text:
I wonder what you're doing
Probably smiling
Probably laughing
I'm missing so much, waiting
Precious moments gone
Careless afternoons
The sun lazy overhead
One day I'll be there.
I actually watched this a while ago and didn't really feel like reviewing it because it was just kind of ok. I didn't feel strongly enough about it to do a review, it just sort of passed over my eyeballs without really grabbing me or me really hating it. It was a solid meh.
But due to this recent content drought do to my erratic work schedule and near constant writers constipation, desperate times call for desperate measures. Which includes but is not limited to poetry examining the uncomfortable truth of my existence and movie reviews about movies that did not wow me at all in being especially bad or good.
So Us, what's Us about? Err, clones I guess *spoilers* except not really because it's sort of revealed in the pointless bit at the start which ruined the whole movie for me. Sorry but it did.
It's one of those movies that has this overly long pre-ambles where something happens before the movie starts proper. But it added nothing really and the story would have been more interesting/mysterious if they'd cut it shorter or left it out. With it in it bloats the first act and forces them to cut down the bits where you're supposed to get to know the family so you can care about them. But don't worry none of them die, oh yeah spoilers, except who cares?
They should've just started the movie at the fucking start, why do movies hate to do this now? Just have the family going on vacation, give us time to set up equilibrium and get to know the family and then gradually build the to the freaky shit.
If you read my blog, (which no one does haha) you know how I feel about this director and Get Out, if you don't I think Get Out is probably the most overrated movie in history. It's barely a movie, it's an overly long episode of the tales from the crypt that won an oscar or something. But we all know why, if Jordan Peele were white and the movie wasn't about racial politics nobody would've given a shit. But that's the world we live in, a silly movie like Get out about white people wanting to suck out black people's brains so they can steal their bodies wins oscars while nobody gives a shit about Hereditary because it was made by a Jewish guy and it wasn't political, it was just good.
So really the problem here is hype, Jordan Peele is like seen as this genius when he just made an ok b/horror movie that he made political and people had to get on board with it or be labelled an ist or an ism or whatever. And now his new movie is still kinda political but it's more subtle, so subtle it's audience doesn't really get it and it's not being lawded with the same fan fare.
Honestly if I think about it I think I liked Us more than Get Out, only because it's a more interesting concept and the movie was sort of more dynamic I guess, I dunno. It was more entertaining as an idea, more ambitious, less silly, even though under serious scrutiny it kinda makes no sense.
It's a cool idea, it's basically like there's this underground society of clone people for some reason, and they like escape… for some reason and then want to kill their doubles… for some reason.
Yeah see what I mean? So we're supposed to believe there's some kind of facility cloning people and a little girl get down into it by accident and there's no guards or scientists, the clones are just hanging around under there until one day they decide to murder everyone.
These are the parts that really bother me. It's a cool idea but that's all it is, it's not very well fleshed out.
That's it really, it has some cool bits, but it's really just kind of a mess and it has no stakes or tension because Peele isn't ballsy enough to let any of his characters actually die, in a horror movie.
Oh sure he lets the white family get slaughtered, that's fine but his self insert character. They didn't even seem to be that bothered that their friends were murdered. And neither do we because they weren't developed to have any other character traits but being rich white assholes.
You could've at least killed the dad in the main family to add a level of suspense and danger, the families protector. But no, I mean if you cut out the gore you could've made this a pg13/12a. How can you convey fear when you know none of the main characters can die.
It reminds me of Hereditary *spoilers* that shattering moment when the little girl dies, it shakes the whole film. It's heart rending and horrifying and it changes the whole film because you know if they can kill this little girl and in such a horrifying way, no one in the family is safe. *spoilers end.*
It's just kind of like a safe bleh horror movie skating on Peele's name, there's no real substance to it, it has no real bite. I hate to compare it to Detective Pikachu but I feel like I'm going to be comparing every movie this to year to that movie about a little yellow electric rat that talks.
That movie had a satisfying pacing, a beginning middle and end. If you saw that in the cinema you'd feel like you got your moneys worth, like you'd gone on a journey. But Us just kinda feels like it didn't have enough content or structure to be a film. It kinda gives me hope for his twilight zone show if it isn't too woke. Because he has these good ideas but they don't seem to have enough flesh on the bone to be films and they might work better as tv show episodes instead.
That's all I have to say really, if Jordan Peele hadn't been hyped up to be the second coming of fucking Hitchcock this probably wouldn't be worth talking about. But I mean really, I'm harsh on the guy but what else is there in horror these days? Those shitty conjuring/annabelle/insidious movies that are just awful trash they keep churning out. Compared to those garbage movies Us is a fucking masterpiece.
So I'm not saying it's bad, it's just not great. Is it worth a watch? Sure, I think, so is Get Out, much more than Annabelle origins or whatever or the nun. But I'm much more looking forward to seeing Midsommar by the guy that did Hereditary, I think that's going be my horror movie of the year. But I don't want to get my hopes up.
Recalling a time
Seems so very long ago
When I felt careless
When I didn't know
Before you were even real
Before I knew love.
Part of me wishes
I could go back to that place.
But I never will.
I didn't really want to review this because it was just sort of meh but I thought I needed to let people know that I didn't die haha. Just been busy with work and trying to find a new job and stay sane.
I watched this movie for a couple of reasons, I liked Dane Dehann despite the shitty spiderman movies and Valerian being bleh. I really liked him in Chronicle and Place beyond the pines, those are amazing movies that really grabbed me and in the case of Place beyond the pines, really moved me.
So when I see his name I think it could be ok and then I saw Chris Pratt's Ethan Hawke's name in a western together and I get horrible magnificent seven flashback and full body shudders. If you haven't seen the magnificent seven remake, keep it that way, you're not missing anything.
That discouraged me a little but then I found out this movie had an R rating which peaked my interest again, thinking this would be a balls to the wall actionfest.
Turns out I was wrong about all these things.
Because at it's heart this is a movie about absolutely nothing.
I don't know why this movie was made, I don't think even the people that made it know why it was made. It just exists.
The movie starts with this abusive father beating his wife to death and his kid kills him and they run away from their even more abusive uncle played by Chris Pratt and somehow run into Billy the kid for no reason.
I thought it started kind of slow but there was some gore so I figured the movie was just building up to the action like Open Range. If you haven't seen Open Range, it's this really slow movie that climaxes in this awesome gun fight for like the whole third act, really great Kevin Costner movie. In fact there aren't many Kevin Costner movies I don't like, yes even waterworld and the Postman. I actually liked Waterworld more than mad max, heresy right. I just think overall there are more bad max movies than good and the good ones aren't that good.
See this movie is so shitty and boring I'd rather talk about mad max.
Ok so they meet billy the kid for reasons and then a bunch of talking and nothing happens until he eventually escapes with the help of this kid because his sister gets kidnapped by the evil uncle who steps in and out of the movie when it's convenient for the script. I always hate that, I hate when a villain just steps in and out when it's convenient and I always sight robocop as a movie that did it right. In robocop the main villain almost has his own arc, he has his own scenes just to establish him and you follow him almost as much as robocop, the same for robocop 2 actually, now that I think about it and the villains were really relateable. That was a good sequel, SEE, see this movie is so boring and uneventful I'm talking about robocop now.
Ok so his sister gets kidnapped and I guess the story is about coming clean, or his arc is about admitting he killed his father but no one really cares about that. So the kid wants to free billy to go after his sister, which would've been a cool story line, I mean I want to see that movie. Where a kid saves billy the kid and then billy the kid does some bad ass stuff and saves the girl and has like a redemption arc. Does that happen? No he escapes and then just dies in a really underwhelming way and then Ethan Hawke sort of becomes the main character I guess, although this movie doesn't really have a main character. It sort of goes between billy, the actual kid and ethan hawke, but none are really that likeable or interesting. It's like having three bowls of underwhelming luke warm porridge to pick from.
Then after billy dies, which me and my brother thought was a joke, and there would be like a tarantino-esque history bending, but no he's just out of the movie. Then the kid confesses and entrusts ethan hawke to save his sister and he does, the end.
And is the gun fight at the end epic? No it lasts like three second and it's really underwhelming and boring.
All that happens is Chris Pratt gets his third and final scene in the movie, he just reappears for the purpose of dying and establishing he's really mean because he let someone rape his niece. I mean he didn't rape her, that would be weird. And then you have this cringe scene like five minutes later when she shoots her rapist in the dick and we're supposed to be like '"Yeah you go girl!" maybe not that obnoxious. But there was no emotional resonance because this all happened in like the space of ten minutes.
It's like a movie that takes ages to do nothing then crams all it's emotional plot into like ten minutes and we're supposed to feel anything for these characters, why? The only emotion I felt while watching this was boredom and I don't even think that's emotion. I sat down expecting a blood soaked semi historical western and got absolutely nothing.
This movie is a big nothing burger, it's not about anything, it stands for nothing it's just nothing.
Westerns in the past, movies in general in the past had morals, they had messages, they told stories and parables, they were about something, they didn't just exist to swallow an hour or two out of your life.
It just goes back to this feeling I have that people just don't know how to make movies anymore and it's sad that the only movie I've seen recently that feels like an actual movie is about a talking yellow electric rat voiced by Ryan Reynolds.
Hey there, back again with more insane typed pen wiggling that goes nowhere and no one reads haha.
But that's half the fun right.
Nothing new to report, just getting increasingly black pilled as the world just seems to be an endless nightmare where I don't get to see my child on fathers day or her birthday or ever for no other reason than that her mother is a petty vindictive scumbag with no soul. One unfortunately that I think I'm still in love with despite loathing them to their core, but you can't control your dreams. I'm not really afraid of saying that because I'm pretty sure they stopped reading my blog.
Despite all this I'm still trying to get to the country she lives in so I can be with my daughter, the daughter she wont let me see over skype and I have no legal right to. But maybe if I move there and make enough money I can hire a lawyer if she won't let me see her.
I dunno, even if I get a job there, it probably wont go right and I'll just end up even more miserable in an alien country, miserable in paradise surrounded by people that probably hate me. But right now I feel like anything is better than this, this endless emptiness and loneliness. But I get this sinking feeling that I'll never get there and I'll just die stuck here, I don't think I have enough vital skills that they want or they can't just get there. I feel like anybody that would hire me would do so on novelty alone and that's not a safe bet.
I don't like my chances but I have no choice but to keep trying until something else comes along, it's my only option.
Either that or I'm stuck in this shitty job surrounded by people I hate making peanuts and going nowhere just playing videogames to medicate the emptiness and sorrow I feel.
K that went to a dark place. Fuck it, I need to stop writing this blog and look for a job I can fantasise about and never get.
After a long journey of awkward silence and farting poorly veiled by coughs they arrived at a ramshackle squatters camp. Made from a series of tarps turned into makeshift tents, it appeared as a boil on the horizon.
They got out and Riki lead to the biggest tent. The sound of the strange puttering vehicle had alerted their presence and lifting the flap of the tent a slim woman emerged. She thankfully looked normal and was an actual woman with long brown hair. Although she looked young her expression was weather beaten. She was pretty but there was a heaviness to her features that suggested something more to her. Her clothes were simple and looked homemade. A long flowing skirt and a earth coloured blouse with a flower pattern.
"Riki, you're back!" She said as she hugged Riki, her smile was one of relief but then she wrinkled her nose as if she smelled dog shit on his shoe "Who are these guys?" She said with notable disdain.
Riki looked back smiling awkwardly revealing deep laugh lines. "Oh these guys, they kinda helped me on the road."
"Kinda" Canard said.
"Yeah not really" Pookie said.
"Jersey, we can feed these strays right?" He smirked as if it was a challenge.
She looked at them but her eyes were far away like she was looking past them at the trouble coming behind them on the wind. "Sure" she said sucking her gums.
Not more than a minute later Pookie and pals were shovelling some stew made of a questionable meat into their mouths.
"What meat is this, tastes kinda…" Canard said poking his gums with his pinky.
"Rubbery?" Jersey finished his sentence.
"Your words" He smirked.
"Don't worry it's not people" She said pulling an unconvincing smile as she slopped some more of whatever it was into his bowl.
"Err thanks" He said.
Riki dipped bread into his stew and ate quickly without speaking. When he was done and the bowl was empty, and he looked full and happy he said "I guess you're wondering about our super interesting backstory?"
"Not really" Pookie said without looking up from his stew.
Riki looked at Canard and Efron.
"Nah" Canard said.
"No" Efron said absentmindedly.
Riki looked at the dog like creature and it just barked.
"I thought so" He said. "Well you might not believe this but we all actually used to be in the circus, a long long time ago. But we split, "creative differences" and we never looked back. Now we work for ourselves, just entertaining folks, no killing necessary."
"That's fascinating" Pookie said unconvincingly as he leaned back in his chair. He closed his eyes almost falling asleep looking very full.
"What, the Ringmaster just let you up and leave?" Canard asked pointedly.
"Nah this was before his time." Riki said.
"I see" Canard said, not sure what that meant.
"Well I guess you guys wanna get some rest" Riki said getting up from the table. "We've got some spare cots, it's not the ritz but it's better than sleeping with your dick in the dirt." He laughed.
"What's the ritz?" Efron asked.
The next day Pookie and the gang were fitting in as well as a gang of freaks can fit in in a group of geeks and beardy weirdies wearing dresses and make up. They were gathered in the big tent eating some breakfast, some kind of ok tasting slop made from grain and some kind of milk. The origins of which they didn't want to press.
When suddenly out of nowhere, carried on the morning wasteland dry cool wind a strained broken voice called out.
"MY NAME IS BRANDON BERGBLATZSTEIN AND I SOLEMLY DO SWEAR MY UNDYING FEALTY TO YOU MASTER!"
Riki and all the other performers emptied out of the tent confused and ready for anything as they came out to see what all the ruckus was about.
And what they saw deeply confused them all.
Kneeling in the wasteland dirt was a young guy. His head shaved and cleaned and bowed like a penitent monk on a pilgrimage. His clothes simple and baggy.
It was the kid from the other day, one of the fumers that attacked Riki after his performance.
"What the hell are you doing here?"
The kid looked up and there was something in his eyes, a deep emptiness. A loneliness he couldn't express with words and as he spoke it seemed like he was on the brink of tears. "Please, will you be my master and train me in the ways of tranny fu?"
"Tranny what?" Riki said.
"Please master, make me your apprentice." The young lad asked.
"This some kind of trick, how'd you find me?"
"No trick, I followed you here." He sighed "I- I just came here to learn, please I beg of you" Brandon said as he crawled on his knees taking Riki by the hand.
"You 'beg' of me?" Riki said confused. Riki drew his hand away. "Look kid, I'm nobodies master, I can't teach you anything."
"Please, I'll do whatever you say!"
"Does this look like a school to you?" Riki stuck his tongue out of the side of his mouth as he thought to himself. "Look kid, it's not happening, just get on out of here." Riki walked away and gestured for everyone to return to their breakfast leaving the kid still kneeling there.
Pookie stared at the kid as all the others went back inside.
Later that night Pookie lay awake in his makeshift cot thinking.
He remembered being a kid. His head shaved as short as it would go, before he had the tattoos on his face. It seemed like yesterday he waited outside a brightly coloured tent with a group of other kids. Through the wind and rain they waited for days, some left, driven away by hunger or boredom or the acid rain until only a few remained.
Pookie remained, an expressionless child with no parents and no past.
Until on the third day the tent opened.
A jovial old man with a broad smile hunched over a cane. On closer inspection his smile was actually painted on and his mouth was almost completely obscured by a huge moustache. His face painted completely white with over-exagerated eyebrows arching all the way up his bald forehead. His head was bald but for a top not at the back painted red and at the side his hair puffed out. To top it off he wore a big red nose.
The children looked up at him with a mix of wonder and awe.
"Walk this way" The hunched old man said.
The old man turned and began to walk in an odd crabbing movement almost like a monkey or like his legs were made of wood leaning on his cane. The children followed him into the vast tent walking normally except for Pookie who took it upon himself to mimic the old man's walk.
The children turned and laughed at Pookie who didn't seem to understand. The old man too had noticed this from the corner of his eye and he stopped and turned to face the children.
"You're all dismissed" He said.
The children seemed stunned and upset.
"Leave now" The old man said softly.
The children, upset bowed their heads and did what they were told. Pookie too bowed his head and began to follow the last child out.
"You there" The old man said. "What's your name?"
Pookie looked up at the old man, his face heavy and emotionless he said "I don't have one".
"Hmm" The old man stroked his moustache and said. "Why did you walk that way?"
Pookie sniffed and looked about himself at the inside of the strange multi-coloured tent. Looking back at the old clown he said "Because you told me to".
The old clown laughed and patted the child on the head. "Then you have passed the first test".
Pookie looked up, his eyes filled with wonder but still he could not smile.
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Plastic love
It feels so silly
I find myself missing you
forgetting the bad
You're still in my dreams
It can't be coincidence
But I can't tell you.
That sweet summer rain
I thought I could replace you
but there's no one else.
Detective Pikachu – movie review
First thing I want to do is just register my disdain, this movie has no right being as good as it is, NO RIGHT!
It certainly has no right to be the best movie I've seen so far this year. I mean, I'm as surprised as anyone. I honestly wasn't expecting much from this movie, it's probably good that my expectations were so low and that the last movie I watched was captain marvel which almost made me stop believing there would ever be a good movie again.
I mean captain marvel was barely a movie, it was just a really fast slide show of stuff happening with splosions. And Shazam wasn't much better.
So how does a movie about a talking yellow electric rat make them both look like garbage in comparison, how is that even possible? Also goes without saying this is better than deadpool 2 hands down. This is probably the best Ryan Reynolds movie I've ever seen.
It's simple, it was an actual movie. It wasn't political, it wasn't a spectacle comic book movie, it was just a movie. It had a basic three act structure giving equal weight to be beginning the all important middle I rant about and the end. It wasn't like shazam that had this bloated first and third act with no middle, it was just all ass and titties, you need some waist in the middle otherwise you're just a blob of flesh.
You need some time in the middle where we get to know the characters and they go on a journey, if you just have a big opening and no middle we don't care about the end.
I literally can't think of a flaw with this movie. It looked great, the characters were great, the story was great, the acting was great. It has heart and real emotion, the emotional scenes felt real and believable and not heavy and tacked on. I genuinely cared about the characters and it nailed the tone right out of the gate. I think tone for a movie like this is really important. They could've gone super cartoony and silly or taken themselves too seriously. It could've been another dragonball or death note movie fiasco. But it nails it in the first scene. The characters are fun but they do a perfect job of making you believe this is just the regular world with pokemon.
That could've made or broken the movie, because if you can't buy the idea pokemon exist or it's done in a stupid way it just breaks the immersion and becomes cheesey. The director of this movie just gets it, he perfected the tone. We have fun and humor but we also have the emotional resonance that carries the plot.
Now the plot is nothing special, it's sort of a hollywood plot. Guy is trying to investigate his father's death and then mysteries happen. And I want to say the ending was predictable but it was good predictable, it was satisfying. It didn't subvert my expectation into a pile of shit like last jedi. But it also did subvert my expectations a little bit but I saw some of the twists coming, but there were twists, more than one in a movie about pokemon.
I almost didn't think movies like this could be made today, movies that actually feel like movies, that have that structure. It's like film makers don't know how to make movies anymore and they just copy everyone else around them. So maybe if this movie came out ten or twenty years ago no one would've cared but the sheer fact the standard for movies is lower and some brainless comic book movie can make millions and get a fresh on rotten tomatoes a movie as competent and entertaining as this is an instant classic.
What more can I say, I was entertained from beginning to end, I enjoyed every part of it. It's my film of the year so far. Go watch this movie.
3 Ring Samurai part 3 Chapter 1 'Pillow Jam'
Yep, big surprise, this is how I've been wasting my time recently haha.
[Everybody disliked that]
Haha yeah so I wasn't feeling writing Kur, I wasn't feeling up to it what with my current shift in focus that being having a real life and a real job and being close to the people that matter to me. My attention has been split, my creativity shot, my drive dead. Permanent writers block, well it's not that I can't write evidently. It's that I can't care about what I'm creating over the next step I want to take in my life.
So I decided I couldn't stop writing and instead I'd just write something that took less energy, something I give less of a shit about haha. Just to keep my pen moving in other words, so it's like taking a break without taking a break haha. Just giving my mind a rest.
Also content wise I'll be slowing down, probably do like two blogs a week if that. Just gotta put the focus where it belongs.
Anyway that's all, still hoofing my cv around praying to god someone will take it which I know they will and I do something right for once.
In a darkened room a pretty Asian girl with her face painted white tuned a strange instrument. Her lips and corners of her eyes dawbed with red fingerprints and her eyes had carried a certain melancholy.
The intrument resembled a guitar but had a long neck and only four strings and it seemed to be made from a re-purposed road sign. The girl wore a long and billowy white gown and kneeled as she held the instrument close to her. Suddenly with a what looked like the lid of a can of soup she rapidly scrapped the strings. The instrument giving off a strange tinny resonance which grabbed the attention of the room.
The room was dingy and small, the only light coming from holes in the corrugated iron ceiling and walls. The light perforating the thick smoke from people huffing engine fumes.
The girl started to sing and the odd cast of characters in the audience in the dimly lit room cast their eyes on her. She started to wail in a strange language they'd never heard before. Her voice seemed broken and out of tune but also charming and compelling. Filled with a resonant emotion which touched despite not understanding the words of the song.
"arayashikiku no dei
(in search of a new land)
harasaku baku no dei
(let's build a new house)
hare fushigyurasa nejyuku
(by neatly gathering hay)
surajifushiro yondo
(to thatch the roof)
fushigyurasa nejyuku
(neatly gathering hay)
surajifusero yondo
"I can't understand you" All but a gaggle of chucklehead diesel huffers were entranced by her song.
kirishigaki ku no dei
(at the stone walls)
kuganeya be tatei tei
(let's celebrate the golden house)
hare momo tobyuru wakya
(that was built)
ya uriba yuwa o yondo
(by a hundred carpenters)
hare momo to byuru wakya
momo to byuru wakya
(was built)
"Speak American!" One of the voices said cloaked in fumes.
"Hey you're kinda cute" Another said.
hateigachi ya naryuri
(August draws near)
tobibani ya neranu
(but I have nothing to wear)
hare utou katabani
(I want to dress up)
ya karachitabore
(brothers, lend me a sleeve)
hitotsu aru bani ya
(I want to dress the children and those I love)
kanasha se ni kusuitei
(with the single kimono I own)
hare wanu ya okuyama
(I will wear vines)
nu kazuradasuki
(that I picked deep within the mountains)
"Wanna be my animu girlfriend?" One of the fumers said mocklingly.
ojyuugoya no teiki ya
(the full moon shines)
kami gyurasa teryuri
(far and wide like the gods)
hare kana ga jyo ni tataba k__o tei taborei
(when my lover comes to visit, I wish the clouds would hide it a little)
The song ended and the girl opened her eyes and looked into the smoke and said nothing. Not even remotely acknowledging her hecklers as she left the raised stage are in silence. The rest of the patrons waking from the spell she put them under, feeling melancholy but invigorated by her song.
The girl waded through the smokey room carrying her instrument in a gunny sack. She approached the bar and exchanged whispered words. The bartender reluctantly handed her her some form of currency and motioned with his head towards the door.
The girl nodded sullenly and picked up her gunny sack and walked towards the exit. The door was little more than a hole cut into what seemed to be a building made of storage containers. Outside the wasteland was still with a slight wind blowing all the nothing and the heat beating down. Really missing that ozone layer.
Passing through the door into the wasteland she heard a voice coming from the dark dive bar.
"Hey I said you're kinda cute, didn't ya hear me over your wailing?"
The sound of snickering laughter from the dingey darkness of the diesel punk dive.
A grotesque figure lunged out of the murk, his leering dusky face covered in weird tattoos that looked like a drunk childs scribblings. A spattering of facial hair among scars that looked vaguely like sunburn or radiation poisoning. His lips chapped and blackened from sucking on tail pipe. His eyes were red and moist looking and he grabbed at the girls arm when suddenly something barred his path.
A tiny demon face leapt at him from the darkness at his side. The vicious little face with a big smile laughed at him as it hit him square in his bulbous nose knocking him flat on his ass.
"What the fug!" The fumer said clutching his bloodied nose trying to sweep the darkness and smoke away to see the full figure of the demon that assaulted. He wiped the tears from his nose and his vision unblurred. Standing before him was a clown with an unusual sword halfway out of it's sheathe barring the door like a thin silver arm.
The clown said nothing, he just tilted his sheathe up and let the sword fall back. An unsettling mechanical laughing sound coming from the little devil's face on its butt.
"Oops, didn't see you there pal!" The clown smirked.
"POOKIE" Margherite screamed powerless as she watched their blades fly through the air, so fast she could barely see them.
In an instant they rushed past eachother and stood back to back. Pookie resheathed his sword with that horrible canned mechanical laughter ringing out.
Coldslaw stood, his swords still drawn, a manic smile on his face, a mask which slowly slipped. He dropped his swords and they stuck in the ground like two head stones. He fell to his knees clutching a mortal wound before toppling over on his side into the dust under the orange moon.
"NOOOOOOO!" Margherite wailed as she rushed to Coldslaw's side as he lay dying.
"Coldslaw!" She cried, her facepaint running off her face.
Coldslaw coughed and looked up at her, his eyes dipping slightly. "Ha, it's not a tattoo, face paint huh, must be cool to be the ringmaster daughter" He laughed.
"Stop talking nonsense."
"Don't mourn for me" He laughed smiling a real smile. "It was all a big joke, don't you get it?"
"A joke?" She sniffed.
"Yeah a big joke – " He whispered as his head slowly lolled and his face became expressionless and dead like a dolls.
"Goddamn you Pookie! You didn't have to-"
Pookie didn't look back, he paused and breathed in and out slowly and walked away.
"You bastard!" She screamed.
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This movie was two hours long, not ninety minutes, not a hundred minutes a full one hundred and twenty minutes of my life wasted on this garbage.
Predictably I hated but it kinda reminds me that I recently watched the Shazam movie and putting them side by side really makes Shazam look a head and shoulders apart from this tripe. Shazam was a movie, it made sense, it had likeable characters with believable goals. It had a cool interesting villain, great action and it started at the fucking start.
It was an actual movie, captain marvel is just a collection of scenes used as an excuse to put nineties songs over the transitions.
The story is nonsense, I watched it yesterday and I couldn't tell what it was about, some scientist did a thing and then things happened then powers, then evil space nazis for reason want to wipe out space refugees for threatening their borders in space.
That's right folks, there are borders in space, that's how fucking dumb and on the nose this movie is.
It's trying to slip in a really bad allegory to Trump and it just falls flat, it's not clever, it's not new and it's not even trying. That's the first thing that strikes me, Shazam was trying, this movie just doesn't give a shit.
It starts like in the middle so you don't know how she got her powers and the villain is like her mentor and then you find out through flashbacks as her memory comes back how she got her powers and that he's really the villain, but I didn't care. It was just boring and pointless and because they didn't start at the start, there's no journey so her powers just feel unearned.
This movie would've been ten times better if it had started on earth and not gone for a shitty twist that wasn't exciting or interesting. Oh no Jude Law is the bad guy not that guy that's always hired to be the evil straight white male villain in everything. No because in this he's actually green and he's a refugee and he just wants a home for his family, who are aboard some space ship for some reason. None of this movie makes sense, none of the scenes are really connected, I didn't care about any of the characters, the dialogue is some of the cringest I've ever heard. I actually screamed I cringed so hard at some of it. It's so bad, I started to think this movie wasn't made by people but some weird algorithm coded to make cringe.
The fact humans made this movie both disturbs and disappoints me.
Just seeing now Shazam was also over two hours, but ask me why I don't care, because that movie was fun and stuff happened in it and it had a story and likeable characters.
The only positive thing I can say about it is I like how shitty the sets look, which sounds like a weird positive. But I loved how nineties it looked, it was like they took their huge budget and intentionally tried to make everything look like a nineties sci-fi channel show.
There's literally a part on a space ship where Larson is trying to quippy and having a fight and it's cringe, she's terrible but my brother was like, "that set looks like a laser tag zone". And it really did. And the scene after Fury remarks that she's dressed like she was doing lasertag and that was a pretty funny coincidence.
I don't know what more I can say about this, the movie is just lazy on all fronts, no one is trying, you can see the phone in the hand of nearly everyone in this movie, including the camera men and the set designers and the writers. This movie could not have been more phoned in.
And it also decides to ruin the origin story of Nick Fury for the sake of a stupid joke because that worked out so well doing that with the madurin in iron man 3. That was so funny turning this awesome character into a stupid gag. Yeah Nick Fury trusted an alien cat and that's how he lost his eye. What's more to say at this point? This movie is garbage and I'm beyond sick of seeing super hero movies, I just want them to go away and not come back for maybe ten years if at all.
Oh I just remembered I have to watch the dark phoenix movie, someone please kill me.
Oh god, I long for death. I literally pirated this game and I feel ripped off, I can't imagine how pissed I would've been if I paid money for this garbage.
I haven't even talked about how obnoxious Brie Larson is in general, almost unbearable in this movie and just in real life. I think what annoys me the most about this movie is how disengenuous the marketing campaign was, putting aside the whole political girl power bullshit muh stronk indapandent wamens thing they marketed this movie as if you couldn't see Endgame without this. They made it seem like she was essential to the plot of that film and that it would be a stop gap and fill in holes and be this big important movie.
And apparently that was all bullshit since the skrull and cri aren't even in endgame and they didn't know what to do with capt marvel and just made her go away for most of the film to come back at the end. So it was obviously retconned bullshit, it was nonsense, it was a lie to get us to watch this garbage movie and insert muh stronk wamens into the marvel universe to try and compete with DC's wonderwoman which was terminally ok.
But I guess dc has been like "yeah well most of our movies suck and make no money but hey we made a stronk indapandent wamens movie that was sort of less unbearable than our other movies" and the execs at marvel were losing their fucking minds. So instead of just making a scarlet witch movie or black widow movie, which would make more sense they insert this totally generic female superman into their timeline really akwardly and somehow manage to piss off everyone, the other marvel actors includesd.
And it's not an act, they actively hate her, every interview she's in with them they look uncomfortable and there's this body language expert that looks at them on youtube and they actually hate her. And I understand why, she's a fucking carpetbagger. They've sunk years of their lives, blood, sweat and tears into these movies and then at the last minute this chippy with a flat ass just rushes to the finish line out of nowhere and on top of that is super obnoxious and trying to politicise a movie franchise which has managed to keep itself relatively light and fun and politics free. She is the fucking turd in the punchbowl.
So yeah, don't watch captain gender studies, save your money and time and watch shazam or literally anything else, watch your dad hang dry wall, watch a giant snail eat a carrot on youtube, do anything but watch this shit. I did it so you don't have to, please no medals.


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Who is the TaleWagger?
As a life-long friend, please allow me to shed a little light…
T he TaleWagger is a complex character, who has used many aliases in his chequered career. He was originally called Tom Tom, – his father, a piper had a stutter -, and he lived with his widowed mother, brothers and sisters in a shoe-shaped dwelling. He and his brothers argued so much with their sister Mary, who was quite contrary that his mother had difficulty coping. Partly due to this, a neighbour once said: "She had so many children, she didn't know what to do!"
His brother Jack climbed a beanstalk one day, and was never seen again. This giant tragedy made the Talewagger decide that he too should leave home. With his cat dressed in boots, and now calling himself 'Dick', he left to start a new life. They walked along a yellow-brick road, to a big city with shiny, golden pavements. There Dick was offered an important job with the council, but, following a chance meeting with a man, (he had one eye, one leg and a parrot on his shoulder), he decided to work, as a cabin-boy, with his holiday company, L. J. Silver (Cruise Lines) Plc. It successfully operated in the Caribbean Sea, for many a long year, me 'earty!
While still his teens, the Talewagger chose to seek his fortune ashore and jumped-ship one night, in a tub, with an owl and his pussycat. The following Friday he was washed ashore on Crusoe Island, and taken to hospital to recover. There he saw a young girl in a coma and, captivated by her beauty, he kissed her on the cheek.
She awoke! (She turned out to be a princess; they fell in love and he was whisked off to the nearest palace, to become a charming prince.) Sadly, on his stag night, tragedy struck! As the clock chimed midnight, he was caught breaking into a pumpkin, allegedly to steal some tarts. The Queen, who had earlier baked the tarts, was not amused and had an iron mask placed over his head. He was cast into the dungeons to rot.
However, on appeal, (a pied piper, who was walking his rats, had actually seen the Talewagger put in his thumb and pull out a plum), he was released. As compensation he was created a Duke and put in charge of the Army. Following a successful career, which involved marching his men to the top of the hill, then marching then down again, he left to join the police force. There he solved many famous cases: he caught the notorious Cock-Robin killer: he discovered who-put-pussy-in-the-well and he captured a serial thief: responsible for eating the food and vandalising the home of a family of bears.
With his redundancy money, he bought a farm, the postcode was EI EI0. He then married a girl, who always sat on a tuffet to eat. The marriage broke up due to the scandal caused by one of his cows jumping over the moon. Then the Talewagger's fork ran away with the spoon and he decided to take early retirement.
He now lives in a forest, with a Granny, renowned for her big eyes, and spends most of his time, in his counting house; counting all his money.
All in all, an anonymous sort of English gentleman!
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It's something we all need at various points in life. It's a break from the status quo or a literal escape to a faraway place, or a way to focus away from a rough situation.
Mine, like many readers of this site I'm sure, has always been pro wrestling. The match I have gone back to more times than I can count is Hulk Hogan vs. The Rock at WrestleMania X8. No matter how old I am and what situation I'm professionally or personally, that match turns me into a 15-year-old marking out as Hulk Hogan hulks up as he did against Andre. It's a feeling of pure passion and love that pro wrestling has the ability to bring back to me. A removal from the struggles of everyday life.
Monday night saw Roman Reigns walk out to the ring to open RAW like he had so many times before, but this time in his street clothes. I'm sure many thought this was another ploy by the WWE to make him relatable, as I did. Very quickly though we learned that we weren't looking at Roman Reigns. We were looking at Joe Anoa'i, a man much stronger and braver than Roman Reigns could ever dream of being. As he shared his horrible news that the Leukemia he had been living with for 10 years had returned, the hush over the crowd was powerful.
The thousands of fans in attendance and watching at home who were ready to bask in their form of escapism for the next three hours were brought back crashing to reality. There were looks of shock, bewilderment, and sadness. Tears were visible throughout the crowd and welling up in my eyes. It was a reminder that even these larger than life characters are human and deal with the same issues many of deal with daily.
Then, something beautiful happened. On a normal Monday night, half of that crowd at least would boo Roman mercilessly, but on this night, Joe Anoa'i became a true hero. The crowd roared in support of the man. Social media erupted in support of the man. Peers in the locker and in promotions all over the world erupted in support of the man. The community that is pro wrestling showed just how tight-knit it is despite all of the differences in performers, styles, and presentation. Many may despise Roman Reigns the character, but they showed just how much they respect the man behind the character. The man who had done all that he had done while dealing with a foe bigger than Brock Lesnar, Braun Stroman, and every smart mark combined. A man with a family. They stood up and they cheered, and what were tears of sadness became tears of pride and hope.
Something as serious as a second battle with leukemia can't be taken lightly at no matter the financial stability a person possesses. That said, I do feel better knowing he will get the absolute best care, best doctors, and best support possible to win this fight. Not only will he have the WWE and all of their support and resources, but he is also going to have the entire wrestling community cheering him on every step of the way. I really hope this support helps to provide him an escape from the struggles sure to lay ahead and pulls him through. You've been there for us Joe, we will all be there for you.
NextVOW Flagship: Roman Reigns, NWA 70th, DDT Peter Pan & more!
Shinsuke Nakamura wins VOW Match Madness 2016!


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Q: Awk/Gawk not working after install gawk on M1 Using brew, I installed gawk on my m1. upon doing so, awk does not work.
Before install gawk:
❯ awk -version
awk version 20200816
❯ which awk
/usr/bin/awk

Then I install gawk and add the path to the binary to my $PATH
==> Downloading https://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/gawk-5.1.0.arm64_big_sur.bo
Already downloaded: /Users/jtsmith/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/78854a178070158dd17ca1789b20ecabe69f924bad7052337c019a8efeb30178--gawk-5.1.0.arm64_big_sur.bottle.tar.gz
==> Pouring gawk-5.1.0.arm64_big_sur.bottle.tar.gz
  /opt/homebrew/Cellar/gawk/5.1.0: 90 files, 5.4MB

❯ which awk
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/gawk/5.1.0/bin/awk

Now, if I try to use awk/gawk, it always results in a killed
❯ awk -version
[1]    10790 killed     awk -version
❯ gawk -version
[1]    10796 killed     gawk -version
❯ echo "test test" | awk '{ gsub(/ /,""); print $0}';
[1]    10800 done       echo "test test" |
       10801 killed     awk '{ gsub(/ /,""); print $0}'

I assume they are clashing but can't figure out what's going on.
Additional details:
❯ /usr/bin/awk -version
awk version 20200816
❯ /opt/homebrew/Cellar/gawk/5.1.0/bin/gawk -version
[1]    12436 killed     /opt/homebrew/Cellar/gawk/5.1.0/bin/gawk -version

A: I had the same issue with git. After reinstalling MacOS the issue went away.

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Sazetidine-A [6-(5(((S)-azetidine-2-yl)methoxy)pyridine-3-yl)hex-5-yn-1-ol] is a selective α4β2 nicotinic receptor desensitizing agent and partial agonist. Sazetidine-A has been shown in our previous studies to significantly reduce nicotine and alcohol self-administration in rats. The question arises whether sazetidine-A would reduce self-administration of other addictive drugs as well. Nicotinic receptors on the dopaminergic neurons in the ventral tegmental area play an important role in controlling the activity of these neurons and release of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens, which is critical mechanism for reinforcing value of drugs of abuse. Previously, we showed that the nonspecific nicotinic antagonist mecamylamine significantly reduces cocaine self-administration in rats. In this study, we acutely administered systemically sazetidine-A and two other selective α4β2 nicotinic receptor-desensitizing agents, VMY-2-95 and YL-2-203, to young adult female Sprague-Dawley rats and determined their effects on IV self-administration of cocaine and methamphetamine. Cocaine self-administration was significantly reduced by 0.3 mg/kg of sazetidine-A. In another set of rats, sazetidine-A (3 mg/kg) significantly reduced methamphetamine self-administration. VMY-2-95 significantly reduced both cocaine and methamphetamine self-administration with threshold effective doses of 3 and 0.3 mg/kg, respectively. In contrast, YL-2-203 did not significantly reduce cocaine self-administration at the same dose range and actually significantly increased cocaine self-administration at the 1 mg/kg dose. YL-2-203 (3 mg/kg) did significantly decrease methamphetamine self-administration. Sazetidine-A and VMY-2-95 are promising candidates to develop as new treatments to help addicts successfully overcome a variety of addictions including tobacco, alcohol as well as the stimulant drugs cocaine and methamphetamine.


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Jasán Majarbékovich Baróyev –en ruso, Хасан Махарбекович Бароев– (Dusambé, 1 de diciembre de 1982) es un deportista ruso de origen osetio que compitió en lucha grecorromana.

Participó en tres Juegos Olímpicos de Verano, obteniendo en total una medalla de oro en Atenas 2004, en la categoría de 120 kg, y el 14.º lugar en Londres 2012. En Pekín 2008 obtuvo la medalla de plata, pero fue descalificado ocho años después por dopaje.

Ganó 3 medallas en el Campeonato Mundial de Lucha entre los años 2003 y 2007, y 5 medallas en el Campeonato Europeo de Lucha entre los años 2006 y 2012.

Palmarés internacional

Referencias

Luchadores de Rusia
Medallistas olímpicos de oro de Rusia
Medallistas olímpicos de plata de Rusia
Campeones mundiales de lucha
Casos de dopaje en lucha

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Kameraden bis zum Ende.
Roster >
Ustuf. Otto Zoepf
Oscha. Kristoff Schmidt
Uscha. Alfons Mahlandt
Uscha. Wulf Menges
Uscha. Paul Neumann
Uscha. Gehrhardt Werner
Uscha. Franz Seibold
Uscha. Wilhelm Strauss
Rttf. Josef Sievers
Strm. Derka Spitzer
Strm. Felix Ostheim
Strm. Johann Klockenkemper
Strm. Bart Bielschmidt
Strm. Erich Zipprich
Strm. Alex Adler
Ostz. Karl Hawkins
Ostz. Thomas Harger
Ostz. Nicolas Gross
Ostz. Helmut Busse
Stze. Friedheim Gibb
Stze. Johann Bischoff
Stze. Siegfried Ragan
Strm. August Traw
Stze. Peter Diemer
Unit Impressions >
SS-Division "Totenkopf"
SS-Division "Nord"
SS-VT-Standarte "Deutschland"
Original Photos >
"Totenkopf" Original Photos
"VT Division" Original Photos
"Nord" Original Photos
"Prinz Eugen" Original Photos
"Hohenstaufen" Original Photos
Re-enacting Photos >
2. Kompanie in Color
2. Kompanie as "Totenkopf"
2. Kompanie as "Deutschland"
2. Kompanie as "Prinz Eugen"
2. Kompanie as "Nord"
2. Kompanie as "Hohenstaufen"
"Totenkopf" History
"Totenkopf" Knight's Cross Winners >
Theodor "Papa" Eicke
Hermann Preiss
Josef Swientek
Ernst Haussler
Berndt Lubich von Milovan
Erich Eberhardt
Walter Gerth
Eduard Deisenhofer
Georg Bochmann
Adolf Pittschellis
Otto Baum
Max Seela
Otto Kron
Rudolf Saumenicht
Hermann Buchner
Walter Bestmann
Ernst Dehmel
Kurt Launer
Waldemar Riefkogel
Franz Kleffner
Lino Masarie
Walter Reder
Heinz Fritz-Muller
Joachim Schubach
Hans Endress
Walter Mattern
Wilfried Richter
Boris Kraas
Ernst Staudle
August Zingel
Hans Hirning
Johann Fiedler
Kurt Franke
Ludwig Kochle
Hermann Lang
Alfred Titschkus
Felix Przedwojewski
Lothar Swierzinski
Josef Rolleke
Fritz Christen
"Totenkopf" Officer Rolls
"Totenkopf" Insignia
"Totenkopf" Veteran Interviews
"Totenkopf", The Infamous
"Totenkopf" War Crimes
Le Paradis Massacre
"Nord" History
"Nord" Knights Cross Winners
German Weapons
German Commands
German Rifle Drill
German Squad Tactics
Soldatenlieder
der Junker
der SS-Funker
der Kriegsberichter
Deutsche Rote Kreuz
Waffen-SS Camouflage
Waffen-SS Ranks
history of the 3.ss-panzer-division "totenkopf"
The 3.SS Division "Totenkopf" was formed in October, 1939, following the invasion of Poland. The division was formed of new recruits, men from SS-Totenkopfstandarten 1, 2, and 3, as well as a cadre of officers and NCOs from the SSVT. The division was formed in the town of Dachau, at an SS-Training Depot.
The Division was transferred from the SS-Ubungslager-Dachau to Wurttemberg and then on to Truppen-Ubungsplatz-Obermunsingen. It was there that training was finished. Command of the division was given to SS-Gruppenfuhrer Theodor Eicke, the former head of the SS-Totenkopfverbande, the units responsible for administering the camp system. The Totenkopfdivision was made infamous, due to its insignia, and the fact that many of the initial soldiers were former SS-TV members. However, due to high casualty rates, and the personnel changes in the Totenkopfdivision throughout the war, the early SS-TV members would not make up a great majority of the Totenkopf troops after the invasion of France, in 1940.
(Note: As the Totenkopf, or Death's Head, was the universal cap badge of the Waffen-SS, it was also adapted by the SS-Totenkopfverbande, or SS-TV, as their collar insignia. Later, when Theodor Eicke was given command as his own Division, he also adapted the insignia for his unit, a decision that would give the division its namesake, as well as seal the fate of many of the men who wore it.)
In the beginning of December, the division moved to its new quarters near Stuttgart. Camouflage items were received and issued, including smocks and helmet covers. The division also began intense political indoctrination, the men trained heavily every day, and from March to mid April, ever day from dawn until dusk, the men train in assembly, coordinated movement, marksmanship, and tactics of assault in company and battalion strength, hand to hand combat, river crossing, street and night fighting, and the use of heavy explosives.
Because the Waffen-SS was a new formation and had not proven itself in battle, it was not immediately involved in the invasion of France. Totenkopf, for its poor reputation among local commanders, was placed in reserve.
On May 16, 1940 the division was ordered into battle. The SS-Totenkopfdivision would see its first action east of Camrai, with the cost of 16 dead and 53 wounded. The division captured 16,000 prisoners, including two Colonels and four Majors.
On May 19, 1940, it was used to secure the area of Le Cateau and Cambrai. Several days later, the division was transferred to the 16th Panzer Corps and moved North-West towards the town of Bethune on the Le Bassee Canal. The Division crossed the river and attacked the town and was under British counter-attack on the 24th of May. However, the men were ordered to retreat the next day on orders from Adolf Hitler, issued to preserve tanks for the upcoming drive on Dunkirk.
The men thus had to make the hazardous crossing again on May 26, and the men were successful in taking Bethune after Heavy Street and house to house fighting, with the British who withdrew to a line between Locon and Le Paradis.
It was during this period that elements of the division were involved in actions that led to the execution of a group of allied prisoners. The commander of the unit found responsible was Fritz Knochlein. Men of the 14. Kompanie killed 97 British officers and enlisted men after they had surrendered on a farm near Le Paradis. After the war, Knochlein was charged with war crimes; he was sentenced to death and hung. His trial was biased, and the actual guilt lay with the officer in command of the machine gun company, who had been killed in Russia in 1943.
Following the heavy fighting around Le Paradis, the division was transferred to Boulouge for rest and coastal duty. The division spent the rest of the time in June, mopping up prisoners and remaining combatants.
In ten days, between May 19 and May 29, the division lost 1,140 men, 300 officers, and hundreds of vehicles. These would be the highest casualty rates of any unit during the French campaign, which was a testament to the leadership style and fanaticism of the division's officers.
The division was accused of several other crimes during the fighting in France:
---Soldiers from SS-Totenkopf-Infanterie-Regiment 1 killed 92 civilians in Aubigny-en-Artois in France on 22 May 1940.
---Soldiers from SS-Totenkopf-Infanterie-Regiment 2 killed 45 civilians in Vandelicourt / Berles-Montchel on 22 May 1940.
---Soldiers from SS-Totenkopf-Infanterie-Regiment 1 and SS-Pionier-Bataillon Totenkopf killed 48 civilians in Beuvry 24 May 1940.
From June 1940 to May 1941, the men of the SS-Totenkopfdivision were stationed in various areas in France, mainly in Avallon and Boradeux. During the fall and winter, the unit would grow, re-organize and continue to train, this time for the upcoming invasion of Russia.
During the fall of 1940, Theodor Eicke sends a large number of hand-picked NCO's to Bad Tolz to train as officers for the division. The preparation for Barbarossa is even more intense than that of the invasion of France. Between January and April of 1941, 10 men are killed and 16 wounded, and 250 are hospitalized for wounds received in training.
Halfway through May, Theodor Eicke cancels all leave, and orders the men to return. The division leaves its training areas in Boredeux for East Prussia. On June, 24, the SS-Totenkopfdivision is committed to the action of Operation Barbarossa. The division moved east as part of Army Group North, combing the forests and crossing the Dvina River at Dvinsk. The villages of Dvinsk, Krlaslau, and Dagda are secured, and the town of Rosenov soon follows. On July 5, the division rested to prepare for their attack on the Stalin Line. The Division was accused of looting and burning the village of Kraslau on 5 July, although that has never been confirmed
For five days, the men of SS-Totenkopf stormed the Stalin Line and the Opachka Line, taking heavy casualties. After capturing the defensive lines, the Soviets withdrawal to the Luga Line. Early in August 1941, Totenkopf managed to capture the city of Chudovo, which was on the main Leningrad-Moscow Railway. The men of Totenkopf then moved towards the area around Lake Ilmen.
During this time, the fall and winter of 1941, the Soviets launched a number of operations against German lines in the Northern Sector of the front, keeping the men of SS-Totenkopf on the defensive for the rest of the year. Several men were awarded the Knight's Cross for their actions during this period.
Fritz Christen, became the first enlisted person in the Totenkopfdivision to earn this award. He was the last man alive out of his entire Kompanie, and managed to single handedly destroy 14 Soviet tanks, and kill over 200 Soviet infantryman, and hold his position, being relieved two days later by his baffled comrades.
While the men of the Totenkopfdivision defended their positions in the winter of 1941, they were eventually cut off and surrounded. The encirclement began with a massive Soviet Offensive in the Northern Sector during January, 1942. Totenkopf was surrounded from January 8 until April 21. During that time, Totenkopf held its ground, defending against an onslaught of five Soviet armies, including 18 Rifle Divisions, and 3 Armored Brigades. One should also note, at this time the division was not a Panzer Division, and thus was not outfitted with many tanks.
The men of SS-Totenkopf, led a counter-assault, and managed to break out of the encirclement on April 21, and managed to reach the area of the Lovat River, and link up with other German forces. The division, now at less than 15% strength, more or less the size of a battalion, from the intense fighting in their defense of Demjansk, stayed in the area until October, 1942 when it was pulled off the line and sent to France to re-fit.
The fighting took a heavy toll on the division, the once proud division, now the size of a battalion, had to draw thousands of new replacements. The casualties of France didn't even compare to the bloodbath the division experienced in Russia, in the Northern Sector. Adolf Hitler was so proud of the division's actions at Demjansk; he issued a special award for all men who served with distinction in the pocket. Aside from that, nearly 20 men of the Totenkopfdivision would be awarded the Knight's Cross for bravery during that period.
While in France, in 1942, the division took part in the Vichy take-over of France, and was provided with a Panzer Abteilung, and a new name, SS-Panzergrenadier-Division "Totenkopf". The division remained in France until February, 1943. The survivors of Demjansk, the officers and NCOs, and wounded that were flown out in Demjansk took this time to train the thousands of fresh troops replacing all their dead friends.
In February 1943, the division was once again sent to the Eastern Front, this time attached to Army Group South. It was then that the division took part in the massive counter-offensive that destroyed the German 6th Army at Stalingrad. The division took part in the 2nd Battle of Kharkov and helped to stop the Soviet offensive in the South. During this time, the division's commander, Theodor Eicke was killed when his aircraft was shot down behind enemy lines. The men of the division took it upon themselves to attack the soviets, and drive towards his plane. The men slammed through Soviet defenses and recovered the body of their commander.
From Kharkov, the division was sent into the massive battles for the Kursk Salient, fighting in some of the most bloody and fierce combat of the war and what would become the largest tank battle in history. The operation soon came to a halt, and the Kursk offensive was called off. The Totenkopfdivision was pulled off out along with the other German units, but stayed on conducting defensive operations, helping to restore the German front once again.
The division stayed on defensive operations in the South and Central sector of the German front for nearly a year, and during this time, in October 1943, the division was reformed and renamed as the 3.SS-Panzer-Division "Totenkopf".
By 1944, the situation on the Eastern Front was very dire. Everywhere the Soviets were advancing. In the center of the front, the Soviets managed to launch what was possibly the largest offensive of the entire war, sending thousands of units against German lines, pushing them back nearly 300 miles in a month.
When the Soviets finally came to a halt, they were at the gates of Warsaw. With the Soviets so near, an uprising in Warsaw took place, and the 3.SS Division was sent in. The division helped push the Soviets out of the city and back across the Vistula River. Two Soviet Armies were held back by the operations of the 3.SS Division and 5.SS Division.
Next, the division was sent south to help rescue the encircled German units in Budapest. SS-Totenkopf launched an assault, taking it all the way to the Budapest airport, but was ordered to pull back in an action that was hoped would result in the destruction of Soviet units North of Budapest, while rescuing the German divisions entrapped in the city. The division was on the verge of rescuing some 45,000 German soldiers. The Soviet's stiff resistance proved none of the Soviet units were entrapped, as was hoped. The assault failed.
By the end of 1942, the division had experienced virtually a complete turnover in personell. The high casualty rates meant that by 1943, virtually none of the original cadre were left. However, while the division's record in the brutal Eastern Front fighting to follow was not marked by war crimes, like their tour in France, however their reputation lingered. The Totenkopf division did not want to be captured by Soviets, because they were particularly brutal in their treatment of Soviets, so they attacked the American 11th Armored Division, and then surrendered.
The Americans, who suffered high casualties, were angered by this. When the division surrendered, they were turned over to the Soviets in Linz, Austria. Those who were wounded or too exhausted to walk, and many high ranking officers were executed by the NKVD, others were executed by Americans along the way to their new Soviet captors. (Some 80 men suffered this fate) A small portion of the men who surrendered would ever return to Germany, and those that did actually survive their internment in Siberia would return decades later, as some of the last Prisoners of War from World War Two to be released.
DISCLAIMER: 2. Kompanie is a non-political organization We do not support naziism, or fascism. We are not associated with nor do we condone the actions of the Third Reich or the actual 3.SS Division.


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Buckingham Notables: Patteson Family
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Walton's Fork of Slate River. Courtesy University of Texas, Arlington Library
The Patteson family was an early entry in the history of Buckingham County and, in 1960, The Daily Progress ran an article summarizing its lineage and arrival. An unsigned article, entitled "Patteson Heirs Still Have Original Mt. Pleasant Grant" related the following:
The first Patteson of this family was Thomas Patteson, who came to Middlesex County from Norwich, England, about 1650. We later find his son, David Patteson, living at Roxboro in New Kent County. He was a vestry men in St. Peter's Episcopal Church, where Washington is claimed to have married Mrs. Dandridge.
The family then moved up to a grant of land (1,570 acres) described as lying on Walton Fork of Slate River (Buckingham had not then been cut off from Albemarle) the grant vividly described in the patent is still treasured at Mt. Pleasant as some of the following extracts show:
"With all woods, under woods, swamps, marshes, low grounds, meadows and feedings," the grantee is to have and do share of all veins, mines and quarries, as well discovered, as not discovered. All rivers, waters, and watercourses therein contained, together with the privileges of hunting, hawking, fishing and fouling and all of the profits, commodities and hereditaments."
For right to the land, the grantee was ordered to pay a shilling each year on the feast of St. Michael, the Archangel for every 50 acres and was required to cultivate and improve three out of every 50 acres. Failure to do so meant the land would revert to The Crown.
It was here that Maj. David Patteson, descendent of the grantee, built the brick house at Mt. Pleasant and lived there with his wife Judith Dibrell and their twelve children.
Special thanks to Phil James for sharing this article from The Daily Progress.
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Charles L. Patteson III / Jul 4 2022 7:08 pm
I thoroughly enjoy reading of my ancestors in Virginia. My family visited this home in the 1970s, when I was young. I never went back, because I heard the home was struck by lightning and burned to the ground a couple of years later. There were two brothers and a sister living there at the time, but I only remember one name Prentiss Patteson. Many people would have considered it kinda messy, but everything had history behind it. I certainly would have loved the opportunity to continue the Patteson presence and perseverance on that property.
Joanne Yeck / Jul 5 2022 6:43 am
Many thanks for your comment. Perhaps another Slate River Ramblings reader can expand further.
John S Williams / Mar 15 2022 12:03 pm
Does anyone know when in 1960 the unsigned article, entitled "Patteson Heirs Still Have Original Mt. Pleasant Grant" was published? I like to locate it in the UV Library collection but it's a daily paper and I'd like to narrow my search.
Joanne Yeck / Mar 15 2022 1:46 pm
I will look for the clipping in my archive and send it to you via email.
Joanne Yeck / Oct 6 2017 7:18 am
Susan, many thanks for your thoughtful comment. It's my belief that family and oral history should be preserved as written. We learn a lot about what our forebears believed, their writing styles, their desire to place the family in a broader context, etc. However, oral history should not be repeated uncritically, which is why comments like yours are so important. In the past, I have challenged numerous family and local history narratives, with new and verifiable research. Occasionally, they proved to be true. Often, they do not or the information has deteriorated into confusion, like a game of telephone. This is why it is so important that people like you, who have persisted in family research, expand and correct older material and ideas. In the future, there will be more reprints at Slate River Ramblings of no doubt flawed family histories. They should always be taken as clues, steppingstones, and glances at the past, rather than hard facts. Thanks again for your comment. Slate River Ramblings is richer for it. Joanne
Susan P Shames / Oct 5 2017 2:48 pm
Sadly, the plethora of online (and published) genealogical sources available to us now was not available in 1960 when this newspaper article was written. There is no reason to believe that David Patteson of New Kent was the son of Thomas of Middlesex County and/or Norwich, England, and every reason to use circumstantial evidence, including strong naming patterns, to place him in a different family that was in Virginia by the 1630s. Thomas of the Rappahannock River Valley was married to Ann Haslerton (variant spellings) and they ended up in Maryland. Google "Case Study: The Pattison Puzzle" to find an article, with sources loosely described, that discusses the Rappahannock River Valley Thomas. The New Kent family was researched and written about by James Branch Cabell, more noted for his fiction than for his later-challenged genealogical research on the Branch family, and his assumptions on the Pattesons have long gone unchallenged and many times repeated, all without further research.


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Gracy, K.F.: Enriching and enhancing moving images with Linked Data : an exploration in the alignment of metadata models.
In: Journal of documentation. 74(2018) no.2, S.354-371.
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to examine the current state of Linked Data (LD) in archival moving image description, and propose ways in which current metadata records can be enriched and enhanced by interlinking such metadata with relevant information found in other data sets. Design/methodology/approach Several possible metadata models for moving image production and archiving are considered, including models from records management, digital curation, and the recent BIBFRAME AV Modeling Study. This research also explores how mappings between archival moving image records and relevant external data sources might be drawn, and what gaps exist between current vocabularies and what is needed to record and make accessible the full lifecycle of archiving through production, use, and reuse. Findings The author notes several major impediments to implementation of LD for archival moving images. The various pieces of information about creators, places, and events found in moving image records are not easily connected to relevant information in other sources because they are often not semantically defined within the record and can be hidden in unstructured fields. Libraries, archives, and museums must work on aligning the various vocabularies and schemas of potential value for archival moving image description to enable interlinking between vocabularies currently in use and those which are used by external data sets. Alignment of vocabularies is often complicated by mismatches in granularity between vocabularies. Research limitations/implications The focus is on how these models inform functional requirements for access and other archival activities, and how the field might benefit from having a common metadata model for critical archival descriptive activities. Practical implications By having a shared model, archivists may more easily align current vocabularies and develop new vocabularies and schemas to address the needs of moving image data creators and scholars. Originality/value Moving image archives, like other cultural institutions with significant heritage holdings, can benefit tremendously from investing in the semantic definition of information found in their information databases. While commercial entities such as search engines and data providers have already embraced the opportunities that semantic search provides for resource discovery, most non-commercial entities are just beginning to do so. Thus, this research addresses the benefits and challenges of enriching and enhancing archival moving image records with semantically defined information via LD.
Hubrich, J.: Semantische Interoperabilität zwischen Klassifikationen und anderen Wissenssystemen.
In: Klassifikationen in Bibliotheken: Theorie - Anwendung - Nutzen. Hrsg. H. Alex, G. Bee u. U. Junger. Berlin : DeGruyter Saur, 2018. S.235-275.
Abstract: Heutzutage sind Informationsräume häufig durch die Heterogenität der in ihr enthaltenen Ressourcen geprägt, deren inhaltliche Beschreibungen aus unterschiedlichen Quellen stammen und auf der Basis verschiedener, sich strukturell und typologisch unterscheidender Erschließungsinstrumente erstellt wurden. Einzelne Klassifikationen können in solchen Räumen nur bedingt Suchunterstützung bieten, da sie stets nur auf einen Teilbestand zugreifen. Dieser Artikel beschreibt ausgehend von den Charakteristiken von Indexierungssprachen, wie durch semantische Interoperabilität eine Verbesserung der Retrievalsituation erreicht werden kann.
Golub, K.: Subject access in Swedish discovery services.
In: Knowledge organization. 45(2018) no.4, S.297-309.
Abstract: While support for subject searching has been traditionally advocated for in library catalogs, often in the form of a catalog objective to find everything that a library has on a certain topic, research has shown that subject access has not been satisfactory. Many existing online catalogs and discovery services do not seem to make good use of the intellectual effort invested into assigning controlled subject index terms and classes. For example, few support hierarchical browsing of classification schemes and other controlled vocabularies with hierarchical structures, few provide end-user-friendly options to choose a more specific concept to increase precision, a broader concept or related concepts to increase recall, to disambiguate homonyms, or to find which term is best used to name a concept. Optimum subject access in library catalogs and discovery services is analyzed from the perspective of earlier research as well as contemporary conceptual models and cataloguing codes. Eighteen proposed features of what this should entail in practice are drawn. In an exploratory qualitative study, the three most common discovery services used in Swedish academic libraries are analyzed against these features. In line with previous research, subject access in contemporary interfaces is demonstrated to less than optimal. This is in spite of the fact that individual collections have been indexed with controlled vocabularies and a significant number of controlled vocabularies have been mapped to each other and are available in interoperable standards. Strategic action is proposed to build research-informed (inter)national standards and guidelines.
Victorino, M. ; Terto de Holanda, M. ; Ishikawa, E. ; Costa Oliveira, E. ; Chhetri, S.: Transforming open data to linked open data using ontologies for information organization in big data environments of the Brazilian Government : the Brazilian database Government Open Linked Data - DBgoldbr.
In: Knowledge organization. 45(2018) no.6, S.443-466.
Abstract: The Brazilian Government has made a massive volume of structured, semi-structured and non-structured public data available on the web to ensure that the administration is as transparent as possible. Subsequently, providing applications with enough capability to handle this "big data environment" so that vital and decisive information is readily accessible, has become a tremendous challenge. In this environment, data processing is done via new approaches in the area of information and computer science, involving technologies and processes for collecting, representing, storing and disseminating information. Along these lines, this paper presents a conceptual model, the technical architecture and the prototype implementation of a tool, denominated DBgoldbr, designed to classify government public information with the help of ontologies, by transforming open data into open linked data. To achieve this objective, we used "soft system methodology" to identify problems, to collect users needs and to design solutions according to the objectives of specific groups. The DBgoldbr tool was designed to facilitate the search for open data made available by many Brazilian government institutions, so that this data can be reused to support the evaluation and monitoring of social programs, in order to support the design and management of public policies.
Rasmussen Pennington, D. ; Cagnazzo, L.: Relationship status : libraries and linked data in Europe.
In: Challenges and opportunities for knowledge organization in the digital age: proceedings of the Fifteenth International ISKO Conference, 9-11 July 2018, Porto, Portugal / organized by: International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO), ISKO Spain and Portugal Chapter, University of Porto - Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Research Centre in Communication, Information and Digital Culture (CIC.digital) - Porto. Eds.: F. Ribeiro u. M.E. Cerveira. Baden-Baden : Ergon Verlag, 2018. S.662-665.
Siwecka, D.: Knowledge organization systems used in European national libraries towards interoperability of the semantic Web.
In: Challenges and opportunities for knowledge organization in the digital age: proceedings of the Fifteenth International ISKO Conference, 9-11 July 2018, Porto, Portugal / organized by: International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO), ISKO Spain and Portugal Chapter, University of Porto - Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Research Centre in Communication, Information and Digital Culture (CIC.digital) - Porto. Eds.: F. Ribeiro u. M.E. Cerveira. Baden-Baden : Ergon Verlag, 2018. S.633-643.
Tran, Q.-T.: Knowledge organization systems and cultural interoperability in open humanitarian settings.
In: Challenges and opportunities for knowledge organization in the digital age: proceedings of the Fifteenth International ISKO Conference, 9-11 July 2018, Porto, Portugal / organized by: International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO), ISKO Spain and Portugal Chapter, University of Porto - Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Research Centre in Communication, Information and Digital Culture (CIC.digital) - Porto. Eds.: F. Ribeiro u. M.E. Cerveira. Baden-Baden : Ergon Verlag, 2018. S.624-632.
Balakrishnan, U. ; Voß, J. ; Soergel, D.: Towards integrated systems for KOS management, mapping, and access : Coli-conc and its collaborative computer-assisted KOS mapping tool Cocoda.
In: Challenges and opportunities for knowledge organization in the digital age: proceedings of the Fifteenth International ISKO Conference, 9-11 July 2018, Porto, Portugal / organized by: International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO), ISKO Spain and Portugal Chapter, University of Porto - Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Research Centre in Communication, Information and Digital Culture (CIC.digital) - Porto. Eds.: F. Ribeiro u. M.E. Cerveira. Baden-Baden : Ergon Verlag, 2018. S.693-701.
Adebisi, J.A. ; Afolabi, B.S. ; Akhigbe, B.I.: ¬A value-based approach to modelling interoperability in knowledge organization systems.
In: Challenges and opportunities for knowledge organization in the digital age: proceedings of the Fifteenth International ISKO Conference, 9-11 July 2018, Porto, Portugal / organized by: International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO), ISKO Spain and Portugal Chapter, University of Porto - Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Research Centre in Communication, Information and Digital Culture (CIC.digital) - Porto. Eds.: F. Ribeiro u. M.E. Cerveira. Baden-Baden : Ergon Verlag, 2018. S.720-728.
Panzer, M.: Increasing patient findability of medical research : annotating clinical trials using standard vocabularies.
In: Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 43(2017) no.2, S.40-43.
Abstract: Multiple groups at Mayo Clinic organize knowledge with the aid of metadata for a variety of purposes. The ontology group focuses on consumer-oriented health information using several controlled vocabularies to support and coordinate care providers, consumers, clinical knowledge and, as part of its research management, information on clinical trials. Poor findability, inconsistent indexing and specialized language undermined the goal of increasing trial participation. The ontology group designed a metadata framework addressing disorders and procedures, investigational drugs and clinical departments, adopted and translated the clinical terminology of SNOMED CT and RxNorm vocabularies to consumer language and coordinated terminology with Mayo's Consumer Health Vocabulary. The result enables retrieval of clinical trial information from multiple access points including conditions, procedures, drug names, organizations involved and trial phase. The jump in inquiries since the search site was revised and vocabularies were modified show evidence of success.
Leiva-Mederos, A. ; Senso, J.A. ; Hidalgo-Delgado, Y. ; Hipola, P.: Working framework of semantic interoperability for CRIS with heterogeneous data sources.
In: Journal of documentation. 73(2017) no.3, S.481-499.
Abstract: Purpose Information from Current Research Information Systems (CRIS) is stored in different formats, in platforms that are not compatible, or even in independent networks. It would be helpful to have a well-defined methodology to allow for management data processing from a single site, so as to take advantage of the capacity to link disperse data found in different systems, platforms, sources and/or formats. Based on functionalities and materials of the VLIR project, the purpose of this paper is to present a model that provides for interoperability by means of semantic alignment techniques and metadata crosswalks, and facilitates the fusion of information stored in diverse sources. Design/methodology/approach After reviewing the state of the art regarding the diverse mechanisms for achieving semantic interoperability, the paper analyzes the following: the specific coverage of the data sets (type of data, thematic coverage and geographic coverage); the technical specifications needed to retrieve and analyze a distribution of the data set (format, protocol, etc.); the conditions of re-utilization (copyright and licenses); and the "dimensions" included in the data set as well as the semantics of these dimensions (the syntax and the taxonomies of reference). The semantic interoperability framework here presented implements semantic alignment and metadata crosswalk to convert information from three different systems (ABCD, Moodle and DSpace) to integrate all the databases in a single RDF file. Findings The paper also includes an evaluation based on the comparison - by means of calculations of recall and precision - of the proposed model and identical consultations made on Open Archives Initiative and SQL, in order to estimate its efficiency. The results have been satisfactory enough, due to the fact that the semantic interoperability facilitates the exact retrieval of information. Originality/value The proposed model enhances management of the syntactic and semantic interoperability of the CRIS system designed. In a real setting of use it achieves very positive results.
Suominen, O. ; Hyvönen, N.: From MARC silos to Linked Data silos?.
In: o-bib: Das offene Bibliotheksjournal. 4(2017) Nr.2, S.1-13.
Abstract: Seit einiger Zeit stellen Bibliotheken ihre bibliografischen Metadadaten verstärkt offen in Form von Linked Data zur Verfügung. Dabei kommen jedoch ganz unterschiedliche Modelle für die Strukturierung der bibliografischen Daten zur Anwendung. Manche Bibliotheken verwenden ein auf FRBR basierendes Modell mit mehreren Schichten von Entitäten, während andere flache, am Datensatz orientierte Modelle nutzen. Der Wildwuchs bei den Datenmodellen erschwert die Nachnutzung der bibliografischen Daten. Im Ergebnis haben die Bibliotheken die früheren MARC-Silos nur mit zueinander inkompatiblen Linked-Data-Silos vertauscht. Deshalb ist es häufig schwierig, Datensets miteinander zu kombinieren und nachzunutzen. Kleinere Unterschiede in der Datenmodellierung lassen sich zwar durch Schema Mappings in den Griff bekommen, doch erscheint es fraglich, ob die Interoperabilität insgesamt zugenommen hat. Der Beitrag stellt die Ergebnisse einer Studie zu verschiedenen veröffentlichten Sets von bibliografischen Daten vor. Dabei werden auch die unterschiedlichen Modelle betrachtet, um bibliografische Daten als RDF darzustellen, sowie Werkzeuge zur Erzeugung von entsprechenden Daten aus dem MARC-Format. Abschließend wird der von der Finnischen Nationalbibliothek verfolgte Ansatz behandelt.
Szostak, R. ; Smiraglia, R.P.: Comparative approaches to interdisciplinary KOSs : use cases of converting UDC to BCC.
In: http://www.iskocus.org/NASKO2017papers/NASKO2017_paper_3.pdf [NASKO 2017, June 15-16, 2017, Champaign, IL, USA].
Abstract: We take a small sample of works and compare how these are classified within both the Universal Decimal Classification and the Basic concepts Classification. We examine notational length, expressivity, network effects, and the number of subject strings. One key finding is that BCC typically synthesizes many more terms than UDC in classifying a particular document - but the length of classificatory notations is roughly equivalent for the two KOSs. BCC captures documents with fewer subject strings (generally one) but these are more complex.
Neumaier, S.: Data integration for open data on the Web.
In: Reasoning Web: Semantic Interoperability on the Web, 13th International Summer School 2017, London, UK, July 7-11, 2017, Tutorial Lectures. Eds.: Ianni, G. et al. Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2017. S.1-28.
Abstract: In this lecture we will discuss and introduce challenges of integrating openly available Web data and how to solve them. Firstly, while we will address this topic from the viewpoint of Semantic Web research, not all data is readily available as RDF or Linked Data, so we will give an introduction to different data formats prevalent on the Web, namely, standard formats for publishing and exchanging tabular, tree-shaped, and graph data. Secondly, not all Open Data is really completely open, so we will discuss and address issues around licences, terms of usage associated with Open Data, as well as documentation of data provenance. Thirdly, we will discuss issues connected with (meta-)data quality issues associated with Open Data on the Web and how Semantic Web techniques and vocabularies can be used to describe and remedy them. Fourth, we will address issues about searchability and integration of Open Data and discuss in how far semantic search can help to overcome these. We close with briefly summarizing further issues not covered explicitly herein, such as multi-linguality, temporal aspects (archiving, evolution, temporal querying), as well as how/whether OWL and RDFS reasoning on top of integrated open data could be help.
Stamou, G. ; Chortaras, A.: Ontological query answering over semantic data.
In: Reasoning Web: Semantic Interoperability on the Web, 13th International Summer School 2017, London, UK, July 7-11, 2017, Tutorial Lectures. Eds.: Ianni, G. et al. Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2017. S.29-63.
Abstract: Modern information retrieval systems advance user experience on the basis of concept-based rather than keyword-based query answering.
Ianni, G. et al. (Hrsg.): Reasoning Web : Semantic Interoperability on the Web, 13th International Summer School 2017, London, UK, July 7-11, 2017, Tutorial Lectures.
Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2017. XI, 347 S.
Abstract: This volume contains the lecture notes of the 13th Reasoning Web Summer School, RW 2017, held in London, UK, in July 2017. In 2017, the theme of the school was "Semantic Interoperability on the Web", which encompasses subjects such as data integration, open data management, reasoning over linked data, database to ontology mapping, query answering over ontologies, hybrid reasoning with rules and ontologies, and ontology-based dynamic systems. The papers of this volume focus on these topics and also address foundational reasoning techniques used in answer set programming and ontologies.


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