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Mirach Metallurgy Co., Limited is a reliable tinplate manufacturer, which has been recognized by the industries for offering them improved quality tinplate sheet and tinplate steel for packaging a variety of products.
Chai Wan, Hong Kong -- (SBWire) -- 11/14/2014 --At their state-of-the-art manufacturing facility, Mirach Metallurgy produces high quality tinplate sheets to be used in the packaging industry. The tinplate produced by them is healthy for packaging processed foods such as milk powder, fish products and others. Since 1999 the company has been supplying their tinplate sheets as a packaging solution for various industries. Today, Mirach Metallurgy is recognized as a reliable tinplate manufacturer by a number of industrial clients all across the world.
Mirach Metallurgy's tinplate sheet strictly meets the FDA standards for the safe packaging of food products. With the least amount of phosphorus and sulfur content, the tinplate sheets can be used for packaging high-protein food products. Moreover, an excellent resistance against corrosion guarantees purity and long-lasting preservation of the food content. The company uses the latest technology to ensure deep drawing properties for food and industrial cans.
The spokesperson of the company maintains that they have a number of industrial clients all across the world and they procure tinplate steel and sheets from them for their various requirements. The electrolytic tinplate they offer is often recognized for their attractive metallic luster and excellent paintability and printability features. Companies can imprint their brand message and logos using various lacquers and inks and can meet their unique packaging needs. Moreover, the tinplate also features improved soldering and welding capabilities to build cans of various dimensions and shapes.
The company supplies tinplates in varied thickness that can be used in the packaging of a variety of products. One can choose tinplate sheets with bright finish, rough finish or dull rough finish, as per the product they need to package. They also supply coated and pre-painted tinplate sheets as per client's chosen colors and logo designs.
Thus, Mirach Metallurgy endeavors to provide tinplate sheet to meet the custom packaging requirements of different customers, producing a variety of products. The sheets meet the quality parameters of the industries and this is the reason why they are recognized as a reliable packaging solution provider for the modern industries. One can check their different products and their specifications on their website http://www.tinplatesteelmill.com
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Mirach Metallurgy is mainly engaged in the research, development and production of electrolytic tinplate since 1999. Shortly after its establishment, Mirach Metallurgy began to serve overseas customers with high level classified products in the metal industry. After a decade's effort, Mirach Metallurgy became a HongKong-registered company under the approving of SASAC in Sept. 2010. Mirach Metallurgy supplies its steel products to the USA, Germany, Italy, Canada, Chile, Singapore, and Saudi Asia.
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IT'S ALREADY WEEK THREE of the Inspired Design Challenge! This week I hope you'll enjoy following along with me and the ladies as we reveal our projects inspired by West Elm!
Last Friday I revealed my inspiration for the West Elm challenge. In case you missed it, here's another look.
If you guessed the capiz shell chandelier was my inspiration then you would be correct! I am obsessed with that chandelier. Matt and I had two different versions of it at our first place. We had the rectangular West Elm chandelier in our dining room and the round version, which we actually purchased from World Market, in our front entry.
Inspired by the elegant and effortless shape of the chandelier, I put my own spin on this paper chandelier I made for baby Bates's room.
I'm so sorry. I SWEAR this is my last nursery-related inspired design challenge project! I just need to get this baby's room done before I am so tired that I could care less about what it actually looks like!! But look, you could use this method for creating something sleek and chic for any room in your home. Just swap out the colors and even the type of cardstock and you'll have a neat faux chandelier that you can use to fancy up a boring corner of your space. Hanging one above your kitchen sink would be really pretty, especially if you have a can light over your sink that would light it up from above. You could also use this method to make a real chandelier if you have an electrical savvy friend who could wire it up for you. I'd skip using the paper, however, and swap out a fire resistant material to make the circles if you're actually going to put a light in it.
Here's how I made it. I started out with a $5 hanging basket from Lowe's, removed the grass basket and spray painted it white.
I purchased various colors of cardstock from the craft store, as well as two spools of 3/8″ satin ribbon and a circle puncher. You could certainly make this without using the circle puncher (which cost about $10 after using a 40% off coupon), but you'd have to trace and cut each circle individually. To me, that sounds more insane than stenciling polka dots on a ceiling when you're 7 months preggo.
After I cut my cardstock into a million circles, I laid the colors out on my table to get an idea of how I wanted the pattern to flow. I decided on a dark under-layer of maroon and charcoal, a middle layer of ombre yellow and a top layer of various shades of teal.
After I was satisfied with my color pattern, I hot glued the circles onto strips of the white ribbon.
I hot glued the strands of circles to my wire basket base, starting at the bottom layer. The bottom and top layer were easy because all I had to do was wrap the ribbon around the wire and secure it to the top circle of each strand. The center layer was a little tricky because the ribbon wouldn't wrap around the same way. For that layer I used a dot of glue to secure each ribbon to the wire and then went back and wrapped each ribbon around the wire and glued it down against the top circle of each strand.
After all the strands were glued into place, I hung the chandelier above the crib with a simple white hook. When I turn on the ceiling fan the strands sway ever so slightly in the breeze. I think baby Bates will enjoy this, although I hope he or she doesn't get too dizzy staring up at all those dots!
There's still a good deal of work to be done in this space, but I have a lot of the big items checked off at this point! And what do you think of my Key West chicken art?? I took that photo when Matt and I were celebrating our one year wedding anniversary in Key West last year.
Wondering what my fellow challengers have up their sleeves this week? You'll have to stop over to their blogs to find out! Here are their inspirational images for West Elm week.
Clockwise from the top-left:
- Kristin of Bliss at Home
- Lindsay of Life of Splendor
- Jennifer of Brave New Home
- Angie of Angie's Roost
I can't wait to see what the girls came up with this week! Stop back next Monday for week four of the challenge: Anthropologie!


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My name is Gary Green. I am an author, a team leader, an advanced open water and deep sea diver. I am also blind in one eye from an IED attack in Afghanistan. I suffer with PTSD. I have also overcome suicidal thoughts, drug and alcohol addiction. (There's a bold statement…)
As I sit at work with heavy eyelids, juggling the boost of caffeine and the tiredness that comes with shift patterns, I look forward to exactly one months' time when I will be aboard a boat on the Red Sea. One thing I have learned is that the peaks and troughs of life must be ridden like a steady surfboarder, although most of the time I feel like the newbie who spends more time falling into the sea.
I have been blown up in Afghanistan. I suppose that is kind of my 'golden ticket' in a Wonka bar that has given me access to the beautiful underwater universe that I never knew existed. Since the summer of 2015 (oh how time has flown) I have been part of a charity called Deptherapy, which rehabilitates injured veterans through the medium of scuba diving. I have grown as a person and as a diver with the charity. My current level is trainee PADI Rescue Diver, Ambassador, Board Member and Trustee of Deptherapy. I am also an AmbassaDIVER for PADI in the UK (now take a breath, it's a mouth full!)
In one months' time I will be on a liveaboard in the Red Sea, exploring the waters in the north of Egypt. The purpose of this trip is to learn how to wreck dive, to penetrate and navigate through the forgotten ships that live under the water. This is all part of a bigger picture; to rehabilitate, to provide structure where once was chaos and to provide hope where there was once doubt.
For me, the scuba diving is a side effect of my therapy, a by-product of my rehabilitation. Of course, as a person outside of Deptherapy I have now built a tower of dependence, structure and routine. Deptherapy has added building blocks to that tower and now I have the privilege of being part of a family where I can help veterans place bricks into their own towers.
My next steps are to pass the knowledge reviews of my Rescue Diver course and I will then take the practical assessments in my Otter dry suit in the murky, cold British waters. This will enable me to then throw myself in the deep end (quite literally) as a trainee Dive Master for the ten days I spend in Egypt in the company of my wounded brothers.
I am looking forward to my break away from reality, my serenity from the normal… but most importantly my 'gap year' from PTSD. Underwater I have discovered a world where PTSD does not exist, a world where I find peace within myself coupled with an unparalleled beauty. Without diving and the generosity of Deptherapy I would have never found the ocean. Most importantly, I might have never found peace.
The thought of furthering my diving and taking steps to becoming a PADI Pro illuminates me. I will be writing about my experiences on this blog and taking videos / photos of my scuba diving journey. Stay tuned to find out how one veteran's battle against his own mind concludes another chapter soon…
Find out more about the work of Deptherapy at: www.deptherapy.co.uk


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The January AdMob report (PDF) is out today and it shines a little bit of light on who the typical Android users are. We already know that Android growth is steady, but just are the people using these phones? As it turns out, we're mostly Android Guys. See what we did there?
A few bits we gleaned from the report:
- 73% of Android users are male
- 24% of Android users are under age 25
- Android users spend about 80 minutes a day using apps
- Only 6% of Android users plan to pick up an iPad (Duh)
- 84% of Android users would recommend their device to others
- Android users download roughly 9 apps every month, nearly identical to iPhone users
- Only 21% of Android users purchase at least 1 paid app per month
Up until now, there haven't been any "girlie" phones for Android so it doesn't surprise us that nearly 3 out of 4 users are males. The 84% satisfaction and recommendation rate should grow over time as users have more options to choose from when buying handsets.
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KUEHNE, HUGO FRANZ (1884–1963). Hugo Franz Kuehne, architect and a founder of the school of architecture at the University of Texas, was born in Austin, Texas, on February 10, 1884, the son of Franz Conrad and Clara (Langer) Kuehne. After manual training at Austin High School he received a degree in civil engineering from the University of Texas in 1906. He received a bachelor of architecture degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1908. He subsequently became a draftsman for G. Henri Desmond, a Boston architect who designed the state capitol of Maine, and returned to Austin in 1910 to organize an architecture department for the University of Texas. He served as adjunct professor from 1910 to 1915 and founded the architecture library, which became one of the most important collections in the country.
He entered practice in 1915. His firms were Kuehne, Chasey and Giesecke (1915–17), Kuehne and Chasey (1917–19), H. F. Kuehne (1919–42), Giesecke, Kuehne and Brooks (1942), and Kuehne, Brooks and Barr (1942–1960). Among his major works was the elegant Austin Public Library (1933), now the Austin History Center. Others include the Bohn Brothers building at 517 Congress Avenue (1929), alterations for Brackenridge Hospital (1933), the Steck Building at 419 Congress (1932), the Commodore Perry Hotel (1950), the International Life Building (1952), the American National Bank, the Texas Department of Public Safety building (1952), and buildings for the Austin State Hospital. During the Great Depression Kuehne held supervisory positions with the United States Department of the Interior.
He was twice president of the Central Texas chapter of the American Institute of Architects and a director of the Texas Society of Architects; he was elected a fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1944. In 1954 he was named "Austin's Most Worthy Citizen" for his dedication and service in various city planning, zoning, and parks commissions. He married Sybil Glass in 1923, and they had two children. Kuehne was in partnership with his son when he retired in 1961. He died in Austin on November 23, 1963.
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The groups have a series of aims ranging from turning the area into a globally-renowned centre for green technology to creating job opportunities.
St Albans City and District Council has developed the partnerships to encourage organisations to collaborate on issues of mutual interest.
One new venture is the Cathedral Partnership which will see senior members of the Council and the City's Cathedral meet twice a year.
They will work together, for example, on issues related to the visitor economy such as car parking, planning concerns and events.
This partnership will also consider ways to foster good inter-faith relations and improve the spiritual welfare of the whole community.
An update on the work of the strategic partnerships is to be given to a meeting of the Council's Cabinet on Thursday 23 February.
The Council also has a partnership with the Building Research Establishment (BRE) which is based in Bricket Wood.
They are collaborating on a number of projects, with the BRE giving informal advice on the Town Hall's conversion into a £7.75 million museum and art gallery. It has also been consulted on how best to deal with damp and condensation at some of the Council's social housing.
Another partnership is the Economic Sustainability Information Sharing Group. This brings the Council together with the Chamber of Commerce, the University of Hertfordshire, Oaklands College, St Albans CVS and Jobcentre Plus.
Its aim is to share knowledge about the local economy with particular focus on the labour market. Among the issues it is dealing with are skills' shortages, training, apprenticeships and supporting older people back into work.
For example, Job Centre Plus held a joint event with the Council last year for welfare claimants affected by the Government's cap on benefits.
The Green Triangle is another partnership and involves the BRE, Rothamsted Research in Harpenden, the University of Hertfordshire and Oaklands College along with the Council.
It is promoting the District as a centre for green technology and played a key role in efforts to create a new Enterprise Zone in South West Hertfordshire.
The City of Expertise partnership includes 20 local firms largely from the legal, accountancy and surveyor sectors.
It is tasked with highlighting St Albans' status as one of the UK's leading centres for professional services.
There is also the Visitor Partnership which seeks to promote the District as a top destination and the Community Safety Partnership which works to reduce crime.
Councillor Julian Daly, the Council's Leader, said: "The partnerships enable organisations and individuals outside of the Council to take on leadership roles on community-wide issues.
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"Our partnerships do a huge amount of work behind the scenes for the benefit of people living and working in the District.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Pregnancy 101: 36 weeks
Everything is looking awesome. Baby is still head down. Unfortunately there is NOTHING else going on down there. I've had this cold/cough for going on three weeks now and my doctor said that I can take some cough medicine for it so that's a relief. And I have some how hurt my top right rib. It hurts like a mother. So everytime I cough I wince. Everytime I turn a certain way I grimace. Makes for some awesome faces. But if I can stop this cough and give my ribs a break hopefully it will start feeling better.
I don't feel like I'm getting much bigger at this point. Maybe I am and I can't tell. They think the little man is weighing between 6 and 7 pounds right now. Which is what my nieces weighed WHEN THEY WERE BORN. I'm predicting a 9 pounder here. Lord help me.
I've been doing a ton of sleeping. Making myself sleep as much as possible every day. One, it helps the day's go faster, two, I quickly run out of energy these days and three, the time is coming quickly where I won't be sleeping, I want to enjoy sleep while I can. All in all I'm feeling okay. Uncomfortable and huge but that comes with the territory. Here's hoping I only have 2 and half more weeks to go!
5 comments:
- Geezees Custom Canvas Art said...
What a cute belly!!
- January 12, 2010 at 8:32 PM
- Andrea said...
i cant believe you are nine months already, i felt like i just read the blog entree telling you were preggers, wow, it sure does go by fast when you are not the one caring the baby
- January 12, 2010 at 9:10 PM
- Girly Muse said...
God love ya...that belly is the cutest thing.
So proud of you for sleeping!!! That's the only advice I give a pregnant, about to deliver mama. PLEASE sleep whenever possible!
- January 13, 2010 at 1:16 AM
- B and Fs first baby said...
Great belly!
You sound like me; I had so much energy until about 2 days ago- now I am TIRED!!! Good luck to us both and getting this baby delievered soon!
- January 14, 2010 at 12:00 PM
- bekah said...
Not long at all now!!! I had a wicked cold when I had Jack, and just an FYI if your cold is still around when your son arrives, Sudafed can dry up your milk supply. No one told me this until my second day in the hospital and I had been getting sudafed the whole time. Luckily my milk came in just fine, but I hear it can cause some people some problems.
I cant wait to see your little man!!
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Atlanta Star Trek Rediscovery Association
From Fanlore
|Fan Club
|Atlanta Star Trek Rediscovery Association (ASTRA)
|July 1981-?
|Country based in:
|United States
|Star Trek
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Atlanta Star Trek Rediscovery Association was a splinter group of the Atlanta Star Trek Association, and broke off when there was conflict regarding attendance and hijinks regarding a second Emory Trek, something Randall Landers wrote a lengthy personal statement about in Universal Translator #8. This second con was cancelled.
ASTRA is a non-profit discussion-oriented social group dedicated to the exploration of Star Trek, its ideals, its philosophies. Formed in July 1981, it has provided the fandom of the Atlanta metropolitian area with a focus for Star Trek-related activities. We have involved ourselves in several projects in our three year history, including providing programming for the annual Science Fiction Symposium at Emory University, several video festivals, and our own one-day mini-con, Emory Trek. [1]
The club also produced a number of calendars in conjunction with Datazine called The Star Trek Historical Calendar.
- ↑ from the back of the 1984/85 The Star Trek Historical Calendar


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If you happen to be like most people you may be obtaining the urge to adjust issues a bit in your property but have no notion where to begin. In truth, Remodeling Magazine located that the only home improvement that had a 100% return on investment was replacement of a front door with a new steel door. I located the two Euro pillows at Target and knew they would go completely with Caitlin Wolsons gold Flower pillow in the center I employed our old ikea bedside tables which had been also tiny in scale for our new masterbedroom. We'd love to hear from you to. Send us photographs, suggestions, and testimonials of your home improvement adventures. To support you out locate and install the ideal home improvement or the DIY apps for the Android we have written up this post where we just provided the all of the really greatest DIY apps. I specialize in home improvement topics like roofing, landscaping, property painting, bathroom remodeling, plumbing, handyman solutions, air conditioning solutions etc. Don't forget your bay window is front and center in your design and style and likewise so too is your roof skirt.
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Whatever qualms former nominal head of Democratic Kampuchea Khieu Samphan had
about the use of money and the role of banks during the Khmer Rouge's 1975-79
years in power - when currency was outlawed and the National Bank was left in
ruins - his wife So Socheath seems to have put that troubled past behind her and
has now embraced a for-profit, full-service banking future.
Samphan's 54-year-old wife, confirmed to the Post that she is one of around
131,000 borrowers with Cambodia's second largest lender, the ACLEDA Bank
"I borrowed 105,000 Baht from ACLEDA last year," said Socheath, who
lives with her husband and children just outside of Pailin town, "and gave it to
my children for farming."
Socheath said she and her kids grew soybeans
and sesame seeds, and produced about 3 to 4 tons in a year for sale in the
marketplace. She confirmed that she paid back the loan without any
"Because of poverty, otherwise I wouldn't take out a loan," she
said. "This year I stopped farming because of the drought and I also had a back
ACLEDA Bank, for its part, grabbed the limelight on Sept 21
when it was announced that the International Finance Corporation had awarded the
bank its 2005 Client Leadership Award.
"ACLEDA Bank's evolution from a
non-profit institution focusing on rural development to a first-tier commercial
bank serving thousands of entrepreneurs, in both rural and urban areas, is a
role model for any business, not just microfinance institutions," said Assaad
Jabre, IFC's Acting Executive Vice President in a Sept 21 press
"The winner of the IFC Client Leadership Award should be a
company that sets the standard for leadership in corporate governance, community
involvement, environmental and social sustainability, and commercial
success-ACLEDA has truly earned this award," Jabre added.
General Manager In Channy was in an ebullient mood on Sept 21 as he prepared to
head off to Washington, D.C. to accept the award. He told the Post that ACLEDA
was selected this year from among 1,400 nominees worldwide.
particular significance, given Cambodia's recent 30 years of violent conflict
and the resultant mindset in which people do not trust banks, is ACLEDA's
success in expanding the number of savings accounts.
"We have 76,979
small savers now," said Channy, noting that deposits were almost nil in 2001 and
had now reached nearly US$62 million.
ACLEDA Bank was set up in 1993 as
an NGO with support from UNDP and other aid agencies as part of a larger global
developmental trend to support microfinance initiatives designed to help
alleviate poverty. In 1998, with assistance from the IFC's Mekong Private Sector
Development Facility, it transitioned into a full-service private bank.
The bank's current loan portfolio stands at around US$81 million with
women comprising 70 percent of its borrowers. It has 136 offices and branches
around the Kingdom.


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Conceptual Framework
"Learn to learn, learn to teach, teach to learn" encapsulates the goal of our unit, and the meaning of this phrase is spelled out in depth in the Wesley College Teacher Education Unit's Conceptual Framework Document.
The Unit's conceptual framework was originally developed and published in 2002. The document grew out of discussions among Unit faculty. Since 2002 there have been two revisions by succeeding faculty, one in 2007 and most recently in 2011. The major change in the 2011 revision was to include reference to our comprehensive assessment system and its role in monitoring and evaluating the goals and learner outcomes set forth in the framework.
The Teacher Education Unit uses its conceptual framework to guide the design, implementation, and measurement of unit operations and program effectiveness. The framework states the Unit's philosophical beliefs about what it means to learn and to teach, and explains the theoretical tenets on which those beliefs are based.
The InTASC, NBPTS, and State of Delaware Teacher Standards were considered in design of the framework document when it describes how the framework is actualized by the Unit's programs. The framework is reviewed and revised periodically by the Unit faculty to ensure currency with new research that creates theory and informs best practice.
Each of the Unit's programs aligns its programs to the Learner Outcomes of the Conceptual Framework as well as to their particular Specialty Professional Areas (SPA) standards. Those are NASPE/AAPHERD for PE K-12, ACEI and AMLE for ED K-8, InTASC and IL/PB for the MAT, and NBPTS for the M.Ed.
Below is a link to the 2011 Conceptual Framework document. The 2002 and 2007 frameworks are housed in Unit's archived documents, but can be viewed through the hyperlinks provided.


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Thyroid RFA 101: Quality of Life both physically and mentally Improved after RFA Treatment of Large Benign Thyroid Nodules.
We studied the impact of radiofrequency ablation (RFA) on health-related quality of life (HRQL) in patients with benign thyroid nodules (TN) in a 2-year follow-up.
Forty patients (35 women and 5 men; age, 54.9 ± 14.3 years) with cold thyroid solitary nodules or a dominant nodule within a normofunctioning multi-nodular goiter (volume range, 6.5 to 90.0 mL) underwent RFA of thyroid nodular tissue under ultrasound real-time assistance.
Data are mean and standard deviation. Energy delivered was 37,154 ± 18,092 joules, with an output power of 37.4 ± 8.8 watts. Two years after RFA, nodule volume decreased from 30.0 ± 18.2 mL to 7.9 ± 9.8 mL (-80.1 ± 16.1% of initial volume; P<.0001). Thyroid-stimulating hormone, free triiodothyronine, and free thyroxine levels remained stable. Symptom score measured on a 0- to 10-cm visual analogue scale (VAS) declined from 5.6 ± 3.1 cm to 1.9 ± 1.3 cm (P<.0001). Cosmetic score (VAS 0-10 cm) declined from 5.7 ± 3.2 cm to 1.9 ± 1.5 cm (P<.0001). Two patients became anti-thyroglobulin antibody-positive. Physical Component Summary (PCS)-12 improved from 50.4 ± 8.9 to 54.5 ± 5.3, and the Mental Component Summary (MCS)-12 improved from 36.0 ± 13.3 to 50.3 ± 6.3 (P<.0001 for both score changes).
Our 2-year follow-up study confirms that RFA of benign TNs is effective in reducing nodular volume and compressive and cosmetic symptoms, without causing thyroid dysfunction or life-threatening complications. Our data indicate that the achievement of these secondary endpoints is associated with HRQL improvement, measured both as PCS and MCS.
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We all know or think we know something about William Shakespeare: everyone knows the titles of at least a couple of his works, everyone knows some basic biographical facts about him, and everyone knows his portrait which is featured not only on the cover of Burgess' novel but also in probably every single high school textbook of literature.
The main character of Nothing Like the Sun is William Shakespeare, and the novel is about his life and artistic career. Just like a regular biography, the book features such details as Shakespeare's birthplace, the name of his spouse, and the names of the theaters and companies he worked for after moving to London from Stratford-upon-Avon. However, all this is just background, and this novel is about everything which is usually left out from the regular biographies: what was Shakespeare like as a friend, lover, father? What were his passions and how did he live his everyday life? Where did he get the ideas for his plays and sonnets from? Who or what inspired him? What was he like as a person – honest, open, careful, corrupt?
400 years after his death, these questions, of course, cannot be answered with any kind of "scientific" accuracy and authenticity – and Burgess didn't attempt to do this. What he wrote is not a biography proper, but rather an exceedingly clever and entertaining fictive biography in which he doesn't write about the "real" Shakespeare but about the poet as he may-have-been.
The great playwright starts out as a true poet-in-the-making: during his teenage years, he should spend his time learning the basics of his father's trade (glove-making), but his mind is occupied not with gloves and leather, but with puns and as yet immature and clumsy sonnets. And even though the young bard is not at all sure that he has any artistic talent whatsoever, he is definitely sure that he doesn't want to spend his life working as a glover, so when he's presented with the chance to join a playing company, he doesn't think twice before leaving his family for London. After his escape, he spends most of his time in London where a lot of work, a lot of animosity and a lot of success lies a-waiting for him – and this is also where he meets his two muses: the golden man and the dark lady who inspire him to write his sonnets.
Shakespeare, as depicted/imagined by Burgess, is an intriguing and ambiguous character: he is very practical and businesslike, but his mind is just as full of fascinating ideas and free-floating lines of poems as we like to think about great poets; he enjoys the company of his lovers and his life in general, but he cannot for a moment forget the melancholy fact that he's getting older; he seems to neglect his family and hardly ever pays them a visit, but he never forgets to send them enough money for their daily needs. And so on.
Reading about the (fictitious) course of the poet's life is exciting in itself, but Burgess offers other thrills and games as well. For instance, he includes some famous lines from his plays in his conversations with others, or he mentions a seemingly unimportant episode in Shakespeare's life in which you can recognize the basis or a crucial plot element of one of his later works. Just one example: Shakespeare once witnesses an execution which is carried out by the executioner cutting out the convict's heart. And of course you never know how a real life event is actually transformed into the artistic output of a writer (or if it ever gets transformed into art), this episode may easily remind you of The Merchant of Venice, the plot of which, among other things, revolves around cutting out a pound of meat from a man's body, and you may think that Shakespeare must have gotten this element of the play from the execution he saw several years earlier.
And the novel is full of literary games like this, so if you happen to enjoy thinking about topics such as the connections between reality and fiction, and their effects on each other, and if you're prone to look for allusions and half-hidden references even in the most innocent lines of a novel, then you will quite probably enjoy this creative and marvelously witty book.


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The name of the hotel "Change Vacation Hotel" came from a poem of Tao Yuan-Ming, who was a poet in Song Dynasty. «Ah, homeward bound I go! »: "The farmers will come and tell me that spring is here and there will be work to do at the western farm."Tao Yuan-Ming's idyllic life with freedom and no worries is the client's original intention to establish this hotel. The client wants to create an inn where they can talk and drink with the guests from different places.This old and plain courtyard house of Bai nationality, has a very different interior. San Fang Yi Zhaobi, literally meaning three buildings forming a U and a fourth wall as a screen, is a traditional Bai residential structure. The decorations on the screen wall present different feelings with the changes of the weather and light, and they co-exist harmoniously with the old Bai residential courtyard house.
The bamboo outside the courtyard, the grey brick on the ground, the screen wall beside the sky-well and the pool all follow the theme of "quiet, clean and mirror" at the beginning of our design. "Quiet" means to create a quiet environment for all the guests; "Clean" is the pool, to create a feeling of clean and clear; "Mirror" is to reflect all the beautiful things in the water.
Respecting human's behaviors and feelings in the space is also the core of the space design, which is to make the space good and comfortable to use. The simple and clean guestrooms, the tea room of primitive simplicity, Change Vacation Hotel shows a different beauty in this hustle and bustle world everywhere. Here, you can sit in the yard and enjoy the view of Cangshan mountain in a trance.
In the aspect of spatial esthetics, we take culture and art into consideration, and ensure the specific temperament and uniqueness of the space. Dali Change Vacation Hotel mainly use culture to solve the spatial situation. We use a contemporary way to interpret the tradition. For the architecture, we respect the local builder and only comb and reorganize the buildings without any design. For the guestrooms, we use architectural skills to express their relationship with tradition in a contemporary way.
Chief designers: Jiang Xiao-Lin, Wang Dong-Lei, Chen Ma-Gui
Design Company: Co-Direction Interior Design (www.cdd-china.com)
Developer: Change Hotel Management Co., Ltd
Location: Dali, Yunnan Province, China
Area: 2050 ㎡
Main Materials: Timber Veneer, Antique Brass, Granite, Grey Marble, Wooden Floor, Rustic Tile
Completion Time: 2015.12
Photographer: Jing Xu-Feng
姜晓林Jiang Xiao-Lin
Founder and Design Director of Co-Direction Interior Design
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Today, the U.S. Supreme Court concluded that if police attach a Global Positioning System tracking device to a car, the Fourth Amendment requires that they get a warrant to do so. The decision, United States v. Jones, protects privacy rights against one intrusive way the police use GPS technology and answers a question the Wisconsin Supreme Court sidestepped in State v. Sveum in 2010.
"Police should have probable cause that a crime has been or is likely to be committed before using GPS tracking technology," said ACLU of Wisconsin Executive Director Chris Ahmuty. "The ACLU of Wisconsin agrees that without a judge's agreement, police use of warrantless GPS tracking would be a violation of our Fourth Amendment rights. The details of our private lives are revealed by our movements. Allowing police the power to obtain information on the location of anyone's car and movements, for any reason or for no reason at all, without a valid warrant, is unconstitutional."
In February 2010, the ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a friend-of-the-court brief (PDF) with the Wisconsin Supreme Court in State of Wisconsin v. Sveum, urging the Court to hold that attaching a GPS device was a "search or seizure" requiring a warrant under the Wisconsin constitution as well as the Fourth Amendment. The brief warned that approving warrantless GPS could allow police to engage in fishing expeditions to obtain a detailed picture of someone's personal associations by identifying the churches, bars, protests or doctor's offices a person visited.
In its decision in July 2010, the Wisconsin Supreme Court sidestepped the question of whether there are any constitutional limits on police use of global positioning system devices to track people in their cars. Instead, the state's high court decided that a court order obtained by the police satisfied the warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendment.
Today's unanimous decision by the U.S. Supreme Court emphatically answers the question the Wisconsin courts left open: the Fourth Amendment protects privacy against intrusive GPS tracking.


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Veteran poet Penelope Schott's latest offering, How I Became an Historian, traces a spiral from innocence into an abusive marriage, and out again into wisdom and forgiveness. Three slug poems serve as markers on this switchback trail. In "Pestering the Slug," the first poem of the book, she recounts something almost all of us remember: the small child's delight in harassing bugs. "I briefly understood / the unblameable charm of evil," she writes.
That evil coalesces but also turns to remorse in "Glory is Reached by Many Routes," when the speaker spends "a whole morning trying / to press a brown slug through a wire sieve / and all afternoon apologizing to the slug." That remorse turns to redemption in "Keeper." Here, the speaker keeps the slug for a week, feeding it
Continue reading "How I Became an Historian: Review and Interview with Poet Penelope Schott"


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2018's a big year for Milestone and their licensed MotoGP series. They started to switch over to Unreal Engine 4 for all their racing games last year, but they decided to take the time to effectively reboot the series as they jumped to the new game engine.
The latest video invites you behind the scenes to see how they're working to make this the best and most realistic MotoGP game, like, ever.
MotoGP 18 is coming to PS4, Xbox One and PC on 7th June, with a Switch version of the game due out later in the summer.
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We are extremely happy to officially announce that you that we have once again started our yearly scholarship program to assist deserving students with financial aid.
Our scholarship is called Annual Nail Fungus Treatment (NFT) Financial Aid Scholarship and we will hand over the scholarship amount of $2000 to the winner once the results are out. Our website aims at spreading general awareness about nail fungus and various treatments like ZetaClear.
Please read all the rules and terms on this page carefully.
We firmly believe that every student must get the best education, free from any financial burden. Often it gets very difficult for students and their parents to spend so much on education. Our team wants to help such students who are in need of financial aid. Thus this scholarship program was started.
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Here's me, and what I saw, when I finished the Worldwide WP 5k 2013:
Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis, MN, is where I ran to participate. Thanks to Automattic for a great idea to promote fitness among bloggers. The featured image (Lake Nokomis at Dusk) shows the lake during sunset. It was taken within 50 feet of where I finished my run.
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Winners of the 2011 Darlington County Arts Awards were announced at an event sponsored by Black Creek Arts Council of Darlington County. Here are the results.
The Patz Fowle Arts in Education award was given to art educator Margret Carroll. This award is presented annually to a professional arts educator who demonstrates a devotion to educating young people in and through the Arts. Arts educators in all arts disciplines are considered in public and private schools.
The Rolfe Godshalk Arts in Business Award was given to Jessie Smith. This award is presented annually to the business owner(s) who promotes and or incorporates the arts through or into their business. Only for-profit entities are eligible.
The Willard Jacobs Award for Volunteerism was given to Anna Hill. This award is presented annually to an individual who has a significant impact in our community through volunteering with an arts agency (or arts-producing organization).
Darlington County's Rising Young Artist Award was given to Dustin Moree. This award is presented annually to a young artist who demonstrates extraordinary potential and is an active participate in the arts community. Artists under the age of 22 are eligible.
The McCall-Wiggins Award for Community Support was given to Clayton Richardson. This award is presented annually by the Board of Directors of Black Creek Arts Council to an individual that demonstrates an extraordinary level of support for the arts agencies in our community. Support can be interpreted as volunteering, financial contributions and attendance at events. Nominations will come from the community.
Visual Artist of the Year Award was given to Mary Ellen Johnson. This award is presented to an outstanding visual artist from Darlington County. Artists working in any media are eligible. Awarding criteria can be for accomplishments within the previous calendar year or for lifetime achievement.
Performing Artist of the Year Award was given to Al Haynes. This award is presented to an outstanding performing artist from Darlington County. Awarding criteria can be for accomplishments within the previous calendar year or for lifetime achievement.
The Frankie Bush Arts Leadership Award was given to Judi Elvington. This award is presented to an individual who shows exemplary leadership within the arts community. Employees and volunteers of arts agencies are eligible for this award.
The Joan S. Coker Award was given to Judy Haenni.
The mission of Black Creek Arts Council is to promote and foster the Arts in Darlington County.
Black Creek Arts Council (BCAC) is dedicated to providing guidance and assistance in arts administration, funding, education, and program coordination to arts-based organizations and artists in Darlington County.
BCAC offices are housed in the Black Creek Arts Center, located at 116 West College Avenue in Hartsville. The Council offers a variety of arts classes and produces numerous arts-based events and festivals.
For further info visit (www.blackcreekarts.org).


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Determine Requirements
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Hey guys! As you've noticed, I've been gone a little over a year. I just couldn't keep up with the unrealistic expectations I had set for myself and the image of my blog. So, let's get into the NEW AND IMPROVED thesouthernsmiths!
We're going to get real this year. I'm going to share everything this time. The ups, the downs, the awesome and the not-so-awesome. So, what's in store this time?
Real world family updates. Poop on the walls? Accidentally slept in and the kids went wild in the house? 30-minute speed cleaning when your husband's on the way home and you honestly did NOTHING all day? Screaming at the family to get dressed on Sunday mornings? Yeah. I'm not perfect. Neither are you!
Holiday posts, and LOTS of them! I've already got one planned for an AMAZING night we had this past weekend that was everything fall is supposed to be (in my humble opinion). I'll share tips on planning for Thanksgiving, Friendsgiving, and mommy group potlucks! We'll share our present buying struggles and ideas, as well as the hustle and bustle of Christmas at 8 months pregnant (oh, joy!).
Home management tips! I'll be sharing my favorite apps for meal planning, keeping everyone's schedules together, facebook events (and who to send "real" invites to)! I'll share cleaning schedules, easy weeknight recipes (and of course, my meal planning rotation board). Ways to keep carpets clean with two (soon to be three) extremely excitable children, cheap seasonal decorating ideas, it's ALL coming.
And of course, we'll get open and honest about mental health advocacy. I'll share tips on finding low-income resources for mental health care, including finding coupons for medication without insurance, and cheap therapy options in your area. Mental health is so, so ridiculously important. Especially for mothers, with postpartum hormones, learning to take care of a new life, and managing a home (especially if you also work!).
I'm so, so excited to be back with you guys and to finally be -real-.
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So this conversation took place early yesterday morning, and I thought it had some very good questions and thoughts brought up. All tweets are between myself and @H2Ohexagon
Oh… and I don't think family members of mine who are Christians are going to be the most happy to read some of it… but I'm posting it anyway, because the majority of it has less to do with religion, and all of it is interesting!
# 03:04 Do you believe that every single ice crystal is designed with a purpose? Is there a built in mechanism in water? Or innate spirit? (posted by @H2Ohexagon)
# 03:05 @H2Ohexagon That's an excellent question. I wonder if it's a combination of all three! #
# 03:25 @autoimmunelife Do you belive that we are also created/beeing created/are creating ourselves? How does it make you feel about lupus?
# 03:26 @H2Ohexagon That one is going to take some thought, and probably several twitters lol #
# 03:27 @H2Ohexagon Hmm…. I think Earth was created, but whatever entity it was then became uninvolved… I also think we become who we are #
# 03:27 @H2Ohexagon Through a means of self creation… if that makes sense… like physically we were created, but after that we become who we are #
# 03:28 @H2Ohexagon Through our actions and choices, and the actions and choices of others that affect us…. so in that way we create ourselves #
# 03:28 @autoimmunelife Do you think we can heal ourselves from lupus? I have meet a few who believe this. I don't know if my faith is that strong!
# 03:28 @H2Ohexagon as far as the lupus…. I'm really not sure at all how it relates to the rest of that…. it's something I havent thought about #
# 03:29 @H2Ohexagon I just know I'm angry and upset about the lupus, even as I accept that I have it, I don't accept it… not sure how to explain.. #
# 03:29 @H2Ohexagon I think that there are actions we can take that can help heal us from lupus… but having so many AI diseases, I'm not sure… #
# 03:30 @H2Ohexagon how we would go about actually healing ourselves with these illnesses. it's our bodies rebelling against us. fighting themselves #
# 03:31 @autoimmunelife Yes, I know. They say we go through stages of sorrow, over and over again. It's impossible to accept, on some levels.
# 03:32 @H2Ohexagon Yes…. And my lupus diagnosis was less than six months ago… so I'm still having all sorts of emotions #
# 03:33 @H2Ohexagon My endo I do a lot better with, though it's getting so much worse that I'm yet again going through a grieving process #
# 03:34 @autoimmunelife I was born with it, as we (lupies) all are, it is a part of who I am like my eye colour But it's my own body killing itself!
# 03:36 @H2Ohexagon That's an excellent way to put it!! It's just hard to accept that my body is killing itself… I was born with endo too… #
# 03:36 @H2Ohexagon But didn't have issues til I was 14 (period start) and wasn't diagnosed til 20, Lupus started getting severe last year… #
# 03:36 @autoimmunelife Those who say we can heal ourselves, say that the most important thing is to clear ourelves from fear and bitterness. 😦
# 03:37 @H2Ohexagon It hadn't ever interfered with my life before, and I didn't have enough symptoms for a dx. #
# 03:37 @H2Ohexagon Not sure I can disagree with them there… bitterness, fear, anger… they all seem to be poisons… #
# 03:37 @autoimmunelife But I'm angry and upset like you are, I don't want to die, I don't want to take the meds, I don't want to stay in the shade.
# 03:39 @H2Ohexagon I'm sick of my finger joints swelling, I'm sick of having difficulty walking, I'm sick of wondering if my high bp is lupus #
# 03:39 @H2Ohexagon And I'm sick of meds that only help certain issues (I can go in the sun if I take my Plaquenil, and my mouth sores are gone) #
# 03:39 @H2Ohexagon I was told that the Plaq would be a big help since I have "minor" lupus (no organ involvement) but it hasn't helped the things #
# 03:40 @H2Ohexagon that are the hardest for me to deal with. I sunburn easy, so the photosensitivity isn't quite as much of a deal for me #
# 03:41 @H2Ohexagon Having to have my husband help me dress, tie my shoes, brush my hair or give me a shower though…. that upsets me! #
# 03:44 @autoimmunelife It upsets me too, to hurt the nes around me. My sister worries that her children might have it too and she gets afraid, sad.
# 03:45 @H2Ohexagon I feel for your sister – one of my biggest fears if I can become a mom is passing it on! #
# 03:46 @H2Ohexagon But it's hard because you don't want to weigh them down, even though you want to be honest #
# 03:46 @H2Ohexagon that's my experience at least #
# 03:47 @autoimmunelife I would hate to to pass it on to children. What shall we do, screen the babies and have abortions if they are girls? Horrid!
# 03:51 @H2Ohexagon But even boys can get it… and then there are the other complications that can happen (neonatal lupus)… #
# 03:51 @H2Ohexagon And I know for fact that my endometriosis is genetic… so I fear passing that on to a girl #
(at this point she announced that she was taking off for awhile… though the tweet is missing for some reason…)
# 03:51 @H2Ohexagon Take care, have fun, thanks for the interesting conversation, and letting me whine/vent a bit #


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The Obama administration released final rules Tuesday involving the controversial so-called individual mandate that requires most individuals to carry health insurance starting in 2014 or pay fines.
The rules from the Treasury Department codify the amount of penalties called for under the 2010 Affordable Care Act as well who might be exempt from the penalties.
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ISLAMABAD - Apparently looking perturbed over a discussion on social media regarding his personal life, PTI Chairman Imran Khan Saturday asked the masses to boycott Geo TV, saying the media group was shaping the national narrative on foreign agendas at the cost of national interests after getting money from foreign sources.
The PTI chief also alleged that the incumbent government had nexus with the media group owned by Mir Shakeelur Rehman as the former was reluctant to take action against the latter and bring it in the ambit of law. "Geo TV has become media cell of the government," he added.
Addressing a press conference here at Bani Gala, the chief of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf demanded of the government to launch a probe into the financial sources of the media group, financial irregularities of the group and its rescheduled loans as well as assets and bank accounts of the owner of the group. He said it was necessary to ascertain the facts. He demanded that there should be a detailed audit of the foreign funding of the group.
"The assets of Shakeel and his bank accounts should be inquired through an independent commission," he demanded. He also said that Geo TV should publicly apologise to the nation for taking funding from abroad for shaping national narrative and to him for running a character assassination campaign against him on social media. He said that the media group should be brought within the norms and cultural values, as the Geo TV was airing objectionable programme and it should apologise to the nation.
Earlier, the core committee meeting of the party was held at Bani Gala under the chair of Khan that mainly discussed a number of issues related to the Geo TV.
"While living in a residence amounting to Rs 5 billion in Dubai and driving vehicles having cost of millions, he (Mir Shakeel) affects the top level decisions of the country," Khan said, adding that Shakeel was running a foundation to get money from abroad to finance the Geo TV.
Alleging that Shakeel was getting foreign funding to run Geo and showing documents in this regard, he said the group took 6.9 million pounds from DFID, took money from US State Department as well as Voice of America and for Aman Ki Asha programme. "This money was got during the war on terror...which country permits to set agenda on foreign money," he asked. He said one hand, the media group is asking for peace but on the western borders, the same group is asking for war. "When I talk about peace, I am being branded as Taliban Khan. You after taking money from abroad say this is our war while the people are dying and this is a conspiracy," he said.
Khan said Shakeel was defending his financial interests through his media group and was defaulter of National Bank of Pakistan as well as Sindh Revenue Board. "The media group owes Rs 180 million to NBP in 2010, the loan was rescheduled and then it was never paid," he informed. He said no one could face the opposition of the group and the government also gave in before it. The media group is also defaulter of PEMRA, he added. Khan said that the government removed former PEMRA chairman Chaudhry Rasheed Ahmed under the pressure of the Geo as the chairman had written to the Senate committee that the group had to pay around Rs 4 billion outstanding dues of PEMRA. Rasheed also denied fifth TV licence to the group.
He went on to disclose that the government had recently waived off Rs 20 million fine on TV anchor Najam Sethi that he had to pay for not showing the details of a flat in New York in his assets. "This means government and Geo had nexus," he said.
He stressed that an eight-hour campaign against ISI chief was run on Geo TV on the orders of Shakeel and he did this on someone else's agenda. "On one hand the ministry of defence filed the petition against Geo TV, and on the other information ministry came to rescue it," he said. "Shakeel sent me a legal notice when I said that PCB (Pakistan Cricket Board) chairman was the employee of Geo and he gave rights to the media group. Mir Shakeel understands that no one can challenge him," he said, adding that he being public representative had the right to question anyone.


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"The CITIZEN KANE of Alcoholic Clown movies" was the critical comment used as a tagline for SHAKES THE CLOWN, a bizarre comedy that stretches its central gimmick thinner than watered-down carnival taffy. Set in a mythical "Palookaville," no-class metropolis and lard capital of the US, the film proposes that professional clowns, despite their cheery exteriors,...read more
"The CITIZEN KANE of Alcoholic Clown movies" was the critical comment used as a tagline for SHAKES THE CLOWN, a bizarre comedy that stretches its central gimmick thinner than watered-down carnival taffy.
Set in a mythical "Palookaville," no-class metropolis and lard capital of the US, the film proposes that professional clowns, despite their cheery exteriors, have a darker side in the form of a boozing, brawling subculture--like truckers, cowboys or sailors. Here clowns pal around with their own
kind, drinking to excess in clown bars, swapping profane clown shop talk and beating up mimes, every clown's natural enemies. It's a cute idea, definitely worth a short subject or series of TV sketches, but here bloated into a feature-length vehicle for writer-director-star Bob "Bobcat"
Goldthwait, whose distinctive grungy persona previously graced a couple of POLICE ACADEMY sequels and bombs like BURGLAR and HOT TO TROT.
At least here Goldthwait has a role suited to his dissipated manner with Shakes, a besotted slob of a clown who staggers from one kiddie-birthday-party engagement to another. His speech-impeded bowling-champ girlfriend Judy (Julie Brown) can't make him face the fact that he's an "awcohowic," and
Shakes soon wrecks a house on a drunken binge. Fired from the clown booking agency, he drinks himself into a stupor, and is framed for homicide by a successful but untalented TV clown named Binky (Tom Kenny), a cocaine-crazed psycho who's just bludgeoned Shakes's ex-boss to death with a juggling
pin. What passes for a plot deals with Shakes's attempt to clear his name and save Judy, kidnapped by the sinister Binky after the murderer simply blurts out his guilt to her in a scene that proves Goldthwait should have enlisted a good co-writer to help him over the rough spots.
The better parts of SHAKES THE CLOWN are the ambience moments in Shake's favorite tavern, the Twisted Balloon, where Palukaville's clown community gathers to get plastered, their circled eyes bleary and sullen, cigarettes drooping from greasepaint smiles on their lips as they snarl insults and
four-letter words back and forth. There's novelty in hostile clown rummies who swear and perform unwholesome bodily functions, but in the course of the uneventful storyline, the joke gets very old, very fast.
Shakes isn't a very likable hero at all; he's drunk all the time, cheats on his girlfriend (debauching TV sitcom mom Florence Henderson for openers), and even Judy admits that he's no good in bed. Shakes's one reedeeming feature is that, when halfway sober he's a skilled party clown (and here
Goldthwait goes through superhuman feats of gymnastics with the help of pathetically obvious stunt doubles). Shakes ultimately joins Alcoholics Anonymous, attending their meeting in full circus regalia. But nobody will see SHAKES THE CLOWN as a powerful plea for sobriety.
Shakes comes equipped with a couple of sidekicks (Adam Sandler and Blake Clark in the thankless supporting parts of Dink and Stenchy) who drink just as much as he does but "can hold their liquor," and guzzle beer as the trio speeds through Palukaville and outmaneuvers a pair of bonehead comedy
cops (Jeremy S. Kramer and Jack Gallagher in the really thankless supporting parts of Boar and Crony). Tom Kenny scores a minor thespian coup as the deranged, Vegas-style Binky, doing an amusing job with the concept of a neurotic joker who's incapable of being intentionally funny. The same cannot
be said of comic-turned-superstar Robin Williams (he's listed in the credits as Marty Fromage), who doesn't generate a single laugh from his cameo as a mime instructor. Way down in the cast among the veteran stand-ups one finds Bruce Baum as a villainous rodeo clown. Baum has made numerous
hysterical short films for TV, and he probably could have done well with his subject matter in a fraction of the running time.
Forced to come up with a raison d'etre for SHAKES THE CLOWN, Goldthwaite told the Los Angeles Times that it was an allegory of the dog-eat-dog world of stand-up comedy, and that the mime-bashing parodied homophobia. After some experience writing, producing and directing short films, he penned the
film's screenplay--expanding from a stage comedy skit--and shopped it around for years, encountered rejection and revulsion at every studio until he took it to I.R.S. Media, an outfit with a record of financing outre material. With his wife Ann Luly credited as producer, Goldthwait said the budget
"cost about eight minutes of WAYNE'S WORLD."
Despite a certain cult notoriety that sprang up immediately around its subversive premise, SHAKES THE CLOWN did poor business, and only played major cities before going to home video later in the year. (Excessive profanity, excessive substance abuse, sexual situations, adult situations.)
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