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Today's topic: iPhone hacking
Today's entry:
You are probably the best person to answer this... I was texting, using the phone text not the internet and someone wrote in the text box. Not either of us. So in my opinion, that constitutes hacking.
What I would like to know, is there software to stop or prevent this, or do I have to change phone number?
Bottom Line: Hmm… I'd agree with you that you may be a victim of hacking. I do have two ideas about how this may be taking place.
- Spy software that's installed on your phone or
- Your phone is "jail broken"
If you purchased you phone used, you'd stand the best chance of either of these scenarios taking place. I'll elaborate a bit on each.
There are iPhone spy programs that can be installed and run in the background if you're unaware. These most commonly are used by couples that are snooping on their significant others. What I think is most likely is actually the "jail break".
A jail broken phone is one in which the factory settings of the phone have be altered. There are no known ways to externally hack a factory configured iPhone. However an after market altered phone certainly could enable the potential for someone to externally tap into your phone. Jail breaking was common with iPhones prior to the iPhone being compatible with all of the leading service providers. By jail breaking a phone a person could start service on a non-Apple exclusive service provider and potentially install unauthorized apps on the device as well.
I'd take your iPhone to the nearest Apple store and have them investigate these possibilities. If it is a hacking problem I don't believe changing your phone number would be a solution. Good luck!
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How accurate are hurricane predictions really?:
Bottom Line: I was reading the first of what's likely to be many hypish hurricane season related stories yesterday. The irony is that ColoradoState, the UniversityCenter that provides the official forecast, is predicting a light season this year. According to the CSU forecast we'll have only three named Atlantic hurricanes this year. The writer of the story still spun it into a "we're due for another Katrina type" of hurricane story. I guess fear sells? Anyway you likely know that I'm a super skeptic of long range weather prediction. By the time I was halfway through the story I had the idea to actually check the accuracy of the CSU forecasts. Here's what I found.
The CSU forecast has existed for 19 years. So how many years do you think they've accurately predicted the number of named Atlantic hurricanes? The answer… 1. Yes CSU's forecast which is so widely reported and followed last year has been correct exactly one time or 5.2% of the time. We've had a right to be skeptical. So how close are they? The CSU forecast has been off by an average of 3 hurricanes per year or nearly 50%. So they're right only 5% of the time and when they're wrong they're off by about 50%.
Now let's just hope that means no hurricanes this year rather than six…
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Florida is one of the three best places to buy real-estate:
Bottom Line: Real-Estate expert and author Shari Olefson has released a report on the three best places to buy real-estate right now. There were two cities and one whole state. Here they are:
- Dallas, Texas
- San Bernardino, California
- Florida
That'll work. Shari said that from Miami to Jacksonville over to Tampa and pretty much everything in-between represents a great relative value and opportunity. Positive publicity like this should only be a positive for our local real-estate market as South Florida tends to be the most desirable of all Florida real-estate. It also may serve as a reminder for you if you've been on the fence about making a purchase yourself.
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Key ruling regarding health insurance and E-Cigs:
Bottom Line: We know that many have made the move to E-Cigs in the hope of being a bit healthier while still getting their fix. Now that the industry is maturing, regulators have started to move in and regulate the industry. Recent decisions included limiting advertising of E-Cigs in a similar fashion to traditional cigarettes while still allowing flavored E-Cigs to be sold. One of the most important rulings of all just occurred.
Based largely on a determination by the CDC, the health insurance industry is going to view e-cigs as the same as traditional cigarette smoking for the purpose of your premiums and risk category. So even if you were able to fly under they radar this year, it appears as though that won't be the case when you renew later this year for next.
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Want to make money with your investments? Look at what the analysts recommend and do the opposite:
Bottom Line: I find this somewhat entertaining, ironic and potentially empowering for you as an individual investor. As an advocate of the individual stock market investor I've long scoffed at the notion that Wall-Street analysts are part of the "Smart Money" system. It's the implication of "Smart Money" that I object to. That suggests that all of the rest of us are what? Dumb? Jokes on them anyway. I've taken pride in outperforming them every year that I've been investing. Which isn't necessarily as impressive as it sounds. You see they really just aren't always that accurate.
There once was a time where analysts and their recommendations were needed and important. That was before the internet. Sure Wall-Street analysts have more access and pretty cool lunches with prominent execs but that doesn't mean that they know something important that you don't. For example if you did the exact opposite of what Wall Street analysts recommended in the most recent quarter – you've have done much better. According to Bespoke Investment Group:
- The top 50 recommended companies in the S&P 500 declined by 2.4% since March 5th
- The 50 least recommended stocks in the S&P 500 rose by 3.5% over the same period of time
So don't feel as though you're at a disadvantage. If anything "the Smart Money" guys aren't as smart as you.
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Cafe Latte – New Attack to Pilfer Wi-Fi Users' Data
Air Tight Networks have designed an attack known as Caffe Latte, which utilizes the WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) encryption system to log on in order to protect the wireless networks.
Caffe Latte provides Internet access from other networks by allowing the attacker to act as a middleman while evaluating the user's machine or employing payloads. The attack, proving its fancy name, can be carried out anywhere, even in a café.
WEP was the default method of protecting Wi-Fi networks, designed in the late 1990s. However; it was substituted by the WPA system (Wi-Fi Protected Access), but around 41% of businesses still rely on WEP. The proportion is higher in home users, said the security experts.
It is really unfortunate that WEP has been laden with the security problems. WEP was held responsible for the data breach regarding the access of 45 Million credit and debit card numbers by the thieves in the TJX Companies Inc.
The researchers till date have inclined towards exploiting the WEP error with an intention to break into the wireless networks. That reflected that the attacker will turn around the WEP-encrypted router, and decode the WEP key utilized for encrypting the traffic network, finally logging to the network.
Ramachandran, a Senior Wireless Security Researcher with AirTight Networks Inc. said that till now, the traditional belief was, the attacker who wants to crack the WEP would have to come at the parking lot, as published by Computerworld on October 17, 2007. With the development of this attack, every employee of an organization is an aim of an attack, Ramachandran added.
The most susceptible to the attack were the companies in logistics and retail, as the scanners used in warehouses and the retail point-of-sale systems (which are still widely used) only support the WEP. If a cracker could relate the cracked key to a company by utilizing the intrusion tools or by scrutinizing the hard drive of the victim, then he can directly enter into that company ant also their network at his will. This is what which exactly led to the break in of the TJ Maxx/Marshall's parent company.
In broader terms, if ever anyone linked to a WEP-protected network and stored the key, his laptop gets exposed to the attack.
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Lately there have been disclosure announcements as to the results of celebrity autopsy reports. At what point does this become a HIPAA violation if it is not a criminal investigation?
For example, the Billy Mays press release. The family indicated that they were not in agreement with the release of information. What is the medical examiner's liability in the disclosure of a patient's autopsy records?
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"In Star Publishing Co. v. Parks, 178 Ariz. 604, 875 P.2d 837, 838 (Ct. App. 1993), the court held that "autopsy reports are public records under A.R.S. §§ 11-594 and 597″ and that the County Forensic Center cannot hold up disclosure pending notification of relatives, unless it can point to "specific risks with respect to a specific disclosure."


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In the following pattern, the largest size is 18-24mo. I need to make these in a size larger. Can anybody help me make adjustments to the pattern as needed. I have recently started knitting and haven't figured out how to do that yet!
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Published: May 25 2012 - 3:00AM
In 1959 we got ourselves a new headmaster at Blaketown Primary School. His initials were the same and, for us, John Corkill was most pronouncedly the second coming.
After two years of a reign of terror, under the regime of SS commandant Bill Leach, kids started to once more relax and take an interest in their studies, to smile and laugh and actually look forward to attending classes. No longer were they forcibly made to slink to school of a morning, head bowed, dreading that inevitable moment when they'd be singled out to be whacked, for no good reason, in an ambush by the creeping, ruler-wielding Gestapo officer, he of the vile breath and evil, brown-toothed smile.
Corkill brought an end to that Dickensian nightmare; in its place, he brought new life to the school. He was a jovial, robust sort of chap, an active rugby referee who, in the best traditions of Arnoldism, joined the kids in their sport and games. He proved a most formidable opponent in British Bulldog, one man defending an entire half of the field. He laughed when I called him a ''Taranaki Bull'' - the game was, after all, also known as bullrush.
Remember British Bulldog? It was around in the days when kids stayed at school long after classes, to play on the school fields, to stage their own Olympic Games, FA Cup finals, cricket Test matches … and the titanic, memorable all-gender, all-age struggles of British Bulldog.
In these funny little ways, we unknowingly upheld history and tradition.
Corkill was robust but not robotic. He knew how to engage with children, to relate, to communicate with 10- and 11-year-olds, to get his students involved, to pay attention and to learn about things.
We did it not because we felt we needed to learn anything, but because we warmed to him, liked him, respected him and wanted to show him how much we appreciated his presence, and his steady stream of delightful diversions. He was always coming up with ideas for new things to do: we produced a class newspaper, we went down a coal mine, we brought to class our favourite thing, not just to talk about it but to explain it and defend it in sometimes robust debate. Seemingly trivial tasks became an opportunity to discuss words, their meaning, their origins.
I started thinking about John Corkill the other day when I read in The Canberra Times that some bright spark had come up with the idea of using a robot to take school children on virtual tours of museums.
Five nights a week, from Sunday to Thursday, my job is to read every word of every line in every sentence in every story that appears in The Canberra Times. Some make me laugh, some make me think; some please me - like that picture story about Hannah, a 10-year-old year five student from Wanniassa Hills primary who told a Canberra Times reporter last week she enjoyed NAPLAN tests because ''it's not the usual thing you do in class''.
Some stories sadden me. The words I read about the robotic school excursions were among the saddest I have read in a very long time. How could anyone possibly come up with an idea to deny children the unbridled joys of a school excursion?
In 1960, John Corkill organised with some of the parents to take our class to Wellington, to visit the National Museum, Parliament House and the Alexander Turnbull Library. This was an adventure of the highest order. It meant an early-morning trip through the Southern Alps by railcar, an overnight ferry from Lyttleton to Wellington, and a day in our national capital, being shown the treasures of our national heritage. That's the sort of experience that stays with one for a lifetime.
We were not so much interested in Phar Lap's skeleton, or the rich, deep leather seats of the political arena, or dusty, smelly old books per se. No, far more important than these memories in the long term was that opportunity to grasp a lasting appreciation of history and tradition, something that, I'm happy to say, has never left me.
I cannot for a moment imagine how a machine could do this; how gadgets and images on a monitor could convey that sense of seeing and touching history and tradition, of feeling those things transmitted to the core of one's being. Kids might find it fun for five minutes, to guide a robot around a national institution, but it would leave no lasting impression, other than, perhaps, a vague, abiding notion of denial.
Surely the CSIRO would be better employed concentrating its efforts on climate change, or something else that might benefit our younger generations, than spending $3.5 million on building a robot that would rob them of a school excursion to the National Museum, and the chance to see our heritage first-hand.
As for the museum being involved in all this, it somehow seems to fit for me that unshakeable sense I get when I visit the museum, that I have stumbled on to a long-since abandoned set for 2001: A Space Odyssey, or that this is precisely the sort of place Kurt Vonnegut had in mind when he put Billy Pilgrim in an exhibit in a Tralfamadorian zoo. If I were a modern John Corkill, I'd be taking country kids to Old Parliament, by hand, in person, and giving them something to really remember.
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McMillan Stubby
McMillan is working on a cool little suitcase sniper rifle prototype that they were showing off at this years Shot Show. Named the Stubby, this little rifle was designed to shoot subsonic .308 out to 300 yards. Granted, 300 yards is a pretty short range for a "sniper" rifle, but McMillan is trying to keep the platform as compact as possible, so they gave it a 12″ barrel. So 300 yards isn't that bad considering the Stubby is designed to shoot subsonic .308 which has a significant drop the farther out it travels. The Stubby's buttstock can be removed and attached the the side of the receiver, and it also has a removable suppressor allowing the Stubby to be broken down into a small, easily transportable size.
So far, the Stubby is in its prototype phase and it's only marketed primarily for military and law enforcement. McMillan may bring it over to the civilian market but I would expect that version to have a 16″ barrel just to make it more accessible for a larger demographic. Either way, I thinks a pretty cool rifle, and McMillan is known for extremely accurate long range platforms so I would expect the same from the Stubby. At least one thing is for sure, it'll make going to the range a lot easier by just bringing a 1.5'x1.5′ pelican case and a few boxes of ammo.
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text: We just spent the last week in Bardonecchia, Italy for the 1 year anniversary event of the Torino Olympic Half Pipe. Fiat kicked down huge with MTV Europe and Rolling Stone to have a Battle of the Bands simultaneously jamming with the night Pipe contest. Dustin Craven was the only rider from North America invited by the Italian Stallion Giacomo Kratter, and it was also his very first trip to Europe. (suprisingly) We rode pow every day, had a European Capita photo shoot during the week, and Dustin rode fast and big in the contest. Actually he dropped a 30 foot cliff into pow and did a front 9 tail about 13 feet out (the biggest air of the competition) in the same 24 hours. Slippery little hot dog, that Dustin Craven. Here's some flicks: Pipe was huge! Everyone knows this mountain for the best pipe in Europe, but the mountains around and freeriding are really really rad as well. Party was fun. (It's Italy... duh.) Dustin was recognized at the awards ceremony with Markku Koski for "crazy rider" which basically just means they were both riding fast and killin' it. Bardonecchia is a full time CAPiTA / Union / DC demo center. Facciosnao Camp is an amazing camp with super cool people that do camps here in Italy and also summer camps at Les Deux Alps France. Check them out at www.facciosnao.com


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|Art Brussels, 30 years and always innovating!
|This April, the contemporary art fair Art Brussels celebrates its 30th edition.
With an annual attendance of more than 25 000 visitors and one in three from abroad - Art Brussels belongs to the international top. Art Brussels 2012 will be a festive edition,with many new initiatives both at and around the fair.
New at Art Brussels
Strong new galleries as well as established names, a new fairground architecture, a nocturne on Thursday for the general public and fascinating debates ... will all make this a festive Art Brussels 2012 edition!
The galleries: (http://www.artbrussels.be/en/Galleries)
182 international galleries from 25 countries bring an exciting mix of both young emerging talents and established names in the international art world. To guide the visitor through this diverse offer of over 2000 artists, Art Brussels is organised into three different zones:
FIRST CALL (With the support of National Lottery)
First Call presents the new generation of art galleries that have never before participated at Art Brussels.
This is definitely the zone for new discoveries. Belgium D + T Project / France Gaudel the Stampa / Germany Chert Berlin / Exile / Krome / Tanya Leighton / Soy Capitan / Italy Norma Mangione / Republic of Ireland Mother's Tankstation / Romania Plan B / Sweden Johan Berggren / United States of America Harris Lieberman / Alex Zachary
Young Talent is reserved for galleries that represent emerging and mid-career artists. Newcomers to this area include: Australia Neon Parc Austria Raum mit Light Belgium Anyspace / Waldburger Czech Republic Hunt Kastner Germany Cruise & Callas / Andrae Kaufmann / Koal / Kwadrat / PSM / Florent Tosin / Tanja Wagner Japan Yumiko Chiba Spain ADN The Netherlands Ellen de Bruijne / Juliette Jongma / Motive gallery United Kingdom Wilkinson / Works Projects United States Of America Cherry and Martin / C L E A R I N G / Luis De Jesus / Fitzroy / Ratio 3
The Gallery zone is the largest area. These galleries, mainly representing well-established artists are located in Hall 1. Aside from the familiar international participants such as Galerie 1900-2000, Baronian Francey, Continua, Gladstone, Ibid, Xavier Hufkens, Rodolphe Janssen, Simon Lee, Lelong, Greta Meert, Nathalie Obadia, Perrotin, Almine Rech, Daniel Templon, Tucci Russo, Micheline Szwajcer, Wentrup ... there are also interesting newcomers such as: Austria Christine König / Belgium Tim Van Laere / Axel Vervoordt France Alain Gutharc / Xippas Germany Michael Janssen / Iceland i8 Italy Cardi Black Box / Monica De Cardenas / Noire Contemporary Art / Prometeo / Japan Art Statements Switzerland Patricia Low / Mai 36 / The Netherlands Paul Andriesse / Ellen de Bruijne United Kingdom Carl Freedman / Karsten Schubert / United States of America CRG / Christopher Grimes / Mc Caffrey / Patrick Painter
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The innovative profile of Art Brussels is clearly evident in the new lay-out of the fair; the young galleries
are first to welcome the visitors and set the tone for the fair. The main entrance of the fair has been completely rethought. The visitor entering the fair through the entrance in Hall 3, arrives directly in the First Call area. Collectors can set out in search of new discoveries right away. The visitor or collector looking for established artists will find easy access to Hall 1.
Nocturne for the general public, Thursday, April 19:
On April 19, Art Brussels holds its first nocturne for the general public. The nocturne is dedicated to fashion: fashion designers and fashion gurus will attend en masse, turning Thursday 19/04 into a memorable event. Our special guests are the students of the fashion academies of Antwerp and La Cambre in Brussels.
New outside of the fair walls
Outside of the fair walls, in and around the Belgian art cultural landscape but also in the centre of town, the art offer is entirely tailored to contemporary art. Numerous initiatives make this week the Brussels Art Week.
For the latest updates, a complete list of participating galleries, and information on the OFF program, please visit www.artbrussels.be
Art Brussels 2012:
30th edition: Thu 19 Sun 22 April 2012
Opening hours:
Preview: Wed 18 April: noon-4 pm. (invitation only)
Opening: Wed 18 April: 4 -10 pm. (invitation only)
Exhibition: Thu 19 - Sun 22 April: noon 7 pm.
Nocturne: Thu 19 April: 7 10 pm.
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Our Story
At Taste of Pace, it's not just about the food, it's about the people. we come from a long line of entertainers with a history and passion that shows in our food. Love people + cook them tasty food — it's not just what we do, it's who we are.
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Executive Chef and Lifestyle Expert Pace Webb is one of the most sought after chefs on the Los Angeles food scene. Her catering company, Taste of Pace, is renowned for their monthly underground, invite-only Supper Club as well as being tapped to cater high-end celebrity and charity events for clients like the Breast Cancer Fund, Charlie Sheen, Shepard Fairey, and Acura.
After studying abroad in Rome, she became classically trained in Western European cuisine. With a passion for traveling and living in over seven cities around the globe, Pace created her company to focus on new creative food combinations and most importantly, rich joie de vivre! Pace's sparkle, and performance-like art for feeding people comes naturally as a fourth-generation entertainer. Her unique view on food and general panache for incredible flavor pairings has caught the eye of major brands such as Yahoo, Jell-O and Acura, hiring her to create recipes and host web series. She pens her own blog, and contributes to various food and lifestyle magazines, including C Magazine, Angeleno, Utterly Engaged and Chalkboard Magazine. Pace currently lives the fabulous life in the downtown Los Angeles Arts District with her dog, Willie Nelson.
"For as far back as I can remember I would listen with wonder as my grandmother would tell me stories of hermother throwing lavish dinner parties in a hotel ballroom with jewel colored glassware dotting the table. That same grandmother showed me pictures from when she raised my mother and her brother (my uncle) on a farm in Loredo, Texas. She would hand write every invitation and cooked everything from scratch. Birthday parties were imaginative scenes of circuses and theatrical performances. Not surprisingly my mother became an actress and our house was always the stage for opening night parties. It was at one of these opening night parties that I realized that I wanted to be on the other side of the party. I wanted to be the one filling an empty glass so that a conversation could continue uninterrupted. So, it was only natural that my passion for food combined my love of hospitality."
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Aimee West was born and raised in Austin, Texas. After graduating from Northwest Culinary Academy in Vancouver, BC she soon became the Executive Chef for Campo Verde Social Club, a high-end tapas bar. She moved to Los Angeles in 2007 to further her career in the culinary arts and worked as Garde Manger and Lead Line Cook for Blair's Restaurant in Silverlake. After gaining experience from some of Los Angeles' hottest restaurants, she delved into catering, freelancing as a Sous Chef and food stylist for such companies as Heirloom, Along Came Mary, Bite, and Catering By Field.
She is currently Senior Sous Chef for Taste of Pace, a boutique catering company based out of The Los Angeles Arts District where she leads events of all sizes, co-hosts a monthly supper club, and teaches weekly cooking classes. Aimee lives in Echo Park and spends her free time tending to her urban farm and cooking with family and friends.
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When procuring at the farmers market for Taste of Pace my goal is to find the very best of what's available, tracking the seasonal changes of the market week to week. I try to find flawless ingredients that not only wow with their perfect looks, but most importantly their incredible taste. Shopping at the Santa Monica and Hollywood markets gives us access to the best farms and produce in the country, if not the world. The fierce competition among restaurants and chefs means I'm usually at the market before it even opens, but when I can present our clients with fruits and vegetables of a higher quality than they have ever encountered my mission has been accomplished.
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From hustling in the kitchen game to running circles around the service staff at some of L.A's chicest events, Merinelle Gutierrez has come full circle in culinary career. Graduating from the Culinary School of Culinary Arts in Pasadena, she worked the line and catered for The Patina Group in both Los Angeles and San Francisco. She later acquired a bachelors from the prestigious University of California, Los Angeles which combined with her culinary degree from Le Cordon Bleu allowed her to take on the catering scene as Taste of Pace's Catering Manager.
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Polly Cho, office manager at Taste of Pace began as a scientist. She spent her first four professional years studying the brain at the University of Southern California, wherein she realized that she would brain would be best spent around food. Her passion for food began at a young age—these were times when she was able to learn from and share most with her mother. Taste of Pace is her first foray in the culinary world, where she now runs the office and shares a glimpse into our world with you all on social media.


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Kipling's Poetry
Kipling wasn't (just!) an imperialist
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We've mentioned in the other thread that Kipling was a man of contrasts, some of which are difficult to fathom. I've been on a Kipling kick of late. One of the funniest things I've ever read was a poem of his which I believe was called Municipality about an unfortunate individual who was chased into a sewer by a rogue elephant. Then I picked up a gruesome one this weekend about a grieving widow in England whose only son had the back of his head blown out in India and the vengeance extracted by his devoted native troops. Anyone have opinions on his poetry, which I find is best read aloud?
P.S.willgrstevens, I think you need a pic of Kipling Sahib.
Only Kipling could have discovered that you can make "Commissariat elephant" fit into a line of poetry. At his best, he's a really amazing word-technician. Sometimes he uses that skill to say something profound, sometimes he just gets lost in the enjoyment of language and forgets what he was going to say, if anything. Flicking through, randomly, I just came across "The Deep-Sea Cables", which starts with four absolutely magical lines:
...but then continues in total banality because he can't find anything interesting and original to say about what the deep-sea cables actually do. Of course, he's sometimes able to take the banality and run with it, as in "If", which says nothing at all but is endlessly quotable (like Polonius). And sometimes he does manage to bring his technique to bear to say something interesting, and you have to enjoy the way he does it even if you don't agree with his argument ("The female of the species"). And sometimes I find I do agree with him, as in "Paget, M.P.". Or you get something like "Gunga Din" or "Boots" or even "Mandalay" that looks superficial and jingoistic until you actually read it...
I agree about reading aloud (or reciting, or singing), especially for the poems written in dialect (Barrack-Room Ballads, etc.), where you otherwise tend to get distracted by the forest of apostrophes and lose track of the power of his language. But you do have to read them on the page as well, otherwise you find yourself remembering the refrains and forgetting the story.
Another thought: where does Kipling's poetry fit in historically? I just did a bit of Wikipedia-surfing to try to get the dates sorted out in my mind, but it isn't easy to make sense of. A.E. Housman and Sir Henry Newbolt were more or less his contemporaries, Thomas Hardy a few years older, and obviously they overlap quite a lot with particular aspects of what Kipling does. Housman and Hardy, both do the "speaking in the voice of the common man" thing, and both write about the Boer War (have a look at Hardy's "Drummer Hodge", if you don't know it), but they are much more conservative in their language than Kipling. I get the feeling that Kipling never spent more than an hour or two on a lyric, while Housman and Hardy would polish for weeks (I have no evidence for this claim!). Newbolt did the patriotic drum-banging thing even better than Kipling, but it was his one and only trick (well, that and maintaining a façade of perfect respectability whilst living in a happy and successful ménage-à-trois...).
Otherwise, the only near-contemporaries of Kipling I could think of were Wilde and de la Mare, neither of whom really seems to fit in at all with what Kipling was doing. In the following generations, Masefield was the only obvious Kipling disciple, while there were all the Georgians (Bridges, Graves, Sassoon, etc.) who went the opposite way with very "high", anti-populist lyrics.
What about Robert Service as a Kipling disciple? Take 'The March of the Dead' - it can be found at http://theotherpages.org/poems/yukon03.html#yukon25
Many people would mistake it for Kipling - but, actually, it's not so good.
>4 willgrstevens:
Yes, of course! I hadn't got around to thinking of North America. Service was only slightly younger than Kipling, but he didn't get going as a poet until quite late, so he would have known Kipling's early work. The Australian bush-poets Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson were close contemporaries of Kipling, too.
Has anyone a particular favorite (or indeed several)
Mine are,perhaps Boots;Cold Iron;The Female of the Species;My Boy Jack;Recessional;The Vampire;The 'Eathen.
I do agree with you that they are best read aloud.
In discussing similar poets,I would cite Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Wallace.
>6 devenish: Add 'Tommy', as far as I'm concerned. But perhaps I'm being sentimental - I actually have, in my time, been refused service in a pub because I was wearing uniform!
>8 thorold:
Conan Doyle isn't someone I ever thought of as a poet: having found a few of his poems on the web, I can see why. He doesn't seem to have any feeling for words at all. Edgar Wallace was rather younger, and seems to have been another "Kipling disciple" - the example I found with a quick Google isn't up to Kipling's standard, but he does at least see poetry as requiring something more than just rhyme and metre.
Favourites: difficult - every time I dip into Kipling's poetry I seem to find new favourites and new duds. I don't much like "If" and "Recessional" - they're good poems, but they are too often quoted by people who annoy me. I am fond of some of the well-known ones, though - including "Mandalay", "Tommy", "Danny Deever" and the supremely incorrect "Fuzzy-Wuzzy" and "TFOTS". And a few of the oddities: "Mesopotamia", which manages somehow to be beutiful at the same time as it is angry and bitter; "A way through the woods" which is Kipling showing he can do Georgian if he wants to, and doing it very well indeed. And "The glory of the garden", which should be just as annoying as "Recessional", but somehow isn't. I tend to think of it being quoted from the pulpit in my youth by doddery old ministers who hadn't heard that Kipling was no longer appropriate for the modern age...
>8 thorold: Thanks for motivating me to reread 'The Glory of the Garden' - it's a brilliant piece!
Anyway, couldn't you give the poem a perfectly good Socialist interpretation - we all toil, in our own ways, for the good of all? Not that Kipling have seen his poem in that light, of course!
>7 willgrstevens: School uniform? :-)
I love A Way through the Woods, it evokes old English woodland full of copses and bluebells; in fact I love the book it is in, Rewards and Fairies.
>9 willgrstevens:
It's what we were saying about Kipling's complexity again, isn't it? At one level it's glorifying work and (Christian) duty, in the same sort of way as George Herbert's "The Elixir" ("Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, / Makes that and th' action fine."). But it takes it a bit further, by saying that the person who does unpleasant manual work is making a bigger contribution than the person who says "Oh how beautiful". That does sound a bit socialist, in a William Morris way, or maybe like Ford Madox Brown's Work. But then there are all the military images ("thin red wall", etc.), and the parallels to the Garden of Eden in the last verse...
>11 overthemoon:
The way through the woods is used as the title of one of Colin Dexter's Morse stories: when I looked at your post the first time I misread it as "it evokes old English woodland full of corpses and bluebells..." - which it does, too.
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I believe in well-flushed culverts. . . .
What a fabulous poem! New to me, but I shall treasure it.
For those who are interested, his poems are available here: A Complete Collection of Poems by Rudyard Kipling
I recently found a selection by Kipling included in An Uncensored Anthology which was an anonymous collection of naughty poems from the 30s. (At least naughty for the day, tame by today's standards).
Quite, but he was so circumspect in his phraseology you really had to think about it to catch the true drift.
I see only on member has it - and it didn't come up on a search of the BL - but does sound interesting, for a read at least.
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Retinal and Retinal Pigment Epithelium (RPE) Autoimmunity in Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) - Correlation With Lucentis(R) Therapy (Antibody)
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The investigators hope to determine if "wet" AMD patients differ from patients with "dry" AMD or normal eyes in the production of anti-retinal pigment epithelium (anti-RPE) or anti-retinal antibody formation. To explain: the immune system can make antibodies that attack our own cells, specifically the RPE and the retina. Normally the RPE and retinal cells are ignored by the immune system, but when disease occurs, immune reactions can occur, making an autoantibody that can attack the patient's own cells and make things worse. This production of autoantibodies that react with our own RPE and retinal cells is what the investigators want to test in this proposal to see if they may contribute to, or are responsible for, a poor response to treatment.
The investigators also want to know how those patients who initially respond to the standard-of-care treatment, ranibizumab injections, differ in the production of anti-RPE or anti-retinal antibody formation, from those patients who do not respond initially after 4 consecutive injections.
|Age Related Macular Degeneration
|Drug: ranibizumab (Lucentis(R))
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Retinal and RPE Autoimmunity in AMD: Assessment of Correlation With Degree of Response to Ranibizumab Therapy
- To determine if "wet" AMD patients (Group 1 and Group 3) differ from population normals (Group 2) in the production of anti-Retinal Pigment Epithelium (RPE) or anti-retinal antibody formation. [ Time Frame: One year ]
- To determine mean change in visual acuity (VA) and ocular coherence tomography (OCCT) from baseline to month 6 [ Time Frame: One Year ]
|Study Start Date:
|August 2009
|Study Completion Date:
|June 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|June 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: Wet AMD Patients Responders
Dilated eye exam once a month for 7 months; visual acuity and OCT once a month for 7 months; Lucentis(R)/ranibizumab injection once each month for the Baseline and Month 1-3 visits, then as needed at Month 4 and 5; 3 Tbls. blood draw at Baseline, Month 3 and Month 6 visits.
Drug: ranibizumab (Lucentis(R))
0.5 mg intravitreal injection once a month for 4 months, then as needed for 2 months
Other Name: Lucentis(R)
No Intervention: Normal Population
Dilated eye exam and 3 Tbls. blood draw at first and only study visit.
Active Comparator: Wet AMD Patients Acute Non-responders
Participants in this Group will have not responded to 4 prior injections of Lucentis(R)/ranibizumab or other anti-VEGF treatment. Dilated eye exam at Month 4; visual acuity and OCT at Months 4-6; injection of anti-VEGF treatment as needed at Months 4 and 5; 3 Tbls. blood draw at Month 4
Drug: ranibizumab (Lucentis(R))
0.5 mg intravitreal injection once a month for 4 months, then as needed for 2 months
Other Name: Lucentis(R)
No Intervention: Dry AMD Population
Dilated eye exam and 3 Tbls. blood draw at first and only study visit.
Active Comparator: Wet AMD Patients Chronic Non-responderes
Participants in this Group will have not responded to 4 or more prior injections of anti-VEGF treatment. One visit at Month 4: Dilated eye exam with visual acuity and OCT; injection of anti-VEGF as needed; 3 Tbls. blood drawn
Drug: ranibizumab (Lucentis(R))
0.5 mg intravitreal injection once a month for 4 months, then as needed for 2 months
Other Name: Lucentis(R)
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|50 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
Group 1 (Ranibizumab Responders):
- Ability to provide written informed consent and comply with study assessments for the full duration of the study
- Age > 50 years
- Patients with active neovascular "wet" AMD naïve to treatment
Group 2 (Normal Controls):
- Age-sex-race matched to Group 1 patients
- Non-AMD
- Ability to provide written informed consent
Group 3 (Anti-VEGF Initial Non-responders):
- "Wet" AMD patient treated with 4 or more monthly injections of anti-VEGF treatment without an adequate response (persistent fluid on OCT)
- Ability to provide written informed consent and comply with study assessments for the full duration of the study
- Age > 50 years
Group 4 ("Dry" AMD):
- Age-sex-race matched to Group 1 patients
- "Dry" AMD, category 2 or 3 by AREDS (Age-Related Eye Disease Study) criteria
- Ability to provide written informed consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- Pregnancy (positive pregnancy test) or lactation
- Premenopausal women not using adequate contraception. The following are considered effective means of contraception: surgical sterilization or use of oral contraceptives, barrier contraception with either a condom or diaphragm in conjunction with spermicidal gel, an IUD, or contraceptive hormone implant or patch.
- Any other condition that the investigator believes would pose a significant hazard to the subject if the investigational therapy were initiated
- Participation in another simultaneous medical investigation or trial
- Concurrent eye disease in the study eye that could compromise visual acuity (e.g., diabetic retinopathy, advanced glaucoma)
- Previous AMD therapy
- Patients being treated for autoimmune or other disease with immunomodulatory drugs (i.e., prednisone, infliximab, methotrexate)
- Patients with recent (less than 6 months) ocular or systemic surgery
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00931489
|United States, California
|University of California, Davis
|Sacramento, California, United States, 95817
|Principal Investigator:
|Lawrence S Morse, MD, PhD
|University of California, Davis
|Responsible Party:
|Lawrence S. Morse, MD, Professor, University of California, Davis
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00931489 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
FVF4479s ( Other Identifier: Genentech )
|Study First Received:
|June 29, 2009
|Last Updated:
|September 26, 2014
Keywords provided by Lawrence S. Morse, MD, University of California, Davis:
Age Related Macular Degeneration
Retinal and RPE Autoimmunity
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Macular Degeneration
Autoimmune Diseases
Retinal Degeneration
Retinal Diseases
Eye Diseases
Immune System Diseases
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Angiogenesis Inhibitors
Angiogenesis Modulating Agents
Growth Substances
Growth Inhibitors
Antineoplastic Agents
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Rider 3, Quinnipiac 0
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Rider University 3, Quinnipiac University 0
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Match
LAWRENCEVILLE—The Rider University volleyball team defeated Quinnipiac University 3-0 on Saturday afternoon in a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference match at Alumni Gymnasium.
The Broncs won 25-19, 25-20, 25-14.
For Rider (14-10, 5-8 MAAC), junior setter Ashlee Amatulli (Meniffee, Calif./Temecula Valley) had 12 assists and 10 digs and moved into fourth place all-time on Rider's assist list with 1,949. Amatulli got Rider off to a fast start, serving seven straight points to open the match.
"We controlled the tempo of the match very well with our serving," said head coach Christopher Feliciano. "Last time at Quinnipiac, we weren't good at serving or receiving the ball and we changed that today."
"I have to give all the credit to my defense, they were immaculate," Amatulli said about the 12 assist match. "And I have to credit the coaches for telling me who to serve to in our scouting report."
"I'm very proud of Ashlee," Feliciano said. "She was one of my first recruits and seeing her development has been exciting. It's been rewarding watching her grow into the position on the court and off the court as a leader."
Also for the Broncs, freshman Kaitlyn Griffin (Chesapeake, Va./Hickory) had nine kills and hit .368 while adding four digs and three service aces.
"Kaitlyn is having a great rookie campaign," Feliciano said. "We are expecting a little more consistency from her at this point. She will have three or four great matches and then have an ok match and we want her to be great and still have a good match and not drop down to the ok matches. She had a heck of a match today."
Rider had 14 blocks in the match, led by six from sophomore Nicole Moorman (Moon Township, Pa./Moon Area HS).
"We kept Quinnipiac out of system the entire match," Feliciano added. "Anytime you do that, you are going to win the match."
Sophomore Brandie Hill (Portland, Ore./Lincoln) compiled 10 assists and seven digs for Rider.
The Broncs avenged a 3-1 loss at Quinnipiac (4-22, 2-11 MAAC) on October 5.
"The biggest difference from the first time we played them was our defensive effort but also our energy," Amatulli said. "We really focused on those areas and we improved our blocking as well."
"The blocking stepped up," Griffin said about the difference from a month ago against the Bobcats. "Our setters were great, getting us the ball to hit around their blocks. Our defense and serve receive was also fantastic."
Griffin is a three-time MAAC Rookie of the Week honoree, including claiming the conference accolade last week. "It's not about me," Griffin said. "It's all about my teammates putting me in a good position so that I'm able to score. I have to give credit to my setters and the defense."
This is only the second time in seven matches all-time that Rider has defeated Quinnipiac with the first win coming during the 2000 season.
Rider hosts defending MAAC champion Fairfield University on Sunday at 1 p.m.
"Fairfield is a HUGE match," Amatulli said. "We took them to five sets on October 6 and we have to come out with that same energy."
"We need to come out with energy on Sunday," Griffin said about the upcoming match. "We were really cheerful today and we went out and had fun and that's the way we are going to win matches."
"We went to five sets the last time against Fairfield," Feliciano said. "They are a great team, they are defending conference champions and are also on a long winning streak. We have our own goals, we are one win from clinching at least a .500 season and we have to go out and play well and play together."


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Citation: Stacey, G., Vodkin, L., Parrott, W.A., Shoemaker, R.C. 2004. National science foundation-sponsored workshop report: draft plan for soybean genomics. Plant Physiology. 135:59-70. Interpretive Summary: The soybean research community is represented by a diverse group of interests and research areas. In order to take advantage of federal funding opportunities it is important to narrowly identify research priorities. In October, 2003, a group of scientists met and identified and ranked research priorities for soybean. The highest priority was given to understanding the structure and organization of the soybean genome. In this paper the authors synthesize the current status of soybean genetic research and report to the rest of the research community the results of the workshop. This report will provide a guideline for funding agencies to define funding priorities and will provide a road map for researchers wishing to contribute to legume genomic research.
Technical Abstract: Recent efforts to coordinate and define a research strategy for soybean genomics began with the establishment of a Soybean Genetics Executive Committee, which will serve as a communication focal point between the soybean research community and granting agencies. Secondly, a workshop was held to define a strategy to incorporate existing tools into a framework for advancing soybean genomics research. This workshop identified and ranked research priorities essential to making more informed decisions as to how to proceed with large scale sequencing and other genomics efforts. Most critical among these was a) the need to finalize a physical map; and b) obtain a better understanding of genome microstructure. Addressing these research needs will require pilot work on new technologies to demonstrate an ability to discriminate between recently duplicated regions in the soybean genome and pilot projects to analyze an adequate amount of random genome sequence to identify and catalog common repeats. The development of additional markers, reverse genetics tools, and bioinformatics is also necessary. Successful implementation of these goals will require close coordination among various working groups.


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Last Saturday was a big day for those who loved the late Jim Bacon. At the University of Tasmania, a posthumous honorary doctorate was awarded to the premier who died in June.
His widow, Honey, collected it. His replacement as premier, Paul Lennon, was there to honour him. So were ranks of dignitaries from the academic and judicial world. Even the former governor, Sir Guy Green, was there.
Sir Guy and his wife had been the model of uncontroversial vice-regal tradition. They proved that last year when he stood in when the then governor-general, Peter Hollingworth, quit.
As the group posed warmly for pictures afterwards, good friends all, the contrast with Sir Guy's successor was too great to miss.
Richard Butler was the university's Visitor - higher in protocol even than Chancellor. He had also benefited directly from the patronage of Mr Bacon, who had given him the job.
But he wasn't there on Saturday. Instead, he was in Sydney preparing for a third night reading the speeches of Abraham Lincoln in a performance with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
When Mr Butler became governor last October, an excited Mr Bacon gave the former diplomat a brief to be Tasmania's ambassador. He was to bring the world to the small island, and take the island's name to the world.
Perhaps he saw his performance as part of that brief, even though he was on holiday. But he and his wife, Dr Jennifer Butler, were not doing what good friends normally do in Tasmania.
Tasmanian networks are small. A failure of protocol is noticed and quickly reported, just as it would be if a Country Women's Association branch was slighted by a local mayor. Imagine a small town, and multiply it by more small towns. Stories of vice-regal slip-ups spread across the state.
Add to that Mr Butler's political tongue. After a man like Sir Guy, the republican Mr Butler spoke out among the state's elites, many of them rural conservatives.
He failed to heed Mr Bacon's requirement that he drop politics, using a speech to claim social services were threatened, commenting on global powers' eavesdropping while he was United Nations chief weapons inspector and attacking the Bush Administration.
The Butlers took over Government House, including the space reserved for visiting dignitaries: the Queen's bedroom. Their demands of household staff became unpredictable and excessive. As well as dealing with offended citizens, Mr Butler's management had household stresses to cope with.
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TAMPA — Jack Wheat's immune system doesn't work, but nobody knows why.
The slightest cold can strike the Tampa resident and leave him ill for months. He goes out with disinfectant wipes, stays away from children, never travels in winter. Frequent injections help his immune system, but leave him exhausted and weak.
Tampa doctors have given Wheat, 53, all the answers they can. Now he's hoping that federal scientists might consider him as they start a program devoted to helping the patients with the most unusual symptoms and most unsolvable medical mysteries in the nation.
Called the Undiagnosed Diseases Program, the effort from the National Institutes of Health will call on experts to label maladies that have eluded doctors across the country.
"In many respects, these are abandoned patients," said Dr. William Gahl, clinical director of the National Human Genome Research Project and manager of the new program. "The medical profession has hit a brick wall and can't go any further."
In one way, what NIH scientists will do is extreme. They will hunt for clues that other doctors couldn't find, sometimes with medical tests that aren't commercially available.
They are the real-life versions of Dr. House, the acerbic TV character played by Hugh Laurie who solves medical puzzles with a disturbing mix of dazzling intelligence and studied callousness.
"They ask me, 'Are you like House?' " Gahl joked. "And I say, 'I'm not a sociopath.' "
In another way, what the NIH doctors will do is just a more exotic version of what every doctor does, every day.
Every patient is a mystery. Every doctor, a House.
"You go into medicine because everything is unknown when they come in the door," said Dr. Jack Hutto, vice president of quality improvement and outcomes for All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg. "Nobody comes in with a label. You have to have a Sherlock Holmes mentality."
Most of the time, the ailments are common. Medical students are taught that "when you hear hoof beats, think horses, not zebras," or that a fever is more likely flu than Ebola. But as tricky cases travel from community doctors to local hospitals to regional centers, the diagnoses become more difficult.
"Places like this, we see more zebras," said Dr. Dan Sullivan, executive vice president for clinical investigations at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute in Tampa.
At Moffitt, doctors are using genetic tests to try to diagnose cancers whose source can't be found and to determine whether they would respond to a particular drug.
But even Sherlock Holmes isn't invincible.
Dr. John Sinnott tackles unusual cases as director of infectious diseases and international medicine at the University of South Florida's medical school. He has patients he still wonders about.
"I'm haunted by a man who came in with a bone infection, then was treated for pneumonia," Sinnott said. "We could never figure out anything, and he died. … It was 15 years ago, and I'll never forget it."
While Sinnott has seen only one such patient, he said, NIH scientists might see more.
"What they're trying to do with these underlying diseases is to find a common thread," he said. "While I've seen only one patient with a bone infection and pneumonia, maybe somebody in Maryland has seen one and somebody in Washington. Maybe there's a disease that they could put a name on."
Just having a name for what's wrong is an incredible relief, said Amanda Young, an NIH patient. Growing up in Conyers, Ga., Young kept getting hit with serious infections, including repeated bouts of spinal meningitis and seizures. When she was 8, a scratch on her leg turned into such a bad infection that her leg and hip had to be amputated.
"Everybody was just turning me away, saying we have no idea what's wrong with her," Young said.
It wasn't until 2003 that the NIH could tell Young, now 26, what was wrong. She has a rare genetic mutation that keeps her body from making a protein needed to fight infection.
The program hopes to help such patients — but also do more, Gahl said. Sometimes, learning how an undiagnosed condition affects the body can give scientists clues to how genes work or what happens in more common diseases. For instance, doctors hope that studying Young's genetic problem might tell them more about lupus, arthritis and other conditions.
On its Web site, the Undiagnosed Diseases Program says, "Any long-standing medical condition that eludes diagnosis by a referring physician can be considered undiagnosed and may be of interest to this clinical research program. Of the total number of cases that may be referred to this program, a very limited number will be invited to proceed in the study at the discretion of the program's medical team."
Wheat, the Tampa patient, hopes that doctors would have broader insights if they learned more about why his body doesn't produce antibodies to fight infections. Five years ago, after years of illness and trips to specialists, Sinnott and another doctor said Wheat had a genetic flaw that had disabled his immune system.
There is still no explanation of why or how. And a certain kind of loneliness comes with the mystery.
"It's the kind of diagnosis that doctors don't make very often in a lifetime," Wheat said. "Because it's a mysterious disease, there's no peer group. There's no prognosis."
So Wheat keeps coping the best he can. He "does a lot of Purell" sanitizer and times his short outings so he won't get overtired. He goes to movies during the day, when nobody's in the theater. He hears about friends' babies instead of visiting them.
And he hopes someone, someday, can give him an answer.
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PG|1 hr 44 min
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Georges Palet (André Dussollier) comes across a woman's wallet and turns it over to the authorities. Informed that the missing item has been located, Marguerite Muir (Sabine Azéma) retrieves the wallet and asks who found it. She calls to thank Georges, but he wants more than a pat on the back. Though he's married, Georges begins to follow Marguerite, demanding that they spend time together. She finally agrees, setting in motion a relationship marked by emotional turbulence.
Cast: André Dussollier, Sabine Azéma, Emmanuelle Devos, Mathieu Amalric, Anne Consigny, Michel Vuillermoz, Édouard Baer, Annie Cordy
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The Fury
Brian De Palma's films have always contained a tension between form and content and nowhere is this more true than The Fury. He takes a nonsensical story and an often unspeakable script and turns it into a phantasmagoria which is utterly compelling even when you're aware that you're watching a derivative pulp horror flick.
The plot is a sort of super-science SF movie crossed with Gothic horror touches and a seventies conspiracy movie - and it is as messy as that description suggests. Kirk Douglas, in late career action-man mould, plays Peter Sanza, an ex-government agent whose son Robin (Stevens) has extraordinary powers. Robin can move objects at will, cause himself and others to levitate and, in particularly extreme cases, force all the blood to pour out of his victims' bodies. Naturally, the government is keen to research further into Robin's powers and they assign Peter's old friend and colleague Childress (Cassavetes) to kidnap the boy and eliminate his father. Peter escapes but sees his son being taken and is determined to get him back by any means necessary. In one of those coincidences which so enrage De Palma's detractors, Sanza discovers that there is a girl, Gillian (Irving), with the same powers as his son so he attempts to find her and enlist her help in his search. But his enemies have had the same idea, and matters are complicated when Gillian is placed in the Paragon Institute, a private clinic for the care of "unusual" children, as her developing awareness of her gift begins to cause problems. Nor does it help that Robin, stimulated by drugs and the sexual attentions of a private doctor, begins to lose his mind under the strain and becomes dangerously unstable.
The script by John Farris is closely based on his original novel and De Palma can't do anything to hide the fact that the plot is derivative and predictable. The chase element gives it a certain momentum but the sheer familiarity of the narrative makes this weaker than De Palma's very best work. De Palma must take the blame here - surely, if nothing else he must have seen the idiocy of having a character who can levitate dying in a fall. In his greatest films, such as Dressed To Kill and Blow Out, plot and character feed into the style to create a dramatic unity, but here the form is so much more sophisticated than the content that there is an obvious breach.
And yet... what style ! De Palma dazzles us from the opening machine gun attack on Sanza and his son right through to the extraordinary ending (borrowed from Antonioni's Zabriskie Point but with a typical blackly comic twist). Shot after shot is inventive and witty so that you're entertained even when the plot is falling apart in front of you. From the whirling dervish camerawork - particularly good in the early test of Gillian's powers at school when a flash-forward is intercut to shocking effect - to the showy tracking shots and the daring process work, this is the work of an artist who has begun to trademark his own cinematic vision - De Palma is one of a handful of modern American directors whose films are immediately recognisable from a couple of shots. At his best, he is one of the greats. Take as an example the scene where Gillian and Hester (Snodgrass), Sanza's girlfriend, attempt an escape from the Institute. De Palma doesn't simply use slow motion to heighten the suspense, he uses slightly different speeds so each character seems to be existing in their own time-frame. We have the two women running, both with their own agendas, the hit men waiting, Peter Sanza wanting to capture Gillian, the government agents waiting in the car... This means that when the disaster comes it's both shocking and darkly ironic; note how Hester looks at her most joyously happy just as she is catapulted over the bonnet of a car. So much is packed into this scene and the key is that most of the impact is emotional rather than visceral, all the more so for it being largely backed by the score alone rather than sound effects.
Topping this sequence for sheer suspense proves impossible in this film, so De Palma decides to go for the gross-out. Although the scene where one of Robin's captors – a not unsympathetic female character - is killed by being whirled around in mid-air while he blood flies out of her is effectively nasty, it's too obviously a concession to blood and gore. The final scene, with one of the greatest screen exits for any villain, is a marvellous capper to the story but it's not emotionally affecting in the manner of the shock ending to Carrie. Another problem is that the resolution of the Peter/Robin story is simply thrown away in a very unsatisfying way with both of them reduced to the sidelines.
Although the style of the film is very much a product of De Palma's strange brilliance, he is collaborating here with some technical wizards. Richard H.Kline's cinematography is very different to the lush soft-focus of Mario Tosi's work on Carrie or Ralf Bode's on Dressed To Kill. Although it's still soft-focus, there's a dark elegance to the lighting which comes into its own in the horrific scenes which are, to quote Pauline Kael on the film, like "nightshade in bloom"; beautifully rich and voluptuously sensual. He also makes the most of some quirky touches, notably the car chase in the fog with the interplay of headlights and fog. Paul Hirsch's editing is as slick as you would expect, especially in the final scene which must have been a nightmare to cut. Then there is John Williams, who provides one of his best scores, all suppressed danger followed by orchestral fireworks (it does sound rather like another of his great seventies scores, the Gothic variations on a theme for John Badham's Dracula). Finally, one should mention the make-up of William Tuttle and Rick Baker and the breathtaking pyrotechnic effects of A. D. Flowers.
De Palma is also lucky with most of his cast. Andrew Stevens is excellent here; he's usually a bland actor but the chance to be a total bastard seems to have inspired him more than normal. Amy Irving has an appealing freshness and Carrie Snodgrass gives a lovely, sympathetic performance. Kirk Douglas isn't quite so convincing. He tries very hard but he is too much of a straight-arrow for the leading role and he brings in too many echoes of his earlier roles. He also has the irritating tendency to shout his lines which wouldn't be so bad if the dialogue was a bit more convincing. The really good moments in his performance are his disguise as an old man and his off-beat converation with Mother Knuckles in the apartment when he breaks in to steal some clothes. Although there is good work from Charles Durning and Fiona Lewis, the best performance comes from John Cassavetes as the villain. He reportedly despised the film - understandably since it's about as far from his metier as a film maker as you can get - but he comes through with a gloriously hissable villainous turn which is certainly on a par with his slimy Guy Woodhouse in Rosemary's Baby but it is close. De Palma fans will enjoy spotting regular cast members Dennis Franz and William Finlay.
This is one of De Palma's few outright horror films and, as such, is an interesting point in his career. He is not showing the skill with narrative that he demonstrated in his earlier films, notably the superb Sisters and the careful characterisation of Obsession and Carrie is largely absent. But he has greatly developed his visual skills and the poised elegance of the shots and shaping of the scenes are staggeringly good. When he lets the evil flood out onto the screen, the sheer kinetic excitement is overwhelming. It's easy to see how this is a step on the way to the all round brilliance of Dressed To Kill and as such, it's required viewing for fans.
The Disc
I'm treading into dangerous waters here but I will do my best to avoid the deep end. The Fury was released earlier this year by the American company Twilight Time in a version which used an off-the-shelf master and offered exceptional detail and good colour, but an awful lot of obtrusive noise and some minor damage. It had the benefit of an isolated score track and a trailer but no other extras and considering the $29.99 price tag I considered it something of a missed opportunity. Arrow have grasped the nettle and brought us a version of the film which is considerably superior on a Blu-Ray which adds considerable value through entertaining extra features and an interesting booklet.
The transfer of the film is, quite simply, a triumph. It's a full restoration from the original camera negative supervised by James White, while the Blu-Ray is authored by David Mackenzie – technical wizards both, with a passion for cinema and a reliable gut feeling for how a film should look. The result is quite beautiful and an improvement in all areas on the previous Blu-Ray release. Colours are rich and full, especially the all-important blood reds, and the detail is breathtaking. If you simply look at the opening scene then you can see the water droplets on the Sanzas' skin, the texture of the fabric of the blue tablecloth and even, god help us, the fine hairs on Kirk Douglas' legs. Things that I never really registered before suddenly leap out – the awful wallpaper in Amy Irving's bedroom for example. There's still a lot of grain in places but that's characteristic of every version of the film that I've ever seen and the occasional darkness of the image is, again, integral to the original photography. Indeed, the car-chase in the dark is a revelation here, although the high level of detail does tend to make the process work stand out. Fans of the film will be pleased to know that those great set-pieces look even better in this transfer, particularly the splendidly baroque climax where the constituent parts of the exploding body are much more clearly defined than before.
The soundtrack is just as good. We get a choice of a DTS-HD MA 4.0 track or a lossless 2.0 stereo track. I liked the LPCM track best as it's a pretty accurate representation of the original and sounds like a dream with a pleasing range and some powerful moments. The 4.0 track does, to be fair, open things up a bit more, particularly during the big set-pieces . The dialogue is eminently clear and natural in both versions. A particular joy is the isolated score LPCM track which I have listened to on a number of occasions – it's one of John Williams' most inventive scores and it comes up sounding as good as new.
There are plenty of extras on the disc, most of them provided by Robert Fischer's Fiction Factory. The most substantial is The Fury: A Location Journal, a fifty minute piece with Sam Irvin who worked as an intern on the film and wrote an account of the making for Cinefantastique magazine. He admits to having only recently seen the film again and is remarkably pleased with how well it holds up. His memory of the shooting is excellent and he has a lot of interesting anecdotes about meeting with De Palma and John Cassavetes – noting that the latter may have disliked making the film but that he gave his all to it once he signed the contract and made some significant contributions to the development of the character. I also liked his description of how Kirk Douglas would be in his trailer between scenes, doing push-ups. He also discusses the changes from the script to the finished film.
There are two other new interviews on the disc. The first is with Fiona Lewis, entitled Spinning Tales. During this 14 minute chat she discusses her work on the film and her feelings about working with de Palma and some of her other directors including Roman Polanski. The second, Blood on the Lens, is a piece featuring DP Richard H. Kline whose work also includes Body Heat, The Boston Strangler and Star Trek: The Motion Picture. He has a lot to say about the way the film was shot and discusses the scenes which combine location and stage shooting. He considers the film to be his best work and I think he's probably right. Although pretty old now – his career goes back to Columbia B-movies in the early 1940s – he is very eloquent and has a good memory. It's a delight to listen to his instructive and entertaining reminiscences.
Particularly interesting is the inclusion of Sam Irvin's short film Double Negative which he made with some actors familiar from De Palma's work including the great William Finlay and co-operation from the great man himself. It was shown in the USA alongside After Hours and gained considerable critical plaudits. It's intended as, in Irvin's words, a "valentine to Brian De Palma who gave me my start in the business" and is very entertaining with many nods to De Palma's work and some clever bits of technique.
Finally, along with the trailer and a good gallery of behind the scenes shots, we get some archive interviews from the original promotional tour which feature Brian De Palma, Carrie Snodgrass, Amy Irving, and producer Frank Yablans. These are rare and fascinating enough to survive some rather poor sound recording – not the responsibility of the Blu-Ray producers I hasten to add.
Completing the package is an excellent booklet which contains a detailed essay from Chris Dumas – whose recent book on De Palma is a must-read for fans – and an interview with writer John Farris. There's also an archive interview with the director and an introduction to Sam Irvin's short film.
This is one of the best releases of 2013 and a Blu-Ray that should be in everyone's collection. Very highly recommended indeed.