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Canada Expresses Serious Concerns over Iran's Membership on the UN Commission on the Status of Women
(No. 149 - May 1, 2010 - 3:50 p.m. ET) The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today expressed serious concerns over Iran's election to the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) at the United Nations Economic and Social Council:
"It is the Government of Canada's understanding that Iran was acclaimed as a member of the UN Commission on the Status of Women as part of an uncontested slate endorsed by the Asian regional group, of which Canada is not a member.
"We deplore this development but will use Iran's membership on this body to take the Iranian authorities to task for their systemic human rights violations. We have done so in the United Nations General Assembly. We have done so in the United Nations Human Rights Council, and at every opportunity will continue to do so publicly. The Iranian people deserve to live in dignity and free from persecution.
"The Government of Canada will always strive to promote the values of freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law. Canada expects all the people of Iran to be able to enjoy the rights and freedoms to which all people are entitled. Iran's actions are an affront to the domestic and international human rights obligations all nations must respect.
"Canada remains extremely troubled by the human rights situation in Iran, including the rights of women, and will persist in urging the Government of Iran to improve its human rights record."
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Bed bugs are one of the most difficult to get rid off.
I have encountered them and it's awful
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Bedbugs are a growing public health issue in the United States and around the world, but their resurgence in recent years may have been aided by humans who unwittingly helped the pests evolve numerous ways of thwarting a common insecticide, scientists say.
In a new study published online today in Scientific Reports, researchers examined the genes of bedbugs from different U.S. cities and found that several of the populations had multiple means of resisting a class of insecticides called pyrethroids.
Pyrethroid insecticides are commonly used in bedbug control because of their relative safety for humans and pets, effectiveness, and low cost, but their use has also led to widespread development of resistance in the pests. (Learn about bedbugs and how to tell if you have them.)
To investigate how some bedbugs were defending themselves, scientists compared the genes of 20 pyrethroid-resistant populations of the insects from around the country against a susceptible colony from Los Angeles, California.
The team identified 14 genes that coded for proteins that were expressed at higher levels in the resistant insects, compared with the nonresistant Los Angeles population.
Insecticide Armor
Further investigation revealed that all of these "overexpressed" genes were active in the tough outer shell of resistant bedbugs, and either helped neutralize pyrethroid insecticides before they could take effect or prevented them from entering the insects' bodies in the first place.
"Many mechanisms of resistance seem to be in play in these various populations simultaneously," said study co-author Kenneth Haynes, an entomologist at the University of Kentucky.
The study also revealed that despite sometimes being separated by hundreds of miles, resistant bedbug colonies utilized many of the same genes to protect themselves against pyrethroid insecticides.
Bedbugs by themselves aren't very mobile, but Haynes suspects the bugs are catching rides with humans—or rather, their furniture.
"The transcontinental transport of furniture is likely a major source of [bedbug] movement," he said.
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Human involvement would also explain another puzzling pattern, recently discovered by scientists at North Carolina State University, in which bedbugs from different cities were sometimes more closely related to one another than to other populations from the same city.
"We see isolated pockets where bedbugs across town may not be closely related to each other, but populations in [North Carolina] might be closely related to one out of Michigan," Haynes said, indicating that the bedbugs hitched a ride with a human moving to another part of the country.
Haynes cautioned that his idea is "highly speculative" and still unproven, but entomologist Zachary Adelman of Virginia Tech said the hypothesis makes sense.
"If local populations evolved their own [insecticide resistance] strategy and then mixed [with other populations], the result would be quite similar to what we see now," said Adelman, who was not involved in the study.
An intriguing question raised by the new findings, researchers say, is just when did bedbugs evolve their resistance?
"[Was it] in the past ten years? The past 50? Or are we looking at the past several hundred years or more?" Adelman said.
Figuring out the resistance time line, Adelman added, could provide insights about how fast evolution is working in bedbugs and could have implications for the future of bedbug control.
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Changlu Wang, an entomologist at Rutgers University in New Jersey, said the new findings are already providing valuable clues about how to better handle bedbugs.
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Study co-author Haynes said the findings also suggested that rotating different insecticides or targeting specific bedbug populations with a more "prescription-like" use of insecticides could be effective.
Bed bugs are one of the most difficult to get rid off.
I have encountered them and it's awful
Don't want bedbugs? Simple - don't use pesticides. Centipedes will then live, and will eat them.
When pesticides are used, the prey species (cockroaches, bedbugs, etc.) absorb the pesticide and become toxic to their predators (centipedes, spiders, etc). A population boom in the prey species results. So, DON'T USE PESTICIDES.
PS. Centipedes are secretive by nature, so if you see one, that means you have a nice protecting population of them. It doesn't matter if you squish the ones you see.
The genes ofpyrethroid-resistant could have already existed in bedburgs, they just have been selected by incicticide. So,creatures have their own ways to survive, we can never kill all of them. All we could do is to control the amount of them in a low level, which can not harm the human.
@Craig Dillon That is just about the stupidest thing I have ever heard. After 30 years in the Pest control Industry I have never seen a centipede in a bed feeding on bed bugs. If not for pesticides we would be over run by many many pests and disease would run havoc. Hugging trees and eating nuts and berries is just fine. But please become just a little bit informed before offering an opinion.
@PU Annie Peking University? cool~~
@PU Annie NONSENSE!!.Some, like roaches and flies, are completely detrimental to human beings and have no any positive impacts 4 us. their food lines are so simple. so we should eliminate them, which will do no harm to nature.Dispite of the fact that eradicating them is quite impossible, we need to have a go!@! And the so called natural selection and survial of the fittest are just some kinds of kidding. Like the old saying:an ounce prevention is worth a pound of cure.
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Indsendt af Aputsiaq Mette kl.15.06 19:49
4 comments:
- Naomi said...
thanks for the link, I'm a HUGE fan of your blog!
--fullbloom on tumblr
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- Aputsiaq said...
Hi Naomi!! WELCOME...I just felt like reblogging every images on tumblr...it is so beautiful!!
And I'm so happy you like my blog :O)
- August 30, 2010
- Marcus said...
Been a little paradise, images are truly idyllic. Make us more hope in life, and in men on the planet, commune with him. Beautiful.
- August 31, 2010
- Aputsiaq said...
Marcus, I felt like blogging ALL the paintings of Holly Sears I could find...but I thought I've better stop. But she really made some wonderful art!
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Lost Mobisode 13 - So It Begins
If you are a Lost fan you have to see this.
Holy Freaking Crap
Lost - Ep #322 - Through The Looking Glass
In honor of Season 4 of Lost starting Thursday, here's my looooong delayed write-up/analysis/link-fest.
Mon-Jan 28 2008
About Time
Thu-Jan 24 2008
Lying Liars
" President George W. Bush and seven of his administration's top officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, made at least 935 false statements in the two years following September 11, 2001, about the national security threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Nearly five years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, an exhaustive examination of the record shows that the statements were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses.The War Card: Orchestrated Deception on the Path to War.
Via Daily Kos
Tue-Jan 22 2008
" "Globally, it's clear we are eroding soils at a rate much faster than they can form," said John Reganold, a soils scientist at Washington State University. "It's hard to get people to pay much attention to this because, frankly, most of us take soil for granted."The lowdown on dirt: It's disappearing
Sun-Jan 20 2008
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It's a massive time-suck, in a good way.
Via Barbelith Underground Bleach Thread
Sat-Jan 19 2008
It's Called Denial
" But here's what I found really interesting about the Huckabee supporters I met in South Carolina: Over and over again Huckabee supporters told me-on the record, cameras rolling-that they supported Huckabee because they wanted to see "a good, Christian man in the White House. Because... uh... just look at the pickle all those Buddhists, Atheists, agnostics, Sikhs, and Zoroastrians presidents have gotten us into.
This, Dan, Is What We Call the "Bible." But you can call it the "U.S. Constitution."Is it just me, or is anyone else mildly amazed that the anyone is still running for office as a Republican? They've got no answer for "Hey, aren't you the guys who gave us George Bush?".
Craftster Best of 2007 includes "My Cat's Evil Pope Costume".
Via Neatorama
Thu-Jan 17 2008
Huckabee = Radical Cleric
"I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution. But I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God. And that's what we need to do is amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than trying to change God's standards so it lines up with some contemporary view of how we treat each other and how we treat the family."
Good luck with that rewrite, Huckster. You'll notice that not even Cheney has tried to go that far. He just ignores it.
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i recently started incorporating "lunch". i usually try to do finger foods at this time since honsetly that is when i have more time to do it.
twice now, she has woken up with a huge poop in her diaper when i go to change her in the morning. then last night, she woke up crying at 4am & i changed her & there was a huge poop. before i incorporated lunch, this NEVER happened. she would only poop in the morning. this really upsets me bc i don't want to wake her up & i don't know how long she has been sitting in it.
ugh, i hope her body eventually adjusts b/c i know i can't cut out lunch. =(
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DS has been pooping in the middle of the night for the past few weeks. I hate it because I don't know when it's happening. He wakes up happy, and no diaper rash yet. I don't want to wake him up in the middle of the night just to check his diaper...
I hope he gets on a new schedule soon!
catlackey:I totally understand your vent!! My DD wakes up anywhere between 4-5am with a huge poop. She has the hardest time getting back to sleep after this.
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As Florida's "ballot malfunction" in the 2000 presidential election showed, the smallest actions can have profound consequences. In the new book Then Everything Changed—Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics, veteran politics and culture reporter Jeff Greenfield examines the tiny shifts in events that could have led to John F. Kennedy's death even before his inauguration, to Robert Kennedy avoiding assassination, and to Gerald Ford defeating Jimmy Carter in the 1976 presidential election. From each of these imagined situations, he goes on to weave dramatic narratives that examine how these tiny shifts could have led to an enormously changed American history.
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NOT SO MUCH• Limited legroom for taller riders• Smallish fuel tank
OVERVIEWWith its own unique, Italian take on the naked musclebike theme, Moto Guzzi's Griso 1200 8V comes bristling with attitude and Latin machismo. A stablemate for the bikini-faired 1200 Sport, the Griso is simply naked aggression from every angle, but it packs a performance punch to match the bad boy image.
First released in an eight-valve format towards the end of 2007, the Griso was the first of the new breed of Guzzis to sport the 1151cc, four-valve-per-cylinder V-twin – the unit replacing the older 1064cc two-valves-per-cylinder unit. While not boasting anywhere near the performance stats of the current crop of rev-hungry, in-line four-cylinder sports fare, and even appreciably off the outputs of performance V-twins, the up-spec engine promises much for lovers of sporting Guzzi roadsters.
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The engine gets its power down via a hydraulic clutch, six-speed gearbox and shaft final drive, while the fuelling is handled by a Weber/Magneti Marelli electronic fuel injection system equipped with two 50mm throttle bodies.
Above the classic single round headlight you'll find the Griso's minimalist instrumentation. Here a black-faced analogue tacho sits alongside a digital display showing speed, time, ambient temperature, odometer and one of either two tripmeters or battery output. Smoke-lens indicators and an LED taillight round out the Griso's lighting package.
Available in either black or white, the Griso rolls on black three-spoke Marchesini alloy rims fitted with Battlax BT015 tyres, and comes with a range of optional factory accessories, the latter including various carbon fibre parts (front guard, exhaust heat shield, dash cover and starter cover), luggage (soft panniers, tailbag and small/large tankbags), alarm, luggage rack, touring screen, fly screen, bike cover, performance Termignoni exhaust and bike stand. The Griso 1200 8V retails for $23,990 plus ORC.
ON THE ROADEven from a distance, Moto Guzzi's Griso seethes with angry, anti-social intent. The black bodywork (what little there is), combined with the black fork sliders, Marchesini rims and blacked-out engine and shaft drive, all add up to a thoroughly thug-like brute of a motorcycle, and the decent running gear hints at the nirvana of tyre-torturing paradise. Thrown into the mix on our test bike was Moto Guzzi's performance Griso exhaust, made by Termignoni and said to boost performance, while offering a 40 per cent weight saving. This was going to be fun…
Five minutes after slinging a leg over and stabbing the starter, I was hurtling up Victoria's Black Spur – a sinewy thread of tarmac that twists and turns in a serpentine manner up into the Yarra Ranges, around 70km to Melbourne's east. It was mid winter, but today we were in luck – no moss, no traffic, and a dry surface. On a press day organised by Moto Guzzi importer John Sample Automotive for Melbourne-based bike hacks, I'd been having a ball for hours already – but now I was revelling in what was, for me at least, the run's highlight.
Having just hopped off the marque's sizeable and thoroughly competent adventure tourer, the Stelvio, the Griso appeared quite compact. This was backed up by actually hopping on the thing, and finding it to have limited leg room (well, at least limited for my lanky 6ft 2in self) and an aggressive, let's-not-muck-around forward stance. Fanging up Black Spur, I was throwing the Griso around with the enthusiasm of one of the World Wrestling Federation's finest, and climbing around the bike like a kid on a jungle gym.
Surprisingly, however, a later check of the bike's specs revealed a couple of surprises. Firstly, at a claimed 222kg (dry), the Griso is actually 8kg heavier than the Stelvio. Secondly, its wheelbase is longer too – 1554mm versus the Stelvio's 1475mm – so it really goes to show how your approach to riding a certain bike can be influenced by its appearance.
In any case, as the road snaked its way through the mountains, it was all I could do to keep my grin in my helmet, because even though the Griso's new eight-valve V-twin doesn't exactly redefine the word 'performance', the way it kicks out its power is eminently enjoyable, and this is allied to a decent frame and suspension package that allows you to make the most of what it's got.
This isn't a lightweight machine, but it'll still carve up a winding road in fine style, with a chunky midrange that, once past 6000rpm, bleeds into a towering top end of fun that doesn't let up until you've smacked into its rev limiter, a little past an indicated 8000rpm.
The fully adjustable suspension comes to the party too, doing a good job of handling the bumps, while its steering geometry seemed to me to afford the perfect blend of stability and agility. Wide 'bars allow you to effectively push it around with gusto, and excellent ground clearance should see you using all the rear tyre's width before anything starts touching down.
However, while it can be all fire and brimstone when you're up it for the rent, the Griso also has a softer side. The engine vibes are really quite muted – certainly it was less vibey than on the Stelvio – and in top of its six-speed gearbox at 100km/h it's only pulling a lazy 3500rpm. You can save that top gear for Germany's autobahns, because – track days aside – there won't be too many times when you'll be calling upon it here in Oz. Speaking of gears, I found the gearbox to be slick and responsive – and, oddly, more so than the 'box on the Stelvio I'd just hopped off.
The ample midrange torque makes real world riding a delight, and all the charm that the Guzzi faithful get all misty-eyed about is here in this engine in abundance. The power is up 5hp compared to the retuned Stelvio, and I've no doubt that hot pipe was helping things too, but it's still incredibly easy to punt the Griso along at a sedate old pace, effectively taking it from sportsbike to cruiser in the blink of an eye.
The brakes, too, while looking all the world like razor-sharp sportsbike anchors, are a surprise package. There's good power, progression and feel here, but not much in the way of initial bite, if anything. Like on the Stelvio, I'd be playing around with pad compounds if sportier riding was going to regularly feature on the agenda.
At $23,990 plus ORC, the Griso won't be found in the bargain bin at your local Guzzi dealer – but with a classy finish, high-spec gear and such thoroughly enjoyable performance, nor should it be. This is a lot of motorcycle, and in true Guzzi style it's yet another case of a bike that's somehow more than the sum of its parts. If you're a Guzzi disciple, you'll love the Griso. If you're not, you're almost guaranteed to love it anyway.
SPECS: Moto Guzzi Griso
ENGINEType: 1151cc, air/oil-cooled, eight-valve, OHC, four-stroke, transverse 90-degree V-twinBore x stroke: 95mm x 81.2mmCompression ratio: 11.0:1Fuel system: Weber Marelli electronic fuel injection
TRANSMISSIONType: Six-speedFinal drive: Shaft
CHASSIS AND RUNNING GEARFrame type: Tubular steel twin cradleFront suspension: Upside-down 43mm telescopic fork, fully adjustableRear suspension: Monoshock, fully adjustableFront brakes: Twin 320mm wave discs with four-piston, radial-mount Brembo calipersRear brakes: Single 282mm disc with twin-piston Brembo caliper
DIMENSIONS AND CAPACITIESDry weight: 222kgSeat height: 800mmWheelbase: 1554mmFuel capacity: 16.7lt
PERFORMANCEMax. power: 110hp at 7500rpmMax. torque: 108Nm at 6400rpm
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My Patricia Velásquez 'season' is over for the moment. I was waiting for a film to arrive and it didn't. Then my time got sucked up and here we are. I will endeavour to watch more of her films and review them in the coming month but I also want to review other non-Patricia films as a break. Anyway, on to the mini-reviews.
First on the list, and first film I watched, is:
Night at the Museum [2006]
A fantastically entertaining little movie. I went into this not really expecting to like it. I don't particularly like Ben Stiller's style of comedy. It's OK in small doses but for an entire film it becomes grating. Here, however, it is not a problem and the few outbreaks of his annoying sarky retorts are quite funny. The film revolves around a museum which comes to life at night. This in itself is a superb idea and leads to a series of imaginative encounters with dinosaurs, lions, Romans, Mayans and Robin Williams. Robin Williams is another comic who I tend not to like but here he is fantastic as Teddy Roosevelt.
The main stars of the movie (for me at least) are the trio of Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney and Bill Cobbs. They made a great team and I wish they were in the movie more.
I was pretty much sucked into the film for the entire duration as all of the CGI seemed believable and worked. I would recommend this to most people looking for an entertaining family movie which is unlike anything I have seen before.
X-Men 3: The Last Stand [2006]
The first two X-Men movies were fantastic and I had high hopes for the third until I learned of Brett Ratner's involvement. This is perhaps slightly unfair as his previous films are generally agreeable but I expect X-Men to be more than that. It is unfortunate then that this is just that. It is more predictable than the previous films and the lack of characterisation and focus on action seems to make the film less than great. Everyone is back reprising their previous roles and they all fit but seem to be going through the motions. The new members of the group include Kelsey Grammer as Beast who is pretty good in the role, the lack of characterisation meaning that he doesn't seem to have any motivation. The other major addition is Juggernaut, played by Vinnie Jones. He is pretty bad and the part could have been made silent (one particular line springs to mind) and given to somebody who was bulkier than Jones.
Overall, I enjoyed it but I probably won't watch it again (unless I have an X-Men day or something).
Gestapo's Last Stand [1977]
Not a film for the faint of heart. This was a particularly nasty addition to the Nazisploitation genre. I read a review of this recently that compared it to Salo. Both are pretty nasty and both bring out the inherent corruption and sadism of the fascist/Nazi regime. I don't know what Cesare Canevari's motivation was but there seems to be no real desire to rage against the regime as in Salo and it appears to be straightforwardly nasty for nasty's sake. By this benchmark it is a success and is not easy to watch. My turn-away moment came when a bowl of 'unborn Jew' was poured over an unconscious victim.
However this was not the worst film that I watched today. That acclaim went to:
The Wicker Man [2006]
Oh dear. What more can I say? The bees, not the bees. I went into this film not expecting much. That is exactly what I received from this film. Even if it was bad I was expecting it to be unintentionally funny but this didn't start happening until about an hour in. Until then it was just dull. Rather that being unsettling in a scary way that the original attained it seemed to be weird with no actual menace until the end.]]>
Starring: Steven Weber, Patricia Velásquez, Molly Shannon.
Four words: Groundhog Day meets Scrooged.
With those four words you have pretty much the exact start beginning and end of this predictable piece. It is unfortunate that both of the above films star Bill Murray as while watching this I found myself thinking, 'this would have been better with Bill Murray'.
The obvious focus of the film is on a selfish, business driven, divorcee and father who has 12 days in which to fulfil the perfect Christmas Eve. Any failure brings him back to the beginning of the day in an effort to be less selfish and make the day better for everyone.
Films like this are pretty much a by the numbers job for both the director and the stars. Martha Coolidge, who has had a terribly spotty career, directs this with all the anonymity of a made-for-TV director. Molly Shannon and Patricia Velásquez have incredibly little to do. Shannon, who can be hilarious, plays Angie the angel who oversees the ethereal hospital to which Steven Weber is sent at the end of each Christmas Eve. She performs the role with a smidgen of humour and as with most appearance I can remember her in seems to be having fun.
Velásquez plays the role of the Latin American business woman Isabel, who is looking to offer a company the opportunity to expand into Brazil. She has very little to do and what she does do could have been done by any 'Latin American' actress. The character is incredibly obvious; a businesswoman who is more interested in the personality and interrelationships of the prospective partner than of their business acumen.
Weber plays Calvin Carter, a businessman who has built up his ailing father's discount store business from the brink of failure. He is the sole focus of this movie and therefore has to be interesting and engaging in order for the movie to have any chance of working. He generally succeeds with this task but, as mentioned above, Bill Murray is the obvious comparison and it is not favourable for Weber.
The comedy in this is very, very gentle, perhaps too gentle. The sentiment seems to be applied with a trowel and involves an ex-wife, a son in a Christmas concert and a father who is slowly degenerating. I guess this is generally what you should come to expect from a TV movie. Scrooged and Groundhog Day certainly had mawkish ends but, when coupled with Murray's incredibly cynical starting points, the release for the characters involved was, if not realistic, certainly understandable. Weber's character here doesn't seem too bad at the beginning, maybe a little misguided and over-ambitious but he never seems like the type of person who would need angelic intervention rather than a bit of familial guidance. I have to commend the film for one slight plot point that I shan't reveal here but I was convinced wouldn't happen.
I certainly cannot recommend purchasing this film but if it is on at Christmas and the only alternatives are the Tori Spelling version of A Christmas Carol (called A Carol Christmas, it does exist, unfortunately) and The Great Escape (for the 700th time) then, well, watch The Great Escape. But if that's not on then you will probably enjoy this more than Tori Spelling or a Christmas special of Heartbeat.]]>
Starring: Christopher Lambert, Rhona Mitra, Oliver Cotton, Götz Otto, Charles Robinson, Roger Sloman, Layla Roberts, Patricia Velásquez.
Described as 'An Extreme Mix of Highlander, Dragonslayer & Mortal Kombat!', how can the film go wrong? Let me count the ways.
The film follows the basic plot of the first and second battles of Beowulf as played by Christopher Lambert. The first being the fight against Grendel, a monster of pure evil. The fight ends with, in this case, Grendel's arm being severed by some sort of bladed weapon rather than being ripped off. The second battle is fought against Grendel's Mother and ex Playboy Playmate, Layla Roberts. This section deviates quite a bit from the poem as is Hollywood's wont.
Beowulf has so many problems that it can't even really be enjoyed on a so bad it's good level. Firstly the film, for no apparent reason is set in some weird future where people are still using swords, knives and the like. Yet there are sentries on the battlements with what appear to be fairly intricate telescopes and there are sentries outside the castle with a computer enhanced spyglass. The scenario is described as 'Living in a techno-futile world of the future, a medieval land where technology's secrets are locked away in a mute past'. That this aspect is never delved into is irksome as it is a completely pointless plot convolution that breaks its own rules when the computerised telescope appears.
Another major problem is with the music. Normally, I wouldn't place this as particularly high on a list of things to ruin a film but the music by Juno Reactor is just so out of place it is untrue. It would appear that the music style is harkening to the 'techno-futile' future setting. However, as that is a worthless aspect the music becomes just a set of random sounds in the background. I think if the future setting had been dropped the music could have been more in the style of Conan or even Kull.
Christopher Lambert meanders through the film with very little to do and when he has a fight scene he does so many flips that he must have spent half the shooting time upside down. Maybe this explains why he appears to be so rubbish and only manages to win battles when the enemy makes a huge mistake. This is not completely true as the first fight outside the castle gives the impression that he is some sort of undefeatable super-hero.
Rhona Mitra spends most of the time with her huge cleavage pointing towards the camera. She comes off as worse than useless which is entirely the fault of the script. In fact all of the castle occupants seem to be incompetent and deserve to be killed posthaste.
A fairly bizarre aspect of the film is the number of familiar British actors appear. Oliver Cotton, Robert Wilcox and the unmistakable Roger Sloman appear, all having appeared in daytime TV fare such as Doctors or Heartbeat. This distracts somewhat as you have Lambert flipping all over the place and then you see 'that actor out of that episode of Midsomer Murders'. Maybe it'll have a similar effect when I watch The Bill and I will be distracted thinking 'there's that actor out of Beowulf'.
A final insult is the CGI battle at the end. I can say that I have never usually laughed at CGI. Generally, if the rest of the film is any good I will accept dodgy CGI and think 'well the budget probably didn't let them do much better'. The CGI in Beowulf is out of place and not very good. Has CGI gone so far in 8 years that a $20 million film from 1999 has far worse CGI than a £1 million pound TV show in 2007?
The positives: Patricia Velásquez is pretty good in her role as a frightened castle captive who escapes only to be caught by the army surrounding the castle. They think she contains evil from the castle and rough her up and condemn her to death. She has the obvious good sense to get out of the castle and out of the film as early as possible.
Another positive for Oliver Cotton, at least, is that he gets to have his nose licked by a Playboy Playmate as she appears with a see-through top and straddles him. Think of that next time you see him in Casualty.]]>
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo, Kevin J. O'Connor, Oded Fehr, Jonathan Hyde, Erick Avari, Bernard Fox, Omid Djalili, Patricia Velásquez.
From investigating The Mummy it is obvious that it could have been something completely different. In 1992 the film could have been a violent $10 million Clive Barker film. It could have been a George A. Romero zombie film or it could have been a John Sayles penned Joe Dante film. In some ways it would have been interesting to see what would have been the outcome of any of these fantastic film-makers taking the mantle of directing a 'Mummy' film. However, The Mummy comes with such a history that I think that anybody trying to just recreate the original would just be setting themselves up for a fall.
It is curious that when Stephen Sommers was finally attached to the project that the budget increased from $15 million to $80 million. Sommers, who had previous directed the solid and charming version of The Jungle Book and the fantastically entertaining B-movie (with an A-movie budget) Deep Rising, set this version in very much the same action/adventure mould as the Indiana Jones movies. The budget appears to be spent mainly on CGI which, while there are moments where it looks 'fake', overall enhances the movie without being the sole reason to watch.
The action starts shortly after the opening scene which is reminiscent of the exposition scenes in the original Mummy sequels. Brendan Fraser demonstrates a talent for action scenes with bursts of comedy. Hannah is obviously enjoying himself with the role and is amusing as the slightly cowardly brother of Weisz. Weisz is enjoyable as the intrepid Egyptologist and has a great screen chemistry with Fraser and Hannah. The 'villains' of the film are played with great aplomb by Arnold Vosloo and Kevin J. O'Connor. O'Connor's character is completely clichéd but is overplayed with a great sense of fun and is my favourite individual in the film.
The story is pretty standard stuff. Evil curse, secret society, lost city, etc. The Egyptian angle gives it a little more interest to anyone who finds the period interesting (and who wouldn't). In spite of that, this is not the sort of film where we can dissect the narrative and spending a few minutes thinking about it would be over-analysing it. It is this that ultimately prevents it from being in quite the same league as the Indiana Jones series.
The film belts along for most of its 2 hour runtime. There are several scenes that particularly stick in mind as being, at least to my mind, absolutely marvellous. The first is a scene near the beginning where Fraser and his legion unit are attacked by arabs and the resolution of this comes with an amusing scene and then a great looking special effect. The other standout scene is Bernard Fox's appearance as an old RAF veteran who takes Hannah, Fraser and Fehr in his biplane for one last adventure. Fox completely steals the scene for me.
I cannot finish this review without pointing out two areas which elevate this film to greater heights than it is often thought of. Firstly the cinematography is splendid. The vistas look fantastic and the scenes set within the city are lit beautifully. The late Adrian Biddle was the DP for this film and The Mummy ranks as one of his finest achievements beside Aliens and V for Vendetta. Secondly, the music by Jerry Goldsmith is also incredible. I find it difficult to rank Goldsmith scores as they are all, with a few exceptions, wonderful to listen to (as part of the film or on their own). The score to The Mummy is certainly one that I have listened to many times and am still not tired of it.
I might have sung this film's praises slightly too much. After all, it isn't without its faults. However, I think it one of the few adventure films of the past ten years that is exciting, interesting and rewatchable. The tone of the film is so completely different to the 1932 version that I think that Sommers sidesteps any possible complaint that might be raised and it stands on its own, maybe not as a classic that will last 70 years but certainly as an enjoyable 2 hour spectacle.
Finally, Patricia Velásquez. Appears for about 1 minute towards the beginning. Great eye candy.]]>
Starring: James Todd Smith (LL Cool J), Jonny Lee Miller, Kathryn Morris, Patricia Velásquez, Clifton Collins Jr., Eion Bailey, Will Kemp, Val Kilmer, Christian Slater.
From the director of Die Hard 2. Written by the writer of The Cooler. With the stars of Trainspotting, Heathers and Any Given Sunday.
From the director of Driven. Tweaked by the writer of Blood and Chocolate. With the stars of Love, Honour and Obey, Alone in the Dark and Rollerball.
Which of these is the most accurate tag line for this movie?
Mindhunters is a film which was filmed in 2002 but went unreleased until 2004. It only cost an estimated $27 million. Distributed by what seems to be a different company in every country. The story is from the standard template. All of this seems to be going against the film but for some reason the film works and, if you let yourself be sucked in, is one of the more enjoyable thrillers of the past few years.
The storyline is based on the old standard (set by Agatha Christie in And Then There Were None) of a group of people who, whilst isolated from the world, start dying one by one. This has been used in many films ranging from Identity to the several film versions of the original book. Even Quincy had an episode based on it. In Mindhunters there are only 9 possible suspects. The twist is that eight of them are trainee FBI profilers and the other is their instructor. They all have very specific characteristics (indeed LL Cool J's character points this out for our benefit) which after the first quarter of an hour are pretty well defined. This is done though a (potentially) film stopping opening scene and a scene at a bar where each character has a few seconds to show their defining trait.
Val Kilmer is the misunderstood FBI instructor who is not taken seriously by his peers. Christian Slater is the headstrong leader. Jonny Lee Miller is a supposedly fearless man who was orphaned when he was a child. Kathryn Morris is the insecure woman who really wants to succeed. Patricia Velásquez appears to be a jack of all trades who is trying to quit smoking. Clifton Collins Jr. is the paraplegic who always has a gun to hand. Eion Bailey is the Mr Fixit. Will Kemp is the intelligent British exchange profiler who is addicted to coffee. LL Cool J is the perceptive outside observer, but can they trust him?
The ensemble cast work well together although half of them are only there for fodder and as such don't have particularly strong characters. This could be in part down to the other actors being more overpowering, i.e. LL Cool J and Christian Slater. However, Kathryn Morris stands out as a strong, if uncertain, woman driven by a desire to become a profiler. The characters played by Eion Bailey and Will Kemp might as well not be there and only really serve to up the body count.
The film keeps up quite a fast pace and never seems to become stale or tedious. Harlin's direction and editing has always impressed me. Even in dreck like Driven he keeps the movie going and it never becomes dull (even if it does become very stupid). Even when I was not convinced by a scene, the next scene came barrelling along and kept the story going.
It could be the fact that I tend not to be able to guess whodunit but in this instance it seemed relatively unimportant. It is obvious who is going to come through in the end so you can spend your time rooting for them. I certainly wasn't really surprised by the eventual outcome, nor could I spot any obvious clues that I had missed. This is the films main failing but this is a failing that films based on Christie have a penchant for.
Is this the best film in the past 10 years. No. Does it deserve to languish on the shelf for years waiting for a release. Definitely no. It seems unfair that rubbish thrillers like Basic Instinct 2 and Valentine can get a full cinema release (although I can see the draw for the former) yet this relatively entertaining film with a well known ensemble cast gets jettisoned into Straight-to-Video obscurity. In my opinion, Mindhunters is certainly worth a rental if you enjoy thrillers.
Onto the reason why I have chosen to review this film. Patricia Velásquez comes off, as mentioned above, as a bit of a jack of all trades. Her quitting smoking seems to be a bit of a clichéd shorthand for making her abrupt and most likely to snap. However, she certainly handles the role well and I would hope to see her in more action/thriller movies in the future.]]>
The idea that I came up with after several days of thinking was to take a single actor/actress and write a review for each film in their career. Now, obviously that would be difficult if I chose someone like Christopher Lee who has been in more films than I have had hot dinners (at least cooked by myself). So I decided to choose someone randomly from any films I watched over the past few days.
The winner is:
Patricia Velásquez
The film that I was watching that decided this was Mindhunters [2004]. An enjoyable diversion (but more on that in the review blog) from one of my favourite directors Renny Harlin.
Patricia Velásquez (I'm going to call her Patricia from now on, not because I know her but because it takes me a minute or so to get the little acute to appear) is a Venezuelan actress and model. During the 90s Patricia dated Sandra Bernhard. She is, however, bisexual. This is not really anything to do with her films but it makes me wonder if someone who looks like Sandra Bernhard can get an international model then there is hope for me.
Some will recognise Patricia as the soap opera star that Gob and Michael fight over in the wonderfully funny Arrested Development. That won't be on my list of things to review here as if I allowed TV into my review list I would have to watch CSI: Miami, and that is not going to happen. More are likely to remember her as Anck-su-namun in The Mummy [1999] and The Mummy Returns [2001]. These will definitely be reviewed.
The complete list of films starring Patricia are below. I will endeavor to review them all and update them with relevant links.
So, I intend to start by reviewing Mindhunters in the coming few days. The other films are either winging their way to me or will be soon. Let's hope they hold my interest.
p.s. If you have any ideas about anyone who might make a suitable second 'project', let me know.]]>
Starring: Shane Brolly, Kaarina Aufranc, John Patrick McCormack, Pepe Serna
There are two types of 'bug' movie:
This is obviously not The Swarm so therefore falls into the first category.
The star of this film is Shane Brolly who you might remember from Underworld where he played the vampire leader Kraven. In this film he stars as an entomologist who, whilst researching mosquitoes in a small town in Mexico, discovers a wasps nest with particularly nasty occupants. He tries to get the town to cancel its festival (like that ever works) to prevent an attack and generally attempts to uncover the secrets of the wasps.
The wasps have been given the name 'Black Fire' and are of great interest to a group headed by Dr. Schroeder played by John Patrick McCormack (General Wendall in The West Wing). We learn that they are obviously completely evil within the first few minutes when we see Schroeder threaten some 'Indians' to find the location of the wasps.
We are introduced to the female interest in this movie when a journalist played by Kaarina Aufranc follows the truck containing the wasps.
In my opinion bug films need several things to succeed:
This film has some success. The characters are all fairly obvious and the Mexican setting allows for the police chief to utter my favourite Spanish word 'Vámonos' (and also 'ándale'). You don't really care about the woman but she is pretty enough. Shane Brolly does quite well to hold the whole thing together.
The effects however are not good. The make-up effects are OK but the wasps are the aforementioned specks on the film and not remotely convincing. Seeing people react and knowing that they are swatting at nothing makes it a whole load funnier though.
It burns
The film definitely doesn't outstay its welcome (as film reviewers like to say). It is only 81 minutes before the credits roll and it keeps up the pace throughout.
The film was directed by music video director Paul Andresen who's direction is perfuntory. The music contains some interesting sections but is generally average. There are some intriguing instruments and sounds and the orchestration is generally good and quite overpowering at times. The music is composed by Neal Acree who also scored mutant snake film Venomous and the opening music for World Of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade. The cinematography which is sometimes quite interesting is by Hitcher II DP George Mooradian.
Good Points
Interesting, if slightly predictable plot.
Mad, tin-foil hat wearing loon 'cries wolf'.
Bad Points
Female character is not really utilised.
Bad CGI(?) bugs.
Available from Amazon as part of a Creature Feature triple bill.]]>
My first film review will be uploaded tomorrow and will be the great 'bugs attack' film, Deadly Swarm.]]>


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"It is going to be a good night!" declared Eva Longoria, who joined fellow Housewives Teri Hatcher and Felicity Huffman to celebrate the 59th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards. After the awards had been handed out at the Shrine Auditorium, TV's brightest stars fanned out to parties across Hollywood to fete the winners and witness some once in a lifetime moments.
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Generally, consumers can choose between two types of paints:
As their name indicates, solvent-based paints, sometimes referred to as "oil-based" or "alkyd" paints, contain a significantly higher level of organic solvents than water-based paints. These solvents are responsible for the strong odour noticeable in buildings that have been freshly painted. They are also potentially hazardous for both human health and for the environment which is why concerted efforts are being made to reduce or remove their presence in paints without negatively impacting on paint performance.
Today, water-based paints dominate and account for roughly 80% of paints sold in the residential market.
The function of organic solvents in a paint relates to certain properties it brings – it facilitates the paint's application, it's drying, and the formation of a regular paint film. During application and drying, the solvent evaporates. Ideally a dry paint film no longer contains solvent. However when they evaporate, these solvents release Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) into the atmosphere, with a negative, toxic impact on the environment.
Fifty years ago, virtually all paint was solvent-based. Today, advances in
paint technology mean that modern, water-based paints, often referred to as acrylic emulsions, are increasingly replacing organic solvents across a broad range of paint applications and surface areas (and account for 80% of architectural paints). Legislation is in place to support this trend.
Spear headed by (but not limited to) to regulatory developments in California, we continue to see stricter paint VOC regulations across the US and Canada.
In terms of total VOC's, 100 g/l paints are very common today. And predictions are that most manufacturers will have 50 g/l in the near future.
From a performance standpoint, advances in paint technology mean that high quality water-based paints are in many respects equal to or superior to their solvent-based equivalents. High quality acrylic emulsions offer excellent durability, quick drying time, and the emission of less odor.


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Closing the Loop
It's been nearly a century since Carl Sandburg dubbed Chicago "Hog Butcher for the World" in a poem. Since then, the city has swapped its meatpacking industry for a green-building one.
Much of this construction involves the transformation of industrial structures into energy-efficient facilities. A prime example: the Plant, in development on the city's South Side. There, local entrepreneur John Edel is turning a 93,500-square-foot former USDA-certified meat-processing plant into a net-zero-energy incubator for sustainable-food businesses. Edel is limiting work on the structure's existing concrete-and-masonry envelope, built in 1925, and is taking advantage of the building's original 4-inch-thick foam insulation. The $4.5 million project also includes the installation of energy-efficient windows, a third-floor greenhouse, and storefront glass walls on the façade.
Most of the change will occur inside, with the installation of a series of closed, concentric energy loops. With future spaces to include a brewery, bakery, commercial kitchen, and vertical farm, Edel expects the facility to require a nominal electrical load of 300 kilowatt-hours and to be fully operational within five years. The system incorporates an anaerobic digester that will use tenants' and neighboring businesses' food waste to keep the operation technically off-grid, although Edel says it will remain grid-tied. To power the facility, Edel says that the digester will convert waste into biogas, which will then be fed into a repurposed fighter-jet-engine turbine to convert the biogas into electricity and approximately 2.1 million Btu per hour of steam. Freestanding aquaponic systems will harvest tilapia. The systems' oxygen will be recycled to feed kombucha cultures, and the fish will be fed by spent barley from the brewery and nitrates created by bacteria as it processes ammonia in the system. Plants growing in hydroponic beds will also absorb the nitrates.
"[The] circle of the waste becomes the energy, which becomes the food, which becomes the waste, which becomes the energy," says Michael Newman, an architect with local firm Shed Studio, which is collaborating on the project.
That fluidity carries over to the space's layout, Newman says. Still in construction, the interior will feature clean lines, areas for collaboration, and pieces of the former facility—including stainless steel electrical panels, floor drains, and red-brick floors—reused to reflect what Newman calls a "holistic sense of sharing."
The project team expects to have applied for a building permit by the time you read this. However, the goal of occupancy by Spring 2012, and the launch of the digester by Summer 2012, will depend on how quickly other permits can be secured. "Anytime you do anything that's unusual, it can take a while to get everything lined up and everybody happy with how it works," Newman says.
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PYROS 2K11 – National Level Technical Festival
"PYROS 2k11" – A National Level Technical Extravagance is scheduled to take place on 10th & 11th of January 2011 at MANGALAM COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING,Kottayam (Ettumanoor). The event is organised by the Department of Computer Science & Engineering. The public figure who will be the centre of attraction is former chairman of ISRO, Sri G MADHAVAN NAIR, who has accepted the request to be their guest of honour. This technical festival is a forum for similar minds to interact, share and discuss the latest happenings in the field of Technology and help growth of Science & Technology in India. The…Read More