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With an Introduction and Notes by Dr John Bowen, Department of English, University of Keele. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Martin Chuzzlewit is Charles Dickens' comic masterpiece about which his biographer, Forster, noted that it marked a crucial phase in the author's development as he began to delve deeper into the 'springs of character'. Old Martin Chuzzlewit, tormented by the greed and selfishness of his family, effectively drives his grandson, young Martin, to undertake a voyage to America.
It is a voyage which will have crucial consequences not only for young Martin, but also for his grandfather and his grandfather's servant, Mary Graham with whom young Martin is in love.
The commercial swindle of the Anglo-Bengalee company and the fraudulent Eden Land Corporation have a topicality in our own time. This strong sub-plot shows evidence of Dickens' mastery of crime where characters such as the criminal Jonas Chuzzlewit, the old nurse Mrs Gamp, and the arch-hypocrite Seth Pecksniff are the equal to any in his other great novels.
Generations of readers have also delighted in Dickens' wonderful description of the London boarding-house - 'Todgers'.
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Review by mbmackay
This is Dickens' sixth major work, written when he was 31/32 years old. His writing skills are visibly improving, the characters are better developed and the plot structure is sound. But the reliance on coincidence and plot twists is typically Dickens. The book starts well, introducing the key characters gradually, developing them as the book proceeds. For the first time, the major villain (Pecksniff) is a rounded, believable creation. The major hero (Pinch) is also well developed, but just a little too good to be entirely credible. The seemingly obligatory comic character (Mrs Gamp) makes too many appearances and stays on the scene too long for my taste.The book was written after Dickens' first trip to the USA and he is humourously critical of much of the pretension he found there. He must have lost audience support in the US as a result, because the edition I read had a postscript, written around the time of his second visit 20 years later, stating how much the place has improved! Dickens' takes a progressive position on slavery and excoriates the practice in the US. He also paints an interesting picture of the gentleman, young Martin Chuzzlewit, learning how to live a better life from his servant, Mark Tapley - not a common position for an author to take in this era.A long book, at 786 pages, but as usual, I found myself drawn in to a real page turner in the last third of the work. Read February 2012.
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Just a bit late getting to this, thanks to my wife's birthday at the same time.
Henry Thoreau has just turned 200. Walden was one of my high school summer reading books, and immediately changed my life. In a fit of authenticity,I attempted to lie under my parents' evergreens to read it. Ants and needles put a quick end to that folly! But every word aroused my spirit, even as its scope stimulated my brain. At the end, I looked around, in those pre-internet days, for Emerson's Address to the seniors at the theological school im Cambridge. By the time school opened, that teen was a Unitarian Universalist.
These days, though, I can see Thoreau was a giant due to Unitarian shoulders beneath him. From Emerson he seems to have taken above all the model of spiritual individuality. But Emerson was too much the thinker, constrained in his passions by the urge to anchor in scholarship. From Channing Thoreau took, above all, the romantic hero worship that led Channing to study literary and political figures he admired. Thoreau's gift — and his radical gesture — was to cast himself as the hero by embracing the experience of his passions, but basing those passions on everyday life and its items. So many religious writers fail where he succeeded: simultaneously enlarging the dimensions of one's life while shrinking it to insignificance against its contexts.
But in Walden, Thoreau brought into Unitarian Universalism the method we use to this day: appropriation of world religious materials in support of his own contentions. It is worth reminding ourselves that the pioneering scholar of this material, Miss Hannah Adams, had insisted on capturing interfaith materials, as much as possible, in the words of their oown adhetents, and to understand their own purposes. She made clear that she had her own views on religious matters, but insisted that everyone else was entitled to theirs as well. In Thoreau's era, this material, repackaged by Lydia Maria Child, was still fairly new.
So who was right — the anthropologist or the appropriator? Most people's religious views change over their lifetimes. Within communities, diverse experiences, rituals, and interpretations abound. Adams might have over-idealized the very concept she sought to examine, because members within each denomination were treating their own materials the way Thoreau treated everyone else's.
All I can say is that when UUs complain we have no single sacred text, I rebut that assertion with Walden. And for having to read it while I was still young enough to build my religious life on his model, I give thanks. Happy birthday, Henry.
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My religious community seems to be replaying an experience from the mid 20thcentury by committing a great deal of time and money to eradicating white supremacy in our culture. My life nowadays does not permit me to read all the commentary, so these words cannot be considered anything more than stray responses to what little I've had time to read. What I can authentically say is how I feel about what is happening.
- My heart goes out to the three women mounting legitimate campaigns for our presidency. The precipitate resignation of our most recent elected president, and installation of an interim triumvirate, raises questions about the transition back to what the bylaws established. It looks like we could wind up with a "shadow cabinet" with whom it will be sensitive to disagree.
- On the other hand, as far as concerns go about the money, that's a common complaint when it comes to redress for systemic racial injustice. Forty years after the original Black Empowerment controversy (which did contribute to financial pressures, but only in conjunction with many other things from that era) I am more aware of what my Relatives of Color (ROCs) suffered through years of living in exactly the same institutions that felt so congenial to me. While our shared family culture drew them into these milieus, the stares, and worse, somewhat pushed them out. I have had Black UU friends, and in private conversation, they honored me with how lonely our religion often felt, how careful they felt they needed to be, to "tone it down," to "not come across as too Black." If this pain is still how it feels, which appears to be the case, then what should we not spend? If someone in your family has deep pain, do you really begrudge them the money?
- I am not scared of losing the UU culture of white supremacy, but I do fear losing the pastoral haven of religious community. Part of my current self-definition involves being less affluent within a fairly affluent family. Yes, I made my choices, but it still hurts to not be able to capitalize on the low airfares to Europe, to read all my friends' travel posts on FB and know that will never be me. Economic reports suggest that this is an area where POCIs can feel my pain — even remind us that their legendary family and community cohesion sprang heavily from practical considerations born of poverty– but I worry they will only remind me I've already had more luxury than most POCIs can ever hope for.
- Having been through this before, I worry our religious community lacks the inner strength to succeed this time. I wonder how much we blamed the empowerment efforts for consequences of mistakes we made ourselves and never fully, courageously examined. So what are our other activities now, and will they really do us true good? I hate Policy Governance for many reasons, but in my home congregation, it doesn't seem to shut down communication. The denominational level might seem different, but as someone who wants to bring back the National Conference model, I don't care which part of the Boston power-club holds the reins. Both branches hold the reins too tight, which could well strangle ourvcollective inner health. So I hope it will not become impossible for us white folks to raise institutional concerns, so long as the dialogue maintains space for racism implications.
These are personal views, not prescriptions. Today is my 63rd birthday, which ought to give me some license to look backwards, sidewards, inwards, and around.
It's been ages since I thought there was any point in writing about polity among the Unitarian Universalists. Nor does my return to the topic, at this cataclysmic moment, indicate either a sense of hope, or much interest. These days most of my emotional energy resided in the purely personal. Still, people who have meant so much to me would like a small bit of perspective, so here's what I can offer.
For those who don't know, we have had, on the same day — March 30, 2017 — not one but two earthshaking ministerial downfalls. What can't be overlooked is that they come from the two opposite poles of polity. It's as if God wanted to wake us up to both dangers, and to do so with enough clarity that none of us can miss it. So without commenting on the content of either event, here are my evaluations.
First, on the resignation of our denominational president over concerns about staff appointments. The problem itself is as old as we are. When we were only New Englanders, a call went out for more leaders from and in the west (a changing place over the centuries, but never a different issue). When we were only led by men, women agitated for a place at the decision-making tables. In each case, the protesters wanted their superficial differentness to harbor a deeper difference in how our congregational approach religion. The UUA, following the lead of its Unitarian forerunners, the Boston Clergy Association and the National Conference of Unitarian and other Liberal Churches, instituted closed selection processes for approving clergy, always claiming their only aim was protecting the innocent and/or sacred. Yet in each case, the victors in writing the bylaws turned out to be elitists convinced that salvation for others lay in control only by folks carefully selected to resemble themselves or at least, show deference to their co-called wisdom and devotion.
In 1899, when Samuel Atkins Eliot I and his co-conspirators on the board of the tiny American Unitarian Association instituted an anti-congregational coup over the decentralized and congregationally-based National and Western Conferences, they thought they had good reasons. In particular, the rise of both evangelical Christianity and Roman Catholic political influence led these folks to believe that educated, rationalist, humanist-driven Protestantism needed to strengthen its ability to speak up in the public realm. This is the tendency which has led us to tighter and tighter staff leadership and more and more strident political advocacy. It was probably inevitable that eventually, heads would roll as that advocacy has finally begun — as once did geographic outreach — to bring in some long-desired but little known new members.
So now, if our ministers and parishioners of color want more staff members that not only look like them, but understand the spiritual ups and downs of their personal lives, I say they only continue an honorable and completely worthy line of disrupters who have always, eventually, made our denomination more rewarding for all of us. It is worth noting that part of their concern is the way racism plays out differently in different parts of the country, meaning regionally-driven leadership is the only legitimate way to truly minister to people where they live. The question raging now is whether the necessary change can be accomplished by appointing better people to the same offices — what denominationalists always have insisted — or whether there will be more folks like me, who believe the only effective answer can be systematic.
Meanwhile, from the opposite end of the polity spectrum, we have a lone wolf who wound up devouring innocent lambs. Really. This minister and community activist, now accepting charges of receiving pornography featuring violence against children, always raised the most fiery and least reasoned supports of my complaints about over-centralized denominational personnel management. It is worth pointing out that when Henry Whitney Bellows laid out the framework for the National Conference, he explicitly enumerated the duty to monitor clergy, which, to his mind, could only done by those in the same locales. Likewise, I have not mentioned our Universalist forebears, because their decentralized polity, for most of their existence, had no relevance to the new structures. Yet their state and regional conventions also included and exercised fellowshipping and disfellowshipping of clergy. The centralist shibbolith that localism means immorality has no place in either of our histories; that was a tool for the coup-plotters of 1899.
Of all the time I have spent in organized Unitarian Universalist activities, there are two gatherings, superficially different, geographically and racially unlike, which proved nevertheless to mirror and echo each other. They come back to me at this time, because on both ends of the polity spectrum we are going need a way to heal among ourselves. Each of these events was a gathering of sincerely-committed congregation members, usually assembled to click through meetings to manage something important to parishioners. Yet in each case, we committed to listen to each other's voices as equals and as seekers. We were not seeking to elucidate on some topic, as small group ministries do, but to share some part of our vulnerable soul by telling our personal stories. The first occurred at All Souls in Washington, DC, when one option in our then-annual retreat was to share the spiritual journeys that brought us into that congregation. I closed my eyes to listen, and marveled at how little difference there really was around distinctions of race. Decades later, at First Church Unitarian in Jamaica Plain, MA, we met to implement the Welcoming Congregation curriculum, whose first step is to simply hear the story of parishioners' journeys as LGBTQ individuals.
Recently one of my Facebook friends asked which was better, to be transformative or to be effective. In my experience, transformation is the only long-term effectiveness. I failed in my efforts to transform this association's polity, although I do take credit for raising its prominence as a worthwhile general focus. As I prepare to turn 63, to help my wife (yes, after a lifetime of bisexual wanderings, I finally landed on this side of the fence) confront her revolutionary self-management of advanced Huntington's Disease, those of you who come after are my comfort. If I made less and less effort to write, and became more and more of a lurker, in large part it is because your voices began to open parts of my mind and soul in ways too new and exciting to limit by language. Still, I do live in covenant, so if it helps, here's my little offering.
With prayers for us all, especially the victims in both of our disastrous ministerial implosions.
Baseball in a Time of Politics
Perhaps you hadn't noticed that the pitchers and catchers of Major League Baseball have gotten back to camp, back on the field, back on tv. Perhaps you've been so busy with politics — and so concerned about what's happening with our government — that you're thinking this is the season to give baseball a miss.
Might I suggest that would be a mistake. Here's my story: back in the day, along with attending (sometimes) high school, I spent a good 20 hours every week working against the US War in Southeast Asia. Guerrilla theater, petition drives, leafleting, training marshals for marches locally and in DC — there was plenty to get done. My other interests in those days were equally passionate: religious community, women's liberation, poetry, love affairs, and the all-important constant criticism of my parents. Life swirled by at a fevered pace, and all of it required my firm moral judgment.
But more often than you'd expect, this radical could be seen in a regular Cincinnati Reds tee-shirt, sitting through the national anthem but otherwise carrying on like everyone else in that red Republican town. More often than you'd expect, you'd find me at home in the evening with my mom, listening to the game, chatting over each player's contributions and errors, whether the manager was mistaken (seldom), and how the primary players on the opposition teams were faring.
Far more often than you'd expect, from my somewhat delicate feminine face, you'd hear the most vile condemnations of an organization called The Los Angeles Dodgers. They were our only serious rival for leadership in the National League West, we played them quite a bit, and not one of those innings could be taken for granted. There were other fierce rivals, of course — the Cardinals, the Pirates, the Braves, the Phillies, especially — but none of them drew our bile quite like the Dodgers.
And all those curses, those evil wishes, those boos, those hisses, and jeers, played a vital role in my successful political participation. In every demonstration, in every setting, a great many of the people who held my views expressed them by spewing hatred of someone else in the social, political, or religious realm. My aspiration, following both Martin Luther King, Jr., and, in my mind, even Jesus of Nazareth, was to hate the sin but not the sinner. To oppose the position but not the person who held it. To intervene against the policy but not demean the humanity of folks who felt that policy was best.
This was not as easy as it might seem, even for a detached intellectual like myself. Hatred turns out to be a human need, no different from food or water. It's right up there with sex and an occasional sojourn in nature. It welled up inside me quite a bit, and for that, I had the Los Angeles Dodgers. I remember once watching them in a play-off game against the Phillies. My mom came in and asked who in the world I might be rooting for. "A lot of injuries," was my answer.
I gave myself rules for this vicious baseball hatred. The world was a smaller place then, and it was possible to run into major league players downtown. If I ran into a Dodger (subjunctive mood, it never happened), I would not allow myself to spit or jeer. If one of the Dodgers actually got hurt, I stood with respect as anyone else might do. Baseball has its civility, and its function in terms of the Dodgers was to remind me that I was a pacifist.
Over the last few decades, my loyalties have traveled, but settled in on the Boston Red Sox. Then, in the late 2000s, I fell in love with a Yankee fan. For several years, I've had no major baseball hatred in my life. She speaks so nicely about the Sox, and indeed, I've gotten rather fond of many players in pinstripes. It's all become quire low-key, this baseball rivalry in our house.
But these are trying times. As the pitchers and catchers settle in, I'm looking for a team to hate as much as I hated the Dodgers. I need it. Someone to wish into a baseball gutter, to jeer with ugly, dripping sneers when they take the field. I need them because I refuse to stoop to that level in discussing our president, his party, nor the people who put them in office. If this country is to have any future, someone has got to take the first step in modeling an admirable minority position. It doesn't mean staying quiet on issues, it doesn't mean keeping calm in the face of outrage. It just means remembering that most of these people are honorable, patriotic, decent in many ways, and, frankly, probably just as confused as the rest of us about what the future holds.
But if I'm going to keep this cool in what looks to be a long, hot summer, it's going to take a scapegoat from major league baseball to keep me stable. At this point, I'm considering the St. Louis Cardinals as my fall guys. They fight both the Red Sox and Red Legs valiantly, and the weather in their river town is horrible.
Those are pretty good reasons to hate someone immeasurably — aren't they?
Arian Evangelists? How Did I Not Know This? Does Everyone Else Have This in Hand?
Perhaps it is inevitable that a historian who immerses herself in marriage will succumb to the attractions of genealogy. How much better when matters genealogical start intersecting with my ongoing recreational scholarly deep dive, which has made its way back to medieval English history. But X marked a surprising spot: not in England, but Germanic sources on the continent. Yes, most of my forebears were German, but, more amazingly, so is my religion: England was just a byway. Unitarianism came from Arianism, and it did so because the Arians sent evangelists into the Gothic and Vandal tribes who sacked Rome. Others of these evangelists found fertile ground with Constantine, the Eastern Roman Emperor, and among the Slavs who became so many of his subjects.
So much of what Harvard taught me about Unitarian history thus proves wrong. It was not primarily a religion for Western Europe's educated classes, leaping to brilliant rejections of Roman Catholic superstition — rather, it was a superstition of its own. People learned it from others –way back in the fading years of the Roman Empire — and passed it on the same way. It survived in places to which it was driven, from whence it emerged when able. It became the language of educated English middle classes, so far as I can tell, because that's who conducted the wool trade by which it finally crossed the English Channel. In England, I'm guessing, it settled in as a working class religion because the fabric trade engendered an industrial enclave.
I can't help noticing the importance of this discovery to the current political plight of progressive politics. The Unitarian disdain for evangelism is best summed up in the old saw about the Beacon Bill newcomer who admired the hat of a grande dame. Where, inquired the newcomer, had the resident bought her hat? "We do not buy hats," sniffed the matron, "We have hats." So it is with our beliefs: if you have to ask how and where to get them, perhaps you will not fit in among us. Maybe that explains the self-conversion culture of the Unitarian Universalism of my youth and young adult years. More importantly, perhaps this explains why we do not trouble ourselves with all those lesser down-ballot and off-year elections by which the evangelism-driven conservatives have tied us up in knots. To knock on doors and introduce yourself to neighbors, to step down from the pedestal of international world peace and talk about fixing sidewalks — it turns out these are things our Arian forebears would have done — and did — which is why we have our Unitarian religion today.
II always wondered how the theories of an aged bishop in North Africa landed in North America 13 centuries later and blossomed into this imperfect but aspirational democracy. What happened in between? Was this some weird religious locust, emerging only when the climate allowed, even after so much time had passed? Historians debate two models: continuous and discontinuous. I've done enough gardening, tended enough children, done enough genealogy and genograms, to believe there is no such thing as radical discontinuity.So my religious roots appear to be more natural, less rebellious than my adolescent ego ever suspected. Not only does this apply to me, but to my religion itself.
Today I did something I haven't done for a year or more — I read the UU (Unitarian Universalist) World soon after it landed in our mailbox. I did not read it out of duty or professional commitment; for the first time in months, it beckoned my heart. Strange confession from someone officially categorized as a retired Unitarian Universalist minister, but an honest marker that perhaps my life has completed this latest circle at last.
Just over two years ago, as the sun marked its longest day in the northern hemisphere, I sat in front of an invited congregation and altered the very polity of my life. In short, I got married. Till that moment, polity changes were something I suggested, cajoled, imposed on others from an autonomous and somewhat superior detached position. From that moment on, polity changes rewrote my life so radically that for most of the time I wondered who I would be when the ride was over. for in taking the spouse my heart chose, I surrendered my life not only to her, but also to whatever her Huntington's Disease would cast upon us together.
Marriage has been a wonderful polity advancement, except for this disease. She galloped up the aisle already in the grip of Stage Four, but with disciplined athleticism has pounded into every achievement physical therapy can offer. She doesn't speak much these days, and not clearly when she does, but her mind and guts ring as strong as ever. Yesterday she reminded me that I had promised to take her to see the latest Star Trek movie in a theater. We spend lots of our time consuming news stories and listening to author talks and history lectures on C-Span, which ramps up my long ago international studies pursuits.
Pouring myself into her care, in order to continue enjoying her companionship, redirected the polity of my life into the community of people struggling with this and similar movement disorders/neurodegenerative diseases. For a long time, this diversion scared me. Could I retain my ties to UUism — especially without the means to attend Sunday worship (which I deeply, passionately miss)? If I spent so little time discussing UUism, imbibing its culture and habits, would it fall away from disuse?
Much to my amazement, UUism retained its ties to me. The Care Network checks on us regularly, and can be relied upon to keep her cheery and valued on the few occasions I tear myself away. Our contact visitor even came over and weeded one of our gardens one hot summer day, asking nothing in return! Meanwhile, a project I worked on years ago has become relevant again, and a small self-appointed subcommittee of the Women's Alliance (my chosen small group ministry) has rallied to keep me either motivated or urged, while still respecting the challenges of the disease.
What completed that circle has been the addition of a marvelously self-reliant and highly-trained caregiver. My wife plans to stay at home for her entire journey with the disease, but having 34 hours a week of support and even replacement lets me get out of the same house. Mostly I just go into a separate part of it and read catalogs, watch Netflix documentaries and BBC murder mysteries. These I choose for their filming locations, and call them "scenery stories." It turns out that lots of people do this, because you can go online and find out exactly where these places are, should you choose to visit. What I like is being able to visit them by going into another room, bringing my wife along, as it were, without leaving home.
But in this, our third year of marriage, when August brought its turn toward autumn and the back-to-school sales splashed over the screens, something familiar connected inside my circuits. Our Huntington's Disease Support Association Walk takes place October 1, which means I have work to do in my new community. But there's a Women's Alliance meeting the first Wednesday of September, and this year, that feels like another place my new/old self belongs.


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Moving up Main Street, we run into the scary Mr. Hyde, of Dr. Jekyll fame. He's out front of the Main Street Cinema, attracting (or maybe even scaring away) the guests that walk by into the air-conditioned theater. Here is another shot of Mr. Hyde from a different day:
Obviously, I'm a big Mickey Mouse fan, but the Main Street Cinema certainly had a larger feeling of authenticity when it showed actual silent movies. There's really no reason why Mickey and the Silent Screen Stars couldn't co-habitate in the same theater. Last one for today is an off-center photo of the Plaza Inn, which seems to focus on the trash-can and the rear-ends of the shapely guests about to enter for a Fried-Chicken dinner.
In present day Disney news, I went to see "Wall-E" this weekend. For some reason, the trailers really turned me off, and I had virtually no desire to see it. However, the fantastic buzz it has been getting changed my mind, and I'm really glad I went to see it. It's not your typical Pixar/Disney film; in fact it has a number of chilling commentaries on people and the environment. Still, it is well done, and I am continually blown away by the emotion that the Pixar artists are able to give to the characters. I predict we'll be seeing more of Wall-E and his romantic interest, Eve. I also enjoyed the use of 2 songs from "Hello Dolly"; mercifully, the obnoxious Barbra Streisand is not included in any of the clips shown from the film. Since I've never seen that movie, I had no idea that one of the songs played over and over on Main Street at Disneyland is "Put on Your Sunday Clothes" from "Dolly." This song also provides the optimistic inspiration for Wall-E. So get out of your seats and run to the theaters; "Wall-E" should not be missed!
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Time Warner President: 'Release Windows Will Converge'11 Jan, 2006 By: Erik Gruenwedel
The ever-shrinking window separating a movie's theatrical and DVD releases won't collapse this year, but will eventually converge, according to Jeff Bewkes, president and COO of Time Warner Inc.
Speaking to investors at a media entertainment conference in Phoenix, Bewkes said the time between a theatrical release and its DVD release has been shrinking for some time.
"It will continue to get closer partly because as new distribution capabilities such as cable, satellite and online get more robust, the abilities they bring to both consumers and producers to deliver the product gets more realistic," said Bewkes.
Time Warner ended 2005 atop the entertainment world with film box office revenues up 15 percent (four movies topped $200 million in domestic box office) despite an overall downturn in the number of people going to the movies.
Bewkes said not all movies move through release windows at the same time, and, in fact, many are customized. Bewkes cited The Polar Express, which he said did fantastic business on DVD (11 million units sold since its Nov. 22 release) despite an 11-month delay since its Christmas theatrical release in 2004.
"It does depend how the product is doing in the theatre but as a general rule, I think they [release windows] will converge over time," he said.
The COO heralded the advent of the Apple video iPod but cautioned that video, unlike music, already has a lot of distribution options, including theatre, DVD, pay-per-view, VOD, commercial TV and cable.
"The video food chain allows for all that stuff," Bewkes said. "If you take that chain and the windows shrink and the prices come down, you potentially have a product people want to see whenever and we can still compete with better packaging and added-value offerings.Going digital is not just happening now, it has been happening for a while and it is good for us."


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In any case, the two were supposed to fight in the UFC years ago but due to an injury, Dan Henderson had to pull out.
Jones was able to submit Hendo, and then he went on to call out none other than Chael Sonnen.
Jones and Sonnen had fought in the UFC before, after coaching against eachother on TUF. Jones and Sonnen agreed to square off at the next Submission Underground event on January 29th after Sonnen accepted his challenge, an event that Sonnen helped put together. Was the plan to have Dan Henderson also call out Chael Sonnen if he won? Jones vs Sonnen takes place a week after a busy Chael fights Tito Ortiz in Bellator.
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And here are the clips of the actual music, which is already proving to be one of the best movie scores in quite some time. The orchestrated bits have an amazing, sweeping 80s feel to them, and the brief bits of techno "distortion" really give it a unique sound. My personal favorite is fourth down:
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I don't know how long we were aboard ship; but as we got to within two or three days of the island especially at night, standing up on deck we could see out on the horizon flashes of explosions so we knew that we were getting close and that our Navy was starting to pound the island. This seemed to last quite a while and we were cheered by it of course, hoping that it would eliminate some of the resistance that we knew we would encounter.
The night before D-day we were told to get our gear and our packs ready so that everything looked like we would be prepared to disembark the next morning. The next morning at five a.m. the horns on the ship went off and general quarters cry arose everywhere so we were up and at 'em. Got dressed and went topside and stood in line for breakfast. As we got topside you could see the outline of the island ahead of us. It was still fairly dark, barely lightening up. We stood in line and went through the one side of the ship, which had the entrance to the galley, a cafeteria arrangement, and you would go thru and grab a tray. They had every conceivable thing on the menu for breakfast, so we ate heartily and the coffee was some of the best, so much so, that every body had two or more cups in their canteen cups.
"Yeah" He told us: "It is really hot there".
Back up on deck we watched the infantry move in and you could see the boats coming past us often moving toward shore, which was a little distance away. We were careful to keep the Troop Ships out of artillery range because we didn't know what size guns they had so it was a precaution. Since we were not yet ready to disembark we all stood around on deck and looked toward the island which was ablaze with smoke and fire and you could hardly see the island. It looked like they had dropped the A-bomb on it (although that was unheard of at the time). We could see fires burning on the shore and we weren't quiet sure what they were but as the sun rose things got lighter we could see landing craft of ours (we believed) burning on the beach. We didn't think they would be theirs so we assumed they were ours so we knew something was not going right. We could still see wave after wave of infantry moving in on their landing craft leaving little wakes in the back end on the sea.
About that time we started to get the word that we were to disembark so we all went down below and got our gear, packs and everything, and got into our DUKWs which were loaded with the 105's, along with a hundred rounds of 105 mm ammo. This covered everything we needed to set up for warfare. The big fans started up and the roar was terrific as all the engines started up for warming up. Finally as we sat on the DUKWs the great jaws of that ship opened up and we could see the ocean out in front of us. The first DUKW or two started into the water and as we watched they would go down that ramp two feet above the water line. The DUKWs would slowly roll into the water very gently and the nose of the boat would go down below the water line and then it would start floating on take off. When our turn came the same thing happened, although it was a little touch and go. As we sat in that DUKW the other DUKWs kept going down lower and lower into the water and then with some relief it floated and took off. We were all in line headed for the beach. I guess we were five or six miles from the beach; but as we headed in and were about half way from the beach we could see that things were not going well. As we came closer there was a Landing Craft coming toward us, the driver pulled up along side of our DUKWs he was white faced and looked tense and frightened, he asked:
"Are you headed for Orange beach 1?"
He told us: "It is really hot there".
We looked down into the hull of that landing craft and he was taking wounded, stretcher cases out to the hospital ship. It was very tense.
We kept going toward the island and as we got closer and closer it was apparent that things were not good on the beach. We could see a lot of explosions and a lot of fires and smoke. The noise was deafening and the war ships around us were pounding the Umurbrogol and trying to hit guns that were hidden in those caves. Directly ahead of us as we drew closer there was a big mortar screen being laid down by the Japanese they hit the water and geysers of water would scream up and come back down and it was scary.
The lead boat, before they got to the mortar range, turned around and as we followed we started to go around in circles all the while we were trying to wait for a lull in the activity so we could get onto the beach. We did that for almost a half hour trying to get out of mortar range. We were landing on the north side of the island. The original plan was that the First Marine regiment was on the extreme left flank closest to the Umurbrogol and the Fifth regiment was next to them. The Seventh was on the extreme right. My battalion was landing between the Fifth and the Seventh. I believe it was Orange Beach #1 or #2. Can't remember which.
The First Regiment on the left flank got by far the worst of it, the first day or two or three. They suffered tremendous casualties. Some of this can be seen on my video of Peleliu. The book I have of Peleliu tells about the entire campaign and goes into great detail. I can only give you my experience from my own standpoint and of course, it's not as bloody or scary as some of the infantry outfits.
Up ahead of us the mortar fire and artillery fire had lulled for some reason and we started to dash on to the beach and landed pretty well. We came on to the sandy coral type beach and proceeded to unload the guns. At that time I looked down the beachscape I could see the litter of amtracs and half tracts and landing barges that were hit. Some of them were burning, some guys were wounded lying in rows, some dead. It was incredible. It looked like a real Hell! It's impossible to describe the noise and explosions and the smoke and smell of everything. Truly, a living Hell!
Right at that point the vehicles had moved up and as we were walking in sort of a line arrangement we passed a burning landing barge, a picture which I shall never forget. If I have had a camera I could have gotten a classic picture for say, Life Magazine. It was an incredible sight. The open end of a landing barge with the open end down was burning inside, and looked like it had been burning a while with flickers of flames burning oil and stuff; but in the center there lay a dead (I assume) sailor who was the coxswain and he was lying on his back with his arms outstretched one hand holding a .45 calibur pistol. He was stripped down to the waist, an extremely handsome man who didn't appear to have any wounds on him. It could have been a bullet from the back but those questions will never be answered. I was really awe stricken at the sight.
We moved on and soon an older officer came running back and said he needed some volunteers to wipe out a foxhole. I guess there were a couple of Japs in a spider hole who had been shooting from there. About twenty of us scrambled forward starting to crawl toward the hole. Some of the lead guys threw some grenades into the hole and that was the end of it.
From then we proceeded a little further in with our guns and unloaded them with the A Frames. We jacked them into position, dug holes into the back for the spades to sit in and started to get set up for firing. Our fire control centers were set up and we got the guns in order, put out the aiming stakes and were ready to fire. I think that we got fire missions that morning and afternoon with more firing into the Umurbrogol, which is where a lot of the firing from the Japanese was coming .
In back of us were the Seventh Marines and we had word that they had already cut off the Japanese at the end of the island. From what I saw later there may have been four to five hundred Japanese on that corner. We heard firing from the back of us going on pretty much throughout the day so I imagine the Seventh was routing out the Japanese. Finally. it quieted down and I think everybody was on the island by late afternoon. There was no firing going on in the early evening.
There was a service going on to our right with gun section # One. Our gun section was on the extreme right of our battery and we were in close to the swamp. John Hutzler was in charge of our gun section and that night we just lay on the ground to try to sleep and we had a couple of sentries on each gun section and took turns on sentry duty. That night we heard a strange thing. Across the swamp presumably there was an American cry for help and it was after a fashion as if some Marine needed help desperately and the voice kept coming across that swamp: "Help, help save me". We didn't know if that was a Japanese ploy. We couldn't have done anything about it anyway but we knew the Seventh would take care of it if they could. I never did find out what happened that night. The next day nothing was said about it. We all felt upset and concerned even though nothing was said.


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PITSO Mosimane said yesterday that he was still fine-tuning what he believes will be a championship side in the domestic league and on the continent.
The Mamelodi Sundowns coach shrugged off the fact that he had collected one point from two winnable games before beating Moroka Swallows, ahead of hosting MTN8 finalists Orlando Pirates tomorrow night.
The Buccaneers marched to a fifth consecutive cup final at the weekend, and this is what has Mosimane on edge, although he backs his men to finally humble Pirates at Loftus (7.30pm kickoff).
The Brazilians were defeated there in February during a crucial stage of last season, but bounced back to claim the Absa Premiership title three months later.
The average start to this campaign - a draw against Maritzburg United, a loss to Ajax Cape Town and a win against Swallows - has seen Mosimane chop and change his lineup to try find the winning formula. Will he stick to the same combination against Pirates?
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"I will change this team until it's settled. And you have to understand that I have players that have been brought in and I must justify why those players have been brought in. I must give them a chance to play and sometimes it is at the expense of the flow of the team."
Bucs coach Vladimir Vermezovic will almost certainly stick with the same starting 11, having made one change in the club's six league and cup matches so far this season.
Mosimane said it would make sense if Sundowns faced the same side that is buzzing from reaching yet another cup final.
"That formation has given them wins in the cup and I know why VV has stuck to that team - he has a record. They are scoring goals. They have just beaten Wits 5-1 [in the MTN8 on aggregate], and no one can argue that they are not a good team," he said.
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The Word Multi Search tool at http://peterjc.com/wordmultisearch/#/search lets you submit a word simultaneously to eight resources: a monolingual dictionary, a translation dictionary, Google Images, Google Translate, Tatoeba, Linguee, RhinoSpike, and Forvo, with results combined in a tabbed interface (except that the Google pages open in a new tab for some reason). So you get monolingual and bilingual dictionary results, images, machine translation, sample sentences, and pronunciation aids all together for your search term. The nine languages supported are German, English, Spanish, Esperanto, French, Polish, Romanian, Japanese, and Mandarin Chinese.
Sorry if this has been posted here before - I searched the site first and didn't see a reference, but might have missed it.
It's a useful idea. It could cover more languages; these might have been the developer's personal interests. It might be interesting to try to combine these resources into a single result page, extracting the relevant information from each resource to generate a new page rather than essentially present a collection of Web pages as the result set.
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01 January 1995 Drama, Comedy, Factual 75 mins
Makhmalbaf puts an advertisement in the papers calling for an open casting for his next movie. However when hundreds of people show up, he decides to make a movie about the casting and the screen tests of the would-be actors.
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HOUSTON, June 12, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Memorial Hermann Health System today announced the purchase of a 32-acre site for development of a hospital campus. The site is located on the northeast side of US Highway 290, south of Mason Road, northwest of Mueschke Road, and southeast of the Grand Parkway.
"We intend to develop a medical center with substantial inpatient and outpatient capabilities needed by the rapidly growing Cypress area communities," said Dan Wolterman, Memorial Hermann president and CEO. "This will allow us to provide the superior care that the greater Houston community has come to expect from Memorial Hermann – a major medical facility with the size and scope of services that are consistent with our market leader position in the community."
The site is the last significant piece of developable frontage land, not already subdivided by a developer, along US Highway 290 and inside the future Grand Parkway. The site currently has convenient access, which will be further improved with the upcoming widening/construction of US Highway 290.
With 12 hospitals spanning the greater Houston area, Memorial Hermann provides exceptional care in pediatrics, heart, neuroscience, orthopedics, women's health, specialty surgery, and organ transplantation. The system's flagship hospital, Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, is home to one of only two certified Level I trauma centers in the greater Houston area, providing 24-hour emergency and trauma care to more than 40,000 patients a year. In addition, Memorial Hermann Life Flight® air ambulance service operates a fleet of six helicopters, providing emergency rescue and air transport services to a multi-county area.
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text: In spite of the claims of BD having the advantage of storage capacity over HD-DVD, we know that, at the present time, HD-DVD is actually the better of the two, since, from what I've been hearing, Sony has, so far, been unable to produce dual layer discs (BD-50) with enough reliability to be feasible. In the new marketing campaign, "The Look and Feel of Perfect," Toshiba says that the "tested capacity" of HD-DVD is 45 g (three layers) with a "theorectical" capacity of 60 g (four layers). Since we know that there are no plans to ever produce BD video discs with more than two layers (50 g), it would seem that if Toshiba is able to reliably produce a three layer disc that any real advantage of one over the other, storage capacity wise, becomes pretty moot. Should Toshiba begin making 45 g discs, I'd say that since HD-DVD players will also play CDs (and very well, at that), whereas BD players will not, that HD-DVD could then argueably be considered the better of the two formats -- at least as far as video disc players are concerned.


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It's time to wash my sins in 'Jhilmil Sitaaron...': Rakesh Paul
"I never left the show. I can never leave a Rajshri Productions' show. But my role, it has changed. There is not much for a positive characters to do in TV, but if the character has meat, then I am for it," he told IANS.
"It is a very positive change. I have been the Raavan of the show. Now in the show, it is time to wash my sins. Now I am standing up for my family. Now I am standing by truth and fighting for it," he added.
Talking about his wish list, he said he would love to "play a beggar, old man, a kid ... we are actors".
"TV is women dominated and there is not much to do for men. I am lucky to be able to get good roles," said the actor who was also part of Rajshri's "Woh Rehne Waali Mehlon Ki".
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Thai Fish Cakes With Cucumber Relish
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- 1 lb any white fish fillet, weighed after boning and skinning, then cut into chunks (cod, haddock, hake, etc.)
- 2 tablespoons fresh coriander leaves
- 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
- 2 spring onions, very finely sliced into rounds (including the green parts)
- 2 tablespoons Thai red curry paste (click here for recipe)
- 1 green chili, de-seeded
- 2 tablespoons peanut oil (for frying)
- salt
For the cucumber dipping sauce
- 2 inches unpeeled cucumbers
- 2 shallots or 2 green onions
- 1 small carrot
- 1 small green chili, de-seeded
- 1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger
- 1 tablespoon roasted peanuts
- 1 tablespoon soft brown sugar
- 4 fluid ounces rice vinegar or 4 fluid ounces wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon light soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon peanut oil
To garnish
- 1 sprig fresh coriander
- 1. Blend Fish, coriander leaves, lime juice, spring onions, curry paste, chilli and a little salt until you have a fine mince, dont make a paste.
- 2. Take the mixture and roll out little balls about 4cm in diameter. Cling film and put in the fridge to firm up.
- 3. Blend cucumber, shallots or salad onions, carrot, chilli, ginger and peanuts until very finely chopped. Transfer the chopped vegetables to a bowl. Next mix the sugar with the vinegar to dissolve it, then pour it over the vegetables along with the soy sauce and groundnut oil. Mix thoroughly.
- 4. To cook the fish cakes, heat 2 tablespoons of groundnut oil in a frying pan and, when it's very hot and beginning to shimmer, fry the cakes for about 1 minute on each side, then drain on crumpled kitchen paper.
- 5. Garnish with sprigs of coriander and serve with the cucumber dipping sauce.
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To provide collaborative, professional mental health, education and consultation services. To develop compassionate and ethical relationships with individuals and families in order to promote emotional wellness and preferred relationships.
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This week, Secondhand Sunday is all about family.
I have seriously the most fantastic family ever. For the past three years, my cousin in California has been setting aside hand me down clothing from her boys for Little Man. Whenever my aunt flies out to visit her daughter and family, she picks up the clothing from my cousin, packs in into her suitcase {or brings an extra suitcase for it}, and flies it all the way home - at which point she brings it to us.
And each time, whether it's one item or forty, we appreciate the heck out of it.
Because of the fantastically loving generosity and work of my family, I can count on one hand the number of times I've shopped for Little Man in his life. Between breastfeeding, cloth diapering, and the fantastic hand-me-down's we've been given, Little Man has been nowhere near the crazy expensive baby everyone told us to expect for our first. I cannot even fathom the amount of money we would have likely spent if we'd purchased all of this new.
From when Little Man was born until now, we've been given loads and loads of clothing, probably too much to even count at this point, and we're forever thankful!
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About: Northwick Park Hospital Northwick Park Hospital Harrow HA1 3UJ
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No one to help me breast feed my baby. The staff is like it doesn't exist. We feel like we don't exist for them. I should be happy for having my baby but with their behaviour you can't enjoy it!! I am up to become mad!!! Grrrr never recommand this hospital to give birth
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Any pledge over $50 gets in on the beta - a standard affair these days. The team also plan to support the Oculus Rift VR headgear to hopefully get us scared of our own creations.
They've also opened up PayPal for direct donations accessible through the official Theme Park Studio website. The Kickstarter has over 60 hours left.
"Everyone on the Theme Park Studio team would like to express our deep gratitude and appreciation for all your support," posted the Pantera team in their latest update. So far over 1,500 backers have pledged just over $84k. Check out the Kickstarter campaign for more details on Theme Park Studio.
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2. After paying school fees at the banks, students will be issued a print-out by the banks (Etranzact Print-out).
3. Students should then proceed to the College Portal (www.alvanportal.edu.ng/eduportal) where they are to login and verify their school fees using the Etranzact Confirmation ID Number.
For new students and returning students alike, registration on the College portal is mandatory.
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Waking up every day hale and hearty is indeed a gift from God. Ifeanyi Dike is grateful for this after surviving a kidney related ailment that almost claimed his life. He is indeed one of the lucky few.
ENCOMIUM Weekly had a chat with him about his state of health now, AGN crisis and much more…
How will you describe your state of health now?
I am okay, I am super. God is in control. The most important thing is obeying rules.
Do you take any special diet or exercise now?
Yes, I am on a special diet. I don't eat anything too salty. I avoid cholesterol. I try as much as possible to stay away from dusty environment. I wash my hands every moment. I don't take alcohol, I don't smoke, I don't party. I don't go for all night event. I have a lot of do's and don't's but, I am used to them. The things that affect us in what we eat. I read a lot on healthy behaviours and try to stick to them. I don't eat anything starchy, I eat unripe plantain ,I don't take banana, I eat chicken but I don't eat the skin, I don't eat the skin of any animal. I eat vegetables. We were advised to be creative in the way we make our food, so, my wife has a special way of making them. I don't take palm oil, I don't take nuts. That is it.
Do you still go for routine checkups?
I normally go for check-ups. Like the last time I went, the doctors were amazed. Everything was working well for me, I thank God for it. I am really working hard, I keep my mind off the stress and thought of sickness, I stick to what doctors say. Once you are sick, if you want to overcome the sickness, make sure you are busy. Your thinking must be 50 percent positive, don't allow the sickness to defeat you psychologically.
Don't live in pity, saying why me, don't listen to what people say, some don't have anything positive to say. My wife has been all by me, apart from God, it is her. She made sure I don't listen to a lot of things. The only time a man or woman can know he or she is married is when the person is sick.
Do you still assist those with the same health related challenge seek medical assistance?
I don't do that anymore. I was able to help some people though. No matter the type of help you give, some people will think you are making money from it. I advise them, tell them where to check and that is all.
What is your advice to actors, most especially on their lifestyles and health?
Lifestyle is a very important aspect. You don't have to smoke or drink to be a good actor. You don't have to take a lot of pain killers or sleeping pills.
Nigerian actors don't have time to rest or take care of themselves. It is usually from one location to another. They don't check what they eat or drink, they live a carefree life.
Popularity makes some actors ashamed to come out when they are sick. They should live their lives, if you don't have a car, don't kill yourself. Live your life. Actors should do other things to survive. There are a lot of things that can give them money, some have good voices, they can sing. I know an actor who also has an engineering workshop too. They shouldn't live above their means. Some struggle to appear on the red carpet, don't emulate people who have made it, live your own life.
I will also advise the younger ones to respect the elders. If you are making waves now, it does not mean they didn't make waves years back. It is only a matter of time before you will also become old and be in their shoes. They should not embarrass the insurance scheme put in place by Ibinabo. I am sure none of them has called her since that court case began. It is only when they are sick that they will remember her.
What is happening to AGN?
AGN is still there. There has been a lot of crises. There is an appeal on the court case now. We are waiting for the ruling from the Court of Appeal. The reason it look as if AGN is not working is because, Diamond Bank is holding AGN's account. There is no board of trustee, if anybody goes to court and says that he is fighting the board of trustees, the person is deceiving himself. The board of trustees will be elected after the court ruling.
A lot can be done but actors are arrogant. Before the court case, Ibinabo carried everybody along. Some people were jealous, they thought it was easy to carry people along like that. Ibinabo has put a lot of good platforms on ground. Everybody should know that irrespective of the person that emerges the president, the person needs our support to succeed. We want anybody that has a court case to withdraw it. We will call a stakeholdesr conference, everybody will sit on a round table and discuss the way forward. We want everybody to be carried along. For those who have been in the industry and have not acted for long, we will organise seminars for them to brush up. I know that many people will not turn up but, we will do our best. And there will be stringent measures before people can become members of the association.


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Unanswered: Sybase Open Client missing inserts
Hi guys - hope you can help with this.
I'm writing a Windows C++ app that needs to insert up to several thousand inserts/second into a Sybase 12.5 DB running on SOLARIS.
So, in simple terms, my code does something like this:
ct_command ("begin transaction")
ct_command (big string with multiple inserts statements)
ct_command ("commit transaction")
If, for example, I run my app with parameters of:
updates/second: 1000
max batch size: 50
then it will send 20 batches of 50 (50 inserts within the "big string" mentioned above) split out equally over the second.
This all works fine and I can get up to about 2000 inserts/second (response time for one batch of 50 is about 25ms). Happy days.
If, however, I up the batch size to 100 (so "big string" with 100 insert statements) then something funny happens. I use a library that is a wrapper around the sybase api (ctlib) so this handles all errors/exceptions etc. This library returns no errors but when I do a select count(*) from the db I get missed rows. So in the example above if I ran for 10 seconds then queried the db I would get 10000 rows. But, if I upped the max batch size to 100, then ran for 10 seconds I would get say 7000 rows. It's like the max batch size is around 70 but I get no errors and the transaction is committed ok.
Since I use this wrapper library (which is well established) I am not that familiar with the open client api. I tried switching on ct_debug with CS_DBG_ERROR but saw nothing and then with CS_DBG_ALL and saw too much.
I am not too sure what to do next. I have spoke to our DBAs and they insist it is an issue with my app (and they are probably correct) but is there anyway to prove this (for example, is there a way to log all the sql that is sent to the server in open client).
Thanks - hope this makes sense.