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UK flooding as it happened
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- The worst of the problems caused by flooding across the UK appear to have passed, with weather forecasters predicting no more heavy rain - but 35 flood warnings remain in place.
- The River Ouse in York peaked at 5m above its normal level, but that was just below flood defences. Another half-hour of rain could have seen more serious consequences.
- A young couple found dead in a swollen river near Wrexham may have been trying to rescue a dog - although police say that can only be treated as speculation at this stage.
Welcome to our live page coverage of a fourth day of chaos caused by flooding in many parts of the UK.
On Monday torrential rain and 70 mph winds hit the West Country with trains cancelled in Somerset, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire. On Tuesday the bad weather spread to the North of England where 300 homes were flooded and 100 vehicles were trapped on the A1 in North Yorkshire.
On Wednesday a block of flats in Newcastle was said to be close to collapse and Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, was split in two after a bridge was closed. Homes and businesses in York city centre were also flooded after the River Ouse burst its banks.
A clear-up operation is beginning in some places but dozens of communities have been warned they are still at risk.
BBC weather forecaster Laura Gilchrist said in her forecast this morning that the worst of the rain had eased.
She said the persistent rain that has caused problems in England and Wales is not likely to return and, although there would be light showers in some areas, many places would have a dry day. But, she explained, flood warnings remain in place due to the potential for some of the rainfall from recent days to still be flowing through river systems.
The water level has peaked in York at 5.06m above the normal level. It is expected to peak mid-morning in Cawood and Selby.
Wigan Council
tweets: Flood update: Slag Lane, Lowton + Mort Lane, Tyldesley still closed. We are working hard to get these roads open today.
The Environment Agency
tweets: Still many flood warnings in place http://bit.ly/fhE9iu Advice on how to prepare & cope with flooding here http://bit.ly/vCuUvj #FloodAware
Firefighters in Skeldergate, York, say they used a boat to take carers to a residential home to give medication to elderly residents. They also say crews were sent to a caravan park at nearby Bishopthorpe where people were stranded.
BBC weather forecaster Carol Kirkwood has just popped up for her hourly bulletin on the BBC News channel. She says that today will see rain - not particularly heavy - in the north of Scotland but it will be a fine afternoon in most places. Looking further ahead, Friday will be a windy day while Saturday will be a pleasant day in most places. Remember you can check the latest weather at any stage on the BBC Weather website.
Craig McGarvey from the Environment Agency said the level of the River Ouse in York should start going down this evening. He said 4,000 sandbags were laid by the Army last night, that flood defences in York were excellent and 2,000 properties had been protected. He said it was the second highest flood level in record in York.
The AA
tweets: As flood waters recede, drivers should be wary of silt and debris on roads affected by the flooding.
Yorkshire Water issued a statement warning that river water was getting into the sewer network and overloading it, which is causing it to "surcharge" at Leeman Road and Jubilee Street.
It adds: "Working alongside the fire service, we currently have mobile pumps in operation to try and reduce the overloading of our sewer network and all of our pumping stations are operational and working at full capacity to pump the waters up for treatment. More mobile pumps are being brought in this morning to further support ongoing efforts.
"However, the most important factor in all this remains the exceptionally high level of the River Ouse, so obviously as that starts to subside, we would expect the situation regarding our local sewer network to improve dramatically."
The schoolboy struck by lightning in Swindon yesterday afternoon has been named as 11-year-old Joe Compton by his head teacher at the Dorcan Academy in Swindon.
Joe is said to be in a "serious but stable condition" at Frenchay Hospital in Bristol.
Julia Lewis, from BBC Radio York, reports from Bishopthorpe: "It is frighteningly similar to 12 years ago when York was devastated by floods. It is a bright sunny day, but instead of a street we have got a lake."
She says: "There is about 50 to 100m of water right across the road near Bishopthorpe Palace, the home of the Archbishop of York. It is passable with care, but some cars are not taking care."
Sonja Crisp, the Labour councillor for Holgate ward in York, told BBC Radio York: "People are furious that they've got to face this (flooding) yet again. They've got the risk from the river - I know we're going to get work done on that shortly - but it should have been done a couple of years ago."
One of the most memorable images of the past few days from flooded West Yorkshire was the widely-viewed video footage of surfing instructor Oli Barrett being towed along a flooded road on a body board.
North Yorkshire Police are reminding drivers not to ignore signs warning of road and bridge closures, even if it looks like flooding has cleared. Some bridges are still structurally unsafe.
The police say there have been a number of incidents of people ignoring the signs.
The Environment Agency lifts flood warnings in Staffordshire but says the River Weaver at Shrewbridge Lodge and Weaver Way in Cheshire is still at risk.
Cheshire East Council said eight roads are closed following heavy rain and full details are available on its website.
Tadcaster, in North Yorkshire, is still divided in two as inspection work continues on a bridge in the town which has been closed since yesterday.
The bridge, which carries the A659 over the River Wharfe, was closed when firefighters noticed water seeping through the structure.
A North Yorkshire County Council spokesman said water levels had to fall in order for a "proper structural inspection" of the bridge to take place and the bridge would not be opened until the damage had been inspected.
Are you puzzled as to what caused the UK's most intense September storm for three decades? BBC Weather's Peter Gibbs has the answers.
Ady Carter in York
tweets a photo of a flood barrier deployed outside his office: There be just a tiny bit of water behind the flood barrier then.... pic.twitter.com/WFvMfTQZ
BBC correspondent Matthew Richards said it was thought a 27-year-old woman and a 25-year-old man whose bodies were found near the River Clywedog in Wrexham may have died after trying to rescue some dogs.
He said he had spoken to a local man who had seen several dogs, without owners, in a nearby car park shortly before the bodies were found.
Floodwater in the north west England is subsiding. In Northwich, Cheshire, there are still sandbags in the town centre and part of London Road is still closed.
On Merseyside there are some flood alerts in place for several areas including St Helens, Warrington, Frodsham, Southport and the Wirral.
Aerial scenes filmed above John Smith's brewery in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, yesterday show hundreds of kegs of its beer - famed for its "no nonsense" slogan - floating across the yard after the River Wharfe burst its banks.
Want to get a quick overview of which parts of the UK suffered the brunt of the storms this week? Our interactive floods map captured the situation yesterday afternoon at what was probably the peak of the problems.
A Met Office spokesman said a "kink" in the jet stream had caused this week's wet weather. He said low pressure bringing the rain was caught in the kink and "ricocheted" around the country instead of passing north of the UK.
Hayley Pugh, who runs a snooker club on Tower Street in York, one of the businesses flooded by the River Ouse, said: "We are usually quite busy at this time of the year with the students coming back to the city. We can't open so we will lose money as simple as that.
"Next step will be to call the insurance company and get the water pumped out. I can't imagine how much it will cost to replace everything. Our carpet cost over £30,000 to put in."
City of York Council backs up the message from Hayley Pugh (see 1140) as it says it is keen to reassure people the city should not be avoided completely - a key message on behalf of shops and other firms who would want to avoid taking a further knock to their business.
It points out that although current river levels are 5.07m above summer level, that is not as high as the measurement during the 2000 floods, when it reached 5.4m above summer level.
"York is very much open for business and all agencies have sufficient resources in place," it says.
The future of a block of townhouses in Newburn, Newcastle, is unclear but this photograph shows water cascading past them. Floodwater has gouged out the land around the homes, forcing them to be evacuated while their structural safety is assessed.
1213: Nick Ravenscroft BBC North of England correspondent
The River Ouse continues to meander through York city centre with a sedate menace. But it looks like they've got away with it. If there had been a further half-hour of heavy rain yesterday, it could have been different. But at the moment York looks to be safe.
The BBC's Matthew Richards in Wrexham says the coroner has been informed about the deaths of a man and woman whose bodies were found near the River Clywedog and post-mortem examinations will be carried out on Friday.
He said they were believed to have been walking dogs on the riverbank, which is owned by the National Trust.
Our correspondent says: "The answer should come from the post-mortem examination but the signs appear to be that this a double tragedy linked to the bad weather that we've had."
The couple who died in Wrexham have been named locally as Alicia Williams and David Platt, but are unlikely to be named officially until the coroner opens an inquest tomorrow.
Simon Braithwaite
in Filey, North Yorkshire writes: I lived in Kings Staith for 30 years. The river flooding has always happened. When we have exceptional rainfall, it simply can't go anywhere. Look across the river in the city - the width is tiny, compared to the volume it has to handle. So this will continue to be a regular occurrence but we seem to want a quick fix to this problem. Get used to it - it's here to stay. I don't say this lightly: anyone who gets flooded goes through real, serious heartache. But with its position, York is a sitting duck in a situation like this.
This photograph of Alicia Williams and David Platt, named locally as the two people whose bodies were found near the River Clywedog, is from their Facebook page.
Police are investigating the possibility that the couple found dead in Wrexham may have been trying to save a dog from the swollen River Clywedog. Det Ch Insp Mark Pierce said they were seen earlier walking with five dogs - and a witness says he later saw dogs sitting beside an empty vehicle.
Alicia Williams was 27 and David Platt 25. Det Ch Insp Pierce told reporters that "one of their dogs may have gone into the river and one or the other" went in to help although that was still only "speculation".
BBC News correspondent Ed Thomas - delivering his One O'Clock News report from a flooded street in the centre of York in a dinghy, surrounded by rescue workers - says a section of the A1 remains closed in the Catterick area but it was hoped the road would reopen later.
Showing that BBC News correspondents go to many lengths to get their story on air, here is Ed Thomas pictured in a dinghy in York for the One O'Clock News. Earlier, the crew accompanying him helped rescue people from a care home in the city.
A couple evacuated from their Newcastle home say they want someone to take responsibility for the damage. Greg and Anna Blyth, who say they have been homeless since Tuesday, believe the problems date back to the collapse of a nearby culvert in June and the flats they and their neighbours live in are "very unsafe".
Neither the landowner nor the developer of the flats have commented.
The number of flood warnings in place continue to fall. Information on the Environment Agency website website shows there are now 40 in place in England and one in Wales.
Yorkshire Water
tweets: River Ouse has now stabilised and levels are expected to fall steadily over the next few days
1355: Nick Ravenscroft BBC North of England correspondent
Residents in York are breathing a sigh of relief. The River Ouse has now stabilised - it's about 24cm short of what its flood defences could have coped with - even though it had peaked at 5m above its usual levels. "The crisis they were fearing overnight has passed and has not materialised."
The family of Joe Compton, the 11-year-old struck by lightning in Swindon yesterday and now said to be in a stable condition in hospital, have issued a statement. They say they want to thank PE teachers at his school, Dorcan Academy, and staff from a local leisure centre who came to his aid. "We owe a huge amount of thanks to them," they say.
The BBC's Phil Bodmer in York took this picture of Clifford's Tower in the city, protected by its mound, as Tower Street remains under water.
New flood defences in Worcestershire - introduced this summer - are working well, the Environment Agency has said. The £1.7m works were built after the village of Kempsey suffered more than 20 floods between 1978 and 2008.
Back to the situation in York. The city's council leader has criticised the Environment Agency following a delay to planned flood defences. Speaking near Leeman Road, where the government has approved funding for a £3.2m scheme, Labour councillor James Alexander said: "If we had the flood defences here in the first place we wouldn't have some of the flooding we've had."
Mr Alexander said he would be writing to the government to request additional financial support following the flooding in York.
Responding to the concerns of York City Council leader, Mark Scott from the Environment Agency said it was hoped the work on the flood defences would begin in December "as planned and to a very high specification". But he apologised to residents "who have been waiting". The Water End/Leeman Road scheme is designed to protect about 400 homes and businesses.
A "town of two halves". Just how are people coping after flooding caused the bridge linking both sides of Tadcaster in North Yorkshire to be shut? The BBC's Alex Moss has been hearing from residents.
Helen Scurry
in York, writes: How can the council blame the Environment Agency. All the problems on Leeman Road and also in Bishopthorpe are down to the drains and not the river, this must be down to the council or Yorkshire Water. I think the Environment Agency and the emergency services have been fantastic over the last few days.
Flowers have been left near the scene of the two deaths in the River Clywedog at Felin Puleston, Wrexham. Police activity in the area is over but tape remains in place to stop the public crossing into a field adjacent to the river bank.
In Newburn, Newcastle, residents have been evacuated from two more buildings amid fears a nearby block of flats could collapse after floodwater gouged out ground beneath a nearby block. People living in Hareside Walk and Hareside Close flats had been allowed home but have now been told to leave again.
Organisers of the York Food and Drink Festival, taking place in the city this week, have issued an update reassuring potential visitors the festival is still very much on and all major events will take place as scheduled.
Its website says: "All attractions, shops, bars and restaurants are open, except a tiny few which sit by the riverside, where there is localised flooding. York's Food Festival is in full swing and it's a beautiful sunny day to visit."
Although the weather is clearly improving and the sun has shone on the city today after days of rain, the "beautiful sunny day" comment may be a bit of stoic Yorkshire wit.
Environment Agency Yorkshire & North East
tweets: as a precaution we are reinforcing the lowest points in the #Selby flood defences with 150 large 1 tonne sandbags #floodaware
The RSPCA in York took a decision to close its animal home in Clifton today. Although the building was unaffected, three outside compounds were flooded. "We have made the decision to close the home to enable us to concentrate solely on the welfare of the animals," it said in a statement on its website.
1559: Breaking News
The two bodies recovered from the River Clywedog at Erddig, Wrexham, last night have been formally identified as Alicia Williams and David Platt who were both 25 and from Ruabon near Wrexham, North Wales Police said.
Police said the deaths were not being treated as suspicious but the circumstances are still being investigated. Det Sgt Eleri Thomas said: "We would appeal for anyone with information to contact North Wales Police on 101."
The Highways Agency says that one lane of the A1 between junction 49 and the A6136 for Catterick South has reopened. The other lane remains closed as flood water is still being pumped.
Eight metre-high flood defences just managed to protect a North Yorkshire village from the swollen River Ouse - after the Army brought in 4,000 sandbags to bolster defences in Cawood, between York and Selby, last night. BBC Look North has been speaking to residents whose homes have been affected by flooding.
That's the end of our live page coverage for the day. The number of flood warnings in place around the UK now stands at 35, the lowest number for a couple of days. You can get the latest information at any time on the Environment Agency website for England and Wales.
So what does the immediate future hold, weather-wise? The forecast from BBC Look North - covering the most affected areas - predicts mainly clear skies this evening with increasing cloud overnight bringing patchy drizzle by dawn. Showers tomorrow will be "few and far between". BBC Weather has forecasts for all parts of the UK but its adjectives for any predicted rainfall vary between "light" and "patchy" rather than anything more torrential.


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Tigerstar's Revenge, Chapter 6
I WOKE UP THE NEXT MORNING, hoping that I finally had someone to play with. Whitekit was asleep, so was everyone else. Bluefur spent the night here, watching over her nephew. Snowfur then woke up, staring down at her son.
I never realized how young she was. She was not even a senior warrior yet; and neither was Thistleclaw. I also saw deep tiredness in her eyes, from after her kitting. Then, I heard yawning. A deep purr rumbled in Snowfur's throat. "You've opened your eyes!" she whispered. There was a tiny mewling. "Are you--are you my mother?" Snowfur nodded. "Yes, Whitekit. I'm Snowfur." "Oh, hi! I'm Whiekit!" Snowfur let out another purr. She then looked over at Bluefur. "Bluefur! Look! He's opened his eyes already!" I bounded up with joy. "Great!" I walked by Snowfur's nest. "Can I take him out to explore?" Snowfur had horror in her gaze. She shook her head. "No!" She protectively wrapped her tail around Whitekit. Bluefur looked at her sister. "You made me go out the moment I opened my eyes." Snowfur hesitated, then sighed. "If he wants to go out, then he can." Then she wrapped her tail tighter aroung her son. She glared at me. "But no farther than the clearing!" "I'll keep an eye on him," Bluefur told her sister. "You just rest." Snowfur relaxed. "Thank you," she breathed. I leapt by the edge of the nest. "Come on, Whitekit! There's loads to see!" Whitekit turned away from his mother and looked at me. "We're going to be warriors!" I explained. "We might as well start now!" Whitekit blinked. "Okay," he mewed. He scrambled out of the nest and teetered beside me. "This way," I took Whitekit out of the entrance. He was slower than me, and I waited as Whitekit got used to the outside world. He gazed around, eyes gleaming, at his collossal surroundings. "Everything's...so...big!" I heard Whitekit squeak. "That's nothing," I told him. "Wait till we become apprentices; we'll se the whole forest!" "Hey, Tigerkit!" Lionpaw came out of the apprentices' den. "Who's this?" "I'm Whitekit!" he then cocked his head to the side with curiosity. "Who are you?" "I'm Lionpaw," he mewed, lightly, "and my sister, Goldenpaw, is here somewhere--" "Gotcha!" Goldenpaw pounced on Lionpaw by surprise. They were play-fighting, and Whitekit watched in amazement, as the littermates played. Goldenpaw then pinned Lionpaw to the ground. "I give!" Lionpaw purred. He brought himself up on his haunches, puffing with exhaustion. "Goldenpaw," he began, when he caught his breath, "this is Snowfur's son, Whitekit." "Aww," Goldenpaw cooed. "Thistleclaw was bragging about how adorable you are!" "That's Goldenpaw," I whispered to Whitekit. "She's Lionpaw's sister." "Oh," Whitekit whispered back. "Hi, Goldenpaw!" Thistleclaw arrived right on schedule. "Whitekit!" He hugged his son close to him. "You're squishing me!" Whitekit squirmed. "Sorry," his father released. He looked at Whitekit more closely. "You have my eyes, you know; amber." Whitekit widened his eyes, letting everyone see their glory. "Speaking of Snowfur, how is she?" "Exhausted," Bluefur came into the conversation. "I think you should visit her." Thistleclaw nodded, then glanced at Whitekit. "After I give my son, here, a tour." "Can I come?" I asked. "Sure, Tigerkit!" Thistleclaw mewed. "Lionpaw, Golenpaw, do you want to join us?" "Sure!" they both exclaimed. "We love to help!" "Okay," Thistleclaw nudged Whitekit lightly with his muzzle. "Keep your paws and tails inside the patrol group, and here we go!" Thistleclaw led the way to Highrock. "Here is Highrock. This is where Sunstar has Clan meetings." "Before that," I told Whitekit, "Pinestar was leader. He was my father." "Wow," he exclaimed, "your father was Clan leader? What happened to him?" "He left to become a kittypet." Whitekit froze, then frowned. "I'm sorry." I nodded, keeping my eyes on what was ahead of me. "Here's the warriors' den." Thistleclaw explained. "Over there, the fallen tree, that's the elders' den. Over here is the medicine cats' den." Thistleclaw walked around the clearing, stopping at the nursery. "Okay, we will end our tour at the nursery. Don't wander off until the tour comes to a complete stop. Okay, you may go now." "Thanks, Thistleclaw!" the apprentices went to their mentors. "I never get tired of the tour!" I squeaked. Whitekit and I went into the nursery. Thistleclaw followed us, moving toward Snowfur with a squirrel in his mouth. "Hi, Thistleclaw," Snowfur wearily whispered. Thistleclaw pressed his muzzle against hers. "Are you feeling alright?" Snowfur nodded. "Just really tired. Have you seen Whitekit?" Whitekit batted at Thistleclaw's tail. "You mean this little bundle?" his father purred. "He's beautiful, Snowfur." "Because he has your good looks," Snowfur purred. Snowfur ate the squirrel, sharing tongues with Thistleclaw. After Whitekit suckled, he went out to play. "I got a moss ball for us!" I said through clenched jaws. "Okay," Whitekit squeaked. I rolled the moss ball to Whitekit, and he rolled it back. "Dad!" Whitekit called to Thistleclaw, "Do you want to play with us?" "I have to be on patrol," he replied. "Okay," sighed Whitekit, as I rolled the ball back to him. He rolled it back. As Thistleclaw left for the warriors' den, but then he pause. "Well," he murmured, "my patrol is at Sunhigh; that's not for a few moments." He rurned around. "So," he walked closer to his son, "that leaves me enough time...for this!" Thistleclaw tickled Whitekit with his muzzle. Whitekit squealed with laughter, being tickled on his belly. He playfully batted at his father's muzzle. *Pinestar never did this to us!* Whitekit bounded up, tickling his father by scrambling his paws on his belly. "Ah! It's Whitekit!" Thistleclaw wailed, dramatically. "Help! I'm being attacked by Whitekit! He's everywhere!" He scuffled in his own laughter, as Whitekit rolled off his belly. "I give!" "That was fun, Dad!" Whitekit purred. "Can you do that again?" Thistleclaw puffed. "Give me a minute. Man, you put up a fight!" Whitekit stood with pride. I then watched Thistleclaw tickle his son, with envy. *Pinestar never tickled us; he rarely visited us!* Now, I see Thistleclaw play with his son, and I realized I never had or will have that kind of bond with my own father. I rolled the moss ball meekly with my paw. "Tigerkit!" Whitekit called out. "Come on! You can be on my team!" I stayed where I was. I couldn't move or think correctly. I was filled with jealousy of Whitekit with his father. "Okay," Whitekit purred, "you don't have to play." "Thistleclaw!" Tawnyspots, the deputy, yowled. "Let's go! You're on patrol!" "Okay, Whitekit. I have to go, now." "Do you have to?" Whitekit hugged close to his father. "Yes, my son," he replied. "I will see you later. Be good for your mom, okay?" "Okay." Thistleclaw pressed his muzzle to Whitekit's little head. "See you soon. I love you." Thistleclaw then bounded off in the distance, out of the gorse tunnel, to catch up with the patrol. "I love you, too, Dad!" Whitekit yawned. "Aren't you tired, Tigerkit?" I shook my head. "I guess that's how kits might feel on their first day of exploring. Let's go in the nursery. I'm hungry!" Whitekit nodded drowsily. "I sure am tired!" We both padded in the nursery. "There you toms are," Leopardfoot sighed. Whitekit squirmed in the nest beside Snowfur. "How was your day with your father?" "So much fun! He's going to come back soon, Mommy!" She purred. "That's good, precious." "I'm sleepy," Whitekit yawned. Snowfur snuggled closer to her son. Steady breathing proved that both of them and Robinwing were asleep. I snuggled beside Leopardfoot after suckling. "Are you jealous?" she asked me. I hesitated. "Of what?" "Are you jealous that Whitekit might have a better father than Pinestar? It's okay, you can tell me." I shrugged. "I guess, a little." "You shouldn't be jealous. Whitekit's your friend, and Thistleclaw is important to him. At least try to participate. Okay?" I nodded, storing my hidden jeolousy. It was like there was a bundle in my heart where all of my anger was stored. It seemed to be getting more filled everyday, bursting at the seams. *I'll hide my anger; for Leopardfoot!* ... Chapter 7 coming soon! |
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ttmrktmnrfn0830 said:
Awww, Tigerkit is jealous!!!! Didn't think of him as a jealous kit, did you?
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I'm helping my son with a science project and cant't seem to find the research I need. I understand that all liquids have a different freezing point, but what causes that? Does it have something to do with the rate at which they crystalize. Are there some liquids, like butter, and honey that never freeze? How does plasma play into this? Help! Thanks!
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All liquids have a different freezing point because all are made of different kinds of atoms or molecules, each of which has different interatomic (or intermolecular) forces and different atomic (or molecular) sizes. These two issues work together in a complex way to determine the melting point. However, the rate of freezing is not generally related to the value of the freezing point. That again is a complex function of the detailed nature of the interatomic/intermolecular forces and size, but depending on the substance forces might be more important than size to determining one property or the other.
Butter and honey both freeze. You just have to get them cold enough.
I'm not sure what you mean by "plasma." Plasmas can only exist at ultrahigh temperatures, like in plasma welding torches, fusion reactors, or in stars. I'm not sure what that has to do with your question.
Sorry, hope this was a little helpful.
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The Cooper Union
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An Antidote to Gnosticism
I've long wondered if the American religion isn't really gnosticism. There are so many unifying elements to many American spiritualities, and surely none less than the denial of the body as the locus of true spirituality. Consider, if ever so briefly, such a roll-call of denial.
Mormons deny alcohol and caffeine. Evangelicals proliferate "video-based" churches, as if being present to others or the pastor is merely accidental to what "really matters." Furthermore, all manner of Americans accept yoga as a generic practice, instead of an instrinsically Hindu one. The increase of Twitter and Facebook only increase the amount of disembodied experiences we have with others. Truly, gnosticism is an undercurrent in the cultural system, and most of us seek after existential meaning unaware of our denial of the role of the material wrapped up in the immaterial.
Whether one is a Christian or not, many Americans think of themselves fundamentally as a "soul," and not also a body. Only rank materialists are the exception. In addition, despite the fact that every month in my church we say, "I believe in the resurrection of the body," people in my church are regularly scandalized to find out that Christians believe eternity is a physical existence. One could correct such gnosticism-in-the-water with appeals to Isaiah or Revelation, but there's also an American prophet that comes to mind: Walker Percy.
In his novel, Love in the Ruins, his main character, Tom More, criticizes what he calls both angelism and bestialism. Angelism is the desire to ignore the role of the body in the search for meaning. On the other hand, bestialism means following the body's base desires with no thought of transcendence. More consistenly finds himself in the latter category as a "lapsed Catholic" with alcoholic habits and many girlfriends. And yet, during a humorous conversation with his girlfriend, Tom More lucidly but privately responds to his girlfriend's question: "My God, what is it you do in church?"
What she didn't understand, she being spiritual and seeing religion as spirit, was that it took religion to save me from the spirit world, from orbiting earth like Lucifer and the angels, that it took nothing less than touching the thread off the misty interstates and eating Christ himself to make me mortal man again and let me inhabit my own flesh and love her in the morning.
Percy touches here on a view of the body that transcends typical gnostic reductionism. If we just "think right," we won't necessarily change. If we just "change our emotions," neither can we inhabit our flesh and love others in the morning. We need mind, heart, and body. We need to be present, to eat of Christ, to engage our body in ultimate meaning. We need to relish our bodies as gifts. And if we're Christians, we believe in a greater body, following the firstfruits of that first Resurrectionist.


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Polymer matrices with temporally and spatially tuned cell signalling characteristics are developed for in vitro or in vivo tissue engineering. For this purpose, the physical and molecular stimuli of cellular microenvironments are systematically imitated using reconstituted biopolymer assemblies (consisting of collagen I, fibronectin, and other components of the extracellular matrix), supported lipid bilayer membranes, as well as synthetic and biohybrid hydrogels. Several projects are aimed towards the utilization of stem cells in new therapeutic strategies by creating combinations of exogenic signals for the control of self-renewal and differentiation of these cells the stem cell niche. Accordingly, the molecular understanding of cell-matrix adhesion, the effect of physical stimuli (micro- and nanostructure, elasticity of matrices), and biomolecular cues (chemokines and growth factors) are prioritized research tasks.
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Local Schools policy drives inequality in the UK
I love a story that really can resonate with students and get them 'irked'. It struck me yesterday that reading about a recent Bristol University research paper that claims that school admission policies lead to greater inequality might strike a chord with some young people.
The study suggests that the common policy in the UK of prioritizing admission places in primary and secondary schools based upon how close a student lives to that school continues a cycle of inequality. The argument is that, wealthier people are more able to afford to move to areas with higher performing schools and so are more inclined to do so. People without that facility have less choice in where to send their children and may have to stick with local schools despite their relative poor performance. So the cycle continues ..... poorer people receive a poorer quality education and are therefore less equipped to get the necessary qualifications to earn higher wages.
read more...»10 Minute Crossword Activity to set either for AS or A2 students
Here's a couple of quick Crossword activities that you can set in class or as homework from the tutor2u team. They are:
- AS Introductory Economics
- A2 Theory of the Firm
Both come with 15 questions and you can even download the answers if you think you might need some help!
read more...»Edexcel A2 Economics: Worked Answers for May 2014
Edexcel UNIT 3 & UNIT 4 Worked Answers is a new printed resource from the tutor2u Economics team which we expect to be available for dispatch from early December 2014.
read more...»Short presentation on 'Perfect Competition'
Here's a pleasant and short Powerpoint presentation on Perfect Competition that you may wish to include as part of any lesson on the subject. The presentation shows how price, supply and average and marginal revenue shifts as more firms enter the market and the impact that has on profits.
Click here to download the resource 'Perfect Competition'
Look out for more diagram testing resources as part of our upcoming Wow Economics CPD events. Regular blog contributor Virang Dal has created a Powerpoint resource called 'Diagram Dissection' that asks students to identify the 'body parts' of a series of 28 economic diagrams.
Welcome Back! A quick fire resource for your returning A2 students - 'Whilst you were away'
Following a similar format to last week's AS 'World of Economics', this free resource available from the download link below is a rapid 10 minute starter for the first class with your returning A2 students.
Entitled 'Whilst you were away', the resource shows a montage of images. Each image also has a question and all relate to news stories from around the world during the months of July and August 2014. The montage remains on screen with a 3 minute timer fading away at the bottom of the screen - ask your students (individually or in small teams) to answer all 9 questions in the 3 minutes available.
Then go through the answers one at a time - there is an individual slide showing the answer to each question plus a supplementary question for each image to stimulate discussion about how the news stories impact on economics. This is a Powerpoint resource so feel free to edit the questions as you see fit.
Click here to download the resource
Business Economics: Amazon buys Twitch
Here is some background on Amazon's all-cash purchase of live gaming site Twitch. Read through it and consider some of the likely business synergies from the acquisition.
read more...»BHP Billiton announces plans for a demerger
De-mergers often figure in EdExcel Unit 3 questions e.g. on the structured multiple choice - so this one from mining giant BHP Billiton is a good example to be aware of and to understand the key drivers behind the decision. BHP Billiton plan to sell (divest) non-core assets such as their aluminium, manganese and nickel mines.
As always - focusing on core competencies, streamlining operations to avoid diseconomies of scale lie at the heart of the de-merger process
BHP Billiton is hugely profitable! BHP achieved full-year profits last year of $US13.8bn helped by a 15th straight year of record iron ore production.
More here on the planned demerger from Reuters Business News
read more...»Price Discrimination in the the EU Vehicle Hire Market
An almost perfect example of price discrimination is evident in this market revealed on the BBC online news site - read this section carefully!
"Charges vary for some motorists, even if they are picking up the same vehicle from the same location and from the same hire company."
Then read through the article to find clues as to how some vehicle hire businesses have been able to segment the market and discriminate between drivers from different countries inside the EU.
The regulators are onto the issue - expect some action unless vehicle hire businesses adjust their pricing tactics!
read more...»Small businesses - a bakery in the desert
This video report from BBC Global Business looks at the success of a very small scale bakery located in an isolated mountain our region of Spain.
read more...»Reduction in UK consumption of drugs, alcohol and cigarettes by young people - numerical example
A report out yesterday from the Health and Social Care Information Centre shows a dramatic fall in the consumption by young people (aged 11 to 15) of our favourite demerit goods – alcohol, cigarettes and drugs. The report suggests that over the last decade regular smoking fell from 9% to 3% of 11- to 15-year-olds. Regular alcohol drinking dropped from 25% to 9%. Drug use has halved from 12% to 6% over this 10 year period.
This, of course, is very good news with regards to the relative health of our youth. As an economics teacher the first question I would ask my students is how this downturn has been achieved? What has happened either within the market or with government intervention to shift consumption in this way? It could be argued that this represents the most successful example of government intervention into markets to change behaviour and can be attributed to regulation, restriction of use and good old education! Information failure does not appear to have had an impact and the political will to succeed has been fairly uniform among the major parties in power.
For me, of course, it also offers the opportunity to do the next in my series of numerical activities in preparation for the arrival of the new specifications in 2015!
read more...»MTR wins London CrossRail Operating Franchise
An important part of the CrossRail project has been decided with the news that the £1.4bn contract to run the new Crossrail service through London from 2018 has been awarded to Hong Kong-based MTR Corporation.
read more...»Shareholder activism at the Royal Mail
Shareholder activism regarding executive pay is covered in this article from the Guardian. Note too the emergence of TNT Post as a competitor in the cities for final mile delivery of business and household mail - the mail market is becoming more contestable.
The Royal Mail's latest market report is an interesting read for those who want to study market dynamics in more details - for example the continued growth (but high contestability) in parcels contrasted with a trend decline in the volume of letters sent through the post - click here for the 2014 market overview: http://ar2013-14.royalmailgroup.com/overview/marke...
Calculation time! CMA recommends banks provision of current accounts should be investigated
Today's announcement that the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) are recommending that the High Street Banks' provision of current accounts should be investigated for lack of competition may not surprise many. The case study may be valuable when looking at competition in oligopolistic markets and a report can be found from this link. The BBC take on the story can be found from this link.
I also thought it offered a chance to do some calculations! Given my current theme of bringing the new levels of assessment of numeracy and quantitative methods in the 2015 specifications of A level economics ever increasingly to the attention of our teaching community, where better to do some number work than when looking at market share in the banking industry!
read more...»Price Cap introduced for the UK Payday Loans Market
The UK Financial Conduct Authority has announced direct interventions in the market for payday loans - the high cost short term loans market which has expanded rapidly in recent years led by businesses such as Wonga. The decision is the result of a detailed assessment of the industry which had flagged up a number of market failures.
read more...»Universities, Business and the UK Economy
Here is a short video featuring Mike Kitson from Cambridge University explaining the role universities play in knowledge exchange with businesses
read more...»Dropbox and the failures behind it
According to some sources, Dropbox was the 37th online storage solution to be developed for the web - but despite early failures and late entry it has emerged as the cloud storage product of choice for over 300 million people. The firm is now estimated to be worth about £5.9bn.
This BBC article looks at the background to the story. Article can be found here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-27579790
read more...»Contestable Markets - A New Retail Landscape
Here is a short FT background video on the challenges facing established food retailers in the UK. The supermarket is under pressure. They face competition from both hard discounters and upmarket retailers. The FT's Andrea Felsted visits Romford, on the outskirts of London, to examine how supermarkets are adapting to their new retail landscape. The Guardian's articles in changing competition in the food retail sector provide some excellent background pieces - click here to access: http://www.theguardian.com/business/supermarkets
read more...»Paul Ormerod: Innovation, Job Losses and Living Standards
Here is your starter for ten. What do the Uber app and David Ricardo have in common? Ricardo, I hear you ask. Scarcely known outside academic economics, he ranks equal with Adam Smith and Keynes as the greatest ever British economist. His classic Principles of Political Economy was published in 1816. He made millions of pounds on the stock market, at a time when a million was a vast amount of money.
read more...»Disruptive technology: Uber
Technology always disrupts markets. It provides dynamic efficiency improvements, creates new markets, destroys old ones, and in some cases destroys monopolies and in others, creates new monopolies.
read more...»Unit 3 Micro: Should Tesco be broken up?
The supermarket giant Tesco is under increasing pressure! Tesco is Britain's biggest retailer (it has 29% of the UK groceries market) and the biggest private-sector employer, and it runs about 7,000 stores worldwide. But it is facing significant commercial challenges from discount retailers such as Aldi and Lidl and seems to be squeezed in the middle as other shoppers look for the value proposition in stores such as Waitrose. Their recent trading figures made for sorry reading. For the three months to 24 May 2014, Tesco said like-for-like UK sales including VAT and excluding petrol fell 3.7%.
Is there a case for breaking up Tesco and getting the business to re-focus on what it does best? Two journalists from the Financial Times argue it out in the video below:
read more...»Transport Economics: The Return of Trams - Benefits and Costs
Trams have been experiencing a revival in a number of towns and cities in the past few decades. Edinburgh is the latest city to invest in trams, and hopes they will boost local economy. But do the benefits outweigh costs? Manchester, Sheffield, Blackpool, Nottingham, Newcastle and Croydon have all installed trams / light rail and others are considering investment.
The Edinburgh trams at running (at last) but the jury will remain out for a long time about their net impact on economic activity, traffic congestion and the broader health of Edinburgh and the local environs.
read more...»Unit 3 Micro: Ban on Eurotunnel ferry service confirmed by CMA
An important judgement from the newly established Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). They believe that competition is best served by having three major cross-channel service operators - namely EuroTunnel (rail) and two ferry operators.
The CMA has ruled against EuroTunnel being able to cross-subsidise the loss-making MyFerryLink on the Dover to Calais service because in doing so, it is likely to lead to the market exit of a rival provider and ultimately cause higher prices for consumers.
read more...»Unit 3 Micro Business Economics Revision Guide
Until the 3rd of June we are making available in streamed format the Unit 3 Business economics revision companion - a superb resource for AQA and ExExcel in particular
read more...»World of Business: Focus on Business Pricing
What do prices mean and how are they set. A recent BBC World of Business podcast explored this and other issues.
read more...»Quick revision of Key Phrases - the 'Usual Suspects' revision activity
Looking for a quick activity to help test revision of some of the key economic terms needed for the up-coming exams? Here's a nice little test of knowledge that can either be used as an in-class activity or for individual students to use to test their own revision.
Called 'The Usual Suspects', students are given one minute to identify the definitions of as many key phrases from the micro and macro curriculum as they can. Each phrase is shown alongside 4 possible definitions (from the wider pool). Students must identify which is the correct answer. If an incorrect answer is given, the student has to click to remove a 'bar' to allow them to continue with the test.
60 key phrases are included with each of the two resources below, so the activity can be run several times. Who can get the highest score in one minute!
Click on this link for the macro version of the activity.
Click on this link for the micro version of the activity.
Economics Exam Technique: Thoughts on Improving Your Economics Papers
Here is a streamed presentation covering sone "Thoughts on Improving Your Economics Papers"
read more...»UK Income and Wealth Inequality - A New Film
Income and wealth inequality in the UK are higher than most people think they are and higher than they think they should be. These are among the messages of a new online infographics film:
read more...»Cost Benefit Analysis - The Crossrail Project
Here is a streamed version of a revision presentation on the Crossrail project, a good example to use when teaching transport economics and the main principles and issues governing a cost benefit analysis approach to infrastructure investment appraisal. It is designed for use with AS and A2 economics students.
read more...»Unit 3 Micro: Revision on the Private Finance Initiative
Here is a short revision presentation covering aspects of the Private Finance Initiative - which figures on unit 3 for EdExcel micro economics
read more...»Unit 3 Micro: Tanzania's cola wars
Tanzanian cola producers are taking on Coca Cola and making headway in the battle for market share. Despite economic growth, there is a fragile middle class vulnerable to changes in world commodity prices and unstable employment and wages. This opens up an opportunity for indigenous food and drinks manufacturers who might be able to supply products at a lower price harnessing environmental aims such as recycling the majority of plastic bottles used.
read more...»Test your knowledge on AS Macro Diagrams (Day two)
Here is the second in our series of resources aimed to testing student knowledge of the key diagrams for their upcoming exams. Today's files are related to AS Macro diagrams.
The two files are aimed at teachers or students in the run up to their exams and assume that they have been covered previously.
Click here to download a Powerpoint file to use in class as a scrolling test (with accompanying music). The test lasts 4 minutes and then teachers can reveal the answers one at a time.
Click here to download a document file that tests the same diagrams but in a static document format for either teachers to use in class or for students revising for their exams.
This link takes you to yesterday's (Day one) blog for the AS micro equivalent.
Unit 3 Micro: Business Objectives, Costs, Revenues and Profits
This blog entry brings together some of our revision resources on these crucial aspects of the theory of the firm. Scroll down below for revision notes, presentations and online quizzes for your to check your understanding.
read more...»Unit 3 Micro: Some Key Diagrams for Business Economics
Here is a selection of key diagrams for the Unit 3 business economics course
read more...»The 'SLAP the examiner' evaluation tool for Economics
Here at tutor2u, we like our acronyms to help students remember key phrases. We're particular fond of any acronym that helps students remember how to structure paragraphs for more complex, evaluative answers that they have to give as part of their examination answers (search this site for WEESTEPS, BEESHATECOD and TWEEP).
Here's another such acronym (hat-tip to Paul Hoang, from Sha Tin College in Hong Kong for showing us this acronym), called 'SLAP the examiner' aimed at evaluation. I guess that this one has the advantage of containing only 4 letters(!).
The acronym stands for:
S | Stakeholder perspectives |
L | Long term vs short term implications |
A | Advantage and disadvantages of policy recommendations |
P | Priorities of the government or economy. |
Click on this link to download a nice single sheet reminder of the acronym which has been applied to a couple of economics questions.
Normative statements - using E-Cigarette newspaper reports to look at normative statements
I'm sure that introducing the concept of normative statements is something that most Economics' teachers introduce early in the curriculum to show the dangers of expressing opinions without evidence. It's a tricky balancing act that we have to play - as students start to write longer, evaluative pieces we are keen for them to make reasoned arguments that don't sit on the fence but warn them of the dangers of starting to rant.
read more...»Unit 3 Micro: Energy firms face competition inquiry
The big six energy firms in the UK - who account for more than ninety per cent of suppliers to UK household, commercial and industrial consumers - will be subject to another investigation by the competition authorities.
A report by regulator Ofgem has called for an investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) which could take nearly two years to complete - effectively pushing the issue into the long grass well beyond the date of the next election.
read more...»Unit 3 Micro: Royal Mail - Industry Extracts
Here is a selection of short extracts on the Royal Mail and the changing structure of the industry. I have been using them when teaching Unit 3 business economics - it strikes me as an excellent case study for revising lots of parts of the course. I have added some links below to recent media coverage of Royal Mail stories.
read more...»UCAS and Oxbridge - Delving into Management
A number of students have been asking me about suggested reading for and introductions to the study of management as they look ahead to a UCAS application in the autumn. Here are some thoughts.
read more...»Unit 3 Micro: Pop Up Shops on the Underground
In recent times, pop up shops (retail outlets available on very short term leases) have grown in popularity. In part this has been because of the increase in vacant retail space during and in the aftermath of the last recession. But increasingly other organisation are thinking about using their locations as opportunities to attract small retailers and/or retail start-ups.
Transport for London is one such example. TfL owns more than 1,000 retail properties and this week TFL has signed a deal with Appear Here, an 'online property agency', to allow pop-up shops and restaurants in its tube stations. Consider the business potential for this kind of retail investment. Old Street is earmarked for this experiment - it is just a short walk from Silicon Roundabout in Shoreditch - the home of hundreds of emerging tech start up businesses.
Unit 3 Micro: Merger of Chiquita and Fyffes
A mega merger is creating the world's largest banana company - it has been announced that Chiquita of the USA and Dublin-based Fyffes will be merging to form a giant banana distribution company.
read more...»Price Regulation in Industries
Regulation of prices through price capping has been a feature of regulation of the utilities in the UK for many years – although this is now being phased out as most utility markets have become more competitive.
Price capping systems
- Price capping is an alternative to rate-of-return regulation, in which utility businesses are allowed to achieve a given rate of return (or rate of profit) on capital.
- In the UK, price capping has been known as "RPI-X". This takes the rate of inflation, measured by the Consumer Price Index and subtracts expected efficiency savings X. So for example, if inflation is 5% and X is 3% then an industry can raise their prices on average by only 2% per year
- In the water industry, the formula is "RPI - X + K", where K is based on capital investment requirements designed to improve water quality and meet EU water quality standards. This has meant increases in the real cost of water bills for millions of households in the UK.
Capping is an appropriate way to curtail the monopoly power of "natural monopolies" – preventing them from making excessive profits at the expense of consumers
Cuts in the real price levels are good for household and industrial consumers (leading to an increase in consumer surplus and higher real living standards in the long run).
Price capping helps to stimulate improvements in productive efficiency because lower costs are needed to increase a producer's profits.
- The price capping system is a tool for controlling consumer price inflation in the UK.
Price caps have led to large numbers of job losses in the utility industries
Setting different price capping regimes for each industry distorts the price mechanism
read more...»Unit 3 Micro: Facebook Buys WhatsApp
In a bold move in the continuing battle between Facebook and Google to dominate the next phase of digital / mobile growth, Mark Zuckerberg's listed business has agreed an £11bn acquisition of WhatsApp - a deal to be paid in a combination of cash and shares.
The total value of the deal is staggering high for a business that employs just over 50 people.
- The price Facebook is paying for WhatsApp is more than ten times what Google spent on YouTube
- It is more than 20 times what Facebook paid for Instagram
- The $19bn paid for WhatsApp works out at $40 for each of its 450m users!
- The $19bn deal to buy WhatsApp is more than 10% of the annual value of Ukranian GDP
What are some of the justifications for such a mega-priced deal?
read more...»Unit 3 Micro: Monopolistic Competition
This is an updated revision presentation on aspects of monopolistic competition in markets
read more...»Behavioural Economics: Rory Sutherland on Valentine's Day
Watch this short six minute video to learn how London cabbies are a lot like the ideal boyfriend. Rory Sutherland on excellent form again! In six minutes he discusses sunk costs, commitment devices, human capital, information failures and price discrimination in restaurants on Valentine's Day.
read more...»Government underestimates the amount of student loans that are likely to be paid back
According to a report published by the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee, the Government are currently underestimating how many students will actually pay back their university loans over the coming decades. Currently, the Government estimates that between 35 and 40% of loans to Higher Education students are never paid back - the Committee believes that the rate on non-repayment is much higher and reflects a weakness in the loan collection method. The primary reason for non-repayment is that student details get lost over a period of time particularly if the graduate moves and works abroad or was an EU citizen who has returned to their own country. The method of using the income tax registration process as a way of locating former students has been criticized for not being an effective method of collecting information. It is estimated that the shortfall could be as much as £80 million by 2042.
read more...»Perfect Competition vs Monopoly Essay Guide
A quick but informative guide on how to structure an essay evaluating perfect competition and monopoly. For more videos, click here
read more...»Energy companies charge cash-paying customers more - market failure and Government intervention
If you attended the recent tutor2u revision conferences for up-coming micro-economic exams (look out for the macro workshops and combined micro and macro to come in March) you will have seen how fuel-pricing was used as an example of market failure, government intervention strategies and government failure.
Fortunately, the energy market is a gift that keeps giving to us in the economics world (every cloud has a silver lining) as a report out today (see this link for the BBC version of the story) indicates that Parliament is about to intervene to try and stop the energy companies charging more to customers who pay by cash rather than by direct debit (£114 per year, according to the report).
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5 One of the originals and the bestGarfgeezer | 27/03/2012 | See all Garfgeezer's reviews (32)Loved this so much on my PS2, I got it for the XBox 360 and played it through again!One of the first Lego games out and it still rocks with the perfect blend of humour and puzzle solving that have become the hallmark of this amazing series.
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Sunday morning dim sum: Hong Min
Some people wake up on a lazy Sunday and require coffee and newspapers to collect the shattered pieces of their weekend selves. Other people want bottomless bloody marys and eggs benedict with hollandaise sauce to ward off Monday's coming. I am the person who requires steamed pork buns and shrimp wrapped in lovely wonton wrappers, dipped in soy sauce mixed with oily chilli paste. It's the only way to make you whole again.
Dim sum is the Cantonese style of serving small steamer baskets full of dumplings, plates of buns, both steamed and roasted, and small plates of all descriptions of pork, seafood, duck, and loveliness (beginners' guides here and here). Also known as nam cha, it's the perfect hung over brunch; wait staff will bring tray after tray of steamed deliciousness, and you simply eat until you are full, pointing at which basket of amazing you want next.
I can see the question forming on your lips: Why would I be eating dim sum in Bangkok? Because you can, dear reader. With around 12% of the population made up of immigrant southern Chinese, most of whom reside in Bangkok, there is a critical mass of people who know a good steamed bun when they see one. Also, as eating dim sum is fun, and Thailand is a land where if it isn't fun, it won't get done, so the dim sum experience appeals to everyone no matter your family origin.
Finding a good dim sum place, however, is not an activity for a tender and delicate time like Sunday morning. Let us help. Like in much of Asia, good food can come from surprising places — my suggestion, for starters, is not in Chinatown.
Hong Min has great dim sum and enthusiastic service. There are two locations on the first and third floors in the MBK shopping centre in the Siam Square area (don't let the fact that it is located in a shopping mall throw you — the food is excellent). The staff is great and while they don't speak a lot of English, they will try to get you what you require (namely, basket after basket of life giving dumplings). The shu mai (pork dumplings) are excellent, as are the translucent chive-filled shrimp dumplings, and the roast duck slices come perfectly done with crackling skin.
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The wonderful Bill has some capsule reviews here, and one of the films is Johnny Guitar. (Gotta love in the poster above how the headline is "Joan's Greatest Triumph". No last name necessary, then or now. Makes me think of Meryl Streep's tired rejoinder to her mother Shirley MacLaine's suggestion that she should count her blessings because she "could have had Joan Crawford or Lana Turner for a mother". Meryl says, exhausted, "Joan? Lana? These are the options?") I first watched Johnny Guitar, believe it or not, during my isolated sojourn on Block Island last month, and Mitchell and I texted our way through it. Mitchell loves this movie, knows every shot, every line, every color palette, and was so excited to experience it with me. I have a record of our conversation, and here, in its unedited glory, it is. There is some overlap (if you text regularly, then you know how that happens). Naturally, after the movie finished, I had to call him right away so we could talk in person. A feverishly fun conversation followed. He is encyclopedic on this film and Nicholas Ray, in general. If you've seen it, then you know the weirdness of it. The passive artistic men, and the fierce (and ferocious) women, all the gender roles are effed up here. It's a gorgeous LOOKING film, and Francois Truffaut, in his essay on it wrote:
Johnny Guitar is a phony Western, but not an "intellectual" one. It is dreamed, a fairy tale, a hallucinatory Western. It was only a step from the dream to Freud, which our Anglo-Saxon colleagues took up when they began talking about "psychoanalytic Westerns". But the qualities of Ray's film are something different, not very visible perhaps to those who have never looked through a camera's viewer…Johnny Guitar was "made" rather hastily, out of very long scenes that were cut up into ten segments. The editing is jerky, but what interests us is something else: for example, an extraordinarily beautiful placement of individuals in a certain setting. (The members of the patrol at Vienna's, for example, arrange themselves in the V of migratory birds.) There are two films in Johnny Guitar: Ray's recurring theme – the relationships among the two men and two women, the violence and bitterness – and an extravagant catch-all done in Joseph von Sternberg style, a style which is absolutely foreign to Ray's work, but which in this case is no less interesting. For instance, we watch Joan Crawford, in a white dress, playing the piano in a cavernous saloon, with a candlestick and a pistol beside her. Johnny Guitar is the Beauty and the Beast of Westerns, a Western dream. The cowboys vanish and die with the grace of ballerinas. The bold violent color (by Trucolor) contributes to the sense of strangeness; the hues are vivid, sometimes very beautiful, always unexpected.
The public on the Champs-Elysees wasn't mistaken to snicker at Johnny Guitar. In five years they'll be crowding into the Cinema d'Essai to applaud it.
Here we go:
Mitchell: Johnny Guitar is on tcm…have u seen it?
Me: Haven't seen it and I can't wait!
Mitchell: Camp. Retro. Psychological classic.
Me: Thrilling.
The movie begins. We continue to text one another throughout.
Me: Omg her outfit.
Mitchell: The colors of the film r great.
Me: I'm so used to seeing her in black and white.
Mitchell: The lesbian villain has arrived. Not subtle. Ray was subversive.
Me: Yes quite blatant. I love the wind in the background
Mitchell: He created a whole Lez icon… lipstick. And a gun.
Me: And a butch haircut
Mitchell: "if I don't kill u fearst."
Me: Wow. Johnny Guitar's speaking voice is seeexy
Me: Hahaha fearst
Me: The lesbian is upset
Mitchell: She said tramp like wishful thinking
Me: Exactly. You wish you could be a tramp!
Mitchell: Like she is so sexually repressed. She is rageful
Me: Joan is scary gorgeous
Mitchell: Look at her brows
Me: love her acting
Mitchell: Me too. She means business
Me: I guess I didn't know her eyes were so blue
Mitchell: She was blue eyed and freckled
Me: Is that Ernest Borgnine?
Mitchell: Yup
Me: Her tie is killing me.
Mitchell: It's so hyper realism. All archtypes turned on their head. With poetic dialogue and saturated color. Gender studies heaven
Me: Turkey lost his virginity to Vienna, I'm thinkin
Mitchell: Nice call
Mitchell: Wait until Joan wears all white
Me: How old is Joan here?
Mitchell: 49
Me: Wow
Mitchell: Hot
Me: Smokin
Me: I love how Joan just said that line "Enough".
Mitchell: I want Lez back. All angry and moist
Me: She's angry BECAUSE she's moist. What a betrayal of the body
Mitchell: Exactly. Also the cowboy rivals for Joan are a dancer and a musician. Not exactly butch. The women are butcher
Me: Right, lots of anxiety about gender
Mitchell: Can't be accidental. Not with Ray's issues
Me: Oh totally
Me: Oh, Turkey.
Mitchell: Lol
Me: Jesus, Johnny Guitar is hot
Me: Beautiful colors
Mitchell: Bad dreams
Mitchell: Truffaut and Almadovar worship this film
Me: The colors remind me of Almadovar
Mitchell: So true. I think he even refers to it in Women on the Verge
Mitchell: Turkey needs a spanking
Me: He "makes her feel like a woman and that frightens her". What a line!
Me: Emma, you need to chillax
Mitchell: Put ur cock away lesbian!
Me: Rude!!
Mitchell: I think they pass Turkey around when there ain't no women folk
Me: Oh definitely Turkey is their bitch boy
Mitchell: Blue and orange colors
Me: White dress!
Mitchell: So girly all of a sudden
Me: Joan at the piano?? Brill!
Mitchell: Perfect
Mitchell: Black and white ladies
Me: But the short hair is a dead giveaway
Me: She's just such a damn good actress
Me: Poor Turkey
Mitchell: Sweet boy
Me: Emma's a cunt
Mitchell: Big time. She did the devil's voice in The Exorcist
Me: Really??
Mitchell: Yup
Me: Every shot is a mini work of art
Mitchell: It's style as substance. Ya know?
Me: Yes, style as substance. So many directors now cannot manage that
Mitchell: Btw. Turkey tied up with pretty red lips is such fetish porn. I fucking love this movie
Mitchell: Tom Ford does in A Single Man … and Tim Burton. But it's rare.
Me: Rare yes. Michael Mann does it too.
Mitchell: Yes
Me: Look at Joan swimming!
Mitchell: Lol. Like my aunt Dottie
Me: Ha! You know, Joan was a huge star obviously, but I sense very little vanity in her actual acting
Mitchell: She liked working
Me: You can really sense that
Mitchell: She and Mercedes hated each other
Me: Really?
Mitchell: Yeah. Joan was threatened by her … acted aloof.
Me: In a cage match I'd bet on Joan
Mitchell: She'll fight dirty
Me: This is a fascinating movie. Ur right … subversive.
Mitchell: Here we go. Showdown.
Me: !!
Mitchell: The women are having the showdown in 1954
Mitchell: Great Peggy Lee song
Movie over. Ring, ring ….


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Psdtuts+ is a weblog and Photoshop site that features high-quality Photoshop tutorials. On Psdtuts+, you'll find tutorials such as "Creating a Touching Story Scene in Photoshop" and tips and tricks like "Using Adobe Kuler to Enhance Your Photoshop Color Workflow".
30 Creative Examples of Illustrations in Web Design
Adding illustrative elements to a web design can take it to a whole new level. Illustrations add a uniqueness and character to a design, giving it the ability to make it truly stand out from the crowd. Designers and artists use them in various parts of a design: as backgrounds, as part of a captivating header, or as an accent within the content area.
In this article, you'll be able to set your eyes on some of the best examples of websites that have chosen to use illustrated elements as part of the design.
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Typography is a crucial component of a design. When used effectively, it sets the mood and solicits emotion about the design. Working with typography can be challenging, but fortunately, there is a plethora of free tools on the web that can help you work with type.
In this article, you'll find 20 tools for working with typography. You'll find an assortment of tools that'll help you with testing, identifying, sizing, and even making, fonts.
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The Dark Knight Rises - International TV SpotReported by Outsiders - 02:36 PM 2012.07.05
A new 60 second International Spot for "The Dark Knight Rises" is now available online. This TV Spot has mostly the same elements from the previously released spots during the first half of the spot, but the second half does feature a lil new footage from Chris Nolan's final Batman film. It has been eight years since Batman vanished into the night, turning, in that instant, from hero to fugitive. Assuming the blame for the death of D.A. Harvey Dent, the Dark Knight sacrificed everything for what he and Commissioner Gordon both hoped was the greater good. For a time the lie worked, as criminal activity in Gotham City was crushed under the weight of the anti-crime Dent Act. But everything will change with the arrival of a cunning cat burglar with a mysterious agenda. Far more dangerous, however, is the emergence of Bane, a masked terrorist whose ruthless plans for Gotham drive Bruce out of his self-imposed exile. But even if he dons the cape and cowl again, Batman may be no match for Bane. The Dark Knight Rises stars Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman Release: July 20th, 2012
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Vivaldis Sonata Mug/Travel Mug (Set of 2)
At Konitz everything revolves around mugs! Konitz offers a wide assortment of coffee and tea mugs, as well as espresso, cappuccino and café-au-lait cups with flower, animal, artistic, modern and trendy decors. Konitz is constantly on the look-out for the newest and most "in" trends in the area of fashion, design, technology and living, in order to create new mugs.
Headquartered in Germany, and founded by the Rosenthal family that created Rosenthal Porcelain, Konitz mugs and tea cups are in a category all by themselves. This mug set shows a portion of the sheet music for Vivaldi's Sonata in C minor for oboe and basso continuo. There is one 9 ounce Travel Mug and one 12 ounce Coffee Mug so you can have your favorite design "to stay or to go".
- One 9 ounce Travel Mug with Silicon Lid and one 10 ounce Coffee Mug
- Sheet music of Vivaldi's Sonata in C minor for oboe and basso continuo
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This is a lotion with great ingredients that soften skin and are good for the face and body. I used up a 4 oz tube and repurchased a 16 oz pump bottle. However, I eventually found that it does not continue to moisturize my very dry skin for the entire day and the scent, while pleasant, got tiresome after awhile, so I have switched to Nature's Gate fragrance-free lotion which is thicker and also a few dollars cheaper. But if your skin is only mildly dry or you want to reduce redness, I recommend giving this a try.
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I just bought a bottle of this stuff and really love it. I need a heavier moisturizer on my face in the winter; I've been using Cetaphil lotion with Eucerin 30SPF moisturizer on top, but wanted to find something more natural than the Cetaphil. This is great stuff; I like the light scent that is gained from herbal extracts, not an artificial fragrance. It really moisturizes my facial skin and forms a nice barrier against cold and wind (even makes it "glowy"), and I like that it can be used as a face and body moisturizer, so I don't have to apply two different things right out of the shower. The price is right, too!
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I love this moisturizer. I have been using this for a year now for both face & body. It leaves my skin so soft. It has some really great ingredients for the skin like olive oil,aloe vera,almond oil,vitamins A,D2 & E & some flower extracts. It moisturizes really well & keeps my skin soft for quite a while.
It's cruelty-free & contains no animal ingredients which is a big plus for me!
I use the 16oz bottle which usually sells for between $9.00 & $10.00. If you just used on your face, it would be an incredible value! Of course, it's still a great value for both face & body too. I love the pump bottle. It makes it easier to use. The packaging is attractive to display in your bathroom. Kiss My Face is a wonderful enviromently & animal friendly company whom I feel good buying from!
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I absolutely love this product. My skin is super sensitive and I have very dry red patches. After using this product my dry spots are gone and it leaves my face feeling soft but not greasy. The price is good and I would highly recommend it.
I don't know if i would buy this again. While it's great on hands, body. I had a severe allergic reaction when i put it on my face. (I broke out in spots that looked like mosquito bites.) Which is ironic as it states it's "for sensitive skin". In anycase the smell is wonderful, clean and mild like cucumber so will probably continue to use on body.
I bought this on a whim. It says you can use it on your face, but I wouldn't! It has Isopropyl Myristate way up high in the ingredients list. I think it's too greasy and yucky, even for hands. And the natural claim is pretty bogus, because Olive and Aloe are #7 and #8 in the ingredients. Very disappointing product.INGREDIENTS: Purified Water, Glycerol Stearate, PEG 100 Stearate, Isopropyl Myristate, Cetyl Alcohol, Emulsifying Wax, Olive Oil, Aloe Vera, Almond Oil, Vitamins A & D2, Tocopherol Acetate, Allantoin, Lecithin, Chamomile Extract, Marigold Extract, Sage Extract, Yarrow Extract, Orange Blossom Extract, Lavender Extract, Elder Flowers and Fennel Extracts, Methylparaben, Propylparaben, Fragrance continued >>
I bought this product to use as a day hand lotion because I generally like Kiss My Face products and this came in a large 16 oz. bottle with pump. It absorbs quickly in the skin and immediately softens my hands without being too heavy for day use. I prefer using heavier treatments like Neutrogena Norwegian hand cream in the evening. I haven't dared try this on my face because I am acne-prone, but I think it might work well for others because the ingredients (olive oil, aloe vera gel, almond oil, tocopheral) are often used in a lot of face creams.
I have not been disappointed with any of the Kiss My Face lotions that I have bought. I love this lotion because it is light but gets the job done at the same time. The smell is very light and refreshing, very much like cucumbers with a herbal note in the background. Lovely.
This is such a great facial moisturizer! I had been having such problematic skin for the past year, and nothing I used got rid of my huge (and everlasting) zits. Either a moisturizer would make me too greasy or wouldn't moisturize enough...and still I had reoccurring zits. Now I was going to wait to make a review but after 2 days my zits have healed up and now are slowly fading. I tell you it is so amazing! So until a further update...I love this moisturizer!
UPDATE: Although this stuff cleared up my skin at first, it ended up giving me a lot of whiteheads which turned into zits over time. And with winter it's just not very moisturizing for my dry acne prone skin. Too bad.


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