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Miho Mazereeuw designs a plan to guard against floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, and typhoons.
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Preemptive design saving cities
Miho Mazereeuw, founder of the Urban Risk Lab, has roots in two countries that have dealt with floods, earthquakes, and typhoons.
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Miho Mazereeuw is the founder of the Urban Risk Lab. She designs buildings and cities in anticipation of disasters. "Working in a field that has traditionally been the domain of emergency managers and engineers, we bring preemptive design and community engagement into the risk-reduction equation," she says.
An architect, landscape architect, and assistant professor of architecture and urbanism, Mazereeuw's lab has a rapidly growing list of projects across the globe. Current projects take her to Haiti, India, Peru, and Japan — all sites vulnerable to earthquakes and floods. In Haiti, she and her research partners developed a framework for hurricane evacuation, working with the Department of Civil Protection and the World Bank. Considering the vast differences in terrain and levels of urbanization, the team developed nine strategies, with prototypes for coastal, valley, and mountainous areas.
In India, she is embarking on a two-year project in Odisha, a state on the east coast that is hit frequently by cyclones and floods. Working with a team that includes material science systems engineers and logistics experts, Mazereeuw is helping plan a large industrial corridor and the housing needs that will come with large-scale development, preemptively building disaster planning into the process.
Her work recently brought her to the White House for a discussion on disaster response and recovery, which focused on the most effective uses of technology to better prepare communities for a disaster.
Half Japanese and half Dutch, Mazereeuw has roots in two countries that have dealt with floods, earthquakes, and typhoons. "Ever since I was back in Kobe, Japan, volunteering in the aftermath of the earthquake in 1995, I've been researching how the city can be designed better to prepare for such events. Urban developers focus on livability and economic vitality, but risk factors rarely come into that dialogue."
Initiating a community dialogue, in fact, is the center of Mazereeuw's approach. In San Francisco, a U.S. city most associated with earthquakes and anticipation of "the big one," Mazereeuw works with the Neighborhood Empowerment Network, tapping into one community at a time to engage people in disaster planning. It's a six-step process, and by the end, she says, the community has its own plan to make its social and physical environment more resilient and is prepared for earthquakes, floods, and heat waves. This model goes beyond an individualistic approach to disaster planning — from "I've got my water, my food, and my batteries" — to community-based awareness, concern, and planning.
And that awareness can be used to recognize existing community assets. A park with a spray pool may not look like part of a disaster plan, until you consider the water tank beneath it. That water may become vital to putting out a fire when other systems are impaired. We need to look at our schools, churches, parks, and everyday public places though that lens. "It is important to recognize the dual purpose of many community features, and better yet, when planning an urban environment, build in dual purposes preemptively," she says.
"We define risk as the hazard times the vulnerability divided by the coping capacity. The hazard is about the probability, location, frequency, and magnitude of an earthquake happening." How vulnerable, she asks, are the people? "How can the community's resilience change the outcome? We have little control over the hazard, but we have great control over the living part — where we live, how we plan, and how we build and structure our cities."
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Mastodon – Crack the Skye [Review]
Crack the Skye is the fifth full-length release from Georgian Heavy/Progressive metallers Mastodon. This being their fourth release with Relapse Records. Crack the Skye was released globally on March 24.
It's hard to find words that haven't already been said about a Mastodon album this far, but Crack the Skye has presented listeners with an even more broad and lofty soundscape to enjoy and talk about that simply commands something new to be said. Having given many listens to each of Mastodon's previous albums, Crack the Skye is not very surprising in terms of the direction, or the sound really, but the presentation and quality are simply beyond measure. Even the most simple and minute sounds on this album act like monoliths of sound.
Seemingly borrowing a bits of post-rock and post-metal styles, there is a lot of atmospheric textures on this album, "The Czar" showing the more prominent examples of this. They maintain this style without forgoing the Mastodon sound so familiar from Blood Mountain and Leviathan. The more coarse vocal approach has taken a bit of a back seat this time however. Mastodon also have many more angular, "twangy" guitar riffs, like those found in excess on Blood Mountain.
As always, Mastodon are technically brilliant with their instruments, most impressively – Brann Dailor on the skins. Using a veritable cornucopia of rhythms, time signatures, fills, etc. he really shows what it means to be a great metal (and even jazz) drummer. If there was ever a doubt in someone's mind of the skill level of the members of Mastodon, this album should quite adequately quell the negative comments.
There is no doubt in my mind that this album (and band) will go down to be one of the most important metal acts in this decade. With remarkably well written, played, produced, etc. music Mastodon are bringing back a much needed prestige to the American metal scene. Where Americans were frowned upon for breeding the cancer that was Nu Metal, we have started to now be looked upon in a different light, and this album will only solidify the fact that Americans can indeed make great and pure metal.
Track picks: "The Last Baron" and "Oblivion"
Overall Score: 10/10 devil horns
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14 responses to "Mastodon – Crack the Skye [Review]"
Pragpro | March 24, 2009 at 3:11 pm | Reply
Well said. The DVD is worth it. Lots of vintage equipment on this record. New Keyboard player. Great album, now it's Tool's turn, they've been served. Are there any other bands that are operating on the same level of QotSA,Mastodon, Isis, Pelican, Porcupine Tree, Opeth, Radiohead, the new King Crimson with Gavin Harrison and Tony Levin and Tool? I'm looking into The Sword.
Nice blog. Check out my radio station Radio Megalodon on pandora, or on my blog.
Jordan Munson | March 24, 2009 at 4:32 pm | Reply
Yeah, I can't see the Sword really being a heavy hitter along with the other acts you mentioned. I think they're a bit overrated, though I like how they are using a more old-school sound.
musikumusiku | March 27, 2009 at 5:56 am | Reply
progressive slude metalcore bro :p
Jordan Munson | March 27, 2009 at 9:35 am | Reply
Heh, progressive sludge metalcore, huh? I think I like 'progressive heavy metal' better.
Aubrey Ingraham | March 27, 2009 at 10:41 am | Reply
After listening nonstop to Lamb of God's Wrath for almost a month straight it was very refreshing to hear Crack the Skye. I purposely banned myself from listening to anything related to the new album just so I could have a fresh and clean impression to it on the first listen. After listening to it for several day now I've already championed it as album of the year. Wrath is an amazing album but Crack the Skye is in a whole different head space. I love the story telling aspect, the epic sound through out as if its a grand composure for a "rock opera" so to speak.
by far my fav track is the opener with Brann on vocals. whoda thunk that the funky drummer had some pipes on him.
its a 10/10…Instant Classic.
Jordan Munson | March 27, 2009 at 10:46 am | Reply
Yeah, the new Mastodon is really unique. I can't say it's comparable to anything else, aside from showing hints from other Mastodon stuff.
Yeah, I looked into the sword and then I looked away. Like many have said before, High on Fire, does their job for them.
Crack the Skye reminds me of a Who record in some regards. Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, too.
I like "Ghosts", The Baron, Oblivion, Quintessence, The surfy guitar on Divinations. This is a really solid album, throughout. There are enough ideas for a few records, so many riff nuggets and passages that could have been made into other songs. You have to respect their process after watching the DVD that came with the CD. I really admire bands that aren't afraid to let their nerd flag fly.
Maybe I compare to Tool only because 10,000 Days and its subject matter is similar to this record, and I think is an album in the same vein. A little more funky, (Jambi, The Pot), lot's of risky progrock type behavior that pisses of record execs and makes uncomfortable. Fear of a Blank Planet got ripped off, 10,000 days got ripped of, this Mastodon record might not if they play Oblivion on the "radio".
You want to hear something crazy good? Get that Steven Wilson record, Insurgentes. Don't worry, he'll rock you like a hurricane. Here he is.
Wayne | April 2, 2009 at 2:29 pm | Reply
This album is a fucking beast. Each listen provides something new to enjoy. They really raised the bar, as usual. The best band, regardless of genre, of the decade as far as I'm concerned.
Oh, and the haters all owe Brendan O'Brian an apology. He did right by Mastodon. Didn't turn them into Korn, just gave them the tools they needed.
We need a Tool/Mastodon tour immediately.
Jordan Munson | April 2, 2009 at 2:34 pm | Reply
Yeah, Mastodon really push the envelope a little further with each and every release.
felicia | April 6, 2009 at 10:32 pm | Reply
Aubrey pretty much hit the nail on the head. I had been listening to the new Lamb of God continuously as well, but when I heard Crack the Skye I totally switched modes. Wrath is awesome, but no comparison to the depth of CTS. This album is complex not only musically, but lyrically as well. Can't wait to see the guys play the new stuff live this weekend…
Jordan Munson | April 6, 2009 at 10:48 pm | Reply
Yeah, I'm stoked for them to wander to Boston so I can see them live.

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My granddaughters got to carve some pumpkins for Halloween over the weekend at their uncles house. He also had paint for them so they did some painting on them too. We had a lot of fun, I just took the one picture of them.
How many of you will be carving up some pumpkins for Halloween?
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None! 🙂 I used to participate when I had small children and even when they grew up I'd have sweets at the door. Nowadays, I'm out of the habit – I think the last 3 years I was working away and missed the callers. I may suggest we eat out that night, it sounds miserable, but with no little children around us, there is no point answering the door! Am I too mean?
Thanks for your comment, if I didn't have granddaughters I won't be doing anything Halloween related.
I think it is kinda silly myself.
I didn't mind it when we had young kids or neighbours but now it's strangers banging on the door – and it sends the dog nuts!
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Brazil Scored More Goals than England and France Combined
Since 1930, more than 2,600 goals have been scored in 22 World Cup tournaments, including the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar this year, and Brazilian and German players scored nearly one-fifth of them.
According to Statista data, Brazil scored the highest number of goals at FIFA World Cups, 231 as of this week. That is only one more than the second-ranked Germany, whose players have scored 230 goals. But Germany's Miroslav Klose still holds the record among players, with 16 goals scored over four World Cups.
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The 2018 champion, France, is looking to become the first nation to successfully defend the title since Brazil managed to do so in 1962, but the country ranked fifth on the list of World Cup's top-scoring nations. So far, French football players have scored 128 goals, including the ones seen at the matches played in Qatar.
While England hopes to carry the momentum built in the 2020 Euros into another major tournament, it still needs to be added to the top five countries on this list. Statistics show England's players scored 99 goals at World Cup matches, ranking seventh on the list and one spot below Spain.
The Statista data showed that Brazilian national team players scored more goals than England and France combined.
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Q: removing directory and sub directory which is not present in the list This is my directory structure
find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -t
./lisst.txt                  ./SAMN03272855/SRR1734376/SRR1734376_1.fastq.gz
./SAMN03272854/SRR1734375/SRR1734375_2.fastq.gz  ./SAMN07605670/SRR6006890/SRR6006890_2.fastq.gz
./SAMN03272854/SRR1734375/SRR1734375_1.fastq.gz  ./SAMN07605670/SRR6006890/SRR6006890_1.fastq.gz
./SAMN03272855/SRR1734376/SRR1734376_2.fastq.gz

So this is a small subset of my folder/files where i have around 70.
I have a made a list of files which i want to keep and other i would like to delete.
My list.txt contains SAMN03272854,SAMN03272855 but I want to remove SAMN07605670.
I ran this
find . ! -name 'lisst.txt' -type d -exec rm -vrf {} +

It removed everything
QUESTION UPDATE
In my list it contains the folder i want to keep and the one which are not there are to be removed.
The folders which are to be removed also contains subdirectories and files. I want to remove everything

A: Your command selects each directory in the tree, except a directories of the funny name lisst.txt. Once it finds a directory, you do a recursive remove of this directory. No surprise that your files are gone.
You can't use rm -r when you want to spare certain files from deletion. This means that you also can't remove a directory, which somewhere below in its subtree has a file you want to keep.
I would run two find commands: The first removes all the files, ignoring directories, and second one removes all directories, which are empty (bottom-up). Assuming that SAMN03272854 is indeed a file (as you told us in your question), this would be:
find . -type f \( ! \( -name SAMN03272854 -o -name SAMN03272855  \) \) -exec rm {}

find . -depth -type d -exec rmdir {} 2>/dev/null

The error redirection in the latter command suppresses messages from rmdir for directories which still contain files you want to keep. Of course other messages are also suppressed. I would during debugging run the command without error redirection, to see whether it is basically correct.
Things would get more complicated, if you have files and directories to keep, because to keep a directory likely implies to keep all the files below it. In this case, you can use the -prune option of find, which excludes directories including their subdirectories from being processed. See the find man page, which gives examples for this.

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Living together before marriage – known as cohabitation – is a popular stepping stone, however, some couples are now choosing it over marriage altogether. If you're planning on taking a big step forward in your relationship by moving in together, chances are you've been thinking about a few things beforehand, and that's completely normal. You're about to spend most of your time together, day in, day out, so thoughts about whether the two of you are ready for the big move are bound to pop up.
For some couples, moving in together also means buying a property together, too. Instead of choosing to rent a property together, or to move into a property already owned by one of them, many partners are choosing to start as they mean to go on, in a place of their own.
In the first post of our two-part series on cohabitation rights, we looked further into the legalities behind moving into a partner's existing property. Here, we look at the legal rights for each partner, when choosing to buy a property together.
If you choose to buy a property together from the off, chances are you will want to put the property into both partners' names, so that you have equal legal rights to the property and its shares. This is the route that the majority of partners choose to take, not only for equal legal rights, but to move into a home that they can both feel is truly their own.
There are three ways to hold a property jointly. Beneficial Joint Tenants, Tenants in Common in Equal Shares and Tenants in Common in Unequal shares. We won't, for the purposes of this article, explore fully what each of these mean, but if you have any questions at all concerning the ways in which to hold a property, feel free to get in touch!
Usually, parties are advised based on what they would like to happen in unfortunate circumstances, such as the death of the other party. However, that opinion may be slightly (or sometimes completely) different if the partnership hasn't worked out for other reasons, such as one partner being unfaithful to the other.
You see, following a lengthy life together and with you passing away, you may want any of your interest to pass to your partner, regardless of your respective contributions. However, in circumstances where the parties have experienced cohabitation disputes which has resulted in an acrimonious split (sometimes only weeks after they start to live together), then your opinion may be very different and you would want to insist on your full contribution.
Our advice is to enter into the transfer on the basis of the latter situation and let your will deal with what would happen upon death.
For this reason, you should get clear advice as to how you should hold the property. If one of you is contributing substantially more, then that party should look to protect that regardless of how difficult and awkward a conversation that may seem at the time.
Legal ownership refers to what is stated at the Land Registry as to the registered owners. If the property is unregistered for some reason, then it is whose name is on the deeds.
However, legal ownership does not necessarily confirm who is entitled to what from the property. Beneficial ownership stands behind the legal ownership and can dictate who is entitled to what from the property. This is known as the equitable ownership and whilst equity should follow the law, i.e. the beneficial ownership should match the legal ownership, this is not always the case.
If you are in the process of buying a property, it is important to be aware that the transfer you sign now will be a declaration of your interest in that property moving forwards. That is, unless, that agreement is set aside, due to some limited contractual criteria such as undue influence, duress or mistake, or there is some subsequent agreement to alter the position (ideally any change should be recorded in writing).
Therefore, if you agree to be 50/50 at the outset then, regardless of your contributions, you are only likely to receive 50% share in the property when it sells. This can mean your partner will be entitled to half of the deposit you put down, too. It is usually only money expended after the breakdown of the relationship, that would be taken into account by the court in moving away from that declaration.
If the property is being purchased in one party's name then, as stated in part one of our series, it is important to have a cohabitation agreement or a Declaration of Trust in place. If you don't have any of those (which is very common), then you would have to claim a beneficial interest, but this can only be done in the limited circumstances. It is not automatic and depends on the parties' verbal discussions or conduct throughout. This can often be difficult to recall after many years, and will often be one person's word against the other, which can result in rather lengthy cohabitation disputes.
Buying your first property together as partners can be extremely exciting, however you do need to protect your rights in case anything should happen to the relationship. All it takes is a simple consultation with one of our expert cohabitation solicitors, to discuss your rights and how you should go about securing them.
Although it may seem unnecessary at this moment in time, it's well worth putting the time in with a solicitor, to protect your future, should the relationship break down.
The two of you should also look at having a will written, even if it is just to set legal rights to your share of the property in writing, rather than anything else. Have your will updated every so often, in case anything changes either of your circumstances, or to your share of the property.
The legal aspect of cohabitation can be a little confusing, however, it's often a wise investment of time and effort, in case anything unfortunate happens with the relationship. If you have any questions concerning your cohabitation rights, give us a call or book a consultation with one of our cohabitation solicitors, who will be able to offer you expert advice and support.


Ratatouille: Motivational Wisdom from a Chef Rat?
This is your friendly neighbor Sharif writing to you from Paris about a motivational Master Chef rat. Yup, it's true. A motivational talking rat who happens to cook. What's the world coming to! The Simpsons, Harry Potter, and Transformers are taking the summer movie box-office by storm followed closely by Remy the Rat – and they're all wearing bad hairspray.
Of course, I'm not really in Paris; I was at the Scotia Bank Theatre in Toronto where I just finished watching Disney's feature-length animation film, Ratatouille. It's a fun and riotously funny family movie and I highly recommend it! The movie takes place in Paris and is about a rat named Remy who dreams of becoming a gourmet chef one day.
Only problem is he's a rat! Go figure. Remy has a highly developed sense of smell and a keen appreciation for food. He yearns for a better life and desires to raise himself out of a meager existence of living in sewers and scrambling for crumbs and rotten cheese.
Ahh, but it's not to be, mon ami. You see, he eees after all a rat! And responsible rats have to look after themselves. So Remy's Dad puts his talent to use by making him the Chief Sniffer. Remy's sole job is to sniff all the rotten food and human leftovers day in and day out to make sure there's no rat poison in the food for his Dad's rat colony.
Yuk! Talk about one stinking job! I'm treading on dangerous ground here, but can't we all relate to this story on some level? I mean, sometimes we just fall into doing work that's less than desirous and not even close to what we're really, really passionate about in our hearts.
Sometimes we just settle for far less than the best we deserve in order to 'make a living' or meet other people's expectations of us. Pretty soon we fall into a rut – a routine – and get cozy. Welcome to the Rat Race! The never-ending treadmill of constant busyness. A dream stealer disguised as a golden ladder to nowhere.
Ratatouille is a story about one rat's dilemma to either play it safe by sticking to his normal rat routine and winning the approval of his friends and family or enter the forbidden human world and risk everything in pursuit of his dream to become a gourmet chef in the most prestigious restaurant in Paris.
Remy spends days in this gloomy dungeon paralyzed by fear and never venturing out. In this moment of darkness and delirium, a mentor figure appears in his imagination – the late Auguste Gusteau, France's culinary genius.
Gusteau gently encourages Remy to look up and venture out! And so, with some trepidation, Remy climbs up the drainage pipes and enters a brave new world. He is shocked to see the magnificent city of Paris unfold before him with its shimmering lights and the Eiffel Tower beckoning him forward.
All these years Remy has been scrounging around underground with his fellow rats while getting occasional peaks of his hero Chef Gusteau work his culinary magic on TV in glamorous Paris. Now, hungry and tired and being stranded for days in some dingy gutter, he realizes that he's in the very heart of Paris – at the doorstep of Gusteau's famous restaurant!
So what's the application here?? I mean, it's not like we're living in some kind of rat hole! (Sorry Remy). Well, first of all, it's important to realize that with each seed of failure and loss there's an equivalent seed of new hope and opportunity. And second, when we get into a rat of a rut, it's important to look up and venture out.
How do we do that as humans? One of the fastest and most memorable ways to 'look up' and develop a higher perspective is to once in a while upgrade some of our routine experiences: flying first class instead of economy, staying in a five star luxury hotel, joining a pricier, more exclusive business or fitness club, or attending a prestigious auction or art gallery.
Upgrading some of our experiences serves the multiple purpose of sending a message to our subconscious that we value ourselves while opening up higher learning and networking opportunities and developing friendships with people that can help us grow.
Of course, you don't always have to shell out big money to accomplish this. You can offer to volunteer and help out at these types of establishments or events; you can join an online newsgroup at one of the higher brow establishments such as Washington Post, New York Times, or Harvard Business Review and participate or eavesdrop on some of the conversations; you can read a biography; or – if you can muster up the courage – you can ask to meet with someone you admire to learn how they became successful.
I used this last strategy once when I was working at a bookstore quite a few years back. Harry Rosen, world renowned men's clothier, once walked into the store looking for a Kiri Te Kanawa opera video. Of course, as Murphy's Law would predict, we didn't have the video and he left the store promptly.
I then wrote a letter to him saying I tried various suppliers but could not find the video but really admired his success and was wondering if he could give me a tour of his head office and share with me how he became successful in his field.
A couple weeks later I got a reply letter back from his secretary to call and arrange for a time to meet with Mr. Rosen. I ended up meeting him at his penthouse office and getting a brief tour. He showed me his architectural design concept for a new store he was opening up in Chicago and we spent close to an hour chatting. (Actually, he was doing most of the chatting while I was listening and taking notes).
I later learned that there were a number of very important people wanting desperately to meet with him and that they'd be lucky if they even got fifteen minutes with Mr. Rosen.
When Anton Ego, France's most notorious food critic who can make or break a restaurant with a single review, makes his appearance at Gusteau's, Remy's culinary talents are finally put to the test.
But instead of preparing a fancy delicacy worthy of Gusteau's esteemed patrons, Remy chooses to make a homily Ratatouille (a vegetable stew made of eggplant, tomatoes, green peppers, and squash). It's a common folk meal fit "for peasants" the assistant cook declares.
Remy ignores this slight and goes with his heart. It's genuinely him and what he knows. He prepares an exquisitely rapturous, mouth-watering Ratatouille dish that just blows away the critic. As Ego takes his first bite, his cold exterior immediately melts in delight as he is brought back to sweet memories of his Mom's home-cooking.
This was an emotional scene for me as well. In my case, it brought back sweet memories of my father's home-cooking. My father passed away in a car accident eighteen years ago, and yet, I can still fondly remember savoring his Ratatouille. It was one of my father's favorites and he used to brag all the time about knowing how to make this French specialty. My brothers and I used to laugh as kids at the funny sounding name and how my father would roll the word off his tongue with such relish.
Bottom line: be yourself and ignore the critics.
When Linguini (I don't come up with these names), the supposed up-and-coming star boy chef at Gusteau's, reveals that the real inspiration behind his cooking is Remy the Rat, the entire staff thinks he's lost his mind and promptly leave the establishment.
Lesson: the best talent and ideas can come from anywhere and sometimes do come from the most unexpected places. Don't pre-judge people. Just because someone's a rat doesn't mean they can't cook!
Likewise, don't be easily impressed by degrees, pedigrees, fancy titles, wealth, or so called experts. You have to carefully evaluate whether their talent or ideas will help move YOUR career or business forward. Sometimes that means seeking a second or third opinion.
When famed critic, Anton Ego, asks to personally speak with the head chef of Gusteau's, he is told to wait.
Check your ego at the door and tell it to wait. Don't let success get to your head. And give credit where credit is due.
When Linguini steals all the limelight and attributes Gusteau's new found success all to himself and his love interest, it breeds sour resentment in Remy who eventually leaves Linguini to his own devices.
You decide what's more important to you: your ego or your career. An effective leader always shares the limelight and generously gives credit, while a poor leader hogs up all the accolades creating resentment and unwanted enemies.
If you want to fast-track your success, go out of your way to catch people doing something right and give them the credit they crave so desperately and rightfully deserve!
When Anton Ego makes his grand appearance at Gusteau's to put the final nail in the coffin, he literally asks for a new perspective. "Surprise me!" he demands asking for something new off-the-menu.
We don't always have to go with the canned selection that's offered us – whether it's provided in a menu, business proposal, job offer, meeting agenda, or course curriculum. We can ask for a new perspective.
I suspect Ego was a management guru in his past life as this is great advice for managers as well. The next time you hold a meeting, ask for a new perspective. Or ask in advance of the meeting that each person come prepared to attend the meeting with at least one new idea or new way of doing things.
Ask them to surprise you. The results may indeed surprise you – and hopefully for the better! (For added emphasis or just for fun and humor, take your team out to see Ratatouille or play clips from the movie at your meeting once it comes out in DVD).
P.S. Looking for a writer to help with an important writing project? Add a comment or send me an email with a new perspective on ways I might be able to help. Surprise me!


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The Pit and the Pendulum (1991)
"Confessions are only admitted under torture, otherwise you might confess just to avoid torture and it wouldn't be a true confession."
Stuart Gordon's THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM opens with Grand Inquisitor Torquemada (Lance Henriksen, STONE COLD) and his Spanish Inquisition goons pulling a dead body out of a coffin, convicting him of heresy and giving him 20 lashes, which busts him apart until he's a pile of bones. The man's family watch, outraged, while a bunch of other rich people smile to themselves and lick their lips. Torquemada crushes the dead man's skull into powder and uses it to fill an hourglass. That's all before the credits start.
So, this movie is not fuckin around. And you guys know how I feel about a movie that's not fuckin around. (Usually positive.)
Even still, it kinda snuck up on me. It's a Full Moon production, and they're doing a period piece (Spain, 1492) in the one castle they have access to, lots of fake looking wigs, some actors delivering their lines in a modern tone, some not. And then there's a shitty looking font on the credits and they still couldn't bother to change the title (it calls it THE INQUISITOR). And as it gets into the plot about a woman falsely accused by the Spanish Inquisition it seems like it's gonna be mostly sitting through gruesome torture scenes: public whipping, burning at the stake, some citizens enjoying it, others being forced to watch, people tied to racks, screaming, getting slashed and/or sexually humiliated. But that's just the fuel to a story that really comes together, a nice amalgam of Edgar Allan Poe ideas, adventure and most of all an extreme caricature of the type of hypocrites who stand in judgment of others to hide their own faults. Gordon worked in theater for years before RE-ANIMATOR made him a Master of Horror, and I imagine this is alot like one of his plays.
Maria (Rona De Ricci) is arrested for suspicion of witchcraft because she yelled "Have mercy!" and tried to stop soldiers from beating a child. She's brought in before Torquemada, who has them strip her naked. We can see that he's a true believer and his men are not; he bows his head, ashamed of himself for looking at her body, and later has himself whipped as punishment. The others just leer at her. He seems to really think there are signs of witchcraft to look for, they give her a bruise and pretend it appeared there magically. It's Abu Ghraib disguised as church.
But, you know, you can say you're against torture, but what if you knew the person was involved in witchcraft and you only had 24 hours to stop a spell from going off in a major American city? Then wouldn't you be okay with it? Don't be naive.
Gordon's first brilliant stroke is dressing a bunch of great b-movie villains in holy robes to point fingers at everyone else's alleged sins. In addition to Henriksen you get Jeffrey Combs (RE-ANIMATOR) and Tom Towles (HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER). They don't have William Forsythe or Henry Silva, but they do have Oliver Reed in a special appearance as a Cardinal delivering a message from Rome. He's a drunk, but he's actually trying to stop all the torturing. For his efforts they wall him up without so much as a cask of Amontillado. (They do have it on tap, though, so he gets to drink a couple mugs of it.)
The book Not Bad For a Human by Lance Henriksen and Joseph Maddrey says that Henriksen got a little too into the role, wearing a hair shirt, living off only bread and water and staying in character at all times, even though he considered Torquemada "worse than Hitler" and was angry at the Vatican for never excommunicating him. Then when Oliver Reed showed up to film his scene they climbed the castle while drunk on ten bottles of wine. Henriksen thinks Gordon was trying to make a comedy and that he ruined it by taking the role so seriously; Gordon thinks the performance makes the movie, and admits that everyone on set was genuinely scared of him.
His Torquemada is a weird masochist with a bizarre haircut, more sincere than the others about believing he's doing God's work, but it's not much help because he's also crazier than them. It's a dangerous team of crazy fundamentalists and sickos who will "when in Rome" if there's a window. Torquemada has a sword hanging from a thread above his bed because he believes it would fall on him if God disapproved of him. It's clear that much of his horribleness comes from sexual repression. He tries to play his lust for her as a reason to investigate her. He nearly rapes her and tries to pretend it's a religious ritual. When he can't get it up he calls her a whore, then (SPOILER) cuts out her tongue!
I've said it before and I'll say it again: the Presbyterian church I went to as a kid ran a food bank. They wanted to help people, not judge them. You can do better than this, religion.
As you may know, I am interested in the portrayal of witch hunts in movies, because I think it's really tasteless to portray an actual historical atrocity as if the perpetrators were right. This one is unambiguously anti-Inquisition, the witch hunters are the bad guys and the heroes are the hunted, so I have no problem with it's treatment of witchcraft as a real or sort of real thing. We find this out through Esmeralda (Frances Bay, CRITTERS 3, THE KARATE KID PART III), Maria's dungeon cellmate who actually is a witch, but her lifestyle seems to be mostly a combination of natural remedies and little tricks, or "life hacks" as a clickbait peddler would write in a headline and then NOT have to face the Inquisition despite clearly greater crimes than this poor woman ever committed. She does have some actual magic though because she's able to speak telepathically and/or beyond the grave or something.
Anyway, when she tells Maria "You don't need to have a tongue to have a voice!" Esmeralda it's pretty badass even though she's talking about magic shit, not taking action. And it's okay that there's some supernatural in there, because it turns into a real Poe-out at the end, bad people being tormented by apparitions of those they wronged. Ghostly comeuppance.
To me the only serious weakness of the movie is that Maria's baker husband Antonio (Jonathan Fuller, BLOODFIST VI: GROUND ZERO) is not all that compelling to me. He should be awesome because he's doing cool things like escaping a fire torture by masking the pain, laughing about it not being hot enough, then running through the castle swashbuckling all the guards with a big ladle. Luckily the focus is more on Maria, even though he's the dude on the rescue mission who most movies would center around.
As shit starts to go south these pricks all turn on each other. When it seems like Maria has died from blood loss, the men are thrilled that this could be the end of Torquemada, except they're scared to tell him he did it. Speaking of rats cannibalizing each other, there is a pretty spectacular gross out moment while Antonio is tied up above a pit with a big blade swinging back and forth over him OH MY GOD THAT'S WHY IT'S CALLED THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM and he's being munched on by a swarm of rats. One of the rats gets sliced by the pendulum so he grabs the corpse and squooshes the guts all over the rope on his wrists so that the other rats will chew it. In Poe's story he uses meat that was left for him as a meal, but this Torquemada would never leave this guy a meal. Also, this is the director of RE-ANIMATOR, people are gonna be disappointed if there's not a real disgusting part.
There are also nuanced parts. There's an interesting moment at the end (obviously this is a SPOILER): Combs' character insists on letting Maria go, because previously Torquemada told him (in covering his own ass) that she was innocent. I don't know if he's trying to follow the letter of the law, or if he actually wants to do the right thing in this case, but it would be a corny stick it to the man moment if he wasn't part of such atrocities. It doesn't absolve him of what he's done, but sometimes we have to count on bad people from within the system growing a conscience, or doing the right thing by accident.
Mendoza (Mark Margolis, SCARFACE, DELTA FORCE 2) is an interesting character too, a scary Billy Drago looking torturer, but he started as an innocent victim himself, so he always seems to be teetering between irredeemable broken person and potential rebel.
I should never underestimate Gordon, but there is more cool stuff that happens in this movie than I expected. This is another SPOILER because it's the best thing that happens, but in case you're not sold I will mention it. When Esmeralda is burnt at the stake she wants to avenge the scumbags who are cheering on her execution, so she eats a bunch of gun powder and yells out a curse to them. When she burns she explodes and her bones impale them like shrapnel! I fucking love science!
This one is done in 1991, Gordon's movie before FORTRESS. The screenplay is by Gordon's collaborator going back to the theater days, Dennis Paoli (RE-ANIMATOR, FROM BEYOND, GHOULIES II).
Book review: Not Bad For a Human
To Hell You Ride, a comic book by Lance Henriksen
Bride of Re-Animator
Dennis Paoli Edgar Allan Poe Frances Bay Jeffrey Combs Jonathan Fuller Lance Henriksen Mark Margolis Oliver Reed Rona De Ricci Spanish Inquisition Stuart Gordon Tom Towles
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7 Responses to "The Pit and the Pendulum (1991)"
CJ Holden
Henriksen's anger at the church from researching his role went even so far, that he verbally attacked a priest one day! If I remember the story that he told at a convention a few years ago right, he just saw him walking down the street and then snapped and yelled at him for being part of a church that allowed such atrocities to happen.
I love Lance Henriksen. Again: If you have the chance to see him at a convention, do it, even if you are not a convention person. He's a class act and has a million cool stories to tell.
Mr. Subtlety
I don't know when they each filmed, but I wonder is his horror at the Church's role in the Inquisition gave him the idea to dress up like a priest for the end of STONE COLD, which came out the same year?
psychic_hits
in 9th grade, my friends were watching Aliens together for the first time, and when Bishop shows up one of them said, "My mom dated that guy in the 60s." None of us believed him, but after doing some research, we learned that Lance Henrikson had had a brief stint as a sexy hippie potter in the town we all grew up in before he got famous as an actor.
Years later I asked this friend's mom about it, and her response was "well, i don't know if *dated* is exactly the right word…"
TL/DR: hey Lance Henrikson banged my friend's mom once everybody.
psychic_hits – My mom was the sorta girlfriend of the lead singer of the band Molly Hatchet back in the day.
I haven't asked if they banged, but I wouldn't really care if they did.
That story just reminded me of that.
Also, Full Moonn was able to put out a decent movie every so often back in the day, when I was a kid I liked the movie they put out called BEANSTALK that was a "modern day" version of the Jack and the Beanstalk fairy tale.
Like Lance Henriksen in this movie it had a couple of recognizable names (including Richard Moll and Stuart Pankin) and overall a pretty cross between the fairy tale and HONEY I SHRUNK THE KIDS.
I haven't seen it since I was a kid and I'm not saying it's worth watching as an adult but I wasn't the kind of kid that watched any old crap, so if I liked a movie it couldn't be too bad, plus the guy that directed it went on to do SHOOT 'EM UP.
dreadguacamole
Stuart Gordon is an underrated director – I kind of love his stuff, it's always at the very least fun. And Esmeralda's death is indeed one for the ages.
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