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Wettinia fascicularis
(Burret) H.E.Moore & J.Dransf.
Wettinia cladospadix (Dugand) H.E.Moore & J.Dransf.
Wettiniicarpus cladospadix Dugand.
Wettiniicarpus fascicularis Burret
Plant growing in native habitat
Photograph by: Rodrigo Bernal'
Image credit to Palmweb
Plant growing in Colombia
Photograph by: John Dransfield
Cauca Munchique, Colombia
near San José del Palmar, Colombia
Wettinia fascicularis is a single-stemmed, evergreen palm growing 5 - 18 metres tall. The unbranched stem can be 5 - 18cm in diameter; it has stilt roots up to 1.1 metre long at the base; and is topped by a crown of 4 - 5 long leaves[
Field Guide to the Palms of the Americas
Henderson A.; Galeano G.; Bernal R.
Princeton University Press; Princeton, New Jersey.
An excellent book, giving basic information on all the 550 species of palms native to the Americas that were known in 1995. Comprehensive information on the plants range and habitat, brief description, some uses and almost 250 photos.
The plant is sometimes harvested from the wild for the local use of its stems in construction.
A montane rainforest palm that is confined to the Andes, and is particularly abundant along the western slopes of the western Cordillera, where large areas of forest still remain. Subpopulations of smaller trees in the northern part of the range are at some risk. The plant is classified as 'Least Concern' in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species(2011)[
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
http://www.iucnredlist.org/
A list of plants under threat and facing possible extinction, usually with brief details of the threats and information on habitat.
S. America - Ecuador, Colombia.
Montane rain forest at elevations from 1,200 - 2,000 metres[
Conservation Status Least Concern
Habit Evergreen Tree
The outsides of the stems are hard. They are used in construction and for making fences[
Tropical Palms
Non-Wood Forest Products No. 10
Johnson D.V.
http://www.fao.org/docrep/
FAO, Rome
978-92-5-106742-0
A terse guide to some of the uses of palms. Also available for download from the web. (Search for "FAO Tropical Palms")
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Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2019-07-18. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Wettinia+fascicularis>
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Facebook recently announced that it will begin placing Product Ads on its users' news feeds that will allow brands to display multiple items within a single advertisement. Many are calling the Facebook launch a direct effort to take hold of the enormous retail advertising market that Google currently has a stronghold on. Google's Shopping Ads is a business unit that is estimated to take in $8 billion a year.
With Facebook's new Product Ads launch, they attempt to deliver a better return on investment for online retailers than Google can offer. The wealth of customer data that Facebook has will allow the company to target their customers better than Google can. Facebook also has a more established mobile product that can effectively target consumers across devices. This is important since mobile transactions are likely to account for as much as half of all digital commerce transactions by 2017.
With Product Ads, businesses populate their advertisements on Facebook by uploading their product catalogs. They can either create their own campaigns, or let Facebook automatically choose which products are most relevant to certain users. Facebook can target people who have visited a company's website or target people based on factors like location or special interests. This will save time and money for advertisers who will no longer have to create specific campaigns for specific audiences.
The proliferation of social commerce cannot be denied. Shopify stats show that product research and discovery that took place on social channels propelled e-commerce orders to increase by over 200% in 2014. Facebook dominates the social commerce landscape, with over 90% of advertisers planning on spending part of their social marketing budget on the site.
It's not clear if Facebook's Product Ads will lead to a tremendous return on investment. Most consumers want to compare products across multiple stores, and they will leave the Facebook application to do so. The Product Ads launch does nothing special to keep shoppers on the Facebook app. Consumers will likely only use Facebook for impulsive shopping purchases, so the Product Ads launch may have the most appeal for retailers who sell impulse-buy products. Businesses will need to test the waters by dedicating a small portion of their advertising budgets to Facebook's Product Ads and determine ROI vs. other channels in comparative testing but by ensuring they have an attribution model that can track back sales up to 90 days from the impression or click of an ad.


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I'm a woman and I've been blogging about riding a bike and researching bikes for four years, but I don't often write about gender issues in bicycling. I grew up reading gendered magazines, like Vogue, and I have seen these magazine markets get reproduced online. I prefer to think of my blog as operating differently than gender-segregated media, more like Highlights than like Harper's Bazaar. I don't write about "cycle chic," I don't belong to a women's cycling club (then again, I don't belong to any cycling clubs), and I don't conceive of gender as the biggest barrier to making bicycling something unexceptional in the United States. We need to get more people to think of bicycling as a possible mode of transport in their lives, regardless of gender.
- There's a lot of pressure in the bike cultures I know to learn about bike repair and technical gear, but women are often socialized to pay less attention to technical details and more attention to the people around them. I'm probably going to notice how well two people get along before I notice their Campagnolo hubs.
- There's a necessity to assert one's right to the road when biking, but a lot of women have been socialized to be less forthright and more accommodating. When I'm waiting lawfully at a red light and I know there is a motorist behind me waiting to turn right, I sweat it over whether they're going to honk at me or not, whether they're going to scream that I'm in the way.
- In talking about bikes, commentators tend to strip streets of their social and cultural contexts, reducing travel to some mechanistic interaction of individual with roadway. Women are taught to be painfully aware of our bodies, maybe making it more difficult for us to buy into this focus on road design.
And even if they're not familiar with the social dynamics of bicycling, many people seem to think that they have to look a certain way to ride a bike. The images I see the most are of style-oriented hipsters and sport-oriented roadies.
These pictures were taken seconds apart on a bridge in Chicago in 2009. The first shows a guy whose clothes match, with a helmet whose design references alternative bike and skate culture. He has on a messenger bag and based on the small size of the handlebars, along with the lack of visible shifters, I'd say he's riding a fixie or a one-speed. The term "hipster" means a lot of things, depending on the image in the mind of the speaker. It rarely gets used as a compliment, and implies a superficiality that clashes with the commitment I have witnessed in many stylish people who choose to bike. (That's a whole other post.) Anyway, I think the image of bicycling as only for the cool kidz turns some people off of using bikes at the same time that it attracts others. I imagine a woman in her 20s or 30s who identifies as a feminist, maybe even works for some environmental nonprofit, but dislikes bicycling because she associates it with the cliqueyness of urban hipster culture.
The second image shows a guy who is wearing a number of technical bike garments. He's wearing glasses that have a streamlined look, a racing helmet, bike shorts, and what looks like a dri-weave shirt of some kind. Many people seem to think that getting into bicycling means getting into sport cycling. I see a lot of commuters who wear technical gear, which might perpetuate this idea that you have to get dressed up in expensive and specific clothing to ride a bike. I have never pursued bike racing, but I'd imagine that like in any sport, the stakes of bodily performance are high. Having other people judge my bodily performance does not sound appealing to me, and if that's what women have in mind when they think of biking, I can see why it wouldn't sound like something for them. The imaginary woman in my mind feels intimidated by the sheer volume of things she could do wrong as a bicyclist. What if she wears the wrong shorts? What's a pearl izumi?
Gender and subculture aside, drivers who choose to ignore you can still make you feel disempowered. Sometimes thinking about riding my bike in certain places and sharing streets with people who make no effort to return my eye contact scares me: this is my barrier to bicycling. Maybe this just shows that I'm what planners call an "indicator species" (women, who are less likely to take risks and thus our presence biking on a roadway indicates the perceived comfort of riding there). Whether or not my fear stems from me being a woman, it definitely stems from the root problem of our longstanding acceptance of reckless traffic behavior. If we shift to thinking of our streets as social spaces rather than as traffic channels, a lot of the machismo associated with bicycling will melt away because biking won't be such a renegade action.


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Texas 2020 Elections
Beto O'Rourke signed this pledge on oil money. Did he break it?
O'Rourke was criticized for signing the "No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge," only to take big bucks from individuals who work in the industry. Now critics say he talks a good game on climate change but needs to put his money where his mouth is.
by Jay Root March 30, 2019 4 PM Central
Presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke spoke at a rally Saturday in El Paso, his first in Texas since announcing his bid March 13. Credit: Ivan Pierre Aguirre for The Texas Tribune
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As he launches his candidacy for president this weekend in oil-rich Texas, Beto O'Rourke is taking some flak from the left for all the money he got from drilling interests during his race for the U.S. Senate — and about reports of his more recent refusal to sign on to the "No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge."
O'Rourke, who is making the "existential threat" of climate change a major theme of his presidential kickoff tour, signed a pledge against taking any fossil fuel money at the behest of an Austin environmental group during the Senate race, according to a copy obtained by The Texas Tribune. But he was removed from the national list of pledge signers after one of the national environmental groups behind it saw reports that he had accepted almost half a million dollars from individuals, including executives, in the oil and gas industry during the 2018 campaign.
That haul made him the second-largest recipient of oil and gas dough in the nation last year — bested only by his opponent in the race, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. He was just one of two Democrats on the list of the top 20 recipients. (The other, former Sen. Heidi Heitkamp of oil-friendly North Dakota, was defeated in November.)
"Beto O'Rourke has talked a big game on the imperative of taking action on climate change, but we need to see him back that rhetoric up with real plans to take on the fossil fuel industry that's causing this crisis, even if it's difficult for him to do as someone coming from Texas," said David Turnbull, strategic communications director of Oil Change US, one of the major organizers of the pledge drive. "We need to make difficult choices … to tackle climate change."
The O'Rourke campaign did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment about the pledge or his stance on oil and gas issues.
As a Senate and now as a presidential candidate, O'Rourke has sworn off donations from political action committees, or PACs, which are fundraising committees that represent corporate and other special interests across the ideological spectrum.
On April 29 last year, during a Jolt The Vote event in Austin, O'Rourke signed a fossil fuel pledge at the behest of a member of 350 Austin, an environmental group, officials there said.
The pledge says only that the signer will not "take contributions from oil, gas or coal industries, and instead prioritize the health of our families, climate, and democracy over fossil fuel industry profits." In a hand-written note in the margin of the pledge, O'Rourke added: "or any other PAC, corporation or special interest!"
The website of the No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge, organized by Oil Change US and other environmental groups, says agreeing to it means not only refusing contributions of more than $200 from oil-related PACs, but also from any oil and gas company executives.
The bit about executives is not spelled out in the pledge O'Rourke signed, however, and Turnbull said subsequent communication with campaign aides indicated that the candidate did not intend to rule out taking money from oil and gas executives. So the Texan was removed from the list of signers in December, he said.
Last April, Beto O'Rourke signed a pledge not to take campaign donations "from oil, gas or coal industries." Mickey Fetonte, a member of the environmental group 350 Austin, posed for this picture with O'Rourke. Credit: Courtesy of Mickey Fetonte
As an announced presidential candidate during a swing through first-test New Hampshire, O'Rourke refused to sign on to the pledge, according to a tweet from a New Hampshire youth group. Among the 2020 hopefuls signing the pledge so far are Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, Jay Inslee and Kirsten Gillibrand, according to the pledge website.
During his swing through New Hampshire, O'Rourke downplayed his donations from oil and gas employees, saying he's gotten money from individuals who work for a wide swath of American businesses.
"Yes, there are employees of the oil and gas industry, just as there are employees of every single industry under the sun, from you name it — people are contributing to us," O'Rourke said in Manchester.
Reporter Patrick Svitek contributed to this story.

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Jane Weaver Septième Soeur and The Fallen by Watch Bird – Non-Populist Pop and Cosmic Aquatic Folklore: Chapter 45 Book Images
"The Fallen by Watch Bird is a conceptual pop album/project by Jane Weaver released on her own label Bird Records in conjunction with Finders Keepers Records, the theme of which is:
"…a floating storyline based around missing seamen, telekinesis, avian messengers, white witchkraft and death & re-birth…"
"The project includes the main album The Fallen by Watch Bird, a sort of sequel or companion record called The Watchbird Alluminate that revisits and reinterprets the main album, an illustrated fictional book, video work, poster and an accompanying compilation mix called Europium Alluminate.
The project takes inspiration from a number of areas of inspiration including Eastern European children's cinema, Germanic kunstmärchen (fairy tales or one online service literally translated it as "art fairy"), 70s television music and traces of 80s synth pop to create what is described as cosmic aquatic folklore; the resulting work creates a fable like atmosphere that creates a sense of it connecting or belonging to some of its source material but is far from homage, with any such aspects being via a reimagined dreamscape."
"The Fallen by Watch Bird is credited to Jane Weaver Septième Soeur and features seven other female musicians alongside Jane Weaver, including Susan Christie whose lost 1960s acoustic pop recordings were released by Finders Keepers, 1960s soft psych pop rock musicians Wendy & Bonnie, Lisa Jen who is a member of Welsh language folk band 9Bach and members of Jane Weaver's former band Misty Dixon."
"The Watchbird Alluminate adds to that cast and includes collaborations, extensions, revisitings and reinterpretations of the The Fallen By Watch Bird also by Jane Weaver Septième Soeur, alongside Demdike Stare, The Focus Group, Emma Tricca, Wendy Flower, Anworth Kirk, Magpahi, Samandtheplants and Susan Christie.
This album adds to the loose conceptual theme and is said to be about 'telepathy, technology, lost-love, wiccan, war and watchbirds'.
It is more overtly experimental than purely conceptual pop-orientated and adds a certain spectral, hauntological aspect…"
"The Europium Alluminate mix CD was compiled by Jane Weaver alongside Finders Keepers Records co-founder Andy Votel and it is described as:
'A 70 minute transmission of cosmic aquatic folklore, flickering luminescent lullabies & hand-plucked pop.'
It is an explorative and intriguing musical journey which serves as an accompaniment and musical backgrounding for The Fallen by Watch Bird, one that hints at some of the possible influences and inspirations for the project but leaves these as hints as there is no tracklisting."
"The project's influences led me down a path to discover or rediscover a strand of cinematic history known as the Czech New Wave…
The genre was also known as the Czechoslovak film miracle, which considering the otherworldly nature of some of the films seems quite appropriate, in particular the variously playful, surreal, fairy tale-esque and sometimes anarchic or darker hued likes of Daisies (1966), Valerie and her Week of Wonders (1970) and Malá Morská Víla (1976)."
"Jane Weaver quotes an unsubtitled copy of Malá Morská Víla (also known as The Little Mermaid but something of a world away from the more well-known mainstream 1989 Disney film) as having been the starting point for this album and some of the stylings from it have found their way into photography associated with The Fallen by Watch Bird and the title track's accompanying video by klunklick."
"(The video) mixes photography of Jane Weaver dressed as a fallen-through-a-portal sister of one of the characters of Malá Morská Víla, found illustrations from children's fairy stories (which also accompany the albums' artwork), live action mixed with animation, cosmic symbolism, fantasia like pastoral and at sea scenes, the appearance and reappearance of black feathered birds and documentary war photography all of which interweave with the left-of-centre pop of the song to create a phantasmagorical, darkly hued and yet also whimsically entrancing fairy tale fable."
Online images to accompany Chapter 45 of the A Year In The Country: Wandering Through Spectral Fields book, alongside some text extracts from the chapter:
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Filming The Owl Service; Tomato Soap and Lonely Stones
"I wanted to run. They looked too right. It was like a waking dream. Here were the people I'd thought about, who'd lived in my head for so long; but now they were real. I couldn't accept that they were only actors."


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University Student, Alumnus Open for Jon Bon Jovi at Prudential Center
Written by KERRY BREEN | SENIOR/NEWS EDITOR
University Alumnus and Current Student from Local Band Open for Jon Bon Jovi
A band whose members included a current University student Zachary Sandler and University alumnus Jonathan Chang-Soon opened for Jon Bon Jovi at the Prudential Center leg of his "This House is Not for Sale" tour on Sunday, April 8.
The band, called Bobby Mahoney and the Seventh Son, played a twenty-minute set, performing songs such as ".38 Special."
The band is a New Jersey -based punk/hard-rock band that formed in December 2010. The current lineup includes: creator, guitarist, and vocalist Bobby Mahoney; drummer James McIntosh; guitarist and backing vocalist Andrew Saul; bassist and backing vocalist Chang-Soon, a music industry alumnus and co-founder and CMO of Blue Hawk Records who graduated from in 2014; and saxophonist Sandler, a sophomore music industry student.
"They were looking for a local New Jersey band to open the show," said Chang-Soon. "We were recommended to the band's management and someone liked us. We were officially confirmed as the opener at the beginning of the week and just had a couple of days to prepare. The amount of support we've received has been unbelievable."
"I personally didn't sleep at all since we heard about the show on Tuesday," said Sandler.
"Imagine finding out that you're opening for Bon Jovi at the Prudential Center just five days before the show."
The show was a sold-out performance with over 20,000 fans filling the stands. According to Sandler, the band also briefly met with Bon Jovi prior to the show.
"I've had dreams of performing in an arena ever since I could remember," said Sandler. "To be able to jump around on the same stage as my inspirations and main influences has been amazing. When we were sitting backstage in our green room, they had pictures hanging on the walls of all the other musicians who have stood on that same stage. Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen, Demi Lovato… I mean, wow. The only other time I've ever experienced this type of feeling was in my dreams.
"It was a surreal and incredible moment," said Mahoney. "To get to play in front of so many people, on a stage we have all seen our heroes on, was an amazing moment and opportunity for us. [It is] by far the biggest space we have played."
"Playing to thousands of people at the Prudential Center was literally a dream come true," said Chang-Soon. "About ten years ago, I was poorly covering 'Livin' on a Prayer' with my old high school band. Now, things have really come full circle after getting the privilege to open for Bon Jovi, and I couldn't be more grateful."
According to Sandler, the band has been a hit locally and has played the New Jersey rock circuit since 2010; it also has shared bills with both national and local bands. The band's first full-studio album was released in 2014 and was nominated several times for the "Top Young Band" at the Asbury Music Awards in 2012, 2013, and 2014.
In 2015, the band was nominated for "Top Rock Band" at the 2015 Asbury Music Awards, and their single "Don't Ever Love Me" was listed as #4 on DJ Rich Russo's "New Jersey Top 15" list.
In 2016 and 2017, the band began to tour more frequently with locations including New Orleans, LA; Toronto, CA; and Nashville, TN. They also opened for Stranger Things' star Gaten Matarazzo at the Stone Pony in 2018, and have released four studio albums in total.
Their upcoming schedule includes shows at the Asbury Park Yacht Club (April 13), the Bowery Electric in New York City (April 20), and the House of Independents in Asbury Park (June 14), among other appearances.
"I work very closely with Zack Sandler on high profile university and commercial events, and worked very closely with Jon Chang-Soon when he was a student here," said Joe Rapolla, Chair of the Music and Theatre Arts Department.
"Our students become professionals both on stage and in music industry activities while at Monmouth. They learn how to better manage their careers as artists and how to work in all aspects of the broadening business of music and entertainment media. We're thrilled Zack and Jon got the opportunity to open up for Bon Jovi, and [we're] not surprised they were ready for it," Rapolla said.
"I'd like to give a huge thanks to Monmouth University's music department and their Chair, Joe Rapolla, for cultivating an environment of growth for all students," said Chang-Soon. "As an alum, I'm so grateful for Monmouth's inclusive community that continues to support me after all these years."
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Cinespace plans backlot expansion for filming possibilities
By Nina Metz, By Nina Metz and Tribune reporter
Cinespace, the soundstage complex on the West Side plans to expand its filmmaking options by building a backlot on its existing 58-acre campus.
Cinespace, the soundstage complex on the West Side that is home to TV shows such as NBC's "Chicago Fire" and ABC's upcoming midseason drama "Mind Games," plans to expand its filmmaking options by building a backlot on its existing 58-acre campus.
Cinespace head Alex Pissios says he intends to use the facades of existing buildings (which formerly housed Ryerson Steel before Cinespace moved in). That's slightly different than your standard Hollywood backlot, which typically features false structures — meaning, there's no actual building beyond the exterior doors and windows.
"We're going to put the facades right on the existing buildings," says Pissios. "One street will be a row of New York brownstones. One will be Chinatown. Another will be a restaurant, a bank and a courthouse.
"So this will help TV and film productions when I can say, 'This will save you money.' We have a solid film (tax) incentive but it's not the best in the country. And there's big costs when you shoot on location — moving all the trucks, setting up catering, closing streets off, which requires security people. So how about when you're here, I give (you) the option to just shoot everything on our 58 acres? Instead of going to 19th and Michigan Ave. to shoot those brownstones, they could shoot it right here.
"This saves them a lot of money," he adds. "And now this will give me another hook when I go to L.A.."
According to Pissios, he has had initial meetings with the city (some finagling may be required to accommodate residential streets nearby), and he has yet to determine the budget. "It's going to be a big number. And it's going to be self-financed." He says the company has built up equity thanks to the success over the years of its original complex in Toronto, which is still up and running.
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L.A. is currently the only U.S. city with true backlots, so one in Chicago would be unique. Pissios plans to start the project in the fall, with work expected to be completed about a year later. "And if everything goes well, we would love to somehow, down the line, make this a little tourist attraction, where buses could come in and we give people a tour."
With TV pilot series is gearing up, no new shows have yet committed to shooting at Cinespace this year, but Pissios anticipates we'll see a few. "When I went to L.A., I had meetings with a lot of studios and they're very happy with Chicago right now."
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Written by Mark Waid and Brian Augustyn
Drawn by Tom Grummett
Colored by Glenn Whitmore
Lettered by Jack Morelli
Review by KrisK
Mark Waid, very much the architect of the modern Archie comic, returns to the character again. This time, Waid steps backward in time to the 1950s and the birth of Rock and Roll. Archie Comics previously released Archie 1941,which dealt with Riverdale and the impeding World War. If they are successful enough, one imagines the company will release a mini for every decade thereafter. I hope they do. A civil rights Archie sounds sublime.
This Archie though, revolves around good old Rock and Roll. While not as history book important as WWII, the effects of its birth affected the world in a much more positive way. Archie and the guys play the local prom, but the principal banned rock and roll. Instead, the guys play slow dancing classics from the depression era. The night crawls by, and the students almost fall asleep on their feet.
For the last song, Archie decides that since they graduated, the principal can't touch them. They play a song they wrote, and the students respond with elation. The principal hates it though, and he ends the jam. The band gets bounced, but an agent heard them play and loves the song. Archie tells his parents, and he gets serious about the music. Veronica schemes to help her beloved ginger, in a subplot, with the help of Daddy's money.
The story functioned as an Archie Comic. I expected more jokes, honestly. I know the series aims to be a bit more dramatic, but I come to Archie for Jughead jokes above all. Archie Comics leans much more serious, these days, and I can't say it hasn't been successful, spawning several comics and TV shows. Archie's relevance increased tenfold in the last five years.
Waid knows the characters. He understands their dynamics and motivations. The story serves as a simple PG Slice of Life tale, set in the birth of Rock. While all the characters sing true, one wishes for more humor. The eccentricities of the characters seem played down for realism's sake.
The art suits the comic well. While none of the panels stop the reader with their beauty or skill, the 1950s offer little new. Furthermore, Archie rarely lets artists create tableaus to their technical prowess.
Verdict: Pass. It's not a bad comic by any means, but when the shelves are so full of great comics, it doesn't rise to the top.
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Scabies in humans is caused by microscopic creatures called mites. They can make the skin of a person be irritated and very itchy. Red marks may also appear on the hands, elbows or thighs of a person. The mites do this by burrowing under our skin and laying eggs. This action of theirs can cause severe irritation and itching, followed by blisters and bumps. This disease is actually very common through out the world, being on the rise even in the United States. It has been discovered to be more frequent in shared living conditions like hospitals, nursing homes, and of course shared dormitories.
Scabies is transmitted from sick person to normal healthy person after prolonged skin to skin contact. Other short term actions like quick hug or hand shake seem to be not enough for the disease to be contracted. Other contacts, like between sexual partners or roommates can actually lead to scabies infections. Again another way a healthy person can take the illness is by coming into contact with infected items belonging to the patient; items like clothes, towels or even bedding.
Getting the diseases from the family pet dog or cat is not possible. There type of scabies is actually caused by another type of mites. Fortunately for us this kind of scabies can't actually survive on the human skin for more than a few days. It has been found that the human scabies is actually the work of a mite called sarcoptes scabi.
It is a fact that anyone can contract scabies, regardless of where they are living or their ethnic or cultural background. Still, scabies cases have been known to be more frequent in those who are living in crowded conditions or who have regular contact with babies.
The scabies symptoms appear in a person between 4 to 6 weeks from the initial infection. For those who have previously had the infection, symptoms appear much faster; in their case symptoms can actually appear within a few days from first contact. They can range from intense itching, especially at night, to burrow marks and blisters where the mites have crawled under the skin and a red scabies rash over the skin.
Proper medical attention can be given to you by your local health care provider. without professional help the mites will actually continue in producing and laying eggs. Severe cases have been known where excessive itching has eventually lead to skin infection, such as impetigo.
Treatment most often requires applying a medical lotion on the entire body. The lotion should by applied from the neck downwards, being more careful with regions like wrists, knees, elbows, and the webbing between the fingers. The time it takes for the lotion to take its proper effect is about 8 hours. Although itching may continue, signs of blisters or burrowing will most certainly disappear within a day or two.


A fund advised by Meyer Bergman, the investment manager specialised in mixed-use, retail-led real estate, has sold to UBS Real Estate GmbH the Topas Arkade building on Friedrichstrasse, one of the longest shopping streets in central Berlin. The parties agreed not to disclose the purchase price for the high street property.
Meyer Bergman European Retail Partners III, which recently reached its final close in capital raising, acquired the 5,500 sq.m. block in the fourth quarter of 2016 following lengthy approval procedures for the vendor to cede ownership. The buiding's ground level and some basement space are retail units while the upper four floors are in office use.


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The Way Back Home is a quick read that covers so many topics - family dysfunction, bullying, discrimination, LGBT issues and bereavement - that you are sure to relate to one of the characters. I loved the character of Zoe and the love she has for her granny who is suffering from Alzheimer's.

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April 30, 2015 April 30, 2015 by tgriffith
Can a Hyundai Be Better Than a BMW?
There's something seductive about the idea of buying a used luxury car.
Getting a car that will make friends and family swoon is exciting, so why not cruise around in the kind of style only a used Jaguar or BMW can offer?
Stepping a few model years into the past can get you a car that costs less than an entry-level new car. Plus, used luxury cars usually have better driving dynamics and possess way more brand panache than your average new Hyundai.
However, buying older luxury can cost you more than you might realize, and not just in maintenance costs.
September 9, 2014 September 9, 2014 by tgriffith
The Jaguar XE's Biggest Competition: A Used BMW?
With great fanfare and media attention, Jaguar has released official images, specs and pricing of its new XE. This is a huge deal, because the XE is a car set to compete against the BMW 3 Series and Audi A4.
There's one caveat to the above statement, though: So far specs and pricing are specific to the European market.
The info is enough to infer that the new "baby Jag" will be nothing like its predecessor, the X-Type. It'll be lighter, faster, more fuel efficient and, to some people, better looking.
That, however, is debatable, and I wonder if the price of entry will send shoppers right back into the arms of the Germans.
August 8, 2014 August 8, 2014 by tgriffith
BMW 1 Series: A Great Used Buy?
Lexus has said it could never build a car priced under $30,000, because it wouldn't be a Lexus, it would be a Toyota.
That's a respectable position to take, because it gives the luxury brand at least a little separation from its plebeian cousin.
Other luxury automakers have decided against that strategy and built entry-level vehicles designed to entice younger buyers into their brands. That decision, though, cheapens the brand for more upscale buyers.
June 5, 2014 June 5, 2014 by tgriffith
The Greatest BMW Ever?
BMW created its masterpiece 25 years ago.
The flagship grand tourer topped the BMW product line and could be considered as much a supercar as a family car.
The legend of the BMW 8 Series lasted about a decade, with more than 30,000 copies built between 1988 and 1999. With a starting price of $70,000 and an available V12 sending power to the rear wheels through a 6-speed manual transmission, the car introduced features previously unseen on production cars.
The 8 Series died an untimely death, partly because new emissions standards were too cost prohibitive to meet without extensive re-engineering.
A new 8 Series may or may not ever hit the market, but what are the odds of snagging an old one?


Tricky ways to sneak more protein in your breakfast (works for kids, too!
Momma always said, "Eat your breakfast." And she was right.
Breakfast (or breaking the fast) is "the meal" to get the most mojo out of your day.
A balanced breakfast with proteins, high quality fats and slow-burning carbs will do more for stabilizing your blood sugar and balancing your hormones than just about anything.
Kelly is a hard working, stay-at-home mom of two girls. She came to see me because her hotflashes were literally driving her crazy. She'd spike heat on most afternoons and soak her sheets at night.
When she came to see me, we went through her food choices and found that her breakfasts were lacking. Once the coffee and toast wore off, her body would scream for more fuel. This started the whole reach for a quick carb snack, give-me-quickie-food now cycle.
She just didn't have the reserves in her breakfast choice to make it through till high noon let alone have her stable by the afternoon. Once she added a more substantial breakfast and increased her protein for her first meal of the day, she was able to get a better handle on her food choices throughout the day. And, her hot flashes went away. Not only that, but her clothes got a little looser and she started sleeping.
Now all this info is well and good for us momma's. We can wrap our heads around eating more balanced meals, but what do we do when it comes to our kiddos? Most kids are known to be picky and difficult eaters. They'll eat just about anything if it's sweet. But when it comes to protein and more nutrient dense foods, they tend turn their cheek or have "just a little".
One study following a group of students found that those kids eating breakfast scored better on cognitive tests- especially ones that included visual tasks.
The researchers even took it one step further. They then observed the same group of kiddos and compared sugary out-of-the-box cereal to oatmeal. The oatmeal eaters scored again and won out on test scores. Here in the United States, eggs tend to be the go-to protein for breakfast. They're affordable, usually in the fridge, and quick to scramble up. But what if your kids (or you) get tired of the same old scramble?
That's when you gotta get sneaky… er, creative. I stir eggs into just about anything.: oatmeal, chai drinks, miso soup, you name it. I'll even add more eggs than the cookie recipe calls for, then adjust the flour (about a ½ cup or so) and add a half a cup arrowroot. Eggs are power! I have a great recipe for you but first, I'd love to hear your tricks in the comments below.
How do you squeeze more protein into your family's diet? Do you have a go-to breakfast that's balanced enough to satisfy you—and that your kids gobble up? And, if you've got the pickiest kids on the planet, I want to hear about them too.
My turn: Here's my family's favorite breakfast: Oatmeal with stealth eggs. Oatmeal Steel cut oats are the way to go! Soaking them overnight to make them easier to digest—and half the cooking time for your busy morning.
1. Place oats and water in a pot. Add salt. Cover and let the oats soak all night long on the counter.
2. In the morning, bring the oats to a boil over a medium high flame.
3. Once boiling, turn down the heat to a simmer. Take a minute to skim off any foam that might be floating on top.
4. Cover, and cook on simmer for 20 minutes. Although oats do contain protein, here's where I up the protein for my crew by stiring in one or two eggs.
5. My kids love coconut milk and cinnamon in their oatmeal. For variety, we do all sorts of crazy things. We'll add ground almonds, maybe a few frozen berries (they help cool the porridge), even add a spoonful of coconut butter. Yum!


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World Tourism Day Solidarity Message by H.E. Hajia Samira Bawumia
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Invitation to Join CoPASH
Her Excellency, The Second Lady of the Republic of Ghana, Mrs. Samira Bawumia with support from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Ghana is launching a Coalition of People Against Sexual and Gender Based Violence and Harmful Practices (CoPASH). The Coalition will spearhead a national response on the issues of SGBV/HPs including case management and increasing prevention efforts in Ghana. The mandate of CoPASH is to bring together a group of agencies, organizations and individuals who are passionate about the rights of women and girls, to advocate for better resources for SGBV survivors throughout the nation. Through the Coalition, the Second Lady of the Republic of Ghana intends to bring high level advocacy and visibility to interventions aimed at preventing and managing gender issues including:
Child Marriage (CM)
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV)
Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) – Rape, Defilement, Wife Battery, etc.
Joining CoPASH
Individuals and groups who have experience leading advocacy efforts on issues concerning women and girls are encouraged to apply. Interested parties are expected to be thought leaders in their field, should be able to think strategically and creatively about solutions to SGBV/HPs and should be able to work collaboratively with various stakeholders to carry out the mission of CoPASH.
The Coalition of People against SGBV/HPs is a voluntary coalition of individuals and organizations, therefore all members must be willing and available to donate their time and resources for a minimum of a one-year period
Coalition members should be committed to advocacy efforts around issues of SGBV/HPs in Ghana and should be interested in advocating for the rights of women and girls
Members should be willing to attend planning meetings and commit to assist in the execution of coalition events
Members should have a strong network of contacts and associates who would be willing to support CoPASH's advocacy campaign efforts
Interested applicants should submit a short paragraph briefly explaining their interest in joining CoPASH. Please include your name, email address and telephone number when submitting your application to ghana.office@unfpa.org .
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Carter to Create Chief Innovation Position
Oct. 31, 2016 | By Will Skowronski
Defense Secretary Ash Carter is adopting three of the recommendations the Defense Innovation Board made to him earlier this month, he said Friday. Speaking at a Center for Strategic and International Studies event in Washington, D.C., Carter said he will create the position of chief innovation officer, target talented military and civilian computer scientists and software engineers for recruitment, and invest more broadly in machine learning, including through challenges based on a "virtual center of excellence" model. The new chief innovation officer will act as a senior advisor to the Secretary and spearhead innovation activities, including those recommended by the board during its first meeting. The recommendations included building software platforms and networks to enable DOD-wide innovation, hosting innovation contests, and providing training that promotes innovation. Carter said he tasked the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx) to pilot the challenge-based approach to advance machine learning by sponsoring a prize challenge because tech companies and academia have made strides in the area. "Going forward, I'm confident that the logic behind everything I'm talking about today will be self-evident to future defense leadership as will the value of these efforts. But they also need to have the momentum and institutional foundation to keep going under their own steam and to continue to thrive," Carter said. Carter created the b?oard in March, and it held its first meeting in October, when it presented 11 interim recommendations, according to a Defense Department release. Carter did not say if he rejected the other recommendations or if he's still considering them. The board is chaired by Alphabet Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and includes 15 members.


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$user = $this->ion_auth->user()->row();
$user_id = $user->id;

but $user_id is returned as NULL.
$this->ion_auth->register($username, $password, $email, $additional_data, $group)

this code also used but null error occurs.

A: The default table for storing user data is 'users' not 'user'

A: The $this->ion_auth->register(); method returns the ID of the user if the user was successfully registered.
You can use it as follows:
$id = $this->ion_auth->register($username, $password, $email, $additional_data, $group);

Now $id will be containing the ID of the registered user (i.e. if the registration was successful).

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If you grew up in America, chances are you're at least somewhat familiar with the national treasure known as Mister Rogers. For decades, Fred Rogers hosted a wholesome children's TV show called Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. In it, he would speak with children, puppets, tackle issues, and be an all-around father figure to generations.
Plus, unlike many other children figures, Rogers managed to maintain his image as a fully wholesome entity with a big heart and accepting values (he's no Bill Cosby), and in a new documentary from Focus Features, called Won't You Be My Neighbor? (a line from his popular intro song in the show), filmmaker Morgan Nevill breaks down just shy this show was a huge success.
While other shows felt the need to dumb down the content or go ridiculously silly, Mister Rogers never felt the need to talk down to kids, and that's one aspect of the show that really struck a chord with me.
Won't You Be My Neighbor? hits select theaters on June 8, 2018.


Each year, the best cocoa beans are selected out and many different varieties are carefully blended to achieve that deep, rich flavour that chocolate lovers prize. After roasting at high temperatures to develop the chocolate flavour, the cocoa beans are shelled and the remaining nibs are crushed into a thick liquid called chocolate liquor, containing only the chocolate solids and the rich, creamy cocoa butter.
Unsweetened: Made with solid chocolate liquor with nothing added. Too bitter to eat but lends a great chocolate flavour to brownies and cakes. It is made from a blend of fine cocoa beans that are roasted, crushed and ground between large heated rollers. Unsweetened is the purest form of chocolate. It is satin smooth, rich in cocoa butter and best for baking.
Semi-Sweet: This is made using the same method as unsweetened chocolate, but with just a pinch of sugar, cocoa butter and vanilla to give it a rich, sweet taste. Semi-sweet is perfect for garnishes and fondues.
Bittersweet: Contains chocolate liquor, additional cocoa butter and sugar but with a darker more pronounced European chocolate flavour, due to the higher chocolate liquor content.
Sweetened: Rich and creamy with a milder chocolate flavour and a larger amount of additional cocoa butter and sugar. Often used in commercial candies or bars.
Milk: Made from milk solids, cocoa butter and sugar, milk chocolate is most often eaten as a candy bar. The first milk chocolate bar was invented by Swiss candy-maker Daniel Peter in 1876 when he devised the process of adding condensed milk to chocolate.
White: Technically not even chocolate, it is made with cocoa butter, milk and sugar, but doesn't contain cocoa solids. As a result, it is creamy white in colour and mild and sweet in flavour. This is often used as a coating or decorative garnish.
Remember, never substitute one chocolate for another in a recipe as this will affect the flavour and may cause the dessert to fail. For best results do not substitute chocolate chips for squares either. Chips are formulated with less cocoa butter to enable them to hold their shape. Squares are specially formulated with quality ingredients to melt easier than chocolate chips.
Place unwrapped BAKER'S Chocolate in microwaveable bowl. Microwave on HIGH (100%) according to the chart below and then stir 1 minute or until chocolate is completely melted.
When microwaved, the chocolate square will retain its shape. Chocolate will continue to melt after being removed from microwave. If after stirring for 1 minute chocolate is not completely melted, microwave an additional 10 seconds or until only small, unmelted pieces of chocolate remain.
Store chocolate in a cool dry place (below 75°F, if possible), but not in the refrigerator. At higher temperatures, the cocoa butter melts and rises to the surface. When this happens, the chocolate develops a pale, gray colour called "bloom." This condition, however, does not affect the chocolate's flavour or quality.
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"I am not campaigning, you also don't campaign," Prashant Bhushan allegecly told volunteers.
"The same incident took place in front of Anjali Damania," said a joint statement by the four AAP leaders.
As per leaders they wanted to create their own party.


Pathfinding or pathing is the plotting, by a computer application, of the shortest route between two points. It is a more practical variant on solving mazes. This field of research is based heavily on Dijkstra's algorithm for finding a shortest path on a weighted graph.


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After playing four games in six days, the Flyers enjoyed most of this week in relaxing fashion. But they will jump right back into the thick of the grueling NHL schedule with three games in four days – including back-to-back games on Friday and Saturday.
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The Bird's the World

Everybody knows that the bird is the word

					A-well-a, everybody's heard about the bird
					Bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
					A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, the bird is the word
					A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, well, the bird is the word
					A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
					A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, well, the bird is the word
					A-well-a, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
					A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word.

					"Surfin' Bird" is a song performed by the American surf rock band The Trashmen; it is also the name of the album that featured this hit single. It was released in 1963 and reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. It is a combination of two hits by The Rivingtons: "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow" and "The Bird's the Word".

7" Single

The Rivingtons followed up their 1962 Billboard Hot 100 hit Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow with the similar The Bird's the Word in 1963. The Trashmen had not heard this version but saw a band called The Sorensen Brothers playing it.[2] They decided to play the song that night at their own gig. During this first performance, drummer and vocalist Steve Wahrer stopped playing and ad-libbed the "Surfin' Bird" middle section.[2] Despite not knowing "The Bird's the Word" was a Rivingtons song, the similarity to "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow" was obvious and The Trashmen added the chorus to the end of their new track.

A local disc jockey, Bill Diehl, was at the gig and convinced the band to record the track.[2] It was recorded at Kay Bank Studios in Minneapolis. Diehl entered it into a local battle of the bands competition and it won. It was then sent to a battle of the bands competition in Chicago where it also won.[2] This led to the group being signed to Garrett Records with the single being quickly released. It reportedly sold 30,000 copies in its first weekend[2] before going on to national success, reaching #4 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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THE WIG (2005) - R3 Special Edition DVD review
THE WIG (a.k.a. SCARY HAIR) - Korean Region 3 Special Edition DVD (released by BEAR dvd)
American action-horror films like FINAL DESTINATION that combine chills with gore, also have release mechanisms where humour can relieve the suspense and horror. Good Japanese and South Korean horrors rarely let you off the hook so easily... On top of that, THE WIG also gives you a raw taste of the emotional impact of, say, a nasty car crash.
THE WIG is a dark, gut-wrenching, deeply emotional chiller, that injects more than its fair share of shock moments and visceral horror. I was expecting the chills, based on the scary effects that Sadako's long black hair have in the RING movies. What I also got was an emotionally intense drama comparable to A TALE OF TWO SISTERS, yet much faster paced. There were also violent moments I'd expect in OLDBOY but not here. So basically my expectations were way off, THE WIG delivers the creepy chills, but much more.
The high quality of directing, cinematography and acting defy the basically silly premise of a haunted wig. I would even recommend that the title be renamed to give the film a better chance internationally. Imagine if RING had originally been called THE VIDEOTAPE, what chance would it have stood? So far the only alternate title to be used is SCARY HAIR, which makes this excellent film sound like a Troma flick. If you're not convinced, try out one of the online trailers (search Twitchfilm.net for details).
The Special Edition DVD from Korea is a region 3 NTSC on one disc, with the film's 1.85 aspect ratio anamorphically presented. The beautifully mixed audio is also included in an extremely effective DTS track, if you want to jump that little bit higher during the shock moments. The English subtitles are well-translated, though probably don't do justice to the subtleties of the script. Signs, headlines and other written text are translated too.
A generous amount of extras includes extensive behind-the-scenes footage of the film's many FX sequences and the actors enduring their most emotional scenes. THIS FOOTAGE CONTAINS MANY STORY SPOILERS so please don't watch it before seeing the film. There's also footage of the photo-shoot for the posters and publicity art. These beautiful photos are faithful to the gloomy and colourful look of the final film. Thankfully the action in the featurettes is self-explanatory because none of the extras are subtitled. There is also a 2002 short film from the director, also unsubtitled, and 2 trailers for THE WIG.
Posted by Mark Hodgson at 1:16 am No comments:
Labels: Korea
Not always DVDs
Of course, it's not always DVDs on this blog, despite the title...
Just had the privilege to see SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGEANCE at the London Film Festival - all I can say is that there aren't too many movie trilogies out there where all three films are of such a high calibre (pun intended). I have no idea when a DVD boxset of this film, OLDBOY and SYMPATHY FOR MR VENGEANCE will come out, but I'll be getting one, for certain.
Saw this today and TIM BURTON'S CORPSE BRIDE, which I'm sorry to say didn't hold a candle to NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS.
Earlier in the week, saw 'electroclash' funsters LADYTRON live at Koko in Camden, North London. It seems that the excellent (am I overusing this word?) support band BATTANT is lucky enough to have an early Siouxsie Sioux reincarnation fronting them.
Finally, I got to see the British Film Institute release of the original Japanese version of the 1954 GODZILLA at the Curzon Cinema in Soho. The BFI are promising a DVD release in the UK, though I'm hoping that they have better materials at their disposal than the theatrical print that's on show. Soft, scratchy and dupey, it looks every inch a 1950's film, but I'm sure the Japanese DVD will have been restored within an inch of it's nitrate - I'd get that, but it has no english subtitles...
The re-emergence of Godzilla films in the early 1990's was the reason that I started to look east for other more interesting films. During the search for watchable videos, VCDs and laserdiscs, I discovered the joys of RINGU, ULTRAMAN TIGA and AKIRA as they first came out. But despite the fact I've seen every one of his films, this was my first ever experience of Godzilla on the big screen.
Below is the excellent poster art by Phil Ashcroft to publicise this well overdue event, which even managed to miss the big guy's 50th birthday. (Fortunately I was able to celebrate properly last year with a trip to Japan, but that's another posting...)
ULTRAMAN NEXUS (2004) - HK DVD review
- JAPANESE TV SERIES
(37 episodes)
ULTRAMAN NEXUS is a much more adult series than its predecessor, ULTRAMAN COSMOS. Admittedly it's still a guy in a rubber suit fighting monsters that are other guys in rubber suits but Tsuburaya Productions don't like to slack. I've remained a fan of the various Ultra-series ever since ULTRAMAN TIGA because of their constant inventiveness with the format.
ULTRAMAN NEXUS is set after the movie ULTRAMAN NEXT. It delivers the usual Ultra-fights, but defies the usual formulaic episode structure by using a complex story arc involving multiple Ultra-men both good and bad. The subplots range schizophrenically between sudden death and balloon animals, alien invasion and sappy romance. There's a new underwater base and far more physical action from the Earth Squadron than usual - like energy weapon fights with smaller monsters lurking in forests and factories. There are some great new CGI monsters thrown into the mix - the first monster to appear defies description! Less successful is the intercutting between CGI aircraft and slow-motion miniatures - they suddenly become extra fast and manoevrable. The same can be said of the infrequent fights using CGI Ultramen. But, all in all, a darker, unpredictable, action-packed series.
ULTRAMAN NEXUS was released in Hong Kong as 7 dvds. These were sold individually or as 2 fold-out boxsets (pictured). The same discs were used in both releases. I bought these Hong Kong versions because the Japanese releases had no english subtitles. These subs aren't the best translations in the world - you can follow the plot, but people's names aren't consistent and are occasionally translated. Attempts to translate pseudo-scientific jargon can only be understood using an excess of lateral thinking.
Also annoying is the presence of a clock top-left in picture throughout each episode. Looks like these were mastered off breakfast-time transmission tapes! (This also happened on the FIRESTORM anime release).
There are absolutely no extras and the chaptering is sparse. The picture is standard 1.33 aspect ratio, as originally broadcast. The cover art is excellent, showing off the designs of the various Ultra-suits, and the fold-out cases of the boxsets are well made and very displayable.
Lastly, I've never seen a series with as many different theme tunes!
Takashi Miike's ZEBRAMAN (2004) - review
(2004, Japan)
Well, given the choice, I'd rather watch a low, low budget Asian film over a Hollywood blockbuster. This film was just so much fun, beautifully acted, eccentrically mad plot, great visual gags, killer fight scenes... It's like an episode of ULTRAMAN or KAMEN RIDER, but aimed at an adult audience.
It's 2010. ZEBRAMAN is a seventies TV superhero idolised by a Yokohama school teacher. When strange men in masks start a series of local rapes and murders, who you gonna call..?
Director Takashi Miike is so versatile that his films can never be predictable, given the extremes he's gone to in the recent past. You're never sure how far he's going to go in terms of plot twists or sexual or violent extremes. He might even start telling the story with CGI, stick-figure animation or plasticine figures.
ZEBRAMAN is of course very restrained for Miike, that doesn't mean to say the film would be rated at less than an 'R' for violence and sexual content. On many occasions, it looks like it's going to get very dark, very quickly...
DVD UPDATE March 2008
Zebraman finally gets a release in the US on region 1 DVD from Tokyo Shock...
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Labels: Japan, Ultraman
GIANT ROBO MIKAZUKI (2000) - best kaiju series ever!
(Japan, 2000, imdb: Tekkôki Mikazuki)
If you like the look of the new Japanese short NEGADON, seek out the very similarly themed live-action mini-series GIANT ROBO MIKAZUKI. This came out in 2000 and I heard it was Japan's most expensive TV series!
Based on an old anime GIANT ROBO, this sublime six hour mixture of suit action and CGI, pits a mysterious giant robot against floating bell-shaped monsters, demons and watermelon lizards!. All mixed in with a powersuited action team (with pull-string activation), a cyber-defence HQ, crappy government giant robots (designed like 1950's clockwork robots) and more... all marvellous tongue-in-cheek fun. Mightily powerful fight scenes, fun characters, and a highly successful depiction of what havoc a giant robot might actually wreak by simply taking a walk!
Why this isn't out in the west is beyond me. Dare I say, it's more fun than many recent Godzilla films. There, I said it, I'm not proud of myself, but it's true.
There was a 2 DVD Hong Kong boxset of MIKAZUKI (front cover pictured) with really, really bad english subtitles and botched letterboxing on the awesome, awesome first episode. But it's a lot of telly, a lot of fun, and the Hong Kong set is really cheap. The huge Japanese DVD boxset looks 100 times better, but there aren't any subtitles...
Even the soundtrack's good!
Labels: Japan, monsters, robots
TALES OF TERROR 1 - Region 3 DVD review
TALES OF TERROR - Volume 1 - Hong Kong Region 3 DVD (Unicorn release)
First volume of episodes from the Japanese TV series TALES OF TERROR (2005).
Must have missed the small print when I bought this one. There are 8 episodes on this DVD, but the episodes are barely 5 minutes long each! That's under 40 minutes of tales of terror. There's also an interview with the director. For once, the interview is subtitled in english (extras on HK releases rarely are), but this doesn't really compensate for the scant running time.
If you like really short short stories (I mean the one or two page sort) this may be for you. Each little episode hits the ground running and often manages to generate chills in the short time available.
The cover describes the aspect ratio as 4:3, but the image is in fact 16:9 letterboxed within a 4:3 frame (otherwise known as non-anamorpihc widescreen). The subtitles are unfortunately positioned halfway over the lower letterboxing. They are well written and removable, and the optional DTS audio is creepily directional.
Looks like there are 3 more volumes to come...
HAUNTED SCHOOL (1995) – Region 3 HK DVD review
aka GAKKO NO KAIDAN
Region 3 HK DVD review (Universe Video)
First I saw HAUNTED SCHOOL 4 and had to see more of the series...
This is the first in a successful series of Japanese children's films, released presumably to tie in with the Japanese Oban festival season (a rough equivalent of Halloween). The titular school is full of demons and ghosts, some silly-looking, some seriously creepy. Japanese kids must be made of stern stuff judging by the almost RING-worthy opening scene.
Also the heavyweight make-up fx used later in the film rival (and rip) THE THING and THE FLY 2. I though I was watching a film from the eighties, but in fact it's a dated-looking 1995. Not many shocks, but very many original scenes for fans of the fantastic. The grinning demon, the giant legs and the upside-down room all make a unique impression.
This Hong Kong release is presented in a 1.85 letterbox (but not anamorphically). The (optional) English subtitles include a few typos, but are well translated. The pictures are a bit smeary but not bad. The worst defect of this DVD is the muddy sounding audio. The only extras are trailers for HAUNTED SCHOOL itself and the similarly interesting Japanese short story omnibus TALES OF THE UNUSUAL.
What I'd really like to get is an English-subbed DVD of HAUNTED SCHOOL 4 - an excellent, less childish take on the secrets of the school. The other 2 sequels are also unavailable (subtitled) on DVD at present.
Labels: 1990s, comedy, ghosts, Japan
ATOMIK CIRCUS (2004) – Region 4 THAI DVD review
ATOMIK CIRCUS (2004) aka ALIEN VS VANESSA PARADIS – Region 4 Thailand - DVD review - (J-BICS release)
A messy, mad movie - a sci-fi horror comedy musical... breaking its back to be original. (A french language film with english subtitles).
An unlucky stuntman (Jason Flemyng turns action hero) tries to rescue a wannabe rock star (Vanessa Paradis) from space aliens attacking a (very french) swampland shanty town.
The cinematography is fantastic (though the DVD gets a little murky in the darker details) with exciting angles and all the latest camera moves. Full of amazing, unique, chaotic fx shots as the aliens float around committing bloody mayhem.
Some of the humour has been lost in the translation (unless it's not funny in the first place) - but the english subs do a good job getting the wordplay across, though mostly they are timed before the lines are even spoken.
The film is presented in 2.35 anamorphic, though the letterbox seems tight on the composition - often cutting off the tops of heads... but I guess that's what this film is all about!
The french language 5.1 audio mix is fairly muddy (though Paradis' songs come through lod and clear) and there are very few directional fx.
There are no frills and no extras on the disk BUT this is the first release with english subtitles, so I'm very pleased to have had the chance to see it.


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Rockies Top 10 Lists
Mountain Viewpoints
Top 10 greatest Rockies of all time
Time to debate the best to ever wear the purple pinstripes!
By JustinWilliams@jwilliams0713 Dec 1, 2020, 9:00am MST
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Who doesn't love a Top 10 list? Well, we do! So welcome to Top 10 Tuesday, where every week we will dive into a different Rockies-related topic. These lists will not be scientific. They are 100-percent opinion (a "Mountain Viewpoint" so to speak) and — more importantly — they are 100-percent debatable. We encourage the banter in the comments (keep it respectful), and feel free to offer up some future topic ideas!
For the first installment of Purple Row's Top 10 Tuesday, I'm going to take a look at the top Colorado Rockies players of all time. It seems easy enough, for a team that's, relatively, still in its MLB adolescence. But it really isn't that simple.
The top three? They're probably interchangeable, no matter the criteria. But the main input here is, "What have you done for me in a Rockies uniform?" Sorry, Dale Murphy, but your career elsewhere doesn't matter here. Stats like WAR will certainly be an important factor, but they're not the end-all. Fandom, off-the-field issues and overall likeability will all play a part. This is where the line between "best" and "favorite" is blurred
Offense clearly dominates this list — COORS!! — but I didn't forget about the notable hurlers in Rockies history. Let the debating begin!
No. 10: Brian Fuentes, RP
A closer opens this Top 10, and this list clearly is adjusted for altitude. But Brian Fuentes just so happens to be, arguably, the best reliever in Rockies history, and that's quite the accomplishment itself. Fuentes spent seven seasons with Colorado and was the primary closer for four of those. He made the All-Star team three times in a Rockies uniform and finished his Colorado tenure in 2008 with a 3.38 ERA. Fuentes still holds the franchise lead in saves with 115.
No. 9: Carlos González, OF
If this were strictly a popularity contest, Carlos González would be higher. The final few years of González's career have left a bad taste in the mouth, but there's no denying his contribution to the Colorado Rockies over his 10 seasons in Denver.
González had three All-Star Game appearances and an MVP-caliber season in 2010, when he finished third in the National League voting. He sits fifth on the Rockies career bWAR list at 23.7, second in games played, third in hits and runs scored, and fifth in home runs.
No. 8: Dante Bichette, OF
The Blake Street Bombers are beginning to fade as a distant memory in Denver, but nothing brought more joy to the starved Colorado baseball fans in the 1990s. Larry Walker may have been the best among the group, but Dante Bichette was their face (and hair) during their heyday.
Bichette's walk-off-home run in 14 innings against the Mets in the Coors Field opener will live forever in Rockies lore. Plus, the mullet-rocking outfielder put up pretty decent numbers during his time with the Rockies. He still sits third all-time in RBIs (826), fifth in hits (1,278), sixth in home runs (201) and tied for third in batting average (.316).
No. 7: Charlie Blackmon, OF
Is it the offensive consistency? The walk-up song? The beard? I don't know, but there's something about Charlie Blackmon that draws fans in like a moth to a flame. Even before my five-year-old knew the difference between a home run and a touchdown, he had a wall full of Charlie Blackmon posters and a book full of his baseball cards.
But his stats are hard to argue against, too. Since his surprising breakout in the second half of the 2013 season, Blackmon has taken Denver and the MLB by storm. He has four All-Star appearances and finished fifth in the NL MVP voting in 2017. He's the highest active player on the Rockies' all-time hit list (currently sitting fourth with 1,311) and trails Carlos González by 19 hits and Larry Walker by 50 for third and second place, respectively.
No. 6: Ubaldo Jiménez, SP
Who is the best starting pitcher in Rockies history? That question is certainly debatable. Aaron Cook (most innings pitched), Jorge de la Rosa (the club's all-time wins and strikeouts leader), and even Jeff Francis (the anchor of the 2007 NL pennant staff) deserve consideration for that title. But Ubaldo Jiménez stands above the rest.
Jiménez is the franchise leader in ERA (3.66), bWAR for pitchers (18.9) and second in strikeouts (773). But he also has arguably the single-best pitching performance in team history, when he no-hit the Atlanta Braves in 2010.
No. 5: Matt Holliday, OF
Although his time with the club was short-lived — five glorious seasons before being traded away — the story of the Colorado Rockies cannot be told without Matt Holliday being mentioned.
He's the center of one of the most iconic plays in franchise history when he scored the game-winning run against the San Diego Padres in 2007's Game No. 163 (or did he?). He also finished second in the NL MVP race that season and took home the NLCS MVP as the Rockies embarked on their first and only World Series appearance. Without Matt Holliday, there's a good chance the Colorado Rockies don't have a National League pennant on their résumé, and for that, Rockies fans will be forever grateful.
Even with his abbreviated stay in Denver (and a somewhat forgettable swan song in 2018), Holliday still ranks seventh on the Rockies' career bWAR list at 18.7. Oh, and that trade gave Colorado No. 9 on this list, so there's also that.
No. 4: Troy Tulowitzki, SS
Before there was Nolan Arenado, there was Troy Tulowitzki — and some would argue there would be no Nolan Arenado (as we know him) if it weren't for Tulo. The bat, the glove, the leadership... Tulowitzki did it all.
He was a five-time All-Star for the Rockies, finished in the top five of MVP voting twice and was one of the best shortstops in the game when that still meant something. On top of all that, the "clap, clap, clap-clap-clap, clap-clap-clap-clap, TU-LO" chant at Coors Field can still be heard at today's games. Don't lie, you just did it out loud.
Even though countless injuries and a shocking trade to Toronto still have Rockies fans asking, "What if?," Tulo belongs in the top half of this list.
No. 3: Larry Walker, OF
This is where the list really starts getting interesting. Any of the next three players could be argued into the top spot. The fact that Larry Walker will be the first player to wear a Colorado Rockies cap on his Baseball Hall of Fame plaque is a pretty good starting point for his case.
Walker helped put the Rockies on the map during his Blake Street Bomber days, and his 1997 season personifies what he meant to Colorado. Over that MVP campaign, he had a league-high 49 home runs and 1.172 OPS. He also ranks tops in Rockies history in batting average (.334), OPS (1.044) and second in home runs (258), bWAR (48.3), hits (1,361), RBIs (848) and runs scored (892).
What might be most impressive about Walker is he did all this during a time when performance-enhancing drugs were rampant in Major League Baseball — and he was never tied to any controversies (other than playing half his games at Coors Field).
No. 2: Nolan Arenado, 3B
I wanted BADLY to place Nolan Arenado in the top spot. In fact, he was in the No. 1 spot just before this piece was submitted. Without looking at any stats, it just feels right to have Arenado there.
I don't need to hash through everything Arenado has accomplished in his eight big league seasons. He has been the sustained face of the franchise since Tulo left, could possibly go down as the BEST third baseman of all time and if given the opportunity to finish his career in Colorado — a big if, I know — Arenado will own all of the franchise's top numbers. His defense alone is worth the price of admission.
But in the end, I couldn't do it. I did look at the stats. And there's a clear No. 1 in Rockies history — for now...
No. 1: Todd Helton, 1B
In March, The Toddfather was the clear winner of Purple Row Rockies Madness Tournament, and he — albeit reluctantly — takes the top spot here, if for nothing more than my, "What have you done for me in a Rockies uniform?" criteria. Let's face it, there's a reason nobody will wear the No. 17 for the Colorado Rockies ever again.
Speaking strictly on career statistics, there has been nobody better to wear Rockies uniform. Helton leads the club in most of the major offensive categories: doubles (592), bWAR (61.8), hits (2,519), runs (1,401), RBIs (1,406) and games played (2,247). There's more, but you get the point. And he also leads most of those categories by a substantial margin.
Hopefully, Helton can shed the Coors Field stigma and join Larry Walker in Cooperstown sometime soon. Until then, he'll just have to settle for being the best to ever wear the Purple Pinstripes.
Vinny Castilla, Aaron Cook, Jorge de la Rosa, DJ LeMahieu, Trevor Story
Who's in your Rockies Top 10 GOAT list? Sound off in the comments!