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Issue date: Thursday, May 23, 1895
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Previous edition: Wednesday, May 22, 1895
Next edition: Friday, May 24, 1895
Publication name: Hagerstown Morning News
Location: Hagerstown, Maryland
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Morning News, The (Newspaper) - May 23, 1895, Hagerstown, Maryland FOR ONE CENT A DAY you can get all the news by subscribing THE MORNING NEWS, TO ATTRACT THE ATTENTION of the public to your business, adver- tise in THE MORNING NEWS. GBHIL VOL. XXI-NO. 228. IIAGERSTOWN, MD., THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1895. PRICE ONE CENT "Never Ship Was Built In Norway Marquis of Queensbcrry and Son Are Placed Under Jiond. His HALF 80 FINE AS SHE." Such is the poet's verdict, in the Norwegian Saga, on the famous Dragon-Ship of King Olaf. Of that stern sea-rover himself the picture is not less vigorous "Ou her deck .stands Olaf the King, While; around him whistle and sing The spears that the foreman Even in the adornments of the royal craft we find this expression of THE REIGN OF FORCE. For we read that ''High above it gilt and splendid Rose the figure-head ferocious With its crest of The Vikings of were the types of a mistaken idea. King Olaf's expedition closed in disaster. Leif Ericsson's discovery was almost as fruitless. Not a, vestige of Norse conquest is now on the maps of the world. No race has been truly successful that did not hold MIND ABOVE MATTER And Intellect as the guide of Force. So it is with the nations of today and so with individuals in all ranks of life. In law or politics, commerce or industry, city and country, we may note that Brainy Men It is this that gives such a spur to nil projects for the education of our people, and especially those that are founded on the idea of self-inspiration, self-effort and self or home managem Culture of this kind is made eminently practicable by the plans of the E JJM T I E COUPON OF INQUIRY. I am interested in the work of your Home University League and request- you to send me full particulars. Name..... Address. Station Which THE BALTIMORE MORN- ING HERALD has adopted in connection with its distribution of the Encyclopedia Brit- annica on a cheap plan. A "Guide" issued with the great work gives inestimable help to students. Send in this coupon for full particulars to the office ofTHEMORNING NEWS. THEIR FIGHT IN PICCADILLY. Tose Mnrtl, Leader of the Cuban Rebels Reported Slain Geiiornl Gomez Warned. LONDON, May tho Marlbor- ough Street Police Court this morning the Marquis of Queensberry and bis son, Iiord Douglas, of Harwich, were bound over in bail each to keep the peace. Their appearance in court was the result of their encounter yester- day afternoon in Piccadilly, when the Marquis severely punished his son ing a quarrel over the Oacar Wilde scandal. Both the Marquis and Lord Douglas were fashionably dressed. The Mar- quis wore a rose in his buttonhole and did not show any sign of the fight. On the other hand, his son Lad n black eye. The Marquis was not defended by counsel, but Lord Douglas had a lawyer present. In his defense, the Marquis said that while he was walking in Piccadilly his SOD came running at him and pushed him against a store window, speaking at the top of his voice. The Marquis added that he struck his son in self-defense. Counsel for Lord Douglas said that the latter and a frieiid were walking in Pic- cadilly, not thinking of the Marquis of Queensbury, wlTen the encounter took place. Counsel added that Lady Doug las yesterday received the following telegi-arn: "I must congratulate you on the re- sult, but I cannot congratulate yon oil Percy's appearance. He looks like n dug-up corpse. I fear there is too much madness in kissing. Taylor is guilty. It will be Wilde's turn tomorrow." It was also asserted that the Marquis had written to Lady Douglas false charges against her husband and members of the family, and that, although he had promised to stop writ- ing, he had not done so. Yesterday it was claimed Lord Douglas asked tho Marquis to cease writing "these obscene and filthy" letters to his wife. The Marquis then hit him in the face anrl the fight followed. Rebel [.pallor Slain. HAVANA, May Saloeclo telegraphs that government troops, un- der tho commndd of Uolouel Sandoval, encountered a force of insurgents at a point between Dos Kiosey Byzas and Bemaugaua Jnas. Many of the rebels were armed, including Jose Marti, presi- dent of tho so-called republic, whose body was found by the government troopa. General Maximo Gomez is reported to have been seriously shot, NEW YOKK, May Norwegian fruit steamer Bnraoou arrived today from Gibara, Cuba. Captain Clausen reports that while anchored at Sumo, near Gibara, awaiting cargo, great ex- citement prevailed on shore. Bands of insurgents roamed through the town, and Captain Clausen received tion that tho insurgent General, Gomez, contemplated seizing the Baracoa, to use as a transport fo.' his soldiers from town to town along the Cuban coast. Captain Clausen immediately got up all steam, so that on the appearsnce of the rebels he could slip his anchor and go to sea, but after 48 hours the mont on shore subsided, the rebels pre- sumably having left the town. Jose Marti had a romatic career. Ho was president of the Cuban revolution ary party. At the time of the first Intion, although but 15, he was banish- ed for conspiracy against the Govern- ment. He was sent to Spain, where he was imprisoned in dangeons until he was at the point of death. He was freed at last, on condition that he would re- main in Spain for the remainder of his life. He stndied in Saragassa, and be- fore he was 21 received the decrees of doctor of law and letters. When the Spanish Eepubjic was pro- claimed ho succeeded in evading the authorities and'escaped to France, com. ing afterward to the United States. The Cuban war was the'n about over. Marti, nevertheless, went to Mexico, where he organized a filibustering expedition. It failed and he went to Central America and obtained a universal professorship. He was Minister of Uruguay at the In- ternational Monetary Conference in Washington in 1891. ITrnnz Von Dontl. VIENNA, May von Snppe, the noted musical composer, is dead. MAY D KM AND INDEMNITY. Ex-Consul Waller's Cnsu Shows Franco Wfis In tho WASHINGTON, May French Government, acceding to the demand of the United States, has transferred the case of Ex-Consul John L. Waller to ordinary civil jurisdiction. This action apparently nullifies the sentence of 20 years' confinement imposed on Waller by a French military court in Madagas- car, and indicates either his trial by the the civil judiciary or his ultimate re- lease from prison. The matter has now reached a stage where the United States Government has ample evidence on which to base a claim against France, possibly involving the payment of indemnity fur the treat- ment accorded Waller and the abroga- tion of the concession obtained by him of valuable rubber forests. Waller is still in prison in Marseilles, but may be transferred to some civil penal institu- tion. The evidence in t'ue cosa received at the State Department is practically com plete, and it is understood to contain some rather startling facts that have not heretofore become public. Edward Telfafr Wetter, of Georgia, who suc- ceeded Waller as United States Consul at Tamatavc, it has been claimed, did not put forth his best effoits to extend relief of his Government to a.distressed citizen of the United States. It is shown by correspondence sent to the State Department that the French Government was suspicious that the rubber concession secured by Waller from the Hovas was obtained for the purpose of providing a coaling station for United States naval vessels. Such an accusation was openly made in Mada- gascar by partisans of the French. Whether this belief was actually enter- tained cannot be learned, but the docu- ments now on file at the Department assert that after French had refused to confirm the concession of tho flovas, French citizens took possession of the rubber forests transferred to the ex Oonnsul, and French vessels have been taking away great quantities of the pro- duct. WHEAT TAKES AXOTHER PLUNGE. Reported Killing of Five Men iin Explosion in Cecil Couuty. CAUSED BY A CARTRIDGE. It Exploded In Re- movlue Stumps From a Newly-Made Field. May is reported here this afternoon that five men were killed and one fatally injured shortly after midday by the premature explosion, of dynamite on the farm of William Pyle, near Chesapeake City. The names of- the dead have not yet been learned, and details of the accident are meagre. Dr. Wallace of Chesapeake City hap- pened to be here on business, and on re- ceiving a telephone message left at once for the Pyle farm to render all possible medical aid. The scene of the accident is on the- Elk river. According to the report, Pyle and five or six other men were engaged in blowing up stumps of trees in a new- ly-made field and used dynamite for the purpose. Through some unknown cause, one of the cartridges exploded before the men were ready, knocking all down, tearing a great hole in the ground and sending fragments of stumps and roots in all directions. Five of the men are said to have been killed instantly, and the body of one was mangled beyond recognition. Pyle, it is reported, was picked up in a dying condition. BRICK YARDS TIED UP. Jumes W. Scott Dead. uUTH, 111., May W. Scott, one of the oldest and best-known residents of this section, died last even- ing, aged 97. He was born in Philabel phia and took an active part in the War of 1812, helping in the trenches about Baltimore. At tho time of the bombard- ment of Fort McHenry, he worked on the embankment with a wheelbarrow. Scott was a well-known abolitionist, and his home was a station on the "nn dergronnd railroad." Many a slave was belped by him on the way to Canada. A POLE'S It Results In tlio Dentil of Font- Millers And Hie Injury of HO. FAIRMONT, W. Va., May the result of an exploeion in No. 4 mine of the Monougnh Coal and Coke Company yesterday afternoon, four men were kill- ed and 12 others injured. For a time over 100 miners were in danger from suffocation, but they reached tho open air safely. The injured, it is believed, will recover. The four deaths were due to (smoke and dust raised by the explos- ion. Tho disaster was caused by a Pole, who carelessly ignited a cau of powder. Little damage was done to the mine itself, work has not been interrupt- ed. Ex United States Senator Cunuleu ia thu head of the company. To Marry Ills Competitor. SAN FKANCISOO, May 22 J. Haskell, Attorney General of Montana, is on his way to this city, where ho is to be married immediately on his anival to Miss Kuowles, Assistant Attorney- General, of Montana, and his late com- petitor 1'or office. The marriage is the culmination of a political contest. Miss Kuowles is the only woman lawyer in Montana, and in the election of 1S92 secured the Demo- cratic nomination for the office of At- torner General, Haskell being the Re- publican candidate. Miss Knowles made a vigorous canvass, but was defeated. Later, Haskel made 'his competitor his assistant. Drnwlnsr-JRooni. LONDON, May Princess Louise (Marchioness of third daughter of Queen Victoria, held the last drawing-room of the season today at Buckingham Palace in behalf of the Queen, the Prinoess of Wales being in- disposed, The attendance was small. The following Americans were presented: Miss Herbert, daughter of the Hon. Hilary A. Herbert, Secretary of the United States Navy, who was presented in the diplomatic- circle; Mrs. Draper, wife of Congressman Draper, of Massa- chusetts; Mrs. Neal and the Misses Peck, of Chicago. La Gnscoeue is Safe. NEW YOBK, May French Line steamer La Gascogne, three days over- due, is safe. The vessel was sighted east of Fire Island at 10 o'clock moving very slowly. La Gasoogne displayed signals asking that two tugs be sent to her assistance, indicating that she had met with some accident to her machinery or steering gear, and that Captain Baudelon feared to enter the channel without help. HlKiior Wages Demanded ami Denied at Clilcasro. general strike of brickmakers was declared last night and every brick yard in Chicago is tied up today. The fight is expected to be a bitter one, and trouble is anticipated by the police. The strike has been in furoe in several of the yards for two demands of the men for higher wages being re- fused, and the Brick Makers' Alliance yesterday decided to order a general strike to force concessions by the manu- facturers. The latter declare they will operate several yards ou. the North Side with non-union men, and the yards specified were surrounded this forenoon by crowds of strikers determined that no work shall be done until the wage question is settled. Tho strikers reported at noon that about men were out and that only a few non-union men could be secured by the manufacturers. The North Side yards, where trouble was expected, were heavily guarded by police all day. A mass-meeting of strik- ers was held this afternoon and an effort was made to call sympathetic strikes in the other building trades. Two Girls Were Murdered. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., May and May Wolfenberger, young daughters of the proprietor of a hotel at Oregon, mysteriously disappeared several days ago. Yesterday fishermen using a seine in the Missouri near here brought up the body of Ada. The arms of the girl were pinioned behind her and her limbs were bound together with a strong cord. There was other evidence of foul play. It is supposed the girls were enticed from home and murdered after being assaulted. Damaered Crops Cause Anotlier Sudden Rise. CHICAGO, May jumped 3 cents on the board today before noon, and gave promise of holding the greater part of its advance. Liverpool cables were soaring outside, domestic markets were up and the country was flooding the pit with buying orders. The main. cause for the advance, however, was the continuation of crop damage reports. They came into the pit in a stream from all parts of the wheat belt, and ranged from stories of slight damage to bar- rowing tales of complete destruction. The July option opened with a 1-oen.t lunge, starting at It dropped j dent for an instant, bat immedittely plunged upward again, touching 75J. The astonished speculators rested for "a time aghast at the sight of 75-cent wheat, and during a temporary lull in the ex- citement prices dropped back to a trifle below the high figure. Another wave of buying orders soon struck the market, however, and July wheat went sailini? again, landing at 76 j, just 3 cents above the opening price, and almost 2 cents higher than it had gone before the present advance. FROSTBURG TRIP. Japan'a Minister to China. YOKOHAMA, .May re- lations between China and Japan have been resumed by the appointment of Count Hayashi, vice-Foreign Minister, to be Japanese Minister to Pekin. Suicide For Iioye. HUNTINGTON, W. Va., May Pet Donahue, the 16-year-old daughter ol Mayor Donahue of Barboursville, committed suicide this morning by shooting herself through the heart. Miss Donahue was well known in so- cial circles. It is said that she had been disappointed in love and took her life while despondent. Scores Were Drowned. May details re- ceived here of the wreck of the Spanish steamer Gravina off Manilla, Philippine Islands, daring a typhoon, show that 168 persons were drowned. Only two of board of her are believed to have been saved. Wilde's Second Trial. LONDON, May second trial of Oacar Wilde was begun in the Old Bailey Court this morning before a crowd of spectators. Wilde was very restless, and looked worried and care- worn. The Solicitor General, Sir Frank Lockwood, in opening the cose, said the indictment covered acts of a grave nature during the period from February to During the session Wilde was taken ill and was obliged to leave the court. General Coprswell Dead. WASHINGTON, May William Cogswell of Massachusetts died at his apartments here early this morn- int? after a long illness. Members of his family were with him at the end. The funeral services will be held at Palem, Mass., on Friday. There will bo a brief service here tomorrow afternoon, conducted by Chaplain Bagby of the House of representatives. The funeral party will leave the city at 3 o'clock. Fourteen Were Killed. OAKLAND, Gal., May 22 explosion at the California Powder Works, near Hercules proved more dis- astrous than was at first supposed. Five white men and nine Chinamen were killed and a number of the 200 Celes- tials about the plant are missing. Fire broke out just after the explos- ion, which destroyed theuitro-glycerine department, but was soon extinguished. The property loss is light. Meeting of Representatives of the Dif- ferent Fire Companies. The meeting held last right at the Junior Hall by representatives from the different fire companies, to arrange for the trip to Frostburg mot at 8 o'clock. A. S. Herring was called to the chair, and Wyatt M. Keedy was chosen as sec- retary. The question as to what day the fire com- panies would go was considered. Five companies decided that it would be most convenient to leave Hagerstown on the morning of the 12th of June and return the nest evening. The First Hose did not agree to this, but wanted to stay until Friday morning. A committee was appointed by the choir consisting of one member of each company as follows: Frank Fahrney, First Hose; Ivy Hartle, Junior; Wyatt Keedy, Antietam; Lewis Delemater. Western Enterprise; W. H. Armstrong, Pioneer Hook and Ladder; F. Wroe, Columbian Chemical, to confer with H. C. Koehler about rates to Frostburg and return by special train, the mem> bers of the committee to report back the result of the conference to their companies. A letter was also read from the Balti- more and Ohio Railroad Company givn ing rates for a buffet car to be used by the delegates going and corning and as head quarters while there. No action was taken in this matter but it will be considered later. The Pioneer Hook and Ladder Com- pany held a meeting last night and re- ceived and accepted the resignation of W. G. Claggett as driver of their truck. The contract that they had made with him for his horses to be used in case of fire was mutually resinded. The meeting was short and no further business trans- acted. Glitter. The National League games yesterday resulted as follows: Cincinnati, 21; Boston, 8. Pittsburg, 7; Washington, U. Cleveland, 8; Brooklyn, 0. Cleveland, 15; Brooklyn, G. Louisville, 4; Baltimore, 11. Chicago, 14; Philadelphia, 7. St. Louis, 13; New York, 4. The Hagerstown club received a tele- gram from Hanover last night not to come today as the ground there were unfit for use. A slight misunderstandingarose today between Gillam and the management about the question of salary but it was settled satisfactorily to all parties con- cerned. Gillam will be retained in his old position. The Hagerstown boys have braced themselves for the game with the Cuban Giants, and will make a big effort to win the game. They say that they will do it. Creeks RIslUK In Revolt. EUFATJLA, I. T., May insur- rection is threatened in the Creek Na. tion over money said to have been dis- posed of illegally by Creek officers. The Indians are arming and threaten to march en masse to Okamulgee, where the Creek Council is in session. The chief and several others are said to be implicated in the misappropriation and are surrounded by armed guards. Prattle About People. Mrs. D. Mullendore, living at Browns- ville, is critically ill. Mr. S. S. Wyand, of Eakles Mills, Md. is at Toledo, Towa, attending Western college. He will engage in the gardening business during vacation. Mr. Jacob M. Bnyder and wife for- merly of Keedysville, Md., but now of Estherville, lowo, spent Monday night with Arthur Wyand, Cedar Kapidsjowa. Miss Hattie E. Wyand. of Eakles' Mills, Md., is spending a week with her brother, Mr. W. H. Wyand, at 263 East North street, this city. Runaway Cars. A caboose and two loaded freight cars, out loose from a freight train at Edge- mont Tuesday evening, got loose and ran down the track from that place to a point about one mile east of Hagers- town, the steep grade giving them great momentum. The run was a swift one but the track was clear and no damage was done. The .distance traveled was about sixteen miles. Grangers' Picnic. At a recent meeting of the managers it was decided to hold the 22nd Annual Grangers' Picnio Exhibition at Wifa liams's Grove, Cumberland county, Pa., August 16 to 31, 1895, inolnsiye. It was also decided to make quite a number of improvements to the buildings and grounds.. _t. _ ;


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While helping our clients debug and solve their issues, there are cases where IBM Support will ask a client to enable some traces and collect some logs. It happens quite frequently that we have to go back and re-ask for the same information several times before we can even begin to help, which becomes frustrating both for the client who is running into the issue, and spending time gathering logs, as well as the for the IBM Support rep, who needs to re-ask for information that they know they already asked for.
The following is a list of items that we typically run into, which may prevent the necessary diagnostic information from getting into the logs, which will allow you (or Support) to look deeper into a problem.
The above list is not inclusive of all the things that can prevent the issues from being captured in your log files, but it's a list of items that are very easy to double check and prepare for, so you don't end up having to reproduce your issue a bunch of times to get a single log or trace of the error.
Here are 5 tips on how to avoid the above pitfalls:
1) Validate the traces are enabled before you reproduce the issue
When you enable traces in the WebSphere Administrative console, check your trace.log file to ensure that the traces start to write to the file. At the point where the traces were enabled or the trace specification was changed, you should see an entry in the logs that indicates the changes were applied:
2) Ensure you have enough space in your logs to capture your issue
It's quite common that if you are tracing a scenario, especially on a production server, it will create a lot of log entries. The log files are configured to only keep a certain size of data, and then a certain number of historical data, to facilitate log rotation. Depending on the level of traces you enable, these limits can be exhausted very quickly, which may mean that the default settings of the file size and historical log files will be too small to capture your issue.
You will want to review your policy for log file sizes and historical log files that you are keeping (this is configured in the WebSphere Administrative console) and ensure that you have enough log files. What is enough? That's not always easy to know, as it will depend on how much traffic you have on the server while you reproduce the issue, as well as the level of tracing that you have enabled. What you can do is to enable the trace, and watch to see how much time it takes for a single log file to be rolled into a historical log file. From there, you can calculate the necessary size of the log and historical log file. I would recommend that each log file not be too large, as you will eventually need to open and read the log file, so having a 1gb file maybe too daunting to open in your favourite text editor.
3) Don't delete the trace file before you begin your testcase
Another common issue that happens is that the log files do not even get any new entries. Hopefully you detect this right away, while performing tip #1 above. The Application Server will keep an open file handle to the current log file. A common practice that users have is to delete their log files before they perform their test, thinking that this will make it easier to find the error once it's reproduced. The pitfall with this approach is that once you delete the file, the Application Server has no place to write (since the file handle is now broken), so the logging will stop, and no new file will be recreated until you restart the server.
If you want to move the files to make a 'clean' log file before you reproduce a test case, do so while the server is stopped to ensure you do not break the trace file. Another suggestion is, rather than deleting or moving the log files before running a testcase, simply note the time you start your test and end your test. The log files have very clear timestamps. Using the timestamps you can extract exactly the portion of the log that corresponds to your testcase
4) Find the error before sending it on to get analyzed by IBM Support
Validate you actually got your data before sending it to a colleague or IBM to help review it. This is a simple thing to do, but it can waste a lot of time if you end up uploading a file, and waiting for somebody else to confirm you did not capture the problem or error. Once you reproduce your problem, open the log, and do a simple search to validate the error re-appears in the log file. When you send in your data, indicate the time and error that you had reproduced to cut down the time to analyze the issue for Support.
It's not uncommon that you get an error in your screen as an end user, but the errors are not in the logs. There are several reasons why this can happen, such as having a clustered server, so the error happens on a different server than the one you are tracing, or if you have some level of page or object cache enabled, such that the error response is from the cache directly, and is not actually run on the server.
5) The logs are for you too, not just Support
Finally, once you confirmed that the logs have the error, send them to support, but also feel free to begin looking at them yourself. Lots of problems are not difficult to solve once you put a critical eye to the error and the data in the logs. You might be surprised how easy problems can be to solve once you have the right data to solve it.
Spending a few extra minutes to validate the logs captured the issue may save you days in analyzing logs (a log that doesn't have the issue) and the time it will take to re-collect the logs over and over again.

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Rumor Patrol: Naomi Campbell Mugged, Megan Fox Dies, Kris Allen Crashes
1/6/2013 3:07pm EST | By: Casey Johnson
Megan Fox Dies: The beautiful Transformers star died tragically in an auto accident on January 3.
Verdict: False. The writers at hoax site Global Associated News began the rumor, and then the trend "RIP Megan Fox" spread like wildfire on Twitter (note: never assume trends are true). Fox then opened up her own Twitter account. Perhaps for her next trick she will turn water into wine.


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Its a fairly well known story at this point. In 1984, Steven Spielberg directed Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom while simultaneously producing Gremlins. Both movies received PG ratings. This did not go over well with families. However, the PG-13 rating did not solve the problem.
We dont know much about what the long-rumored Gremlins 3 will be, other than the fact that were fairly confident it will eventually exist. But what do you do with the Gremlins 30 years after the fact?
Another Gremlins movie has been in the works for years, but rather than reboot or restart the franchise, they might borrow a page from Jurassic World and pick up the action in the same continuity.
Horror has always been seen as a genre primarily for adults. However, that doesnt mean that we havent seen some truly amazing horror movies made specifically for all audiences come out over the years, and now seems like the perfect time to celebrate those titles.
Though another Goonies doesnt seem like it will ever see the light of day, original writer Chris Columbus says he will never give up hope. Here's what he said.
Gremlins' titular beasts were almost played by monkeys. But poop got in the way.
Having directed both Gremlins and Gremlins 2: The New Batch, director Joe Dante deserves a great deal of the credit for making the franchise as beloved as it is to this day. Unfortunately, though, the filmmaker will not be a part of the upcoming reboot, and there's what seems to be a pretty simple reason: he doesn't possess any ownership of the property.
There have been rumblings about a Gremlins reboot for years, but Chris Columbus, writer of the original, recently revealed that it is in fact happening, and gave the reasons why.
Theres been a lot of one step forward, two steps back movement with the Gremlins reboot, but things finally seem to be getting back on track. Attempting to firm up the production team, Warner Bros. has hired Carl Ellsworth to write the script.
Gremlins have been on the radar in recent months, due to the news there was a reboot in the works. However, to many of our dismay, word on the street is that its probably not going to happen anymore.
Hollywood used to love Joe Dante, but now they seem to be just friends with him. Which is a shame, because if they have any hopes of ever seeing the Gremlins make their way to the big screen again, they need to go through him.
Earlier this month, Gremlins celebrated its 30th anniversary, so the timing couldn't be more perfect for this great little easter egg. Take a look at the poster for the 1984 film, which shows someone carrying a box full of Gizmo. See if you can spot a very subtle nod to Steven Spielberg's production logo...
Zach Galligan reveals how the 28-year-old special effects guys had zero confidence in Gizmo or Spike actually working. He was very self-deprecating and unsure of himself but he was, of course, proved incredibly wrong, Galligan said. And he shared great stories about being 19, shooting a movie, working with Phoebe Cates, and being able to play all of the arcade games in Steven Spielbergs private offices.
The original film about a father who gives his son a mystical creature as a Christmas gift, only to have things, go terribly wrong was entertainingly creepy, with plenty of black humor laced throughout. But the premise could use a technological polish. Imagine how cute little Gizmo could be with the right CGI, or a motion-capture performance?
For the seasoned holiday celebrator, there are many vital Christmas lessons that will eventually be learned over the years. Like not to wait until Christmas Eve to do your shopping, remember to keep the tree watered and if you have a cat, put the shiniest and most delicate ornaments out of paws reach, if possible. Also avoid tinsel. If you have a cat, you know why. As it happens, movies are also chock full of learning lessons, especially Christmas movies...
Yesterday word hit that Warner Bros is in talks with Steven Spielberg's Amblin about relaunching Gremlins, which has spurred both cheers and outrage from fans of Gizmo and the gang. Here at Cinema Blend we're divided on the issue. Sean's already exhausted from the recent rash of '80s remakes, and Kristy is optimistic about its possibilities.
The idea of rebooting Gremlins is not a new one and Vulture says that what's really been holding up another movie is the idea of getting Spielberg involved, which has "always proved too daunting a financial prospect." While that very well could end up being the same issue that occurs with this effort, people close to the situation say it could work out this time.
The last one, which pretends to be for the corpse-dragging comedy Weekend at Bernies, is the absolute WTF? of the entire group. I cant even begin to pretend that the two eyeballs on Peter Parkers Web-shooting hand have to do with Ted Kotcheffs 1989 movie.
We all may think that were beautiful and unique snowflakes, but one thing that unites us all is tradition and never is tradition stronger than around Christmas time. From gift-giving and tree lightings in Christian households to Chinese food and trips to the movies for our Jewish friends, you can typically set a clock to what people will do every year when December 25 rolls around.
Remember when you heard a few weeks ago that there might be a Gremlins 3 in 3D, and you reflexively curled up in a ball and cried for hours? Chris Columbus, the writer of the original film, was right there with you
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MIAMI — The mother arrived early at Miami International Airport, pacing the baggage claim hall until, at last, she spotted her.
Denia Zelaya had last seen her eldest daughter nearly 10 years earlier. On an early morning in 2004, she kissed Anita's head as the girl slept, then slipped out of her family's house.
"I didn't tell her goodbye," the mother recalls. "I knew if she awoke, I couldn't leave."
Anita was just 6, her younger sister, Nicole, not yet 3. But Zelaya had made a choice: to flee the violent gangs in her native Honduras and come to the U.S. to find work. The plan was to save enough for a smuggler and then send for her children when they were old enough to endure the journey.
This past April, Nicole, now 12, made it safely across the Texas border and on to Miami. That inspired 16-year-old Anita to attempt the trip with her own child, 3-year-old Emily, the granddaughter Zelaya had never met.
At the airport on July 18, Zelaya glanced at a picture of Anita on her cellphone, worried she might not recognize her. Then her eyes locked on a distant figure, hauling a toddler on her hip. As the girl approached, Zelaya saw her mirror image: large hazel eyes, corkscrew curls and a tentative smile.
For a moment it seemed like the distance would never close. Then Zelaya pulled daughter and granddaughter into her small frame. Anita buried her face into her mother's hair. A lone cry burst from her throat.
They are just one family — in some ways, one of the luckiest. As thousands of Central American children have come across the Southwest border these past months — fleeing violence, searching for loved ones and looking to start anew in the U.S. — this family found each other again. But now another journey has begun.
There's a complex legal system to navigate, new economic burdens and an unfamiliar home, along with the delicate task of learning to become a family again. In the background looms the knowledge that their reunion in the U.S. could be temporary — more likely to end with deportation orders than asylum.
Zelaya herself lives here illegally. She spent the last decade working in restaurants and, more recently, bussing tables at an airport hotel.
When she fled La Ceiba, Honduras, after witnessing the gang-killing of a nephew, Zelaya left Anita and Nicole first with her sister and then their great-grandmother. But without their mother, the children struggled.
When their great-grandmother died, the girls were shuttled between relatives, frequently changing schools, often unable to go at all. Nicole says she got as far as the second grade. Anita, who never made it past fifth, was hired out by a cousin to wash clothes because the money Zelaya sent never lasted long.
"There were so many Christmases I couldn't celebrate, because when I saw so many people hug each other I would just go cry and go to bed," Anita recalls. "Maybe I had some things I needed, but I didn't have a mother, and that is the most important, I think."
In Miami, Zelaya did her best to start a new life, even as she decorated her bedroom walls with pictures of her children. She met someone, and had two American-born children, Elise, now 5, and David, 4.
She spoke frequently by phone with Nicole and Anita, but often the calls left Zelaya in tears. She dreamed of visiting them but says she feared the gangs, and the journey back to the United States was too risky.
"I just focused on working so one day I could bring them here," she says.
The first smuggling attempt came four years ago. The girls made it as far as Guatemala, but then news spread of the massacre by a Mexican drug cartel of dozens of Central American migrants. Zelaya pleaded with the smuggler to take her daughters back home.
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December 2015 Newsletter
It's been a busy few months for GMI. In the UK there's been fundraising, speaking engagements, the first steps to fund the construction of a secondary school in Paminano, and not to forget the Annual General Meeting!
Meanwhile in Uganda the real work has been happening! We start off this newsletter with an update on all that's been going on from Phoebe Ochan, Director of Bethel Christian School.
Phoebe writes…
Academics The third term saw lots of initiatives take place to improve the academics in the school. All classes sat at least 4 sets of exams this term, with P.6 sitting 5 sets of examinations. The intention is to acquaint the pupils with answering exams so that by the time they sit the national exams at P.7, they are well trained on how to approach exams questions.
On their parts, the teachers, carried out 4 "peer to peer" lesson supervisions this term. In this activity, teachers supervised each others' lessons and after the supervision, they would give feedback to one another. The result is that their level of preparation for lessons improved and learning and teaching was subsequently more effective.
Co curricular Activities
Majorly this term, pupils at Bethel indulged in internal debating and football competition.
In football, P.5 class emerged victors; they led in both the girls' & boys' football and got an overall points of 9.
There were 3 different debating competitions; P.3Vs P.4 with the motion "Urban life is better than rural life". P.3 who were the proposers of the motion were the winners. P.5 Vs P.6 debated over the motion "Family planning should be abolished in Uganda". P.6 who were opposing the motion emerged the winners. In the third round of competition, P.5 girls faced the boys on the motion "Science has done more harm than good" and the boys who were opposing the motion were the winners.
Spiritual nurture
In living our value, Bethel always aims at training children God's way. This term, the children continued to pray every morning and evening. Children also told bible stories in their "bible reading groups". Every Sunday, the children have "child to child preaching". This has trained children to minister to one another. Nambuye and Moses of P.3 for example were the "great preachers" this term. Children's behaviour has also changed as a result of this. Francis, a boy in P.4 liked fighting so much. However, from the word of God he has heard, Francis has abandoned this behaviour.
Bethel staff have continued to hold their mid-week fellowship every Wednesday. This term, 2 staff members become Christians as a result of this fellowship.
Besides the health and hygiene messages given to the pupils during assembly, the school also partnered with the nearby government health centre to provide health service to pupils. This term 2 rounds of immunization was done at the school. As part of government campaign against neglected tropical diseases, 498 pupils were given tablets to immunise against bilharzia. Another 501 children were given Albendazole, a deworming tablet.
Capacity building
Bethel has always partnered with the district education department and other partners to tap from capacity building initiatives that are available. This term, 2 teachers participated in "P.7 teachers' training" organized by the district education department. This is in preparation for handling P.7 pupils' class next year.
The head teacher also participated in a training organized by "Teacher Africa" a local organization. The training was on financial management and administration.
Meanwhile, back in the UK…
Running for Uganda
The GMI team would like to salute five incredible individuals who put themselves through all sorts of pain to raise money for the children of Gulu.
On October 4, four intrepid runners – Liz Harries, Sammi Bryan, and Luke and Sophie Moreno, completed the Cardiff half marathon, in aid of GMI-UK.
The team, competing under the collective name, 'Easier said than run' together raised the incredible sum of £1,145.
Upon finishing the gruelling ordeal an understated Liz – a seasoned half marathon pro – said, "I am happy to say I finished the half marathon". Sammi added, "I've got to say that was one of the best (and hardest) experiences of my life!" While Sophie got straight to the point – "I'm feeling ok but I'm dreading taking off my blister plasters". Well quite, Sophie, quite.
Just a week later the amazing Paul Winstanley completed the 59th International Isle of Wight Marathon.
The marathon is one of the longest running in the UK. One website even claims it has been run continuously since 1957, causing this confused spectator to assume the inaugural race had one very determined but particularly slow competitor, still running now in his mid seventies…?!
We are thrilled to say Paul completed the race, raising a further £325. Well done, Paul!
The GMI team would like to say a huge thank you to each of our runners, and those who generously supported them.
P.S. – It's nearly New Year's resolution time! If you are thinking of tackling any physical feats or taking on a significant personal challenge in the next 12 months, why not consider raising some pennies for GM at the same time. We would love to hear from you, please get in touch.
Annual General Meeting & Secondary School
On 17 September we held our AGM and welcomed some new members to the team – John Hornsby and Drew Firth joining Helen and Steve as Trustees, while Gwyn Trehearne was selected to act as our independent examiner.
You can find out a bit more about John and Drew by visiting our website.
'The Mighty' Gwyn doesn't currently appear on our website as we can't afford his image rights(!) But if you are interested he can often be spotted driving a white camper van around the South Wales region, looking for a mountain to climb.
We were also excited to be joined at our AGM this year by a number of folk interested in finding out more about the work of GMI – thank you all for coming.
The AGM provided an opportunity to discuss our next major goal – to build a secondary school for the children soon to graduate from Bethel Primary School.
We have already been able to provide funds for our Ugandan partners to start on the foundations, but there is a lot more work to do to complete phase one of the build, allowing the secondary school to open in 2016.
If you would like to know more about how you could help Bethel's five hundred children to continue their education to secondary level, please get in touch J
Speaking engagements
Helen attended the Refresh women's breakfast in Maidstone, Kent in October, where she shared her compelling story to around 60 women. She told of the challenges and joys she has faced during her time working with the people of Uganda, how it has changed her life and made her a stronger person.
Both Steve and Helen were able to promote the work of GMI at the One World Week event in Porthcawl, and the money raised was kindly donated to the work of GMI.
In November Helen exhibited the work of GMI at a local craft fayre run by The Spice of Life team at Eden Church in Penarth. Lots of people showed interest in our projects, and the event raised £150.
And finally…
Thank you so much for your continued interest and support for GMI-UK; we are hugely grateful for your support. The GMI team would like to wish you a happy and peaceful Christmas. See you in 2016!
Summer 2015
Hi and welcome to our summer edition of the GMI newsletter. Thank you so much for supporting our work in Uganda, there is lots of news below.
We are sad to say goodbye to Liz Heaton who has stepped down as trustee for GMI due to family and work commitments. Liz has been a valuable help to our work in Uganda over the years, especially with her knowledge and experience shared at Bethel. She remains very much loved by all the staff, children and team in Gulu and here in the UK too. We all wish her well in the future.
At Bethel, pupils are very busy studying in their second term. They have just finished their beginning of term exams, the 4th exams they have sat this year. The teachers have continued to give regular assessment to the pupils to enable them learn how to answer questions ahead of the primary leaving exams at the end of grade seven and also assess their understanding of the syllabus. The exams also enable teachers to identify weak performances and support the pupils accordingly.
Four teachers participated in a training organised by the district education department and facilitated by experts from the ministry of Education on how to prepare pupils to pass the national exams.
Bethel was also visited by the Inspector of Schools last term. The regular support visit by the Inspector of School is very important as it ensures that the school is complying to set standards at all times. His visit boosted the confidence of the teachers and made them more determined to work hard.
Extra-curricular Activities
The key co-curriculum activity this term has been debating. The pupils in P4-P6 have been engaged in debating in their respective classes. The themes for debates have been around the rights and duties of children, importance of education, equality for boys and girls and other life skills for the children. Debates offer multifaceted benefits of building confidence of the children, expanding their knowledge, improving their expression and entertaining the pupils.
On the first Saturday of the month Bethel continues to organise a parents' day. Parents come to school and interact with the teachers over their children's performance. This has strengthened the relationship between the parents and the school and has continued to be fun for both parents and pupils who look forward to the day.
Children have continued to grow spiritually. They pray every morning and evening and also participate in fellowship. This has impacted their morals as well as their faith and the faith of their families.
This term hasn't been all roses for the school. Two pupils, from P4 escaped off the school premises one Thursday afternoon. They asked their teacher to let them go to the latrine while the rest were having the lessons. They then went off between the barbed wire, which serves as fence for the school. These pupils were only found three days later on a Sunday morning, on the streets of Gulu. It was realized that Junior comes from a broken family and that he previously lived on the streets so he still had his contact there. Both pupils are now back at school and are undergoing counselling. The school now has a big challenge to erect a fence all the way round to prevent any such happening again. The biggest limitations are finances.
Sally got involved in Uganda when her son did an internship there. Sheruns a fair-trade business, marketing Ugandan and Nicaraguan products and an associated sponsorship programme.
Sally Forrester Rich writes…
I run a child sponsorship program for children in rural Uganda. Most of them are orphans living with elderly grandparents struggling to care for them. They were going to government schools where 100 children per class is common, in a classroom built for 50, so half of their school day was spent outside playing. Teachers are rarely paid on time, which depletes their morale to the point where they have no qualms about not showing up for work. Sometimes a teacher takes a whole week off, when she has a child who is ill, and there is no substitute. This is typical education in Uganda.
At first when my Ugandan director suggested boarding school for our children, I resisted. But when he found Bethel Christian School, and suggested we send ten children, I agreed to support him.
The next time I was in Uganda, I visited Bethel, and was amazed to find these children able to understand and even speak English! Because English is the national language, and students may be from different tribes, at Bethel it is the language of instruction, and students are encouraged to use English at all times. Speaking English effectively will be an important factor in their success in life. The children seemed well fed and cared for, and they all told me they loved their new school. I noticed a strong commitment to discipline among the teachers. After about an hour of visiting, the teachers came and rounded up students, not wanting them to miss any more class time. I said, "let's send more kids here!"
Since that time, we have added fifteen more children to the number we have at Bethel, and we hope to send more next year. Your support for Bethel gives Ugandan children a chance at an excellent education!
The Health Project
The community health workers have continued to carry out community sensitisations in the sub counties of Bunagtira, Patiko, Palaro and Odek as well as making referrals of women to go to the health centres for antenatal and delivery. These four sub counties have witnessed significant maternal health improvement due to the health project. The motorcycle ambulances have saved lives in situations where no other means of transport would have been available.
Gulu District government has urged GMI-UK to extend this vital support to other parts of the district. We are currently in the process of bidding alongside our partners (PONT) for further grant funding.
The Church and Spiritual Growth for Community
The ministry, under the leadership of Pastor James has continued to reach out to more people with the word of God. This year, the church conducted door-to-door evangelism in Ongako, a village located 13kms North West of Gulu Town. Many people came to know Christ and a new fellowship has since been established in that place.
Extending Christ's love to the isolated, the church also organized a fellowship with the women who are in Gulu Central prison in March. 120 women participated in the fellowship. The church members made collections that were used for a decent meal (lunch) for these women. There were also assorted gifts in kind such as sanitary pads, soap, sugar, clothing, jerricans, and basins. The prisoners, many of whom were convicted for murder, felt the love of Christ and many of them gave their life to Christ. They also testified that the word of God that was shared with them offered priceless healing and comfort.
This year also witnessed Pastor James being ordained as Vice Regional Overseer for all Pentecostal churches in Northern Uganda. This colourful occasion took place late April was graced by the speaker of the parliament of Uganda on behalf of the president. Phoebe was also ordained as a minister in church of women in Northern Uganda on the same day.
A BIG year for GMI – Can you help?
Phoebe writes from Uganda…
Your kind deed of supporting GMI work in Uganda makes God's love real and tangible in the lives of children in this community. GMI through your support has restored hope and caused transformation in the ways below:
Over 554 children have access to improved education at Bethel Christian School.
Several families have improved health practices like upholding good hygiene and sanitation, improved nutritional practices, sending pregnant mothers for ANC and subsequently delivery at health facilities. This is a result of the health project, supported by GMI-UK.
Local churches have been empowered to meet spiritual, emotional and Psychosocial needs of the people. This has played a key instrumental role in the healing of the people devastated by the war.
2014 highlights:
Phoebe's graduation
Teacher training
District children's' forum
Motorbike Ambulances
250 Acholi translated Bibles given out
And what next?
When our story started with Pastor James, Phoebe & Bethel Christian School, who could ever imagine what our connection with this story would bring? We made a promise to 40 children in a tiny school in the middle of the African plains outside the town of Gulu, Northern Uganda, to see them through education. Now, 6 years on we have over 500 children in school, have provided water to 5 villages, countless grateful local church leaders have received training at our pastors conference, and have a growing primary health care programme working alongside local government in 30 villages in the area.
2015 brings ever-increasing challenges: with those original, now older children at our primary school needing secondary education. Our main focus for the year will be the necessary buildings to go with it, and the staffing and running structure associated with a comprehensive school! We are continually enthused by the amazing support we receive year on year.
How can you help and be involved with us in making sure these children continue their education?
Read below as to what needs to be done and how you can help …
Phase 1
We have already sourced and paid for the land for the High School, but by September 2015 we need to raise £20,000 to build 2 classrooms, a head teachers office and store room similar to the building below.
Can you help by:
Organising a sponsored bike ride?
Initiating a sponsored walk?
Running a marathon?
Hosting a special event?
Your school putting on a sponsored event?
Do you know a company/organisation/club who would be interested in sponsoring a classroom?
Or any other events?
Thank you for your interest and support, we can't do this without you.
Primary Health Care Project
2012 saw the launch of an exciting development into Primary Health Care. We have been successful in obtaining a grant through THET (the Tropical Health and Education Trust) working alongside PONT.
This is a report that recently went in the South Wales Western Mail explaining how it works.
'We are starting something here we are confident will have a very positive impact'
31 Dec 2012
Former Western Mail journalist Madeleine Brindley recently travelled to Uganda with South Wales-based organisation PONT to launch a £250,000 project to set up primary healthcare and motorbike ambulance services in three regions – Gulu, Lowero and Tororo.
Villagers at Rwotobilo, the source of an Ebola outbreak in 2000 Villagers at Rwotobilo, the source of an Ebola outbreak in 2000
Former Western Mail journalist Madeleine Brindley recently travelled to Uganda with South Wales-based organisation PONT to launch a £250,000 project to set up primary healthcare and motorbike ambulance services in three regions – Gulu, Lowero and Tororo. Here, she outlines her experiences during the fortnight in the central African country
ON OUR second day in Uganda we were told that a woman living in the northern district of Gulu had died from hunger. She committed suicide because she had nothing to eat.
This woman's death was not exceptional, we were told, in this part of the world, which was the heartland of the Lord's Resistance Army and where so many horrible things have happened over the past 20 years and continue to happen to a population exhausted by 20 years of war, kidnappings and terrible, pointless massacres.
But this is not a downtrodden population wallowing in the misery of the past or the ongoing health and social challenges of the present. As we travelled north to Gulu from Mbale, bringing with us PONT's plan to work with local villages, local government and non-governmental organisations to set up primary healthcare and motorbike ambulance services and train health workers, we found communities committed to working together to improve their and their neighbours' lives.
In Bungatira sub-county, an area of seven parishes and 20 villages, we met a packed town hall of local chairmen, councillors, religious leaders and elders excited by the prospect of training to become community health promoters, health workers and motorbike ambulance drivers.
One of the village elders told us: "When I heard about this news I was very happy – it means our children will live to see another day.
"The challenge is now ours; we have accepted it and it is now up to us to go to our villages and make this dream come true."
Rose Amono Ambili, a district councillor in Bungatira sub-county, added: "This is the miracle we have been praying for. We have been experiencing war for 20 years and it has not been easy for our people to reach this point but now we have this project and we welcome it."
I joined a team of healthcare workers – GPs, midwives and paramedics – from PONT (a community-to-community link between Rhondda Cynon Taf and Mbale) and members of Gulu Mission Initiative, also based in South Wales, to travel to Gulu last month to set up a new project to improve access to primary healthcare.
The project replicates PONT's successful work in the Mbale, Manafwa and Bududa regions in south east Uganda, which now benefit from hundreds of trained health promoters and health workers. Communities also have access to motorbike ambulances to transfer injured patients and pregnant women to health centres for lifesaving treatment.
PONT was recently awarded a £250,000 grant by the Tropical Health and Education Trust to partner three other Welsh charities working in Uganda – Gulu Mission Initiative, Care for Uganda and Vale 4 Africa – to extend the Mbale model to Gulu, Lowero and Tororo, respectively.
Over the next two-and-a-half years, 30 trained village health teams will be set up in each of these areas, supported by up to three motorbike ambulances. In total 360 community health promoters, 360 traditional birth referral attendants and 120 operational level health workers, who can diagnose patients and are responsible for calling for the motorbike ambulances, will be trained.
Martin Ojara Mapenduzi,(pictured above) Gulu's district chairman, whose surname means revolution in Swahili and who played a prominent role in attempts to end the LRA conflict by confronting its leader Joseph Kony, said: "We are starting something we are confident will have a very positive impact. There are lots of challenges here but this partnership will give very meaningful answers to questions we have been asking but haven't yet found answers to."
And James Ochan, a pastor in Gulu and a leading member of Gulu Mission Initiative, said: "Gulu underwent so many horrible things that this [the PONT project] will go a long way to improve the lives of many who are hurting."
Village health teams are central to the Ugandan government's policy to improve the health of the population. Official figures show there are 1,455 village health workers in Gulu, 82% of who have been trained, for a population of almost 400,000 people.
In reality, less than two-thirds of those are active, meaning there is one trained village health worker for every 860 people.
There are four hospitals – one state-run, one military, one run by a not-for-profit organisation and the other by a private company – and 66 health centres. The annual budget for each of the health centres is 26m Ugandan shillings a year – it sounds a lot but is equivalent to just £6,300 at today's exchange rate.
There is a desperate shortage of doctors in the hospitals and there are few midwives working in the health centres – one of which, in Paminano, is closed, despite only being completed last year, because the government cannot afford to pay for medicines.
Although the government wants all women to give birth at their nearest health centre or hospital to reduce the number of women and babies dying, large numbers of women give birth at home because of the lack of transport, including ambulances, and the poor state of the roads.
The health centre in Bungatira recorded only 12 births between September and our visit at the end of November – the last birth was three weeks before our arrival. The nursing assistant at the health centre told us it was because transport is so difficult.
In the village of Rwotobilo, our minibus drove at breakneck speed along dirt and potholed roads to take a woman in labour to the health centre in Pabwo. She would have given birth to her third child at home because the only way she could have reached this health centre several miles away would have been to walk.
Maternal mortality remains a very real problem in Gulu and the rest of Uganda; 160 women died in childbirth in Bungatira sub-county last year.
Dr Paul Onek, Gulu's district director of health services, said: "We have very few midwives and the few we have can't be there all the time. The problem of Gulu is the problem of Uganda.
"We want to have at least two midwives in every level two health centre – we have 49 of these. But at the moment only half of these have a midwife and then only one. In the level four health centres we want four midwives but we only have two. We want staffing levels to be at 100% but even then 'normal' staffing levels are abnormal.
"We have trained nurses and nursing assistants to deliver babies. It's very important for them to be able to identify the early signs of obstructed labour.
"If we can improve referrals from villages to health centres, that would be great – that means village health teams working with the community and with families to refer them. If a mother can reach a health centre when she's in labour where there's a qualified person that will be really great."
In every village where we explain the PONT project, which includes training traditional birth referral attendants to recognise problems in childbirth and refer women in labour to a health centre, it is met with applause because in every village women have died giving birth.
In every village, too, families have lost children. In Rwotobilo, the women told us they had lost two, three, four and even five children each – in childbirth or to disease before the age of five. HIV/Aids and malaria are the biggest killers. In Pabwo health centre, a handwritten chart records the most common health problems in adults and children – respiratory tract infections affect a staggering 71% of adults and 41% of children; malaria 25% and 22% respectively.
In addition to the high prevalence of disease, the people of Gulu are still coping with the legacy of the 20 years of conflict at the hands of Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army.
Many of the people we met during our trip to Gulu bear the very visible physical scars of that conflict and the terror and tortured meted out by Kony and his child soldiers.
"The war has caused us many problems," said Ojou Simon Opige, the level three chairman of Bungatira sub-county. "People have been murdered, maimed, widowed and raped. Many have been disabled and we also have to deal with the problems of HIV/Aids and many other diseases. But, if all goes well, we will get back to our normal lives before the war."
At the Bethel Christian School, run by Gulu Mission Initiative in Paminano, we met Samuel. He has a prominent scar which runs from ear to ear – the result of being cut with a razor blade by the LRA when he was younger.
This softly-spoken man cannot answer why he was attacked and scarred in this way; our questions bring fear and pain to his face.
In the village of Rwotobilo, the source of a large Ebola outbreak in 2000, all the men were kidnapped by the LRA to serve as child soldiers – there is a collective laugh of disbelief when we ask if any were involved in the war because they all were.
Some managed to escape in the bush; others were not so lucky; most served as child soldiers. One man lifts his shirt to reveal the marks of torture on his back, another permanent reminder of the long years of conflict.
Even the landscape bears the scars of this long conflict, which saw an estimated 66,000 children forced to become child soldiers and sex slaves for the LRA and two million people across northern Uganda displaced – the last camps for internally displaced people closed just months ago.
The conflict is not over, it has only moved across the Ugandan border as Kony continues to evade international charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Close to the Bethel Christian School and next to the newly-built but yet-to-open health centre in Paminano, there is a mango grove, offering welcome shelter from the heat of the equatorial sun.
It was here that villagers held their local market, setting out their stalls to sell the produce they grew on their small plots of land. Today all that remains of that market is a few faint impressions in the vibrant red earth.
One market day, during the war, the villagers made their way to the grove as normal. But on this terrible day, child soldiers had hidden in the trees. They climbed down and slaughtered everyone at the market with machetes and guns. There are knife marks and bullet holes in the trunks of the few trees which remain standing in the grove.
Steve Lock, a director of Gulu Mission Initiative, said the grove has been unnaturally and deathly quiet when he has visited in the past, with no sign of animal life.
He said: "It's as though everything avoids this piece of land because they know what happened here."
But the afternoon we visited – the sounds of music and dancing reaching us from the school in the distance – we could hear birdsong, echoing one elder's conviction that life will return to normal and Kony won't return. Evidence perhaps that Gulu is beginning to heal.
The camps have closed and families have returned to their native villages. Land is once again being ploughed, crops planted and produce harvested. But there is a distinct shortage of fruit and vegetables at the roadside stalls compared to the opulent displays elsewhere in Uganda and there is a missing generation in the villages and on the streets of Gulu town – the ultimate victims of Kony's relentless assault on his own Acholi people.


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SONOMA COUNTY – Sonoma County Supervisors last December approved funding for a mobile support team that will assist law enforcement in dealing with mental health and substance abuse crises – an area that is increasingly common and difficult for enforcement to deal with.
The Sonoma County Sherriff's Department and the Santa Rosa Police Department experience such confrontations up to 15 times per day, according to a county feasibility study, which recommended the creation of the mobile support team.
The creation of the Behavioral Health Mobile Support Team will "help foster better outcomes for individuals in crisis and their families and provide support for law enforcement personnel confronting extremely difficult situations," concluded the report.
Sonoma County Health and Human Services will operate the mobile support team through its mental health division, after the board allocated just over $160,000 for its implementation.
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In my last column, I wrote about the sage advice and guidance I received from Robyn Golden, who served as chair of the American Society on Aging (ASA) board of directors during my first year as the association 's president and CEO. Robyn, who completed her term in March, now chairs ASA 's Public Policy Committee and Nominating Committee, and continues on the board. In this issue, I want to tell you about Cynthia Stuen, ASA 's new board chair for 2008-2010, who accepted the gavel from Robyn during ASA 's annual conference in Washington, D.C., in March.
The senior vice president for policy and professional affairs at Lighthouse International in New York City, Cynthia is one of the foremost experts on vision impairment and older adults in the United States. At Lighthouse, Cynthia over sees the Arlene R. Gordon Research Institute, its Center on Education and its policy and advocacy work.
Cynthia, who holds a doctorate in social work from Columbia University, has focused on issues in gerontology throughout her career. Her long list of publications, presentations, educational endeavors and research covers topics of age-related sensory loss, access to environments for older adults with impaired vision, and contributions older adults and their families and friends can make to program planning and service delivery. Not only a distinguished researcher, Cynthia also is known as an avid public-policy advocate for older adults at national, state and local levels. Furthermore, she is involved in international efforts to preserve sight and prevent excess disability resulting from vision impairment.
Currently, at the Lighthouse, she is the principal investigator on a federal grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality titled "Creating an Evidence Base for Vision Rehabilitation." In addition, Cynthia is consulting on a Lighthouse grant from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research to offer innovative online training for vision rehabilitation paraprofessionals.
Widely published in the field, Cynthia was a co-guest editor of the issue of ASA's journal Generations titled "Aging and the Senses " (Spring 2003). She has also served as cochair of the Aging Today editorial board. In addition, Cynthia was a chapter author for the awardwinning Lighthouse Handbook on Vision Impairment and Vision Rehabilitation (New York City: Oxford University Press, 2000) and edited its section titled "Rehabilitation of Older Adults With Vision Impairment."
A fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), Cynthia also was honored with ASA 's Leadership Award in 2005.1 could go on about her accomplishments, but I'd rather let you readabout herworkwithASA, and her passion, inher own words. I asked Cynthia to reflect on her more than 20 years as a member and a leader of ASA, and her thoughts follow.
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It is a privilege to be chair of the American Society on Aging. I joined ASA about the time it became a national organization in 1985, when ASA changed its name from the Western Gerontological Society. I found a community of likeminded professionals at ASA, and early on I became involved with ASA's Education Committee. At that time, I was at Columbia University finishing my doctorate. I developed the Seniors Teaching Seniors program there and a project to involve retired faculty. Additionally, I learned that ASA wanted to develop partnerships with state societies on aging, and I was active in the New York State Society on Aging.
At first I worked with the Lifelong Learning Network, which would evolve into ASA's Lifetime Education and Renewal Network (LEARN). Those years were the era when college for seniors, lifelong learning institutes and similar programs for older-adult education were taking shape along with an interest in intergenerational learning opportunities. …


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The Three Stooges (2012)
Critic Consensus: While nowhere near as painful as it could have been, The Three Stooges fails to add fresh laughs to the Stooges' inestimable cinematic legacy.
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It's innocent and silly and brainless and funny. This is not a dumb comedy done smartly; this is a dumb comedy done dumbly.
Short, silly and charmingly harmless, it's likely only the Stooges aficionados will find a whole lot to love.
Stooges will resonate strongly or not at all, depending on the viewer. But a Jersey Shore experience is about where the film falls short of honorable intentions.
The Farrelly brothers return to the vacuously silly style of Dumb and Dumber for this gently idiotic comedy
It's absurd, it's mindless, it's infantine but it's also bizarrely charming.
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Bobby and Peter Farrelly bring old style slapstick comedy to modern days with The Three Stooges.The story is simple and requires less than 90 minutes to tell. The story is also told in episodes, which is broken up quite nicely and laced with the original theme song. With that said, the story does take a back seat to the antics of the Stooges.The slapstick humor and sound effects stay true to how the Stooges should behave and it is all delivered at rapid fire pace for most of the film. The biggest challenge is finding a way to work this comedy into modern times. At times, this picture successfully does that, but at others it is awkward and out of place.Chris Diamantopoulos, Sean Hayes, and Will Sasso deliver good performances. Their facial expressions, movements, and line delivery successfully brings out the personalities of the Stooges.The Three Stooges will definitely divide the audience, but fans of the original series will get the most out of this.
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"I have DVD collections of the great Three Stooges and I was looking forward to a film being made. However I was EXTREMELY disappointed with this film. If you can call it that. It's awful. So badly made. The directing, acting, the editing, I didn't like any of it. I wish they would have developed a better script. I didn't mind the three leads since they actually resembled the actual cast. But the rest is all a mess. I think with a better script and better directing it could have been much better."
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Not the travesty that it was advertised to be, this adaptation of the original material from the one and only Three Stooges takes a few steps in the right direction. Knowing they couldn't make an entirely new Stooges' film, the stars of the film are three very convincing impersonators; including MADtv's Will Sasso, Will and Grace's Sean Hayes, and unknown Chris Diamantopoulos. Fraught with cameos and some stellar comedic performances from people such as Jane Lynch, Larry David, and Sofia Vergara, the film has some silly and inspired moments. The film is set up as many of the Stooges' shorts, stringing them together to form a film The last twenty minutes or last short, drags to an uncomfortable point, but that's just from trying to tie up the haphazard plot. It doesn't exactly work, but it's obviously not meant to be a film that serious or comedic. It's goofy and fun, doesn't try too hard and doesn't cop out with the Jersey Shore crew. They're featured, but it's more abusive than anything. The Stooges are either doing their usual schtick or make the most hilarious puns and misunderstanding guffaws. There are actual laugh out loud moments, and though this isn't a game changer or a true classic, but it's something that is light, funny, and is a way to get away from the world. The Stooges were never given the same oppurtunities, or even an acclaimed feature length film such as The Marx Brothers, and clung to fame in their golden years. Giving them any type of tribute was long overdue, and I applaud all involved for giving them that love and honorary affection. The Farrelly brothers weren't the right people for that job, and certainly this isn't one of their better films, but at least some laughs came out of it. I think The Stooges would be proud.
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Second day of the big Comic Con and again, loaded with animation panels - several opposite each other making it impossible to see it all (that is, if you can even manage to get into the rooms the panels are in), unless you're The Flash (pictured above, from the new Justice League Flashpoint Paradox, which will have its world premiere screening at the Con this second night). Click here for the complete Friday July 19th Schedule.
Here are most of my picks - this list below doesn't include the Phineas and Ferb panel at 1pm in Room 6A, discussion of Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2 in Hall H at 4:05pm, an Archer panel at the Hilton Bayfront at 5pm and the Spike and Mike Screening at 9:30 in Room 6BCF. There just isn't enough room!
10am - Regular Show/Adventure Time Panels featuring Regular Show creator J. G. Quintel (voice of Mordecai), William Salyers (voice of Rigby), Sam Marin (voice of Benson, Pops, and Muscle Man), Sean Szeles (supervising director), Matt Price (writer), and storyboard artistsToby Jones and Calvin Wong - and Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward (Lumpy Space Princess), Jeremy Shada (Finn), John DiMaggio (Jake), Tom Kenny (Ice King), Olivia Olson(Marceline), Kent Osborne (head of story), and Adam Muto (supervising producer). Marriott Hall 2, Marriott Marquis & Marina
11:15am The Legend of Korra panel with creator team Bryan Konietzko and Michael DiMartino (Avatar: The Last Airbender) and co-executive producer Joaquim Dos Santos (Avatar: The Last Airbender) who discuss what's in store for the highly anticipated Book 2: Spirits. Voice actors Janet Varney (voice of Korra), David Faustino (voice of Mako), and P. J. Byrne (voice of Bolin) also share their experiences working on the series. Ballroom 20
12:15pm - The Venture Brothers with creators Jackson Publick and Doc Hammerdiscuss the series, and will be joined by the voice of Brock Samson, Patrick Warburton (Seinfeld, The Tick). Indigo Ballroom, Hilton San Diego Bayfront
2:45pm - Spotlight on Bruce Timm - a legend in the world of animation. 'Nuff Said. Room 5AB
3:15pm - Robot Chicken with Seth Green and Matthew Senreich, joined by co-head writer/executive producer Tom Root, actor/writer Breckin Meyer and writer Matthew Beans. Indigo Ballroom, Hilton San Diego Bayfront
4pm - Animation: The State of The Industry What do the pros think of the animation scene today? Is 2D dead? What's happening in VFX? How do you get a job? Discuss with Tom Sito (Osmosis Jones), Zeb Wells (Robot Chicken), Jamie Kezlarian Bolio (Ernest & Celestine), Rick Farmiloe (Little Mermaid),Carol Wyatt (Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends), and Joan Collins (Starship Troopers) in Room 9.
4pm - Bob's Burgers with creator and executive producer Loren Bouchard, executive producer Jim Dauterive, and the voice cast including H. Jon Benjamin, Dan Mintz, Eugene Mirman, John Roberts, Kristen Schaal, and Larry Murphy. Indigo Ballroom, Hilton San Diego Bayfront
5:30pm - 100th Birthday of Walt Kelly, the creator of Pogo, with Jeff Smith (Bone), Paul Dini (Batman), comic historian R. C. Harvey, Maggie Thompson (ComicBuyer'sGuide), Carolyn Kelly (co-editor of the Complete Pogo series and Walt's daughter), and moderator Mark Evanier (Groo the Wanderer). Room 8.
5:45pm - The Making of Roger Rabbit panel led by producer Don Hahn and the voice of Roger Rabbit himself, Charles Fleisher. The panel includes animation masters Andreas Deja and James Baxter, animator/writer/historian Tom Sito, and special effx wizard Dave Bossert. Room 6BCF
7:30pm - World Premiere screening: JUSTICE LEAGUE, The Flashpoint Paradox. Come for the film, but stay for the panel that features Grey's Anatomy stars Justin Chambers and Kevin McKidd as Flash and Batman, respectively, along with C. Thomas Howell (Southland), Cary Elwes (The Princess Bride), Sam Daly (The Daly Show), and a few surprise voice cast members, plus the filmmaking team of producer James Tucker (Superman: Unbound), director Jay Oliva(Batman: The Dark Knight Returns), dialogue director Andrea Romano (Batman: The Dark Knight Returns), screenwriter Jim Krieg (Green Lantern: The Animated Series), and character designer Phil Bourassa (Young Justice). Ballroom 20
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8:15pm Worst Cartoons Ever! Yes, it's my program of the worst cartoons ever made, including episodes of Phys Ed super-hero Mighty Mr. Titan, space cadet Johnny Cypher and some of those 1960s Marvel Super Heroes cartoons. The best/bad animation ever! Don't miss it! Room 6BCF