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How The Financial System Is Being Used To Disempower Us
Tags: Banking, Federal Reserve
A way in which we can conceptualise the banking system is by imagining 100 people all being given $100 and as a result of this they are expected to pay back $110 at the end of the month. The only way in which you can earn extra money is by earning it from someone else in this group of 100. So there is $10000 in circulation, but $11000 needs to be paid back. In the best of situations this would mean 10 people would end up with nothing and go bankrupt, and the other 90 would be able to continue the cycle. But in our current system it does not work in this way as there is such inequality. It is more like 10 people have $5000 each and the 90 get $55.55 each, but still need the $110 at the end of the month. So as a result they have to borrow the extra $54.45 from one of the 10 with $5000 to keep on going, but for this to happen they will need to pay more interest and the never ending cycle continues.
The central reserve banks create money which are not backed by anything tangible, meaning there is no gold or asset supporting it, it is generated from nothing. They then put interest on that money, loan it to the banks and add their fees. The banks then loan it to the people and add interest. The money can never be paid back, as there is not enough money in circulation to pay back the debt. It is like one giant ponzi scheme that will eventually collapse.
This has ramifications on an individual level, but it is so much more far reaching than that. Because the debt keeps growing, the only way to keep feeding the system is through aggressive growth of industry. This comes at the expense of the environment, human rights and anything that can damage profits.
Our government is supported and influenced by this system and as a result the majority of the problems we face can be linked back to the financial sector. Halliburton a company that have armed multiple sides of global conflicts for nearly 100 years made $39.5 billion from the Iraq War (a bill picked up in part by taxpayers), they also had Dick Cheney as their CEO before he became vice president, Dick Cheney was very vocal on why we should go to war in Iraq. Does anyone see the conflict of interest here?
Education is provided to keep this system flowing and science for the most part is funded by organisations that have agendas. We literally have a system that is created to serve a very small group who want to disempower us, so they can continue with their abuse. The groups that are creating this mess are by definition parasites.
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@sirphenom I did, but the fact that their servers can still see the conversations was a turn-off. I really should mention it in the article.
@levisan Hmm... didn't know that. I was told it was HIPAA compliant too - oh well.


AYUCR's booster section is much like the booster section on any high-power rocket. There are a couple of interesting things I think are worth mentioning though. The original design for the booster called for baffled motor ejection to eliminate the need for wadding, a replacable forward section in case of damage on landing and a 29mm motor mount. The first two decisions were good ones, the last one was not. I severely underestimated the finished weight of the whole thing and ended up with a booster that could barely lift the rocket off the ground. Back to the drawing board.
Baffled motor ejection was basically used because I hate wadding. The cellulose insulation that many people use doesn't seem to work well unless you use a lot of it. I have had success with baffling in the past and since I was designing this rocket from the ground up I decided to use it. The motor mount tube would be pluged at the top. The motor ejection gases would escape from holes in the side of the motor mount tube into a compartment between the motor tube and the airframe. The gas would then escape through holes in the forward centering ring. I painted all surfaces along the path with Rustoleum High Heat Enamel to try to protect the surfaces over time. I cannot say if this has worked or not because I cannot get at the inside of the booster to inspect. It seemed like it couldn't hurt.


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Events from the year 1954 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents
 Monarch – Elizabeth II
 Prime Minister – Winston Churchill (Conservative)
 Parliament – 40th

Events
 10 January – a British Overseas Airways Corporation de Havilland Comet jet airliner on BOAC Flight 781 from Singapore to London crashes in the Mediterranean Sea following fatigue failure, killing all 35 on board.
 25 January – first broadcast of Dylan Thomas's radio play Under Milk Wood, two months after its author's death, with Richard Burton as 'First Voice', on the BBC Third Programme.
 12 February
 United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority founded.
 British Medical Committee report suggests the existence of a link between smoking and lung cancer.
 23 March – film of Doctor in the House released.
 24 March – after an eight-day trial at Winchester Assizes, The Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, his cousin Michael Pitt-Rivers, and their friend Peter Wildeblood  are convicted of "conspiracy to incite certain male persons to commit serious offences with male persons" or buggery and related charges. Pitt-Rivers and Wildebood are sentenced to eighteen months and Lord Montagu to twelve months in prison.
 2 April – BBC Television broadcasts the opening episode of The Grove Family, the first British TV soap opera.
 3 April – Oxford wins the 100th Boat Race.
 14 April – Aneurin Bevan resigns from the Labour Party's Shadow Cabinet in protest over his party's failure to oppose the rearmament of West Germany.
 24 April – Wolverhampton Wanderers win the Football League First Division title for the first time in their history. The result ends the hopes that their local rivals, FA Cup finalists West Bromwich Albion, had of becoming the first team of the 20th century to win the double of the league title and FA Cup.
 1 May – West Bromwich Albion win the FA Cup for the fourth time in their history with a 3-2 win over Preston North End in the final at Wembley Stadium.
 6 May – Roger Bannister becomes the first person to break the four-minute mile, at the Iffley Road Track of the University of Oxford.
 29 May – Diane Leather becomes the first woman to break the five-minute mile, at the Alexander Sports Ground in Birmingham.
 6 June – first broadcast on the Eurovision Network founded by Britain, Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland of a message from Pope Pius XII.
 12 June – an Irish Republican Army unit carries out a successful arms raid on Gough Barracks in Armagh, signalling the renewal of IRA activity following a long hiatus.
 30 June – Britain witnesses its first eclipse since 1927 as the eclipse in America casts its shadow over Europe and Asia.
 July – Crichel Down affair, a political scandal over compulsory land purchase leads to resignation of Sir Thomas Dugdale, the government minister responsible.
 4 July – fourteen years of rationing during and following World War II comes to an end when meat officially comes off ration.
 15 July – Donald McGill, the artist of saucy seaside postcards, found guilty of breaching the Obscene Publications Act 1857 in Lincoln.
 19 July – United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority established by the Atomic Energy Act "to produce, use and dispose of atomic energy and carry out research into any matters therewith".
 3 August – No. 1321 Flight RAF formed at RAF Wittering to bring the Blue Danube (nuclear weapon) into service with Vickers Valiant aircraft.
 4 August – maiden flight of the English Electric Lightning P-1 supersonic fighter plane.
 5 August – Julian Slade's musical Salad Days opens in London, following a premiere at the Bristol Old Vic; it becomes the longest-running musical in British theatre history until 1960.
 September
 Hunstanton Secondary Modern School, Hunstanton, Norfolk, considered a key building in modern British architecture, designed by Peter and Alison Smithson, opens.
 Kidbrooke School in the London Borough of Greenwich opens as England's first purpose-built comprehensive school.
 3 September – the National Trust for Scotland acquires Fair Isle.
 11 September – Roy of the Rovers comic strip first appears, on the cover of Tiger comic.
 14 September – Benjamin Britten's chamber opera The Turn of the Screw receives its world premiere at the Teatro La Fenice, Venice.
 15 September – the Wolfenden Committee, set up to report on "Homosexual Offences and Prostitution", convenes for the first time
 18 September
 Marble head of Mithras from London Mithraeum unearthed in Walbrook Square.
 The Last Night of the Proms for the first time features the almost invariable coupling of Sir Henry Wood's 1905 Fantasia on British Sea Songs, Sir Edward Elgar's 1902 setting of "Land of Hope and Glory", Sir Hubert Parry's 1916 setting of William Blake's "Jerusalem", and "Rule, Britannia!".
 22 September – Terence Rattigan's plays Separate Tables premiere in London.
 13 October – Chris Chataway breaks the world record for the 5000 metres by five seconds.
 14 October – the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie visits the United Kingdom.
 19 October
 Britain agrees to end its military occupation of the Suez Canal.
 A public inquiry into the de Havilland Comet airline disasters hears that metal fatigue was the most likely cause of the two recent crashes which claimed the lives of a total of 50 people.
 November – postwar government limitations on housebuilding are lifted.
 2 November – radio comedy series Hancock's Half Hour first aired.
 13 November
 The Great Britain national rugby league team beat France to win the first Rugby League World Cup at the Parc des Princes in Paris.
 BBC Television broadcasts the opening episode of Fabian of the Yard, the first British TV police procedural.
 27 November – the South Goodwin lightvessel is wrecked on the Goodwin Sands with the loss of six of the seven on board. The tanker World Concord breaks in two in the Irish Sea.
 29 November – the leading case of Ladd v Marshall is decided in the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, establishing criteria for the Court to admit fresh evidence in a case on which a judgement has already been delivered.
 30 November – Winston Churchill becomes the first, and to the present day; the only UK Prime Minister to celebrate his eightieth birthday whilst in office.
 25 December – 1954 Prestwick air disaster: BOAC Boeing 377 Stratocruiser G-ALSA crashes on landing at Prestwick Airport from London in poor visibility at 03:30, killing 28.
 Undated – the first UK Wimpy Bar is opened at the Lyons Corner House in Coventry Street, London.

Publications
 Kingsley Amis's first work of fiction, the comic campus novel Lucky Jim.
 Agatha Christie's spy novel Destination Unknown.
 Ian Fleming's James Bond spy novel Live and Let Die.
 William Golding's first book, the dystopian allegorical novel Lord of the Flies.
 C. S. Lewis's children's fantasy novel The Horse and His Boy, fifth of The Chronicles of Narnia.
 Iris Murdoch's first work of fiction, the philosophical picaresque novel Under the Net.
 Alan S. C. Ross's paper "Linguistic class-indicators in present-day English" in Neuphilologische Mitteilungen.
 Rosemary Sutcliff's historical children's novel The Eagle of the Ninth illustrated by C. Walter Hodges, first in the series of the same name.
 J. R. R. Tolkien's epic high fantasy novels The Fellowship of the Ring (29 July) and The Two Towers (11 November), the first two volumes of The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Births
 4 January – Dave Ulliott, professional poker player (died 2015)
 6 January
Anthony Minghella, film director (died 2008)
Trudie Styler, actress and activist
 10 January – John Gidman, footballer and manager
 9 February – Kevin Warwick, scientist
 16 February – Iain Banks, writer (died 2013)
 20 February – Anthony Head, actor
 22 January – Paul O'Brien, chemist (died 2018)
 4 March – Willie Thorne, snooker player (died 2020)
 8 March – David Wilkie, swimmer
 13 March – Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos, politician
 15 March – Clare Marx, surgeon (died 2022)
 16 March – Jimmy Nail, singer, songwriter, actor, film producer, and television writer
 17 March – Lesley-Anne Down, actress
 24 March – Jude Kelly, arts administrator
 30 March – Kari Blackburn, journalist (died 2007)
 1 April – Arnold Sidebottom, footballer and cricketer
 19 April – Trevor Francis, footballer
 1 May – Archie Norman, politician and businessman
 8 May – Gary Wilmot, entertainer
 9 May – Andrew Dillon, businessman
 14 May – Peter J. Ratcliffe, cellular biologist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
 28 May – Andy Hamilton, comedian, director and screenwriter
 10 July – Neil Tennant, musician
 18 July – Peter Crane, English-American botanist and academic
 2 August – Sammy McIlroy, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
 11 August – Joe Jackson, singer
 25 August – Elvis Costello, singer
 26 August – Steve Wright, disc jockey
 1 September – Richard Burden, politician
 15 September – Colin Cunningham, swimmer
 19 September – Mark Drakeford, Welsh politician
 24 September – Helen Lederer, Welsh comedian and actress
 3 November – Adam Ant, singer
 8 November – Kazuo Ishiguro, Japanese-born author, recipient of Nobel Prize in Literature
 5 December – Hanif Kureishi, novelist and screenwriter
 8 December – Louis de Bernières, author
 25 December – Annie Lennox, singer
 31 December – Alex Salmond, Scottish National Party leader and First Minister of Scotland

Deaths
 18 January – Sydney Greenstreet, actor (born 1879)
 20 January – Fred Root, cricketer (born 1890)
 8 February – Ronald Stuart, Royal Navy captain, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1886)
 4 March – John Dalzell Kenworthy, artist, sculptor and writer (born 1858)
 26 March – James Peters, black rugby union international (born 1879)
 29 April – K. C. Groom, fiction writer (born 1872)
 6 May – B. C. Forbes, Scottish-born publisher (born 1880)
 7 June – Alan Turing, mathematician, logician and cryptographer (born 1912)
 9 June – Arthur Greenwood, politician (born 1880)
 11 July – Henry Valentine Knaggs, physician and author (born 1859)
 24 September – Edward Pilgrim, victim of bureaucracy (born 1904)
 20 December – James Hilton, novelist (born 1900)

See also
 1954 in British music
 1954 in British television
 List of British films of 1954

References

Years of the 20th century in the United Kingdom

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Joan Of Bar
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Heroines of the Medieval World by Sharon Bennett Connolly
On Saturday, 14th October, Conisbrough Castle was the venue for my first talk after the release of my book, Heroines of the Medieval World. In the glorious sunshine, the Castle looked spectacular, the ideal setting for a history talk.
I grew up just 5 miles from Conisbrough Castle and so, as a child, every summer holiday included a picnic at the castle and a climb to the top of the keep. As a student I volunteered at the castle, helping out at events and giving guided tours to school groups. In those days, the castle was just a shell, with green slime on the walls, but now it has floors inside, a roof to protect it from the elements and visual displays throughout. The Visitor Centre has a small museum with a cartoon strip telling the castle's story and interactive displays for the kids. Conisbrough Castle's only claim to fame seemed to be its link to Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, in which it played the part of a Saxon stronghold.
Conisbrough Castle, South Yorkshire, built by Hamelin and Isabel de Warenne in the late twelfth century. (Heroines of the Medieval World, Amberley Publishing)
However, Conisbrough had been very much a Norman stronghold since the Conquest, given as a prize to one of William the Conquerors' most loyal followers, William de Warenne, first earl of Warenne and Surrey. My talk took place on the 951st anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, the day the Castle changed hands. On the morning of the battle, it belonged to Harold II, but by the end of the day Harold had lost the kingdom and his life and Conisbrough was a prize of war.
Heroines of the Medieval World looks at the lives of the women – famous, infamous and unknown who broke the mould. Those who defied social norms and made their own future, consequently changing lives, society and even the course of history. Four of the women in the book had strong connections with Conisbrough Castle, and so it seemed appropriate to hold my first talk and book signing at my 'home' castle.
Roche Abbey, final resting place of Maud Clifford, Countess of Cambridge. (Heroines of the Medieval World, Amberley Publishing)
My talk concentrated on these four women, telling the stories of their lives and explaining their links to this magnificent castle. The first was Isabel de Warenne, great granddaughter of the first Earl of Warenne and Surrey. Isabel was one of the greatest heiresses in England and it was her second husband, Hamelin, who was responsible for building the keep we still see today. The second Heroine was Joan of Bar, neglected wife of the last de Warenne Earl of Surrey. She was followed by Isabel of Castile, who gave birth to her son, Richard of Conisbrough, Earl of Cambridge, within the castle walls and thus became the matriarch of the York dynasty which would rule England under Edward IV, Edward V and Richard III. And the last was Maud de Clifford, widow of Richard of Conisbrough, who lived out her life at the castle and was buried at nearby Roche Abbey, and who had family on both sides of the Wars of the Roses.
The talk was aimed at demonstrating the many links that Conisbrough Castle has to the major events in English medieval history, from the Norman Conquest, to the disastrous reign of Edward II and the civil war which became known as the Wars of the Roses. Conisbrough Castle and its former residents have a rich history and it was a pleasure to bring just a few moments of it to life.
Attended by over 50 people, the audience was made up of friends, family, readers of my book and blog – historytheinterestingbits.com - and visitors who had called at the Castle because it was a gorgeous Saturday afternoon. And they were aged from 3 to 73! I was nervous – the last time I had done a talk was when I used to give tours at this very castle as a student. I had made plenty of notes, but in the end, I never even looked at them. The stories just flowed, from one Medieval Heroine to the next, with the children kept busy counting the number of Heroines, and the number of gruesome deaths!
However, the audience was lovely. Some had travelled from as far afield as Manchester, Staffordshire and Nottinghamshire. One lady gave me flowers and another gave me a 'congratulations' card from The Swinton Book Lovers Club (from my home town). Several people had brought their copies of 'Heroines of the Medieval World' for me to sign and many more bought the book on the day – it was a pleasure to sign every single copy.
I am very grateful to the staff at Conisbrough Castle, who were absolutely wonderful, welcoming guests and encouraging visitors to join the talk, and even offering discounts on Castle entry to anyone who had a copy of my book.
It was a perfect day.
Sharon Bennett Connolly's new book Heroines of the Medieval World is available for purchase now.
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He Walked with a Zombie
Geoffrey O'Brien
March 9, 2006 issue
The Val Lewton Horror Collection
9 films by Val Lewton
DVD box set, $59.98
Icons of Grief: Val Lewton's Home Front Pictures
by Alexander Nemerov
University of California Press, 213 pp., $60.00; $24.95 (paper)
The creative career of Val Lewton—the part with a continuing afterlife—lasted just four years, from the spring of 1942, when pre-production work began on his film Cat People, until April 1946, when Bedlam, the last of the eleven films he produced for RKO, was released. Nine of those films—all but the studio-mangled melodrama Youth Runs Wild and the underrated Maupassant adaptation Mademoiselle Fifi—have now been released on DVD as "The Val Lewton Horror Collection," providing a welcome opportunity for reimmersion in a body of work whose power to fascinate seems to have grown over time.
Probably unavoidably, the films are being marketed with the same misleading poster art and the promises of "chillers," "shockers," and "tales of terror" that inveigled their original audiences into anticipating something quite different from what they got. What they actually did get remains mysterious enough to keep these movies from becoming comfortably campy artifacts of another era. Like flowers preternaturally slow to unfold, they seem to be still in the process of revealing their final form: odd as it may be that such miraculous freshness should be suggested by movies whose themes are inescapably decay, morbid regret, the temptation to welcome death.
Even when we know them well they continue to instill, as in John Ashbery's description of The Seventh Victim, "the feeling that the ground under our feet is unstable." What Lewton's movies are actually about, in the most literal sense, is always open to question; one can watch I Walked with a Zombie or The Seventh Victim or Isle of the Dead many times without being able to give a coherent summary of their plots. On its release, Bosley Crowther in The New York Times thought that The Seventh Victim "might make more sense if it was run backward." (Lewton's most narratively coherent picture, The Body Snatcher, adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson's story, though admirable in many ways, has less of his distinctive poetry than the others.) In American film, the only predecessors that come to mind for such destabilizing effects are Edgar Ulmer's formally rigorous Gothic delirium The Black Cat (1934) and Joseph Cornell's Rose Hobart (1936), in which Cornell took the seventy-six-minute jungle picture East of Borneo (1932) and condensed and recombined its sequences into nineteen minutes of mesmeric suggestiveness, a dream vision of what remains of movies after their stories have gone.
Alexander Nemerov's recent critical study of Lewton—Icons of Grief: Val Lewton's Home Front Pictures—demonstrates, with its lyrical, nearly trancelike dedication to defining the elusive essence of these films, the capacity of Lewton's work to draw its commentators ever deeper into the mood of dreamy morbidity that infuses Cat People and The Leopard Man and Isle of the Dead. Lewton is the Ancient Mariner of filmmakers: like the old sailor at the beginning of The Ghost Ship or the ominous calypso singer in I Walked with a Zombie, he hooks you with the beginning of a tale and leads you on through the bewildering paces of a journey whose significance (could it ever be determined) might hinge on fleeting, apparently random encounters with minor characters or with abrupt and inexplicable deviations from the main trail. His films might be described as mood pieces interrupted by discordant apparitions, but that would make them sound flimsier and vaguer than the vigorously graphic compositions that they are: not dreamy but, rather, truly dreamlike, which is to say hauntingly specific, brutally elliptical, wily in their resistance to easy explanation.
Prior to his brief flowering, Lewton had been a dabbler in journalism, poetry, and pornography, a writer of pulp novels with titles like Where the Cobra Sings and The Cossack Sword, a publicist at MGM, and for eight doubtless grueling years a writer, story editor, and factotum for David Selznick; afterward, poor health and professional misfortune pretty much sidelined him before he died at forty-six in 1951. From what came before, it would have been impossible to predict the nature and the durability of the work he did at RKO, but the very disparateness of his early career offers some clues to the peculiar qualities of that work. Born as Vladimir Leventon in Yalta in 1904, he and his family had come to America five years later to rejoin his mother's younger sister, who as Alla Nazimova had become a Broadway star—the great exponent of Ibsen—and whose subsequent filmmaking career would clear a way for Lewton in the film business.
Lewton's early literary productions veered from the aspirations of Old-World high culture to the imperatives of hard-boiled American brashness, from poems written under the pseudonym Toison d'Or to novels exploring tabloid crime cases (The Fateful Star Murder) and the misadventures of hard-luck girls drifting into prostitution (No Bed of Her Own). A certain neurotic flamboyance seems to have impressed people early on—"Two particular phobias of Lewton's youth," his biographer Edmund G. Bansak notes, "were his fear of cats and his extreme aversion to being touched"—but any artistic ambitions were rapidly subsumed by the demands of commercial work: he was, in his son's words,
a kind of hack, but he enjoyed the challenge that came with turning hack work into something special…. There is a sort of pride in being a whore. He saw a certain honesty in being able to make a living.*
Whatever mixture of whorish pride, dandyish rebellion, barely suppressed phobia, aesthetic yearning, and nostalgia for the lost world of his birthplace might swirl in Lewton's consciousness (his son described him as "a strange combination of gentleness and authoritarianism"), he had acquired through those eight years with Selznick as thorough a command of the practicalities of grand-scale filmmaking as anyone in Hollywood. He had been responsible, with the director Jacques Tourneur, for the memorable revolutionary scenes in the 1935 A Tale of Two Cities, and took credit for some of the most vivid details—"the harp, the parrot, and the ancestral portraits being taken out of town"—in the evacuation of Atlanta in Gone with the Wind. He had also apparently been pushed to his limits by that most obsessive of moguls: "You can't talk reason," he wrote of Selznick, "to a man who believes that he has made the greatest motion picture of all time, past, present, and future."
There is a quality of happy accident to the inception of his career at RKO. Had it not been for the failure of Orson Welles's The Magnificent Ambersons—a debacle that led to executive upheaval at the studio—there might have been no occasion to celebrate Lewton. As it was, the timing was perfect; Lewton wanted to leave Selznick, and RKO's new chief, Charles Koerner, was looking for someone who could help move the studio in a more frankly commercial direction. Universal had just made a huge profit on The Wolf Man, and so Koerner invited Lewton to head up a unit dedicated to turning out short, low-budget horror films. Lewton liked to joke that somebody had said he wrote "horrible novels" and the studio had misconstrued it as "horror novels."
An instinctive anti-authoritarian who had learned to play the game had now been entrusted with a good deal of authority, however tightly defined the limits within which it could be exercised. Lewton was still answerable to the studio executives he despised. His budgets were stringent, and the films had to be marketed to an audience assumed by RKO to crave only the most lurid stimulation, in an era whose horror movies were dominated by werewolves, apemen, brain transplants, and old dark houses of the creakiest kind. Even the titles were often imposed: Cat People and I Walked with a Zombie, the first two productions, began in fact as nothing but titles, with Lewton obliged to concoct stories to match.
With Cat People Lewton demonstrated that he could give his bosses what they wanted—a movie brought in for under $135,000 which grossed some $4 million worldwide—while altogether subverting their notions of what a horror movie should be. Lewton's most obvious breakthrough was to avoid showing what the audience is supposed to be afraid of, on the grounds that what we don't see is more frightening than what we see—and also cheaper to depict in a movie. This approach has largely defined his popular reputation, as evidenced in the titles of Bansak's biography (Fearing the Dark) and the documentary that accompanies the DVD set (Shadows in the Dark), not to mention the episode of Vincente Minnelli's The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) where producer Kirk Douglas applies the same method to the production of Doom of the Cat Men. Jane Randolph's long walk through Central Park, stalked by an unseen panther, in which the only scary thing that happens in the end is a bus whooshing harmlessly to an abrupt halt, is the classic instance, the blueprint for what became an unavoidable cliché of horror films.
In fact, whatever effect it may have had on audiences in 1942, Cat People now seems one of the least frightening of horror films. What it has instead is a sinuously strung out mood of barely suppressed eroticism and gnawing discontent that develops from the opening instants, when Kent Smith as Oliver Reed—the straightest of straight men, "a good plain Americano" in his own words—meets, at the Central Park zoo, the exotic Simone Simon, as the Serbian émigré artist Irena Dubrovna, who fears she may be one of the diabolical "cat people" driven underground in medieval times. They fall in love and get married, but the marriage cannot be consummated because of her fear that sex will unleash her destructive cat-nature; he sends her to a psychiatrist, and then finds consolation with a less troubled girlfriend. The mood created is not of horror so much as the disorientations of exile and the lingering sadness of sexual dissatisfaction.
Everything is in the details: Irena turning on a light in a darkened room as she murmurs, "I like the dark, it's friendly"; her encounter with the unknown catlike woman who stares at her and greets her as a sister (an exchange of glances that lasts only a second but flavors the whole film); the beads of water clinging to Irena's naked back as she crouches forward in a tub with clawlike feet (an image of startling erotic potency for 1942 Hollywood); the giant black statue of the Egyptian god Anubis by which she stands on a museum stairway. Even the most genuinely frightening scene—in which Irena, in (unseen) panther form, stalks her rival, Kent Smith's girlfriend, in a deserted swimming pool—lingers in the mind more for the exhilarating patterns of the lights in the water, an explosion of pure abstraction brilliantly realized by the director, Jacques Tourneur, and cinematographer, Nicholas Musuraca.
The huge success of Cat People enabled Lewton to keep making, under the guise of B-movie thrillers, movies that are often more like symbolist poems or obscure fetishistic rituals. They are not so much frightening as unnervingly strange and shot through with a palpable melancholy. They are almost too beautiful to be scary, except that the beauty that soothes is finally what most unsettles. As Tom Conway, playing a world-weary plantation owner in I Walked with a Zombie, remarks to the young nurse who is accompanying him to his island home, across a glistening sea evoked with gorgeously blatant cinematographic fakery: "That luminous water—it takes its gleam from millions of dead bodies, the glitter of putrescence. There's no beauty here, only death and decay."
The intensely personal quality of these films is not belied by their being thoroughly collective enterprises. If in Hollywood tradition the producer is usually characterized as someone who interferes with other people's work, Lewton was the rare instance of a producer directing the best energies of his collaborators—among them the writers Donald Henderson Clarke and DeWitt Bodeen (abetted by Lewton himself, sometimes under the pseudonym Carlos Keith), the cinematographers Nicholas Musuraca and Robert De Grasse, the omnipresent composer Roy Webb—toward a seamlessly unified effect. Obsessive and controlling he could certainly be, but there is little suggestion that he curtailed or distorted the intentions of those he worked with. In Jacques Tourneur, who directed Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie, and The Leopard Man, he found the perfect partner, a film poet who imparted luminous intensity to every moment of those films; but in the other films, directed by Robert Wise and Mark Robson, both originally editors who had worked with Orson Welles, Lewton achieved results as expressive, if less unfailingly inspired.
Quite aside from any question of expressive beauty, one could look at these films purely as instances of extraordinary skill marshaled under the most restrictive circumstances. Their brevity (they range in length from sixty-six to seventy-nine minutes), their slender budgets, their reliance on preexisting production materials (costumes and sets from Gone with the Wind, The Magnificent Ambersons, and The Bells of St. Mary's are worked in as needed), above all the requirement that the end product be acceptable in a precisely defined commercial niche (however puzzled horror audiences may have been to find that Curse of the Cat People was in fact a delicate fantasy of childhood loneliness): to have satisfied all those conditions and still produced work of such careful detail and defiant individuality was a rare feat. It is not hard to understand the impact produced on contemporary critics like Manny Farber ("They are about the only Hollywood movies in which the writing and direction try to keep in front of rather than behind the audience's intelligence") and James Agee ("I esteem them so highly because for all their unevenness their achievements are so consistently alive, limber, poetic, humane, so eager toward the possibilities of the screen, and so resolutely against the grain of all we have learned to expect from the big studios").
Part of what made Lewton's films stand out was their flaunting of cultural sophistication. The Seventh Victim opens with a quote from John Donne ("I run to Death, and Death meets me as fast,/And all my Pleasures are like Yesterday"); Isle of the Dead takes its title and its central image from Arnold Böcklin's painting; The Body Snatcher weaves in a traditional British ballad of the sort that might have been found on a Folkways release; Bedlam, set in eighteenth-century London, reenacts Hogarth's print of Bedlam in the "Rake's Progress" series; I Walked with a Zombie is serious in its effort to incorporate calypso music and Haitian ritual, not to mention the way it makes the legacy of slavery a central theme through the recurring visual motif of "Ti Misery," a slave-ship figurehead of Saint Sebastian. Fashion illustrators, psychoanalysts, and Greenwich Village poets are characteristic denizens of Lewton's world, while hints of homosexual interest (the cat woman who accosts Irena, the intellectual radio officer who flirts openly with the hero of The Ghost Ship) play around its edges.
A world is acknowledged in which the exotic—rhumba music, ethnic restaurants, Elizabethan poetry, books on psychology—is normal, while the all-American straightness of the office workers in Cat People or the Christmas carolers in Curse of the Cat People has begun to seem strange. (The backlot New York of Cat People and The Seventh Victim carries a powerful charge of displaced ordinariness which became diffused when Lewton switched to costume pictures like The Body Snatcher and Bedlam.)
Finally there is the dialogue, in its day often characterized as surprisingly literate, if not as ponderously literary, but just as important as the images in Lewton's cinematic scheme. Words are important here, and the self-conscious verbal flourishes are there to make sure their importance is not missed. In his essay on The Seventh Victim John Ashbery describes "our sense throughout the film that people are saying anything that comes into their heads," but the sort of thing that comes into their heads often seems a message from beyond the confines of the narrative, a prophetic tip that however solemn or obvious produces a jarring effect by the unexpectedness with which it is dropped in. "The poor don't cheat one another. We're all poor together." "Caged animals are unpredictable—they're like frustrated human beings." "Authority cannot be questioned." "The people who live only by the law are both wrong and cruel." "The horseman on the pale horse is pestilence; it follows the wars." "Amy, listen to me. Death isn't such a terrible thing." "—What was the matter with him?—I don't know, sir. He didn't want to die."
Yet after we have remarked on their influence on subsequent filmmakers, their technical inventiveness, and the heterogeneity of an allusive range that gives them a collage-like quality, there remains the heart of Lewton's films to be accounted for: the emotional force that makes them a great deal more than the sum of their very diverting parts. In Icons of Grief, Alexander Nemerov links that force directly to the war which was raging at a distance when the films were made; the persistent sadness, the inescapable presence of death are an acknowledgment of a grief that the American public would rather avoid facing but to which Lewton, more Russian than American at heart, responds with imagery that reflects the religious icons of his cultural past, imagery that he smuggles into films which are marketed as quickie thrillers.
Nemerov develops his thesis forcefully and with a rich complement of period detail ranging from Norman Rockwell magazine covers to photographs of dead soldiers in Life; he discerns historical necessity in every detail of the way things happen to fall out, so that, for example, the mad boy in Bedlam, painted gold for the amusement of courtiers and who dies of asphyxia in consequence, becomes an emblem of the bomb that had fallen on Hiroshima five days before the scene was shot:
The close-up of the boy's face…is a post-Hiroshima editing choice that seems, all unknowing, to give some imaginative expression to radiation sickness, flash burns, and the bomb's other terrible effects.
Whatever one makes of the farther reaches of this associative logic, Icons of Grief is a superbly original (and intricately researched) attempt to define the singularity of this work. Nemerov identifies two crucial and related aspects of Lewton's aesthetic: the unusual importance he allows minor characters and his penchant for figures of iconic immobility "standing statuesque and alone…." "This figure," he writes,
would…arrest the flow of the film, suspend the plot, and for just those moments produce the melancholy and all-but-sculptural frozenness of a world that has stopped.
To linger on the icons Nemerov singles out—Simone Simon as the ghostly Irena standing in the snow in Curse of the Cat People and singing an old French song to a troubled child; Skelton Knaggs as the mute Finnish sailor in The Ghost Ship, sharpening his knife aboard the ill-omened Altair as we hear his thoughts in voice-over ("I am cut off from other men, but in my own silence I can hear things they cannot hear"); Darby Jones as the catatonic zombie Carre-Four who guards with staring eyes the path to the houmfort in I Walked with a Zombie; and Glenn Vernon as Bedlam's Gilded Boy—is to confirm how elegantly he has moved into the core of Lewton's parallel cinematic world, finding out the privileged sacred recesses and translating the oracular pronouncements. He makes overt what one might have sensed all along, that Lewton's stories are contrived so as to provide a way out of the story, to be liberated beyond plot into a commemorative domain of stillness and silence, grounded in "a prerational, magical conception of the image." Writing of the somnambulistic gait of two key figures in I Walked with a Zombie, he describes how Lewton "tried to slow movement down enough so that, almost impossibly, it too might take on the quality of stillness." Throughout Nemerov captures with exactness the qualities of cadence and composition that draw one back to these movies, and underscores how deliberately those effects evade the spectator's expectations.
He emphasizes finally the "minor mode" of Lewton's films, their deliberate offhandedness and underplaying of what might otherwise be grandiloquent moments. The penitential procession at the end of The Leopard Man—a march across the desert to commemorate a massacre of Indians by conquistadors—is powerful precisely because of the extreme concision of the images that record it, so far from big-scale Hollywood bombast. In Lewton's films the unexpected erupts, then vanishes as rapidly—vanishes from sight but not from memory. Here digressions are central, fleeting characters are dominant, and moments of stasis and silence are the heart of the action.
Prolonged contemplation of this toy theater, with its artificial sets and lighting, its densely furnished frames in which small figures are crowded together in artful tableaux, its bric-a-brac of songs, statues, poetic mottoes, and obscure rituals, prompts questions about what audience this performance is really intended for. The odd blankness of many of the principal players, offset by the vividness and grotesquerie of characters who may emerge only for a moment, might be standing in for the spectator: it's as if the leading characters, those naive intruders, were themselves watching a film, and found themselves constantly bewildered by the narrative's gaps and rapid changes of focus. In this world you never know where to look or whom to trust. The cleaning woman on her hands and knees in the lobby of the office building in Cat People is somehow as important—the image's composition tells us so—as the panther-threatened leads, and when the police chief in The Leopard Man describes an otherwise insignificant shoeshine man as "a genius in his own line," the piece of dialogue dangles like an Ariadnean thread to lead out of the labyrinth, as if the whole world were hanging on a shoestring.
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Buster Keaton made his own kind of sense out of the perplexities of existence in ways baffling to those among whom he found himself.
Schemes Gone Awry
Richard Wilbur's translations of Molière, now in the Library of America, have a fluency that goes beyond meter and rhyme to encompass textures of speech and movements of thought.
Verdi's Decentered Epic
The six principal characters of Don Carlos grasp at separate ends, but nothing is finally to be attained.
Geoffrey O'Brien's latest books are Where Did Poetry Come From and the poetry collection Who Goes There. (October 2022)
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The Current Cinema
The Young Pretender
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The Charms of Terror
January 30, 1992 issue
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Marathon Madness


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The Ritz-Carlton Pays Homage to Japan's Cultural Heart with the Opening of The Ritz-Carlton, Kyoto
Japan's First Urban Resort Officially Opens
Kyoto – February 7, 2014: Heralded as one of the most highly-anticipated openings of 2014 in one of the world's most culturally-rich cities, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C. and Sekisui House, Ltd., one of Japan's leading property developers, officially opened The Ritz-Carlton, Kyoto today; the city's first truly international luxury hotel and Japan's first urban resort.
Located in the heart of a city famed for its Zen temples, palaces and gardens, the riverside resort brings the unsurpassed elegance and renowned service of The Ritz-Carlton to Kyoto, while honoring the cultural heritage of the city through design.
"We are honoured to open our fourth Ritz-Carlton in Japan, in the beautiful city of Kyoto. Our customers are always looking to explore evocative, new and inspiring destinations and have long expressed a desire for us to offer in this incredible location" said Herve Humler, president and chief operating officer of The Ritz-Carlton. "I believe this hotel offers a timeless window to Japan and complements perfectly 85 other Ritz-Carlton properties around the globe."
The Ritz-Carlton, Kyoto is a peaceful sanctuary. It sits on the gentle banks of the Kamogawa River in Nijho Ohashi, close to Kyoto's popular downtown areas including Gion and Kawaramachi-dori, the city's retail and entertainment districts.
The hotel's luxury guestrooms and suites offer full views of the river and the Higashiyama Mountains. The architects and designers have retained the character and aesthetic of a traditional Meiji house and courtyard into the architectural structure of the building. The interiors created by Peter Remedios and Spin Studios pay homage to the traditions of Japan, with patterned motifs created by local artisans and the incorporation of Zen rock gardens (karesansui) and water features, including a four-storey waterfall are aesthetically positioned in the heart of the hotel.
The Kamogawa Suite and its sister suites with their moon deck gardens (tsukimidai) and floor to ceiling windows offer luxurious accommodations with enviable panoramic views of the river and mountains, forming an unrivalled sanctuary of luxury refinement and service.
The Ritz-Carlton Spa, nestled at the foot of the waterfall, features seven intimate and inviting treatment rooms and offers signature services inspired by the rich culture of Japan and ESPA. These include a traditional Acupressure Massage using the dry Shiatsu techniques as well as the Ryokucha Serenity Ritual based on green tea leaves, Gyokuro, dried from the Sun for 20 days in Uji, southern Kyoto and famed for their restorative properties.
In a city famed for its culinary offerings, The Ritz-Carlton, Kyoto adds new and distinctive fine-dining experiences against an elegant backdrop.
The Japanese restaurant, Mizuki, modeled around a dynamic landscape composed of stone garden, water fall and historical features, serves modern Japanese cuisine including a famed Kaiseki options alongside sushi, tempura and teppanyaki. The restaurant includes an outdoor terrace complete with fire pits for gourmet diners to enjoy the dynamic scenery during Sakura and Autumn seasons.
La Locanda, the Italian restaurant, pays homage to the hotel site's history. Its private room, called Ebisugawatei, is a preserved historically-listed building while the restaurant also features its own walk-in charcuterie and l'affineur cheese cellar. The unrivalled wine list offers 250 varieties from Super Tuscans to Italian regional classics.
Meanwhile, Pierre Hermé Paris, creator of Haute Pâtisserie, will bring his popular creations and introduce an exclusive range of signature desserts to The Ritz-Carlton, Kyoto. The unique collaboration will showcase his work throughout the property including restaurants, meetings, weddings and banquets.
The Ritz-Carlton, Kyoto also introduces extraordinary meetings, luxury weddings and special events spaces with four rooms, each named after a cherry blossom species – Takane Ballroom, Kocho, Shidare and Kanzan meeting rooms. The property will also feature a wedding showroom consulting for couples on their big day, showcasing the detailed finery and services that will transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.
Exceptionally rich in beauty, history, spirituality and culture, Kyoto draws 50 million visitors annually to experience the former capital of Japan and its 17 UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The city and its environs is also home to almost a quarter of Japan's national treasures. While many of these visitors are Japanese, there is real growth in the numbers of international visitors coming to the city, and Kyoto is now very much must-see destination for sophisticated global travelers who are attracted to the city for its quintessential Japanese experience.


The standard length for a US resume is one to two pages.
A resume that dates back too far can make an applicant look older or automatically convince the hiring manager that you will want more money than they want to pay.
A resume with too many listings can make it appear as if you can't hold a job. This might cause the hiring manager to question why you move around so much. In particular, if you need to list more than two employers for a single year, it can leave a negative impression.
A resume that focuses on repetitive job listings because of short-term or contract employment can lose a reader's interest and they might not take note of your significant accomplishments as a result.
Even though many online job applications will request detailed dates of employment (including day, month, or both along with the year), it is best to use only years for your resume. Using only years will allow you to leave temporary employment off your resume and cover other small job gaps that would appear if you include months.
It is understandable if you don't leave one job and immediately start another. A job search can take several months. Some people even use being downsized as an opportunity to spend time with family or take a vacation they couldn't go on while working. There is just no reason to advertise that you were unemployed for an extended period of time. So just go ahead and use only years for when you started and ended your employment.
Sometimes a job doesn't work out. Maybe it wasn't a good fit. Perhaps the company was sold and restructured right after you were hired. Maybe you were recruited to a more ideal position just a few months after you started a new role. Or perhaps you took the role knowing it would be short-term.
No matter what, if you held the job for only a few months and it doesn't add anything to your resume, go ahead and leave it off. Since you need to limit your resume to two pages and want to avoid the perception of job hoping, omitting short-term employment can help you achieve those goals. The only reason to make an exception is if you accomplished something significant at that job that can't be covered with any other role.
In order to avoid the appearance of job hoping, you may want to consider grouping contract roles or freelance employment together on your resume. If you can group three or more together under a title such as "Contract Project Manager" or "Contract Business Consultant" that can save space and give the appearance that you were working in one capacity for several years instead of several months.
Leveraging this strategy can be particularly useful when you have performed similar duties in multiple contract roles. That way, instead of being repetitive on your resume, you can list all those job duties under one position. Then you can list special achievements by company name.
Generally speaking, hiring managers are only interested in your last 10 to 15 years of experience. If you are a senior-level manager or executive, your experience probably far exceeds that range. Still, there are times when people don't want to completely omit their earlier experience. In those cases, summarizing your work in a career note can be effective. When doing so, you can include a highlight or two, but go ahead and leave out years, using only your title and company name.
Career Note: Prior experience includes Senior Finance Manager for Company X, overseeing P&L for $2M in revenue, and Senior Accountant/Consultant for Company Y and the Big 4 Firm XYZ.
While the phrase "less is more" can certainly be applied to resume writing, it can also be carried too far. I've seen resumes where the person stripped out so much of their professional experience that it looked like they were a recent graduate instead of a Senior-Level Manager. A resume needs to strike the delicate balance of being brief and impactful while still giving the applicant the weight of experience the job demands. One good guide is to keep the word count to 700 - 800 words. That should allow you to make a positive impression on the reader without bogging them down in too much detail.


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Tottenham Hotspur (BENNY)
Filmed: May 2022
Release status: Unreleased
Shown in: Twitter - Worldwide
London football club, Tottenham Hotspurs (commonly referred to as just "Spurs") have a new signing from Sweden in the form of national Swedish football star, Dejan Kulusevski, who was on loan from Juventus (Italian football team).
On Tuesday 10 May, Spurs' social media platforms posted this short video of British comedian Michael McIntyre singing a football chant with Benny to the tune of Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) with the tag-line, "The duet you didn't know you needed... Michael McIntyre and ABBA's Benny Andersson".
Apparently football fans have been chanting this for Dejan Kulusevski for a while with the following lyrics:
Gimme, gimme, gimme a ginger from Sweden
He came from Juventus,
And he plays on the wing
His name is Kulusevski
View Benny and Michael McIntyre here on Instagram
Where this was filmed and when I do not know.
This whole thing confused me at first because Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal are both North London football clubs and fierce rivals. It is known that Benny is an Arsenal supporter so why would he be joining in for a Spurs player? Probably because he's Swedish and plays for the national side, but what do I know? I am Just A Girl.
Thanks to Anna Mailer c/o ABBAtalk.


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More than 7,000 Kids Decide to Follow Jesus –YFC
Billy Graham Archive & Research Center is Now Open
'Praise the Lord!' Ukrainian Christians Cheer Kherson Liberation
JESUS Film Makes History, Now Translated in 2,000 Languages
U.S. Renews Calls Against Blasphemy Laws
MercyMe hopes new album can help heal divisions: 'We've got a divided body of Christ'
Frustrated with Hallmark? Try Great American Family
By: Joyce Dimaculangan
The Youth for Christ (YFC) announced that 7,323 kids and teens made the decision to follow Jesus Christ this year. This is twice the record reported in 2021.
"I know that God is going to use YFC to bring revival to today's kids," said YFC President and CEO Jake Bland. "God's Spirit is moving through leaders everywhere across the nation, The Gospel is needed and as effective as ever, especially as the unfailing love of Christ meets today's changing youth landscape."
God is already uncovering His story of hope among this next generation, and I believe He's preparing to do even more. —Jake Bland, Youth for Christ president and CEO
Bland said today's youth faces issues which are different in nature. For example, he pointed out that 20 years ago, the biggest issues for teens were drunk driving or teen pregnancy, but now, it's their mental health. "The U.S. Surgeon General recently declared youth mental health as a state of emergency."
He added that what's disturbing is that the young are dealing with mental health problems, but one-third of them have no trusted adults in their lives. "Over 50% of youth are not connected to a church. The reality is our kids in this nation are at a vulnerable tipping point — a pivotal moment. There's a whole generation that could slip through the cracks."
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), one in seven 10 to 19-year-olds experiences a mental disorder. The young people are dealing with depression, anxiety and behavioral disorders that are among the leading causes of illness and disability among adolescents. The report found that, globally, it is estimated that 1 in 7 (14%) 10-19 year-olds experience mental health conditions, yet these remain largely unrecognized and untreated. The agency warned that, "The consequences of failing to address adolescent mental health conditions extend to adulthood. It can impair both physical and mental health while limiting opportunities to lead fulfilling lives as adults."
Despite the grim statistics, the YFC president believes that there are many ways and opportunities to give hope to these troubled teens. "I have never been more convinced that Christ is moving. Right now, we are living in the kinds of cultural conditions that God often uses for His purpose," he claimed. "Despite the challenges kids face and a culture that confuses, it's never been clearer. God is already uncovering His story of hope among this next generation, and I believe He's preparing to do even more."
Bland said the number of young people who made the decision to follow Jesus in 2022 is proof that God's Spirit is working. He maintained that a deep, meaningful and sincere relationship with Jesus Christ can help today's youth during these crucial times in their lives.
A recent survey of 13 to 25-year-olds backs YFC's assertion that the youth benefits from having a relationship with Jesus Christ.
Dr. Josh Packard of the Springtide Research Institute said his extensive research concluded that those who pray and have a connection with God are more likely to flourish in their overall happiness and mental health, reports Vision Christian Media.
"Faith and spirituality are good for you. If you're a person who believes in some kind of higher power and has a connection to that higher power, you're generally flourishing more than your peers," he said. "Those who pray more tend to be flourishing more in all areas including their mental health."
The executive director of the institute concluded that it is advantageous for young people to have a connection to something bigger than themselves. "I think a lot of religious institutions and leaders would do well to take mental health into account, so that faith and belief could be appropriately part of somebody's overall approach to health."
Joyce Dimaculangan
Joyce has more than 15 years experience writing news, industry articles and blogs for the private and public sectors. Most of her career was spent writing technical documentation for a software company in the Philippines. She earned a B.A. in Communication Arts with a concentration in writing from the University of the Philippines, Los Baños. During her leisure time, Joyce pursues her interest in reading fiction and playing with her dogs. She can be contacted at Joyce@onechristianvoice.com.
Joyce Dimaculangan - November 19, 2022
The new Billy Graham Archive and Research Center opened in Charlotte, North Carolina on November 7, the birthday of the late evangelist.
A New Biblical Worldview Study Series is Now Available Online
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Family Research Council and Summit Ministries announced a partnership launching a new biblical worldview series called Now We Live.
Christian Political Group Plans to Prioritize the Poor
Center for Christianity and Public Life was launched on October 17 and it will prioritize public service to the less fortunate.
Major Ad Campaign for Jesus Expands Presence
A major ad campaign to rebrand Jesus is set to expand in the next few months starting with an updated website, an online store, and an ad placement at the Super Bowl.
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Ukrainian Christians celebrate the liberation of Kherson with cheers of praise and thanksgiving, seven months after Russia occupied the city.


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General Electric would be an 'ideal Warren Buffett investment,' RBC says
Penney Vanderbilt and KC Jones: All About Railroads
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RBC Capital Markets says Warren Buffett may invest in General Electric, but could extract a high price for his involvement.
"In many ways, GE's current situation fits the profile of an ideal Warren Buffett investment," the firm's analyst writes
Warren Buffett may come to the rescue of General Electric once again, according to one Wall Street firm.
RBC Capital Markets analyzed whether it made sense for Buffett to invest in GE at these levels.
General Electric's stock rose 4.3 percent Tuesday amid unsubstantiated speculation that the Oracle of Omaha was buying shares of the beleaguered industrial conglomerate.
The company's shares have significantly underperformed the market. Its stock has declined 55 percent in the past 12 months through Tuesday versus the S&P 500's 11 percent return.
"Berkshire Hathaway has a history of investing in storied businesses struggling at steep valuation dislocations. In many ways, GE's current situation fits the…
Amtrak gets nearly $2 billion in federal spending bill, despite Trump criticism and accidents
Amtrak gets nearly $2 billion in federal funding, rather than a steep cut that President Trump proposed, under a broad spending measure released Wednesday.
Trump had proposed cutting $630 million from the national passenger railroad's federal subsidies for the year that started Oct. 1, out of $1.4 billion provided the previous year.
"Amtrak's long-distance trains do not serve a vital transportation purpose and are a vestige of when train service was the only viable transcontinental transportation option," Trump's budget said.
But the spending bill provides $1.3 billion for the long-distance network. The bill also provides $650 million to Amtrak for the Northeast Corridor (NEC), the popular route which runs from Washington, D.C., to Boston.
"Amtrak thanks Congress for recognizing the importance of intercity passenger rail and the Northeast Corridor," Amtrak CEO Richard Anderson said. "The increased NEC capital funding will allow us to address many important needs along the corridor…
City Council demands discounted MetroCards for low-income New Yorkers
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The City Council is taking matters into its own hands after Mayor de Blasio neglected to include funding for a reduced fare MetroCard program for low-income New Yorkers in the preliminary draft of the city's fiscal year 2019 budget. This marks the second year in a rowDe Blasio has bucked the proposed program.
As a response, more than half of the City Council has signed a letter to Council Speaker Corey Johnson and Finance Committee Chair Daniel Dromm affirming their support for Fair Fares. The discount fare program proposed by the Community Service Society and Riders Alliance would make working-age New York residents living at or below the poverty line of $24,339 for a family of four eligible to receive half-price MetroCards.
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A faster way of getting from Maryland to DC may involve going underground.
Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla and Space-X, wants to build something called a Hyperloop that would take traffic underground. The idea is the tunnel would start in Baltimore and would only take up the space of a parking spot.
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The plans indicate there would be trailers called skates, and individual cars to hold passengers and bicyclists speeding up to 124 miles per hour underground reducing the trip to only 29 minutes. The 35-mile long tunnel would end at New York Avenue in DC.
Boeing already has a permit to start digging, and they're working with more than a dozen agencies including the MDTA to get the plans off the ground. They say construction of the tunnels could take 1-2 years, but the digging would happen 30…
New Development To Include Elevator Access At Broad Street Subway Station
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Mixed-use building seeks to add two new elevators to lower Manhattan subway station. On March 14, 2018, the City Planning Commission held a public hearing for a special permit for a proposed new mixed-use development at 45 Broad Street in the Financial District in Manhattan in connection with improvements to the Broad Street Station and the Wall Street Station. Applicants, Madison 45 Broad Development LLC, plan to build a 65-story condominium building in what is currently an empty lot on the east side of Broad Street between Exchange Place and Beaver Street. The building will become the highest condo in Downtown Manhattan.


Hyundai has revealed the first pictures of the new i40 Estate, ahead of its world premiere at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show. The debut of i40 Estate comes as Hyundai launches its new brand slogan `New Thinking. New Possibilities.' The i40 Estate reflects the spirit of change at Hyundai, and represents the company's bold new concept of `modern premium' - the philosophy that premium quality and characteristics should be accessible to everyone. The i40 Estate is the company's first D-segment vehicle to be developed specifically for the European market, with a package of powertrains, equipment and technology tailored for European tastes. It will be shown in Geneva in estate form, and this will be the first i40 Estate bodystyle to be introduced to Europe, with a saloon to follow later this year.
Designed and engineered at Hyundai's R&D headquarters in Russelsheim, Germany, the i40 Estate is the latest Hyundai model to have a purely European identity. Taking styling cues from Hyundai's `fluidic sculpture' design language, it maintains signature features such as the hexagonal grille. The grille is flanked by two jewel-like headlamps, for a contemporary, confident look that is accentuated by the characterful lines that connect the front and rear of the vehicle, adding to the i40 Estate's eye-catching, sophisticated style.
In line with Hyundai's commitment to make premium products and features available to everyone, the i40 Estate has a class-leading level of standard equipment. Among the specification are new technologies for Hyundai, including: heated and reclining front and rear seats; a heated steering wheel; and an active de-mist system that automatically detects and clears mist on the windscreen.
The `modern premium' concept is also evident in the efficient powertrain choices available to i40 Estate buyers. The i40 Estate's 1.7-litre diesel engine, codenamed `UII', will emit from just 113 g/km of CO2 emissions - a best-in-class figure that also demonstrates the advances the company is making towards global leadership in eco-technology.
Hyundai's unrivalled customer care package, Five Year Triple Care, will come as standard on i40 Estate. The industry-leading package offers total peace of mind, with a five-year unlimited-mileage warranty, five years' roadside assistance and five years of vehicle health checks.
Allan Rushforth, Senior Vice President and COO of Hyundai Motor Europe, commented, "Offering more for less has always been a fundamental principle at Hyundai, and now we are advancing this with our new brand direction under the `New Thinking. New Possibilities.' slogan. The i40 Estate is a perfect example of how we are offering the best and making it accessible to everyone. From stunning design and specification, to industry-leading technology and aftersales care - the i40 Estate sets itself apart from its competitors."
The i40 Estate will be joined on stage by Hyundai's ground-breaking new 1+2 door Veloster coupe, set for launch in Europe later in 2011. The Curb concept will also be shown, highlighting the latest telematics technology from Hyundai in an `urban-ready' design. Both cars received their world premieres at the North America International Auto Show last month, and will be making their European debuts in Geneva.


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Osmotic stress induces biofilm production by Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates from neonates.
Staphylococcus epidermidis is one of the leading causes of bloodstream infections, particularly in premature neonates, and biofilm formation is a major virulence factor. We characterized biofilm formation by 50 S. epidermidis neonatal isolates under osmotic stress and evaluated the expression of biofilm-associated genes. Phenotypical analyses of biofilm production were performed in culture medium with or without addition of NaCl or glucose. In control medium (no additions), most isolates (84%) were nonproducers or weak biofilm producers. Growth in NaCl-containing medium increased the number of moderate/strong producers, and this increase was even greater in medium containing glucose. Most of the protein-enriched biofilms (60%) could be observed only during growth in glucose, whereas 50% of the polysaccharide-enriched biofilms were observed during growth in NaCl. Studies that evaluate the conditions used to characterize biofilm production are important to help us understand the dynamics of this important virulence factor in S. epidermidis and their impact on neonatal infections.
Ferreira RBR
Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Electronic address: rferreira@micro.ufrj.br.
Ferreira MCS
Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Electronic address: marcellec.ferreira@yahoo.com.br.
Glatthardt T
Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Electronic address: glatthardt.thais@gmail.com.
Silvério MP
Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Electronic address: myllenapsss@gmail.com.
Chamon RC
Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Electronic address: raianee@gmail.com.
Salgueiro VC
Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Electronic address: vivi.salgado@gmail.com.
Guimarães LC
Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Electronic address: lorraynecardog@yahoo.com.br.
Alves ES
Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Electronic address: eduardoalvesufrj@gmail.com.
Dos Santos KRN
Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Electronic address: santoskrn@micro.ufrj.br.
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease 94:4 2019 Aug pg 337-341
Ferreira, Rosana B R., et al. "Osmotic Stress Induces Biofilm Production By Staphylococcus Epidermidis Isolates From Neonates." Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, vol. 94, no. 4, 2019, pp. 337-341.
Ferreira RBR, Ferreira MCS, Glatthardt T, et al. Osmotic stress induces biofilm production by Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates from neonates. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2019;94(4):337-341.
Ferreira, R. B. R., Ferreira, M. C. S., Glatthardt, T., Silvério, M. P., Chamon, R. C., Salgueiro, V. C., ... Dos Santos, K. R. N. (2019). Osmotic stress induces biofilm production by Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates from neonates. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, 94(4), pp. 337-341. doi:10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2019.02.009.
Ferreira RBR, et al. Osmotic Stress Induces Biofilm Production By Staphylococcus Epidermidis Isolates From Neonates. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2019;94(4):337-341. PubMed PMID: 30885396.
TY - JOUR T1 - Osmotic stress induces biofilm production by Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates from neonates. AU - Ferreira,Rosana B R, AU - Ferreira,Marcelle C S, AU - Glatthardt,Thaís, AU - Silvério,Myllena Pereira, AU - Chamon,Raiane C, AU - Salgueiro,Vivian C, AU - Guimarães,Lorrayne Cardoso, AU - Alves,Eduardo Souza, AU - Dos Santos,Kátia R N, Y1 - 2019/02/20/ PY - 2018/10/30/received PY - 2019/01/30/revised PY - 2019/02/09/accepted PY - 2019/3/20/pubmed PY - 2019/3/20/medline PY - 2019/3/20/entrez KW - Biofilm production KW - Bloodstream infections KW - Nasal colonization KW - Neonates KW - Staphylococcus epidermidis KW - aap KW - ica SP - 337 EP - 341 JF - Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease JO - Diagn. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. VL - 94 IS - 4 N2 - Staphylococcus epidermidis is one of the leading causes of bloodstream infections, particularly in premature neonates, and biofilm formation is a major virulence factor. We characterized biofilm formation by 50 S. epidermidis neonatal isolates under osmotic stress and evaluated the expression of biofilm-associated genes. Phenotypical analyses of biofilm production were performed in culture medium with or without addition of NaCl or glucose. In control medium (no additions), most isolates (84%) were nonproducers or weak biofilm producers. Growth in NaCl-containing medium increased the number of moderate/strong producers, and this increase was even greater in medium containing glucose. Most of the protein-enriched biofilms (60%) could be observed only during growth in glucose, whereas 50% of the polysaccharide-enriched biofilms were observed during growth in NaCl. Studies that evaluate the conditions used to characterize biofilm production are important to help us understand the dynamics of this important virulence factor in S. epidermidis and their impact on neonatal infections. SN - 1879-0070 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/30885396/Osmotic_stress_induces_biofilm_production_by_Staphylococcus_epidermidis_isolates_from_neonates L2 - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0732-8893(18)30577-7 DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -
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Methicillin resistance and virulence genes in invasive and nasal Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates from neonates.
[Comparison of genotypic and phenotypic characteristics in biofilm production of Staphylococcus aureus isolates].
Role of the two-component regulatory system arlRS in ica operon and aap positive but non-biofilm-forming Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates from hospitalized patients.
Versatility of Biofilm Matrix Molecules in Staphylococcus epidermidis Clinical Isolates and Importance of Polysaccharide Intercellular Adhesin Expression during High Shear Stress.
Biofilm and the role of the ica operon and aap in Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates causing neurosurgical meningitis.
Biofilm characteristics of Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates associated with device-related meningitis.
Does Extracellular DNA Production Vary in Staphylococcal Biofilms Isolated From Infected Implants versus Controls?
Comparative characterisation of the biofilm-production abilities of Staphylococcus epidermidis isolated from human skin and platelet concentrates.


"My child is bad at sports!"
TEAM sports at early tweens (ages 7 to 11) facilitates development of cognitive and psychomotor skills, says an educator and a former top athlete, a view shared by two other experts in sports education. With generally higher levels of obesity and a tendency to small families offering fewer socially appropriate interactive contexts for the early primary school child, team sports offer him/her significant health and developmentally appropriate social benefits. They get a chance to make new friends and have good fun at the same time. In this concluding installment of a story on tweens and team sports, the experts discuss how parents can provide appropriate support in helping their child to cope with likely challenges.
UNLESS a family is outdoor sports-oriented, it is likely that a child gets his or her early introduction to team sports via their school CCAs. In the primary school, the common ones would be netball and football with greater participation by those in the upper primary (late tweens, ages 11-12). And since 2007, there's a new team sport CCA, floorball. Some experts may argue, based on developmental criteria, that the early to mid tweens (7-10 years) may be too soon for team sports participation. Others may disagree citing other benefits. But the existence of such team sports CCAs in our primary schools underscore the value(s) a child can acquire if the participation is under proper guidance. Former athletes (individual and team sports) and educators provide their perspectives in this two-part article.
GREEK mythology merges with 21st century teenage life to bring forth this interesting novel, part of a series of books by award-winning fantasy writer Rick Riordan. Our teen reviewer Juanita Joseph from CHIJ St Joseph who had perused the series provided this review of the first book which forms the basis of the 2010 movie release, now playing at a theatre near you.
MAKE a family date with Singapore museums this holiday period and into 2010! The National Heritage Board (NHB) presents exciting activities that include interactive WWII adventures for families and young adults (War-on-Wheels tour), performances and workshops for kids at the Asian Civilisations Museum, to bargain hunting at the Flea & Music Alley at the Peranakan Museum among others (some of the activities may not be available after 6 December...check the NHB site for a complete updated listing). With these and other engaging activities that become available at individual museums moving into 2010, the NHB seeks to rekindle the community's love for our heritage through the 'I Love Museums' theme.
IN a world which we share with germs, we must understand that it is not unusual for every square inch of our bodies to be covered with millions of germs, and that some of these germs have the potential to cause disease. "The trick is to try and minimize and limit your exposure within a reasonable context," says Dr Aaron Glatt, a spokesperson for the Infectious Disease Society of America. The best approach is to use soap and water.


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NC towns turn to bow hunting to control deer
Posted on October 22, 2013 by southernipmcenter
A growing number of communities around Charlotte are turning to bow hunters to thin the herds of deer that cause thousands of vehicle collisions a year.
After decades of restoration, white-tailed deer have rebounded from a low of 10,000 statewide in 1900 to the estimated 1.1 million today. Their population growth has leveled off in many parts of the state – except in cities and suburbs, where hunting is typically banned and deer are spreading.
Lovely to look at, deer are also prolific breeders, happy devourers of home landscaping, and they figured in 90 percent of the 20,181 animal-car collisions reported in North Carolina last year.
The answer, dozens of communities have decided in recent years, is in judicious use of the bow and arrow. The silent, short-range weapons are safer within city limits than firearms but just as lethal to their targets.
The foothills town of Elkin, in 2007, became the first to adopt an urban archery season authorized by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission. For this coming season, Jan. 11 to Feb. 15, 44 towns and cities will allow bow hunting for deer.
Among the latest additions is Huntersville, the only Mecklenburg County community to adopt the hunting season. Concord, Harrisburg, Indian Trail, Kannapolis, Troutman and Weddington are among the towns already enrolled.
"One of the primary drivers for us is public safety, being suburban and with lots of open areas with high concentrations of deer," said Huntersville town manager Greg Ferguson. "We've had a number of deer-auto crashes, and some of those at high speeds."
Mecklenburg County ranked 10th-highest statewide with 1,345 animal-vehicle collisions between 2010 and 2012, the N.C. Department of Transportation reports.
Unlike some towns, Huntersville already allows bow hunting during the statewide deer season, which runs from early September through December. Ferguson said the town has heard no opposition to the add-on archery season.
Troutman, on the northern end of Lake Norman and surrounded by woods, was also plagued by deer-car accidents. Three years after adding an archery season, police Chief Matthew Selves said, "I can just tell you we have less traffic accidents."
Statewide, urban bow hunters killed 82 deer earlier this year, more than half of them does. The harvest by guns and other weapons took more than 167,000. If you wish to be a part of this, I would recommend you look at these upper parts for AR-15's and use them to get the max out of every shot you fire.
"It's not so much the number of deer taken from a community, it's just reintroducing a predator – and that's the hunter," said Ramon Bell, past president of the 1,000-member N.C. Bowhunters Association. "That area that has become a sanctuary for deer no longer is."
The bow hunters group offers certified, insured hunters to cull deer on private land, including gated communities and Duke University's research forest. Only one town has signed on, Bell said.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals calls bowhunting to control deer populations cruel and ineffective.
"It's not new and it doesn't work," said campaign specialist Ashley Byrne in New York. "Bowhunting is one of the cruelest forms of hunting." She said hunters sometimes trail their bleeding prey for hours.
PETA argues that killing deer only leaves a void that others soon fill, and that communities wouldn't continue to offer the hunts if they worked. The group advises nonlethal methods of deer control, such as using repellants around landscaping.
The Mecklenburg County parks department allows controlled deer hunts in the Latta Plantation, Cowans Ford and McDowell nature preserves to thin herds that over-graze native plants and can carry diseases. The hunts, in which only muzzle-loading rifles and shotguns are allowed because of their limited firing ranges, result in about 60 to 70 deer a year.
The marquee urban-archery town is Elkin, 70 miles north of Charlotte. The rural town on the Yadkin River is surrounded by rolling forests.
"We're blessed with deer, or cursed by them, you might say, depending on when the last time you hit a deer," said town manager Lloyd Payne.
So many night-patrolling police cars collided with the animals that the town's insurance company urged Elkin to do something. Some residents didn't like the idea. At a town forum, they worried about the sight of wounded deer bounding through backyards.
That hasn't happened, Payne said, but like most towns Elkin has placed strict limits on its archery. Hunting is allowed only on private land and with the owner's permission.
Elkin's bow hunters took 45 deer in 2008 and have led the state for each urban archery season since then. Deer numbers appear to be down, Payne said, as are patrol car collisions.
Tim Gestwicki, chief executive of the N.C. Wildlife Federation in Charlotte, called urban archery "a sign of the times that more and more municipalities will opt in as a management tool." The federation last month named Elkin its Municipal Conservationist of the Year.
Henderson: 704-358-5051; Twitter: @bhender
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/10/19/4398609/towns-turn-to-bow-hunting-to-control.html#storylink=cpy
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Nikki Haley: Mass murderer Dylann Roof 'hijacked' meaning of Confederate flag
The former Trump U.N. ambassador was S.C. governor when the state removed the divisive symbol from the statehouse after the mass slaughter of African American parishioners in 2015.
Nikki Haley says the Confederate flag represented 'service' and 'sacrifice' until racist shooter Dylann Roof 'hijacked' it
In an interview with Blaze TV's Glenn Beck , former US Ambassador to the UN and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said white supremacist gunman Dylann Roof "hijacked" the meaning of the Confederate flag.
On June 17, 2015 Roof opened fire in a Wednesday night Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Church in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine people and injuring three others.
Haley said that Roof, who published a racist manifesto invoking the Confederate flag, "hijacked everything that people thought of" about the flag's meaning, saying, "people saw it as service, and sacrifice...
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You love classic cars but you know that they come with a price and particular upkeep that you might not be able to maintain on your own. Whenever you see a beautiful old Chevy or Mustang pass you by, you might wonder when you'll ever have your dream vehicle or if it's simply a dream that is getting away from you. Luckily, there is an item known as a replica car kit that will build you the muscle car of your dreams if you have made this your ongoing hobby. Some might say that these car kits are 'not as good as the originals,' but this is far from the truth.
If you believe that a replica car kit is just as good as the real thing, making any vehicle into a beauty without the care of an old vehicle, there are many kits available for you on the market. One of the most popular is the Shelby Cobra kit, with many people feeling nostalgic about this beautiful vehicle that stormed the country.
For many, one of these car kits is just what they need to get the feel of a Cobra and the speed that they desired. With racing becoming more and more popular on raceways, people are choosing these kits for their vehicle dreams. Some of these vehicles, which are primarily used for racing, can weigh up to 3,400 pounds but Cobras and other small vehicles are known for weighing less. Cobras have been popular since the 60s. In fact, Carroll Shelby built 654 small-blcok Cobras and big block versions from the early 60s into 1968.
In one race, a Cobra reached up to 186 mph, making it one of the fastest race cars of its time. This is why, today, Cobras have become extremely popular in the racing and show worlds. If you believe that a Cobra is right for you but you desire a new vehicle, a replica Cobra car kit might be just the option that you need so that you can maintain the vehicle of your dreams. Get started on the vehicle of your dreams and invest in your kit today!
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Beck's Basic Moves
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Mighty No. 9 has had a busy couple of weeks. After the announcement of a new animated series in the works, the team at comcept have decided to get back to the basics and reveal more about the main character Beck.
In our last update we were treated to some information about Beck's sidekick Call and her character animations. Now we learn more information about the main hero Beck and some of his basic moves.
The first video being shared shows off Beck's basic actions of running/jumping/shooting. As fans of platformers know, each game takes a different approach to jump mechanics and running. LittleBigPlanet's floaty jumps in despised by some and loved by others, while Mario has a much tighter control. It would appear that Beck runs with a much looser style, but you can judge for yourself in this newly released video.
In the second video we are treated to seeing Beck and his climbing abilities. This includes both going up and down ladders, but also dangling from ledges. It gives a good idea as to how Beck will shoot while traversing both up and down.
Video three shows off Beck's dash attack, which is an ability that we've learned Call will not have. The dash will not only be useful for attacks, but also to gain access to tight spaces.
And finally we get a look at Beck's "absorb" ability. Once Beck has worn down an enemy sufficiently enough, he can dash into them in order to absorb their "Xel" which can then be converted into power-ups. This is an ability that is unique to Beck "and it's this ability he has to use in order to save everybody."
As each video warns though, this is a work in progress so the final game may not turn out exactly as these videos portray. More information on Mighy No. 9 can be expected in future updates from comcept, and the game is due for release in April 2015.
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Brad is a video game enthusiast and family man. He's been gaming since the days of the Intellivision, and while that indicates he's been doing this for quite some time, he doesn't intend to quit anytime soon. Currently he's trying desperately to convince his daughter that there are more games than just Minecraft (unsuccessfully so far).
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I found these trailers to be average, nothing that much special from what we've seen already. Kinda wish they showed more background music.
I wonder what game play hook Call is going to have. I hope it's more fun than instant hard mode.
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So far the only one I know of is her ability to crawl, which takes the place of Beck's dash attack. But since the game is still a year away, I'm sure more surprises are in store.
I sure hope so!
So it is a straight Mega Man clone.
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