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Stop a vengeful werewolf in Shadow Wolf Mysteries: Cursed Wedding! After being called to Paris to help your friend Veronica, you find yourself in the middle of a shocking mystery. The ancient werewolf Mephistus has appeared in town seeking revenge on Veronica and her fiancé just days before their wedding. Explore the gorgeous streets of Paris as you uncover the truth behind the ancient werewolf curse in this thrilling Hidden Object game!
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Shadow Wolf Mysteries: Cursed Wedding Collector's Edition is rated 3.7 out of 5 by 81.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Boomer1097 from Fun with Werewolves This is the third installment in the series and it is excellent. You play the detective and this time you go to Paris to help Veronica. She's now grown up and engaged, but something is wrong. The graphics are excellent, the iHOS are fun, the music is good, the voice overs are well done and the mini games were fun. There are numerous locations to visit. There isn't a map with the game, but you don't really need one. There is a journal, but I never used it. The SG comes in handy every now and then. The bonus chapter was good and completed the story. The ending of the main story left you wanting more. I really enjoyed this game and look forward to the next installment in the series.
Rated 5 out of 5 by pcpat923 from The Continuing Story of Shadow Wolf Mysteries Like "Rocky" and "The Godfather", it's impossible to continue a saga without making changes, otherwise it's pretty boring. The 3rd in the Shadow Wolf Mysteries series, our Detective is called to Paris because the little girl whose parents were werewolves has grown up and, sadly, it seems the "Curse" still follows her. Thank goodness, the Detective is available! At no time, does the player feel a sense of fear or foreboding because our Detective is that good in fighting werewolves. This is the 1st game I have played where the CE Bonus Play seems to be longer or as long as the Standard gameplay and I realized that the scenes change rapidly and we don't visit the same areas over and over again, therefore, gamers are writing the game is too short but this isn't true if one plays on Expert Level and takes their time to stop and enjoy the game which has awesome and beautifully written graphics and artwork. As a long-time BFG Member, I typically only purchase the CE editions of games that have the Bonus Play and simply wait until they go on sale--of which BFG has plenty of awesome sales! Enjoy! -Mama Mia-
Rated 5 out of 5 by SherryAnnLotz from Sherry Enjoyable, was a challenge keeps you at the game till you get to the end. A about 7 hrs.
Rated 5 out of 5 by lolfishlolcat from Enchanting This game is very addictive, and is intriguingly set out, yet the graphics are quite good, but the sound quality is a little halting. It is very challenging and the storyline is very cleverly placed. The characters all have an air of mystery about them and the evidence is practical.
Rated 5 out of 5 by maryann70 from Excellent, graphic, storyline and play I have played an extreme amount of games and am very picky. I get easyily bored and disgusted HOWEVER, this game is awesome. Its fun, stunning,exciting with many places to go. The puzzles aren't extremely challenging but definetly worth doing. HOS great. Graphics great! Definetly worth the money...GET IT! lol
Rated 5 out of 5 by Juju38 from Blooming Marvellous!!! Yes ERS does it again!!! Okay, seems this one is a little easier than the previous Shadow games but that doesn't spoil the great adventure of it all. I did notice the graphics look different, maybe lighter than usual but still ERS standard. Oh and the great fact that the exit screen doesn't pop up every time i go for an inventory item is a bonus!! Well done for listening!....the hint button fills quite quickly even on advanced mode and the HOPA scenes are crisp and clear. The only downside for me was the absence of a map because without it there is a lot of back and forth motion but then the hint will help if you get stuck on where to go next. Fantastic game BF, Thank you :-)
Rated 5 out of 5 by swissraven from ERS Games have done it again! Fantastic sequel to the Shadow Wolf Mysteries! This is a fabulous new installment in the Shadow Wolf Mysteries. Veronica goes to Paris to marry her fiancé, when she meets a werewolf.....you are called in to help capture werewolf Mephistus. The game has fantastically detailed graphics with a lot going on in each scene, good voice overs, 3 play modes, fun HOG's and mini puzzles. The hint button recharges relatively slowly in advanced mode. Good strategy guide. As usual with this dev, the game beautifully spreads across a labyrinth of scenes/rooms/situations with an enormous amount of detailing, making it a thoroughly enjoyable experience.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Poutoule from Werewolf is back !!!!!!!!!!!!! Played 30 minutes, casual - 3 modes, casual, advanced, hard - Integrated SG, only shows 2 chapters in the sample - Note book - No map - Voice overs - H0, you interact - Good mini games - Hint, tells you there's nothing to do outside H0 - Skip button - Beautiful graphics - Music as you can expect in such games..... Little girl is now a beautiful maid, just about to get married when.... nasty werewolf is back !!!!!!!!! I have all the other Shadow Wolf, and this one is, of course !, a buy for me.
Rated 5 out of 5 by sandradolores from Oh My Goodness! I just finished this game and loved it! Not being as experienced as some of you folks, the challenges were just perfect for me. Since many of you have written such excellent reviews and gone into great detail, I willl reframe from doing so. Let's just say, I'm sitting here waiting for another one of the Wolf Mysteries to download. That kind of says it all. Oh, and thank you ever so much for your input. Sandra
Rated 5 out of 5 by game_happy from ANOTHER SHADOW WOLF MYSTERIES WINNER!!! Like its predecessors, Curse of the Full Moon and Bane of the Family, this game is magnificent. Animation/VOs - Very well done. IHOs - Clear, some small objects, repeated scenes Be sure to scan all scenes for objects outside the HOs. Annoying factor was the repeated "Ahhh" everytime an object is found outside the HOs. Music - Alternated between lovely Parisienne music and blood curdling wolf howls. Hint/Skip - Slow to recharge. Hint does not act as a guide. States look elsewhere or wasting time. Puzzles - The usual variety, some easy, others more difficult No map that I could find but there is the SG which I used quite often. :-D Prepare to do a great deal of back tracking. No misclick penalty Annoying factor - Bath house full of smoke. Had to use a fan to clear it away to find silhouette objects. Bonus game play was wonderful. Wasn't going to play it at first but I'm glad I changed my mind. If you've played the first two in this series and enjoyed it then you will certainly enjoy this one as well. For those of you who haven't, I recommend playing Curse and Bane first. Get all three and happy gaming!!!
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After being called to Paris, you find yourself in the middle of a shocking mystery involving an ancient werewolf hungry for revenge.


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Mrs Daffodil Digresses
A blog about costume, history, and social ephemera
About Mrs Daffodil and her digressions
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The Divine Sarah at a Séance: 1892
BERNHARDT RAGES AT A SPOOK SÉANCE
Not Being Able to Understand How Spirits Are Materialized She Denounces Members of Her Company as Confederates
DRAMATIC DISPLAY OF TEMPER
Darmont, Her Leading Man, Locked the Medium in the Cabinet, but the Actress Said He Had Been Duped.
VERY QUEER MANIFESTATIONS
Scientific Frenchmen Engineered the "Circle," Which Broke up in Something Very Much Resembling a Row.
Mme. Sarah Bernhardt began by being an ordinary spectator at a spiritualistic séance on Thursday night, but before the close she was the "star performer," and every one else, including the medium, the members of her company, the French scientific men present and perhaps the spirits, sank into insignificance when she stalked up and down the room in tragic rage.
Those who had the pleasure of witnessing her outbursts declare that they excelled anything she had done the previous evening in "Leah the Forsaken." She was not acting at the séance. Even magnificent Sarah can't beat nature, and her natural fury is a trifle more interesting than her stage rage.
Madame was taken sick at the soiree mendier at the Manhattan Athletic Club on Thursday evening. It was given as a benefit by members of her company, and her indisposition brought it to an abrupt close. The disappointed spectators imagined that Sarah went at once to her hotel and took to her bed. She didn't. She had made a tryst with the ghosts of the departed and she meant to keep it.
Two carriages drove up to the house of Mrs. Carrie M. Sawyer, a materializing medium at No. 232 West Twenty-first Street at half-past eleven o'clock. Mme. Bernhardt jumped out of one; two imminent French scientists resident in New York followed her, and out of the other carriage emerged M. Albert Darmont, her leading man; a young lady of the company with big blue, frightened eyes and straw colored hair, and a stout gentleman who takes old men's parts in the show.
In the second story front parlor a little group of people were awaiting the advent of Mme. Bernhardt. There was a tall, thin Frenchman of high position, with his good-looking French-American bride; an attractive young lady of "The Great Metropolis" company, a little fat man with a red face and pink mustache and a young lady from Australia. When Mme. Bernhardt went in she shook hands with all these people and then took a seat in a low and luxurious armchair.
THE STRONG CABINET
In one corner of the parlor stood a cabinet built of strong framework and wire netting. It is what is known as a "test" cabinet, having been built at great expense by Henry J. Newton, president of the First Society of Spiritualists. Mr. Newton considers this cabinet the crowning glory of a lifetime devoted to psychical research, and he offers $1000 to any one who can get out of it without aid from the other world.
Mme. Bernhardt was attired richly, being in the tight fitting sort of dress which she uses so much on the stage. Her thick hair of burnished gold was thrown to the breezes like the flowing locks of Paderewski and she wore no hat or bonnet when she entered. Her pose was that of Cleopatra on her throne.
There were no formalities after the introductions and the Professor, at whose invitation the séance was given, explained to the company that spiritualism was undoubtedly a wonderful force. He thought it was well worth investigating from a scientific standpoint and he was devoting a great deal of his time and some of his money to the study of it.
"I have made a thorough examination of this cabinet," he said, "and that there may be no mistake I have brought a padlock of my own." The medium was then seated in a chair in the cabinet, and the Professor and M. Darmont proceeded to lock her in. There was a quiet smile upon the face of Mrs. Sawyer as the two enthusiasts applied the tests to her. They padlocked the door, and then M. Darmont got a two cent postage stamp, wrote his name upon it and pasted it over the keyhole of the padlock.
"If anyone gets out of that cabinet," M. Darmont remarked, "I'll get some sauce tartare, pour it over my hat and eat it.
Then they turned out the gas and the audience began singing religious songs. The only light was from a candle covered with tissue paper. Then it transpired that the eminent professor, at whose request the séance was held, was provided with a lantern which lighted itself when the holder pressed a button. The man who takes the senile parts in Mme. Bernhardt's company, and who was sitting on a lounge behind the tragedienne, had in his overcoat pocket a revolver, a box of matches, a pair of handcuffs and a false beard. M. Darmont was armed with matches, a lasso with which to catch ghosts and a small wax candle. It looked as if the Bernhardt contingent were investigators in earnest.
SPIRITS OF THE DEPARTED
After a lapse of twenty minutes spirits of the departed began to emerge from the cabinet in large numbers. The "spirit control" of Mrs. Sawyer is a child named "Maudie," who speaks in a babyish voice, and this spirit took charge of the proceedings and explained to the audience what was coming.
Mme. Bernhardt was very much impressed with the conversation of the baby spirit "Maudie." When the spirit first announced its presence she said in English.
"Is that you, Maudie? I would like to go up to de cabine and kees you. May I kees you, Maudie?"
The spirit replied: "You promised my medium to give her your photograph. If you will do so you can get a picture of Maudie. Presently you will be able to go into the cabinet when the forces become strong enough to materialize.
"Tank you, Maudie; you vera good," said Mme. Bernhardt.
Then the audience sang: "Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching," a favorite of a spirit named Elan, the uncle of "Maudie," who is one of the medium's "controls." The spirits seemed to like this and a banjo which heretofore had taken no part in the proceedings began to sail through the air playing the tune.
"I do not know how zat is done," said Bernhardt. "Zat is vare funny."
After a dozen spirits had come from the cabinet, careened through the atmosphere and then vanished into space, a particularly depressing scene took place. A cold air seemed to rush into the room and a presence appeared twenty feet from the cabinet. Everyone felt "spookish." "That is the woman who was drowned in the steamer Ville de Havre," whispered the Professor with bated breath.
"Help, help! Save me, save me!" screamed the form, and then it vanished through the floor.
It reappeared in a moment. It asked to speak to Mme. Bernhardt, and the actress advanced to the cabinet and took its hands. The form looked like a corpse and its hands were wet, madame said. It gave a gasp and disappeared. Sarah dropped back into her seat.
"I take her hand," she said. "I scratch. I try to make the spirit cry. I tear de flesh with my nails. She no scream at all."
DEPARTED FRENCHMEN.
The French Professor and all the others recognized forms as departed relatives. They went up to the cabinet and talked with them. Mme. Bernhardt asked questions about the phenomena. While she was talking a pair of handcuffs that had been sitting on the piano suddenly jumped in the air and threw themselves at the feet of M. Darmont. If they had fallen on his toes he would have uttered an agonizing yell, of they weighed about six pounds. There was a feeling of consternation all around.
"The medium no do that," exclaimed the Professor. "I lock her in the de cabinet myself. It is a thing quite remarkable."
"Oui," joined in M. Darmont, "et moi j'ai la clef." Or in English, "Yes, and I've got the key, see?"
"Let us sing 'Nearer, My God, to Thee,'" suggested the Professor. "It requires the music for to make the spirits come some more."
"Oui, chantons," said madame, "pour faire venir les apparitions.'"
Every one joined in the chorus. By this time the room was close and suffocating, all the doors and windows being hermetically sealed. Mme. Bernhardt was reeking with perfumes and they filled the room and possessed the senses of the audience. It was a spice-like odor, very captivating.
More spirits emerged from the retreat of the captive medium and every one made exclamations of surprise. The Professor was very explicit in his definitions of the limit of the power of spiritualism. The members of Mme. Bernhardt's company asked questions frequently and accepted the explanations gratefully and with much politeness.
"I would like to know if it is necessaire for de young lady at de piano to sit before me in front so I no can see," said the actress with the straw-colored hair humbly when the Professor inquired if there was anything any one wanted to know.
The mistake was corrected and the actress was given a better view of the apparitions.
The last phenomenon was the passage of the medium through the locked door of the cabinet. A young lady and the fat man with the pink mustache were called up to join hands so that the spirits might draw from them sufficient "forces" to perform the wonderful act. There was a rattling as if of chains and the medium suddenly appeared. The gas was lighted and the séance was over.
SLIGHTED THE ACTRESS.
It had been apparent for some little time before the finale that Mme. Bernhardt didn't like the way the spirits were treating her. They distinctly slighted the great actress, making revelations to everyone in the room but her. Instead of being the centre of attraction, she seemed to hold a second rate position spiritually, and it made her mad.
Immediately after the close she made a demonstration. "You didn't do this thing properly," she screamed, addressing M. Darmont and the professor. "You didn't have the medium locked up. It was an optical illusion. You thought she was in the cabinet, but she was not. If she was locked up these manifestations could not have occurred."
She stalked up and down in tragic rage, growing more furious every moment. "No, it cannot be!" she screamed. "You must be in league with the medium. It is impossible." She perambulated from north to south, followed by M. Darmont, who was greatly agitated.
"Madame," he exclaimed, "I swear to you that I locked the medium in the cabinet. Believe me, madame, I am not mistaken. She was there, and I closed the door."
"No," screamed the actress, "it cannot be! It is impossible! It must be the work of the devil. You are all fools or confederates."
"But, madame," put in M. Darmont, "I beg of you. I am not a fool or a confederate. I am a member of your company. The professor is engaged in a great scientific work and he would not deceive you."
Mme. Bernhardt was livid with rage. She made a rush at the cabinet and tried to find out if it was ghost proof. She ran all round it and banged at it with her firsts.
"AH, SARAH! C'EST TOI!"
"There must be a confederate," she howled. "It is a trick. You say that the medium cannot speak French. Bah! One of the spirits said to me, 'Ah, Sarah, c'est toi!" How can that be? You must all be confederates. I cannot believe it."
One of the French scientists drew himself up. "Mon Dieu!" he exclaimed. "I wish it was a man who said I was a confederate. He would not live; no, not one day. Madame, you insult me. I have never been before here, and I am a gentleman." "Madame," screamed the professor, keeping pace with her in her frantic march up and down the room, "you are unkind. I have acted in good faith. What do you want? You saw the medium locked in the cabinet. You think it is a trick. You are angry because you cannot find out how it is done. You will be sorry for having accursed your friends."
"Ou a fait la nuit!" shouted madame, throwing up her left arm and letting it fall upon her hip with a thud. "I have not seen anything. You assist the medium. You think you locked her up, but you didn't. Ah, you think you are smart, but you are not."
"Do not insult us, I beg of you, madame," exclaimed M. Darmont. "I assure you that what I say is correct. I do not try to explain it, but I know that the medium was in the cabinet when I locked the door. I am not a madman, and I can rely on what I see. The postage stamp is intact and the lock is just as the professor left it."
"It seemed as if she was in the cabinet," screamed the actress, "but there must be some deception."
Madame. Bernhardt left the house in a towering rage. The members of her company followed her, greatly chagrined at her conduct and humiliated at the suggestion she had made that they were in a conspiracy to deceive her.
The most miserable man in New York was the French professor, who has been her intimate friend for years and who was heartbroken at the suggestion that he had been hoodwinked or was a confederate.
New York Herald 23 April 1892: p. 3
Mrs Daffodil's Aide-memoire: It is difficult to say how much Sarah Bernhardt truly believed in the occult. Like many artists of her time, she over-dramatised her enthusiasm for death and its trappings. The photograph above of her "sleeping" in her coffin caused a scandal. She was known to have attended séances at Alphonse Mucha's studio and elsewhere, but it is difficult to escape the suspicion that she sought drama and sensation more than spiritual enlightenment.
Some of the background: Mrs Carrie Sawyer was a well-known materialization medium, although one investigator said of her "Mrs. Sawyer is a gentlewoman and a strong medium, but she is surrounded by a coarse magnetism, the baleful influence of which she seems powerless to resist. [Source: Materialized Apparitions: If Not Beings from Another life, What Are They?, Edward Augustus Brackett, Boston: Colby and Rich, Publishers, 1886]
Mr Newton, the provider of the test cabinet, was well-known in Spiritualist circles. When the Fox sisters confessed that the raps had been caused by the girls cracking their toe joints, he refused to believe and announced that the manifestations he had seen could not have been caused by fraud.
"Leah the Forsaken," was a popular tear-jerker play about a Jewish maiden in love with a Christian youth in a small Austrian village. The heroine rages and pronounces a curse on the man who betrays her. It was the perfect "meaty" role for a scenery-chewer like Madame.
"Maudie" is typical of the child "spirit guides," so popular during this time. The child's prattle could disguise the medium's voice and we have previously seen how mediums might purchase child-sized figures to be used in the séance room or go down on their knees in the dark to impersonate a toddler.
SS Ville du Havre was a steamship running between France and New York. 22 November 1873, Ville du Havre hit a Scottish clipper and sank in only 12 minutes. 226 people died.
Mrs Daffodil invites you to join her on the curiously named "Face-book,"where you will find a feast of fashion hints, fads and fancies, and historical anecdotes.
This entry was posted in Death, Fads, Ghosts, Impostures and Swindles, Irregular Lives, News and Announcements, Spiritualism, Victorian and tagged materialization medium, mediums, Mrs Carrie Sawyer, Sarah Bernhardt, seance, spirit guides on October 17, 2014 by chriswoodyard.
The Princess was a Medium: 1908
The Italian medium Eusapia Palladino.
PRINCESS SAYS GHOSTS ARE REAL
CLAIMS LOCK OF HAIR PROVED IDENTITY OF SPOOK
GAVE MARCONI A SITTING
Famous Princess is a Spiritualist of International Prominence and is a Medium of Recognized Ability
Rome April 29. Although the University of Rome recently rejected the proposition to establish a chair of psychical research for the scientific investigation of ghosts, astral doubles and occult phenomena generally, it must not be inferred that the cult of the spook attracts little attention here. The Eternal City has more haunted houses and probably a larger percentage of believers in spiritualism than any other city in the world. They are found in all grades of society, and at the present time aristocratic circles are much given to entertaining mediums and visitors from the other world.
The recognized leader among them is the Princess d'Antuni del Drago. She bears not the slightest resemblance to the popular conception of a feminine ghost-chaser. She is a widow, young, pretty, and accomplished. She is not only a believer in spirits, but claims to be a medium also. It was she who drew from Marconi the acknowledgement that there was "something in it" which science—at least as much of it as he knew—could not explain. Further than that he would not go, but as this was the result of one sitting only with the princess, there is no telling where he would have ended had he continued his investigations.
Princess d'Autuni belongs to the aristocratic house of Potenziani, and owns the handsome del Drago palace, and has thus been landlady to the last two American ambassadors. She says that as a child she was conscious of voices and visions which troubled her little soul, but which her skeptical elders attributed to imagination. She married very young, and it was after this that she became conscious that she was not quite as other people, that she had powers which were denied them, and which no make her a remarkable medium.
A few months after her marriage, she relates, she was lying in bed one evening reading, when the bedclothes suddenly dropped to the floor, as though snatched away by impatient hands. She turned, surprised, and became conscious of a cloud, as it were, between her and the light. As she gazed the shadow took form and substance and assumed the aspect of a woman dressed in black. When the princess made an involuntary movement to rise the apparition said in a solemn voice, "Do not be frightened. I come in love. I am your husband's first wife and come to warn you that you will have a son, but he will not live. Give this to Ferdinando as a proof of my love," at the same time holding out a lock of hair.
The princess's entranced senses then burst their bonds and she shrieked with fear. Hearing her cries Prince d'Autuni, who was in the next room, rushed to her and found her half fainting. He also saw as he entered the room, so he said, the shadowy form of a woman for the ghost had begun to dissolve into thin air. Neither would have believed the reality of what they had seen had it not been for the lock of hair which was lying on the floor and which, being compared with that of the late princess, was found to be identical.
In due course a son and heir was born to the happy couple who forgot the warning, but their joy was short-lived, as the first Princess d'Antuni appeared again to her successor in almost the same circumstances as before. "I am come to warn you," she said, "the other time you forgot my words, but now do not let a moment pass without having the boy baptized. My poor child, he will only live a day or two. Take heed of my words and do not delay the baptism." The poor mother hugged her apparently healthy baby in her arms, but sent for the priest, had the ceremony performed, and the next day she was childless. The doctor declared himself baffled. "I never knew a perfectly healthy baby to die in that way before," he exclaimed.
From this time on Princess d'Antuni has had many manifestations and warnings of a supernatural character. One day, she states, she had been at a kirmess at the Pincio, where she presided over a stall in the bridal dress of a Genoese peasant and made many sales. She entered her carriage with a friend in the highest of good spirits to return home, when suddenly she felt as though a pall had settled over her, and when asked by her companion what was the matter, replied that she was sure that when they met again something dreadful would have happened. The next day she was standing before her mirror, when she saw her husband's reflection in it. "What! You, Ferdinando!" she exclaimed, and turned around, but could see no one.
Her maid, Maria, said that the prince must have been in the room, as she heard his footsteps, but on going to look for him found that he was not in the house. Meanwhile Prince d'Antuni, who was at the capitol, had been seized with a fainting sensation and simultaneously, he declared, saw his wife before her glass. That night he was taken ill and died ten days later. For three months after his death the princess asserts, she was able to hold telepathic communication with him and was greatly solaced thereby.
She has had several séances with the celebrated medium, Palladino. On one of these occasions the later sat down at a table and began to write. She covered two or three pages of paper with what both she and her friends supposed to be rubbish; the letters were there, but they made no sense. The paper, however, was examined, and proved to be the purest Arabic, which language certainly neither Princess d'Antuni nor Palladino have any knowledge of whatever. Logansport [IN] Daily Reporter 29 April 1908: p. 4
SPIRIT TELEGRAPHY—With regard to the statement that Mr. Marconi has become a spiritualist, a special cable dispatch from Rome, of December 15, says: "The conversion of Signor Marconi to spiritualism by Princess d'Antuni del Drago, who has the reputation of being a medium of exceptional power, has caused a sensation among believers in communication between the seen and the unseen world. Mr. Marconi has always been regarded as intensely practical. He was not known to take an interest in anything outside of the material and scientific except art and history. There is reason to believe that he became interested in the study of wireless messages to the other world by the declaration of Lombroso, the alienist professor of psychiatry in the University of Turin, in which he said the subject was of colossal importance. The Princess d'Antuni del Drago says she has held séances in her own palace and has been favored with extraordinary phenomena. 'I met Marconi a few weeks ago,' she remarked, 'at an entertainment given by Marchioness Pinolecee. He said he did not believe in spiritualism. I invited him to my house to assist in a séance. He was one of three. A medium called Politi and I, with Marconi, formed a circle around a small table. Without relating all that took place, suffice it to say that when Marconi left he had been convinced so fully that he determined to study the subject scientifically, and promised to place me in communication with Prof. Crookes. I am anxiously awaiting to learn if the great inventor has found any explanation for the phenomena.'" Electrical World, Volume 48, 1906
Mrs Daffodil's Aide-memoire: Marconi was, of course, the Italian inventor of the wireless. In his early days he wrote to the Italian ministry of Posts and Telegraphs with his proposal for wireless telegraphy. The minister did not believe his claims and wrote "to the Longara!" (Rome's insane asylum) on Marconi's letter. Discouraged by this lack of interest, Marconi travelled with his Scotch mother to England where he impressed the chief Electrical Engineer of the British Post Office. The British knew how to appreciate his talents and he was launched on his electrifying career. Mrs Daffodil suspects that if Marconi did say that there was "something in it" to the Princess, he was merely being polite to a charming lady. On the other hand, the inventor was an ardent apologist for Mussolini, which suggests a strong capacity for self-delusion.
Eusapia Palladino was a curious person. A coarse woman of peasant stock, she was considered to be a hugely powerful physical medium. Once married to a travelling conjuror, she was caught in fraud many times and frankly admitted that she would cheat if given a chance. Psychic investigator Cesare Lombroso was thrilled by her table levitations; he was, it was whispered, willing to support any of her claims, as he found her elevating in a more physical sense. In reading the glowing reports on the medium's gifts, it becomes apparent that the Palladino creature managed to fascinate entire flocks of psychic investigators, including Hereward Carrington, who became her manager, and magician Howard Thurston. "Vital, vulgar, amorous, and a cheat," is how her biographer Eric Dingwall described her.
Auguste Politi was an Italian watchmaker and medium noted for having once levitated a piano. We are not told of his personal charms. Prof. Crookes was Sir William Crookes, the distinguished English chemist, who saw it as his scientific duty to study the spirit world in darkened rooms with the assistance of pretty young lady mediums like Florence Cook, once caught flitting around the room in spirit character in her underclothes. Mrs Daffodil is never surprised at the credulity displayed in the charged darkness of the seance room.
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Movie Tuesday: Art imitating life
Five films in which directors look at themselves via autobiographical stand-ins
by Ben Sachs
In the current edition of the Reader, I wrote on Jafar Panahi's 3 Faces (which plays at the Gene Siskel Film Center through Thursday), focusing on how Panahi has incorporated himself into his work of the 2010s. Panahi recognizes that he's a great subject for cinema: he's a dissident artist who continues to make movies in Iran despite being banned from doing so until 2030. While the director's story may be extraordinary, his use of filmmaking to regard himself belongs to a well-known tradition. Directors have been putting themselves in their films since movies began (think of Georges Méliès appearing on-screen to present his latest wonderment) but the tendency for self-reflection really took off in the 1960s with the rise of various cinematic new waves and a sense of awareness in both filmmakers and spectators about their place in movie history.
These five capsule reviews from the Reader archives consider examples of directors looking at themselves by way of autobiographical stand-ins. The films in question range from celebrations of filmmaking to cautionary tales about how directors can abuse their power on the movie set. The most famous of these is surely Fellini's 8 1/2, the film against which nearly every new autobiographical movie is measured; for my money, though, nothing tops Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Beware of a Holy Whore, a bitter comedy that makes filmmaking look like absolute hell. Missing from this list are any films by Jean-Luc Godard, who's probably looked at himself in his movies more than any other filmmaker, or Panahi's old boss Abbas Kiarostami, whose self-regarding films are the most dizzyingly complex. To do my due diligence, let me say you should track down Godard's Passion (1982) and Kiarostami's Life, and Nothing More . . . (1992) if you haven't seen either of those.
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The Wings of Eagles John Ford's unfairly overlooked 1957 film is the biography of Frank "Spig" Wead, a World War I fighter pilot who was grounded by paralysis and went on to become a Hollywood screenwriter. (He wrote Hell's Angels for Howard Hughes and Air Mail for John Ford, among others.) John Wayne plays Wead, and the character, of course, becomes him, turning the film into a brave, memorable study of a man of action who suddenly finds himself unable to act. Maureen O'Hara, as Wead's wife, embodies the domestic virtues that frighten him even more than his disability. Ford directs with complete disdain for period detail—rightly, for it doesn't matter—designing his film instead around the growing stillness of Wead's life: it begins in frenzy and ends in tranquillity. And then there's Ward Bond, playing a crusty Hollywood director suggestively named "John Dodge"—with a shot of whiskey secreted in the cap of his walking stick. —Dave Kehr
8 1/2 If all you know about this exuberant, self-regarding 1963 film is based on its countless inferior imitations (from Paul Mazursky's Alex in Wonderland and The Pickle to Woody Allen's Stardust Memories to Bob Fosse's All That Jazz), you owe it to yourself to see Federico Fellini's exhilarating, stocktaking original, an expressionist, circuslike comedy about the complex mental and social life of a big-time filmmaker (Marcello Mastroianni) stuck for a subject and the busy world surrounding him. It's Fellini's last black-and-white picture and conceivably the most gorgeous and inventive thing he ever did—certainly more fun than anything he made after it. (The only Fellini movie that's about as pleasurable is The White Sheik.) With Claudia Cardinale, Sandra Milo, and Anouk Aimée. —Jonathan Rosenbaum
Beware of a Holy Whore
Beware of a Holy Whore Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1971 film about a movie crew trapped in a Spanish seaside hotel, waiting first for the star (Eddie Constantine) to arrive and then for the director (Lou Castel) to find his inspiration. This edgy, violent, impacted movie was based on incidents that occurred during the shooting of Fassbinder's Whity, and survivors claim that it more or less accurately records the paranoia and desperate needfulness that reigned on Fassbinder's sets. It was also the last film of his ragged avant-gardist period; with the subsequent Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, he moved into an emulation of a Hollywood director's distance and control. With Hanna Schygulla, Ulli Lommel, and Magdalena Montezuma. —Dave Kehr
Sex is Comedy This 2002 provocation from director-writer Catherine Breillat is so perversely enjoyable it gives the lie to her image as a serious, politically incorrect purveyor of pornographic instincts. Here she parodies herself, casting Anne Parillaud (La Femme Nikita) as the demanding director of an erotic film who's after the money shot, encouraging her actors (Grégoire Colin of Beau Travail and Roxane Mesquida of Fat Girl) to do their simulated best—one bit involves Colin trying on fake erect penises for size. It's all layered with the kind of delectable philosophizing and psychologizing only the French can get away with, but as with most films about filmmaking, the wrap is what counts. —Ted Shen
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Mia Madre Writer-director Nanni Moretti (The Son's Room) drew on his own life experience for this 2015 study of an Italian filmmaker (Margherita Buy) trying to shoot a movie while, at home, her mother is slowly dying. The domestic scenes, which include Moretti himself as the filmmaker's brother, are well played but familiar, giving way to ham-handed dream and reverie sequences that illustrate the heroine's growing anxiety at her approaching loss. Fortunately the movie-production scenes deliver plenty of laughs, courtesy of John Turturro as a vain, temperamental American movie star who blows take after take and dines out on his stories of an imagined creative partnership with Stanley Kubrick. The movie within the movie, starring Turturro as a haughty factory owner clashing with his workers over layoffs, is Moretti's little inside joke about his own left-leaning early features. —J.R. Jones v
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SSA detaining maNtuli was serious cause for concern – Zondo
Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo remarked that the supposed detention by former president Jacob Zuma's wife, if true, would be a serious violation, considering that it would be an extra-legal detention.
Then president Jacob Zuma accompanied by then first lady Nompumelelo 'MaNtuli' Zuma in 2014. (Photo: GCIS). File
The bizarre removal from the Nkandla family homestead and subsequent detention by the State Security Agency (SSA) of maNtuli Zuma following unproven allegations six years ago of involvement in the "poisoning" of her husband Jacob Zuma had a sequel at the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture.
In 2019, maNtuli instructed lawyer Ulrich Roux to write to National Prosecuting Authority head Shamila Batohi, to finalise the investigation against her, after awaiting her fate since 2015.
Referring to maNtuli's detention in Durban North, SSA acting director-general Loyiso Jafta told Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo: "There was a report in the media of an attempted murder of former president Jacob Zuma, allegedly by his wife – maNtuli. This matter was investigated by – among others – the State Security Agency.
"It was a private and public matter because you did not know whether he was being poisoned for being president or because of domestic considerations.
"Mrs Zuma was then in essence put in the custody of the State Security Agency. She was in remand detention, without having gone through due processes – kept against her will and without evidence."
Zondo remarked: "If she was kept there against her will, that would be quite serious because it would be detention by an organ of state in circumstances where no law allowed an organ of state to detain her – quite serious."
Jafta responded: "It is one example showing the straddling of the private and the public person of former president Zuma. I have to say that it is very difficult to determine with absolute certainty that a president has given an instruction or not.
"It does happen quite a lot and it must have happened that functionaries at various levels would anticipate what would be agreeable to the person of the president. What would please the president and take such initiatives, regardless of what the law says.
"I don't want to create an impression that former president Zuma was always aware and consented to many of the things that were done, presumably for his benefit – either in his private or public capacity.
"When you assist and advance the political agenda of a faction associated with the president, you assist his private person.
"There are instances when our activities responded to his personal interest in his private capacity."
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SZ-based expat artist wins Hong Kong award
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THE Asia Society in Hong Kong recently held an exhibition featuring the works of Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara entitled "Life Is Only One." Famed for his haunting portraits of large-eyed children juxtaposed against dangerous scenarios, the oil painter has inspired artists all around the world to challenge themselves and forge new connections.
For the end of the exhibition, the Asia Society decided to host a competition in which artists could submit work based on Nara's aesthetics. The contest received hundreds of entries. Entries were divided into three sections: a child division for children aged 6-11, a youth division for teenage artists aged 12-17 and an open division for anyone 18 and over.
The competition's champion was South African Shenzhen resident Bronwen Shelwell, an art lecturer at the OCT campus of Shenzhen Polytechnic's International Foundation College, for her glass nest sculpture entitled "Home."
"Inspiration for this artwork came from my own interpretation of Nara's process, an artist I have admired for years," said Shelwell. "I wanted to find a way to express a similar innocence, as he does with his childlike imagery, with a subconscious, violent twist. I took the familiar form of a nest — a symbol of home, safety and innocence — but constructed it out of the fragile, delicate, but also dangerous material of glass. In line with Nara's process, the base of the glass nest was made out of found material — the broken glass of a car window scattered on the side of a road. I collected the shards and then made a mold, which I melted the glass into. On this base, I assembled glass rods, each one worked into a natural shape over a gas flame. I then built the nest piece by piece, as a child or bird would do.
"The nest is empty. I wanted there to be something read in its vacancy, something familiar, as with Nara's imagery, but unnerving at the same time. I took an object always associated with warmth and safety but displayed it with a palpable loss."
Shelwell has lived in Shenzhen for several years and frequently contributes to the Hong Kong art scene. "I go to Hong Kong often to see the latest exhibitions at contemporary art galleries. I feel this keeps me up to date with current trends, gives me inspiration. It also helps me be a better lecturer for my students and a better artist. I have worked with a few galleries, mostly behind the scenes in curating or writing about exhibitions and preparing for Art Basel, which was recently launched in Hong Kong."
On Sunday the Asia Society hosted an awards ceremony — also presented by the Hong Kong Jockey Club — and finalists got to exhibit their pieces in a new show.
Shelwell was excited when she heard the news that she won the championship in the adult division. "I felt incredibly happy! It is my first time actually exhibiting one of my pieces in Hong Kong. I've exhibited in other countries and I have a few clients that I make artwork for in Hong Kong, but this is the first time I've had my art displayed in a gallery here. It was so overwhelming that the exhibition theme was based on an artist I love, and the space was the Asia Society, one of the most beautiful gallery spaces in Hong Kong."
Shelwell also believes this is good news for Shenzhen. "I think it is a wonderful thing that artwork from Shenzhen was admitted and did well in a Hong Kong exhibition. I think this was a wonderful opportunity for the Shenzhen art community as a whole to be recognized in Hong Kong."
The exhibition will be held at the Asia Society until Aug. 16. More information can be found at their website http://asiasociety.org/hong-kong.
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Asia Society arts award ceremony – an insider's take
Sunday was a very special day for me and the very beautiful and very talented South African artist Bronwen Shelwell.
(Hope this blog isn't a conflict of interest, but I think the story is worth sharing! The subsequent proper article might be, but that's okay)
You see, over at the Asia Society in Hong Kong there happened to be an exhibition of Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara's works, "Life is Only One." To complement the show, the society also hosted an art competition.
So Bronwen decided to produce one of her signature glass nests, one which incorporates Nara's themes of childish characters hinting at darkness and danger. She submitted the pitch, and we were pleasantly surprised when they quickly emailed back that she was a finalist and needed to come to HK to drop off the piece (Well, I wasn't surprised; I was sure she would do well).
When they emailed soon after to say she was selected as champion of the open division, it was very exciting!
Sunday came and I was honored to be Ms. Shelwell's "plus one" for the awards ceremony. We made a day of entertaining Hong Kong and enjoying the space.
Then the ceremony began. It was rather quick, going through the child and youth divisions with various runners up. As champion, Bronwen was the last. There was even a ribbon cutting.
Afterwards, we were free to go up to the gallery to observe all the interesting works. It was amazing how people can take inspiration from Nara and have such original takes. Glad to see a lot of creativity is happening in Hong Kong today, especially among young people.
Bronwen was able to show off her nest in person, entitled "Home," and also took interviews.
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Ask for the Ancient Paths: Discovering What Church Is Meant to Be
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At a time when so many disaffected Christians are trying to recreate the Church from scratch, Fr. James offers a clear and accessible apology for simply returning to what Christ's Church was always meant to be.
About the Author: The Rev. Fr. James Guirguis is pastor of St. George Orthodox Church in New Hartford, New York. He has given lectures on topics such as early Christian history as well as sickness, suffering, and healing in the Christian tradition. He regularly adds material to the Out of Egypt weblog. He earned a master's degree from St. Vladimir Orthodox Theological Seminary in 2006. He lives in Utica with his wife Jennifer and their three daughters.
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Global Warming Challenges the Unitary Executive
By: Kelpie Wilson
t r u t h o u t | Environmental Editor
On April 2, 2007 the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of the State of Massachusetts in the landmark global warming case, Massachusetts v. EPA. Environmentalists were pleased that the high court ruled on the merits of the case, agreeing that carbon dioxide meets the definition of a pollutant and that the EPA has run out of excuses for not regulating it.
But some legal scholars were even more gratified by another aspect of the case, the court's ruling on the right of the plaintiffs to sue, known as their "standing." Michael C. Dorf, a law professor at Columbia University, said that "the most important practical effect of Massachusetts v. EPA may be what it does to standing doctrine. And on that point, the decision marks a welcome turn away from recent precedents that imposed gratuitous obstacles to courts' reaching decisions on the merits."
On the other side, Case Western Reserve law professor Jonathan H. Adler decried the court's admission of standing, saying that "Justice Stevens almost certainly lowered the standing bar for future environmental litigants." Adler had participated in amicus briefs submitted in the case by the Cato Institute.
Prior to the court's ruling, many analysts speculated that it would dismiss the case based on the standing issue. The court could have ruled that the coalition of states and environmental groups lacked standing to bring the case to court because they could not show a concrete and imminent harm that was redressable through the courts. The minority, consisting of Justices Roberts, Scalia, Alito and Thomas, would have denied standing to the plaintiffs based on these tests.
The tests for standing have been tightened considerably since the 1970s, and justices who take a narrow view of standing have kept countless environmental and civil rights cases out of the courts, denying petitioners the right to be heard on the merits of their cases. Lily Henning, in an article in Legal Times, explains that an extreme narrow view of standing has become a constitutional litmus test for conservatives and that "the philosophy grew in popularity - both in the courts and among government lawyers - during the Reagan administration."
The Reagan administration is where Chief Justice Roberts cut his teeth. In one of his early memos, Roberts said: "It will be our policy to raise standing and other justiciability challenges to the fullest extent possible." During Roberts's confirmation process as Supreme Court chief justice, a letter from environmental groups to the Senate Judiciary Committee pointed out that Roberts's statement was sweeping and unqualified and "it was not limited to cases in which the Justice Department believed there was no standing or even to cases where there was a serious question."
Raising the bar on standing in order to deny citizen access to the courts whenever possible became a key plank in the quest for the "unitary executive" espoused by the Federalist Society and other neocon groups. These groups promoted the notion that all of the executive powers of the government must be consolidated and tightly controlled by the president. From this perspective, citizen lawsuits to enforce government regulations amount to "stealing power" from the executive branch and they should be thrown out of court whenever possible.
Commenting on the nomination of Justice Alito to the Supreme Court last year, Robert Parry of Consortium News said:
"The Supreme Court's embrace of the "unitary executive" would sound the death knell for independent regulatory agencies as they have existed since the Great Depression, when they were structured with shared control between the Congress and the President. Putting the agencies under the President's thumb would tip the balance of Washington power to the White House and invite abuses by letting the Executive turn on and off enforcement investigations."
Turning off enforcement is exactly what the White House did in the case of EPA's obligation to regulate carbon dioxide, and that is what brought Massachusetts and the other plaintiffs to court.
In pursuing the unitary executive, Justices Roberts, Scalia and Alito say they are protecting the Constitutional balance of powers, as the framers intended it. In a speech in 2000, Alito gave his version of history, saying that the constitutional framers "saw the unitary executive as necessary to balance the huge power of the legislature and the factions that may gain control of it."
But most historians would say that the framers were far more concerned with the concentration of power in the executive; having just defeated one monarchy, their overriding concern was to avoid creating another.
Looking back on the now 220-year-old Constitution, it seems to have served us well but for one exception. The document apportions powers laterally between the legislative, the judiciary and the executive branches, and vertically between the states and the federal government. Its Bill of Rights protects the individual. But there is one huge elephant in the room that is never addressed by the Constitution, and that is the corporation.
Corporations today are so gigantic that the largest ones command far more resources than many nation states. They buy and sell our politicians and our media, and yet there are no constitutional checks on their power. Congress, in a momentary fit of wisdom in the 1970s, passed a group of environmental laws such as the Clean Air Act to protect land, air and water from the abuses of industry. They included citizen enforcement provisions that gave citizens the power, exercised through the courts, to watchdog the enforcement of these laws regulating corporate activities.
Neocons refer to this power of the courts to watchdog executive enforcement as "judicial imperialism," but that is way off the mark. The reality is that courts have tended to defer to the discretion of agencies to enforce the laws how they see fit, only ruling against agencies in extreme cases, like Massachusetts v. EPA.
Still, that's not how Justice Scalia sees it. He wrote in his dissent:
"This is a straightforward administrative-law case, in which Congress has passed a malleable statute giving broad discretion, not to us but to an executive agency. No matter how important the underlying policy issues at stake, this Court has no business substituting its own desired outcome for the reasoned judgment of the responsible agency."
The idea of executive discretion to enforce or ignore the law as it sees fit is the reason why environmental laws have failed to avert the ecological crisis we find ourselves in today. Law professor Mary C. Wood of the University of Oregon addressed this issue in a speech to the on March 4, 2007:
"The heart of the problem is this: while the purpose of every local, state and federal environmental law is to protect natural resources, nearly every law has also provided authority to the agencies to permit, in their discretion, the very pollution or land damage that the statutes were designed to prevent. Of course, the permit systems were never intended to subvert the goals of environmental statutes. But most agencies today spend nearly all of their resources to permit, rather than prohibit, environmental destruction. Essentially, our agencies have taken the discretion in the law and have used it to destroy Nature, including its atmosphere.
Why would public servants, who draw their salaries from the taxpayers, do such a thing? It is because the call of private property rights is sounded in the halls of nearly every agency, nearly every day. Asphalt plant operators and chemical manufacturers, land developers and timber companies, automakers and coal-fired plant investors, industrialists and individuals of all sorts scream out to these agencies not to draw that regulatory line on their activity - because doing so would hurt their economic goals. This private property rights rhetoric has cowered officials at every level of government."
Professor Wood is calling for a new approach to environmental law that would bypass the debate over property rights vs. the environment and replace the discretion to regulate with the obligation to protect. She proposes a new view of the environment - the air, land and water - as a trust for future generations. The trust principle uses the idea of property to protect the environment rather than destroy it through the familiar idea of a trust with beneficiaries. Here is how she frames it:
"We all hold a common property interest in Nature's Trust. You could think of this as Nature's treasure to be passed down through all generations of humankind. With every trust there is a core duty of protection. The trustee must defend the trust against injury. Where it has been damaged, the trustee must restore the property in the trust. Protecting our natural trust is more consequential than anything else government does."
When we look at the Preamble to the US Constitution, we can see that the Nature's Trust idea is already there. The benefits sought by We the People are to be secured not only for today, but for Posterity. As Congress considers legislation to address global warming, it would do well to incorporate the trust idea into that legislation.
In the face of a threat as overwhelming as global warming, We the People must reject the vain projects of corporate domination and the unitary executive and harken back to our first principles. On that basis we can create a new approach to environmental law that will actually work to protect nature and future generations.
Kelpie Wilson is Truth-out.org's environment editor. Trained as a mechanical engineer, she embarked on a career as a forest protection activist, then returned to engineering as a technical writer for the solar power industry. She is the author of Primal Tears, an eco-thriller about a hybrid human-bonobo girl.
Greg Bear, author of Darwin's Radio, says: "Primal Tears is primal story-telling, thoughtful and passionate. Kelpie Wilson wonderfully expands our definitions of human and family."
© : t r u t h o u t 2007


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Bolton's fumble return sparks Chiefs' 28-24 win over Broncos
Denver Broncos running back Melvin Gordon III (25) loses a fumble after being hit by Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Melvin Ingram, right, before outside linebacker Nick Bolton (54) returned it for a touchdown during the second half of an NFL football game Saturday, Jan. 8, 2022, in Denver. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey)
(Jack Dempsey / Associated Press)
By ARNIE STAPLETON
DENVER —
Nearly stumbling heading into the playoffs, Nick Bolton and the Kansas City Chiefs gathered themselves just in time to thunder into the postseason with an AFC-best 12 wins.
They'll learn Sunday if that's enough to get them a first-round bye.
"We're ready to go wherever and against whomever," Patrick Mahomes said after the Chiefs rallied for a 28-24 win Saturday over the Denver Broncos, a victory powered by Bolton's 86-yard fumble return midway through the fourth quarter.
To secure the pole position in the AFC playoffs, the Chiefs (12-5) need Houston to upset the Tennessee on Sunday. If not, Kansas City hosts a wild-card game next weekend in its quest to reach a third consecutive Super Bowl.
The Broncos were ahead 21-20 and driving for another score when Melvin Ingram III blitzed, speeding past tight end Noah Fant untouched and blowing up the play just as Drew Lock handed the ball to Melvin Gordon on second-and-2 from the 9.
Bolton, a rookie linebacker who checks in at 237 pounds, scooped up the loose ball and rumbled down the Chiefs' euphoric sideline, nearly falling down at midfield before regaining his balance and outracing Lock, whom he played with at Missouri, to the end zone.
"I was hoping that he wouldn't stumble," Chiefs coach Andy Reid said after his 250th NFL coaching victory, including playoffs. "Those guys don't get much of a chance to run that far that fast very often and he ran like a stallion. He took off and looked like a running back there."
Like many of the other victories in the Chiefs' 13-game winning streak against Denver, this one was no cakewalk. The Broncos (7-10) led for much of the afternoon despite having nothing to play for but pride.
"My main emotion is really proud of our payers," Broncos coach Vic Fangio said. "That's a team that may win it all. They've obviously won a lot of games the last four or five yeas since Mahomes has taken over. We had a chance to win that game. But not winning it is the bottom line and we didn't get it done."
The Broncos' last win over Kansas City came on Sept. 17, 2015.
"I love the way our defense buckled down," Reid said. "All in all, a good win and an important win for the Kansas City Chiefs and we'll see what we have by tomorrow night, who we're playing. We sure look forward to bringing back a playoff game back to Arrowhead in front of our fans."
Wide receiver Tyreek Hill could surely use the week off that goes to the top seed in each conference. He injured a heel in pregame warmups and was held to one catch for 2 yards. With Hill hurting, Mecole Hardman stepped up with eight catches for 103 yards.
"No one is Tyreek. He's a special player that has never been seen in this league," Mahomes said. "But Mecole is pretty close. ... He was prepared for this moment."
After Mahomes scored a 2-point conversion following Bolton's touchdown to give the Chiefs a seven-point lead, the Broncos quickly drove downfield again but settled for Brandon McManus' chip shot field goal rather than going for it on fourth-and-9 from the 13.
The crowd booed the decision, but Fangio explained that even though the field goal left them needing a touchdown, at least it kept their hopes alive.
All they had to do was stop Mahomes, something they'd managed to do twice in Kansas City's six drives excluding the final possession of the first half when the Chiefs got the ball at their 15 with 23 seconds remaining.
The Chiefs, however, chewed up the final 4:37 and lined up in victory formation after the 2-minute warning as the crowd of 61,441 — there were nearly 15,000 empty seats — streamed for the exits, a fifth straight losing season in the books and the Broncos' playoff drought now stretched to six years.
CHANNELING TEBOW
Lock completed just 4 of 10 passes for 27 yards in the first half but the Broncos took a 14-10 halftime lead thanks to Lock's touchdown scrambles of 5 and 23 yards, which made him the first Broncos quarterback with two touchdown runs in a game since Tim Tebow in 2011.
"Definitely not designed runs," said Lock, who lost all three of his starts after Teddy Bridgewater sustained a concussion against Cincinnati on Dec. 19.
HOME UNDERDOGS
The Chiefs were 11-point favorites according to FanDuel SportsBook marking just the third time in the last 42 years that the Broncos were double-digit home underdogs.
FANGIO'S FUTURE
Fangio got emotional in his postgame news conference but said he hadn't heard if he'd be back for the fourth year on his contract.
"You saw it out there tonight, a bunch of fighters and competitors" Fangio said after the Broncos' fourth straight loss dropped his record to 19-30. "And I think you saw it all year. And that's what these guys are. I'm proud to be associated with them. I'm not proud of our record. I know it's not good enough. I get it. But I'm proud to be associated with our players."
Chiefs RB Darrel Williams (toe) left early in the fourth quarter. Broncos RT Bobby Massie was added to the injury report Saturday with a concussion and was ruled out.
After this close call, the Chiefs get to cheer on the Texans.
The Broncos head into an offseason sure to include big changes.
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Chromium(II) chloride (T3D1436)
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T3D1436
Chromium(II) chloride
Chromium(II) chloride is a chloride of chromium. It is used as a precursor to other inorganic and organometallic chromium complexes. Chromium is a chemical element which has the symbol Cr and atomic number 24. It is found naturally occuring in rocks, animals, plants, and soil, and is usually mined as chromite ore. Chromium is most toxic in its +6 oxidation state (chromium(VI)) due to its greater ability to enter cells and higher redox potential. Trivalent chromium (chromium(III)) however, is biologically necessary for sugar and lipid metabolism in humans. (7, 9)
Compound Type
Chromium Compound
Industrial/Workplace Toxin
Inorganic Compound
Synthetic Compound
MOLSDFPDBSMILESInChI
Structure for T3D1436: Chromium(II) chloride
Chromium chloride
Chromous chloride
Average Molecular Mass
122.902 g/mol
Monoisotopic Mass
CAS Registry Number
dichlorochromium
Traditional Name
Cl[Cr]Cl
InChI Identifier
InChI=1S/2ClH.Cr/h2*1H;/q;;+2/p-2
InChIKey=XBWRJSSJWDOUSJ-UHFFFAOYSA-L
Chemical Taxonomy
belongs to the class of inorganic compounds known as transition metal chlorides. These are inorganic compounds in which the largest halogen atom is Chlorine, and the heaviest metal atom is a transition metal.
Mixed metal/non-metal compounds
Transition metal salts
Sub Class
Transition metal chlorides
Direct Parent
Alternative Parents
Inorganic chloride salts
Substituents
Transition metal chloride
Inorganic chloride salt
Molecular Framework
External Descriptors
Biological Properties
Detected and Not Quantified
Exogenous
Cellular Locations
Biofluid Locations
Tissue Locations
Biological Roles
Chemical Roles
White crystals.
Experimental Properties
Melting Point 824°C
Boiling Point Not Available
Solubility Not Available
LogP Not Available
Predicted Properties
logP 0.82 ChemAxon
Physiological Charge 0 ChemAxon
Hydrogen Acceptor Count 0 ChemAxon
Hydrogen Donor Count 0 ChemAxon
Polar Surface Area 0 Ų ChemAxon
Rotatable Bond Count 0 ChemAxon
Refractivity 12.27 m³·mol⁻¹ ChemAxon
Polarizability 7.27 ų ChemAxon
Number of Rings 0 ChemAxon
Bioavailability 1 ChemAxon
Rule of Five Yes ChemAxon
Ghose Filter Yes ChemAxon
Veber's Rule Yes ChemAxon
MDDR-like Rule Yes ChemAxon
Spectrum Type
Splash Key
Predicted LC-MS/MS Predicted LC-MS/MS Spectrum - 10V, Positive splash10-00di-0900000000-432e0760aef5ac02a0ba JSpectraViewer
Predicted LC-MS/MS Predicted LC-MS/MS Spectrum - 10V, Negative splash10-00di-0900000000-9d9703854ece45d3abc2 JSpectraViewer
Toxicity Profile
Route of Exposure
Oral (6) ; inhalation (6) ; dermal (6)
Mechanism of Toxicity
Trivalent chromium may also form complexes with peptides, proteins, and DNA, resulting in DNA-protein crosslinks, DNA strand breaks, DNA-DNA interstrand crosslinks, chromium-DNA adducts, chromosomal aberrations and alterations in cellular signaling pathways. It has been shown to induce carcinogenesis by overstimulating cellular regulatory pathways and increasing peroxide levels by activating certain mitogen-activated protein kinases. It can also cause transcriptional repression by cross-linking histone deacetylase 1-DNA methyltransferase 1 complexes to CYP1A1 promoter chromatin, inhibiting histone modification. Chromium may increase its own toxicity by modifying metal regulatory transcription factor 1, causing the inhibition of zinc-induced metallothionein transcription. (1, 6, 2, 3, 4)
Chromium is absorbed from oral, inhalation, or dermal exposure and distributes to nearly all tissues, with the highest concentrations found in kidney and liver. Bone is also a major storage site and may contribute to long-term retention. Hexavalent chromium's similarity to sulfate and chromate allow it to be transported into cells via sulfate transport mechanisms. Inside the cell, hexavalent chromium is reduced first to pentavalent chromium, then to trivalent chromium by many substances including ascorbate, glutathione, and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide. Chromium is almost entirely excreted with the urine. (1, 6)
Toxicity Values
LD50: 1870 mg/kg (Oral, Rat) (5)
Carcinogenicity (IARC Classification)
No indication of carcinogenicity (not listed by IARC). (8)
Uses/Sources
Chromium(II) chloride is used as a precursor to other inorganic and organometallic chromium complexes. (9)
Minimum Risk Level
Chromium in its trivalent state is not very toxic. It may be oxidized to hexavalent chromium, a known carcinogen. Hexavalent chromium has also been shown to affect reproduction and development. (1)
Chromium in its trivalent state is not very toxic, but it may be oxidized to hexavalent chromium. Breathing hexavalent chromium can cause irritation to the lining of the nose, nose ulcers, runny nose, and breathing problems, such as asthma, cough, shortness of breath, or wheezing. Ingestion of hexavalent chromium causes irritation and ulcers in the stomach and small intestine, as well as anemia. Skin contact can cause skin ulcers. (6)
There is no know antidote for chromium poisoning. Exposure is usually handled with symptomatic treatment. (6)
Normal Concentrations
Abnormal Concentrations
DrugBank ID
HMDB ID
KEGG ID
ChEBI ID
BioCyc ID
CTD ID
Stitch ID
ACToR ID
Wikipedia Link
Synthesis Reference
T3D1436.pdf
Salnikow K, Zhitkovich A: Genetic and epigenetic mechanisms in metal carcinogenesis and cocarcinogenesis: nickel, arsenic, and chromium. Chem Res Toxicol. 2008 Jan;21(1):28-44. Epub 2007 Oct 30. [17970581 ]
Kim G, Yurkow EJ: Chromium induces a persistent activation of mitogen-activated protein kinases by a redox-sensitive mechanism in H4 rat hepatoma cells. Cancer Res. 1996 May 1;56(9):2045-51. [8616849 ]
Schnekenburger M, Talaska G, Puga A: Chromium cross-links histone deacetylase 1-DNA methyltransferase 1 complexes to chromatin, inhibiting histone-remodeling marks critical for transcriptional activation. Mol Cell Biol. 2007 Oct;27(20):7089-101. Epub 2007 Aug 6. [17682057 ]
Kimura T: [Molecular mechanism involved in chromium(VI) toxicity]. Yakugaku Zasshi. 2007 Dec;127(12):1957-65. [18057785 ]
Lewis RJ (1996). Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials. 9th ed. Volumes 1-3. New York, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
ATSDR - Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (2008). Toxicological profile for chromium. U.S. Public Health Service in collaboration with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). [Link]
Wikipedia. Chromium. Last Updated 5 March 2009. [Link]
International Agency for Research on Cancer (2014). IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans. [Link]
Wikipedia. Chromium(II) chloride. Last Updated 29 May 2009. [Link]
Up-Regulated Genes
Down-Regulated Genes
1. Histone deacetylase 1
Transcription regulatory region sequence-specific dna binding
Specific Function:
Responsible for the deacetylation of lysine residues on the N-terminal part of the core histones (H2A, H2B, H3 and H4). Histone deacetylation gives a tag for epigenetic repression and plays an important role in transcriptional regulation, cell cycle progression and developmental events. Histone deacetylases act via the formation of large multiprotein complexes. Deacetylates SP proteins, SP1 and SP3, and regulates their function. Component of the BRG1-RB1-HDAC1 complex, which negatively regulates the CREST-mediated transcription in resting neurons. Upon calcium stimulation, HDAC1 is released from the complex and CREBBP is recruited, which facilitates transcriptional activation. Deacetylates TSHZ3 and regulates its transcriptional repressor activity. Deacetylates 'Lys-310' in RELA and thereby inhibits the transcriptional activity of NF-kappa-B. Deacetylates NR1D2 and abrogates the effect of KAT5-mediated relieving of NR1D2 transcription repression activity. Component of a RCOR/GFI/KDM1A/HDAC complex that suppresses, via histone deacetylase (HDAC) recruitment, a number of genes implicated in multilineage blood cell development. Involved in CIART-mediated transcriptional repression of the circadian transcriptional activator: CLOCK-ARNTL/BMAL1 heterodimer. Required for the transcriptional repression of circadian target genes, such as PER1, mediated by the large PER complex or CRY1 through histone deacetylation.
HDAC1
55102.615 Da
2. DNA
Used for biological information storage.
DNA contains the instructions needed for an organism to develop, survive and reproduce.
2.15 x 1012 Da
3. Metal regulatory transcription factor 1
Transcriptional activator activity, rna polymerase ii core promoter proximal region sequence-specific binding
Activates the metallothionein I promoter. Binds to the metal responsive element (MRE).
4. Mitogen-activated protein kinase 1
Rna polymerase ii carboxy-terminal domain kinase activity
Serine/threonine kinase which acts as an essential component of the MAP kinase signal transduction pathway. MAPK1/ERK2 and MAPK3/ERK1 are the 2 MAPKs which play an important role in the MAPK/ERK cascade. They participate also in a signaling cascade initiated by activated KIT and KITLG/SCF. Depending on the cellular context, the MAPK/ERK cascade mediates diverse biological functions such as cell growth, adhesion, survival and differentiation through the regulation of transcription, translation, cytoskeletal rearrangements. The MAPK/ERK cascade plays also a role in initiation and regulation of meiosis, mitosis, and postmitotic functions in differentiated cells by phosphorylating a number of transcription factors. About 160 substrates have already been discovered for ERKs. Many of these substrates are localized in the nucleus, and seem to participate in the regulation of transcription upon stimulation. However, other substrates are found in the cytosol as well as in other cellular organelles, and those are responsible for processes such as translation, mitosis and apoptosis. Moreover, the MAPK/ERK cascade is also involved in the regulation of the endosomal dynamics, including lysosome processing and endosome cycling through the perinuclear recycling compartment (PNRC); as well as in the fragmentation of the Golgi apparatus during mitosis. The substrates include transcription factors (such as ATF2, BCL6, ELK1, ERF, FOS, HSF4 or SPZ1), cytoskeletal elements (such as CANX, CTTN, GJA1, MAP2, MAPT, PXN, SORBS3 or STMN1), regulators of apoptosis (such as BAD, BTG2, CASP9, DAPK1, IER3, MCL1 or PPARG), regulators of translation (such as EIF4EBP1) and a variety of other signaling-related molecules (like ARHGEF2, DCC, FRS2 or GRB10). Protein kinases (such as RAF1, RPS6KA1/RSK1, RPS6KA3/RSK2, RPS6KA2/RSK3, RPS6KA6/RSK4, SYK, MKNK1/MNK1, MKNK2/MNK2, RPS6KA5/MSK1, RPS6KA4/MSK2, MAPKAPK3 or MAPKAPK5) and phosphatases (such as DUSP1, DUSP4, DUSP6 or DUSP16) are other substrates which enable the propagation the MAPK/ERK signal to additional cytosolic and nuclear targets, thereby extending the specificity of the cascade. Mediates phosphorylation of TPR in respons to EGF stimulation. May play a role in the spindle assembly checkpoint. Phosphorylates PML and promotes its interaction with PIN1, leading to PML degradation.Acts as a transcriptional repressor. Binds to a [GC]AAA[GC] consensus sequence. Repress the expression of interferon gamma-induced genes. Seems to bind to the promoter of CCL5, DMP1, IFIH1, IFITM1, IRF7, IRF9, LAMP3, OAS1, OAS2, OAS3 and STAT1. Transcriptional activity is independent of kinase activity.
MAPK1
Phosphatase binding
Serine/threonine kinase which acts as an essential component of the MAP kinase signal transduction pathway. MAPK1/ERK2 and MAPK3/ERK1 are the 2 MAPKs which play an important role in the MAPK/ERK cascade. They participate also in a signaling cascade initiated by activated KIT and KITLG/SCF. Depending on the cellular context, the MAPK/ERK cascade mediates diverse biological functions such as cell growth, adhesion, survival and differentiation through the regulation of transcription, translation, cytoskeletal rearrangements. The MAPK/ERK cascade plays also a role in initiation and regulation of meiosis, mitosis, and postmitotic functions in differentiated cells by phosphorylating a number of transcription factors. About 160 substrates have already been discovered for ERKs. Many of these substrates are localized in the nucleus, and seem to participate in the regulation of transcription upon stimulation. However, other substrates are found in the cytosol as well as in other cellular organelles, and those are responsible for processes such as translation, mitosis and apoptosis. Moreover, the MAPK/ERK cascade is also involved in the regulation of the endosomal dynamics, including lysosome processing and endosome cycling through the perinuclear recycling compartment (PNRC); as well as in the fragmentation of the Golgi apparatus during mitosis. The substrates include transcription factors (such as ATF2, BCL6, ELK1, ERF, FOS, HSF4 or SPZ1), cytoskeletal elements (such as CANX, CTTN, GJA1, MAP2, MAPT, PXN, SORBS3 or STMN1), regulators of apoptosis (such as BAD, BTG2, CASP9, DAPK1, IER3, MCL1 or PPARG), regulators of translation (such as EIF4EBP1) and a variety of other signaling-related molecules (like ARHGEF2, FRS2 or GRB10). Protein kinases (such as RAF1, RPS6KA1/RSK1, RPS6KA3/RSK2, RPS6KA2/RSK3, RPS6KA6/RSK4, SYK, MKNK1/MNK1, MKNK2/MNK2, RPS6KA5/MSK1, RPS6KA4/MSK2, MAPKAPK3 or MAPKAPK5) and phosphatases (such as DUSP1, DUSP4, DUSP6 or DUSP16) are other substrates which enable the propagation the MAPK/ERK signal to additional cytosolic and nuclear targets, thereby extending the specificity of the cascade.
This project is supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Canada Foundation for Innovation, and by The Metabolomics Innovation Centre (TMIC), a nationally-funded research and core facility that supports a wide range of cutting-edge metabolomic studies. TMIC is funded by Genome Canada, Genome Alberta, and Genome British Columbia, a not-for-profit organization that is leading Canada's national genomics strategy with $900 million in funding from the federal government.
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