM), headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, is a $6.7 billion integrated global health enterprise and one of the leading health care systems in the United States. JHM unites physicians and scientists of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine with the organizations, health professionals and facilities of The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System. JHM's vision, "Together, we will deliver the promise of medicine," is supported by its mission to improve the health of the community and the world by setting the standard of excellence in medical education, research and clinical care. Diverse and inclusive, JHM educates medical students, scientists, health care professionals and the public; conducts biomedical research; and provides patient-centered medicine to prevent, diagnose and treat human illness. JHM operates six academic and community hospitals, four suburban health care and surgery centers, and more than 30 primary health care outpatient sites. The Johns Hopkins Hospital, opened in 1889, was ranked number one in the nation for 21 years in a row by U.S. News & World Report.
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Small mammals of the Bitterroot National Forest : a literature review and annotated bibliography / Dean E. Pearson.
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- Physical Description: 1 online resource (63 pages).
- Publisher: Fort Collins, CO : United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, April 1999.
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Coaching South Africa, as Graham Ford did, is no easy job nor was playing for England for much of John Emburey's Test career.
But the scrutiny one of the two leading candidates for the post of India coach will undergo should they become responsible for the fortunes of the premier sport in the world's second-most populous nation will be like nothing else they've known.
"It's one of the biggest jobs in the world game and one of the most difficult," was Emburey's concise summing up of the challenge potentially facing him when he spoke to AFP in a telephone call here Tuesday.
Ford gave little away in a brief statement, saying "the Indian Board has approached me in regard to their vacancy and I am grateful to the club (Kent) for allowing me the chance to talk to them."
The pair were the two names announced by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Tuesday in the race to succeed Greg Chappell as India coach.
Contrasting candidates set for India run-off
Coaching South Africa, as Graham Ford did, is no easy job nor was playing for England for much of John Emburey's Test career.
They are now set to be interviewed by the board's coach selection panel in Chennai on Saturday.
Ford, 46, has an impressive track record as a coach although it wasn't until Monday when he displaced former Sri Lanka and Bangladesh boss Dav Whatmore as favourite for the India role.
But the inclusion of former off-spinner Emburey, who played 64 Tests for England between 1978 and 1995, claiming 147 wickets at 38.40, was much more of a surprise.
Ford, now with English county Kent, was South Africa's coach between 1999 and 2001 during which the Proteas won nine of their 11 Test and one-day series, including a historic Test campaign triumph in India.
However, he was sacked in 2001 after a crushing series loss to Australia.
Given Australia's overwhelming domimance of world cricket during the last decade many felt this was harsh and Ford was seen as carrying the can for the wider failings of the United Cricket Board of South Africa.
Emburey, whose shrewd reading of the game led to him being talked of as a future England coach while still a player, has had far less success since hanging up his boots.
During three years in charge of Northamptonshire, Emburey was unable to take them out of the bottom four of England's County Championship although, such was the state they were in, it would have taken an astonishing performance to effect a major improvement.
Just before he was axed by the Midlands side it emerged Emburey had been moved to the post of director of cricket.
It was a similar story at Middlesex where Emburey returned in 2001. Promotion to the top flight of county cricket in his second season proved a false dawn and last year, in what many supporters regarded as Middlesex's worst season of all-time, they were relegated, finishing bottom of the table in both the Championship and the one-day National League.
As happened at Northamptonshire, he then became Middlesex's director of cricket with former Pakistan coach Richard Pybus taking his old post.
Emburey has maintained links with India by encouraging his players to go there in the off-season to develop their games.
It may be he is better suited to working with the undoubtedly gifted India squad than a modest county outfit.
And if the plain speaking 54-year-old could instil some of the resilience he showed as a player with both bat and ball into an India team that too often fails to do its talents justice, his coaching reputation would be transformed.
India's experiences with overseas coaches have produced mixed results.
Former New Zealand batsman John Wright became India's first foreign coach in 2000. He was in charge until 2005, having taken the side to a creditable runners-up spot in the World Cup final two years earlier.
Wright was replaced by Chappell, a former Australia captain and one of the best batsmen cricket has known, but his tenure ended in recriminations after India's first round exit during the recent World Cup in the Caribbean.
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Welcome to the Woking 2027 website, where you can access information about how we are planning for the future of Woking Borough.
The 'Development Plan for Woking' tab on the left gives a comprehensive overview of Woking Borough's Local Development Documents (including the Core Strategy and Development Management Policies DPD), Supplementary Planning Documents and other guidance documents. The additional tabs on the left provide further details about a range of documents - including the research and evidence base upon which Local Development Documents are prepared - and processes, such as Neighbourhood Planning and the Community Infrastructure Levy.
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Draft Site Allocations DPD
The Portfolio Holder for Planning at Woking Borough Council has issued a statement about progress on preparing the draft Site Allocations DPD, including a broad timeframe on next steps. The statement can be accesed here.
Parking Standards SPD
At its meeting on 5 April 2018, the Parking Standards Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) was adopted by the Council, and takes immediate effect. Its requirements are therefore material consideration for all relevant planning applications being determined, and will supersede the existing standards. Please click on the link above to view the Statement of Adoption and Consultation Statement.
Self Build and Custom Housebuilding Guidance Note
Also at its meeting on 5 April 2018, the Council adopted the Self-build and Custom Housebuilding Guidance Note, which sets out the detail and delivery mechanisms behind policy DM12 of the Development Management Policies DPD on self-build and custom housebuilding.
West Byfleet Neighbourhood Plan
At its meeting on 7 December 2017, the West Byfleet Neighbourhood Plan was formally adopted by the Council. The Plan will be used in determining planning applications within the Neighbourhood Area.
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Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA)
The Council is currently updating its SHLAA. Further details can be found on SHLAA page of the Council's website.
Guidance Note on Travel Plans
The Council has produced a Travel Plan Guidance Note.
Guidance Note on Housing Standards
The Council has produced a guidance note on the implementation of parts of policies CS13 and CS22 of the Core Strategy, following the introduction of 'new technical standards' for new housing and updated Building Regulations.
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Last night I returned to see Christian Marclay's The Clock at MoMA. This was my third visit; I first saw it at the Lincoln Center Festival in July, from 3:15 p.m. to 6:33 p.m. Here's what I wrote back then. It's now at MoMA, and I had to go back because it's so mesmerizing. Last Friday I saw it from 10:35 a.m. to 2:32 p.m., and last night I went yet again. On weekends it runs 24 hours, and I really wanted to see midnight, as well as 10:04 p.m., when lightning strikes the clock tower in Back to the Future, which I'd read was included.
I got to the museum last night around 8:15. There was just a 10-minute wait to get into the theater; not bad at all. I entered at 8:33 p.m. I worried I'd have to go to the bathroom in the middle of it and thereby forfeit my seat and possibly miss midnight, but I wound up being OK.
Here's some seating advice for The Clock. The viewing area consists of rows of low white couches. At MoMA, there are three couches per row, forming two interior aisles (in addition to aisles on the sides). I've found that the best place to sit is on an interior aisle, on one of the side couches. If you sit on the aisle you get an armrest, and if you sit on a side couch, your view doesn't get blocked as much if a tall person sits in front of you as it does if you sit on the center couches. It's something about the way the viewing angles line up.
Anyway, this was by far my favorite visit to The Clock. Every time of day has a different feel, and there's something about The Clock at night that is just cooler than during the day. There were scenes of people at restaurants, at bars, seeing shows. People at parties. A few people lonely at home watching TV or movies, which was kind of meta. Many creepy nighttime mansions. And many, many bedside clocks: people getting into bed, then, later at night, people getting awoken by portentous phone calls.
As 10:00 p.m. approached, I knew the Back to the Future scene was coming up. At 10:04, lightning struck and Marty McFly traveled through time. The clip was about 20 seconds long, but among the vastness of The Clock it just came and went, and then we were onto the next movie. Kind of anticlimactic.
Then eventually it was 11:00. You could feel people begin to pay more attention as the witching hour grew closer and closer. At 11:30, the minute hand began its final upward sweep. Then it was 11:40, then 11:45, then 11:50, as the angle between the minute and hour hands began diminishing toward nothing. The tension and excitement in the room grew enormously.
11:59. "Get me the governor!" Then: the final seconds before midnight. Each. Punctuated. By. A throbbing. Beat.
And then midnight.
Big Ben exploded in a glorious flash. Clock after clock struck and chimed 12, one after the other, second by second. Orson Welles got stabbed on a clock tower. Mayhem on screen.
During the next few minutes, lots of people left, having gotten what they came for, and other people replaced them. I stayed a while longer. Just after 12:15 there was a long stretch of quiet scenes with no dialogue. A slow panning shot of people asleep on train station benches. A 1940s woman in a mansion welcoming her bleary-eyed husband through the front door. It began to feel late.
I simultaneously wanted to stay and leave. But at some point your brain starts to turn to mush and you just can't take any more of it. It was time to go home and go to bed. So at 12:45, I left. And it was still full.
The weird thing about The Clock is that it's playing when you arrive and it's playing when you leave, and there are people already watching when you arrive and people watching when you leave. You always arrive after the beginning and leave before the end. There's no other way.
So I have now seen noon and midnight. Noon was really cool, midnight was even better.
This morning I asked Matt if he could help me make a chart of my visits. He created the chart at the top of this page, with my input.
I've barely seen the morning hours. I hear the middle of the night has lots of dream sequences and creepy happenings. I'd love to see that, but I don't see how I'd be able to stay up that late.
Marclay insists that The Clock be shown only in real time. I hope at some point he decides to livestream it online. I don't know how it work for different time zones, but maybe he could figure that out.
At any rate, the film is at MoMA through January 21, including two more 24-hour weekends. I may have to go back and catch more of the morning hours. I love this film.


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AMHERST – A slow start brought a quick end to the Football Championship Subdivision era for the University of Massachusetts.
James Madison tied the McGuirk Alumni Stadium mark for rushing yards and jumped out early on the Minutemen en route to a 34-17 win before 7,103 Saturday in the season – and FCS – finale for UMass.
The Minutemen lost their final three games to finish at 5-6. The win made JMU 7-4 and should get the Dukes into the FCS playoffs.
It was a sluggish start for the Minutemen as they only managed one first down in the first three possessions and found themselves trailing 14-0.
"They got the wind right out of the gate and went down for a score and then got an interception for a touchdown and we never really were able to come back after those two situations," UMass coach Kevin Morris said. "The kids battled all the way through like they've done all year, but we came up on the wrong end of the stick."
James Madison ran for 386 yards, tying the record for most rushing yards by an opponent at McGuirk. Sophomore Dae'Quan Scott came close to the JMU single-game record with 251 yards on 30 carries.
On the other side of the ball, UMass found no running room at all against the Dukes, who held the Minutemen to a season-low 68 yards on the ground.
"UMass is the kind of offensive team where you can't let them run and throw," JMU coach Mickey Matthews said. "We tried to take the run away and make them pass."
It worked well for the game, but exceptionally well in the first half. UMass quarterback Kellen Pagel, back after missing two games and a factor in JMU's decision to take away the run instead of the pass, was 7 for 17 for 52 yards and two interceptions in the first half.
The Dukes began their first drive at the UMass 48-yard line after the Minutemen went three-and-out and punted into a stiff breeze.
A whole lot of Scott led to JMU's first score, as he racked up 38 yards on four carries. Jordan Anderson finished it off with a 1-yard run at the 11:06 mark.
Less than three minutes later it was 14-0 as Pagel, under pressure, underthrew Julian Talley and was intercepted by Mike Allen, who returned the ball 44 yards for a touchdown.
It wasn't until a fortunate bounce on a punt that the UMass offense got going. Jeff Strait's punt hit a JMU player and Ryan Carter recovered for UMass on the James Madison 16.
But the Minutemen had to settle for a 20-yard field goal by Brandon Yelovich.
James Madison tacked on a 25-yard field goal by Cameron Starke and an 18-yard scoring run by Scott to take a 24-3 lead into the locker room.
A good start to the second half for the Minutemen was negated in 22 seconds. The defense opened the half and kept the Dukes from moving the ball, getting the ball back to the offense at the UMass 36.
Senior tailback Jonathan Hernandez caught a screen pass from Pagel and sprinted 53 yards to the JMU 11 on first down. Alan Williams then rushed 11 yards for the score to make it a 24-10 game.
"The running back was just finding holes and breaking tackles," said UMass senior linebacker Tyler Holmes, who had 14 tackles. "We had one of our worst tackling games tonight and it definitely hurt us."
UMass answered with a 13-play, 72-yard drive ending in Pagel's 9-yard touchdown pass to tight end Rob Blanchflower, but the Dukes ate up a ton of clock with their ground game.
"I thought the biggest statistic of the game was the time of possession. We had the ball 38 minutes and they had 22," Matthews said. "We thought they had an excellent offense when they didn't turn the ball over."
Perry McIntyre led the Minutemen with a career-high 16 tackles. Talley extended his streak of games with a catch to 29 and Pagel finished 20 of 36 for 236 yards.


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I just bought a couple dresses I want to wear for engagement pictures. The first is a navy/violet colored lace dress from Free People.
The second is from Revolve and is a heather wine color. I thought for sure with this one a large scarf and black leggings/tights with some kind of boot maybe. Any recommendations for boots that can fit on a wider calf?
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