Since my childhood elephants have seemed to me to be the most beautiful of nature's animals. Its size alone and its unbelievably beautiful head with the long trunk. Since my childhood in Africa the elephant has been the animal I prize most. If one compares the tiger with the elephant, as I have done in my paintings of the two animals, they are complementary to one another. During a two-year stay in Helsingfors/Helsinki in 1985 I visited the Finnish Zoological Museum regularly, where I studied their unique collection of animal skeletons. It was a great experience to see and draw these animal skeletons. It was especially the skeletons of the tiger and the elephant that fascinated me, because they were animals I was already busy painting. It is worth mentioning that the following year I exhibited at the Frie Exhibition Gallery with the artists group Violet Sun, with a whole gallery full of 2 metre tall paintings of animal skeletons. Many were shocked at this and thought I was morbidly fixated on death. The fact was that I was trying to get inside the animal itself. The inspiration for this was from the great English animal painter, George Stubbs (1724-1806), who is best known for his horse paintings, but who has also made many studies of the horse's skeleton. To be able to understand how a horse stood on its legs, how the head rested on the neck and all the other physical things that a painter has to understand if he is to be successful at painting an animal.
He is said to have got a dead tiger from a circus. He got it home and made extensive drawings of the animal's anatomy and skeleton. These have later been used by students of zoology, so precisely had they been drawn. Making these skeleton studies in Finland brought a new addition to my painting, it altered my conception of the animals concerned. Before this I imagined the elephant to be a big lump of flesh, and not a mammal with a skeleton like other animals. Especially the skull caught my attention, but not least the feet, because they were so different to the idea I had of them previously. Similarly it turned out that the tiger's skeleton was identical to the lion's and the leopard's, the only difference was the size. After these skeleton studies I have looked at animals I painted in a different way, because I understand what their movements and physical build are like. It gives me a freedom to paint my compositions as I know what is inside the skin of the animals.
In these two drawings of a tiger and elephant skeleton, you can see the difference between the shape of the skull and several other bones. However, both are mammals and therefore have the same bones as we humans also have. From an artist's point of view the tiger is a wild object to paint in contrast to the large calm shape of the elephant.
I paint the tiger and its stripes with long coloured strokes. In a way it has a visible skeleton, where the stripes are its ribs. This gives the tiger a certain volume on the canvas.
These light and dark stripes also give an impression of a dynamic creature, expressing power and savagery. It is accentuated by the colours, which contribute to expressing the animals psyche. On the other hand I paint the elephant's volume with a single colour, which gives it exactly the right shape, while thinking about how the animal has been created. Thus it is not only the contour that I perceive, – that would give a hollow impression, but the whole elephant. This helps to give the colour the correct extent on the canvas. With these pictures I experienced that if the proportions of the elephant were not correct, then the colour did not work in relation to the other colours. That gave a false colour base compared to the colour base which arose when the shape was correct.
You can see the same phenomenon in the icons from the early Renaissance, called the Sienna School. It is obvious that they too worked with these universal problems concerning shape and colour. So each time you dive inside the painting and discover something new, you have the joy of having one's gains confirmed in another branch of art. Used in a completely different context, however.
Just as the study of animal skeletons alters one's conception of how animals function, it is also important to find the 'skeleton' of the picture to understand art.
In Avignon there is a very large collection of icons from the Sienna School which I have studied assiduously.


get our Willie out of all sorts of scrapes and happenings.
(Krankpot had run out of utensils, you see).
everyday garden apples into solid gold, but to no avail.
into a plain black pair - much easier to draw, methinks.


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Many websites claim emu oil for hair loss that is really a miraculous treatment. There are several medical studies and facts about emu oil that cause it to be hailed as an effective hair loss remedy. However, this information should not be considered as medical advice and this is only for your guidance. Before using any treatments or if you are worried about excess hair loss, please consult medical professional providers.
I. What is Emu Oil?
Emu oil really comes from emu which is a bird that is associated with ostrich or a flightless bird coming from Australia. When the birds are butchered, the oil is taken from a fat pad of the back of the birds. The birds are farmed in Australia, Europe, Canada and the United States for their red meat.
This means the emus are not butchered solely for their oil. About 70% fatty acids in emu fat are unsaturated varieties of heart protection. The oil is the mixture of polyunsaturated, saturated, and monounsaturated fatty acids.
II. Does Emu Oil Work for Hair Loss?
Emu oil is a natural substance. You do not have to worry about using it on your scalp because it has no adverse side effects. You will reduce the inflammation in your scalp when you use emu oil for hair growth. This oil is healthy for your scalp.
If one of the causes of hair loss is an inflamed scalp, this oil can be used. Its non-comedogenic properties are other benefits of emu oil hair loss. It means that the oil does not clog your pores. The oil reduces components that may harm hair growth and promote growth.
When you apply it to your mane or scalp, it will not make you feel greasy. That is because the oil is a good emulsifier and it will absorb into your scalp. Emu oil is great for your hair. You have to pair it with products that actually grow hair if you will use emu oil for hair loss. If you follow this recommendation, you will see the benefits in no time.
1. Emu oil is completely neutral lipid because it is a triglyceride in nature. It penetrates into the skin because it has no phosphorus. Therefore, it promotes hair growth.
2. 80% of hair follicles can be awakened up by emu oil for hair loss results. It causes your hair to start growing back, making your roots stronger, and tending to increase scalp thickness.
3. It is also anti-inflammatory. Therefore, it helps to reduce stiffness and swelling of the scalp that often inhibits hair growth.
4. It provides an alpha-reductase 5 inhibitor in target tissues that greatly contributes to the hair growth.
5. The oil is a good emulsifier. Therefore, it is not greasy on your scalp and penetrates the skin barrier without leaving any oily residue behind it.
6. It does not encourage the growth of bacterial organisms. It works to prevent fungus and other infections on the scalp.
When topically applied, emu oil for hair loss does not appear to have the potential to cause side effects. Emu oil is as gentle as water. Emu oil is found to have no irritating potential on the skin or scalp. Concentrated emu oil also does not clog pores like many topical products because the oil is proven to be non-comedogenic.
Emu oil is odorless and will not stain bed or clothes in pure form. However, its disadvantage is limiting benefits as a topical skin ointment with the potential to promote healthy hair growth.
You do not need use too much because pure emu oil is odorless and spreads well. If you have longer hair, you may need a little more.
– Rub 1-2 drops on the palm of your hand.
– Apply oil on the scalp and hair.
– Move it from root to tip.
– Apply a few drops again.
– Leave overnight and clean next morning to moisturize the hair.
You may already be using more than needed if you feel oily after the application of emu oil for hair loss. Use less next time. On slightly damaged skin, hair growth can be increased with emu oil and can be proven with emu oil for hair loss before and after.
It works to heal inflamed skin and scratches on your scalp that are caused by alopecia. You can massage some oil into your scalp to let your skin absorb it quickly and soothe any pain. This is one of the best hair loss prevention with home remedies. If your scalp halts producing hair and you suffer from severe hair loss, it is the best to seek the help of a dermatologist. Massaging emu oil and appropriate treatment will help to combat the complete hair loss.
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Egypt's Food Challenge - a Good Effort but Not Enough
How Do We Change the World's Bad Food Habits
Death By Diet - the Race to Transform the World's Bad Food Habits
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'Why More Nigerians May Die of Diet-Related Diseases'
How Good Urban Farming Can Combat Bad Eating
Promoting Urban Agriculture for Food Security
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Cairo.
Cairo — "Unfortunately the overall nutritional panorama of Egypt does not look well," says Dr. Sara Diana Garduno Diaz, an expert concentrating on nutrition and biology at the American University of the Middle East. Diaz's research focuses on dietary patterns and ethnic-associated risk factors for metabolic syndrome.
"While traditionally a country known for its lavish and welcoming food patterns, the quality of eating has been compromised," she tells IPS.
Her findings are echoed by Oliver Petrovic, Chief of Health and Nutrition at the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Egypt: "Unhealthy foods such as sugary biscuits, candy, chips and cakes, make up one-third of the foods consumed daily by Egyptian infants."
Child consumption of sugary snack foods was associated with a 51 percent higher likelihood of being part of a 'stunted child and obese mother' household, Petrovic tells IPS. "Only about half of children under two consume iron rich foods," he adds.
In a country where one in five children are stunted or too short for their age, malnutrition accounts for 35 percent of the disease burden in children younger than five, warns the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
The definition of stunting, according to UNICEF, "is a measure of chronic malnutrition; it reflects inadequate nutrition over a long period, or effects of recurrent or chronic illnesses."
A 2018 UNICEF report on Egypt explains maternal and child malnutrition are influenced by inadequate dietary intake and disease. The report further states that inadequate dietary intake refers to poor access to "a balanced diet among the poorest sections of society, as well as poor dietary habits, lifestyle and lack of nutritional awareness across the population, as opposed to issues of food availability."
It also notes that not being able to optimise breast feeding plays a role in this. In addition, poor sanitation and hygiene are also underlying causes of malnutrition.
"Traditional eating practices of the entire region relied heavily on seasonal and local foods, slow cooking methods, communal eating and avoidance of food waste but more recently habits such as rushing meals and preference for cheaper sources of energy are becoming the norm," Diaz points out.
Junk food is on the rise
And the negative consequences of this extends over time.
FAO estimates that between two and six percent of stunted children become stunted adults who are less productive than adults of normal stature. Increased morbidity and mortality; decreased cognitive, motor, language and socio-emotional development; and an increase in non-communicable diseases like diabetes and heart conditions are some of the short- and long-term effects of stunting.
"It is important to be aware of the crucial importance of a proper nutrition in the first years of life. They have a profound effect on a child's future. These years are a critical early window of opportunity to provide the nutrition, protection, bonding and stimulation that children need to reach their full potential," Petrovic tells IPS.
"Adequate nutrition, safe environments and responsive adult caregiving are the best ways to support healthy brain development," he adds.
On the other hand, the undernourishment rate in the total Egyptian population between 2014 and 2016 was less than five percent according to the World Food Programme. Undernourishment, according to FAO, is "an estimate of the proportion of the population whose habitual food consumption is insufficient to provide the dietary energy levels that are required to maintain a normal active and healthy life."
The prevalence of five percent is the same as most industrialised countries, showing that the situation is not as critical as in sub-Saharan Africa. In Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi, for instance, one in every three people is undernourished.
Egypt and food challenges: high score in 'food loss and waste', poor score in 'dietary patterns'
But the problem lies not only with Egypt. All Arab countries face complex food challenges, as identified by the Food Sustainability Index (FSI), developed by the Economist Intelligence Unit with the Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition (BCFN).
Each country is ranked according to food loss and waste, sustainable agriculture and nutritional challenges. According to the FSI Whitepaper 2018, Egypt ranked 50th out of 67 countries analysed worldwide for malnourishment, making it one of four countries not from sub-Saharan African that were ranked in the bottom 20. The other three nations are Saudi Arabia, India and Indonesia.
However, overall Egypt scored moderately for nutritional challenges. The rather good result obtained in the 'life quality' category, did not sufficiently offset the very low results obtained in the 'lifestyle' and 'dietary patterns' categories.
Food loss and waste: the 'smartcard system' in Egypt
Arab countries all ranked low in the FSI with regards to food loss and waste. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) were ranked the 29th and 35th performing countries respectively for food loss and waste among 35 high-income countries, while Egypt ranked 10th out of 23 middle-income countries.
Egypt has specifically introduced a measure-a smartcard system-that has limited the problem nationally.
The programme, which impacts about 80 percent of the Egyptian population, establishes the maximum daily amount of subsidised bread that can be requested by each family member.
As a result, food waste has decreased considerably and other countries like Jordan are considering implementing this model to avoid waste on subsidised basic food items.
Egypt certainly lives in a situation of great vulnerability regarding nutritional challenges.
The aridity of the region places pressure on agriculture and the Nile alone is not enough to satisfy the needs of more than 90 million inhabitants. Much of the Nile water is used for agriculture and inefficient water management at local level can lead to scarcity of supply to entire communities. Moreover, climate change amplifies all these challenges.
The rise in prices of foodstuffs has also forced millions of Egyptians to adopt a less expensive but also less healthy lifestyle.
To reverse the current trends of malnutrition (high prevalence of stunting, increasing underweight and increasing overweight at the same time), requires careful consideration of the common causes and a complex, multisector approach to address the underlying causes.
"At the policy level, UNICEF and the World Bank have worked on better understanding of the problem," Petrovic tells IPS.
"They have supported the Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in developing an investment case, with in-depth analysis of the situation and with the proposed and costed interventions needed to reduce stunting. UNICEF is also providing technical support to the Ministry of Health and Population in revising the Nutrition Strategy and developing the new and costed action plan for nutrition," he adds.
Overall, the picture of food security in Egypt appears positive and negative at the same time. The situation must be kept under control by authorities, farmers and all Egyptians themselves.
"In my opinion it is not a question to be addressed exclusively by policymakers," says Diaz.
"I believe the solution requires changes at an individual and community (home) level. These changes of course require support from policymakers, for example, through nutrition education programmes, micro-loans to boost local farmers and other local food production initiatives and infrastructure to improve food security.
"The policies may exist or be under developed but will remain useless unless they are accepted and implemented by the people."
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The company said Monday that the marijuana was produced at its Smiths Falls facility, near Ottawa, and complies with federal regulations.
New federal rules that started April 1 requires marijuana users to get their medical pot supply from commercial growers. But a federal court injuction in March allows some users to continue growing their own pot until a wider constitutional challenge of the regulations is heard, a ruling Health Canada says it plans to appeal.
Under the new system, patients send a form signed by their doctor to the commercial producers of their choice. The marijuana will then be shipped directly to them using a secure courier, such as Canada Post or a private company.
– Read the entire article at The Montreal Gazette.


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Charlie Tuna
MXC: Most Extreme Elimination Challenge
Throwdown With Bobby Flay
Deal or No Deal/Quotes & Catchphrases
Jeopardy!/Records
Legends of the Hidden Temple/Temple Run Winners
in: Illinois, Academic Quiz, Themed Quiz,
Know Your Heritage
Omar McClinton (1987)
Jeff Coopwood (1990)
Hosea Sanders (199?-2000)
John Conrad (2001)
Dorothy Tucker (2002)
Greg-Alan Williams (2003, 2005-2010)
Dwayne Bryant (2004)
Syndicated (Chicago area): 1987-200?
WLS ABC 7: 200?
WBBM CBS 2: 200?
WPWR UPN/MNT 50: 200?-2007
WCIU 26: 2008-2010
Central City Productions
Know Your Heritage was a quiz bowl for Chicago's high schools. This show has questions primarily based on African- American history. It is filmed at the Harold Washington Cultural Center in Chicago's Bronzeville area.
After 28 years, it was expanded to a national quiz bowl for the entire United States with two spinoffs Black College Quiz and later Hispanic College Quiz.
2.2 Other Cues
2.2.1 Background Music (2005-2008)
3 Inventor
5 Spin-Offs
6.1 Full Episodes
Two teams consisting of four students (each team from one high school in Chicago) competed in a yearly tournament to win $1,000 college scholarships as well as trips to Walt Disney World as rewards for their knowledge of black history.
Questions were presented in multiple choice format with four possible answers, with point values in varying amounts. The team that rang in first would have the chance to answer it and had to give the letter and answer; giving the letter alone was not acceptable.
The questions ranged from primarily ethnic history, with a few grab-bag categories thrown in.
Next was the huddle up round where a question was asked and up to 10 answers were shown and the teams would have one minute to pick which of the answers were correct and were awarded based on number of correct guesses.
The final round consisted of how many points each team was willing to wager. They would do so during the second-to-last commercial break. One player from each team would walk up to the host's podium and the question was presented. They would have a time limit in which to put the answer down; when time expired, both players would close their notebooks (laptops in newer episodes).
This series is broken into different sections like most quiz bowls.
"Chicago Challenge" (Introduced 2008) - All the high schools competed in 10 minute intervals, usually two matches per episode, until 16 teams remained.
"Chicago Survivors" - The 16 high schools competed against each other until eight were left.
"Chicago's Elite" - Quarterfinals match, in which the remaining eight competed until four winning teams were left.
"Chicago's Noble Four" - Semifinals match, where the two winning teams advanced to the finals.
"Who's Who in Chicago" - The finals round where the two winning teams competed for the grand prize stated above.
Special "All Star" episodes aired at the end of each season. Versions included the losing two teams from the final four, students versus faculty from the high school of the winning team, or two teams of Chicago celebrities.
Main[]
Main (1990) - "Night-Lines" by Dave Grusin
Main (2007-2008) - "1 Thing" by Amerie
Other Cues[]
Speed Up Round Cue (1990) - "Run Don't Walk (A)" by Richard Myhill (KPM Music)
Background Music (2005-2008)[]
"Candy Shop" by 50 Cent
"Chain Hang Low" by Jibbs
Inventor[]
Omar McClinton & Central City Productions
Spin-Offs[]
Black College Quiz - National tournament for historically black universities
Hispanic College Quiz - National tournament for historically hispanic universities
Central City Productions Site
Full Episodes[]
1990 Episode
1990 Quarterfinals Episode
1990 Semifinals Episode
1990 Finals Episode
2007 Episode Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Academic Quiz
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Episode 972: Gold-Hatted Lover
December 24, 2016 March 1970, Violet Wellesblinovitch limitation effect, dc comics, lunatic plot contrivances, narrative collision, parallel time, postulate, the bookDanny Horn
"My guess is that the time band is always there, but one can only glimpse it through the warp."
Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,
Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,
I must have you!"
Eccentric millionaire Barnabas Collins is getting drawn to things again, which always means trouble. He's found a space-time fissure in the east wing of Collinwood, which allows him to see his friends dressed up in different costumes and talking about different plot points, which comes as a tremendous relief, given the current state of affairs. In our world, we're wrapping up the Leviathan storyline, a not-very-good idea that seems to be taking forever to die, but in this newly-discovered otherspace, there are new clothes to wear and new portraits to obsess over, and I am entirely in favor of it.
Barnabas can't actually enter this second dimension, because of the Blinovitch Limitation Effect; all he can do is stand there and watch trailers for the upcoming storyline. But now, thanks to an unexpected crack in this crack in the universe, somebody chucks him a copy of the novelization.
It's called The Life and Death of Barnabas Collins, written by one William Hollingshead Loomis, which is probably a pseudonym for Gardner Fox, the man who writes the world.
I don't know if you're familiar with the fantastic Mr. Fox, who wrote for DC Comics for more than thirty years. He created the Flash, Hawkman, Doctor Fate and the Justice Society of America. (He also created the Sandman, but not the one you're thinking of.) All told, he wrote about 1,500 DC comic books from 1937 to 1968, and he was so prolific that there was even a fictional Gardner Fox, who wrote comic book stories from inside the comic books.
We found that out in "Flash of Two Worlds!", a loopy 1961 adventure published in The Flash #123. In the story, Barry Allen — aka The Flash — climbs up a quickly-vibrating rope, and vibrates himself right out of the universe, and into another.
There's a lot of vibrating in The Flash, that's a thing we ought to just get out of the way right now. Apparently, you can't fill 122 issues of superhero comics if the only thing your hero can do is run fast. I mean, there are only so many times you can carry something from one place to another before the comics-reading public becomes fidgety. So the Flash uses "vibrations" to do a lot of things, including — just in this issue — performing a Hindu rope trick, creating updrafts strong enough to make steel girders fly into the sky, spinning a cone of absolute darkness into a tornado-like funnel, turning a violin into handcuffs, and running through walls. Oh, and traveling to a parallel dimension, of course. I bet Barnabas wishes he'd thought of that.
In the new world, Barry finds himself in Keystone City — and, recognizing the name of the locale, he looks up "Jay Garrick" in the phone book, and then speeds towards Jay's house. When he arrives, he explains to the dazed couple living there a few choice concepts from vibration science.
"The way I see it, I vibrated so fast," Barry says, "I tore a gap in the vibratory shields separating our worlds! As you know, two objects can occupy the same space and time, if they vibrate at different speeds!" This is not actually the case.
Now, to make sense of this situation, you need to know a little bit about DC Comics history. In 1940, Gardner Fox invented the Flash, who appeared in Flash Comics. The lead character, Jay Garrick, was a Keystone City college student who inhaled some hard water vapors, and consequently developed the ability to run at superhuman speed. The Flash was reasonably popular in the 1940s, but people lost interest in superheroes after World War II. When the superhero crash came, DC kept Superman and Batman around, but they cancelled a lot of other superhero books, and replaced them with science-fiction and westerns. The Flash was one of the unlucky heroes who got canned in 1949.
In 1956, DC decided to give superheroes another try, and they brought the Flash back in Showcase #4. Instead of reviving the old character, they created a new version named Barry Allen, a forensic scientist in Central City who gets doused in chemicals struck by lightning, which also gives you super speed powers, go figure.
And so, in 1961, when Barry vibrates himself across the space-time continuum, he ends up in the parallel universe where Jay Garrick still lives — a little older and grayer, but still pretty speedy.
"My theory," says Barry, because some people always have a theory, "is that both Earths were created at the same time in two quite similar universes! They vibrate differently, which keeps them apart! Life, customs, even languages evolved on your Earth almost exactly as they did on my Earth! Destiny must have decreed there'd be a Flash — on each Earth!"
But get a load of this. The reason why Barry recognizes the name Keystone City and looks up Jay Garrick is that in his universe… well, here, I'll let Barry explain it.
"You were once well-known in my world — as a fictional character appearing in a magazine called Flash Comics! When I was a youngster, you were my favorite hero! A writer named Gardner Fox wrote about your adventures — which he claimed came to him in dreams!
"Obviously when Fox was asleep, his mind was 'tuned in' on your vibratory Earth! That explains how he 'dreamed up' the Flash!"
Now, we were just talking about that kind of declaration the other day. That's a postulate, where the character says something preposterous, like "obviously, if we paint over Angelique's portrait to make it look older, then she'll actually become old and haggard and die," and that turns out to be exactly correct. If a character sounds emphatic and nobody else objects, then they can come up with all kinds of lunatic plot contrivances, and the audience goes along with it, because otherwise we'd have to sit through even more vibrobabble.
So then Barry and Jay go run around outside and fight criminals, who they overcome by sticking diamonds in their ears and dancing to fiddle music.
Meanwhile, Barnabas tries to make sense of the Keystone City edition of The Life and Death of Barnabas Collins, which was written by William Hollingshead Loomis, the author of the best-selling novels Pride of Lions, Gold Hatted Lover, and World Beyond the Doors, all of which have been made into motion pictures. This is tremendously exciting for Barnabas, who was hoping to break into the motion pictures business sometime this spring.
He brings the book home to Central City and shows it to Willie, who's baffled. Barnabas tries to explain about the vibratory shields separating our worlds, but it doesn't really take. Finally, he says, "Just try to conceive of the fact that there are other existences," and Willie promises to try.
As Willie leafs through the confounding pages, Barnabas describes his alternate-universe counterpart, who seems to be completely unremarkable. "I was born in the eighteenth century," he explains, "heir to the Collins lands. Rich in years, died in 1830. Grieved by his descendants, and most particularly, by my most loving wife Josette." Why Mr. Hollingshead Loomis decided to follow the chart-topping World Beyond the Doors with this clunker is a mystery to all.
Still, Barnabas wants to read the whole book, and see if it contains more surprises. But Willie warns, "I wouldn't look for any more surprises, they're no good. I tell you, if I were you, I'd take that book right now, and I'd throw it away, I mean, I'd just burn it!"
Barnabas shakes his head. "I don't think the problem can be disposed of as easily as that. Something exists — and I must understand it! And I will understand it, no matter what happens!"
"All right, Barnabas," Willie replies, "but don't forget, I warned you!" Barnabas shoots him one of those you're-interrupting-me looks, where you move your eyes but not the rest of your head. He is doubling down on this "Something exists" rationale.
But that's the correct response, even if it doesn't make what you or I might consider rational sense. There's a new version of Dark Shadows taking place in that other time band, and it seems to have a different energy and pace, plus a new version of the ancestral backstory. We want to know more about the world beyond the vibratory shields, and Barnabas is leading the way.
This is why Barnabas is an excellent main character, because his interests so often align with the interests of the audience. With Barnabas as the driver and Gardner Fox as the navigator, we're going to get to Keystone City, one way or another.
But here's the thing about Gardner Fox, the multi-dimensional writer who creates narrative collisions with his own existence. At the end of "Flash of Two Worlds", Barry tells his girlfriend Iris that no one would believe the story that just happened to him.
"The only ones who'd really believe it would the readers of Flash Comics!" he thinks. "That's why I'm going to look up Gardner Fox, who wrote the original Flash stories, and tell it to him! He can write the whole thing up… in a comic book!"
So if Barry told Gardner Fox to write the story, which we're presumably reading right now, about Barry reading Fox's comics about Jay Garrick, then there must be another Gardner Fox in our world, writing the comics about Barry, which means that our own lives could be written by an even grander Gardner Fox, with further iterations expanding outwards in ever larger circles, across all known dimensions. At every level, in every possible world, a Gardner Fox to guide our destinies. It's just Gardner Foxes, all the way up.
Tomorrow: Groundhog Day.
Barnabas tells Willie, "I still have to read what's in between. Then I must go to Professor Stokes. You must go to Professor Stokes, and tell him that I want to see him!"
Liz loses her way in the middle of a line. Stokes asks if Carolyn's marriage was sudden, and she says, "Sudden, precipitous, and…" A noticeable pause, and then, "stupid and rash." She's backacting and looking off screen the whole time, so it's possible that she was reading off the teleprompter, which wasn't going fast enough.
At the end of act 1, it takes a little too long for the camera to fade out, so we see Jeb head for the door — and then halt in place, as the dramatic sting plays.
Barnabas says to Stokes, "If I understand it correctly, the theory states that a person can be traveling down more than one time band simultaneously."
Barnabas tells Stokes that in our time band, his ancestor left Collinwood in 1779, and never returned. He means 1797, probably.
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This episode was pivotal for me, absolutely monumental, because I remember watching this episode as it was being broadcast that day in 1970 – and I was only three.
The scene I recall from that day is when Jeb turns on the light and sees the shadow, then he turns out the light. As Melissa so astutely pointed out in a comment from a recent post, the shadow is "the thing under the bed". As we have seen through this months-long Leviathan story, all the horror during this time has been implied, stuff reacted to with actors' facial expressions or subtly indicated through the changed behavior of the characters. And as I have mentioned previously, having been born in the summer of 1966, my experience viewing the show during those original broadcasts was mainly visual – focusing on features of the Collinwood foyer like the stained glass, seeing Chris Pennock's big ball of orangey hair, the contours around Joan Bennett's mouth, and so on.
So, for a three-year-old viewer watching the ABC shows in the afternoons during the winter of 1969-1970, this is the first time in that period where Dark Shadows actually shows something. Now, for the first time, there's a compelling thing there – something I would have been frightened of in the night, but nonetheless fascinated with through the television screen by day. When I saw that shimmering phantom there, that day on Dark Shadows, four and a half months before my fourth birthday, I was transfixed. Because, even more spooky and captivating than that ghostly specter pursuing the guy with that big ball of orange hair was the fact that orange hair guy, to be free of the damn thing, would actually have to turn out the light and let that shaking shadowy thingy be in the dark with him – the exact opposite of what three-year-olds like me would do to get free of all manner of spooks from under the bed and so on.
That was the day – March 17, 1970 – when I consciously and truly became a lifelong fan of Dark Shadows, the day when it actually showed me something scary. The day I knew that I had to keep watching, to see more.
Dark Shadows has, quite literally, been a part of my life since I can first remember.
thank you Prisoner, what a wonderful sharing.
I was just watching this with my daughter and she noticed that when Jeb and Carolyn return to the carriage house and the shadow, of course, reappears, Jeb walks past it…but he walks BEHIND it, the image is still being projected and is now in front of him. Pretty hilarious. Also they go back to that shot shortly afterwards and the shadow is now actually in front of the green lamp! The shadow is being cast by the light from that lamp, but is somehow appearing between us and the lamp…time isn't the only broken thing in Collinsport…
Just shows how terrifyingly unstoppably horrific the 'Shadow Curse' is – it doesn't behave like ordinary darkness! Light cannot diminish it!
And it's going to get Jeb, there is no escape from its eeeveil.
Moooohahahaha!
PS Merry Christmas and Chanukah Sameach!
Yeah, technically you'd think it did just "get" him…it went right through him!
Ubiquitous says:
Didn't Einstein say time and space are related?
Stokes is actually referring to quantum universes. It's the one thing that makes sense here.
Danny, you've broached a subject very, very near and dear to my heart. You see, as a child back in the 1960s, I was a HUGE fan of DC Comics and of Gardner Fox. He was the original writer (and, for the first 70 issues or so, the only writer) for Justice League of America, in which he expanded upon his parallel universes concept by reviving the Justice Society of America in a series of annual summertime crossovers with the JLA. I could go on and on about it. But it was on account of my familiarity with the Earth 1/2 concept from DC Comics that I had no trouble at all latching on to the parallel universe plot in Dark Shadows. In fact, I found it quite thrilling that DS and JLA should share this wonderful plot device. So thanks, Danny, for bringing this up. And kudos on your encyclopedic grasp of pop culture, extending to decades before your own birth. (I'm right about that, am I not?)
…from various comments Danny has made on here, I became aware he was very close in age to me…just from things he has said on this blog, about being in 6th grade in 1982, starting 7th grade, etc…I narrowed it down to his being born in late 70 or early 71. But then on the DS Wiki I noticed he had his birthday down as 6th January…so 6th January 1971. So he's 12 days older than me, and yes, his knowledge does go back decades before his birth.
Hollingshead?
John E. Comelately says:
Hollingshead, Hollingsford, Hollingsworth, Hollingswaite, apparently we aren't meant to ask which Hollings. He's whatever Hollings Barnabas says he is, and the publishing company is the one who got it wrong…I just hope Will Loomis can cash his royalty checks at the PT Savings & Loan.
It could be that the name was changed during production and that it was originally scripted as Hollingford, but then a change was made to Hollingshead in between the time the dust jacket prop was being designed and printed and the time of taping for the episode. They sometimes added last minute changes where place and person names were concerned. For instance, we know the character as Willie Loomis, but as originally scripted the character's first name was to have been Chris.
stanbrown32 says:
I imagine they settled on this name as a joke, referring to Holinshed's Chronicle in British history.
Which makes sense as the book is dedicated to Clio, the muse of history.
notpercysowner says:
In honor of this soon to be finished story I, Cthulhu, or, What's A Tentacle-Faced Thing Like Me Doing In A Sunken City Like This (Latitude 47° 9′ S, Longitude 126° 43′ W)? http://www.tor.com/2009/12/28/i-cthulhu-or-whats-a-tentacle-faced-thing-like-me-doing-in-a-sunken-city-like-this-latitude-47d-9-s-longitude-126d-43-w/
"So if Barry told Gardner Fox to write the story, which we're presumably reading right now, about Barry reading Fox's comics about Jay Garrick, then there must be another Gardner Fox in our world, writing the comics about Barry"
There was. DC called Earth Prime – OUR Earth. Barry visited it in Flash 179 and met Editor Julius Schwartz.
verneaux says:
Jeb and Caroline return to the carriage house only to discover that a car dealership has sprung up next door. The spotlight behind the giant balloon man swaying in the wind is lighting up their wall…
Elizabeth seems to be wearing the emerald earrings Naomi wore back in episode 367. They're similar to the ones Willie gave to Maggie in episode 494 but I really can't tell if they're the same pair or not. I find it hard to focus on anything else when they're onscreen!
The first time I watched these episodes I kept waiting to be given a good reason why Barnabas would want to go to PT in the first place. I could think of many they might have used, one of them being Josette. It would've been so cool if she was a vampire in PT and the Barnabas from that timeline had been staked long ago (perhaps by Jeremiah, if there had been no duel, or even by Nathan). Then Barnabas would be desperate to get over to that alternative universe so they could at last be together–either as vampires, or perhaps with OT Julia's help in curing Josette, they might live out the rest of their mortal lives together. It would've been a juicier role for KLS as well. But so far all we've been given is a vague feeling that Barnabas has that he should go into that room. As I recall it isn't until later that we're given a solid reason for him to do so, as if it were just an afterthought on the part of the writers.


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Faculty Moves
Shafer-Landau from Wisconsin to UNC (updated)
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Russ Shafer-Landau, currently professor of philosophy and chair of the philosophy department at the University of Wisconsin, has accepted an offer from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Starting this summer, he will be professor of philosophy there and director of UNC's Parr Center for Ethics. Shafer-Landau is known for his work in metaethics.
UPDATE: Some have asked about about the fate of the Wisconsin Metaethics Workshop, or Mad Meta, as it is known. According to Shafer-Landau, the workshop will certainly be taking place in Chapel Hill starting in 2016. A decision about the location of the 2015 meeting should be made by the end of the month.
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What is it with triple-named, brilliant ethicists and North Carolina? Russ Shafer-Landau moves to join Geoffrey Sayre-McCord where he will be neighbors with Walter Sinnot-Armstrong.
Coincidence? I think not.Report
Don't forget Ryan Preston-Roedder, Travis!Report
The situation is even worse than I thought!Report
Tait Szabo
I wonder whether this decision by Shafer-Landau had anything to do with the current attack upon the University of Wisconsin System, or if it was made independently of that. Anyone know?Report
Mike Titelbaum
Russ has been clear with both his colleagues and the graduate students here in Wisconsin that any potential financial threats to our university played no role in his decision to move to UNC.Report
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Q: Using Perl, how can I replace all whitespace in a file with newlines? For example text file:

    Speak friend and enter

using a Perl script to remove whitespace and replace with carriage-return

    Speak
    friend
    and
    enter

A: create a file test.pl:
open my $hfile, $ARGV[0] or die "Can't open $ARGV[0] for reading: $!";
while( my $line = <$hfile> )
{
    $line =~ s/\s+/\n/g;
    print $line;
}
close $hfile;

then run it like:
perl test.pl yourfile.txt

or, if you don't want to use a file, you can do it all from the command line like:
perl -p -e "s/\s+/\n/g" yourfile.txt

A: perl -p -e 's/\s+/\n/g'

A: You can use sed
sed -e "s/[ ]/\n/g"

or anything that works with regular expressions
"s/[ ]/\n/g"

A: If you want inplace editing you can use the -i switch. Check out perlrun to see how it's done, but, basically:
perl -p -i.bak -e 's/\s+/\n/g'

A: #!/usr/bin/perl -l

use strict;
use warnings;

print join "\n", split while <>;

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By Pat Joseph
The inaugural edition of The Berkeley Barb hit streets on Friday, August 13, 1965—incendiary times. It was the first days of the Watts riots, and the conflict in Vietnam was beginning to play out in living rooms on the nightly news. That week TV viewers watched as American GIs casually torched Vietnamese villages with their flamethrowers and Zippo lighters. Meanwhile, all across the United States, disillusioned young men were beginning to take those Zippos to their draft notices. To a kid in Berkeley in that era, it must have seemed as if the whole world was going up in smoke.
It was against that backdrop that the heavily bearded Max Scherr, an aging lawyer/bohemian saloonkeeper with roots in the Old Left, appeared clutching copies of his new underground paper, The Berkeley Barb—a weekly tabloid that would feature news of the revolution… and sex… and drugs…and the next Jefferson Airplane show. The masthead was inspired by Jorge Posada's La Calavera de Don Quixote, the skeletal rider on his skeletal steed, lance leveled for battle. As the tip of the lance, Scherr, who held a bachelor's degree in sociology from UC Berkeley, put the campus Campanile.
The first run was only 1,200 copies and, in the beginning the publisher doubled as newsboy, hawking his product on city street corners. Price per copy: Ten cents. "Read the Berkeley Barb," Scherr called out. "It's a pleasure not a duty."
Folks seemed to agree. By 1969, circulation had grown to 93,000 and the Barb had become the leading voice of Berkeley radicals and an institution of the New Left. And, as it so often goes with the Left, it also engendered internal dissent, labor strikes and splinter factions. In time, Max would be denounced by his own erstwhile staff as petit bourgeois and a capitalist pig.
But that all came later. In the early days, Scherr's Barb was where it was at.
Writer and satirist Paul Krassner, sometimes called the dean of underground journalism, covered the Patty Hearst trial for the Barb—a saga he recalls in his latest book, Patty Hearst and the Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials. He compares the Barb to "the unregulated Internet before there was such a thing. I mean, anything went in those pages. It was so free.
"There was a sense of community around it," Krassner adds, "so that even when people left Berkeley, they kept subscribing because that was their social media. That was their connection to their people."
Krassner also published his own paper, The Realist, favored reading material of Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, who flipped through it on their famous psychedelic bus as they tootled around the country, high on acid and morning glory seeds.
There were other underground papers in the Bay Area at the time as well, but they tended to be more narrowly targeted; The Oracle to "the heads," the Express Times to the political activists. The Barb was unique, says former contributor and Free Speech Movement alum Kate Coleman, in being "the only one that brought the whole counterculture together—drugs, rock 'n' roll, free speech, free love, politics—all of it."
Scherr, who died of cancer in 1981, not long after the Barb itself gave up the ghost, will be remembered next week at a trio of events to mark the 50th anniversary of his newspaper's debut. The occasion will serve as a reunion of the loose-knit tribe of contributors and employees who produced it across a 15-year span.
Here's what's on tap: On the night of Wednesday Aug.12 there's a party for former staff and contributors, followed by a free concert by hippie troubadour Country Joe McDonald and friends.
On Thursday Aug. 13, it's a series of panels and speakers, including a keynote by Eugene Schoenfeld, a physician who back in the day doled out health and sex advice in the Barb under the byline Dr. Hip(pocrates)—advice that ran alongside racy pictorials, explicit personals, and a bevy of advertisements for massage parlors, the Barb's bread and butter.
On Friday Aug. 14, it's a film festival featuring documentary fare, including Berkeley in the Sixties (natch), Let a Thousand Parks Bloom (about People's Park), and Hookers, a Scherr-produced film about feminist-prostitute Margo St. James, who campaigned for the legalization of her profession.
The main mover behind the event is Barb historian and archivist Diana Stephens, who wrote her masters thesis at California State University-East Bay on gender politics at the paper. That was a rich vein to mine, for while the Barb was editorially feminist, it also traded in quasi-pornographic content and the aforementioned sex ads.
"There were massage ads up the ying-yang!" recalls Coleman, engaging in some pre-reunion reminiscences for California. "In those days, Berkeley had more massage parlors than hands!"
Not surprisingly, many of the female staff took issue with being roped into the skin trade. Kathy Streem, now a retired public defender, remembers when the masseuses would drop by to pay for the ad placements. "I tried to organize them and encourage them to strike for better pay and working conditions." She even took to the streets. "I had a sign that said, 'Off the Pimps!' "—a riff on the Black Panther rallying cry, "Off the Pigs!"
For his part, Scherr tolerated feminist editorials but didn't suffer them gladly. A feminist tract written by female staffer Judy Gumbo appeared, much to the writer's chagrin, under the Scherr-supplied headline, "Why the Women Are Revolting."
Mostly, he was keen on getting more nudity into the Barb's page. "'Tits above the fold!' was Max's motto," recalls John Jekabson, former managing editor of the Barb. With a shrug Jekabson adds, "Sex sells. It sold then and it sells now. Max understood that."
The sex certainly sold, but it also led to an obscenity bust, after the Barb ran photos showing members of the rock band MC5 engaged in group sex with a groupie. The raid only served to reinforce Scherr's stature in the Berkeley counterculture, which, given the legacy of the Free Speech Movement, was united in its opposition to all forms of censorship.
From the beginning, the Barb ran on a shoestring and the famously tight-fisted Scherr nickeled-and-dimed writers and staff. Streem remembers doing the layout as Scherr hovered over her shoulder, urging her to widen the margins. "Max paid by the column-inch," she explains, laughing. "If I widened the margins, I saved him money."
As the paper grew, the sales force was plumped out with underpaid contributors and starving hippies. One such specimen, a cat named Crowbar, is quoted on the reunion website, recalling how he and friends sold the Barb on San Francisco's Haight Street. "That's how we lived: made enough money every day to buy a loaf of bread, peanut butter, jelly, a hit of acid, and a outrageous priced ticket ($2.50) to the Fillmore or the Avalon to hear some cool music." Crowbar says the Barb saved his life.
Not everyone found their arrangement with Max so copacetic. Discontent boiled over in 1969 after a mysterious, short-lived paper called the Berkeley Fascist appeared, in which it was calculated that the Barb netted $5,000 an issue. Adjust for inflation, multiply by 52 and that translates to roughly $1.7 million a year in 2015 dollars. Apparently Max Scherr, the old Marxist, was getting rich off the backs of the workers.
Years later, Gar Smith, FSM veteran and a reporter who covered the "peace beat" for the Barb, would reveal, in an article for New West, that Scherr had for years been socking money away in offshore bank accounts. What was he saving for? John Jekabson says it was part of a long-term plan to build an alt-press empire: "I think he wanted to become the William Randolph Hearst of the counterculture."
Whatever the case, staff members at the time were understandably outraged by the revelations in the Fascist and soon went on strike. Then, after trying and failing to buy the paper, the majority defected to start their own competing weekly called The Berkeley Tribe, led by Yippie co-founder Stew Albert. More strident than the Barb, the Tribe's rhetoric was often as subtle as a rock through a windowpane. At times it was simply hateful. After a rookie Berkeley cop named Ronald Tsukamoto was gunned down on August 20, 1970, allegedly by members of the Black Panthers, the Tribe ran a full-page photo of the fatally wounded young officer under the headline "Blood of a Pig."
Although the Barb didn't shrink from the radical rhetoric of referring to police as pigs, it would never have stooped to gloating over a slain officer's body, insists Kate Coleman. She acknowledges, however, that she herself was swept up in the militancy of the times. "I was carried away, until I wasn't," she says, remembering the moment when her old friends in the Weathermen started setting off bombs as the Weather Underground. "And it dawned on me. Oh, now we're fucking terrorists!"
The Tribe would fold in 1972 but the Barb soldiered on until 1980, although by that time, Scherr was no longer owner, having sold off his interests. Just as well. By then Berkeley was no longer berserk but merely quirky, and politically the Right was ascendant. Just weeks before the Barb's old nemesis, Ronald Reagan, accepted the Republican nomination for President, the paper's last issue appeared in print. "The Barb Bows Out" read the headline. A front-page illustration showed the skeletal Quixote of the masthead slumped in the saddle, the Campanile-tipped lance protruding from his back.
In his book, Uncovering the Sixties, journalist Abe Peck quotes Max Scherr from his death bed, reflecting somewhat bitterly on the counterculture's accomplishments and failings. "We were a lot of well-meaning fools," Scherr lamented. "All of us were tainted by the environment we were brought up in. We had no revolutionary base, no real class consciousness. Along with the good, we developed a large rip-off philosophy." At the same time, he said, "We broke down a lot of barriers to honest thought and opened up a whole visionary realm to the future, which has to be worked on."
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Paula Friedman replied on July 31, 2015 - 8:56pm Permalink
Having been a staff reporter on the Barb in 1966-1967, I find much truth in this article—and some confusedness. One minor point is how Krassner's comment on covering Hearst's trial (the SLA began its actions in 1974) could have application to the Barb's 1965-69 growth and heyday. Second, the first Barb labor strife and strike happened in June 1967, not in 1969; our 1967 strike occurred when the managing editor, I, and two youngers reporters at the time discovered, long before any 1969 disclosures, the absurdly wide discrepancy between staff remuneration and the Barb's already large advertising revenues. What is sad, truly, is having to mention these facts again (I wrote a letter 40 years ago, published in a summer 1975 issue of the Bay Guardian, correcting one of these errors that had surfaced at that time; the correction was duly noted in that issue of the BG). One wonders how many repetitions of a given fact are needed for it to enter history, and thus how much of history, even fairly recent, even local, history is false, even off-the-wall. And yes, the Barb's attitude toward women journalists and activists was well reflected in its headlines, its grossly misogynist and particularly ugly nude photographs, and its exploitative sex advertising—and yet in so many ways it simply reflected the culture of those times, and even on occasion tried to improve it.
Buzzy White replied on November 3, 2015 - 9:22am Permalink
My brother and I saw Beach Party back in 63 at The Plaza theater in Carrollton Texas. We left that summer to go visit our Uncle Ted in California. I spent the next 6 years visiting and surfing until I went into the army in 69. We met some girls at the beach and went to her sister's house close to the UC @ Berkeley campus, somewhere off of Oxford. My memory is a bit distorted because they were having a party and when we came in through the kitchen I spied a pitcher of koolaid on the table and got a big glass while the girls walked on into the living room. As I was just draining it her older sister walked in, I and the younger sister were just 15, she said, "How much of this did you drink?" I thought she was being selfish and I said "I only had one glass!" I was shocked by the shocked look on her face. She said "You know this is Electric Koolaid!" She brought her boy friend and some of his friends who started questioning me about my experiences with drugs. I had smoked a little pot but that was all, I did not even drink. The brainy one named David calmed everybody down and we sat on the balcony and he smoked pot with me and just carried on a conversation. He asked what i liked doing and I said I love to read. At that point he brought out things to read. The first thing I read was The Barb. So as my brain bargain to melt I enjoyed reading the Barb. I never freaked out and actually enjoyed what I remembered and woke up the next morning unclothed and in bed with the girl I had came with along with and a half a dozen others. Both I and my brain lost OUR virginity that night. After that night I could not stay away from either one. Though I no longer do acid and have not for a long time I still do mushrooms and cactus from time to time. And I and my brain have always been grateful to the understanding and caring college students I have long lost contact with and should they read this and remember me I say Thanks for being a part of one of my KEY life experiences.


Best Pay-Per-View Matches has always been one of my favorite DVD releases of the year. I don't buy every PPV event on DVD, so it's nice to get a collection of the best matches from these events without having to buy each and every one. The DVD also works as a nice survey of the year in question. I think this particular collection shows that the year 2012 has been a really great year for in-ring wrestling in the WWE (even if they don't like saying the word wrestling anymore). CM Punk, Daniel Bryan, Dolph Ziggler, Sheamus, and many others have really stepped up their game, and we got great appearances from The Rock, Triple H, The Undertaker, and Brock Lesnar.
Unlike many of my other reviews, I'm not dedicating an entire section to "The Format" of the DVD. It is hosted by Scott Stanford, and he only occasionally appears throughout the DVD. It doesn't add anything. Discs 1 and 2 of the Blu-Ray each run approximately 4 hours. Disc 2 contains 2 hours of "regular content" and 2 hours of Blu-Ray exclusive content. The Blu-Ray is rated TV-PG.
As good a match as you would expect between these two. Laurinaitis is a bit distracting here; I'm still not positive what they were going for with his involvement.
One of the weaker Elimination Chamber matches in its short history. There are some fun spots, but as a whole it's nothing special. Santino is used very well in this match, though, and it shows that he can be used as much more than just a comedy character.
I know most fans do not go the full 5 stars for this match, but I honestly feel that the storytelling in this match is unparalleled and is enough to earn the 5 stars. I've never seen a match filled with this level of emotion, and I was completely invested in it. Michaels adds so much to the match as guest referee, and the match serves as a great "end of an era".
This match ended up delivering as well as I expected. The atmosphere in the arena helped push the match over the edge as well. The Rock proved he could still go in the ring, and Cena was a great opponent.
Your token divas match for this set. Nothing special here.
A great technical match, something we've been seeing more and more of in the WWE. This match is also a good showcase for Rhodes, someone who showed a lot of improvement as he moved up in the card in 2012.
Not nearly as good as their match at Over the Limit, but still a very good match. I liked the choice to have AJ get "knocked out" shortly into the match; this allowed Punk & Bryan to have a lot of time to wrestle without AJ serving as a distraction.
A bit of a disappointment, but still a very solid match. The storytelling is fantastic, but the match moves a bit slowly. The WWE succeeded in giving this a "big match feel" as well.
A great match, and another great showcase for Ziggler, one of WWE's 2012 MVPs. I believe the WWE edited out Orton cursing out the fans and flipping them off (I didn't notice it), but part of me hopes I just missed it and it was left in to show how immature Orton's 2012 was.
Punk & Cena have amazing chemistry, and this match is no different. Fantastic storytelling that leads to a satisfying way to have a non-finish in the match. Punk's reaction to finding out he was still champ is wonderful.
This might have been the biggest surprise of the year. I didn't expect Sheamus & Big Show to have an awful match, but I don't think many fans were expecting them to have such good chemistry. The last few minutes of this match in particular are really great.
The feud between Cena & Kane was one of the weaker storylines in the WWE this year, and for some reason, the two men never put together quality matches. This match has some entertaining highspots, but drags and doesn't totally come together.
An excellent technical contest, which showcased both Bryan & Sheamus' skills extremely well. After the disappointment of not getting a full match between the two at WrestleMania, we were treated to a classic the next month.
Like most Money in the Bank matches, there are some great highspots, but this match never really elevates past "spotfest". There weren't many storylines going on between the competitors in the match, which gave most of the highspots less meaning.
This was a unique match, because the WWE wanted to make Ryback look like a monster without making Punk look weak. There's some solid storytelling here, but the match itself moves really slowly, and the finish is a bit of a disappointment.
As I mentioned in the opening of this article, this really was a great year for Pay-Per-View Matches, which makes this a great DVD overall. I think the WWE did a nice job in choosing which matches to include. Almost every match ranks above ***. I can understand not wanting to include Punk Vs. Jericho from WrestleMania or Punk Vs. Bryan from Over the Limit since they were both just released on the Punk DVD, but we really should have gotten the Punk/Jericho rematch from Extreme Rules. That is probably the largest omission. The only match that I really don't think should have been included was the Cena Vs. Kane Ambulance Match. The Cena/Kane feud was one of the worst WWE storylines this year, and the match isn't great. Even though Punk Vs. Ryback isn't great, I don't have a problem with this being included because I like that Ryback got a spot on the DVD; he was a big part of the WWE this year. Whether it was intentional or not, I also liked which superstars got the most matches throughout the set. There was a lot of CM Punk, Daniel Bryan, Dolph Ziggler, Sheamus, and John Cena, and these men felt like the workhorses of the WWE throughout 2012.
Most fans already know whether or not this DVD is for them. If you already buy each PPV on DVD, then the only real reason to get this would be to get some of the matches in HD for the first time. For fans like me who don't buy every PPV, I think this is an easy recommendation, and probably the best installment of the Pay-Per-View Matches series yet. There are a lot of great matches on here, and it caps off a great 2012 nicely.
Great review. They show the best from most of the PPV's as the set ends at HIAC but I think these sets should be released after they year ends so they can cover every PPV including Survivor Series and TLC. As for exclusive content, I own a blu ray player so I don't care as I'll get everything either way. But, I'd really like to see the participants comment on their matches and that should be somewhere on the set IMO. Probably after each match ends as it'd be the perfect place. I really like to know how they feel about their matches as well as their views on the pros and cons of the bouts.
I agree that Punk vs Jericho from WM although I liked their Extreme Rules match too so I wouldn't mind of both bouts here as well as Punk vs Bryan from OTL.
This DVD is great. Combined with the Extreme Rules 2012 DVD, you would truly have the "best" of 2012!
I already ordered this blu-ray and hopefully it is coming soon. It's too bad they finished the DVD too early because I would have loved to see the 6-Man TLC match on this set or the Foley vs. Ziggler Survivor Series match. They should consider releasing this DVD in March in the future. What I like about this blu-ray is that the only repeat for me is the Bryan vs.Sheamus match and that's okay because it's probably my favorite match of 2012 and I want to see it on blu-ray.
Other than WrestleMania, SummerSlam, Survivor Series and Royal Rumble, I too don't buy each and every PPV unless the entire card is good. That is the main reason I purchase this DVD series without question.
I would like if they chose to release this in January or February each year so they can add TLC and Survivor Series matches. The match with The Shield vs Hell No and Ryback would have been the perfect edition, had they waited just a bit longer to release this.
I really like the cover for this one.
Another glaring omission, the Cena/Lesnar match from extreme rules. One of my favourites of the year.
I think the main reason that wasn't included was because it was on the Lesnar Here Comes the Pain DVD, and the WWE have tried not to have too many repeats this year. The only repeats from past compilations are Rock Vs. Cena and Triple H Vs. Taker, and both of those matches really needed to be included.
Cena/Lesnar was a Blu-ray exclusive, not on DVD, so i think they still could have included it.
But i agree, they wanted to have less repeats, and a Best PPV Matches 2012 DVD/Blu-ray needed to have Cena/Rock and HHH/Taker.
The set is still solid, only wish they could have included Punk vs. Jericho from Extreme Rules.
I'm like 99% sure that the main reason they didn't include Lesnar vs. Cena is because of the blood. Including that match uncut would probably make this DVD TV-14 just like the Extreme Rules DVD. If there is one PPV DVD to own this year, it would be Extreme Rules…good PPV.
Good point Tony…Extreme Rules was the first PPV DVD since Great American Bash 2008 to be rated TV-14 which was definitely because of Lesnar vs. Cena, it was a very bloody and violent match to take place in the "PG era" that people like to call it.


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148 and 150 Main St, Reedsburg, Sauk County, Wisconsin
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156 Railroad St, Reedsburg, Sauk County, Wisconsin
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This commercial vernacular structure was built in 1877 by Hackett and Buckley with S. Shipman as the architect. N. W. Sallade's Drugstore was located here. Moses Young later took over the drugstore bu…
315 Franklin St, Reedsburg, Sauk County, Wisconsin
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This commercial vernacular structure was build ca. 1902 and was part of Bernien's block. John Bernien ran a farm implement business in Reedsburg since ca. 1892. The business had several locations in R…
This commercial vernacular structure was built in 1878 by J. N. Parker for Giles Stevens. Much of the block had been destroyed by a fire in 1877. Stevens purchased land from N. W. Sallade and another…
635 Division St, Reedsburg, Sauk County, Wisconsin
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445 North Pine St, Reedsburg, Sauk County, Wisconsin
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The Long Road to non-ratification of the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)
By: Brendan Rooney BL
By: Brendan Rooney BL, on December 22, 2022
The EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement ("CETA") was negotiated in 2014 and signed in 2016. Although it entered into force provisionally in September 2017, meaning that most of the agreement now applies, every national parliament (and in some cases regional parliaments) of each European Union ("EU") Member State must approve CETA before it can take full effect.
CETA faced a major hurdle even before it was signed when the Walloon parliament (which represents the French-speaking region in Belgium) voted to reject the trade agreement in October 2016. This led to an internal compromise whereby the Belgian federal government requested the Court of Justice of the EU ("CJEU") to render an opinion on CETA's compatibility with EU law, and the Walloon regional government, in return, supported the ratification of the agreement. The CJEU gave its judgment in 2019 and concluded that CETA is in fact compatible with EU law.
As it stands, 16 out of the 27 Member States have ratified CETA. However, the agreement faces yet another major stumbling block—an Irish one this time. On 11 November 2022, the Supreme Court rendered its own judgment on CETA and concluded that the ratification of the agreement would be unconstitutional (Costello v Government of Ireland and Ors [2022] IESC 44). This case was initiated by Green Party TD Patrick Costello who challenged the constitutionality of CETA in respect of the investor tribunals that would be created under the agreement which would have the power to make enforceable decisions on disputes between Canadian investors and EU Member States.
Under this tribunal system, Canadian investors would be able to sue EU Member States for damages over any measures taken by those States which restrict the freedom of action of investors. Costello argued that the creation of such a system would involve a constitutionally impermissible transfer of state sovereignty, would negatively impact on the State's ability to make policy, in particular environmental regulations, and could not be ratified unless it was first approved by the Irish people in a referendum.
Although his challenge failed in the High Court (Costello v Government of Ireland and Ors [2021] IEHC 600), which ruled, inter alia, that CETA did not entail an unconstitutional transfer of the State's sovereignty, Costello secured "leapfrog" leave to appeal to the Supreme Court where his constitutional challenge was upheld. A majority of 4:3 of the Supreme Court held that the ratification of CETA would breach Article 34 of the Constitution, which requires that justice shall be administered in courts established by law in the manner provided for by the Constitution. Dunne J. stated that the tribunal system under CETA breaches this provision because such a system would create a parallel jurisdiction to the Irish courts and would permit an international tribunal to make binding decisions which are automatically enforceable in Irish law (para. 280).
However, the majority qualified this finding by noting that it is only the element of "automatic enforcement" of a CETA tribunal award that makes the agreement incompatible with the Constitution. This element renders Irish courts virtually powerless to refuse the enforcement of a CETA Tribunal award, even if that award is contrary to Ireland's constitutional identity and values, or EU law.
The "automatic enforcement" of CETA tribunal awards arises from the enforcement provisions of CETA itself in conjunction with the provisions of the Arbitration Act 2010, in particular s.25 thereof which gives effect to international arbitral awards generally. The majority of the Supreme Court proposed that this unconstitutionality might be cured if the Act were amended to remove this element of "automatic enforcement", in particular by modifying s.25 to allow for further defences to enforcement of CETA Tribunal awards.
Although this judgment makes what had seemed to be a straightforward ratification by the Dáil much more complex, the potential to cure this unconstitutionality by way of legislative amendment offers the government a less cumbersome path to ratifying CETA than if it had to be ratified through a referendum.


I know how it is normal to just start the cross stitch But I find it much easier to tack all the ten lines first before braving that first stitch. I was bored of doing cross stitch last night, or maybe it was just more in the mood for tacking but I have the next two kits all tacked up ready to go. They are good kits too. Tree frog trio by dimensions which is a see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil. It brings back memories of my favourite shirt (well one of them) my dad gave it to me after he came back from one of his trips.
The other design is a dimensions design from the gold collection petites - warm and fuzzy. It has a gorgeous set of bears in an oval shape.
I'm really not sure which one to do next, or how soon I will actually get to them but they are all tacked and overlocked around the edge so they are ready to stitch as soon as I get the time or the urge.
I am trying to avoid having too many on the go at once since I also have a crochet throw that I'm doing. It's from 'The Art of Crochet' magazine so it comes 4 issues a month so I really need to keep up with it as I'm about 16 squares behind. But here is what I have done so far.
Anyway back to the real world. And planning for music lessons this afternoon and next week!
You are very patient to do all that tacking. I can't stand tacking. You can buy fabrics that have the ten squares printed in magic ink that disapears in water. I think I'm more likely to try that.
It's nice to meet you (another cross stitching teacher, there are a few around I think).
Yeah I think I get the tacking from my grandma. She tacks everything she sews. All I know is that if I didn't have tacking on my WIP I would be in a bad way because I use it to check my stitching.
Yeah, I wish I had more work as a teacher but if I wasn't working with kids I can't imagine what I would be doing!
I am currently working on the art of crochet throw and also some of the projects too.