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Michael Anthony Jerome "Spud" Webb (born July 13, 1963) is an American retired professional basketball player. Webb, who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA), is known for winning a Slam Dunk Contest despite being one of the shortest players in NBA history. NBA.com lists him at 5 feet 7 inches (170 cm) tall. Other references list him as 5 feet 6 inches.[1] He is currently the president of basketball operations for the Texas Legends, the G League team for the Dallas Mavericks in Frisco, Texas.[2]
Webb at an Australian basketball exhibition in 1994
Texas Legends
President of Basketball Operations
Listed height
Listed weight
133 lb (60 kg)
Wilmer-Hutchins (Dallas, Texas)
Midland College (1981-1983)
NC State (1983-1985)
1985 / Round: 4 / Pick: 87th overall
Selected by the Detroit Pistons
Rhode Island Gulls
Mash J. Verona
Idaho Stampede
NBA Slam Dunk Contest champion (1986)
Career NBA statistics
8,072 (9.9 ppg)
1,742 (2.1 rpg)
4,342 (5.3 apg)
Stats at NBA.com
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com
2 Midland College
3 North Carolina State University
4 NBA career (1985–1998)
5 NBA Slam Dunk Contest
Webb was born into poverty in Dallas, Texas. He was raised in a small two-bedroom home and he saw basketball as an inspiration. Webb was not tall, but he used his quickness and jumping ability to outplay the other, bigger kids. Starting in the seventh grade, Webb was told that he was too short to play basketball. He got a chance to play on his junior high team only after two players did not complete physical exam requirements they needed to play in time for the first game. Webb scored 22 points in that first game. He could dunk the ball when he was five feet three inches or 1.6m tall.[3] At Wilmer-Hutchins High School,[4] he played on the junior varsity team where he made a large impact; when he made the varsity team, he averaged 100 points per game.
Midland CollegeEdit
Despite his impressive high school record, colleges showed little interest in Webb.[5] He received his first opportunity to play on a college basketball team when he attended Midland College (in Midland, Texas), where he led the Chaparrals to the junior college national title in 1982. In the championship game, Midland defeated #1-ranked and previously unbeaten Miami-Dade North of Florida, 93 to 88, in double overtime. Webb led all scorers in that game with 36 points, making 10 of 15 shots from the floor and 16 of 18 from the free-throw line.[6] His performance at the tournament earned Webb a write-up in Sports Illustrated, and national attention. In 1983, he was named an NJCAA All-American by the National Junior College Athletic Association.
North Carolina State UniversityEdit
Webb attracted the attention of Tom Abatemarco, an assistant coach at North Carolina State University, who arranged for Webb to meet head coach Jim Valvano, who offered Webb a scholarship. In college, his vertical leap was measured at 42 inches (1.1 m).[3] He played for NC State in the 1983-84 and 1984-85 seasons, averaging 10.4 points and 5.7 assists.[7]
NBA career (1985–1998)Edit
Most scouts predicted that Webb would end up playing in either Europe or for the Harlem Globetrotters because of his height.[3] However, Webb was drafted in the 4th round of the 1985 NBA draft by the Detroit Pistons. His first six seasons were played with the Atlanta Hawks, but he had his best years statistically with the Sacramento Kings, where he played as a starter from 1992–1995. Webb posted career highs of 16.0 points and 7.1 assists per game in his first season with the Kings. He also led the NBA in free throw shooting in his last season in Sacramento, shooting 93.4 percent in 1994-95 (after shooting 81.3 percent the previous season).
He then split a season between the Atlanta Hawks and the Minnesota Timberwolves before finishing his career after one season with the Orlando Magic and retiring from professional basketball in 1997. Webb played 814 games in his NBA career, averaging 9.9 points per game, and registering 8,072 points and 4,342 assists in twelve seasons.
Since Webb made his NBA debut, only two players have been shorter than he was: Muggsy Bogues and Earl Boykins.
NBA Slam Dunk ContestEdit
Webb was the shortest person to compete in the NBA Slam Dunk Contest, winning the event in 1986 at Dallas' Reunion Arena. His participation surprised the media; including his teammate and defending dunk champion Dominique Wilkins, who had "never seen me dunk before", Webb said. His dunks included the elevator two-handed double pump dunk, the off-the-backboard one-handed jam, a 360-degree helicopter one-handed dunk, a reverse double-pump slam, and finally, the reverse two-handed strawberry jam from a lob bounce off the floor. He defeated Wilkins with two perfect 50-point scores in the final round. Atlanta coach Mike Fratello said, "Spud kind of duped him. He told Wilkins he never had anything prepared, didn't practice for it. So, Wilkins maybe thought his normal assortment would be good enough to get through". Twenty years after Webb's victory in the Slam Dunk contest, he trained New York Knicks point guard Nate Robinson (who stands at 5 feet 9 inches tall) to win the event. Webb tossed the ball to Robinson, who leaped over Webb and dunked, earning 50 points from the judges. Robinson went on to win, making him and Spud the only two people in NBA history under six feet tall to win a slam dunk contest.
Webb was a judge for the 2010 Dunk contest in Dallas, at the American Airlines Center. It was the first time the event had been in Dallas since Webb's win in 1986.[8]
List of shortest players in National Basketball Association history
^ "Spud Webb Stats". Basketball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2020-05-22.
^ http://www.spudwebb.net/texas-legends.html#
^ a b c Martina, Buddy (May 20, 1985). "Super Spud". The Never Post.
^ "This T.O., We Like." Dallas Observer. October 25, 2006.
^ "Spud Webb Enrolls At Midland Junior College" sports.jrank.org
^ "He's Bigger Than He Looks." Sports Illustrated. November 29, 1982
^ "Remembering NC State's Spud Webb Winning the Dunk Contest" Pack Insider
^ "Spud Webb to judge Slam Dunk Contest as part of NBA All-Star Weekend – ESPN Dallas". Sports.espn.go.com. 2010-02-13. Retrieved 2012-07-17.
Career statistics and player information from NBA.com
or Basketball-Reference.com
2004 interview, "Catching Up with Spud Webb"
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spud_Webb&oldid=1000127357"


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Разпространение и местообитание
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Das Kloster Bloomkamp (, auch Oudklooster = "altes Kloster", , , Gronings Oldeklooster) war eine Zisterzienserabtei in den Niederlanden. Es lag in Hartwerd in der Gemeinde Wûnseradiel nordöstlich von Bolsward in der Provinz Friesland.

Geschichte

Das Kloster wurde auf Grund einer Stiftung der Brüder Tethardus, Herdradus und Syboldus von Kloster Klaarkamp aus um das Jahr 1190 (die Angaben schwanken bis 1192) gegründet und besiedelt und von Balduin von Holland, dem Bischof von Utrecht, geweiht. Tethardus wurde der erste Abt des Klosters; Herdradus Prior. Zweiter Abt war Wighardus. Das Kloster erhielt das Patronat über die Kirche von Scharnegoutum und auch neugewonnenes Land an der Middelzee (Zuidersee). Der Name Oldeklooster wurde zur Unterscheidung von einem bei Sneek gegründeten Nonnenkloster (Nijeklooster) gebräuchlich. Bei dem Konflikt zwischen Schieringern und Vetkopern ergriff das Kloster die Partei der Schieringer. Vor allem der zwölfte Abt, Meikulpus, galt als kriegsbegeistert. So griffen die Mönche von Bloomkamp 1347 erfolglos das Kloster Pingjum an. Im Kloster wurde 1345 Wilhelm VI., Graf von Holland, begraben. Auch Renicus Camga, der 1377 Abt in Oldeklooster wurde, galt als sehr kriegerisch und lebte in Feindschaft mit den Mönchen von Ludingakerk, die der Partei der Vetkooper angehörten. Kriegerische Auseinandersetzungen mit den Mönchen von Ludingakerk (1380 und 1420) sowie mit den Bürgern von Bolsward führten zum Niedergang des Klosters. Auch die große Flut des Jahrs 1464 fügte den Ländereien des Klosters großen Schaden zu. In der Folgezeit wurde im Kloster eine Bibliothek, ein Krankenhaus und ein Sommerhaus für die Mönche eingerichtet. Das Kloster nahm wieder einen Aufschwung. 1499 wurde Abt Petrus Poppingawier zum Mitglied des Hohen Rats von Friesland bestellt. 1515 wurde das Kloster vom Schwarzen Haufen besetzt, bis dieser von Truppen des Obersten Lenard Swartsenburg vertrieben wurde. Es wurde 1535 von den Täufern erobert, die aber bald von Truppen unter Georgius Schenck, dem Statthalter von Friesland, besiegt und hingerichtet wurden. 1572 wurde das Kloster verwüstet, hielt sich aber noch bis 1579. In diesem Jahr wurde der Abt gefangen genommen und der reformierte Gottesdienst wurde in Friesland eingeführt. Die Klostergüter nahm das Land in Beschlag, die Ländereien wurden in der Folgezeit verkauft.

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What Does BTS Mean?
BTS Means "The Bangtan Boys," "Better Than Sex," and "Be There Soon."
The most common meanings for BTS in text-based messaging and chats used to be "Better Than Sex" and "Be There Soon." However, BTS is now more often used to refer to the Korean boy band BTS ("The Bangtan Boys").
Here's more information about each of these meanings of BTS, including examples of use.
Bangtan Boys
BTS is the name of a 7-member South Korean boy band, AKA the "Bangtan Boys." BTS stands for "Bang Tan Sonyeondan," which literally translates as the "Bulletproof Boy Scouts." In July 2017, as part of a revamp of their image, BTS announced they would also be known as "Beyond The Scene."
The seven members of BTS and their roles within the band are:
Rapmon (Kim Namjoon) Leader and lead rapper. (Writes many of the lyrics.)
Jin (Kim Seokjin) Vocalist. (The oldest member of the band.)
Suga (Min Yoongi) Rapper.
J-Hope (Jung Hoseok) Rapper and a lead dancer.
Jimin (Park Jimin) Main vocalist.
V (Kim Taehyung) Vocalist.
Jungkook (Jeon Jungkook) Dancer and vocalist. (Youngest band member.)
In April 2021, as a testament to the band's increasing worldwide fame (probably!), BTS teamed up with fast-food giant McDonald's to launch a special "BTS Meal" to be released in the United States, Canada and Brazil on May 26, and soon thereafter in nearly 50 countries. The meal includes Chicken McNuggets, medium fries, and Coke, as well as two new dipping sauces (sweet chili and Cajun flavors) inspired by McDonald's South Korea recipes.
Fans of the band are called the BTS ARMY. (According to some fans, ARMY is an acronym, meaning "Adorable Representative M.C. for Youth.")
Check out one of the band's massive hits:
BTS 'IDOL' Official MV
Better Than Sex
Outside of fans of the boy band, BTS usually means "Better Than Sex." In this context, BTS is used as an expression of satisfaction or contentment. Typically, BTS is preceded with a hashtag ("#BTS") and follows a statement. For example:
Just had a veggie burger after 10 years of eating meat. #BTS
Lockdown listened to the Stones 'Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!' album. #BTS
Be There Soon
BTS is also used with the meaning "Be There Soon" (i.e., "I will arrive shortly").
Video Summarizing BTS
Here's a short video explaining how to use BTS:
Image for BTS
When I write BTS, I mean this: BTS also means "Better Than Sex" and "Be There Soon."
The most common definition for BTS on social media and messaging apps is "Bang Tan Sonyeondan" ("The Bangtan Boys").
Definition: "Bang Tan Sonyeondan" ("The Bangtan Boys")
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Adults, Teenagers, and Under 13s
Second Definition for BTS
"Better Than Sex" is another common definition for BTS.
Definition: Better Than Sex
Third Definition for BTS
BTS also means "Be There Soon."
Definition: Be There Soon
Examples of BTS in Sentences
Here are examples of BTS being used in conversations:
Jackie: Have you seen the new BTS video?
Emma: Is it any good?
Jackie: It's BTS!
(Here, BTS means both "The Bangtan Boys" and "Better Than Sex.")
John: I've just done a tandem skydive.
Anna: Any good?
John: BTS
Anna: Everything is BTS with you!
(Here, BTS means "Better Than Sex.")
Toni: The traffic is really heavy. BTS.
Ali: Take your time. Your dinner's in the dog.
(Here, BTS mean "Be There Soon.")
An Academic Look at BTS
As it is pronounced using its individual letters (i.e., "Bee Tee Ess"), BTS is classified as an initialism abbreviation. Initialisms are different to acronyms, which are spoken like words.
Example of BTS Used in a Text
AEGYO (cuteness or charm) BTS (Korean boy band) BTS Biot (BTS gay (slur)) CITY-POP (category of Japanese pop music) DAEBAK (awesome!) ENHYPEN (South Korean boy band) FIGHTING (go for it!) HALLYU (Korean wave) HANBOK (traditional Korean clothing) K- (Korean) TXT (text, message, Tomorrow X Together)

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"It's almost obvious…": White Honey revealed who he thinks will be the big winner of The Disciple of the Chef
This week's chapter of The Chef's Disciple sparked a controversy after the disqualification of one of its participants.
The winner of the first season of the program, White Honey, caught Covid, for which she was automatically disqualified from the competition. After the broadcast of the episode, the young woman issued a furious discharge through her social networks.
However, during a conversation with Page 7the former participant referred to the final and bet on who will be the brand new winner of this season.
"A program like this should win, the person who has talent, culinary skills to be able to lead a restaurant; someone with experience, with a lot of work in the culinary field," said the young woman.
Along the same lines, he added that "arriving at a restaurant, without knowing what it is about or not being linked to the cooking industry, makes it difficult for something positive to come out. The field is very difficult and heavy".
"It's almost obvious that he's going to win…"
Regarding who will win this season's grand prize – which is to lead one of the Monticello restaurants for one year – Miel has a clear choice since the winner will be chosen by popular vote.
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He also explained his reasons for betting on Yuhui as the big winner this season.
"He is very close to people, he is very nice, I like him super well and he is close to people. I think it is the third time that he has participated in a program like this and they say that the third time is the charm. Most likely, he will win, "she assured.
Finally, Miel concluded that "beyond the person I want to win, I think it has to be someone with experience and a more internalized culinary world"


Winners of the Nobel Prize are awarded a Nobel prize medal, an elaborately decorated diploma, and a variable amount of award money. Have you ever wondered whether the golden medal is really gold or how much it's worth? Here are interesting medal facts to answer your questions.
Yes, the Nobel prize medal really is gold, although its chemical composition has changed over the years. Medals made before 1980 consisted of 23 karat gold. Medals made since then have been made from 18K green gold that has been plated with 24K gold (pure gold). Green gold is an alloy of silver and gold. The natural form of the metal is called electrum. Mixing the two metals yields gold with a greenish cast (hence the name).
How Much Is the Nobel Prize Medal Worth?
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which means "inventions enhance life which is beautified through art". Erik Lindberg designed the design of this medal. The design of the Economics medal and Nobel Peace Prize varies.
Because they are made of gold, Nobel prize medals are a target of theft. The most famous story about protecting a medal is from World War II. German scientists Max von Laue and James Franck had been awarded medals. The medals were sent to Copenhagen to keep them safe, but Germany invaded Denmark, so Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy dissolved the medals in the acid mixture called aqua regia. The gold was recovered from the solution after the war ended and the medals were re-cast.
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Q: Overriding an objects method in PHP at runtime Is it possible to "override" an objects method  in PHP? Example:
<?php
class Test {
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        echo "Foobar";
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$t = new Test();

// Replace the Foobar-method with new code
$t->Foobar() = function() {
    echo "New Code";
};
?>

A: No, you may not do it using anonymous functions.
While you could probably do something similar using __call() as shown here in the PHP documentation, or assigning anonymous functions to properties, I feel it would get ugly quite quickly and be difficult to follow and maintain.
If you want to override an objects method you should do it by extending the base class and creating a method of the same name, as shown in Example #1 here.

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Scotland's Devolved Employment Services: statistical summary November 2020
Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills
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Economy, Work and skills
This publication presents statistics up to the end of September 2020 covering the first two and a half years of Fair Start Scotland (FSS)
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Scotland's Devolved Employment Services statistics
Summary findings
Fair Start Scotland (FSS)
This publication presents statistics on the number of referrals, starts and job outcomes for Fair Start Scotland, an employability support service aiming to help unemployed people into sustainable employment, up to the end of September 2020. The Scottish Government launched FSS on 3 April 2018 with the aim to support 38,000 people to find sustained employment over a three year referral period.
The service is designed to support people in Scotland who face a range of challenges in obtaining work, including people with a disability or health condition, people with convictions, care-experienced young people, single parents, refugees, ethnic minorities, and people who live in some of the most deprived areas in Scotland. More information about the service can be found here.
Fair Start Scotland is delivered by different providers across nine geographical areas throughout Scotland. Potential participants can engage with Fair Start Scotland in a variety of ways. A referral can be made by an individual's Jobcentre Plus (JCP) Work Coach. Alternatively, participants can be signposted to Fair Start Scotland through third party organisations or they can self-refer to their local Provider if they meet specific criteria. Third-party referrals relate to referrals from outwith JCP.
After a referral is made, the participant is matched with a Provider in their local area. The Provider makes contact and offers an introduction in which the service is fully explained. The participant is then given the necessary information to engage with Fair Start Scotland.
How has COVID-19 impacted the delivery of Fair Start Scotland?
This publication includes data over a period from March 2020 onwards when the COVID-19 pandemic, associated public health measures, and economic and labour market impacts, have caused several changes which impact the statistics published here. This includes
1) the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) refocused their work to deal with the increased demand for benefit claims, so FSS referrals from DWP were paused until June 2020. Since then, the DWP have restarted referring people to FSS, but referrals remain at a lower level than they were before March 2020.
2) As a result of this, there has been an increase in referrals to FSS through other avenues, particularly from FSS providers' own marketing efforts.
3) FSS switched from face-to-face interaction to delivery via phone calls and online interaction. This has had an impact on the equalities data collected, with fewer people who join FSS disclosing information on protected characteristics like ethnicity.
4) There was a relaxation of rules specifying how often participants must be in contact with providers, from March to September 2020. This meant that some people who would otherwise be considered to have left the service during this period stayed on FSS.
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In case you were not already aware, over the past couple weeks my alma mater Brooklyn College has been at the center of a controversial debate regarding academic freedom. In brief, the school's Political Science Department announced that it would be sponsoring, along with several campus groups, an event on February 7 featuring the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which aims to stop what it considers the Israeli oppression of Palestinians.
The event drew fiery criticism from a range of prominent people. Lawyer Alan Dershowitz claimed the school was engaging in anti-Israel propaganda, and urged for the inclusion of pro-Israel voices, or else cancellation of the event. The New York Daily News agreed with Dershowitz. New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind called for Brooklyn College President Karen Gould to step down. And perhaps worst of all, state and local lawmakers, such as the hypocritical City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, threatened the school's funding over the event.
In response this criticism, Gould strongly defended the school's right to hold events which include challenging and controversial points of view, noting that sponsorship does not equal endorsement. Brooklyn College professors, such as Corey Robin and Samir Chopra, also came to the defense of their school's right to academic freedom. And, more broadly, media outlets such as the New York Times and writers such as Glenn Greenwald articulated why attacks on the school were wrong-headed.
Well look, I couldn't disagree more violently with BDS as they call it, Boycott Divestment and Sanctions. As you know I'm a big supporter of Israel, as big a one as you can find in the city, but I could also not agree more strongly with an academic department's right to sponsor a forum on any topic that they choose. I mean, if you want to go to a university where the government decides what kind of subjects are fit for discussion, I suggest you apply to a school in North Korea.
The last thing that we need is for members of our City Council or State Legislature to be micromanaging the kinds of programs that our public universities run, and base funding decisions on the political views of professors. I can't think of anything that would be more destructive to a university and its students.
You know, the freedom to discuss ideas, including ideas that people find repugnant, lies really at the heart of the university system, and take that away and higher education in this country would certainly die.
We shall see. You can follow Corey Robin for updates.


CLICK TO WATCH: Using the 2 meter Faulkes Telescope in Siding Spring, Australia, Nick Howes, Ernesto Guido and Giovanni Sostero tracked the asteroid passing over the South Atlantic ocean and assembled this animation of its motion.
A chunk of primordial space rock will pass about 7500 miles above the Earth today around 1:14PM today EDT.
For comparison, the Earth is around 8,000 miles wide, so another close call is going into the record books.
The asteroid 2011 MD is between 29 and 98 feet wide, around the size of a tour bus, and is classified as a near earth asteroid that was discovered by LINEAR, a pair of robotic telescopes in New Mexico.
"There is no chance that 2011 MD will hit Earth, but scientists will use the close pass as opportunity to study it w/ radar observations," astronomers with NASA's Asteroid Watch program at JPL wrote in a Twitter post Thursday.
If the asteroid does enter Earth's atmosphere it will most likely break up before it hits the ground.
"Asteroid 2011 MD measures about 10 meters. Stony asteroids less than 25 m would break up in Earth's atmosphere & not cause ground damage," Asteroid Watch scientists said.
The record for closest asteroid near the Earth is currently held by the asteroid 2011 CQ1, which came within 3,400 miles (5,471 kilometers) of Earth on Feb. 4 of this year.
You will need a large amateur telescope to see the faint asteroid which is about 250 times fainter that the dimmest stars and you will need to be quick to track it as the asteroid moves rapidly against the background stars.
Asteroid 2011 MD will also pass through the area above earth where satellites and space junk orbit, but a chance of collision is remote scientists say.
About 1,236 of near earth asteroids about half a mile or larger that have the chance of passing close to earth have been classified as Potentially Hazardous Asteroids.
The OSIRIS-Rex asteroid probe will be launched in 2016 to rendezvous with the asteroid 1999 RQ36 in 2020. The target asteroid is 1,900 feet wide and has a 1-in-1,800 chance of hitting Earth in the year 2170, and a 1-in-1,000 chance of smashing into us in 2182.


Another pre-1960 NYS Camp patch, this one is from Camp Babcock Hovey. Camp Babcock Hovey was the camp of Finger Lakes Council, it is still in use today as part Seneca Waterways Council. The lodge which served this Camp and Council was Ganeodiyo Lodge #417. It is now served by Tschipey Achtu Lodge #(95). This was another item I acquired at the Williamsville TOR last month.
Does anyone have any other pre-1960 Camp Babcock Hovey patches for trade or sale? Or images to share?


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MG FF
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MG FF Ausf.A - 20x80mmRB
MG FF Ausf.B - 20x80mmRB
MG FF/M - 20x80mmRB
The MG FF is a German aircraft cannon developed from the Oerlikon FF F in 1936. An exceptionally powerful new type of HE shell called minengeschoss ("mine shell") was developed, but due to the shell actually weighing notably less despite packing significantly more explosive filler, the lighter weight resulted in the gun being unable to cycle properly, and thus the recoil system was modified to create the MG FF/M. The MG FF/M was otherwise effectively identical, but using the old (heavier) ammo in the newer gun could cause damage, and thus they couldn't share ammo.
They served as the Luftwaffe's standard 20mm cannon until being superseded by the MG 151/20 in 1941, though the MG FF and MG FF/M would continue to see use in supplementary roles, notably in Schräge Musik mounts. Schräge Musik was the term for the installation of upward-firing cannons in night fighters (such as the Bf 110), with the intent being to pull up under bombers at night, where they're far less likely to notice the fighter and in some cases (like the Lancaster) have no ventral turrets. This tactic proved exceptionally effective, partly inherent to its nature, but also due to Allied brass not accepting that such tactics existed for many months, these losses instead being attributed to flak.
The Japanese Type 99 Mark 1 is also a development of the FF F.
The MG FF and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:
1 Television
2 Video Games
Bitch War (Suchya voyna) Nose-mounted on Bf 110; Seen in documentary footage 2014
SAS Rogue Heroes Wing-mounted on BF109Es 2022
Forgotten Hope 2 Mounted on Messerschmitt Bf 109 E-7 fighter 2012
Heroes & Generals Mounted on Messerschmitt Bf 109 D-1 and Bf 109 E-4 fighters 2016
Enlisted 2021
Brave Witches MG FF/Ms mounted in Bf 109 fighters 2016-2017
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Left by a con man (Randolph Scott), a dancer (Gypsy Rose Lee) finds him in gold-rush Alaska running an honest casino/dance hall.
Miracles: Mr. Canton and Lady Rose (1989)
Jackie Chan's Hong Kong variation of Frank Capra's "A Pocketful of Miracles" set in the 1930s. Jackie plays a country boy who rescues a gang boss. He becomes the head of a gang through the purchase of some lucky roses from an old lady. Jackie and a singer at the gang's nightclub try to do a good deed for the old rose-seller when her daughter comes to visit, all this while battling a rival gang.
Stealing Harvard (2002)
John and his girlfriend have vowed to marry once they save $30,000 for their dream house. But the minute they achieve their financial goal, John finds out his niece has been accepted at Harvard, and he's reminded of his promise to pay for her tuition (nearly $30,000). John's friend Duff convinces him to turn to petty crime to make the payment … but Duff's hare-brained schemes spin quickly out of control.
Roberta is a bored suburban housewife who is fascinated with a woman, Susan, she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the personals section of the newspaper. This fascination reaches a peak when an ad with the headline "Desperately Seeking Susan" proposes a rendezvous. Roberta goes too, and in a series of events involving amnesia and mistaken identity, steps into Susan's life.
D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994)
After Gordon Bombay's hockey comeback is cut short he is named coach of Team USA Hockey for the Junior Goodwill Games. Bombay reunites the Mighty Ducks and introduces a few new players, however, he finds himself distracted by his newfound fame and must regather if the Ducks are to defeat tournament favourites Iceland.
Ready (2011)
Set in Thailand and India, a case of mistaken identity leads to love; and an accountant and his family concoct a grand scheme to win over the hearts of a woman and her greedy conniving uncles.
Wild Wild West (1999)
Legless Southern inventor Dr. Arliss Loveless plans to rekindle the Civil War by assassinating President U.S. Grant. Only two men can stop him: gunfighter James West and master-of-disguise and inventor Artemus Gordon. The two must team up to thwart Loveless' plans.
Blazing Samurai (2018)
The story revolves around a scrappy young dog who fights to save a town from becoming the litter box of a nefarious feline warlord.
The Toxic Avenger Part II (1989)
The Toxic Avenger is lured to Tokyo, Japan by the evil corporation Apocalypse Inc. So while the Toxic Avenger is fighting crime in Tokyo, Apocalypse Inc. spread evil in Tromaville.
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
Crows Zero II (2009)
Genji and his victorious G.P.S. alliance find themselves facing down a new challenge by the students of Hosen Academy, feared by everyone as 'The Army of Killers.' The two schools, in fact, have a history of bad blood between them. And the simmering embers of hatred are about to flare up again, burning away any last remnants of the truce they had so rigorously observed until now.
Condorman (1981)
Comic artist and writer Woody performs a simple courier operation for his friend Harry who works for the CIA. But when he successfully fends off hostile agents, he earns the respect of the beautiful Natalia, who requests his assistance for her defection. Woody uses this request as leverage to use the CIA's resources to bring his comic book creation, Condorman, to life to battle the evil Krokov.
Welcome to Dongmakgol (2005)
Based on the long running play by Jang Jin, the story is set in Korea during the Korean War in 1950. Soldiers from both the North and South, as well as an American pilot, find themselves in a secluded and naively idealistic village, its residents unaware of the outside world, including the war.
The Lady from Cheyenne (1941)
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!
The Battle of Shaker Heights (2003)
A quirky teen with a penchant for war reenactments, Kelly Ernswiler obsesses over military tactics with his buddy Bart. The school bully is one of Kelly's regular headaches, and he also has to deal with a frustrating situation at home, where his father is a recovering drug addict. Kelly's life gets even more complicated when he falls for Tabby, Bart's pretty and soon-to-be-wed older sister.
Justice, My Foot! (1992)
Sung (Chow) is by far the best lawyer in Guangdong and the outlying areas of Southeast China. His skills have earned his family an excellent living, albeit his habit of winning all his cases by whatever means necessary. Because of his shyster ways, none of his sons survived beyond a year old, causing grief for his wife Madam Sung (Mui). Upon the death of his 13th son, Sung decides to retire from law, and switch to business, opening an inn in the middle of town, and a tea stand on the outskirts of the city.Sung finds it difficult to truly give up his former career, and in his boredom reenacts his final case constantly. A chance encounter between Madam Sung and a woman whose husband was suspiciously murdered revives his hopes of returning to court. However, the case is compounded by corrupt magistrates, who make it their goal to bury the truth. Sung needs all his wits to beat a system that he has embraced for a long time, as well as redeem himself so he can finally start a family.
Man on the Moon (1999)
A film about the life and career of the eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.
The 10th Victim (1965)
In the near future, big wars are avoided by giving individuals with violent tendencies a chance to kill in the Big Hunt. The Hunt is the most popular form of entertainment in the world and also attracts participants who are looking for fame and fortune. It includes ten rounds for each competitor, five as the hunter and five as the victim.
For Your Consideration (2006)
Three actors learn that their respective performances in the film "Home for Purim," a drama set in the mid-1940s American South, are generating award-season buzz.
Fandango (1985)
Five college buddies from the University of Texas circa 1971 embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain futures, in Vietnam and otherwise.
A retelling of the classic Dickens tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, miser extraordinaire. He is held accountable for his dastardly ways during night-time visitations by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and future.
Simpatico (1999)
As youths in Azusa, Vinnie, Carter, and Rosie pull off a racing scam, substituting winners for plodders and winning big bucks on long odds. When an official uncovers the scam, they set him up for blackmail. Jump ahead twenty years, Carter and Rosie are married, successful racers in Kentucky about to sell their prize stallion, Simpatico. Vinnie is a drunk in Pomona. Vinnie decides to make a play for Rosie, lures Carter to California, steals his wallet and heads for Kentucky with the original blackmail material. Carter begs Vinnie's friend, a grocery clerk named Cecilia, to follow Vinnie and get the stuff back that he has in a box. Will she succeed?
The neurotic New Yorker Woody Allen tells one of the greatest romantic comedies to be set in the city of New York.
Despite a traumatic event, a group of friends decide to go ahead with their annual beach vacation. Their relationships, convictions, sense of guilt and friendship are sorely tested. They are finally forced to own up to the little white lies they've been telling each other.
The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy (2000)
A group of friends search for fun, love and ultimately themselves in West Hollywood. This movie is an entertaining, and sometimes cynical look into the lives of six gay men trying to come to terms with what being gay and single (or gay and partnered) means to them.
Boogie Woogie (2009)
A comedy of manners, its cast of characters devouring each other in a small world awash with big money. Set against the backdrop of contemporary London and the international art scene, it casts an eye over the appetites and morality of some of its major players. Dealers, collectors, artists, wannabees vie with each other in a world in which success and downfall rest on a thin edge.
Diner (1982)
Set in 1959, Diner shows how five young men resist their adulthood and seek refuge in their beloved Diner. The mundane, childish, and titillating details of their lives are shared. But the golden moments pass, and the men shoulder their responsibilities, leaving the Diner behind.
A ten year old girl named Angela leads her six year old sister, Ellie, through various regimens of 'purification' in an attempt to rid themselves of their evil, which she believes to be the cause of their mother's mental illness. Precocious, to say the least, Angela has visions of Lucifer coming to take her and her sister away, and one of her remedies for this is for them to remain within a circle of their dolls and toys until they see a vision of the virgin Mary come to them. But such thinking can only lead to an ending befitting of her own mental state.
The House Built Upon Sand (1916)
Evelyn Dare is a butterfly of fashion. David Westebrooke, her fiancé, is an altruist interested in sociology. He has made his home in the factory town of Oreville, where he works as factory manager. He takes her to their home in the factory town and there orders his housekeeper to take away her useless clothes and to supply those befitting the wife of a factory manager. Trouble lies ahead.....
Life as We Know It (2010)
Holly and Eric were set up on a blind date by their friends, Peter and Allison who are married. A few years later after Peter and Allison were killed in an accident, they learn that Peter and Allison have named them as the guardians to their daughter, Sophie. So they move into their house and try their best to honor their friends' wishes. But raising a child puts a crimp on their style and they don't exactly get along.
Magic in the Moonlight (2014)
Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.
Jack Frost (1998)
A father, who can't keep his promises, dies in a car accident. One year later, he returns as a snowman, who has the final chance to put things right with his son before he is gone forever.
The Traveling Executioner (1970)
Jonas Candide performs his job as state executioner in early 20th century Mississippi like a combination preacher and carnival barker, persuading condemned men to accept their deaths before electrocuting them on his electric chair. After he's assigned his first woman to execute, however, Jonas' sense of purpose is shaken.
The Executioner (1963)
An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after his retirement.
The Player (1992)
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
Putney Swope (1969)
Swope is the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm, and is accidentally put in charge after the death of the chairman of the board.
The Pretty One (2014)
Audrey has all of the qualities that her twin sister Laurel wishes she possessed: confidence, style, independence. When tragedy strikes, Laurel has the opportunity to reinvent herself. In a complex performance, Zoe Kazan poignantly captures Laurel's complex mix of loss and awakening, especially as she begins a new relationship with her neighbor (Jake Johnson). Jenée LaMarque's first feature film is a quirky, lovely tale of identity and the eternal bond between two sisters.
Bureau of Missing Persons (1933)
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...
The Missing Person (2009)
Private detective John Rosow is hired to tail a man on a train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Rosow gradually uncovers the man's identity as a missing person; one of the thousands presumed dead after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Persuaded by a large reward, Rosow is charged with bringing the missing person back to his wife in New York City.
Stay Hungry (1976)
Stay Hungry is a 1976 dramatic comedy film by director Bob Rafelson from a screenplay by Charles Gaines. The story centers on a young Birmingham, Alabama, scion, played by Jeff Bridges, who gets involved in a shady real-estate deal. In order to close the deal, he needs to buy a gym building to complete a multi-parcel lot. When he visits the gym, however, he finds himself romantically interested in the receptionist (Sally Field) and drawn to the carefree lifestyle of the Austrian body builder "Joe Santo" (Arnold Schwarzenegger) who is training there for the Mr. Universe competition.
Match (2014)
A Seattle couple travel to New York to interview colorful former dancer Tobi for research on a dissertation about dance. But soon, common niceties and social graces erode when the questions turn personal and the true nature of the interview is called into question.
Two Faces of My Girlfriend (2007)
From failing at job interviews, to being a 30-year-old virgin, Gu Chang seriously can't catch a break. But that all changes when he meets Ah Ni, a lovely and innocent woman who makes Gu Chang think his luck has finally turned for the better — until her split personality Ha Ni rudely emerges during their first kiss. Between Ah Ni's sweet nothings and Ha Ni's abusive high kicks, can Gu Chang handle two girlfriends at once?
A multi-faceted film based on Raymond Jean's novel "La Lectrice". Constance (Miou-Miou) reads the novel aloud in bed to her lover. Inspired by the story of Marie, a woman who advertises her services as a reader of literature, Constance decides to do the same. Here the film takes on a kaleidoscopic effect as the lives of Constance and Marie become merged, making it hard to distinguish what is real and what is fantasy. This structure is further complicated when the lives of Constance's clients become tangled with the stories she reads. The film is interspersed with readings from well known literary sources as diverse as, amongst others, Baudelaire, Duras, Tolstoy, Lewis Carroll and de Sade's "120 days..."
The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen. As they delve into Austen's literature, the club members find themselves dealing with life experiences that parallel the themes of the books they are reading.
Angus (1995)
Angus is a large, pathetic 14 year old whose thoughts are most often filled with the image of one Melissa Lefevre. Angus is shy and thinks that he has no chance of ever 'getting' her. Being especially uncool, he is incredibly surprised (along with the rest of the school) that he is chosen to dance with her at the Winter Ball. The only one not surprised is the cool-kid who set him up to fail, but Angus' best friend is going to help him win the heart of Melissa by developing a new look for him
As You Like It (1936)
Film version of Shakespeare's comedy of a young woman who disguises herself as a man to win the attention of the one she loves.
Father Brown (1954)
Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
Loving but irresponsible dad Daniel Hillard, estranged from his exasperated spouse, is crushed by a court order allowing only weekly visits with his kids. When Daniel learns his ex needs a housekeeper, he gets the job -- disguised as an English nanny. Soon he becomes not only his children's best pal but the kind of parent he should have been from the start.
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
Set in Spain and France against the backdrop of a terrorist insurgency, the film tells the story of an aging Frenchman who falls in love with a young woman who repeatedly frustrates his romantic and sexual desires.
Eulogy (2004)
A black comedy that follows three generations of a family, who come together for the funeral of the patriarch - unveiling a litany of family secrets and covert relationships.
Sanmanassullavarkku Samadhanam (1986)
The only way Gopalakrishnan can escape from certain bankruptcy is to sell the property he owns in the city and use the proceeds to settle his debts. To do that, he has to evict his tenants from there first. Unfortunate for him, his tenant is the feisty Meera and her family, who absolutely refuses to vacate the house. Gopalakrishnan uses an obscure clause in the contract to take up residence at the house, and tries his best to smoke his tenants out.
Hank Williams First Nation (2005)
An elderly Cree man decides that before he dies he must travel via Greyhound from his remote Indian Reservation in Northern Canada, into the southern United States to visit the grave of Hank Williams. Along the way he and his traveling companion, a 17 yr old nephew, are picked up as a regional human-interest story in the US press. News of their growing celebrity causes a stir back home among an eclectic cast of locals; including a chief running desperately for re-election, a young girl trying desperately to find a prom date, a teacher trying desperately to help, and a social worker trying desperately to get a transfer.
The Boat That Rocked (2009)
The Boat that Rocked is an ensemble comedy, where the romance is between the young people of the 60s, and pop music. It's about a band of DJs that captivate Britain, playing the music that defines a generation and standing up to a government that, incomprehensibly, prefers jazz.
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Spike Jonze's debut feature film is a love story mix of comedy and fantasy. The story is about an unsuccessful puppeteer named Craig, who one day at work finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for anybody who enters it's mad and controlling world of overtaking another human body.
The Little Death (2014)
A comedy film that looks into the loosely connected lives of people with strange sexual fantasies. A woman with a dangerous fantasy and her partner's struggle to please her. A man who begins an affair with his own wife without her knowing anything about it. A couple struggling to keep things together after a sexual experiment spins out of control. A woman who can only find pleasure in her husband's pain. A call centre operator caught in the middle of a dirty and chaotic phone call. And the distractingly charming new neighbour who connects them all.
Dancing Queen (2012)
The next mayor of Seoul candidate's wife becomes a dance singer in this movie as Hwang Jeong-min takes on the role of poor lawyer turned politician and Uhm Jung-hwa as the wife who makes an attempt at singing without her husband knowing at first.


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AWARDS/FESTIVALS
THE DARK ROOM, short film concept
Director: Adrienne Lovette
Screenwriter: John Rice
Genre: Horror, Thriller
When adventurous strangers at a psychic party unexpectedly contact the spirit of a young murdered girl, they discover their host's intentions are much darker than anyone first believed.
THIS BOY'S VIDA (MADE IN AMERICA)
THIS BOY'S VIDA
Directors: Adrienne Lovette and Joseph Castillo-Midyett
Screenwriter: Joseph Castillo-Midyett
Genre: Drama
A young Latino battles abuse and poverty to find his purpose and identity in America.
CAR BATTERY A Short Film
Director: Ella Jane New
Screenwriter: Ella Jane New
Genre: Drama, Comedy
When a young woman decides to commit suicide in a seedy motel, she is suddenly confronted by her childhood bully.
little bean
Directors: ADRIENNE LOVETTE
Screenwriter: Adrienne Lovette
Genre: Super short Documentary
Winner of the SUNDANCE Co//ab May 2020 film challenge, In memory of our little bean, this is a story about a mother's loss during a time of loss — made in quarantine during the Covid-19 Pandemic.
SOFIE a short film
Sofie, a 17-year old deaf teenager from Brooklyn, sneaks out on a Friday night to party with a friend after the troubles in her family begin to weigh heavily on her.
HIDDEN DAYLIGHT (A SHORT NIGHTMARE)
Genre: Thriller, Suspense, Horror
When his girlfriend is abducted by a sadistic killer, a distraught businessman seeks answers from a blind psychic who is able to see through the eyes of the madman.
Screenwriter: Ella Jane New and Adrienne Lovette
Genre: Romance
One night in New York City, Sam, an over worked pediatrician who still can't find "the one", is set up on a blind date with a British romantic named Charlie. Upon arrival she is surprised to find Charlie is not who she was expecting, at all. The pair spend an evening together and a curious connections begins to spark. The surprises keep coming as Sam discoveries a new meaning to the term 'Blind date".
Directors: Daniel Armando
Lea is an insecure young woman pursuing a career as an artist in New York City. When her mother dies suddenly, Lea is given charge of her younger brother Evan, and the two of them must live together in Lea's one-bedroom Harlem apartment. Evan has become estranged from his sister through the years, and his frustration and grief make him prone to violent outbursts.
The only comfort Lea can find away from this turbulent scenario is in her best friend Logan. Despite the fact that Logan is gay, he and Lea share a special bond that often seems to run deeper than mere friendship. However, Logan quickly finds himself at odds with Evan when the boy becomes involved with a dangerous gang that is responsible for a spree of brutal attacks targeting gay men in the community.
Despite Lea's best efforts at reconciliation, the rift between the characters widens, and Lea finds herself perilously close to losing both her brother and her soul mate. She is forced to confront her personal demons head on, and each character must fight to make sense of what they mean to one another. They must learn what it is to love… and how to be a family against all odds.
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#INSOCIAL An Insta-Series
Directors: Ryan Balas
Screenwriter: Adrienne Lovette and David Rispoli
Genre: Comedy, Romance
#INSOCIAL is about two very unfortunate people, Maggie and Bernard, who end up in a rehab facility for people who are obsessed with their phones (sound like anybody you know?). Little do they know their addiction will go beyond their phones, as they find themselves suddenly challenged by both reality… and each other. Will they break the cycle of phone addiction? Will they find a way to connect to each other without using an electrical device? Will they accept each other if they do?!? Who knows, they might be a functioning contribution to society. #OrNot


Paceman Ishant Sharma took 7-74 - the best figures by an India bowler in England - as the hosts slumped to a crushing 95-run defeat in the second Test.
India took a 1-0 lead in the series with their first overseas Test win for over 3 years.
Joe Root (66) and Moeen Ali (39) gave England hope with a partnership of 101 to take them to 173-4 before they crumbled.
India 295 & 342 beat England 319 & 223 by 95 runs.


A Monday Morning reaction to Simmons Friday column. One Friday column leaves us always wanting more. Each time Bill puts out a column, guys like me stop what they are doing and read. Think of this podcast as processing what Bill was saying, dissecting where he is on the right track but where he fell off the tracks, and also quickly overviewing how his picks turned out and what went wrong in his pick strategy. Because something always goes wrong, as we know he isn't winning the Vegas Super Contest anytime soon.
This week the curse of Cleveland!


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Archive for Jack the Ripper
The Sunday Intertitle: Wax, Lyrical
Posted in FILM with tags Ivan the Terrible, Jack the Ripper, Paul Leni, Rinaldo Rinaldi, Spring-Heeled Jack, Waxworks, Werner Krauss, William Dieterle on August 30, 2020 by dcairns
The new restoration of WAXWORKS, out soon from Flicker Alley (US) and Masters of Cinema (UK), was screened in the online Il Cinema Ritrovato and looks amazing. You could step onto Paul Leni's sets (and get promptly ejected) or stroke Ivan the Terrible's beard (hard to say how he'd react, but you'd be taking you life in your hands). Fiona plonked herself ten-year-old fashion on the floorboards smack in front of our TV to soak up the expressionism at close range. You'll ruin your eyes!
As a "Case Study" discussion hosted at the fest made clear, the German negative is lost, the original intertitles along with it, and the censor's file, which usually contains records of what every title card says, came up empty. Drafts of the script survive, but differ significantly from the movie so don't serve as a reliable guide. So we're still dealing with the English-language intertitles in which, for what I suspect are censorship reasons, Jack the Ripper is incorrectly described as Spring-Heeled Jack. The Ripper murders were within living memory, and very unpleasant: SHJ seems not to have done any serious harm, just scared the crap out of people, and although he had been reported active as late as 1904, by 1924 there was probably less belief in him. His MO resembles that of the Men in Black in that it consists of unaccountable behaviour designed mainly, it would seem, to make an impression. He definitely DESERVES a waxwork, but Werner Krauss isn't it.
We also learned from the discussion about the mysterious fourth figure: Rinaldo Rinaldi (third from the left — the figures are arranged in order of intended appearance). To my amazement he's apparently played by the film's leading man, William Dieterle, the Iron Stove himself, who acts as protag in each of the film's embedded narratives. RR was a celebrated Italian bandit, and his story was to have been about him rescuing a kidnapped girl (hearts of gold, those bandits). But the money could not be raised and the sequence was never shot. A shortage of cash (post-WWI German mega-inflation) may also be the reasons Krauss's Ripper sequence wound up so short. Though the version screened at the premiere seems to have been a good bit longer, the cuts don't seem to have come from this section.
But as I say, though the vicissitudes of history prevent this original version from being reconstructed, what we get from the Deutsche Kinemathek and Cineteca di Bologna restoration is a far sharper and shinier vision, layers of accrued muck swept away so the movie greet us with startling immediacy.
Autumn of Terror
Posted in FILM with tags Jack the Ripper, The Lodger, The Shadowcast on October 27, 2019 by dcairns
After months of inertia, a new edition of The Shadowcast just in time for Project Fear, our own podcast in which this time Fiona and I discuss some filmic representations of Jack the Ripper.
Under the knife: three versions of THE LODGER, two TV miniseries, one Jess Franco abomination, FROM HELL's appalling DVD extras, the investigations of Sherlock Holmes and HG Wells. Didn't have room to delve into PANDORA'S BOX and WAXWORKS, alas, and there's a tantalizing reference to a copycat killing in the wake of 1988's centenary Michael Caine show which we fail to follow up on. And the tone veers from tragic horror to blimey-guvnor-strike-a-light whimsy.
Other than that, I believe you'll find everything in order.
Ripping Yarns
Posted in FILM, literature with tags Alexander Trauner, Angharad Rees, Apache Drums, Bonnie Scotland, Eric Porter, George Bernard Shaw, Hands of the Ripper, Hitchcock, Hugo Fregonese, Jack Palance, Jack the Ripper, John Brahm, Laird Cregar, Man in the Attic, Marnie, Peter Sasdy, The Lodger, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Val Lewton on October 27, 2017 by dcairns
MAN IN THE ATTIC is something I meant to see years ago, as part of research for a Jack the Ripper project I was writing with Fiona. But no copy was to hand, and anyway, we'd found that all JTR films are historical travesties, usually disrespectful to the victims and usually with nothing to say on the many interesting subjects that naturally fall into the story.
MITA turns out not to be as offensive as most movies on this theme (part of the impetus for the script was Fiona's horror at the 1998 "celebrations" or the centenary of the Autumn of Terror). And one moment, the reading of George Bernard Shaw's letter to The Times about the case, actually shows a little erudition. But this is a dull remake of THE LODGER, only recently made with Laird Cregar far more memorable in the role than Jack Palance here.
I've had a bit of a down on director Hugo Fregonese, despite loving his Val Lewton western APACHE DRUMS. The script of that one is so spooky that old Hugo's prosaic direction really irks me. The Apaches are described in supernatural terms by a dying Clarence Muse, setting us up for real terror — and then our director blithely plonks his first redskin into shot like a milkman or janitor. In fact, I've seen janitors given far more dramatic presentation.
Hugo displays the same flat-footed lack of flare here in what should be a stand-out scene — the lodger's first arrival. Hitchcock, you will recall, presented an eerily still Ivor Novello, his face swathed in a scarf, with one pallid hand at his chest, looking like a wax sculpture. John Brahm pulled out all the stops with a gliding camera, dry ice, and a looming Cregar. Hugo gives us a plain shot/reverse shot of Palance and the landlady-to-be, not even bothering to hold back the first view of our Ripper's scary face (Palance is not too bad, but never memorable).
The film's atmospherics only come into play with the night scenes of the back lot, using a bunch of standing sets — effective London streets rubbing stony shoulders with what look to be the battlements of a castle and a medieval Scottish village (I think I recognize it from Laurel & Hardy's BONNIE SCOTLAND).
Hammer's more nakedly exploitative HANDS OF THE RIPPER is a good deal better, oddly enough. The plot is silly, and the portrayal of the Ripper as hideously disfigured by burns makes little sense and is there for no reason other to provide an added grisly image. This movie is offensive to burned people, among others. But it benefits from serious, committed work from Angharad Rees as the Ripper's daughter, and especially Eric Porter as the shrink who tries to cure her. For much of its runtime it's basically a Victorian MARNIE, only with multiple gory murders.
Director Peter Sasdy applies a lot of vulgar panache (I'm beginning to think I prefer the messier Hammer directors to the staid Terence Fishers and Freddie Francises) and gets to use more standing sets, this time Alexander Trauner's forced perspective Baker Street and environs from THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. Even the gratuitous Hammer nudity kind of works here — Porter loitering on the threshold while his patient bathes is decidedly un-Victorian, but it exposes his unacknowledged sexual interest in his attractive charge, which is presumably what causes him to embark on a course of treatment that ultimately proves fatal — to a number of people. It's also really terrific that Porter, being a Victorian doctor, looks strikingly like the popular fantasy image of the Ripper himself.
When it's clearly stated that our young heroine is not, in fact, traumatized by repressed memories from infancy, but POSSESSED BY THE GHOST OF A SERIAL KILLER, it's kind of too late for us to scoff — we're all set for the climax at St. Paul's Whispering Gallery, probably the most poetic, beautiful, tense and unusual conclusion to any Hammer horror film. It even gets away with the typical Hammer hasty credits roll — no coda, no summary, no reaction from the characters left alive and grieving. It's OK, I don't like my films to hang around after their business is concluded, like tiresome guests or '90s Spielberg films. But when something like THE REPTILE abruptly announces it's leaving right after its titular lizard-girl has caught a chill and died, it feels like the filmmakers are saying "This film explores the universal theme of There was a Bad Thing but we killed it." Sort of lacking in the layered approach.
Maybe HOTR succeeds better because — spoiler alert — it kills its "hero" as well as its "villain." Since Porter is a strange mixture of Peter Cushing's Van Helsing (tackling the unholy) and Peter Cushing's Frankenstein (meddling with the unholy), he has to die, but we feel a bit sad about it. And maybe the muddle of the film's central idea leaves intriguing space for imagination — after all, the movie establishes that our Jill the Ripper does what she does because her late father takes control — but it never remotely shows any interest in why HE does what HE does. The film's rather horrified view of its prostitutes kind of suggests that we're meant to think his violence is, at some fundamental level, a reaction we all understand and share.
Fascinatingly, nobody seems to know who this actor is. So the unknown murderer is played by an authentic unknown.


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Demystifying the Language of Health Care and Social Services
Author: Carol Levine
The following commentary, written by Carol Levine, director of the Families and Health Care Project, was originally published on August 23, 2016, by Aging Today, the bimonthly newsletter of the American Society on Aging.
In the early 20th century, the architect Louis Sullivan designed very tall buildings to meet the needs of a newly urban population. These structures illustrated his assertion that "form follows function." The new forms needed a new name, and "skyscrapers" fit perfectly.
In our times, the rapidly evolving world of healthcare and social services follows a similar pattern. As the forms of organizations and practices change to meet new functions and demands, new terminology follows. Communication among disciplines is essential as the brave new world of healthcare strives for "integration," "continuum of care" and "care coordination," all of which mean different things to physicians, nurses, social workers, administrators, budget monitors and others. Added to these are totally new terms such as precision medicine, genomics and biobanking.
Some of the new healthcare language has been borrowed from business and finance; words like "incentivize," "consumer choice" and "optimizing performance" are typical. Industry consultants market their services in ways that show they know the lingo. For example, an announcement for a "summit" (it's no longer enough to hold a "conference") promises participants they will "take away actionable techniques to navigate the pitfalls in the LTSS and duals space." (If that sentence is totally clear, you are probably already fluent in health-policy speak.)
Health Literacy: Not Just About Illness and Treatment
In this language explosion, when even professionals can't agree on what some terms mean, why are patients and family caregivers expected to be "health-literate"? According to the Institute of Medicine, health literacy is "the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions" (Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 2004, Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion). Basic health information about one's body and illnesses may be easier to learn than information about obtaining services, not to mention the language of insurance coverage, which is nearly impenetrable for novices.
A typical example occurs in homecare discussions. The words are simple enough—nurse, aide, in-home caregiver—but they carry the baggage of years of legislative, regulatory and budgetary history, as well as newer entrepreneurial efforts. A quick translation: Nurses provide "skilled care," such as wound care and administering injections and infusions. Aides provide assistance with personal care and homemaking and monitoring. Services by nurses and aides may (or may not) be covered by insurance, and eligibility requirements differ. In-home caregivers provide companionship and some homemaking chores and personal care. Their services are arranged through for-profit agencies and paid for privately. How can an older adult and family caregiver make sense of these options without a course in Homecare 101?
There are many reasons for poor health literacy, starting with a lack of basic literacy skills, poor education, poverty, cultural beliefs, mistrust of the healthcare system and others. Individuals should not be blamed or chided for their failure to understand or remember instructions, explanations or unfamiliar terms. Improving health literacy should be a professional collaboration with patients and family caregivers and an ongoing effort.
Differences between Jargon and Slang
Jargon generally means language understandable only to insiders in a specialized field. But jargon is not inherently bad. All professions, trades, sports and groups have ways to communicate that create a common vocabulary and a shared understanding of the way things work.
Jargon often is the quickest way to communicate precise observations, conclusions and actions. A surgeon who calls out "No. 10 scalpel, stat" instead of "Give me the scalpel with the rounded blade, not the one with the triangular blade and the sharp point, and I need it immediately" will get the job done faster and more competently. A hospital social worker who calls a nursing home's rehabilitation unit to see if a bed is available will get a faster response by speaking knowledgeably about the specific requirements for placement: the person's insurance status, the reason for needing rehab and whether there are any complicating social or medical factors.
To become partners in care, patients and family caregivers have to learn and use some forms of jargon. They also have to look beyond euphemisms to determine the intent of some phrases. A "goals of care" discussion is probably going to be about options for palliative or hospice care, not about the latest clinical trial of a new cancer drug.
While jargon uses written as well as spoken language, slang is an informal, oral way of establishing membership in a group, often to the exclusion of others. Slang can be creative and become understood outside the group. Insulting slang, however, uses derogatory terms to refer to outsiders—whether they are patients, clients, co-workers, supervisors or customers. In healthcare, older adults are among the most often targeted, with words and acronyms like geezer and "GOMER" (grand old man of the emergency room). Any language that is cruel or disrespectful is unacceptable.
Does Changing Terminology Change Practice?
While some terms clearly are demeaning, others have fallen out of favor because of the perception that they are disrespectful, although it is not clear the alternatives are much better. People are no longer described as "noncompliant" when they fail to take their medications; instead, they are "nonadherent."
Proponents of the change say that "noncompliant" suggests willful disregard of a doctor's instructions, while "nonadherent" suggests that the patient has goals that don't align with the clinician's. Most people probably don't understand this nuance. Perhaps to acknowledge that both terms are commonly used, the National Stroke Association suggests two different behaviors are at stake: "Adherence is the act of filling new prescriptions or refilling prescriptions on time," while "compliance is the act of taking medications on schedule or as prescribed." Is this distinction in common use? Probably not. Do "adherent" patients take their medications more reliably than "compliant" ones? Perhaps the important issue of medication management needs to incorporate patients' goals, understanding and barriers. Changing the terminology alone probably will not suffice.
Communicating with Patients, Clients, Caregivers and Others
Communication between professionals and lay people is not just a question of "engaging" or "activating" patients and family caregivers, whatever these terms mean, but of finding out what they already know, what they need to know and explaining everything in language they can understand and remember. Teach-back (http://goo.gl/msQ7dT) is a practical method of ensuring that professionals have successfully communicated important information; patients are asked to say, in their own words, what they learned, not just to repeat the clinician's words.
There's no easy way to ensure that communication results in understanding. But at a minimum, professionals can explain all the terms they use, acknowledge that there are special meanings attached to some of them and treat all questions as valid. The language of healthcare and social services affects people's lives and well-being; it should not be a mystery.


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East London's finest: Learning the lessons from the latest in the food scene
By Daniel Woolfson
23-Apr-2015 - Last updated on 24-Apr-2015 at 17:55 GMT
Related tags: Jj food service, Fast food, Food
PubFood's study tour, sponsored by JJ Food Service and Lavazza, hit the mean streets of East London to check out the latest trends in the UK's food scene.
24-hour party people
Polo Bar, near Liverpool Street Station, London
Philip Inzani's three-storey café is one of the capital's few round-the-clock food outlets. A 24/7 Great British Café, it operates with a 24-hour licence, offering the same menu day and night, with modern twists on traditional British cafe faré.
Inzani said the venue's proximity to Liverpool Street station — one of London's busiest transport hubs — meant he could tap into a diverse customer base, with bankers and city workers providing a large amount of breakfast and lunch revenue, while clubbers and people on nights out accounted mainly for night-time trading.
Inzani — previously commercial director at Pontis Group who opened the café three years ago — said that he chose the 24-hour cafe format in order to offer a point of difference in the area.
He said that finding staff able to work less desirable late-night shifts was the biggest issue he faced, while major benefits included being one of the only operators in the
area able to cash in on early morning breakfasts.
Inzani, who has a team of 10, focuses marketing around entertainment events that are on at nearby venues, encouraging people to call in for a 3am burger or 4am chicken in a basket.The eatery offers delivery to nearby offices and online ordering and links its offer to seasonal events such as St Patrick's Day, when Irish breakfasts and Guinness sausages were featured and Easter when dishes such as scrambled emu eggs and ostrich egg omelettes have been offered to add interest.
Operating all night also necessitates hiring security — the safety of staff being the number one priority.
About 35% of sales are breakfast, which is a big seller during the night, and burgers.
Sample dishes include: grilled bacon sandwiches — customers choose from a variety of breads and fillings including bacon & avocado and bacon & maple syrup; Cheddar Gorge Welsh rarebit on seeded granary bloomer (£6.50); FLT — fish finger, tomato, tartar sauce and lettuce on bloomer (£5.80).
Perc up profits
Polo Bar's coffee is a three-bean special blend espresso, which is serve in branded Polo bar cups and available to drink-in or take away.
Inzani says: "We are selling lots of coffees — about 40kg per week. Our best-sellers are lattes, followed by cappuccinos and flat whites.
"We use Lavazza first and foremost due to the high quality and consistency of the product — I've used it with previous companies for 20 years."
He adds: "There are lots of new coffee suppliers in the market now from all over the world. My view, having tested others, is that Lavazza is a solid brand recognised by customers as high quality and correctly priced."
Best sellers
Spicy eggs Benedict with chorizo and guacamole (£6.50).
Banoffee pancakes (£6.80).
Bubble and squeak and bacon (£9).
You cannot be cereal?
Cereal Killer Café, Brick Lane, Shoreditch
Founded by Irish twins Alan and Gary Keery, this kitsch café offers 120 different types of cereal sourced from around the world, including the USA, France, New Zealand and South Africa.
Gary Keery explained: "The inspiration came from the stuff we grew up with and all the '80s and '90s TV shows — we wanted customers to be able to relive it." He said they had recently applied for intellectual property rights to the concept.
Customers can choose from 30 milks to add to their cereal and 20 toppings including sweets, fresh fruit, nuts and dried fruit.
The menu also features Pop-Tarts and cakes made using cereal including Lucky Charms cheesecake and Coco Pops brownies and also cereal cocktails such the Chocopottomus; with Coco Pops and Krave, a Kinder Happy Hippo and chocolate milk.
Keery, said half of trade at the café, which opens from 7am to 10pm, came from tourists, with the other half coming from locals and repeat customers. Ironically, breakfast is the quietest period.
Bowled over with success
The café sells about 400 to 500 bowls of cereal per day and also features a YouTube channel on its website featuring an interview with the twins and cereal adverts.
The Keery brothers explained that they had initially applied for bank loans to start their business but been rejected due to concerns about its eccentric concept and potential longevity. Instead they had obtained funding from Virgin Startup as well as a crowdfunding campaign, and the café is flourishing, with plans to expand
to other sites.
The interior of the café is filled with '80s nostalgia. Small TV screens play episodes of He-Man while the shelves and walls are adorned with posters, action figures and pop culture and cereal memorabilia, largely sourced on eBay.
A successful promotional event that Cereal Killer Café put on included a 3D printing evening, which saw customers having their faces scanned and turned into rubber pencil toppers and semi-regular live comedy nights.
The Cereal Killer also has a loyalty app that allows repeat customers to collect points every time they visit and in due course exchange collected points for prizes.
On the menu
Peanut butter jelly time; Cap'n Crunch Peanut Butter, Reese's Peanut Butter Chips and strawberry milk (£4.70).
Mint choc chipster cocktail; Chocapic, Weetos and mint Aero.
Unicorn poop; Ricicles, Party Rings, Fluff, marshmallows, Hundreds and Thousands with semi-skimmed milk (£4.80).
Bowloccino; Nesquik, Coco Pops, Flake, shot of espresso, milk and a Café Curl.
Shoreditch food market
At Yalla Yalla, a Lebanese street food pop-up at Shoreditch food market, offering a range of dishes such as halloumi cheese wraps, lamb shawarma and a selection of meze.
Yalla's Marek Witkowski said one of the benefits of operating in a covered outdoor space was that, at night, he and his team could transform the seating area into a makeshift shisha bar, where locals and those who wish to take a break from their night out could rest, socialise and take advantage of the food on offer.
Yalla Yalla also has two other London restaurants and is looking to expand further. At the pop-up, a bicycle with the company logo on it is used to market the offer.
Next door to Yalla Yalla is Constancia Argentine Grill, which offers dishes including Prime Argentine steak sandwich; Choripan; chorizo sandwich and black pudding.
Kibbe lahme; deep-fried lamb and cracked wheat parcels filled with confit onions, minced meat and roasted pine nuts (£4.50).
Samboussek Jibné: pastry filled with feta, halloumi cheese and fresh mint (£4.50).
Soujoc: charcoal-grilled Lebanese sausage with salad, tomato and pickled cucumber (£4.75).
Pop-up potential
The Hat and Tun, Farringdon
The ETM Group site plays host to various street food pop-up residencies for its evening offer, with grilled cheese sandwich maestros Morty and Bob's among them.
The pub delivers its own lunchtime food menu of pub classics. But hosts regular pop-ups, with soft shell crab and lobster roll vendors Crabbie Shack the next one to take up residency in May.
Victoria Hassett, ETM Groups marketing coordinator, said: "The benefits of pop-ups include driving footfall, creating interest and atmosphere and harnessing the power of social media and delivering PR value."
She adds: "It's always important to stay relevant; street food traders are at the cutting edge of the food scene at the moment. They are pioneers of exciting food trends and carry huge clout in the digital arena but lack the financial resources to move into bricks and mortar."
Winning team
"By joining forces we are offering these flourishing businesses a solid location to base themselves and a ready-made clientele. In turn, we are opening our venue up to a
whole new audience."
She added: "It's very important to build a strong relationship with the street traders you are working with, to ensure that both parties fully understand one another and
additionally to ensure the fusing of the two operations is well managed to deliver the appropriate standards and customer experience of both business."
The Hat & Tun drove sales of Bloody Marys during the Morty and Bobs pop-up, considered by many to be a great accompaniment to grilled cheese sandwiches.
Founder Charlie Phillips said: "We started selling grilled cheese at a couple of markets and quickly realised there was a market for our product," adding that they were
stunned to be selling from 60 to 100 sandwiches a day.
He said engaging with their customers in person and online was essential to building awareness of a business like theirs. Phillips said: "Social media is fundamental — we really try and talk to customers."
Morty and Bobs
Phillips added: "At the very least pubs need an area for prepping and serving unless you're popping up in the pub garden — any street food trader should be used to setting up on a bit of tarmac or grass and bringing as much as is needed.
"One of the main benefits of popping up in a pub is that you can be open for a much longer period of time and build a reputation — people will come to you because they know the pub well and as long as your food is good. Also a lot of street food is perfect for drinking with and obviously pubs are ideal for this.
"We've received a tremendous amount of interest thanks to the Hat & Tun residency — one thing that's great about doing gigs like this is that if the pub has a decent publicity campaign you essentially get free PR, well worth paying the rent to be there.
"The best thing to do — and I know how cheesy this sounds — is just to be yourself and keep up a constant conversation with customers. I think the nice characters do stand out a lot more and get more work and business."
Straight up; three-cheese blend, M&B cheese sauce and onion mix (£5).
Mushroom and truffle; cheese, mushroom and truffle oil (£6).
Ham hock grilled cheese (£7).
Upping the game
Jugged Hare, Moorgate
ETM site the Jugged Hare features a menu focused on game and high-quality meat, which is often butchered and aged at the premises.
Head chef Steve Englefield said: "We try and focus on locally sourced and specialist producers to get the best products. We use Lake District farmers for specially
bred cattle, and game supplies come from estates up in Yorkshire. We also have Dexter cows from Dorset about once every three months.
"We're famous for our game — last year we had James Lyon-Shaw (ETM Group's executive chef) out on the first hunt of the season by about 6am. The first birds shot were down here by 6.30pm, ready for service at our first game night of the year."
The Jugged Hare also offers a selection of feasting menus featuring dishes such as 12-hour braised shoulder of Herdwick mutton with lamb sweetbreads, whole roast garlic and mashed potato and whole roast suckling pig with boulangére potatoes and sage gravy.
Premium bar snacks
A range of exciting bar snacks are also on offer including Blackface haggis croquettes with whisky apple sauce; venison Scotch eggs with Cumberland sauce, sprouting broccoli with anchovy and basil vinaigrette and breaded cod collar with tartar sauce.
During the game season, a game bar snacks menu was on offer featuring wild boar head croquettes with apple caramel and game chips with gravy.
A variety of events take place at the site, including gourmet wine dinners, British beef evenings, game and Bordeaux nights and goat and fine wine tastings.
Breaking eggspectations
Bad Egg, City Point
Four-site operator Noble Inns' executive chef Neil Rankin's concept restaurant Bad Egg sits in a retail unit near Moorgate tube station.
Rankin, who is ex-Pitt Cue and Chez Bruce, said that by creating a diner rather than a pub concept he had been able to sidestep high demand for pub spaces in London
and utilise a retail unit.
The menu, which is served all through the day, incorporates Korean, Mexican, North African, Indian and US barbecue flavours — as well as a focus on eggs as an ingredient.
Rankin said: "We are doing diner food, but with our own twists. So we are doing ribs, but they are deep fried and we are doing American-inspired hashes but in a different way, with different dishes mixed together."
Bad Egg opened three months ago and serves about 1,500 people per week. Lunches have brought in the highest amount of customers alongside the venue's weekend "bottomless" brunches, when customers can pay £30 for limitless refills on Gochujang Bloody Marys, Prosecco or mimosas and a choice of three different dishes.
The food offer also includes breakfast and takeaway menus. All Bad Egg's cooking is done in the restaurant's small, open kitchen, with Rankin attributing the level of service achieved to the quality of his equipment, which includes induction ovens, and the precision and dedication of his small team of chefs.
Meating demands
Bag Egg gets its burgers from butcher Turner & George, which supplies Selfridges. While Charles Ashbridge supplies rare-breed meat from the Sutton Bank in North Yorkshire. Cheese in Rankin's burgers is processed cheese, but all processing is done by the bar's chefs.
Raclette and Red Leicester are Rankin's go-to varieties. Bad Egg's website features an Egg Beats section of the bar's current music playlist.
Expansion could also be on the cards for Bad Egg; Noble Inns founder Simon Holroyd said the concept had the scope to grow beyond 10 sites.
Cheeseburger hash (£8.50).
Pulled pork and kimchi hash; crispy potato, house made kimchi, spicy pulled pork, gochujang and a crispy egg (£8.50).
Delivering for pubs
PubFood's study tour was sponsored by JJ Food Service and Lavazza.
Attendees sampled a range of JJ Food Service's products at the event, prepared by chefs at the Jugged Hare in Moorgate, London.
The tasting featured tender lamb brochettes — grilled British, Red Tractor-approved, marinated lamb neck fillets; juicy minute steaks — made with fresh Aberdeen Angus strip loin; succulent pulled pork — slowroasted British, Red Tractorapproved shredded pork; Super Crisp chips — JJ's own-label, gluten-free Chunky Cut Chips; and sweet bites, including fruity macaroons and gluten-free strawberry & rhubarb cheesecake.
Sue Guilfoyle, the company's national accounts manager, says: "We believe we have a lot to offer Delivering for pubs pubs with our range of fresh, locally sourced meats and our new own-label, gluten-free Super Crisp Chips. We also have a range of fresh breads and bakery items, perfect for pub menus, from croissants at breakfast to brioche buns for a burger lunch and Artisan breads for rustic sandwiches. And don't forget pudding — our desserts will add colour to any summer pub menu — you've got to try our fruity macaroons!"
National distribution JJ Food Service is an independent, family-owned foodservice specialist with eight branches across the UK, supplying all food industry sectors, including pubs and restaurants with fresh, chilled, ambient and frozen products, as well as packaging and cleaning materials. JJ recently added fresh meats to its range, with a number of locally sourced, Red Tractor-approved lines.
The business has a strong own-label line-up including the Super Crisp Chip range, available in Chunky Cut, Steak Cut, Julienne and 3/8, to help pubs and restaurants respond to the growing trend towards gluten-free foods.
Customers can shop online or via telesales for delivery or collection, with great deals for customers that click and collect. Coming soon is the JJ app and a new and improved website.
As much as 50% of sales come from orders placed online. Real Italian espresso Established in 1895, Lavazza is the leader in the Italian retail market and one of the world's most prominent roasters.
Its entire history is marked by a series of insights, starting with the concept of blends, invented by Lavazza at the turn of the 20th century. Lavazza's primary mission is to spread real Italian espresso around the world, taking pride in having a strong presence at international haute cuisine events and on the menus of the most exclusive restaurants in the world.
Alongside this, the company has become one of the world's most unmistakable and unique brands portrayed through its global advertising campaigns with its famous calendars. JJ Food Service is the nominated foodservice supplier for the distribution of Lavazza coffee, which gives the business a unique point of difference compared with other foodservice specialists.
The company supplies a range of Lavazza coffee products including pods, fresh coffee beans, with caffeinated and decaffeinated options, together with Lavazza coffee cups and saucers at highly competitive prices.
For more information visit www.jjfoodservice.com or call Sue Guilfoyle on 07960 776991.
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Mom saw daughter raped in moving taxi
By Tankiso Makhetha - 16 October 2018 - 10:42
Lebogang Gift Mokoena pleaded guilty to a plethora of charges including rape and kidnapping.
Image: Tankiso Makhetha
He raped one of his many victims in the presence of her mother after he robbed and kidnapped them with his Toyota Quantum using only a cigarette lighter.
Yesterday, Lebogang Gift Mokoena, a serial rapist who embarked on a 13-month reign of terror between September 2016 and October last year pleaded guilty in the South Gauteng High Court, sitting in the Palm Ridge magistrate's court.
He pleaded guilty to 13 counts of rape, nine of kidnapping, nine of robbery with aggravating circumstances, one of sexual assault, and nine of pointing an object that resembled a firearm
The 28-year-old was part of a gang of three men who kidnapped, raped and robbed female commuters across Gauteng in what was then known as the taxi rapes
Through his plea statement read into the record by his lawyer advocate Sabelo Nobangule, Mokoena told the court how he and his two accomplices raped a woman in the presence of her mother after they boarded their taxi on Main Reef Road in 2016.
"My friend was driving and I was seated in the passenger section. I accosted the pair with a cigarette lighter and searched their bags before taking their valuables," Mokoena said. He said they pulled over at an ATM and he withdrew R300 from the victim's bank account.
"I then returned to the taxi and raped the first complainant several times while the taxi was in motion. The second complainant who was also in the taxi was assaulted by one of my friends as she was attempting to fight while the rape was taking place."
Suicide watch for taxi rapes accused
A taxi driver who pleaded guilty to charges of rape and kidnapping of several women in Gauteng will be put on a suicide watch.
Mokoena detailed seven other incidents in which he and his accomplices picked up female commuters, raped and robbed them.
He said these incidents occurred in Soweto, Booysens, Vosloorus, and Orange Farm.
He explained to the court how he forced his victims to perform oral sex on him while threatening them with a cigarette lighter that resembled a firearm before raping them without using a condom.
Mokoena pleaded for the court to show leniency during sentencing proceedings.
"I decided to plead guilty and take the court into my confidence and not waste its time. I am aware that my actions caused trauma to the victims which they will have to live with for the rest of their lives. I am pleading with the court to show leniency in handing down a sentence."
Judge Cassim Moosa postponed the matter until today for pre-sentencing purposes.
Two suspects appear in court in connection with Noordien murder