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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-3634?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Colin Patrick McCabe updated HDFS-3634: --------------------------------------- Attachment: HDFS-3634.003.patch * be more careful to close all file descriptors on error -- to avoid hangs * work around HDFS-2551 and add comment * wait until fuse_dfs finishes mounting the filesystem before starting the test. (Add waitForMount). * put sleepNoSig into a common utility function. Since we use alarm(), we can't use sleep(). > Add self-contained, mavenized fuse_dfs test > ------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-3634 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-3634 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Test > Components: fuse-dfs > Affects Versions: 2.1.0-alpha > Reporter: Colin Patrick McCabe > Assignee: Colin Patrick McCabe > Priority: Minor > Attachments: HDFS-3634.002.patch, HDFS-3634.003.patch > > > We should have a self-contained, mavenized FUSE unit test which runs as part of the normal build and can detect problems. Of course, because FUSE is an optional build component, the unit test won't run unless the user has FUSE installed. However, it would be very useful in improving the quality of fuse_dfs and detecting regressions. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
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1) I need a simple online quote page for a wedding photography website whereby potential clients input their required wedding package details and date and then get an instant price quoted online and forwarded to them by email. Would be useful if I was also forwarded details of any quotes generated.
Most of the fields will be a simple choice of options from a list but the more complicated element (to me anyway !) will be a variation in the quoted price based on how close their enquiry is to the wedding date ..... basically, stepped discounts will apply as they get closer to the wedding date.
Fields would be .........
WEDDING DATE: (this will need to be compared to a list of already booked dates and generate a "not available" response if the requested date has gone)
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The Wedding Date field would need to compare with TODAY's date to determine days between the two and this would apply a discount to the total price based on reference to a discounts table. It will also need to determine whether the wedding is "peak season" or not based on the months of April-September being "peak" and October-March being "off peak"
Each of the three packages would have a "half day" and "full day" price, a "weekend" and "midweek" price and an "peak" or "off peak" price date so, in total, there are 24 variations from top price PLATINUM - PEAK SEASON - FULL DAY - WEEKEND to lowest price SILVER - OFF PEAK - HALF DAY - MIDWEEK !
2) Payment method/ details - PAYPAL - 50% up front 50% on completion but happy to negotiate !
I have basic HTML skills, limited PHP skills, very limited database skills so may need hand-holding to get any script installed !!!


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"Sayre School provides an innovative and inclusive learning environment that empowers students to achieve academic excellence, embrace challenge, and cultivate integrity in order to lead purposeful lives in an ever-changing world."[1]
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70% of faculty hold advanced degrees[4] class = average class size is 15 students.[5]ratio = 7:1
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47% of seniors scored 28 or above on the ACT; over a quarter of the class scored 30 or above.[7]athletics = 40 sports teams offered at the Varsity, Junior Varsity and Middle School level(grades 6-12)[8]
Sayre School is an independent, co-educational school in Lexington, Kentucky. The school enrolls 550 students from preschool to twelfth grade. It has 68 full-time faculty members.[9]
David A. Sayre, a New Jersey silversmith who migrated to Lexington where he eventually became a successful banker, founded the school as an all female boarding school in 1854—over a decade before the University of Kentucky first opened its doors.[10] Originally called Transylvania Women's College, the school remained an all female institution until 1876.[11] In the late 19th century the school began a college program giving out associate degrees, and to this day the pillars outside the main entrance state "Sayre College."[citation needed] Sayre dropped its associate degree program because the area was already served by two other colleges, the University of Kentucky, and Transylvania University.[citation needed]
The Sayre School consists of three academic divisions, covering ages 2 through grade 12. The Lower School consists of a preschool program, for ages 2-5,[12] and Kindergarten through Grade 5. The Middle School covers grades 6-8, and the Upper School has grades 9-12, like a traditional high school. The Upper School offers 16 Advanced Placement courses, and 89% of seniors who took an AP class earned a score of 3 or higher with 60% being designated as AP Scholars; six were National AP Scholars.[13]
Since Sayre is no longer a boarding school, most of its students reside in Lexington, Kentucky or its nearby counties, such as Scott County, Bourbon, Jessamine, and Woodford counties. Students come from 15 Central Kentucky counties, such as Fleming and Estill counties, that are more than an hour commute away.[7]
The school is the most expensive college preparatory institution in the Bluegrass region,[14][15] charging $7,000 to $19,970 a year for tuition.[16] Tuition rates increase with the level of education, meaning that Sayre charges students in its high school, or Upper School, the most. The school offers both need-based financial assistance and merit scholarships.
Notable alumni[edit]
Notable past Sayre students include Nobel Laureate William Lipscomb,[17] woman suffragist Laura Clay, settlement school founder Katherine Pettit, Josh Hopkins, Mayor Thomas E. Hayden of Flower Mound, Texas,[18] Mr. Joshua L. Bishop, Byrd Spilman Dewey and actress Ashley Judd.[19][20]
Sayre's sports teams are called the Spartans. Their school colors are blue and gold. Notably, the school has a "no-cut" policy for its sports teams, meaning that any student can participate on an athletic team, regardless of ability, if he or she wishes to do so.[8]
- ^ "Sayre: Mission & History".
- ^ "Sayre: Campus Map". sayreschool.org. Retrieved 2008-01-16.
- ^ "Sayre: Headmaster's Welcome". sayreschool.org. Retrieved 2012-08-08.
- ^ "Sayre: Fast Facts". sayreschool.org. Retrieved 2015-10-22.
- ^ "Sayre: Fast Facts". sayreschool.org. Retrieved 2015-10-22.
- ^ "Fast Facts". sayreschool.org. Retrieved 2015-10-22.
- ^ a b "Sayre: Fast Facts". sayreschool.org. Retrieved 2015-10-22.
- ^ a b "Sayre: Athletics". sayreschool.org. Retrieved 2012-06-23.
- ^ "Sayre: Fast Facts". sayreschool.org. Retrieved 2015-10-22.
- ^ "Sayre: David A. Sayre". sayreschool.org. Retrieved 2007-12-19.
- ^ "Sayre: Sayre's History". sayreschool.org. Retrieved 2007-12-19.
- ^ "Preschool". sayreschool.org. Retrieved 2015-10-22.
- ^ "College Counseling, Upper School Profile". sayreschool.org. Retrieved 2015-10-22.
- ^ "Tuition and Fees: Lexington Catholic High School". lexingtoncatholic.com. 2012. Retrieved 2012-02-05.
- ^ "Lexington Christian Academy - Tuition Information". lexingtonchristian.org. 2012. Retrieved 2012-02-05.
- ^ "Sayre School Financial Bulletin". sayreschool.org. 2012. Retrieved 2012-02-05.
- ^ Chapter: Process of Discovery (1977); An Autobiographical Sketch, William Lipscomb, 14 pp., Sayre is on page xv, in the book Structures and Mechanisms: From Ashes to Enzymes (Acs Symposium Series, vol. 827) Gareth R. Eaton (Editor), Don C. Wiley (Editor), Oleg Jardetzky (Editor), American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 2002, ISBN 9780841237360, 404 pp., online at pubs.acs.org.
- ^ "Thomas Edward Hayden". intelius.com. Retrieved February 3, 2014.
- ^ "Interview Ajudd; Tops in Lex". topsinlex.com. Retrieved 2007-12-19.
- ^ "Educators: Katherine Pettit". Women in Kentucky. Retrieved 2008-03-24.
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Of the few novelists who manage to combine the private eye and horror genres successfully, none does it better than Connolly. Here he gives his hapless hero, Charlie Parker, a man obsessed with the memory of the gruesome murders of his wife and daughter, a particularly disturbing case involving child predators and killers. It's a grim story, including the reappearance of a Parker foe, the sinister and probably supernatural Collector who is drawn to certain crimes from which he extracts keepsakes. Sanders has the right kind of vocal timbre to suggest Parker's tough–but–soul sick protagonist and the skill to give the gritty material a properly noir tone. As for the Collector, whom Connelly tells us tastes words like unfamiliar food, Sanders conjures up a raspy whisper that carries more than the hint of a distaste for life. It also contains an echo of Parker's voice, which follows the author's suggestion that the Collector may be a specter of the detective's imagination. In any case, the sound, like the novel itself, is as unnerving as a fever dream.
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Daniel Clay, a psychiatrist alleged to have worked with a child-abuse ring, is missing and presumed dead. His grown daughter, Rebecca, is being stalked by an ex-con whose own daughter is missing. Rebecca hires Portland, Maine, investigator Charlie Parker to protect her and dissuade her stalker, a former contract killer named Merrick who is intent on either finding his daughter or avenging her death. The case leads to a very dark chapter in Maine's rural history and to the still-operational remnants of a syndicate of highly organized child abusers. Connolly weaves elements of the supernatural into a disturbing, very dark tale. Parker is haunted by the specters of his late wife and daughter as well as an ephemeral embodiment of death who offers both advice and warnings as the detective ventures ever deeper into the darkness of the real world and his own soul. The disquieting subject, coupled with Connolly's dark, lyrical prose, will leave unshakable images lurking on the edge of the reader's consciousness. Wes Lukowsky
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Parker interviews Rebecca's ex-husband, Daniel Clay's lawyer, a child psychiatrist who disliked Clay and clashed with him professionally, and others who might be able to shed some light on who Daniel Clay really was and what became of him. Meanwhile, Parker, with the help of some hired muscle, tries to keep Rebecca safe, but he soon learns that no one can be shielded from certain relentless individuals who will not be denied their chance for revenge.
"The Unquiet" is an effective horror story that proves once again the truth of Shakespeare's statement: the evil that men do lives after them. Slowly and inexorably, Charlie Parker uncovers the horrifying misdeeds and unravels the tangled web of deceit that men without conscience created to shield themselves from justice. Inevitably, the past and the present converge, with predictably violent results. Although Connolly sets his novel in what some would consider the bucolic state of Maine, there is no peace in these pages. Maine is Stephen King territory, and the cold grip of terror permeates the narrative. There are ghosts--"hollow men" who appear again and again to terrify those unlucky enough to look into the dark holes where their eyes should be. Death is never far away in Connolly's tortured and atmospheric landscape. This book is a stylish and unsettling thriller with superior descriptive writing, memorable characters, and a bone-chilling conclusion.
But for as much as I admire Connolly, I was disappointed in "The Unquiet", a needlessly long and convoluted tale of revenge and retribution that wallows under the weight of overindulgence in that which has made Connolly's fiction so refreshing and unique. In this installment, Parker is retained by Rebecca Clay to protect her from a mysterious stalker seeking answers about the fates of his daughter and Clay's child psychiatrist father, both long since disappeared. What seems to be a simple case of scaring off a bad guy spins by multiple threads into the shadowy and despicable world of child sexual abuse, leading to murder, deceit, and betrayal on that grand scale we associate with Connolly. An already complicated cast of characters and sub plots is further embellished by a mystical dose T.S. Elliot's "Hollow Men", while even managing to find a role for the ubiquitous Russian mob.
We know that Charlie "Bird" Parker is a tortured soul, but Parker's "Unquiet" anguish overpowers plot and setting. Colorful sidekicks Angel and Louis are relegated to nearly inconsequential roles, but are dull and listless even when given center stage. The ominous Louis seems more bored than menacing, while Parker plods through a truly horrific mystery distracted by his own past, haunted by guilt and floundering in self pity. What worked in previous Connolly novels - the ghoulish religious cults of Aroostook in "The Killing Kind" or the Mephistophelian villainy of "The Black Angel" - felt forced and fell flat in "The Unquiet".
John Connolly is too talented to write a bad novel and despite its weaknesses, "The Unquiet" is deeper and more interesting than the average thriller. But where previous Parker novels were page-turners, I was easily distracted while reading this one, an often tedious effort that had all the right elements, but missed in the delicate balance between action and atmosphere.
That said, I must admit that the last one seemed a bit of departure to me, with its much broader scope and its heavy-duty philosophical and historical bent. I enjoyed it tremendously, but I enjoyed this one even more because it's much more like the earlier ones I loved so much.
We begin this book with Parker separated from Rachel and Sam, a separation that seems to be inching towards permanence, and one that causes Parker great pain but about which he feels relatively powerless, I think. What separates him from Rachel is something that he can't immediately control or maybe even fully understand because doing so would involve digging very deeply into his own psyche.
In this novel, Parker's forced to confront that psyche, the way his own decisions have led to his isolation from some of the people he loves best, from sanity, even. The ghosts of his dead first wife and daughter continue to haunt him, but his understanding of that haunting changes. I won't give away any major plot points here, but I will tell you that it's good to see Parker becoming more self-aware, not just in the sense that he knows he's flawed but in the sense that he has some control over how his experiences shape him and follow him into his future.
Angel and Louis show up, which is a good thing, as I like them both as characters. They're funny even in their cold-blooded murderous moments. But they're also human, and it's good to see them covering Parker's back as they always do.
The Collector returns, and I must admit to being enthralled by this character as well. He serves both as a catalyst for Parker's increased self-awareness and for Parker's self-doubts and even self-loathing. He also helps move the plot along in a logical and compelling way.
Other characters continue to guide the reader over complex psychological terrain. If you thought Louis and Angel were studies in contrasts and grey areas, wait until you encounter Merrick here. This man, a killer who carries with him the reek of the abattoir, has a moral code that makes it hard to consider him the bad guy that he is. So, too, the Collector. You want to run screaming in the opposite direction at the same time that you are thinking, "dammit, I kind of. . .GET where he's coming from."
The themes of child sexual abuse and adults' inability to confront the damage they inflict on children in order to serve their own twisted agendas are as compelling as always, especially when Mr. Connolly weaves in history and the backgrounds of his characters to make more powerful and intriguing connections.
I've been told that consistently rating Mr. Connolly's work with 5 stars may look as though I can't rate very objectively, but here's the thing: Mr. Connolly's writing, in particular the Parker series, is some of the best I've ever read, and so far there's been not one major misstep on the writer's part. I continue to enjoy reading about Charlie, laughing at his wit, learning more about his circle of friends and defenders, and witnessing his struggle to achieve some lasting level of happiness. Perhaps it's that last one most of all that always makes me wait with great anticipation for the next book in the series.
Daniel Clay, a once-respected psychologist, has been missing for years following revelations about harm done to the children in his care. His daughter Rebecca believes that he is dead and has tried to come to terms with the legacy left by her father. But there is someone who does not believe that her father is dead and they are starting to ask awkward questions. The man is a father and a killer who is obsessed with finding out the truth about his own daughter's disappearance.
A private detective Charlie Parker is taken on board to make Merrick go away but he will not be stopped. Parker soon finds himself trapped between those who want to know the truth and those who are desperate for it to remain hidden . . .
I found the book both moving and chilling at the same time. An unusual combination to say the least, but the author is a master of his craft and certainly knows how to keep his reader's in suspense throughout the book until the final pages.
This latest volume seems to bookend the one that I found that day in a bookstore that has since closed it doors. This is the sixth novel, of a series of novels, that traces the origins of a character named Charlie Parker (a former New York City police detective and current private eye). There is a seventh novel (Bad Men) but Charlie Parker appears only briefly and so is not really mentioned.
The prologue to The Killing Kind opens with the statement:
"This is a honeycomb world. It hides a hollow heart."
The prologue to The Unquiet contains the words:
"This world, too, is a fragile construct, a honeycomb place...."
And this latest volume continues the journey that began with the brutal murders of Mister Parker's wife and daughter (the brutality of that occurring during the opening scenes of Mister Connolly's first novel: Every Dead Thing).
Having read all of the editions in the Parker series (I say `series'... but each of the novels stand alone, while at the same time furthering the development of the main character) suggests that I should comment on an edition that I find to be even more mature and more complete (and that opinion being rendered by a person judging the other novels as being equally brilliant in theme and execution). Charlie has traveled far and wide and has witnessed evil and been subjected to evil. And his soul has suffered as result. But now he is feeling in control (somewhat) and has arrived at the place where he is questioning the `whole' of it. He is wondering if he himself is really one of the `good guys' or... one of the `bad'. And during that internal monologue, he is drawing us all into some very uncomfortable conclusions.
This is the journey of a man tormented by the passing of time and the festering of personal guilt. And this latest entry involves a mystery stretching from near to distant past and drawing characters further and further into a web of deceit and betrayal. And no one should feel surprise at the villains in this edition. They are no less mysterious or frightening than previous incarnations. Some of these characters have wandered the scenery before and will undoubtedly wander again.
This time around there is a specter of child murder and sexual abuse looming above all and weaving threads of several tales and several characters (with those characters and tales converging at the end).
Merrick is at once enigmatic and interesting; a person with particular failings and even more particular talents; a tormented soul who is brutal to the extreme. That said, he is also faithful to certain ideals and somehow strangely likeable (but that may be just to my particular liking... and maybe because I'm strangely drawn to violence of the sort).
The usual supernatural elements are also present and keep you guessing whether figures really do exist or are drifting between dimensions of reality and super-reality. In any event... the whole of it works and in quite enjoyable fashion.
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Skip to comments.National Park Service videos praise Islam's contributions to women's rights
Posted on 09/23/2013 11:11:34 AM PDT by barmag25
Come again? There are two elements in the title of this post that dont compute. One is the phrase Islam's contributions to women's rights. Well return to this shortly. The second is the proposition National Park Service produces videos praising Islam's contributions. How exactly is it within the purview of the National Park Service to praise or even condemn a religion? At least you can rest easy in the knowledge that your tax dollars are paying for these videos
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
A woman's right to be gang raped and stoned as the criminal?
Yeah, Islam is so progressive.
/ sarc
Rights like...
"You have the right to be beaten."
"You have the right to obey muslim males, so that we won't have to honor kill you."
"You have the right to always cover up in public."
"You have the right to stay in your home unless you have a male escort."
"You have the right to be raped if you leave your home without a male escort or uncovered."
"You have the right to be stoned to death if you accuse Muslim males of raping you."
"You have the right to not drive...ever."
"You have the right to remain ignorant, education being for the males."
Park Service notably silent on that "right".
"You have the right to have body parts sawed-off with a rusty knife".
Park Service is silent about that "right" too.
And they'd ignore it while calling you a hater for pointing it out.
In case you wish to ping your list.
My immediate first thought.
Next they'll be putting out a video praising Hitler's contributions to the settling of Israel.
The Armed & Rangerous hard at work, wasting your money and helping Islam.
I nominate that for Post Of The Day.
Or the Klan's contributions to civil rights....
How can anyone say we can't cut back on government spending?????? The park "service" idiots that made this BS should be fired...and deported.
Too bad Muhammad wasn't snuffed out the first nanosecond he started with this crap.
this is analogous to Barry the Great Leaders claims of Islam's great contributions to SCIENCE....and very islamic Syria's having Banned the Yo Yo in 1933..... for having caused a DROUGHT...
someone..... at the park service .....has been smoking HASISH
If they promoted Christianity SOMEONE would be suing them for seperation of church and state
As if the absurdity of these claims wasn't bad enough [ those rights not being present even in modern islam ] just look at the "related articles" under the quote on the examiner.
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Women and sharia courts
Still think Obama doesnt love sister-enslaving-Sharia Islamists?
Muslim Brotherhood: Women to blame for the rise in gang rapes
Here's why this survey was done: it's a way to eat up tax money collected from all of us. AND to spread that DC job wealth around to parasite relatives of government 'workers'...
DC has the richest counties in the country. Hollywood doesn't even make the top 10. You want to see real wealth? Go to DC and check out the blowhards...
They live large.
Read this:
This is sickening.
Every piece of anything good in America is being ruined/destroyed/stolen and sold.
We are going to need some org charts with names.
White House tours are suspended due to sequester while money is being spent on this outrageous bullsh1t. President Hussein Trayvon is a disgrace.
People think that Islam oppresses women and theres no equality, but theyre wrong theres equity 7th century A.D. Islam gave women the right to be involved in politics, the right to earn and keep her own money. Islam gave women the right to work outside of the home, Islam gave women the right to own property, Islam gave women the right to divorce, Islam gave women the right to choose who she marries. Islam gave women a whole bunch of rights ...Actually, all of that is true. What's not mentioned that in in Islam's 11th century retreat to fundamentalism, it took all those rights away.
sounds like govt promoting religion to me!
I am offended
Who do I sue?
equal opportunity sociopathy
I am sure the park service is appreciative of islamic arsonists in our forests as well. Gives them something to do, eh?
I went to the youtube channel. Listened to the first one, promoting Islam. There are 8 vids up. 3 Parts to the "Islamic Women's Rights", another one or two about Islam, one about African Americans and women's rights, one about gays, one about Obama, and one "generic women's rights". What a bunch of steaming doo doo.
This absolutely infuriates me!
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We need to let them know how we feel!
Islam isn't going to have to conquer America. Our pussy politicians are going to surrender us to the hordes of evil! ;(
You forgot genital mutilation!
The WH also directed NASA to make Muslim outreach its new mission. Are we living in the twilight zone?.......or Obamaland?
Id prefer the twilight zone.
National Park Service produced rap videos on Youtube:
This is the NPS agenda.
NPS funds Latino research center:
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OK. We have now completed the ESPNDallas.com "Dazzling Dozen" series on the 12 most memorable moments of the 2010 season (this includes on- and off-field events). Here were our dozen:
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3. Nelson Cruz walk-off against NYY
4. Josh Hamilton's Aug. 13 game vs. Boston
5. Aucton/Michael Young grand slam
6. Cliff Lee trade
7. Mitch Moreland's at-bat in Game 3 of World Series
8. Clinching the AL West
9. Matt Treanor's pinch-hit triple vs. Florida
10. Bengie Molina's cycle
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12. Opening Day comeback
Of course, we had to leave some very memorable moments out. That's the problem with only 12 slots. But I asked some other die-hard Rangers fans, including Jamey Newberg, Adam Morris, Ted Price and Tim Darley, whose blogs appear here occasionally, for their top 12. Here you go:
Jamey Newberg:
1. Feliz strikes out A-Rod to end ALCS
2. Lee trade
3. Guerrero's double in ALCS Game 6
4. Moreland's World Series at-bat
5. Rangers Baseball Express wins auction
6. Lee's complete game win Game 5 ALDS
7. Hamilton's game against Boston
8. Mid-September sweep of Yankees (including two walkoffs)
9. Young's homer of Chad Qualls after disputed check swing
10. Molina cycle
11. Treanor's triple
12. Guerrero scoring from second against TB in playoffs
Adam Morris (Lone Star Ball)
1. Matt Treanor triple
2. The kid with the mantis on his head
3. Molina cycle
4. The Salty walkoff single
5. Molina homer in the ALCS
6. Neftali Feliz's called strike 3 to ARod
7. Hamilton scoring from 2nd on an IF single
8. Andrus's steal of home
9. Andrus scoring from 2nd on an infield out in Game 5 of the ALDS
10. Tommy Hunter pitching a complete game in the 100+ degree heat in his first start
Tim Darley:
1. ALCS Game 6
2. Cliff Lee wins Game 5 of ALDS
3. Rangers clinch AL West
4. Auction/Young grand slam
5. Nelson Cruz walkoff vs. Yankees
6. Hamilton's Tour de Force vs. Boston
7. Rangers beat Tigers in extras July 19
8. Wilson beats Angels, 1-0, July 23
9. Treanor's triple beats Marlins
10. Bengie Molina's cycle
11. Young all-time hits leader
12. Opening Day comeback
Ted Price (Rangers Podcast):
1. Feliz gets A-Rod to end ALCS
2. Lee trade
3. Lee wins Game 5 ALDS
4. Club goes 21-6 in June
5. Washington's news conference in Surprise during drug admission with every player in attendance
6. Hamilton's 4-for-5 game against Boston
7. Colby Lewis wins battle with Seattle's Cliff Lee on April 30
8. Club trades for Bengie Molina
9. Molina's cycle
10. Texas takes 3 of 4 from Boston after All-Star break
11. Young becomes Rangers all-time hits king
12. Moreland's at-bat in the Game 3 of World Series
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I AM WAITING (1957): In Koreyoshi Kurahara's directorial debut, rebel matinee idol Yujiro Ishihara (fresh off the sensational Crazed Fruit) stars a restaurant manager and former boxer who saves a beautiful, suicidal club hostess (Mie Kitahara) trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer. Featuring expressionist lighting and bold camera work, this was one of Nikkatsu's early successes.
RUSTY KNIFE (1958): Rusty Knife was the first smash for director Toshio Masuda, who would go on to become one of Japanese cinema's major hit makers. In the film, Yujiro Ishihara and fellow top Nikkatsu star Akira Kobayashi play former hoodlums trying to leave behind a life of crime, but their past comes back to haunt them when the authorities seek them out as murder witnesses.
TAKE AIM AT THE POLICE VAN (1960): At the beginning of Seijun Suzuki's taut and twisty whodunit, a prison truck is attacked and a convict inside is murdered. The penitentiary warden on duty, Daijiro (Michitaro Mizushima) is accused of negligence and suspended, only to take it upon himself to track down the killers.
CRUEL GUN STORY (1964): Fresh out of the slammer, Togawa (Branded to Kill's Joe Shishido) has no chance to go straight because he is immediately coerced by a wealthy mob boss into organizing the heist of an armoured car carrying racetrack receipts. After gathering together a ragtag bunch to carry out the robbery, Togawa learns that all is not what it seems in Takumi Furukawa's thriller. Cue the double (and triple) crosses!
A COLT IS MY PASSPORT (1967): One of Japanese cinema's supreme emulations of American noir, Takashi Nomura's A Colt Is My Passport is a down-and-dirty but gorgeously photographed yakuza film starring Joe Shishido as a hard-boiled hit man caught between rival gangs. Featuring an incredible, spaghetti-western-style soundtrack and brimming with formal experimentation, this is Nikkatsu at its finest.
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Hats off to Criterion/Eclipse for stepping up and unleashing more great Nikkatsu films!
What I enjoyed were characters who could convincingly slouch like a Japanese version of Zoot-suited Bogart, plots with match-ups and double-crossing like the "Good, the Bad and the Ugly". These movies provide an immersion in a time and world (Japan post-war low-lifes and gangsters) as lost to us all as a Jurassic forest, or the royal court of the Sun King. Gives me faith that in the worlds of film, literature and music there is more to explore.
These can probably best be classified as slightly poppish crime-noir, nothing as over the top as Suzuki's "Branded to Kill", but nothing as realistic as say "Pale Flower" Pale Flower (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]. Some are better than others, and of course over a 10 year span you'll see some changes in tone and style. Considering the age of the films you will see minor transfer/quality issues here and there, but overall still very, very good. The movies vary somewhat as to theme, but most focus on some aspect of "redemption", "trying to go straight", or "rescuing your lover/friend/oneself" from corruptive influences. It is hard as an outsider to know if this was directly reflective in any way as part of the healing process of losing World War II, or just a reason why some of the typical aspects of these types of films struck a nerve and became so popular in Japan at the time.
The best of the bunch is "A Colt Is My Passport" (1967), directed by Takashi Nomura and starring Joe Shishido. You could give this 5 stars, but it does contain a very annoying spaghetti western soundtrack that does not fit well with the movie and is played so frequently that it proves to be distracting. Shishido plays a hitman that falls into the inevitable web of betrayals and doublecrosses, but it contains several nice touches and an ending that for '67 was fairly innovative.Read more ›
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