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Sailing? Really?!! If you know me, you were expecting baseball, golf, poker–anything but sailing. What do I know about sailing? Put it this way: when I arrived in the San Francisco Bay area Saturday night, I had no idea that the first event in the America's Cup World Series 2012-2013 season was going on here this week. But leave it to my 90-year-old stepmother, Elizabeth, to know exactly what's going on in her territory. We hopped on the ferry from Alameda to pier 41 in San Francisco harbor Sunday morning, found a great and uncrowded vantage point at the end of pier 45, and watched the final race in the first of 4 series events leading up to next year's Louis Vuitton Cup and America's Cup final. It was surprisingly colorful and fun to watch, and during the two legs of the race that came right by us, we had a better view than anyone other than the helicopters and seabirds overhead.
The results: Defending champion Oracle Team USA–Spithill came on with a rush at the finish of the 11-boat fleetrace but fell three seconds short of the winner, Italian Team Luna Rosa–Piranha; but the second place finish was good for a one point victory for Sptithill over Piranha in the week-long final standings. The Vuitton cup held here next summer will determine the challenger to Oracle USA for the 34th America's Cup final in September 2013.
Ceci n'est pas une pipe. This is not a pipe.
René Magritte's message is rather unambiguous. An image of a "thing" is not the thing itself. But don't worry, I'm not headed toward a heavy ontological discussion here. I have a simple question which, believe it or not, my overly opinionated philosophical mind has virtually no idea how to answer. Maybe one of you out there can help.
Below, three of my personal favorite landscape photographs from my own travels, as well as a couple of representative pieces by Monsieur Lapuh.
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Hmmm. Ol' Albert may have known more about everyday life then he is commonly given credit for. After 34-years, my wife still hasn't learned this lesson. She is still trying to change me. I keep telling her to leave me alone as I am a finished product; I couldn't possibly get any worse.
I Conjecture: In an infinite multiverse we must exist.
If you think imagining infinity is difficult, try imagining nothing. No, I don't mean blank your mind. I mean imagine nothingness. NO! I don't mean a vacuum–empty space with no matter and energy. I mean absolutely nothing: no space and no time. I'm betting you can't do it, even if you think you can; you're not, even if you think you are. I merely conjectured that the concept of infinity could not exist in a finite universe, but I am firmly asserting that a conscious entity is incapable of imagining absolute nothingness. It's an oxymoron. By the mere fact of imagining you have to imagine something. And while it might be pure philosophy to suggest it couldn't be because we are incapable of imagining it, there is strong scientific argument for the "something out of nothing" impossibility of non-existence. From Hawking on down, physicists have come to the conclusion that there is no such thing as absolute vacuum, that space is full of quantum foam, seething with instability and particles of energy and matter popping in and out of existence. If matter plus antimatter equals nothing, than by commutation, nothing equals anti-matter plus matter. (Yes, I know. The intelligent design crowd will reject this and tell us that it is all too perfect. God must have done it. Really? So God can exist out of nothing but the universe can't? When they can tell me where god came from and offer some form of empirical evidence, I will consider their arguments; but they can't, so I won't.) Final proof: we do exist. Maybe all other arguments are moot. And anyway I have an out, as the prerequisite for this conjecture is "in an infinite multiverse." Let's rest our neurons for the next installment: The Conjecture of the Future.
The only law that works better in practice than it does in theory is Murphy's Law.
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Whomever said originally that Murphy was an optimist was at least hinting at this. But this blog is about cutting to the chase, cutting out the crap, and stating the obvious (or the "should be obvious") as directly as humanly possible. After all, it is Einstein who said one should make things as simple as possible. So for all the countless corollaries, addenda and sub-clauses to the infamous milieu of Murphy, I do not believe anyone has ever stated this obvious notion so directly.
Now if I could only find a child of five to write my next post, I could get out of here for the weekend.


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St John's Priory was established by the Augustinians on their arrival in Kilkenny in the thirteenth century, and became a flourishing centre of worship, scholarship and culture facing the medieval city on the other bank of the Nore.
Influenced by the famous Sainte Chapelle in Paris, the Priory church was famed for the number and size of its stained glass windows, and often called the "Lantern of Ireland". As with so many other religious buildings, it was seized during Henry VIII's suppression of the monasteries, and over the centuries this historic landmark felt into decay until the Lady Chapel was restored in the early 19th century as a Church of Ireland parish church. The rest of the structure remains today an atmospheric medieval ruin.
The Priory is a wonderfully intimate venue for the Festival's lunchtime concert series, hosting in 2014 a complete cycle of Beethoven's string quartets in ten concerts by the Heath Quartet – few who attended those concerts will forget the experience.
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In a child's world of wanting to belong, I lived with the unforgiving fact that I was different: I was fat. And every interaction--from my brother's unrelenting teasing to my classmates' ridicule to strangers' disapproving stares--told me in word and look that being fat was a very bad thing and, what was worse, that I was to blame.
My parents, though thin in their youth, fought a losing battle with their weight as they approached their late thirties. By the time that each had reached forty, there were clear signs of oncoming heart problems. My mother's blood pressure was out of control, and both my parents showed the telltale signs of diabetes. Within a few short years, my father's blood pressure was far above normal. My mother had suffered three heart attacks, and we lived with an oxygen tank in the closet. I slept lightly, listening for any signs of her distress. In the blink of an eye, within four short years, they were both gone--my father at fifty-two, my mother at fifty-five.
My older brother, fearful of becoming overweight and suffering the same ill health as my parents, chose what he considered an acceptable alternative, but within a short time he was as addicted to diet pills as he had been to junk foods and sweets. When he added other addictions to his repertoire, his immune system failed. He never saw his fortieth birthday, losing a long and terrible battle to a rare form of leukemia that preyed on his already-compromised body.
Before I was out of my twenties, both my parents and my older brother had died.
I was young, alone, sick, fat, and desperately poor.
I was young and alone, and most of all, I was sick and fat as well. I had no money, no real friends, and no one to whom I could turn. I had just been witness to what could be likened to a terrible automobile accident, and although I wanted desperately to avoid the collision myself, nothing I did seemed to make any difference. I had dreams of being behind the wheel of an old car, and though I saw it heading for a crash, I could not make the brakes respond. I stomped my foot on the brake pedal, I tried desperately to turn the wheel, I even tried to open the door and jump out, but nothing I did had any effect. And I awoke in terror to find that my nightmare was simply a reflection of my waking reality.
Some people say that, although they had been chubby as kids, they never suffered any health-related problems until they hit middle age. Not me. At twelve years of age, I was hospitalized for stroke-level hypertension. My blood pressure was 220/120, and I was twice my normal weight. Though not yet in my teens, I had already become a "high-risk patient." My menstrual periods had stopped, and my belly, sides, back, shoulders, and arms were already scarred with deep-purple stretch marks.
Long before I ever kissed a boy, I had become familiar with terms like hypertension, stroke, and coronary artery disease--warnings, said the doctors, of things to come. I had become knowledgeable about death and illness before I knew anything about life and love. At a time when I should have been concerned with friends and dresses and parties, I was trying to cope with staying alive.
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American League Predictions: With the New York Yankees restoring order in the American League last season, winning their first World Series since 2000, things aren't as up for grabs as they used to be. (Excuse me while I throw up). Even still, the Minnesota Twins heading into a new ballpark with their franchise player under contract, the Tampa Bay Rays ushering out their newest crop of young talent, and of course the wild, wild, American League West is up for grabs. Get After It. . .
American League West Texas Rangers. The consensus is that the this is the season the Rangers put it all together and win the American League West, I'm part of that consensus. By adding Rich Harden this offseason, the Rangers are hoping to finally add starting pitching to their dominating offense. Pitching would be the key for Texas this year, and it looks as though they have it. From closer Frank Francisco to relievers Darren Oliver, C.J. Wilson and Dominican born Neftali Feliz their bullpen looks tough. To pair with Harden is 17-game winner Scott Feldman and a bevy of young arms beginning with 24-year old Matt Harrison looking to bounce back. As for that offense, they'll need Josh Hamilton to have a bounce back season after his injury plagued 2009, and I believe he will. After Hamilton it comes down to outfielder Nelson Cruz coming off his best season as a pro and of course Ian Kinsler who is having injury issues all Spring, hopefully his bat comes alive as it did a season ago in which he slugged 31 homeruns. Despite Ron Washington's off the field issues, this team plays tough for the Ranger manager, and tough enough to win the American League West.
American League Central Minnesota Twins. Closer Joe Nathan out for the season before we even get under way, I'm still all in. The Twins are moving into a new ballpark this season in Minnesota and have their franchise player, catcher Joe Mauer, signed, sealed, and delivered before he steps into the batters box, I love it. A reigning American League MVP in Joe Mauer and a former American League MVP in Justin Morneau, the Twins duo puts fear into opposing pitchers and they are as consistent as it gets. By adding both Orlando Hudson and Jim Thome in the offseason, the Twins are attempting to give themselves more depth to make a long run. While I decided on Minnesota prior to Joe Nathan going down, and I respect that "by committee" isn't the most efficient way to run the closer position, they'll have to make due, and that's what Twins manager Ron Gardenhire has been doing his entire time in Minnesota. I'm hinging my bets to the return of a healthy Francisco Liriano to where he was supposed to be a couple years ago. Here's a team who lost Johan and still won, they can handle the injury to Joe Nathan.
American League East New York Yankees. It's the Yankees, the Yankees are back, as much as it pains me, they are. Departing with aging stars Johnny Damon and Hideki Matsui, the Yanks have added Curtis Granderson, a young star coming into his own. The former Detroit Tiger center fielder is a quality fielder who gets on base, steals bases, and even adds power to a lineup that isn't short of that. That'd be the rich, getting richer. If the Yankees pitching acquisition, standout Braves pitcher Javier Vazquez, can put his past Yankee struggles in the past, he'll be another arm in a standout staff. You know all that though. The Yankees are the Derek Jeters', Alex Rodriguez', and of course Mark Teixeira, however this year may just be the year hopeful Phil Hughes comes through. Designated to a 5th starter role, the 23-year old starter looks to add to his 2009 success. A season ago, Hughes had an earned run average just over three yet held opposing hitters to just a .217 batting average. If the Yankees don't come out and make a serious run at repeating, I'd be stunned and so would the rest of the baseball world. Year two in the new stadium is bound to bring some fireworks.
the defense that they are going to focus on and with these starters, you can bet things in Boston are going to look real good very quickly. This may be the Red Sox best opportunity to return to the World Series. With Lackey out to prove he's worth the monster contract the Red Sox gave him this off season, Josh Beckett looking to do the same in a contract season, and Jon Lester looking to bounce back and take his place among the American League elite pitching talents. With Victor Martinez behind the plate every day and filling in nicely in the middle of the Red Sox lineup, the Red Sox have done good by removing veteran Jason Varitek from the picture, now they've got to find a way to get him out of town. The Red Sox are going to win 90 games and while Tampa will give them a run, not much is going to get in the way of a Boston playoff appearance, and in a short series, watch out.
American League MVP Joe Mauer. Can he re-peat as the American League MVP? Of course. The Twins big money man is ready for the challenge, putting a franchise on his back and watching as the Twins usher both he and their fans into a brand new ballpark. Mauer's monster 2009 season both propelled him to this new contract, but it did more to create a legend of a ball player. Mauer slammed career highs in homers, average, OPS, and slugging percentage. Now it's time to get it done. Joe Mauer will repeat and watch the legend grow for this 26-year old phenom.
American League Cy Young Jon Lester. Till he wins this award, I'm predicting he will. Lester has flashed glimpses of brilliance throughout his time in Beantown, and if he puts it together for 162 games, he'll bring a Cy Young back to Boston. If Lester can play behind both Beckett and Lackey he'll stand out in just his third full season in the majors. If this 26-year old doesn't give AL pitchers a serious run, I'll be stunned.
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Q: No Results in WooCommerce Product Search When I try to create a grouped product, I type the field which searches for products but I am getting no results even though I should.
After looking at the request made from the API with this URL:
https://domain.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?term=earrings&action=woocommerce_json_search_products_and_variations&security=abcdefghij&exclude=201929&_fs_blog_admin=true

I confirmed the search is returning empty.
Does anyone knows how to fix this?
If any more information is needed please let me know and I will edit the question.

A: I got this solution from https://stackoverflow.com/a/57218305/900557
Add this to your theme's functions.php
The Answer from Chandrakant Devani helped, but broke other searches in the admin. Adding an if seems to avoid breakages
if ( is_admin() && $query->is_main_query() && $query->query_vars['post_type'] == 'product')

full code:
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I don't know enough about woocommerce to know why this is needed, but it fixed our problem

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Obama Sent A-Rod and J-Lo a Note to Congratulate Them on Their Engagement
The former POTUS offered the former MVP some wisdom from his own 26 years of marital bliss.
By Gabrielle Bruney
Among the plebs, love knows no higher societal recognition than a mention in The New York Times wedding announcements. But the super famous have to aim higher, and Jennifer Lopez and her fiancé Alex Rodriguez just landed one of the best possible engagement presents: A congratulatory note from former president Barack Obama himself.
Obama sent the celebrity pair a tender message based on his own quarter century of marriage. "Michelle and I just wanted to congratulate you on your engagement," he wrote. "After 26 years together, we can say that whatever challenges life may bring, sharing them with someone you love makes it all better."
This means the world to us.
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— Alex Rodriguez (@AROD) March 22, 2019
The mononymic duo have been dating for two well-documented years. A-Rod let J-Lo teach him a thing or two about baseball analysis, and J-Lo convinced A-Rod to wear a Pepto-Bismol hued suit, all culminating in promises of forever and an engagement ring worth between one and five million dollars. The pair has also been highly active in charitable efforts for post-Hurricane Maria Puerto Rico, with Lopez personally donating a million dollars in aid.
"We're very much twins," Rodriguez told Vanity Fair of the relationship. "We're both Leos; we're both from New York; we're both Latino and about 20 other things."
Obama and A-Rod have known each other at least since 2010, when the then-third baseman visited the White House with the rest of the 2009 World Series-winning New York Yankees. Early last year, the two spoke at the same MIT sports analytics conference, and Lopez shared a photo of the two men to her Instagram.
Ooooh...just my Macho and Mr. President hanging out backstage... @arod and @barackobama #obama #legendseries
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Home - Troubleshooting - How To Tag Someone On YouTube?
The feature of tagging has been a part of almost every social media platform. Users have developed a habit of tagging their friends on different posts and tweets. It is one of the most widely used features on social networks, allowing engagement of users in a better way. Mostly, a user can tag someone by adding the "@" symbol before their profile name or username.
However, YouTube, the globally recognized platform with billions of active users does not have the same feature. One is not able to tag another user in the comment section unless replying to their previous comment.
Why Is There No Tagging Feature on YouTube?
Since YouTube was acquired by Google LLC more than a decade ago, the platform has seen a series of systematic changes to make it more user-friendly and compatible with the current social network dynamics.
Not long ago, YouTube had the feature of tagging another user in a comment section but that has been pulled out. Why? It was basically an integration of the tech giant's another social networking platform, Google+.
A user could tag a Google+ user in YouTube comment section since every user's channel on YouTube was connected to their Google+ account. By tagging a user in the comment section, you would be tagging their Google+ profile.
The company hoped that Google+ would reach a tremendous level of success. It certainly carried the potential to compete with its rivals – Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc. Google gave their platform a good many years to test and made frequent updates to allow an enriched user experience. However, it failed to make an impact that Google originally hoped for. As a consequence, Google pulled the plug on Google+ during March of 2019 and it was officially shut down.
So, What About the Tagging Feature?
After shutting down Google+, many users reported that they could no longer tag someone in the YouTube comments section. It was obvious; in order to tag someone's Google+ profile, Google+ had to be in existence.
However, it does not mean that a user cannot tag another user at all in the comments section. You can only do it in a reply to a comment in the thread. Here's how –
With every comment, there's an option called "hit reply".
You will find that there is no feature to tag the user above. Even if you try entering "@", it will not work.
Once you click reply, it would automatically tag the user above.
When you post the comment, the user would be tagged in the posted comment. Their username would be highlighted in blue.
This is the only way you can tag someone on YouTube.
Will YouTube Introduce Tagging Feature in the Near Future?
Many users expect YouTube to make a number of advanced changes to the platform. The video playback feature is always a part of discussions. The lack of a tagging feature is close to being a popular issue.
As of now, YouTube has not given a word regarding their plans to add a tagging feature. Certainly, many users continue to express their frustration and it does make the platform more complicated than other social networks.
However, the tech company based in Silicon Valley are always working to provide users with the utmost convenience and transform the user experience with different add-ons and integrated features. So, one can expect that plans for adding a tagging feature would be in the books for YouTube.
YouTube is still a one-of-a-kind platform for users to watch videos on almost any category and content creators to broadcast their productions. It grows popular with every passing day, multiplying its number of users each year.
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After the amazing success of the 2017 and 2018 events, where over 4,000 people watched fearless drivers in amazing creations hurtle down our 850m course; the 3rd Burghfield Box-kart Bash will take place on the 23rd June 2019 in Burghfield Common.
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As 800,000 federal employees brace for another missed paycheck this week, banks, cellphone companies and nonprofit organizations are stepping up to help workers hurt by the month-long government shutdown.
Creditors from big banks to local credit unions and utility and telecom companies are offering forbearance, waiving late fees and providing short-term, no-interest loans for affected workers. For many, it's the first time they have rolled out a nationwide plan for a government shutdown.


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Stacey Abrams To Executive Produce CBS Drama
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Political powerhouse Stacey Abrams is stepping into the entertainment industry. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Abrams has inked a deal with CBS to executive produce a show based on a novel she wrote.
Stacey Abrams is getting into television. The former Georgia lawmaker and voting-rights advocate will executive produce a drama in development at CBS
The book—titled Never Tell—was released under Abrams' alias Selena Montgomery. The novel, which made its debut 15 years ago, follows the journey of criminal psychologist Dr. Erin Abbott. While investigating the whereabouts of a serial killer in New Orleans, she crosses paths with a local journalist and they end up forming a relationship. Talicia Raggs will serve as the writer for the project. Abrams will executive produce the project alongside Denise Di Novi and Nina Tassler.
Abrams—who served in the Georgia House of Representatives and as minority leader—is very passionate about writing. She has penned eight novels. The last book that she released under the Selena Montgomery moniker was titled Deception which is centered around a woman who has to return to her hometown following a murder mystery. Although she likes to keep her political and literary work separate, Abrams says that both worlds are undeniably intertwined.
"Leadership requires the ability to engage and to create empathy for communities with disparate needs and ideas. Telling an effective story—especially in romantic suspense—demands a similar skill set," she told The Washington Post in an interview. "When I began writing novels, I read Aristotle to learn how to perfect structure, Pearl Cleage to sustain tension and Nora Roberts for characterization. Good romantic suspense can never underestimate the audience, and the best political leaders know how to shape a compelling narrative that respects voters and paints a picture of what is to come."
There is no word on when Abrams' project will be released.
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Dutch director Paul Verhoeven is seen by some as the epitome of how Hollywood destroys true artists. After having made four of the most successful films in Dutch history, Verhoeven was lured to Tinseltown mid-career, and he has never made another film as personal or penetrating as his 1983 masterpiece, The Fourth Man. Second only to James Cameron as King of the big-budget action pic in the 1980s and 1990s, Verhoeven produced a string of box office hits (and critical flops) from Robocop (1987) to Starship Troopers (1997), with time out to make one of the true clunkers of the '90s, Showgirls (1995). But there is a continuity between his European and Hollywood careers, traceable to his profound feel for Hollywood action genres.
Born in Amsterdam right before World War II, Paul Verhoeven's childhood was indelibly impacted by the Nazi invasion and occupation of his homeland. His fascination with gore stems from that period, his parents reporting that he would go out to the shot down planes and stare into the faces of the dead pilots. While earning his PhD in mathematics and physics at the University of Leiden in the early 1960s, he made a couple of short films for his own amusement. In fulfilling his military obligation upon graduation, he was assigned to the Marine Film Service of the Royal Dutch Navy. The Marine Corps (1965), a 23-minute documentary he assembled in celebration of the tercentenary of the Dutch Marines, was honored with the Silver Sun, an award for military films, from the government of France.
Verhoeven returned to civilian life dedicated to directing, and his first feature film, Business is Business (1971), was a sexy and comic memoir of a streetwalker and a big hit in the Netherlands. The appeal of his next two features, Turkish Delight (1973) and Katie Tippel (1975), remained confined to European audiences. But his episodic story of the Dutch resistance, Soldier of Orange (1978), made a big splash internationally. Following up that big-budget historical epic with a gritty dirt bike flick called Spetters (1980), Verhoeven was building a stock company of sorts, prominently featuring Jeroen Krabbe, Rutger Hauer (whom he took great pride in discovering) and Renee Soutendijk.
The Fourth Man was his breakthrough in the U.S., and is one of my favorite films, a mixture of film noir fatalism and supernatural forebodings that may or may not be figments of the alcoholic protagonist's imagination. Jeroen Krabbe has the role of a lifetime as Gerard, a bisexual writer who is drawn into the web of a thrice-widowed femme fatale named Christine (a red-hot Soutendijk). Gerard travels to a beachfront community to give a talk to the local literary society, which Christine directs. He spends the night with her, and she offers to be his patron. Discovering that Christine is also involved with an attractive young man named Herman (Thom Hoffman), Gerard remains with her to get to him. Plagued by vivid dreams that depict three slaughtered carcasses being drained of blood, with a place reserved for him as the potential fourth victim, Gerard uncovers troubling details about Christine's first three husbands, who all died under mysterious circumstances. Then Herman arrives from Germany and the triangle is complete (but not for long).
Critics who think that it was Hollywood that spelled the end of Verhoeven's creative career need only look at Soldier of Orange, a fairly conventional historical tale, and Spetters, a testosterone laced thrill fest, to realize that the now-arthouse classic Fourth Man was the anomaly, and that he always was an action director at heart. Spetters, a low budget contemporary slice-of-dirt-track-life, brings a ragged sense of excitement to its subject matter, and Verhoeven's long collaboration with director of photography Jan DeBont (who later went on to direct Speed [1994]) came to fruition here. Rutger Hauer was superb as the dirt bike champion everyone wanted to emulate (or sleep with), while Renee Souterdijk once again radiated sexual energy as a hash slinger with ambitions for better things.
Verhoeven could have continued on as the most successful director in the history of the Netherlands, but he longed for Hollywood success, and made the move as soon as he could. Hence, his next film was a Dutch-U.S. co-production, a gruesome tale of the Middle Ages called Flesh + Blood (1985). Reuniting with Rutger Hauer (who had made Blade Runner [Ridley Scott, 1982] in the interim) failed to rekindle the box office magic of their earlier collaborations on the Continent, and Verhoeven's future in Hollywood was very much in doubt.
Totally re-inventing himself, he hit the jackpot with Robocop. Having always loved sci-fi as a kid, Verhoeven relished the chance to envision a dystopic future Detroit where the legal order has broken down so thoroughly that the cops needed robotic assistance. Robocop is one of the most fun (and graphic) superhero movies ever made, extrapolating present trends into the near future and commenting on our media-driven culture in the process. It also helped make a star out of Peter Weller, whose deadpan personality fit his mechanical role to a "T".
Capitalizing on this success, Verhoeven cannily continued in the same pop sci-fi vein with Total Recall (1990). More philosophical than its predecessor, Recall kept the action level high (it is, after all, an Arnold Schwarzenegger flick) while introducing a brain-teaser out of the Philip K. Dick short story that was its source. If we are essentially our memories, then who do we become if they can be erased, and replaced with a whole new set? Sharon Stone plays Arnold's kickboxing wife (or is she just an Agency plant?), and Ronny Cox reprises his Robocop role as the big bad guy pulling all the strings.
Both of these blockbusters featured state-of-the-art special effects, as befits big budget science-fiction. But compared to the Star Wars films that preceded them (and the heavy Joseph Campbell readings of the trilogy as embodying primal myths), Robocop and Total Recall were breaths of pop-sensibility fresh air, frenetic rather than wooden, with the latter offering as much to chew on as a good Twilight Zone episode. Both had a comic book quality that many other films have reached for since, and few have realized as effectively.
Basic Instinct (1992) was Verhoeven's homage to Alfred Hitchcock, right down to the lush orchestral score and thriller scenario. But Verhoeven's work could be far more sexually explicit than Hitchcock's ever was; Instinct probably couldn't be made in today's embattled Hollywood. While Sharon Stone provided the audience with the most notorious crotch shot in cinematic history, it was the sado-masochistic scene between Michael Douglas' detective and his psychotherapist/lover Jeanne Tripplehorn that really lit up the screen. Both Stone and Douglas were at the top of their games and relishing their genre-defined roles.
Roger Ebert groused about the last scene, which showed the ice pick under Stone's bed and tipped us off that she was, indeed, the murderess. His complaint was that the movie made it impossible to tell up to that point whether she did it or not. She could just as easily have been innocent of the murders in question. But that is precisely why the scene is so exhilarating. We need to know whether she did it or not, and our worst suspicions are confirmed. We also leave with the distinct impression that the detective probably knows this as well, and is along for the thrill ride anyway.
Basic Instinct holds up a decade after its initial release, and long after the furor it created in both the conservative and the gay/lesbian communities died down. The initial sex scene between Douglas and Stone is as explicit as anything ever filmed in mainstream Hollywood, yet it is crucial to their relationship, and as far away from pornography as one can possibly imagine. Stone joins a long line of powerful femmes fatale in the history of cinema, and Basic Instinct is one of the few classics in the neo-noir revival (Body Heat [Lawrence Kasdan, 1981] is the only other one that comes to mind).
I remember going to the old Lido show at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas with my Dad in the late '70s. The show had an air of unreality about it, and was surprisingly unerotic for an extravaganza that featured two dozen women over six feet tall with their breasts hanging out for all to see. It is perhaps because Showgirls so perfectly captures the Vegas milieu that it was such a bomb. Its tepid Dionysianism was unarousing (save for a brief Elizabeth Berkeley dance on birthday boy Kyle MacLachlan's lap), and its borrowings from All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950) were only to the detriment of the imitator. After three smash hits in a row, a Paul Verhoeven movie lost a great deal of money, due in no small part to writer Joe Eszterhas' inflated fee, and the extravagant production numbers that featured Berkeley and the luscious Gina Gershon.
Undaunted, Verhoeven took on his most ambitious project yet, a sprawling version of Robert Heinlein's sci-fi classic Starship Troopers. He fashioned a space western with a punch, complete with our heroes being surrounded in an abandoned fort (albeit this time by monstrous insects), and the cavalry coming to the rescue in the nick of time (in a shuttle craft). Satirizing the gung-ho recruitment films he used to make for the Dutch Royal Navy, Verhoeven sketched out a Spartan society where men and women fight and die side by side (it kind of reminded me of Plato's Republic). Only service in the military earns one citizenship in this society, and with it the right to vote and hold office (as well as a greater likelihood of being permitted to have children). Starship Troopers is a sweet roller coaster ride of a movie, with hokey acting, wondrous special effects (the first invasion scene is breathtaking on the big screen), and a real sense of humor. You haven't lived until you see television's Doogie Howser (Neil Patrick Harris) do a mind meld with the brain bug in the climactic scene. I hadn't had that much of this type of fun since I used to watch the old Flash Gordon episodes on Sunday mornings before going to Mass.
Risking being stereotyped as a sci-fi director, Verhoeven's next (and most recent) film was a variation on the old Invisible Man theme. Hollow Man (2000) is a run-of-the-mill mad scientist movie with Kevin Bacon as the egotistical researcher who experiments on himself and gets more crazed the longer he fails to make himself visible again. Maybe it was the casting (neither Bacon nor Elisabeth Shue are favorites of mine), but Hollow Man comes up as empty as its name, although it did reasonably well at the box office. Enlivened only by Verhoeven's usual masterful touch with special effects, Hollow Man crucially lacked a protagonist as sympathetic as Claude Rains was in the original Invisible Man (James Whale, 1933).
A case can be made for Verhoeven's career being in decline of late that has nothing to do with his choice to come to America. Two comparative failures out of his last three efforts (the only films he has made in the last ten years) bespeak a damming up of the creative juices. His oeuvre is rich and varied, evidencing a remarkable ability to work effectively within genre conventions. From arthouse comedy to European existentialism, dystopic sci-fi to neo-noir and Las Vegas glitz, his best films demonstrate a feel for the pulpy pulse of pop culture, while not being averse to giving us a little to think about in the process. Still, Ingmar Bergman he ain't.
Yet, as the recent release of Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones (George Lucas, 2002) makes clear, making sci-fi films that are both fun and thought-provoking is no small accomplishment. Lucas could learn a thing or two from Paul Verhoeven (and from fellow European Luc Besson and his candy colored lollipop, The Fifth Element [1997], from which Lucas stole the sequence where Anakin jumps out of the speeder after the alien assassin). Philip K. Dick is (posthumously) one of the hottest writers in Hollywood at the moment, what with the success of Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, 2002) and all, and I can only hope there is another of Dick's stories around for Verhoeven to direct and put himself back on top of the heap.
The Marine Corps (Het Korps Mariniers) (1965)
Business is Business (Wat Zien Ik) (1971)
Turkish Delight (Turks Fruit) (1973)
Katie Tippel (Keetje Tippel) (1975) also known as Cathy Tippel or Katie's Passion
Soldier of Orange (Soldaat Van Oranje) (1978)
Spetters (1980)
The Fourth Man (De Vierde Man) (1983)
Flesh + Blood (1985)
Basic Instinct (1992)
Showgirls (1995)
Black Book (2006)
Elle (2016)
Lyon 1943 (2019) (delayed)
Blessed Virgin (2019) (pre-production)
Nathan Abrams, " 'Are You Still You?': Memory, Identity and Self-Positioning in Total Recall", Film and Philosophy, Volume 7, 2003
Roger Ebert, review of Basic Instinct, included in the Microsoft CD-Rom Cinemania '97
Mary M. Litch, "Skepticism and Total Recall" in Philosophy Through Film, London and New York, Routledge, 2002
James Monaco, "Robocop" entry in The Movie Guide, New York, Perigee Books, 1992
Joanna Schmerz, "On Reading the Politics of Total Recall", Postscript, 12, Summer 1993
Chris Shea and Wade Jennings, "Paul Verhoeven: An Interview", Postscript, 12, Summer 1993
J. P. Telotte, "What You Can't See Can Hurt You: Of Invisible and Hollow Men" in Steven J. Schneider and Daniel Shaw (eds.), Dark Thoughts: Philosophic Reflections on Horror Films, Lanham MD, Scarecrow Press, 2003
J. P. Telotte, "Verhoeven, Virilio and 'Cinematic Derealization'", Film Quarterly, 53, Number 2, (2000)
Articles in Senses of Cinema
Too Much Bacon: what's visible in Hollow Man by Michael Cohen
Compiled by Albert Fung
Paul Verhoeven .net
A fan site "all about a unique director".
The Paul Verhoeven Fan Page
Another site dedicated to Verhoeven.
A piece on Verhoeven.
Film Directors – Articles on the Internet
Links to several online articles on Verhoeven and his films.
Click here to search for Paul Verhoeven DVDs, videos and books at
Favourite Film Things 2002 – Part 3
Dan Shaw is Professor of Philosophy at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, USA, edits the print journal Film and Philosophy and is co-editor, with Steven Jay Schneider, of Dark Thoughts: Philosophic Reflections on Cinematic Horror (2003, Scarecrow Press).
David Church


Things are never the way you expect them to be. Nothing looks the way you painted it in your mind. In my picture of Beirut, I didn't imagine a Syrian refugee next to an American Eagle next to a Lebanese restaurant next to a grocery store that sells Kroger brand peanut butter and Labneh. I didn't expect taxis to be louder than bombs. This isn't a place you fall in love with, this is a place you give your mind to. You let the city run through the grooves of your brain and you overthink it. There may or may not be answers here, but there are definitely pathways. So grab the handles of you bicycle and pick a road. Maybe you'll end up somewhere new, or maybe the road is a circle back to where you started, but don't let your busy mind build any walls. Your hands are your own. Let them search and don't be scared of what they find. But know it won't be what you expect. Love will come, but it won't come easily.
and you belong to yourself again.
remember forgiveness is not a tidy grave.
It is a ready loyal knight kneeling before your royal heart.
Call in your royal heart.
Tell it bravery can never be measured by a lack of fear.


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The coolest thing….
Encouragement, General, Getting Started
Any of you following my blog for the last few months know that I started out doing Voice Over work, and then branched out into screen acting.
Truth is, I did it on a "lark" initially, applying for and getting a role as a background (BG) extra on an upcoming Hulu Original Limited Series show. I'd love to share more, but my NDA prevents it, however, I will let you know as soon as we have a release date.
Anyway, I got, and worked, a BG role in this series and let me tell you: It was by far the coolest thing I've ever done!
I've done a lot of cool stuff before…
That's a pretty big statement, because in my sixty (SIXTY!?) years on this earth, I've done some pretty cool things. For comparison, I'll tell you about some of them here.
Joined the Navy (Yeah, it WAS cool)
Growing up in Ohio in the 70's there were not many prospects for work after high school, so just a couple months after graduation I joined the US Navy in the advanced electronics field so that I'd have a trade when I got out. Little did I know at the time I'd spend 20 years of my life serving in the world's best Navy (No offense to you guys in "lesser" navies…LOL). Interestingly, the recruiting motto at the time was "join the navy, see the word", and I DID do that! Of course, they forgot to mention that somewhere north of 70% of the world is water, and I may have seen every molecule of that. Anyway, serving in the navy allowed for many opportunities to see and do pretty cool stuff.
To start with, I have visited more countries than I care to count. From Europe, to the Middle East, to Africa and the Far East and as far south as Australia and South America, I've been there. Of course, the OTHER thing they don't tell you is that you spend WEEKS at sea and only 3-4 days in a port.
On my first deployment, on the USS Carl Vinson (CVN70), we started our trip out of Norfolk with the plan to change home ports from there to Alameda California. We spent a little more than 11 months deployed. During that deployment, I saw aircraft take off and land, also saw a couple "crash" and one that slid off the angle deck and into the sea (the pilot ejected).
We crossed the equator at 0/0 and I became a "shellback" on this cruise. We also stopped in both Monaco and Casablanca (Did you know there is NO "Rick's American Café' in Monaco? Did you also know if you tell the taxi driver to take you there he will drive around for hours looking just to run the meter up?). Traveled south around the Cape of Good Hope and back up the Eastern coast into the Indian Ocean and Red Sea, then passed through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean to sit off the coast of Libya for a while.
And Russian Bears…
At this time, we were having a bit of a scruff-up with one Muammar Khaddaffi and our transit through the Red Sea was punctuated daily with Russian Bear (aircraft) dropping huge bags of red dye in the water around the ship because Mr. Khadaffi said he would sink our ship and turn the Red Sea into a "Sea of Blood". I suppose it was supposed to be psychological. It was actually comical, and we would gather on the weather deck daily to watch it.
We also spent about 90 days straight in the Indian Ocean without a port visit. Those were some LONG underway days!
CAT shot!
On our way to the Philippines for a three-week maintenance period, I re-enlisted and one of the perks was to fly off the ship three days before the ship arrived to enjoy a couple of liberty days "alone". As a result, I had the pleasure of riding in the back of a C3 aircraft (We called it the COD) when it was catapulted off the ship. What a ride THAT was! Zero to 180 knots in the space of less than a second! Better than any roller coaster!
And a little slower arrival/departure…
Also during my long career, I had the good fortune to be both delivered and removed from a ship via helicopter. Several times on helicopters that were unable to actually land on the ship, so I was suspended by a wire and dropped (well, not LITERALLY dropped) and/or lifted from the flight deck. Being terrified of heights made that just a LITTLE more exciting. I've flown out to and back from more ships on helicopters than I can count (I was a "field service rep" for one of the shipboard systems and would travel to whichever ship was having a problem they couldn't fix).
Abandoned on the runway…
On one trip, I was flying (by plane) into Hurghada Egypt. At one point, we had a detachment stationed at the airport there, but not anymore…the plane landed, opened the door, handed me my luggage and then took off, leaving me standing on the runway as far from civilization as you could get. About an hour later, the ship's helo showed up to ferry me to the ship, but they were low on fuel, so we had to sit, surrounded by Egyptian police, for three hours till the ship was in range of the fuel. By this time, it was getting dark and the rules say no transporting passengers over water after dark…but we went anyway. Nothing like looking out the window at extreme darkness and suddenly thumping down on a deck you didn't know was there.
Bella Napoli!
Probably the BEST experience though was having the opportunity to live and work in Naples Italy for five years. Man, I love that place! If I close my eyes I can see, smell and taste it. I fell in love with Italy and its people in those five years. I'd love to move back one day!
Anyway, all that (and there is a LOT more, but this post is not about that) to say: Yeah, I've managed to do some pretty cool stuff.
But the COOLEST was…
But the coolest, by far, is being on the set of a television show being filmed as an ACTOR. A background actor, but an actor nevertheless. If you ever wanted to be on TV, this is a great way to get started.
But listen, do you even notice the background actors in TV and movies? I never did. What ARE background actors? They are the people behind the principal actors who are milling about, walking through the scene, or generally "filling out" whatever scene is being shot.
What do BG actors do?
Think about it. A coffee shop scene in New York just wouldn't be believable if there weren't a throng of people moving around outside the window. Or dozens of people in line or sitting at tables. All of those people are background actors. Here's the thing (and one of the production assistants even said this to me while I was there): A scene just doesn't work without the background folks.
And now TV has changed…
Having this experience has almost ruined TV and movies for me. I barely pay attention to the principal actors now, as I tend to focus on what the background people are doing to make the scene more realistic. Try it sometime. Next time you are watching something, instead of paying attention to what's going on in the scene, pay attention to all the people in the background. Or watch it, then back up your DVR and watch it again with a different focus.
Sorry if that ruins it for you too, but misery loves company.
A real learning experience…
More importantly I learned a TON about film making working as a background actor. You know that 30-second scene that was a minor, but important, point in the story? It probably took them 4 HOURS to film it. Each scene is shot over and over again from different perspectives and then cut together in post-production.
I always wondered how you could be watching a conversation where the camera first focuses on one person and then the other…without being able to see the camera over one actor's shoulder. I just assumed there were several cameras rolling and they just did some trickery in the cutting room so you couldn't see it. Nope. Between each take they move the camera around and shoot the same scene, over and over, from different angles. It's amazing to watch.
Outside MAY be inside!
And that scene in an office building, where you can see out the boardroom window to the trees beyond? Yeah, likely they are shooting in a warehouse, with some trees in pots sitting outside the window and a nice big mural of trees painted behind it. Sometimes, if you look real close, you can tell…but since you are generally looking at and paying attention to the action in the scene, you don't notice it. It's sleight of hand, and probably why they call it the "magic of television".
Lights, Camera, ACTION!
Oh, and "lights, camera, action"? Not a thing. It goes like this: "Roll sound" …and they turn on the sound recording equipment, "Roll Tape" and the cameras start to roll, "Background" and all the background actors start doing there thing and then, finally, "Action" when the principal actors do their thing. It's all very well-orchestrated and professional.
Consummate Professionals…
Speaking of professional, everyone, from the background actors, to the production assistants, to the director and everyone in the crew, are some of the most professional, no-nonsense people I've ever worked with. All-in-all, a fantastic experience and the coolest thing I've ever done. I look forward to spending a lot more time on set. I'll let you know when the series is released. I am presently working on a new project called "The Wages of Sin", a feature length independent faith based film that begins filming in April.
Aint retirement grand!
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Nancy Mason says
This was so interesting to read! Thank you for sharing your experiences with us!
Gary Mason says
Really glad you enjoyed it…:-)
Donna Floyd says
Great article. Enjoyed reading.
Hi Donna, thanks! And thanks for reading!
Joshua Alexander says
But…but…wait…where was the part where you doubled for Vanna White on Wheel of Fortune?!?! I was so looking forward to you expounding on that part of your adventure! What a jip. I want my money back.
Shhhhhh…Vanna asked me not to tell anyone!


Italy's Senate voted on Wednesday to block the trial of Interior Minister Matteo Salvini for refusing to allow migrants to disembark from a rescue ship.
In January, an Italian court ruled that Salvini should be tried for the alleged kidnapping of 177 asylum seekers he prevented from disembarking the Italian coastguard ship Diciotti in August 2018.
The ship was left stranded at sea for five days without permission to dock.
The migrants were only allowed to disembark once Salvini had been assured other European countries would take them in.
On Wednesday, members of the house had to decide whether Salvini would stand trial or proceedings be halted.
Senators voted 237 to 61 in favour of the immunity commission's recommendation that Salvini, who heads the anti-immigrant League party, should not face trial.
Italy's constitution says that parliament can block proceedings if lawmakers agree the minister was doing their job in the interests of the State.
Salvini sought parliamentary immunity from the trial, claiming he was "only doing his job" in refusing to allow the Diciotti to dock.
Since coming to power last year, Salvini has enforced a hardline stance against migration, including closing all of Italy's ports to migrant rescue ships.
The Italian city of Reggio Emilia will introduce the nation's most progressive policies to date regarding transgender and intersex people, including providing gender-neutral bathrooms and adding a third gender option on official documents.
Prime Minister Paul Keating last Wednesday officially inaugurated the AustraliaGate Sensor Vision Theatre at the Southgate Arts and Leisure Precinct in South Melbourne.