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#WhyNotDevin: Boy facing rare cancer is police chief for a day
Massachusetts police brightened the day for a 6-year-old resident battling a rare cancer by swearing him in as chief of police for the day.
Devin Suau, the youngest of four brothers, was diagnosed with DIPG, a rare pediatric brain tumor. Since the diagnosis, his family has coined the "#WhyNotDevin" hashtag to ask why he can't be the first boy to beat the inoperable cancer.
The hashtag is raising awareness of DIPG and boosting the first-grader's spirits.
Devin got another boost Tuesday when he and his family will be picked up by a full police motorcade and driven back to police headquarters. Framingham Police Chief Devin was sworn in and pinned with a badge by Town Clerk Valerie Mulvey, then given a tour of the department and the officers under his command.

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The Social Capital and Social Policy Network (SCSPN): Social Cohesion, Trust and Participation: Social Capital, Social Policy and Social Cohesion in the European Union and Candidate Countries
In the first part, we comment issue of social capital and third sector in the Czech Republic with specific focus on NGOs, civic participation and social trust. Public policy in the civic sector is discussed. In the second part, we review literature (academic as well as gray) on f...
Project duration: 2006
Social Capital: Concepts, Theories, and Methods of Measurement - Jiří Šafr, Markéta Sedláčková
Authors: Šafr, Jiří, Julia Häuberer (eds.)
The monograph deals with stratification by means of interaction distances: analyses of Bogardus scale for occupational categories / friendship patterns and in-depth interviews. We pursue 1. homophily (like-me) hypothesis, 2. existence of subjective social class boundaries, 3. ima...
Authors: Šafr, Jiří
The monograph deals with stratification by means of interaction distances: analyses of Bogardus scale for occupational categories / friendship patterns and in-depth interviews. We pursue 1. homophily (like-me) hypothesis, 2. existence of subjective social class boundaries, 3. ima...
Authors: Stöckelová, Tereza
Technology has become a key vehicle and index of the societal impact of science. Technology's dominant image, both in science and technology studies (STS) and in science policies, is one of a material device or a complex procedure using machines with ori...
Authors: Krejčí, Jindřich
Democratic Development, the Legitimacy of Democracy, Social Inequality, and Social Justice: The Case of the Czech Republic 1989-2000
Authors: Vlachová, Klára
Methods and Effectiveness of Interest Mediation Between Individuals, Social Groups and the State. Project supported within the program "Modern Society" by the Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic (2003). Head of the project.
National Expert Assessment of the Gender Perspective in the National Report on Strategies for Social Protection and Social Inclusion 2006 – the Czech Republic national report
Authors: Křížková, Alena
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Prague, Tuesday 19th October 2010, AKC
CESSDA - PPP: Preparatory phase project for a major upgrade of the Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) research infrastructure
This project arises as a direct result of the Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) Research Infrastructure (RI) being identified by ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures) Roadmap exercise as an existing pan-European RI recommended for a m...
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"Social Apathy and Trust in the Civil Society: Czech – Taiwanese Comparison", PPP Czech-Taiwanese Joint Research Project 2011. Project coordinator for the Czech part.
Project duration: 2011
Authors: Lux, Martin
The chapter describes and evaluates the history and recent state-of-art of social housing in the Czech Republic.
Structural Tensions in the Interface between the Labour Market and Social Policy in the Czech Republic
Authors: Večerník, Jiří
This study tries to demonstrate the links between the social structure and social policies. Using a socio-economic approach it exhibits four types of socio-economic friction that develop between the middle class and other groups, between the new and the old middle class, between...
New social housing strategies in post-socialist states: effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability
Authors: Lux, Martin, Petr Sunega
The chapter compares the different strategies in social housing in 12 post-socialist transition states, evaluates their overall efficiency and effectiveness, and list the main factors behind the success of different strategies. Read more...
Authors: Hašková, Hana, Zuzana Uhde (eds.)
The critical attention feminists have paid to the concept of citizenship has significantly contributed to the con¬temporary political imagination of citizenship. In this book the authors from the Czech Republic follow up on the feminist debate on citizenship and examine the i...
Authors: Leontiyeva, Yana, Michaela Vojtková
In this chapter the authors focus on the integration of foreigners into so-called 'core' institutions, which determine a migrant's socioeconomic status, opportunities, and available resources. Special attention is given to the access to the social security syste...
Česká republika 2002–2012: hodnoty, postoje, chování. Sociální report projektu European Social Survey
Authors: Vlachová, Klára (ed.)
In the years 2002 to 2012, Czech society experienced a series of events and changes. Similar events and changes, however, also took place in other European countries. State and development of attitudes, values and behaviour of populations of European countries in connection with...
Labour Market Participation: The Impact of Social Benefits in the Czech Republic and Selected European Countries
Authors: Fialová, Kamila, Martina Mysíková
This paper aims to quantify the impact of social benefi ts on labour market participation in the Czech Republic and provides a comparison with selected European countries. It applies the logistic regression to estimate the probability of labour market participation depending on s...
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Topic: Vader Green Lightsaber
so i was watching That 70's Show and in it they talk about the Vader action figure with the rare green lightsaber...anyone else hear of this or is this strictly t.v.? besides i dint think green was put yet since that was ROTJ and thats 83...not 70's so.
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How the first years of life get right under people's skin
Scientists are making discoveries that link early childhood experiences with everything from depression to arthritis later in life.
Megan* promised herself she would never repeat her mother's mistakes. But when she realised she was refusing to cuddle her five-year-old son, Jayson, she saw her mother in herself.
''There was a certain age where my mum did the same thing,'' she says. ''The only time we got a hug was on our birthday.''
Jayson had been sexually assaulted, and was developing difficult behaviour problems in school and at home. She feared for his future.
But two years later Megan, 25, says things have improved drastically.
Her family enrolled in a trial program called Getting on Track in Time, which targets children identified by teachers as having severe behavioural problems.
''It helped … me to love my son again instead of being angry at him all the time for misbehaving,'' she says.
This and other projects are part of a new wave of treatments for the very young, seeking the holy grail of medicine: prevention rather than cure.
And, increasingly, scientists are looking to even earlier points in a child's life for social triggers for conditions as diverse as depression and arthritis.
Emerging scientific research is also raising the question of whether adversity - in particular poverty - could change our most fundamental genetic characteristics, a process known as epigenetics.
More than one in six Australian children live in poverty, according to research released this week by the Australian Council of Social Service.
Professor Michael Kobor runs a laboratory at the University of British Columbia, Canada, where he is trying to unlock the secrets of how early life adversity influences our genes.
His research was published last week in the US journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, as part of a collection of papers on the long-term health effects of childhood adversity.
The study, of more than 14,000 human genes from 92 adults, found variations in the DNA methylation - thought to influence how genes are expressed as characteristics - were linked with demographic and environmental factors, and stress. In particular they found a link to socio-economic status in early life - but not later life.
''Somehow this early life experience … gets under the skin, to basically help sculpt the epigenetic markers, and that seems to be sticking with us for a long time,'' he says.
Also in the journal was a study of more than a 1000 people that found low income, particularly from the prenatal period to the second year of life, was linked to a doubled risk of early-onset adult high blood pressure and arthritis.
The researchers speculated that in infancy people are particularly sensitive to stress, which can cause a proinflammatory state and extensive changes to blood-flow and the function of the chemical messengers that help cells communicate.
''Over-reaction of the immune system seems to be linked to socio-economic status in early life, and that's potentially not a good thing, because we want the immune system to be in check, not going bonkers,'' Kobor says.
Another paper found children who spent their first years of life in orphanages were more likely to have reduced executive functioning in their brains; yet another that children who had subordinate social status in kindergarten experienced more behavioural problems and poorer academic outcomes.
Findings such as these are politicising researchers like never before, says the chief executive of the Public Health Association of Australia, Michael Moore.
Radical ideas largely abandoned by mainstream politicians seem made newly relevant.
''The challenge for people who look at social determination in areas like health … is that they don't fit into the discourse of modern politics,'' he says.
Moore - a former ACT independent MP who served as health minister under a Liberal government - says the black and white nature of policymaking means people who flourish despite poor circumstances are held up as arguments against the need for social equality.
A Senate committee is holding an inquiry into the issue and almost all of the 21 published submissions, largely from researchers and health promotion groups, recommend measures to tackle unequal distribution of wealth.
But Kobor is hesitant to recommend public policy on the basis of early genetic work, although he is working with a PhD student examining that very prospect.
''Somehow the social environment is correlated with these epigenetic markers but the question is: what does it mean? And I think we are not yet close to answering that question,'' he says. ''It's hard at this point to even really say … whether these changes are positive or negative.''
Megan is just relieved to have had some help.
''I didn't want Jayson to grow up like me,'' she says. ''He is changing the way he approaches things, changing his behaviour, and I think now he is going to grow up differently.''
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Amy is Health Editor for The Sydney Morning Herald. Before working at the Herald she worked as a freelance journalist and radio presenter, as well as writing for a number of publications for doctors. She also keeps a health blog at www.dailylife.com.au.


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Now that the "fiscal cliff" deal has gone down, we have a couple of months to argue over the "winners" and "losers" before the country is dragged into the next of DC's. It's a good time to consider what comes next, and how it will impact people of color — and, by extension, the politicians who will increasingly rely on voters of color to keep them in office in the not-so-distant future.
It turns out we've only witnessed the first act of Washington's "fiscal cliff" kabuki. Our elected leaders simultaneously avoided the "fiscal cliff" of their own creation, and set up even more "fiscal cliffs" to come.
Yes, as The Grio's Perry Bacon Jr. pointed out, at first glace there were some "good things" things in this deal, on which the White House can claim "victory."
Moving off of his desired numbers on taxes allowed the president to get billions of dollars in programs for the working poor and unemployed Americans that Republicans would only agree to as part of a larger compromise. The deal includes $30 billion to help Americans who have been unemployed for longer than six months, as well about $120 billion spread over five years to keep in place increased child tax credits for low-income families with children and those paying for college that were in the 2009 stimulus and scheduled to expire.
While cuts may come later, there are actually almost no new spending reductions in this agreement. (The cuts from the 2011 debt ceiling negotiation will still eventually occur.) Obama successfully fought a Republican push to include Medicare or Social Security reductions in this deal.
Most importantly, almost every Republican senator and more than a third of House Republicans voted to raise taxes. Yes, Obama has proposed this years, but Republicans have opposed any increase ON ANYONE for two decades. Obama not only forced them to take a tax increase now, but is promising more during the rest of his tenure to balance the national budget.
Still, it's way to early to start counting the bullets we've dodged.
First, the middle- and working classes, and the working poor are already taking a hit in this deal. The failure to extend the payroll tax cut means an increase in taxes for the middle- and working-class, and the working poor. As Jared Bernstein pointed out, families earning $50,000 a just got about a $1,000 increase. Break that down into months, and it comes to about $83.00 less in take-home pay each month.
That amount might be low enough that some people (i.e., single, childless, etc.) might even notice it. But a nearly $100 reduction in take-home pay is a deep cut for middle-class, working-class and low income families who are barely getting by. Ultimately, we'll all pay.
By allowing the payroll tax cut to expire, every working American gets a tax hike of 2% of their income (up to about $113,000 in income). A worker making $50,000 a year will pay an extra $1,000 in taxes. Payroll checks will be cut. Belts will have to be tightened even more. That will lower demand, producing job loss totaling up to an estimated million jobs. (Taxes on the wealthy go up also, but those have only marginal effects on jobs).
Second, seeing as Washington is going to take another shot at middle-class, working-class, and low income families.
Thanks to what Robert Borosage called an "ugly deal," we'll be right back where we've been since Congress constructed this most recent "fiscal cliff." And while we can breath a sigh of relief that many of us weren't throw off that "cliff," the deal-o'-the-moment leaves many middle- and working-class Americans, the working poor, and people of color already dangling over the the looming abyss of the next one.
This is an ugly deal, with foul implications for the coming months.
1. Setting Up the Next Extortion
The most ominous part of the deal is what was left out. The deal makes no provision for lifting the debt ceiling. It postpones the sequester (automatic cuts in domestic and military spending) for only two months. It is a smaller deficit reduction package than that originally sought by the president. It therefore sets up the right-wing House zealots to hold the economy hostage once more, while demanding deep cuts in public services (known as cuts in domestic spending), backed by a media frenzy about deficits. And while Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid escaped unscathed in this deal, they will be the prime targets in the coming debate.
Thanks to a "fiscal cliff" deal that's already hurtling towards its expiration date, that means conservatives and corporate interests not only won a $3.6 trillion tax cut for people almost no one could call "middle class" with a straight face, and a tax increase for the real middle class, but they will also get another shot at the programs they've always hated.
That means 2013 Washington will rehash most of the worst economic ideas of 2012, instead of focusing on jobs, infrastructure, and real economic recovery. That's why some Democrats opposed the deal, as Sen. Tom Harkin (D, Iowa) explained in an NPR interview.
CORNISH: And yet you voted no. Why?
HARKIN: Well, I voted no because of three basic reasons. One, it does not address the number one priority that we have in this country. And the number one priority is creating good jobs and putting people back to work. It's like, ever since the election, we forgot that we still had well over 7 percent unemployed in this country. So the thing that's holding back our economy is the fact that people aren't working.
CORNISH: And the other two reasons?
HARKIN: The second reason, it doesn't generate enough revenue that's needed to invest in the things like infrastructure, education, job retraining, research and development that will get the engine going again. And the third reason is because it's so discriminatory. All of the tax benefits that go to rich people and the high-income earners are made permanent. The tax benefits that we Democrats put in in 2009 to help modest-income people, those are made temporary. To me, that just stands logic on its head.
You should make the things that help modest-income earners permanent and the things that help high-income earners temporary. Vice President Biden and everyone in their speech, I think, kept referring to 400,000 as middle class. Well, if you're making $400,000, you're in the top 1 percent of income earners in America. So have we defined the new middle class as people making $400,000 a year?
Don't forget, it wasn't that long ago that President Obama came very close to caving in on Social Security, by offering to cut Social Security via the "chained CPI," in the name of reaching a compromise with a notoriously uncompromising House GOP. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi tried to tell us that it wasn't really a cut to Social Security benefits. Meanwhile some Democrats tried to give the president a pass, and progressive leaders spoke out against a cut to Social Security benefits that would hit African-Americans and Latinos hardest.
As my colleagues have shown, the "chained" cost-of-living adjustment for Social Security being discussed between President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner is a cut to benefits. The AARP Public Policy Institute's report, Social Security: A Key Retirement Income Source for Older Minorities, helps us to think about how this cut might affect different racial groups.
Nearly one-in-five (18.7 percent) of the Hispanic elderly lives in poverty. For African Americans, the rate is one-in-six (17.1 percent) (Figure A). A cut to Social Security benefits runs the risk of significantly increasing these rates.
Latinos and blacks tend to have lower lifetime earnings and this fact results in lower levels of Social Security income. But it is also the case that these groups have less wealth and therefore depend on Social Security more. Figure B shows that roughly one-in-four Latino (25.4 percent) and black (26.3 percent) Social Security beneficiaries rely on Social Security for 100 percent of their income. For these individuals, Social Security cuts will hurt the most.
Third, this is where our changing electoral demographics come into play. Peo0le of color — African-Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, etc. — are becoming an increasingly important voting block. That spells trouble for politicians who cut social programs in the name of austerity and fake "fiscal cliffs."
In the debate over the so-called fiscal cliff, many in the media have missed something critical that both parties must understand: People of color, whose votes are increasingly crucial, believe in the positive role of government. They don't want domestic social programs cut.
According to the Census Bureau, people of color will be America's new majority by the year 2043. African-Americans, Asians and Latinos already outnumber whites in several states and play a growing role in presidential swing states. Neither party can ignore them.
… Neither party will win voters of color by preserving tax cuts for the wealthy while slashing Medicare and other vital programs
That's not exactly what Rep. Jim Moran (D, Va. 8) meant when he told his fellow Democrats, "We have to look back on this night and regret it, notwithstanding the fact that 95% of us will vote for it."
But Democrats would do well to remember Rep. Moran's words. The next "fiscal cliff" they've created for themselves, and all those to follow, will give conservatives a chance to drive a potentially permanent wedge between Democratic party and its base. Democrats will need to stand on their convictions, or run the risk of alienating some of its most loyal supporters.


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March 23rd 2017, WikiLeaks releases Vault 7 "Dark Matter", which contains documentation for several CIA projects that infect Apple Mac firmware (meaning the infection persists even if the operating system is re-installed) developed by the CIA's Embedded Development Branch (EDB). These documents explain the techniques used by CIA to gain 'persistence' on Apple Mac devices, including Macs and iPhones and demonstrate their use of EFI/UEFI and firmware malware.


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The silent language, Volume 175
Doubleday, 1959 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 240 pages
In the everyday but unspoken give-and-take of human relationships, the silent language plays a vitally important role. Here, a leading American anthropologist has analyzed the many ways in which people talk to one another without the use of works. The pecking order in a chicken yard, the fierce competition in a school playground, every unwitting gesture and action-this is the vocabulary of the silent language. According to Dr. Hall, the concepts of space and time are tools with which all human beings may transmit messages. Space, for example, is the outgrowth of an animal's instinctive defense of his lair and is reflected in human society by the office worker's jealous defense of his desk, or the guarded, walled patio of a Latin-American home. Similarly, the concept of time, varying from Western precision to Eastern vagueness, Is revealed by the businessman who pointedly keeps a client waiting, or the South Pacific islander who murders his neighbor for an injustice suffered twenty years ago.
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It can't be easy keeping a 12-piece band together. Personality management, traveling long distances in close quarters, astronomical food and room expenses- these things can really cause a strain on group dynamic over time. However, as long as the music is right and a positive vibe remains among the players, those other issues are small potatoes.
At least that is what the road manager for 12-piece Afro-beat ensemble Antibalas tells me. It was very important for me to buddy up with someone who knows this music well.
Don't get me wrong. I have some great Afro-beat in my home collection. The rhythms are absolutely addictive, not to mention the profound effect the music has had on contemporary popular American music.
But, to tell you the truth, it's pretty darn difficult to tell the difference between some of the jams (it's not uncommon for jams to last seven to 10 minutes). Misha (the manager/merch guy) was just the person to keep me on track. I traded him a cigarette for a band sticker. From there on, we formed a great bond.
He explained to me that this was Antibalas' first time south of the Mason-Dixon Line and that they hadn't expected to get half the crowd that was in the room. He was also quick to point out that almost all the songs in the set were original, unreleased material.
The first cover the band broke out was "Excuse-Al" by the king of Afro-beat, Fela Kuti. The only thing missing that kept the song from being as good as the original was female back-up singers. Even another hand drum on stage may have sent the keys player falling off the edge, considering there were already two saxes, two trumpets, two guitarists, a bass, a trombonist, drummer, vocalist, percussionist, and keyboardist.
Misha also explained to me that there was no specific bandleader in the group. The trombonist usually gave cues to go into new sections of the songs, but that was only because he was centrally located in the line of musicians. Even without a definitive director, Antibalas never seemed to misstep. Even if you (god forbid) got bored with the meditative groove, lead vocalist Amayo, with his full head of dreadlocks and animated body, was enough to keep one focused.
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NASHVILLE (BP) -- Former President George W. Bush will be among the speakers at "The Main Event," a conference for men Aug. 1-2 in Nashville sponsored by LifeWay Christian Resources.
Bush will take the stage along with Bobby Bowden, the winningest football coach in NCAA history; three-time NASCAR champion Darrell Waltrip; retired U.S. Army Maj. Jeff Struecker, whose battlefield heroics were immortalized in the film "Black Hawk Down"; LifeWay President Thom Rainer; and others. Three-time Grammy winner Michael W. Smith will lead worship.
The theme for The Main Event is from Isaiah 53:5 -- "by his stripes we are healed," which LifeWay men's ministry leader Jason Ellerbrook says is "wrapped around honoring the wounded warrior."
The conference will honor those who serve in the U.S. Armed Forces "who have sacrificed to give us freedom on earth," Ellerbrook said, but it will ultimately challenge men to "honor Christ as the one who gave us eternal freedom through His victory over sin and death."
Having a former U.S. president as a speaker is significant for any conference, but it is especially so for The Main Event, only in its second year of existence. Despite the lack of an extended history, Ellerbrook knew the conference would be something special shortly after they began promoting the inaugural gathering.
"Last year we had 5,000 men attend, which sold out the Curb Center at Belmont University two months before the event," he said.
This year's conference will be in the much larger Bridgestone Arena in downtown Nashville and will challenge even more men in their faith and commitments. "Our goal is to see men come to know Christ and more fully experience Him," Ellerbrook said.
"Men who attend The Main Event will experience a sense of honor, dignity and respect," he said. "We are all wounded and broken -- that we have in common. However, Jesus can be the ultimate common denominator. Through Him we can experience victory and lead a full life."
Ellerbrook said registration will be capped at 10,000 and organizers are expecting the event to sell out well in advance of August. Early registration for the conference, which begins Friday evening, Aug 1, and runs through noon Saturday, is $69. A preconference for ministry leaders will be held Friday afternoon, Aug. 1, with a $39 registration fee.
A full list of the speakers, schedules and other information is available at The Main Event.
NAMB announces 2015 Send Conference date, location
ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) -- The North American Mission Board is developing plans for its 2015 Send North America Conference slated for Aug. 3-4 at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville.
This will be the third time NAMB has hosted the conference to encourage, equip and mobilize lay leaders in local congregations to penetrate lostness in North America.
Nearly 2,000 people attended the Send North America Conference at First Baptist Church Woodstock, Ga., in 2012. The attendance more than doubled in 2013 at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas.
"We want to see churches partner together to impact lost communities in North America," said Aaron Coe, NAMB's vice president for mobilization and marketing. "The Send Conference is simply an opportunity for like-minded pastors, leaders and church members to gather in one place and build a vision for reaching people with the Gospel. The 2015 conference is really about engaging and mobilizing the person in the pew to live a life on mission."
Leading up to the 2015 Conference, dozens of Southern Baptist churches in about 30 cities throughout North America will host Send North America Experiences. These church-based multimedia experiences are designed to engage churches and leaders who want to celebrate what God is doing in North America and learn how they can participate. Thomas Road Baptist Church hosted the first of these gatherings in conjunction with its Refuel Conference Oct. 9-10 of last year in Lynchburg, Va. A schedule of Send North America Experience dates and locations can be found at Send Conference.
The 2015 Send North America Conference will have seating capacity for more than 10,000 attendees in downtown Nashville. Organizers are encouraging pastors and leaders to bring interested members of their congregations. Many of the breakout and workshop sessions will center on God's call for mobilizing lay leaders through the Send North America strategy.
Explore coverage of previous Send North America conferences at Send 2013.
Mental health ministry launching at Saddleback
LAKE FOREST, Calif. (BP) -- Saddleback Church pastor Rick Warren is starting a new mental health ministry following the suicide of his son Matthew, who at age 27 shot himself in April 2013 after years of struggling with severe depression.
According to a WORLD News Service report, Warren will team up with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange, Calif., and the National Alliance on Mental Illness to raise awareness and remove misunderstandings against mental illnesses within the faith community. On March 28, the three groups will host The Gathering on Mental Health and the Church, a daylong event at Saddleback that will cover a wide range of mental health issues, from bipolar disorder to eating disorders.
Warren said he hopes the conference will educate family members of people living with mental illness, encourage those who are struggling, and motivate other churches to create similar mental health ministries.
"I'm certainly not going to waste this pain," Warren said. "One of the things I believe is that God never wastes a hurt and that oftentimes your greatest ministry comes out of your deepest pain. I remember writing in my journal that in God's garden of grace, even broken trees bear fruit."
As Warren and his wife Kay mourned their son's death, they received more than 10,000 emails and letters from people who poured out their own struggles with mental illnesses. The Warrens said their own grief and others' stories shook them with the realization that many, including those within churches, lack support and understanding amidst their mental battles.
"It's amazing to me that any other organ in your body can break down and there's no shame and stigma to it," Warren said in his first sermon after his son's suicide. "But if your brain breaks down, you're supposed to keep it a secret. … If your brain doesn't work right, why should you be ashamed of that?"
Saddleback is known for its initiative on HIV and AIDS, an awareness campaign and outreach ministry for people living with the disease. When the Warrens first began the ministry, they thought AIDS was the greatest taboo. But now, "I think mental illness is," Warren said. About 35 million people have HIV and AIDS worldwide, but more than 400 million struggle with mental illness, he noted. "And we want to remove the stigma."
Saddleback has long sponsored support groups for family and friends of people with mental illness, but Warren said this new ministry will equal the scale and comprehensiveness of Saddleback's HIV and AIDS program.
"Our goal is, as we say, we crack the door open and then churches go, 'OK. If the diocese is doing this, if Saddleback's doing this, we can do this,'" Warren said. "And we'd love to see a movement started where people actually begin to say, 'We need to see this element added to our local ministry.'"
In the Southern Baptist Convention, Executive Committee President Frank Page is in the process of naming a volunteer advisory body of professionals in the mental health field to advise him on possible ways to better inform Southern Baptists about available mental health service providers and resources.
In its Feb. 17-18 meeting in Nashville, the Executive Committee concurred with the spirit of a motion referred from the 2013 SBC annual meeting regarding mental health ministry. EC members voted to amend an annual ministry report form it solicits from the SBC's entities to include questions asking appropriate entities how they are assisting Southern Baptist churches in equipping and ministering to people with mental health challenges. The EC also voted to "continue to seek ways to work in cooperation with SBC entities and others to address the severe challenges imposed by mental illness."
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This collection will include records from 1794 to 1874.
Entries are usually arranged in chronological order in a column format. The baptisms, marriages and deaths for one year are grouped together before the baptisms, marriages and deaths for the next year (some of the records include only marriages and deaths, or only births and marriages, etc.). Some of the records are on preprinted forms. Some include indexes.
Many church book duplicates were lost but those that remain are well kept in civil archives.
In Germany, a parish was an ecclesiastical jurisdiction made up of many villages and hamlets, with one of the villages designated as the main parish town. This set of church book duplicates do not usually include records from all of the villages within a parish, but only records from one village, or from a few of the villages within the parish. In larger cities, where there was more than one church, each church is listed separately.
German states successively began creating church book duplicates from 1792-1876. The duplicates ended with the institution of civil registration in 1876 (October 1, 1874 in Prussia). Inspired by the institution of church book duplicates in the Hapsburg Empire under Joseph II and the beginning of civil registration in France in 1792, the state of Brandenburg began creating church book duplicates.The German states required the clergy to create a transcript of their church books and turn them in annually to the state. Civil authorities assumed the registration function in Brandenburg in January 1876.
Outside of Prussia, the clergy were required to record the vital events (births, marriages and deaths) of people living within their jurisdiction regardless of their religion. For example, Catholic or Jewish people living in an area that did not have a Catholic church or Jewish synagogue were often recorded in the Lutheran records. The reverse was also true in Catholic areas, where Lutherans and Jews were recorded in Catholic records. However, in Prussia--including Brandenburg and, from 1793 onward, Posen--this was not the common practice. Some Posen church books have entries for Jews during the period 1807-1814, i.e., the Napoleonic occupation.
Large cities had many churches or parishes, each serving part of the city. Rural churches often served several villages and hamlets. The church book duplicates for Posen cover a majority of the population.
German church book duplicates, like the originals, are the most reliable and accurate family history source until 1876 when civil registration of births, marriages and deaths began in all of Germany. Ages, birth dates and birth places found in marriage and death entries may be inaccurate, depending on the informant's knowledge. Church book duplicates may differ slightly from the originals because of transcription variations. They are often more legible than the originals.
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1. THE TWILIGHT ZONE: THE DEFINITIVE EDITION, SEASON 2 - 4 (Image Entertainment): The first volume was released at the end of last year, but this year's continuation -- encompassing many of the beloved series' most memorable episodes -- fulfills its promise and then some. Image's TZ sets have become the standard bearer of how vintage television should be handled and presented on DVD. The casual viewer can be satisfied with the most sparkling transfers these shows have ever seen (mastered from 35mm), while more ardent fans can drink as deeply as they desire, partaking of audio commentaries, Rod Serling lectures and interviews, isolated music tracks, and much else. Exhaustive in their scope, inexhaustible in their pleasures, these sets do Serling and his many talented collaborators proud -- and they deserve to be in every home where imaginative storytelling is respected. SEASON 5, the final set, will be streeting on December 27.
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3. L'ECLISSE (Criterion): I had never seen this Michelangelo Antonioni classic with Monica Vitti and Alain Delon before, and it turned out to be the most exciting and moving movie experience I had this year. The black-and-white widescreen photography gleams, and Criterion's extras are also top notch. Criterion issued an extraordinary number of top-notch releases this year (THE TALES OF HOFFMAN, THE PHANTOM OF LIBERTY, JULES AND JIM, THE RIVER, etc), surpassing even their usual high standard, and I wish I could have accomodated more of them on this list.
4. THE KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI COLLECTION: THE SCAR/CAMERA BUFF/BLIND CHANCE/NO END/A SHORT FILM ABOUT LOVE/A SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING (Kino on Video): This much-needed collection replaces New Yorker Films' earlier VHS releases of many of these titles, and sweetens them with additional colleague interviews and other worthy supplements, including several of Kieslowski's early documentary shorts. While none of these films quite attains the masterly blend of approachability and brilliance of Kieslowski's later work, the last three films in the set are masterpieces and the first three are more than worth seeing.
5. THE VAL LEWTON HORROR COLLECTION: CAT PEOPLE/CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE/I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE/THE BODY SNATCHER/THE LEOPARD MAN/THE GHOST SHIP/ISLE OF THE DEAD/THE SEVENTH VICTIM/SHADOWS IN THE DARK documentary (Turner Home Entertainment): One of the finest bodies of work ever amassed within the horror genre, treated with the respect it deserves. The audio commentaries -- including such VW alumni as Kim Newman, Tom Weaver, and Greg Mank -- are superb, and the documentary about Lewton is one of the best of its kind. My only regret about the set is that Turner apparently couldn't think of anyone who might provide a commentary for ISLE OF THE DEAD, which is one of my personal favorites of the bunch. That's the one where Boris Karloff says, "They call me The Watchdog..."
6. THE QUATERMASS COLLECTION (BBC Video): A perfectly realised, long-awaited collection of all the surviving kinescopes of the BBC's original "Quatermass" telecasts from 1953 (THE QUATERMASS EXPERIMENT, two episodes), 1955 (QUATERMASS II, complete) and 1958-59 (QUATERMASS AND THE PIT, complete). Nigel Kneale's original teleplays for the missing EXPERIMENT episodes are included, and the PIT episodes ameliorate the old problem of the BBC's initial stand-alone release of this title as a single, extended entity. The documentary extras are outstanding, too.
7. THE KING KONG COLLECTION (Turner Home Entertainment): I am still making my way through this mouth-watering set, but it's both a delight and an education. It appears to offer the best-looking and -sounding presentations of KING KONG (1933), SON OF KONG (1933) and MIGHTY JOE YOUNG (1949) ever. In the case of KING KONG particularly, the image clarity enlarges one's appreciation of the film's technical achievement, and the bonus disc's exhaustive documentary features put these achievements into historic perspective in a way that fully supports the feature's claim to the name "The Eighth Wonder of the World." Long-awaited and worth the wait.
8. A TALE OF TWO SISTERS (Tartan Video): The most skillfully made horror film of recent vintage I've seen, this darkly lyrical South Korean film merges ghost story and dark psychology with a virtuosity seldom encountered anymore. The score by Byung-woo Lee is an instant classic, haunting and beautiful. If you pick this up, I insist you pop for the two-disc deluxe edition, whose supplements are not only informative but offer behind-the-scenes glimpses of the director and his actors that are remarkable in their humanism and candor. One of those DVD releases that extends the boundaries of what the medium is capable of achieving.
9. DAVID CRONENBERG'S THE FLY (1986, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment): Long in the works, this definitive treatment of Cronenberg's "reimagining" of the 1958 classic was worth the wait. Besides an excellent rendering of the film, this two-disc set offers a feast of bonus materials, of which the most notable are a lengthy retrospective documentary and an assortment of invaluable deleted scenes. The "monkey-cat/crab-leg" sequence is the DVD Bonus supplement of the year. I'll go to my grave insisting that Cronenberg opted for a good horror film instead of a great one when he cut this powerful footage, but the disc offers a valid counter-argument of why cutting it was the right thing to do.
10. (tie) DANGER: DIABOLIK (Paramount DVD), THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE and VENUS IN FURS (Blue Underground): The year's most stunning Eurocult releases. I had the privilege of contributing to the commentary track of DIABOLIK with its star John Phillip Law, but I include this title mostly for restoring and presenting the most complete and ideal version of the film ever released -- and Steve Bissette's interview tying DIABOLIK into the history of comics and comic adaptations to film is superb. Blue Underground's two releases continue their tradition of going the extra mile with worthy cult items. BIRD is the deluxe edition of Dario Argento's directorial debut that his fans have long been craving, topped off with a stunning from-the-negative transfer supervised by Vittorio Storaro; VENUS is one of Jess Franco's quintessential works, perhaps his definitive psychedelic treatment of romantic obsession. All three films have never looked or sounded better.
Honorable Mention: MONSTER KID HOME MOVIES (PPS Group): This nostalgic collection of home-made 8mm/16mm monster movies, dating from 1952 to fairly recently but emphasizing the 1960s, is a time capsule preserving our love of movies and our desire to share in their magic. Every one of the 20 films included has something to commend it, whether it's raw talent (or somewhat more sophisticated talent), a gift for mimicky, ambition and pluck, or simply the reflected innocence of a less complicated time. Every film is accompanied by an audio commentary that puts each piece in perspective, perspectives which allow the set to cover the whole arc of human emotions from joy to tragedy. I contributed an audio commentary to my late friend Alan Upchurch's film "The Gentle Old Madman," which makes MKHM particularly meaningful for me, but even without my participation, or Alan's, this disc would have touched my heart. Irresistable, and an outstanding debut release from PPS Group. Available directly from PPS Group or from Diabolik DVD.
Other Notables: TITANIC (Paramount DVD "Special Collector's Edition"), THE WIZARD OF OZ (Warner Home Video "Three-Disc Collector's Edition"), THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953; Paramount DVD "Special Collector's Edition"), THE LOONEY TUNES GOLDEN COLLECTION - Volumes 1, 2 and 3 (Warner Home Video), DIVORCE, ITALIAN STYLE (Criterion), UNFAITHFULLY YOURS (Criterion), THE DEFA SCI-FI COLLECTION: THE SILENT STAR, IN THE DUST OF THE STARS and EOLOMEA (First Run Features), SIX FEET UNDER - THE COMPLETE FOURTH SEASON (with the stunning episode "That's My Dog," HBO Video), THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN (Warner Home Video), CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST (Grindhouse Releasing), GIRL MEETS GIRL COLLECTION (EI Independent/RetroSeduction Cinema), GREEN ACRES - THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON (with the stunning episode "Arnold Goes to Hollywood," MGM Home Entertainment), THE FLESH EATERS (Dark Sky/MPI), also THE MYSTERIANS, DOGORA, MATANGO and VARAN THE UNBELIEVABLE (Media Blasters/Tokyo Shock).
Best Box Set of 2005: JERRY LEWIS - THE LEGENDARY JERRY COLLECTION: THE NUTTY PROFESSOR/THE LADIES MAN/CINDERFELLA/THE FAMILY JEWELS/THE PATSY/THE BELLBOY/THE ERRAND BOY/THE DELICATE DELINQUENT/THE DISORDERLY ORDERLY/THE STOOGE (Paramount DVD) Okay, I'm taking advantage of a technicality here. The individual DVDs composing this box set were originally released in October of 2004, and I complained then that they should have been collected in a more affordable box set. If you skipped these titles last year because they were too costly, I urge you to take advantage of this economically priced collection. Of course the humor is juvenile, but the filmmaking is frequently inspired, with an original approach to color, set design, spectacle, and an often surrealistic sensibility. If THE NUTTY PROFESSOR is all you know, you must at least check out THE LADIES' MAN. The recording session in THE PATSY had me laughing so hard I thought I might die. Seriously.
Restoration of the Year: THE WIZARD OF OZ (Warner Home Video).
Other Notable Restorations of 2005: ALFRED HITCHCOCK: LES PREMIERES OEUVRES 1927-28, 1929-31, 1932-1940 (Studio Canal, French imports), DANGER: DIABOLIK (Paramount), WILD IN THE STREETS/GAS-S-S-S! (MGM Home Entertainment), THE FLESH EATERS (Dark Sky/MPI) and THE STRANGE VICE OF MRS. WARDH (No Shame Films).
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1. THE VAL LEWTON HORROR COLLECTION (Warner R1): After well-deserved criticism regarding their lackluster catalogue of vintage library titles, Warner Home Video finally got fully on-track in 2005. Their magnificent box set of Val Lewton's subtle RKO chillers proved well worth the wait.
2. THE KING KONG COLLECTION (Warner R1): I have almost no interest in seeing Peter Jackson's gazillion dollar CGI overkill extravaganza, but am glad it finally came out as we now have this gorgeous restoration of the RKO original. Nice extras, plus high quality presentations of the studio's other two giant ape classics make this a must.
3. PHANTASM I-IV SPHERE BOX SET (Anchor Bay UK R2 PAL): No amount of gloss and supplemental goodies can compensate for the travesty that is PHANTASM: OBLIVION, but this set is otherwise exemplary and comes in the year's grooviest packaging: an oversized reproduction of the series' classic silver sphere! With the North American rights to the movies divided between MGM and Universal, an R1 equivalent seems unlikely.
4. DAVID CRONENBERG'S THE FLY (Fox R1): Previous editions of this grotesque but remarkably poignant remake were too bright and lacking in supplements, flaws eradicated by this new, director-approved set. It also offers some of the most extensive and fascinating extras in recent memory.
5. THE CANDY SNATCHERS (Subversive R1): In this age of unabashed double dipping, it is all but unheard of for a movie's very first video release in any format to also be definitive. Subversive Cinema has managed to accomplish just that, offering a beautiful transfer of this essential '70s grindhouse thriller complimented by quality supplementary material.
6. THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE (Blue Underground R1): This lovingly restored, uncut presentation of Dario Argento's excellent giallo almost makes me forget that he has made absolutely nothing of worth in the past 15 years. Almost.
7. DANGER: DIABOLIK (Paramount R1): Another studio with a less-than-impressive selection of library titles, Paramount starts to right their wrongs by doing this Mario Bava classic justice. A first-rate transfer and marvelous extras completely wash away the taste of that MST3K travesty.
8. DIRTY MARY CRAZY LARRY (Anchor Bay R1): The greatest car chase epic to blaze across 1970s drive-in screens finally hits DVD...and in a highly polished special edition to boot! Sensational driving and a wonderful character performance from Vic Morrow keep this platter constantly spinning in my player.
9. FAREWELL FRIEND (Cinema Club UK R2 PAL): Jean Herman's witty, masterfully plotted, and tres cool tale of honor and male bonding features Alain Delon and Charles Bronson at the height of their craft. A barebones release, but the movie and the presentation are so good, it doesn't matter (and you get the complete European version, unlike that wretched public domain R1 release).
10. GAMBLING CITY (NoShame R1): One of the first Italian crime thrillers I saw and still one of my favorites, even in its abbreviated, pan&scan release as THE CHEATERS from Vogue Video 20+ years ago. Naturally, NoShame's beautiful, uncut, widescreen edition is the only version I'll watch from now on.
John's Honorable Mentions: 42ND. STREET FOREVER VOL. 1 (Synapse R1), CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST (Grindhouse R1), THE DEVIL'S REJECTS: TWO DISC DIRECTOR'S CUT (Lions Gate R1), DIRTY HO (Intercontinental HK R3), DOGORA (Media Blasters R1), DREAM OF THE RED CHAMBER (1977; Intercontinental HK R3), KING KONG VS GODZILLA/KING KONG ESCAPES (Universal R1), MATANGO (Media Blasters R1), THE MYSTERIANS (Media Blasters R1), THE WAR OF THE WORLDS: SPECIAL COLLECTOR'S EDITION (1953; Paramount R1).
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THE CANDY SNATCHERS (Subversive Cinema): Bizarre, unpredictable Seventies exploitation crime drama is given a sterling transfer and detailed reminisces from two of its female stars.
THE FLESH EATERS (Dark Sky) -- Great transfer of one of the great low-budget genre underdogs.
FOR YOUR HEIGHT ONLY / CHALLENGE OF THE DRAGON (Mondo Macabro): This fun double feature of Dick Randall exploitation imports will have your friends worrying about your sanity, particularly the Filipino James Bond parody FOR YOUR HEIGHT ONLY, which stars the diminutive, 3-foot tall Weng Weng as secret agent "00".
HANZO THE RAZOR (Home Vision Entertainment) : Box set of the audacious Seventies samurai trilogy starring Shintaro (ZATOICHI) Katsu.
JUST BEFORE DAWN (Media Blasters) : One of the better slasher pics of the Seventies is treated to an anecdote-filled commentary from director Jeff Lieberman (SQUIRM, BLUE SUNSHINE), whose talks typically contain more useful information than most film courses.
KING KONG (Warner Home Video) : You will see details in the film you never saw before... plus the documentary material is exhausting in its scope. Peter Jackson's recreation of the lost spider pit sequence is unbelievably good, an early Christmas present to all us monster fans.
LONG WEEKEND (Synapse Films): Flawless anamorphic transfer of a highly unusual "nature's revenge" film, where the wildlife attacks are metaphors for a disintegrating marriage.
MIGHTY JOE YOUNG (Warner Home Video) : Sparkling transfer and a heart-warming commentary with Ray Harryhausen and Terry Moore. Effects artist Ken Ralston moderates the commentary, and every time there is a startling stop-motion image, he remarks with deadpan awe, "oh, Ray... oh, Ray."
POINT BLANK (Warner Home Video): This nice special edition of John Boorman's experimental neo-noir, along with new DVD releases of THE PROFESSIONALS and PRIME CUT, made 2005 the unofficial Year of Lee Marvin.
VARAN THE UNBELIEVABLE (Media Blasters/Tokyo Shock): All of Media Blasters' recent Toho releases have something extraordinary about them to recommend: MATANGO is essential to anyone interested in J-horror; THE MYSTERIANS has, among many other extras, an isolated Akira Ifukube score... but if I had to pick just one to represent them all it would have to be VARAN, not only for presenting the very different (and much better) Japanese version of the film, but for a fascinating audio commentary with effects artist Keizo Murase, who gives rare insight into the day-to-day life of a starving, struggling Toho studios technician.
P.S. from T. L. - It's Bill's birthday today. Happy Birthday, Bill!
1. DOCTOR WHO - SERIES 1 (BBC import R2): I'll take the tack that TV does deserve to be included, and this revival of my favorite show is simply perfect.
2. ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT SEASON 1 and 2 (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment): Probably doomed on network TV, but we'll always have the DVDs.
3. UNIVERSITY OF LAUGHS: Only available on disc in Japan as a R2 import, but with subtitles, this astonishing film has almost no market in the US. Two great actors sit in a room and talk, in a script that takes the awful grind towards Japan's declaration of war in the 1940s and turns into absurdist comedy of the highest order. This may not appeal much to VW's readership, but it is one of the best movies I've seen in many, many years.
4. LE ROI DE CHAMPS-ELYSEES (Reel Classic DVD-R): Buster Keaton's 1935 French language comedy, produced by Seymour Nebezahl and including clips from THE TESTAMENT OF DOCTOR MABUSE, is Keaton's greatest talkie feature, yet long out of the reach of fans. At last a top notch DVD-R with newly translated subtitles can be found online from Reel Classic DVD.
5. DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS (BBC R2): The BBC miniseries is a work of apocalyptic dread that takes itself seriously enough to feel plausible.
6. THEY CAME BACK (Fox Lorber): A French zombie drama (yup, not a horror film, a drama) recently on Region 1 DVD, that is unlike any other zombie movie ever made. Finally, something new under the sun.
7. LOST - THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON (Buena Vista Home Entertainment): I dropped it down the list only because the currently airing second season makes the first season look weak by comparison.
8. CHARLEY CHASE COLLECTION VOLUME 2 (Kino on Video): Thank God for Kino, giving this underrated slapstick star an overdue reappraisal. This disc includes the short "Isn't Life Terrible?" which, in my book, is one of the most jaw-dropping pieces of silent comedy ever created. If you like old slapstick and haven't seen this short, your life is missing something.
9. MATANGO (Media Blasters/Tokyo Shock): When I saw that what was once known as ATTACK OF THE MUSHROOM PEOPLE was getting a platform release with extras, in Japanese with subtitles, I'd assumed I was the victim of a practical joke. But no, now everybody with $15 to spare can enjoy this masterpiece of Japanese sc-fi delirium.
10. SCARY TRUE STORIES (MPI Home Video): Sneaking out onto DVD at the end of the year, with little fanfare, is one of the important J-Horror releases yet: the birthplace of the genre.
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1. THE QUATERMASS COLLECTION (BBC Video R2)
2. DOCTOR WHO: SERIES 1 [the new series] (BBC Video R2)
3. THRILLER: THE COMPLETE SERIES [the UK 1970s show, not the US 1960s one, R2]
4. EDGAR WALLACE EDITION 1 - 8 (Tobis/UFA R2)
5. LAURA (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment)
6. THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU (Criterion)
7. VIDEODROME (Criterion)*
8. THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (Criterion)
9. DEADWOOD: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON (HBO Video)
10. DAWN OF THE DEAD - ULTIMATE EDITION (Anchor Bay Entertainment)*
Kim adds: "All sorts of possibles or probables - the Lewton box set (though I should rule that out for nomination since I contributed to it), the King Kong collection, the Universal Hammer and Lugosi sets - might qualify, except I've not even got them out of the shrinkwrap, let alone watched them down to the last Easter egg!"
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THE BLIND DEAD COLLECTION (Blue Underground): The ayes finally have it -- essential EuroCult gets its due in a box set that puts the fun back in funereal.
THE VAL LEWTON HORROR COLLECTION (Turner Home Entertainment): Not just a collection of some of the finest horror and suspense films ever made but a primer for shock by suggestion.
TORTURE GARDEN (Columbia Home Entertainment): Not the best omnibus horror film of all time... but better than most that have already been given the digital upgrade and Burgess Meredith is a hoot as Dr. Diablo.
MATANGO/ATTACK OF THE MUSHROOM PEOPLE (Media Blasters/Tokyo Shock): Shriek Show finally gets one right, and one of the most disturbing horror films of all time, too.
RACE WITH THE DEVIL (Anchor Bay Entertainment): The butt-ugly cover art aside, which makes this tale of Satanism along the Rio Grande look like a CB radio chase flick, Anchor Bay serves up vintage 70s drive-in shock with all the trimmins'.
ALMOST HUMAN (NoShame Films): Even if I hadn't written liner notes for this bloody slice of ItaloCrime, I'd still give it the thumbs up for being the EuroCult release of the year.
KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER (Universal): Wash the taste of that awful re-imagining with the original series. Occasionally excellent, often downright awful, with Darren McGavin as tour guide, THE NIGHT STALKER was at least a fun diversion and had character to burn.
THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE (Blue Underground): In a word: finally.
THE INNOCENTS (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment): Not only is this classic spooker finally available on DVD, but at an affordable price not much above $10. Do it for the children.
KING KONG COLLECTION (Warner Home Video): Best Buy offered an exclusive box set of KING KONG, SON OF KONG and MIGHTY JOE YOUNG with extras galore and 10 collectible cards of original poster art from around the world. But even if Warners had put out a no frills single disc, it would have been worth all the chest pounding.
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EVIL DEAD 2: BOOK OF THE DEAD LIMITED EDITION (Anchor Bay Entertainment, "Divimax Special Edition"): Worth it for the fabulous packaging, HD transfer, and The Book of the Dead looks great on our mantle.
AU HASARD BALTHAZAR (Criterion): Beautiful transfer of a sublime, flawless film.
NAKED (Criterion): Existentialism without despair, and David Thewlis is simply superb.
DEMON SEED (Warner Home Video): A fine LETTERBOXED transfer of a vastly under-rated film, long overdue on DVD.
POINT BLANK (Warner Home Video): Forget what you've read: Boorman's brilliant film was the real inspiration for Cammell and Roeg's PERFORMANCE.
DISNEY RARITIES: CELEBRATED SHORTS 1920s-1960s (Walt Disney Treasures): An excellent selection of historically important material, with excellent annotations. We are aware of the controversy this particular issue of the "Walt Disney Treasures" has elicited, but we stand by our assessment that this is an historically important release, despite the limitations of some of the source materials used for the transfers. While the quality of the presentation is important, our decision to include the title is based not simply on the quality of the transfers, but on the historic importance of the material included on the set.
MAJOR DUNDEE: THE EXTENDED VERSION (Sony/Columbia): Who would have believed it? Wasn't this the GREED of our generation?
KING KONG (Turner Home Entertainment, "2-Disc Collector's Edition"): Another fine issue of vast historical importance, with excellent supplements.
EDISON: THE INVENTION OF THE MOVIES, 1891-1918 (Kino on Video): What can we say? These films started it all: why we're writing, and why you're reading. There's truly fascinating material on these four discs.
THE WIZARD OF OZ (Warner Home Video, 3-Disc Collector's Edition): Yet another of the many profoundly important historic sets Warner issued in 2005, with important supplements from the silent era.
Best TV Issue (#11, excluding THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN, which goes without saying): BUFFALO BILL: THE COMPLETE FIRST AND SECOND SEASONS (Lion's Gate) One of the most sublimely funny TV shows ever shown on national television, sadly short-lived.


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Men's Barracks - BIIa Quarantine
In three tiered bunks, or hutches, there were at times 9–12 persons on each level, especially during the arrival of the Hungarian Jewish transports in the Spring and Summer of 1944. The bunks were about 3 meters wide. If prisoners wanted to turn, the whole row had to turn over with them. BIIa had only one row of barracks. Most of the other sub-camps, BIIb-e, had two rows.
These barracks were actually prefabricated wooden stables (Pferdestallbaracken, OKH-Typ 260/9), originally intended for use on the Eastern Front in Russia. They had rings attached to the walls for tying horses. There were 153 of these barracks in BII, the men's camp, and the camp hospital, not including toilet and washing barracks. The three deck hutches were originally intended to hold 15 prisoners, the total population about 400. In reality the number of prisoners in each barrack varied according to the size and number of arriving transports. In May-June of 1944 the Quarantine barracks could hold as many as 2,000 prisoners each. The long brick structure is part of an oven at each end, supposedly to radiate heat.
See painting by Auschwitz and Birkenau survivor, the late Mieczyslaw Koscielniak at [link]. The last two stalls were used to store buckets for excrement as there was no running water.
Survivor/author Tadeusz Borowski wrote: "If the barracks walls were suddenly to fall away, many thousands of people, packed together, squeezed tightly in their bunks, would remain suspended in mid-air. Such a sight would be more gruesome than the medieval paintings of the Last Judgment. For one of the ugliest sights to a man is that of another man sleeping on his tiny portion of the bunk, of the space he must occupy, because he has a body - a body that has been exploited to the utmost: with a number tattooed to save on dog tags, with just enough sleep at night to work during the day, and just enough time to eat. And just enough food so that he will not die wastefully. As for actual living, there is only one place for it - a piece of bunk. The rest belongs to the camp, to the fatherland"*
*Borowski, T. 1967. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, trans. Barbara Vedder. New York: Viking. p.110f.


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This month, the British medical journal Lancet retracted a peer-reviewed study done by Andrew Wakefield. The paper was retracted because Wakefield apparently provided false information in the study and perhaps tried to cook the numbers to promote his cause and his career. He's also under investigation for serious professional misconduct.
Who is Andrew Wakefield and why was this paper important? He claimed that there was a link between the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism. This paper served as the cornerstone of an anti-vaccination movement here and in Briton that has caused many parents to not vaccinate their children, leaving them vulnerable to a host of serious, but easily preventable diseases. The harm he has done is immeasurable.
On the plus side, science is working. His study drew skepticism and further scrutiny. His co-authors asked to have their names removed from the paper as a means of protecting their reputations. His results could not be replicated and they were refuted. The editors of the journal made a difficult decision to retract the paper, thus keeping their integrity from being taken down with the junk science paper. Retractions like this are rare, fortunately, but they serve as a housecleaning mechanism to purge the literature of truly bad publications. The machinery of science got the right answer. It's a shame that the machinations took 12 years.
The popular press is still full of anti-vaccination material and the harm won't be fully addressed for years, but the process has finally got moving. Meanwhile, true scientists can get back to the serious business of understanding and someday preventing or curing autism.
BTW, Andrew Wakefield now lives in Austin Texas where he runs a clinic called the "Thoughtful House Center for Children." I wouldn't recommend taking your children there.


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