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Dearest friends, the Duke of DVD bids thee welcome. Won't you come in, sit, and let us talk of all things Mario Bava? After many reviews of his work, I thought nothing he could do would surprise me. I was wrong! So very, very wrong. Lisa and the Devil is his masterwork, in my humble opinion. An unfettered look into Bava's mad-genius mind in which the plot doesn't matter so much as the camera, which serves as an unblinking eye, showing us sights that range from the amazing to the macabre.
I should start by mentioning that Lisa and the Devil stars two of the most talented people to ever grace the silver screen. First we have Elke Sommer, whose "talents" are on display for all to see. Next we have Telly "Motherfucking" Savalas, who exudes an almost child-like glee in this movie. You can really tell he was having a blast, and he easily steals every scene he's in. I've seen him in a lot of movies, from war movies to westerns, but this is, in my eyes, his best performance.
Lisa and the Devil has a rather interesting production history as well, which I'll get into later, but suffice it to say I am agog.
Let us explore, shall we?
Our movie opens in an old Spanish town where a tourist by the name of Lisa Reiner is vacationing with a friend. A tour guide is leading them through an area filled with baroque churches and other buildings. The guide takes them to a fresco on a church wall which depicts the Devil Himself, doing something devilish. Lisa is enthralled by the painting. At that precise moment, she hears some haunting music coming from a nearby alleyway. Telling her friend she'll be right back (yeah sure!), she heads to investigate.
Coming around a corner, she finds a shop on a deserted street. It's filled with all manner of thing, from handwoven tapestries to life-like mannequins (basically, it looks like the Vicar's drawing room). A dapper bald man stands with his back to Lisa, conducting business with the store's owner. Business that involves a life-like dummy. More on that later. The music, it turns out, is coming from a rather awesome music box of sorts that has small figurines that rotate on top of it. Lisa asks the owner if it's for sale, but he informs her that the gentleman here has already purchased it.
That gentleman turns around and... it's Telly Savalas, exuding charm, dashing, cunning, sex, and machismo in one all-engulfing wave that ripples outward through the screen like an ocean of burning testosterone. Lisa is stricken immediately with Soaked Panties Syndrome(tm) as well as the notion that Telly looks exactly like the fresco'd Devil, which Bava shows to us using super imposition. She backs out of the shop in horror, and starts to head back to her tour group. Or rather, she tries to. The twisting alleys get her confused in no time, and suddenly she's lost. The streets are deserted as well, except for a few slack-jawed yokels who offer no succor.
Bava does a masterful job here of situating his camera to give us the maximum feeling of claustrophobia, as experienced by Lisa. The alleys are narrow and the walls surrounding them at all times are high. We get long shots down deserted cobblestone streets where not a soul is seen but Lisa, hurriedly walking, trying to get to safety. She looks increasingly more frazzled as her journey takes her further and further into desolation. Dust swirls off street corners, and no animals are seen at all. Lisa is truly lost and alone, and we feel it along with her.
A few turns later and she runs into Telly again. He just happens to be walking through the same area as Lisa, carrying his disturbingly life-like mannequin and that music box from earlier. She asks him for directions and he points her off down another alley, which she quickly takes, as his oozing manliness is too much for her to handle without getting weak-kneed and giddy. A few turns later and we have what is just the start of this film's inherent fucked-up-ness: Lisa runs into a guy, who is basically the mannequin that Telly was carrying earlier! He seems to think she's an old love of his named "Elena". Lisa tries to get away from him, but he insistently grabs her arm. She shoves him away and he tumbles down some stairs, knocked unconscious by the fall. His pocketwatch slips from his coat and breaks nearby. Lisa flees in horror, realizing her day has gone from bad to worse.
Night falls soon thereafter, and Lisa is still lost. Slumped against a wall in yet another deserted alley, she is defeated. Suddenly, car lights appear on the horizon. A fancy old car pulls up as she flags it down. She asks for and is given a ride. The people in the car turn out to be Francis and Sophia Lehar, being driven by their hunky chauffeur George. The car is overheating but still drivable, so George takes off. Very quickly Lisa realizes the tension in the car between the other three people. With everyone casting sidelong glances at each other, we can quickly see that George is making googly-eyes at Sophia, which Francis pretends not to notice.
The car journeys for some minutes more before finally tanking out completely, a fact that Sophia seizes upon to complain loudly that Francis just has to have his classic cars. While George raises the hood and tries to make it work again, a gate opens outside an estate that they stopped in front of. Surprise surprise, it's Telly's estate! He quickly talks them into coming in to stay for the night, saving the car work for the morning. Lisa doesn't believe in fate, apparently, and begins backing away as soon as she sees Telly. Her flight is interrupted by a strange, handsome young man who apparently lives in the house as well. Using his piercing blue eyes, he talks her into coming in the house.
As it turns out, Telly is in fact the butler of the house! Dressed to the nines in full black-tie regalia, he cuts a striking figure. Wearing white gloves and a coat with tails, he fairly struts around as he leads the party through the opulent estate, around impressive gardens and statuary. The manse is certainly impressive. One can tell immediately that Telly is into this role, so different from his other films at the time. He has a barely restrained grin at all times, and a twinkle in his eye and a bounce to his step.
The estate, it turns out, is home to the Contessa and her son, Maximilian, the dashing young whippersnapper that got Lisa to come inside. The travelers are shown rooms to freshen up in. Sophia and George waste no time hooking up for a bit of the ol' in-and-out, which Bava shows us via a killer reflection shot off a makeup case. Lisa showers (off screen, unfortunately) and sets about combing her hair. A noise makes her look out the window, where she sees the dummy man again!
Fleeing out into the estate, she sees the dummy man lumbering towards her; she runs again, right into the arms of Max. He soothes her, says it's good to have her back, which she frowns at but doesn't pursue. He leads her back to the house. We see that the dummy man is once again in mannequin form, being carried around by Telly for who knows what nefarious reason.
A sumptuous meal is prepared, and everyone sits to eat. The Countess arrives late to the party, and speaks cryptically about some 5th visitor that no one else has seen. Max calms her somewhat just as Telly brings out a multi-tiered cake and a bottle of red wine. He drops the wine, shattering it on the floor, which gives Bava an excuse for another insanely awesome reflection shot of Telly's face in the red wine. Genius! Max begs off with a piece of cake, taking it to someone upstairs. He enters a hidden room via a secret door among a row of mirrors upstairs. The room is dank and we can hear some woman moaning and sometimes giggling. Very creepy! He offers the cake to someone on a bed shrouded with dark linens hanging from the ceiling. We don't see who it is.
Meanwhile, post-repast, the chauffeur George is attempting to repair the car. Telly watches, sucker in mouth. As most fans of his know, Telly Savalas is well-known to affect a lollipop at most all times. This started with his work in the Kojack detective tv series, which the great Wikipedia in the sky tells us came about because he needed something in his mouth in lieu of a cigarette for a certain scene. It worked so well that it became a trademark of Savalas's (just like talking with a lisp and holding his hand out to be kissed, not shaken, is a trademark of the Vicar's).
The others, meanwhile, are relaxing in the parlor. Sophia is tired of waiting and is itching to leave. The Countess arrives, Telly in tow. It turns out she's blind! Given no indication of this before at dinner, the guests are as surprised as we are. She asks to "see" Lisa, having Telly describe her as she feels her face. Elsewhere, Max is looking through some old diaries and we see his love Elena looks exactly like Lisa! He burns the picture, apparently moving on with his life now that Lisa's arrived.
After being groped by an old blind woman, Lisa is tuckered. She retires to her room, whereupon she has a fanciful dream, featuring her in a ludicrously low-cut dress (huzzah!) and also featuring a heaping helping of classic Bava slow-motion and dream-like soft focus. She runs through the sunlit estates, coming to a pavilion, where she meets none other than dummy man! They begin to make-out. Lisa suddenly wakes up to find Max in her room, watching her sleep. He whispers sweet nothings to her and suddenly they begin to kiss. The camera rotates around and we see that she is in fact kissing the mannequin guy! Recoiling in horror, she flees once more.
Outside, Sophia comes looking for George, who is nowhere to be seen despite the car running. Calling his name, she turns to find her husband giving her the ol' stink-eye. She starts to go but he grabs her arm. She says to him "If this is your way of being a man, I'm not impressed!" to which he retorts "You slut!" then backhands her, a training tool useful for all slut interactions. As she falls away, she catches the door handle, pulling it open to reveal a murdered George! His throat has been punctured.
The murderer is swiftly revealed to be the Countess, as we see a quick shot of her holding a pair of bloody scissors. Telly the butler quickly arranges a cart to carry the body off as Sophia mourns. Telly wheels it away, with everyone following in sort of a small funeral procession. Bava's mastery is in full effect here, giving us silhouettes of each person passing behind a pair of stained glass windows. Amazing! We next seen a scene where the mannequin man, who is some old family ghost apparently, is watching through the shroud at whomever is in the secret room.
Lisa meets Max out in the garden, where the Countess interrupts them. Lisa heads back to the house while the Countess admonishes Max, telling him to not get involved. Lisa happens across a ivy-covered building, where she looks through a window and sees Telly, busy setting out decorations for what appears to be George's funeral (which is bizarre in and of itself--why have a funeral for George at the estate?!). A wreath covers most of the corpse, but we can see the coffin it is lying in is too small for the body. Telly notices this as well, and unceremoniously breaks the corpse's ankles so that it now fits! He finally removes the wreath, revealing to us and Lisa that the body is instead that of mannequin man!
Lisa flees back tot house, running into mannequin man once again (WTF I say!). He again calls her Elena and professes his love. Lisa runs in horror back to the house. Meanwhile, the rich couple has had enough and is leaving. With the car running, Sophia climbs in first, and as Francis heads around the front of the car, Sophia seizes her chance and slides quickly over to the driver's seat, slams it in drive, and floors it. Francis barely has time to scream as the car plows over him. Slamming it into reverse, Sophia backs over Francis, then runs over him again, over and over, crushing his corpse further into the muddy ground. The effects used here are sublime.
Sophia heads back into the house, where she is confronted by an angry Max, who uses a brass pole to club her to death in a rather brutal fashion! We cut to Telly who is in a room surrounded by mannequins. He's working to repair the mannequin man we keep seeing, which has a busted face. Lisa walks in and is suitably horrified once more. She leaves and runs into Max, who takes her up to the secret room behind the mirror. He tells her this is Elena's room, his former love. Pulling back the curtain, we and Lisa are horrified to discover that Elena is a skeleton, dressed in the low cut dress we saw Lisa in during her dream.
Max drugs Lisa with a chloroformed rag, then puts her on the bed beside Elena's body. He strips Lisa, and Bava's camera gives us shy, partially obscured shots of Elke Sommer's awesome breasts and stomach. Seriously, I'd eat a plate lunch off her supple nude body. Max takes his own clothes off and begins kissing the passed-out Lisa. In an obvious nod to necrophilia, Max mounts Lisa and begins to go to town, but can't perform because he's crying like some sissy. Max flees in anguish, running to where his mother the Countess is. They get in a big argument, which culminates in Max stabbing his mother with a spiked candelabra.
Max flees the scene, heading to the dining room, where all of the visitors (and Elena's corpse) are arrayed around the table, mannequin-esque in their silence. They all stare at Max, who freaks the fuck out. Suddenly, his dead mother comes shambling into the room. Max backs away, and falls out a window, where he is impaled on top of an iron fence. The mother's body slumps over as Telly grabs her from behind, saying with a smirk "They just never stay put!"
Lisa wakes up from her chloroform lunch. Still naked, she looks around to see that everything is grown up and decayed. The whole house and estate is covered in vines and decay. She dresses and walks out to the front gate, where a group of schoolgirls are tossing a ball around. The ball bounces over by Lisa, who picks it up and offers it to one of the girls. Another girl in the group tells her to stay back, that only ghosts live there, the house having been abandoned for over 100 years! The girls run away, leaving Lisa alone. She wanders away from the house and very quickly finds the same plaza where she started the film, under the Satanic fresco. She hails a cab, and asks the cabbie to take her to the airport.
Now in her seat on the plane, Lisa lays back and rests her eyes, weary from all that has happened to her. The plane takes off. She wakes up sometime later to find the plane deserted! Wandering around and finding no one, she heads upstairs to first class. Arrayed before her in various seats are the other guests of the house, all dead and mannequin-like! Seeing them stare at her with their dead eyes, she flees in horror, heading up to the pilots cabin. She knocks furiously on the door, pleading to be let in. The door unlatches and slowly swings open to reveal Telly Savalas, lolly in mouth, wearing a Captain's uniform! He turns slowly around and gives her that sly smirk and calls her "Elena." The camera pans back to Lisa, who is suddenly dressed in that low-cut dress from her dream. Her features are ashen and we see that she is now mannequin-esque as well.
Lisa has now become Elena. She slumps dead to the floor. Fin.
Whew. Sorry to gush so much, dear friends, but I just couldn't help it! Bava's mastery of the camera was in full effect during this movie, demonstrating a filmmaker at the height of his powers. Bava's international success with Baron Blood had caused producer Alfredo Leone to give Bava carte blanche to make whatever film he wanted, and this was the result. Lisa and the Devil is like the journey into a twisted mind's nightmare, where nothing makes sense and we, along with the protagonist, are swept breathlessly along, not knowing what is coming next but unable to look away.
The movie ended up being a commercial bomb, despite getting critical praise at Cannes. This was mainly due to lack of distribution. Apparently theaters assumed the general public wasn't ready for necrophiliac overtones, a sweaty, lollipop sucking Telly Savalas, or the pert nipples of Elke Sommer. How little did they know! It was ultimately re-edited by Leone and new footage was cut in making it into a possession movie, turning it into a cheap attempt to capture some of the Exorcist hoopla at the time, and calling it House of Exorcism. The original Lisa and the Devil wouldn't be released until 2 years after Bava was called back to Hell.
To me, the movie was deliberately confusing, striving to make little sense to the viewer, who would be as off-put as the players in the movie. The film also dwelt heavy on decay, loss, and death. Bava's camera loved to linger on shots of dead bodies, or mannequins, or mannequins of dead bodies. It would appear to me that Lisa really is Elena, and that the whole trip to Spain is some sort of personal Hell that she is trapped in, forced to relive the events of her life over and over. One can easily pretend that in that final shot of Elena/Lisa slumping against the wall of the plane would then be cut to her arriving anew in Spain to see the fresco, the cycle starting over.
If I could, I would invent a new rating system just to give this movie a higher rating than others. Wait a fucking minute, I'm the Duke of DVD! I indeed have that power (along with the ability to drop a woman's panties at 30 paces, and to consume enough spiced rum to kill a mule and still be able to operate a motor coach). So, in the wake of that revelation, I give Lisa and the Devil 4 Fucking Thumbs Up! This film deserves to be in the ultimate pantheon of MAD movie greats.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Lisa and the Devil (1974), Or Telly Savalas Owns Us All
Posted by The Duke of DVD at 2:00 AM
Labels: '70s, 3+ Thumbs, Dolls Dummies and Puppets, Haunting, Mario Bava, Old Dark House, Possession, Telly Savalas
8 comments:
- dfordoom said...
Definitely Bava's masterpiece, and possibly the greatest eurohorror movie of them all. It amazes me that so many horror fans dislike this movie.
- January 25, 2010 at 3:40 AM
- Samuel Wilson said...
Duke, Savalas is an awesome character actor whether playing Pontius Pilate in The Greatest Story Ever Told (It would be with him in it), crazy soldiers in numerous WW2 films, a Cossack in the awe-inspiring Horror Express or the mildly troubled title character in Redneck. Lisa's butler fits quite nicely into this pantheon of roles, his atypical obsequiousness only proving his range. Savalas doesn't get enough credit from cult movie fans, but you're a noble exception.
- January 25, 2010 at 10:52 AM
- The Vicar of VHS said...
Duke, I'm surprised that image of Telly from the frankly awesome poster art is not currently emblazoned in tattoo on the Duchal back, if not the necks of all your House Staff. :) Savalas is one of those actors with so much natural charisma, he just overwhelms the screen and the audience with his innate Savalasness.
I'm very much enjoying your series on Bava, which has already exposed some gaping holes in my gothic horror education. Can't wait to see where you take us next. Shine on, you crazy diamond!
- January 25, 2010 at 1:38 PM
- Al Bruno III said...
I am ashamed to admit I have never seen this particular film. I have to track it down as I have seen more of Bavas early films than his later ones.
Your review makes it sound very interesting- like the more surreal works of Robert W. Chambers and Thomas Ligotti.
Three questions;
1.) Do you think that the film MANNEQUIN is in many ways a thematic sequel to this film?
2.) You state in the review "It's filled with all manner of thing, from handwoven tapestries to life-like mannequins (basically, it looks like the Vicar's drawing room)" Can you just admit its a REAL DOLL and be done with it?
3.) How is it Telly Savalas manages to look sexy bald while I manage to look like Cousin Fester with gout?
- January 25, 2010 at 8:26 PM
The ballo di Bava continues!
Well done, sir. Your effusiveness - and that of your commentors - makes me realize I've made a grave error by not yet sitting down with this one. I'll amend that mistake henceforth. Many thanks.
- January 25, 2010 at 11:13 PM
- The Duke of DVD said...
@dfordoom - No self-respecting horror fan could ever dislike this movie. Anyone that does should have their Fan of Horror license revoked and be publicly spanked by the Vicar.
@Samuel Wilson - Savalas does indeed deserve all possible accolades. Also, I must see this "Redneck" of which you speak.
@Vicar - I exist to serve, my dearest friend! If I can just claim one convert to the Church of Bava then my crusade will have not been in vain.
@Al Bruno - 1) Yes, "Mannequin" is an obvious attempt to cash-in, as it were, on the international success of "Lisa and the Devil". However, they failed miserably because Andrew McCarthy isn't worthy of removing the sweat from Savalas's balls with his bloated tongue.
2) I had a lot more fun with this movie when I started to pretend that all mannequins contained therein were Real Dolls.
3) Uncle Fester is dead sexy! As long as you can impress friends and the random passer's by with lighting a bulb using only your mouth then you have it made!
@Geo - Watch this movie. NOW!
- January 26, 2010 at 9:20 AM
- dfordoom said...
"As long as you can impress friends and the random passer's by with lighting a bulb using only your mouth then you have it made!"
Very few women can resist a man who can do that.
- January 27, 2010 at 3:04 AM
- Gene Phillips said...
A most exemplary review, Sir Duke!
I agree that this is Bava's best, but though it's hardly got a story as such, I have to ntoe that I don't think (as you wrote) that Alida Valli's blind character kills anybody. I seem to remember it's her son.
One of my favorite bits of perversity here is that we find out that the woman Lisa looks like ran away with whatisname's father, and that the Valli character starts acting like she and whatsisname should get together. Whoahhhh--
- February 5, 2010 at 7:20 PM


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NORTON, Mass. – Wheaton College rattled off six goals over the course of 15 minutes in the second half en route to an 11-6 victory over MIT in a NEWMAC women's lacrosse tilt on Saturday afternoon. Sophomore Isabella DiDio (Jenkintown, Pa.) tallied three goals, one assist, four groundballs, and three draw controls for the Engineers (9-4, 2-3 NEWMAC).
DiDio opened the scoring with a free-position shot after 2:46 elapsed and then set up freshman Erica Green (Ivyland, Pa.) at the 21:46 mark. Almost a minute later, senior Erica Du (Excelsior, Minn.) buried her own free-position attempt to give MIT a 3-0 advantage. The Lyons ended the shutout shortly after the ensuing draw but the game became a back-and-forth affair until Wheaton ended the stalemate with 8:22 on the clock.
The Lyons scored twice during the first 4:39 of the second stanza, putting them in front, 4-3. The Engineers quickly tied the game courtesy of a solo effort by sophomore Kira Schott (New Canaan, Conn.). However, Wheaton slowly strung together six unanswered goals as its final marker came with 5:05 left to play. DiDio ended the Cardinal and Gray's scoring drought by redirecting a feed from freshman Keeley Erhardt (Ann Arbor, Mich.) with 1:59 to go before completing the hat-trick 33 seconds later. The Lyons then recorded the final goal of the day with 15 ticks remaining.
Schott tacked on five draw controls, four groundballs, and two caused turnovers while freshman Devin Williams (Herndon, Va.) posted three groundballs and three caused turnovers for the Engineers. Senior Erin Kenney (Glen Ellyn, Ill.) registered two groundballs as junior Candice Kaplan (Arlington, Va.) collected seven saves.
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One of the great things that I enjoy about being a professional sports journalist is prognosticating.
One of the great things that I enjoy about being a professional sports journalist is prognosticating.
I have to humbly admit that I have always been pretty good at it.
Whether it is March Madness, playoffs or just regular season games, I usually get more right than I do wrong.
However, this season I am already seeing that I was terribly wrong about one of our local high school football teams.
Back in our football preview section, which came out in August and I hope all of you enjoyed, I said the West Craven Eagles would go 5-6 on the year.
Four games into the season, the Eagles are 3-1 and have a solid shot to be ranked in the state�s 3A top 10 if they can defeat D.H. Conley this Friday.
I am man enough to admit when I am wrong.
The main reason I made this prediction was because of the West Craven team that I saw last season and the way it lost close games and games it should not have lost.
Also, second-year coach Matt Riggsbee scheduled himself a gauntlet of tough non-conference games such as Edenton-Holmes, South Central, Washington, New Bern and the aforementioned Conley.
On opening night at Holmes, I knew I had pegged this Eagle team wrong.
I saw heart and intestinal fortitude from this team with a few new characters added to the cast, that I had not seen a season ago.
That night, the Eagles stunned Holmes on the road with a 27-23 victory to go 1-0.
A week later, the non-conference game that I did have them winning, versus South Central, they won 50-46 for a record of 2-0.
In week three, West Craven started strong but could not overcome turnovers and a strong running game from the visitors in a 36-12 loss to New Bern, 2-1 now.
Finally, just this past Friday, West Craven out-toughed a very good Washington team, 14-7, to push its record to 3-1.
That is where we sit today. If the Eagles beat Conley and go to 4-1, they could be in for an outstanding season.
After Conley, West Craven hosts West Carteret (a should win), hosts White Oak (another should win) and travels to Richlands (yet another game in which the Eagles will be favored).
So realistically, the Eagles could be 7-1 going into an Oct. 25 game at Jacksonville, which figures to be for second place in the Coastal Conference.
The Eagles have a ton of talent at the receiver position and on the defensive side of the ball.
Tyrone Brown, Danny Harvey, Kenny McDaniel, Darious Abrams, Kylikke Green and James Choyce all can take it the distance as receivers.
Senior quarterback Alkeim Harley is a steady quarterback and Tyquail Raynor provides a formidable ground attack.
On defense, Harley, Green, Raynor, Claron Mims, Brown and Arthur Grady all bring the pressure to the oppostition.
Add in Riggsbee and his crew of assistants who gameplan brilliantly each week and you can see the Eagles are for real.
The team is fun to watch and have definitely exceeded my expectations and deserve the Jordan Honeycutt underestimation apology.
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Father Murphy have always played with sound. Their music is big, daunting, majestic and pained. A three-piece from Venice, they explore music as a summoning of force, a force with the power to be worshipped and feared. Previous releases (three albums and a slew of EPs) rattled through clanking percussion, fraught guitars and folk-melodies-cum-occult-sermons that worked best when twisting sharply between uneasy and beautiful.
Pain is on Our Side Now is their furthest venture into sound without narrative. They sail through layered musical parts without needing a vocal melody present, either as compass or wind.
Released physically on two single-sided double 10-inch vinyls, it is suggested to play both records at the same time. When one does this it does indeed become a very heavy fug of organs, choral loops and occasional, dense, drum patterns. It's hypnotic chaos.
Listen to the four tracks in sequence and they're just as intense as their hazy unified rendition, but more piercing for the clarity they're granted. There's phantasmagoria in the low, rumbling, bass notes that act as a constant throughout the EP. 'Pain is on Our Side' stays very much in this low register and instead of sprinkling moments of beauty on top, the rumbles generate their own brief moments of serenity and harmony.
'They Will All Fail You' is a horror film without visuals. Broken glass and screams launch a series of male groans. Heavily edited female words are spliced together and fired into the song. They sound similar to an Atari Teenage Riot rant. After this barrage of vocals, fake laughter and foghorns merge. It becomes very thick and close. Under this intensity, some keyboard lines resonate and modulate serenely. The song ends with a loud mantra of "shame" being shouted as flutes flutter beneath. These contrasts are deeply engrossing.
The band has had some wonderful animated videos made by Luca Dipierro, and Pain is on Our Side Now would once more work perfectly with his animated Catholic depictions. 'Despite All The Grief' racks slowly across distorted piano strings, it sounds like a song is being sawed, rather than played. For much of it, sounds just phase in and out. The low frequencies just sit there, calming yet simultaneously unsettling.
The intensity is literal too. 'Let the Wrong Rise with You' has pounding electronic drill noises and woodwind instruments playing a series of riffs that descend forebodingly, as though you've just got a question wrong on some nightmarish quiz show. There's a significant sense of grandeur to this release, it's an horrific sense of grandeur, but an impressive one regardless.
Pain is on Our Side Now is a fascinating listen. It's an unapologetic venture into head music and contains some powerful compositions. It's steeped in a sense of reverence, but one that looks below, rather than expecting anything from above.
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What do you do when "Happily ever after" falls apart? "Betrayal," "rejection," "anger" and "confusion" are some of the words writer Deborah Ross uses to describe her anguish when her upside-down marriage hit bottom. A biblical teacher, speaker and singer who lives in Charlotte, Ross relates her life's road and shares her personal journey of Christian faith and forgiveness with her husband. Chapters are sprinkled with scripture, humor and her strong beliefs about households staying together. Chapter titles include "Growing in Christ," "Vision or Perish," "The Midnight Miracle," and "God Looks at the Heart." Published by Creation House of Lake Mary, Fla., the book is softcover, 163 pages, and sells for $9.25 on Amazon.com.


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New memoir service targets those who want to tell their story
Memoir service: Two veteran journalists assemble team of writers
Children have always wanted to query their parents about their lives or family histories, but often they were afraid to ask. For many young baby boomers, it was "What did you do in the war, daddy?"
Now, two retired journalists and public relations professionals have started Memoir Scribes, targeting individuals who think it is time for them to put their life stories in writing, so their children, relatives and friends can understand what shaped their lives and led to what they are today.
Co-founders Ian Kerr, 87, a Greenwich resident, and Marven Moss, 76, who lives in Monroe, have decades of writing and reporting experience. They have accumulated a staff of six writers who have experience at national publications, and some of whom have authored books.
"We have a prepared list of 2,000 questions. They are questions that unleash people," said Moss, a retired longtime sportswriter for the New York Times and former spokesman for Brinks.
The project is not just for those who made a name for themselves as politicians, humanitarians or war heroes, he said.
"They may not think their lives have been interesting, but others will," said Moss, who has been visiting area groups with Kerr to tell people about their new business.
Kerr, who worked in public relations for British Airways, Renault and Parker Pen and later was a partner in Kerr, Kelly Thompson, a Connecticut public relations firm, said information about the start-up has been spreading through word-of-mouth, and there seems to be interest. Besides the memoir, the business can offer a genealogy and video.
"There are a lot of people who want to write their memoir but don't have the skills. There are lots of people with lots of information," said Kerr, who with his professional career and World War II experiences would be an ideal subject.
With his native England under threat of invasion by German troops, as a youth Kerr was a member of the British Army's Home Guard, which had the task of capturing parachuting enemy air crews and spies.
"We'll interview people and look at their records. It could be one to three interviews with the subject, family members and friends," Kerr said. "People say, `It's not for me. It's for my family and grandkids.' "
The service would interest many of the patients who regularly visit the Western Connecticut Medical Group of Southbury, affiliated with Danbury Hospital, said Dr. Casey Ott, its medical director, whose patients are in their 80s and older.
"They would get a lot out of it, as well as their families," he said. "In the exam room, patients talk to me, and their 50- to 60-year-old child says, `Dad, you never told me that'."
The fee is flexible, depending on time involved, but it will average $50 a page. For information, email Kerr at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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God Lost the 2012 Election
On Tuesday, November 6, America re-elected incumbent President Barack Obama for another four years. They also elected Tammy Baldwin (D) of Wisconsin as the first openly gay senator in the US. Missouri rejected legitimate rape enthusiast Congressman Todd Akin (R) as Claire McCaskill (D) retained her senate seat. Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren (D) unseated Catholic Republican Senator Scott Brown in Massachusetts.
Marriage equality was explicitly backed by the voting public for the first time in history by Maine, Maryland, and Washington State. Voters in Minnesota rejected a measure that would have prohibited same-sex marriage in their state.
Washington state and Colorado became the first to legalize recreational marijuana use, while Massachusetts voted to legalize the drug for medical use. Physician assisted suicide was only narrowly defeated in Massachusetts, paving the way for another vote likely to legalize the measure during the next election cycle.
In the past, partisan organizations including Focus on the Family and the National Organization for Marriage have swayed public opinion while pastors such as the now-deceased Jerry Farwell used academic institutions to enshrine bigotry in adult students. Televangelists like Billy Graham echoed calls of repentance to the mass public, even while most attended religious ceremonies on a regular basis. Abortion and homosexuality were regularly decried as ungodly at public venues with little pushback from all but the most atavistic.
Now, a typical Sunday sermon on TV is delivered by a religious non-entity like Pastor Joel Osteen, a motivational speaker who's never met a sinner for whom he wouldn't be happy to sign a book. Leading ex-gay groups have been forced to recant their notions of salvation from homosexuality, essentially telling gays their only real option is to just deal with it. Recent poll numbers show a dropping religiosity in America, along with a declining number of citizens who adhere to their churches' official doctrine even when they attend.
The Democratic Party attempted to cut god and pro-Israel language from their platform, a gutsy move they rescinded in the heat of the election. America's response to the kerfuffle: Electing the religiously antagonistic Barack Obama over a devout Mormon, rejecting multiple far-right religious Senate candidates and upholding abortion rights' defenders in their place, and embracing progressive social policies about LGBT citizens and marijuana across the nation.
This isn't a one-off shift in cultural tone toward a single issue, rather a sweeping referendum on a new system of ethics being embraced by this generation. What was just ten years ago considered a quaint morality is now openly derided as ignorant and bigoted. As the world becomes a community and information can be accessed at the touch of a button, the insularity of the past is being replaced with an accessible global knowledge base for the future.
It seems the citizens of the United States of America have outgrown the god they quite obviously stopped fearing. In the debate between reason and religion, reason is leaping ahead for the first time in history. America has finally decided to stop waiting for god to bless the USA and shown him the door. For the oppressed at the hands of the religious, all to be said is, "Good riddance."


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An hours-long standoff between a group of men in a Wheat Ridge home and a police SWAT team, that began after shots were fired at a party, ended with the group surrendering.
Six men emerged from 7310 W. 48th Avenue, at about 9:55 a.m. No one was hurt in the incident, which began at about 3 a.m. when neighbors reported hearing a number of shots fired.
"We heard a bunch of gun shots, then saw a bunch of cop cars and police scouring the area in front of the duplex," said Chad Harr, 45, whose two-story home offers a good view of the action on his block.
The resident of the rental duplex was known to possess a number of guns, said Lisa Spinder, a spokeswoman for the Wheat Ridge Police Department.
The man came out on the porch and talked with police shortly after they arrived.
"He was screaming and waving his arms around. The cops were trying to talk to him and he was inside and outside of the house. Then he calmed down," Harr said.
The man eventually told officers he was going to bed and left the porch.
"There was a good sized party last night, adults and juveniles," Spinder said. "Our officers showed up and the (resident) was communicating with our officers and then went inside the house and ceased communication."
Habib Sidiqyar, who lives nearby said he heard six or seven shots at about 3 a.m.
Police used a bullhorn to communicate with those in the home, telling them to come out and relax.
Police didn't evacuate the block but a calls to all area residents warned them to stay in their homes.
Some people still came into the street. Police handcuffed a man and woman who crossed their security line and placed them in a patrol car. The woman said she was a sister of the resident.
Sidiqyar said the resident of the home moved in a few months ago.
The residential neighborhood is usually quiet, Harr said.
The police did not release the names of any of the men taken into custody.
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For all that's been written about the outrageousness of "Broad City," Comedy Central's pot-propelled raunchfest chronicling the dysfunctional lives of twenty-something New York BFFs Abbi and Illana, the duo managed to boil down their appeal to one acronym: FOMO, the fear of missing out.
In the best episode from last year's second season, FOMO drives Abbi and Illana manically from party to party. Then a sloshed Abbi, usually the mousier of the two, heads into a time capsule of a speakeasy where she's known by the ancient regulars as Val – and wows them with a Judy Garland-worthy rendition of "Get Happy." After sobering up, she claims no memory of her secret second life.
There may not be much outright (or at least sober) happiness in "Broad City," but the Val episode epitomizes the show's knack for upending expectations. The comedy's third season premieres Wednesday, giving viewers passage back into the strangely enticing world created by Abbi Jacobson and Illana Glazer. If you miss "Broad City," you're missing out.
The new season lands just four days before Sunday's return of "Girls." While there are surface similarities – disillusioned young women navigating New York – "Broad City" occupies a different zip code than the angst-filled and occasionally melodramatic terrain staked out by Lena Dunham's HBO show.
"Broad City" plays more like an updated TV version of Martin Scorsese's underrated 1985 proto-hipster screwball comedy gem, "After Hours" – only Glazer and Jacobson can mine urban oddities and futility for laughs, surreal and otherwise, anytime of day. Last season delivered on those counts in nearly all episodes: Abbi got stuck in a giant hole in the park on her way to a doggie wedding. Ilana and Abbi went to extremes to cope with the heat. Abbi learned the hard way that not all plastic is dishwasher safe.
The show, which began in 2009 as a web series, got off to a much ballyhooed, if uneven, TV start two years ago. But the second season brought the program's often-crude stoner humor to a new level: It's crude stoner humor wrought with intelligence and delivered with occasional purpose.
That includes a 420 take on the One Percent: While Abbi and Illana are more underemployed than underprivileged, they draw pointed humor from New York's increasingly tense haves-and-have-nots dynamic. They encountered a spoiled and substance-abusing version of Kelly Ripa, who deftly played against her down-to-earth image. They battled a snotty consignment store clerk. They chased a purse-snatching street kid home to find he was neither young nor poor: It turns out he lives in a fancy townhouse with his well-to-do family.
It's unclear where Glazer and Jacobson will land next (though more appearances by Val would be welcome). The new season of "Broad City" arrives with the anticipation that the stars will defy more expectations, with nothing to fear except for missing out on what comes next.
Jere Hester is Director of News Products and Projects at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is also the author of "Raising a Beatle Baby: How John, Paul, George and Ringo Helped us Come Together as a Family." Follow him on Twitter.


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The IRS And SEC Want To Snoop Through Your Email Without A Warrant; Don't Let Them
from the speak-up,-fix-ecpa dept
There actually is a fair bit of support in both Congress and the White House to fix this... if we can get enough public support behind it, which includes getting more people to sign this petition. As with SOPA, there's a strong suggestion that if this petition tips the scales at 100,000, we can get the White House to come out in favor of ECPA reform.
What's standing in the way? Well, a bunch of government agencies, honestly. There are the obvious ones like the DOJ and DHS. That's to be expected. They always want to make it easier to snoop through emails and written communications. But apparently some of the strongest voices trying to block ECPA reform within the government are coming from the SEC and the IRS, because they too see plenty of advantages in trying to snoop through emails without having to take the trouble of getting a warrant.
As I write this, I'm participating in a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) with Chris Calabrese from the ACLU, Mark Stanley from the Center for Democracy and Technology and Julian Sanchez from the Cato Institute. This coincides with a day of action involving a bunch of companies and organizations trying to get more people to speak out on the importance of ECPA reform. And, finally, the folks at TechFreedom have put together a great infographic, which we've also embedded below.


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Research on academic literacy within higher education has focused almost exclusively on the development of academic literacy in English. This book is unique in showing how students use other languages when they engage with written academic content whether in reading, discussing or writing and how increasingly multilingual higher education campuses open up the possibility for students to exploit their multilingual repertoires in and around reading/writing for academic purposes. Chapters range from cases of informal student use of different written languages, to pedagogical, institutional and disciplinary strategies leveraging multilingual resources to develop biliteracy. They are ordered according to two dominant themes. The first includes accounts of diverse multilingual contexts where biliteracy practices emerge in response to the demands of academic reading and writing. The second theme focuses on more deliberate attempts to teach biliteracy or to teach in a way that supports biliteracy. The collection will be of interest to researchers, higher education practitioners and students of multilingual higher education and academic literacy.
This global tour of multilingualism in higher education reminds us that multilingualism is always embedded in socioeconomic inequalities. However, something can be done about this; and Academic Biliteracies will inspire educators worldwide to pay closer attention to the merits of allowing multilingual students to draw on all their linguistic resources as a strategy to improve educational outcomes for all.- Ingrid Piller, Macquarie University, Australia
Drawing on an interesting variety of examples from the four corners of the world, this book provides a timely, riveting and original account of different multilingual pedagogical strategies and policy recommendations to better understand and foster student academic biliteracies in higher education. With a focus on student writing, the work moves away from the extant orthodoxy of academic literacies and revisits multilingual teaching and learning practices and language policies under a new and challenging light.- Emma Dafouz, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
In our globalized world the use of multiple languages to engage with others and wrestle with ideas and concepts is increasingly common in higher education. This volume is an important and timely contribution to understanding the opportunities that the fluid use of more than one language offers teachers, learners and researchers.- Betty Leask, La Trobe University, Australia
This book is an innovative academic literacy resource for professionals who are investigating how to create language resources and implement pedagogical strategies in order to develop balanced academic biliteracy. A major strength of this book is the emphasis that it places on meeting the multilingual academic needs of university student populations despite the strong influence of language-centered ideologies (e.g., academic English only) that negatively impact the use of minority languages in tertiary education settings.- International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018 - Zahir Mumin, University at Albany, SUNY, USA
David M. Palfreyman is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Writing Studies at Zayed University, UAE. His research interests include language, culture and learning in postsecondary education and he is the co-editor of Learning and Teaching Across Cultures in Higher Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
Christa van der Walt is Professor in the Department of Curriculum Studies at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Her research interests include the role of English in multilingual, academic contexts and she is the author of Multilingual Higher Education (Multilingual Matters, 2013).


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Here it is, the Mets' last stand for 2010. Either they show some life and take care of business in Philadelphia or they can say goodbye for the summer. An awful lot of things have to happen for the Mets to make the playoffs, but the bottom line is they have to win two of every three down the stretch to have a chance.
That's .666 baseball. The devil you say.
That's a tall order for a .500 team, and one that has shown little sign of life for over a month now. One that hasn't won two straight games since late June. Mathematics say the team is alive; mathematics also say the odds are getting longer and longer.
On a side note, the Chat Room is open but I had to go to Ohio to visit family this weekend. I set it up so the Chat Room will be open but I won't be able to monitor the games.
I hope you all have a great weekend.


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5 Great Gadgets to Improve Your Sleep
Courtesy of NightWave
NightWave Sleep Assistant
What it is and how it works: This lightweight, tiny gadget — it's about the size of a jewelry gift box — projects a pulsing, soft blue light on your ceiling or wall. Then you begin what is best described as a pre-sleep exercise: Breathe in as the blue light gets bright, breathe out as it goes dark. After seven minutes, the soothing light rhythms automatically stop...and your ZZZs start.
Expert opinion: "The breathing routine that cycles with the projecting light will potentially reduce thought stressors — and the circulating catecholamines, which are the fight and flight chemicals that cause us to feel tense," says Lee A. Surkin, MD, a board-certified sleep specialist and cardiologist in Greenville, NC. "In turn, this could possibly reduce the time it takes you to enter sleep."
FITNESS snooze test: Not only does the NightWave help you fall asleep, but you're essentially teaching yourself how breathe for relaxation and shut down your racing thoughts. So if you can't use the device one night, you should still be able to mimic the routine.
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Verilux Rise & Shine Natural Wake-Up Light
What it is and how it works: The next best thing to waking up to natural sunlight and chirping birds, this device is a strategic-but-peaceful alarm clock. Instead of being shocked into waking up, you are gradually lulled out of sleep by the increasing light and soundscape.
Expert opinion: "Exposure to bright lights too early in your specific circadian rhythm can cause more sleepiness and less alertness," says Dr. Surkin. "Physiologically, the gradual light exposure upon awakening can assist with alertness by properly aligning your circadian rhythm."
FITNESS snooze test: Since some people need heavy drapes for total darkness to fall asleep (batcave, anyone?), we particularly liked that this product simulates the light we should be experiencing in the morning.
Courtesy of Zeo
Zeo Sleep Manager Pro
What it is and how it works: If the thought of spending the night in a sleep lab freaks you out, this could be an excellent alternative to taking the first step in analyzing the quality of your sleep. What you do is wear a little headband across your forehead (it has a wireless connection) and the device more or less syncs with an app on your iPhone to record how much REM sleep and deep sleep you get, as well as how many times you wake up during the night. Then, you can get additional advice on the Zeo website, like what to eat, relaxation tips, and more.
Expert opinion: "Medically speaking, this product can provide good feedback information that can be used in concert with a sleep physician," says Dr. Surkin.
FITNESS snooze test: If after consistently using the gadget for a week or two in a row — and seeing that you get low "ZQ" scores or that your sleep stages are wonky — you really must talk to a doctor about a professional, at-home diagnostic device. No amount of relaxation techniques and self-monitoring can solve common sleep disorders like sleep apnea.
Courtesy of Adaptive Sound Technologies, Inc.
Sound+Sleep Nomad
What it is and how it works: This compact, travel-size sound machine helps you fall asleep by providing natural sounds (ocean, meadow, white noise, and more) that can be easily adjusted in richness and volume. There's an "Adaptive Mode" setting that will adjust the composition of your selected soundtrack so that it masks other noises. And, of course, you can set a timer so that the machine stops playing after 30 minutes or so .
Expert opinion: "By focusing on a relaxing sound that predominates the sleep environment, sleep onset can be improved, as well as made more consistent due to fewer awakenings from disruptive noises," says Dr. Surkin.
FITNESS snooze test: Sound machines are nothing new, but we liked this pint-size product because it was petite enough for our nightstand and genuinely seemed more effective than devices we've tried in the past. The proof: While testing this out in an NYC bedroom that's on a busy downtown street, the Rain setting helped the editor-sleeper fall asleep...instead of toss and turn from a bar's loud music.
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Fitbit One
What it is and how it works: The itty-bitty, activity-tracking device that people have raved about steps up its 24-7 abilities in the latest version, "One." Not only does it track your steps and calories burned, but it now features more advanced sleep graphs, a redesigned wrist band, and a silent alarm that gently buzzes your wrist when it's time to wake up.
Expert opinion: "It is well documented that exercise at the right time of day can promote better quality sleep," says Dr. Surkin. "My overall thought is that this is a good consumer product to use as a pedometer and to provide a general snapshot of sleep consistency."
FITNESS snooze test: Good health is a round-the-clock goal, so we loved that this all-in-one gadget can help you keep that in mind. Bonus: Waking up to a gentle vibration on your wrist is not only peaceful, it's a nice solution for when you don't want to wake the sleeping bear next to you!
Originally published on FitnessMagazine.com, October 2012.


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Fact Checking? UK Paper Simply Takes The Word Of Guy Who Claims WiFi Allergy
from the proof-please? dept
And yet... reporters just seem to love the story about people being allergic to WiFi. The latest is in the Daily Mail over in the UK, which has an entire article all about a guy who lives in "agony" because of all the WiFi around. Not once does the reporter look into the evidence of the "allergy" but does claim that 2% of the population suffer from this. The guy travels around with a WiFi detector to protect him... but it's not protecting him from whatever is causing his problems (as the study found). You would think that a reporter would actually check the facts on such things, right?


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Avanze needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 75 designs submitted by 9 freelance designers.
We are a marketing company and need a book cover for an E-Book asap. This book cover has to make people want to download it.
People interested in stocks, buying and selling
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The colors and scheme should be vibrant, happy, hopeful. I've also uploaded the logo... It should be set up where the "logo" presents the book, in other words,
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- 1 large onion quartered
- water just enough to cover contents of pot
- 3 pieces stalks celery or the leafy ends and all theyou don't eat raw.
- 2 medium carrots whole is fine
- a little parsley
- 2 bay leaves
- sprig of thyme
- 4 chicken bouillon cubes
- 1 tsp. poultry seasoning
- 2 tsp. Lawry's season salt
- 1 tsp. peppercorns
- Bring just to boiling; reduce heat.
- Cover and simmer on medium heat for 2 hours until bones fall apart completely. Strain.
- in Refrigerate soup stock overnight and skim any congealed fat from the surfacethe morning.
- Ever cooked your turkey upside down? Buy a plain turkey, no buttons to pop up when it's done, no injected basting potion, just a bird. Bake it breast side down so the dark meat bastes the turkey while it's baking! It's not pretty, but it tastes great.
- Cooking bags WORK! Again, not pretty, but it tastes great, tender, and clean up's a breeze!
- Try cooking the turkey the day before! It frees up your time, your oven, and allows you to make a batch of great Turkey Bone Broth! (recipe found below)
- If you cook the turkey the day before...cool slightly, slice, and arrange in a pretty baking dish.
- Drizzle with broth and cover tightly. Refrigerate.
- To reheat, set it out about an hour before you'll serve it, this allows glass dishes to warm up before you put them in the hot oven.
- 20-30 minutes before serving, pop it in a 325 degree oven. Keep it covered.
- I put it in with the dinner rolls, and by the time everything else is out of the oven and we're ready to sit down, it's hot. Pull it out the very last thing. This timing works for an 11X15 glass baking dish.
- Want Norman Rockwell to be jealous? Cook the big bird to eat and a smaller one to grace the table as a center piece. Plenty of leftovers.
- Turkey Bone Broth
- Pick a little, pick a lot. Whatever's left...bones, skin, neck, giblets, goes in the stock pot.
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You now have plenty of broth for stuffing, extra gravy, and to turn leftover turkey pieces into great soups or turkey and noodles!
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Transponder Keys Matlacha, FL – Matlacha FL Lock Key Store
Modern cars have transponder keys that help increase the security of the vehicle. Car keys are no longer just simple things that they were even a few years ago. Today, they are developed pieces that work with solid security devices to offer excellent security to property.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Bad Idea
The economy is bad. We're hearing doom and gloom reports all over the news. People are losing their jobs and youth employment is steadily decreasing. Nonetheless, if you're a 20 year old man-boy, you should not let your friends pay you $10 per shot to let them shoot your leg with a BB gun. Even if you made $300 from this fine entrepreneurial endeavour, the resulting cellulitis, abscess drainages and time needed to adequately heal is worth far more than the cash acquired (which was quickly exchanged for beer and cigarettes). Also, if you want even a measure of feigned compassion from me, you cannot tell me to hurry my 'sweet ass over with some food'. That makes me want to replace your morphine with bleach and your antibiotics with C. diff diarrhea samples.
5 comments:
- Sapphire said...
The things people will do for money boggles the mind. Look at all those stupid reality shows with people making fools of themselves. I can't imagine what damage it has done to their reputations. Unfortunately some people will do anything for a buck including ruining their health.
- June 18, 2009 at 10:49 AM
- LivingDeadNurse said...
omg lol
- June 18, 2009 at 6:12 PM
- gabbiana said...
- June 22, 2009 at 4:36 AM
- BDayphotogirlRN said...
- June 24, 2009 at 6:47 PM
- Moose said...
Stupidity of the whole thing aside, when i was on morphine for cellulitis in my leg (no bb gun required) I don't think I could have made that clear of a sentence to insult anyone.
But, seriously. What a moron.
- June 25, 2009 at 10:20 PM
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Striking Gold: Student Research Leads to Chance Discovery
Getting gold film to adhere to plastics is a tricky task. Finding a sure-fire, low-cost way to accomplish it would be a real breakthrough for a number of industries from biomedicine to computer chip manufacturers.
Other places, particularly industrial labs or national labs, but also most grad schools these days, if they had come to a point like we were, where they were trying to develop a device and ran into that problem, the device is supreme. Where we paused and said, 'What the heck is going on here?' And we have the freedom to do that.
Once you understand the why, then you can start making predictions about other things that can happen. Now we understand, I think, the basic science or the mechanism behind it so now we can start making predictions about other metals that we think are going to stick or other polymers that we think are going to work."
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A pair of JMU researchers thought they and a High Point University student had stumbled upon the perfect method during the summer of 2009 while working on a biomedical device to replicate DNA. The solution: Use a solvent to dissolve a polymer and create a silicon oxide layer that the gold would stick to. It worked like a charm. But their excitement was short-lived when a JMU student the following fall could not replicate the experiment.
After closer evaluation of the steps each student used, Brian Augustine, professor of chemistry, and Chris Hughes, professor of physics and astronomy, noticed the students had used different solvents in the process. Laura Lee, a High Point University student who participated in JMU's summer Research Experience for Undergraduates program, used chloroform; Alan Mo, a JMU biology major, used toluene.
"They're both very common organic solvents, there would be no reason why you would choose one over the other," Hughes said.
Added Augustine, "He (Alan Mo) asked what to do and we said just get something that dissolves the polymer. Pick toluene. That's as good as anything."
The real head scratching began when Mo repeated the experiment using chloroform and it worked.
"Our reaction was, 'Come on. Do it again,'" an incredulous Augustine said. "We couldn't believe that. That was ridiculous. That should have no effect whatsoever."
More experiments with a variety of solvents proved that chloroform did indeed make the difference. That resolved the problem of finding a simple, low-cost method for getting gold to stick to plastics, but it created a mystery—what was different about chloroform than the other solvents.
"We had some kind of goofy theories," Augustine said. "When you sort of think about them, you say, 'How can all those atoms move in just the right way? Why would the solvent do that? Why would it stay that way?'"
To find out, Augustine and Hughes had a third student, Vezekile "Veve" Zungu, a visiting student from South Africa during summer 2010, use spectroscopy to investigate what was happening with chloroform.
"Once you understand the why, then you can start making predictions about other things that can happen," Augustine said. "Now we understand, I think, the basic science or the mechanism behind it so now we can start making predictions about other metals that we think are going to stick or other polymers that we think are going to work."
And that could be big news for a variety of industries. "One of the show-stoppers for plastic tech devices is putting electrical contacts down onto plastic surfaces," Augustine said. "Intel and all the other big players out there, they're trying to move to plastic electronics or at least some subset of their operation is trying to go to plastic electronics," which are light, durable and less costly to manufacture than silicon-based technologies. "The whole biomedical industry, think about implants and stuff like that. Acrylic is an FDA-approved material to go inside of the body, so you can put implants into the body with electrodes that are maybe sensing glucose levels or whatever."
"And there will be things we haven't thought of yet that will be made out of plastic because you can make them out of plastic where you couldn't do it with a silicon-based technology," Hughes said.
A provisional patent application has been filed for the process.
The findings about the chemical reactions are going into a research paper that will be submitted to a top-tier journal. The first paper to come out of the research was published in March in The Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A. That paper, which was among the top 20 most downloaded articles from JVST in the two months following its publication, dealt more with the discovery of a better process to get gold to stick to plastic than with the details of the chemistry making it happen.
"That paper was the work of Laura Lee basically discovering that chloroform has some effect, although she didn't know that, Alan really figuring out that it was chloroform that was doing it and then Veve doing a little bit of spectroscopy to figure out there's some sort of chemistry happening in there," Augustine said.
All three students were co-authors of the paper along with Augustine, Hughes and JMU chemistry Professor Tom DeVore. The research was significant enough that a quarterly newsletter for American Vacuum Society members chose it as one of three research papers to feature in June out of the hundreds that were published in the various chemistry journals. The AVS has more than 4,000 members in industry, academia and government laboratories.
"It's a very significant thing from the applied technology side of things," Hughes said. "But then the basic science of why this is happening is also interesting. And those are two different audiences that are met by different journals. And that's kind of the way we ended up segregating things."
Hughes also noted that the research environment at JMU had a lot to do with the opportunity to go beyond just finding a method that worked. "Other places, particularly industrial labs or national labs, but also most grad schools these days, if they had come to a point like we were, where they were trying to develop a device and ran into that problem, the device is supreme. You have someone you need to make that device for, or if it's a grad student, they have to get it made for their dissertation. It's much more likely that someone would just say, 'Well, let's just find a work-around and get the job done.' Where we paused and said, 'What the heck is going on here?' And we have the freedom to do that."
The JMU research resulted from a collaboration with the University of Virginia, which wanted gold film to work as mirrors inside a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) device used to amplify DNA, and has received funding from the National Science Foundation.
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Last Updated: Wednesday, April 18, 2018


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Start with a focused, business-driven project, make sure the data is consistent with your vision and then apply advanced analytics without moving beyond human-understandable decisions.
These were three consistent themes that emerged this week during a big data panel discussion at Interop New York.
"Lots of companies are saying 'let's invest in big data,' but we started with the question, 'what's the use case?'," said panelist Gary Hoberman, global business CIO at MetLife. "Big data happened to be the answer to solve the problem of knowing customers better."
MetLife's answer was a NoSQL-driven MetLife Wall project that captures a 360-degree view of customers by consolidating key customer information from more than 70 internal systems in MongoDB. Data on customers is rendered in a Facebook Wall-like intranet view that has simplified claims research and customer service interactions.
[ What did Verizon announce at Interop? Read Verizon Pushes Into Google, Amazon, Microsoft IaaS Territory. ]
British Airways (BA) is another big data practitioner that wanted to improve customer centricity. Where the airline's knowledge of customers was previously siloed across operational systems and the loyalty program, a Know Me program instituted last year blended loyalty information with data on the online behavior and buying habits of 20 million BA customers.
Know Me is powered in part by analytics software from Opera Solutions that helps the airline come up with targeted thank you offers for continued loyalty or upgrade offers to offset service lapses such as misplaced luggage.
"Previously it took six to nine months to build a single analytical application at BA, but now they can do it in two to three weeks," said panelist Arnab Gupta, CEO of Opera Solutions. "That has let loose their innovative energy, and if they want to come up with a seating upgrade offer, the can quickly figure out who to target."
Opera works across many industries, and Gupta said the most consistent big data stumbling block he encounters is the mindset that it has to be a big-bang IT infrastructure project. "People make the problem larger than it needs to be," he said. "If you just shift your perspective to solving specific business problems in specific domains, it will open up a world of projects you can get done relatively quickly."
Use The Right Data
Marketing services company Tivo Research Analytics (TRA) combines set-top box television viewing data with supermarket and drug store point-of-sale transaction information and auto ownership. It's a 20-terabyte big-data mashup that gives advertisers, agencies and networks deep insight into buying behaviors crossed with television viewing habits. Detailed ad hoc analyses help media buyers place ads on the right networks and programs to reach highly targeted customers.
Not many companies mix such a variety of data, but data-enrichment is a common practice in digital marketing and customer-segmentation initiatives. What's TRA's advice for working with third-party data, whether that's commercial data or public data sources? Mark Lieberman, the chairman and co-founder of TRA and the third Interop panelist, advised practitioners to look for at least some commonality in data sources.


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With NASA's budget cut, privatized space travel has become the next frontier for wealthy businessmen with dreams of becoming the real-life Tony Stark. Among the dreamers, there are some that are acting out on loftier ambitions. Forget the moon; the team from the Mars One project is setting out to make the colonization of Mars a reality.
The private Dutch company Mars One has set an ambitious deadline for the first permanent Mars colony: April 2023. For those who opt to settle on Mars, there will be no turning back. Their residence on the dusty planet would be permanent, although every two years, the established colony would welcome new residents, thereby slowly growing the Mars-based community.
Mars One initially plans to send over four astronauts in a journey that will take a mind-numbing seven months. Come 2033, the program hopes to have over 20 astronauts living on Mars.
If you're skeptical about Mars One's plans, you should be, but the project has the backing of the 1999 Physics Nobel Prize winner, Professor Dr. Gerard T Hooft, and the interest of several major privately operated commercial space corporations and suppliers that are capable of building the equipment and gear necessary to make the mission a success.
"This is going to be private enterprise, only private firms are going to contribute. No political mumbo-jumbo, no tax-payer's money will be involved," Dr. Hooft said in a statement.
The plan will begin only four years from now in 2016, when a communications satellite and a supply mission will be sent to Mars. Come 2018, a rover will be transported to Mars with the purpose of seeking an ideal location and best living condition to prepare for the permanent human settlement on the red planet. On 2020, the living capsules, supplies, life support unit and a rover tasked with reassembling the settlement components will be sent to Mars, preparing the colony for habitation. The first four astronauts will begin their journey on September 2022, landing on the planet on April of 2023.
Mars One plans on funding the continuous mission through a media spectacle that will allow anyone to stream and monitor the progress. In other words, such a widely publicized event would be prime real estate for advertisers and sponsors.
The aspiration is lofty, but private exploration is taking off — literally. Just last month, the privately built and launched Space X Dragon capsule was able to link with the International Space Station. Private corporations like Virgin Galactic, Space X and even Red Bull are racing to become the next household name that children will be talking about for generations to come.
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SKILLMAN, N.J. -- Barry University women's tennis coach Avi Kigel was named the National Coach of the Year by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association.
Kigel also won the award in 2011.
In his sixth year as head coach of the Buccaneers, Kigel has guided Barry to a 24-1 record and the No. 1 ranking in NCAA Division II. Barry's lone loss came to Division I North Florida, 5-4.
The Buccaneers won the NCAA South Regional and Sunshine State Conference Tournament for the fifth straight year. They also claimed the first-ever SSC regular season title this season.
Kigel was also the ITA South Region Coach of the Year, an honor he also won in 2013.
Barry will open the NCAA Championships at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday against No. 42 Indiana (Pa.) in the Round of 16 at Sanlando Park in Altamonte Springs, Fla. Follow the match via LIVE SCORING.


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Clara Barton papers
The papers of Clara Barton (1821-1912), humanitarian and founder of the American Red Cross, document various of Barton's Red Cross efforts and her involvement in the National First Aid Association. Also included are records of the Women's Relief Corps which highlight efforts to urge Congress to pass a bill granting pensions to nurses of the Civil War.
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Clara Barton papers, Special Collections, University of Maryland Libraries.Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1749
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Historical Note
Clara (Clarissa Harlowe) Barton, humanitarian and founder of the American Red Cross, was born on December 25, 1821, in North Oxford, Massachusetts. Named after the heroine of a Samuel Richardson novel, she was the youngest of five children of Captain Stephen Barton (1774-1861), and Sarah (Stone) Barton (1784-1851). Learning to spell and read at the age of three, Barton began her formal education both outside the home, under the instruction of Richard Stone, and inside, under the guidance of her much older siblings. At the age of eight, Barton left home to attend high school, but returned after a year. Her education then continued three years later under private tutors, Lucian Burleigh and Jonathan Dana. Her long career in humanitarian service also began at an early age, when from 1832 to 1834, she was the devoted nurse and companion of her brother David, who was an invalid due to a riding accident.
From 1839 to 1850, Barton taught in local schools in the North Oxford, Massachusetts, area. Then, in 1851, she attended the Clinton Liberal Institute, a coeducational academy managed by the Universalist Church of Clinton, New York. After her term at Clinton, Barton taught at Highstown, New Jersey (1851-1852), and then at Bordentown, New Jersey (1852-1854), where she established the first free public school in the community. When Bordentown officials hired a male president to run the successful school, Barton resigned. She then went to Washington, DC, where, with the help of Alexander DeWitt, a congressman from her home district, she got a job as a clerk in the U.S. Patent Office, as one of the first regularly appointed female civil servants. She held this position from 1854 to 1857, and then again from 1860 to 1861; the intervening years, during Buchanan's presidency, she spent at home.
The outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 began for Barton a long career in providing care for the sick and wounded. Remembered later as the "Angel of the Battlefield," Barton saw the need for women's help in nursing and caring for the sick and wounded, but until she got the necessary permission, women were not allowed in hospitals or on battlefields. In April 1861, she provided nursing care and supplies for the wounded of the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment, involved in a Baltimore riot. After securing permission from Surgeon-General William A. Hammond to visit battlefields and to cross enemy lines, Barton brought aid and supplies to the wounded on sixteen battlefields, including those of Antietam, Fredericksburg, the siege of Charleston, and the Wilderness campaign.
Following the conclusion of the Civil War and until 1869, Barton held the position of the superintendent of the Missing Persons Bureau, during which time she located many of the bodies of Union soldiers who died as prisoners at Andersonville, Georgia, where she rebuilt the cemetery. Meanwhile, from 1866 to 1868, she traveled extensively, giving public lectures throughout the North and West. When her voice gave out, she went to Europe to rest, and there first learned of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
In 1863, inspired by Jean Henri Dunant's view that relief societies were needed to help the wounded in war, Gustave Moynier joined Dunant to gather support for a meeting of nations to form such a body. As a result, the International Committee of the Red Cross was formed and gained official status in 1864 at a convention in Geneva, Switzerland. By the time Barton learned of the Treaty of Geneva of 1864, 32 nations had signed the document, proclaiming that medical teams and facilities should be treated as neutrals in a conflict situation, and that the wounded deserved care. Before returning home to urge the United States to sign, Barton became involved with the International Committee during the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1872). Besides caring for soldiers, she showed her inclination to move beyond simple handouts to help rebuild lives, as she set helped civilian women in Strasbourg, France, earn money for food by setting up an exchange system in which the women sewed needed clothes and received money for food in return.
While resting in England and Dansville, New York, during the years 1872 to 1881, Barton worked towards American affiliation with the International Red Cross. Finally, on March 1, 1882, President Chester A. Arthur signed the Geneva Treaty; the year before, Barton had organized the American Association of the Red Cross. President James A. Garfield appointed her its first president. Barton also served as the American governmental delegate to the international Red Cross conferences in Geneva, Switzerland (1884); Carlsruhe, Germany (1887); Rome, Italy (1890); Vienna, Austria (1897); and St. Petersburg, Russia (1902). At the 1884 conference in Geneva, Barton secured the adoption of an "American amendment" which authorized the Red Cross to help not only in times of war, but in times of natural disaster and calamity during peace.
Nine years after the United States signed the Geneva Treaty, Barton began urging Congress to both incorporate the Red Cross as an official national body, with political and economic support, and pass a bill, which would protect the organization's insignia from fraudulent uses by others. Unfortunately, both bills died in committee. Barton then met with her advisors, and at the first board meeting in almost ten years, reached decisions regarding the executive committee, the local societies, and membership, and drafted a new constitution. At this time, the name was changed from the American Association of the Red Cross to the American National Red Cross.
During her presidency, Barton also personally led the organization's assistance in the aftermath of numerous disasters, including the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, flood (1889) and the Armenian massacre (1893), and provided aid and supplies to Cuban rebels before and during Spanish-American War (1894-1899). Her mission was not only to grant immediate relief but also to supply materials for rebuilding houses and lives.
In 1897, Clara Barton set up the Red Cross Headquarters in Glen Echo, Maryland. Three years later, in 1900, President William McKinley finally signed a bill, which both incorporated the American National Red Cross under a federal charter and, to some degree, protected the insignia. By this time, disagreements over Barton's inability to delegate authority and her insistence upon total control of the organization's finances led to a revolt of the board of directors in 1902, started by Mabel Thorp Boardman. Then, in 1903, after a U.S. Senate investigation, which revealed poor business practices, President Theodore Roosevelt withdrew federal patronage from the American National Red Cross. The following year, Barton resigned, and Mabel Thorp Boardman became the new president. Barton then served as president of the National First Aid Association, which endeavored to teach first aid to people nationwide, from 1905 to 1912.
Clara Barton died on April 12, 1912 of chronic pneumonia, at her home in Glen Echo, Maryland. Joint funeral services were held in Glen Echo and in Oxford, Massachusetts, where she is buried.
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The papers of Clara Barton cover the years 1887 to 1918, and consist of correspondence both by and about Barton, newspaper clippings, and materials of the Women's Relief Corps, Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic. The correspondence focuses on personal matters and her Red Cross relief work in Cuba, as well as her attending the International Red Cross Conference in Carlsruhe, Germany in 1887. The newspaper clippings describe both Barton's involvement in the Red Cross relief efforts in Cuba in 1899, and her work as head of the National First Aid Association of America in 1905. The Women's Relief Corps's materials highlight their efforts to urge Congress to pass a bill granting pensions to women nurses of the Civil War.
Custodial History and Acquisition Information
The University of Maryland Libraries purchased the papers of Clara Barton from Charles Apfelbaum in 1990. The National Trust for Historic Preservation Library Collection transferred the photographs to the Archives and Manuscripts Department in 2003.
Processing Information
Processed by Karen E. Eglinton, June 1990; Revised by Jennie A. Levine, August 2003; Revised by Elizabeth A. Novara, January 2011.
The collection was separated into series, and paper clips and small nails were removed. The collection was then placed in acid-free folders and put into an acid-free box.
EAD markup created using EAD database in Microsoft Access. Markup completed by Sarah Heim.
Arrangement of Collection
The collection has been separated into four series.
Detailed Description of the Collection
Series 1: Correspondence of Clara Barton, 1887-1900 and undated (0.50 linear inches)
This series consists of the correspondence of Clara Barton. The first folder contains correpsondence to Harriette L. Reed, whom Barton addresses as "sister"; Mrs. Reed was an active member of the Women's Relief Corps. These letters discuss topics of Red Cross general business, legislation to protect the Red Cross insignia and incorporation, and miscellaneous personal matters such as visits from relatives; mutual friends; personal health; the weather; and the backyard lawn and garden. Barton's general correspondence addresses the issues of the Russian famine (1887), the Carlsruhe conference (1892), the status of Red Cross auxiliaries, and efforts to address Cuban relief. The correspondence has been divided into two groupings and then arranged chronologically.
|Box / Reel
|Folder / Frame
|Correspondence to Harriette L. Reed (Online), 1898-1900 and undated
|series 1
|box 1
|folder 1
|General Correspondence (Online), 1887-1892 and undated
|series 1
|box 1
|folder 2
Series 2: Materials about Clara Barton, 1898-1918 and undated (0.25 linear inches)
This series consists of newspaper clippings documenting Barton's role in Red Cross relief in Cuba and her later efforts to teach first aid in the United States. The series also includes correspondence of her nephew, Stephen Emory Barton to her closest friend, Mrs. J. Sewall (Harriette) Reed concerning Barton's relief efforts in Cuba, as well as letters written to Harriette Reed and Colonel C. S. Young concerning Young's proposed biography of Barton following her death. These items have been arranged by document type and by correspondent, then chronologically.
|Box / Reel
|Folder / Frame
|Correspondence about Clara Barton (Online), 1898-1918 and undated
|series 2
|box 1
|folder 3
|Newspaper clippings, 1899-1905 and undated
|series 2
|box 1
|folder 4
Series 3: Women's Relief Corps, 1889-1896 and undated (1.00 linear inches)
This series consists of printed material, correspondence, a sample of the corps letterhead, and a membership list of the Women's Relief Corps, Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic. The correspondence (1889-1890) is from U.S. Representatives and Senators to Mrs. Sarah E. Fuller and Mrs. Kate B. Sherwood, secretary and president of the corps respectively, on Senate Bill 373 of the 51st Congress, which proposed pensions for army nurses. The printed material (1895-1896) details the decisions and resolutions reached at the corps's Thirteenth and Fourteenth Annual conventions, and contains penciled notes. The materials have been arranged by document type, then chronologically.
|Box / Reel
|Folder / Frame
|Correspondence on pension bill (Online), 1889-1890 and undated
|series 3
|box 1
|folder 5
|Membership book (Online), undated
|series 3
|box 1
|folder 6
|Printed material (Online), 1895-1896 and undated
|series 3
|box 1
|folder 7
Series 4: Photographs, 1904 (3 items)
Series IV consists of a photograph of the Clara Barton House in Cabin John, Maryland, taken by Leland Barton on May 15, 1904. The photograph depicts several people standing on the front porch of the house, including Clara Barton (second from left). Also included in this series is a magnified detail of the section of the photograph that contains Clara Barton, and a smaller, postcard-sized print of the photograph.
The box inventory for this series is not currently available online. Please refer to the series description above for a broad description of the materials or contact the department for more information.
Related Material
Correspondence from Clara Barton is voluminous and is located in many collections throughout the world. Significant collections are located at Smith College in Northampton, MA and at the Clara Barton National Historic Site in Glen Echo, Maryland.
For other related archival and manuscript collections, please see the following subject guides.
Selected Search Terms
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the University of Maryland Libraries' Catalog. Researchers desiring related materials about these topics, names, or places may search the Catalog using these headings.
- American National Red Cross -- History-- Sources
- Barton, Clara, 1821-1912
- Disaster relief -- History -- Sources
- National First Aid Association of America -- History -- Sources
- National Women's Relief Corps (U.S.) -- History -- Sources
- United States -- Armed Forces -- Nurses -- History -- Sources
Names (Added Entries)
- Barton, Stephen Emory
- Fuller, Sarah E., d. 1913.
- Reed, Harriet L., d. 1920
- Sherwood, Kate Brownlee, 1841-1914