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Q: I can't move from an activity to another activity (from register once clicked to register form) Main activity.java
    public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    Button btnLogin, btnSignup;
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        btnLogin=findViewById(R.id.btnUserLogin);
        btnSignup=findViewById(R.id.btnUserSignIn);

        btnLogin.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick (View view) {
                Intent intent = new Intent(MainActivity.this, LoginActivity.class);
                startActivity(intent);
            }
        });

            btnSignup.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(View view) {
                     Intent intent = new Intent(MainActivity.this, RegisterActivity.class);
                    startActivity(intent);
                }
            });
         }
        }

LoginActivity.java
    public class LoginActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

        @Override
        protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
             super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

            View _mw = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.activity_main, null);
            setContentView(_mw);
        }
    }

RegisterActivity.java
    public class RegisterActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

        @Override
        protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
            setContentView(R.layout.activity_register);
        }
    }

No errors are raised it just displays runs successfully, the landing page appears where I have the login and register, but once I click on login or register buttons it does not move to the form that I need to fill.

A: you are setting the same view as the main activity in your login activity --
public class LoginActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
         super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        /*View _mw = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.activity_main, null);
        setContentView(_mw);*/
        setContentView(R.layout.your_login_activity_layout_here)
    }
}

So basically it's shows the same view again.


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ASCL General Secretary Geoff Barton comments on Ofqual's announcement that it will press ahead with controversial changes to the way GCSE French, German and Spanish is assessed.
Commenting on Ofqual's announcement that it will press ahead with controversial changes to the way GCSE French, German and Spanish is assessed, Geoff Barton, General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said:
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"We fear that rather than encouraging the take-up of languages, a curriculum which mainly focuses on memorising a long list of words will alienate pupils and prove counter-productive.
"At a time when pupils need to be enthused to learn languages, the government has chosen to make GCSEs both prescriptive and grinding. The idea that this will help it fulfil its target of 90% of pupils taking up these subjects is pure fantasy."

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This page serves as a jumping off place for personal recollections and memories of times spent in Seaside Heights. Things are evolving here and I will post more pages whenever I receive new entries. It would be great too to be able to post pictures too, if anyone has some of those to contribute.
If you have a story or a short anecdote to send in please let us know. You can find out about how to submit content here.
The Wooden Bridge and Funtown Pier carousel.
My earliest memory of Seaside Heights was the terrifying ride across the rickety old wooden bridge of Rt 37. It was so close to the water. My first feathered Cupey Doll on the boardwalk and ride on the merry go round made it worth the trip. I enclosed a photo (click on the photo to enlarge) of my favorite carousel, the OLD one on the Funtown Pier, which had beautiful artwork of ocean scenes above, and the horses had real horsehair tails (more about the boardwalk and Seaside heights carousels). I took the photo in 1985 and the boy on the horse on the right facing my camera is my son Jeff Clifford. Later this carousel was dismantled and sold when the elderly lady who owned the Pier died. She was wonderful having saved that carousel all those years. I was disappointed to see the photo of a NEW carousel on the Funtown Pier website and people commenting in error that this is one of the oldest carousels in the country. Thank you for the memories.
Every summer up through about 1967 our family (my parents and my siblings and I) rented a cabin on Marlin Drive, Seaside Heights ($50 for the week!), and we spent every day at Ortley Beach (now Vision Beach Club, or something like that), walking over to the beach past "Flo's Bat 'Em Out," and usually parking ourselves close to the fence that separated us from the others who were at Seaside Heights. I enjoyed lying on the beach and watching the activity up on the Casino Pier. I eventually worked up the nerve to ride on the Divebombers there one night! My father could invariably be found at the Raw Bar eating clams.
Years later we would take family day trips to Island Beach State Park.
My aunt lived on Hiering Ave.There were no buildings at all from her house to the beach (one block). She picked wild beach plums and made jelly. I spent many weeks every summer there. The mayor was Patrick Tunney. Does anyone remember Augie Hoffmann's bar on the main blvd. The big banner outside said "hammond organ". Many a good time there.
An expanded page about Lois, her family and times in Seaside Heights - with some great old pictures - can be found here.
When you I was in my early teens I was looking for ways to make some extra money to play the pin ball machines on the boardwalk. My grandfather offered to take me fishing for spearing with his dragnets so I could sell them. We'd wake up early and set out for Pelican Island with our nets, buckets, baggies and some bread for bait, and within an hour or so we'd have a full bucket of active little silver fish. I'd put a handful in each baggie and we'd make the rounds of the local bait stores in Seaside and sell them for one dollar a bag. Business was always brisk and it was a fun way to make money, and especially learning from my grandfather how to be a better fisherman, just like him.
Keeping track of my four little sons was always a challenge on the busy Seaside boardwalk. Everyone wanted to do everything: go on every ride, try every pizza stand, play every arcade game. I would dress them in bright clothes so they'd be easy to spot and I would constantly count heads to myself: one, two, three, four, one two three, four….. Only once did I lose one for more than a minute, and that was when I learned where the lost and found booth was.
Feel free to send us your own stories or add a comment about your memories of Seaside Heights.
Submitted by Diane (not verified) on Thu, 10/01/2009 - 18:26.
Does anyone remember an actual pinball machine called The Silver Ball?
Submitted by Doug Thompson (not verified) on Sat, 06/09/2012 - 14:02.
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 10/01/2009 - 19:55.
There are pictures there of the machine so it should be obvious right away if this was the same machine you remember.
Submitted by Mari (not verified) on Mon, 07/05/2010 - 10:28.
Submitted by Robert Freeman (not verified) on Fri, 02/25/2011 - 02:32.
Does anyone remember the round spaceship that sat in the public parking lot as you got off the bridge into seaside heights? I think it was a information ceneter or something? I always remember asking my mom if i can go in the spaceship and she would say I don't want it taking off with you! I believe it had seaside heights written on it's shiny exterior.
what ever happened to it? It was still there in the early 80's for sure.
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 11/02/2012 - 12:34.
I totally remember the UFO. I thinknit was io at the boardwalk for awhile and had "oddities" inside. Like an alien in a jar, etc. Then it was a bank for awhile. I think it sat for some years right in that lot when u enter SSH. I remember when it was getting old and rusty. Then gone.
Submitted by Dabooboos (not verified) on Thu, 08/21/2014 - 17:35.
Before the "Spaceship" was an info center it was a small aquarium that house some impressive sharks. I remember it near Casino Pier in the same area as a large spiral water slide that quickly disappeared. I believe it was at Kearney Ave and boardwalk.
Submitted by LastoftheZucchiniFlower (not verified) on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 13:49.
When my dad moved us from Belmar to Deal, to Loch Arbour, to Allenhurst, To Wanamassa and ultimately to Toms River at age 16 I had HEARD about 'the rides' in Seaside, but had never seen them. When I first prowled the boardwalk during those sunny beach days of 1972 - EVERYTHING seemed new (and even kinda clean). Friends in HS spoke in hushed tones about the NEW Aztec motel where you MIGHT get a drink if you were underage. (In those days, the drinking age as 18). Or, in the Bamboo Bar where a friends garage band might be playing........but MY person thrill was the Italian Village. There I had my young face done in pastels by RHODA SHAPIRO. This portrait hangs over my dining room hearth today and people say, "Is that your daughter?" Makes me smile to recall the leather tooling of belts (I got one for a birthday gift with mushrooms and lightning bolts in brown leather and a huge silver buckle....I also had a purse, the COOLEST silver earrings that dangled down to my neck and of course there was the Original coffee bar - the espresso/pastry corner. Those fun filled days and nights in Seaside were the greatest for a teenager, freshly ripped from the 'other' Jersey Shore - Asbury Park......what fabulous locations for growing up in the 60 and 70s. I no longer live in NJ - and I recall a MILLION stories. What's the beach like today? Sounds like it's all brain-dead mutants who SAY they're jersey girls, but in reality, are all from Equador and who never wash their faces of days old bronzer.
Submitted by joann heckman (not verified) on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 11:46.
I too had a beautiful portrait done in pastels by Rhoda Shapiro. It unfortunately got damaged in a flood. The portrait completely captured me into the depth of my soul. She captured every fleck of color in my eyes. My spirit showed through the picture as if i could jump off the paper. what an incredible exactness. What ever happened to her?
Submitted by Kevin Mc Laughlin (not verified) on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 17:41.
I had my portrait done by Rhoda Shapiro when I was very young back in the 1970's. I remember she lived in Cinnaminson, New Jersey and always wore very beautiful hats. She was very charming. I would also love to know where she is.
Submitted by Rhoda Shapiro (not verified) on Sat, 02/11/2012 - 09:58.
This is Rhoda the portrait painter from Seaside Heights. I am deeply touched by your memories and it brought tears to my eyes. I am so happy to have given you as much pleasure as painting has given me. Several years ago I moved to the South of France where I continue to paint, teach and exhibit. For 27 years Seaside Heights was my summer home and I remember it as a joyous and exciting time. I probably painted over a thousand portraits and have fond memories of meeting so many wonderful people. It it so gratifying to know that you remember me and continue to appreciate my work.
Submitted by DONNA (not verified) on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 16:43.
Submitted by Gerard Ciandella (not verified) on Fri, 04/26/2013 - 14:23.
Submitted by Floyd L. Moreland (not verified) on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 08:06.
Submitted by Laura Spada-DePallo (not verified) on Sun, 04/22/2012 - 11:58.
Is this the same Rhoda Shapiro who painted portraits of me as a young girl from Brouse Avenue?
Submitted by Rhoda Shapiro (not verified) on Wed, 05/09/2012 - 17:28.
I am happy to hear from you! This is that Rhoda Shapiro. I remember painting a portrait of you holding a bird that you found when you were just a little girl with wavy long dark hair. Do you still have the portrait? My daughter, Adrianne, remembers you as well.
Submitted by Emery G. Saunders Jr. aka "Toe-Knee" (not verified) on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 20:41.
Is this the same Rhoda Shapiro who gave lessons on art and life via an apprenticeship to a kid by the name of Tony Saunders back in Cinnaminson,N.J.?
If so then I have a feeling that you left an indelible impression on that kid.
Submitted by Rhoda Shapiro (not verified) on Mon, 08/06/2012 - 15:15.
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 01/19/2014 - 21:48.
Yes I do remember you ! What a great life painting all those years at Seaside Heights ......have been living in the south of France for the last fifteen years still painting and teaching. Thank you for remembering me. Did I paint you also in oil with a Bird? Sincerely Rhoda.shapiro.
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 08:45.
My mother just gave me a portrait done by Rhonda Shapiro in 1972..
Submitted by MARYANN STORNIOLO (not verified) on Thu, 09/20/2012 - 06:51.
It was August 1974, was 19 on my honeymoon and you did a pastel of me. I am now 58, and miss the pretty young girl you captured on paper. I would like to have the pastel touched up since it wasn't sealed and is dusty. Do you have anyone to recommend to help with this? I live in Staten Island NY. Thank you and I hope you are doing well.
Submitted by Rhoda (not verified) on Sat, 09/22/2012 - 07:58.
This is Rhoda. I am so happy to hear that you've been enjoying my work and remember me. It touches me deeply. I am still working but now living in Provence France. Please email me directly at my email shapiro.rhoda@gmail.com and I will help you to get it fixed.
Submitted by Jennie M. Swadis (not verified) on Wed, 12/19/2012 - 20:51.
So wonderful to know you are still creating...You did a portrait of my daughter @ 2yrs on the boardwalk @ the AZTEC. She was and still is a red head @ 40 with 3 children of her own. Your work hangs on my dining room wall. I have had it with me all these years and love it now more than ever. Thank you.
Submitted by Katherine Mayes (not verified) on Wed, 04/24/2013 - 17:13.
Submitted by Rhoda Shapiro (not verified) on Sat, 01/18/2014 - 17:18.
It's so lovely to read your message. I remember you so well, we had a great time painting together and I hope you took those art classes. I am still painting and teaching in France and I will be back for a visit in the spring. Keep in touch by email and let me know how you are doing.
Give my warm regards to you mother.
Submitted by Theresa Karpenick (not verified) on Thu, 11/07/2013 - 17:56.
Submitted by Rhoda Shapiro (not verified) on Sat, 11/30/2013 - 15:30.
This is Rhoda Shapiro. I am happy to hear from you and I am so sorry for your loss. I would love to do a portrait of your three children. Please email me at shapiro.rhoda@gmail.com and please send me a few pictures. I would also love to see a picture of the portrait I have done for you.
Linda De Lehman sends Rhoda LOVING MEMORIES!
Submitted by Linda De Lehman (not verified) on Tue, 08/19/2014 - 05:27.
Certainly, I am one more admirer in the world who shared in the gift of your Art!
In the mid 70s, when I was about 16-17 years old, I had the honor to model for you in your home in Cinnaminson.
Being with you in your home was like entering back-stage into an amazing theater! Dimly lit, hung colored costumes, dresses and masks of hats for any occasion. An infinite, orderly chaos of choices! I also helped you in your home, touching everything inside like an essential prop for your LIVE ART performances.
You had particularly elegant, feathery and outlandish hats, which would expose only the tip of my nose, lips and arms! As a young girl then, I recall that with just parts of my body posing, you initiated a surreal (dreamlike) sense of beauty and value.
My very first summer away from home, I worked for you modeling and setting up your paintings on the Seaside Heights boardwalk.
Please may I send you a photo, which may help you remember me?
Since 1996, I have been living in Europe including Geneva, Lisbon and currently in Perugia, Italia.
Please send me your contact information.
I would love to speak to you or meet in France or anywhere in the world!
P.S. I was one of 11 kids living on Clubhouse Drive, Willingboro. Perhaps this will help you remember me?
Submitted by KATE (not verified) on Wed, 05/20/2015 - 18:05.
I just wanted to mention that I have an absolutely beautiful Pastel Portrait of me and my daughter. My Daughter was added into the picture of me from a Photograph and the Portrait came out incredibly life like!!! I will treasure and protect it till my dying days!!
Submitted by Rhoda Shapiro (not verified) on Fri, 08/28/2015 - 08:05.
Thank you so much for your beautiful message. I am deeply touched and will always remember! It's a lovely thing of you to write to me. I am living in Provence south of France and continue to paint and share my love of Art.
Portrait of our beloved Collie "Rory"
Submitted by Kevin Kennedy (not verified) on Thu, 12/29/2016 - 21:17.
Hi Rhoda..We have an absolutely Beautiful painting of oud Beloved Miniature Collie "Rory" that you painted for us on our first wedding anniversary..Its been the centerpiece of our Living room for 24 years,,(Next year is our 25th wedding anniversary) and We have kept this Gem pramed,and in perfect condition,we gave you the photo of Rory,and you planned to paint some more of him..Just want to thank you, and we can send a picture of the painting if you would like,,to refresh your memory,Thanks again..Kevin and Diane Kennedy.
Re: Portrait of our beloved Collie "Rory"
Submitted by Rhoda Shapiro (not verified) on Wed, 06/07/2017 - 16:20.
I am so thrilled to read your message.
Submitted by Jimmy (not verified) on Sun, 01/29/2017 - 16:54.
Wow. There is a discussion on facebook re: Seaside and I mentioned Rhoda. My sister and I had our portraits donen in '68, we had them framed for years. They're in storage out at mom's in Vegas now. Must look for them.
I ran into Rhoda around 1986 and was astonished to find her still doing her thing!
Happy you are in France doing your art, Rhoda.
Submitted by Rhoda Shapiro (not verified) on Wed, 06/07/2017 - 16:22.
It is so nice to hear from you. You cannot imagine how happy i am to be brought back to those magic seaside days!
I am enjoying Provence and still painting and teaching. If you ever get to vegas, please take a picture of the portrait and email it to me. That will make me happy.
Submitted by JoAnn Pelliccio-Lindgren (not verified) on Tue, 07/18/2017 - 09:18.
Rhoda! So happy to have found you! Have thought of you many times over the years since you created my portrait. I miss you in Seaside and wondered what became of you. I have pursued a career in art and would have loved to come by and chat. If you get this note and can, reply let me know how to send you a photo of my portrait. I remember how much I enjoyed our chat while sitting for you. I also remember the crowd that formed behind you as you worked!
Submitted by Rhoda Shapiro (not verified) on Thu, 01/04/2018 - 13:51.
Submitted by Kevin (not verified) on Thu, 01/04/2018 - 23:29.
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 11/02/2012 - 12:37.
The Italian village was the best! Going up that ramp to all of that stuff. It was like a bazaar up there. Our favorite booth was the one with the magic tricks and gags. We always got the snapping gum, the handshake buzzer. I never got over that they chopped the back of our beloved casino arcade to let ocean terrace pass thru.
Submitted by Bob George (not verified) on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 15:38.
As a kid in the late forty's, early fifty's, we would visit my grandparents in Beachwood during the month of July. The vacation always had several trips to Ortley beach to swim in the Atlantic. We would park near the "Surf Club" (pre Joey Harrison) and sneak onto the the 'private' beach.
We roasted in the sun all day and cooled off with orange, grape or lemon popsicles bought from a vendor on the beach. At the end of the day we would pile into the car and head back to Beachwood, where my grandfather would spray us with the garden hose to get the sand off us before we went into the house. Icy water on fresh sunburn...yeowww!!
Submitted by ted sabarese (not verified) on Wed, 10/31/2012 - 09:12.
Submitted by janet (not verified) on Fri, 09/16/2011 - 17:52.
WORK SUMMERS AT THE SEASIDE BATH HOUSE ON HIERING AVENUE.
PORK ROLL & CHEESE, HOT DOGS OR HAMBURGERS.
SEAISDE HEIGHTS WAS THE PLACE TO BE FOR A VACATION.
Submitted by Joe Jennings (not verified) on Wed, 09/11/2013 - 15:35.
Submitted by me (not verified) on Thu, 11/10/2011 - 18:48.
does anybody remember Eddie and the knockouts that use to play at the chatterbox in seaside heights nj.
Submitted by Donna M (not verified) on Fri, 12/23/2011 - 01:40.
Yes I remember them.Eddie parrente was a doll mu uncle was their drummer.
Submitted by curtis501 (not verified) on Mon, 10/01/2012 - 11:24.
I recall Bobby doing comedy and their theme song was "El Paso". Many happy days were spent at the Chatterbox and the Parrot Club which were on the boardwalk during the 1960's.
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 12/11/2011 - 19:08.
Does anyone remember the name of the diner on the Blvd in between Grant and Blaine ave?
Submitted by Peter J. Smith (not verified) on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 21:24.
Submitted by Gerard (not verified) on Thu, 05/07/2015 - 12:36.
Sinn's was the first place we would stop as a family to get breakfast before we would get into our rental house,, great place to eat.... also does anyone remember Peluso's supermarket on the blvd.. they had everything you needed while staying in seaside.
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 01/03/2016 - 19:46.
My Uncle Herman used to own Sinns and I remember spending quite a bit of my childhood there. My uncle retired to Florida and a parking lot is now where it used to stand.
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 23:55.
We would go to seaside often 1970's, does anyone rember the bathrooms under the boardwalk? or the benches with the flip flop back, either you can look at the water or the boardwalk they were painted red green blue colors. Then there was the star stamp that that had the ink you can only see under the black light they would stamp the back of your hand to get on the beach.


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"The dried rhizome and roots of Podophyllum peltatum Linné (Fam. Berberidaceae), yielding not less than 3 per cent. of resin." U. S. "Podophyllum Rhizome is the dried rhizome and roots of Podophyllum peltatum, Linn." Br.
Podophylli Rhizoma, Br.; Podophyllum Root, Wild Mandrake, Devil's Apple, Umbrella Plant, Vegetable Calomel, Mandrake, American Mandrake, Wild Lemon, Ground Lemon, Hog Apple, Indian Apple, Raccoon Berry, Duck's Foot, Rhizome de Podophyllum, Fr. Cod.; Fuss-blattwurzel, G.; Podofillo, It.; Podofilo (Rizoma de), Sp.
Podophyllum peltatum (May-apple) is an indigenous herbaceous plant. The rhizome is perennial, creeping, usually several feet in length, about one-quarter of an inch thick, brown externally, smooth, jointed, and furnished with roots at the joints. The stem is about a foot high, erect, round, smooth. The basal leaves are centrally peltate, with six or seven wedge-shaped lobes, irregularly incised at their summits, yellowish-green on their upper surface, paler and slightly pubescent beneath. The flower-bearing stems bear from one to three similar leaves. The flower is nodding, and appears between two leaves at the apex of the stem or at the base of the upper leaf when three leaves are present. The calyx is composed of three oval, obtuse, concave, deciduous sepals. The corolla has from six to nine white, fragrant petals, which are obovate, obtuse, concave, with delicate transparent veins. The stamens are from thirteen to twenty, shorter than the petals, with oblong, yellow anthers, of twice the length of the filaments. The stigma is sessile, and rendered irregular on its surface by numerous folds or convolutions. The fruit is a large oval berry, crowned with the persistent stigma, and containing a sweetish fleshy pulp, in which about twelve ovate seeds are embedded. It is, when ripe, of a lemon-yellow color, diversified by round brownish spots. Two species of the genus Podophyllum are known as growing in China while Podophyllum Emodi, which inhabits the interior ranges of the Himalayas and is very abundant in Cashmere, is recognized in the Br.
The plant has been found on Mount Togakushi, in Japan, and is extensively diffused through the Eastern United States, growing luxuriantly in moist shady woods and in low marshy grounds from Canada, to Minnesota and southward to Florida and Texas. It is propagated by its creeping rhizome, and is often found in large patches. The flowers appear about the end of May and the beginning of June, and the fruit ripens in the latter part of September. The leaves are said to be poisonous. The fruit has a subacid, sweetish, peculiar taste, agreeable to some palates, and may be eaten freely with impunity. From its color and shape, it is sometimes called wild lemon. The rhizome is the official portion, and is said to be most efficient when collected after the falling of the leaves. It shrinks considerably in drying.
Properties.—The dried rhizome is much wrinkled lengthwise, is yellowish or reddish-brown externally, and furnished with roots of a similar but somewhat paler color. It was determined, by an experiment of Wm. Saunders, that these roots contain as much active matter as the rhizome itself. It is officially described as follows: "Rhizome horizontal, nearly cylindrical, jointed, compressed on the upper and lower surfaces, sometimes branched; in pieces from 3 to 20 cm. in length, the intemodes from 2 to 9 mm. in diameter; externally dark brown, longitudinally wrinkled or nearly smooth with irregular, somewhat V-shaped scars of scale leaves, nodes annulate, upper portion marked with large, circular, depressed stem-scars and sometimes with buds or stem-bases; at or near the nodes on the lower portion occur numerous root-scars or roots from 2 to 7 cm. in length and about 2 mm. in thickness; fracture short; internally, bark light brown, wood with small yellowish, vascular bundles, pith large and white; odor slight; taste sweetish, disagreeably bitter and acrid. Under the microscope, a transverse section of the rhizome of Podophyllum show's an outer layer of one or two rows of reddish-brown cells; parenchyma of cortex and pith with numerous single, spherical, polygonal, or 2- to 6-compound starch grains, or rosette aggregates of calcium oxalate; vascular bundles from 24 to 34, arranged in a circle between cortex and pith. The powder is light brown, with a pronounced and characteristic odor; starch grains numerous, spherical, polygonal or 2- to 6-compound, the individual grains from 0.003 to 0.015 mm. in diameter; calcium oxalate crystals few, in rosette aggregates from 0.05 to 0.08 mm. in diameter and occasionally in raphides from 0.03 to 0.09 mm. in length; tracheae with simple pores or reticulate thickenings; fragments of starch-bearing parenchyma and reddish-brown cork cells. Podophyllum yields not more than 3 per cent. of ash.
"Rhizome nearly cylindrical, of very variable length, usually about five millimetres thick; dark reddish-brown, smooth or only slightly wrinkled; enlarged at intervals of about five centimetres, the upper surface of each enlargement being marked by a depressed circular scar, below which, on the under surface, are rather stout, brittle, brown roots, or the scars corresponding to them. In transverse section, either nearly white and starchy, or pale yellowish-brown and horny. Characteristic odor; taste slightly bitter and acrid." Br.
The root in its aggregate state is nearly inodorous, but in powder has a sweetish not unpleasant odor. The taste is at first sweetish, afterwards bitter, nauseous, and slightly acrid. Both the decoction and the tincture are bitter, but alcohol is said to be the best solvent of the active matter. V. Podwyssotzki (Ph. Z. R., Bd. xx, 777) announced the active principle to be solely a neutral crystalline principle, picropodophyllin. This principle is associated with an inactive resin-acid, picropodophyllic acid, and the combination of the two he named podophyllotoxin. Picropodophyllin is in colorless, silky, extremely delicate needles, very soluble in chloroform, readily soluble in 95 per cent. alcohol, but very slightly in 75 per cent. alcohol. It is soluble in ether, and crystallizes from a warm saturated solution on cooling. It is insoluble in water, turpentine, or benzin. Podophyllotoxin is a bitter, white, resinous powder, soluble in weak alcohol and hot water. It may be precipitated from its alcoholic solution by water in large quantity. (P. J., 1882, 1011.) Podwyssotzki also obtained podophylloquercetin, the coloring principle, which is closely allied to quercetin and is the cause of the varying color of resin of Podophyllum. His results have since been corrected and supplemented by R. Kürsten (A. J. P., 1891, 485), who has obtained the several principles in a purer state. The results of Kürsten's investigation are as follows: The podophyllotoxin prepared by Podwyssotzki's method was not constant in composition, and its melting point varied from 100° to 125° C. (212°-257° F.); further, the podophyllic acid of that author is composed mainly of a crystallizable, active, but very impure substance.
Podophyllotoxin, C23H24O9, is obtained by extracting the coarsely powdered rhizome with cold, light petroleum, until freed from fat; after drying in the air, the extraction is continued with chloroform, until the liquid comes away almost free from yellow color. As it is not possible to work with alcohol-free chloroform, too prolonged extraction with chloroform would yield a more impure extract. The chloroform extract is distilled and the residue is dried over a not too warm water bath, partially dissolved in benzene, filtered, and the filtrate allowed to remain from three to eight days, when a brownish-yellow mass of well-formed, thick, strongly refractive prisms is produced. This is purified by washing with a 50 per cent. alcohol, then with ether, recrystallizing first from boiling benzene, and finally from solution in hot 45 per cent. alcohol; the compound is thus obtained in long, well-formed prisms which melt at 94° C. (201.2° F.).
Podophyllotoxin, when oxidized in an alkaline solution in the cold by means of potassium permanganate, yielded, besides a little carbonic anhydride and a brown amorphous substance, principally two compounds, the more considerable of which was podophyllic acid, obtained as well-formed, colorless crystals from solution in a mixture of benzene and alcohol. The compound is without action on animals. It melts at from 158° to 160° C.(316.4°-320° F.). Its aqueous solution, neutralized with aqueous potassium hydroxide, gives no precipitate with gold, calcium, or barium chlorides; silver nitrate gives a white precipitate, soluble in much water; copper acetate gives a blue precipitate. The copper salt was prepared as beautiful light green prisms and analyzed.
Picropodophyllin results from the action of alkalies on podophyllotoxin; thus, on heating the latter with aqueous ammonia, a well-crystallized product is obtained, which at first was recrystallized from strong alcohol; but this was found to be unnecessary, as the melting point, 227° C. (440.6° F.), was not affected by it. Picropodophyllin has the same composition as podophyllotoxin, but they differ in melting point and in their action on polarized light,—the former inactive, the latter laevo-rotatory; the former is less soluble in all liquids than the latter; the latter gives Millon's reaction, the former does not. By oxidation and reduction the two compounds yield the same products.
Dunstan and Henry (Proc. Chem. Soc., March, 1898) find that the constituents of the Indian Podophyllum (Podophyllum Emodi) and of the American Podophyllum (Podophyllum peltatum) are identical. The chief constituent is the podophyllotoxin of Podwyssotzki and Kiirsten. It is strongly laevorotatory, and acts as a powerful purgative and intestinal irritant. They found that when heated with alkalies, it is converted by hydration into the salt of an unstable gelatinous acid, podophyllic acid, C15H16O7, of which several salts were obtained and analyzed. This acid very readily loses water, and furnishes the crystalline picropodophyllin of Podwyssotzki and Kürsten, which is isomeric with podophyllotoxin. It passes again into podophyllic acid when warmed with aqueous alkalies. Podophyllotoxin and picropodophyllin furnish identical decomposition products; when oxidized with nitric acid, oxalic acid is the principal product; when fused with alkalies, orcinol and acetic acid are produced. Both substances contain three methyl groups and no hydroxyl. It is likely that picropodophyllin is the lactone of podophyllic acid. Picropodophyllin is therapeutically inactive. The yellow coloring matter of Podophyllum, called by Podwyssotzki podophylloquercetin, was proved by the authors to be identical with quercetin, the yellow coloring matter of quercitron bark. An uncrystallizable resin, podophylloresin, was also isolated and found to exert a purgative action. A fatty oil has been separated from the rhizome of Podophyllum by Dohme and Engelhardt. (See Proc. A. Ph. A., 1904, 340.) Gordin and Merrell (Proc. A. Ph. A., 1902, 343) proposes to judge of the quality of resin of Podophyllum by an assay based on the percentage of crude picropodophyllin and the following requirements: Pure podophyllin must be completely soluble in about twice its weight of cold alcohol. 2. It should contain about 64 per cent. ether-soluble and about 74 per cent. chloroform-soluble matter. 3. It should yield about 22 per cent. crude picropodophyllin when assayed by the method described by them.
Manlius Smith recommended that the resin should be prepared by forming an alcoholic tincture of the root, evaporating the tincture until most of the alcohol is driven off, and throwing the residue into water, by which the resin is precipitated. The concentration should not be carried too far, as otherwise the resin separates in clots, which cannot be easily washed. According to Smith, the resin, when pure, is white, and purges actively. It has been called Podophyllin for many years. (A. J. P., xxiv. 306. See Resina Podophylli.) The proportion of resin contained in the root of the P. peltatum appears to vary very much, the variation possibly depending upon the season of the year at which the drug has been gathered. John Barclay (P. J., 1903, Feb., 164) obtained a percentage of 1.6 to 3.86 per cent., stating that these figures were confirmed by the results of the manufacturers of Podophyllin on a large scale, but J. C. Umney states that in five years' experience working with batches of 1000 pounds, the rhizome averaged a yield of 6.6 per cent. Both observers noticed that the Indian rhizome (P. Emodi) contains a much larger proportion of resin, the average according to Umney being 11.4 per cent. How far the proportion of podophyllotoxin varies in the different rhizomes does not seem to have been determined. (See B. B. Dott, P. J., 1903, Mar. 460.) (P. J., 1911, lxxxvii, p. 156.)
From the leaves of P. peltatum Thos. J. Husband, Jr., obtained berberine and a resin which was free from purgative properties, 8 grains producing no other effect than slight headache. (A. J. P., 1869.)
B. F. Carter (A. J. P., 1886, p. 449) also examined the leaves. He found tannin, uncrystallized sugar, coloring matter, and 6 per cent, of resin. This latter seems to be of twofold character, ether dissolving the soft resin, while the hard resin remains behind. The resin has a bitter taste and a much milder action than that of the rhizome. Fused with potassium hydroxide a small amount of protocatechuic acid seems to be formed.
A method of assay for Podophyllum has been proposed by W. M. Jenkins (J. I. and, E. C., 1914, p. 671) which is based upon a shaking out method using a mixture of chloroform and alcohol.
Uses.—Podophyllum is a slow but active and certain cathartic producing copious liquid discharges often with much griping. It has been attributed with cholagogic properties and is used in various forms of hepatic torpor but its virtues in this direction are probably no greater than that of other active purgatives. In small doses it is frequently used in chronic constipation, especially in conjunction with aloes or cascara.
In overdoses Podophyllum acts as an irritant poison; an amount estimated at five grains of the resin caused death in a woman sixty years old (N. Y. M. E., April, 1890); the symptoms were vomiting and purging, followed some hours after their cessation by coma, full soft pulse, slight elevation of temperature, and haemoglobinuria.
Dose, five to ten grains (0.32-0.65 Gm.), but it is rarely exhibited in the crude form.
Off. Prep.—Fluidextractum Podophylli, U. S.; Resina Podophylli, U. S. (Br.); Tinctura Podophylli (from Resin), Br.; .Extractum Podophylli, N. F.; Pilulae Aloes et Podophylli Compositae (from Resin), N. F.; Pilulae Aloes, Hydrargyri et Podophylli (from Resin), N. F.; Pilulae Aloini Compositae (from Resin), N. F.; Pilulae Catharticae Vegetabiles (from Resin), N. F.; Pilulae Colocynthidis et Podophylli (from Resin), N. F.; Pilulae Laxativae Post Partum (from Resin), N. F.
The Dispensatory of the United States of America, 1918, was edited by Joseph P. Remington, Horatio C. Wood and others.
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'Balseros' documents seven Cubans' odyssey in the U.S.
Cubans set out to sea aboard homemade rafts with hopes of reaching the U.S. coast.
Seven ocean-going escapees from Castro's Cuba are followed along the journey of a less-than-euphoric American Dream. Great stories, phenomenal technique. Directed by Carles Bosch and Josep M. Domenech. 2 hours (adult situations). At Film Forum, 209 W. Houston St., Manhattan.
The sense of walking on eggshells imbues "Balseros," a documentary that has you hoping its characters get what they want, and ultimately praying that they want what they get. Technically astounding, the emotional equivalent of a raft on high seas, "Balseros" ultimately feels perfectly true, precisely because it ended up the opposite of what it started out to be.
Focusing on seven desperate Cubans hoping to bob the 90 miles north to Florida, directors Carles Bosch and Josep M. Domenech began their film in 1994, a summer of severe shortages and a particularly brutal period for Fidel's republic. Would-be Miamians were taking to the sea like lemmings anyway, so Castro said, OK, we won't stop you: Build your rafts, go away. They built, they went.
But constructing even the makeshift vessels they came up with cost them dearly; the filmmakers talk to young women (major characters in the film, as it turns out) who turn to prostitution in order to buy inner tubes. All are desperate - some, as always, more than others: "They robbed me of five years of my daughter's childhood," says a rafter named Guillermo, who divorced his wife just so she could be allowed into the United States as a single mother, and has spent the ensuing years trying to be reunited with her.
Horrors occur at sea. Diplomatic horrors occur on shore: The Clinton administration cuts a deal with Cuba, agreeing to return rafters to Guant�namo Bay. An immigration lottery is set up. Some get out. Some don't.
But what happens to the seven who do reach U.S. shores is not exactly the stuff of Broadway musicals and parade days. Without giving anything away, the shift in key between the first, exhilarating 1994 scenes of Cuba and raft- making and the results five years later - in such bucolic environs as Granby, Conn., Paterson, N.J., Albuquerque and San Antonio, where Catholic agencies have sent these people - is dizzying. This reversal of misfortune, so to speak - as well as the years-long filming and elegant editing - would be enough to make "Balseros" a classic of its kind. But the entire movie works as a political-spiritual organism, adapting itself to the mutation of dreams.
The two directors obviously worked in sync while in Havana and those U.S. cities where their characters landed; phone calls between the refugees and those they left behind, for instance, are shown beginning or ending simultaneously. Tapes sent to the island by relatives abroad become those relatives themselves, as the directors cut from the playing of the tape to the making of the tape. Or vice versa. It's delirious. The comparison of "Balseros" with many political documentaries, even ones concerned with relatively recent events, would be like comparing the Sistine Chapel with red-crayon sketches on a shopping bag.
Critics are suckers for films that aspire so eagerly to do the unnecessary, but it is hardly superfluous when one character, asked what he wants from life, answers "a car, a house, a good woman" - and the voices of Lucrecia (which performs the film's original music) take the line and make it a song. That the same celebratory song will evolve into a taunt only serves to emphasize the unity of the film, which melds its elements accordingly, wasn't afraid to change its mind and is, in the end, a very disturbing take on the place we call home.


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Doctor Who: The Android Invasion (parts three and four)
Good grief, what a mess. The only reasons to watch the second half of this story are to see Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen rising way above the material with wit and charm and sparkles in their eyes, and to say goodbye to Ian Marter and John Levene, who make their final appearances here. It's the last UNIT story of the seventies – and no, it's not an "epilogue," it's got precisely the same number of regular UNIT characters as "The Invasion" or "The Silurians," even if Nicholas Courtney isn't in it – but because nobody making the program had definitively decided that, we didn't get a proper goodbye to any of the characters. The Fourth Doctor says many times that he hates goodbyes, but audiences kind of like them. It would have been nice to let the Doctor actually tell his old friends that he isn't going to be their scientific adviser anymore, shake hands, and wave farewell.
Subbing for Courtney in part four is Patrick Newell as Colonel Faraday. I'm predisposed to like Newell, a fine character actor best known for the recurring role of Mother in the Tara King years of The Avengers, but the script doesn't give him anything interesting to do and the only idea anybody had for him seems to be "don't imitate Courtney." When some anonymous soldiers turn up at the end of the season with UNIT badges – now that really is the epilogue, not this – Colonel Faraday isn't with them. Corporal Bell had more screen time than Faraday.
As for the rest of it, it's all just bad guys talking tough and not staying around to see the trapped hero's doom, unbelievably gullible patsies who believe the best, that sort of thing. Mission Control is a blue chromakey screen hung in front of a black curtain while four technicians act like they're in a Gerry Anderson show and spend about a full minute counting things down instead of showing us anything interesting. That's because the visual effects are either more stock footage of American rockets, or director Barry Letts returning to his weird old trick of blue-screening actors in front of a photograph. Doctor Who was a low budget program, true, but this is one of the most egregious examples in the 1970s of just plain looking cheap.
And then there's the eyepatch. I did warn my wife that one of the all-time "oh, baloney" moments is in part four. I think that somewhere, something went awry in rehearsals and they didn't have time to do this right. Twice, the Doctor tells Milton Johns' character "You've been brainwashed," and I am perfectly willing to accept that part of that brainwashing was making the man think he lost an eye in a rocket crash. That would have been just fine. Except what we see on screen is Johns removing his eyepatch, and, instead of forcing himself to fight the brainwashing and the illusion and realize, dramatically, that his eye really is there, he just takes off the patch and boom! There's his eye! Styggron has been lying all this time!
And except for there was no reason whatsoever for Styggron to make him think he was missing an eye. It is utterly irrelevant to the drama except to give the character a chance to realize the Kraals are evil, and to make him look like Scott McCloud, Space Angel, when he's in his astronaut suit and helmet.
Our son wasn't wowed by this deeply dumb moment, but he did enjoy this story much more than he was willing to admit yesterday. This is definitely Doctor Who for six year-olds. He confessed that he really wasn't scared by the first half (we knew) and gave this a mostly thumbs-up. He didn't like that there was an android duplicate of the Doctor, but he loved our hero having a brawl with it.
With that in mind, as I mentioned, this is the final appearance in the show for John Levene and Ian Marter. Levene largely left the acting business after this and has lived in California since the early 1990s. I was surprised to see that he made an appearance in Beetleborgs, one of those Haim Saban programs that repurpose Japanese sci-fi teevee footage into an otherwise American show. Marter appeared frequently on television and in movies in the 1970s and early 1980s and also became a writer. He specialized in both Who books for Target and, under the pen name Ian Don, other novelizations of feature films like Splash and the dinosaur movie Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend. He passed away of a heart attack on his 42nd birthday in 1986.
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Doctor Who: The Android Invasion (parts one and two)
Do you remember the Choose Your Own Adventure books? Well, when I was in middle school, several of us were making our own sort-of versions of these. They were called Gamebooks, and my mate Blake, who you may recall from previous chapters about Doctor Who, developed them alongside his classmates Nathan Mize and Mark Hester. In a Gamebook, the front of a sheet of notebook paper was a densely-packed chapter of an adventure, with three options about what you would do next on the bottom of the page. You turned it over to see what would happen: usually, two options would have you dying, and only one left you able to proceed to the next chapter.
They started making these in early 1983, about a year before WGTV started showing Who, and some of the rest of us started copying them and eventually began writing our own stories. Probably close to a dozen of us kids made these over a three year period. They passed the time in class when we were bored and weren't in the mood to draw comics. Over time, we'd change the rules and the format a little, incorporating coin tosses, die rolls, hit points, and alternating storylines, like the end of chapter one's options might resolve to death, proceeding to chapter two, or proceeding to chapter three.
I mention all this because, inevitably, I made a sprawling Doctor Who Gamebook from my memories of the first seven stories that I saw, starting the Gamebook the morning after I first saw this in 1984. Sadly, this no longer exists – even more sadly, literally hundreds of pages of Who comics that I made between the ages of 13 and 15 do exist, and no, you can't see them – but I mention it today because I clearly remember two key points about it.
One, I could not draw a Kraal to save my life. Granted, I was 12, and couldn't draw much of anything to save my life, but I redid that dumb drawing of Styggron six or seven times and just could not do it.
Two, this Gamebook went on forever, with seven alternating storylines. Chapter 19 might have been a "Pyramids of Mars" chapter, with the results taking you to chapter 27 or 32, and chapter 20 might have continued the "Genesis of the Daleks" story, with results taking you to chapter 23 (where you'd reach the same grisly end that a wrong decision in chapter 15 might have sent you), 24, or 31. We didn't write these things "by story," we wrote them literally one chapter after the next, so there wasn't any advance planning. And somehow or another, the Doctor Who Gamebook concluded after ninety-some or a hundred-odd chapters, and I hadn't included a way out of the "Android Invasion" storyline. Every single option the Doctor had eventually led him to his death, because I didn't include a chapter where he could win. It wasn't the Daleks or Sutekh who finally killed our hero, it was the silly old Kraals!
Well, if you've been following along linearly instead of just reading the Doctor Who chapters, you may recall that our son needed a little light adventure after the horrors of the last couple of Who stories. "The Android Invasion" is perfectly placed for that. It sticks out like a sore thumb in season thirteen because it's comparatively light and tame, and because the Kraals really aren't much of a threat. The adventure was written by Terry Nation, and it was directed, for the last time, by former producer Barry Letts.
And, because our son has decided to be contrary, he's telling us that this story is even scarier than "Pyramids." We don't believe him, because he isn't reacting the same way that he does to real frights, but he's chosen to insist that the situation is unbearably creepy and the Kraals are terrifying. The story is the sort of thing that Steed and Mrs. Peel might have investigated, before it takes an extraterrestrial turn, anyway, and he's seen them tackle something similar twice already, so it isn't that creepy. Deserted English village, weird clues about what's going on, like brand new currency and telephones that only work sporadically… yes, this is very much like what Terry Nation concocted for programs like The Avengers or The Persuaders!, but bent into the Doctor Who shape.
One thing that I will give our son, though, is that he really didn't enjoy most of the classic story from season seven, "Inferno," because of the scenes where the Doctor confronts villainous duplicates of his friends. There's a little echo of that here, as RSM Benton and Lt. Harry Sullivan appear to be working for the bad guys, but the Doctor figures it out at the end of part two. He and Sarah aren't on Earth. It's not just the white-suited "mechanics" that are robots. Everybody is, including Benton and Harry, and this village is a simulation, a testing site for the Kraals' invasion of Earth.
It's going to get a little bogged down and really silly in the second half, but I enjoyed these two parts quite a lot, despite some dopey plot holes. It's a good example of the atmosphere being so entertaining that you can overlook the story's minor deficiencies. Unless you just want to absolutely insist that you're scared, anyway.
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Doctor Who: Robot (part four)
If you were to ask me, the boring old Mr. Grouchy Adult that I am, I'd say that "Robot" could have been safely wrapped up in three episodes. But that would rob our son of his favorite part of the serial. The Brigadier blasts the robot with the disintegrator gun, and, thanks to a little technobabble magic, the robot grows to giant size.
From the boring light of adulthood, this doesn't look particularly convincing, and while director Christopher Barry does as good a job as can be expected, something shows up in shot after shot that destroys a grown-up's suspension of disbelief. At the very least, it genuinely does look better than those dinosaurs from a few stories ago.
But our kid adored it. He shouted "Whoops!" when the robot started growing and it was all as convincing to him as Hollywood's latest bit of CGI mayhem. After that mid-serial lull, he completely loved this story, and he believed in it, because he's six and hasn't become jaded by special effects. The new Doctor's off to a fine start for him, and, with Lt. Harry Sullivan joining the Doctor and Sarah in the TARDIS, it's time for Barry Letts to leave the role of producer to the new man in charge, Philip Hinchcliffe. And we'll see what his take on the series will be this weekend.
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Doctor Who: Robot (part three)
Beginning with the most important thing about tonight's episode, our son was much, much happier with it. It's full of action and explosions, and at the end, a tank shows up, which thrilled him to no end, as he knew instinctively that the tank would be disintegrated.
It's also full of UNIT troops not using their brains very much. The villains and the robot escape from the SRS meeting because not one of the dozen or so soldiers thinks to shoot out their truck's tires. Honestly, this story could have ended here and been a satisfying three-parter. All the business at the bunker is less entertaining than what's come before. It's never more entertaining than when the Doctor agrees with the Brigadier that only Great Britain could be trusted with international secrets, because the rest are all foreigners. That's one of my favorite lines in the whole program.
Unfortunately, there's a conclusion that will require some visual effects trickery, something not unlike what we saw in the story "Invasion of the Dinosaurs." To make the joins a little less visible, if you take my meaning, the production team decided to mount this entire production on videotape. That way we won't have the tank in part three (and the robot in part four) videotaped in the studio on a blue screen, and then chromakeyed into a 16mm film picture.
Part of me is glad that they learned from their earlier work, but another, bigger, part of me just loathes the look and feel of "outside broadcast" location video. This was only used sporadically until Doctor Who's last four seasons in the late eighties, when the whole program was taped. I'm absolutely fine with it in the studio, but sending those sorry camcorders on location just emphasizes the robot's unreality to me. It's a shame they couldn't have taken both a film camera and an OB camera on location, videotaped the necessary bits for the visual effects team and filmed all the action stuff. It would have looked so much better.
Doctor Who: Robot (part two)
I'm afraid I spoke too soon when I said last time that this is a straightforward and simple adventure for six year-olds. This episode introduces the plot complication that the villains, Miss Winters and Mister Jellico, are members of a fascist fringe group called the Scientific Reform Society, and that just left our son behind completely. The scene where Sarah puts on her journalism hat and trendy seventies clothes and gets some information from them might as well have been delivered in pig Latin, because he didn't get what was happening at all!
Actually, what he really needs to take from this scene is that the delightful thing about watching old television is that we can time travel back to the days when outfits like that were the in thing. Once they put a stop to Winters and Jellico, Sarah's going to wear this outfit when she interviews Elton John before his Saturday night gig at the Rainbow.
After starting well, this one's obviously cratering a bit for him. He loved part one, was thrilled by the sight of the giant robot, and the Doctor's oddball rudeness, including going to sleep on his lab table, is really fun for him. But then we not only got all talky with people who didn't make sense to him, but also the Doctor has a cliffhanger confrontation with the robot that really looks like it's going very badly for him.
It strikes me that seeing the Doctor in physical jeopardy and about to get beaten up isn't a very common turn of events in the show. Another incident was the end of part three of "The Three Doctors." He was also very, very aggravated when Jon Pertwee's Doctor was getting thrown around Omega's "mind palace" by the villain's weird pig-faced champion. Revealing a monster or a Dalek or a giant robot is a thrill, but seeing the hero get pummeled is emphatically not.
Doctor Who: Robot (part one)
At the end of 1974, Tom Baker's first episode of Doctor Who first aired. Writer Terrance Dicks believed that this should be a simple and straightforward adventure story for audiences to get used to the new lead actor, and he seems to have absolutely nailed how to hook any six year-olds in the crowd. Our kid loved this. There are no politics and no complicated "life in the seventies was like this" distractions about communes or meditation centers. There's just a big stomping robot stealing the ingredients for a top secret disintegrator gun. Along the way, the Doctor checks himself out of the sick bay, frustrates UNIT's medical officer, and tries on some new clothes. There's not a six year-old on the planet who wouldn't enjoy this.
Behind the scenes, this is a time of massive change. "Robot" was videotaped at the end of the same production block as Jon Pertwee's last stories, making it the final story for Barry Letts as producer. He'll be back in different capacities down the line, though. It's the first story for Robert Holmes, who had written several memorable stories previously, as the script editor, but the previous script editor is still around! Terrance Dicks kind of shamelessly told the new boy that there was a BBC tradition that incoming script editors were expected to promptly commission a script from their predecessor. This way, while Dicks was no longer on the BBC payroll, he could still net some quick freelance work before his next assignment. The director is Christopher Barry, the veteran who had helmed several Who serials already, including Patrick Troughton's first story.
Onscreen, UNIT, represented again by Nicholas Courtney and John Levene, has a new member, a naval medical officer called Harry Sullivan, played by Ian Marter. He had been up for the role of Captain Yates four years previously, and was cast because the original ideas for a new Doctor had been for an older and less active leading man. Famously, Richard Hearne and Fulton Mackay had been offered the part, but both of them turned it down – in Mackay's case, because a sitcom pilot he'd done, Porridge, had been picked up as a series – and it went to Tom Baker, then forty years old and not getting nearly as much acting work as he should have had. His agent couldn't find him anything after he'd filmed The Golden Voyage of Sinbad in the summer of '73 and he was working with a construction crew in London to make ends meet while the movie was in theaters. The glamour of showbiz, folks.
And of course Elisabeth Sladen is back as Sarah Jane. This is one of the few times that we get to see her working as a journalist, and unknowingly – because, again, this is a simple story for the young viewers to easily manage – working the other end of the disintegrator gun angle. UNIT and the Doctor are looking into the thefts and she's working on a story about the thieves, leading up to a memorable cliffhanger when the great big robot looms over her. We don't see the robot in full just yet, which our son loved. He said that he now knows what its feet, hands, and head look like, and now he just needs to see the body and legs!
Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders (part six)
Let's get the unfortunate facet of this story out of the way: I've never been able to suspend disbelief in The Great One. The super-giant spider remarkably looks even more fake than the regular-giant ones. They're fine when they don't move; in fact, when they're perched on people's backs, they're a little creepy. But The Great One badly, badly needed to be filmed rather than videotaped. That would have improved this critically important visual so much.
So no, I'm not going to pretend "Planet of the Spiders" is an unappreciated classic, certainly not with all the woeful acting and design on the alien planet, but it's a lot better than I credited it. We enjoyed the heck out of this story. There's a real sense of urgency and desperation that is almost entirely lacking in Pertwee's final season. It's a fabulously entertaining set of episodes, and all the actors who aren't playing alien villagers are just great. I really liked John Dearth just completely losing his composure and yelling at the spiders.
This serial notably marks the first time that the program actually refers to that bit of casting change where a different actor plays the Doctor as "regeneration." Interestingly, the changeover from Hartnell to Troughton was first explained as a rejuvenation that the TARDIS managed, and the next one, when Troughton became Pertwee, was something that the Time Lords did to him when they exiled him to Earth. Part six of this story is the first time that it's stated that regeneration is what happens when a Time Lord's body gets too old or damaged to continue living, making regeneration itself an interesting retcon. There are some more rules, and a very fascinating retcon that didn't take, to come as the show goes on.
We learn a little about regeneration through the explanation of the Abbot K'anpo Rimpoche, another Time Lord who lives on Earth, and who is assisted by a projection of his next incarnation, a man who goes by the name Cho-Je. K'anpo/Cho-Je are never seen in the series again, which is kind of strange when you consider the Doctor's great fondness for him; K'anpo is the old hermit who lived on the mountain that the Doctor visited when he was a child. The next Doctor is far too unsentimental to renew contact, but you've got to figure some of the later versions would have stopped by that meditation center for tea whenever they were on Earth.
Actually, what if during the sixties, when the twelfth was lecturing at that college in Bristol and Professor Chronotis was at St. Cedd's in Cambridge… nah. There's probably fanfic, though.
Anyway, some big goodbyes to note with this story. This is script editor Terrance Dicks' last serial on the production team, though his work with Doctor Who as a freelancer would carry on for many years. It's also the last appearance for Richard Franklin as Mike Yates, who sadly doesn't get anything of a farewell scene after four years as a co-star. Franklin has mainly worked as a stage actor after Who, but he has occasionally turned up in small parts here and there, notably in an episode of Blake's 7 and as an Imperial engineer in Rogue One.
And of course it's goodbye to Jon Pertwee. He lost a lot of enthusiasm when Roger Delgado died and Katy Manning moved on; the pending departures of Franklin, Dicks, and, after the next story, producer Barry Letts left him very sad and he decided that only a very large pay increase would keep him around. He told the anecdote about the BBC Head of Drama Shaun Sutton turning down his demand about a million times, only for Letts to repeatedly come behind him with a harrumph to clarify that actors simply didn't approach the Head of Drama that way.
Pertwee was often very open about his dissatisfaction in not landing leading roles for the rest of his career. He'd spent many years as a popular comedian on radio and in films before starring in Who for half a decade, and in the rest of the seventies he was often seen hosting the Thames game show Whodunnit before taking on the role of Worzel Gummidge in the children's TV classic. However, casting directors seemed to see him in that "jack of all trades" school and he never got many of the meaty guest star parts where really good character actors excel. He also did lots of voice acting and was one of two Doctors to appear as guest stars in Young Indiana Jones. He returned to the part in 1983's "The Five Doctors" and, a decade later, in a pair of radio plays written by Barry Letts. He was seen as the show's elder statesman for all the 30th anniversary celebrations, which saw "Planet of the Daleks" repeated on BBC1.
Jon Pertwee passed away in May of 1996, but we've got a couple of his earlier performances coming up on the blog very soon. And while we're taking a short break from Doctor Who for now, we will resume with Tom Baker's first season in just a few weeks, so stay tuned!
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Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders (part five)
This is another story that's turning out to be much better than its reputation, and much better than I remembered it, which is nice. Yes, all the two-legs on Metebelis Three are beyond awful, but everything else is very exciting and really well directed.
It's also sinking in just how much of this story happens in its last episode. The next twenty-five minutes are going to be packed.


Age of Mythology Heaven » Forums » Strategy and General Discussion » What are the best major gods for the following tactics: Booming, Rushing, and Turtling?
Topic Subject: What are the best major gods for the following tactics: Booming, Rushing, and Turtling?
Booming: Probably Ra. Egyptian economy in general is pretty good -If-You micro it well, and Ra bonuses in particular make it much easier for you to micro it properly. I mean, we all know Ra Fast Heroic strategy, dont we?
Rushing: A LOT of options here, but I am tempted to say Odin. Any of the three Norse minor gods could qualify, honestly, but the reason why I choose Odin over the other two is his hunting bonus. It is not like Thor own weirder and more gimmicky economical bonuses( Why would you want your dwarves to be "better" at gathering food and wood if they still wont be gathering food and wood as fast as normal gatherers anyway? ): It is straightforward, for free, and it comes with no downsides whatsoever, allowing for a fast advance to the Classical Age and thus, for you to produce Raiding Cavalry faster. Quite appropriatedly named, as Raiding Cavalry just might be the best Classical Age raider on the game.
Turtling: I am indecise between two: Hades, and Isis. Hades has overral stronger defenses( Where it comes to dealing with "normal" attacks ) and a strong Myth Age... But Isis has this amazing ability to cancel out God Powers around her monuments. Any turtle player knows how frustrating it is to have your fortifications rapidly tore to shreds by a Earthquake... Isis doesnt have to deal with this frustration.


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Dr. Dre does not want Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to use his music ― ever.
The rapper's lawyer sent a cease and desist to the Republican lawmaker this week after she used his song, "Still D.R.E," as the soundtrack to a self-promotional video commemorating Kevin McCarthy's successful bid for the House speakership ― which she fervently supported.
In the nearly two-minute clip, Greene strides in slow motion from her office through the halls of Congress. The end of the video celebrates a House floor phone call between Greene and a contact saved in her phone as "DT" ― ostensibly former President Donald Trump ― and a selfie she captured with McCarthy after the 15th round of voting finally allowed him to take the gavel.
In the letter, obtained by TMZ, Dr. Dre's lawyer said the musician "has not, and will never, grant you permission to broadcast or disseminate any of his music."
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How Prison Keeps Personal Wealth Forever Out Of Reach
By Courtney Collins • Sep 24, 2019
Marc Wilson's personal wealth decreased significantly after serving a seven-year prison sentence for drug trafficking. "I'm starting from scratch, you know?"
Allison V. Smith for KERA
As a father, Marc Wilson had his family firmly in the middle class. Then a drug conviction sent him to prison for seven years.
He expects to spend the rest of his life trying to dig out of that financial hole.
Before he was arrested, Wilson was a nurse. He worked with pediatric heart patients, then as a nurse manager at the VA hospital in Dallas. He woke up every day determined to help people.
That mindset died a quick death in prison, he said.
The KERA radio story
One time, he was outside of a cell when two people inside the cell began fighting. One guy was getting beat up — badly.
"Me, being a nurse, you know, I'm trained to want to help people," Wilson said. "My first instinct was to ask one of the [correctional officers] to get this guy some help, because I think he's in here dying. So after they got him out, everybody starts calling 'you're a snitch' and wanting to fight.
"I learned quickly what prison rules were."
Wilson says it's impossible to do what the C.O.s want and also get along with the inmates.
"If you try to listen to the corrections officers, that might go against something that the offenders are doing," he said. "And at the end of the day, you're in there with the offenders."
Going against the grain in prison has consequences.
"I've actually seen people get stabbed. I've heard of people getting raped and beat up so bad," he said. "There's plenty of times where they find knives and shanks all over the yard, all in the housing units."
"In prison, just thinking about all the things that I've messed up by doing this, it kept me awake many nights."
From March 1, 2012, to March 1, 2019, that was his day-to-day. Marc Wilson, who'd been a nurse and single father, spent 2,500 days in a Missouri prison because he drove cocaine across state lines.
"I mean, it's just a horrible feeling, knowing what I've lost and what I could have had by now."
Before his conviction for drug trafficking, Wilson was earning close to $90,000 a year. He owned a home and a car. He had $20,000 in savings. He didn't need to traffic drugs. He says that over and over. He didn't need the money. He wishes he could turn back time.
"In prison, just thinking about all the things that I've messed up by doing this, it kept me awake many nights," he said.
He's out of prison now, but:
His nursing license has been revoked
His house was foreclosed on
He lost his car
His savings evaporated in a haze of attorney fees, court costs and bail money
It's all gone, and Wilson can't imagine returning to life as it was.
"I really don't even think I can make it back to that at this point," he said. "I'm really just trying to make myself comfortable and just live."
When he says comfortable, he means the necessities: food, clothes, bills paid. He's got a $12-per-hour job installing cable lines at construction sites. He's crashing with an uncle in Mesquite, Texas.
Experts say it's the story of so many ex-offenders. The ones who had wealth before prison, lose it. Those who had none, go into debt.
Wanda Bertram with the Prison Policy Initiative — a nonprofit focused on mass criminalization — says there's money attached to every step of criminal proceedings, such as bail, legal fees, jail calls, restitution and probation and parole fees.
"Simply having to prepare for trial and pay court related fines and fees — for instance, a fee for a public defender — can really tear apart what little folks already have in savings," Bertram said. "That's saddled on you at the very moment you lose a job and any opportunity to earn money to pay that back."
Once someone serves time and gets out, building new wealth can seem impossible. The jobs with benefits, good salaries and upward mobility are frequently off-limits to ex-offenders.
People who have a criminal record, especially a felony conviction, are limited in the kind of work they can get. If it's considered a "good job," it's probably off the table.
"There are many states in which the most stable middle class professions have licensing requirements that impose a blanket ban on anybody with a criminal conviction," Bertram said.
In Texas, working as a court reporter, dental hygienist or even an auctioneer is forbidden. The same goes for nursing.
Wilson feels the loss of his stable nursing career. He no longer throws food in the grocery cart without checking the price tag. He can't just up-and-surprise his granddaughter with, say, new soccer cleats.
"I'm starting from scratch, you know? I don't have any savings, I don't have a vehicle," he said. "I don't have my own place. I'm staying with a relative."
He's living on the financial edge. And as a father and grandfather, he's worried he's taken his family with him.
Coming Oct. 1: Marc's daughter was an 18-year-old college student when he went into prison. She has a family of her own now, and she knows she can't count on financial support from her father like she could before.
The One Crisis Away project's Price of Prison series examines how time behind bars erodes wealth — for offenders, for families and for generations. Explore more stories in the series.
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Nearly half the people admitted to state prisons in the U.S. are there because of violations of probation or parole, according to a new nationwide study that highlights the personal and economic costs of the practice.
The Council of State Governments Justice Center said the majority of these violations are for "minor infractions," such as failing a drug test or missing a curfew. Those so-called technical violations cost states $2.8 billion every year, the report says.
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Nearly two weeks after publishing a letter to the residents of Dallas County outlining a broad reform agenda, newly minted District Attorney John Creuzot is still dealing with criticism over a petty theft policy. Despite the attention, though, Creuzot's approach to theft is unlikely to be his most impactful reform.
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A lot of people see prison as the last resort — the ultimate thing to avoid. Then there's Chainnaron Soeurn. After he was released, the struggle to pay the costs of probation was so tough that he chose to go back behind bars.


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At PNC Championship, Tiger Woods wants to have fun, but Charlie Woods is all business
ORLANDO, Fla. – His first start in this distinctly relaxed event promised to showcase off the softer side of Tiger Woods, but Charlie Woods appears to have a different idea.
"For some reason, Charlie just always wants to beat me, it doesn't matter what it is," said Justin Thomas, who is playing the event with his father, Mike, and is grouped with Team Woods on Day 1. "Although he's never beaten me in golf or a putting contest, he still talks trash just like his dad. It will be fun. We'll have that like inner tournament within a tournament, trying to shut his little mouth up, but it will be fun."
That 11-year-old edge was on display Thursday as father and son set out in the pro-am together. On the second hole, Charlie Woods launched a drive well past his famous father, albeit from a dramatically closer tee box, and he seemed to give Tiger a wry smile. After missing a putt for birdie on the same hole, the younger Woods wheeled away from the hole and swung his arm into the air in frustration.
For all those who plan to tune in this weekend for a glimpse at the game's most high-profile prodigy, it will look all so familiar. Before every swing Charlie visualizes the shot, just like dad. After every swing he's perfectly balanced – yep, dad. Even the way he braced himself against a cold wind early Thursday looked every bit a scaled down version of the original – hands dug deep into his pockets, head down, eyes cast forward and focused.
Charlie Woods.
Tiger Woods.
Home on the range. 🏌🏌 pic.twitter.com/KnSM6bPrmk
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) December 17, 2020
During a 10-minute talk with reporters following his pro-am the "old man" used numerous versions of fun, enjoyment and happy to describe this week's unofficial start.
"It's so much fun to see him enjoying the game. That's the whole idea," Woods said. "Enjoy hitting shots and creating those shots. It's so cool for me to see him enjoy the sport and feeling the shots and hitting it as solid as he is hitting it."
Full-field tee times from the PNC Championship
For Tiger this is about no pressure. No drama. Just a chance to hang with one of his favorite people doing something they both love. This isn't about an 83rd PGA Tour victory or a 16th major championship; this is for family. It's an endearing side to the 44-year-old that we've rarely seen. It also doesn't seem to be Charlie's game plan at all.
Following the pro-am, Tiger Woods met with the media. Charlie Woods went to the range. If Tiger's back doesn't allow him to spend countless hours honing his action, the younger Woods doesn't have any of those restrictions and he cast a familiar shadow as the afternoon wore on. Like his father before injury became the overriding arbiter of success or failure, Charlie Woods is relentless in his pursuit of improvement.
Earl Woods never coached Tiger, at least not in the traditional sense. The way Tiger explained it he and his father worked on "feels," and that's how he and Charlie have handled things, although Mike Thomas has been asked to lend a technical hand to Charlie's game from time to time.
"His speed is impressive - he has some incredible speed and it's not just that he's 11, he's a small 11," Mike Thomas said. "About his game what impresses me is his knowledge. I get he's Tiger's son but still, he sees fades and sees draws. He just sees things out there. You don't teach something like that, you just develop that. Justin was like that. He talked the language at a young age."
Prep work for @PNCchampionship debut. pic.twitter.com/6MyGjmTN73
— PGA TOUR Champions (@ChampionsTour) December 17, 2020
And then there's the competitive side. While Tiger is reluctant to give too thorough of a glimpse into his home life it's clear that competition is a centerpiece to everyday life at the Woods compound.
Nearly three years ago, Justin Thomas had just won his first major championship and moved to No. 1 in the world when he agreed to a friendly nine-hole putting contest at Tiger's house.
"Charlie was leading going into the last hole," Thomas recalled. "He was like 2 under, I was 1 under and Tiger was even or 1 under. Charlie was mouthing off saying, 'Here I am, 9 years old beating the No. 1 player in the world and supposedly the best golfer of all time.' He three-putted and I made it to beat him. I shut him up pretty quick."
Thomas has to catch himself sometimes when he's around Charlie. Everything is so familiar with the 11-year-old, from the cutting sense of humor to the club twirl after a particularly pleasing shot, that it's easy to get carried away.
"He likes to needle me a little bit and I have to remind myself that he's 11 years old sometimes. I need to remind myself sometimes that I need to watch what I say," Thomas said. "They are very similar. Who wouldn't want to be like your dad if your dad was Tiger Woods? He definitely has all the mannerisms."
Fans will tune in to this weekend's action out of curiosity. How good can an 11-year-old, even Tiger Woods' 11-year-old, be? But they will stay because of the familiarity. It's not often we're able to turn back the clock in such a dramatic way.
"All kids mimic, and I don't know if his swing is any different than mine. His feels are similar, hitting shots and reading those shots," Woods said. "He is competitive, yes. Our whole family is that way - chirping, that's what we do."
Winning is also a Woods family trait but Tiger doesn't seem to have much interest in that this week. He's here for the fun and the joy and the bonding. Charlie Woods, however, seems to have other plans.


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Talk:Minoriko Aki
Revision as of 13:30, 27 February 2022 by Eat Broccoli (talk | contribs) (→Minori-chan as food.)
A few people have noticed that both Minoriko and Shizuha are refered to by ZUN as the older sister of the other. Supposedly it's a typo by ZUN, but the last I heard (which was almost a couple months ago so maybe it's changed now) there wasn't any confirmation of which one was actually older. I think it's probably best to leave that part of the profile as it is, even if it's currently wrong, until something official comes from ZUN to say which is the older sister. My own opinion was that Minoriko was older because she was the stage boss, but that's not necessarily right. -Redpanda
Minori-chan as food.
I see a lot of fan artist drawing Minoriko been treated as food. Well I'm quite sure of it seems...
Sounds delicious Hagrid the Table (talk) 13:30, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
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At least 30,000 persons have been displaced by flood, while 42 communities have been submerged in Esan South East Local Government Area of Edo.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports, over 8,000 houses and thousands of hectares of farmland were affected by the flood.
The communities that are mostly affected are on the bank of River Niger, and had their crops, such as rice, washed away by the flood.
The council chairman, Mr Victor Emuankhagbon, while lamenting the loss, called for urgent assistance for the victims.
He said as a result of the enormous destruction occasioned by the flood, there was little or nothing the council could do.
While noting that no fewer than 30,000 persons were displaced by the flood, he said a temporary camp had been set up to accommodate the displaced.
"It is a huge natural disaster which mainly affected Ifeku Island and Illushi mainland. The destruction is such that I cannot quantify the loss.
"I am appealing to all relevant government agencies, as well as the state and federal government to come to the aid of the victims.
"We are in the process of evacuating them to safer locations. But the job is obviously beyond us, hence we are calling on both the state and federal governments to come to our aid without delay," said Emuankhagbon.


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Red Bluff police arrest 2 after vehicle…
Red Bluff police arrest 2 after vehicle reported stolen
PUBLISHED: August 29, 2014 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: May 16, 2018 at 9:41 a.m.
RED BLUFF >> Red Bluff police arrested a Red Bluff man and an Anderson woman Wednesday on suspicion of multiple felony charges after conducting a traffic stop on a reported stolen vehicle.
After receiving a report of a stolen vehicle that was traveling through Red Bluff, officers responded about 11:40 a.m. to Walnut Street near Main Street after the vehicle had been spotted, according to a press release.
Officers located the vehicle, which was occupied by two people, and conducted a felony traffic stop, according to the release. The occupants were identified as Katelyn Marie Delgrande, 29, of Anderson, and James Donald Procarione, 26, of Red Bluff.
Delgrande was arrested on suspicion of possession of stolen property, and Procarione was arrested on suspicion of possession of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance for sale, transportation of a controlled substance and a felony warrant for his arrest.
Both were booked into Tehama County Jail.
Delgrande's bail was $18,000, and Procarione's bail was $45,000, according to online Tehama County Jail records.


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Q: Strange SVN folder in repository I am in the process of moving from SVN to git, and I am trying to migrate my existing SVN repository using the git svn wrapper, svn2git (https://github.com/nirvdrum/svn2git). I am using svn2git because it keeps branches intact. My end goal is to put the project onto github.
When performing the clone through svn2git, the execution halts when it tries to access a folder:
svn/https%3A

Which is supposedly a branch - however I cannot see it in the repository. I am assuming that at some stage I had accidentally named a branch beginning with https: (thinking it required the full SVN path), however now I am unsure how to remove it again because it cannot be found.
Is there some way to find and delete this using svnadmin?

A: After spending a number of hours on this, trying various methods for performing the conversion (I did not try thekbb's proposed solution because I had not seen it before I found an answer), I ended up ditching git-svn and going with subgit which converted the whole repository first time, without any hassles.
I don't want to get into hot water here by pitching one against the other, but I will say my experience with subgit has been far better than that with git-svn, or the wrapper, svn2git.
It seems that git-svn will throw an error when it encounters irregularities in the subversion repository, however subgit seems to sort it out itself, which I prefer in this case because I am migrating from SVN to Git, so any time I can avoid spending patching the SVN repository is time I am happy to save.
The only thing I didn't see listed in the subgit install guide (I may have missed it) was that you should take the svn server offline when performing the installation, otherwise you'll end up with 'Interruptions' (when someone accesses the repository) which stop the installation.

A: It's been a long time, and I apologize for not testing this out...
but in theory you could delete the offender with
git branch -D https%3A
and then restart with:
svn2git --rebase
If that doesn't work, I'd try using svndumpfilter to remove that branch.  You'll have to dump the repository with svnadmin dump and then filter it:
svndumpfilter exclude branches/https%3A < dumpfile > filtered-dumpfile
Then you can load filtered-dumpfile to a new svn repo then do an svn2git on that.

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Q: Which records are locked with MySQL's 'SELECT ... FOR UPDATE' I've read and tested row-level locks in MySQL's InnoDB but I still find it hard to actually say "I know how locks work in MySQL"!
Here's my test data:
mysql> select * from lockable;
+----+----+----+
| id | c1 | c2 |
+----+----+----+
|  1 | A  | A  |
|  2 | A  | B  |
|  3 | A  | C  |
|  4 | B  | A  |
|  5 | B  | B  |
|  6 | B  | C  |
|  7 | C  | A  |
|  8 | C  | B  |
|  9 | C  | C  |
+----+----+----+
9 rows in set (0.00 sec)

In order to test the MySQL's behaviour regarding row-level locks, I opened two terminals and connected to MySQL. I'm going to name them mysql1> and mysql2>. Here's what I executed on first terminal:
mysql1> ROLLBACK;
mysql1> BEGIN;
mysql1> SELECT id, c1, c2 FROM lockable WHERE c1 = "A" FOR UPDATE;
+----+----+----+
| id | c1 | c2 |
+----+----+----+
|  1 | A  | A  |
|  2 | A  | B  |
|  3 | A  | C  |
+----+----+----+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Then on the second terminal:
mysql2> SELECT * FROM lockable WHERE c1 = "B" FOR UPDATE;

To my surprise the above query will be blocked by the first one! So I rolled back the first terminal and started over:
mysql1> ROLLBACK;
mysql1> BEGIN;
mysql1> SELECT id, c1, c2 FROM lockable LIMIT 3 FOR UPDATE;
+----+----+----+
| id | c1 | c2 |
+----+----+----+
|  1 | A  | A  |
|  2 | A  | B  |
|  3 | A  | C  |
+----+----+----+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Then on the second terminal:
mysql2> SELECT * FROM lockable WHERE LIMIT 6,1  FOR UPDATE;

Again the second terminal is blocked by the first one! Is there any scenario in which not all of records of a table are locked? If not why is this called "row-level locking"?

A: The answer to my question is said in MySQL's manual:

A locking read, an UPDATE, or a DELETE generally set record locks on
  every index record that is scanned in the processing of the SQL
  statement.

So locks are applied to records that are swept during a traverse, not all of the records. If no index is found then a full sweep is done and all of the records are locked. So I needed to set an index on the column., even then if some record is read while getting to the target records, then they are also locked (even though they might not be finally selected).