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Based on a Yiddish folktale that had been circulating in Eastern Europe from the early years of the Hasidic movement, The Fable of the Goat expresses the longing of the Jew of the Diaspora for the Land of Israel. In his specific telling, S.Y. Agnon* seems to place some of the burden of suffering on human weakness. Alan Mintz and Anne Golomb Hoffman write in their introduction to Agnon's story,** "The old man's indulgence in grief clearly represents a generation that could not part with its sorrows in order to seize the opportunity for redemption in the Land of Israel."
The tale is told of an old man who groaned from his heart. The doctors were sent for, and they advised him to drink goat's milk. He went out and bought a she-goat and brought her into his home. Not many days passed before the goat disappeared. They went out to search for her but did not find her. She was not in the yard and not in the garden, not on the roof of the house of study and not by the spring, not in the hills and not in the fields. She tarried several days and then returned by herself; and when she returned, her udder was full of a great deal of milk, the taste of which was as the taste of Eden. Not just once, but many times she disappeared from the house. They would go out in search of her and would not find her until she returned by herself with her udder full of milk that was sweeter than honey and whose taste was the taste of Eden.
One time the old man said to his son, "My son, I desire to know where she goes and whence she brings this milk which is sweet to my palate and a balm to all my bones."
His son said to him, "Father, I have a plan."
He said to him, "What is it?"
The son got up and brought a length of cord. He tied it to the goat's tail.
His father said to him, "What are you doing, my son?"
He said to him, "I am tying a cord to the goat's tail, so that when I feel a pull on it, I will know that she has decided to leave, and I can catch the end of the cord and follow her on her way."
The old man nodded his head and said to him, "My son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will rejoice."
The youth tied the cord to the goat's tail and minded it carefully. When the goat set off, he held the cord in his hand and did not let it slacken until the goat was well on her way and he was following her. He was dragged along behind her until he came to a cave. The goat went into the cave, and the youth followed her, holding the cord. They walked thus for an hour or two, and maybe even a day or two. The goat wagged her tail and bleated, and the cave came to an end.
When they emerged from the cave, the youth saw lofty mountains, and hills full of the choicest fruit, and a fountain of living waters that flowed down from the mountains; and the wind wafted all manner of perfumes. The goat climbed up a tree by clutching at the ribbed leaves. Carob fruits full of honey dropped from the tree, and she ate of the carobs and drank of the garden's fountain.
The youth stood and called to the wayfarers: "I adjure you, good people, tell me where I am, and what is the name of this place?"
They answered him, "You are in the Land of Israel, and you are closed by Safed."
The youth lifted up his eyes to the heavens and said, "Blessed by the Omnipresent, blessed be He who has brought me to the Land of Israel." He kissed the soil and sat down under the tree.
He said, "Until the day breathe and the shadows flee away, I shall sit on the hill under this tree. Then I shall go home and bring my father and mother to the Land of Israel." As he was sitting and feasting his eyes on the holiness of the Land of Israel, he heard a voice proclaiming:
"Come, let us go out to greet the Sabbath Queen."
And he saw men like angels, wrapped in white shawls, with boughs of myrtle in their hands, and all the houses were lit with a great many candles. He perceived that the eve of Sabbath would arrive with the darkening, and that he would not be able to return. He uprooted a reed and dipped it in gallnuts, from which the ink for the writing of the Torah scrolls is made. He took a piece of paper and wrote a letter to his father:
"From the ends of the earth, I lift up my voice in song to tell you that I have come in peace to the Land of Israel. Here I sit, close by Safed, the holy city, and I imbibe its sanctity. Do not inquire How I arrived here but hold on to this cord which is tied to the goat's tail and follow the footsteps of the goat; then your journey will be secure, and you will enter the Land of Israel."
The youth rolled up the note and placed it in the goat's ear. He said to himself: When she arrives at Father's house, Father will pat her on the head, and she will flick her ears. The note will fall out, Father will pick it up and read what is written on it. Then he will take up the cord and follow the goat to the Land of Israel.
The goat returned to the old man, but she did not flick her ears, and the note did not fall. When the old man saw that the goat had returned without his son, he clapped his hands to his head and began to cry and weep and wail, "My son, my son, where are you? My son, would that I might die in your stead, my son, my son!"
So he went, weeping and mourning over his son, for he said, "An evil beast has devoured him, my son is assuredly rent in pieces!"
And whenever he saw the goat, he would say, "I will go down to my grave in mourning for my son."
The old man's mind would not be at peace until he sent for the butcher to slaughter the goat. The butcher came and slaughtered the goat. As they were skinning her, the note fell out of her ear. The old man picked up the note and said, "My son's handwriting!"
When he had read all that his son had written, he clapped his hands to his head and cried, "Vay! Vay! Woe to the man who robs himself of his own good fortune, and woe to the man who requites good with evil!"
He mourned over the goat many days and refused to be comforted, saying, "Woe to me, for I could have gone up to the Land of Israel in one bound, and now I must suffer out my days in this exile!"
Since that time the mouth of the cave has been hidden from the eye,and there is no longer a short way. And that youth, if he has not died, shall bear fruit in his old age, full of sap and richness, calm and peaceful in the Land of the Living.
* "Throughout his long career, Nobel Laureate in Literature S.Y. Agnon (1888-1970) fashioned and refashioned the myth of himself as a writer. He told the story of his upbringing in Galicia, his journey to the Land of Israel, his extended sojourn in Germany, and his return to Jerusalem in many different versions, placing the persona of the writer at times at the center of the story and at times at the margins as a kind of ironic scaffolding... He shaped the narrative of his own beginnings to produce an image of the artist as a figure at once solitary and part of a community, both a rebel and a redeemer...." (From the introduction to A Book that was Lost and other Stories) [back]
** From A Book that was Lost and other Stories, by S.Y. Agnon. Introduction by Alan Mintz and Anne Golomb Hoffman. New York: Schocken, 1995. [back]


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Uncategorized | February 09, 2012
How India Lost Her Groove, and Isn't Quite Getting It Back
We're a little behind the times here at the Missouri Review Blogging Center, because this whole controversy took place a couple of weeks ago and has already been forgotten by everyone. But, I'm hoping that having given it a little time to settle might help in seeing if I changed my mind about the argument regarding Salman Rushdie's presence at India's premier literary festival, the Jaipur Literary Festival earlier this year.
Now, I'm an Indian of a certain age who grew up reading Rushdie, and especially his magnum opus, Midnight's Children. All artsy kids who have few friends and no romantic prospects in India kind of have to. For those of you who haven't read the book, I recommend it highly. Perhaps not as highly as the Booker Committee, who keep inventing new awards to give it (Booker of Bookers, Booker of the Last 30 Years, Booker of the Last 40 Years, Booker of Bearded Authors etc.), but it's a fairly substantial work, and even if you don't like it, it's an important book because of Rushdie's use of the English language, his insertion of vernacular phrases, references, names, and puns, that all come together to create a particularly Indian-English that shows us that literature and language need not be restricted to just one nation or people, but can adapt anywhere. It's double jeopardy: a book that screams out India's post-colonial angst while delighting in the language that those angst-inducing colonizers left us. In other words, not to push it too far (since he's still alive and we should only be sincerely and totally nice to dead people), it's India's version of Huck Finn or Moby Dick—a novel that does more than just capture a story, it explores how a people are.
The sad thing is that Midnight isn't Rushdie's most famous book. This one is. And it's not the most famous because it's his best work—as a matter of fact it probably doesn't rank in the top 3. It's famous because the Ayatollah put a fatwa on Rushdie for the book, and because Rushdie spent the next decade under constant Secret Service protection, moved from safe-house to safe-house, his life as he knew it completely upended.
Given what we know of Ayatollahs, one would assume that Salman Rushdie, his book, and the completely misinterpreted and taken-out-of-context passages would still be Enemy #1—religious fanatics, one might have noticed, have long memories. The only purpose of the Ayatollah's continued anger at Rushdie would be because it reminds us that literature can still be taken seriously, that it's our strongest resistance against authoritarianism and narrow-mindedness. It'll make us feel better about never being rich (or even moderately well-off), because as writers we have our morals. Even if those morals lead to crazy people promising to kill us because there's a bounty on our head.
Probably how Rushdie felt
The 10-year outrage, the constant calls for assassination, the daily threats on his life were put away in 1998 when the Iranians decided they wanted to restart diplomatic relations with Britain, which shows you how seriously those clowns took the whole thing anyway.* But, on the plus side, Rushdie could go back to being a writer. No longer would he have to worry about offending political sensitivities. The job of the writer is to speak out against injustice, or at least examine how it functions, and without threats to his life Rushdie could return to fulfilling his duties to his profession, could go back to attempting to understand how people work.
This is probably from a different protest, but we have a lot of spare protesters in India
Here's the thing: Salman Rushdie, born in Bombay, writer of what's been declared the as-close-to-consensus-as-possible "Great Indian Novel" (this one is not), officially the best novel written in the Commonwealth in the last half-century, the writer who put Anglo-Indian writers on the world's literary map, cannot have his homeland read his most famous work because Satanic Verses is still banned in India. I'll repeat that: 14 years after the Ayatollah said "well, no harm, no foul," the Indian government has still not lifted the ban on Satanic Verses. Which puts the Indian government somewhere to the right of the Ayatollah on religious expression. Let's put it another way: they could have re-enacted the entire Trojan War in the meanwhile. That's how slow the Indian bureaucracy is.
Of course, most normal people had entirely forgotten about this, because, well who pays attention to crazy people 25 years after they've been crazy? You'd think no one. So, the literary festival in Jaipur invited Rushdie. Then, India's largest Islamic seminary objected. That would be the Darul Uloom, Deoband. They demanded Rushdie not be allowed in. Rushdie, being a push-over, told them he was coming anyway. Problem solved, right? "Courageous Author Tells Off Protestors."
They invented a death threat.
They also promised that "rivers of blood would flow" if Rushdie showed up. Which is not only an unnecessary threat, but also worded entirely in cliches. These people need writers to show them the possibilities of narrative and language. What happened next, you ask? Well, obviously, everyone freaked out. Imagine if you were going to have to wade through rivers of flowing blood to go to AWP? I'm not even willing to handle the line at the open bars. Clearly someone would stop the madness and talk sense into somebody.
William Dalrymple, who is a brilliant writer with several good books and was organizing the festival, didn't think Rushdie should show up, an attitude he later explained. Rushdie didn't show up. Other writers got mad about this—notably Hari Kunzru and Amitava Kumar. Their plan was to protest this theocratic turn in India's attitude towards governing by reading aloud from Satanic Verses when it was their turn to speak. Because the book is still banned in India, they had to download it off the Internet. And then when they read aloud, they were threatened with arrest. For the crime of reading out loud from a book.
(By the way, the protest—at the festival itself—was not about Rushdie even being there. It was about a video-link interview in which he would get to speak. Let me make that clear: He was not in the country. He was in a different country. A country in a different continent. He was Skyping in. Basically what we do when we don't want to get out of our pajamas and go to a meeting.)
After being threatened with arrest, the four authors were forced to flee Jaipur and then India. The same night. Because what they did was apparently a crime. Hari Kunzru, who is notably bad-tempered, nevertheless wrote this scary account of the events. The organizers then attempted to explain themselves here and here.
One of these guys hates being told he's wrong
The man in charge of these protests, Maulana Abul Qasim Nomani (pictured above), told the protesters that dying during this protest (at a freakin' literary festival) would make them martyrs. If one follows his train of logic, one must believe that it's worth dying over a 15-minute Skype interview.
Police, of course, being as good at their job as they are, demanded tapes of the authors reading out aloud from Satanic Verses.
There are a million things wrong with this whole saga. Primary among them, of course, is the forcible state-sponsored editing of the individual artist. There is also, in what has become a worrying trend, a refusal to countenance any viewpoint that differs from one. This leads to what has been a lengthy Indian struggle of refusing to look carefully at the ugliness present within itself. The attitude is, "We're perfect. If you say we're not, we will kill you. Or at least burn an effigy, and a couple of public buses while we're at it." This is not an isolated incident either. While I'm fairly miffed at the good Maulana, there's a pattern of this behavior, a pattern that is growing in a complaint about a Shivaji biography that led to the Oxford University Press having to apologize, a protest about a Gandhi book, a protest against Taslima Nasrin (ostensibly because she happens to be a woman). Please look at the dates attached to these news stories, as well as the geographical variety in these protests.
Things got so bad, Rushdie had to go back to Med School
Because what the Rushdie fiasco is doing is basically proving that for all of India's bluster, for all the 10% GDP growth and the rapidly-increasing middle-class, for all the skyscrapers planned and the millions of dollars spent on making the capital city's airport "world class," for all the half billion dollar houses built, there's still the world's largest slum in direct view of the world's most expensive house. And instead of attempting to get rid of that mind-numbing poverty, we will protest Slumdog Millionaire. Not because it is a bad movie, but because it "shows India in a poor light." The Rushdie Affair (dare I say it, Rushdie-gate) only emphasizes that when it comes to self-examination, the Indian government's attitude is— "if we don't let anyone talk about it, it'll go away."
But we as a country cannot claim to stay true to the principles that govern us if we do not even allow artists the freedom to express themselves, the freedom to question and critique, the freedom to point out when the emperors have lost their clothes. Our most celebrated contemporary painter was driven out of the country for painting Hindu goddesses and had to die in England.
This is not about religion, or religious sentiment, or a demand for unrestricted free speech. What is shameful about these events is that a country touting itself for its economic growth, for its large-scale democracy, for its new-found social mobility, is attempting to silence any opinion that threatens to upset the status quo. It is shameful because those who shout the loudest are stopping a billion people from examining what is still wrong and attempting to fix it. And if we do not allow our faults to be picked out, our feelings to be hurt, our complacency to be disturbed, then we will continue to move towards untenable gender ratios as we continue to systematically eliminate our female populace. We will continue to boast 400 million people unable to feed themselves even a 1000 calories a day. We will have 600 million people with no access to clean water or sanitation.
A long time ago, I had a professor who told me, "writers know what's wrong while it's happening. Historians find out twenty years later. And the poor politicians never figure it out at all." If our leaders do not defend our rights, do not assuage our hurts, do not heal our schisms, then it is writers like Rushdie, Kunzru, and Amitava Kumar to whom we must look. For a country that refuses to deal with what is worst about itself is doomed to lose what are their greatest strengths. We must allow our writers and artists to speak, we must allow them to disagree, we must gaze into the ugliness that is around us and we must not flinch. For otherwise we are merely a country that has suddenly discovered it has muscles and insists on flexing them constantly, at everybody. We must let Rushdie speak—even if we disagree with him—because he will tell us something no one else seems to be willing to.
Only Madonna gets me.
*You might have guessed: I'm trying to get banned in at least two continents before I turn 30. Controversy = Monster Advance On As Yet Unwritten Novel!
*Hey, guess who showed up to the same festival in 2007 without bodyguards and just hung out? It was Salman Rushdie. I guess people weren't paying attention. It's easier when you don't really have to believe what you're saying.
*I'd like to point out that a lot of the links in this post were lifted from the Complete Review's coverage of the event (which, as it that website's wont, was excellent. Principled, comprehensive, and smart. I really like that website. You guys should check it out).

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Lon Chaney life mask / life cast
Lon Chaney Jr.
Creighton Tull Chaney (February 10, 1906�July 12, 1973), known by his stage name Lon Chaney Jr., was an American actor known for playing Larry Talbot in the 1941 film The Wolf Man and its various crossovers, and Count Alucard (son of Dracula) in numerous horror films produced by Universal Studios. He also portrayed Lennie Small in Of Mice and Men (1939). Originally referenced in films as Creighton Chaney, he was later credited as "Lon Chaney Jr." in 1935, and after 1941's Man Made Monster, beginning as early as The Wolf Man later that same year, he was almost always billed under his more famous father's name as Lon Chaney. Chaney had English, French, and Irish ancestry, and his career in movies and television spanned four decades, from 1931 to 1971.
Chopin life mask / life cast
Fr�d�ric Fran�ois Chopin; French pronunciation: 22 February or 1 March 1810 � 17 October 1849), born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era, who wrote primarily for the solo piano. He gained and has maintained renown worldwide as one of the leading musicians of his era, whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation
Chopin face mask.
On 17 October, after midnight, his physician leaned over him and asked whether he was suffering greatly. "No longer", he replied. He died a few minutes before two o'clock in the morning. Those present at the deathbed appear to have included his sister Ludwika, Princess Marcelina Czartoryska, Sand's daughter Solange, and Thomas Albrecht. Later that morning, Solange's husband Cl�singer made Chopin's death mask and a cast of his left hand.
Chopin hand cast $49
John Cleese life mask (life cast)
John Cleese life mask / life cast.
SEAN CONNERY life mask
Sean Connery life mask $50 (plus shipping)
Tom Cruise life mask $50
Tim Curry life mask (life cast)
Tim Curry life mask / life cast.
Timothy James "Tim" Curry (born 19 April 1946) is an English actor, singer, composer and voice actor, known for his work in a diverse range of theatre, film and television productions, often portraying villainous roles or character parts. Curry first rose to prominence with his breakthrough portrayal of Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the 1975 cult film The Rocky Horror Picture Show, reprising the role he had originated in the 1973 London and 1974 Los Angeles stage productions of The Rocky Horror Show. After Rocky Horror, Curry garnered acclaim for his supporting roles; as Rooster in the 1982 film adaptation of Annie, as the Lord of Darkness in the 1985 film Legend, and as Wadsworth in the film of the same year Clue; as well as for his starring roles, such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the 1980 Broadway production of Amadeus, as Pennywise the Clown in the 1990 horror miniseries It and as King Arthur in the 2005 Broadway production of Spamalot.
Peter Cushing life mask (life cast)
Peter Wilton Cushing (26 May 1913 � 11 August 1994) was an English actor. He is best known for his appearances in British horror films between the 1950s and the 1970s. In Hammer films he played Baron Frankenstein, Sherlock Holmes and the vampire hunter Doctor Van Helsing among others.
In 1976, Cushing was cast in Star Wars in the supporting part of Grand Moff Tarkin. Like all of the other actors portraying Galactic Imperial officers, he was presented with ill-fitting riding boots, which pinched his feet so much that he was given permission by director George Lucas to play the role wearing his slippers. As a result, the camera operators filmed him throughout the film only from the knees up, or else standing behind the table of the Death Star conference room set. This costuming discomfort aside, Cushing contrasted sharply with co-star Alec Guinness in that he enjoyed his experience on the film, appreciated the renewed interest in his work from young fans and only regretted that he could not appear in the sequels.
For the 2016 film Rogue One, CGI and digitally-repurposed-archive footage were used to insert Peter Cushing's likeness from the original movie over the body of actor Guy Henry. Henry provided the on-set capture and voice work with the reference material augmented and mapped over his performance like a digital body-mask. Cushing's estate owners were heavily involved with the creation which took place over twenty years after his death. This extensive use of CGI to "resurrect" an actor who had died decades ago created a great deal of controversy about the ethics of using a deceased actor's likeness. Joyce Broughton, Cushing�s former secretary, had approved recreating Cushing in the film. After attending the London premiere, she was reportedly "taken aback" and "dazzled" with the effect of seeing Cushing on screen again
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James Dean life mask (life cast)
JAMES DEAN "LIFE" MASK Plaster J. LESLIE ASHER Warner Bros. Movie Film GIANT 1956
A plaster James Dean "Life" Mask from the Warner Bros. 1956 epic movie "GIANT".
We are pleased to present this James Dean "Life" Mask for your consideration. It is just like the one purchased by Laurence and Sally Martin on the Travel Channel's hit reality TV show Baggage Battles (season 3 episode 9 titled "Two Faced", filmed in Stockton, California). The Mask was a featured item on the episode.
The Mask comes from the 1956 Warner Bros. movie Giant which starred Dean, Rock Hudson, and Elizabeth Taylor. During the course of this epic film, Dean needed to age 20 years. To accomplish this, the Art/Prop department took a life mask from Dean, and created plaster models of his face, to work out the makeup details of his age progression. Ours is made from one of the few models known to exist. Some were impressed "J. Leslie" at the top edge, into the surface of the plaster.
J. Leslie is J. Leslie Asher (1904-1986), from the Warner Bros. Art Department. He is listed on IMDB (Internet Movie Data Base) under Art Department / Props, for Giant. Although not too much is available about his life, he was in the industry for many years, and is also known for the design of the Ants in the classic Science Fiction movie "Them!".
This Mask is made from the first generation, having been taken from the actual Life Mask of Dean. During the Baggage Battles episode, the Mask is attributed to artist Kenneth Kendall, but the presence of the J. Leslie mark is left unexplained. Kendall had been requested by Dean to create a Life Mask for him, but Dean's unexpected death shortly after he finished filming Giant made that impossible. Instead, Kendall's famous Dean works were based on the Warner Bros. Life Mask and photographic images, and has only an indirect relationship to our Mask.
Several pictures taken by Sanford Roth, the Still Photographer on Giant show Dean sitting in front of a work bench, with Life Masks hanging on the wall behind him, including one of his own head (do a google image search on "James Dean" "Sanford Roth"). Once Warner had the original Life Mask, they were able to use it as a mold to create as many plaster models as they needed for their purposes (for example, to show the make up design needed for a particular scene in the movie). The Mask is made of plaster and weighs approx. 3 pounds. It measures 10-1/2 inches high, 6-1/2 inches wide, and 5 inches deep.
Life mask of actor James Dean
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WC Fields life mask from a very old form. You can see that he is not very old here and this comes from the time he was in his prime as a Hollywood legend. This a highly collectible and rare item at a very reasonable price.
Benjamin Franklin Life Mask
Life cast of Benjamin Franklin taken from the same mold used by Madame Tussaud's wax museum.
Life mask / life cast of Benjamin Franklin $50 (plus shipping).
Length approx __ inches
Width approx 6 inches wide
Benjamin Franklin cast: $50 (plus shipping).
Please call (314) 556-0650 or email us for more pictures or information.
Brendan Fraser life mask / life cast $50
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Clark Gable Life Mask
Life cast of Clark Gable taken from the 1930s Gone with the Wind Era.
Life mask / life cast of Clark Cable
$50 (plus shipping).
Clark Gable cast: $50 (plus shipping).
Paul Gauguin Death Mask / Self Portrait Of Paul Gauguin
Eug�ne Henri Paul Gauguin; 7 June 1848 � 8 May 1903) was a French post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of color and Synthetist style that were distinct from Impressionism. Toward the end of his life, he spent ten years in French Polynesia, and most of his paintings from this time depict people or landscapes from that region.
Life mask / life cast of Paul Gauguin
measures 10� x 8� inches
Self Portrait of Paul Gauguin $50 (plus shipping).
Gellar, Sarah Michelle Gellar. Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Ringer life mask - rare!
Sarah Michelle Gellar life mask / life cast.
Our cast is made from the original mold. It was created during the filming of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It was used by the Special Effects crew to make facial appliances from.
They had several of these hanging on the wall in the Magic Shop and Giles' apartment.
Buffy cast: $50 (plus shipping).
George Washington life mask 1785 President life cast
Life Cast Life Mask of Mel Gibson Life mask / life cast Lethal Weapon The Expendables
Gorilla life cast / death cast
Gorilla Life mask / death mask of an adult male gorilla.
$100 SALE: $60 (plus shipping)
Grinch: Jim Carrey "The Grinch" life cast
Life cast of Jim Carrey as "The Grinch" (2000).
James Eugene "Jim" Carrey (born January 17, 1962) is a Canadian and actor, comedian, and producer.
This is a cast of Jim's face with the addition of the FX teams prosthetics applied.
This is one of the largest face casts we sell.
Gwynne: Fred Gwynne life mask (life cast)
Life mask of actor Fred Gwynne best known for his role as Herman Munster. Gwynne also starred in "Car 54 Where are you?" and "Pet Semetary"
"I have received the mask. It's very nice. Thank you"
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Han Solo / Harrison Ford as Han Solo life mask (life cast)
Life mask of Harrison Ford as Han Solo (frozen in carbonite) in "The Empire Strikes Back"
Coming soon! We also have the full body life size Han Solo in Carbonite cast.
$1,900 plus $300 crating and shipping.
Please contact us for shipping cost outside of the US.
Please contact us for production/shipping time.
Hannibal: "Mason Verger" from the movie Hannibal
Who could forget Mason Verger, the bad guy made infamous by Gary Oldman in the movie Hannibal.
This cast of Mason Verger's face, is last piece that you need to complete your macabre collection of Hollywood's Horror Faces.
This piece is not a mere sculpture... but a retool of actual prosthetics that were made for the film Hannibal, They were then adhered to the lifecast of Gary Oldman....a mold was made, and then a new piece was fabricated from there.
Hepburn: Katharine Hepburn life cast / life mask
Life mask / Life cast of Katherine Hepburn.
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 � June 29, 2003) was an American actress of film, stage, and television.
We will never forget her performance in "On Golden Pond".
Alfred Hitchcock life mask / life cast $50 (plus shipping)
Dustin Hoffman life mask / life cast
Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor with a career in film, television, and theatre since 1960. He has been known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and vulnerable characters
$50 (plus shipping). Cast is available in white or gold.
Bob Hope life cast / life mask
Life mask / Life cast of Bob Hope
Bob Hope, KBE, KCSG, KSS, (born Leslie Townes Hope; May 29, 1903 � July 27, 2003), was an English-born American comedian, vaudevillian, actor, singer, dancer, author, and athlete who appeared on Broadway, in vaudeville, movies, television, and on the radio. He was noted for his numerous United Service Organizations (USO) shows entertaining American military personnel�he made 57 tours for the USO between 1941 and 1991. Throughout his long career, he was honored for this work. In 1997, the U.S. Congress declared him the "first and only honorary veteran of the U.S. armed forces".
Cast is available in white only.
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Jolie: Angelina Jolie life mask
Angelina Jolie life mask
Angelina Jolie, born Angelina Jolie Voight; June 4, 1975), is an American actress, film director, screenwriter, and author. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and was named Hollywood's highest-paid actress by Forbes in 2009, 2011, and 2013. Jolie promotes humanitarian causes, and is noted for her work with refugees as a Special Envoy and former Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). She has been cited as the world's "most beautiful" woman by various media outlets, a title for which she has received substantial publicity
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Boris Karlof life mask
William Henry Pratt (23 November 1887 � 2 February 1969), better known by his stage name Boris Karloff, was an English actor.
Karloff is best remembered for his roles in horror films and especially for his portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in Frankenstein (1931), Bride of Frankenstein (1935), and Son of Frankenstein (1939), which resulted in his immense popularity. His best-known non-horror role is as the Grinch, as well as the narrator, in the animated television special of Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966). He also had a memorable role in the original Scarface (1932). For his contribution to film and television, Boris Karloff was awarded two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
John Keats Life Mask
John Keats (31 October 1795 � 23 February 1821) was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley despite his work having been in publication for only four years before his death.
John Keats life mask $40 (plus shipping)
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Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee CBE CStJ (27 May 1922 � 7 June 2015) was an English character actor, singer, and author. With a career spanning nearly 70 years, Lee was well known for portraying villains and became best known for his role as Count Dracula in a sequence of Hammer Horror films. His other film roles include Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), Saruman in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001�2003) and The Hobbit film trilogy (2012�2014), and Count Dooku in the second and third films of the Star Wars prequel trilogy (2002 & 2005).
Christopher Lee life cast / life mask $50 (plus shipping)
Val Kilmer 1:1 Life Mask -Batman
L'Inconnue de la Seine (French for "the unknown woman of the Seine") life cast / death cast
L'Inconnue de la Seine (French for "the unknown woman of the Seine") was an unidentified young woman whose death mask became a popular fixture on the walls of artists' homes after 1900. Her visage was the inspiration for numerous literary works. In the United States, the mask is also known as "La Belle Italienne".
According to an often-repeated story, the body of the young woman was pulled out of the Seine River at the Quai du Louvre in Paris around the late 1880s. Since the body showed no signs of violence, suicide was suspected.
A pathologist at the Paris morgue was, according to the story, so taken by her beauty that he had a mould make a wax plaster cast death mask of her face. It has been questioned whether the expression of the face could belong to a drowned person. According to other accounts, the mask was taken from the daughter of a mask manufacturer in Germany. The identity of the girl was never discovered. Claire Forestier estimated the age of the model at no more than 16, given the firmness of the skin.
In the following years, numerous copies were produced. The copies quickly became a fashionable morbid fixture in Parisian Bohemian society. Albert Camus and others compared her enigmatic smile to that of the Mona Lisa, inviting numerous speculations as to what clues the eerily happy expression in her face could offer about her life, her death, and her place in society.
The popularity of the figure is also of interest to the history of artistic media, relating to its widespread reproduction. The original cast had been photographed, and new casts were created back from the film negatives. These new casts displayed details that are usually lost in bodies taken from the water, but the apparent preservation of these details in the visage of the cast seemed to only reinforce its authenticity.
The face of the unknown woman was used for the head of the first aid mannequin Resusci Anne. It was created by Peter Safar and Asmund Laerdal in 1958 and was used starting in 1960 in numerous CPR courses. Therefore, the face has been called by some "the most kissed face" of all time.
Our cast is available in large size and also available in Small. The large size is approx. 2/3 original size and the small is approx. half original size. We do not have the full life size at this time.
The Large size cast is made from an antique Karlsruhe Majolika Art Deco Death Mask.
The piece is about 7" tall, and 4 7/8" wide at the widest point.
It's a very beautiful little work of art with a sad history. I can provide more pictures upon request.
Half size cast: $20 *available in white only
(plus shipping)
Large size cast: $50 (sale price) available in white only
Charles Laughton (1 July 1899 � 15 December 1962) was an English stage and film actor and director.
Laughton was trained in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and first appeared professionally on the stage in 1926. In 1927, he was cast in a play with his future wife Elsa Lanchester, with whom he lived and worked until his death; they had no children. He played a wide range of classical and modern parts, making a big impact in Shakespeare at the Old Vic. His film career took him to Hollywood, but he also collaborated with Alexander Korda on some of the most notable British films of the era, including The Private Life of Henry VIII.
Among Laughton's biggest film-hits were The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Mutiny on the Bounty, Ruggles of Red Gap, Jamaica Inn, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Big Clock.
Heath Ledger (actor; The Joker in Batman) life mask
1:1 life mask of Heath Ledger
Heath Andrew Ledger (4 April 1979 � 22 January 2008) was an Australian actor and director. After performing roles in Australian television and film during the 1990s, Ledger left for the United States in 1998 to develop his film career. His work comprised nineteen films, including 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), The Patriot (2000), A Knight's Tale (2001), Monster's Ball (2001), Ned Kelly (2003), The Brothers Grimm (2005), Lords of Dogtown (2005), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Casanova (2005), Candy (2006), I'm Not There (2007), The Dark Knight (2008), and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009). He also produced and directed music videos and aspired to be a film director
The cast measures approx. 6" wide x 9" tall x about 4 1/2" thick.
Robert E Lee (1807 - 1870). Robert E. Lee Is respected by all for his integrity in leadership. "Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, You should never wish to do less." Lee. The original cast was taken Oct 12th, 1870 by Clark Mills immediately upon General Lee's Death. Lee graduated from West Point in 1829 second in his class. In 1831 he married Mary, Daughter of the adopted son of George Washington.
In 1861 Lee was strongly against secession but felt obliged to be on the side of Virginia his home state. Federal Authorities offered Lee the command of the Army to invade the South. Lee refused and went to Richmond. He was made a Brigadier General in the Confederate Service
The original death mask of Robert E. Lee was taken by American sculptor Clark Mills upon Lee�s death in Lexington, VA on October 12, 1870. This copy of the mask is on display at the Museum of the Confederacy � Appomattox.
Robert E. Lee life cast $50 (plus shipping)
Lenin Death mask
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Russian) born April 22 (one source gives April 10th) 1870 � 21 January 1924), born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, was a Russian revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years (1917�1924), as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a socialist economic system.
As a politician, Vladimir Lenin was a persuasive orator, as a political scientist his extensive theoretic and philosophical developments of Marxism produced Marxism�Leninism, the pragmatic Russian application of Marxism.
Lenin's body remains on display even today in Lenin's Tomb (Lenin's Mausoleum)
We offer this cast replica which was made from a mold of Lenin's face after he died.
$60 plus shipping.
David Letterman life mask (life cast)
David Michael Letterman (born April 12, 1947) is an American television host and comedian. He hosts the late night television talk show, Late Show with David Letterman, broadcast on CBS. Letterman has been a fixture on late night television since the 1982 debut of Late Night with David Letterman on NBC. Letterman recently surpassed friend and mentor Johnny Carson for having the longest late-night hosting career in the United States of America
David Letterman life cast.
Jerry Lewis life mask (life cast)
Life cast from a mold of actor Jerry Lewis. Lewis starred in such movies as "The Nutty Professor"
Customer Review: "We received the Jerry Lewis life masks. Excellent work. Thanks very much for taking the time. You'll hear from me again!"
Peter Lorre Life Mask
Bogart said that Peter Lorre was one of the greatest actors of the time. a true Hollywood legend. This mask was made for use during the making of the Disney movie 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea with Kirk Douglas
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Roddy McDowall Planet Of The Apes Life Mask Life Cast
Chloe Moretz Life Mask Life Cast
Dark Shadows / Let The Right One In / Carrie
This is a lifecast life mask of Actress Chloe Moretz (Carrie,Dark Shadows,) It was created for special effects purposes and captures every detail of her face (wrinkles and pores,etc)
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Napoleon Bonaparte life mask
In February 1821, his health began to fail rapidly, and on 3 May two British physicians who had recently arrived attended him and could only recommend palliatives. He died two days later, after confession, Extreme Unction and Viaticum in the presence of Father Ange Vignali. His last words were, "France, arm�e, t�te d'arm�e, Josephine." ("France, army, head of the army, Jos�phine.")
Napoleon's original death mask was created around 6 May, though it is not clear which doctor created it. It was customary to cast a death mask or mold of a leader. Four genuine death masks of Napoleon are known to exist: one in The Cabildo, a state museum located in New Orleans, one in a Liverpool museum, another in Havana and one in the library of the University of North Carolina.
During the time of Napoleon, it was customary to cast a death mask or mould of a great leader who had recently died. A mixture of wax or plaster was carefully placed over Napoleon's face and removed after the form had hardened. From this impression, subsequent copies were cast.
The British Tory press sometimes depicted Napoleon as much smaller than average height, and this image persists. Confusion about his height also results from the difference between the French pouce and British inch�2.71 and 2.54 cm respectively; he was about 1.7 metres (5 ft 7 in) tall, average height for the period. Napoleon's height was 5 ft 2 French inches according to Antommarchi at Napoleon's autopsy and British sources put his height at 5 ft 7 British inches: both equivalent to 1.7 m.
Napoleon Bonaparte death mask (cast) measures approx 13 inches long (top of head to bottom of neck) and 5 1/2 inches wide.
Nelson: Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson (1758 - 1805) death cast life mask
Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson (1758 - 1805)
Nelson was a British naval commander and national hero, famous for his naval victories against the French during the Napoleonic Wars.
Born on 29 September 1758 in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, Horatio Nelson was the sixth of the 11 children of a clergyman. He joined the navy aged 12, on a ship commanded by a maternal uncle. He became a captain at 20, and saw service in the West Indies, Baltic and Canada. He married Frances Nisbet in 1787 in Nevis, and returned to England with his bride to spend the next five years on half-pay, frustrated at the lack of a command.
When Britain entered the French Revolutionary Wars in 1793, Nelson was given command of the Agamemnon. He served in the Mediterranean, helped capture Corsica and saw battle at Calvi (where he lost the sight in his right eye). He would later lose his right arm at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife in 1797.
As a commander he was known for bold action, and the occasional disregard of orders from his seniors. This defiance brought him victories against the Spanish off Cape Vincent in 1797, and at the Battle of Copenhagen four years later, where he ignored orders to cease action by putting his telescope to his blind eye and claiming he couldn't seen the signal to withdraw.
At the Battle of the Nile in 1798, he successfully destroyed Napoleon's fleet and thus his bid for a direct trade route to India. Nelson's next posting took him to Naples, where he fell in love with Emma, Lady Hamilton. Although they remained in their respective marriages, Nelson and Emma Hamilton considered each other soul-mates and had a child together, Horatia, in 1801. Earlier that same year, Nelson was promoted to vice-admiral.
Over the period 1794 to 1805, under Nelson's leadership, the Royal Navy proved its supremacy over the French. His most famous engagement, at Cape Trafalgar, saved Britain from threat of invasion by Napoleon, but it would be his last. Before the battle on 21 October 1805, Nelson sent out the famous signal to his fleet 'England expects that every man will do his duty'. He was killed by a French sniper a few hours later while leading the attack on the combined French and Spanish fleet. His body was preserved in brandy and transported back to England where he was given a state funeral.
Jack Nicholson "The Shining" life mask
A great find, tucked away in storage for years this rare cast once again sees the light of day.
Shown here is our original cast of Jack in "The Shining". Though the cast you see here is a light brown, your cast will be white. This was made for the scene of his characters death at the end of the movie. The specks you see on this face cast are "snow". The cast measures 9" tall by 5" wide.
Jack Nicholson Grinning life mask
Jack Nicholson "Grinning" cast
This cast measures 10" High X 5.75" Wide X 4" Deep. $50 (plus shipping)
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This is a life cast life mask of Actor, Gary Oldman (Dracula, Dark Knight Rises,)
Life Cast Life Mask of Gary Oldman Leon / Dark Knight /Rise of the planet of the Apes
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Al Pacino life mask (life cast)
Life cast from a mold of actor Al Pacino.
Pacino starred in such movies as "Scarface" and "The Devil's Advocate"
Vintage Paul Gauguin Death Mask Cast Resin Antique Face
Artist Paul Gauguin was born Eug�ne Henri Paul Gauguin. Gauguin was a French post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of color and Synthetist style that were distinctly different from Impressionism. Toward the end of his life, he spent ten years in French Polynesia, and most of his paintings from this time depict people or landscapes from that region.
Lived: Jun 07, 1848 - May 08, 1903 (age 54) Nationality: French
Periods: Post-Impressionism � Primitivism � Modern art
Vintage Ceramic Death/Life Mask of Paul Gauguin on Base Bronze painted face on custom base Size: 11 1/2" x 9" x 4" total size with base
Vincent Price life mask
Life cast of actor Vincent Price.
A true mastor of Horror.
Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. (May 27, 1911 � October 25, 1993) was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and serio-comic performances in a series of horror films made in the latter part of his career.
Leonard Nimoy life cast. See "Star Trek" lower on this page.
Gregory Peck life mask
Gregory Peck life mask. Best known for playing Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962) and Robert Thorn in "The Omen" (1976). Peck died in 2003.
On his 1962 Oscar-winning role in To Kill A Mockingbird (1955), Peck said: "I put everything I had into it - all my feelings and everything I'd learned in 46 years of living, about family life and fathers and children. And my feelings about racial justice and inequality and opportunity."
Poltergeist: Heather O'Rourke life cast
Heather O'Rourke life cast, who played Carol Anne in all three Poltergeist films.
Original Studio made life mask and mold.
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Julia Roberts 1:1 Life Mask - Star of Pretty Woman.
Born: October 28, 1967 in Smyrna, Georgia, USA
Julia Fiona Roberts never dreamed she would become the most popular actress in America. She was born in Smyrna, Georgia, to Betty Lou (Bredemus) and Walter Grady Roberts, one-time actors and playwrights, and is of English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, German, and Swedish descent. As a child, due to her love of animals, Julia originally wanted to be a veterinarian, but later studied journalism. When her brother, Eric Roberts, achieved some success in Hollywood, Julia decided to try acting. Her first break came in 1988 when she appeared in two youth-oriented movies Mystic Pizza (1988) and Satisfaction (1988).
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Barbara Streisand life mask
Barbara Streisand life cast. This was made at a very young age (around the "Funny Girl" era).
Barbara Streisand life cast $50 (plus shipping)
Sherman as a major general in May 1865. The black ribbon of mourning on his left arm is for U.S. President Lincoln.
Sherman: General Tecumseh Sherman
Military commander
William Tecumseh Sherman was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861�65), for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the "scorched earth" policies that he implemented in conducting total war against the Confederate States.
This is a reproduction death mask of General Sherman. This of the entire head and upper chest. Lifesize. $100 (plus shipping)
Alicia Silverstone life mask
Alicia Silverstone life mask. Alicia played "Cher" in the movie "Clueless" (1995) and "Batgirl" in Batman & Robin (1997). Alicia is also well known from being in two Aerosmith videos: "Cryin'" (1993) and "Amazing" (1993). Alicia now helps promote PETA.
Alicia Silverstone life cast $50 (plus shipping)
"I don't feel like a dream girl, but I think it's really nice. I guess a part of me wishes I got that sort of attention in my real life. Because in my real life, I'm this weird, dorky girl who just hangs out with her dog."
Star Trek:
Leonard Nimoy life cast
Leonard Nimoy life cast.
Nimoy's most famous role is that of Spock in the original Star Trek
William Shatner life cast
$ coming soon
Patrick Stewart cast
Star Trek Patrick Stewart, Locutus of Borg life cast. This is a rare cast. While most of the life casts we sell are the front and side of the head only, this cast is the whole head.
The cast is available unpainted only.
Unpainted Patrick Stewart cast: $80 (plus shipping)
Painted Patrick Stewart cast shown here painted. Please note, this cast is available unpainted only.
Grady Stiles "Lobster boy" hand cast
Grady Stiles Jr. "Lobster boy" hand life cast
David Cavaliere, who lives and runs his studio in Tampa, Fl. cast this hand off of Grady Stiles several years ago.
Grady Stiles, Jr. was a famous freak show performer known as Lobster Boy. He was also a wife-beater and convicted murderer. His own family hired a hitman to kill him. You may have seen the story on City Confidential. This is a cast of the hand of his son, who has the same deformity.
Gene Simmons as the Kiss Demon. Amazing detail on this mask. The gentleman who made this mask was kind enough to let us sell it. This is likeness of Gene's face is cast in Hydro-stone. Just awesome! Can hang on wall and be the envy of all your KISS fan friends.
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This is a very detailed life mask of actress Uma Thurman. This cast is made of hydrocal and has a sturdy hook in back ready to hang. This was made from an original mold taken from Thurman's face.
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Q: How to Align D3.js X-axis Dates with Supplied Data I'm creating a time-based line chart and everything looks fine but I'm having difficulty with the x-axis tickmarks. As you can see http://jsfiddle.net/shubo/Yvupw/ the dates start at 2013-01-30 and ends at 2013-04-17 but the chart tick mark starts at 2013-2-3 and ends at 2013-4-14. What do I need to do so the first tickmark would show 2013-01-03 and the last one would show 2013-4-17?
var json = {
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    {
      "date": "2013-04-17",
      "metric": 437792798
    },
    {
      "date": "2013-04-10",
      "metric": 437792998
    },
    {
      "date": "2013-04-03",
      "metric": 434633203
    },
    {
      "date": "2013-03-27",
      "metric": 431786310
    },
    {
      "date": "2013-03-20",
      "metric": 429614980
    },
    {
      "date": "2013-03-13",
      "metric": 427709519
    },
    {
      "date": "2013-03-06",
      "metric": 425894908
    },
    {
      "date": "2013-02-27",
      "metric": 423657524
    },
    {
      "date": "2013-02-20",
      "metric": 420392146
    },
    {
      "date": "2013-02-13",
      "metric": 417215035
    },
    {
      "date": "2013-02-06",
      "metric": 412433066
    },
    {
      "date": "2013-01-30",
      "metric": 408952856
    }
  ]
};

var margin = {top: 20, right: 50, bottom: 30, left: 50},
    width = 960 - margin.left - margin.right,
    height = 110 - margin.top - margin.bottom;

var parseDate = d3.time.format("%Y-%m-%d").parse;

var x = d3.time.scale()
    .range([0, width]);

var y = d3.scale.linear()
    .range([height, 0]);

var xAxis = d3.svg.axis()
    .scale(x)
    .orient("bottom");

var line = d3.svg.line()
    .x(function(d) { return x(d.date); })
    .y(function(d) { return y(d.metric); });

var svg = d3.select("body").append("svg")
    .attr("width", width + margin.left + margin.right)
    .attr("height", height + margin.top + margin.bottom)
  .append("g")
    .attr("transform", "translate(" + margin.left + "," + margin.top + ")");

var data = json.data;

data.forEach(function(d) {
  d.date = parseDate(d.date);
});

data.sort(function(a, b) {
  return a.date - b.date;
});

x.domain([data[0].date, data[data.length - 1].date]);
y.domain(d3.extent(data, function(d) { return d.metric; }));

svg.append("g")
    .attr("class", "x axis")
    .attr("transform", "translate(0," + height + ")")
    .call(xAxis);

svg.append("path")
    .datum(data)
    .attr("class", "line")
    .attr("d", line);

var format = d3.format(',');

A: Try using axis.tickValues([values]) to control exactly which tick marks appear or use one of the one of the other tick settings.

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Written by Don on Wednesday, 26 June 2019. Posted in Primasonics Blog
I am a sucker for musical theatre and so it was no surprise that I again found myself at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle upon Tyne, this time to see Motown the Musical which was written by Berry Gordy the guy who set up initially Tamla records in January 12, 1959 then incorporated it into the Motown Record Corporation in April 14, 1960.
His early artist signings included Eddie Holland, Mable John, The Miracles and perhaps the better-known Mary Wells who had a big hit in 1994 with 'My Guy'. This was followed the next year with Motown's first US number one hit, 'Please Mr. Postman' by the Marvelettes.
The success of Motown continued and between 1961 and 1972 they enjoyed 110 top 10 hits. Berry added what we considered as household names to his record label such as the Supremes, the Four Tops, the Jackson 5, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder.
In the UK, initially Motown's records were released under various labels such as Fontana and EMI's Stateside label, however eventually EMI created the Tamla Motown label and the Supremes 'Stop in the Name of Love' was the first hit in 1965.
Berry relocated his empire from Detroit to Los Angeles and went into the movie business and made two hit films starring the love of his life Diana Ross. The first was a Billie Holiday biographical film 'Lady Sings the Blues' in 1872 which won her a Golden Globe Award, followed in 1975 with 'Mahogany'. The stage musical highlighted the love affair between Berry and Diana which resulted in the birth of their daughter Rhonda in 1971.
During the two-hour show one got to understand the life and success of Berry Gordy and the whole Motown scene and in many ways it, to a lesser degree, reflects the growth of Primasonics International which was also 'my baby'. I am very proud of the international growth the company has achieved over the last 21 years with sales in well over 70 countries worldwide, and in a very wide range of industries and applications. Everyone connected with the company are very proud of our achievements and look forward to an exciting and innovative future.
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Q: 2D array plotting in matplotlib I was trying to plot a 2D array vs a 1D array with pyplot. I can do that with no problems and columns in the 2D array are treated like two different sets of Y datas, which is what i want. What i don't know is how to specify a different color for every column in the 2d array. if i use pyplot.plot(1darray, 2darray, "r-") every column in 2d array is plotted red for example. Should i modify the standard color map or is there a smarter way?

A: If you want to use custom colors for each column, then the best approach is to plot each column explicitly using a loop:
for column, colcolor in zip(2darray, colors):
    pyplot.plot(2darray, column, "-", color=colcolor)

You may have to use 2darray.T, I'm not sure, and I can't check right now.


This has got to be one of my favorite time of the year. I love shopping at the best of times,but when most shops are offering around 50% it just makes it that little bit better. Being a student I unfortunately had to limit myself as there was so much I wanted to get. I love taking advantage of a good bargain so couldn't wait to get out and explore the sales. I got so many lovely things that I though I would share with you all.
I've been needing some new brushes for a while now, so when I saw these I had to get them. Boots is my favourite place for the sales as all their gift sets are half price unfortunately loads of the ones I wanted were sold out, hopefully I can find them in different stores. This was only £9 down from £18 for 5 brushes and a pot! I've never tried French connection brushes but they feel so soft and seem like good quality l, look forward to testing them.
Urban Outfitters is one of my favourite shops for the sale and I had to make sure I popped in there. What's best about Urban Outfitters is that you still get student discount on sale items. I mean what's better than that? This pink sparkly too caught my eye, I thought it was unique but not too out there. I think this would look great for a casual drinks on a night out either paired with jeans or a plain skirt. This top is tight but fits so well and is really flattering.This was £26 down to £18, then student discount got it down to a bargain price of £16.20!
Now, I'm certainly not going to show you the underwear I brought but just a quick note to say the VS sale is amazing as always. The shop is always crazy and there's literally underwear thrown everywhere. Sometimes you have to search for the good bits but it's totally worth it. My purchases today were over 50% off so a great buy.
Jeans are such an essential in everyone's wardrobe. Topshop jeans are always my favourite, the quality is so good and you can't beat the fit. However the price is not on the nice side with most of their jeans over £40. These retailed at £45, but were in the sale for £22, add student discount to make £19.80 then you're good to go. I tend to stick to the classic skinny jeans but I've been wanting to branch out and get some baggier ones. Ripped jeans are totally in at the moment and these looked liked the perfect fit. They didn't have my size so I had to get the size up, but I love the fit on my legs and with a belt they fit perfectly. This chucky back belt adds so much to them and gives them more of an vintage style.
This is my all time favourite mascara and I was seriously running low, as I was browsing feel unique I saw this little set. The set contains a full size mascara and a travel sized on, Even the travel sized one has lasted me around 6 months, so this is worth it in my eyes. This set is £24 on the Urban Decay website and only cost me £13.20. As this is my favourite mascara I just couldn't say no, If you haven't tried it you seriously need to.
I'm obsessed with rose embroidery and this jacket is no exception, if you saw my Winter Walks OOTD you would know that I've been living in my blue denim jacket. I've been wanting a black one for ages so I wouldn't have to do the dreaded double blue denim. Having a fleece lined jacket is going to be a life saviour, it seems so warm and cosy and I can't wait to wear it out. I brought this in a size up so I could wear jumpers underneath it, I also love over sized things so this was great.
Let me know what your January sales bargains are and what's your favourite item I've got?
Love everything in this haul! Need to try urban decay products, heard so many good things about it!
I literally love everything you got! The pink top, the jeans and the jacket! Such great finds!? I wish I had nabbed those jeans – what a steal!
Thank you so much I always struggle with my photos!! I think this is the best I've done in the sales!
This is definitely the best I've ever done in the sales!


Catholics confess their sins to a priest. This encounter is not solely with the person of the priest, but with God himself. The sacrament of Confession or the sacrament of healing is the moment in which we allow Jesus to heal our relationship with him. Preparing well for this encounter is important because it allows us to see who we really are and how we truly need to be healed.


There is a lot to think about when planning a decking project. Perhaps the most important is the design of the decking boards. To help with this, Gripsure offers a custom design service that lets you pick each element of the board . We love working with our customers to create a truly unique product. Let's have a look at some of the options.
Which timber should you choose for your decking?
The first choice when designing your decking is which timber to use. This gives you your base from which to design the rest of the board. The first consideration is working out how long you want your decking to last. Most decks use a treated softwood with a service life of somewhere between 15 and 25 years, depending on the pressure treatment. If you are looking for a longer lifespan you might want to consider a modified timber or a hardwood, which could mean your decking lasts for up to 60 years.
The second main consideration is the timber's natural colour. With a softwood this colour choice is limited by the treatment options available and is generally either a brown or, more commonly, green. Hardwoods have a wider range of colouring, even within the same species of timber, giving you more options. If left to weather naturally all timbers will fade to a silver grey appearance over time.
You can find more information on how to pick your timber by clicking here or further details on the types of timber we use at Gripsure here.
How big do you need your decking boards to be?
What size do you want your decking boards to be? This will largely depend on the area you want to cover. A 150mm wide board will be quicker to install than and 125mm wide board and you will need fewer lengths to cover the same area. Thickness is also a consideration and using a thicker board will reduce the timber needed for your sub frame.
What kind of surface would you like for your decking?
Do you want a grooved or smooth finish on your board? There is a large selection of standard profiles available, however if you want something special machining we are more than happy to design a totally unique profile which can then be machined for you.
What grade of timber do you need?
Timber grading is important when you are considering the loads you will be subjecting the boards to and the distance you are looking to span. This is particularly useful for commercial decks, however can be relevant for domestic decks, especially if they are being installed at height, for example on a balcony. You can find more information on timber grading, as well as our anti-slip performance warranty, by clicking here.
How would you like your decking timber to be treated?
There is a wide range of different treatment options available to preserve your timber decking. When thinking about timber treatment you need to consider the colour and the desired service life. When most timber is treated it turns a lighter or darker shade of green, depending on the treatment. You can opt for a brown treatment if this works better with your design. Both options will weather to a silver grey if left to age naturally.
There are different classes of treatment available, each lasting a different length of time. So, for example a treatment called UC3 should last for 15 years, while UC4 has a 25 year expected life. A higher quality timber, such as UC4 is recommended if your decking will be in contact with the ground.
How do you want your non slip treatment to look?
At Gripsure we use aggregate to give an anti slip surface on our decking. It can also play a key role in the design of your timber boards. For example, we created ZebraDeck, which has a wavy anti slip design for the Eden Project.
You can also choose a different colour or different grade of aggregate. My colleague Ross has written about choosing aggregate here. Aggregates naturally occur in a range of different colours, but you can add a pigment to create the exact colour you want. However, the pigment will eventually wear off to leave the natural colour. When looking at aggregate grades you are basically looking at different sized granules of aggregate which have slightly different physical characteristics. When looking at a children's play area it may be better to opt for a finer aggregate as it will be slightly less abrasive on children's knees.
Oils and stains can be used to alter or preserve the colour of your decking. If you want to preserve the natural colour of your decking you can apply a UV protection oil. This will prevent the board weathering as it naturally would, keeping the original colour intact for far longer than naturally possible. Beyond this there is a large selection of different stains which can be used to alter the colour of your boards. Both of these require re-application over time to continue giving you the benefits, however they provide a cost effective and easy way to alter the decking once it has been installed.
Find out more Gripsure Custom decking here. If you would like to discuss any of these options please don't hesitate to give our sales team a call and they can help you create your perfect decking.


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What fraction is equivalent to 8 over 12 and 16 over 24?
80/120 is one example.
Q: What fraction is equivalent to 8 over 12 and 16 over 24?
What is the equivalent fraction of 12 16?
equivalent fraction of 12/16 = 24/32
What is a fraction equivalent to 6 over 8?
3/4 or 12/16
What is the equivalent fraction of 10 over 16?
Which fraction is equivalent to 4 over 16?
What fraction is equivalent to 12 16?
What are the equivalent fraction to 6 over 8?
equivalent fraction to 6 over 8 = 12/16
What is an equivalent fraction of 8 over 12 multiply by 2?
8/12 * 2 = 16/12. An equivalent fraction is 8/6.
What is the equivalent fraction of 12-16?
What are 2 eqviualent fraction for 6 over 16?
One equivalent fraction would be: 3 over 8 The second equivalent fraction would be: 12 over 32
What is the equivalent fraction to 8 over 16?
equivalent fraction to 8 over 16 = 1/2
What fraction is equivalent to 16 over 52?
fraction which is equivalent to 16 over 52 = 4/13
What fraction is equivalent to 3 over 4?
6/8, 9/12, 12/16 and so on.
equivalent fraction of 16 over 48 = 8/24
What fraction is equivalent to the ratio 16 over 48?
fraction which is equivalent to the ratio 16 over 48 = 8/24
What is the equivalent fraction of 8 over 16?
the equivalent fraction is 1/2


Is outdoor lighting your main business? Many companies claim they do architectural and landscape light but they do only occasionally on the side and not to the level of our impeccable full service. It is more of an add-on to their main business and that is where you know they do not have the necessary expertise.
Do you provide night time demonstrations? You definitely should see your home with lights before you buy!
Is your company a full-service lighting company that provides design, installation and continuous maintenance? Strong lighting companies cover all the bases so you never have to worry about your outdoor lighting. Ask about annual service plans to maintain your outdoor lighting system.
Is the quality of your fixtures backed by a long lasting warranty? Be sure to find a company that provides solid brass and copper fixtures along with solid warranty on transformers, bulbs, and fixtures.
How long have you been in business and what type of projects have you worked on? Reputation and longevity are crucial considerations. Do your research on the company ratings and reviews and ask for references on recent installations.
There may be other questions you would want to ask but these five questions will set you on the right track to find a professional and reliable outdoor company that will transform your yard with beautiful lighting that increases safety and security as well as visually enhances your home.


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Jail staff drunk on duty and not doing night checks, says director of prisons
Caron McCaffrey
Hugh O'Connell
Some Irish Prison Service (IPS) staff are breaching rules by being drunk on duty and failing to follow procedures for night checks and prisoner escorts, the agency's director general has said.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/jail-staff-drunk-on-duty-and-not-doing-night-checks-says-director-of-prisons-38298546.html
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In an email to all IPS staff last Friday, Caron McCaffrey outlined new guidelines for managers to impose sanctions for disciplinary breaches, describing the current ones as not robust enough.
Ms McCaffrey said there is a "small group of staff who continue to engage in rule-breaking".
"There are occasions when some staff make a conscious decision not to act in line with our policies, protocols and procedures, ie failure to adhere to night-check procedures, being under the influence of alcohol, not adhering to escort procedures etc," she wrote.
"Failure to follow our processes and procedures can impact greatly on our ability to provide safe custody and increases the risk that you face [while] caring for those who have been committed to your care and responsibility."
Ms McCaffrey outlined new guidelines for disciplinary sanctions. She said these would deal with minor misconduct and gross or serious misconduct. She said she did not believe "we have a robust enough approach to dealing with misconduct".
She will shortly publish a new code of ethics "which will make explicit the standard of behaviour" staff must meet.
The Prison Officers' Association said it had been seeking a new code of conduct for the past decade. Its president, John Clinton, said: "We have clearly being stating that we have major concerns on the overall issue of our disciplinary code not being fit for purpose."
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President challenges FAO to establish special fund for small island and low-lying states
By News Source Guyana on October 17, 2022
Zooming in on climate related risks, the President pointed out that SIDS and Low-Lying Coastal States are at risk of flooding, drought, erosion, natural disasters such as land slides and hurricanes, and the intrusion of salt water into farm lands. Extreme weather events, he said, disrupt food systems, and cause destruction to crops and agricultural infrastructure.
Warning that insufficient investment in climate adaptation can hamper food security, President Irfaan Ali today challenged the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) to establish a special Adaptation Fund for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and Low-Lying Coastal States as he addressed world leaders virtually during the opening ceremony of the 2022 World Food Forum in Rome.
Mr. Ali told the high-level forum that Small Island Developing and Low-Lying Coastal States need climate adaptation financing on soft terms, at concessionary interest rates, long-term repayment plan, and even more grants in light of the peculiar challenges they face.
"It is my hope therefore, that the FAO can conceptualised and facilitate the establishment of a special adaptation fund for SIDS and Low-Lying Coastal States disbursed on the basis of vulnerability index, rather than on traditional measures relating to Gross Domestic Product. I have also called for a climate vulnerability fund. These will help unlock much needed and specially tailored resources for SIDS and Low-lying Coastal States to help boost their food security," President Ali told the global leaders.
He explained that SIDS and Low-Lying Coastal States face a plethora of challenges due to their limited access to larger markets, susceptibility to external shocks and market vulnerabilities, narrow revenue base, fragile eco-system and vulnerability to climate risk.
Against that background, he said investment in climate adaptation is necessary to foster a climate resilient agricultural sector.
"Without climate adaptation, the Agriculture Sector's of SIDS and Low-Lying Coastal States will be continuously prone to climate risks. At COP26, certain pledges were made to boost adaptation financing but I have alluded to elsewhere, the level of financing promised by the developed countries will be inadequate to close the adaptation gap; and without climate financing, the Agriculture Sector's of SIDS and Low-Lying Coastal States will be challenged to attract investment for production and productivity," the President said.
According to the President, climate financing must be increased by at least 590%.
He explained that Adaptation Finance remains far below the scale necessary to respond to existing and future climate change. It was further pointed out that the Public Sector continues to provide almost all adaptation financing. President Ali noted that in Latin America and the Caribbean Region, Adaptation Finance totalled US$4.6B in 2019-2020 of which US$300M was from domestic sources.
It was also noted that in 2019 and 2020, debt dominated the climate finance landscape with 61% of the funds acquired through debt.
"Given the scale of climate financing needs and current trends, it is anticipated that the large scale transfers to match those needs will continue to be raised through debt, rather than through grants. For SIDS, and particularly for CARICOM, the trend is of particular concern given the worsening debt situation that many face, and that has been compounded as a result of COVID-19, global inflation, rising fuel prices, and the current Russian-Ukraine War that is crowding out climate finance related issues," he reasoned.
The President said investment is critical to the transformation of food systems, and is required at all stages from adaptation to research to cultivation right up to marketing, distribution and trade.
"Investment can help SIDS to reduce their vulnerabilities and to diversify production. It is needed to expand and modernise agriculture, and foster climate smart innovation and climate resilient agriculture. Investment is needed to transition production higher up the value chain through food processing. Investment is needed in developing human resources, particularly in making agricultural more attractive to join people but foremost. SIDS and Low-lying Coastal States require substantial injection of resources for climate adaptation," President Ali further explained.
The World Food Forum is being attended by world leaders, youth groups, scientists, private companies, Indigenous Peoples, farmers, agri-investors and small-scale producers from around the world. It is intended to move the needle for food security to achieve a better food future for all, leaving no one-behind.
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Exterior shutters are an important detail that can throw off the entire look of your home if not thoughtfully designed or properly installed.
With shutters playing such an important role in your home's exterior aesthetics, and with so many styles to choose from, how do you choose the right one?
We hope our new "Style Spotlight" series will serve as a helpful guide providing you with everything need to choose the best shutter style for your home.
Each week we'll highlight a different shutter style and break it down so it is easy and straightforward to understand. We'll even include a lot of pictures so you can see the shutter style on various homes.


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Chicago White Sox: Finally get the one thing they needed on Sunday
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - JUNE 27: Yermin Mercedes #73 of the Chicago White Sox hits a two-run double in the first inning against the Seattle Mariners at Guaranteed Rate Field on June 27, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images) /
The Chicago White Sox went into Sunday knowing they needed to get their offense back on track. They had to play a doubleheader with the Seattle Mariners because of some weather issues on Saturday. They knew that they needed to score some runs against a red-hot Mariners team in order to beat them.
Unfortunately, the first game didn't go their way. They went into the 9th inning tied at 2 before Liam Hendriks allowed a solo shot. That ended up being the slight difference in the game for the Mariners. Luckily, the White Sox had a second game to try and get back on track again. They were successful as they defeated the Mariners by a final score of 7-5.
The Chicago White Sox knew that offense was their issue during the cold streak.
We went into the season believing that the White Sox would be an elite team if the pitching came up. Well, their pitching has been as good as any team in Major League Baseball but the offense hasn't been quite as dominant as we have come to know. It has still been good enough to keep them in first place but the ball isn't flying out like it did in 2020.
That is naturally going to happen when you lose superstars like Luis Robert and Eloy Jimenez but others need to step up. That happened in the second game on Sunday as they exploded for all those funs. They also saw different players contribute offense which is what you need to be consistently productive.
Tim Anderson had a great game at the plate but we expect that from him. Yoan Moncada and Yasmani Grandal also had walks that led to some runs scored as well. With Jose Abreu out because of a bruised knee, you need those guys to step up.
As far as the depth players contributing, the White Sox had some of that as well. Luiz Gonzalez had a walk and a hit in the game. He came around to score once as well which is really nice. Getting him going would really help until they get a bit healthier as a team.
The big story is Yermin Mercedes and Zack Collins. Both of them played a huge role in the White Sox having the offensive explosion that they did in this one. Mercedes had two hits, three RBIs, and two runs scored. Collins had two hits and four RBIs which is really nice for him as well. Hopefully, this leads both of these guys to a hot streak.
Related Story. The White Sox could have some All-Star Game starters. light
Now, the White Sox needs to keep this going. They have a huge series coming up with the Minnesota Twins. That team is well buried in the AL Central but they can hit the ball very well. The White Sox offense is going to need to keep up with them in order to win. Their pitching is nothing great so it should be able to work. This game against the Mariners will, hopefully, do wonders for their confidence at the plate.