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Review by Kremena Nikolova-Fontaine. Photos courtesy of the museum.
This month I had four exhibitions in mind to potentially write about. The first one I went to see was Musée Islandique by Ólöf Nordal (b.1961) at the National Gallery of Iceland, and I instantly decided that her peculiar works mixing art, science and Icelandic myths is long overdue to be honored with an art review.
If you are not acquainted with the artist's previous works, you might wrongly assume that the exhibition is merely a historical one because two anthropological collections are juxtaposed: French casts of Icelanders from the time of Napoleon, and another collection of countless samples and measurements carried out by the Icelandic researcher Jens Pálsson (1926-2002) to catalogue the physical characteristics of the Icelandic nation.Plaster bust of Bjarni Jónsson, cast by Mr. Stahl from a life model, painted by Mr. Froment, 1855.
To the left of the hall, you will encounter aesthetically pleasing photographs of light close-ups against a dark background of classical female and male busts and plaster casts of body parts (hands, limbs, feet and chests).Front of torso, cast of left arm, cast of left leg of Friðrika Guðmundsdóttir, born in Reykjavík, January 28, 1819.
Except for the only painted bust of Bjarni Jónsson (1809-1869), which rather resembles a living person than a sculpture, I would not have suspected that those individuals, reminiscent of Roman patricians, are representatives of different social classes from Icelandic society in 1856–when a French expedition documented the exotic primitive inhabitants of this peripheral island in the north for the anthropological archive of the Musée de L'Homme in Paris.
The collection of 25 casts was later sold to the Museo Canario in the Canary Islands where the artist found it for her post-modernistic investigation in the hidden closets of history.
To the right of the hall, photographed series of collages from Pálsson's catalogues are displayed: notes, hair-samples, fingerprints, eyes, frontal and profile photographs. There is also a screen-projected TV news clip from 1972, showing the scientist at work.Das Experiment Island IV, photo 90 x 135 cm. 2012.
At a first glance, I appreciated the historical reference, but having seen many dusty sculptures and documentaries, I couldn't care less whether the subjects are Icelanders or non-Icelanders, and if their location is in Paris, the Canary Islands or the National Gallery of Iceland. At second glance, I acknowledged the professional photography, dramatic dignity of the busts and lyrical arrangements of hair locks.Das Experiment Island VIII, photo 35 x 50 cm. 2012.
Knowing Ólöf Nordal's previous artworks, I knew that her conceptual art is neither about artistic "prettiness" nor historical awareness, but everything beyond what the eyes cannot see...Björn Gunnlaugsson, aged 68, teacher, born at Tannastaðir, Iceland.
I remembered encountering her work for the first time at the opening day of the exhibition Iceland Specimen Collection – Razor-billed Auk, Arctic Skua, Puffin, Arctic Tern, Snipe, Guillemot, Great Black-backed Gull, Thrush in 2005 at Gallery i8, and the experience was similar: Icelandic birds photographed in the clouds, so what?
I couldn't figure out at once what is the fuss of the visiting crowd all about, but then I started noticing that the birds are all white, the artificially blissful background of carefree clouds in contrast with the stiff unnatural aerodynamic position of their bodies (they seem to have been forcefully catapulted forward in the same right-to-left direction rather than casually flying), and I knew that there is something fishy.
It turned out, that those birds are albino samples from Iceland's National History Museum, whose rare appearance is a mystery where science and legends meet. Taking their bodies out of the museum back into the world provides a strange landscape of reality and imagination.
I advise you to check the publication of Gallery i8 about Ólöf's series Iceland Specimen Collection which is available in the gift shop of the National Gallery, where you can also find the brochure of the current exhibition Musée Islandique.
The extensive texts of the latter provide an indispensable insight into the complex veils of history where anthropometry, colonialism, the Icelandic sagas and Nazism blend.Musée Islandique by Ólöf Nordal runs until November 4, 2012.
The National Gallery of Iceland is located on Fríkirkjuvegur 7, 101 Reykjavík.Kremena Nikolova-Fontaine – kremenan (at) gmail.com
Kremena Nikolova-Fontaine is a passionate collector of art books, dedicating every spare moment to learn more about art while dreaming about having an exhibition of her own. She studied graphic design at the School of Visual Arts in Akureyri from 1999 to 2002. In college she realized that she didn't want to be a designer or commercial artist but rather an illustrator and writer. At the moment she's experimenting with her first graphic novel.


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Thursday Nov 7th and Thursday Nov 14th
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This is a bit of a rant post so apologises in advance if it annoys you.. Why do people use the word depression so loosely?
I am lucky enough not to suffer from depression but I do know people who do suffer from depression.
It's certainly not a nice thing to have, it's hard to watch people go through this but you need to be there for them and support them through their journey. We need to break the stigma and taboo of talking about mental illness and we need to do it now!
Here is the defintion for anybody who wpuld like to know.
Depression is a mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest. Also called major depressive disorder or clinical depression, it affects how you feel, think and behave and can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems. You may have trouble doing normal day-to-day activities, and sometimes you may feel as if life isn't worth living.
So please do not use the word depressed lightly it certainly isn't a light matter. Let's break the stigma


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I'd like to check my domain controllers (DCs) every day for failed attempts to log on to the DC (failed events in the Logon/Logoff category), failed authentication attempts throughout the domain (event IDs 675 and 681), and account lockouts (event ID 644). The filtering feature of the Event Viewer (eventvwr.exe) lets me display only one event type at a time, and changing the view three times a day becomes onerous. Do you know of a better way?
Yes. The Eventvwr tool lets you create multiple views of each log you open. You can customize the filter criteria for each view, then save your settings in a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) console, which will recreate all the views and filter criteria each time you reopen it.
First, create a new MMC console. Select Console, Add/Remove Snap-in, then click Add to open the Add Standalone Snap-in window. Select Event Viewer from the Available Standalone Snap-ins list, and click Add to open the Select Computer window. Select Another Computer and enter the name of your first DC. Click Finish.
Repeat the process to add additional instances of the Event Viewer snap-in to the console for each of your DCs. Click Close in the Add Standalone Snap-in window, and click OK in the Add/Remove Snap-in window. In the tree pane of the main console window, double-click the first instance of Event Viewer, right-click Security, and select New Log View to create another view of the Security log called Security (2), as Figure 1 shows. Right-click Security (2), select Rename, and enter Failed Kerberos Pre-Authentication. Right-click Failed Kerberos Pre-Authentication, select View\Filter, enter 675 in the Event ID field, and click OK.
Next, create another Security log view called Failed NTLM Authentication and filter it for event ID 681. This time, configure the filter to limit event types to Failure audit, and set Event source to Security and Category to Logon/Logoff, as Figure 2 shows. Create one more view called Account Lockouts and filter it for event ID 644. Repeat the process for the other instances of Event Viewer so that you have the same views for each DC. Finally, click File, Save As and name your new console. By default, MMC saves new consoles to Administrative Tools on the Start menu. Now, you can simply open your console each morning and check the logs without having to change filters.


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Random Thoughts
By Todd Harrison Jan 13, 2004 11:45 am
Damn trendline!
- I'm a late linker--apologies--but this is the column that I was referring to in the last post.
- Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
- Yes, much of the corporate I.O.U's have been rolled out (to later maturities) but no matter how I slice it, I can't put a positive spin on the massive amounts of debt.
- Living la vida Fokker.
- There are two losers for every winner today.
- The S&P is sitting on "a" trendline from the December 10 mini-low (1023ish).
- No disrespect intended...but I'm surprised that Snapper has the most popular garb.
- R-E-S-P-E-C-T, tell me what it means to me.
- I live in the Roach motel.
- "Politics is show business for ugly people" - Paul Begala
- Yes, I'm a name dropper...but if you were in a room with the greatest sport legends of all time, wouldn't you want to tell someone?
- It sure seems like a lot of our all-star guitar signees are on the same page. Gross!
- Elmer hits the tape to tell us that there's nothing to worry about. Whew!
- I'm not certain that we've seen the last of the panicky purchases. The risk to playing that, of course, is that a can of whoop ass can be opened at any time.
- With the semis and software slippy, watch telecom closely. It'll tell us whether the red will spread.
- 4th and 26. Incredible.
- I hear that the Paris Hilton is completely booked.
- If the Dow trades to 12,000 and then to 5,000, who's right--Hoofy or Boo?
- Perhaps this is yet another head fake but, jeez Louise, the home builders have nasty action and fugly charts.
- Europe is trading on either side of the flat line.
- Congrats to Adam "Seymour" Heine (aka Lord Tush) and his wife Deb on the birth of their first child.
- Professor Reamer and his beautiful family are all doing fine. He'll be back in the saddle shortly but, as many Minyans have inquired about Jackson, I wanted to letcha know.
- How can a man who warned of irrational exuberance turn around and encourage another bubble?
- There won't be any market concerns until the third dip doesn't hold.
- There goes that trendline and we're seeing some stops elected. (read: sell orders set to a specific price limit).
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I'm on my way to Antarctica today. No phones, no e-mail, no boss, no children. Yessiree Bob – three weeks of heaven. Play nice while I'm gone.
Month: January 2005
Happiest of New Years
to everyone!! I hope you all had a safe, fun celebration last night. I wanted to take a picture of my mother's kitchen this morning, but she wouldn't let me. Let's just leave you with the image of everyone playing Texas Hold 'Em until 2:00 am and not cleaning up a thing for at least 4 hours before then (which has to be a record for my mother). At least we had a good time!


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Penny Arcade Expo is now in full swing, and Platform Nation was there to bring you live coverage. On day two, Edie Sellers, BDazzler (of Gamers Pub), Cephiros (writer for Platform Nation), InfectedPB503, and X3ro9 (of XBLRadio) made the day special with interviews and impressions of games they'd seen… and those they didn't see. Guests include Hudson Games and Trixie360 of Gamerscore Blog.
Check it out!
Sunday will be your last chance to check out the live feed on Platform Nation's UStream.tv channel and chat live with the hosts as they wrap up this monster game show.
By the way, the recording jumps in about five minutes into the show, as the engineer forgot to start recording at the beginning of the show.


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Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego
January 8, 2007
I visited the Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego. It's a fabulous renovated building open about a year ago. It used to be a factory.http://www.1944.pl
my two photos group. Soon to add more.
"Abus ride or taxi ride to the north, off ul Grzybowska, is the Museum of the Warsaw Rising. This impressive museum commemorates the 1944 Polish revolt against the Nazi occupiers of the city, via exhibits, photographs and audiovisual displays." – Tim Richards of Lonely Planets Travel Guide.
Nowy Rok
January 4, 2007
Happy New Years!
I'm back from travels afar. Time is a funny thing. I'm loopy from Jet Lag.
Airline magazines are inspirational. I read them and day dream of all the times I can have to do the projects. I discover thing which I like and dream of having.
I watched 'The Illusionist' a beautiful film with cleaver plot.
But in reality time is limited.
Sometimes you wake in the odd hours of the night and plan in your head what you want to do the next day. When you wake, you are tired and can't accomplish as much as you want to.
At the Cafe Goethe of Frankfurt airport, a woman sitting next to me is writing in her pocket Moleskine journal. She unwraps the plastic skin away from the notebook and proceed to write immediately, filling up the page with her thought.
September 10, 2003
i got the cd befriended finally
we drink hennessy from the metal tea pot at sam ho.
we are celebrating kelly's birthday.
the crab arrives, and some squash.
tina comes back from the milwaukie farm market with fresh corns, and tomatoes.
at the delecja restaurant in Poznan, Poland, i had a beautiful salad with peeled tomatoes.
it is sunday morning, a beautiful morning, and i'm listening to befriends.
Poznan internet C@fe
February 19, 2003
Poznan internet C@fe
Hi Cindy,
I'm in the big city of Poznan now. Last night I got to my hotel for a bath and a fancy diner which cost about 10$ us. The food is excellent and cheap. I'm at the in the net cafe and I found a laundry service. I'll be walking around old medieval town exploring the city. I do like to study the medieval architecture and towns. This is a lot like the trip I took to Hungary. I'm been doing well and being very safe.
I've been following bib news on TV. I heard about the South Korean subway arson, the blizzard in N.Y.
I think two weeks will be just enough time to explore the city. Last night I was very excited to arrive in the beautiful Old Town. My hotel is walking distance to everything. I will go to a classical concert on Saturday evening. Anyway, glad everyone is doing well. I just saw one Chinese
January 30, 2003
I'm going to Poland in a week. I don't know what to expect.
I read a bit of Czslaw Milosz's 'Begining with My Streets' just to get a flavor. I think that I will bring 'Brothers of Karamazov', and Huck Finn. I took Thomas Mann's "Magic Mountain" to the carribean. I got that book from a Eugene, Smith Family Bookstore. The stick said it was from a Boston bookstore. Then my brother took it to New York. That book has travelled more than I have.
January 1, 2003
We had Scallope soup in a hot pot fondue. The scallopes are huge and thick, the size of a half dollar. I've been holding a book 'Possession' by A.S. Byatt. I read it a little just testing the pages with my toes before I really dip into it. This feeling of departing is arriving…the aftermath of the holiday post funk. My brothers are leaving soon and it's a little sad…but it will be okay. And I am about to leave too.


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The World's End is about 'morality'
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'The World's End' is about addiction and morality according to writer and star Simon Pegg
'The World's End' is about "addiction" and "morality", according to Simon Pegg.
The comedic actor-and-writer's upcoming offering differs from his previous hit films - 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz' - and although the feature will have his iconic "silliness", Simon believes the themes are a lot more serious this time round.
He said: "'Shaun of the Dead' was about being in your late twenties and not getting on with your life. 'Hot Fuzz' was about guys having to become dumber than they really are in order to succeed. This film is about men in their forties. The themes of the movie are about addiction and getting older and morality. They're big themes, just wrapped up in lots of silliness."
The film stars Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine, Eddie Marsan and the actor's good friend and frequent co-star, Nick Frost, but Pegg admits his role is a lot different from the iconic zombie-killer Shaun and super-cop Nicholas Angel.
He added to SFX magazine: "Gary King is a tragic figure in a way. He's deeply flawed and kind of sad in a way, albeit funny. He's like this weird gothic wraith from the past who re-enters these guys' lives.
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Boston – The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) today announced the awarding of seven grants totaling more than $2.2 million as part of the 2016 Industrial Rail Access Program (IRAP).
IRAP is a competitive state-funded public/private partnership program that provides financial assistance to eligible applicants who are prepared to invest in industry-based rail infrastructure access improvement projects.
"Improving access to the Commonwealth's freight rail network is an important step in stimulating economic growth," said Transportation Secretary and CEO Stephanie Pollack. "We look forward to collaborating with the recipients to advance their important projects and ensure that Massachusetts businesses have the tools and resources to grow and thrive."
The seven projects awarded IRAP grants are geographically diverse and are expected to:
- Result in an additional 16,500 carloads carried by freight railroads per year;
- Eliminate 37,000 truck trips annually from Massachusetts roadways;
- Support the creation of 77 new jobs;
- Support the retention of 240 existing jobs.
Created as part of the 2012 Transportation Bond Bill, IRAP provides grants to railroads, rail shippers and municipalities that identify a public benefit gained through improved rail transportation usage or economic growth that would be realized through improved access to rail assets.
The 2016 recipients are as follows:
|Project / Location
|Providence And Worcester Railroad
|Southbridge Street Bridge / Worcester
|The project will increase access to the freight rail system by replacing the weight restricted Southbridge Street Bridge. Replacing this bridge will improve efficiencies and reduce costs for shippers requiring heavy load shipments into P&Ws Worcester and Gardner facilities.
|Parallel Products of New England
|Recycling Center Rail Loading Facility / New Bedford
|The project will support the expansion and relocation of the current operation to a new facility in New Bedford, which will facilitate the hiring of 50 additional employees. The project will improve access to the rail system through the construction of a new siding, and allow the applicant to ship recycled material by rail, thereby increasing rail volumes.
|Excel Recycling, LLC
|Scrap Metal Siding Extension / Freetown
|The project will support the expansion of the current operation by increasing the types of products the rail can handle. The project will allow the business to efficiently ship scrap directly to steel mills by rail. The extension of the existing rail spur will result in increased rail volumes, and allow Excel Recycling to expand the operation and directly hire 2 new employees.
|Pan Am Southern, LLC
|Intermodal Facility Pad Enhancement / Ayer
|The project will improve access to the freight rail system and result in increased volumes. The improvement to the intermodal facility pad will allow Pan Am to handle 29,500 additional containers each year that would otherwise move by truck over the region's roadways.
|Pioneer Valley Railroad /
DCP Mainstream Terminal
|Propane Terminal Siding Installation / Westfield
|The rail spur investment project will increase the ability of DCP to accept additional rail shipments. DCP is currently constrained in the number of railcars it can accept each year due to capacity limitations in the Westfield area. The rehabilitation of the rail spur will support the recent growth in DCP rail shipments, which has increased by 1,300 cars over the past 5 years.
|Essroc Cement Corporation
|Railcar Unloading System / Palmer
|The project will increase the volumes that Essroc Cement can accept by improving the rail spur and associated unloading facility. The existing facility currently limits their ability to handle the current demand and requires them to augment their supply through truck shipments.
|Massachusetts. Central Railroad
|Boxcar capacity / South Barre
|Kanzaki, Ware's largest employer, is limited by the number of paper boxcars it is able to receive, store and switch to remain competitive. The additional boxcars will enable the railroad to provide additional storage capacity and provide on-call deliveries and minimize transportation costs.


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German two-year notes fell to 0%, the lowest read since 2012, as the papers were bid up on speculation the ECB will have to stimulate. The interesting situation here is how possible stimulus will be distributed across the monetary union.
Unlike the US, one country, the European Monetary Union is 18 individual states with substantially different contribution weightings. Part of the Maastricht Treaty stipulates that, if stimulus was to occur, it needs to be on a weighted basis. The issue here is Germany, the largest-weighted nation, does not require stimulus, whereas Portugal does.
This is why Mario Draghi has a very thin line to walk. He's bound by laws that govern the whole zone but really needs to target individual economies. General stimulus could cause inflation issues in Germany, and are likely to not even get close to giving Portugal the assistance it requires.
The June meeting of the ECB did define a form of 'QE' was coming. The question will be how it implements its version. From November onward, the ECB meetings will be keenly watched as more and more information filters through about how the program will operate. Watch this space.
In the US, Jackson Hole saw the dollar moving to an 11-month high and the S&P crossing the 2000 point mark for the first time in its history (intraday move, closed at 1997). The stark talk from Fed chair Janet Yellen, who held to her long-standing narrative around employment, continues to support the long trade.
There was no data overnight that was really going to affect the S&P's move higher. Stimulus talk coming from the EU and Japan will also drive it upward – funds from these regions are likely to flow out of these nations and into the US as it continues on its growth trajectory.
Ahead of the Australian open
The moves in the US and Europe will drive Asia higher today, particularly in the currency markets. The strongest correlation in the market – the inverse relationship between the yen and the Nikkei – will move the Japanese bourse higher this morning.
The more the BoJ and Governor Kuroda alludes to increased stimulus, the further yen will fall and the higher the Nikkei will move. The relationship has a 73% correlation and is likely to drive everything in Japan for the foreseeable future.
Staying on that theme of market drivers, two bottom-up events are likely to fuel the Australian market over the coming weeks: the falling iron ore price and the CBA dividend reinvestment plan.
Iron ore closed below US $90 a tonne for the first time since June. However, unlike in June when China's stimulus packages were kicking in, this time rebar prices and demand are adding to the downward pressure on the price. This will heap enormous pressure on the material space and provide a drag to the ASX's match to 5700 points. On the other side of the ledge, CBA's DRP programme begins today.
History shows that 25% of holders will take up the program over the coming weeks. On that basis, approximately $900,000 of buying support is likely to aid CBA over the coming week and could balance out falls in the material space.
On that basis and the futures market, we're currently calling the ASX 200 up five points to 5640. However, the real moves will come when China opens at 11.15am AEST and it continues to assess demand for steel and industrial metals. If it slides, so will the ASX.


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Good Saturday evening!
Last weekend, I had my Model UN convention. I think I said this, but I represented the Kingdom of Norway on the Committee on Narcotic Drugs. Last year, I was Spain on the Simulation Security Council. I wrote a post with some tips for Model UN delegates then too!
This year was just as amazing, if not more. We had 5 delegates on our team this year. There was only one other person, besides me, who had gone last year which means the other three were kind of lost for the first little bit. But, I have to be honest, I felt way out of my league too! The other delegates just knew so much and knew how to talk and write the position papers and negotiate.
I was able to actually write several clauses in a few papers, which was something I hadn't done last year, so I was proud of that. But if I do it again, I know that I will research my country better. For example…I had been working on this one paper (in support of the decriminalization of certain drugs, mainly for the decriminalization of women and girls who were forced into the drug trade through drug trafficking.) After about five hours of work on it, I was researching Norway's views on a particular law, and realized that Norway wasn't exactly in support of most of the paper…I had just thought that they were. I went with it, and made sure that I got some of our policy in there, but it wasn't a very good feeling! Long story short, I'll do better next time.
Clothes wise… I wore the same thing as last year:)
And we took our "traditional" (if it can be called that after only a few years) picture in front of the water wall.
That one is really blurry though…
So that's it! I have another week of school ahead of me:)


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PSYCHO sequelsPAGE 6
The PSYCHO Sequels
And once again, the house stands empty
The ending still works, but, as Edward Gross, critic for Cinefantastique said, "In Pogue's script there was more to Norman's catharsis as he dueled with Mother, and considerably more terror as he continued to speak in both their voices. As the script concludes and Norman is taken back to the asylum, we're convinced that he has eradicated the madness in his mind and given a victory of sorts the shock ending sends a chill through much of the audience, but it's a cheap shock that essentially negates all that has just occurred."
I agree. I think that the PSYCHO franchise should have ended, quietly, with Pogue's original version. And I would have liked to see the following scene, taken from the original screenplay right after Norman slashes apart Mrs. Spool's corpse:
The shredded, gash ridden-corpse slides down in the rocker, sawdust dripping in puddles all around the chair. Norman stands before this, his final victim, exhausted, spent. He looks contemptuously down on the torn body sprawled in the rocker. The knife falls limply, harmlessly from his fingers at his feet. He sinks wearily to the floor, propping his back against the bed.
Footsteps rapidly stomp upstairs and down the hall. Hunt and his deputies
barge in with drawn guns. No one in the room moves or speaks, bothering
to explain the bizarre scene in front of Hunt's astonished eyes.
He stares at the remains of Emma Spool.
If the scene was ever filmed it will molder in the Universal warehouses rather than end up as an outtake in the bonus features that make DVD so fun. Because unlike the Collector's Edition DVD of PSYCHO (see review in Feo Amante's movie reviews) the sequels will never receive the DVD treatments they so richly deserve. Goodtimes Home Video, of the el cheapo DVDs with lurid cut and paste cases, is currently producing the PSYCHO II and III DVDs. There are no special features, except for a theatrical trailer, and the fact that PSYCHO III is in wide-screen. However, for just viewing the film, they are vastly superior over the old pan and scan VHS versions.
PSYCHO III remains the most tragic, and my favorite, of the series. Norman is consumed with remorse and guilt for his crimes, though he was insane when he killed, and ruminates on his case, "The past is never really past. It stays with me all the time and no matter how hard I try, I can't really escape. It's always there, throbbing inside you, coloring your perceptions of the world and and sometimes controlling them."
I have always thought of PSYCHO III as Norman's film. Critics have waved it off as merely a modern remake of the original, and yes, while elements of the original are repeated, it is justified by the needs of the plot. Norman has certifiably gone off his rocker again and in this film, Anthony Perkins gives fans a chance to see Norman struggling onscreen with his compulsions, and often losing.
PSYCHO III flopped in theatres and the reviews were dismissive of the film, lumping it in with all the other mad slasher movies. Perkins was deeply affected by the box office failure of PSYCHO III, and sadly, never received the recognition and appreciation he deserved.
Caught in a Dream
PSYCHO IV (1992) was based on the idea of a PSYCHO prequel, which would have Norman talking about his childhood with flashbacks showing the genesis of his madness. Unfortunately, instead of a more realistic approach, the movie depicted Norman in a sparkling kitchen, rehabilitated again after all those murders, spilling his guts on a talk radio show about matricide.
I don't know if Joseph Stefano, the man who sometimes freely accepts total credit for Robert Bloch's story, thought up this device but it proves to be a rather flimsy frame to hang the story on.
Threaded through Norman's phoned-in lament are scenes from the past, shot at a duplicate Bates Mansion and motel in Universal Studios, Florida, primarily of his teen years, played by Henry Thomas of E.T. fame. The scenes are at least interesting to look at, as the filmmakers imagined what the motel, house, and interior looked like forty years younger and with a fresh coat of paint.
Director Mick Garris (SLEEPWALKERS, THE FLY II, Masters of Horror: VALERIE ON THE STAIRS) did the best he could with Stefano's material, and Perkins delivered a heartfelt and powerful performance. Because many of the scenes in the movie were simply of Norman standing in a kitchen and talking on the phone, Perkins once again drew on his years of experience in theatre and treated the scenes as though he were on stage. The results are stunning. In spite of the fact that he was sick with AIDS at the time, he carried the movie with a top notch, highly dramatic performance of the long-suffering psychopath.
Although I do not consider PSYCHO IV a worthy entry in the series (it ignores much of the PSYCHO mythology and will confuse viewers of the first 3) and wish that the story could have ended with part III, the film manages to take life as a "what if it were all a dream" scenario, and good for a viewing if only to witness Anthony Perkins playing his Hamlet one last time before he died.
Fortunately, as Robert Bloch once said, Norman Bates will never die.
He lives on, in PSYCHO and its sequels.
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Generally voters in the nation's heartland stuck comfortably with incumbents. But they also produced three of the nation's major US Senate upsets, and Democrats managed a net gain of one Senate seat in the region.
The most stunning upsets, both of GOP incumbents, occurred in Illinois and Iowa, where farmers have been particularly hard-pressed and the nation's economic recovery has been delayed. Bow-tied liberal Rep. Paul Simon (D) beat three-term Sen. Charles Percy (R). Mr. Simon spoke often of Illinois's loss of 26 percent of its manufacturing jobs over the last four years and of the state's high unemployment rate.
In Iowa, populist Rep. Tom Harkin (D) argued similarly that incumbent GOP Sen. Roger Jepsen, a conservative completing his first term, had not been as effective and as a strong a leader for Iowa as he could have been.
Republicans did pick up one unexpected new Senate seat in Kentucky. There, well-financed GOP challenger Mitch McConnell, a county judge from Louisville, struck a responsive chord with many voters in arguing that two-term incumbent Sen. Walter D. Huddleston (D) was too liberal for Kentucky's mainstream voters and had often missed important Washington votes.
But incumbents held their own in the five other Midwest Senate races. Democrats James Exon of Nebraska and Carl Levin of Michigan managed to keep a firm hold on their seats in spite of the Reagan landslide. And Republicans Rudy Boschwitz of Minnesota, Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas, and Larry Pressler of South Dakota all won reelection.


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China's biggest state-owned banks retrenched thousands of staff members as the country's banking industry faced its most challenging year amid a slowdown in the world's second biggest economy. The top four national banks, which reported negative to flat net profit growth for the first half of this year, reported a combined total of 22,260 jobs that have been eliminated, Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported.
The redundancies are a cause of major concern because total staff employed by the banking sector was reached a peak of 1.87 million at the end of 2015. As the economic slowdown continued, China has already announced that its plans to cut over-capacity in the steel and coal production could result in 1.8 million job losses. The 2.3 million strong Chinese military too is set to retrench three lakh personnel by next year.
China's banking industry is one sector bearing the brunt of the country's economic slowdown, which has resulted in profits at major lenders slowing and the bad loan ratio climbing. Unofficial media reports said Chinese banks' profits slid 3.5 percent on the year.
In the first three quarters last year, China's big four state-owned banks all reported profit growth below one percent, according to a report by state-run Xinhua news agency. Many banks have been easing staff under different categories terming retrenchments as human resources reform Bank of China said its headcount at the end of June 2016 has decreased by 6,881 to a total of 303,161 employees, compared to the end of 2015.
Agricultural Bank of China lost 4,023 staff, bringing its total to 499,059 while Industrial and Commercial Bank of China cut back by 7,635 to 458,711. China Construction Bank also shed 6,721 staff to 362,462. The four banks are the nation's biggest banking sector employers. The trend is mirrored in the second-tier joint stock banking sector, the Post report said.
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I suspect the trend among recaps today is going to be to contrast Don and Lane's approach, because Don is (like Joan) a survivor, and obviously, someone who commits suicide by definition can't be.* But as you'll see in the video, Marc and I saw Don and Lane as the characters paralleled to each other, with Sally's journey being the counter-narrative. Don is in love with the drastic solution, destroying everything before to create a blank slate. Well, nothing destroys everything before quite like a suicide. Lane's suicide was the ultimate expression of wiping the slate completely clean, which is why his resignation letter was boilerplate. Don falls in love with the idea of killing yourself symbolically for rebirth—he's killed off Dick Whitman, killed off Don the creative guy who works for someone else, Don the married suburbanite—but as he cuts Lane down from the wall, the possibility that running out of options for surviving a killing off of one's self looms.
One of the most common gripes I see about Mad Men is that it's not critical enough of capitalism. Personally, I've never cared; the ambivalence the show embraces on the subject has always been a strength as far as I'm concerned. It echoes how people actually feel about things like advertising, which is a mix of concern, indifference, and fascination, depending on the moment. But this episode was practically a diatribe about the unsustainability of the grow-at-any-cost mentality that drives capitalism. Capitalism discourages the "rich enough" mentality. That's why Don is outraged at Dow's people saying that 50% of market share was enough. Why not go for 100%? What Don fails to realize as soon as he says this is that once you hit 100%, there's no where else to go. But if your whole model is based on continued growth, hitting 100% might as well be hitting 0%. Don thinks that's sustainable; wipe the slate clean and start over. Lane's death, however, shocks him into thinking perhap he was overconfident about that.
As the episode makes clear, one problem with the always-growing mentality is that it encourages borrowing endlessly against the future. People convince themselves that they don't have to limit the credit extensions, because since all those investments will pay off in the long run, you're just spending money that might as well already be yours. But eventually the whole scam reaches a breaking point. On the individual level, it's like Lane's; he's discovered, and it's all over. On a macro level, you have market bubbles that burst. The latest economic crash is the most blunt demonstration of this. Just as Lane created the illusion of prosperity for the firm by borrowing $50K, banks created the illusion of national prosperity completely on borrowed money that created a real estate bubble. Just like the banks, Lane got a bailout to cover the inevitable hole that's created. I don't think we're meant to see the plugging of that hole as a bad thing in and of itself. The bank bailout kept our economy from a complete crash, and we're meant to assume—with Don's remarks to Megan—that his willingness to write a check to cover up for Lane's discrepancy is helping keep the whole thing afloat as well.
But just because you can create stopgap measures to minimize the fiscal damage of capitalist overreach doesn't mean that everything is hunky-dory. The firm has to deal with Lane's dead body in his office. We have to deal with the high unemployment and teeming numbers of people who've lost their homes in the crisis. Just like a dead body in an office, there's nothing you can do that's going to make that go away. Fresh starts are an illusion.
Menstruation seems like a weird thing to introduce in the midst of all this, but as we say in the video, it's a counterpoint. The cyclical nature of a woman's body is seen as the exact opposite of the voracious capitalist model. We go into it in more detail in the video.
I do have to wonder how much Jaguar is paying for the product placement, since their cars are clearly becoming the symbol of the disposable economics of exponential growth capitalism. They're lemons—we're reminded of this again by Lane's inability to kill himself in one—and they exist to be all flash. The American cars that Don loves so much were still the representation of stability. If you bought a car from an American manufacturer back then, you had reason to believe it would last you decades if you took care of it. (Even when I was in college, there were a lot of people who still had, as their everyday cars, vehicles that were three decades old.)Is it any wonder, then, that Don and Glen's existential anxieties are actually soothed for a moment in an American car? For a moment, the possibility is raised that trying to build something that will last—gasp, a legacy!—might have more value than always looking for the next big payday.
Thoughts? Feelings? I think it was obvious from a couple episodes ago that Lane was going to be the suicide, but do you feel it played out? I thought the strategy of seeing everyone's reactions before we saw the body helped fix some of the anti-climax issues that come with such a heavily foreshadowed death, but YMMV.
*At least when suicide is a literary device. In real life, a suicide attempt can be just a very weak moment for an otherwise survival-oriented purpose, but if they get unlucky, it's the same result as someone who attempts a lot before finally succeeding.


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Jimmy Westlake: Don't miss the double evening star
June 3, 2013
The solar system's two innermost planets, Mercury and Venus, behave differently than the rest of the planets. Instead of being free to wander all the way around the night sky, they are tethered to the sun so that they seem to swing back and forth, from one side of the sun to the other. Consequently, each planet spends a brief time as our "evening star," visible right after sunset, followed by a brief engagement as our "morning star," visible just before sunrise.
The best time to spy each planet is when it is near its greatest angular distance from the sun, an event called greatest elongation. Even at greatest elongation, Mercury never can be seen more than 28 degrees from the sun. That's not much more than the width of your outstretched hand held at arm's length. Venus, because of it's larger orbit, fares a little better — it can reach as much as 48 degrees from the sun.
Dazzling Venus is just coming out from behind the sun, beginning a nice long appearance as our evening star. Each night from now until its greatest elongation on Nov. 1, Venus will climb a bit higher in the sunset glow and become easier to spot.
Mercury has several elongations each year because of its rapid orbital motion. Its best evening elongation of this year happens June 12, when the hot little planet will appear 24 degrees east of the sun and remain visible for 45 minutes after the sun goes down.
What makes this elongation of Mercury even more interesting than most is its position very close to the brighter planet Venus in the sky, creating a marvelous double evening star for two weeks. They will appear closest together on June 19, with Mercury only 2 degrees from Venus, but will remain within 5 degrees of each other for many nights in a row.
Catching a glimpse of this unusual double evening star on June 12 is reason enough to step outside at dusk and gaze westward, but try to catch it two days earlier, just after sunset on June 10. That's the evening that the thin crescent moon joins Mercury and nearby Venus for a striking triple conjunction. Look low in the west-northwest sky at around 9:30 p.m. local time.
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There is a long list of honor killings and religious killings by Western Muslims who, until the crime, appear to be living peacefully and normally among us. We ignore this at our peril. The problem is widespread and growing, as pointed out by a recent report (The Independent).
PS. I am no longer updating this list. There are a series of very good articles by Phyllis Chesler that I recommend:
Hindu vs. Muslim Honor Killings, Phyllis Chesler, Middle East Quarterly, Summer 2012, pp. 43-52.Are Honor Killings Simply Domestic Violence?, Phyllis Chesler, Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2009, pp. 61-9.Worldwide Trends in Honor Killings, Phyllis Chesler, Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2010, pp. 3-11.
A short list follows:
- USA (ongoing) Rifqa Bary who ran away from home after converting to Christianity is fighting not to be returned to her Muslim family in Ohio for fear that her father will kill her as he has promised to do.
- USA, Oct/2009, Arizona: Faleh Hassan Almaleki is being looked by the Arizona police after running down his 20-year-old daughter in a parking lot, Noor Faleh Almaleki . Her crime: she became too 'westernized' and ... not living according to their traditional Iraq values." Noor was taken to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries, police said. Another woman, Amal Edan Khalaf, 43, of Surprise also was struck and is in the hospital with non-life threatening injuries (Yourwestvalley). Noor passed away a few days later.
- USA Jan/01/2008 Irving, TX. A Muslim immigrant shoots his two daughters to death on concerns about their 'Western' lifestyle.
- USA, Sep/2008 - 22-year-old Mohammed Chowdhury of Sterling Heights, Michigan, was charged Tuesday afternoon with his wife's murder. He called 9-1-1 on Monday, saying a group broke into the apartment and killed his wife. Police say the story didn't add up (WJBK).
- USA, September/2009: The mother of Sarah and Amina Said finally described their January 1, 2008, shooting deaths as an "honor killing" carried out by their Muslim father (CBS11TV). The crime happened on New Year's Night 2008 (Human Events).
- USA Jul/06/2008 Jonesboro, GA; 1 killed, 0 injured. A devout Muslim strangles his 25-year-old daughter in an honor killing.
- USA Oct/06/2006: Louisville, KY; 4 killed, 1 injured. In an 'honor' attack, a Muslim man rapes and beats his estranged wife, leaving her for dead, then savagely murders their four children.
- USA, Living in Orchard Park, a suburb south of Buffalo, New York, 37 year-old Aasiya Z. Hassan got an order of protection against her husband after years of violent abuse in February of this year. He beheaded her for his honor. The irony — together they managed Bridges TV, a station whose mission was "to become a unifying force that can help people understand our diverse world through education and entertainment."
- USA, January 2005: an Egyptian family of Coptic Christians living in New Jersey was slaughtered by militant Islamic Americans. Hossam Armanious, his wife Amal Garas and their daughters, MonicaSylvia (15) were brutally murdered for being outspoken critics of Islam. The family was bound and tortured, before their throats were slit in accord with the instructions for executing nonbelievers, as detailed in the Koran.
- USA Apr/15/2004: Scottsville, NY; 1 killed, 2 injured. In an honor killing, a Muslim father kills his wife and attacks his two daughters with a knife and hammer because he feared that they had been sexually molested.
- USA: In August 2003, Saudi student Mohammed Ali Alayed and Morrocan Jewish student Ariel Sellouk were students at Houston Community College in Houston, Texas. One evening after they returned home from socializing together, Alayed slashed his friend's throat, nearly decapitating him. Both young men were 23 years old.
- USA, 1999: Dr. Lubaina Bhatti Ahmed was an accomplished, professional woman, in her late thirties, a wife, and a mother living in St. Clairsville, Ohio. In 1999, after suffering years of terrible beatings by her husband, she left him. He killed her for his honor.
- UK, Dec 2010: A Harry Potter star was beaten, called a "slag" and threatened with death after she met a young man who was not a Muslim. She was assaulted and branded a "prostitute" after meeting a young Hindu man which outraged her father Abul Azad, 53, and brother, Ashraf, 28, Manchester Crown Court heard. She fled through her bedroom window. (WP, Daily Mail)
- UK, Oct/2009: A honour killing case came to Court 10 years later. Tulay Goren, 15, a Kurdish Turk from north London, vanished in 1999 and her body has never been found, but it is assumed to have been an honor killing by her father, after him consulted with his brothers. (BBC)
- UK, July/2009: A Danish-born Muslim man suffered stab wounds, was beaten with bricks, and had acid poured down his throat "for having a relationship with a married woman." (Telegraph; Bare Naked Islam)
- UK, Feb/2009: Police say 17,000 women are victims of honour crimes every year in Britain (Independent).
- UK, Jan/2008: In Sep 2003, Shafilea Ahmed disappeared after a trip to Pakistan during which her parents forced her into an arranged marriage. In an attempt to avoid that she drank bleach. After her return she disappeared. Her disappearance was communicated to the police not by family but by her school one week later. Her decomposed body was found in a river bank 5 months later. "Shafilea was the victim of a very vile murder." (Telegraph). Timeline.
- UK, July/2007: Banaz Mahmod was raped and tortured for two hours before being garotted by an assassin hired by her father and her uncle. She was killed because she had walked out of an unhappy arranged marriage - which she was forced into at just 17 - and fallen in love with an Iranian Kurd (DailyMail). A later investigation ruled that Banaz Mahmod was failed by police when she turned to them for protection. The 20-year-old Muslim begged police for help four times before her brutal murder (Mail Online).
- Canada, July/2009: Muslim parents, along with their son, were charged with premeditated murder after their three teenage daughters and the father's first wife were discovered dead in a submerged car. The girls' Westernization has been suggested as a motive. (The Canadian Press; Bare Naked Islam)
- Canada, September/2009: A judge ordered a Muslim father and son to stand trial next year for the 2007 strangulation murder of sixteen-year-old Aqsa Parvez, who had defied her father's demand that she wear the hijab. The crime happened in Dec/2007 (Bare Naked Islam).
- Germany, August/2009: A Muslim asylum seeker was found guilty of brutally killing his German-born wife because, in the words of the prosecutor, she was "too independent." (Mail Online)
- Italy, September/2009: A Moroccan confessed to stabbing his daughter to death for "dishonoring the family," based on her relationship with a non-Muslim man (Adnkronos).
Elsewhere in Islamdom:
- Turkey, Feb/2011: 19-Year-Old Turkish Girl Stabbed to Death by Family over 'Honor' (Daily News).
- Pakistan, Feb/2011: Woman killed for refusing to divorce husband (Tribune).
- Jordan, Oct/2009: A Jordanian man was charged on Sunday with premeditated murder after allegedly stabbing to death his 22-year-old daughter because she became pregnant outside wedlock, police said. Around 15-20 women are murdered each year in Jordan in the name of honour, despite government efforts to fight such crimes. So far this year, 17 cases have been reported (AFP).


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988 Vaccinium elliottiiCommon Names: mayberry, high bush blueberry Family: Ericaceae (heath Family)
The highbush blueberries of the southeastern U.S. are a confusing lot, exhibiting tremendous morphological diversity. Some authorities recognize as many as a dozen different species, including diploids, tetraploids, hexaploids and all kinds of hybrids. On the other hand, one recent authority is much more conservative, claiming that there is only one extremely variable species of highbush blueberry (V. corymbosum would be the name). An even more recent authority concludes that we should recognize three species: rabbiteye blueberry (V. ashei), the true highbush blueberry (V. corymbosum, and the Mayberry (V. elliottii). Floridata will follow this classification.
Vaccinium elliottii is the most distinctive of the three highbush blueberries. The leaves are much smaller than any of the others, never exceeding 1 in (2.5 cm) in length. Those of the rabbiteye and true highbush blueberries are usually more than an inch long, sometimes up to 3 in (7.6 cm) in length. Also, the Mayberry alone has minute teeth with gland-tipped hairs on the leaf margins. Young woody stems of Mayberry are bright green. Mayberry gets up to 12 ft (3.7 m) high with a rather loose, open habit, multiple stems, and a spread of 3-5 ft (0.9-1.5 m). The flowers appear in early spring, before the leaves and new shoot growth. They are pinkish, 0.25 in (0.6 cm) long, and in clusters of 2-6. The fruit is a blue-black berry a little less than a 0.5 in (1.3 cm) in diameter.
Vaccinium elliottii occurs on the North American southeastern Coastal Plain from southeastern Virginia through Florida and west to Arkansas and eastern Texas. Mayberry is an understory shrub, occurring, often abundantly, in diverse habitats, from swamps to dry uplands.
CultureMayberry does best on acidic soils. Pruning is seldom necessary, but it should be noted that blueberries bloom on the previous year's wood, therefore, the current year's flower buds will be removed if the shrub is pruned in winter. Light: All the blueberries do best in full sun but they also do quite well in light shade and will survive in dense shade. They grow bushier and produce more fruit in full sun. Moisture: Mayberry will thrive in poorly drained wet soil and in well drained sandy soil. Established specimens can tolerate normal droughts. Hardiness: USDA Zones 6 - 9. Propagation: Blueberries can be propagated from softwood cuttings taken in early summer. They may also be grown from seed which normally does not require any special treatment.
Mayberry is a beautiful shrub for a mixed hedge or as a specimen. The leaves turn brilliant shades of scarlet in fall before they drop. If you're lucky enough to have one growing naturally at the edge of your yard, take care of it; reduce competition from other plants around it; open up the canopy above it a little. Mayberry has a graceful, open habit that responds well to pruning. The delicious berries are just the topping on the cake (or cereal or pancakes). Each year here in our North Florida yard a raucous mockingbird lays claim to a mayberry bush for the whole spring and summer season. No other birds are allowed near this bush until all the berries are finally gone, usually in June or July.
The highbush blueberries are the source of the commercial rabbiteye blueberries grown in the American southeast. Vaccinium ashei, and this one, V. elliottii, both figured into the development of the commercial varieties. The southern blueberries are the perfect fruit for the home gardener: they require no chemical spraying, no supplemental watering, no winter protection, no fertilizing. The berries ripen over an extended period, so you can pick them gradually. You may, however, find that the birds are beating you to the fruit as it ripens. The remedy for this is to pick berries every morning when they are almost fully ripe, then let them finish ripening for 24 hours in the house. We do this during the picking season, and then freeze the berries whole in gallon freezer bags for later use on cereal and in pancakes.
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I've come to the conclusion that I am amazing. I know that
you already knew this but let me explain myself.
There I was sat in a
waiting room, anticipating and praying for my name to be called out. This
wasn't only because I'd been waiting for what seemed like an age but also
because I was sat next to the men's toilet. Point number one: Boys smell. I was
waiting my turn when I spotted these two adult women staring into the distance
as if they had seen the Holy Grail. One said to the other "Wow, he's a doctor,
amazing isn't it?" the other replied "Great, amazing" in a manner which made me
believe George Clooney had reprised his role on ER and gone to med school. It
wasn't George Clooney. Nor was it a twelve year old doctor who had graduated
university at the age of nine, won the noble prize at ten and gone on to work
for the NHS. The doctor they were gazing at was a twenty something newly
qualified doctor who was on his way down the hall with stethoscope wrapped around
his neck. He wore glasses and a name badge but this wasn't the massive hoo har.
He was in a wheelchair. Leaping lizards, I bet he does his shopping on his own
It seems that there is a percentage of the public, who upon
seeing a disabled person mixed into the harsh reality of life, think that they
are brilliant. The world is accepting people
with disabilities into life more than ever at the moment however sometimes you
get the impression that some people still
seem to think that the rightful place for a disabled person is at home or out
with a carer.
Before I get emails complaining that I'm tarring every able
person with the same brush, I'm not. My friends, family and the majority of
people I don't even know don't see me or anyone else in with a disability as
more then, uhm, people. Don't be forced to expect less of people with disabilities.
As a footnote to this I would like to make a special shout
out to a lady at the clinic. This lady had volunteered to take an older woman
with Spina bifida to said clinic. I presume that they knew each other, possibly
neighbours. The lady in question was literally announcing to the hospital what
a good person she was. Yes, she probably was, it's lovely that she came with
her friend however keep it down, love! Said woman then went on to run through
the waiting room shouting "Thank goodness I've got legs" as approximately
twelve people in wheelchairs looked on. The truth is we were all chuffed to
bits she had legs which so clearly worked; it meant she got away faster.


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Inspired by a broken heart and a wicked hangover, sorority girl Stephanie May Wilson throws in the towel on the life she's been living and packs her bags for a pilgrimage across three continents. Like so many great travelers before her, she finds herself and something completely unexpected along the way. Exploding preconceived notions that Christianity is for grandmas and girls with ugly shoes, The Lipstick Gospel is the story of how one girl found God in heartbreak, the Sistine Chapel, and the perfect cappuccino.
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The great thing about Winterblush is that the store is based in Australia so my package came 1 week (5 business days) after it was sent, as opposed to overseas stores whch can take 3-4 weeks. Navigating around the site, I can see that Winterblush is very selective about the items they sell. I feel very overwhelmed browsing some online stores for cosmetics and skincare because there is way too much choice. Most of the items that Winterblush sells are very popular products worldwide and I like that they narrow down the choice for you!
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The BB cream is quite grey when you first spread it out, but does settle in to somewhat match my Winter skin within a few minutes. The texture is thick, but spreads to a thinner, more translucent consistency leaving a slightly dewy, not shiny, finish.
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The coverage is light and for me, it is not build able otherwise I would end up with a ghastly pale face. It manages to even out the redness of my skin, but does not cover the angry redness of blemishes. It does an extremely good job of brightening my skin tone. My dry skin loves the moisture in this product and on me it wears extremely well. Without powder or concealer, my skin maintains the same fresh dewy look 8 hours later without any caking or separating of product on my face, which is rare even for my dry skin!
I would be interested to see how this fares on oily skin as it does seem to have some control over sebum. I can definitely say this product is a hit for dry skin!
The 2 pictures above were taken with a mix of artificial light and daylight. I am only wearing the BB cream on my skin with no powder/blush/concealer. I noticed that although I only used a small amount of product, the BB cream is highly reflective and shiny. You can see that my forehead especially looks a bit patchy because I used more BB cream in the centre of it. Stay away from this BB cream if you are going anywhere with flash photography!
These last two pictures were taken in natural daylight. The effect of the BB cream is much more natural and does not 'glare' as it does in artificial light, but you can see that the colour is 1 or 2 shades too light for my skin tone.
Overall I love the hydration and finish of this BB cream. I agree with all of its claims except for the coverage- it certainly will not cover blemishes! I use this product on good skin days where I don't have much to cover. My skin is senstive and I have not experienced any adverse effects from this product after 1.5 weeks of continuous use, nor have I seen any improvements. But then again, who actually sees skin improvements from using a BB cream? For me, the only con of this product is the light shade!
This BB cream is great for girls with dry skin seeking light, natural coverage with a slightly dewy finish.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Taking Longer Uncoupled Mate in Open Race a Sound Strategy
Today's Four Bases Stakes for horses that have not won a stakes at a mile on turf this year might actually get to be run on the grass with good weather in the New York area recently--although snow showers were predicted for Tuesday.
Meanwhile, it appears that Christophe Clement has this surrounded with a strong uncoupled entry of Nergal (7-2) and Operation Red Dawn (3-1). His main contenders appear to be Al Basha (6-1) and Pick Six (6-1).
Nergal is a late developing five-year-old gelding whose performance figures have been forging forward incrementally, indicating further development is possible. He draws the fence, attracts Ramon Dominguez, and appears to class up nicely given his recent third in the Grade 3 Cliff Hanger at the Meadowlands. The 1-1/16th miles suits nicely.
Operation Red Dawn is the logical favorite and most probable winner. He has been highly competitive in recent graded stakes, including a very game third despite a wide trip over soft ground in the G2 Kelso Handicap. But it's his versatility, an ability to act over any footing, that suits him very well here and does reuniting with Alan Garcia, aboard for this gelding's most recent victory.
Al Basha has disappointed often this season but it's not as if the 4-year-old hasn't raced well on most occasions. His figures are competitive and consistent and the switch to Rajiv Maragh augurs well considering the success he's enjoyed riding for Angel Penna Jr. this season. Interesting to note, too, that Penna is 38 percent profitable in these non-graded stakes events.
Pick Six, meanwhile, is very sharp, improving with competitive figures and has been going well recently with today's partner Cornelio Velasquez. He must prove, however, whether he's as effective at today's trip as he is going a bit shorter.
We'll opt for whatever value is offered on Nergal to win at 7-2 or greater, keying him first and second in exactas with Operation Red Dawn and Al Basha--extra ticket with the former--and in trifectas as well, adding Pick Six, and the fast strong-working absentee, Buddy's Humor (8-1), to that mix.
Running Totals: (312) 95-64-41. Total Dollar Return: $650.20 [win selections only]
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3 people airlifted from crash in Eustis
3 people airlifted from crash in Eustis
EUSTIS, Fla. —
A crash involving a tractor-trailer and car sent three people to the hospital Friday.
Officials said the tractor-trailer hit a car on its side near County Road 44A and Forestdel Drive in Eustis.
The three people had to be extricated from the car before being flown to a trauma center, according to a Lake County official.
Authorities closed County Road 44A. It is not known when the road will reopen.
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Hundreds, if not thousands, of organizations exist to help protect wildlife. Some organizations work on an international scale, some work within a national scope and some organizations focus on a state or local level.
On an international level, some of the most influential organizations are the World Wildlife Fund, Greenpeace, the National Geographic Society, Wildlife Conservation Society and Defenders of Wildlife. These organizations fight for environmental justice on every level, and many work to reduce pollution or to preserve wild areas in addition to fighting species extinction.
Wildlife protection groups at every level can boast of real and significant accomplishments. For example, the Defenders of Wildlife helped to convince the United Nations to ban high-seas, large-scale driftnet fishing to help save dolphins and other ocean species. Greenpeace is one of the most well known organizations, and it acts aggressively in the name of defending the environment and wildlife.
Within the United States, one of the best-known organizations is the Sierra Club. As the oldest and largest environmental group in America, with over 1.3 million members, the Sierra Club is constantly campaigning to save the environment and the country's wildlife. Most of these groups help to affect real change for wildlife and the environment with their campaigns. They also help to monitor and maintain what they have accomplished.


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This project is an exemplary case of Chi Ti-Nan's micro-urbanism practice. 15 micro-zones were identified as points for recovery in which micro-projects have been carefully proposed to involve the public on different levels, aiming to resolve conflicts among property owners, villagers, and the general public.
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