Last night was the Relay for Life Benefit Concert in Maryville, TN at Vienna Coffee Co. The event gathered a huge amount of people and supporters, raising between $500-$600 in donations for cancer research. Although the music was in the background, community and life were in the foreground, so it was a success. In case you've never heard of it, Vienna is Maryville's pride and joy, a hub for the vivacity of the city's life. Definitely the best thing to happen to Maryville in the recent decade. Thank you to everyone who attended!
Thank you everyone who attended the show last night at Bonlife Coffee in Cleveland. It was a much awaited reunion of many of the songs with their place of inspiration and it was basically magic. You are all very special to me and your support is incredible. Keeping it classy, Clevegas!
Second show of the year will be in Cleveland, TN at Bonlife Coffee at 6PM. I spent my first two years of college in Cleveland at Lee University and it was an extremely growing time for me. I had a lot of questions about why I was there and what I was doing with my life, and amidst various frustrations with the "Christian" culture I found there, I was in a place of decision. I moved away from Cleveland in 2012 and moved to Johnson City, and since then I've had time to reflect on the years I spent at Lee. However difficult and straining they were, I still find places of beauty that I know God put in place for me to learn while I was there. In retrospect it was a really beautiful time, but I ended up wishing it away in place of something I would be able to predict and control. It wasn't what God had for me to control. In fact, moving away was good in many ways because in Johnson City I met my wife, got involved with RUF, am now working at the church with the youth, and am having the opportunity to finish up school (that at more than one point thought I never would.) Honestly being in Cleveland again after having time away has always been an interesting mix of sadness and looking ahead in joy, but I truly miss my friends back at Lee the most. This concert is going to be cathartic because many of the songs I currently sing and have recorded were written and some even recorded at that school, in my dorm room, practice rooms, buildings, etc. There's something about a song being reunited with its birthplace that's important to pay attention to, because those are places we find the most direct contact with the heart of the music.
Good news! I'm finally on iTunes and I'm pretty dang close ($200 away) to my goal for fundraising for remastering my albums! On the flip side, remember iTunes leaves only 70% of profit for sales and to support the artist, it's best to buy from their music store, where the artist receives 100% of the profit and you can also donate more. Friendly reminder!
Forgot to mention, I'm tuning pianos to raise money to have my latest two albums professionally mastered. If you have a piano or know of someone who does, contact me and I'd be glad to tune it for you.
New official website, tale of the Willow Tree Art Vendetta, the WDVX radio show, tour dates, and 2014 recap.
First of all, I have launched my official website! It's www.brandonwadley.com where you can find a current update of concerts, photos, video, a biography, and much more. Please share it with you friends as it is the mothership of all things internet for the music. Visit here!
On December 18, 2014, I had the privilege to sing on the 89.9FM WDVX Blue Plate Special in Knoxville, TN. Joining me were my wife Katie and good friend Chris Hickman, and it was a blast. Super weird singing to a live studio audience, but it was fun nonetheless. You can hear every gritty detail of the live performance on this double platinum recording. Later that evening, I participated in Vienna Coffee Co.'s own 3rd(?) Ugly Christmas Sweater Party and Concert with Grady Milligan and many more unique local musicians. Always good being in Maryville.
Since a few days before Christmas, I have been in the process of remixing 2013's "The Listening Room" and sending it off to a professional mastering engineer to be re-released in the next few weeks. I think releasing it in its definitive form will be cathartic in many ways. The same may happen to "In the Morning" as well. Everyone on this email list and whoever bought "The Listening Room" online in its original form will be given a free download of the new edition, so keep posted! I'll send a quick e-mail out when that is underway for release.
2015 has already started out with a bang... and a collapsed table, an arrest, and the works. January 6, 2015 marked the exhibition of the photo gallery "Shared Pieces," curated by the extremely talented Anna Hedges and Katie Snyder, and was the first concert of my 2015 tour. Anna and Katie went to Uganda to teach refugee and orphaned children about creating art and artistic freedom. Maybe a flighty endeavor with the language barrier and cultural differences, but the result was amazing. The photoset is comprised of photos taken solely by the children themselves and it turned out to be a riveting display about the inside lives of Ugandan children. The event was a fundraiser to help support an organization called AKA Hope, organized by a couple who have lived in Uganda and are now moving to Colorado but hope to carry on the organization. The show was beautiful and I was glad to design the backdrop banner^ and provide the music.
HOWEVER, in the middle "Autumn Song," after the second verse, a large bearded man walked into the room, climbed a table near the wall, climbed up onto the sound booth, saying, "This needs to come down." He proceeded to forcibly pull down THREE $1000 paintings from the wall about 20 feet off the ground until the table he was standing on gave way and he FELL AND FLIPPED MY MERCH TABLE NOT EVEN KIDDING. I leapt from the stage with the 8-year-old boy in me ready to tackle someone and while several men jeered him on for "being so dumb for doing that, you're so stupid," a man escorted him out. (Unrelated to the parody bio written for me in 2012.) To avoid the tension left in the room, I jumped back on stage, made a couple jokes, and kept on playing.
Collateral damage: 4 shattered mugs and donations jar from the merch table. Thankfully no one was hurt, the massive 10' loose rusted sheet metal wasn't pulled down from the wall, and the paintings are generally fine. The (quite drunk) man was apparently harassing the owners of the venue, didn't get what he wanted, and took out his wrath on the paintings. He was arrested and the venue is pressing charges. All in all, the show was a success and a ton of fun. I'll always have a good story to tell in between songs now.
The only mug left over? The one that says "You're in good hands." No coincidence.
Katie and I have made a collection of mugs (which were mostly all destroyed, see above) that we're selling at shows. I mean, you can wear a t-shirt once a week, but a mug you can use every day! We're making more, so f you have a song lyric you want specifically, contact me and I'll be glad to make one for you. At a possibly fully intact merch table near you.
This past year was amazing. Katie and I got married, released "In the Morning," we started this email list, and am on my way to graduating university and seeing where the music will go after that. I'm hopeful and I believe the hard work and steps of faith are going to reach people with the music in beautiful ways. This year could not have been possible musically without all of you who came to shows, bought merchandise, made me feel nice by "liking" things, and giving wonderful encouragement. Thank you.
Tuesday, January 6, 2015 at 6:30PM - "Shared Pieces"
This coming Tuesday at the Willow Tree in Johnson City, TN there is "a special photo exhibition featuring the work of orphans & refugees from the Nagaru Slums in southern Uganda, Africa. Curated by Anna Anderson Hedges & Katie Snyder in partnership with Aka Hope."
I'm singing at this event at 6:30PM. Please come out and support a wonderful cause and say hey!
Remastered versions of "The Listening Room" and "In the Morning" coming soon!
That's right. My recordings, despite my best efforts, are getting a chance to be clearer and fuller-sounding than ever. With the help of various friends in the last five years, I've recorded several (eight) albums with mainly a mic or two and the rest was edited and "mastered" on Garageband by myself. However, 2014 allowed me to earn enough playing shows and selling merchandise to fund the remastering of my albums. I am so excited. "The Listening Room" is coming first, as it is in the most need of help. The mixing process is almost complete and will be submitted to the mastering engineer momentarily, hopefully to be released to you (and the world) by the end of the month. Good things happening very soon! Also, if you haven't signed up for the email newsletter (to your right), DO IT. That way I can keep in contact with you, my beautiful fans. There you go. Thanks for being awesome.
This is my shot at being technologically up to date. It is 2015, after all. Here will reside the mothership of links, dates, touring things, and so on. Please share this site and help me get the music I am so diligently poring over out into the world and into fortunate souls' ears. You are the greatest for visiting.


There are different types of exercises that each play a pivotal role in injury free, metabolic stoaking workouts. It involves the basic understanding of exercise. I researched how the body converts nutrients to energy: anaerobic metabolism and aerobic metabolism.
Anaerobic metabolism takes place without oxygen and is usually present in high intensity bursts exercises like sprints. Conversely, aerobic metabolism happens with oxygen and is present with lower intensity exercise.
As the linked article explains, there are three types of fitness: aerobic-the kind that gets your heart pumping, muscle strengthening- which helps build bone density and manage weight through increased metabolism and toning, and flexibility- stretching and yoga.
The best combination to achieve your fitness goal's is a blend of all three. As in nutrition, balance is good.


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Embiid scores 41, 76ers dominate Clippers in first half for third straight win
By Beth Harris
LOS ANGELES — Joel Embiid set the tone with 26 points in the first half. Philadelphia's bench came up big in the late going.
Embiid finished with 41 points and the 76ers recovered after blowing a 14-point, first-half lead to beat the Los Angeles Clippers 120-110 on Tuesday night for their third straight win.
"I was just trying to start off strong because what I've come to find out is that my energy kind of drives the whole team," Embiid said. "If I'm at least being aggressive offensively and defensively, my teammates are going to pick up no matter if I make shots or not."
Embiid had nine rebounds and made 15 of 18 free throws before leaving the game with 2:53 remaining. Philadelphia fans chanted "MVP! MVP!" as he raised both arms to encourage the cheers.
Embiid had his fifth straight game with at least 30 points.
"It wouldn't be happening without my teammates," he said. "James (Harden) is doing a good job of making it easy for me. Guys knocking down shots opens up a lot for me to go out and dominate."
Tyrese Maxey added 22 points off the bench. Tobias Harris had 20 points as the 76ers closed out a Los Angeles sweep, having edged the Lakers by one point two nights earlier.
After getting outscored 37-27 in the third, the Sixers dominated the fourth. They outscored the Clippers 30-21 in a reversal of the third when LA rallied from 11 points down.
"I told the bench, 'It's very important we build this lead back,' and that's what we did," Maxey said. "Everybody is buying into their roles."
Maxey carried the 76ers early in the fourth with Embiid resting. He hit three consecutive 3-pointers and had a pair of free throws to extend the 76ers' lead to 101-93.
"I liked how we closed the game," Embiid said. "Tyrese took over to start the fourth. By the time we had to come in, we just had to finish the job."
The Sixers ran off 11 in a row, including four by Embiid and a 3-pointer by Georges Niang, that extended their lead to 115-98.
"That stretch was huge," Harris said.
Kawhi Leonard scored 27 points to lead the Clippers. Paul George had 13 points and eight rebounds in his return after missing five in a row because of right hamstring soreness. They've lost eight of 10.
Leonard and George combined to score 12 of the Clippers' first 19 points to open the third. Marcus Morris' jumper tied the game at 71-all while the Clippers' defense got stops.
The Clippers took their first lead , 79-78, on Ivica Zubac's hook over Embiid. On their next possession, Terance Mann scored over Embiid.
Leonard scored four in a row before the 76ers led 90-89 on a pair of free throws by Maxey going into the fourth.
With Embiid and James Harden on the bench, the Sixers ran off seven straight points to open the second and lead 41-27.
The Clippers rallied to get within five, but Embiid scored 15 points over the final 7:13, capped by a 3-pointer, to keep the Sixers ahead 65-52 at halftime.
76ers: Embiid notched his NBA-leading sixth straight game with at least 30 points. He had 35 points and 11 rebounds against the Lakers on Sunday. ... Harden's streak of six straight games with double figures in points and assists ended. He finished with six points and nine assists. . . . Improved to 23-1 when leading after three quarters, second-best record in the league. ... Shot 59% in first half (23 of 39).
Clippers: John Wall (abdominal soreness) is out indefinitely and Luke Kennard (right calf soreness) sat out his sixth straight game.
76ers: At Portland on Thursday.
Clippers: At Utah on Wednesday to open a four-game trip.

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Hum - You'D Prefer An Astronaut
SKU: W9MFAZ-HF74-00
Hum: Matt Talbott (guitar, vocals); Tim Lash (guitar); Jeff Dimpsey (bass); Bryan St. Pere (drums).
Engineers: Keith Cleversley (tracks 1-4, 6-9); Adam Schmitt (track 5).
Recorded at Playground, Chicago, Illinois and Pachyderm Studios, Cannon Falls, Minnesota.
All songs written by Hum.
Hum's sound is a tasteful musical hybrid of the era's most aggressive guitar textures--the shimmering heaviness of My Bloody Valentine and Swervedriver, and the detached deadpan of Dinosaur Jr. and Smashing Pumpkins. And though Hum's tough guitar knots clench and clamor, the songwriting adds a rare sensitivity that contrasts the six-string muscle.
"And so I give myself away/to everybody every day," is the declaration on "Suicidal Machine," an aching mix of hushed guitar and distant snare drums. "And so I give myself to you/and you need it more than I do...with just a whisper/I'm lonelier than God." Hum's vulnerability and intelligence shines through the slamming riffs and aggressive rhythm section. The guitar in "The Very Old Man" sounds more like a banjo, and the acoustic break of "The Pod" brings an eerie intimacy to the song's female character who "begs me to pick from a hundred ways to feel no pain..."
YOU'D PREFER AN ASTRONAUT is a look into a wounded yet insightful era of pop where the dissatisfaction is on the sleeve, but the reaction is from the heart.
After stirring up a substantial buzz in the indie, art rock, and hardcore undergrounds with the angular, excellent ELECTRA 2000, Hum stepped up to the majors in 1995 with YOU'D PREFER AN ASTRONAUT. While the album contains more hooks, most notably the gargantuan guitar riff of "Stars," a sizable modern rock hit, it loses none of the intricately interlaced rhythms, moodiness, and overlapping, inflamed guitars that made its predecessor such a find. From the perpetual drone of "The Pod" to the hypnotic melancholia of "Suicide Machine" to the borderline-Baroque balladry of "The Very Old Man," Hum create an elegant form of chaos and ASTRONAUT is one of the more beguiling slices of '90s angst rock.


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Q: Is there a way to update 12000+ rows from txt file in less then 2mins? I need to update a table with more then 12000 row using php Codeigniter and a txt file.. reading the file and the foreach loop are fine but when updating line by line it takes like 30 mins, I guess the problem is I'm searching by name because I have no id in the txt file...
Here is my code:
controller:
$fn = fopen($this->upload->data('full_path'),"r");

$update = true;
while(! feof($fn) && $update)  {
    $pieces = explode("|", fgets($fn));
    if(sizeof($pieces) == 9 && is_numeric(trim($pieces[1]))) {
        $update = $this->model_products->update3s($pieces);
    }
}

fclose($fn);

Model:
public function update3s($product) {
    if ($product) {
        $product[2] = trim(str_replace("'","''",$product[2]));
        $product[1] = trim($product[1]);
        $product[6] = trim($product[6]);
        $product[3] = trim($product[3]);
        $sql = "UPDATE products set qty = $product[3], price_vente = $product[6]  where (name = '$product[2]')";
        echo $sql.'<br>';
        $update = $query = $this->db->query($sql);
        return $update;
    }

    return false;
}

A: You can use transaction and add index for column name in database table.
$fn = fopen($this->upload->data('full_path'),"r");

$update = true;

$updatedCount = 0;

while(! feof($fn) && $update)  {
    $pieces = explode("|", fgets($fn));
    if(sizeof($pieces) == 9 && is_numeric(trim($pieces[1]))) {
      if ($updatedCount == 0) {
         $databaseInstance->beginTransaction();
      }
      $update = $this->model_products->update3s($pieces);
      ++$updatedCount;

      if ($updatedCount > 500) { //in one transaction update 500 rows
         $databaseInstance->commit();
         $updatedCount = 0;
      }
    }
}

if ($updatedCount > 0) { // if we have not commited transaction
   $databaseInstance->commit();
}

fclose($fn);

A: Some tips

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*Add index to field name

*Use prepared statements

*Disable the MySQL forgeign key check Read more

A: writing sql function can do that even in much lesser time .
using feature like :

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*REPLACE()

*cursors

*SPLIT_STRING(custom)
in a mysql user defined function
CREATE FUNCTION update3s(hole_file_content LONGTEXT) RETURNS Boolean
BEGIN
                    -----Your implementation(same logic in sql ) ------
END

then coll it just by if it is CI 3
$this->db->call_function('update3s', file_get_contents($this->upload->data('full_path')));

else
$this->db->query("select update3s(".file_get_contents($this->upload->data('full_path')).")");

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15 Things You Didnt Know About The Universal Monster Movies
15 John Carpenter Was Supposed to Direct a Remake of Creature From The Black Lagoon
14 1925's Phantom Of the Opera Is Made Up of Footage From Two Awful Versions of the Movie
13 Bela Lugosi took a huge pay cut to play Dracula
12 A Spanish version of 1931's Dracula may be better than the original
11 Dracula's Bat Transformation Wasn't Shown Until The Third Film
10 Universal Made Horror Movie History by Changing Frankenstein's Ending to allow for A Sequel
9 Bride of Frankenstein's director did everything he could to prevent the movie from being made
8 Bela Lugosi Has Only Appeared in Two Films as Dracula
7 The Wolf Man's 20-Second Long Transformation Scene Took A Really Long Time To Film
6 1935's The Raven Was So Vulgar That It Almost Killed the Horror Film Genre
5 A Desperate Publicity Ploy Convinced Universal To Keep Making Monster Movies
4 The Leech Woman is Considered to Be The Last Original Universal Monster Movie
3 Censorship Led to an Iconic Scene in Dracula Being Lost Forever
2 Dr. Frankenstein Never Had a Hunchbacked Assistant Named Igor
1 The Mummy's Writer Attended the "Cursed" Opening of King Tut's Tomb
At the dawn of the Dark Universe, take a look at the secret history behind Universal's monster movies, from Frankenstein to Dracula himself.
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Now that Universal has officially revealed their intent to revive their old monster movies for the modern age as part of their Dark Universe initiative, film fans everywhere aren't quite sure how to feel. Sure, it's clear that the studio is attempting to build their own version of the Marvel Cinematic Universe by reviving their classic horror properties, but not everyone recognizes the potential in this ambitious plan. Those who are still hesitant to buy in would be well-advised to read into the fact that Universal is attempting to reboot a series of movies which helped establish America as the center of the film world and helped horror movies become a blockbuster film genre.
As popular as movies like Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, and The Mummy are, there is quite a bit that you likely don't know about them. You have to remember that these films were made at a time when major studios liked to keep stories about the filmmaking process secret, as not to ruin the illusion. That, or they just didn't want anyone knowing how much or how little they paid their actors. While their secrecy is the source of many of these factoids, others….well, some other unknown tidbits are downright spooky.
Here are 15 Things You Didn't Know About The Universal Monster Movies.
Following the box office success of Halloween and the release of such cult classics as The Thing, They Live, and Big Trouble in Little China, every Hollywood studio wanted to get in on whatever John Carpenter wanted to do next. Universal stepped up and offered the director the chance to dive into their library and pick any property he wanted to remake. He instantly chose 1954's Creature From the Black Lagoon. Immediately, Carpenter began to work on an ambitious remake that would have used the titular creature's origins as the basis for religious commentary.
So what happened? It's not entirely clear, but many feel that the tremendous commercial failure of Carpenter's 1992 film Memoirs of an Invisible Man played a role in Universal pulling the project out from under him. Since then, the remake of Creature From the Black Lagoon has become something of a cursed project. Everyone from Peter Jackson to Guillermo del Toro has been associated with it at some point, but nobody has brought it to screen. Yet.
Technically, The Phantom of the Opera isn't the first Universal monster movie, but the success of the film did help inspire the studio to give that whole "horror genre" thing a shot. The 1925 adaptation of Gaston Leroux's novel was so terrifying for its time that Univeral urged theaters to supply smelling salts for those viewers that passed out upon the reveal of the Phantom's face.
The success of Phantom of the Opera is made all the more surprising once you learn that the final version is comprised of footage from two supposedly awful versions of the film. The first version, directed by Rupert Julian, received such poor reviews that Universal ordered a reshoot. The second version, done by Edward Sedgwick, was met with a similar reaction. Finally, Maurice Pivar and Lois Weber stepped in and managed to cut together the best scenes from Julian and Sedwick's versions in order to deliver the film that is now considered to be a true classic.
Part of the reason that Universal was so adamant to adapt the Dracula story into a film was that a stage version of the same story proved to be a tremendous hit on Broadway. However, Universal executives had no interest in hiring Broadway actor Bela Lugosi for the role of Count Dracula, despite the fact that his portrayal of the classic character had received universal acclaim. They tried to get every major film star they could find to play the character, just to avoid having to meet with Lugosi.
Lugosi happened to be touring in Los Angeles when casting began, and he decided to drop by Universal Studios. Even though Universal executives were still hesitant, Lugosi managed to convince them to hire him by taking a drastic pay cut. It's reported that Lugosi was paid $500 a day to play Dracula, and he only received $3,500 total for his efforts. To put that into perspective, some stars were commanding over $100,000 at this time, and even lesser known actors could make $20,000 from a single movie. Lugosi would come to regret taking such a pay cut, given later events in his life.
Modern studios will reshoot certain film scenes if they feel they won't translate to international markets, but back in the '30s, it wasn't uncommon for studios to shoot completely separate films for key foreign markets. What was uncommon is for any of these international versions to achieve any real recognition. Most of them have just faded away into the background of history.
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The Spanish version of Dracula remains a glowing exception to that rule. Released in 1931, this version of the film wouldn't be discovered by non-Spanish audiences until a print was found in the 1970s. What those film fans found was a decidedly different take on the Dracula story that some have argued is superior to the Lugosi version. The makers of the Spanish version were able to watch the daily footage from the American film, and they used it to make various improvements to their iteration. The result is an artistically ambitious movie that tells a much more complete version of the original big screen Dracula tale.
In the original Bram Stoker novel, Dracula could transform into a bat, a wolf, mist, and other forms at will. Actually, his ability to transform into a wolf was a pretty crucial element of the original film's plot. Regardless, the infamous literary figure's ability to transform into a bat is the one transformation ability that has stuck with the character the most throughout the years. Indeed, the iconic image of a vampire bat is as closely associated with Dracula as anything else.
The funny thing is that the character was never shown transforming into a bat in 1931's Dracula. It was implied that he could, but the iconic image of the transformation itself never occurs in that film. It wasn't until Son of Dracula was released 13 years later that audiences finally got to see the process play out on screen. As you'll soon find out, this was hardly the only instance of the wrong Universal monster film receiving credit for an innovation.
These days, you can rest assured that nearly every major horror film is going to feature an ending that leaves the door open for a sequel. Such endings serve two purposes. The first, obviously, is that they allow studios to pick up where they left off when developing a potentially lucrative follow-up off of an established brand. The second is that they often give an edge to the ending of a scary movie by leaving the fate of our heroes in doubt.
The original ending to 1931's Frankenstein went against both these principles, as it featured Dr. Frankenstein and his monster dying in a windmill fire. Universal had two concerns about this ending, the first being that it was way too dark. They worried that audiences wouldn't accept something so drastic and conclusive. More importantly, how were they supposed to make a sequel to Frankenstein if Dr. Frankenstein was dead? As such, they ordered Dr. Frankenstein to be rescued from the fire so that the character could appear again.
Universal may have known right away that they wanted to make a sequel to 1931's Frankenstein, but the film's director James Whale wanted nothing to do with it. The problem was that the studio felt he was the only man for the job. Whale decided to leverage their enthusiasm by convincing them to fund a passion project, One More River, in exchange for him agreeing to direct a sequel.
The truth was that Whale still hoped to convince Universal that the sequel was unfilmable by turning down every screenplay that came his way. Whale turned down four or five scripts that received approval from the rating board and Universal by stating that they weren't good enough. His overly demanding nature ended up inspiring John L. Balderston to write an incredibly ambitious script that focused on a companion for Frankenstein's monster. While Balderston was eventually let go, Whale was so impressed with his idea that he handed the concept off to writers William J. Hurlbut and Edmund Pearson to finish what Balderston started. The final result was arguably one of the greatest sequels of all-time, Bride of Frankenstein.
While some will argue that Christopher Lee's performance as Dracula is the greatest of all-time, in the minds of many, Bela Lugosi portrayal of history's most famous vampire remains the definitive take on the character. The accented drawl, the calculated movements…so many of the characteristics we think of when we think of Dracula come directly from Lugosi's work. That's even more amazing when you consider that the actor only appeared as Dracula in two films.
Following the success of 1931's Dracula, Lugosi worried about being typecast. He was originally tapped to play Frankenstein's monster, but at that time, Frankenstein's monster was just a brutish killer with no trace of emotions. When he turned that role down, Universal started to treat Lugosi as a second-tier actor, hyping Boris Karloff as their real star instead. Lugosi wouldn't return to the role that helped make him famous until 1948's Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, the last time he played the character in a film.
1941's The Wolf Man wasn't the first Universal werewolf film – that honor belongs to 1935's Werewolf of London – but it is certainly the studio's most famous. Part of the reason that The Wolf Man achieved the fame that eludes Werewolf of London to this day is that it featured a hefty dose of movie magic that helped audiences buy into the idea that a man was really transforming into a wolf. That roughly 20-second long sequence when Lon Chaney Jr. becomes The Wolf Man was revolutionary.
Of course, revolutions don't come easy. In order to complete the transformation illusion, Lon Chaney Jr. had to sit absolutely still while make-up was applied to him gradually. The director then took shots at key intervals in order to convey the idea of a gradual transformation. The entire shooting process for this 20-second scene took around 10 hours to shoot. Chaney Jr. has long insisted that they production team even went so far as to hook his skin in place, as to discourage him from moving, though others say that that was an exaggeration.
You have to remember that the original Universal horror films came out during Hollywood's "Pre-code" era. Before the infamous Hays Code was strictly enforced in 1934, studios could get away with a lot more sex, violence, and other questionable content. Fittingly, Universal's early monster movies were some of the first mainstream films to openly challenge the accepted levels of decency in major American movies.
Audiences back then were onboard with this increased focus on horror and violence, but some say that Universal went too far when they released The Raven in 1935. The Raven featured, or alluded to, concepts like torture and disfigurement. The film didn't do too well at the box office and contributed to horror movies being banned outright in England. With a major international market no longer in play, Universal decided to get out of the horror game entirely. So what brought them back? Funny you should ask…
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While Universal's decision to stop producing horror movies didn't kill the genre outright, it did threaten the future of horror movies in America. It also caused theater owners across the country to take a huge hit in revenue. They came to rely on the mass appeal of the Universal monster movies and didn't want them to go away. The owner of the Regina Theatre in Beverly Hills was so desperate for the money that these movies once brought to his now dying theater that he decided to host a special triple feature screening of Dracula, Frankenstein, and Son of Kong.
The promotion worked. The screening soon attracted huge numbers of crowds desperate for more Universal monster movies. It was so successful that the police had to be called in to keep the crowds in line. Universal couldn't help but notice just how much money this one theater owner was making, and the studio decided it was time to get back in on the action by releasing more monster flicks.
While the Universal monster movies' lineage includes some of the most famous horror films ever made, you have to remember that Universal began churning out dozens of horror flicks in the '40s and '50s. As such, the integrity of the monster movie line became…oh, how to say this…diluted over time. Universal and many other studios began cranking out low-budget horror films in the hopes of stumbling upon a big hit.
It's why the last recognized film in the Universal monster line is a movie that most people have never even heard of. 1960's The Leech Woman is considered to be the last Universal monster movie because it featured a Universal monster movie director (Edward Dein), a cast of Universal monster movie regulars, and all the usual monster movie style tropes.
The Leech Woman was never intended to be the final Universal monster movie, of course. Universal only released it so that they could bill an American movie alongside the international release of Hammer's The Brides of Dracula.
Remember earlier when we mentioned the strict enforcement of the Hays Code? Well, Hollywood was so adamant about the enforcement of this code of conduct that they even demanded pre-code movies, such as Universal's Dracula, be re-shot before they can be re-screened in the post-code era. These reshoots, combined with the fly-by-night nature of the industry at this time, led to a lot of cut content simply being tossed aside forever.
One of the most devastating losses of this censorship movement was the original opening to 1931's Dracula. See, the original version of Dracula ended with a man standing in front of a curtain and informing the audience to consider the possibility that vampires walk among us. This scene was deemed to be "anti-religious", as it insinuated that audiences should believe in dark forces. As such, it was cut. Oddly enough, a similar scene in the opening of Frankenstein was allowed to stay in the picture, and has become an iconic part of these Universal monster movies. It was even parodied during one of The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror openers. The original footage of this scene as it was used in Dracula, however, has never been recovered.
Quick, what's the name of Dr. Frankenstein's hunchbacked assistant? Igor, right? Everyone knows that. In fact, we're betting that you could close your eyes right now, hear someone say "Igor," and immediately conjure an image in your mind of a hunched-over assistant following Dr. Frankenstein around the lab (or Daniel Radcliffe).
It's strange to think that Igor is so closely associated with the Frankenstein universe when a character named Igor never appears in the original Frankenstein novel. In fact, there's no Igor in the original Frankenstein film or Bride of Frankenstein. Dr. Frankenstein's original assistant was named Fritz. So where does Igor come from? Well, the first time anyone with a name even close to that appears in a Universal monster movie is when Bela Lugosi played a character named Ygor in 1939's Son of Frankenstein. However, that character does not assist Dr. Frankenstein and does not have a hunchback. To make matters more confusing, Dr. Frankenstein wouldn't be assisted by a hunchbacked servant until 1944's House of Frankenstein. However, that character was named Daniel. So when is the first time that a hunchbacked assistant named Igor helps Dr. Frankenstein on film? That honor goes to Mel Brooks' 1974 parody of the Universal monster movies, Young Frankenstein.
When Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb was opened in 1922, the world became obsessed with ancient Egypt and its many cultural quirks. This obsession was only fueled by the fact that many who were present at the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb died under mysterious circumstances within a few years of the event itself. Conspiracy theorists attribute the death of 11 people to the mysterious "curse" of the Pharaoh's tomb. As you might imagine, the hysteria this curse caused helped inspire Universal to produce 1932's The Mummy.
However, that's not the only link between the film and the tomb's historic opening. Before he helped write the screenplay for such Universal classics as Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Mummy, John L. Balderston worked for a publication known as New York World. One of his assignments involved extensive coverage of the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb, for which he was present. In fact, Universal originally had no intention of having The Mummy open in ancient Egypt until Balderston came up with the idea. In case you are wondering, Balderston's eventual death by heart attack is not attributed to the supposed curse.
Do you know of any other fun facts behind the Universal monster movies? Let us know in the comments.
Link Source : https://screenrant.com/universal-monster-movies-dark-universe-facts-trivia-history/
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Four retiring professors' careers celebrated at Western Chiropractic
Discover more about these teachers, who spent much of their careers in the Russell Neighborhood – at this fine medical school that so few seem to know about …
Hampton Hall's foyer is filled with folks, celebrating the careers of four retiring University of Western States teachers.
It was known for many of its 110 years of continuous operation as Western States Chiropractic College – it's now University of Western States (UWS), and it continues to be a leading institution for educating Chiropractic physicians.
In July, 2012, Dr. Lee McCaffrey invited East Portland News to the celebration of the life and career Dr. Appa Anderson, head of the school's Radiology department for more than four decades.
> To see this story, "Life of influential chiropractic physician and educator celebrated in Russell Neighborhood": CLICK HERE.
Little did we know, we'd be celebrating the career of Dr. McCaffrey and three of his teaching colleagues just 11 months later, on June 3.
The lobby of Hampton Hall, a central classroom building on the UWS campus, was filled with co-workers, friends, and well-wishers – all of them on hand for the retirement celebration.
UWS Director of Communications Brian Fawkes introduced us to the celebrants, that evening.
Colleague Fred Colley greets Dr. Lee McCaffrey at his retirement party, celebrating 35 years at UWS.
"I started here in 1978," began Dr. McCaffrey. "I had a hiatus for a couple of years, so for me it's 33 years. I've had an opportunity to work in several different areas of the college. And these last years, the classroom is what I've enjoyed the most – teaching a variety of medical subjects.
McCaffrey reminded that Dr. Appe Anderson, his mother-in-law, who also taught at the school for 40 years, introduced him to chiropractic medicine. "She encouraged me to look into it, and was instrumental in my applying to the school."
What was most fulfilling about his career at UWS, McCaffrey said, was watching the students' growth into medical professionals while at the school.
"I work with students in the first quarter that they're here at the school, talking a little bit about the philosophy of chiropractic. I also work with them in some lab courses when they start learning about human anatomy, and later in other classes.
"And then, near the end of their education, I've enjoyed taking these students to athletic events, and supervising them when they're working on patients," McCaffrey recalled.
"So I get to see the 'finished product'. I think that's actually been the most fulfilling – seeing that transition from being a new student to a person who is about to become a chiropractic physician."
Wearing his brightly-colored Hawaiian shirt – his personal trademark – Dr. Michael Carnes talks with a friend, in one of the large Hampton Hall classrooms, about his 36 years at UWS.
Dr. Michael Carnes was easy to spot in the crowd – he was dressed in a colorful print shirt.
"I've always worn Hawaiian shirts. I have at least 50 of them, all my life I've been collecting them; I can usually get them on sale at the Goodwill store."
A Chiropractor and anatomist, Dr. Carnes told East Portland News, "I ended up doing this by accident.
"Originally, I started in 1974 in Los Angeles at a chiropractic college in a temporary teaching position," Carnes began. "I saw an ad for an anatomy lab teacher at the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic, and applied – and I got it. I had no intention of teaching in a chiropractic college originally. In fact, I'd never even met a chiropractor in my life before that. And now here I am, a chiropractor."
In Oregon it was also a happenstance, Carnes said. "I was here visiting my father-in-law, to fish with him, because I like the Pacific Northwest. I was driving by and happened to see a sign on the freeway [for Western States Chiropractic College] and stopped in, just to check it out. It happened that they needed an anatomist; I jumped at the opportunity. Two months later, in 1977, I was living here."
Carnes said he had difficulty picking one highlight of his time at the college. "There are a lot of really good things about being here at Western States. One is being around motivated young, healthy, happy, intelligent people.
"Another is the people that I work with – I've got 36 years of friendships and these four are some of them. If one added up, the four retiring teachers have a total of about 140 years' experience. In a sense, we 'grew up' together," Carnes added.
"It's all of these things: Long-term friendships, great social experiences, and the intellectual stimulation – and never a dull moment, when you're trying to keep up with the students."
UWS colleague Dr. Darcy Vavrek congratulates Dr. Richard G. Gillette, Ph D., on his 32 years as the school.
Although his title is "Doctor", Dr. Richard G. Gillette said he's not a physician. "I am a Ph.D., a neurophysiologist."
Neurophysiology, he explained, is a medical specialty that studies the central and peripheral nervous systems through the recording of bioelectrical activity.
Dr. Gillette said his path to UWS was through a high school literature teacher, who was the Academic Dean of the school in late 1970s.
"He knew of my work at OHSU where I was doing my PhD. work," explained Gillette. "He told me the school needed a teacher of the particular subject matter in which I was being trained. He insisted I was 'up to the task'; so I came and started teaching. I've enjoyed it tremendously the entire time. It's been a great opportunity."
Most professionally-fulfilling to Gillette, he said, was being able to continue his investigation into spinal pain.
"As a teacher, I realized that there were many unknowns about spinal pain. I used that as a jumping off point to help teach the students.
"At the same time I worked with colleagues from OHSU and the Neurological Sciences Institute at Good Samaritan Hospital – one of which was a world-renowned spinal researcher in the area of pain."
With three National Institute of Health grants over 12 years, they were able to conduct detailed spinal-pain studies. "Then, I was able to bring new leading-edge evidence to the students – giving me the opportunity to do more than just 'parrot back' something in a textbook.
"It was very exciting; and a very unique kind of opportunity," Gillette recalled. "Not only was I able to present this information to our students – in an area where there wasn't any work done on – we got it published, and presented the data internationally."
Asked how the school will cope with the retirement of himself and his colleagues, Gillette said, "They will find another great teacher. The school seems to attract them."
Dr. Bob Boal Ph.D. grabs a bite to eat, while talking with friends he's made during his tenure at UWS over 37 years.
Serving 37 years at UWS, biochemistry instructor Dr. Bob Boal said he received his Ph.D. In chemistry from Boston University.
"Biochemistry is one of the basic science courses students take," Dr. Boal began. "That was the basic focus of my degree, as well as endocrinology."
He's enjoyed his career at the school, Boal said, for two reasons: The staff and the students.
"The staff – the people that I've worked with here, I've enjoyed tremendously. They are so well-qualified. It's really nice to have a job where you can share ideas with peers," commented Boal.
"The other reason is teaching, and working with students," Boal explained. "The students here are very dedicated; and they work their fannies off to get to be doctors who will help people with pain and mobility. It's nice to be part of that."
Before the brief formal program, celebrants dine and chat in the Hampton Hall foyer.
"This is both a happy day and a sad day," commented WSU President Joseph Brimhall.
"We are happy that these people are retiring and getting to move on into another phase of their lives. Yet, we are sad, losing their contributions and expertise."
Their students won't be let down, Brimhall assured. "We have an expectation of excellence; it is part of our culture. We tend to attract people who are interested in very high quality performance. That is reflected in the faculty we have, and in the performance of our students."
To learn more about University of Western States, see their website: CLICK HERE.


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George Dewey, the only officer of the US Navy ever to hold the rank of Admiral of the Navy, was born on 26 December 1837, in Montpelier, Vermont. On 23 September 1854, he was appointed Acting Midshipman from the first Congressional District of Vermont, and upon graduation from the US Naval Academy in June 1858, was warranted Midshipman, to date from 11 June of that year. He became a Passed Midshipman on 19 January 1861, and on 28 February of the same year he was warranted Master. His subsequent advancement was as follows: Lieutenant, 19 April 1861; Lieutenant Commander, 3 March 1865; Commander, 13 April 1872; Captain, 27 September 1884; Commodore, 28 February 1896; Rear Admiral, 11 May 1898; Admiral, 2 March 1899; and Admiral of the Navy on 24 March 1903 to date from 2 March 1899.
During the period 26 April 1861, until 30 August 1867, he had consecutive service on USS Mississippi, USS Brooklyn, USS Agawam, USS Colorado, USS Kearsarge, USS Canadiagua, and again USS Colorado. When detached from the latter he was directed to await orders of 1 October 1867, which returned him to the Naval Academy for a tour of duty which ended in September 1870. On 10 October 1870, he assumed command of USS Narragansett, and in February 1871 was transferred to command of USS Supply, hospital ship. On 27 July 1871, he was ordered to the Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts, and after five months' duty there and brief instruction at the Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, Rhode Island, he again commanded Narragansett from 1 March 1873, to August 1875.
Ordered on 25 August 1875, to report as Lighthouse Inspector, Second Naval District, at Headquarters in New York, New York, he served in that capacity until 1 August 1877, and as a member of the Lighthouse Board for eight months thereafter. On 1 May 1878, he became Secretary of the Lighthouse Board. On 18 October 1882, he was ordered to command USS Juniata, and remained at sea from 25 October that year until July 1884, when he was ordered detached and to the Navy Department, Washington DC. Again at sea, he commanded USS Dolphin from October 1884 until March 1885, when he transferred to command of USS Pensacola.
On 1 August 1889, he was commissioned Chief of the Bureau of Equipment, Navy Department, Washington DC. His term ended by resignation on 30 June 1893, when he again became a member of the Lighthouse Board. On 5 November 1895, he reported for duty as President of the Board of Inspection and Survey, Navy Department. On 30 November 1897, he was ordered to Asiatic Station and, proceeding by steamer, he assumed command on 3 January 1898, his flag in the protected cruiser, USS Olympia, Captain Charles V. Gridley, commanding. The Spanish-American War action at Manila, Philippine Islands, 1 May 1898, not only gave birth to the historical expression "You may fire when you are ready Gridley," but also liquidated the Spanish Fleet and installations in the Manila Harbor without loss of men to the US Fleet.
On 10 May 1898, Admiral (then Commodore) Dewey was given a vote of thanks by the Congress of the United States, and three days later was commissioned Rear Admiral, to date from 11 May 1898. That promotion was an advancement of one grade for "highly distinguished conduct in conflict with the enemy as displayed by him in the destruction of the Spanish Fleet and batteries in the harbor of Manila, Philippine Islands, May 1, 1898." He was relieved of command of Asiatic Station on 4 October 1899, and ordered to the Navy Department, Washington, where on 29 March 1900, he was designated President of the General Board.
An Act of Congress, 2 March 1899, created the rank of Admiral of the Navy. It provided that when such office became vacant either by death or otherwise, the office would cease to exist. On 24 March 1903, Admiral Dewey, who held the rank of Admiral since 8 March 1899, was commissioned Admiral of the Navy, with date of rank 2 March 1899, and became the only officer of the United States Navy who was ever so commissioned. He held the rank of Admiral of the Navy until his death in Washington, DC, on 16 January 1917.
The body of Admiral Dewey was interred in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, on 20 January 1917. At the request of his widow, his remains were reinterred in the crypt of Bethlehem Chapel at the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral, Mount Saint Alban, Washington, DC, on 28 March 1925. Besides his widow, Mrs. Susan Goodwin Dewey, Admiral Dewey was survived by his only son, George Goodwin Dewey.
Admiral Dewey earned the Civil War Medal; the Spanish Campaign Medal; the Philippine Campaign Medal; and the Dewey Medal (commemorating the Battle of Manila Bay). A destroyer, USS Dewey (DD-349), was named to honor Admiral of the Navy George Dewey. Built by the Bath Iron Works Corporation of Bath, Maine, she was launched on 28 July 1934, under the sponsorship of Miss Ann M. Dewey of Quechee, Vermont, great-grandniece of Admiral Dewey. Dewey was placed in commission at the Boston Navy Yard on 4 October 1934, and earned thirteen battle stars for operations in the Pacific War Area during World War II.
Meanwhile, Dewey had brought the Filipino insurgent Emilio Aguinaldo to Cavite in May hoping to learn more about the Spanish garrison and welcoming any distraction the Filipino rebels might provide by their operations against Spanish forces. However, Dewey and the American consuls in the Far East overestimated their ability to control the consequences of these actions, which included Aguinaldo's expectation that the United States would support his demand for the colony's independence. By the time American forces were prepared to assault Manila in August, the potential problems of cooperating with the rebels became apparent to Dewey and Merritt. The American commanders reached an oral agreement with the governor-general at Manila to surrender the city after a brief naval bombardment and infantry assault. On the morning of 13 August the guns from the U.S. squadron opened fire and Merritt's troops went forward. After sharp fighting in some quarters the Spanish surrendered, allowing the Americans to occupy Manila, keeping the Filipino insurgents out of most sections of the city. The peace protocol was signed between the United States and Spain on 12 August, but word of this did not reach Manila until four days later.
USS Dewey (DL-14 / DLG-14 / DDG-45), the ninth Farragut class destroyer, was laid down 10 August 1957, by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine. She was launched 30 November 1958 and was commissioned 7 December 1959 with Commander Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. as the commanding officer.
In early 1960 the USS Dewey engaged in training operations off the New England coast and in the Caribbean, preparing Dewey for her role in the Atlantic Fleet. As a part of USS Dewey regular cycle of training and deployments she participated in the 1961 Northern Europe GoodWill tour. The next significant event was the 1962 Cuban Missile Blockade that Dewey played a part in.
In 1965 Dewey cruised in the Mediterranean and in 1966 the Caribbean. In 1967-1968 Dewey operated in the Pacific and did West Pac tours in support of operations in Viet Nam. When the USS Pueblo was captured in North Korea, Dewey operated off Korean coasts for a number of months. Late in 1968 Dewey had a Blue Nose Line Crossing Ceremony when they passed through the Arctic Circle. Dewey's last deployment in 1969 was a North Atlantic/Med-Indian Ocean cruise.
USS Dewey was decommissioned 21 November 1969. After an extensive conversion as part of the Navy's Anti-Air Warfare Modernization Program Dewey was recommissioned 31 March 1971 as a guided missile frigate, hull number DLG-14.
Back in service in 1972 Dewey had West Pac deployments supporting operations in Viet Nam. Accordingly Dewey had Shellback Initiation Ceremonies for crossing the equator in the Pacific Ocean and later that year in the Atlantic Ocean. In late 1973/early 1974 Dewey was involved in the Yom Kippur Conflict and participated in a Radar picket at Crete.
On 30 June 1975, the USS Dewey was refurbished and reclassified as a guided missile destroyer, receiving new hull number DDG-45.
Dewey went on deployments to the Mediterranean and North Atlantic in 1977, the Mediterranean in 1978. In 1979 Dewey participated in UNITAS, a training exercise that cultivates stronger ties, and increases interoperability with foreign allies. Dewey did a regular deployment to the Mediterranean in 1982, a Standing Naval Force Atlantic (STANAVFORLANT) evolution in 1983 and another Mediterranean deployment in 1985.
Dewey was decommissioned 31 August 1990 and struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 20 November 1992.


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¶ Matins: Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals is eaten alive by John Williams, at The Second Pass, in a piece that begins with the surprised observation that Mr Foer does not mention Peter Singer in his book.
After years of on-again, off-again vegetarianism, something happened to Foer, something that, from his breathless account, you would think had never happened to another human being: He became an expectant father. This caused him to take stock in all the ways one normally might. Then, of his son's birth, he writes, "The world itself had another chance." Many times in Foer's life, he just "ate what was available or tasty," but "the kind of parenthood I always imagined practicing abhors such forgetfulness."
"Forgetfulness" is a favorite word of Foer's. He's also fond of "matters," the verb. Feeding his child "matters because food matters (his physical health matters, the pleasure of eating matters) . . ." But his affection for those words pales next to his torrid love for "story." Just a few samples:
But then we decided to have a child, and that was a different story that would necessitate a different story.
…the stories that are served with food matter.
While this book . . . is as objective as any work of journalism can be . . . I think of it as a story.
We are not only the tellers of our stories, we are the stories themselves.
You see, Jonathan Safran Foer isn't here just to expose terrible industry practices, or to raise philosophical issues that have been in the air for generations: he is here to apply for the position of Shaman Laureate.
Now, that's funny.
¶ Lauds: Michael Williams writes about the amazing Zildjian family, and shares some terrific clips. (A Continuous Lean)
The Zildjian company is the oldest family owned business in the United States, tracing its origin back to Turkey in the year 1623. The company was established in America in Quincy, Mass. in 1929 by Aram Zildjian who perfected the art of cymbal manufacturing. Now after many years of making some of the finest cymbals in the world, company is coming up on its 400th birthday. The 14th generation of the Zildjian continue to operate the famous percussion supplier at their headquarters and factory in Norwell, Massachusetts.
Leon Chiappini has been testing Zildjian cymbals for over forty years. Now, that's a job. Don't miss the 3:39 minute-long battle between Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich, both Zildjian customers.
¶ Prime: James Surowiecki addresses the debt bias in this week's New Yorker, and in a background piece at the magazine's blog. From the former:
If it's frustrating that the government is footing the bill to clean up the mess, it's even worse that the government helped pay for the debt binge that created the mess in the first place, thanks to a tax system that actually subsidizes borrowing. Debt didn't get dangerously out of scale because the system was broken. It got out of scale, in part, because the system worked.
From the latter:
Given that too much debt was at the core of the recent financial crisis (as it's been at the core of most, if not all, major financial crises), you might think that the fact that the tax system is biased in favor of debt—allowing individuals to write off all of the interest on mortgages up to a million dollars, and allowing companies to write off all interest on their debt, while not allowing them, among other things, to write off dividend payments (which you can think of as a kind of payment for equity)—would be a subject of considerable interest among policymakers. But for the most part, it hasn't been. One important exception was this recent I.M.F. study (pdf), which looks in detail at the interaction between tax policy and debt (not just in the U.S., but across the globe), and argues, as I do, that the general bias in favor of debt likely "encouraged excessive leveraging and other financial market problems evident in the crisis." A recent Wall Street Journal article also suggested that an Obama Administration tax-reform panel led by Paul Volcker is looking into the possibility of "curbing" the debt bias. It's not clear whether this means the Administration might seriously consider a proposal to change the tax rules, but it's good news that they're at least aware there's a problem.
¶ Tierce: While Choire Sicha rails against the "Swiss Drug Pushers" who run the United States government (at The Awl), Jonah Lehrer (at The Frontal Cortex) reminds us how L-Dopa really works.
As I've noted before, the popular caricature of dopamine - it's the hedonistic molecule in the brain, activated by sex, drugs and rock and roll - is slightly misleading. Dopamine neurons, it turns out, don't care about pleasure per se - they're much more interested in predicting pleasure, and then comparing our predictions to the actual event. The transactions of dopamine are largely about learning - finding a way to maximize our rewards - and not about mere decadence.
¶ Sext: Unknown to Downing Street or the Palace, Margaret Thatcher dies. Meanwhile, Thatcher scholar Claire Berlinksi writes an article for Penthouse.
The article looked great. Penthouse's photographers are absolutely top-notch. But I'd forgotten just how pornographic Penthouse really is. I was sort of torn between pride in my work and a desire to make sure than no one sees these things in my apartment, ever.
Not Egemen, he wasn't torn at all. He knew exactly where he stood. I offered him a copy as a souvenir, but he refused to take it. He was, he said, well past the age where he was willing to hide this stuff from his parents.
I'm not sure what to do with them. I'm not sure if even my mom loves me enough to display the "SPECIAL 7-GIRL PILEUP" issue proudly on her coffee table.
¶ Nones: Joshua Kurlantzick discusses President Obama's trip to Asia, regretting that Indonesia was left off the itinerary and noting the dispiriting realism of Asian diplomacy today. (London Review Blog)
But across Asia, that common ground will be hard to find. The region is locked in old-fashioned power rivalries...
When you talk to Asian policy-makers, they usually sound more like Henry Kissinger or Otto von Bismarck than like Obama: such co-operation as there is – trade ties, business and cultural links – is nice, but it doesn't overwhelm suspicion of the neighbours.
¶ Vespers: Grant Risk Hallberg's long piece on myth and backlash in Bolaño studies serves as a toolkit to bring you completely up-to-date on a writer who, from beyond the grave, has excited a pungent array of macho responses.
This is the nature of the hype cycle: if the Bolaño backlash augured by The New Yorker's "Book Bench" materializes, it will not be because readers have revolted against the novel (though there are readers whom the book leaves cold) but because they have revolted against a particular narrative being told about it. And Castellanos Moya, with his impeccable credentials and his tendentious but seductive account of the experience The Savage Detectives offers U.S. readers, provides the perfect cover story for those who can't be bothered to do the reading. That is, "Bolaño Inc." offers readers the very same enticements that the Bolaño Myth did: the chance to be Ahead of the Curve, to have an opinion that Says Something About You. Both myth and backlash pivot on a notion of authenticity that is at once an escape from commodification and the ultimate commodity. Bolaño had it, the myth insists. His fans don't, says "Bolaño Inc." But what if this authenticity itself is a construction? From what solid ground can we render judgment?
¶ Compline: A story that we never thought we'd see: "Money Trickles North as Mexicans Help Relatives." (NYT)
With nearly half its population living in poverty, Mexico is not well placed to prop up struggling citizens abroad. Mexico could lose as many as 735,000 jobs this year and its economy may decline 7.5 percent, government economists predict, making the country one of the worst affected by the global recession.
Still, poverty is a relative concept. It is easier to get by on little in Mexico, especially in rural areas, allowing the poor to help the even more precarious.
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When I bought the van the front doors would unlock whenever you opened the corresponding sliding door. The drivers side still does but passenger side will open and not unlock passenger front door. Passenger front door will unlock with regular unlock on key fob. Any ideas how to get this working again. With wife and kids it's so much easier hitting two buttons for everyone to get in then to hit the 2 and then have to hit the unlock twice for other door.
I know it's not a huge issue, just a lazy man's issue.


Raj Tarun, the young hero in Telugu film industry who made his debut with Uyyala Jumpala is trying to make his mark. The actor who has been suffering from back to back flop movies is having a lot of hopes on the film Raju Gaadu. The theatrical trailer of the movie will be out today at 5 pm on the occasion of his birthday.
The makers have announced the same revealing that it will be a special birthday treat for Raj Tarun and his fans. A poster confirming the same is also released on the social media.
A new director named Sanjana Reddy is making her directional debut with the film. Ram Brahmam Sunkara is the producer of the film. Ak Entertainments is the production house. Gopi Sundar is the music director. Amyra Dustur is the leading lady of the movie. The film also stars Rajendra Prasad, Nagineedu, Krishna Bhagawan, Rao Ramesh, Sijju, Subbaraju, and others.


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The Itinerate Visitors is an acoustic quintet interpreting the works of Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead, Van Morrison, and many other rock and folk musicians. With an eclectic background in classical, bluegrass and folk, the band also includes original songs in the show. The instrumentation includes guitar, violin, bass, and finger percussion.
The band's name is derived from Helen & Scott Nearing's Maple Sugar Book. The five musicians (Paul Anderson, guitar; Bruce Cahill, Guitar; Rob Roper, violin; David Lewis; bass and Brian Norris, hand percussion) have played together since the mid-1980s when they discovered their common passion for Dylan, the Dead, and bluegrass. Paul is a regular host of the radio show 'Bronzewound' on WERU and has performed in other music acts including the bluegrass bands Blue Northern and Kinsmen Ridgerunners. Bruce lives in Windham Maine and has been playing with various combinations of musicians for over 30 years. Rob for many years played in UMaine's orchestra and also with Paul in the Kinsmen Ridgerunners. David is a long time performer on guitar, bass, and pedal steel and performed with Blue Northern and The Searsmont Street Band. Brian is a Dylan enthusiast who expresses his musical passion on hand percussion and more!


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Q: Euclidean Geometry Quadrilateral Problem
When the quadrilateral is a square, rectangle, or parallelogram, the problem is very simple since X1Y1=X2Y2=X3Y3=a=b, but this falls apart when the quadrilateral is something like a trapezoid. How can I generalize this to any quadrilateral? This problem has me stumped.

A: ETA: The below assumes that it's $\mathbf{a}$ and $\mathbf{b}$ that are fixed, not $A, B,$ and $C$.  I may have tried to get too cute with this; perhaps the least confusing way to do this is to represent each of the points on the quadrilateral with $x$-$y$ coordinates ($A$ being at the origin, without loss of generality), and then express each of the desired vectors as a mix $\alpha\mathbf{a}+(1-\alpha)\mathbf{b}$.

Any vector doesn't really care where it starts, only what direction it's in.  Therefore, without loss of generality, identify $D$ with $A$; that is, in the triangle $ABC$, let $\vec{AB} = \mathbf{a}, \vec{AC} = \mathbf{b}$.  Divide $\overline{BC}$ into four equal parts with $Y_1, Y_2, Y_3$.  Then the three desired vectors are $\vec{AY_1}, \vec{AY_2}, \vec{AY_3}$.
To make this rigorous, you should prove that the above works.  There are a number of different ways to demonstrate it, but analytically on the Cartesian plane may be the most straightforward.

A: Arithmetic progression of vectors in the plane with a common vector difference $ \dfrac{b-a}{4}  $:
$$ 4 a /4 , (3 a +b)/4, (2 a + 2 b)/4 , ( a +3 b)/4 , 4 b /4. $$
If instead you had asked for $ \vec{AD}, \vec{BC}, $ then you get same quarter division intermediate grid points writing $ a \rightarrow c ,b \rightarrow d. $

A: $\vec{AB}+\vec{BC}+\vec{CD}+\vec{DA}=0$
$\vec{a}+\vec{BC}-\vec{b}+\vec{DA}=0$
$\vec{BC}+\vec{DA}=\vec{b}-\vec{a}$
$X_{1}Y_{1}=\frac{DA}{4}+a+\frac{BC}{4}=a+\frac{b-a}{4}=\frac{3a}{4}+\frac{b}{4}$
$X_{2}Y_{2}=\frac{DA}{2}+a+\frac{BC}{4}=a+\frac{(b-a)}{2}=\frac{a}{2}+\frac{b}{2}$
$X_{3}Y_{3}=\frac{3DA}{4}+a+\frac{BC}{4}=a+\frac{3(b-a)}{4}=\frac{a}{4}+\frac{3b}{4}$

A: Since
\begin{align}
X_i&=A\cdot(1-t_i)+D\cdot t_i,
\\
Y_i&=B\cdot(1-t_i)+C\cdot t_i,
\quad t_i=\tfrac{i}4,\quad i=1,2,3,
\end{align}
\begin{align}
\vec{X_iY_i}
&=
Y_i-X_i=
(B-A)\cdot(1-t_i)+(C-D)\cdot t_i
\\
&=
\vec{BA}\cdot(1-t_i)+\vec{CD}\cdot t_i
\\
&=
-\vec{AB}\cdot(1-t_i)-\vec{DC}\cdot t_i
\\
\vec{X_iY_i}
&=
\mathbf{a}\cdot(t_i-1)-\mathbf{b}\cdot t_i
\quad t_i=\tfrac{i}4,\quad i=1,2,3.
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Gasoline Prices Jump in Harvey's Wake
Owner of largest pipeline in U.S. says refinery woes are sharply curtailing shipments
Rainwater from Hurricane Harvey surrounding oil refinery storage tanks in Texas City. Analysts say the storm has knocked out more than 20% of U.S. refining capacity.
Photo: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg News
Alison Sider
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Updated Aug. 31, 2017 11:08 pm ET
Gasoline prices surged to a two-year high at the pump Thursday after the owner of the largest pipeline in the U.S. reported that shipments are being sharply curtailed, spreading the economic pain from Hurricane Harvey throughout the nation.
Retail prices for gasoline approached $2.49 a gallon by Thursday evening, according to the Oil Price Information Service, up about 14 cents from a week ago. Prices in some cities have climbed much more than that and could keep rising toward an average of $2.60 to $2.75 a gallon in the next 10 days, said Tom Kloza, global head of energy analysis at the price-data tracker.
Since Harvey made landfall on Friday, the storm has knocked out more than 20% of U.S. refining capacity, analysts said.
"In a matter of days the final gasoline supplies are going to get to Atlanta, then South Carolina, then North Carolina, then up the line," said Patrick DeHaan, senior petroleum analyst at GasBuddy, a price-tracking firm, warning that panic buying would only exacerbate the situation.
Tropical Storm Harvey's impact on Texas has been catastrophic, but the city of Houston is faring worse than some others. Here's the science of why Harvey has been especially devastating. Photo: NASA
As remnants of Harvey moved out and recovery efforts started up, floodwaters destabilized a chemical plant outside Houston, causing two explosions at the Arkema SA facility in Crosby early Thursday morning. Containers of warming liquid organic peroxide burst, creating large plumes of smoke that officials described as noxious. Eight more truckloads of the chemical are dangerously unstable, the officials said.
The storm has affected 100,000 homes and sent more than 30,000 people to emergency shelters around the state. At least 42 deaths have been attributed to the storm, a tally that is likely to climb.
Meanwhile, gasoline futures climbed on Thursday after Alpharetta, Ga.-based Colonial Pipeline Co. said that it isn't getting enough fuel to operate its pipeline between Houston and Lake Charles, La., limiting the amount it can transport onward.
The humanitarian crisis in Texas and Louisiana due to Hurricane Harvey has the potential to make it easier for Congress to address two contentious issues: raising the debt ceiling and keeping the government running. WSJ's Aaron Zitner explains. Photo: Getty
Gasoline for September delivery on the New York Mercantile Exchange jumped 14%, to $2.1399 a gallon. The increase on Thursday, which was buoyed in part by the expiration of the September contract, capped eight days of gains that have pushed prices to two-year highs.
Colonial is still getting some fuel from plants in Lake Charles and eastward, but deliveries will be "intermittent and dependent on terminal and refinery supply" until at least Sunday, when it hopes to restart the Houston-to-Lake Charles section, the company said.
"The speed at which our system is running is lower but the system is running and supply is making it to the market, just at a slower pace," said Buster Brown, Colonial's director of scheduling and shipper relations.
Swaths of the U.S. are heavily dependent on the 5,500-mile Colonial pipeline for gasoline, and any interruption can cause prices to spike and send retailers scrambling for supplies. Colonial carries more than 100 million gallons of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel a day in pipelines running from Houston to New Jersey.
Last year, disruptions that shut the pipeline for several days at a time caused prices to jump, and some gas stations in the Southeast ran out of fuel.
Cities from Texas to Maryland will see "significantly reduced or unavailable supply," said analysts at Mansfield Oil Co., a fuel wholesaler based in Gainesville, Ga.
Colonial is not the only major fuel pipeline to shut down. The Explorer Pipeline system, which transports fuel from Houston to Tulsa, Okla., and then to Chicago, isn't running because there's not enough being produced in Houston to fill the pipes, said Dolin Argo, vice president of operations and business development.
Mr. Argo said the company hopes to restart this weekend but that timing depends on when refineries get up and running.
Texas drivers are starting to worry about getting enough gas.
Amy Pequeno, who lives in Plano, a Dallas suburb, said she drove to three different stations to find them all closed. When she found an open station, the line stretched for blocks.
"People are driving crazy trying to get in; they cut you off," she said. "I'm empty. I can't even take the kids to school in the morning if this doesn't get settled."
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It's unclear when most refiners will be able to resume operations. By and large, they have not reported the type of major flood damage that kept fuel plants down for months following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Three plants near Corpus Christi said earlier this week that they were taking steps to start up.
More may be able to restart when ports reopen, allowing refineries to get more oil. Port Houston said it would reopen Friday, while the Port of Galveston said it would resume normal operations also on Friday.
But traders said there's still significant uncertainty as reports of plant conditions trickle out.
"No one really knows; fear is driving the market right now," said David Leben, director of commodity derivatives at BNP Paribas SA .
Worries about shortages are prompting unusual movements of fuel. Vessels are being loaded with gasoline in New York Harbor heading for Savannah, Ga., and Jacksonville and Tampa in Florida, said Donald Morton, senior vice president of Herbert J. Sims & Co., who runs an energy trading desk. Typically, fuel isn't shipped from New York to the South.
The amount of gasoline stockpiled in the U.S. stands at about 230 million barrels, as refiners spent most of the summer running their plants at record rates. But not all of it can be withdrawn.
It's hard to draw supplies lower than 200 million barrels without seeing tanks in certain parts of the country run out or some pipelines not be full enough to operate, said Adam Sieminski, former head of the U.S. Energy Information Administration and current energy and geopolitics chairman at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Major refiners are telling customers that they would only supply their own branded outlets because they don't have enough gasoline to supply wholesale customers as well, analysts said. That's leading to an unusual situation in which unbranded gasoline is becoming more expensive than the fuel sold at stations affiliated with major oil companies.
—Lynn Cook contributed to this article.
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Q: Disregard onHashChange during manual editing of window.location Is there a way to NOT run onHashChange when I manually edit the hash with javascript?
window.location = 'http://www.site.com/foo.html#newHash';

I'd like to only run onHashChange when the user hits back or forward on the browser or types in a new hash herself.

A: Not the cleanest approach, but you could set a flag before changing the hash via JS. I've wrapped this in a function - windowLocation().
function windowLocation(url) {
    window.jsHashFlag = true;
    window.newURL = url;
    window.location = url;
}

function hashChange(e) {
    if(window.jsHashFlag && e.newURL == window.newURL) {
        // hash changed programmatically
        window.jsHashFlag = false;
        window.newURL = '';
    }
    else {
        // hash changed manually
        // do something
    }
}
window.jsHashFlag = false;
window.onhashchange = hashChange;

// ...

windowLocation('http://www.site.com/foo.html#newHash');

A: You may be able to hook into the onHashChange event with jquery bbq (http://benalman.com/projects/jquery-bbq-plugin/) and conditionally trigger whichever actions you'd like. I'm not sure how to detect back/forward clicks though.


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National leader Simon Bridges sent one of his own staff to help on the Scott Morrison campaign. Photo / Alan Gibson
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Audrey Young is political editor for the New Zealand Herald
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National Party leader Simon Bridges said the result in the Australian election was remarkable - and was good news in some respects for his own party.
"You can never make a perfect comparison with what's going on in New Zealand. Each country is a bit different, but I think it does show us in National that good campaigns really matter," Bridges told the Herald at the party's lower North Island conference in Lower Hutt.
Bridges believed that the Liberal policies appealed to blue-collar workers.
"There is no doubt that Aussie battlers, those quiet Australians, they might not be on Twitter, they may not be in the media much, but actually they have got a voice at the ballot and they spoke reasonably clearly.
"They are, I think, becoming more fiscally conservative.
"I think they have learnt the lesson over the past few decades that big flabby Government that taxes too much, that gives money to shirkers, not workers, isn't the way to go and isn't good for them.
"We saw that in Australia and we will be making the same messages clear in New Zealand."
Both Bridges and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern have texted messages of congratulations to Morrison.
With final results still to be confirmed, Labor cannot form a Government, despite having been ahead in opinion polls for most of the last term. Bill Shorten, who has been leader for almost six years, is stepping down.
The Coalition of Liberal and National will be able to form a majority or minority Government under Scott Morrison, the former Treasurer who became Prime Minister only in August last year.
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"I wouldn't overplay it but it is pretty good for us because it does mean we are building up strong experience from the successful centre-right campaign that we will want to be using here," Bridges said.
Bridges said the Liberals had campaigned on a strong economy and against more tax and that had parallels in New Zealand.
"People will respond if you do the right thing and you have the right policies and people.
Both Jacinda Ardern and Simon Bridges have texted messages of congratulations to Scott Morrison. Photo / AP
"And I see in policies a Liberal Party that, like us in New Zealand and National, believes in a really strong economy, thinks we are the best people to manage that, [believes in] less tax, less regulation, in letting people get on with their lives, and we are not for and will never be for a bigger Government, wasting taxpayers' money and unions running the show, which may, by next year, be worrying New Zealanders."
Asked if National might be tempted to make political capital over climate change, which has been an especially divisive issue in Australia, Bridges said the issue had been a test for centre-right parties around the world.
"We will run our own race on climate change in New Zealand. We are not going to necessarily follow what they have done," he said.
"I think it has been unhelpful for the Liberal Party over a long period of time now to be so divided on that.
"I think it is a bit of a test for right-of-centre parties right around the world, [for] their sense of modernity on climate change.
"We clearly believe it is an issue. We think action is required. Our position was the same yesterday as it is today after this election in Australia and that's that we want to be bipartisan.
"We think the Government has got, with our help, a lot of it right although we don't support the methane targets being as high as they are because that is no in accordance with the science.
"We know for New Zealand's economy we need to stay strong in farming. It is over half our exports.
Bridges said one of his own staff members had been helping on the Liberal campaign in Australia running Morrison's social media, and members of the wider party had volunteered.
"We are sister parties. You couldn't find parties that are closer between the Liberals and the National Party and New Zealand. "
Morrison ran a great campaign on issues that mattered, said Bridges.
"I think there is also a bit of a 'bugger the pollsters' factor here as well. It is not that they got it badly wrong but I think the conventional wisdom was whilst it will be close, this was Labor's to lose.
"There's a lesson in that for us here in New Zealand as well. These things aren't always won on Twitter or by commentators but by getting out and reaching middle New Zealand."
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You Gotta Make Me See, What Does It Mean to Have an MIC?
David E. Griffith, Kevin L. Winthrop
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chest.2020.11.007
10.1016/j.chest.2020.11.007
Griffith, D. E., & Winthrop, K. L. (2021). You Gotta Make Me See, What Does It Mean to Have an MIC? CHEST, 159(2), 462-464. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chest.2020.11.007
You Gotta Make Me See, What Does It Mean to Have an MIC? / Griffith, David E.; Winthrop, Kevin L.
In: CHEST, Vol. 159, No. 2, 02.2021, p. 462-464.
Griffith, DE & Winthrop, KL 2021, 'You Gotta Make Me See, What Does It Mean to Have an MIC?', CHEST, vol. 159, no. 2, pp. 462-464. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chest.2020.11.007
Griffith DE, Winthrop KL. You Gotta Make Me See, What Does It Mean to Have an MIC? CHEST. 2021 Feb;159(2):462-464. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chest.2020.11.007
Griffith, David E. ; Winthrop, Kevin L. / You Gotta Make Me See, What Does It Mean to Have an MIC?. In: CHEST. 2021 ; Vol. 159, No. 2. pp. 462-464.
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