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Ellen (Dorothy McGuire) seems doomed to a life of spinsterhood. Her devoted father (Louis Calhern) keeps her company at home, and she goes out now and then, but in the realm of romance she has little hope. Fragile due to the long-term effects of a childhood illness, Ellen has resigned herself to the fact that she'll never marry, and instead spends her time with family and friends.
Maud (Ruth Roman) and Dan (Van Johnson) are two of those friends, having known Ellen for many years. One day, Ellen runs into Dan as he's leaving her father's office, and offers him a ride. They begin spending more time together, and eventually, he proposes — much to Ellen's surprise, as she always assumed Dan was in love with Maud.
A marriage is made and Ellen is happy, but are Dan's feeling for her genuine? Maud doesn't think so, and she's not the type to keep such thoughts to herself.
Gottfried Reinhardt directs 1952's Invitation, his directorial debut. The film was written for the screen by Paul Osborn from a story by Jerome Weidman.
Invitation is a bit of a slow starter, but it builds into an interesting story. A flashback to Ellen's "spinster" days comes in around eighteen minutes into the film and things start to pick up, after a beginning which shows a bit of Ellen and Dan's life as a married couple. Things get pretty soapy as a feud emerges between Maud and Ellen, with secrets about Dan and his decision to marry Ellen revealed along the way, but even in its soapiest moments the story is emotionally effective.
I have to give Dorothy McGuire credit for much of this emotional effectiveness. She does very well at sensitively portraying these "ugly duckling" characters, outcast by society but trying to keep a positive attitude. The Enchanted Cottage offers a similar character for McGuire, though that film has an element of fantasy and is a lot more engrossing overall than Invitation. However, in Invitation, McGuire does a fantastic job of portraying Ellen's insecurities and fears as the film progresses, and is the driving force of the audience's investment in the story.
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Ruth Roman also has a fascinating turn here as a cruel-hearted woman who is basically waiting for Ellen to die in hopes to rekindle her own romance with Dan. I would have liked to see more of her in this film, to ramp up the level of drama during the film's slower bits, and give it more of a complex emotional edge rather than being a straightforward tear-jerker.
Though I thought the performances were fine individually, the chemistry in cast could use a boost, particularly between Van Johnson and Dorothy McGuire. He doesn't seem to get a lot of love, but I find Johnson to be a likable actor, and I know he can pull off romance. Miracle in the Rain, co-starring Johnson and Jane Wyman, is one of my favorite weepies! But by the end of this film, we're supposed to believe that Dan and Ellen have genuinely fallen hard for each other, and I just wasn't fully buying it.
Invitation is one of those films that's a decent watch, but also a disappointment, because the potential is there for it to be such a great, lasting-impact drama. If you have a particular interest in any of the film's underrated actors I'd recommend it, but otherwise, there are much better films to spend your time with.
November 7, 2016 Lindsey"New to Me" Reviews1950s, dorothy mcguire, film, film review, invitation, ruth roman, van johnson
7 thoughts on "Invitation (1952)"
I don't know this movie. Sounds interesting.
Always glad to bring a lesser-known film to light. :) Even if it isn't a new favorite, haha. Thanks for reading!
Lisa Alkana
I haven't seen this film, but I'll have to look for it now. "The Enchanted Cottage" is one of my all time favs, so I know I'd enjoy seeing Dorothy in this one.
Isn't 'The Enchanted Cottage' wonderful? You'll definitely enjoy Dorothy's performance here!
stevenmjohnson91
This sounds like the kind of movie I would love. Thanks for sharing!
The lovely score by Bronislau Kaper was first used for "A Life of Her Own."
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Episode 23: Holy Dew!: January 9, 2021
The Ring of Wax
"The Riddler's latest scheme involves stealing a wax figure to melt down for its wax that is powerfully corrosive when exposed to direct flame."
"RD: Ready to Wax Philosophically" Vince had a quiet New Year's since he finds the whole thing "depressing". RD at least stays up a bit to watch the proceedings and not know any of the celebrities.
Vince tries to liven things by showing the Blu-Ray box set of the series (for $100, a bargain at 40% of the price). Among the pictures is a glamor shot of Alfred and a close-up of Gordon and O'Hara on a boat. (:04)
He then asks his "fellow wrestling fan" about women bleeding profusely in matches, rather than sparingly. See, this is the difference in Co-Hossses. Vince talks about women bleeding from matches. Blade talked about women bleeding during their time of the month. No wonder he died without having ever married. RD watched The Passion of the Christ with a co-worker who complained about how it ended. "Well don't watch Titanic then! You'll be disappointed!"
A "wax" statue of Batman is to unveiled at Madame Soleil's Wax Museum...except that it's been replaced by the Riddler. (:15) RD is saddened that it wasn't actually wax. He's reminded of an episode of The Twilight Zone where Martin Balsam is compelled by wax figures of serial killers to become one of them. Vince saw House of Wax in the original 3-D. Anyway, the wax statue shoots red paint at the crowd and the camera.
Soleil calls Gordon who promises to "take care of this personally" by delegating it to the Duo. They are huddled around a globe with Aunt Harriet wondering the location of Lima. Bruce: "If we don't know about our friends to the south, how can we carry out our good neighbor policy?" Sadly he does not then take the opportunity to shill the Alliance for Progress. Alfred informs them of the Batphone in normal speaking voice. Aunt Harriet: "Oh, those two! Hither, thither, and yon!"
Young RD once snapped his collarbone being unfamiliar with football. (:25)
O'Hara is happy to tell the Duo that he thinks he's solved one of the riddles too obviously. Robin guesses Riddler may hit a library. But first he has to monologue at the Kandlelight Candle Factory with his goons Tallow and Matches and his lady Moth as they melt Batman's chocolate-style figure.
Riddler: "Oh, if only this were the real Batman. Oh, 'tis a consummation devoutly to be wished! That his too, too solid flesh would melt and resolve itself into a dew!"
Moth: "Oh, Riddler honey, that's beautiful!"
Riddler: "I wrote it myself."
RD wonders where he got his people from and if he changed their names for them.
Riddler reveals they had smuggled in a universal solvent in the Batstatue through ecstatic happiness.
The Gotham City Public Library has a vault for books, like just about all libraries have. Somehow the villains get around without anyone wondering on their outfits or that one guy who looks just like the Riddler. The only guard who comes across them gets easily gassed by a candle. Riddler reveals the solvent works silently on the lock, perfect for a library. He then loudly laughs and jumps around in excitement. The Duo show up anyway. Librarian: "Heavens to Betsy!" She too hasn't noticed "a man wearing a bright green suit with big black question marks on it".
Meanwhile Moth has to go by hand through a card index as she waits for her boss. Vince only gives her 5 Batpoles due to her off-putting face. RD gives her 7 but thought she had too much makeup. Linda Gaye Scott was in the original Westworld and many classic TV shows despite having what RD thinks may be a Geocities site.
Riddler finds a book on Incan treasures and lets out a "HUZZAH". Just wait until he finds a Shakespeare First Folio and finds more lines he can pass off as his own! The Duo appear to fight with his armed goons before he sprays them with "Dr. Riddler's instant forever stick invisible wax emulsion" to root them to the floor, then gasses them and leaves with another riddle. Batman: "If only the Riddler's inventive mind could be channeled for good, what a better world this would be!" Robin guesses the next riddle involves some wax in a hole.
To the Batcave! Using the Hyperspectragraphic Analyzer they figure out the Riddler has his silent solvent. They clunky work backwards to determine it's to do with the wax museum. Again. There the villains are "hiding" as revolutionaries. RD is still upset it's again not actual wax being used. Riddler knocks the Duo out with blowdarts and puts them in a blue van. He then decides to steal the Batmobile. RD thinks Penguin warned him about its dangers while in jail together. So Riddler succeeds in his theft. They then return to their normal outfits: "we'd better get our everyday clothes back on, we look too suspicious this way."
He compares Batman to a diamondback rattlesnake as the Duo awaken in "the enormous candle dipper" of "the proverbial pickle". "BM's package" Vince handwrote and underlined as he noticed it was Batman's turn to have something big under the utility belt. RD wonders if it was a stunt double instead. The Duo ask Riddler about his plans anyway as they are lowered. Narrator: "Will Batman wax serious?"
Vince wonders what happens if ever they get an unsolvable riddle. Alexa's increased assertiveness is worrying the two.
Vince seeks RD's help in getting a jukebox of his own. (:74) He recently cracked a toilet seat from sitting on it too hard. He should have used a trashbag. RD wonders if he too will have more toilet related stories to share over the years.
Special Guest Villain: The Riddler [3] (Frank Gorshin) [3]
SPEAKING OFs: 2. Uncomfotable, the bra
Screen Captures: 1. RD
Blue Van: 1
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Gooker 2021: Vote or be fired!
Welp. 2021. It sure was...another year.
Let us get the obvious bad out of the way, besides the still present pandemic.
In March Blade Braxton's constant alcoholic abuse, wrestling related concussions, and dodging payments finally caught up with him at the age of 46. He was one of several no longer with us, including Mr. Wonderful Paul Orndorff. Many smaller and indie promotions found themselves reducing or closing operations. And WWE continued to coast on the waves of mediocrity, firing people left and right in the midst of average content, live audience or otherwise, and even reducing access to their Network in the US through its sale to NBC Universal's Peacock.
However there was still some good to be found. AEW continued to gain strength as a long awaited for viable contender, including some of the best matches of the year. TNA somehow managed to improve a fair bit. And RD successfully pivoted into doing a video progrem with Vince Russo.
Even if it was about the old Batman '66 TV series.
In any event, here are your nominees for the worst of the year.
1. "The Fiendess" Alexa Bliss: The news that came out was that Bliss wanted to work with Bray Wyatt, the original Fiend and regular Gooker nominee. That should have been a clue to how bad things would get. In the beginning Bliss became the Robin to Bray Wyatt's Batman *Insert Hidden Plug Here*. There was one little, WEEE, problem though. Bray Wyatt was written off WWE programming and eventually fired. Since "The Fiend" is Bray Wyatt's property, but more importantly WWE's property, they decided to just let Bliss continue on as her version of "The Fiend". It...was not what everybody wanted! If you hated Bray Wyatt's Fiend, then you'll probably cringe over Bliss' version. It was baffling, confusing, and just god awful. It literally was the definition of WWE's "Sports Entertainment" in all the wrong reasons. I'm not even sure what the hell this is! [Bad makeup from a billion dollar - after mass firings - corporation?]
2. Becky Lynch squashes Bianca Belair at Summerslam: Personal Note here. I, Raging_Demons, the Librarian writing this, HATE Becky Lynch. She is the pro wrestling version of a "joke thief", a comedian who steals jokes from other comedians as their own. And man is she awful in the ring. That being said when Becky came back from maternity leave the WWE faithful (besides myself) was expecting her return to be huge! HYOOOGE I say! [Whatever you say, McMahon.] She returned at Summerslam and it was, in fact, huge. However, it was huge for all the wrong reasons. Just like her fellow Irishman, Sheamus. she squashed Bianca Belair, in what seemed like 18 seconds. Unlike Sheamus's squash on Daniel Bryan (now Brian Danielson), Becky's squash made her the Smackdown's Women's champion AND gave her an unexpected heel turn. So in one event, Lynch stole two gimmicks. AND she then later on stole her hubby, Seth Rollins', gimmick of being a "Drip God" by making herself a "Drip Goddess". [Not sure I understand that particular reference there Brad. Are you implying the couple has a leakage problem?]
3. Ethan Page versus himself Karate Man: This is the first time in awhile that IMPACT (formerly "known" as TNA) has been nominated and the first during the Anthem Era.
Ethan Page was in IMPACT before he went to where he's at right now in AEW. The North, his one HELL of a tag team with Josh Alexander, had just lost the Titles. Apparently he didn't take the loss well. So Page kind of had a "psychotic break". He slowly turned into a personality he called "Karate Man", giving him the excuse to show off his martial arts skills and SPIFFY headband. Page, sorry, "Karate Man", started to randomly attack others then started to attack his partner Josh Alexander.
Now in most fighting video games, its very common to have two of the same character fight in mirror matches, for example Ryu of one color fighting Ryu of a different color. [So...Ken then?] Similarly Page thought that to rectify the situation he would fight "Karate Man" at the PPV "Hard To Kill".
Yes. Ethan Page was going to have a mirror match with himself!
It sounds like a bad masturbation joke, but alas it really wasn't. The match ACTUALLY did happen and if you can believe it...
Karate Man "actually killed" Ethan Page! How the hell would that happen?! Of course the usual ways to kill yourself would be alcohol, women, a dead-end job, and so forth. This would be the way that Page would leave IMPACT, continuing the tradition of IMPACT talent leaving the company in horrific ways. *cough* "Throw Mickey James From The Train" *cough* Page would later say that this was in fact "hot garbage". SPEAKING OF HOT GARBAGE!
4. WWE promotes Netflix movies with hilarious results for all the wrong reasons: WWE took this on themselves on behalf of former WWE wrestlers superstars Dave Bautista for Army Of The Dead and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson for Red Notice. How did they do?
For the former, how do you promote a zombie movie? If you say..."introduce a whole bunch of zombies into a PPV event" then you would be right. [Also why are you reading this McMahon?] WWE randomly packed tons of zombies throughout their PPV Backlash, in such a way as if they asked Homer Simpson for promotional advice. [And then promptly fired him.]
How WWE handled things was somewhat, but unexpectedly, mixed. Some acted like wallkers from The Walking Dead, expected to run up and surprise targets and literally take them down. Some acted like theyy were the traditional B-movie zombie, walking slowly and loudly demanding BRAINSSS. Or they could act like Cesaro and completely no-sell them and go "Ooh! Zombies! Gotta get a selfie with them for my Instagram page!" They even interfered in a match between Damien Priest vs The Miz with ended up with Miz being *eaten* by zombies. Bautista was bombarded on his Twitter account for the horrifically bad promotion that WWE did. His response was basically "Don't blame me! I had no participation in this!" Of course, to the hardcore WWE fan who is still watching, aka the mentally challenged, they would call it "great entertainment".
If WWE didn't learn anything from promoting Army Of The Dead, which they didn't, they got paid literally a dump truck filled with money to promote Red Notice. WWE basically played up the idiocy by Vince McMahon bringing in one of the movie's "golden eggs" to set up a whodunit when the egg got "stolen". Social media didn't believe that horrible bad acting that was going on and they mocked it like hell. One of the commentators actually said "nothing happens at Survivor Series when an egg is involved" The egg got "stolen" then "found" at next day's Raw when Austin Theory returned it.
He got rewarded for his theft by being booked to lose the show's main match.
WWE just went by their recent formula for success: It doesn't matter if you make good quality "entertainment". As long as you get a huge pile of money, its all good!
(Also before WWE's "attempts" of promotion, Ryan Reynolds promoted for the movie one week before they did.)
[Also also because two films with massive budgets, two of the biggest stars in Hollywood, and on one of the largest streaming services...OBVIOUSLY needs as much advertising and marketing as possible on barely connected and barely watched wrestling shows. Totally makes sense.
Still it could have been worse. You could have had further promotion for Bautista in Dune by having McMahon go on a drugged bender in the desert. I mean, besides what he does already when overseeing the shows anyway.]
5. The Queen's Crown Tournament: Unless you make a lot of money with WWE (Sasha Banks, Bayley, Charlotte), or are protected like Roman Reigns (Becky Lynch), WWE claims that they try to have a women's revolution. Years later we know that they don't do that. They try, but they fail at doing so. [Or forget that they have tried doing so ala McMahon losing his memory at old age. Assuming they haven't already fired the people responsible.] Hence their latest attempt, "The Queen's Crown Tournament", the women's version of the classic King Of The Ring Tournament.
The whole tournament really was just...crapped out. All the competing women had insanely short matches with the final match was no longer than 5 minutes. The winner turned out to be...Zelina Vega?! The same Zelina Vega who didn't want to give up her successful Twitch account and got fired?! The same Zelina Vega given a Push from Hell as part of an apology for being brought back? Yeah...
6. Toni Storm's WWE tenure: A very late Gooker nominee since this occured on the last week of the year. Once upon a time, WWE hired one Toni Storm when she participated in The Mae Young Classic on NXT due to her obvious talent.
So what did WWE due next? If you said push her to the moon, you would be dead wrong. [Again, why are you still reading this McMahon? Don't you have more people to fire?] Instead, Storm got rarely pushed, she rarely appeared on NXT, and was promoted to Smackdown...where she rarely appeared. Oh wait, I'm sorry. She was promoted to Smackdown...to get into a pie fight with Charlotte Flair.
That was all she could take before she did her best Eric Cartman impersonation and said:
She quit WWE after that. She completed her last match, which was a house show, grabbed her things, paid for her own flight, and went home.
Storm took to heart the trend of "Knowing Your Worth" that's been making the rounds of social media of late. She recognized she was in a situation that was Wrestlecrap and quit. Now, unfortunately, she may get a possible Gooker for her tenure.
7. NXT 2.0h No: NXT was a failed reality competition show. Then Triple H changed it into its own farm system to train people in the WWE way before their official debut to make sure things don't go horribly wrong for themselves (see Sin Cara Negro). It was also a stopgap measure because at the time the average indy wrestler was getting more popularity than an average WWE wrestler thanks to social media. Take Danhausen for example. Danhausen took his indy career, social media, and his Youtube channel into a guest appearance on Conan O'Brien's podcast, occasional appearances as a guest host on Renee Paquette's podcast, appearances on other vlogs like Ethan Page's, and a brief career in ROH. (It wasn't his fault, it was Ring Of Honor having a temporary shutdown and release of all their contracts. They're not dead. Yet!) AEW & Danhausen fans are constantly wanting AEW to sign the guy.
NXT became quite popular thanks to the quality of talent from behind and in front of the ring, such was perceived that it was the superior product instead of RAW or Smackdown! WWE had faith in NXT that they secured a national Wednesday time slot, and also a way to stop some up-and-coming wrestling promotion from being a threat. That promotion was called AEW. Thus what fans would call a new version of the Monday Night Wars became the Wednesday Night Wars. First show Dynamite versus third-ranked NXT. WWE was thinking that NXT would destroy Dynamite easily.
Only...it didn't. Dynamite slowly crushed NXT to a point that WWE moved NXT to not be in direct competition.
WWE now thinks that NXT is damaged goods. So what does WWE want to do to "fix" it? Why, firing all the old people and replacing them with hip, younger people! Imagine Vince McMahon and all the older staff people trying to look hip and cool!
All the talent were either fired, replaced, or had their contracts run out. NXT, along with the rest of the company, will now hire only young talent (to easily train them in THEIR ways). The backstage talent was also released. Gone were established talents creating a great product. Now its just "talent" who don't know how to wrestle a good match. Gone were the dark colors of NXT. Now its colors from a Ben & Jerry's carton.
Even to this day, WWE continues to fire a lot of backstage talent [I'm noticing a trend here] which just recently included on-screen talent William Regal who was just about to become a trainer. [And Samoa Joe. Again.] It looks like Vince and his lackeys are literally taking apart the hard work Triple H made to make NXT something and turning it into a memory.
[I am like many others believing that Bron Breakker Rich Steiner has far too much talent to remain stuck there. He should find a way to get to bigger fields before HE gets cut too. It's simple math.]
8. WWE's continuous future endeavours: Throughout 2021 WWE fired about 60+ employees. This adds to the 90+ released during 2020. 20% of those wrestling were hired evenly between AEW or IMPACT.
So, for all those that say, "Oh Tony Khan has hired everyone that left WWE!" Just shut up! Tony Khan has not hired everyone! That is a lie set up by WWE idiots and fans and idiot fans!
He's only hired half of everyone. That's all!
Here's the thing though. WWE keeps firing people and yet they are not losing any money at all. In fact they made a ton of money last year! This is my choice for Gooker. WWE: Abandon all hope ye who enter here!
[Also what good is McMahon's exultation for his workers to reach for those brass rings when he keeps firing them before they can do so?]
9. Cody Rhodes' will-he-or-won't-he heel turn: Now to AEW with, of all people, Cody Rhodes.
Cody was slowly gaining heat for that horrible reality show of his Rhodes to the Top, which is so bad it makes that one by the Bella Twins look good. At this point, he was becoming like John Cena: liked by others, hated by a few.
However he started getting full blown heel during a match versus Malakai Black, Cody accidentally knocked down his "trainer" Arn Anderson. Anderson fell like he was seriously injured while Cody just continued on like nothing happened. The fans noticed and started hating it IMMEDIATELY!
Now usually when WWE comes up a situation like this, they just ignore the fans and let people remain where they are role and story wise, such as John Cena staying face even though he was slowly getting booed throughout the years, or Roman Reigns getting booed for YEARS as a face.
Cody on the other hand... he basically said "Fuck You! I'm a good guy, deal with it!" He even went on-the-record by saying "I would rather retire from Pro Wrestling than go Heel!"
Cody has tried to return to be a face but it's just not working. He even tried to toss his weight belt to the crowd. Usually the crowd would keep anything tossed in by the wrestlers. Here they tossed it back! He's enjoying his time teasing the heel turn that he just got back the TNT Title for a third time, off Sammy Guevara who fans wanted to see with it. Guevara went just TWO weeks with the title and they gave him a custom title FOR NOTHING!
Right now, Cody is ENJOYING the fact that he's teasing his turn. As the AEW faithful are waiting for it, and they can since they just spent over 2+ years waiting for "Hangman" Adam Page becoming World Champion, then that heel turn will come even if it means tolerating the return of Brandi Rhodes.
[Admittedly I wouldn't mind this indecisiveness if it avoids him getting another laughably bad neck tattoo. UNLESS ITS ALL PART OF THE PLAN TOO.]
10. Kenny Omega vs. Jon Moxley in an "Exploding" "Barbed" "Wire" "Death" "Match": If you don't know what an "Exploding Barbed Wire Deathmatch" is, it's pretty simple. The ring ropes are replaced with barbed wire and actual explosives, not dangerous if possible, will detonate every few minutes. Mick Foley and Terry Funk had wrestled a few of these matches and in fact it was one of these matches that infamously made Foley slice his ear off. It's quite possible one of the most brutal matches ever! And it was definitely the most hyped match of the year.
It started like this: Kenny Omega just won the World Title off Jon Moxley by shenanigans. Moxley wanted the title back. Omega said he'll give him a rematch, but only if it was an "Exploding Barbed Wire Deathmatch".
The AEW fans were literally drooling over the place. Omega has had great matches and is nicknamed "The Best Bout Machine". Moxley had past expertise in deathmatches. This was a wrestling nerd's wet dream! Everyone was expecting a good match.
It ended with Eddie Kingston trying to protect Moxley from...well...(minus the laughter of course):
We were expecting explosions and violence, not...sparklers!
AEW tried to correct the overselling for the crap they had heavily promoted by letting Omega be Aizen from Bleach [he was replaced by Kyle Hebert? I love his voice acting!]: he had "planned" for this and the sparklers was a way "to humiliate Moxley". Then he mocked Kingston by trying to impersonate him "protecting Moxley".
Though unlike Kingston AEW couldn't cover that they heavily hyped up a match that literally their asses wouldn't cash.
10 choices. One possible winner for the 2021 Gooker. Admittedly these nominees are very hard choices to select for this year. It's as if you have to go "Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Moe".
[Or you could just be me and vote for all of them using the sneaky of hack of "multiple private browser windows. Or if you're as lazy as I am, just voting for the mass firings. Although NXT 2.0 is also a close contender on matters of mishandling talented people. But please don't let me try to interfere. This isn't a 2020 US election!]
You have until Jan 14th to pick who will get the 2021 Gooker, with the "winner" being posted on Jan 20th. Vote now!
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Episode 22: Holy Whale Oil!: January 2, 2021
Not Yet, He Ain't
"Framed by the Penguin, Batman and Robin prepare a trap to lure the supervillain into executing his true scheme's masterstroke."
"RD: Hoping Russo Doesn't SNAP like Robin!" Has he already forgotten he only Swerves? He sent Vince pictures of Christmas pizza rolls. Teenage Vince once worked for a week in a Sbarro's until he got fired for misreading the schedule. Adult Vince has around 30 Funko figurines.
Vince likes today's unique creativity, where "behind the scenes" the Duo manage to move their legs to reduce their frames to just their bulletproof shoes. Vince wonders how Robin can wear such tiny shoes in that case. This also releases a Batknife stored in Batman's glove. The Penguin pays up as O'Hara finds the recoil of the "pop gun" surprisingly strong. The Penguin then finds the Duo have escaped. "Great blubbering whale oil! They're evaporated!" followed by a "Curses! CURSES!" Vince wishes he had written more "curses" while in wrestling.
Vince watches the episodes on his personal large curved TV in his basement away from the normal use 40" one. He has a personal music one where he can listen to his over 4000 albums including some Batalbums and the complete discography of Tiny Tim. He recommends RD to watch Licorice Pizza due to his daughter, usually a harsh critic.
In the Batcave the Duo are stumped. (:15) Robin wonders to a milk drinking Batman why they didn't stick around to stop Penguin who attempted to kill them. Batman shifts responsibility to the police. Vince wonders why Penguin didn't citizen's arrest them for the police and use it for his alibi in court. Perhaps Harvey Dent was out of town for it.
At Police HQ Penguin is suddenly there threatening Gordon to arrest the Duo or be sent back to the "Department of Sanitation". This is the first RD has heard of this. This is the first I have heard of this. Perhaps someone can write Batman: Year Zero and expand upon this? Penguin then calls on the Batphone to give themselves up. Batman gives himself 25 minutes to come to him. Gordon dramatically tells O'Hara to have the police there to arrest him when he shows up. The Duo call Gordon from the Batphone in response without telling the audience ala Hitchcock.
They then show up at Penguin's agency doing their best Joker impression of madness. Robin as a crazed zombie: "WE'VE SNAPPED!" Batman as Zur-En-Arrh: that one meme. The goons come in with machine guns and miss completely. The Duo then try to escape, but the police stop the Batmobile u-turn and O'Hara actually remembers he has a gun to fire at Batman.
The police then shoot the Duo in the back gangster-style and cover the bodies with black tarp while O'Hara watches nonchalantly.
The Co-Bros do not remember any of this. (:31)
The goons react by trying to drive the Batmobile, but like Kane they don't know how to drive a stick shift. Vince temporarily confuses RD by not knowing what manual transmission means (he does, thankfully).
Cut to Gordon's office where he requests the Duo to be buried with full honors.
Cut to Stately Wayne Manor where Aunt Harriet is wearing something horrendous with a bra. Alfred does a good show of pretending to lose it.
Cut back to Gordon's office where O'Hara demands compensation for using 297 blanks. Yes, it was all a (non-Russo) swerve, otherwise the show would end.
Cut to the Batcave where the Duo are watching the Penguin and Sophia Starr in the Birdmobile with custom bird decals stop another robbery. Batman bets a milkshake this is another fake. Robin: "Holy Romeo and Juliet!" Vince gives Sophia 7.5 Batpoles on account of her face. RD gives 5.5. He reads some of actress Kathleen Crowley's entry. Sad News: McMahon was not obsessed with Gunsmoke as once rumored. Vince has an autographed picture of Ken Curtis as Festus.
Penguin has a sign notifying that "this loot" is under his protection of a bridal room for a sudden wedding. A bomb goes off in a water pipe and trick umbrellas are handed out to distract from the Penguin stealing the presents and gassing the police.
This was apparently his master plan all along.
The Duo have to come on the Mobile Batcycle.
Robin: "Time to jolt him with our gimmicks!"
Batman: "Hmmm."
They use their Remote Control Ejector Button to launch crash test dummies of the goons 40 feet into the air. The Penguin reacts by looking around randomly. The Duo then mess around with the doors as he tries to close them with his umbrella. Robin hears the goons complain from a mile away (or perhaps through a bug). They close on Penguin who misses his shots at point blank. They then hogtie him (with cigarette in mouth) and his goons onto the Mobile.
The stolen goods are collected in Gordon's office. Batman plans to fumigate the Batmobile. Sophia is still in love with Penguin, who is still planning to get away with it. Upon hearing her confession he instead exclaims: "Great quivering icebergs! Take me to prison!" Vince wonders if he would be attracted to anyone. RD makes fun of his eyesight.
Vince found many things memorable like the Penguin's waddle, more so than anything WWE has currently, and liked the episode overall. RD will always remember the Duo going crazy and getting "killed".
The Riddler is to make his third appearance of the season next week. Vince wonders how much the salaries were. He thinks Burt Ward can make an appearance for $500. RD hopes he's a jerk. Vince thinks they should get "spry" Lee Merriweather instead.
Special Guest Villain: The Penguin [2] (Burgess Meredith) [2]
URLs not taken: 1. VinceRussoDrivesAnIceCreamTruck.com
SPEAKING OFs: 1. Highly unlikely
Screen Captures: 3. RD, RD, RD
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Episode 21: Holy Jeepers!: December 26, 2021
The Penguin Goes Straight
"The Penguin seems to have gone legit, but the Dynamic Duo suspects otherwise."
"RD is Jollier Than Alfred" by how he's wearing his Santa hat's beard over his face like a mask (certified HOHOHO95). Vince was confused by a video he had sent in which he and the family threw stockings with hot sauce bottles from their windows, an old family tradition.
At a theater's matinee the performers go for a "refreshing orange drink." (:06) Vince wonders if it was Tang. The Penguin is there for "a penetrating documentary of our times" on morality. Suddenly a masked man appears to steal a woman's necklace. Penguin stops his gunfire with his bulletproof umbrella ("JUMPIN' JEEPERS! A bulletproof umbrella!") and punches him out with a "POW!" graphic like he was Batman. RD makes a "big igloo/orange drink" circle for the camera to show the woman's ecstatic reaction.
Cut to Police HQ where Gordon is surprised that "the waddling pompous of fowl play" prevented a crime of the necklace being stolen, belonging to one Sophia Starr. RD's mind goes places for some reason. Despite the Penguin not doing anything criminal Gordon still calls Batman anyway.
Even weirder is Alfred's reaction when he answers the phone, sighing at the utter incompetence once again displayed by the police. "Alright Commissioner, I'll go fetch him for ya!" he sighs. (:13) Vince wonders if he was up for contract extensions. Bruce and Dick are practicing putting with braless Aunt Harriet when Alfred finds them and actually tries to be subtle with the call from "Mr. K. Rhyme" that is so obvious even Harriet picks up on it.
Batman talks to Gordon with some indecipherable words that the two try to untangle. They go down the Batpole - just to talk more to Gordon in the Batmobile's Batphone. This could probably be because again, no crime was actually committed to meet to investigate.
They thus decide to interrogate the arrested thief to see if he is actually one of Penguin's men. RD attempts to recreate the interrogation room with a desk lamp. The crook thinks they "read too many comic books." O'Hara threatens to punch him. Gordon calls him a "cheap hoodlum" and a "hard boiled cookie covered with armored plate icing". They then turn down the lights to project Batman's fluttering shadow. The crook responds by running into a wall knocking himself out.
Vince disowned his sister for eating boiled peanuts and clogging toilet bowls.
Meanwhile the Penguin is at the New Blood Millionaire's Club's steam room, where he saves a kidnapping victim named Richie Reggie Rich with the help of his unconvincing henchmen Eagle-Eye and Dove. (:28) He then pops his head up in between the Duo to eavesdrop. Batman: "You pompous talking creature!" Penguin declares he will safeguard Sofia's jewelry on behalf of Penguin Protective Agency Incorporated. The Duo reposition to the Batmobile to plan for Alfred to swap the jewels for traceable radioactive fakes.
In the Penguin's lair the camera remains straight instead of Dutch angled, where he refuses Rich's reward for saving him. Well he IS a billionaire, he doesn't need the money. The henchmen complain on not being paid so he has to whack them over the head with the umbrella.
Cut to Starr's penthouse. Narrator: "Plot and counter-plot: here's Alfred carrying out a risky chore under the guise of a man from Floyd's of Dublin Insurance Unlimited!" (:35) Alfred takes photos of the jewels but the Narrator yells at him that he didn't yet switch the cigarette holders for the anti-theft system that triggers. Vince thinks the Penguin has an alarm buzzer in his umbrella. RD remembers when this happened already with Penguin earlier in the year. Alfred escapes despite the Co-Bros wanting him to be angry that he was almost set up and done for. Instead he fears he did bad despite the Duo's reassurance.
The Duo then drive the Batmobile at night, a rare occurrence on the show, to Starr's penthouse. Climbing up a wall Robin has worries so Batman wonders if he tied his shoes properly. Yet when inside and using Batman's stethoscope they run into the henchmen, causing a fight. Sofia calls a paper to run the headline "Crime Fighter Penguin Foils Dynamic Duo Jewel Heist!" (:42) Gordon is angry at the paper as Penguin calls him while eating a can of sardines, informing him of a police fundraiser at the Gotham City Amusement Pier. Gordon: "You abominable avian!" He informs the Duo in the Batmobile, and also if they show up they will be arrested.
Robin: "Batman and I have an awful thought. What if Penguin really has gone straight?"
RD: "How would that be awful? Don't you want him to become a good guy? Don't you want him to not be terrible?"
At the Pier one of the "attractions" is a nightmare animatronic monkey with moving eyes. Another is a nightmare animatronic clown with moving eyes. Isn't that a Joker thing?
Before the Duo could find more scares a cement filled umbrella traps them. Some henchmen hang their seven feet tall stunt doubles up behind a pop gun game. However Penguin has replaced the pellets with actual bullets, and he offers $1,000 to the visiting police to shoot the balloons and behind them - the Duo. RD expects the police to miss anyway since they're terrible at the rest of their jobs. Narrator: "Good grief! And good night! Double funeral tomorrow?"
RD tells Vince about the ordeal of inducting The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas. Vince: "Interesting." (:52)
RD then gets around to Vince's gift. (:57) He joked that knowing Russo Swerves he expected it to be empty. Instead he first finds garbage bags. Then the gift has another address on it. Then he has to break through the hermetic seal. Inside is Batman '66 meets The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (RD pretends he doesn't know it) and a '66 style Lego Batmobile.
Vince's father still plays softball at 91 years old.
With the concept of RD and Vince being friends and exchanging gifts, the two remind to be good, courteous, and serving to others, regardless of occasion or religion. After all, some things will not matter in death. (:69 - end)
Outdated references: 1. Rex Reed
SPEAKING OFs: 1. Horrifying
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What If...Corporal Kirchner really was dead?
https://cultaholic.com/posts/former-wwe-star-corporal-kirchner-passes-away
I can't believe it was 15 years ago when he was (first) declared dead, and he had to prove he was still alive by "calling" WWCR and "shooting" the Co-Hossses through the phone.
Also here is another appearance where he plays a car for some reason.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends during this trying time.


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Coles slashes family favourite to just 50c – better get in quick!
Coles has just slashed its prices on a massive family item – Birds Eye Chips – ahead of a major new launch.
The supermarket sent shoppers into a frenzy after a shopper announced the sale to the popular Facebook page, I Bought It At.
"50 CENTS! No, not the rapper, this is the actual PRICE of these chips!!" The user wrote excitedly in a post.
The frozen hot chips can typically be purchased for a retail price of AUD$4.30. Currently, the item has been put on sale for the bargain price of just a 50-cent coin.
A Coles spokesperson told Femail the sale is happening on a "store by store basis based on stock volumes," to make shelf room for a new launch.
Shoppers suspect the Birds Eye fries are either being discontinued or coming back with newer packaging, although this is unconfirmed.
Just weeks before Coles priced the items for 50 cents, the popular brand of chips had already been slashed to 98 cents.
The heavily discounted price included the sea salt and rosemary and parmesan garlic flavours.
Woolworths also held a half-price sale on selected frozen foods for just one day only, which caused a frenzy online.
Make sure you grab your hands on a few bags of these fries as these "cheap" chips will not last long.


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Sebastian Theodor Justus Eyrich, född 7 september 1838 i Nürnberg, död där 30 september 1907, var en tysk arkitekt.

Eyrich studerade på Kunstgewerbeschule i Nürnberg, Polytechnikum i Karlsruhe och Akademie der bildenden Künste i München samt vistades även under fyra år i Italien. Han var därefter verksam i Nürnberg, där han 1868 deltog i en arkitekttävling om en ny synagoga, vilken dock vanns av Adolf Wolff. År 1873 uppförde han där fastigheten Josephsplatz 15 i och samma år tillsammans med kollegan Emil Hecht Hotel Strauss på Karolinenstrasse 43, en viktig byggnad i nyrenässans (förstörd). År 1887 följde ett bostads- och affärshus på Karolinenstrasse 47 (förstört).

Eyrich ägnade sig också åt kyrkobyggnader och deras inredning. År 1891 uppgjorde han en plan till nytt altare och altarmålning för kyrkan i Holzingen (tillhör numera Weißenburg in Bayern), utfört av bildhuggaren Kleinschrodt och nürnbergkonstnären Christian Maximilian Baer. År 1891 utarbetade han en plan till restaurering och ombyggnad av altare och bänkar i kyrkan i Heiligenstadt (altarmåleriet utfört av Baer). Han ritade även kyrkan i Senden (1907-09) och ett Bismarcktorn i Lauf an der Pegnitz (tillsammans med David Böhm, 1910-11).

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Pandemic in Germany. A record of infections, and there will be more
Home/World/Germany. An 8-year-old set fire to the sleeping parents' couch. "He felt neglected" | World news
Germany. An 8-year-old set fire to the sleeping parents' couch. "He felt neglected" | World news
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The event took place on January 6 at approx. 6 am in an apartment block in the Neuperlach district of Munich (Germany). The 28-year-old was sleeping with his wife on the fold-out couch in the living room when suddenly he was awakened by the burning smell. It turned out that there was a fire in the apartment – the upholstery of the sofa on which they were lying was on fire. The couple jumped out of the bed immediately and the fire was extinguished. In the meantime, firefighters arrived, but they did not have much to do, because the apartment was only sufficiently ventilated – reported the daily "Abendzeitung München" on Tuesday.
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Munich. The boy set fire to the couch. Will not face legal consequences
Material damage was relatively minor, but the 28-year-old was slightly injured. As the cause of the fire was initially unclear, the police were called. While the officers were talking to the couple, their 8-year-old son approached them and admitted that he had started the fire. He said he deliberately set fire to the couch with a lighter because he felt neglected: his parents did not pay enough attention to him – unlike their other, sick child, who needed constant care.
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Wąbrzeźno. 2.5-year-old boy in pajamas in the cold. The mother slept in the apartment
The parents were shocked by their son's confession. The 8-year-old was observed in a children's hospital, where he will be examined by psychologists and therapists. The policemen informed the Office for Children and Youth about the whole incident.
Mońki. He was calling the emergency number because he wanted to talk about life
The local police are investigating, but the boy will not face any consequences. "In law, he is considered unfit for a similar offense," explained police spokesman Werner Kraus in an interview with the daily "Abendzeitung München".
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It's time again for a "What's Up Your Family Tree" series genealogy class at Salem Public Library! On October 24, 2016 we will explore the topic: DNA Tested – An introduction to Autosomal DNA testing and an overview of what you get when you buy a test kit including a comparison of the three main companies. The program will begin at 6:30pm in the Quaker Room and will be presented by Mary Jamba, a genealogical researcher, speaker and blogger.
Registration is required through the library's website at www.salem.lib.oh.us or you may call the library at 330-332-0042 for assistance. This program is open to the public and free of cost to attend. The library is located at 821 E. State St., Salem, OH 44460.
About the presenter: Ms. Jamba currently serves as a trustee of the Ohio Genealogical Society, president of the Greater Cleveland Genealogical Society and the DNA User Group Leader at the Computer Assisted Genealogy Group.


As SAC's research division, the Institute for Scientific Analysis (ISA) emerged as an administrative alternative to university and government bureaucracies through which independent researchers could investigate the major policy issues affecting our society.
After guiding ISA for more than thirty years, Dorothy Lonewolf Miller retired as Director in July of 1999. Today, under the directorship of Michael H. Jang, ISA continues to foster a collegial and creative environment for social scientists seeking to use research as a tool for social change.


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Choristenes is a genus of moths belonging to the subfamily Tortricinae of the family Tortricidae.

Species
Choristenes melitoptila (Meyrick, 1938)

See also
List of Tortricidae genera

References

External links
tortricidae.com

Tortricidae genera


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Review: Dangerous Beauty
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Professor Marston and the Wonder Women is streaming on Amazon Video and Hulu now. Since I enjoyed it very much in the theater, I thought I'd give it a second look. My second viewing was very different from my first. Continue reading "On Watching Professor Marston and the Wonder Women for the Second Time"
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Bessie Release Announced by HBO
HBO's biopic about Bessie Smith, Bessie is scheduled for release in the spring. The film stars Queen Latifah as the legendary blues singer.
Queen Latifah as Bessie Smith
The HBO synopsis of the film:
Queen Latifah stars as legendary blues singer Bessie Smith in this HBO Films presentation, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Dee Rees from a screenplay by Dee Rees and Christopher Cleveland & Bettina Gilois. With a story by Dee Rees and Horton Foote, the film focuses on Smith's transformation from a struggling young singer into "The Empress of the Blues," who became one of the most successful recording artists of the 1920s and is an enduring icon today. BESSIE also stars Michael Kenneth Williams, Khandi Alexander, Mike Epps, Tika Sumpter, Tory Kittles, Oliver Platt, Bryan Greenberg, with Charles S. Dutton and Mo'Nique.
Queen Latifah and Dee Rees were at the Television Critics Association winter press tour, where they discussed the film.
Queen Latifah and Dee Rees at Television Critics Association winter press tour.
Rees, who wrote and directed the film, commented that Bessie Smith is part of a long line of women of color who reached success as female artists in a world dominated by men. Starting with Ma Rainey (played in the film by Mo'Nique) and moving through singers like Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, and many others up to the present day, Bessie Smith represents women oppressed by the world around them, but triumphant in spite of it.
Queen Latifah said she was first offered the part when she was 22. She didn't even know who Bessie Smith was at that time. She's obviously learned since and will probably do a much better job playing her now than she would have at 22.
Here's Bessie Smith, who was bisexual, singing the blues about a man.
As you can hear, Bessie Smith had a particular style, timber, and cadence to her singing. I hope Queen Latifah doesn't try to match it exactly, but simply creates a sense of the truth of who she was as a woman.
Author Virginia DeBoltPosted on January 15, 2015 August 4, 2015 Categories Movies, NewsTags Bessie, Bessie Smith, Bettina Gilois, Bryan Greenber, Charles S. Dutton, Christopher Cleveland, Dee Rees, Khandi Alexander, Michael Kenneth Williams, Mike Epps, Mo'Nique, Oliver Platt, Queen Latifah, Tika Sumpter, Tory Kittles, Women DirectorsLeave a comment on Bessie Release Announced by HBO
Watch This: Trailer for Lucky Them
Lucky Them stars Toni Collette as a rock journalist in danger of losing her job. To hang on to it, she's forced to go after a story involving an old boyfriend.
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A FORWARD-BACKWARD ALGORITHM FOR STOCHASTIC CONTROL PROBLEMS - Using the Stochastic Maximum Principle as an Alternative to Dynamic Programming
Authors: Stephan E. Ludwig 1 , Justin A. Sirignano 2 , Ruojun Huang 2 and George Papanicolaou 2
Affiliations: 1 Heidelberg University, Germany , 2 Stanford University, United States
Proceedings of ICORES 2012, ISBN: 978-989-8425-97-3
An algorithm for solving continuous-time stochastic optimal control problems is presented. The numerical scheme is based on the stochastic maximum principle (SMP) as an alternative to the widely studied dynamic programming principle (DDP). By using the SMP, (Peng, 1990) obtained a system of coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDE) with an external optimality condition. We extend the numerical scheme of (Delarue and Menozzi, 2006) by a Newton-Raphson method to solve the FBSDE system and the optimality condition simultaneously. As far as the authors are aware, this is the first fully explicit numerical scheme for the solution of optimal control problems through the solution of the corresponding extended FBSDE system. We discuss possible numerical advantages to the DDP approach and consider an optimal investment-consumption problem as an example.
FDMM: A Formalism for Describing ADOxx Meta Models and Models
Topics: Business Modeling and Business Process Management; Models and Frameworks
Authors: Hans-Georg Fill 1 , Timothy Redmond 2 and Dimitris Karagiannis 1
Affiliations: 1 University of Vienna, Austria , 2 Stanford University, United States
Proceedings of ICEIS 2012, ISBN: 978-989-8565-12-9
In the paper at hand we present the FDMM formalism that can be used to describe the core constituents of the ADOxx meta modeling approach as it is provided for the Open Models Initiative (OMI). The formalism is based on a first-order logic setting. Thereby formal descriptions of the implementation of modeling languages based on ADOxx can be realized in an intuitive and mathematically exact format. To illustrate the use of the formalism it is applied to a modeling language and its instances from the area of risk management that has been previously implemented in ADOxx. It is then analysed how the concepts of the FDMM formalism compare to the ADOxx meta modeling concepts as well as other meta modeling approaches from the area of domain-specific modeling.
SWRL Rule Editor - A Web Application as Rich as Desktop Business Rule Editors
Topics: Knowledge Management; Collaborative Computing; Semantic Web Technologies and Applications
Authors: João Paulo Orlando 1 , Adriano Rívolli 1 , Saeed Hassanpour 2 , Martin J. O'Connor 2 , Amar Das 2 and Dilvan A. Moreira 1
Affiliations: 1 ICMC - Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil , 2 Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, United States
The Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL) allows the combination of rules and ontology terms, defined using the Web Ontology Language (OWL), to increase the expressiveness of both. However, as rule sets grow, they become difficult to understand and error prone, especially when used and maintained by more than one person. If SWRL is to become a true web standard, it has to be able to handle big rule sets. To find answers to this problem, we first surveyed business rule systems and found the key features and interfaces they used and then, based on our finds, we proposed techniques and tools that use new visual representations to edit rules in a web application. They allow error detection, rule similarity analysis, rule clustering visualization and atom reuse between rules. These tools are implemented in the SWRL Editor, an open source plug-in for Web-Protégé (a web-based ontology editor) that leverages Web-Protégé's collaborative tools to allow groups of users to not only view and edit rules but also comment and discuss about them. We evaluated our solution comparing it to the only two SWRL editor implementations openly available and showed that it implements more of the key features present in traditional rule systems.
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Society, e-Business and e-Government
Software Agents and Internet Computing
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
Semantic Web Technologies
MINING THE WEB FOR MEDICAL HYPOTHESES - A Proof-of-Concept System
Topics: Datamining; Ehealth; Knowledge Management
Authors: Diana MacLean 1 and Margo Seltzer 2
Affiliations: 1 Stanford University, United States , 2 Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, United States
Proceedings of HEALTHINF 2011/BIOSTEC, ISBN: 978-989-8425-34-8
As the prevalence of blogs, discussion forums, and online news services continues to grow, so too does the portion of this Web content that relates to health and medicine. We propose that everyday, medically-oriented Web content is a valuable and viable data source for medical hypothesis generation and testing, despite its being noisy. In this paper, we present a proof-of-concept system supporting this notion. We construct a corpus comprising news articles relating to the drugs Vioxx, Naproxen and Ibuprofen, that were published between 1998-2002. Using this corpus, we show that there was a significant link between Vioxx and the concept "Myocardial Infarction" well before the drug was withdrawn from the market in 2004. Indeed, within the Vioxx-related content, the concept ranks amongst the top 3.3% in terms of importance. When compared with the Naproxen and Ibuprofen control literatures, the term occurs significantly more frequently in the Vioxx-related content.
Databases and Information Systems Integration
WEB-BASED EXPLORATION OF TEMPORAL DATA IN BIOMEDICINE
Topics: Ontology and the Semantic Web; Multimedia and User Interfaces
Authors: Martin J. O'Connor , Mike Bingen , Amanda Richards , Samson W. Tu and Amar Das
Affiliation: Stanford University, United States
Proceedings of WEBIST 2011, ISBN: 978-989-8425-51-5
A growing number of biomedical researchers must analyze complex patterns in time-course or longitudinal data. Researchers commonly use Excel, SAS or custom programs to query for relevant patterns in their data. However, these approaches typically entail low-level method development. Analyses are tailored to a specific data set and research question, and they cannot be easily modified or shared. As a result, there is a need for tools to facilitate the specification of temporal analyses at a high level. Such tools would hasten the development process and produce reusable methods. We have developed a web-based application called SWEETInfo to meet this need. Investigators can use it to collaboratively manipulate, explore, and visualize temporal data. Our tool combines semantic web technologies such as OWL and SWRL with a variety of standard web technologies. SWEETInfo can generate complex temporal analyses interactively. It also supports publication of descriptions of analyses, and allows them to be easily shared with others and adapted by them. We evaluated this tool by replicating a longitudinal study of drug effectiveness for HIV anti-retroviral therapy.
Multimedia and User Interfaces
Web Interfaces and Applications
Ontology and the Semantic Web
A LIGHTWEIGHT MODEL FOR REPRESENTING AND REASONING WITH TEMPORAL INFORMATION IN BIOMEDICAL ONTOLOGIES
Topics: Medical and Nursing Informatics; Semantic Interoperability; Design and Development Methodologies for Healthcare IT; Knowledge Management
Authors: Martin J. O'Connor and Amar K. Das
Proceedings of HEALTHINF 2010/BIOSTEC, ISBN: 978-989-674-016-0
Over the past decade, the number, size, and complexity of databases for health-related research have grown dramatically. Ontologies are being developed and used by many scientific communities to support sharing, integration, and management of the diverse information in these databases. As critical as ontologies have become, ontology language such as OWL typically provide minimal support for modeling the complex temporal relationships that are common in biomedical research data. As a result, ontologies often cannot fully express the temporal knowledge needed by many biomedical applications and thus users and developers must pursue ad hoc solutions to these challenges. In this paper, we present a methodology and set of tools for representing temporal information in biomedical ontologies. This approach uses a lightweight temporal model to encode the temporal dimension of biomedical data. It also uses the OWL-based Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL) and the SWRL-based OWL query language SQWRL to reason with and query the temporal information represented using this model.
Medical and Nursing Informatics
Cardiovascular Technologies
Computing and Telecommunications in Cardiology
Design and Development Methodologies for Healthcare IT
Planning Process Instances with Web Services
Author: Charles Petrie
Proceedings of AT4WS 2009/ICEIS, ISBN: 978-989-8111-93-7
Planning is an important approach to developing complex applications composed of web services, based upon semantic annotations of these services. Despite numerous publications in recent years, the problems considered in the literature typically do not require planning as it has been well-defined in computer science. This could lead to confusion about which technologies are being designated, and raises the question of what whether planning is an appropriate technology for services. We describe the essential features of planning technology and note its advantages, which include the dynamic synthesis of processes and the lack of need to verify the correctness of the message exchange. We show that planning technology really is necessary by giving an example of web service composition that cannot be solved with simpler technologies as could previously published examples. We describe the basics of adapting planning to web service composition. We restrict its use to process instance synthesis in order to simplify exploration of some fundamental issues. A major issue is that web services are usually incompletely modeled. We illustrate this with a second example. We show some additional semantic annotations of web services can be used to solve the problems similar to the example when used in conjunction with re-planning.
AN ONTOLOGICAL APPROACH TO REPRESENTING AND REASONING WITH TEMPORAL CONSTRAINTS IN CLINICAL TRIAL PROTOCOLS
Topics: Expert Systems in Healthcare; Databases and Datawarehousing; Medical and Nursing Informatics; Decision Support Systems
Authors: Ravi D. Shankar , Susana B. Martins , Martin J. O'Connor and Amar K. Das
Affiliation: Stanford Medical Informatics, Stanford University, United States
Temporal constraints play an important role in the specification and implementation of clinical trial protocols, and subsequently, in the querying of the generated trial data. Protocols specify a temporal schedule of clinical trial activities such as tests, procedures, and medications. The schedule includes temporal constraints on the sequence of these activities, on their duration, and on potential cycles. In this paper, we present our approach to formally represent temporal constraints found in clinical trials. We have identified a representative set of temporal constraints found in protocols to study immune tolerance. Our research group has developed a temporal constraint ontology that allows us to formulate the temporal constraints to the extent required to support clinical trials management. We use this ontology to provide temporal annotation of clinical activities in an encoded clinical trial protocol. We have developed a temporal model that represents time-stamped data and facilitates interval-based temporal operations on the data. Using semantic web technologies, we are building a knowledge-based framework that integrates the temporal constraint ontology with the temporal model to support queries on clinical trial data. Using our approach, we can formally specify temporal constraints, and reason with the temporal knowledge to support management of clinical trials.
Expert Systems
Databases and Datawarehousing
WHAT'S THE BEST ROLE FOR A ROBOT? - Cybernetic Models of Existing and Proposed Human-Robot Interaction Structures
Topic: Cybernetics
Author: Victoria Groom
Robots intended for human-robot interaction are currently designed to fill simple roles, such as task completer or tool. The design emphasis remains on the robot and not the interaction, as designers have failed to recognize the influence of robots on human behavior. Cybernetic models are used to critique existing models and provide revised models of interaction that delineate the paths of social feedback generated by the robot. Proposed robot roles are modeled and evaluated. Features that need to be developed for robots to succeed in these roles are identified and the challenges of developing these features are discussed.
Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics
NeuroSensing and Diagnosis
SWS CHALLENGE - First Year Overview
Authors: Charles Petrie 1 , Holger Lausen 2 and Michal Zaremba 2
Affiliations: 1 Stanford University, United States , 2 DERI Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Proceedings of Comparative Evaluation of Semantic Web Service Frameworks 2007/ICEIS, ISBN: 978-972-8865-91-7
This paper provides an overview of the results of the first year of the Semantic Web Services Challenge. Other papers in this same conference proceedings provide detail of participant contributions as well as lessons learned. This paper is an introduction to the Challenge purpose, organization, methodology, problems, and solutions.
Charles Petrie (3)
Martin J. O'Connor (3)
Amar Das (3)
Michal Zaremba (2)
Holger Lausen (2)
Margo Seltzer (1)
Mike Bingen (1)
Ulrich Küster (1)
Susana B. Martins (1)
Ruojun Huang (1)
ICORES(1)
NLUCS(1)
TCoB(1)


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2018 9-6-1 In 2018-219 the Reivers qualified for the Region XI tournament as the 5th seed. The Reivers were able to win their first round game vs Iowa Central Community College to set up a semi-final match vs eventual champions Marshalltown Community College. Vicente Gallardo was awarded USC 2nd Team All-American. Gallardo was also awarded as a 1st Team Scholar All-American. The Reivers had 4 All-Region selections and 2 selected to the Region XI All-Tournament Team. The Reivers had 24 students awarded Academic All-Region 1st Team, and 4 Academic All-Region 2nd Team.
2017 11-3-1 In 2017-218 the Reivers qualified for the Region XI tournament as the 2nd seed. The Reivers were defeated in the Region Championship game vs Indian Hills Community College with a National Tournament appearance on the line. The 2017 team was able to record the second longest shutout streak in program history by not conceding a goal in the eight matches leading up to the championship showdown with Indian Hills. The Reivers had 11 Academic All-Region 1st Team and 8 Academic All-Region 2nd Team honors. Joao Burti, Gustavo Fernandes, and Jan Hoffelner earned 1st Team All-Region honors. Solomon Constant, Kwesi Allen, and Joe Connolly earned 2nd Team All-Region honors, and Leandro Avila and Mason Farnsworth earned a spot on the Honorable Mention All-Region Team.
2016 20-1-2 In 2016-217 the Reivers advanced to the National Tournament as the #3 seed. They were able to win their opening game 2-0 vs CCBSC Essex, but were upset by Ancilla College in the final group game in penalties despite outshooting their opponent 23-3. Team captain, Gabriel Viola, earned NJCAA and NSCAA 1st Team All-American accolades. Viola and Eric Ganime were also named to the Scholar All-American Team. The team also finished with 10 members on the All-Region Team, and 13 Academic All-Region 1st Team selections and 5 Academic All-Region 2nd Team selections. 2nd 5th
2015 17-2-4 In 2015-2016, Carver and the Reivers accomplished a third straight Region XI Championship, Great Lakes District Championship, and National Championship appearance. The Reivers defeated Massasoit CC in the first game of the tournament 1-0. The Reivers, however, suffered a tournament ending loss to the eventual 2015 National Champions, Louisburg College. The Reivers finished with plenty of accolades. There were a total of 15 ICCAC Academic All-Region XI members and 9 ICCAC All-Region XI players. Coach Carver received the Great Lakes District Coach of the Year Award. The Reivers had 1 NJCAA All-American, Eric Ganime Bastos; and 2 NSCAA All-Americans, Edgardo Reyes and Joshua Blair. 2nd 5th
2014 23-0-2 In 2014-2015, the Reivers completed their second undefeated season but were penalty kicks away from advancing to their second consecutive National Championship game. On their path to a 3rd place finish in Prescott, AZ, the Reivers defeated Coffeyville (KS) and Schoolcraft (MI), and fell in penalty kicks to Monroe College (NY). Nick Melville and Edgardo Reyes were named to the All-Tournament Team. The Reivers have been in every Top 20 poll of the NSCAA and NJCAA since 2010 and were seeded Number 1 in the National Tournament for the second consecutive year. The Reivers finished the year with a 3.288 cumulative GPA. The Reivers led the nation for the second consecutive season in shutouts with 15 and were the nations second best with 11 goals allowed and 0.45 goals against average. The 2014 season sent a record number of six NCAA D1 players to four year schools. 1st 3rd
2013 25-0-0 The 2013-2014 Reivers became the third team ever to go undefeated with 25 or more wins and a National Championship. They led the nation with 109 goals scored and 7 goals conceded. The Iowa Western defense shut out 20 of their 25 opponents. The Reivers ended the season with many accolades. Team captain, Greg Timmer, became the program's first NSCAA Player of the Year, and goalkeeper, Will Lukowski, earned a place in the JUCO record books for his goals-against-average. The Reivers proved that team chemistry and determination can lead to championships. 1st 1st
2012 17-1-1 The 2012-2013 Reivers achieved their highest ever win percentage in a season. They recorded 78 goals in 19 games and the Iowa Western defense allowed only 9 goals. The high power offense and dominate defense resulted in leading scorer Marcelo Norton, and Goalkeeper Will Lukowski, to receive All-American recognition in both the NJCAA and NSCAA. Norton received 1st team in both associations and Lukowski received 2nd in the NJCAA and NSCAA. Head Coach Jordan Carver became the winningest coach in program history this season. Coach Carver has 66 wins since taking over, passing former coach Ammon Bennett at 63 wins. 3rd
2011 18-2-2 The 2011 Men's Soccer team finished the season as the most successful team in program history, both on and off the field. The Reivers broke records for most wins in a season (18), fewest losses in a season (3), unbeaten streak, (14), and most importantly the highest grade point average at 3.077 for the year. The 2011 team returned to the national tournament finishing 7th for the second straight season. The success of the team led to the first ever NJCAA National Championship All-Tournament Team selection, Dayvin Palmer, and two All-Americans. Ignacio Nacho Mateos received 1st Team All-American NJCAA and 2nd Team All-American NCSAA, Marco Carvalho received 1st Team All-American NSCAA and 2nd Team All-American NJCAA. 3rd 7th
2010 16-6-2 In this record setting season, the 2010 Reivers broke six team records and nine individual records. The Reivers achieved regional, district, and national recognition, including 11 All-Region honorees, 13 Academic All-Region honorees, Great Lakes District Coach of the Year Coach Carver, NJCAA National Championship Sportsmanship Award, an NJCAA and NSCAA All-American Leigh Veidman, Three NJCAA Academic All-Americans, and the NATYCAA Scholar-Athlete of the Year Chris Soenksen. 8th 7th
2009 15-5-0 The 2009 Reivers men's soccer program, led by first year head coach Jordan Carver, experienced a successful season finishing 15-5-0 and a No. 15 final National Ranking. The Reivers took the regular season conference championship for the second straight season. The men's soccer team broke the school's record with 15 wins which earned them their highest ranking on the NSCAA plls at No. 10, and tied the teams highest NJCAA Ranking of No. 15. There were many individual achievements throughout the season including two NJCAA Academic All-Americans Dax Becker and Matt Pruett. 15th
2008 14-4-1 2008 saw the men's soccer team reach their highest national ranking (tying the 2005 team) NJCAA No. 15 and the highest ever NSCAA ranking of No. 12. The team broke the record for most wins in a season with 14 and tied the fewest losses with 4. They achieved the conference title and region title, finishing their season at the District Final for the second time in the programs history. The success of the Reivers landed 11 players on the All-Region team. 15th
2007 13-7 In 2007 the Reivers produced another winning season tallying 13 wins and 7 losses. The men's soccer team claimed 2nd place in the conference standings. The success of the season landed 10 Reivers on the All-Region Team. The Reivers also broke multiple records including most goals in a season 69, most goals in a game 15, and least goals allowed in a season 16.
2006 12-7-1 The men's soccer team was led by a higher power offense this season leading to the most goals scored in a game, most assists in a game, and missing the most wins in a season by one game. 2006 Reivers posted a 12-7-1 record and reached the Region final for the second straight season. The success during the season led to 7 All-Region honorees.
2005 12-4-3 The Reivers had a lot of success in only their second season of men's soccer. The 2005 men's soccer team missed out on the national tournament by one game, losing a heart breaker in the District final 2-1. The Reivers finished the season with 12 wins 4 losses and 3 ties making them the Conference and Region champions. Many Reivers received recognition for their performances. The Reivers produced 10 All-Region selections, and the programs first All-American Erik Sterrett. 15th
2004 12-6-1 The men's soccer team had an excellent inaugural season in 2004 under the first ever head coach Ammon Bennett and assistant coach Jeff Ginn. The Reivers were able to post 12 wins 6 losses and 1 tie. The success of the Reivers led to 9 All-Region honorees, including Brad Silvey and Jordan Carver.
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Taipei, Taiwan – FZtech is pleased to introduce Ni Hao I'm FiFi's new collection of iCity series protective case for Apple iPhone 6 – iCity Series: Taipei, Paris, London, and Tainan. The case is made of high quality ABS with 2-layer surface coating, offering premium protection for Apple iPhone 6 against impacts and scratches.
There are 6 designs included in this launch that stick to the theme of city tour. It contains previous design including Hiya London (Color & Red), Bonjour Paris (Blue) and Nihao Taipei (Color). Moreover, there is a brand new City design – Niho Tainan! "Niho" is a way saying hello in Taiwanese.
Tainan city is the cradle of Taiwanese development with precious historical and cultural assets, making its long history. The city features more than 130 historic sites, building and museums. Moreover, the food of Tainan is famous all over the country. It is also the hometown of our illustrator Yating Hung. She drew her most inspired city elements of Tainan in this design, including the historic building Chihkan Tower, Confucius Temple, Anping Fort, Eternal Golden Castle, Koxinga Shrine, Old Lin's Department store, Shennong Street, Sword Lion and Old Weather Bureau building etc. In terms of the famous foods, it includes Rise Dumpling, Danzai Noodles, and Salted Fish Congee. They are our designer's favorites!
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Q: Laravel mail to variable with user model params passed I need to get laravel mail as variable and to pass in it model object
$markdown = new Markdown(view(), config('mail.markdown'));
$html = $markdown->render($template, $user->toArray());

Here is the problem I am not getting relations within array and I know that I can use with to pass relations, but I am wondering is there a better way of getting laravel mail as HTML variable?
Is there maybe I way to create new mail like PHP artisan make:mail Test and then to call that test mail class and get full filled mail as HTML?

A: Seems like doing this helps:
return (new Welcome(User::find(1)))->build();

This is returning mail html

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Superannuation specialist Phil Turner joins G+T as a partner
The Corporate Advisory practice is delighted to welcome new partner Phil Turner to G+T this week, as he joins their Sydney team.
Phil is a leading superannuation lawyer with twenty years' experience assisting trustees of super funds on a full range of legal issues. His practice includes investment work for super trustees, M&A transactions, successor fund transfers, superannuation litigation and financial services regulation. Prior to joining G+T, Phil was a special counsel at MinterEllison, and has also practiced at Clayton Utz and Corrs Chambers Westgarth. He has also spent time on secondment to major superannuation trustees.
In joining G+T's Corporate Advisory team, Phil commented "Clients trust G+T to handle some of the most complex transactions in Australia, as well as litigation and regulatory investigations. I look forward to working with the team at G+T to deliver excellent work for superannuation trustees."
Co-Heads of Corporate Advisory Costas Condoleon and Neil Pathak said "The prevalence and influence of superannuation funds on the Australian M&A landscape continues to grow, as we have seen first-hand on many deals. Phil's experience and superannuation specialisation will allow us to deliver a more comprehensive offering to this significant and important sector and to the large super funds who are central to a lot of transactional activity. We are delighted to have Phil join us and to enhance our team in this way."
About Gilbert + Tobin
Gilbert + Tobin is a leading Australian law firm, advising clients on their most significant corporate transactions, regulatory matters and disputes. We provide commercial and innovative legal solutions for ASX 100 leading companies, major infrastructure and services providers as well as government and public authorities across Australia and around the world.
An international leader in M&A, private equity, capital markets, competition and regulation and technology and digital, we work on complex issues that define and direct the market.
Gilbert + Tobin was named Law Firm of the Year in the 2021 Australasian Law Awards.