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On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Kilian CAVALOTTI wrote: > Hi John, > > On Tuesday 03 February 2009 18:25:04 John Hearns wrote: >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/03/llnl_buys_ibm_supers/ >> >> I make this 400 cores per 1U rack unit. How is the counting being done >> here? > > Even for the intermediate "development" system, Dawn, the article quotes > 150,000 cores in 36 racks. Which makes about 100 cores in a 1U space. That's a > hell of a density... Wow in spades. If the cores drew only 2W each, that would be a "normal" amount of heat for 1U and adds up to being ballpark 10KW per rack. If they draw 5W each, that's between 550W and 750W (the latter if there is a power supply in there with them, although I'm guessing that they'll provide power through rails and not via onboard power supplies at that density). 750W makes each rack burn something like 30 KW. And 5W is not a lot to drive a high-clock core and memory. One wonders how they are acheiving/planning to achieve it. Clock throttling? six to eight 16 core CPUs? An array of 800 MHz PDA CPUs? Some combination of the above? Something else entirely? I haven't looked into the power requirements of cores beyond dual and quad, but just running the bus and attached memory seems like it would make such a system hot, hot, hot. Or use slow, slow, slow processors (but a lot of them). The latter isn't a crazy idea, depending on the kind of task this faster-that-fastest system is supposed to be faster on. Some sort of massively SIMD decomposable problem with minimal nonlocal IPCs where the per-processor tasks are modest and nearly independent would get the near-linear scaling required to use up 1.6 million cores, and it would explain the 1 MB of memory per core. Consider each node as representing (say) 10,000 neurons and you've got a 16 billion neuron neural net with some sort of semilocal topology. Not bad, actually. rgb > >> This article says 4096 cores per rack: >> http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibms-sequoia-20x-faster-than-the-worlds- >> fastest-supercomputer/ That seems more rational - 93 racks adds up to 380928 >> cores > > An even weirdest number around this system is the amount of memory listed. > 1.6TB of main memory for 1.6 million cores, that's a mere 1 MB per core... I > hope it's a P, not a T. > > Cheers, > -- > Kilian > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu
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By Tom Orsborn : December 24, 2012 : Updated: December 24, 2012 9:23pm
IRVING — In May, Dallas Cowboys coach Jason Garrett stood before his team on the first day of offseason practices and gave it something magnificent to visualize.
"I said, 'Picture yourself holding the Super Bowl trophy over your head. Put that in the forefront of your mind. Really feel that, feel that experience, where we all want to go,'" Garrett recalled Monday.
The Cowboys (8-7) believe they can still get there, but first they must beat red-hot Washington (9-6). The winner of Sunday night's game at FedEx Field claims the NFC East and will be the fourth seed in the playoffs.
Dallas can't make the playoffs without winning the division, something it last did in 2009. If the Redskins lose, they can still qualify as a wild card if Chicago and Minnesota also lose.
"We are excited about it," said Garrett, whose team had its three-game winning streak snapped by a 34-31 overtime loss to New Orleans on Sunday. The Redskins have won six in a row. "You live for games like this. We have worked very hard to get to this point, and it will be a great challenge for us going up to Washington."
Garrett made similar comments last season before the Cowboys' winner-take-all finale against another division rival, the New York Giants. But three weeks after losing to the Giants by three points at Cowboys Stadium, Dallas got clobbered by 17 at the Meadowlands to miss the playoffs for the second year in a row.
This is the fourth time in five seasons the Cowboys have faced a division rival in a finale with playoff implications.
With a wild-card berth at stake in 2008, Philadelphia crushed Dallas 44-6. In 2009, the teams met again with the division title on the line, and the Cowboys romped 24-0. In 2010, Dallas was eliminated from playoff contention well before the finale.
Garrett said the Cowboys should benefit from playing in so many pressure-packed, late-season games.
"Experience can be a really positive thing," he said, "and it doesn't always have to be a good experience. Sometimes it can be a bad one. When you didn't get the job done, hopefully you can learn from what happened."
The same applies to Dallas' first meeting with Washington. On Thanksgiving Day, rookie Robert Griffin III threw three of his four touchdown passes in the second quarter to give the Redskins a 28-3 halftime lead en route to a 38-31 win.
"He's very good, and they're a very good offense," Garrett said. "They have a lot of good weapons. They have good receivers. And they use those guys really well.
"It'll be a great challenge for us. We were challenged on Thanksgiving. They did a really good job. Hopefully, we can learn from that experience and corral those guys and slow them down a little bit."
That could be a tall order for an injury-decimated defense that got carved up by the Saints' Drew Brees to the tune of 446 passing yards and three TDs without a turnover. Dallas also failed to register a sack for the first time this season.
"Well, we just have to battle," Garrett said. "And, again, we don't talk about injuries around here. We talk about injuries providing opportunities."
Still, the Cowboys would much rather have outside linebacker DeMarcus Ware chasing Griffin than backup Victor Butler, who had to play most of the fourth quarter and OT on Sunday after Ware suffered a strained right shoulder late in the third quarter.
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-- -- some questions and comments we're gonna be joined by Fox News contributor Cal Thomas talking about.
The media coverage.
Of the Catholic Church the Catholic Church obviously has been in the media spotlight most recently.
For the unexpected resignation of Pope Benedict and Cal Thomas joins us on Skype that's why he looks like he's in -- I believe Jonathan Hunt refers that refers to it is your.
Bunker yes she does John nice to be -- do you like I'm pretty -- working person -- a great job.
I really appreciate the feeling is mutual title in reporting on the Catholic Church.
Do you think the media get it right or is there an inherent.
Well sometimes sometimes they get it right I think they were they don't get a splendid job on uncovering.
These -- -- -- file priest.
And the enormous cover up clothing has gone on that for years and a lot of other scandals within the Catholic Church that the leadership hierarchy.
Wouldn't want to address or I was covered up at higher levels I think the Boston Globe the Los Angeles Times with cardinal Mahony out their holes -- Number other publications -- done an excellent job and they are to be praised and they have also encouraged a lot of these now adults people who were abused as children who come forward and I think that has been.
Essentially -- important in marriage healing process and seeking justice from.
Any -- church that doesn't from which they shouldn't expect to better treatment the other side of that coin however is this and that many in the secular media look for any opportunity they Chan.
To beat up on the Catholic church and its traditions are not a Catholic but I I think that to have this sort of -- betrays -- -- -- has -- -- and I think -- that represented in their constant calls we're seeing that even now.
As the Irish Catholic conclave of cardinals history to -- general next -- to select a new -- Calling for a modern -- By which they mean someone who'll be more tolerant toward abortion.
Unmarried priests.
Contraception and all of the -- same sex marriage which of the top four issues from the secular press.
I always like when John I -- sober and it -- columnist for many years at about.
His calvary church he said I'd rather -- church that is 500 years behind the times and so blindly in -- to change.
I would do it church that -- five minutes while -- at times huffing and puffing to catch up -- -- -- And retaliate if indeed is sort of touched on when you referred to them as the secular.
Media when it comes to bias in reporting on religion do you think it's because media.
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Reporters secular journalists or is there.
And inherent bias.
Against a particular denomination in this case catholicism.
You know I think it's it's it's broader than that I mean you take a look at the so called religious right agrees since and I'm not 1979 -- through the eighties.
You heard respected journalist supposedly like -- lawyers are saying don't part of these people come out aren't they had no reference what it.
Out of place -- -- like left.
And the religious I felt they had no idea who they work and most of them don't get the terminology right they they don't know the difference between born again and born yesterday.
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I remember Peter Jennings hiring the only at the time full time religion reporter on ABC I have to about a wants.
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I think the media largely embarrassed by this but at a time and the rise of fundamentalist Islam and all that's going on the Catholic church and many other religions in the world.
Not to understand.
This sacred texts these states.
Is to do a poor job of reporting and communicating.
What the American people need to understand better.
And they tell talking about other religions you touched on -- -- do you think the media do a better job covering.
Non Christian religions is there an anti Christian bias or did the media just get religion wrong and in general.
-- I think -- in general in large part Jonathan but -- but I think that you know you mentioned again Islam.
I think -- a lot of the media are scared that to do this sort of thing for example Saturday Night Live just had this.
Split about Jesus that was it not blasphemy -- Certainly offensive to a lot of practicing Christians but they won't be forced to.
Pay a price -- meanwhile the book of Mormon continues to pack them in on Broadway musical.
Which uses all kinds of the stereotypes and disparaging language.
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They they fear they feel radical Islam.
They feel less evangelical and and Catholic Christians and and to a certain extent.
Are Jewish friends they allow a lot of the smears of the Jewish lobby in the protocols of Zion and some of this other hatred go forth from.
Islam without requiring any thing out of them but they are they are less.
Certain Christian denominations and saying it's.
From Atlanta to the bunker happy President's Day Cal Thomas but I got -- -- about it.
But definitely.
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Jun Ichikawa Movies
Jun Ichikawa
retains a status as one of the more important and interesting Japanese filmmakers to surface during the late 20th century, emerging as he did in the wake of
. Intriguingly, unlike the said directors,
approached cinema by treading down an explicitly commercial career path; he established himself in the 1970s as one of the top-ranked directors of television advertisements in Japan, which helped him develop a facility for conveying short narratives (and ideas) in short time spans, and thus neatly paved the way for narrative features. He entered that realm in 1987, first with the acclaimed teen-oriented drama
, then with a series of highly regarded dramas that tagged him with a recurrent signature style and thematic emphasis: innately low-key, understated examinations of daily life, in the vein of
Eric Rohmer
openly acknowledged his debt to these giants; other influences whom he cited ranged from
Takeshi "Beat" Kitano
Violent Cop
) to
Mike Leigh
) to
François Truffaut
The Man Who Loved Women
earned particularly sweeping acclaim for three efforts: the gentle, observant domestic drama
Tokyo Siblings
(1995); the middle-aged relationship chronicle
Tokyo Lullaby
(1997) (both of the said films explicitly demonstrating
-esque qualities); and the 2004
Tony Takitani
, adapted from a story by the stylistically similar
Haruki Murakami
swept up numerous honors, including the Special Jury and FIPRESCI Prizes at the Locarno Film Festival. On a tragic note,
suddenly died at age 59 in autumn 2008 while wrapping up work on his feature
Buy a Suit
. The cause of death was undisclosed. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
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A Tale of Osaka
With an eye to Yasujiro Ozu's masterpiece Tokyo Story (1953), director Jun Ichikawa creates this drama about a dysfunctional family. Fourteen-year-old Shimotsuki, like most Japanese students her age, is struggling through studying for high school entrance exams -- until her world is shattered when her parents, who try to maintain a living as the failing comedy duo Harumi and Ryusuke, suddenly divorce after her father has a child by another woman. For a while, her parents still try to maintain the comedy until her deadbeat father disappears, devastating her mother. Shimotsuki decides that enough is enough and goes to look for Dad. Ichikawa is interested not only in creating a compelling narrative but also in bringing out Osaka's unique culture. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
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Kenji Sawada
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Mugido (Yasuko Tomita) is an 18-year-old country girl who comes to Tokyo to live with her aunt and train as a geisha. She divides her time between training in the ancient art of song and dance and her high-school academics, and her superficial classmates are a sharp contrast to the rigid training she receives to become a geisha. The continuing encroachment of Western cultural influences on Japan is also a theme in this story of a young woman alienated from both of the worlds in which she lives. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
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Michiyo Okusa
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Byoin De Shinuto Iukoto
Noted filmmaker Jun Ichikawa directs this elegiac semi-documentary look at cancer and death. The film focuses on five terminal cancer patients, all of whom are being treated in the same hospital by the same doctor (Ittoku Kishibe). Filmed with a fractured, episodic structure,
quietly depicts the movie's characters as they try to make sense of their waning existences. At one point an elderly couple, both dying from cancer, see each other for the last time. In another, a middle-aged salaryman demands that his doctor tell him honestly whether or not he has cancer. True to common practice, the doctor prefers to keep his patient in the dark about his condition. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
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Cantando Dietro I Paraventi
Directed by veteran helmer Ermanno Olmi, this Chinese folktale revolves around a young man (Davide Dragonetti) who mistakenly enters a brothel while trying to find his way through urban China circa the 1930s. Narrated by Bud Spencer, the young man succumbs to temptation, and the dialogue-free scene is performed through dance. Meanwhile, pirate junks begin firing at one another from a shoreside village. The leader, Admiral Ching (Makoto Kobayashi), is backed by a powerful group of profiteers, thus prompting the emperor to offer him a high ranking position if he stops firing. Unwilling to lose their income, Ching's backers murder the pirate, which sets off a strange sequence of events that will resound throughout the community for years to come. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi
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Former TV commercial director Jun Ichikawa helmed this low-key comedy about a middle-aged hipster confronting his past. A 40-ish hair stylist (Masahi Tashiro) receives a phone call from his long-lost 14-year-old daughter who, after passing her high school exams, wants to meet her errant dad. The hairdresser is more than a little ambivalent about the meeting; living in a nice condo with a slinky younger woman (Kaho Minami), and spending his time betting at the horse tracks or hitting on other slinky young women at bars, he is enjoying his life. Though he plans the meeting with the utmost care, the reunion starts awkwardly. Yet while talking over their French dinners, father and daughter evidently find some common ground. This film was shown as a double-bill with Kichitaro Negishi's Chibusa. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
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Directors Toshio Terada, Jun Ichikawa, and Kaori Momoi spin this omnibus film about that cornerstone of Japanese society -- the goaisatsu. Long, stilted, and often painfully maudlin speeches delivered in the floral style of formal Japanese, the goaisatsu graces such public events as wedding receptions, going-away parties, and high school reunions. The first section, directed by Terada and entitled "Iroiro Arimashite," opens at a going-away party for a young worker who has decided to leave her job to marry. During her speech, she makes the off-handed remark that "various things have happened" ("
iroiro arimashite
"). This aside sends the upper management into a fit of anxiety -- what did she mean? Was she sexually harassed? Was she harboring some awful company secret? They assign her former boss (Keizo Kanie) to get to the bottom of the matter. His investigation lands him in the heart of workplace darkness where office intrigue, petty rivalries, and half-hidden desires are the norm. As he sinks deeper into this corporate quagmire of the soul, his wife complains of neglect and his bosses grow impatient for a report. The second segment, helmed by Ichikawa and titled "Kayo," tells of a lonely middle-aged woman (Mamako Yoneyama) who works at a train station newspaper stand. She wakes at the crack of dawn in her dingy claustrophobic apartment, works long tedious hours making change and stocking her wares, and then returns home by train. When she attends the wedding of her co-worker, she makes a quiet though moving goaisatsu. The final segment, directed by and starring Kaori Momoi, is about a thirtyish unmarried woman who makes a drunken, though heartfelt speech at her high school reunion. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
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No Life King
In this movie, several "urban legends" evolve before the viewer's eyes. As the film opens, a group of boys have waited in line for hours to acquire the latest version of a video game. When a rumor goes around school that the game, "The Legend of Life King IV," is cursed, and that those who fail to finish it will die, the boys take it seriously. When their school principal dies while delivering a diatribe against video games, this confirms the curse in their eyes. Meanwhile, one of the boys' mothers comes to believe that cakes purchased at a certain bakery are poisoned in some fashion because the site of the bakery was formerly a graveyard. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
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Tadon to Chikuwa
Jun Ichikawa -- who directed such restrained Ozu-esque family dramas as Tokyo Kyodai and Tokyo Yakyoku -- completely departs from his humanistic mode of storytelling to direct this taunt psychological omnibus thriller about two working stiffs at the end of their rope. The first section focuses on a high-strung cabby named Kita (Koji Yakusho), who, after zipping around Tokyo for a number of years, is not sure if he is driving down the street or the streets are driving past him. He picks up Anzai (Jimpachi Nezu), who is eagerly anticipating a rendezvous with his mistress in a hotel across town. Kita asks Anzai what he does for a living and Anzai responses with the joke that he makes charcoal balls (tadon) for living. One thing leads to another, and soon Kita, in a sudden violent outburst, forces Anzai to fashion tadon out of mud by the side of the road. The second section focuses on Asami (Hiroyuki Sanada), a hack novelist suffering from writer's block. After spending too much time in his studio stewing over his inadequences, he ventures to a nearby oden stand and orders some chikuwa (a hot dog shaped morsel made of fish paste). The snickering man behind the counter tells him that they are out of normal chikuwa, but they have some special chikuwa he can try. The writer agrees and then walks to a nearby restaurant run by a fan of the author Tomoro Taguchi, though he discovers that the establishment is filled with the sour and snide faces of his critics. He beats a path to the restroom only to find that his chikuwa is absent. The author promptly goes crazy on one and all at the restaurant. This film was based on a pair of short stories by Makoto Shiina. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
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The Tokyo Siblings
Jun Ichikawa spins this family drama reminiscent of the works of Yasujiro Ozu. The film centers on a brother and sister who live in their family's traditional Japanese house long after both of their parents have died. Kenichi (Naoto Ogata), who is in his twenties, works in a used bookstore while his sister, Yoko (Urara Awata), who has just finished up high school, dutifully takes care of the house. Since his parents are dead, Kenichi is serious about looking after his underaged sister. He even spurns his girlfriend -- another clerk at the same bookstore -- because she wants to get married before Yoko comes of age. On Yoko's end, she longs to break out and be free. One day, she brings home a bumptious freelance photographer (Toru Tezuka) whose crude ways do not impress the conservative Kenichi. In spite of this -- of perhaps because of this -- Yoko beds him and soon is spending more and more time with the lad. With his orderly life coming apart at the seams, will Kenichi be able to get his sister back? ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
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Tokiwaso no Seishun
Veteran filmmaker Jun Ichikawa spins this historical drama based on the legendary Tokiwas collective of manga artists during the 1950s. All living in the same rooming house, the group's spiritual leader was Osamu Tezuka, the creator of the modern Japanese comic with such pioneering works as Jungle Taitei. Tokiwaso no Seishun opens after Osamu left for bigger and better things, when Hiro Terada (played by Masatoshi Motoki) becomes the de facto leader. Other cartoonists living at the house include Hiroshi Fujimoto and Motoo Abiko (who collaborated under the pen name Funio Fujiko to make some of the most popular manga in Japan), as well as Shotaro Ishinomori and Funio Akatsuka. Terada occasionally tries to enliven their monastic life -- revolving entirely around drawing and selling manga -- by staging the occasional baseball or sumo game. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
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Tokyo Marigold
Recalling both Yasujiro Ozu and Eric Rohmer, Jun Ichikawa directs this quiet, understated tale about one woman's attempts at braving the rapids of romance. Following a breakup with her boyfriend, Eriko (Rena Tanaka) feels like her life is adrift. In the film's outset, Eriko is meandering from one trendy corner or Tokyo to another with little ability to connect with her surroundings. In spite of her new job at a foreign car dealership or conversations with her vivacious mother (Kirin Kiki) -- who not only sculpts but makes a killer bowl of noodles -- Eriko can't escape the feeling of a yawning gap in her life. Then one day, she meets a rumpled salaryman named Tamura (Yukiyoshi Ozawa) and she's hooked. Yet when they go out later on a date, he tells her that his longtime girlfriend is studying in the States. In spite of this, their mutual attraction remains and soon Eriko makes a rash offer to Tamura -- that he move in with her until his girlfriend returns. He agrees and for a while Eriko is utterly happy. But when some of the charm of this would-be Mr. Right wears off, Eriko seems him in a much more negative light. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
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Tokyo Yakyoku
Following up on his 1995 Ozu-like work Tokyo Kyodai with this restrained look at lost love, Ichikawa centers his film on Hamanaka (Kyozo Nagatsuka), a middle-aged native of Tokyo's old shitamachi district who returns to his job and his wife after years of meandering about the country. Soon he is establishing a rapprochement with his jilted wife (Mitsuko Baisho) and revamps his father's dusty appliance store into a shop that specializes in computer games. In spite of righting the wrongs in his life, Hamanaka is still unhappy. In what has become neighbor lore, Hamanaka was, in his youth, desperately in love with Tami (Kaori Momoi) who managed the coffee shop across the street from his store. When she dumped him for another man, Hamanaka tried to soldier on and have a normal adult life, which included marrying his current wife. Evidentially the strain proved so much that he bolted for the hills. Years later, Tami is still at the same coffee shop and Hamanaka is, in spite of himself, still in love with her. To make matters even more painful, she seems to still hold feelings for him. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
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A man who has lived a life of emotional isolation discovers the dark side of falling in love in this drama from Japanese filmmaker Jun Ichikawa. Tony Takitani (Issey Ogata) is the son of a Japanese musician with a passion for jazz who spent most of World War II in Shanghai, and was later sentenced to a stretch in prison following the war. Tony was named in honor of an American serviceman who befriended his father, but his name also earned him the suspicion of his classmates, and he had few close friends as a child, a situation aggravated by the death of his mother. While Tony displayed great technical skill as an artist, his work lacked feeling, and he ended up pursuing a successful career as a technical illustrator. One day, Tony meets Eiko Konuma (Rie Miyazawa), a beautiful woman working with one of his clients, and he is immediately entranced. Feeling as if he's found his soul mate, Tony becomes fully inspired for the first time in his life, and soon asks Eiko for her hand in marriage. Eiko accepts, but before long Tony discovers she has a financially ruinous fondness for expensive designer clothes. When Tony asks Eiko to cut back on her shopping sprees, it triggers a series of events which show Eiko isn't all Tony imagined her to be, and throws his new satisfaction with life into turmoil. Tony Takitani received its North American premiere at the 2004 Vancouver Film Festival, and was also screened as part of the World Cinema series at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Veteran director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with small theater companies and smoky coffeehouses. The film centers on Yuki (Tomoko Kitagawa), a college-aged waitress at a hip café located near the train station. The establishment is run by Kyushirio (Yoshio Harada), who in his free time directs
(sword fighting) plays with his small acting troupe. The place is owned by Yoko (Lily), a longtime local who maintains a strictly platonic relationship with Kyushiro -- whether he wants it that way or not. Yuki is at something of an impasse. She feels her life is adrift and she doesn't know what to do with her boyfriend, Tatsuya (Masayoshi Ozawa). Change is in the wind, she feels, but she hasn't a clue what direction this change might go. Tatsuya, on his part, can't hold down a job, preferring to play the bongos instead. While Tatsuya has a fling with the owner of a used-clothing shop, Yuki starts to find her way after talking to her tart-tongued spinster aunt (Ingrid Fujiko Hemming) and after watching Kyushirio's play. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
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More than 8,000 individuals donated their organs upon their death in the U.S. last year. Here surgeons remove the heart, kidneys, pancreas, liver, lungs, eyes and some bones from a woman who has been declared brain-dead.
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It begins with a 3:00 a.m. telephone call. On one end is Terry Bachelder, a closeted teacher. On the other, the suicidal teenage son of the local preacher. When Terry fails to prevent disaster, grief rips the small town of Crystal Falls apart. At the epicenter of the tragedy, seventeen-year-old Jonah Riverside tries to make sense of it all. Finding Daniel's body leaves him struggling to balance his sexual identity with his faith, while his church, led by the Reverend Isaac Thompson, mounts a crusade to destroy Terry, whom Isaac believes corrupted his son and caused the boy to take his own life. Having quietly crushed on his teacher for years, Jonah is determined to clear Terry's name. That quest leads him to Eric Jacobs, Daniel's true secret lover, and to get involved in Eric's plan to shake up their small-minded town. Meanwhile, Rev. Thompson struggles to make peace between his religious convictions and the revelation of his son's homosexuality. If he can't, he leaves the door open for the devil—and for a second tragedy to follow. Winner in the 2013 Rainbow Awards.Fifth (tie): Best Gay Contemporary General Fiction
Sunday, 3:00 a.m.
THE first thing that went through Terry's head when his cell phone buzzed at three in the morning was, Oh God, it's Dad's heart again! But the voice on the other end of the phone wasn't his sister. It was a young man—a teenager, by the sound of it.
"Hey." A quiet cough and then, "Hi. Is… this the gay men's group?"
It was and it wasn't. Terry hadn't given out his personal cell number in connection with the group since he stopped printing up flyers over three years ago. All the "regulars" had it, of course. But they knew better than to give it out. If they wanted to introduce someone new to the group, they'd just bring him.
"How did you get this number?" Terry asked, sounding a bit more curt than he'd intended. But part of him suspected this was a prank.
"I've had it for a while." The voice sounded distant. Not like a bad phone connection, but just… far away. "I guess I shouldn't have called."
Something in the young man's voice disturbed Terry. The kid sounded so… lost.
"No, wait!" he said quickly, before the boy could hang up. "This is the gay men's group. But do you know what time it is?"
"I'm sorry. I don't know what I was thinking. It's just… it's so quiet and cold here. I wanted to hear another voice."
Jack had come out of the bedroom. The moonlight coming through the living room window softly illuminated his beautifully sculpted, naked body as he crossed the floor to Terry's side. "Who is it?" he whispered, concerned. "Is it your dad?"
Terry shook his head. He put his hand over the receiver. "I think it's one of my students."
That wasn't such a far-fetched conclusion to jump to. Terry didn't recognize the voice, but Crystal Falls Regional had fewer than a hundred students, all told. Chances were good that this kid had been in Terry's music classes at least one semester.
He wasn't surprised to see Jack's eyes go wide. Terry wasn't exactly out at the high school where he taught. Gay rights may have come a long way in the past decade, but that didn't mean the school board would look kindly on a gay teacher. Did the kid know who he was talking to? Terry hoped not.
But he was less worried about that right now than the sound of desperation in the boy's voice. "Look, don't worry about it. You needed someone to talk to. I understand."
"No," Jack whispered, and Terry could practically see his lawyer hackles rising. "You tell him to talk to his parents or the school guidance counselor. Then you hang up."
The guidance counselor? The same guy Terry had heard laughing about Eric Jacobs being a "fag"?
"I had sex with another guy. A bunch of times."
"Okay," Terry said carefully, ignoring Jack. "Was it something you both consented to?"
The boy laughed bitterly. "Why would that matter?"
Oh God. Not a rape. Or molestation. Jack was right; Terry wasn't trained to deal with shit like that. "Look, son. Maybe you should—"
"I mean, yeah, we both wanted it, but he's not saved. I'm the one who knows the Bible better than… well, practically anybody. I should have been the one to save him. Instead, I brought him down even more."
Christ. The kid was a Bible-thumper. Terry really wasn't prepared to deal with that. He'd turned his back on religion decades ago. He could barely remember anything he'd read in the Bible, apart from the passages he was always hearing the religious right spout off. And he couldn't claim to know those well, either.
"I'm not really a religious man, myself," he said, floundering. "It's never made sense to me that God would have a problem with two"—he almost said "consenting adults"—"people doing something together they both enjoy, and that really doesn't affect anybody else."
"What are you telling this kid?" Jack hissed at him. "If his parents have told him that homosexuality is wrong, and they find out you're telling him it's okay, that's corrupting a minor!"
Terry waved his hand at him to be quiet. The boy was at some kind of crisis point, and Terry couldn't just turn away.
"It's against the way we were designed. And God hates imperfection. It sickens Him. If Christ hadn't intervened, the Lord would have cast the lot of us into Hell two thousand years ago and started over."
Terry restrained a groan, while Jack paced back and forth behind him, muttering darkly about Maine state law on sex offenders. "Just like he almost did with Noah and the ark, too."
"See, I don't get that. What's so wrong with imperfection?"
"I don't know. I always thought it made people more interesting, myself."
"But it isn't for us to question the Lord."
"Well…." Just keep him talking. Was this kid depressed enough about all of this to do himself harm? Kill himself? Terry desperately wished he had some kind of intervention training. "Look… maybe we could talk better in person. Can you tell me where you are?"
"At the edge of the abyss."
Terry laughed, trying to sound casual. "I know the feeling. Especially since I moved to Crystal Falls." Maybe the boy would feel safer meeting somewhere public, where he could get help if this older man on the phone turned out to be creepy. "Maybe we could meet at the truck stop diner? It's open all night."
"No!" Jack's eyes went wide with alarm. He reached for the phone, but Terry twisted away from him.
"It's too late. I gave up trying to fight it a long time ago—I know I'm not strong enough. But every time I give in, I drift farther away from the Lord. I have to do something to stop that." The boy sounded apologetic. "I really shouldn't have bothered you. I guess I was just being selfish, hoping for a little sympathy."
"I do sympathize! Of course, I do."
A soft laugh. "Thanks. I'll let you go now."
"No, you don't have to hang up!"
Terry made one last desperate attempt. "Can you tell me your name?"
"My name is 'God Is My Judge'."
Then the line went quiet.
Well, that was melodramatic, Terry thought. But his hand was shaking as he stared at the phone. He looked at the display, hoping he could call the number back. It was blocked.
"You don't ever arrange to meet up somewhere with a minor!" Jack snarled at him, snatching the phone out of his hand. "Especially to talk about sex! Do you want to spend the next five years in prison?"
But Terry could barely hear him. All he could think about was that he'd failed. He didn't know what he could have said or done differently, but that didn't matter. Somewhere in town, at this very moment, something terrible might be happening. And he'd just lost any chance he had of preventing it.
Chapter One
Sunday, 6:00 a.m.
JONAH woke to the sound of his mother screaming. He jumped out of bed, grabbed his robe, and nearly collided with his mother's twenty-six-year-old boyfriend in the narrow hall outside his bedroom door.
"Christ!" Bill snarled, though Jonah couldn't tell if it was aimed at him or at his mother. The man rubbed his eyes, growling like a bear awoken from hibernation. "What the fuck is all the racket about?"
Bill was naked, though apparently too groggy to care. He staggered down the hall ahead of Jonah and stopped at the entrance to the kitchen. The boy had to stretch his six-foot-two frame to see over the man's freckled shoulder.
Shirley Riverside was standing against the wall near the fridge, her gaze fixed on the floor, her mouth trying to say something. But no sound was coming out. Jonah had never seen her looking so frightened.
Pressing up against Bill's back (but not too close) he was able to see that his mother had walked through a puddle of something in the early morning half-light. Her bare feet had left a trail of dark prints on the worn linoleum. Her hand was still on the light switch beside her, the one she'd turned on to see what she'd stepped in.
It was blood.
Somehow a large puddle had formed in the center of the floor. Jonah saw something small drop into the pool, causing ripples to spread on its surface. The boy looked up and saw that the blood was seeping through the suspended ceiling, spreading along the seams between the tiles and collecting at the corners to drip down.
"Jesus H. Christ," Bill muttered, and it was an indication of how frightened Shirley was that she didn't rip him a new one for taking the Lord's name in vain. Never mind running around bare-assed in front of her son. "Call 9-1-1," Bill ordered. Then, when she didn't appear to hear him, he added impatiently, "Can you do that?"
Shirley was staring at her bare feet now, as if she wanted nothing more than to get the blood off them, but she nodded mutely.
Jonah had to flatten himself against the wall to let Bill get past him. The man turned on his way to the bedroom and pointed at the boy. "You're going upstairs with me to check it out, soon as I get some pants on."
Jonah didn't see any reason to argue. "Okay."
He was disgusted with himself for letting his eyes linger on Bill's tight ass as the man turned to enter the bedroom. Jesus, forgive me for lusting after my Mom's boyfriend. But Bill wasn't all that much older than Jonah, and hours of putting up sheetrock had made the man lean and muscular.
A few moments later, Shirley was sobbing into the phone as she tried desperately to wipe the soles of her bare feet with a wet paper towel. Her hand was covered in blood.
Bill emerged from the bedroom in ripped jeans, still shirtless and barefoot. Jonah followed him out of the apartment and through the beauty salon his mother owned in the front of the building. Bill grabbed the key ring hanging on a nail just inside the door and stepped outside.
On the side of the building was a staircase leading up to the second floor, made of unfinished wooden boards that the sun and rain had bleached over the years.
The sun wasn't up yet, and the sky was slate gray, the air sharp. Jonah hadn't thought to grab slippers, and the damp, red maple leaves on the steps felt icy cold on the bottom of his feet.
He followed Bill up the stairs and through the locked door at the top. They didn't bother turning on the light switch. The pale light coming in through the dusty windows was enough to see by.
The entire second floor was one large room, and it had been rented from Shirley for the past nine years by the Assembly of Christ church. The décor was Spartan: a beat-up old piano, a folding card table in the back for coffee and cookies, an old bookcase for Bibles and hymnals, and a simple podium at the head of the room where the reverend stood. Behind the podium was a large acrylic painting of Jesus, its edges yellowed and curled up with age. Jonah no longer remembered just how long it had been there, or who painted it. There had been talk of building actual pews, but no one had gotten around to that yet, so most of the space was taken up by the same metal folding chairs that had been there nine years earlier.
But what caught Jonah's attention right now was the young man lying on the bare wooden floor between the chairs and the podium. He was stark naked and lying in a huge pool of blood. Most of the blood was on his crotch and on the floor near his waist, as if he'd cut his wrists while they were in his lap, then lay or fallen back, spreading his arms out as he did to spray the blood in sweeping arcs at his sides. The pattern made by the spray resembled crimson wings, and to Jonah he looked like an angel, fallen to the ground and shattered. He certainly had a face like an angel: sandy-blond curls and delicate features like something carved by Michelangelo.
His name was Daniel. He was the reverend's son and one of the most popular kids in school. Jonah knew him through the school choir but mostly through the church. He couldn't really say they'd been friends, though he'd always thought Daniel was cool and amazingly attractive. That last part was the problem. Whenever he'd looked at Daniel, the stirrings in his groin drove all thoughts of Christian fellowship from his mind. It was bad enough that he was feeling these… urges toward other boys in school. But the reverend's son? That was just sick.
Now, for the first—and last—time, he was seeing Daniel naked. If it hadn't been for all the blood, he would have been beautiful. As it was, Jonah's dick didn't seem to be aware of the fact he was looking at a dead body and it started to stiffen, which disturbed him. He forced himself to look away.
Bill was squatting by the boy's head, bare feet standing directly on some of the bloody marks on the floor, as he pressed his fingers to Daniel's throat. "Pretty sure he's dead."
No shit. Jonah had thought that was obvious. And wasn't there some law about messing with a crime scene? Suicide was still a crime, wasn't it?
It certainly looked like a suicide. The razor lay on the floor right next to Daniel's hip—one of those old-fashioned straight-edge kinds that nobody ever uses anymore. Although Jonah figured somebody had to use them, or they wouldn't still sell them. But what the hell was the pharmacist thinking? Well, would you look at that! I haven't seen a teenager buy one of those blades since Kennedy was assassinated. You want shaving cream with that? No? Well, suit yourself.
Fucking idiot.
He followed Bill back outside and down the steps to find his mother standing at the bottom. She'd thrown her pink winter jacket on over her nightgown and covered her curlers with a scarf. Jonah assumed she'd had time to wash her feet, because she was wearing her slippers now.
"What is it?" she asked anxiously.
"The Thompson kid. Killed himself."
"Oh Lord!"
"The idiot took all his clothes off, then cut his wrists. It's a fuckin' mess up there. Go see for yourself."
"Bill Kendall," Shirley replied sternly, "if that poor boy's dead, I have no intention of going up there to gawk at him! You show some respect."
Bill snorted. "He didn't show me much respect, did he? I'm the one who's gonna have to clean that shit up, sand that mess out of the floorboards, and put up new ceiling tile in the kitchen."
"You stop that kind of talk, right this instant. Somebody's died!"
Surprisingly, Bill did shut up. He even had the good grace to look embarrassed. "You gonna call the boy's father?"
Jonah's mother hesitated before saying, "The sheriff is on the way. I'm sure he'll call the reverend." She shook her head. "The poor man. This is going to destroy him."
Before Jonah realized what was happening, his mother had grabbed his hand and one of Bill's. "Link hands, you two. Let's pray for that poor boy's soul, and for his father."
Bill rolled his eyes but lowered his head. Jonah took the man's callused hand and closed his own eyes as his mother began to pray fervently in the odd, choked voice she reserved for passionate prayer. Jonah tried to put the strength of his own prayer behind it, reaching out desperately to Jesus. But he was having trouble concentrating. He couldn't get the image of Daniel's blood-spattered body out of his mind. That and the fact that his bare feet were freezing to ice on the pavement.
Sunday, 6:30 a.m.
AS usual, Reverend Isaac Thompson was up, showered, and dressed before the first hint of pink crept into the morning sky. He strode past Daniel's closed bedroom door and permitted himself a moment of smug satisfaction that the teenage athlete was still sound asleep while his old man was already preparing for the new day and whatever the Lord had in store for him.
The Lord liked self-discipline, and the reverend's life had been a testament to this ever since he set his foot upon the path of righteousness. He'd built up a small but passionate congregation. Last year, they'd added their voices to the protests against the ludicrous "gay marriage" law forced on the state by a misguided legislature, and God had granted them victory at the polls. That was proof enough that he was right with the Lord. But he was also blessed with good health and, despite thinning hair, the women in his congregation still seemed to think him handsome. More than one had hinted that she was available, should he ever think to remarry.
Most of all, he had a son no father could be more proud of. Daniel was strong and good-looking, and well mannered. The boy was a straight-A student, and last spring he'd won a medal for track. The church choir director said he sang like an angel. All of this was through God's grace, of course, but Isaac couldn't resist giving himself a small pat on the back. He'd raised the boy right, and it showed.
It was while he was drinking his orange juice and going over his notes for this morning's sermon that the phone rang.
This can't be good. Nobody in his congregation ever called him at this hour, unless they were depressed or fighting with their spouse.
"Reverend," Sheriff Taylor said in a gruff voice when Isaac answered the phone, "I, um… I'm afraid I've got some bad news. Some very bad news. It's about Daniel."
I'm sorry, Mr. Thompson, but your wife.... She's been in a car accident.
Isaac pushed aside the sudden chill the sheriff's words evoked in him. This wasn't Beth. The Lord would never do that to him. Not again. Not after how hard Isaac had worked to get his life back in order, to make Jesus the center of his world.
The boy must have gotten into some mischief, that was all. It was a little hard to believe. But Daniel was a teenager, after all. Teenagers sometimes got into trouble, no matter how well they were raised.
Isaac took a deep breath. "What is it, Sheriff? Is he in some kind of trouble?"
"Well…. Dammit—sorry, Reverend—there's just no way to break this well. Daniel's dead."
Looks like she ran a red light and struck another car.
"Daniel hasn't even gotten up yet."
We have reason to believe she was drinking at the time.
"Reverend, I can see him right in front of me."
Isaac was running down the hall toward Daniel's room before he even realized he'd knocked his chair over getting up. He threw open the door while the sheriff droned on inanely on the handset about how sorry he was. The room was cold and empty, the bed not slept in.
It wasn't possible. Not again. Not again.
Somehow Isaac navigated the rest of the conversation—he wasn't sure how—standing in the bedroom doorway, his free hand outstretched and pressing so hard against the door frame that it lost all feeling. Daniel was dead. He was lying naked on the floor of the church, covered in blood from his own wrists. Wrists he'd sliced open with a razor blade. And the Lord had turned His benevolent face away from Isaac Thompson.
As he drove to the church, memories of the death of his wife came flooding back to him, jumbling together with this new horror until he could barely tell them apart. Isaac hadn't been a minister back then. Just one of the faithful whose life was floundering without direction. His wife, Beth, had claimed to love him. But she loved drink more. She spent nearly every night at Kelly's bar with her girlfriends—at least, he'd never heard of her actually cheating—staggering home drunk around two in the morning.
Until the night the police came to his house instead, to inform him that he was now a widower and his five-year-old son motherless. He'd learned a harsh lesson that night. He'd thought he was loving his wife by accepting her as she was, by tolerating her vice. But tolerance was the siren call of the devil. It promised compromise and freedom from conflict. But if you truly loved someone, you couldn't stand idly by while they lost themselves in their sin. Ultimately, it would destroy them.
As the sheriff led him into what had been his sanctuary for the past nine years, Isaac felt as if he were looking into the depths of Hell, standing at the edge of the abyss and gazing down at the broken body of his son. It was a scene of incredible violence, like something from a horror movie—a satanic parody of the Crucifixion, with blood sprayed everywhere and Daniel's genitals displayed for all the world to see.
And that, more than anything else, didn't make sense. Just a few years ago, the boy had come home in a panic because his coach expected him to undress in the locker room in front of other boys. He'd eventually gotten over his shyness. But what would possess him to spread himself out so indecently? Why would he want people to see him like this?
Suddenly the metallic stench of the blood overwhelmed him. Isaac felt his gorge rise and knew that he would defile the church further if he didn't get out now. He ran for the door, shoving Deputy Reed out of the way, and barely made it through before hurling the contents of his stomach over the wooden railing.
Then someone was handing him a paper towel to wipe his mouth, and Shirley Riverside's voice said, "I'm so sorry, Reverend. If there's anything I can do…."
There was nothing. He didn't even want her there, didn't want her to see Daniel looking like that. In truth, though Shirley gave the church a good discount on the space rental and almost never missed a service, the reverend didn't much care for the woman. It was bad enough that her son was the bastard of some nameless trucker. But the boy had grown up watching his mother spread her legs for a never-ending parade of men. She'd batted her eyes at Isaac more than once. Her latest infatuation was scarcely twenty-five, by the look of him.
Isaac could only pray that Jesus would help her eventually give up her licentious ways.
But right now her hand was rubbing his shoulder tenderly, and it was enough to undo him. Though it embarrassed him, Isaac could no longer keep back the tears. He leaned against the wooden railing, sobbing into his hands, crying for the loss of his boy. And crying for the God that had abandoned him.
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