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The Bone Key (original 2007; edition 2007)
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The Bone Key by Sarah Monette (2007)
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A collection of spooky stories, connected by the presence of a stuttering bibliophile main character. The very scariest were "Bringing Helena Back" (just from the title you know the terror that awaits, but Monette freshens the revenant story by using a POV outside the revenant and the lover that won't let her go), "The Venebretti Necklace" (because ghosts haunting basement libraries with uncertain lights and a dangerous metal staircase hits far too close to home), and most terrifying of all, "Wait For Me." (Dead little girls are scary. Mirrors that show things that aren't there are scary. Faces without eyes are scary. Combine all of those into a single, generation-long haunting? I will pee my pants.) Others delve deeper into Booth's character and history, like "The Bone Key" and "The Green Glass Paperweight." I quite liked Booth, who is almost incapacitated by social situations but brave and absolute in the face of necromancy and ghoul pensioners. And I loved the dream logic by which the horrors often operated; it worked for me in a way few ghost stories manage to. A very solid collection.
(I should mention that I do not read the horror genre, as a rule, and so to veterans of that area these stories may seem less fresh and scary. To a fantasy fan like myself, they were on the verge of being too scary to enjoy.)
At its best, The Bone Key is a really great Victorian ghost story pastiche. But like many anthologies, it has trouble sustaining the level through its many stories. Nonetheless, it was short and always enjoyable.
Kyle Murchison Booth is a querulous museum worker with a cursed history and an affinity for the otherworldly. His (mis)adventures see him brushing up against everything from lovecraftian terrors to the more pedestrian spirits that haunt our world. Monette is mostly riffing on Hodgson's Carnacki the Ghost Finder and M.R James, with a more American bent and a few other nods here and there.
The excellent foreword to the collection outlines what she perceived as some of the shortcomings of the Victorian ghost story - with which she is clearly and thoroughly acquainted. Namely, an unwillingness to confront the often sexual subtexts running through the work, and the shades of racism and various other isms underpinning the genre. Booth's stories were her attempt at both homage and corrective - and in my opinion they largely work on both scores.
The best stories combine a sense of subtlety (so pronounced in Victorian ghost stories, and lacking from much contemporary horror) with a richer palette of terror and the otherworldly. There's nothing scary here, per se, but there is a nice sense of both spookiness, and kookiness - Monette is well aware of the more silly facets of the genre, and regards them with affection.
All of this, including the weaker stories, is held together by the character of Booth himself. Delightfully awkward and prissy, despairing yet also canny and courageous when he needs to be, he is a wonderful construction that really has depth and attraction for a reader - superior, almost an exaggeration of every bland protagonist the genre is built upon.
I enjoyed this anthology, it's slight but very fun. However, I am steeped in Victorian ghost stories like a shipwreck in the briny deep, so I'm completely unable to say whether someone without that background would enjoy it at as much.
You know, the more I think about this book, the more I really love it. As stated elsewhere, it's a a series of interlocking short stories in the life of Kyle Murchison Booth. It's set in some historically nebulous time in the years after WW2, but the protagonist is so NOT grounded in the physical world that the lack of a detailed setting works very well. The things he pays attention to are exquisitely detailed, and I love that because specific detail ought to reflect what the pov character cares about.
Best for my inner language geek is the phenomenal amount of word-porn in this book. Booth's narration uses old words, antiquated words, and words whose primary meanings have gone far afield from their rare usages -- which leads to some lovely poetic double readings throughout the book.
The ending (SPOILERS AHEAD) given in The Green Glass Paperweight was kind of huge for Booth and makes me wonder what happens next. We're led to believe he recovers some freedom to feel, but I'm not sure we see enough to believe in it. *ponders*
I think this will be one of the rare books that improves as it sits in memory. It's a collection of short stories that follows a progression, a character development and graceful reveal with no info dumps, no clunky "this is why I'm the way I am."
Kyle Murchison Booth is the kind of damaged and endearing Sarah Monette excels at. Through the stories, he progressed from helplessly watching eventually to acting and having an effect on the results. At the same time, his history comes out in these glimpses and flashes that make you hungry for more as you're aching.
Kyle Murchison Booth is the kind of character who really needs a hug, except if you did hug him he'd probably end up shaking from the trauma for days. He's an immensely Lovecraftian character, more so than anyone else in these stories; in fact, I think he's the only character who knows what kind of universe he's in.
As horror, the first few stories in this collection didn't work so well for me, but the last two or three did. (Oooh, that hotel. *shudder*) As a modern retake on Lovecraft & the early twentieth century ghost story, they're all quite good. And as stories about Kyle Murchison Booth, they're fantastic. Monette's talked about writing more, and I can't wait.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0809557770, Paperback)The dead and the monstrous will not leave Kyle Murchison Booth alone, for an unwilling foray into necromancy has made him sensitive to-and attractive to-the creatures who roam the darkness of his once-safe world. Ghosts, ghouls, incubi: all have one thing in common. They know Booth for one of their own . . .
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An unwilling foray into necromancy makes Booth attractive to the creatures who roam the darkness of the world. Ghouls, ghosts, and incubi single him out as one of their own in these ten stories.
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Mason may be ousted, but the 1 safe Las Vegas bet is it won't be Scott or one of his hacks that replaces him.
That circus and all the clowns left town at midnight, December 31, 2012.
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#302 Jan 5, 2013
#303 Jan 5, 2013
Wonder why?
#304 Jan 5, 2013
Birds of a feather flock together??
#305 Jan 5, 2013
The deputies will be more strict and should be. No one gets pissed at you for doing your job so why should you? Example: if you get pulled over for speeding, well the speed limit is posted so its no one elses fault but yours. You control the pedals. As for the new sheriff he will be better. He's not afraid to do his job and wont put up with anybody crap and shouldn't.
#306 Jan 5, 2013
The tint was just one small point. The major points brought up seem to have gone back burner. Now with these trashed premises, erased hard drives, that should stir up the pot.
Remember when George W. Bush won election, Clintons outgoing team took all of the "W" off every keyboard, computer , causing thousands of dollars in damage. Hillary hauled off art that eventually was returned.
The stories forthcoming will be Topix fodder for some time.
#307 Jan 6, 2013
I'm so thankful to be moving in 4 months now that Mr. Mason has taken office. Sheriff Stephens was not perfect, but I feel that a lot of you will start missing his administration when you start getting tickets for going 5 over. Things are definitely going to changing, we will see if its for better or worse in the coming months.
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#308 Jan 6, 2013
Local LE agencies cannot write speeding tickets unless it is for 10 miles or more over the speed limit.
#309 Jan 6, 2013
And the new circus and the new clowns moved in and took over. Let the show begin.
#310 Jan 6, 2013
That's if they use radar or VASCAR. Otherwise, they can.
#311 Jan 6, 2013
The problem with Stephens and his thugs was not the laws they were enforcing, it was the laws they were breaking. They felt as if the laws were for everyone else. The UCSO was above the law.
I just hope that getting rid of Stephens works out better than getting rid of Cooper. Duncan is making Cooper look competent!:)
Can't wait till Duncan starts kissing up to Mason.
I bet Mason knows BS when it hears or sees it? Mason maybe a hard sell?:)
#312 Jan 6, 2013
If officers start to write lot's of tickets to residents he will be gone next election. That is something people won't stand for. I am not talking kids driving 80 in a 50. I mean people doing the usual 60 on 129 and 70 on the four lane.
#313 Jan 6, 2013
Clay Co elected a super trooper as sheriff and he did just that and Joe Shook is an ex-sheriff.Writing tickets for a living is not real law enforcement work it is generally revenue producing act.
#314 Jan 6, 2013
Can I have a job?
#315 Jan 9, 2013
Yeah, I think the guy lasted all of one term. No doubt so will ours.
#316 Jan 14, 2013
JS was also dippin his willy where he was not supposed to
#317 Jan 14, 2013
Well your not exactly correct. A local LEO can write a citation for 10 mph over no matter what he uses to clock the speed. That includes pacing the offender.
Second a citation can be written for five over in a marker school zone.
#318 Jan 15, 2013
I was stating that it had to be 10 mph over if radar is used as the evidence.
#319 Jan 15, 2013
The local written tickets using radar or laser must be 10 or over with the exceptions being a school zone or a designated historic district. The road must approved by GSP and the grade cannot be 7% or greater, there is also a 500 ft visibility requirement and these tickets can frequently be beaten but many times you must get past the local magistrate and go to state court. Tickets are generally written to raise revenue or following too closely would be the most common tickets written as that offense is the most common cause of accidents.
#320 Jan 15, 2013
I would like to thank Union Co for electing a handicap rookie as Sheriff. As results from that we have floridiots running the county as well as misfits that the last administration had gotten rid of. So hats off to the new sheriff for replacing those deputies with retirees and lets give him a round of applause for his first accomplishment which was taking off the window tint, yay! Way to go Mack!!
#321 Jan 15, 2013
hey dip shit scot was a rookie when he was elected,but he was a pro at drinking and smoking.you people are a bunch of dumb ass's.
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BURLINGTON, Vt. -- Luke Apfeld drained two free throws with 30 seconds left to help lift the Vermont Catamounts to a 52-50 victory over Dartmouth in the 51st straight meeting between the two schools in non-conference men's basketball action at Patrick Gymnasium on Wednesday.
Vermont improves to 6-3 overall and has won 10 of its last 11 games at Patrick Gymnasium. Dartmouth falls to 2-5 and suffers its third straight loss.
The final six minutes of the contest saw three ties and four lead changes between the two teams. A pair of free throws by Dartmouth's Connor Boehm at the 5:22 mark knotted the game up, 44-44, and another shot from the charity stripe with 4:54 showing on the clock by Boehm gave the Big Green its first lead of the game since 13:29 of the first half.
After three consecutive possessions, that spanned a minute, resulted in a three-point play, two for UVM and one for Dartmouth, the Catamounts came out with a 50-48 lead with 3:42 remaining in the game.
Dartmouth's Alex Mitola hit a jumper in the lane with 49 seconds left to tie the game up, 50-50. Following a UVM timeout, Apfeld got the ball on the block and was able to draw a foul. Apfeld, who ranks fifth in America East in free throw percentage (84.4%), sank both tries from the line to give UVM a 52-50 advantage with 30 seconds remaining.
Dartmouth got off two 3-point attempts in the final seconds but neither fell for the Big Green.
"A very tough game tonight, give Dartmouth a lot of credit they played really well and made us work for everything," said Vermont head coach John Becker. "It wasn't pretty but we found a way. Last home game against Towson we didn't make the stops or the free throws to win that game and tonight we did that."
Dartmouth held a 6-3 lead at the 16:06 mark of the first half, but the Catamounts quickly erased the deficit with a 9-0 run to take a 12-8 advantage at the 10:54 mark. Vermont extended its run to 14-0 behind five points from Trey Blue and Rugg to push out to a nine-point lead with 8:57 left in the half.
Dartmouth responded with an 8-0 run of its own to climb back within one, 17-16, but UVM used a 7-0 spurt to push its lead to seven with 1:14 left in the half. The Big Green hit back-to-back shots, including a 3-pointer by John Golden at the halftime buzzer, to slice UVM's lead to two, 29-27, as the teams headed to the break.
Rugg came off the bench to led all scorers with 15 points, 12 in the first half. He had a perfect shooting night, going 4-for-4 from the field, 2-for-2 from 3-point range and 5-for-5 from the foul line. Blue reached double figures for the third straight game for the Catamounts. He finished with 13 points on 5-for-8 shooting and added six rebounds. Apfeld chipped in 13 points, including a 5-for-5 effort from the foul line, and four rebounds.
Gabas Maldunas led the Big Green with 14 points and nine rebounds, while Golden chipped in 12 points. Boehm finished the game with nine points and a game-high 10 rebounds.
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Re: Determining continuity of regions/curves from inequalities
Bonny Banerjee wrote:
> Is there an easy way in Mathematica to determine whether the region or curve
> formed by a system of inequalities is continuous or not?
> For example, the output of some function (e.g. Reduce) might be as follows:
> x>2 && y>0
> which forms a continuous region. Again, the following output
> (x<2 && y<0) || (x>2 && y>0)
> is not continuous. Similarly, for curves.
> Given such a system of inequalities, how to determine whether the
> region/curve it forms is continuous or not? Or in other words, if I pick any
> two random points, say P1 and P2, lying on the output curve/region, does
> there exist a continuous path lying entirely within the output curve/region
> from P1 to P2?
> Any help will be appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Bonny.
One approach would be to see if any pair of boundary curves intersect,
and, if so, whether intersection points are in both regions. This
reduces (if you will) the problem to solving bivariate polynomials over
the reals.
This will only tell you if it is connected. Actual computation of paths
would be a separate matter.
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20:17 They will never again enjoy streams of olive oil or rivers of milk and honey. (NLT) This version will get a cheap shot in any time they can. Here's NASB: "He does not look at the streams, The rivers flowing with honey and curds.
21:17-18 Yet the light of the wicked never seems to be extinguished. Do they ever have trouble? Does God distribute sorrows to them in anger? Are they driven before the wind like straw? Are they carried away by the storm like chaff? Not at all! Maybe not for now!
21:28 You will tell me of rich and wicked people whose houses have vanished because of their sins. Job knows his friends are thinking that he's guilty of being wicked because of his wealth. This is confirmed by Eliphaz in chapter 22!
21:30-31 Evil people are spared in times of calamity and are allowed to escape disaster. No one criticizes them openly or pays them back for what they have done. This is often true in this life! I have seen it myself. But again, it will not last.
21:34 How can your empty clichés comfort me? All your explanations are lies! It's so terrible to be misunderstood! Job must have been frustrated and crushed by these people. I can feel the rage welling up in me just thinking of the injustice of it, and how these quacks (as he called them) forced themselves into his life when he would have been better off alone to lick his wounds.
22:6-9 Eliphaz makes assumptions about Job, "You must have..." The truth about Job was completely the opposite. He was always very compassionate with the needy and gave freely to all he could. Seriously, it's hard even reading the kind of condemnation coming from these guys at Job's lowest time.
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VATICAN CITY — A conclave to elect a new pope is likely to take place before the end of March after Benedict XVI announced today he will resign on Feb. 28 because he is simply too infirm to carry on — the first pontiff to do so in nearly 600 years.
Among those expected to be in the running is Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the Canadian head of the Vatican's office for bishops, whose swift rise through the Church's ranks have made him, for some, a favourite for the position.
The 85-year-old pope announced his decision in Latin during a meeting of Vatican cardinals on Monday morning – a move that the pontiff's brother said he had been considering for months amid ailing health.
Georg Ratzinger, 89, said that his brother had been advised by his doctor not to take any more transatlantic trips and was having increasing difficulty walking.
"His age is weighing on him," Ratzinger said of his brother. "At this age my brother wants more rest."
Benedict emphasized that carrying out the duties of being pope — the leader of more than a billion Roman Catholics worldwide — requires "both strength of mind and body."
"After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths due to an advanced age are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry," he told the cardinals. "I am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only by words and deeds but no less with prayer and suffering.
"However, in today's world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the barque of St. Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary — strengths which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me."
Benedict's resignation could open the door for the Church's first non-European leader, with a Canadian and an Argentinean considered among the leading candidates to become the next pope.
Cardinal Marc Ouellet, formally the archbishop of Quebec City, has the best odds of replacing Pope Benedict XVI according to an
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Cardinal Ouellet, 68, became head of the Congregation of Bishops in 2010, essentially the Vatican's top staff director.
That triggered speculation that he was increasingly well-positioned in the line of prospective papal succession — speculation which Cardinal Ouellet moved quickly to try to quell:
"I'm surprised to be today in this position," he told reporters at a Quebec City news conference before he relocated to his new, powerful position at the heart of the church, in Rome.
"And I don't think that I will become a pope someday, I don't think so," Cardinal Ouellet added at the time.
To become pontiff, he told the Le Soleil newspaper in Quebec City in June 2011, "would be a nightmare."
A pope's duties, he added, "are perhaps not very enviable." And a pope's responsibilities "are crushing," he said.
A pope "has the help of the Holy Spirit, clearly," Cardinal Ouellet said, "but it is a very heavy responsibility. Nobody campaigns for that."
If a pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has a right, and under some circumstances, also an obligation to resign
Electing the next pope: Sistine vows bind cardinals voting under Michelangelo frescoes
Electing a successor to Benedict XVI will involve a centuries-old procedure steeped in secrecy that will offer few signals about the identity of the 266th pope until white smoke wafts over St. Peter's Square.
Only the 117 of the 210 members of College of Cardinals under the age of 80 have the right to vote in the conclave, which will assemble in the Basilica of Saint Peter's after Benedict's resignation on Feb. 28. The Vatican today said it wants to elect a new pope by Easter, which falls on March 31.
The last pope to resign was Pope Gregory XII, who stepped down in 1415 in a deal to end the Great Western Schism among competing papal claimants.
Benedict called his choice "a decision of great importance for the life of the church."
The move sets the stage for the Vatican to hold a conclave to elect a new pope by mid-March, since the traditional mourning time that would follow the death of a pope doesn't have to be observed.
There are several papal contenders in the wings, but no obvious front-runner — the same situation when Benedict was elected pontiff in 2005 after the death of Pope John Paul II.
When Benedict was elected pope at age 78 — already the oldest pope elected in nearly 300 years — he had been already planning to retire as the Vatican's chief orthodoxy watchdog to spend his final years writing in the "peace and quiet" of his native Bavaria.
Contenders to be his successor include Cardinal Angelo Scola, archbishop of Milan, Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, the archbishop of Vienna, and the aforementioned Ouellet.
Longshots include Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York. Although Dolan is popular and backs the pope's conservative line, the general thinking is that the Catholic Church doesn't need a pope from a "superpower."
All cardinals under age 80 are allowed to vote in the conclave, the secret meeting held in the Sistine Chapel where cardinals cast ballots to elect a new pope. As per tradition, the ballots are burned after each voting round; black smoke that snakes out of the chimney means no pope has been chosen, while white smoke means a pope has been elected.
Popes are allowed to resign; church law specifies only that the resignation be "freely made and properly manifested."
Only a handful have done so, however and there's good reason why it hasn't become commonplace: Might the existence of two popes — even when one has stepped down — lead to divisions and instability in the church? Might a new resignation precedent lead to pressures on future popes to quit at the slightest hint of infirmity?
Benedict himself raised the possibility of resigning if he were simply too old or sick to continue on in 2010, when he was interviewed for the book "Light of the World."
"If a pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has a right, and under some circumstances, also an obligation to resign," Benedict said.
The former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had an intimate view as Pope John Paul II, with whom he had worked closely for nearly a quarter-century, suffered through the debilitating end of his papacy.
Benedict's decision has been met with shock, surprise and disbelief.
Warsaw Archbishop Kazimierz Nycz expressed surprise at the decision, but said it was dictated by the sense of responsibility for the leadership of the Church, which Benedict has held since 2005.
In London, many worshippers entering Westminster Cathedral for a regularly scheduled mass had yet to hear about the pope's resignation.
"I didn't realize his health was that bad," said Charlie Sweeney. "He's carried an enormous responsibility on his shoulders and the crisis one after another hasn't really helped."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday she had the "very highest respect" for German-born Benedict's decision.
In Berlin, Merkel told reporters that she saw the pope's decision as one that he made for his church and its members.
"If the pope himself has now, after thorough consideration, come to the conclusion that he no longer has sufficient strength to exercise his office, that earns my very highest respect," she said. "In our time of ever-lengthening life, many people will be able to understand how the pope as well has to deal with the burdens of aging."
"As chancellor, I thank Benedict XVI for his work and wish him from the bottom of my heart all the best for the coming years," she said.
Merkel, who is a Protestant, praised Benedict for his efforts to promote dialogue with other Christian denominations and religions. She said that he "reached out his hand to Jews as well as Muslims."
"Benedict XVI is and will remain one of the most important religious thinkers of our time," she said.
Below, the full text of the pope's resignation announcement:
"Dear Brothers, I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonizations, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the Church. After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry. I am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only with words and deeds, but no less with prayer and suffering. However, in today's world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the barque of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me. For this reason, and well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of Saint Peter, entrusted to me by the Cardinals on 19 April 2005, in such a way, that as from 28 February 2013, at 20:00 hours, the See of Rome, the See of Saint Peter, will be vacant and a Conclave to elect the new Supreme Pontiff will have to be convoked by those whose competence it is. Dear Brothers, I thank you most sincerely for all the love and work with which you have supported me in my ministry and I ask pardon for all my defects. And now, let us entrust the Holy Church to the care of Our Supreme Pastor, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and implore his holy Mother Mary, so that she may assist the Cardinal Fathers with her maternal solicitude, in electing a new Supreme Pontiff. With regard to myself, I wish to also devotedly serve the Holy Church of God in the future through a life dedicated to prayer."


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"Get more out of life. See a fucked-up movie." John Waters
I don't know why, but certain kinds of bad movies do have a unique charm about them. The best are happy accidents comprised of good intentions, poor decisions, lofty ambitions, and overburdened talent - all culminating in a perfect schadenfreude cocktail.
To be fair, Sphinx doesn't legitimately qualify as a fucked-up movie, but it is an implausible, convoluted, unrelentingly silly movie which, provided it hasn't put you to sleep with its sluggish pacing, is a great deal of fun. The fact that I derive so much pleasure from a film considered by many (some being members of the film's cast) to be absolutely wretched, is a riddle worthy of the Sphinx itself.
To be fair, Sphinx doesn't legitimately qualify as a fucked-up movie, but it is an implausible, convoluted, unrelentingly silly movie which, provided it hasn't put you to sleep with its sluggish pacing, is a great deal of fun. The fact that I derive so much pleasure from a film considered by many (some being members of the film's cast) to be absolutely wretched, is a riddle worthy of the Sphinx itself.
|Lesley-Anne Down as Dr. Erica Baron
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Sphinx was released toward the tail-end of "Tut-Mania" - a superficially New Age-y 70s craze inflamed by the mass-marketing and rampant publicity surrounding the record-breaking 1976-1979 U.S. tour of the Egyptian artifact exhibit: The Treasures of Tutankhamun. Virtually overnight, America became obsessed by all things Egyptian.
Comedian Steve Martin had a Top-20 hit with his novelty song, King Tut; bookstores overflowed with tomes extolling the virtues of Pyramid Power (my college had a pyramid in its courtyard under which students could sit for energy renewal. Its acoustic-resistant design ideal for muting the sound of snickers); and everywhere you looked you saw King Tut posters, bumper stickers, T-shirts, and massive reproductions of ancient Egyptian jewelry. Rare was the home you'd visit which didn't have at least one Egyptian-themed artwork, shelf knickknack, or coffee table book on display.
|In the grip of Egyptomania
Cher (who never met a fad she didn't like) plays "Hands off my Tuts" while
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Sphinx's serpentine plot (aspish plot?) virtually defies description, but the base, TV-miniseries gist of it all is that Lesley-Anne Down is a young and beautiful Egyptologist (is there any other kind?) who stumbles upon a cutthroat gang of antiquities black marketeers, and in doing so, possibly unearths Egypt's last undiscovered, perfectly preserved tomb. In her efforts to claim the discovery for herself ("Do you know what the chances are of getting anywhere in Egyptology through the normal routes are for a woman?!?" she asserts at the beginning of a long-winded, ill-timed feminist jeremiad that doesn't have the cumulative effect the screenwriter hoped) while assisting an ambitious French Journalist (Ronet), and falling in love with/evading a mysterious Egyptian official (Langella); Down must first survive being thrown down a flight of stairs, imprisonment, being chased, terrorized, shot at, assaulted, entombed, bitten by an old woman(!), nearly beheaded, run off the road, and being attacked by old bats (they flying type, this time, not the aforementioned little old lady). It's action, it's adventure, it's romance...it's Sphinx.
After such a hefty initial cash outlay, and with a substantial portion of the film's budget (reported to be in the vicinity of $12 million - $17 million) yet to be allocated to the securing of a cinematographer (Ernest Day - A Passage it India) and the understandably high-priority task of acquiring the rights to film in some of Egypt's most historic locations (Valley of the Kings, the Pyramids and Sphinx of Giza, The Egyptian Museum of Antiquities); the makers of Sphinx can't be blamed if they felt it necessary to tighten their shentis a bit when it came to the screenwriter and cast.
|Sphinx boasts breathtakingly beautiful scenery
British actress Lesley-Anne Down copped the plumb female lead in Sphinx's nearly all-male cast. An alumnus of Upstairs Downstairs (the 70s Downton Abbey), Down's film career at this point consisted mainly of high-profile supporting roles and second-leads in a string of increasingly dismal big-budget features. Sphinx gave Down her first opportunity to carry an entire major motion picture by herself.
I won't say the lovely actress fumbles the opportunity, but following Sphinx, the actress who at one time starred opposite Sean Connery, Harrison Ford, and Burt Reynolds, was reduced to lending support to such kiss-your-career-goodbye movie co-stars as Andrew Stevens, Eric Roberts, and Hulk Hogan. Happily, television welcomed Ms. Down back with open arms, and for years the now-retired actress enjoyed a thriving career as the Joan Collins of daytime soaps.
|Shady antiquities dealer Abdu-Hamdi shows Dr. Baron a rare statue of Pharaoh Seti I
No matter how slickly packaged, bad movies have a way of tipping their hand rather early. Before Sphinx even reaches the ten-minute mark, we're given an indication of what kind of ride we're in for in a scene where Down engages in a forced, exposition-heavy conversation with a museum curator. In record time we learn where she's from (Boston by way of England for Egyptology graduate studies); how long she's lived there (five years); why she's single (she's sworn off men after her beau, a fellow Egyptologist, left her for a tenured position at a Chicago University); and why she's in Egypt (she's working on a paper on Meneptha, chief architect of the tomb of Tutankhamun).
The scene lasts but 60-seconds, but in that time we're alerted to the fact that this is a film which regards character as something to be hastily dispensed with in order to get to the most pressing matters at hand: implausible plot twists, narrow escapes, close calls, travelogue views of Egyptian scenery, and placing the heroine in as much jeopardy as possible over the course of two hours.
As "Women in Jeopardy" films go, by description Sphinx may sound a lot like Coma (a movie that gets it 100% right and which I absolutely adore), but in execution it most resembles Sidney Sheldon's Bloodline (1979), one of Audrey Hepburn's last films and a movie so off-the-rails loopy that I urge to run, not walk, and secure yourself a copy if you've never seen it.
Sphinx has beautiful scenery to recommend it, lots of lovingly rendered shots of Egyptian artifacts to drool over, and even a pretty decent mystery at its core, but these serve as mere backdrops for the film's primary amusement: Sphinx's consistent inability to make good on even its most modest ambitions.
|John Rhys-Davies as Stephanos Markoulis
He appeared as the less threatening Sallah in Raiders of the Lost Ark this same year
I've liked Lesley-Anne down since I first laid eyes on her in A Little Night Music in 1977 and then a few months later in The Besty (another world-class stinker you should make it your business to see). She was so different in each film I scarcely knew it was the same woman. Although her subsequent output gave me pause (the deadly dull Hanover Street was almost the final nail), I was excited at the prospect of her being cast in Sphinx after reading the book and thinking it would at last provide the ill-used actress an opportunity to be something other than glamorous window-dressing.
|Scenery-10, Chemistry - 0
As a non-fan of the video game feel and look of CGI, Sphinx gets points simply for presenting such amazing, unenhanced vistas of Egypt. Shots of this breathtaking location are frequently accompanied by overly-majestic swells of music, but there is much to swoon over in the scenery, artifacts and travelogue footage. Even if you hate the film and choose to watch it on fast-forward with the sound muted, I'd wholeheartedly recommend Sphinx for its outstanding travelogue visuals. And on a side note, I know this is a film and many of the people on display are paid extras; but there still is an alarming difference in the size of the average American tourist, circa 1980, when compared with today.
I don't really know if they make movies like Sphinx anymore (most likely they're on Lifetime if they do), but just watching it again recently made me all nostalgic for the days when one could count on at least one glossy, overproduced Hollywood trifle like this a year. It mattered not whether it came from the pen of Jacqueline Susann, Harold Robbins, or Sidney Sheldon, there was just the assurance that the result would be entertainingly escapist trash or a disaster of transplendent awfulness. It was a win-win situation.
Sphinx is too serous in approach and lacking in outrageously off-kilter casting to be a great camp classic (they would have had to cast Pia Zadora for that), but while it still hits all the necessary points for me to qualify it as an enjoyably "bad" movie, Sphinx has an appealingly old-fashioned feel to it that gets me where I live, nostalgically speaking. And by that I mean I occasionally appreciate movies that stumble and fall flat on their faces simply because they take me back to a time when movies actually looked like they were trying.
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With the 2014 NBA Draft approaching, the Boston Celtics are in a spot they have not been in since 2007, drafting inside the lottery with the sixth overall pick. In 2007 the Celtics traded the number 5 pick, Jeff Green, to the Seattle SuperSonics in the Ray Allen deal. The Celtics may make a trade again this year, but if they decide to keep their top pick, drafting 6-foot-9 power forward Julius Randle from Kentucky could be a solid option.
Randle played just one season at Kentucky, but his freshman year was very impressive. Randle looked to be a man amongst boys, recording the most double-doubles in all of college basketball with 24 and averaging 15 points and 10.4 rebounds per game. Randle could give the Celts a big boost in the paint, especially being teamed up with fellow young big man Jared Sullinger. Randle has a lot of strengths that would help the C's immediately, but also has weaknesses in his game that need to be improved upon.
Randle is listed at 250 pounds, and already has an NBA body unlike most big men coming out of college. Randle is also left handed – a skilled big man is becoming a rare asset to find in the NBA, and a left-handed one is rarer. Randle is a tenacious rebounder both on defense and offense, and has very good quickness and agility for someone his size. He's also an above-average free throw shooter for a power forward, and he has the potential to live at the line in the NBA. Randle is pretty effective and tough to handle when he is operating in the post, and his ball-handling is above average for his position as well.
Randle has to improve on using his right hand more effectively and finishing around the basket, as well as passing out of a double team while in the post. Randle is okay defending his own man, but must work on rotations in a team defense concept. While he improved his shooting range over the course of his freshman year, if he is able to refine his shooting more, he will become even more effective facing up his man, as well as in the pick and roll.
If the Celtics decide to keep their number six overall pick and have a chance to draft Randle, they should oblige and take him. Randle not only will help the Celtics become better immediately, he has the potential to be a more athletic Zach Randolph.
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Maybe it's your thighs or your stomach but most of us have those parts of our bodies that we just can't seem to ignore. You don't want to resort to surgery, but special diet creams and potions have done the trick so you're at a loss with what do next.
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There are no specific dietary or exercise requirements while using the Miracle Slim Wrap, but you are encouraged to follow a healthy diet in order to keep the lost inches off. When you begin to introduce unhealthy foods back into your diet, you will develop more toxins in and around your fat cell, causing the weight to come off.CONCLUSION
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I sweated my off but it did reduce my belly by an inch or two. wasn't a permanent loss but i have a hard time working up a sweat and this helped.
i got two orders and i wrap one around one leg and butt cheek and the others with the second one. the skin does feel tighter afterwards and i feel like i sweated out a bunch of junk. I like the miraclewraps.
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I started Miracle Slimwrap and Cleanse RX at the same time two months ago and i can report back that i lost about 15 pounds and have been able to totally detoxify my body. I love these products and actually can't wait to use them again but taknig a break for a few weeks since it's not good to do colon cleansing all the time.
I've been wrapping on and off for the past 3 weeks and i lost a little bit of weight but most importantly i feel a lot better. it makes me sweat and i know that releases a lot of built up toxins in my system.
This is great to use during detoxing. You can get the same effect at a spa but that would cost a lot more. This is very cost effective and easy to do at home.
I just added the spa wraps to my diet routine and its awesome. I wrap every other day after my excercise and sauna and i just feel great afterwards.
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i wrapped up my arms the night before i had to go to a BBQ and they tightened up a few inches and they looked nice and smooth. they helped my arms look more youthful.
this at home spa wrap worked pretty well. Price is good and setup and use was easy too.
made me sweat my butt off and i did lose a couple of inches from my waist. Felt like i got some detoxing done also. overall good wrap, i will use it again and again
love getting seaweed wrap treatments at the spa and also mud treatments. This isn't as good but it's a fraction of the cost and worth every penny
saved me a trip to the spa. It does take some work to get this going and wrapped up but it's not that bad. my husband helped me out and it was great.
I got a little chub but most guys loves the extra meat i got. they have told me that I'm "voluptuous". I wrapped my stomach and then my upper thighs with miracleslimwrap and went out and i got a lot of looks and compliments. it tightened up those areas and made my butt even nicer. great product to have
This is a great detoxing aid. I've been doing the lemon juice detox for the past week (which is very hard to do - requires alot of discipline) and used miracleslimwrap in the same week and I feel completely detoxified. Just drinking lemon juice for a week helped clean out my system and the wrap helped me sweat out a lot of toxins.
MiracleSlimWrap worked wonders, i lost 4 inches off my stomach after the first use. i sweated alot too and felt great afterwards.
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Does anyone know who this guy is? Radovan Varicak, he's the one who rendered the car up there but damn this guy sucks. It pisses me off how people think they are good enough to post sketches and rendering on the media. If he was good then its fine, but after looking briefly at some of his stuff, hes just another piece of **** that wants attention.
anyway talking about the rendering, did an ok job but he really left out alot of detail. And it looks like slabs of **** put together that sort of resembles the f30 spyshots. If i expected the F30 to look like this than **** man, im never buying a BMW again, cause the E46 or the E90 has a better overall design balance than this rendering.
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John Stamos is producing a new show for Yahoo! with Morgan Spurlock ("Losing It with John Stamos") where the pair will chat with Hollywood stars about how they lost their virginity.
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"I was like, 'This is what the whole world revolves around?' I didn't get it," he said. "Now, I get it!"
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"I love 'em baked, broiled, boiled, barbecued, any way you want to eat them," he says. "That's a joke around here," he adds.
Lapinski, who lives in Superior, Mont., is an award-winning author of 11 books, including Death in the Grizzly Maze, the Timothy Treadwell story, and The Elk Mystique. But foremost he is a hunter.
"I am the number one fan of shooting wolves," he says. As such, he's purchased a $19 wolf license, joining the more than 9,000 Montanans who, as of press time, have bought tags for a controversial fall wolf hunt season that kicked off Sept. 15 in backcountry areas and starts Oct. 25 elsewhere.
The Montana seasons—and one that began Sept. 1 in Idaho—got a legal green light Sept. 8 by U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy, who denied a request by environmental groups to stop the hunts.
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We had made reservations at Dogs And The City to board our two dogs for five days. Upon arriving to drop them off during normal business hours, we were treated as though we were breaking and entering. It was incredibly strange. At first we thought the staff was on drugs. Or they were being robbed and were being told to "act normal." My wife turned to me and whispered "I have a bad feeling about this." I did too. It was one of the most surreal experiences I have ever experienced. To begin with-- the staff had no knowledge we had even made reservations and did not even attempt to look! Then they even began to question if we could drop our dogs off, even after we had brought in the needed paperwork and performed the required interview a week earlier. (Our other dog had stayed there numerous times). After the staff called the manager on the phone I explained I was very concerned about how I was being treated. I reminded the manager that she had reconfirmed with me 4 hours earlier. I wanted to know where the disconnect was, this miscommunication. She could not offer me an answer. This is what concerned me the most. If her staff could not even honor a simple reservation (we were also told we were the only 2 dogs staying overnight-- so perhaps these dogs should have been expected...), how can one expect them to properly take care of our 2 dogs, one that requires medication at dinner time. I expressed this to her, and she was unsympathetic. She also said if I was not comfortable with her staff, I should not leave my dogs with them. And she is absolutely right! As a dog owner it is my responsibility to provide my animals the best environment possible. Based on the actions of the staff, Dogs And The City is not the best environment at all. My gut told me to walk out the door and that is what I did. My wife and I had to cancel our travel plans and we have now missed my grandfather's 100th birthday party. Please use at your own risk. There are plenty of other kennels in San Diego that can provide the same service, often for cheaper, with a dedicated and responsive staff. If your gut tells you this is a questionable environment to leave your dog, please listen to it. It is your responsibility to make sure your animals are safe and well cared for.


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I have a DBP 7.5 Cube (12 in.) that is rimless, but has no top. I'm thinking of adding some sparkling gouramis and I don't want them to jump out. Can anyone recommend a good cover for this tank? It doesn't have to be glass; any sturdy material will do.
Depends on your lighting too; acrylic might warp under heat from the lights.
I hadn't thought of that. Thanks! I plan on using the gooseneck 27w 6500k fixture, the one with the quad pin CFL. Do you think that would warp the acrylic?
I use a thin piece of acrylic under a similar quad pin CFL (the piece of acrylic is about 2 inches away from the bulb itself), and it has been OK so far. Granted, my light bulb is only 18W, but I don't imagine the extra heat from the 27W fixture would be too much of a problem.
Would acrylic be easy or hard to cut? I may need to cut off a small section for my filter.
I used a jigsaw because I have one and it was faster :)
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I'm eagerly reading the pink kit, I only went through the the firt book so far (breath, language and touch) and I'm looking forward to learn the rest.
There is something I'm very curious about. Did you find (with or without the pink kit resources) to be more aware of what was happing to your body and baby positioning during your second or subsequent labor/labors?
During my first labor I was not in control. I didn't know what was happening to me and I had to rely on mw or doctor to tell me how things were proceding.
This time around (I'm 27 weeks pregnant now), I'm planning to labor as much as I can at home before going to the hospital and I'm wondering if I'll be able to tell what's happening and if I'll know when it's time to go (unless other happens I cannot anticipate). And then, when in the hospital I'll feel what it's best to have things moving...if baby gets stuck and so on.
What was your experience in regard?
Thanks for sharing.
Yes. I didn't have the kit you are speaking about, but I was in a much different "headspace" when I had my VBAC than with my other births. Baby #1 was born vaginally, but it was a long, high intervention labor and delivery that was kind of emotionally traumatic for me. I felt like things were being done to me and not by me. Baby #2 was a scheduled c/s for breech presentation post-40 weeks. Baby #3's VBAC was another long labor, but I had been meditating about it all along, so I was completely at peace with it even though it was slow. I had a doula and didn't get the epidural. I was standing, sitting very upright and walking the whole time (no lying down at all, because it was painful that way). I had only two moments of "I can't do this, give me drugs," but I was brought back to reality by my support team encouraging me, suggesting position changes and applying compresses to my back. I knew when I was in transition and when it was time to push because it all felt different from the hours of regular active labor. It was cool to be standing, realize it was time to push, and just sit down on the bed. I asked if I could adjust my position to push, and they said, "Sure. Do whatever you need to do." I felt like the process was all me this time.
The only bummer was that despite all of my chiropractic care and optimal fetal positioning, baby was still transverse (ROT) and asynclitic. I pushed him out in only maybe 15-20 minutes, but it hurt sharply, my OB had to manipulate DS's head as I pushed, and I got three tears, one of which was a Grade 2 but fairly deep along the vaginal wall. They weren't painful after the fact and healed fine, though.
Married mom to Patrick (2004), Noah (2006) and Liam (2010) VBAC!!
Hi! I have been looking for other mamas using the Pink Kit! I am loving it so far. I am planning a VBAC at a free standing birth centre with a midwife for baby number two. I feel very empowered by learning about what my body will be going through during the labor.
Thanks Katie for you reply.
Hi Makaylamama. I'm loving the Pink kit too. I haven't start practicing with my husband yet. He just came back for a business trip and I pushed him a little hard over the weekend because I want to start ASAP. Then I told him how much I need him this time, even more than last time, just because the system here is highly medicalized and we being very aware of everything is very important.
I do find there is abundant information out there and it could be confusing. I've been reading a little bit of the spinngingbabies website too, but I feel there are too many things there that if done improperly could do in the end more harm than good. So I decided to stick only to the info in the pink kit and other techinics I can ready about I would leave as last resort if I see my chances getting thinner and thinner.
I would be a great comfort to know that this time I'd be able to understand what's going on.
I have thought often about the pink kit, but never did it...I'm 39 weeks today, so, obviously no turning back on my planning now!
Anyway, my first, my c/s was because I was pushing for 2 hours and apparently that was my time limit for my doc! Grrrrr!!!!!! :( Anyway, I later found out he was malpositioned, but didn't think too too much of it. I knew the induction was a big probable reason, he just wasn't ready! My water was broken at just 2cm, so I figured he descended in a poor position. I had an early epidural, so I figured between lack of movement and not being able to feel myself pushing and so on, it was just a cascade of interventions that lead to my c/s. Plus an impatient doctor that only gave me 2 hours to push and then SHE wanted to go home! Again...grrrr!!!!
For my vbac, because of the malpositioning I decided that natural was the way to go! I patiently waited to go into labor on my own and when I did, I stayed up and mobile. However, 90 minutes into pushing with this new doc, he started to pressure me a bit, partially because of "last time". I too felt the pressure of, how long will they let me push. So, his idea, because my baby was again malpositioned, was to give me the epidural so he could manually reach up there and turn baby's head so she could come down. It worked.....but, at this point the light bulb went off with malpositioned babies!
So, this time, I've done yoga, chiropractic visits (which I found out I have a hip misalignment which TOTALLY went hand in hand with the malpositioning of my first two babies), and I again plan to stay natural and mobile. But this time, with my prep work and again, new and actually very very very supportive doctor, I know my likelihood to succeed is much much greater! He sees no reason to put a pushing time limit on a perfectly healthy mom and baby like the previous two times.
Okay, so very long background and I haven't had this 3rd baby yet, but I will say I'm a LOT more aware of his positioning during pregnancy...so I do hope I'll be more aware during labor and delivery as well! I know for my first, I knew very little about baby positioning, the idea of knowing where baby's feet or butt was, was just far beyond me! With my second, I visited spinning babies a few times and looked on there, but I didn't really think too much about it. This time, I've really educated myself and since I can tell and do know where my baby is, I feel a lot more confident because my knowledge and my prep work to be successful in the ways I want to be successful!
I hope you enjoy the pink kit! I'm sure it's a great buy!!!
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Is there anyone out there that can tell me why my car misfires on cyl 1 and studders horribly while driving when the 10 amp meter fuse is in the fuse panel (under the dash) but when you take the fuse out the car runs perfectly fine, though the voltage on the car will drop down to 9 volts after 20 minutes of driving with the fuse out and you have to put the fuse back in for the voltage to climb back to around 13.5 volts. Once you do that the car beings to misfire, jerk and studder horribly.
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