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REDLANDS, Calif. – The Chapman University football team fell 39-26 at Redlands, ending an eight-game SCIAC winning streak. Sophomore Nico Ragas had the second 100-yard kick return in program history.
The game started as a defensive battle as neither defense was willing to bend or break until there was just 4:52 left in the first half. Redlands went on to score twice in the first half and the Panthers scored all 26 of their points in the second half.
The first two drives of the game were three-and-outs and senior Matt Layton picked off his second pass of the year to end the Bulldogs second drive. However, the Panthers couldn't capitalize on the short field and turned it over on downs on the Redlands' 21.
Senior Curt Calomeni led the Panthers' defense with 15 total tackles, including one for a loss. Layton and senior Andrew Dieken recorded back-to-back sacks to stall a Redlands drive in the second quarter. Layton had eight total tackles to add to his stat line.
The defenses continued to dominate the game over the first 25 minutes. Redlands switched quarterbacks to Nathan Martinez, who helped the offense gain some momentum. He broke the scoring silence on a big play when Steve Van Grouw was unaccounted for behind the Chapman defense. Martinez hit him in stride for a 74-yard TD.
Martinez ended the game 16-of-22 for 257 yards and three touchdowns.
Three of the four Panther touchdowns came from at least 20 yards out. On the Panthers first play of the second half, senior QB Ian Fieber connected with junior Trevor Vill for 57 yards. Fieber hit Vill for 20 yards on the next play to complete the two-play scoring drive.
Vill had his fourth consecutive game with over 100 yards receiving, hauling in six catches for 120 yards and a pair of TDs. His second TD came late in the fourth from four yards out. Fieber was 21-of-37 for 255 yards and three touchdowns but threw an interception.
With the Panthers trailing 20-7, Fieber found sophomore Caleb Henshaw well behind the defense and Henshaw strolled into the end zone for a 55-yard touchdown toss.
After Henshaw's touchdown made it 20-13, the Bulldogs put together back-to-back scoring drives to make it 30-13. Meanwhile, the Redlands defense forced back-to-back three-and-outs from the Chapman offense and picked off Fieber on the second play of the next drive. Another touchdown drive made it 37-13 with 9:22 left.
The ensuing kickoff was five yards deep into the end zone but Ragas brought it, broke a couple tackles along the sideline and sprinted to the opposite end zone for the second 100-yard kickoff return in Chapman history. However, the snap on an attempted two-point conversion was botched and returned by the Bulldogs for two points.
Junior Elias Deeb's onside kick was recovered by the Panthers to keep the hopes of an improbable comeback alive. Fieber hit Vill for the four-yard TD to cap a nine-play drive for Chapman's final score. Redlands recovered the next onside kick attempt and ran out the clock.
The Panthers running game never got going against the stingy Redlands' defense. Chapman had just 17 rushing yards while Redlands' ran for 260 yards.
Chapman returns to Ernie Chapman Stadium for the first time since Sep. 1 when the Panthers host Occidental at 7 p.m. for the annual Homecoming Game on Oct. 13.
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BEIJING, July 10 — China executed its former top food and drug regulator today for taking bribes to approve untested medicine as Beijing scrambled to show that it is serious about improving the safety of Chinese products.
The Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court carried out the death sentence against Zheng Xiaoyu, 62, the former head of the State Food and Drug Administration, soon after the country's Supreme Court rejected his final appeal.
Mr. Zheng, who had appealed his May 29 sentence on the grounds that it was too severe and that he had confessed to the bribery charges against him, became the first ministerial-level official put to death since 2000 and only the fourth since China opened it doors to the outside world nearly 30 years ago.
The official Xinhua news agency announced the execution but did not say how Mr. Zheng was killed. In most cases, court police execute prisoners by shooting them in the back of the head, though recently police have also used lethal injections.
China carries out more court-ordered executions than the rest of the world combined, according to human rights groups. But even by local standards the sentence against Mr. Zheng was unusually harsh and his execution uncommonly swift.Continue reading the main story
The country's Supreme Court has recently made a highly publicized effort to show that it carefully reviews all death sentences and that it has restricted the power of local courts to impose that penalty.
But Mr. Zheng's case appears to have served a political purpose, allowing senior leaders to show that they have begun confronting the country's poor product safety record. Shoddy or dangerous goods, including toothpaste, pet food ingredients, toys and car tires, have damaged its reputation abroad, especially in the United States.
China is the world's largest exporter of consumer products, and tainted goods represent a small fraction of the country's more than $1 trillion in annual exports. But officials clearly worry that protectionist forces in the United States could use the spate of quality problems to restrict trade.
At the same time Mr. Zheng was executed, representatives of the country's leading food and drug regulatory bodies held a joint press conference to emphasize their determination to crack down on fake and counterfeit food and medicine.
After weeks denying serious problems or blaming foreign forces for exaggerating the issue, officials have recently begun to strike a less defensive tone. One senior official acknowledged that the food and drug safety network still allowed too many unsafe goods to slip through, and said that at the moment the trend "is not promising."
"As a developing country, China's current food and drug safety situation is not very satisfactory because supervision of food and drug safety started late," Yan Jiangying, deputy policy director of the State Food and Drug Administration, the agency Mr. Zheng headed, said. "Its foundation is weak so the supervision of food and drug safety is not easy."
Asked about his death sentence, Ms. Yan said: "Corruption in the food and drug authority has brought shame to the nation. What we will have to learn from the experience is to improve our work and emphasize public safety."
Regulators said their ability to monitor food and drug purity would greatly increase by 2010, when they enhanced their ability to respond to accidents and establish a national product recall system.
The authorities said inspectors would start shifting posts more often to prevent corruption, and that they would inspect a wider range of goods more frequently to ferret out fakes.
But they acknowledged that they face challenges in eliminating unsafe products. China has about 200 million farms, many of them less than an acre in size. It has nearly 450,000 food processing companies, nearly 80 percent with 10 employees or fewer, said Lin Wei, a senior official at the General Administration of Quality, Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine.
"This is our national condition," Mr. Lin said. "It is our hope that by 2010 we can reduce the number of small food workshops by 50 percent and effectively curb law breaking and counterfeiting."
Officials acknowledge that responsibility for food and drug safety involves as many as 17 government agencies, ranging from the Ministry of Health, which sets hygienic standards, to the Public Security Bureau, which has power to investigate criminal cases.
This fragmented authority has led to a proliferation of licensing fees and fines. But it has also allowed local officials to protect factories in their domain and created overlapping jurisdictions in which no single agency exercises ultimate responsibility, Chinese regulatory experts say.
On Tuesday, officials said the five agencies that had the most direct, front-line responsibility for food and drug safety had stepped up their coordination.
Officials also appeared worried that the safety scare could diminish attendance or otherwise limit the boost to its economic development and global prestige it hoped to get from playing host to the Olympic Games next year. The authorities outlined measures they have taken to guarantee clean food and water supplies for athletes and spectators at the games.
Fears abroad over Chinese-made products were prompted last year by the deaths of dozens of people in Panama who took cough syrup that contained diethylene glycol, a poisonous chemical, that was imported from China. The Chinese manufacturer had labeled the item as glycerin, commonly used as a harmless ingredient in drugs.
Chinese-made pet food ingredients tainted with the chemical melamine caused the deaths of cats and dogs in the United States this year.
American regulators have since turned away drug-tainted seafood products, juice containing unsafe additives and toy trains colored with lead paint.
The United States and several other countries have banned Chinese-made toothpaste that contains diethylene glycol. No reports of health problems stemming from the product have emerged, however, and China allows the use of diethylene glycol in toothpaste in small quantities.
Mr. Zheng became China's top drug regulator in 1994, when he was named the head of what was then called the State Pharmaceutical Administration. In 2003, the agency became the State Food and Drug Administration and acquired responsibility for overseeing the nation's food supply, an attempt by the government to consolidate regulatory authority into one agency.
He was removed in June 2005 for reasons that were not specified at the time. His ouster followed a period of bureaucratic infighting over the food and drug regulator's expanded responsibilities, which encroached on the purview and revenue sources of rival departments.
Late last year Mr. Zheng was charged with accepting $850,000 in bribes to grant approval for hundreds of medicines. State media said that his agency had approved 137 drugs for which proper applications had not been submitted, and that six of those drugs turned out to be fakes.
The list of drugs included an antibiotic blamed for at least 10 deaths in China, state media said.
Continuing the crackdown, a Beijing court on Friday meted out another capital sentence to Mr. Zheng's deputy, Cao Wenzhuang. Mr. Cao was given a two-year reprieve, however, which often results in commutation to life in prison.Continue reading the main story


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0.15″ (Inches, in) - English
inch is a value for measuring lengths and distances, heights and widths and etc.
One inch is equal to 0.0277777777778 yards.
On this page we consider in detail all variants for convert 0.15 inches to yards and all opportunities how to convert inches with usage comprehensive examples, related charts and conversion tables for inches. Here you will find all the ways for calculating and converting inches in yd and back. If you want to know how many yards are in 0.15 inches you can obtain the answer in several ways:
To indicate inches, we will use the abbreviation "in" to indicate yards we will use the abbreviation "yd". All options to convert "in" to "yd" we will look more detail in individual topics below. So, we're starting explore all avenues of transformation zero point one five inches and conversions between inches and yards.
To convert 0.15 inches into yards we consider using the online converter on the web page. The online converter has very simple interface and will help us quickly convert our inches. The online inch converter has an adaptive shape for different devices and therefore for monitors it looks like the left and right input fields but on tablets and mobile phones it looks like the top and bottom input fields. If you want convert any inch values, you must only enter required value in the left (or top) input field and automatically you get the result in the right (or bottom) field. Under each field you see a more detailed result of the calculation and the coefficient of 0.0277777777778 which is used in the calculations. The big green string, under the input fields - "0.15 Inches = 0.00416666666667 Yards" further enhances and shows final result of the conversion. Calculator for converting units of measurement works symmetrically in both directions. If you enter any value in any field, you will get the result in the opposite field. Clicking on the arrow icons between the input fields you can swap the fields and perform other calculations. We are all made for easily converting any values between inches and yd.
If you came to this page, you already see the result work of the online calculator. In the left (or top) field you see the value of 0.15 "in" on the right (or bottom) box you see the value of result is equal to 0.00416666666667 "yd". Write briefly: 0.15 "in" = 0.00416666666667 "yd"
We have briefly reviewed how to use the unit Converter on this page, but this is only part of the features of the page service. We made an interesting possibility to compute all possible values for units of measure in the lower tables. These tables are used to convert basic units of measurement: Metric conversion chart, US Survey conversion chart, International conversion chart, Astronomical conversion chart. Please, find these 4 tables at the bottom of this page they have the headers:
To answer this question, we start with a brief definition of inch and yard, and their purpose. The inch and yard units of length which can be converted one to another using a conversion factor which is equal to 0.0277777777778. This coefficient answers the question how many yards are equivalent to one inch. The value of this multiplier determines the basic value to calculate all other lengths, sizes and other transformations for these units (inch and yard), it is enough to know the value, i.e. to remember that 1 inch = 0.0277777777778 (yd). Knowing the number of yards in one inch by simple multiplication we can calculate any values. Let's do a simple calculation using the multiplication:
0.15″ × 0.0277777777778 = 0.00416666666667 (yd)
Thus it is seen that after multiplying by the coefficient we get the following relationship:
0.15 Inches = 0.00416666666667 Yards
We have already seen how to convert these two values and how change inches to yards. So in summary, you can write all possible results that have the same meaning.
0.15 inches to yd = 0.00416666666667 yd
0.15 inches in yd = 0.00416666666667 yd
0.15 inches into yd = 0.00416666666667 yd
0.15 in = 0.00416666666667 yd
0.15″ = 0.00416666666667 yd
0.15″ is 0.00416666666667 yd
zero point one five inches = 0.00416666666667 yd
To convert 0.15 inches into yards we can use many ways:
In the calculations for inches and yards, we will use the formula presented below that would quickly get the desired result.
Y (in) × 0.0277777777778 = X (yd) Y - value of inches X - result in yards
That is, you need to remember that 1 inch is equal 0.0277777777778 yards, and when converting inches just multiply the number of inches (in this case 0.15 inches) by a factor of 0.0277777777778. For example, we transform the set of values 0.15″, 1.15″, 2.15″, 3.15″, 4.15″ into yards and get the result in the following examples:
0.15 (in) × 0.0277777777778 = 0.00416666666667 (yd) 1.15 (in) × 0.0277777777778 = 0.0319444444444 (yd) 2.15 (in) × 0.0277777777778 = 0.0597222222222 (yd) 3.15 (in) × 0.0277777777778 = 0.0875 (yd) 4.15 (in) × 0.0277777777778 = 0.115277777778 (yd)
In all variants we multiplied the all inches in range from 0.15″ to 4.15″ with the same ratio of 0.0277777777778 and got the correct results in calculations.
To calculate the proportions you need to know the reference value in yards for 1 inch and according to the rules of arithmetic we can calculate any value in yards for any length in inches. See the next examples. We form the proportion for 3 values our inches 0.15″, 1.15″, 2.15″ and calculate results values in yards:
1 (in) — 0.0277777777778 (yd) 0.15 (in) — X (yd) Solve the above proportion for X to obtain: X = 0.15(in) × 0.0277777777778(yd) ÷ 1(in) = 0.00416666666667(yd)
1 (in) — 0.0277777777778 (yd) 1.15 (in) — X (yd) Solve the above proportion for X to obtain: X = 1.15(in) × 0.0277777777778(yd) ÷ 1(in) = 0.0319444444444(yd)
1 (in) — 0.0277777777778 (yd) 2.15 (in) — X (yd) Solve the above proportion for X to obtain: X = 2.15(in) × 0.0277777777778(yd) ÷ 1(in) = 0.0597222222222(yd)
All proportions used reference value 1 inch = 0.0277777777778 yd
You can use our basic universal online converter on the current web page and convert any your length dimensions and distances between inches and yards in any directions free and fast.
Currently, the field for inches contains the number 0.15 (in) you can change it. Just enter any number into field for inches (for example any value from our set: 1.15, 2.15, 3.15, 4.15 inches or any other value) and get the fast result into field for yards. How to use the inch online calculator you can more detail read at this link manual for the calculator.
For example, we take the 9 values into inches and will try to calculate the result values in yards. Also, we will use the web calculator (you can find it at the top of this page). In the set up a table in the left margin we write the value in inches in the right margin you see the values that you should obtain after calculation. You can check it right now, without leaving the site and make sure that the calculator works correctly and quickly. In all calculations, we used the ratio 0.0277777777778 which helps us to get the desired values of computation results in yards. Please, see the results in the next table:
|Table Factor
|3633728 (in)
|× 0.0277777777778
|= 100936.888889 (yd)
|3633729 (in)
|× 0.0277777777778
|= 100936.916667 (yd)
|3633730 (in)
|× 0.0277777777778
|= 100936.944444 (yd)
|3633731 (in)
|× 0.0277777777778
|= 100936.972222 (yd)
|3633732 (in)
|× 0.0277777777778
|= 100937.0 (yd)
|3633733 (in)
|× 0.0277777777778
|= 100937.027778 (yd)
|3633725 (in)
|× 0.0277777777778
|= 100936.805556 (yd)
|3633726 (in)
|× 0.0277777777778
|= 100936.833333 (yd)
|3633727 (in)
|× 0.0277777777778
|= 100936.861111 (yd)
We're briefly describe the possibility for using our calculator for converting 0.15 inches. The calculator allows you to convert any value for lengths and distances not only in inches but also for all other units. Our conversion tables which we mentioned earlier are also included in the logic operation of the calculator and all these calculations you can get in one application if you download and install the software on your computer. Converter easily converts 0.15 "in" for you in offline mode. All the details of the work of this application for conversion of the heights and widths, lengths, sizes and distances described in inches or other units of measurement you will find in menu "Software" of this site or by the link: InchPro Decimal. Please, also see the screenshots for acquaintance.
Many people can hardly imagine the relationship between inch and yard. In this picture, you can clearly see the ratio of these quantities to understand them in real life. The ratio of the lengths of the segments is retained on screens with any resolution as for large monitors as well as for small mobile devices.
The graph shows the relative values the inches in the form of rectangular segments of different lengths and colors. As well as the visual representation of 0.15 (in) with the reference value in yards.
The graphs of the relationship between inches and yards are expressed in the following colours:
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|0.15 inches to micrometers microns
|= 3810.0
|0.15 inches to nanometers
|= 3810000.0
|0.15 inches to decimeters
|= 0.0381
|0.15 inches to meters
|= 0.00381
|0.15 inches to millimeters
|= 3.81
|0.15 inches to kilometers
|= 3.81e-06
|0.15 inches to decameters
|= 0.000381
|0.15 inches to hectometers
|= 3.81e-05
|0.15 inches to centimeters
|= 0.381
|0.15 inches to survey chains
|= 0.000189393560607
|0.15 inches to survey feet
|= 0.012499975
|0.15 inches to survey furlongs stade
|= 1.89393560607e-05
|0.15 inches to survey leagues
|= 7.89139835862e-07
|0.15 inches to survey statute miles
|= 2.36741950759e-06
|0.15 inches to survey inches
|= 0.149999700001
|0.15 inches to survey rods perches poles
|= 0.000757574242427
|0.15 inches to survey links
|= 0.0189393560607
|0.15 inches to inches
|= 0.15
|0.15 inches to feet
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Religiously conservative Adhaalath Party criticised President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom on Tuesday, proclaiming that the president has been politically ostracised and that he is currently ruling the government with non-experienced officials.
In a statement, the party stated that as a result of several policies, the economy of the Maldives is facing a downturn which has led to the removal of peace and happiness of the people. Stressing that injustice is never permanent, the statement vowed that the nation would be taken to a safer destination by the joint efforts of opposition leaders.
The statement further highlighted the victory achieved in finding unified opposition efforts to reform the government two years back. It reiterated that major developments have been achieved while Adhaalath Party's leader Imran Abdulla remains behind bars after initiating the exertions.
"It is today's political truth that President Yameen has been politically isolated after the division of his own ruling party and incessant shuffling of Cabinet Ministers. The government is run by non-experienced officials."
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Thursday, August 31, 2017
Moon Mist on a Planet with No Moon
Venus is, of course, a tropical planet overrun with thick jungle and nigh-impenetrable swamps. That's how its often described in the excellent Sword-and-Planet stories of Leigh Brackett and--by golly--no one should question to will of she who wrote the first draft of The Empire Strikes Back. Her husband, Edmond Hamilton, also wrote about a Venus like that in his Captain Future novels.
Of course, her Venus and his Venus don't quite match up with one another, nor do they match with Edgar Rice Burroughs' Venus or any of the other Venus' of fiction. So each inhabits their own universe, but still give us swamps, jungles and dinosaurian monsters of various shapes and sizes. They beat our boring Solar System in just about every area. NASA should do something about that.
Brackett's best Venus story--what is also considered one of her best short stories period--is "The Moon That Vanished," published in the October 1948 issue of Thrilling Wonder Stories. Here we meet expatriate American David Heath, who spends most of his time in a drug-induced stupor in a tavern located on the shores of the Sea of Morning Opals. Desperate to bring back a dead lover, he had once tried to sail into an area called the Moonfire--where legends say a person can become a god if he survives the ensuing agony and makes it to the center of the area. David had not gotten past the outskirts and, though he now had the minor ability to manipulate free electrons in the air and form a ghost image of his dead girlfriend, he hadn't achieved godhood.
The two Venusians are also on the priests' hit list, though Broca wants to get to the Moon fire primarily because he wants to become a god and make Alor his woman. Alor isn't necessarily on board with this. In fact, during the long voyage, she falls for David Heath. Broca is very displeased with this.
A reader might be wondering how a planet that has no moon developed a cult revolving around the idea of one. Heath's idea is that there was one once, but it eventually crashed into Venus, forming the area called the Moonfire. Whether the powers said to be available there were granted by the gods or a result of radioactive contamination doesn't really matter in a practical sense--in either case, the results are the same.
The journey itself takes up the bulk of the story, with the priests pursing them in another ship, storms and sea monsters to keep things exciting. When they reach the Moonfire, they do penetrate far enough to find out exactly what the power you get does. In a sense, it does make you a god. But it can also lead to self-destruction. David Heath has to decide whether to embrace that power and gain back an illusion that his lost-love still lives or accept that life goes on and that Alor is living and real and that he loves her now. Of course, there's also the necessity of rescuing Alor from a madman who has embraced godlike powers. But no one ever said love was easy.
That's the sort of Venus we should have. There really ought to be someone to complain to about this sort of thing.
I think in a few weeks, we'll take a look at one of the Sword-and-Planet stories of Brackett's husband Edmond Hamilton--one of my favorite pulp and comic book writers. We'll tag along with him to another solar system rather than make the short hop to Venus, but I expect we'll still have a good time.
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
Micronauts, Part 6
Micronauts #11 (November 1979) is pretty much the conclusion of the initial adventure, with #12 (December 1979) tying up a few loose ends and setting up future story arcs.
Which is fine, because Bill Mantlo's scripts and Michael Golden's art are all still meshing together to bring us an epic story set in a superbly constructed universe. I'll have to say it one more time--This series is one of the best examples of coherent and intriguing world-building I've ever run across in any fictional universe.
The Acroyears had defeated Karza's forces on their home planet, while Argon had led an apparently successful rebellion on Homeworld. But Karza is still in space with an overwhelming army at his command, holding Rann and Mari prisoner. Argon's forces have pretty much used up their weapons and resources, so are unable to fight back.
Karza had supposedly captured Rann to learn about the Enigma Force, but we now learn that this knowledge is buried in Rann's subconscious. Karza knows this, so holding him prisoner is really just a red herring--a distraction while Karza crushes the rebellion.
And Karza, despite the setbacks he's suffered over the last few issues, does seem to be unbeatable. He smacks down Agron in a hand-to-hand fight and is about to order his troops to slaughter everyone.
But then we finally learn what the Enigma Force is. The Shadow Priests--who had also rebelled against Karza--turn out to be different aspects of Rann, created and split off from him during his 1000 years in suspended animation while he explored the Microverse.
The meta-physics behind all this are left a bit vague, but it's the sort of thing that makes perfect sense in the context of a Comic Book Universe and the super-science of the Microverse. It's a plot twist that does not at all seem like a cop-out or a dues ex machina because Mantlo has been careful to set up the background for all this gradually throughout the last 10 issues. It's another example of why I think this might be Mantlo's best work in a career full of incredibly fun storytelling.
And that brings the main story to a very satisfying conclusion. Micronauts #12 is an epilogue, with most of the action involving a formal duel between Acroyear and his traitorous brother Shaitan, which gives us some additional insights into Acroyear's character and ends with Shaitan's death.
We also get indications that Bug is still alive and there's a scene on Earth to give Ray and Steve Coffin a happy ending (a search of the Grand Comics Database doesn't have any future appearances by them other than in a What If?) and set up some future story lines set on Earth.
I do know that Shaitan and Karza are both later resurrected. Remember that I haven't read this particular issues before and the only other issues I have read are the ones I've reviewed in the past: HERE and HERE. I know I missed out on something cool by not getting this series during its original run. On the other hand, this story arc comes to a very satisfying and definite conclusion in regards to the bad guys. Without having read the later stories involving them, I admit to being a bit leery about them returning to life later on. It really is a very over-used trope in both Marvel and DC Comics. On the third hand, though, I trust Bill Mantlo to come up with a good concept for bringing them back.
The series ran for 59 issues, so, like ROM Space Knight, it's unlikely my finances will allow me to collect the entire run and licencing issues will probably mean reprints are always unlikely. So I may review random issues that I happen to snatch up in the future, but for now we'll be leaving the Microverse behind.
Monday, August 28, 2017
Cover Cavalcade
Tales to Astonish #9 (1960) and Where Monsters Dwell #28 (1974), in which "Droom: The Living Lizard" is reprinted. Art by Jack Kirby.
Friday, August 25, 2017
Friday's Favorite OTR
Escape: "Sundown" 6/23/50
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Thursday, August 24, 2017
Merely the Comedic Sidekick? I Don't Think So!
Read/Watch 'em In Order #85
I have, by the way, been reviewing the Nick Carter films in the order they appear on the DVD menu (they are all on a single disc). Phantom Raiders (1940) is the third movie on the disc, but I have just run across a reference online to this one being the second film. The latter two films were both released in 1940. Sure enough, a little extra checking showed that Phantom Raiders was released on June 7 of that year, while Sky Murder hit the theaters on September 27. So I'm afraid I have been out of order in my In Order reviews. Hopefully, civilization will survive this error, though it will be a close thing.
The movie actually shows us the bad guys right off and lets us in on how they are sinking the ships. Bombs are hidden aboard the ships' radios, then set off via remote control. With the help of several corrupt shipping company executives, the main villain is shipping worthless cargo that was insured for a lot of money.
So the movie isn't a whodunit, but rather a how-will-Nick-catch-them. Nick suspects the main villain right from the start--a crook named Al Taurez (Joseph Schildkraut) with whom Nick had tangled back in the States. But proving this, as well as figuring out how Al is blowing up the ships, will take some doing. Al is also a knife-throwing expert, which makes it particularly dangerous to get on his bad side.
Schildkraut's suave but ruthless turn as the villain is a good one--he really does exude menace. The rest of the supporting cast--as is so typical with the best of the B-movies from that era--is a lot of fun. Nat Pendleton, for instance, plays Gunboat Jacklin, an ex-boxer now working as Al's bodyguard. Pendleton--an ex-wrestler in real life--was never in danger of having to write an Oscar acceptance speech, but his career playing often likable thugs and tough guys in B-movies is an honorable one. Even when he is one of the bad guys, you always kind of like him and think its nice to have him around.
I also particularly like the performance of Cecil Kellaway as a corrupt shipping exec who is having a crisis of conscience over the men who have died on the sunken ships.
Special mention, though, has to go to Donald Meek, who played Nick's sidekick Bartholomew ("Beeswax," as Nick calls him) in all three films. Meek is the comic relief and his slightly manic turn as Bartholomew is funny. But though he started as 90% comic relief & 10% useful in Nick Carter, Detective, he turns out to be quite awesome in the remaining two films.
In Phantom Raiders, he saves Nick at least twice. After one of these occasions, Nick has decided the money he's being paid isn't worth the risk and plans to quit. It's Bartholomew who eggs him into continuing by delivering an "anonymous" threat to Nick's room, thus playing on the detective's pride. Bartholomew also does some clever work in luring Al out of his office so Nick can search it. Heck, he's more co-hero of the film than sidekick. When I finally get around to my career of solving crimes, I'm going to be on the look-out for an assistant just like "Beeswax!"
All three Nick Carter movies are great, but Phantom Raiders is my favorite, both in terms of good story construction and fun characters.
That finished up the Nick Carter films and brings us up-to-date in the current batch of In Order reviews. As of my writing this post (about a month before it posts), I am undecided on what to do next for this series. But I'll think of something before long. Civilization isn't going to collapse on my watch.
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
The Blue Phantom
Written and drawn by Fred Fredericks, The Blue Phantom (cover-dated June-August 1962) was a one-shot published by Dell Comics. It's a fun story--a well-researched and well-written saga from the War Between the States.
The protagonist is Rex Kingsbury, the son of a Virginia plantation owner. Rex and a band of 150 men have been out west working the gold fields. Now they're on their way home, with enough gold to make each of them wealthy.
But there's trouble afoot on the home front. Fort Sumter has been fired upon and all Brad's neighbors are eager to fight for the Confederacy. Rex's dad has passed away, but not before ticking everyone off by freeing his slaves. Rex's sister Jane thinks their father essentially died of a broken heart after being shunned by the community at large for his anti-slavery position.
Rex and Jane share the anti-slavery sentiments and also still feel loyalty to the Union. So when they throw a barbecue to try to mend fences with their neighbors--well, that doesn't end happily.
Rex's plantation ends up being burned to the ground. But remember the 150 men with whom Rex rode west? You don't go West, work in the gold mines and come back rich unless you are tougher than any two other men. 150 of them make one heck of a cavalry unit and, when Jane is hidden away in a remote cabin, Rex and his boys start making trouble for the Rebs.
By the way, those battles mentioned in the panel above are all real ones. Though this story is fiction, it is indeed well-researched and all the events involving Rex are nicely meshed with real-life history.
Anyway, Rex finds out about Rebel plans to attack the Northern army and delivers a warning. He realizes that the battle will overrun the plantation of Diana Rutherford, the love of Rex's life. Diana, though, is loyal to the South and their relationship has long since gone sour. So getting her out of the line of fire involves not simply warning her of the danger, but actually kidnapping her and dragging her away.
Rex stashes her away in the same cabin his sister is using. The two women, both strong-willed and both loyal to their respective causes, do not have a pleasant visit.
In the meantime, Rex joins in at the First Battle of Bull Run. Despite Rex's information, the Union Army is whipped, but the war goes on. Diana is returned to her only-partially ruined home and Rex rides off to continue to fight for the North.
With nearly four years of war still to go, there is plenty of room here for more stories involving Rex and his cavalry unit, as well as a continued examination of his relationship with Diana (who mostly claims she hates him, but has occasional second thoughts). For instance, having Rex encounter Diana's father or brother in battle would have made a powerful tale.
The climax of this story is open-ended enough to imply that later stories might have been at least tentatively planned. Perhaps the issue didn't sell well enough. Also, this was published the same year Dell broke away from Western Publishing (which started Gold Key Comics), so there may simply have been confusion among the staff as they scrambled to find their own footing and acquire rights to TV shows/movies/etc to replace those properties still owned by Western. For whatever reason, poor Rex was left in the dust of fictional history.
You can read The Blue Phantom online HERE.
Next week, we return to the Microverse to finish up our look at the first twelve issues of the Micronauts.
Monday, August 21, 2017
Cover Cavalcade
Friday, August 18, 2017
Friday's Favorite OTR
Suspense: "Murder of Necessity" 3/24/52
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Thursday, August 17, 2017
Haunted Corpse
A co-worker pointed out to me recently that many issues of Galaxy Science Fiction have been scanned into the Internet Archives and are available to read for free. Since we work in a library, we wondered about copyright issues, but after a little research, discovered that the Internet Archives just makes stuff available and only takes it down if someone complains. So it's likely that Galaxy will be around for awhile--I suspect many of the original writers or their estates will just be happy to have their stuff read again.
Anyway, I pulled up a random issue (January 1957) and--seeing it included a Frederik Pohl story--immediately read that one. (Um... I mean I waited until I got home that day rather than reading it at work. Yeah, that's it. I wouldn't be reading fiction at my desk while at work. I'm shocked --and appalled--that any of you would even suggest such a thing!)
Windermere immediately sets up a perimeter around Horn's home/lab and insists that the scientist submit to all security procedures, including giving daily reports on progress. Horn--a standard-issue ill-tempered scientist who brooks no interference with his work--is a bit ticked off about this, but he soon realizes he has no choice.
When he finally concedes to giving reports, he drives a corporal taking dictation up a wall by using complex scientific terminology. But the gist of it is that his machine doesn't literally kill people. Rather, it removes and electronically stores the target's mind. That mind can then be transferred into another body. It's pretty much the same machine that Captain Kirk was subjected to in the 3rd-worst episode of the original Star Trek or what the denizens of Gilligan's island were zapped with in the episode "The Friendly Physician," which is actually about 200 more watchable that the Trek story.
Horn proves that his machine works by swapping the minds of a hen and a dog. Windermere immediately gets excited about the espionage possibilities, but a test with humans is still necessary. Horn hasn't been able to find any volunteers.
But it there's one thing the Army is good at is finding "volunteers." Windermere's executive officer, for instance, is"a courageous man, typical of the very best leadership type"--who also would really, really like his upcoming transfer to Korea called off. A latrine orderly with a history of going AWOL is also recruited with the promise of cancelling his court martial.
The two men's minds are switched, then switched back. The machine works perfectly.
It's only then that Windermere discovers Horn (who is very old and very ill) might just have his own plans for the machine. This leads up to a not-quite-predictable twist ending.
Pohl's stories are always full of wit and very enjoyable. This one, which I don't believe I've read before--is typically excellent. I'm especially impressed by Pohl took stereotypical characters (crotchety scientist and by-the-book soldier) and fit them so smoothly into the plot without those stereotypes in anyway taking us out of the story.
The story is available to read HERE.
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
Substitute Heroes
|cover art by Curt Swan
The Legion of Substitute Heroes don't get no respect. Heck, in their first appearance (Adventure Comics #306--March 1963), they didn't even rate a cover appearance (though they did at least get a blurb along the bottom).
The Substitutes are made up of five people with superpowers who tried out for the Legion of Superheroes. Because their individual powers were not quite up to snuff (or--though no one is mean enough to say it--kind of dumb), all were rejected. But they still admire the Legion and want help, so they secretly form the Substitute Legion, waiting for a chance to step in and save the day when the real Legion is on the ropes.
The Substitutes are led by Polar Boy, who can generate cold. Over in the Marvel Universe, the X-Men's Iceman was demonstrating that this is indeed a useful power, but Polar Boy doesn't have proper control over his ability yet. He's joined by Night Girl (super-strength when not exposed to sunlight), Fire Lad (literally breaths fire), Chlorophyll Kid (can accelerate plant growth) and Stone Boy (turns into a statue).
Though they are eager to help, the Substitutes don't get an opportunity to do so. They start to jump in whenever there's an emergency, but the real Legion is always there before them and always has the situation well in hand.
But then the Legion is lured into space by an alien race that intends to use mobile, man-like plants as an army to conquer Earth. The Substitutes finally get a chance to show their stuff, destroying the plant army on Earth, then back-tracking the aliens to their home planet. The heroes use their powers in clever combinations to defeat the aliens.
John Forte did the art and Edmond Hamilton was the regular writer for the LSH at the time. Long-time readers of my blog will know that Hamilton is one of my favorite pulp/comic book writers and this story really demonstrates why. The idea of idealistic young people determined to do good--while remaining in the background and taking no credit--is by itself an awesome concept. Hamilton skillfully constructs a situation in which their powers--despite their limitations--can be used effectively. I have to say that Hamilton's use of Stone Boy does come across as contrived. But Stone Boy may have the world's most useless superpower, so making him useful probably can't help but be contrived. Despite this, the story is a fine example of Hamilton's skill at clever plot construction.
|cover art by Curt Swan
The Legion's second appearance is also an impressive story. Adventure Comics #311 (August 1963) finally earned the Substitutes a cover appearance, but the story itself brought them trouble. The real Legion apparently finds out about them, but it also appears that the Legion has betrayed Earth and is soon tracking down the Substitutes with the intent to kill them. In fact, it briefly appears that they succeed in killing Stone Boy.
It turns out that the real Legion was trapped in a space warp by yet another alien race bent on conquest. (One wonders why aliens don't concentrate on conquering planets that don't have a Legion of Super Heroes based on it.)
The Substitutes figure out what's going on, stop the bad guys and free the Legion from the warp--all while still keeping their existence a secret.
Both stories clearly show that the Substitutes do indeed have limited powers or are as yet undisciplined in using them. (Polar Boy did eventually become a member of the real Legion.) But all five are shown as eager to be heroes for the right reasons, to be able to think their way out of dangerous situations and to keep going when things get tough. Their powers might be limited (or even just plain dumb), but they are indeed heroes.
That's it for now. Next week, we'll jump back to the Civil War and ride with a Union cavalry officer.
Monday, August 14, 2017
Cover Cavalcade
Friday, August 11, 2017
Friday's Favorite OTR
Philip Marlowe: "The Big Book" 9/29/50
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Thursday, August 10, 2017
I Have a Bone to Pick with Christopher Morley
Read/Watch 'em In Order #84
Christopher Morley's sequel to his delightful 1917 novel Parnassus on Wheels was written in 1919. By this time, the U.S. had fought in the Great War and Germany had been defeated. This is a factor in The Haunted Bookshop, which is still drips with a love of good books, but also adds a really nifty mystery to the plot.
Aubrey quickly falls in love with the charming Titania. At the same time, he realizes there's a mystery afoot. A certain book keeps appearing and disappearing from the shop. This inexplicably ties in with a German pharmacist whose shop is nearby and a German cook who works at a local hotel. Aubrey has no clear idea what's going on, but he fears that Titania might be in danger. In fact, his best guess is that Mifflin is working with the Germans to kidnap her for ransom (Titania's father is wealthy).
Aubrey is, though, an amateur detective. The bad guys almost manage to do him in at least once and he makes several mistakes and comes to several erroneous conclusions. But overall, Aubrey does pretty well and it is he that saves Titania and the Mifflins during a literally explosive conclusion.
The mystery is a good one, while Morley's prose is full of wit & gentle humor, while his characters are all immensely likable. Seeded throughout the mystery plot are opportunities for Roger Mifflin to talk about books, the importance of reading and refining one's taste in books. Morley does this skillfully, both through his honest passion about this subject and in fitting it into the story without usually slowing down the A plot.
Morley even uses Mifflin to fit in his opinions about the then-upcoming peace conference in Paris. It's really too bad that the world leaders weren't given a copy of The Haunted Bookshop at Versailles. His prescient urging of something like the post-World War 2 Marshall Plan would have been a vast improvement over the disastrous Treaty of Versailles.
But I do have a particular bone to pick with Christopher Morley. Presuming Mifflin is a mouthpiece for Morley's own opinions, then I do take issue with his slightly snobbish dismissal of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Gee whiz, Chris, if Burroughs' style didn't appeal to you, then that's fine. But a complete failure to recognize Burroughs as the enormously skilled storyteller he was is disappointing. You hear that, Morley? I'm very disappointed in you.
Both Parnassus on Wheels and The Haunted Bookshop are truly wonderful books and, leaving aside the lack of respect for Tarzan, both books share Morley's love of literature and reading. What's not to like?
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Micronauts, Part 5
At the end of Micronauts #8, the heroes had wrapped up their business on Earth and headed back to the Microverse. This changes the feel of the series in a way--we go from what were relatively small-scale fights to epic space battles and world-wide rebellions. This works, though, as the story has effectively built up to these events.
In Micronauts #9 & 10 (September & October 1979), the Micronauts arrive on Spartak, the home of Acroyear. The Acroyears had been fighting for Baron Karza, but this was the result of a planet-wide "thought-washing." When Acroyear's rotten brother Shaitan failed to defeat the heroes on Earth, Karza sent him home and released the planet from his control, leaving the population very, very displeased with Shaitan.
This might seem a tactically unwise move--allowing a planet of kick-butt warriors to go from loyal minions to angry enemies. But Karza has already sent a fleet to Spartak large enough to destroy the Acroyears. This is actually an effective look at the pettiness and evil of Karza. He's essentially willing to commit genocide as part of an off-hand gesture to punish an underling who failed him.
But he has another motive as well. He knows the Micronauts are on Spartak. He wants to capture Rann alive to hopefully find out more about the Enigma Force (the power that the mysterious Time Traveller embodies or is a part of). Get rid of the Enigma Force, Karza figures, and nothing else can stand against him.
What is Acroyear, once again the leader of the Acroyears, doing while all this is going on? He's having a heartfelt conversation with the planet.
According to ancient legends, Spartak is actually a living being, pledged to help defend itself and the Acroyears in times of great need. This definitely qualifies. Acroyear wakes up the planet, which then starts tossing chunks of itself at the invaders.
The series has taken not just a more epic, but a much more brutal turn with this issues. This is not a criticism--everything that happens makes sense in context of the story. But bad stuff happens, especially when some of Karza's troops manage to land on Spartak and go on a killing spree, taking out women and children as well as enemy soldiers.
In the meantime, back on Homeworld, Prince Argon takes advantage of Karza being off-world and leads an open rebellion, attacking the body banks. With the Shadow Priests switching sides, they soon overwhelm the enemy troops.
As the good guys achieve victory on both Spartak and Homeworld, we get some more examples of how brutal life in the Microverse can be. Are you a snotty rich person who has oppressed and killed the poor to achieve immortality? Are you a murderous invader who has been slaughtering civilians on Spartak? Then don't expect much in the way of due process.
Michael Golden's art work gives the entire story an appropriately epic feel. And I must once again repeat what has become a standard refrain during my look at the Micronauts: Writer Bill Mantlo continues to give us sophisticated, complex world-building wrapped around a strong, well-constructed plot.
Next week, we'll jump from the Microverse to the 30th Century and visit with the Legion of Substitute Heroes.
Monday, August 7, 2017
Cover Cavalcade
Friday, August 4, 2017
Friday's Favorite OTR
Nick Carter: "Death Plays the Lead" 12/3/44
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Thursday, August 3, 2017
When the World No Longer Turns
"Swordsman of Lost Terra," a novella by Poul Anderson, fools you a little at the beginning by making you think its a straight fantasy. It's set on a version of Earth which doesn't rotate and has a Medieval level civilization and involves some apparently magical bagpipes that--if played just right--can instill panic in attacking enemies.
In fact, at first it's only the story's title that tells us the planet is Earth at all. But if we find out that it was originally published in the November 1951 issue of Planet Stories, then we have our first clue that it is in fact science fiction. Not hard SF--Planet Stories was not terribly concerned about getting the science right--but science fiction all the same. Those darn bagpipes are an artifact of lost science from before the world stopped spinning and old civilizations collapsed.
But mostly the characters in "Swordsman of Lost Terra" are concerned with hacking one another to death. The reader travels with what is essentially a nomadic warrior band--wandering around the Twilight area of the world until their homeland recovers from a famine. They make a living either hiring out as mercenaries or plundering what they need from others. They remind me a little of Vikings, which is not surprising in a Poul Anderson story. The man loved his Vikings.
There are three clans joined to form the band. Their overall leader is Red Bram, who is a pretty impressive kick-butt warrior. One of the other clan leaders is Rhiach, who is the only person able to play the god-pipe that brings madness or even death. Rhiach's son Kery--also a skilled warrior--is the story's main character.
When the band is attacked by a horde of well-armed, disciplined warriors from the dark side of the planet, it is only Rhiach's well-timed use of the pipes that saves them. But Rhiach is killed by a stray arrow. Kery inherits the pipes, but he has not yet been trained to use them. Now no one lives who can teach him.
All this is setting up a lively and exciting tale. Anderson puts his remarkable skill at world-building to work here, creating an Earth that in many ways has become an alien world compared to what we know. Then he manages to smoothly fit quite a lot of plot exposition and several epic battle scenes into the novella, along with several engaging characters.
The band soon allies itself with a city that is under siege from the Dark Lander army. There's a beautiful queen who falls in love with Kery, bloody battles, betrayals, kidnappings and desperate escapes. Everything revolves around the god-pipes. If either Kery or the leader of the Dark Landers can figure out who to use them, then the balance of power will rather abruptly shift.
"Swordsman of Lost Terra" is an excellent example of Sword-and-Planet fiction. It's really too bad Anderson never returned to this particular world. There are, I think, a lot of cool stories left to tell about it.
By the way, I read this story in a long-out-of-print anthology titled Swordsmen in the Skyi. I recommend this highly--keep an eye peeled for it in used book stores or online.
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What I Loved (Paperback)
A Novel
Picador, 9780312421199, 384pp.
Publication Date: March 1, 2004
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Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved begins in New York in 1975, when art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a SoHo gallery. He buys the work; tracks down the artist, Bill Wechsler; and the two men embark on a life-long friendship. Leo's story, which spans twenty-five years, follows the growing involvement between his family and Bill's--an intricate constellation of attachments that includes the two men, their wives, Erica and Violet, and their sons, Matthew and Mark.
The families live in the same New York apartment building, rent a house together in the summers and keep up a lively exchange of ideas about life and art, but the bonds between them are tested, first by sudden tragedy, and then by a monstrous duplicity that slowly comes to the surface. A beautifully written novel that combines the intimacy of a family saga with the suspense of a thriller, What I Loved is a deeply moving story about art, love, loss, and betrayal.
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Praise For What I Loved: A Novel…
"Superb. . .What I Loved is a rare thing, a page turner written at full intellectual stretch, serious but witty, large-minded and morally engaged." —The New York Times Book Review
"So richly imagined is the art in her book that it serves not just to illuminate hidden emotions but also as a subject in itself. . .A wrenching portrait of parental grief, then a psychological thriller, and finally a meditation on the perspective of memory." —Vogue
"A great book. The twinning of narrative pleasure with intellectual rigor isn't rare. In fact, it's easy to find if you're plowing through, say, the Modern Library, engaging with classics that come to you already canonized and annointed. But to stumble into such a relationship with a contemporary. . .writer is a heady feeling. Those of us who read new fiction dream of finding such a book." —Newsday
"No image is wasted, no sentence superfluous in creating a novel that teems with ideas, emotions.... Hustvedt's novel is a quietly astounding work of fiction that defies categorization." —Los Angeles Times
"A remarkable achievement of Siri Hustvedt's prose, with its attention to nuance and intricacy is its demonstration that friendship is a powerful form of intelligence. The book's final pages acknowledge nearly overwhelming loss, but because the reader understands so much, their sadness feels almost like joy." —The Washington Post
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- Leo Hertzberg asks, "what is memory's perspective?" (p. 21) How does this apply to his reminiscences in the account of his life during the twenty-five years that make up this novel?
- The ambiguity between male and female is a theme examined throughout the book. Discuss the way in which each character deals with gender. Violet explains what she calls "mixing" (see p. 91). The art critic Hasseborg claims Teddy Giles' art to be a "spectacle of shifting identities." How does this turn up in the writings of Violet, Bill's work, and Matt's drawings? What does Mark's crossdressing mean? In what way is sexual ambiguity erotic?
- In Bill's first paintings of Violet she is growing and shrinking (i.e. "Self-Portrait"). Discuss how this imagery affects Leo when he first sees it, and then later after Matthew is gone. How does it pertain to the other characters as they age throughout the novel? How is the concept of hunger manifested in Violet's research and writing? in Bill's art? in Erica's grief? How does Teenie Gold embody these ideas in the latter part of the book?
- Bill's constructions incorporate Violet's research regarding hysterics and dermagraphism (see p. 71). "Hansel & Gretel" (pp.81-2) is influenced by Violet's study of anorexia. How does Violet's work affect Bill's art? Discuss the various iconography he borrows from her and how it informs his work.
- How are Bill's two marriages different from one another?
- Throughout the novel Lucille remains somewhat of a mystery. Is she unknowable? How does her reserve affect the other characters? Why is she not more involved in Mark's welfare? Discuss the game Mark invented as a child that he played with Violet, and the way in which it deals with his feelings about a stepmother.
- Is it possible for a marriage to survive the death of a child? Discuss how Erica and other characters handle the grief of Matt's death. How are parents to deal with the heartache of raising troubled children?
- As a child, Matthew becomes worried about the concept of turning four. What does this reveal about his character? How is it manifested in his thinking and in his art? In the inventions of the character Dave, and the Ghostly Boy? Who do these represent?
- Mark begins making collages (see p.171). How does his work relate to Matthew's? to Bill's? Even his assemblage of items when he takes over Matthew's room? Is Mark trying to emulate his father? He also takes on different personas (as with Teddy) and voices. Is Mark's life his creation, is this self-invention his art?
- Another of Bill's works was a fairy tale-like project called "The Changeling." How did this piece play with the concepts of doubles and mirror images, and the idea of 'substitution?' Leo thinks about it years later regarding Mark when he remembers the stolen child in a glass coffin. Discuss this imagery, as well as Bill's series of doors and letters.
- How has the experience of the Holocaust informed the work of both Bill and Erica? What are examples of the Holocaust imagery in Bill's art, in his paintings of Violet? in his homage's to his father? See p. 84 for Leo's description of "words of rescue" and his exploration of this idea in Bill's work "Hansel and Gretel."
- Leo is not a visual artist, but the private collection of objects in his drawer are a sort of art piece. Discuss in what way these objects become a recording of absence and how Leo's arrangement of them in different combinations produces various associations. How do they serve Leo as muses of memory and relate to the title of the novel?
- Mark shows signs of his illness even in early childhood. Should everyone have recognized the seriousness of Mark's condition earlier? Were they afraid for him? or of him? What does it mean when Mark's therapist calls the boy's problems "characterological"? What does a characterological illness mean? Why is Mark so susceptible to Teddy Giles? Is it simply, as he states, that he is infected by a stronger personality? Is Mark an amoral character?
- The New York art scene described in the novel embraced Giles' work as a clever take on the horror genre, when it was actually the sadistic fantasies of a murderer. Discuss how the cultural media can mistake monstrosity for brilliance. What is the role of the power of art in the novel?


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UPPERMILL Sports Club is hosting a fabulous fundraising night as they aim to raise £8,000 to replace the damaged roof of their clubhouse.
Committee member Bev Bennett revealed: "We're putting on a comedian, singer and entertainer called Neil Diamondo. He's the most amazing entertainer you'll ever meet.
"He's a comedian and entertainer but he also sings Neil Diamond songs, hence the name.
"He also does Elvis Presley songs; he's just an all-round entertainer. We packed the house out last time."
The event will be held on Friday, April 27 at the clubhouse, starting at 7.30pm. Tickets are available at £5 each from Turners Dry Cleaners, 4 New Street, Uppermill.
Proceeds will go towards fixing the clubhouse roof which Malcolm Barlow, another committee member, explained has been leaking for about 18 months.
He said: "We've patched it, but it just goes through again.
"It needs to be completely re-done really. We need the money to do it though.
"Over the years with cricket balls and things like that it's got damaged.
"What we want is to have it re-sheeted with tin and to take the slates off because it's leaking into the bottom room currently."
Malcolm continued: "It's doing damage to all the decorating, and we had a problem with the flat roof because water came through. We're still waiting for insurance on that.
"They play table tennis in the bottom room, but it does get damp in there.
"It's just wear and tear, but the cricket balls don't help. If a ball hits it, it'll break.
"That's why we're trying to raise enough money for a tin roof, like they have for warehouses.
"That's what we've been advised to do so the balls won't damage it."
And Malcolm hopes the public will help their plans become a reality by supporting their latest fundraiser, as they have with previous events.
"The target is about £8,000 but we've got about £3,000 already," said Malcolm.
"The work probably will be done towards the end of this year, because really you don't want to do it during cricket season. You're probably looking at September/October."


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I'm still recovering from Eid. Rather odd, I know. Eid was on October 26, which is what—three weeks ago, now?
But Eid al-Adha (Korban Bairami, Eid l-Kbir, Hari Raya Haji, Baqar Eid, Eid-e Qorban…) was a transformative experience for me this year. Which was completely unexpected, because even when I was a very conservative Muslim, Eid al-Adha was my least favorite holiday.
Why that was so, I never really knew, because I could never allow myself the freedom to be honest about what I was thinking or feeling, especially if that threatened to take me into any kind of doctrinally or socially questionable territory. Early on after converting, I quickly learned that openly expressing discomfort with any ritual practices would lead to me being classified as someone that other sisters would be warned to stay far away from. And I and my convert friends were trying so hard to be model Muslimas, so rather than ask ourselves why we weren't really feeling the Eid spirit, we threw our energies into trying to make it something we could somehow connect to—or at least, that our kids would enjoy.
As we tried to connect to Eid, we retold the story of Hajar as a model of a pious woman who suffered adversity, but relied on God alone, and in the end, her faith was abundantly rewarded. By focusing on her actions, her faith, and the hajj ritual that required every pilgrim to retrace her steps between the two hills, we could avoid dealing with the many troubling questions that the story raised for us that we couldn't quite suppress.
After all, here was an African female slave who had been forced to bear children on behalf of an infertile free woman, Sara. There was no suggestion in any retelling of the story we were aware of that Hajar's consent to either sex with her mistress's husband or child-bearing was thought to matter in the least. Meaning, it hadn't mattered to Abraham, nor to Sara, nor even to later audiences down through the centuries. Including the communities that we belonged to.
And then, Abraham left Hajar and Ismail in the desert, in a deserted valley, with only a few provisions that they had brought with them, saying it was God's will. Again, her consent was hardly an issue. Had she wanted to come to the valley, even? Clearly, she hadn't expected to be left to fend for herself with her child.
Against all odds, Ismail and Hajar survived. And then, years later, Abraham came back and reclaimed his son.
When he saw himself sacrificing his son* in a dream, then he told his son this. His son's response was that Abraham should do as God commands. At the last moment, the sacrifice was averted by divine intervention—God instructed Abraham to sacrifice a ram instead. But where (we wondered) was the boy's mother? Did Abraham ever consult her? Did Abraham even tell her what he was going to do?? How did she respond after the sheep had been sacrificed instead?
Again, this was a topic that seldom interested the Muslim communities that we were involved in. Most people didn't even seem to notice that the boy's mother had apparently been left out of the story. Eid sermons never failed to discuss Abraham's sacrifice, pointing out how very very difficult it would be for any father to have to even consider sacrificing a son, and drawing the analogy between sacrificing a son and sacrificing the most precious thing that you have. I even had a Qur'an tape in which the reciter's voice broke when he recited the verses that speak of Abraham breaking the news to his son, and the (male) audience's weeping could also be heard in the background.
We gratefully seized upon the suggestion that we picked up somewhere-or-other (and based on who knows what evidence) that the boy's mother had died by this time. That way, we didn't have to ask why her consent was so irrelevant to the story, much less what the larger implications of that were.
But somehow, in the back of my mind was the question: If the story had been about a woman (Abrahama, say) and her heart-rending decision whether to sacrifice her daughter, would a holiday have been based on it??
We did our best to focus on Hajar's strong faith, and how it was eventually rewarded. After all, it was thanks to her frantic yet faith-filled search for water for her dying child that the Zamzam well sprang up, making survival as well as the founding of Mecca possible. And some state that when Hajar died, she was buried (along with Ismail) next to the Ka'ba. Clearly, her faith had been pleasing to God. That was all that mattered, we tried to tell ourselves. To sacrifice, to struggle, to try with all our might to fit into the mold of the pious Muslima who always accepts what God has decreed.
Yet, try as we might to get some spiritual sustenance out of Eid al-Adha, it could not escape even our notice that of all the holidays celebrated in our insular, conservative community, this one had the least space for women and small children. Just like the Abraham story as it was told to us, oddly enough—Eid too was really a celebration of patriarchy and male bonding.
After the Eid prayer (which always featured a sermon praising Abraham's sacrifice, as well as stressing the necessity of physically slaughtering animals rather than, say, giving the money you would have spent on buying an animal to the poor instead), the men and older boys would drive off to a farm to slaughter sheep (and occasionally a cow or two). At least, those who could afford it. The social pressure on men to slaughter was pretty strong, so only those who were really poor would not do so.
Meanwhile, the wives, daughters and little boys would go home, and wait for the men and older boys to come back with the meat, which usually happened in the very late afternoon or evening. Then, the women would have to clean the meat, cook some, and cut up and divide up the rest into freezer bags. Some would go in the freezer, to be cooked and eaten later, but the rest would be given to poorer members of the community in charity.
I don't recall anyone ever seriously raising the question of whether a woman could also sacrifice an animal. Slaughtering in that community was a man's thing—and it was promoted as a test of masculinity. Brothers would tell stories about it like some other men tell fish stories. Boys looked forward to going to the farm with their fathers, watching and learning how it was done. They were also quite aware that they were the ones having the most fun on Eid, while their sisters had to stay at home with little to do but wait, and watch (or help) their mothers cook.
We tried to make Eid more interesting for the girls as well as the boys deemed too small to go to the slaughter by putting up hand-made decorations, decorating sheep-shaped cookies, and doing crafts with them. Still, it seemed almost like rebellion when I heard of some sisters (not in our community) who decided to spend Eid day at Chuck-e-Cheese with their kids instead of waiting at home. I thought it was really daring of them, and gave it a try, but… well, I guess the kids had fun, which was the main thing. Anything not to think about why Eid left such a sour taste in my mouth….
Once I finally left my marriage, as well as that community, and moved many miles away, then Muslim holidays suddenly became optional. Not only optional, but difficult to observe, unless they happened to fall on weekends. But even when they were on weekends, did I really want to take the trouble to drive a fair ways to join a community that I didn't even know in order to celebrate them? I had certainly had my fill of sitting behind the men, unable to even participate in the takbirat. I didn't want to subject my daughters to that sort of thing any more. Nor did I see why I should put up with that—on a holiday, for goodness sake—when I wouldn't have ever accepted to be treated like that at work, or in any other situation.
And what did Eid al-Adha have to do with me, now? My ex had never had the means to slaughter an animal, and I didn't have the means to do it either, with my very low salary and kids to feed. Eid al-Adha was memories of waiting with my best friend and her kids for her husband and our older boys to come back from the slaughter ground, frozen meat parcels bestowed upon my family in charity after the slaughter was done…. The whole thing seemed like a somewhat well-meaning farce best forgotten. I never wanted to hear another sermon about Abraham's sacrifice, either.
Gradually, as my distance from Muslim holidays of all sorts (and Eid al-Adha most of all) widened, I was able to look back and see what it was that had bothered me so much about that Eid in particular as it had been celebrated in my community: From start to finish, it had really been all about power.
Celebrating power, privilege, and patriarchal entitlement.
Celebrating a vision of an "ideal" order in which men have the god-given "right" to dispose of women's and children's lives (and the lives of all living things, come to that) as they deem appropriate, with their "superior" knowledge of what God supposedly wants.
An "ideal" order in which women's perspectives or subjectivities are barely even acknowledged, because after all, a truly pious woman will follow where her god-fearing husband leads. She serenely surrenders control of her body and her life to him, obediently serving him in the kitchen and the bedroom, bearing him as many children as he wants, and carefully raising them to be good Muslims—usually, in accordance with his vision of what the latter entails.
An "ideal" order in which "sacrifice" is touted as an ideal, but it means significantly different things for men and women—through sacrifice, men grow and develop into leaders, while for women, sacrifice means silence and self-abnegation, waiting for men to decide and then following along, while shrinking ever smaller to fit into someone else's notion of proper female piety.
An "ideal" order in which there are rich and there are poor, and the wealthier patronizingly bestow charity on the poorer—who of course know their place, are properly grateful, and don't ask searching questions about why their situation is as it is.
And the thing was, these "ideals" weren't just theoretical in the community I had lived in. They were put into practice. Not only in the way that we celebrated Eid, but in general. Eid was simply a ritual that affirmed that this was the way God wanted things to be, and that questioning this meant rebelling against God.
So, of all the Muslim holidays that I had ever celebrated, I had thought that Eid al-Adha was the one that would probably never be a part of my life again. What would be the point, after breaking free from an abusive marriage and an extremely limiting community? What would it do, other than trigger memories that I wanted to forget?
But I reckoned without one thing. (cont.)
* As the story was usually told to us, the boy who was to be sacrificed was Ismail. However, some Muslim scholars of the past identified the boy as Ishaq (Isaac, as in the Bible). But this debate had little to do with how we experienced Eid al-Adha—whether the mother whose perspective on the sacrifice was Sara or Hajar did not change the message that we got from the story about our roles as wives and mothers in that community.


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But the magic really comes alive with presets. These are kits that you can either create or purchase that apply a specific set of filters to your image. Sometimes it's adjusting the saturation, other times it's sharpness, colors, and tones. There are thousands of options out there. You just hold to know where to recognize and how to install the kits.
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For the purposes of this article, I picked up the Editorial Collection for Lightroom by The Preset Factory Ltd. At $14 it was moral in my wheelhouse, and I like the aesthetic that the kit offers. Plus, it works with Adobe CC, which is what we're working with for this article.
Step 2: Installation
The obvious first fraction here is to open up Lightroom. Second, navigate to the menu bar and recede to Edit > Preferences. On a Mac, it's under Lightroom > Preferences.
Next, a pop-up window will appear, and that's where you'll see a series of tabs at the top of the screen. Choose Presets, and recognize toward the middle of the window. See that one that says Develop Presets? Click that.
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I took a bunch of pictures, but I never went through them with any kind of fancy filter until today. Here's how it all went down.
The process starts by going into the Develop tab in Lightroom. Then, on the left-hand side (yours might recognize different if you've played around with your layout), is the Presets field. Inside there you'll find all of the presets you imported. In this case, my editorial bundle has quite a few options.
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Once you're all done, just save the file per normal and you're done. Seriously, it's that easy.
Buttoning it all up
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