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Posts Tagged 'David Kerekes'
Morbid Miriam Matters
Posted in Fascism, Literature, Politics, Racism, Transgression, White Supremacism, tagged #MorbidMiriamMatters, anti-racism, anti-racist activist, Barack Obama, Black Lives Matter, BLM, CAS, Clark Ashton Smith, coma, core unconsciousness, David Kerekes, David Slater, dismantling white supremacy, Dr Miriam B. Stimbers, Dr Nigel M. Goldbaum, Freud, Freudianism, George Floyd, Headpress, Headpress Journal, Miriam B. Stimbers, Miriam Stimbers, Morbid Miriam Matters, Necrophile Pride, necrophilia, Nigel Goldbaum, Nigel M. Goldbaum, Other-phobia, proud Black-African-Diasporan, psychoanalysis, psychoanalyst, racism, racist, racist murder of George Floyd, serial killing, systemic racism, white supremacy, xenophobia on September 22, 2020| Leave a Comment »
On September 21, 2020, at 12:07 EST, Dr Miriam B. Stimbers and her life-partner, the proud Black-African-Diasporan Dr Nigel M. Goldbaum, lit a sustainably sourced "Black Lives Matter" candle, held hands, and commenced watching split-screen video of the inspirational inaugurations of President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012.
Dr Stimbers and Dr Goldbaum had been performing this core soul-strengthening and white-supremacy-defying ritual on a keyly committed daily basis throughout the summer of 2020.
But that day's ritual would prove horrifically different.
At 1 minute 21 seconds of the video-view, Miriam began to shake uncontrollably.
At 1m38s, she released a cry of irrepressible anguish.
At 1m46s, she slumped into core unconsciousness.
She has been in a coma ever since.
The horrors of white racism had finally proved too much for her…
We in the close-knit Papyrocentric-Performativity community would like to extend our profoundest respects to Dr Stimbers and Dr Goldbaum, to express our sincerest hopes for Dr Stimbers' complete and speedy recovery, and to humbly endorse what Dr Goldbaum has said of his life-partner: "Even in a coma, Miriam is doing more to fight systemic racism and dismantle white supremacy than some so-called progressive persons have managed in their entire non-comatose existences."
In tribute to Dr Stimbers, we herewith list key Papyrocentric-Performativity posts referencing this truly inspirational psychoanalyst and anti-racist activist:
• #MiToo — a review of Morbidly Miriam: The Mephitic Memoirs of Miriam B. Stimbers, Dr Miriam B. Stimbers (TransVisceral Books 2018)
• Doc Proc — a review of Botty: An Unnatural History of the Backside, Dr Miriam B. Stimbers (TransVisceral Books 2014)
• Twice Has Thrice the Vice — Miriam processes the grieving-process of losing a core fish-community
And the close-knit Papyrocentric-Performativity community heartily recommends core engagement with "Faut-il Brûler Smith? (Con)futing the Hate Speech of Klarkash-Ton", Dr Goldbaum's seminal essay on Other-phobia in the work of Clark Ashton Smith.
P.S. Cutting-edge counter-culturalist, veteran visceralist and über-edgy esotericist Norman Nekrophile adds: "As a proud member of the Roma Diaspora, my Journal of Strangeness and Necrophilia was always privileged to host the acutely intelligent and incendiarily insightful psychoanalysis corely crafted by Dr Stimbers. That is, I mean I'm the proud member of the Roma Diaspora, not my journal, which is inanimate, obviously. A bit like Miriam at the moment, sad to say. I'm sure all core components of the counter-cultural community will join me in wishing Miriam a radical re-assumption of optimal health status on a maximally accelerated basis."
P.P.S. Sizzlingly sleazy, super-psychotropic serial-slayerologist Sam Salatta adds: "So I'm parked up with this head on the passenger seat, right, thinking how the fuck'm I gonna get the car clean, and does this cop-car pull up out of the blue right beside me? Yeah, it fucking does! And I'm like, 'Oh, fuckety-fuckety fuck!' and this cop goes, 'Are we having any problems, sir?' and I'm like — what? Oh, yeah, Miriam, yeah. I've always been a massive fan. Fingers crossed that she recovers as soon as. If not sooner."
Necrofil cel Mare Stă cu Ochii pe Tine…
Posted in Transgression, tagged autopsy videos, core commitment, counter-culture, David Kerekes, Dr David Kerekes, Headpress, Headpress Journal, human gargoyle, human gargoyles, key counter-cultural values, Killing for Culture, necrophile, necrophilia, Norman Nekrophile, scopophilia, The Daily Headpress, Visceral Visions, voyeurism on July 27, 2018| Leave a Comment »
In a World of Adolescent Voyeurism…
One Human Gargoyle……
Maintained a Core Commitment………
To Key Counter-Cultural Values…………
Norman Nekrophile is…
…SLIMESNIFFER…
(Out soon on Visceral Visions…)
Elsewhere other-esotericizable…
• Headpress Bokos……
• Killing for Culture…
• Night of the Necrophile……
• The Stockport Slayer… (a seriously sinister story)
Slater on Slayer
Posted in Transgression, True Crime, tagged David Kerekes, David Slater, Headpress, Headpress Journal, horror films, horror movies, Killing for Culture, murder, necrophile, Necrophile Pride, necrophilia, See No Evil, serial killers, serial killing, Sizzle of Snuff, Slo-Mo Psy-Ko, snuff, snuff films, snuff-movies, Stockport, Stockport Slayer, transgression, transgressive, transgressive film, True Crime, video nasties, Zac Zialli on November 25, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Slo-Mo Psy-Ko: The Sinister Story of the Stockport Slayer…, Zac Zialli (TransVisceral Books 2016)
(This is a guest-review by David Slater)
[Unfortunately David has not completed the review within the Papyrocentric deadline.]
• David Slater is simul-scribe of seminal snuff-study Killing for Culture: A Dysmorphic Duo of Death'n'Decomposition-Dedicated Deviants Called Dave Sniff Out the Slimiest Secrets of Snuff'n'Stuff (Visceral Visions 2016) and of visceral vid-'vestigation See No Evil: A Tenebrose Twosome of Toxic Transgressivists Stiffen their Sinews and Set to Selebrating a Splanchnophilically Sizzling Selection of Viscidly Noxious Video Nasties (Visceral Visions 2012).
Il Nano e il Necrofilo…
Posted in Catholicism, Film, Hobbies, Transgression, True Crime, tagged blow-jobs, bumming Dave Slater, communism, communist, corpse-contemplation, corpse-contemplation community, corpse-vids, Dave Kerekes, Dave Slater, David Kerekes, David P. Slater, David Slater, David V. Kerekes, Dr David Kerekes, East Germany, esoterica, ethical code, gay brothel, gay brothel in Stockport, Gay Community, gay sex, GCHQ, Gypsies, Gypsy Community, Harris Library, Headpress, Headpress Journal, interview with David Kerekes, keynote lecture, KGB, Killing for Culture, Lancashire, Liverpool, necrophile, necrophile community, Necrophile Pride, necrophilia, NSA, relaxation techniques, rent-boy, Romania, scrupulous honesty, Securitate, security state, Sizzle of Snuff, snuff, snuff films, snuff videos, snuff-movies, spying, Stasi, state surveillance, Stockport, surveillance, transgression, transgressive cinema, transgressive film, TransVisceral Books, video nasties, warped little fucker on October 6, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Titans of Transgression: Incendiary Interviews with Eleven Ultra-Icons of Über-Extremity, edited by Dr Miriam B. Stimbers and Dr Samuel P. Salatta (TransVisceral Books, forthcoming)
A further exclusive extract from this soon-to-be-published key compendium of core counter-culturalicity…
READERS' ADVISORY: Interview extract contains strong language and explicit reference to perverted sexual practices strictly forbidden by Mother Church. Proceed at your own risk.
Miriam Stimbers: How did you meet David Slater [simul-scribe of seminal snuff-study Killing for Culture]?
David Kerekes: Well, it's a fairly complicated story. In the Gypsy community we've always felt a close affinity with other oppressed minorities and we do our best to watch their backs. In 1982 or thereabouts, I was part of a Gypsy crew who lent a helping hand to a gay brothel in Stockport that was having a few problems with homophobic neighbours. My blood still boils when I think about it, to be honest. Totally out of order, the fucking neighbours were. I mean, the brothel was discreet, the clients were no bother to anyone, but these homophobes thought they had the right to stick their fucking noses in and disrupt the brothel's business, hassle the clients, stuff like that. Fucking cunts. Anyway, to cut a long story short, me and the rest of the Gypsy crew sorted the neighbours out and then the proprietor of the brothel asked us if we'd like blow-jobs on the house, like, to thank us for our help, even though we hadn't done it out of any thought of reward. I mean, it was just solidarity with a fellow minority, the sort of thing the Gypsy community has always been passionate about.
Miriam Stimbers: And you said yes to the blow-jobs?
David Kerekes: Well, me and a couple of my mates in the crew did. I'm always up for a new experience, as it were! And that's how I met Dave Slater. 'Coz he was working in the brothel, as one of the rent-boys.
Miriam Stimbers: And he gave you the free blow-job?
David Kerekes: Yeah. And it was a fucking good one too. Not the best I've ever had, like, but in the top twenty, easily.
Miriam Stimbers: And you got chatting and discovered your shared passion for corpse-contemplation?
David Kerekes: Well, it's natural you should think that, but no, not right then. Not on that first occasion. Dave didn't say much, just got down to work, as it were. But as I said, it was a fucking good blow-job, so about a fortnight later, when I was in the Stockport area on business and had an hour or two to kill, I popped in at the brothel and asked for another one off him. Another blow-job, I mean, off Dave. I was ready to pay the going rate, like, but the proprietor recognized me at once and said it was on the house again.
Miriam Stimbers: And this time you got chatting with Dave Slater?
David Kerekes: Exactly. We got chatting after he'd given me the blow-job and discovered our shared passion for corpse-contemplation, as you so nicely put it. And the next time Dave was over in Liverpool, he got in touch and we had a few pints. It all sort of blossomed from there. We started meeting regularly to watch death-film and corpse-vids together. Most times, Dave would give me a blow-job at the end of the session. I mean, you build up a lot of tension watching corpse-vids, so a blow-job's just the thing to unwind with. Very relaxing. And sometimes he'd give me a blow-job during the session too, if he noticed I was getting tense as I contemplated a particularly fine corpse or watched a particularly abhorrent death-scene, like. It was fucking funny at times, Dave trying to watch the screen at the same time as he had a nob in his gob!
Warming up for corpse-contemplation: Kerekes (right) and Slater (left)
Miriam Stimbers: And that's how you came to write Killing for Culture?
David Kerekes: Yeah. Out of tiny oaks tall acorns grow! If me and my Gypsy mates hadn't helped out that gay brothel in Stockport, I'd probably never have met Dave and probably Killing for Culture would never have been written. I'd had something in mind along those lines, but Dave's help really was invaluable. Not just his knowledge and his contacts, but his very special relaxation techniques! I estimate that I received about two hundred blow-jobs, maybe two-fifty, off him in the course of research. When I saw that first review calling it a "seminal snuff-study", I thought, "Little do you fucking know!" Dave was always on at me to bum him too, but I didn't fancy that. I mean, obviously, I'm not homophobic or owt, but bumming a bloke is a big step up from getting a blow-job off him. But he still kept on at me to bum him.
Miriam Stimbers: Did you ever give in?
David Kerekes: Well, I used to say to him, "Dave, I'll bum you after we've seen a snuff-movie together!"
Miriam Stimbers: So have you ever bummed Dave Slater?
David Kerekes (laughing): Well, I'll say this, like. I've bummed Dave Slater as many times as I've seen a snuff-movie!
Miriam Stimbers: And how many times have you seen a snuff-movie?
David Kerekes (laughing again): As many times as I've bummed Dave Slater!
Miriam Stimbers: Who would you say has been the most important influence on your life?
David Kerekes: People often ask me this and, you know, they expect me to say that it was William Burroughs or Immanuel Kant or Sam Salatta or someone like that. And yeah, they have all been very important influences on me, but the most important influence on me was someone else. Not anyone famous, but someone very, very influential nonetheless.
Miriam Stimbers: Who was it?
David Kerekes: It was my Mom, Mirima Kerekes. People often say to me that they find me an unusually honest and ethical person, which is obviously a nice thing to hear, don't get me wrong, but I take absolutely no fucking credit for it. It's all down to my Mom. She brought me up to be passionate about three things. First, pride in my Gypsy heritage. Second, strict adherence to a painfully honest ethical code. Third – and I'll put it in her own words, because I can hear her saying it to me now – "Don't never never never act like a communist, Davy, because that would be like spitting in your poor Momma's face." And I've done my fucking best, I hope, to keep those three things at the forefront of my mind during both my working life and my private life.
Miriam Stimbers: Just to explain for people who don't know – your mother was a refugee from communist Romania, right?
David Kerekes: Yes, absolutely right. She left Romania in the 1950s after the Russian invasion. Fled from there, rather, just ahead of the fucking tanks and the firing-squads. And she wasn't a fan of communism, to put it mildly!
Miriam Stimbers: And what would, quote, acting like a communist, unquote, entail?
David Kerekes: Basically, she meant any kind of behaviour that violated individual autonomy, that placed the collective above the individual. The sort of fucking thing you saw all the time under communism, most obviously with the secret police. You know, the KGB in the Soviet Union, the Stasi in East Germany, the Securitate in Romania, and so on.
Miriam Stimbers: Torture, rigged trials, slave-labour camps, things like that?
David Kerekes: Yes, obviously that kind of thing, but other stuff comes under it too. I mean, if you think of the Edward Snowden revelations, the NSA over in the States and GCHQ here in the UK are behaving like communists, by my Mom's criteria.
Miriam Stimbers: Surveillance, spying, treating the entire population as suspects?
David Kerekes: Exactly. After her experiences in Romania, my Mom hated that kind of thing, absolutely fucking hated it. And if I ever participated in anything like that, then I would be, in her words, "spitting in your poor Momma's face." So I don't participate in it. Full stop.
Interview extract © David Kerekes / Dr Miriam B. Stimbers / TransVisceral Books 2017
Noxious Note: In November 2017 the Harris Central Library in Stockport, Lancashire, will be holding an exhibition engaging core issues around corpse-vids, corpse-contemplation, and the corpse-contemplation community. Sponsored by the Halifax Bank and entitled "Not Just for Necrophiles: A Toxic Tribute to Killing for Culture", the exhibition is designed to accompany the TransVisceral Books publication of the same name. As part of the exhibition, David Kerekes will be delivering a keynote lecture entitled "Coming Out of the Cyber-Coffin: Necrophile Pride in the Internet Age", accompanied by a keynote lecture by David Slater entitled "[the warped little fucker hasn't even written the title of his lecture so far, so there's fuck-all chance that he'll get the whole thing done in time. i'll get the title to you if a fucking miracle happens. – d.k.]"
Previously pre-posted on Papyrocentric Performativity:
• Slay, Slay, Slay (Vot Yoo Vont to Slay)
• Thiz Iz Siz-Biz…
Voy Veh
Posted in Biographies, History, Politics, Psychology, Transgression, tagged anti-voyeurism, communist Romania, core sensibilities, counter-cultural, counter-culture, David Kerekes, David V. Kerekes, Dr David Kerekes, extended time-period, Gay Talese, GCHQ, Gerald Foos, Gypsy, Gypsy Community, Gypsy Pride, Headpress, Headpress Journal, individual autonomy, keyly committed core component of the counter-cultural community, Killing for Culture, motel, Necrophile Pride, NSA, observation vents, proud and passionate member of the Gypsy Community, scophophile, scopophilia, scopophilic, sex, Sizzle of Snuff, snuff movie, snuff-movies, spying, surveillance, surveillance state, The Voyeur's Motel, transgression, transgressive, Unit 8200, voyeur, voyeurism, voyeuristic on August 29, 2017| Leave a Comment »
The Voyeur's Motel, Gay Talese (2016)
(This is a guest-review by Headpress CEO Dr David Kerekes)
Wow. I was simultaneously fascinated and sickened by this toxic tale of septic scopophilia. Yup – you could done say I was fascickened. American social historian Gay Talese tells the sizzlingly sleazy slime-story of this guy called Gerald Foos, right, who sets up a motel business specifically so that he could spy on his own guests – I mean, like actually watch them having sex and stuff through observation vents (wow) he had installed in the ceilings of certain rooms of the motel.
And he seriously got off on his secret spying, trust me. Yup – you could done say it was Foos' Gold. Said spying stretched over an extended time-period from the 1960s to the 1990s, generating copious notes made by Foos to enhance his enjoyment and permanentalize his pleasure. So, the $23,000 question: Was he a voyeur? Are you kidding me?! You're damn right he was a voyeur. And for me (Headpress CEO Dr David Kerekes) voyeurism is an absolute no-no under any and all circumstances. There are three core reasons for these strict anti-voyeurism principles of mine:
My Mom was a refugee from the 24/7 surveillance state of communist Romania and instilled in me from my earliest days a deep abhorrence of spying and scopophilia (in short – voyeurism).
I am (thanks, Mom!) a proud and passionate member of the Gypsy Community. I am (thanks again, Mom!) all too well aware of the centuries-long history of police surveillance and harassment directed against My People. This awareness has reinforced my deep abhorrence of spying and scopophilia (like I said – voyeurism).
So I need a third reason, already?
But in fact, I do have a third reason to abhor voyeurism root and branch on a permanent, non-negotiable basis. Beside being the son of a communist refugee and a proud Gypsy (thanks, Mom!), I am also (as you may be already aware) a keyly committed core component of the counter-cultural community. Voyeurism is totally – but totally – against core counter-cultural principles of individual autonomy and non-interference in the lives of others.
This, then, explains why I was so sickened by The Voyeur's Motel. But fascinated, also (don't get me wrong). I could see putrid parallels between my Mom's experiences in Romania and the behavior of Gerald Foos in America. As a government, communist Romania was rejecting core moral principles and trampling on individual autonomy at the exact time-periods during which, as an individual, Gerald Foos of the Voyeur's Motel was also rejecting those core moral principles and trampling on individual autonomy. Reading this book, I could see those temporal and behavioral parallels very clearly, thus adding to the fascickening impact of the book on my core sensibilities.
And today? Well, is not clear that we see voyeurism on a massive scale at both governmental and individual levels? But not from me (no sir!) or from anyone else in the world-wide Headpress Community (no sir neither!). If you belong to the Headpress Community or any affiliated grouping, The Voyeur's Motel will not be an easy read in the moral sense. It will disturb and distress all who have an ounce of esoteric ethicality in them, buddy. But it will also inspire them to fight on against the scourge of scopophilia and the virus of voyeurism. So, yeah, if you spot a copy, grab a read. It coulda done with more corpses, mind you.
• Headpress CEO Dr David Kerekes is the author of Killing for Culture: Death on Film and the Sizzle of Snuff (Visceral Visions 2012), Mezzogiallo: Ferality. Fetidity. Eastern Europe. (Visceral Visions 2014) and Nekro-Vile: Kandid Konfessions of a Korpse-Kontemplator (TransVisceral Books 2016), among other key transgressive texts.
The Hurt Shocker
Posted in Catholicism, Transgression, True Crime, tagged Cockney Reds, compendium of core counter-culturalicity, David Kerekes, Dr Miriam B. Stimbers, Dr Samuel P. Salatta, extremity, Fifth Amendment, football, Gooners, Headpress, Incendiary Interviews with Eleven Ultra-Icons of Über-Extremity, interview, interview with Stefan Jaworzyn, Norman Nekrophile, rumours, Shock Xpress, soccer, Stefan Jaworzyn, Titans of Transgression, transgression, transgressive, TransVisceral Books, unsavoury rumours, Yids on July 31, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Titans of Transgression: Incendiary Interviews with Eleven Ultra-Icons of Über-Extremity, ed. Dr Miriam B. Stimbers and Dr Samuel P. Salatta (TransVisceral Books, forthcoming)
Here's an exclusive extract from this soon-to-be-published compendium of core counter-culturalicity. We join a Titan of Transgression and his incendiary interviewer as they engage issues around the unsavoury rumours that once circulated about the aforementioned Titan of Transgression…
READERS' ADVISORY: Interview extract contains strong language and disturbing adult themes. PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Stefan Jaworzyn: Well, yeah, they hurt. I have to be honest. They did hurt. I tried to put a brave face on it, you know, saying that the people spreading them were a bunch of fucking losers, blah-blah. Which was true. I mean, they were fucking losers. But deep down, yeah, the rumours hurt. There was one I remember… Fuck. [stares down at table]
Norman Nekrophile: Stefan?
Stefan Jaworzyn: [buries face in hands]
Norman Nekrophile: Are you okay?
Stefan Jaworzyn:
Norman Nekrophile: Stefan? Are you okay?
Stefan Jaworzyn: [exhales loudly and looks up] Yeah. Yeah. I think so.
Norman Nekrophile: You were saying about one rumour.
Stefan Jaworzyn: Yeah. There was one that said… Jesus.
Norman Nekrophile:
Stefan Jaworzyn: [exhales loudly]
Norman Nekrophile: If you don't want to go there, buddy, we'll leave it.
Stefan Jaworzyn: No, it's fine. I'll go there. There was one rumour that said I was… that I was… Jesus.
Norman Nekrophile: Yes? That you were?
Stefan Jaworzyn: [whispering] A Cockney Red.
Norman Nekrophile: Jesus.
Stefan Jaworzyn: Yeah.
Norman Nekrophile: I'm lost for words.
Norman Nekrophile: I mean, I'd heard myself that you were supposed to run, well, forgive me, with the Yids.
Stefan Jaworzyn: And with the Gooners.
Norman Nekrophile: Yeah, that too. With the Gooners and the Yids. Which is bad enough, don't get me wrong. But you being a… Fuck. I can't even bring myself to say it. That was low, buddy. That was low.
Stefan Jaworzyn: Yeah. Very low. But it was the mentality of the people we're dealing with here.
Norman Nekrophile: And I assume you did deal with whoever-it-was? I mean, once you'd tracked down the source of that particular rumour?
Stefan Jaworzyn: [chuckling drily] Let's not go there, Norm.
Norman Nekrophile: You're pleading the Fifth?
Stefan Jaworzyn: Like a motherfucker.
Interview extract © Stefan Jaworzyn / Norman Nekrophile / TransVisceral Books 2017
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Zis Iss Vis Biss…
Posted in Biographies, Communism, Politics, Psychology, Technology, Transgression, True Crime, tagged 23, 23 Titans of Transgression, Cheshire, Daily Headpress, Daily Mail, David Kerekes, David Slater, Dr Joshua N. Schlachter, Dr Miriam B. Stimbers, Edward Snowden, Headpress, Headpress Journal, Joshua Schlachter, Killing for Culture, Miriam Stimbers, Norman Foreman, Norman Foreman B.A., Not Just for Necrophiles, opium of the peephole, police radar, rabid, rancid, reprehensibly repulsive, Sam Salatta, seminal snuff-study, serial killer, serial killers, serial killing, serial murder, serial slayer, serial slaying, slime-sniffing, Slo-Mo Psy-Ko, snuff film, snuff studies, snuff-movies, spying, Stockport, Stockport Psycho, Stockport Slayer, surveillance, surveillance state, TransVisceral Books, Twenty-Three Titans of Trangression, Zac Zialli on March 21, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Forthcoming Fetidity / Future Ferality from TransVisceral Books…
• Slo-Mo Psy-Ko: The Sinister Story of the Stockport Slayer…, Zac Zialli — fetid-but-fascinating investigation of a serial slayer who has flown under the police radar for decades…
• Not Just for Necrophiles: A Toxic Tribute to Killing for Culture…, ed. Dr Miriam B. Stimbers and Dr Joshua N. Schlachter — 23 Titans of Trangression come together to pay tribute to the seminal snuff-study Killing for Culture…
• Opium of the Peephole: Spying, Slime-Sniffing and the Snowdenian Surveillance State, Norman Foreman (B.A.) — edgy interrogation of the unsettling parallels between state-sponsored surveillance and the Daily Meal…
• TransVisceral Books — for Readers who Relish the Rabid, Rancid and Reprehensibly Repulsive…
• TransVisceral Books — Core Counter-Culture… for Incendiary Individualists…
• TransVisceral Books — Total Toxicity… (since 2005)…
'Vile Vibes
Posted in Biographies, Television, Transgression, tagged "a bit odd", "Apocalypse Now Then", "It Was Good While It Lasted", '70s, '80s, 'eighties, 'seventies, 1970s, 1980s, As It Happens, bathos, battle of wits, BBC, black humour, brain damage, brain injury, Britain, Britain's favourite uncle, British Broadcasting Corporation, Broadmoor, Broadmoor maximum security psychiatric hospital, celebrity, celebrity porter, charity, charity fund-raiser, charity work, Charlie Chester, child molester, children, children's entertainer, chutzpah, civil servants, coal-miner, corpses, criminal, Dan Davies, David Kerekes, David Slater, deception, depravity, disc-jockey, distortion, dominance, energy, England, exhibitionism, exhibitionist, fame, famous entertainers, feral-and-fetid, Friend of Israel, Gary Glitter, ghoulish interests, Headpress, Headpress Journal, hiding in plain sight, high intelligence, Honorary Assistant Entertainment Officer at Broadmoor, hospitals, human bio-diversity, In Plain Sight, In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile, intelligence, interviews with Jimmy Savile, Jack magazine, James Wilson Vincent Savile, Jim'll Fix It, Jimmy Savile biography, Jonathan King, Killing for Culture, knighthood, Leeds, lies, London, marathons. HBD, Margaret Thatcher, necrophilia, necrophiliac, neurological abnormality, nonce, nostalgia, oddness, paedophile, paedophilia, peripatetic, playground rumours, police, poofter, Princess Diana, Quercus, radio, radio DJ, Rolf Harris, Scarborough, sex-attacks, sex-crimes, sex-criminal, Shepherd's Bush, Sir Jimmy Savile, Stuart Hall, television, Tony Blair, Top of the Pops, toxic truth, transgression, transgressive, TV, UK, weirdo, will-power, Yorkshire on March 29, 2016| 2 Comments »
In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile, Dan Davies (Quercus 2014)
'Seventies nostalgia ain't what it used to be. Britain has reeled again and again at revelations about the sex-crimes committed by famous entertainers from that ever-more discredited decade. Gary Glitter, Jonathan King and Stuart Hall have all gone to jail. Rolf Harris will probably die there. But the biggest nonce of the lot got clean away:
Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile, OBE; Knight of Malta, Knight of the Vatican, 'Special' Friend of Israel; Honorary Royal Marines Green Beret, Honorary Doctor of Law and Honorary Assistant Entertainment Officer at Broadmoor maximum security psychiatric hospital; miner, scrap metal merchant, inventor of the disco; racing cyclist, wrestler and marathon runner; pop Svengali, radio DJ and Top of the Pops presenter; charity fund-raiser, highly paid business consultant, hospital administrator; confidant of prime ministers and princes. (ch. 2, "Frisk Him", pp. 18-9)
Savile got a lot done in his eighty-four years, but the public didn't know the half of it. He was born poor and sickly in Leeds in 1926 and died in the same city in 2011, rich, famous and laden with honours. I didn't live in the UK at the height of his fame, but I saw some episodes of his famous children's programme Jim'll Fix It, on which he made dreams come true for a lucky few of the many thousands of children who wrote to him every week: some "got to fly with the Red Arrows, blow up water towers or sing with The Osmonds" (ch. 2, pg. 13). I didn't like Savile or his programme, but I always reasoned that he couldn't be a paedo because he looked and acted so much like one.
That was Savile's bluff: as Davies puts it, he was hiding in plain sight. After his death it gradually emerged that he had committed sex-attacks on children for decades, relying on his fame, cunning and peripatetic life to keep himself out of jail. He had narrow escapes and was even interviewed by the police, but he got to the end of his life unscathed. That's why his highly expensive grave in Scarborough bore the jeering epitaph: "It Was Good While It Lasted". Not that the jeer was immediately apparent: Savile was buried with honour and acclaim. But Davies opens this biography by describing what happened to the grave when the toxic truth got out:
The three 18-inch thick slabs of dark granite it had taken eight months to craft and to polish and to inscribe had been taken to a yard in Leeds where the fourteen hundred letters were ground down and the black granite smashed into tiny pieces for landfill. Nothing was to be left of the headstone and nothing was to be left to mark the spot where the coffin was buried beneath the earth. It was good while it lasted. (ch. 1, "Apocalypse Now Then", pg. 8)
The title of that first chapter, "Apocalypse Now Then", is a good example of what you'll find in the rest of the book: black humour and bathos. There's also a series of impossible-to-answer questions. What made Savile tick? How did he fool so many people for so long? You could ask the same questions about Tony Blair, a criminal on a much bigger scale, but there are two big differences between Savile and Blair. Unlike Blair, Savile was highly intelligent and a self-made man. Blair got to the top by serving powerful interests; Savile got to the top under his own steam. I'd also say that while Blair is a narcissist, Savile was an exhibitionist.
Long before Savile's death, Davies saw through the exhibitionism and glimpsed the depravity beneath. At the age of nine, he attended the recording of an episode of Jim'll Fix It "at a television studio in Shepherd's Bush, west London" (ch. 2, pg 13). After watching Savile's performance as a zany, dream-fulfilling jester, he came away with an uncomfortable feeling that "there was something remote and cold and untouchable beyond the façade". Later, he read Savile's autobiography, As It Happens (1974), and was disturbed again:
As a child of the Seventies and Eighties, I had heard all the playground rumours about Britain's favourite uncle; we all had. Jimmy Savile was a weirdo and possibly worse; a poofter, a necrophiliac or a child molester. [When I was an adult] Friends thought I was joking when I spoke of my 'Jimmy Savile' dossier and how I was going to use it to bring him down one day. (ch. 2, pg. 15)
The rumours may have been completely true. Savile was a Charlie Chester who preferred girls but also molested boys. And he spent a lot of time with corpses during his unpaid stints as a "celebrity porter" in various hospitals. Davies didn't get to bring him down, but his uneasy fascination with Savile never went away. After he grew up and became a journalist, he conducted some lengthy interviews with his "bogeyman" for a magazine called Jack (ch. 2, pg. 17). He never got to the truth: Savile was too clever for that. But his uneasiness grew and the interviews are the basis of this book. Savile speaks at length, relishing the battle of wits with Davies and revelling, no doubt, in the thought that his words would acquire their full feral-and-fetid meaning only after his death.
I was struck by the strangeness of his language. This is how he described a narrow escape from death in a plane:
"It was all a bit of fun. You're gonna die, you didn't die, very good. I had plenty of time to think about it because I was up in the air when we ran out of fuel. It didn't bother me because I'm a bit odd. One minute you're here, the next minute you're not." (ch. 15, "Didn't Die, Very Good", pg. 117)
That's English, but it's "a bit odd". If you know Savile's voice, you can hear him speaking as you read. There's something unsettling about the words and syntax he uses, not just the tone and manner that must have gone with them. I can't point to exactly what it is, but I wonder if his language was influenced by brain damage or some other neurological abnormality. There was certainly something very odd about Savile's brain, whether he was born that way or suffered a brain injury later, perhaps when he was hit by a collapsing roof during his time as a coal-miner (ch. 8, "The Power of Oddness", pp. 65-6).
He claimed that he was "concussed", but Davies couldn't verify any details of the accident, not even the year it happened or whether it happened at all. Savile lied and distorted constantly, so nothing is certain about long stretches of his life. But something that suggests to me that he was brain-damaged later in life is the early photo of him that opens the book. He's standing with his family as a boy, smiling happily and candidly at the camera. He's the least odd-looking person in the photo. In fact he doesn't look odd at all: just an ordinary, cheerful kid, albeit a clever-looking one.
In his photos as an adult, he definitely looks odd. The photo that opens Part Four is chilling: he's sitting alone in a camper-van, dressed in dungarees and peering out of the window at a busy street with a blank, calculating expression on his face. You can't put your finger on exactly why the photo is chilling, but it is. It screams "Nonce!" And many people besides Dan Davies were suspicious of Savile during his decades of fame. Margaret Thatcher wasn't one of them, but it took her a long time to give him a knighthood, because her civil servants kept saying no: "Under the headings Benefactions, we have again considered the name of Mr Jimmy Savile, whom you have of course considered on previous occasions. We have concluded that he should not be recommended." (ch. 53, "I am the boss – it's as simple as that", pg. 404)
The civil servants were right, Thatcher was wrong. But she had more excuse than the police and the BBC, who both come out of this book very badly. They missed numerous opportunities to stop Savile's crimes and the BBC tried to maintain a cover-up as long as it could. Nevertheless, Savile was indeed a master manipulator, committing sex-crimes for decades against both sexes and all ages in TV studios, schools and hospitals up and down the country. He secured powerful friends and even managed to get an important position and unsupervised access at Broadmoor, the country's most notorious psychiatric hospital. It was through Savile that Princess Diana seems to have got access to Broadmoor too. Diana was another fascinating fake who combined ostentatious charity-work with ghoulish interests, but she wasn't a sex-criminal or a self-made woman and she didn't achieve a fraction of what Savile did.
So how did he get away with it and fool so many for so long? His high intelligence was undoubtedly part of it, but so was his extraordinary energy: he lived like a blue-arsed fly, never staying long in any town or city, making and raising millions of pounds for himself and for charity while recording TV and radio shows, courting or fending off the media, and running dozens of marathons. Like Thatcher, he doesn't seem to have needed much sleep or time for recuperation.
And like Thatcher, he is very interesting from the point of view of HBD, or human bio-diversity. What were the physiological and genetic bases of his intelligence, energy, will-power and dominance? What was his precise ancestry? We should be able to answer those questions one day. Other questions about Savile may never be answered, but Dan Davies does an excellent job of capturing the black comedy, bathos and chutzpah of his strange, sordid and sinister life. If you want to be right repulsively entertained, In Plain Sight will fix it for you.
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Diaspora: True Tales of Demographic Displacement, Mandatory Migration and Existential Exile, David and Linda Kerekes (TransVisceral Books 2015)
It's been said that you'll have more success juggling jelly than you will predicting what TransVisceral Books will come up with next. It's hard to disagree. From Miriam Stimbers' unnatural history of the backside to Sam Salatta's pop-up book of serial slaying, TransVisceral are continually expanding their readers' horizons, coming out of left field like a great white on steroid-stoked roller-blades, swinging a lead-weighted pool-cue that's guaranteed to knock you for 6-6-6.
With Diaspora, they've just done it again. It was a major coup to secure the polymorphously perverse partnership of David and Linda Kerekes as editors for this book. Not only have they harvested contributions from a host of big names – the aforementioned Stimbers and Salatta, to name but two – they've penned memorably mephitic contributions of their own. David traces the roots of his key commitment to counter-culturality to his outsider status as son of a refugee from communist Eastern Europe. But, as ever, he finds plenty of chuckles amid the autobiographical analysis. Here he is recalling some never-forgotten advice from his mother Mirima:
Mom looked at me with uncharacteristic severity, emphasizing her words by waggling her tomato-stained forefinger: "A true gypsy don't never lie, don't never steal and don't never 'it a woman, Davitschko," she said. "You always remember that, eh? But most of all," she went on with a sudden twinkle in her eye, "a true gypsy don't never get caught!" I laughed, nodded and knew that I had been initiated into another of Mom's home-country secrets. ("Gyppo Kiddo: My Life in the Roma Diaspora", pg. 356)
Elsewhere, Linda Kerekes describes another kind of migration and another kind of diaspora: travel across the tightly policed, but highly ambiguous, border between so-called "male" and "female", so-called "man" and so-called "woman". Her descriptions of her gender-reassignment surgery are not for the faint-of-heart or weak-of-stomach, but they help make this book even more impactful and even more esoteric. TransVisceral have come up trumps again, unleashing another vibrantly visceral beacon that will sink its turbo-charged talons deep into the post-normative underbelly of your subconscious.
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Q: Decide if series convergent or divergent, and if convergent finding sum. I need to decide if this series is convergent or not, and if it is to find its sum.
$$\sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{1}{(n+3)(n+4)}$$
I think it is convergent as $$\lim_{n \to \infty}\frac{1}{(n+3)(n+4)}=0$$
From this point though I do not know how to obtain its sum.

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*For convergence use comparison test.

*To obtain its sum use the identity $\displaystyle \frac{1}{(n+3)(n+4)} = \frac{1}{n+3}-\frac{1}{n+4}$
Note: If $\lim_{n\to\infty} a_{n}=0$ then it need not imply that $\sum a_{n}$ converges. Example $a_{n}=\frac{1}{n}$.

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Copying China's Online Blockade
by prince March 3, 2021
China's government commands the "Great Firewall," an elaborate system of technology and people that blocks foreign websites, contorts online conversations and punishes people for straying.
I spoke with my colleague Paul Mozur, who has written for years about technology and politics in China, about what he called "firewalls great and small" by governments in Myanmar, Russia, Uganda and other countries that are to varying degrees also trying to control online activities.
Shira: Please first explain China's system of internet control.
Paul: It's a combination of blocking just about any foreign website you can think of and providing an information environment that reinforces what China's government and the Chinese Communist Party say about the world.
The controls are comprehensive. A huge government bureaucracy monitors online activity, and an army of volunteers report content to be censored and help spread positive messages about government initiatives. Companies are tasked with pulling material off the internet, and engineering teams are dispatched to build artificial intelligence tools to help. Contractors provide the manpower for industrial scale censorship.
The newest phenomenon is the internet police, which detains or investigates people if they're found to routinely do things like make fun of China's leader, Xi Jinping, online or raise sensitive political topics.
Does the firewall work?
Yes. It comes at the cost of the government's energy and money and the permanent anger of a segment of the population, but it's extremely effective in shaping what many think.
Most people don't have time to escape the information environment they live in, so it informs their outlook on the world — especially during crises. The online manipulation during the early coronavirus outbreak was probably the biggest censorship event in history.
How do other countries' efforts to block some websites or control the internet compare with the Great Firewall?
Iran and North Korea also have nearly complete control over the internet, and Myanmar and Cambodia are potentially trying to do something similar.
But it's difficult for any country to permanently block major social media sites and censor what people say online — as our colleague Anton Troianovski has reported from Russia. It risks angering citizens and isolating the economy, and the government risks missing its other priorities. It's also difficult to stay on top of people's attempts around the internet controls.
How has Myanmar tried to control people's online activities?
When the coup started last month, the military used brute force tactics to simply blackout the internet temporarily. In some cases, they did it at gunpoint. Now they're slowly cutting access.
Each morning, people wake up to find new websites they can't access. For now, it has been fairly easy for people to get around those blocks. The worry is that new technology from China could make the blocks more complete, though we've seen no evidence to date of China's involvement.
How do you explain that in Myanmar people have suffered from too little restraint of the internet and also too much? First, the military spread hatred online against the country's Rohingya minority group, and now it's cutting off the internet.
Where democratic institutions are weak and there are challenges over a country's future, powerful actors will both cut off the flow of information when it suits them and deploy the internet to spread information in their interests. China does both, and so has Myanmar. Though it might seem contradictory, censorship and disinformation go hand in hand.
The fear is that China will make the technology and techniques of its internet manipulation system readily adaptable by other autocratic countries. Myanmar is important to watch because if the generals control the internet without decimating the economy, it may become a model for other authoritarian regimes.
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Flying cars are great, but sometimes finding technology that tackles small problems can feel amazing. The New York Times personal tech columnist Brian X. Chen has three inexpensive tech helpers for us to try.
Sometimes the most useful technologies are cheap gizmos combined with human ingenuity. Here are three examples in the $15 to $30 range.
Bluetooth trackers like Tile ($25): These tiny tags are meant to be attached to things that you frequently misplace, like your house keys and wallet, so that you can use your phone to pinpoint them. But with a bit of imagination, Bluetooth trackers can do much more.
I attach a Tile to my obnoxiously thin Apple TV remote, which regularly disappears between couch cushions. I leave a Tile in my checked luggage to help me find it at the airport. And a friend who leaves a Tile in her car was able to track down the thieves who stole it and share that information with law enforcement.
We've written extensively about the dangers of allowing third parties to track our location, but privacy experts have not found major concerns with Tile's practices.
MyQ smart garage door opener ($27): This hub, when installed next to your existing garage door opener and connected to a home internet network, lets anyone control the garage door with a phone app.
I've found this gizmo surprisingly useful. Once, when I wasn't home, my neighbor locked himself out of our building, and I was able to let him in by using the app to remotely open the garage door. It's also great that my wife and I don't need separate remote controls when we pull our bicycles out of the garage for a ride.
Internet-connected plugs like TP-Link's Kasa ($17): I use smart plugs to program a bunch of small tasks. I schedule a grow light for my homegrown vegetables to turn off after 16 hours and program an electric kettle to boil water first thing in the morning for coffee.
Before we go …
Must we program JavaScript to get a shot? My colleague Kellen Browning reported that many older Americans are at a disadvantage in tackling the maze of websites, Twitter alerts and other tech know-how that are required to register for coronavirus vaccines.
A middle ground on tech regulation may be possible: Kashmir Hill wrote about Massachusetts, where a civil liberties activist and elected officials struck a balance between banning facial recognition technology used by law enforcement and giving the police complete free rein.
The internet never forgets: Liat Kaplan, who wrote a formerly anonymous celebrity blog in the 2010s, has second thoughts about "vengeful public shaming masquerading as social criticism." Related, from the internet culture writer Ryan Broderick: "We can't control how much of our lives exist in near-permanence online, but we can learn to decide what's worth dissecting and what's not."
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Activity from volcanoes did not play a direct role in the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs, researchers say. It was all about the asteroid.
Activity from volcanoes did not play a direct role in the dinosaurs extinction
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In a break from a number of other recent studies, researchers argue that environmental impacts from massive volcanic eruptions in India in the region known as the Deccan Traps happened well before the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event 66 million years ago and therefore did not contribute to the mass extinction.
Most scientists acknowledge that the mass extinction event, also known as K-Pg, occurred after an asteroid slammed into Earth. Some researchers also have focused on the role of volcanoes in K-Pg due to indications that volcanic activity happened around the same time.
"Volcanoes can drive mass extinctions because they release lots of gases, like SO2 and CO2, that can alter the climate and acidify the world," says Pincelli Hull, assistant professor of geology and geophysics at Yale University and lead author of the new study in Science. "But recent work has focused on the timing of lava eruption rather than gas release."
To pinpoint the timing of volcanic gas emission, Hull and her colleagues compared global temperature change and the carbon isotopes (an isotope is an atom with a higher or lower number of neutrons than normal) from marine fossils with models of the climatic effect of CO2 release.
They conclude that most of the gas release happened well before the asteroid impact—and that the asteroid was the sole driver of extinction.
"Volcanic activity in the late Cretaceous caused a gradual global warming event of about two degrees, but not mass extinction," says former Yale researcher Michael Henehan, who compiled the temperature records for the study. "A number of species moved toward the North and South poles but moved back well before the asteroid impact. A lot of people have speculated that volcanoes mattered to K-Pg, and we're saying, 'No, they didn't.'"
Recent work on the Deccan Traps in India has also pointed to massive eruptions in the immediate aftermath of the K-Pg mass extinction. These results have puzzled scientists because there is no warming event to match. The new study suggests an answer to this puzzle, as well.
"The K-Pg extinction was a mass extinction and this profoundly altered the global carbon cycle," says postdoctoral associate Donald Penman, the study's modeler. "Our results show that these changes would allow the ocean to absorb an enormous amount of CO2 on long time scales—perhaps hiding the warming effects of volcanism in the aftermath of the event."
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Operatives attached to the Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) Zone II, Onikan in Lagos have arrested five persons for allegedly being in possession of fresh human heart and body parts.
The suspects including three Islamic clerics alleged to have been found with human flesh, were paraded on Tuesday by AIG Lawal Shehu.
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Football: Orange Overwhelms Millikan With Fast Start
April 2, 2021 April 2, 2021 Tyler HendricksonComments Off on Football: Orange Overwhelms Millikan With Fast Start
A little more than halfway through the first quarter, the Millikan Rams (2-2) found themselves on the wrong end of a 30-0 deficit on Thursday night, enduring an avalanche from the host Orange Panthers (4-0) in all facets of the game.
Orange got three first-half rushing touchdowns from quarterback Daylen Pedroza, helping them to a healthy 44-6 halftime lead. The Panthers also got two punt return touchdowns from Raymond Casillas and returned two interceptions for scores in a 73-20 rout of the visiting Rams.
"They're a well-oiled machine right now. They're winning and they're doing a good job over there," said Millikan head coach Romeo Pellum of Millikan's opponent. They were better than us today. We can't give up two scores on special teams, then give up two pick sixes, that hurt tremendously with the momentum of the game. They scored really, really fast. When you get hit in the mouth, we can't get discouraged. We have to fight back. It's a learning experience. It sucks to lose like this, but we will get better."
Millikan did have a few bright spots, including freshman Ryan Pellum, who got his fair share of looks on Thursday night. Pellum received 20 targets in the passing game, and ended up with nine total offensive touches for 135 yards and a pair of scores. The first touchdown was through the air as he elevated for a 16-yard TD grab from sophomore quarterback Peter Kim to put the Rams on the board with 3:05 left in the opening frame.
Pellum also scored early in the second half, taking a reverse 80 yards for a score, knifing through the Orange secondary untouched while showing off his trademark speed. Kim also connected with Jhae Drummer for a 46-yard touchdown strike in the third quarter, giving Drummer three touchdown catches in his last two games.
Pedroza got the Panthers on the board within the opening minute of the game with an 18-yard touchdown scamper, then delivered his lone passing touchdown of the night on his next drive, a 43-yard strike to Issac Adetoye. Pedroza ran in two more touchdowns on the final two Orange drives of the first half to put the game out of reach.
The Panthers rushing attack controlled the game with 322 yards on 32 carries with five touchdowns. Isaiah Adetoye led the way with 146 yards on nine carries and a score.
Matthew Martinez added four catches for 38 yards for Millikan while running back Ajae Gravelly had 42 yards on 10 carries and also hauled in four catches for 24 yards.
Millikan will return to Moore League play next Thursday when they host Wilson at 7pm. Meanwhile, Orange will travel to Long Beach to play St. Anthony next Friday.
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How to Watch Riverdale Season 2 outside USA
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Riverdale is a TV Series based on the classic Archie comics. It follows the lives of Archie, Veronica, Josie and their friends as they navigate their lives inside the small town of Riverdale. Now in its second season, the hit TV show is exclusively available on CW TV in the United States. In UK and some other regions, you can also watch Riverdale Season 2 on Netflix. However, you'll have to wait at least 24 hours after the episodes air in the USA for them to become available on Netflix.
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How to Watch Riverdale Season 2 in the United States
You can watch all episodes of this season on CW TV for free if you live in the United States. CW TV is available on PC, Mac, Android, iPhone, iPad, Chromecast, Roku, Xbox, Apple TV, and Fire TV. So almost all major streaming devices are covered. You do not need a cable provider subscription to sign into the app either. The only downside is that CW TV is geoblocked outside USA. In order to bypass geographic restrictions imposed on various streaming services, you'll have to spoof your online location using a VPN service provider such as ExpressVPN.
Netflix have acquired the international broadcasting rights of Riverdale outside the USA. So if you live in the UK for instance, you will be able to watch Riverdale on Netflix using your preferred streaming device. The TV show should also be available in other Netflix regions, but just in case you cannot find it in your local Netflix library, you can always change your Netflix country using ExpressVPN as well.
Riverdale Season 2 Episodes
While the first season of Riverdale had 13 episodes, the second season will consist of 22 episodes. Here are the names of the episodes that have been announced so far:
A Kiss Before Dying
The Watcher in the Woods
When a Stranger Calls
The Blackboard Jungle
How to Watch Riverdale Season 2 Around the World
So there you have it. In case you live in the United States, you can stream Riverdale on the CW Network for free. Internationally, you should be able to watch the TV series on Netflix. Just in case you cannot find the second season in your local Netflix library, you can revert to VPN to spoof your online location and unblock geoblocked streaming channels.
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Jonathan Demme, the film director best known for the horror classic "The Silence of the Lambs," has died at the age of 73, Indie Wire reports.
He had been battling esophageal cancer and complications from heart disease.
"The Silence of the Lambs" earned him an Oscar for Best Director. He also directed "Philadelphia" and "The Manchurian Candidate" (2004).


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Taking Abnormal Situation Management to the Outer Limits
As the plant floor becomes more connected, so do abnormal situations—which can originate from anywhere in the enterprise. To help operators navigate this new universe of anomalies, suppliers are turning to artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies that enable proactive situational awareness vs. reactive alarm management.
Stephanie NeilEditor in Chief
Our early ancestors looked to the sky searching for changes between the sun, moon and stars to predict weather patterns, natural disasters and even war. Over time, mankind's knowledge and tools evolved so that we didn't depend so much on human interpretation of celestial bodies. But the world is a complex place. And even with today's sophisticated technology, we are always exploring new ways to forecast the future.
In process industries like oil and gas and chemicals, the ability to identify shifts in patterns that could eventually cause problems is critical. That's because a seemingly simple issue, like a pump malfunction, could result in a not so natural disaster. From oil spills to gas leaks and fires, manufacturing incidents are still fairly frequent. And when death, injury and environmental destruction are involved, company executives face fines and criminal charges.
Just last month, Shell's Puget Sound refinery was fined $77,000 by the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries for an uncontrolled release of toxins that sent people to the hospital. In Canada, criminal charges were filed against Veolia Environmental Services and one of its managers for a deadly plant explosion last year in Ontario.
Plant engineers and operators have a difficult job these days given the arrival of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and the inevitable interconnectivity between information technology (IT) and operations technology (OT) networks. Industrial anomalies are no longer isolated incidents in a closed plant floor because connected business systems and network devices become extensions of the control system infrastructure. That means a strange situation in the oil refinery could originate from an Ethernet switch or a cybersecurity breach somewhere in the enterprise.
As a result, when it comes to abnormal situation management (ASM) in the plant, traditional distributed control system (DCS) alarms aren't enough anymore. Manufacturers are applying boundary management techniques that test and manage the process limits. To work effectively, however, a variety of structured and unstructured data sources need to be aggregated in a common database. Only then can predictive analytics and root cause analysis be applied.
"When you look at alarm management, it is still in a reactive phase," says Tyron Vardy, product director of Honeywell Process Solutions' Advanced Solutions business. The industry needs to get away from making an operator sit at a console and wait for a problem, he says. Instead, we should be finding the root cause and fixing it before it becomes a problem. "It's more than alarm management. It's putting a lot of things together in a holistic view to reduce operator error by being able to predict abnormal situations. We need to know when something is out of control before it is out of control."
Interestingly, as Honeywell and other control system suppliers create better ways to deliver alarms to operators, a new group of software companies are emerging in this space. These vendors—many of which are startups—are asking the industry to boldly go where no manufacturer has gone before by using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to keep everything in control.
Cognitive systems in the industrial space
Ever since IBM's Watson appeared on Jeopardy—and won—the technology industry has been working on using cognitive computing to solve real business problems. To date, the healthcare, pharmaceutical and insurance industries have been benefiting from Watson-powered applications, using natural language queries to make connections between a vast array of disparate data in order to formulate accurate conclusions.
Watson was not the first AI offering. The concept emerged in the 1960s when computer scientists tried to create intelligent systems using massively parallel processing supercomputers. Of course, that was an expensive proposition given the cost of a computing infrastructure back then. Today—thanks to lower CPU costs, along with cloud and virtualization technologies—processing power and storage are no longer obstacles. And that has opened the door to new AI opportunities.
For example, AppOrchid, a 2-year-old startup company, has built a semantic web for manufacturing processes. The company uses predictive analytics, AI, machine learning and a natural language interface to correlate business and industrial data with trapped tribal knowledge. The data models are conversational and bidirectional, allowing the system to train a machine in much the same way we train a child.
In the traditional world of data analytics, figuring out if an ethane cracker is going to fail requires a blend of data models, along with engineers, data scientists and IT experts. It is not a nimble model. In the semantic approach, the data models live in a flexible architecture and then the system is trained—in plain English—by building definitions around an underlying concept.
"Like Siri," says AppOrchid CEO Krishna Kumar. "If I want an alarm set for 5 a.m., I just say it and it understands."
The beauty of the model is that you don't need a Java programmer to teach the system a new concept because interactions happen in natural language. And the system reorganizes based on the feedback. An operator can type in, "How many boilers are functioning under capacity?"; or could annotate data on top of a graphic, identifying a boiler as "high risk." The AI system will know that "high risk" means "bad," because that's what it has been taught.
"We see a fantastic opportunity for artificial intelligence to combine the Internet of Things with the Internet of People and the Internet of Process," Kumar says. "Models get built as you ask questions."
Indeed, it goes way beyond pattern recognition to identify anomalies, and incorporates the unstructured data of maintenance manuals, warranties or boiler ratings based on a person's experience, for example. "It's taking traditional analytics and blending it with tribal knowledge," Kumar says.
The ability to capture intellectual property is important as baby boomers retire, says Tom Williams, director of the ASM Consortium and program manager for operator effectiveness at Honeywell Process Solutions. Many companies are turning to 3D modeling to train new operators, but he agrees that there is an opportunity for applications that can aggregate and analyze data in cooperation with alarm system management.
"The influence of Big Data is there," Williams says. "We are beginning to mine our vast repository of DCS [data] in ways we couldn't do before and produce visualization tools to figure out what to do with those alarms."
Ultimately, operators need fewer alarms, says Jim Miller, Rockwell Automation's Pavilion business director, who is referring to Pavilion's advanced process control with predictive capabilities. "For continuous process, it is not about alarm management, but about getting in front of an abnormal situation," he says. Like a Google map alerting you to a traffic jam ahead, "if constraints can predict what will happen, you can change the process before you get there."
Open the plant floor doors
Non-traditional operations software companies are increasingly entering the industrial scene. Companies like Splunk, OpsDataStore and NexDefense promise to bring anomaly detection to a new level.
For Atlanta-based startup OpsData-Store, it's all about relationship building. The product is a Big Data back end designed to accept any kind of data or metrics and relate items to each other at ingest time to continuously update a topology map of the entire environment. Meanwhile, business intelligence tools with dashboards provide real-time visibility across operations.
"The purpose is to use these relationships and the analytics built into products to tell you where things are going wrong," says OpsDataStore CEO Bernd Harzog. Specifically, if instrumentation on the factory floor is failing, the first thing an operator wants to do is figure out what could be causing it. "Showing anomalies in things deterministically related to each other is an extraordinarily valuable thing that allows you to manage entire relationships proactively."
Doug Wylie, vice president of product marketing and strategy at NexDefense, agrees. However, his company takes a more network-centric view of situational awareness. The NexDefense Sophia Industrial Network Anomaly Detection (INAD) system proactively detects deviations from normal automation or system controls operations, which could signal a security breach.
With a focus on industrial control systems, Sophia detects issues by comparing events against what is the "normal" defined state—or what Wylie calls the "fingerprint" of the system. Anything new or different is brought to the surface for an operator to isolate, while logs guide the operator to the information. It happens in real time and has the capability to replay traffic patterns to use for post-event forensics.
"This is a new category for the industry, but most control engineers just want help understanding what is taking place," Wylie says. "The detect function is imperative, and over time, as comfort is built, they'll begin to recognize how to feed information as a trigger to protect the system."
Then there's Splunk, an operational intelligence technology that can capture massive amounts of machine data and unstructured streaming data, using advanced analytics to detect system anomalies. It is used for operational analytics, cybersecurity, and understanding how SCADA and ICS operations are impacting revenue, notes Brian Gilmore, Splunk's senior manager of IoT and industrial data.
As IoT builds out the ICS infrastructure, having a central "data fabric" to monitor many different data sources will be a manufacturing imperative. "Splunk distills a lot of data down to critical metrics to get to the underlying cause of a problem," Gilmore says.
Learning from locomotives
Not only does Splunk work, but it has opened the door to new business opportunities, says Greg Hrebek, director of engineering at Train Dynamic Systems, a division of New York Air Brake (NYAB).
Following a 2008 train collision in California that killed 25 people—and was the result of a distracted engineer who was texting on the job—Congress passed the Rail Safety Improvement Act (RSIA) requiring passenger and freight railroads to implement Positive Train Control (PTC) systems that monitor and control train movements to increase safety. Much of the system has to do with the signaling infrastructure and wireless data radios to transmit dynamic information, but the trains, too, have to become smarter.
To support its customer above and beyond train control products, NYAB developed the Locomotive Engineer Assist/Display & Event Recorder (LEADER) software. The system contains data on the train's length and weight, car types, power distribution and detailed track profile, allowing it to react to signal changes or weather conditions in real time to optimize performance and train handling.
LEADER performs onboard simulations that predict train performance several miles ahead, then evaluates multiple train operating strategies and selects the one that is the best way to increase fuel economy, railcar life and on-time schedule performance. This is accomplished with machine learning technology and Splunk.
Prior to using Splunk for backend analytics, NYAB was using Excel spreadsheets to prepare monthly reports for customers to relay system performance and resource utilization. The original goal of LEADER was to reduce fuel consumption. But given the PTC requirements, they are expanding what they can do to increase safety.
"The strength of Splunk is that it builds from different sources," Hrebek says, including environmental factors. "Wind data is important to trains because an empty car can act like a giant parachute. So wind has a big impact on the way the train behaves." Using Splunk, there is an opportunity to forecast and model driving conditions to plan a strategy, he adds.
Together with Splunk, NYAB developed real-time dashboards to provide information on train performance, fuel efficiency and in-train force events over a route. This has become a valuable service to customers and an additional source of revenue for NYAB.
Now, since NYAB is first and foremost a manufacturer of brake systems, the company is considering integrating Splunk with the factory floor.
As NYAB considers how it can add Splunk to its production process, vendors like Honeywell and PAS are evolving existing products to help manufacturers tackle abnormal situation management issues more effectively.
Honeywell's DynAMo Alarm and Operations Management software monitors process conditions and provides automated early notification of events to operators.
In October, Honeywell released its new DynAMo Alarm and Operations Management software, which includes boundary and limit management, providing an operator with a visual of how the plant is operating against associated limits. It's a pre-alarm system of sorts, with a predictive view of operations. "Now you can see things slowly moving out of spec and you can pull it back into control," Vardy says.
Similarly, PAS has boundary management as part of its PlantState Suite, and, like Honeywell, has extended it beyond DCS data to read information from a variety of places and databases—from alarm and production limits to equipment design limits, as well as safety and environmental limits. A consolidated boundary database acts as the database of record and sets up hierarchy for managing variable boundaries.
"The goal is to improve situational awareness to make the plant run safely," says Mark Carrigan, senior vice president of global operations at PAS.
Both Honeywell and PAS recognize that operators are not the only ones who need the insight into plant floor abnormalities. Managers and manufacturing executives, too, need to protect the plant—and themselves.
PAS's Independent Protection Layers (IPL) dashboard, released this month, is a management tool providing a consolidated view of the safety status of critical devices.
Honeywell Pulse is a mobile app that sends alerts on plant performance in real time. Users define alert conditions they want to subscribe to, which can be sent from multiple data sources and visualized for better context.
"It has a Facebook-like collaboration feature," says Rohit Robinson, director of portfolio innovation at Honeywell.As soon as a user gets an alert, it can be shared with subject matter experts to start commenting and collaborating.
Or a user can click the "own" feature to let everyone know someone is taking ownership of the issue. "Think about what this does for the customer," Robinson says. "It's one thing to raise situational awareness, but when managers see that someone has taken ownership, the rest of us can rest easy."
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A few months ago, I was introduced to this quaint Japanese resto in Kamagong Street in Makati called Suzu Kin. I was really impressed on how delicious yet affordable the dishes were. I couldn't be any happier when Spanky told me that we will be having a weekend lunch at their only branch at Quezon City.
Located along EDSA, the Suzu Kin sign isn't difficult to spot. This branch is actually the only franchise of Suzu Kin. Leslie, Suzu Kin EDSA's owner, shared that it took Mrs. Suzu Kin a lot of convincing because previous franchises weren't successful. The original owners were hands-on with helping them in the kitchen and were strict with all the food preparations.
Compared to the Makati location, this place has modern Japanese-inspired interiors and high ceilings. Our group dined at the videoke room at the mezzanine. You can have the videoke room for at least Php 3500 worth of food.
We started with my favorite, California Maki (Php 198 for 12 pcs). We also had some sashimi: Tuna Sashimi (Php 175) and Salmon Sashimi (Php 205). I also enjoyed munching on the anchovies.
We also had deep-fried Japanese specialties: Oyster Furai (Php 181), Tonkatsu (Php 155) and Ebi Tempura (Php 200).
We were also served noodles, Yaki Soba (Php 129) and Cold Hiyashi Soba / Somon (Php 162).
For donburi or rice toppings, we tried the Gyudon (Php 159) and Chicken Teriyaki Don (Php 198).
They made the Gyudon a bit more interesting with some sotanghon mixed mixed with beaten egg. I loved the sweetness of the Chicken Teriyaki as well.
A visit to Suzu Kin wouldn't be complete if you wouldn't try the Yaki Meshi or Fried Rice (Php 68).
For a little bit of everything, you can have the All-Day Everyday Meal (Php 123) or the Suzukin Super Meal (Php 210).
All-Day Everyday Meal has Chicken Furai, Ebi Tempura, Fried Dilis, Pork Kushi Yaki, Tuna Steak, rice and soup.
Suzukin Super Meal has Ebi Tempura, Yaki Udon, Sakana Furai, Tamago Sashimi, Crabsticks, rice and soup. Both meals are really worth the price.
We wouldn't miss on having the Suzukin Specialties: Dashimaki (Php 119), Oyster Butter (Php 194) and Beef Garlic (Php 172).
Dashimaki is a type of Japanese omelette. It's a bit on the sweet side, which I really liked.
I had Oyster Butter and Beef Garlic the first time I went to SuzuKin. Both of these dishes are must-tries when you visit Suzukin. I love the simplicity and flavor of both dishes.
For desserts, we had Coffee Jelly (Php 80) and Frozen Leche Flan (Php 80).
The Coffee Jelly has a generous scoop of cookies and cream ice cream on top. The Frozen Leche Flan is just creamy and milky. I love that it wasn't too sugary. Other desserts available are Green Tea Ice Cream and Green Tea Ice Cream Tempura.
Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks are both available at SuzuKin EDSA. They also have milk tea in original, taro and chocolate.
It was an amazing lunch with my fellow foodies at one of the hole-in-wall places that really impressed me. Suzu Kin proves that delicious food and good service need not be expensive.
Thanks to Ms. Leslie Dela Cruz for having us and to Spanky Enriquez for organizing this event.
The prices are really cheap. I can't imagine what deep-dried oyster tastes like though. hmmm.
Hi. Haven't passed that particular stretch of EDSA coming from Timog-GMA 7 going to SM North EDSA-Monumento. Is Suzu Kin EDSA still open? A friend told me it closed already. Is this true? If yes, that would be very sad.


PURPOSE: The authors hypothesized that an audiovisual slide presentation that provided treatment information regarding the removal of an impacted mandibular third molar could improve patient knowledge of postoperative complications and decrease anxiety in young adults before and after surgery. A group that received an audiovisual description was compared with a group that received the conventional written description of the procedure. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This randomized clinical trial included young adult patients who required surgical removal of an impacted mandibular third molar and fulfilled the predetermined criteria. The predictor variable was the presentation of an audiovisual slideshow. The audiovisual informed group provided informed consent after viewing an audiovisual slideshow. The control group provided informed consent after reading a written description of the procedure. The outcome variables were the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, the Dental Anxiety Scale, a self-reported anxiety questionnaire, completed immediately before and 1 week after surgery, and a postoperative questionnaire about the level of understanding of potential postoperative complications. The data were analyzed with χ(2) tests, independent t tests, Mann-Whitney U tests, and Spearman rank correlation coefficients. RESULTS: Fifty-one patients fulfilled the inclusion criteria. The audiovisual informed group was comprised of 20 men and 5 women; the written informed group was comprised of 21 men and 5 women. The audiovisual informed group remembered significantly more information than the control group about a potential allergic reaction to local anesthesia or medication and potential trismus (P < .05). The audiovisual informed group had lower self-reported anxiety scores than the control group 1 week after surgery (P < .05). CONCLUSION: These results suggested that informing patients of the treatment with an audiovisual slide presentation could improve patient knowledge about postoperative complications and aid in alleviating anxiety after the surgical removal of an impacted mandibular third molar.


Henley, SJ, Carey, JD and Silva, SRP (2006) Silver-nanoparticle-decorated carbon nanoscaffolds: Application as a sensing platform APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, 89 (18), ARTN 1.
Cluster-assembled nanostructured carbon with a fractal morphology is employed as a large-area surface scaffold for metal decoration. By depositing silver by pulsed laser ablation densely packed, distributions of metal nanoparticles are produced. The authors show, using the surface-enhanced Raman effect and the modification of fluorescence quantum yields near metallic surfaces, that silver-coated nanostructured carbon can be used to sense low concentrations of biomolecules.