On Sunday evening, Atletico Madrid faces a potentially tough trip to San Sebastian to face Real Sociedad, who are still be eying a European spot.
Real Sociedad are just two points outside the European spots in La Liga after an unbeaten run of eight matches in the Spanish top-flight, consisting of four wins and four draws. La Real's good recent results have been built on solid defensive displays, as they have kept clean sheets in four of their last five league outings.
The visitors meanwhile have emerged as the most likely title rivals to reigning champions Barcelona. However, Los Rojiblancos are seven points behind the Blaugrana after a few recent slip-ups. Diego Simeone's team now look to be back on track in the Spanish top-flight with straight wins over Rayo Vallecano and last time out Villarreal.
Atletico's recent La Liga games have been low scoring, with four of the visitors last five away matches producing under 2.5 goals. With Sociedad's recent defensive record, their recent run of low scoring games could well continue at the Anoeta.
Sociedad have been slightly inconsistent at the Anoeta this season. However, La Real have now won three of their last four home league games, including their last two matches against Athletic Bilbao and Leganes.
Their recent home matches in La Liga have been relatively high scoring, with five of their last seven league games on home soil producing over 2.5 goals.
Atletico have a rather inconsistent recent away record in La Liga. However, Simeone's side has lost just one of their last ten games on their travels. The visitor's recent away matches in the Spanish top-flight have been low scoring, with under 2.5 goals scored in 12 of their last 14 away matches.
Sociedad will not be easy opponents for Atletico. However, Forebet predicts that the visitors will record a victory in a low scoring clash.
Champions League winners Real Madrid clash with derby rivals and Europa League winners Atletico Madrid in the UEFA Super Cup.
The fixture will see Real Madrid compete for their third straight Super Cup.
Los Blancos have won the trophy in each of the last two seasons.However, this year's Real Madrid squad is far different than the previous incarnations.
Atletico Madrid go into Wednesday night's game having had a tremendous summer in the transfer market. The club signed highly-sought after French winger Thomas Lemar and exciting defensive midfielder Rodri. Most importantly, the club kept all of its major players.
Antoine Griezmann, Diego Costa, and Jan Oblak all stayed with two of the three signing new contracts. While Atletico had so-so preseason friendly results, their losses to Paris Saint-Germain and Internazionale could be down to the club's top players still recovering from the World Cup and not playing in most cases.
Real Madrid's summer was dominated by the sale of Cristiano Ronaldo to Juventus.Thibaut Courtois arrived from Chelsea, however, his signing won't replace the goals of Ronaldo. Real Madrid are in a transition phase and it doesn't look likely the club will replace Ronaldo's goals before August 31 when the transfer window closes.
Ronaldo's exit will give Gareth Bale more of a starring role. The Welshman lobbied for a move away last May, but seems to be content with both manager Zinedine Zidane and Ronaldo having left. Real Madrid also have a new manager in the dugout. Julen Lupetegui takes over for Zidane and he has big shoes to fill. Lupetegui was sacked on the eve of the World Cup as Spain's coach. His decision to join Real Madrid had disastrous effects on the Spain team.
There is a power shift taking place in Madrid and La Liga. Atletico finished in second last term while Real Madrid ended in third. Manager Diego Simeone has turned Atletico into a world power and the club has financial backing on the same level as other major European clubs. Griezmann has proven himself to be a big game player. He scored 29 goals in all competitions last term including two in the Europa League final win.
Although Real Madrid have just as good of players as Atletico, the loss of Ronaldo is a major factor. Too often, he carried Real Madrid over the line when the team was struggling. There is no guarantee Real Madrid will be the same as they were in the last few seasons with Ronaldo, so could Wednesday night's fixture finally see Atletico get the best of their rivals or the dominance of Real Madrid in European matches will continue ? Sportseconds predicts that Champions League winner still have the chance to win another European trophy.
Kevin Gameiro came off the bench to score and create Atletico Madrid's goals as Diego Simeone's men maintained the pressure on LaLiga leaders Barcelona with a battling 2-0 win over Athletic Bilbao on Sunday.
Barca won at Eibar on Saturday to build their cushion back up to 10 points after Atletico had reduced the deficit thanks to successive draws from the Catalan giants.
An out-of-form Athletic side had frustrated the hosts for large periods at the Wanda Metropolitano and seemingly looked set to hold Atletico to a goalless draw.
It was down to Gameiro to earn Atletico their fifth straight win in all competitions, the forward drilling a shot into the bottom corner after being set up by fellow Frenchman Antoine Griezmann.
Gameiro then set up Diego Costa to mark his latest return from injury with a goal, wrapping up the points with 11 minutes to go, beating Kepa Arrizabalaga at the goalkeeper's near post.
Athletic are now winless in six games and, after they failed to create a clear chance in the game, Atleti goalkeeper Jan Oblak recorded his 16th LaLiga clean sheet of the season, putting him top of the charts for Europe's top-five leagues.
Atleti blew Copenhagen away 4-1 in the Europa League on Thursday but took until the 14th minute to record the first effort of note, Jose Gimenez directing Griezmann's free-kick wide at full stretch.
The hosts should have had a penalty, however, Unai Nunez losing his footing and bringing down Costa, only for referee Jose Luis Gonzalez Gonzalez to wave away strong appeals.
Athletic failed to score in their last two LaLiga games and, shorn of the attacking threats posed by suspended duo Aritz Aduriz and Raul Garcia, they failed to record a shot on target in the first half, with Atleti having also failed to work Kepa Arrizabalaga.
Costa went to ground again immediately after the restart but the referee decided a touch in the back from defender Nunez was not enough to send the striker crashing to the turf.
The Spain striker recorded the first shot on target of the match after 50 minutes, finding space in the box to volley Sime Vrsaljko's cross at goal, but Kepa saved easily to his left.
Atletico were gradually finding more space but Costa headed over, Kepa was not troubled by Angel Correa's ambitious 30-yarder and Griezmann fired wildly off-target.
Simeone turned to Gameiro to provide more spark and the striker scored within eight minutes of his introduction for the out-of-sorts Koke.
Atletico's speed of thought resulted in an overload on the right wing after Athletic stopped in expectation of winning a free-kick, with Griezmann timing and weighting the pass out to the unmarked Gameiro perfectly for his compatriot to take a touch and rifle a low shot across Kepa.
And with Athletic leaving too many gaps at the back, Gameiro slipped Costa through on goal to wrongfoot Kepa and ensure Atletico keep LaLiga's title race very much alive.
– Griezmann has assisted the last three Gameiro's goals in LaLiga.
– Since his return to Atletico, Diego Costa has been involved in six goals in his eight games in all competitions (four goals and two assists).
– Atletico have kept clean sheets in 16 games in LaLiga this season, more than any other team in the top 5 European Leagues (equal to Juventus).
– Atletico Madrid are unbeaten in their last 10 LaLiga games against Athletic Club (W8 D2), their longest ever run without defeat against them in the top flight.
– Diego Simeone has won 13 games as a manager against Athletic in all competitions, more than he has against any other opponent as Atletico's boss.
Antoine Griezmann scored a dramatic winner with two minutes remaining as Atletico Madrid salvaged a 2-1 comeback victory over Real Sociedad in LaLiga.
The France international did not celebrate against his former club as Atletico continued their unbeaten start to the league season and closed the deficit to Barcelona to six points after the leaders drew 2-2 with Celta Vigo earlier on Saturday.
Willian Jose scored his seventh league goal of the season with a first-half penalty as Real threatened a shock victory.
But Filipe Luis responded after the break by netting for the first time since April as Atletico's club-record beginning to a LaLiga campaign progressed to 14 matches without defeat.
An inspired goalkeeping performance from Geronimo Rulli looked like it would deny Atleti a winner until Griemzann bundled in from close range in the final moments, giving the in-form hosts a fifth win in six matches across all competitions.
Real sit seventh, 11 points behind Atletico, after a run of only one win in six league games.
Atletico squandered an early chance when Kevin Gameiro broke the offside trap but took too long to pull the trigger, eventually opting to pass to Griezmann in a worse position.
Real were next to threaten when Thomas Partey, playing at right-back, lost possession in a dangerous area, allowing Xabi Prieto to set up Willian Jose, who could only blaze his left-footed strike over from 12 yards.
Willian Jose turned creator when his cross found Prieto at the far post in the visitors' next attack, but a combination of goalkeeper Jan Oblak and a backtracking Filipe Luis denied the Real captain.
The visitors were on top and their spot-kick was awarded when Mikel Oyarzabal latched on to David Zurutuza's throughball and attempted to round Oblak, who was adjudged to have fouled the winger.
Willian Jose took the 29th-minute penalty and drilled his effort past Oblak, the keeper guessing the wrong way.
Gameiro and Gabi presented Angel Correa with two superb opportunities in quick succession to bring Atletico level before half-time, but away shot-stopper Rulli saved with his legs on both occasions to frustrate the hosts.
Correa's woes continued after the break when, having been provided a glorious chance by a passing move that finished with Koke playing him in, he somehow skied his close-range finish with Rulli on the way down and almost the whole goal to aim at.
There was more frustration for the hosts when Griezmann volleyed into the top corner only for an offside flag to deny him, while the France international had another effort saved soon after, as did Koke.
Atletico got a deserved equaliser after 63 minutes when Saul Niguez's deep cross found Filipe Luis and the full-back turned inside Prieto and lashed an accurate finish into the far corner with his weaker right foot from 12 yards.
Prieto collected Oyarzabal's delivery and fired over from a good chance at the other end, but Atletico were dominant after the break and only more heroics from a diving Rulli denied Griezmann from heading in.
Diego Simeone brought on Yannick Carrasco and Fernando Torres as he searched for a winner, with Rulli keeping out an acrobatic effort from the latter shortly after his arrival, while Zurutuza was off-target with a free header for Real as the match entered its closing stages.
It looked like there would be no winner for either side until Saul's looping, deflected header led to a sliding Griezmann converting from a yard out at the far post for his fourth goal in three games in all competitions, delighting the Wanda Metropolitano crowd.
– Atletico Madrid have equalled their longest ever unbeaten run in LaLiga (W11 D7), recorded twice previously (18 in 1991 and 1941).
– Atletico have won four points in the last five minutes of matches, the most for a team in this period in LaLiga this season.
– Geronimo Rulli made eight saves, the most for a keeper versus Atletico in LaLiga this term.
– Jan Oblak has conceded his first LaLiga penalty as an Atletico player.
A Fernando Torres double helped Atletico Madrid comfortably beat Elche 3-0 to secure Copa del Rey progression with a 4-1 aggregate triumph.
Atletico were only able to come away from last month's first leg with a 1-1 draw, but they never looked in danger of being on the end of an upset at the Wanda Metropolitano, with Torres scoring twice in a strong performance.
Diego Simeone refused to jeopardise progression by playing an inexperienced team like he did in the away leg and his side looked focused as a result in making it four wins from their last five games.
Initially they wasted opportunities and began to look frustrated, but Jose Maria Gimenez finally ended Elche's resistance with a header at the back post in the 31st minute.
And their second followed shortly after, with Torres producing a fine finish for his first goal at the Wanda Metropolitano.
The chances continued to flow for Atleti and although wasteful finishing again surfaced after the break, Torres finally doubled his tally in the 68th minute to make absolutely sure of their qualification for the last 16.
Atletico were quick out of the blocks and almost broke the deadlock after just three minutes, but Luciano Vietto – enjoying a rare start – shot just wide of the left-hand post from a tight angle after a fine run in from the right flank.
Elche had to rely on the post to save them just before the half-hour mark, with Koke's 30-yard drive smacking against the frame of the goal.
But there was to be no denying Gimenez soon after, however, as the Uruguay defender stealthily appeared behind the Elche defence at a corner and headed just inside the right-hand post.
And with their very next attack, Atleti added a second.
Guille Vallejo failed to hold on to Yannick Carrasco's long-range effort and Torres was there to pounce on the rebound, tucking in from a tight angle.
The wasteful Vietto should have extended the lead just before the break, but he fired over from the centre of the box after Torres' cut-back.
Things were similarly one-sided after the break and Atletico should have gone three up shortly after the restart, but Nicolas Gaitan could only find the side-netting after a fine flowing move.
Atletico then began to sit back a little more and invite pressure in the hope of catching Elche on the break.
And they almost did so in the 64th minute, as Gaitan darted in from the left, skipped past a couple of challenges and fed Thomas Partey into the right side of the area, only for his squared pass to be cut out at the last moment.
An even better chance fell to Torres soon after, with Vietto teeing him up with an easy finish from 12 yards, yet he inexplicably scuffed wide.
He made amends a few moments later, though, slamming past Vallejo from close range after being released by substitute Sime Vrsaljko.
Torres almost got his hat-trick 10 minutes from the end, but Vallejo made a brilliant save down to his right to deny the striker, as in-form Atletico settled for a three-goal victory.
Atletico Madrid's Champions League campaign has definitely not gone to plan this season. The Rojiblancos are currently winless from four games in Europe, having drawn three and lost one of their group games so far.
However, Diego Simeone's side have a chance to revive their hopes of qualifying for the knockout stages of the competition when they welcome group leaders Roma to the Wanda Metropolitano on Wednesday night.
Atletico must turn around their poor form quickly if they are to have any hope of reaching the knockout stages. A record of just one win from their last seven games in Europe is certainly a worrying one.
Simeone's side does have a decent home record in the Champions League at least, as they have lost just one of their last 13 home games in the competition.
However, they have failed to win either of their home games in this season's competition, losing against Chelsea and drawing against minnows Qarabag.
Roma head into this game in high spirits after a 2-1 victory over local rivals Lazio on Sunday. The win means that the Giallorossi have now recorded six straight wins in all competitions.
Eusebio Di Francesco's team are also unbeaten in this season's Champions League, recording two wins and drawing their other two games. However, the two victories in this season's competition are their only wins in Europe's elite competition in their last ten outings.
The Italian side's recent form on their travels in the Champions League is also poor, as they have won just one of their last 12 away games in the competition.
Roma's recent away games in the Champions League have been high scoring, though, as there have been over 2,5 goals scored in five of their last seven games.
Atletico are in desperate need of a win in this clash and Sprotseconds predicts the home side will record a victory in a low scoring encounter.
Thomas Partey scored a dramatic stoppage-time winner as Atletico Madrid salvaged a 1-0 away victory over Deportivo La Coruna in LaLiga.
Just as it looked like Diego Simeone's men would continue a troubling run of form, Thomas beat Costel Pantilimon with an impressive curling strike when captain Gabi laid a free-kick into his path.
The late winner rescued Atleti, who were facing a fourth consecutive draw across all competitions after failing to create a clear goalscoring opportunity in regulation time.
Victory is a huge boost to Simeone, whose side had endured a disappointing home draw against Qarabag on Tuesday to leave them in huge danger of suffering a group-stage exit in the Champions League.
It is still nine games since they scored two or more goals, but Atleti remain unbeaten in LaLiga and move up to third in the table above city rivals Real Madrid, who do not play their game in hand against Las Palmas until Sunday.
And they sit within five points of leaders Barcelona, who host fifth-placed Sevilla later on Saturday.
Depor, meanwhile, remain 16th after suffering their first defeat under new boss Cristobal Parralo.
The hosts were the better side in a quiet first half, with Zakaria Bakkali firing over from one 20-yard opportunity after being fed in a set-piece that was awarded when Stefan Savic was booked for hacking down Fede Cartabia at the edge of the area.
Depor then had a penalty claim turned down when centre-back Sidnei somehow found himself on the right wing. He impressively cut inside and twisted his way into the area past Saul Niguez and Lucas Hernandez, before going down under a challenge from the latter.
After a poor first half for Atletico, Simeone made a half-time substitution, with Nicolas Gaitan brought on for the ineffective Angel Correa.
And Gaitan had an immediate impact, feeding Antoine Griezmann to fire the first shot on target straight at Pantilimon within a minute of the restart.
The substitute was then denied by Pantilimon himself from a 20-yard half volley, with Diego Godin heading just wide from the resulting corner.
Guilherme headed just wide for Depor and Cartabia's deflected effort tested Jan Oblak before Simeone made another switch, Kevin Gameiro replacing Augusto Fernandez.
Neither side created a clear chance as the second half became increasingly scrappy, with Simeone's final change seeing defender Jose Gimenez brought on for an unhappy Griezmann, even though he had Fernando Torres and Luciano Vietto available.
A poor game looked set to finish goalless until the first minute of added time, when Lucas won a free-kick from Sidnei in a central area 20 yards from goal.
Instead of shooting himself, captain Gabi teed up Thomas instead and the midfielder caught out Pantilimon with a curling effort into the far corner, his third goal in four games.
Atletico Madrid had to settle for a fifth draw in six competitive matches as they were held 1-1 by Villarreal at the Wanda Metropoliatno on Saturday.
Carlos Bacca crashed in an 81st minute header to cancel out Angel Correa's opener as Diego Simeone's endured another frustrating day.
Held to a 1-1 draw at third-tier Elche in the Copa del Rey on Wednesday, the Rojiblancos were made to wait for the opener as Villarreal set about proving their pedigree as contenders for a Champions League spot.
Unsurprisingly it was a flash of brilliance from Antoine Griezmann that gave the home side the lead in the 61st minute as his exquisite vision and touch enabled Correa to tuck home at the near post.
But, having spurned chances to go ahead in the first half, Villarreal continued to create opportunities and found late reward through Bacca.
The draw prevented fourth-placed Atleti from climbing above rivals Real Madrid and instead stretched Javi Calleja's unbeaten LaLiga start to life as Villarreal boss to four matches.
Bacca was first to try his luck during a subdued opening and should have done better in shooting straight at Jan Oblak.
Atleti warmed to the contest as the half wore on, Correa drawing a sharp low save from Mariano Barbosa before Kevin Gameiro and Antoine Griezmann both failed to hit the target from the edge of the area.
Cedric Bakambu, scorer of six goals in his previous three league appearances, looked destined to continue his fine form when he was put through by Manu Trigueros, but the striker dallied over his finish and enabled Stefan Savic to produce a superb sliding challenge.
The visitors narrowly avoided paying an immediate price for the missed opportunity as goalkeeper Barbosa scampered to his far post to divert a goal-bound Griezmann volley, with Saul Niguez's tame follow-up cleared off the line by Victor Ruiz.
And it was Barbosa who again preserved the deadlock on the stroke of half-time, the 33-year-old athletically tipping Diego Godin's header over the bar.
Spain Under-21 international Rodri issued a reminder of the danger at the other end by forcing Oblak to parry a low effort shortly after the restart.
Griezmann's genius eventually shone through for the home side, though, as his first-time flick out to the right found an unmarked Correa, who applied a fitting finish inside the near post.
Simeone's side came close to doubling their advantage soon after as the ball dropped kindly for Gameiro, only for an onrushing Barbosa to smother the chance at close-range.
The hosts' inability to extend their lead proved costly as Bacca rose high and headed in Samu Castillejo's corner to seal a hard-earned point for Calleja's side.
Kevin Gameiro marked his first LaLiga start of the season with a goal as Atletico Madrid's four-game winless run in all competitions came to an end with a 1-0 success at Celta Vigo.
Diego Simeone's men are still unbeaten domestically this term, but a 2-1 Champions League loss at home to Chelsea towards the end of September preceded three consecutive draws – including a potentially costly stalemate at Qarabag on Wednesday.
However, that miserable streak was brought to a close against Celta as Gameiro found the net 28 minutes into his league return, having replaced Angel Correa in the line-up after missing the start of the campaign with a groin injury.
That goal came during a rare bright spell for Atleti with the visitors spending much of the game on the back foot and having to rely on goalkeeper Jan Oblak to keep Celta at bay.
Celta started positively, but Oblak comfortably dealt with an early strike from Iago Aspas, who then shot wide from a similar position on the edge of the area.
Oblak was tested rather more strenuously by a looping Sergi Gomez header that looked destined for the top-left corner before the keeper intervened.
Another save followed as Pione Sisto cut inside from the left to shoot hard and low, with Atleti then belatedly drawing a first notable stop from Sergio Alvarez as he smothered the ball at Antoine Griezmann's feet on the 25-minute mark.
Alvarez was alert again to divert a low Griezmann drive around the post, but the opener came from the subsequent corner. Sergi Gomez nodded an outswinging delivery back towards his own goal and Gameiro pounced, swivelling to thrash the ball past Alvarez.
Oblak remained busy, continuing to deal with efforts from long range before smartly gathering Daniel Wass' low strike.
Another Oblak stop followed the interval as he parried a testing Aspas volley to safety, before the Celta forward clipped the top of the crossbar with a free-kick from just outside the area.
Both sides felt they had cause to be frustrated with referee Jose Munuera with around 25 minutes remaining – Celta's Jonny avoiding a second yellow card for a foul on Juanfran moments before Sisto's cross looked to strike Gabi's arm in the box.
Griezmann nodded narrowly wide at the end of a rare Atleti attack, but another siege on Oblak's goal then saw substitute John Guidetti drill into the sidenetting.
Oblak held Aspas' curler and fell on Guidetti's optimistic flick in stoppage time as Atleti saw out the victory.


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Charles-Marie-Joseph-Marius, comte de Salles est un général et homme politique français né le  à Saint-Pierre (Martinique) et mort le  à Mornas (Vaucluse).

Biographie

Charles de Salles naît le  à Saint-Pierre, commune du Nord-ouest de la Martinique, alors incluse dans l'empire napoléonien.

Carrière militaire

Charles de Salles entre à l'École militaire de Saint-Cyr en 1822 sous la Seconde Restauration, passe dans le corps d'état-major en 1824 et devient lieutenant en 1827.

En 1828, il participe à une partie de l'expédition de Morée, intervention terrestre de l'armée française menée dans le Péloponnèse entre 1828 et 1833, lors de la guerre d'indépendance grecque.

Il est fait chevalier de l'ordre royal de la Légion d'honneur le .

Il assiste en 1830 à la prise d'Alger, campagne militaire livrée de juin à juillet 1830 par la France contre la régence d'Alger au cours de ce qui constitue le premier épisode de la conquête de l'Algérie par la France. Il y gagne le grade de capitaine.

Il prend part, en 1832, au siège de la citadelle d'Anvers qui se déroule du 15 novembre au 23 décembre 1832, à la suite de la campagne des Dix-Jours, et opposant les troupes néerlandaises qui occupaient Anvers à l'Armée du Nord, corps expéditionnaire envoyé par la France durant la révolution belge.

En 1837, il retourne en Algérie, au soutien de l'armée française, toujours en guerre de conquête. Chef d'escadron et aide de camp du maréchal Sylvain Charles Valée, son beau-père, il prend part à la bataille du col de Mouzaïa le  puis à la prise de Milianah le .

En 1841, il est promu colonel et rentre en France sous la Monarchie de Juillet et y commence une carrière politique en 1846.

Nommé, après la révolution de février 1848, commandant de la subdivision d'Alger puis de la division de Constantine, il se rallie à la politique de Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte.

Il est promu général de division le , commande, pendant la guerre de Crimée, une des divisions de l'armée d'Orient, et assiste aux affaires des 2 et 22 mai ; à l'attaque du 8 septembre, il est à la tête du premier corps.

Carrière politique

Élu, le , député du  du département du Loiret (Montargis), il prend place parmi les ministériels. Nommé maréchal de camp l'année suivante, il doit se représenter devant ses électeurs, qui lui renouvellent son mandat, le .

Il est élu conseiller général du canton de Montargis le .

Nommé sénateur du Second Empire, à son retour de Sébastopol (Crimée), le .

Il est nommé président du conseil général du Loiret le .

Il succombe le  à Mornas (Vaucluse), à l'âge de 55 ans, des suites d'une blessure que lui fait, dans un accès de folie religieuse, le lieutenant-colonel de Chanaleilles, son frère utérin.

Il est fait grand officier de l'ordre national de la Légion d'honneur le .

Il est le père du général Ferdinand de Salles et de François de Salles, sous-préfet, et le beau-père d'Auguste Le Riche de Cheveigné, également sous-préfet.

Sources

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Chronologie de la France sous la Restauration (1814-1830)
 Chronologie de la France sous la monarchie de Juillet (1830-1848)

Liens externes

 Charles de Salles sur le forum des Amis du patrimoine napoléonien

Naissance en septembre 1803
Naissance à Saint-Pierre (Martinique)
Décès en novembre 1858
Décès en Vaucluse
Élève de l'École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr
Général français du XIXe siècle
Conseiller général du Loiret
Député du Loiret
Député de la Monarchie de Juillet
Sénateur du Second Empire
Grand officier de la Légion d'honneur
Président du conseil général du Loiret
Décès à 55 ans

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One of the most visually and aurally dazzling films of the 1970s, Sanatorium pod klepsydra (The Hourglass Sanatorium, 1973) both is and is not an adaptation of the 1937 story by the Polish Jewish author Bruno Schulz. True, most of the dialogue is lifted directly off the page as Schulz wrote it – not so much adapted as rearranged. The images on screen capture the prismatic, almost febrile intensity of Schulz's prose. (It's a rare author who can write about "scented stigmata, the faded silvery imprints of the bare feet of angels" (2). It's a rarer one still who can get away with it.) Yet the characters and incidents in the film are drawn from both volumes of Schulz's quasi-autobiographical, yet wildly fantastical output. Unusually – perhaps even uniquely – we are watching not an author's work or an author's life, but a recreation of his entire imaginative world.
Crucially, it's a world that no longer existed by the time the film was made. Schulz was born in 1892 in the small Galician town of Drohobycz. There he wrote his two volumes of short stories, Sklepy Cynamonowe (Cinnamon Shops, later renamed The Street of Crocodiles) in 1934 and Sanatorium pod Klepsydrą (Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass) in 1937. He died there in 1942 – shot down by a Gestapo officer for the crime of venturing outside the Jewish ghetto and into the "Aryan" quarter. In the Nazi occupation that lasted from 1939 to 1945, "Poland ceased to be one of the great centres of Yiddish life and culture; instead it became its burial ground" (3).
In the willful amnesia that followed World War II, Schulz's writings fell out of print. By the time they were republished in 1957, his books must have been as exotic and fanciful to Polish readers as they are to a foreign reader today. Reason enough, then, for their appeal to young filmmakers of the Polish School – who, chaffing against the post-war diktat of Socialist Realism, were keen to turn their camera on other and brighter worlds. Most extreme and eccentric of these was Wojciech Jerzy Has. Born in Krakow in 1925 (to a Jewish father and a Catholic mother), Has deliberately held himself aloof from the mainstream. In the words of one critic, "Has ignores history and politics, that fateful fascination of Polish cinema; he does not take political stands, and trusts his own imagination" (4).
Trusting one's own imagination can, of course, be a profoundly political act. An artist in the Soviet bloc could be sent to a gulag for less. Schulz – who only rarely escaped from his family's textile shop and his job as a secondary school art teacher in Drohobycz – had little but his imagination in which to trust. Uniquely for a Polish filmmaker of his time, Has made a career out of willfully ignoring anything that smacked of mundane present-day reality. "I reject matters, ideas, themes only significant to the present day", he said in a 1981 interview. "Art film dies in an atmosphere of fascination with the present." (5) Even in his early film Złoto (Gold, 1962) – saddled with a Social Realist topic and a contemporary setting – "Has imposes upon this his favourite motifs: old-fashioned interiors, attics full of junk, unusual landscapes" (6). The past, for Has, was more than another country. It was, at once, his act of defiance and his means of escape.
With his first such act of defiance and escape, Has assured himself a worldwide reputation. Adapted from an 1813 novel by Count Jan Potocki, Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie (The Saragossa Manuscript, 1965) is a labyrinthine Gothic fantasy brimful of enchanted caves and demonic visions. (It was much admired by Jerry Garcia of The Grateful Dead, who in later years paid for its restoration and release on DVD.) In 1968, Has made Lalka (The Doll) from a 19th century novel by Bolesław Prus. In this lavish costume romance, aristocratic debutantes turn into animated dolls – and back again – with unsettling ease.
It was in 1968, too, that a wave of student protest became a pretext for new anti-Semitic purges by Poland's communist authorities. "The so-called 'Zionist elements' were blamed for the eruption of political protests directed against the party. The 'anti-Zionist' campaign resulted not only in purges within the party, but also in attacks on people of Jewish origin in other spheres of life." (7) Suddenly, a film that evoked the lost world of Polish Jewry became not only an escape into a mythical past, but also a challenge to a vicious and increasingly ugly present. The making of The Hourglass Sanatorium would consume the next five years of Has' life.
Has was not the first filmmaker to be lured by Schulz's work. "After the war (his) strange prose was rediscovered, and a number of directors thought about adapting it to the screen. That was a heavy challenge. How was one to make a picture out of fog and shadow? What dramatic shape could be given to imagination flowing freely in words?" (8) The narrative of The Hourglass Sanatorium is rudimentary enough. A young man (played by matinee idol Jan Nowicki) travels to a strange and isolated sanatorium where his father has taken up residence. The father, we soon realise, is in fact dead. The sanatorium is a queer parallel dimension that allows its inmates to prolong their lives artificially. It grants them extra time – only not time as we know it. "It is used-up time, worn out by other people, a shabby time full of holes, like a sieve." (9) In place of life, an illusion of life: a process akin to cinema itself.
Life, of course, is present in the memories and dreams that assail the hero during his stay in this twilight realm. (These are drawn largely verbatim from other stories by Schulz.) The father's mania for collecting birds, which turns the family attic into a giant aviary, is visualised on film as a Fellini-esque bal masqué, with human extras garbed in outlandish bird masks. The hero's obsession with a set of historical waxworks, one of whom – the Emperor Maximilian of Mexico – he imagines to be the long-lost father of his childhood sweetheart, is the cue for a dazzling display of human automata, rivalling the sublime excesses of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger in The Tales of Hoffmann (1951).
By the time the vast majority of Poland's Jews were murdered by the Nazis, they had long since vanished from the memory of most of their fellow Poles.
Is there, perhaps, an insuperable barrier of history standing between The Hourglass Sanatorium and its would-be status as a masterpiece? (Smuggled out of Poland despite an official ban, the film won the Jury Prize at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.) When Schulz wrote his two books, it was possible to tell a story of Jewish life in Poland and to give at least a sense that life would go on. His prose vibrates with miracles about to be revealed – with glimpses of "the fiery beauty of the world". In the 35 years that led up to Has' film, the poetic innocence so essential to Schulz had been shattered for good. The film struggles and fails, perhaps, to get it back. Could it ever have succeeded? Was it right ethically to try?
Bruno Schulz, The Street of Crocodiles and Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, trans. Celina Wieniewska, Picador, London, 1988, p. 158.
Eric A. Goldman, Visions, Images, and Dreams: Yiddish Film Past and Present, UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor, 1983, p. 109.
Marek Haltof, Polish National Cinema, Berghahn Books, New York and Oxford, 2002, p. 82.
Bolesław Michałek and Frank Turaj, The Modern Cinema of Poland, Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 1988, p. 39.
Michałek and Turaj, p. 52.


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Q: Trying to calculate the number of days since 1/1/1900 and the DateDiff function is off I am trying to calculate the number of days that have passed between 1/1/1900 and 5/1/2019.
I have tried this using several dates and get the same out come.
The value returned is 2 days off.
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-- calculate the number of days between 1/1/1900 and 5/1/2018
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SELECT DATEDIFF(DAY,CONVERT(DATE,'1/1/1900'),CONVERT(DATE,'5/1/2018'))

Expected Result: 43221
  Actual Result: 43219
Thank you for your help!

A: DATEDIFF returns the number of days between the two dates. So if you want 1900-01-01 to be numbered as day 1, then you must add 1 to any difference you get from DATEDIFF. In Excel, day 0 is 1899-12-31.
Secondly, Excel treats 1900 as a leap year, and has a 29-Feb-1900 (day 60 in the Excel numbering system iirc). This was a holdover from Lotus 1-2-3 which originally used a simplified algorithm for leap years (treating every year divisible by 4 as a leap), and remains for backward compatibility
If you combine these two faults, these account for your off-by-two results.

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Recent and ongoing U.S. Justice Department probes continue into Alaskan politics. Stevens, who had served since 1968, was caught up in a larger probe that included Federal Bureau of Investigation raids in the summer of 2007 at the offices of six Alaska legislators, including Stevens' son, Ben, who was then the president of the state Senate, and a raid on Senator Ted Stevens' personal home.  Stevens drew the FBI and Justice Department attention over his home renovation project done in 2000, which more than doubled the size of his home. Bill Allen, founder of VECO Corporation, an oil supplying and engineering company, oversaw the work at Senator Steven's home. Bill Allen has since pleaded guilty to bribing Alaska state legislators.  Alaska lawmakers went as far as embroidering ball caps with the letters CBC, for "Corrupt Bastards Club".  The Washington Post describes more into the political scandals with its article entitled "I'll sell my soul to the Devil" from a tape quote from Pete Kott, former Republican speaker of the Alaskan legislature. On October 27, 2008, Stevens was convicted on seven counts of making false statements. His conviction was reversed, six months after he lost the election to the Democrat, because of misconduct by prosecutors, which included withholding and falsifying evidence.

Federal politics
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Because of its population relative to other U.S. states, Alaska has only one member in the U.S. House of Representatives. Its sole congressional district is currently the world's second-largest legislative constituency by area, behind only the Canadian territory of Nunavut. The seat was left vacant following the death of Republican Don Young in March 2022. Later that year, Democrat Mary Peltola was elected to serve the remainder of Young's term, becoming the first Democrat to win the seat since 1972, and the first Alaskan Native to be elected to the United States Congress in history.

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Alaska is part of the United States District Court for the District of Alaska in the federal judiciary. The district's cases are appealed to the San Francisco-based United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Parties and registration

Recognized political parties
Alaska Democratic Party
Alaska Republican Party
Alaskan Independence Party

Party registration

Unique features

Alaska was formerly the only state in which possession of thirty ounces or less of marijuana in one's home was completely legal under state law, though the federal law remains in force.  Alaska's appeals court ruled in 2003 that Alaska's constitutional guarantee of privacy took precedence over any attempts at marijuana prohibition, overruling a 1990 voter initiative that criminalized possession of all amounts of the drug.  The court ruled that voters, who approved the criminalization measure, did not have authority to change the state constitution protecting one's privacy.

Alaska is also unusual in that it does not have counties. Instead, it is divided into boroughs in some of the more populated areas, but nearly half the state is in the Unorganized Borough and has no local government or services other than town or village councils. The Unorganized Borough, however, does include some major population centers such as Nome and Bethel.

See also
 Government of Alaska
 Political party strength in Alaska

References

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Brian J. Alters, Ph.D. is a professor in Chapman University's College of Educational Studies. He directs Chapman's Evolution Education Research Center, has taught science education at both Harvard and McGill Universities, and is regarded as a specialist in evolution education.

Biography

Alters has a B.Sc. in biology and a Ph.D. in science education from the University of Southern California.

Alters is the author of several books on biology and the intelligent design controversy.  With his wife Sandra M. Alters, he has written Biology: Understanding Life which he describes as "a university biology non-majors textbook", and Teaching Biology in Higher Education, "a book written to instructors at the college level on how to teach biology".  He is also the author of Teaching Biological Evolution in Higher Education: Methodological, Religious, and Non-Religious Issues which he says is "a book specifically about the conflict that instructors see students bring into their courses concerning evolution".  Alters and Alters have also written Defending Evolution in the Classroom, with a foreword by Stephen Jay Gould, which aims to help science teachers to understand the creation–evolution controversy and to teach evolution effectively in light of the controversy.  He also contributed a chapter to the a chapter in Not in Our Classrooms: Why Intelligent Design is Wrong for Our Schools, edited by Eugenie Scott and Glenn Branch of the NCSE.

Because of this specialization, he was an expert witness for the plaintiffs in the 2005 case Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District.  He was also brought in for the retrial of Selman v. Cobb County before that was settled out of court in favor of the plaintiffs.

In 2003, Alters was first awarded the McGill Faculty of Education's highest teaching award, the Distinguished Teaching Award, followed by the University-wide Principal's Prize for Excellence in Teaching.

In 2005, he was appointed to the board of directors of the American-based National Center for Science Education and received its "friend of Darwin" award.

In 2008, Alters became a co-host of CBC Television's nationally broadcast prime-time science series Project X. His co-hosts were Dr. Jennifer Gardy (bioinformatics/microbiology at the University of British Columbia), Dr. Brian Fleck (professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Alberta), and Marc Huot (mechanical engineering student at the University of Alberta).

Grant controversy
In 2005 Alters was denied funding for a research project provisionally titled "Detrimental effects of popularizing anti-evolution's intelligent design theory on Canadian students, teachers, parents, administrators and policymakers." by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).  The SSHRC's reason for the rejection included the statement, "Nor did the committee consider that there was adequate justification for the assumption in the proposal that the theory of Evolution, and not Intelligent Design theory, was correct".  This was reported in Nature and other media.

Letters were written to the SSHRC in support of Alters by the American Institute of Biological Sciences, the American Sociological Association, the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution, and others.  The SSHRC replied by noting that "theory of evolution is not in doubt" but said that the reason for the rejection was that "the committee had serious concerns about the proposed research design".

Bibliography

References

External links
 Evolution Education Research Centre (EERC)
 Brian Alters discusses evolution and education at NIH, June 22, 2006
 "Ties" to Canada by Brian Alters

1950 births
Canadian educational theorists
Critics of creationism
USC Rossier School of Education alumni
Harvard University faculty
Living people
McGill University alumni


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If you have been ill or severely injured, you may find that you can still practice. Possibly not at the same level of efficiency, but you can still practice at a reduced level. For those who are just tired of shoveling snow and endless traffic jams, island life may be the answer to your prayers. In either case, moving to Hawaii is huge committment and will require serious thought regarding your personal and professional future. For a disabled or burned-out dentist, living and working in the islands may be the best decision you have ever made.
You will not be alone in this quest and be aware that some island dental markets are saturated. Reports on reimbursement vary, and it is very possible your salary will be less than your current level. It is a fact that the cost of island living is higher than the mainland, and you need to factor that into your financial planning. The major metropolitan areas such as Honolulu are very competitive, but the suburbs outlying the cities have documented dental need. Medicaid is a considerable part of rural practice in the islands. Each island is unique in its dental needs, but Molokai and Kauai have more potential for those seeking rural practice opportunities. Make no mistake; there are very productive, modern, and innovative practices on the islands. Research the market before committing.
There is a noted subset of dental practices on the islands. Most practices are conventional, but there are a number of dentists who practice part-time intentionally. Whether they are senior dentists or those who just want to run a minimal practice as a personal preference, they will be offered for sale at some point. Buying or working in a practice that runs only 2 days a week is challenging. On the other hand, maybe it's what you want.
Practices for sale don't last long on the open market, and actually investing time in visiting the local dental community is highly advised. Word of mouth is an "ace in the hole", for those interested in a quality practice either as an owner or as an associate. A few minutes spent online will give you an idea what is available now, and understand the secondary, non-advertised market is very critical to seeing the real need for dental practitioners on the islands.
ASK YOURSELF SOME VERY IMPORTANT QUESTIONS BEFORE MOVING FORWARD?
Can my family and I adjust to island life?
What are my financial expectations and are they realistic?
Are we prepared for constant sun and the lack of 4 seasons?
Can we adjust to leaving our extended family far behind?
Which island are we moving to?
Do we understand that living in Hawaii is different from vacationing there?
Should I buy a practice or work as an associate to start?
Are we prepared for the higher cost of living?
Hawaii ranks fourth in the nation is the number of dentists per capita. It's not the highest, but may seem like that in Honolulu or downtown Hilo. There are 854 dentists currently with an increasing population approaching 1.5 million. Economic growth is forecast as good with a strong private sector economy at the present time. PPO and HMO dentistry is present in force, and insurance payments have been in line with their large control of the market in a small geographic area. The lower reimbursement rates are an issue.
Yes, it will rain endlessly and everything rusts. There are insect issues you may not see elsewhere. You may have problems getting your pet into the state initially and everything takes more time. Who cares? You are on island time now!!!!
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Armed with a roguish glint in his eye, a thick rug of hair on his chest and a devastating left foot, Giggs was British football's poster boy before anyone had heard of David Beckham. On the field, he was the most exciting player of his generation; off it, he seemed anything but. Through it all, he remained stubbornly and refreshingly Welsh.
Giggs and Beckham had more than sex appeal and libido in common, but the Welshman was always more likely to bring Manchester United's "Theatre of Dreams" to its feet with a slaloming run and sensational finish like that of his favourite goal, scored against Arsenal in the 1999 FA Cup. It started inside his own half, where a dip of the shoulder took him past Patrick Vieira. He then switched on the turbo to leave Tony Adams floundering on his backside, before driving the ball into the roof of David Seaman's net. It was a strike beyond Beckham's compass, and a mazy run which in the space of a few seconds had made some of the most highly regarded players in English football look like hapless amateurs.
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The comparisons with that other great heartthrob of Old Trafford – George Best – were inevitable. Best was the original pop star footballer, and the club failed to protect him from the adulation of both sexes that would lead him astray. Alex Ferguson was determined not to allow history to repeat itself, once physically dragging the young Giggs out of a party at Lee Sharpe's house. It was the focus and sheer bloody-mindedness instilled in him by Ferguson that encouraged Giggs away from following in Best's toxic footsteps. Instead, he sought out the alternative training methods that enabled him to play at the highest level until his 40th birthday. Giggs' innate talent was special; the way he protected it, even more so.
His discipline didn't always extend beyond the realms of football – as his brother Rhodri and sister-in-law Natasha can attest – but Giggs never claimed to be anything other than human. Extramarital proclivities aside, it is as the most decorated footballer in the history of the game that "Giggsy" deserves to be remembered.
Joe Lovejoy was chief football writer at the Sunday Times for 15 years and was the ghost writer for Ryan Giggs' best-selling autobiography.
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U.S. expands probe into floor mats in 480,000 Ford sedans
Deepa Seetharaman
DETROIT (Reuters) - U.S. safety regulators broadened a more than two-year probe into the possibility of unintended acceleration in about 480,000 Ford Motor Co (F.N) sedans when floor mats are unsecured or stacked.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration upgraded its investigation to an engineering analysis, the second step in a process that could lead to a safety recall, NHTSA said Friday.
NHTSA also added a model and nearly doubled the number of vehicles involved in the action.
When the probe was announced in 2010, just over 249,000 Ford Fusion and Mercury Milan sedans were involved. Now, the agency is examining the Lincoln MKZ as well as the Fusion and Milan, documents filed on NHTSA's website show.
NHTSA said unsecured floor mats may block the accelerator pedal from returning to idle. A "heel blocker" in the floor pan may lift an unsecured mat into contact with the pedal, according to the NHTSA documents.
No deaths or injuries are tied to the issue.
Ford is "disappointed" by NHTSA's decision, "particularly since the condition under investigation relates to improperly installed, unsecured or double stacked floor mats," Ford spokeswoman Susan Krusel said in an email.
She added that the No. 2 U.S. automaker urges its customers to properly install and secure the floor mats. The driver's mat carries a warning to drivers to avoid stacking the mats on top of one another, she said.
In 52 complaints reported to Ford and safety regulators, drivers reported difficulty braking and continued high engine power when trying to slow down. The problem usually happened after the driver accelerated to pass slower vehicles or to merge with fast-moving traffic.
After the incidents, drivers and service technicians reported that the floor mat interfered with their ability to slow down the car. They also noted that the all-weather floor mats made by Ford or third-parties were unsecured.
Reporting By Deepa Seetharaman; Editing by Richard Chang


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During an athletic event I dislocated my rib and later was diagnosed with a concussion. Dr. Walicki worked with me to regain proper neurological function for my traumatic brain injury and spinal stability to help my rib. I steadily progressed more and more until I was pain and concussion free. I don't think there is another chiropractor even close Dr. Walicki and his excellence in care and healing!
I had multiple concussions in the last 3 years and was having problems with migraine headaches, vision, dizziness, numbness and pain. Upon seeing Dr. Walicki I had immediate relief of pain and dizziness and my numbness and vision are still improving. I was having migraines a couple of times a month and now maybe once or twice a year. I've had great results with Dr. Walicki!
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80 cities, counties to vote on wine in grocery stores
Michael Cass
mcass@tennessean.com
Voters in 80 Tennessee cities and counties, including Nashville, Franklin, Hendersonville, Mt. Juliet and Murfreesboro, will vote this fall on allowing grocery stores to sell wine, the group leading the charge announced Tuesday.
But 14 municipalities won't be considering the issue after petition drives in those places fell short.
Red White and Food said its coalition, including retail partners and volunteers, collected 262,247 signatures statewide to force referendums in each of the state's four biggest cities and many suburban areas, including Brentwood, Fairview, Gallatin, Goodlettsville, Lebanon, Smyrna, Spring Hill and Thompson's Station.
The referendums will appear on the Nov. 4 general election ballot. Early voting runs Oct. 15-30.
Grocery stores in the municipalities that approve the change would be able to start selling wine on July 1, 2016.
"This is a tremendous accomplishment for the state's retail food stores and for their customers who want to be able to buy wine while shopping for groceries," Susie Alcorn, Red White and Food's campaign manager, said in a news release. "Our goal has always been to give Tennesseans the opportunity to vote on this issue, and now they will have that chance."
The petition drive started in mid-May and ended at the Aug. 21 deadline. To qualify for the ballot, each municipality's petition had to have a number of valid signatures equaling at least 10 percent of the voting population in the 2010 gubernatorial election.
That didn't happen in Columbia, Dickson, La Vergne, Portland, Springfield, seven other cities around the state or the unincorporated parts of Hamilton and Shelby counties. In La Vergne, a Rutherford County city, organizers gathered just 450 of the 577 required signatures, Red White and Food said. In Portland, which is in Sumner County, the petition finished with just 174 signatures, 100 fewer than were needed.
"The legislation that passed in March states that communities can make repeated attempts to place the issue on their local ballot," Alcorn said. "This could occur as soon as the next municipal election. We hope that residents in the communities where we fell short will continue to pursue the issue if they would like to see wine in their food stores."
But Alcorn's group is focused at the moment on the cities that will be voting on the issue in two months. Steve Smith, president and chief executive officer of K-VA-T Food Stores/Food City and chairman of Red White and Food's board, said the organization "will soon be gearing up for phase two of the campaign and getting all of our supporters to the polls."
Reach Michael Cass at 615-259-8838 and on Twitter @tnmetro.
Where they'll vote
The following 80 cities and counties will hold wine-in-grocery-stores referendums on Nov. 4:
Unincorporated Cumberland County
Unincorporated Knox County


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Sam and Max: Beyond Time and Space Review
Author: Chris Poirier Published Date: 11/06/2009
After a four month hiatus, the seminal gun toting dog and rabbit duo return to Xbox Live Arcade in Telltale Games' Sam and Max: Beyond Time and Space. Originally released on the PC, this five episode point-and-click collection lets you do everything from match wits with a demonically possessed Santa Claus to discover the secrets of the Bermuda triangle. With hilarious dialogue, colorful graphics, a host of clever puzzles, and over 20 hours of gameplay, the latest entry in the Sam and Max adventure saga does not disappoint.
Unlike the first season, players are immediately thrust into the action with Beyond Time and Space. Memorable introductory sequences include the appearance of the Maimtron 9000, an alien abduction, and Sam and Max's descent into Hell, LLC. Throughout the episodes, the puzzles that you encounter are unique and unconventional, all requiring a keen attention to detail. Puzzle types include item placement/replacement, combination, observation, and in a surprising twist, lyrical completion. Difficulty varies from puzzle to puzzle, but a built-in auditory hint system keeps things from getting too tough. Additionally, a series of 'augmented reality' Desoto mini games are offered to spice things up a bit, generally requiring the player to run over or shoot a specific item.
To go along with the strong puzzle variety, Sam and Max: Beyond Time and Space also includes colorful, imaginative visuals that push the Telltale engine to its fullest. The graphics are appropriately cartoony, and the environments–ranging from the North Pole to an Alien Spaceship–feature sharp details. Sights like pastel clouds circling ominously about the sky and dark castles brooding hauntingly in the darkness are common, and the facial animations have thankfully been improved this time around, with none of the lip-syncing issues that plagued the first season.
Like any good adventure title, the writing here is top-notch. Laugh worthy lines abound, with a strong mixture of tongue-in-cheek humor, irony, and pop culture references. Whether contending with a robot who only speaks in song lyrics or pondering the answers to life's big questions with a trio of time traveling mariachis, even the most miserly gamer will crack a smile. Characters are equally enjoyable, with old favorites like Bosco, Sybil, and the Soda Poppers returning alongside newcomers like Timmy Two Teeth, Stinky, and even Satan. The voice acting is superb across the board, and the jazzy, dynamic soundtrack is equally well done.
Gamers will be hard pressed to find fault with this season of Sam and Max. Each chapter is a bit longer this time around, with achievement challenges offering plenty of replay potential. The only real problem that I had with it was that some of the puzzles were a bit too obscure, requiring random guesswork over logic. But aside from that, Sam and Max: Beyond Time and Space is a fantastic, funny adventure with sharp visuals and five complete, action-packed episodes. Bring on season three!
Author: Chris Poirier
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$5.5M NSF grant aims to improve rice crops with genome editing
A new project will harness the power of genome editing – a technique that allows researchers to precisely target, cut, remove and replace DNA in a living cell – to improve rice, a staple crop that feeds half the world's people.
The project, led by Cornell researchers and funded by a four-year, $5.5 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant as of May 1, will serve in part as proof of principle that genome editing can be used to address quantitative traits. These are traits, such as height or yield, that are expressed to varying degrees in different individuals. Very little is known about quantitative traits, as they require complex orchestration of many genes.
Scientists are also in a race against time to double the production of cereal crops on limited arable land by 2050, when the global population could reach 9.5 billion.
The editing technique will focus on such quantitative traits in rice as disease resistance and tolerance to acidic soils. Acidic soils hinder crop growth in 40 percent of the world's arable land, according to Cornell researchers.
"We have the ability to open the genome like a book, go to a certain chapter and a specific word and change the word or correct its spelling," said lead scientist Adam Bogdanove, where words are the DNA sequences that make up genes. Bogdanove, a professor of plant pathology and plant-microbe biology, is principal investigator of the NSF grant and a co-creator of TALENs, a key molecular tool used in genome editing.
The researchers already have identified particular stretches of DNA as candidates for the quantitative traits of interest, Bogdanove said.
While geneticists have made many advances in DNA sequencing, one grand challenge is defining the specific functions of each DNA sequence. Statistical analyses can determine whether particular stretches of DNA correlate with this or that trait, but the task remains to directly test whether a sequence in fact causes or contributes to a particular trait. That's where genome editing comes in.
"We can test the hypothesis that these DNA sequences are important, and use them for crop improvement," Bogdanove said. Traditional breeding is exceedingly difficult with quantitative traits that are linked to many genes. "Now, we don't have to do years of breeding; we can just make the precise changes needed in a few short steps."
For their work, the researchers will use a newly released dataset for 3,000 rice genomes, and they will test DNA sequences from this set and other rice genomes that are associated with beneficial traits. Rice geneticist Susan McCouch, a co-PI on the project, has been a key contributor to the rice genome dataset.
Along with developing a new system that employs genome editing for plant breeding, the researchers also hope to develop new lines of rice that breeders could use to address diseases and acid soils.
Additionally, the project team will develop related educational materials for middle and high school students and undergraduates, provide genome editing training workshops for plant biologists, and continually update a public project website, RiceDiversity.org.
The researchers are careful to note that genome editing should not be confused with genetic engineering; genome editing entails making precise changes, whereas genetic engineering is "akin to inserting a particular sentence somewhere at random into the book," Bogdanove said.
Other co-PIs include Jan Leach, professor of bioagricultural sciences and pest management at Colorado State University; Erin Doyle, assistant professor of biology at Doane College; and Daniel Voytas, professor of genetics, cell biology and development at the University of Minnesota. Other Cornell team members include Jason Mezey, associate professor of biological statistics and computational biology, and Stefan Einarson, director of transnational learning.
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