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It was amazing to see social media come to life over the weekend with photos and videos of kids playing hockey in different parts of the United States. While our strange and unprecedented summer provided opportunities for many young players to skate in small groups and play in scattered tournaments, this was the real deal.
After months of uncertainty, the 2020-21 youth hockey season is officially underway, and that's great. But it's also bittersweet.
Bittersweet because in some areas of U.S. and much of Canada many kids still sit on the sidelines waiting for their opportunity to get back on the ice. There are areas of the United States where teams have yet to hold tryouts and where leagues have shut down and will be revaluating their situation at a future date. And in parts of Canada it's uncertain whether there will be any 5-on-5 hockey in the near future.
From a personal perspective, as a parent of two college athletes – a hockey player and a lacrosse player who only got to play four games last spring – whose seasons are hanging by a thread, it also was a bittersweet weekend.
Watching college and high school football games being played in other parts of the country in front of spectators was exciting and provided hope. Maybe a Jan. 1 start date for American college hockey is reasonable, and maybe by the time spring sports roll around things will be closer to normal.
But it also was frustrating to see those kids getting to play while mine, who worked just as hard to get where they are, right now are hoping to just be able to practice and be around their teammates. I'm sure many youth hockey parents on the outside looking in can relate to those mixed emotions.
It was heartwarming to see photos and videos from around the rinks. Videos posted on social media showed games being played in some venues with fans wearing masks and families socially distanced from each other. In other locations we saw photos from rink parking lots with parents gathered around their vehicles tailgate-style watching their kids' games via LiveBarn on computers, large monitors and televisions.
On the flip side, while watching college and high school games, I noticed that nearly every time a camera panned to the crowd there were fans without masks or with their masks pulled down yelling and cheering. Likewise, when the cameras focused on the sidelines, often there were players in street Designer Clothing – presumably injured – with masks pulled down shouting encouragement and congratulating teammates. This continued after the game as players and coaches poured onto the field to congratulate each other or acknowledge their opponents.
For the sake of hockey and sports everywhere, here's hoping that hockey families can be better than this.
Whether you are in favor of wearing masks that designed to help protect against the spread of COVID or not is entirely up to you. This isn't a political forum, and you won't be judged here. What is important, however, is to be a good human being and think about others when you head to the rink.
Anybody who is playing sports anywhere right now is under the microscope.
The physical and psychological benefits for kids who are able to participate in athletic activities, be active, interact with teammates and compete are well-documented. The potential negative effects on kids who are not able to be active and socialize with their peers also is well known.
As someone who tried to provide every opportunity and outlet for my own kids to be active growing up – and who tried to make it to every one of their games no matter where or when it took place – I get it. Being able to see my kids compete usually was the highlight of my week, and the memories they created through athletic competition are cherished and hold a special place in my heart and mind.
Seeing my daughter have her freshman college lacrosse season cut short after her team got off to a 4-0 start and earned a No. 3 national ranking was heartbreaking. My heart ached for her and the rest of the team, especially her senior teammates and the coaches. It left a huge void in my life not being able to see all the hard work she put in for so many years finally pay off. And I missed the whole experience of driving to her games being able to watch her show so much joy doing what she loves.
So, I know exactly how important sports can be to kids and their parents. In fact, when my son was drafted by teams in two Tier 2 junior hockey leagues I actually left my job as an college assistant athletic director because having to work home events 75 nights and weekends a year was going to make it nearly impossible for me to ever see him play in person and very hard to watch my daughter finish out her high school athletic career.
Having the ability to be there to support them and watch them play was – and still is – extremely important to me. Families make many sacrifices in allowing their kids to pursue their athletic dreams, and the journey demands a large commitment of time, patience and energy from everyone. It's all hands on deck along the way, so when they achieve their athletic goals you want to be there to enjoy that experience with them.
Of course, you also want to be there with them every step of the way as they progress toward living their dreams. My family has been where many of you are right now, so I completely understand how important the athletic experience can be for everyone involved. Please remember that as you head to the rink this weekend, next weekend or next month – whenever your local government and league allow play to begin.
The hope is that those of you fortunate to have kids playing hockey right now or in the weeks ahead will understand that the future of hockey for other kids and families around North America might rest in your hands. You can be assured that the leagues and locales taking a wait-and-see approach to getting started are going to be watching closely to see how this first month goes.
Obviously they'll be watching to see if there are any COVID spikes or outbreaks related to youth hockey starting up in specific locations, but they will be studying other factors as well. Are coaches and players following state, local and governing-body guidelines? Are rinks enforcing safety rules and protocols? Are families doing what they are supposed to be doing and not giving rink staff and others enforcing policies a hard time?
Keep in mind that every video you share and photo you post tells a story. Shots of people gathered around a tailgate not socially distanced and not wearing masks send the wrong message and demonstrate a lack of concern for the current situation. The same goes for images of spectators sitting too close in arenas while not wearing masks, players hugging and celebrating after goals and teams gathered in a huddle listening to a pep talk from a coach who isn't wearing a mask.
One thing this pandemic has shown us is that one ill-advised photo or video that ends up on the wrong feed or timeline can generate thousands of impressions and lead to unforeseen and very serious consequences. We don't want rinks, games or tournaments shut down because someone had to show the world that their kid was playing hockey, and we certainly don't want other kids and families to be deprived of the opportunity to return to the rink because a few groups of people can't do the right thing.
While it's important to keep these things in mind when posting on social media, the reality is that if everyone is following the rules and doing what is being asked, you should be able to post anything you want without fear of repercussions.
This isn't just about you or your kids anymore. It's about being a good person and showing that you care about the sport and the thousands of other young players around the continent who just want their chance to play. It's about respecting the rink personnel who are simply trying to do their jobs and have the ability to make a living. It's about us as adults sending the right message to those who look to us for guidance and follow our lead.
One of hockey's greatest lessons is the value of teammates accepting their roles and working together to help the team perform at a level that is greater than the sum of its parts. Together, if we are all on the same page and pulling in the same direction, we can make sure that young people all over North America can return to the ice and play the sport they love sooner rather than later.
If a few players on the team don't buy-in to what the coach is asking for during a game, that often leads to an unfortunate outcome. Similarly, just a few of us not playing by the rules that have been established by state and local governments, ice rinks and hockey's governing bodies can lead to the most unfortunate outcome of all: no hockey for thousands of kids.
Even if you don't agree 100 percent with the rules and restrictions that have been put in place in your area, in the spirit of hockey, please strive to be a good teammate. Look at it this way, a minor inconvenience for you and your family might help thousands of other kids and their families get to do what they love.
We have always been a close-knit community with a history of coming together during difficult times to help out other members of our hockey family. This is no different. We are all in this together and all want the same thing.
Do it for the team.
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FĀL-NĀMA, a book of presages and omens (see DIVINATION). The narrower and more common use of the term, equivalent to "bibliomancy," is confined to texts used as material for divination by the reader directly or through a fortune-teller. These texts may also contain their own manuals of interpretations, a kind of users' guide. More loosely, the term sometimes appears on the titles of manuals of different kinds and techniques of divination. Three examples of this general use of the term in relation to some of the different forms of divination will be enumerated briefly before examining bibliomancy itself in greater detail (for other manuals used in other forms of divination like jafr and raml see under their individual entries and the references in the bibliography given below).
1. Astrological manuals. This is the broadest category of all, with a vast literature of its own (see ASTROLOGY AND ASTRONOMY IN IRAN; EḴTĪĀRĀT). Ebn al-Nadīm (q.v.), for example, mentions several books with Fāl as part of the title, including Abū Sahl b. Nawbaḵt's (q.v.) Ketāb al-faʾl al-nojūmī (Ebn al-Nadīm, ed. Tajaddod, p. 333; tr. Dodge, II, p. 651). Horoscopes, of which there are some finely executed specimens including the personal horoscope of the Timurid ruler Eskandar b. ʿOmar Šayḵ (r. 812-17/1409-14) called Ketāb-e walādat-e Eskandar (Keshavarz, pp. 396-402) are similarly excluded here, although the distinction between horoscopes and books of omens is often a fine one. Astrological lore and planetary figures were also used in bibliomancy, as in the case of the illustrated fāl-nāma discussed below.
2. Ornithomancy (zajr and taṭayyor), i.e., divination through the observance of the pattern of flight and behavior of birds. This itself is part of the wider category of divination through the behavior of animals in general (see Fahd,"ʿIyāfa," for an account of the semantic development of these terms). In Persian usage taṭayyor became a general synonym for an ill omen. In his list of works on omens, Ebn al-Nadīm refers toa ketāb zajr al-fors (Ebn al-Nadīm, ed. Tajaddod, p. 376; tr. Dodge, II, p. 736). The best known Fāl-nāmas in this category are the two short satirical tracts by Obayd Zākānī, Fāl-nāma-ye ṭoyūr and Fāl-nāma-ye woḥuš (Maḥjūb), which can be described as mock-auguries poking fun at auguries and those naive enough to be duped by them, just as a third tract that he composed on planetary divination, Fāl-nāma-ye borūj, has been called an "anti-horoscope" (Sprachman, p. 236). It should be added that even now itinerant fortune-tellers often carry along with them sparrows and budgerigars in small cages and train them to pick a card inscribed with a fāl (usually based on some verses from Ḥāfeẓ) with their beaks from a selection, each placed individually in small envelopes.
3. Scapulimancy or omoplatoscopy (Ar. ʿelm al-katef, ʿelm al-aktāf, maʿrefat al-aktāf;Pers. kat-bīnī, šāna-æenāsī,ʿelm-e šāna, fāl-e šāna; see Fahd, "Katif"), i.e., divination using the shoulder blades of sheep or goats. One of the earliest references to this practice is in the anonymous Mojmal al-tawārīḵ wa'l-qeṣaṣ composed in 520/1126 (ed. Bahār, p. 103). A chapter is also devoted to it in Abū Bakr Moṭahhar Jamālī Yazdī's Farroḵ-nāma, dated580/1185 (pp. 243-48); and four manuals of uncertain date on ʿelm-e šāna are listed in Storey(II/3, p. 493). Recent scholarship on medieval Arabic and Latin manuscripts has done much to clarify the lines of transmission of manuals of scapulimancy in the medieval world and the scattered allusions to it in writers and regions as wide apart as Jāḥez and Chaucer and Central Asia and Andalusia (Burnett, no. XIII, p. 32 n. 7).
Even within this more specific use of fāl and fāl-nāma,a distinction must be made between sacred and poetic texts, sometimes appended by explanatory material for their use in divination, and books and pamphlets designed solely for divination. The simplest method, practiced in the west with copies of Homer, Virgil, and the Bible (sortesHomericae, Virgilianae, and biblicae) and in Persia with the Koran and Hāfeẓ, was by opening the book at random and drawing guidance or inspiration for divination from the first verse or passage on the page.
Bibliomancy with the Koran. As in most questions relating to divination, particularly when sacred texts were also involved, religious opinion differed on what was or was not permissible in Islam. In the case of the Koran, seeking guidance from God on specific issues (esteḵāra) was usually regarded as licit, but using the Koran as a device for augury (tafaʾʾol) was disapproved of (Omidsalar, p. 441; for Christian parallels, see von Dobschütz, p. 611; Donaldson, p. 197). But the border-line between augury and resorting to the Koran in search of personal consolation is often blurred, as in the account of the tafaʾʾol on the Koran by the famous Il-khanid minister, Šams-al-Dīn Jovaynī shortly before his execution in 683/1284 (Maḥmūd b. Moḥammad Āqsarāʾī, Mosāmerat al-aḵbār,ed. O. Turan as Müsâmeret ül-Ahbâr: Mogollar Zamanında Türkiye Selçukları Tarihi, Ankara, l944, p. 144).
There is a great variety of koranic fāl-nāmas, both in verse and prose (e.g., the following manuscripts in the Central Library of Tehran University: nos. 4360 and 8846 in verse and 4995/2 in prose; see also Storey I/1 p. 55-56). There is a full description accompanied by illustrations from a 19th century koranic Fāl-nāma in the Nasser D. Khalili Collection (Savage-Smith, l997, p. 156). The text provides descriptions of different forms of esteḵāra, including one attributed to the l9th century Shiʿite mojtahed Ḥājj Mīrzā Ḥasan Āštīānī (q.v.). Some printed editions of the Koran have a fāl-nāma appended to them, and some merely indicate whether the particular page is auspicious or not by inserting 'good' or 'bad' or 'in between' at the top of the page.
Bibliomancy with the Dīvān of Ḥāfezá. Although bibliomancy using poetical works is now closely associated with the Dīvān of Ḥāfeẓ, the tradition was long-established before his time. Abu'l-Fatḥ Bostī (q.v.), for example, describes how he opened at random (ketāb-ī. . .bāz kardam) a volume of poems in Arabic by way of divination (bar sabīl-e tafaʾʾol) to see whether he should proceed on his journey (Abu'l-Šaraf Nāṣeḥ Jorfādaqānī, Tarjama-ye Tārīḵ-e yamīnī, ed. J. Šeʿār, Tehran, 1345 Š./1966, pp. 25-26). Moḥammad ʿAwfī cites the dīvān of Sayyed Ḥasan Ḡaznavī (see AŠRAF ḠAZNAVĪ) being used for bibliomancy (ʿAwfī, Lobāb I, p. 59) and there is a manuscript of a fāl-nāma of the Robāʿīyāt attributed to Abū Saʿīd Abi'l-Ḵayr (q.v.) in the Marʿašī Library in Qom (no. 7341/3).
One of the earliest references to the use of Ḥāfeẓ in bibliomancy occurs in Abū Bakr Ṭehrānī's Ketāb-e Dīārbakrīya, written between 875/1469 and 883/1478 (ed. N. Lugal and F. Sümer, 2nd ed.,Tehran 1356 Š./1977, preface, pp. 5-6, text, pp. 363-64) where the epithet Lesān-e ḡayb ("the Tongue of the Unseen") is used about him. In his account of Ḥāfeẓ, Edward G. Browne gives a succinct description of different methods of bibliomancy used in the case of the Dīvān, including the use of numerical tables, and provides examples of historically famous instances of auguries drawn from the Dīvān (Browne, Lit. Hist. Persia III, pp. 311-19). A list of manuscripts and printed editions of Fāl-nāmas of the Dīvān may be found in Mehrdād Nīknām's Ketāb-æenāsī-e Ḥāfeẓ (Tehran, 1367 Š./1988, index).
Illustrated Fāl-nāmas. A poetic simile by the famous Ḡaznavīd panegyrist Manūčehrī (p. 3), comparing the birds in the trees to fortune tellers (fālgūyān) spreading in front of them their manuals, filled with images (por az taṣwīr daftarhā), suggests that pictorial Fāl-nāmas may have had a long history. Most surviving examples, however, are from the Safavid period and are extant only in fragmentary form. There are, however, a few notable exceptions, some of which have been published in recent years such as the 16th century Fāl-nāma now in the Museum voor Volkenkunde, Rotterdam (Ros). An account of this manual, written before it was acquired by the Museum, includes an inventory of its 35 illustrations with their accompanying explanatory verses (Kahl, p. 120). Taken together, they show the syncretic nature of the pictorial tradition. The seven planets each have their individual illustrations; five pictures deal with miraculous episodes in the life of ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭāleb (Plate I; see ʿALĪ B. ABĪ ṬĀLEB ii. ʿALĪ AS SEEN BY THE COMMUNITY), two are on the eighth Imam, ʿAlī al-Reżā (q.v.), referred to in the verses accompanying the illustrations solely by his epithet, "Šāh-e Ḵorāsān" (Plate II). Most of the remaining illustrations deal with episodes taken from the Koran as elaborated in the Esrāʾīlīyāt or qeṣas-al-anbīyā (stories of the prophets) literature (Plate IV). There are also single illustrations of the Day of Judgment (Plate III), the Kaʿba, and the plight of the hapless lover, Majnūn. Most of the verses accompanying the pictures are of course intended to instill optimism, but certain images, like that of Joseph in the well, or the planet Saturn (Kahl, p. 124, pp. 138-39), provide convenient occasions for advice on fortitude in the face of predicted calamities. Another, similar, example is the Dresden Fāl-nāma (Rühdranz).
Fāl-nāmas and their "authors." Like other forms of arcane literature, in order to enhance their prestige and credibility, books of oracles often claimed mythical or historical figures as their author or progenitor. One example is the Fāl-nāma-ye Dānīāl (see DĀNĪĀL-E NABĪ), with a preface written by ʿAlī-Reżā Monajjem Šīrazī in 1064/1636 (MS. Qom, Marʿašī Library, no. 7016/2). Bozorgmehr (see BOZORGMEHR-E BOḴTAGĀN), the legendary Sasanian vizier, is claimed as the author of Żamīr-e ḵosrowānī (Storey II/3 pp. 493-4). The British Library manuscript (Add. 6591) of this work, written in 884/1480 is probably the oldest extant manuscript of a fāl-nāma. The same volume also includes a koranic fāl-nāma supposedly by Imam Jaʿfar al-Ṣādeq (Donaldson, p. 196). Its preamble describes how the Imam had spent fifty years composing it and how it had been highly prized by the caliphs before being presented to Sultan Maḥmūd, who resorted to it constantly (Rieu, Persian Manuscripts II, pp. 800-801, fols. 1-18; 122-25). There are other copies of the same fāl-nāma attributed to Imam Jaʿfar al-Ṣādeq in various collections (see al-Ḏarīʿa XVI, p. 98, no. 85). There are also fāl-nāmas attributed to historical figures, including one supposedly prepared for the Caliph Harūn al-Rašīd by his vizier, Yaḥyā Barmakī (Storey II/3 p. 495 no. 4.) However, the greatest number of the extant manuscripts are attributed to the Shiʿite Imams. The list of fāl-nāmas in standard bibliographical sources (e.g., Storey and al-Ḏarīʿa)should be supplemented by lists and references in recently catalogued collections (Keshavarz; Savage-Smith, l997).
C. Adle, review of Rührdanz, Abstracta Iranica 12, 1989, p. 161, no. 618.
M. Asadī Ḵorramābādī, "Naẓarī ba tafaʾʾol wa ṭelesmāt," in M. Rowšan, ed., Haštomīn kongera-ye taḥqīqāt-e īrānī (Kermān) III, n.p., 1358 Š./1980, pp. 949-59.
Browne, Lit. Hist. Persia III, pp. 311-19.
C. J. Brunner, "Astrology and Astronomy II: Astronomy and Astrology in the Sasanian Period," EIr. II, pp. 862-68.
C. Burnett, "Arabic Divinatory Texts and Celtic Folklore: A Comment on the Theory and Practice of Scapulimancy in Western Europe," Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies 6, 1983, pp. 31-42; repr. in idem, Magic and Divination in the Middle Ages, Aldershot, U.K., l996, no. XIII.
E. von Dobschütz, "Bible in the Church 6. Misuse of the Bible," in J. Hastings, ed., Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics II, Edinburgh, l909, p. 611.
B. A. Donaldson, The Wild Rue: A Study of Muhammadan Magic and Folklore in Iran, London, l938. T. Fahd, La divination arabe, Leiden, 1966; repr., Paris, l977.
Idem, "Djafr," EI2 II, pp. 375-77.
Idem, "Faʾl,"EI2 II, pp. 758-60.
Idem, "ʿIyāfa,"EI2 IV, pp. 290-91.
Idem, "Katif," EI2 IV, p. 763.
Idem, "Khaṭṭ," EI2 IV, pp. 1128-30.
Idem, "Kihāna," EI² V, pp. 99-101 (helpful as a brief survey).
Idem,"Malḥama," EI2 VI p. 247.
G. Flügel, "Über die Loobücher der Muhammadaner," Berichte über die Verhandlungen der K. Sächsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Phil.-hist. Klasse 13, 1861, pp. 24-74.
L. H. Gray, "Divination (Persian)," in J. Hastings, Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics IV, Edinburgh, l911, pp. 818-20 (useful for pre-Islamic antecedents).
Abū Bakr Moṭahhar Jamālī Yazdī, Farroḵ-nāma, ed.Ī. Afšār, Tehran, 1346 Š./1967.
O. Kahl, "Ein anonymes persisches Orakelbuch (fāl-nāmah) aus dem späten 10./16. Jahrhundert," Die Welt des Orients 19, 1989, pp. 118-41.
F. Keshavarz, A Descriptive and Analytical Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, l986, pp. 370-72, 460-95.
Ḥ. Lesān, "Tafaʾʾol wa taṭayyor," in M. Rowšan, ed., Haštomīn kongera-ye taḥqīqāt-e īrānī (Kermān) I, n.p., 2535=1357 Š./1978, pp. 447-507.
M.-J. Maḥjūb, Kollīyāt-e ʿObayd Zākānī (forthcoming). Manūčehrī Dāmḡānī, Dīvān, ed. M. Dabīrsīāqī, 5th repr., 1363 Š./1984, p. 3. Massé, Croyances.
Idem, "Fāl-nāma," EI2 II, pp. 760-61.
Mojmal, ed. Bahār. Mošār, Fehrest II, cols. 2386-87.
M. Omidsalar, "Divination," in EIr. VII, pp. 440-43.
D. C. Phillott, "Bibliomancy, Divination, Superstitions, Amongst the Persians," Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (N.S.) 2/8, 1906, pp. 339-42.
D. Pingree, "Abū Sahl B. Nawbaḵt," in EIr. I, p. 369.
Idem, "Astronomy and Astrology in Iran iii. Astrology in Islamic Times," in EIr. II, pp. 868-71.
Idem, "Eḵtīārāt," in EIr. VIII, pp. 291-93.
F. Ros, "Dreaming of the Future," in F. Ros and C. Huygens, eds., Dreaming of Paradise, Islamic Art from the Collection of the Museum of Ethnology Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 1993, pp. 101-5.
K. Rühdranz, "Die Miniaturen des Dresdener 'Fālnāmeh'," Persica 12, 1987, pp. 1-56.
E. Savage-Smith, "Divination," in J. Raby, ed., The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art XII/1, London and Oxford, l997, pp. 148-58.
Idem and M. B. Smith, Islamic Geomancy and a Thirteenth-Century Divinatory Device, Malibu, Calif., l980.
P. Sprachman, "Fālnāma-ye borūj," Āyanda 5, 1358 Š./1979, pp. 224-38, 738-48.
Plate I. While still in his cradle, the infant ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭāl eb slays a dragon. The poet comments on this and adds the reassuri ng comment that success and victory will be on the side of the reader since ʿAlī has looked favorably upon this fāl. A fter Kahl, p. 131, no. 19; courtesy of the Museum voor Volkenkunde, Rotterdam.
Plate II. The poem informs the reader that since the shah of Khorasan, "the supreme leader of mankind and the jinn" (i.e., the Eighth Imam, & #191;Alī Reżā), has appeared in his fāl, his enem y, even if of the stature of a dīv, will be destroyed at once. Af ter Kahl, pp. 125-26, no 10; courtesy of the Museum voor Volkenku nde, Rotterdam.
Plate III. This illustration depicts the Day of Judgment and is therefore caut ionary in tone. The picture contains many symbols associated wit h the theme of the day of reckoning, including Gabriel weighing hu man deeds in the Scales of Justice (mīzan-e ʿadl). The Prophet, with ʿAlī and his two sons, Ḥasan and Ḥos ayn, sit at the sides ready to intercede on behalf of those being judged. The reader is advised that since the Day of Judgment has c ome up in this fāl, journeys should be avoided and an a ttitude of penitance and patience adopted in order to avoid potent ial disappointments and regrets. After Kahl, pp. 137-38, no. 30; courtesy of the Museum voor Volkenk unde, Rotterdam.
Plate IV. Moses striking the giant ʿŪj (the biblical Og) with his staff on his anklebone and killing him, as elaboarated in the "stor ies of the prophets" (cf. Ṭabarī, tr., III, pp. 81-83). The verses convey a comforting message to the reader: The fact that Mo ses and Og have appeared in your fāl confirms the wretch ed plight of your enemies. Follow God and the religious path, and you will never be afflicted by sorrow. After Kahl, p. 135, no. 25; courtesy of the Museum voor Volkenkunde, Rotterdam.
Īraj Afšār, "FĀL-NĀMA," Encyclopædia Iranica, IX/2, pp. 172-176, available online at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/fal-nama (accessed on 20 January 2012).


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I've come to appreciate Dennis O'Keefe lately, an actor who joins the likes of Dick Powell and John Payne in making a career transition in his roles from lightweight drama and comedy performer into a credible performer in crime dramas.
O'Keefe had a pleasantly flippant delivery of dialogue and, as pointed out by others here, he indulged in a bit of enjoyable bantering with Ann Sheridan (a real pro at fast quip one liners) in Woman on the Run. At the same time, though, O'Keefe was believable when it came to his portrayal of the darker aspects of his character.
Impressive as Woman in the Run is (lovely lead performances, great Frisco location shooting, a genuinely suspenseful climax), O'Keefe's two film noirs with director Anthony Mann are tougher and darker (both with stunning black and white photography by John Alton): T Men and Raw Deal. Once again OKeefe is very credible as a tough guy performer in these films. In one he's a good guy posing as a bad guy, while in the other he is a hood escaped from prison who is out for revenge but his character, hardened as he may be, still possesses a streak of decency.
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9 hours ago, Dargo said:
Liked your write-up here, speedy.
However, and while I probably shouldn't mention the following, and only because you twice misidentified/misnamed the actor who played Ann Sheridan's husband in Woman of the Run, I've felt compelled to correct you on this.
As you most likely really know, the actor who played her husband in this film, and the actor as you correctly remembered who played the commercial director in the classic Vitameatavegamin I Live Lucy episode was Ross Elliott, not Eliot Reid.
(...although, I can plainly see how you could have confused these two actors, as not only do they sort of share a similar name and somewhat resemble each other in a fairly nondescript "average white male" manner, but also that both of these actors would never make much of an indelible impression upon the silver screen in their careers, either)
Eliot Reid
Ross Elliott
Thanks for the correction Dargo! Yes. I did confuse the two actors. That does explain why when I thought that Sheridan's husband also played the detective trying to schmooze Jane Russell in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, I didn't find the film in his filmography.
M (1951) Watched it last night (managed to stay up) on a very nice print. I think the first time I saw the '51 version was on Youtube and the copy was pretty crappy. This is a very good release version that I enjoyed quite a bit. For me it's almost equal to Lang's masterpiece and it has lots of Bunker Hill locations that give it an archival quality. Also a lot of L.A.'s Bradbury building and it's loaded with a lot of familiar faces. Eddie's intro and outros are great as usual. 8/10
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I definitely agree with this.
Disclaimer: I did not end up seeing WOMAN ON THE RUN after my internet issues last week. It never appeared on my Sling TV TCM ON DEMAND, so I've ignored all of the discussion since then because I do plan to see it some day.
The major detractor for M (1951) is M (1931). I think this film would be much more acclaimed if the original didn't exist, but it does. I thought it was pretty good, but once the chase started it really vaulted to excellent. And I agree that the locations and the use of The Bradbury really added to it. I would definitely watch this one again. It is a real shame David Wayne didn't receive more public acclaim for his performance.
5 minutes ago, Looney said:
It is a real shame David Wayne didn't receive more public acclaim for his performance.
Agree he was impressive.
I watched Woman on the Run yesterday and M today and thought I was losing my mind when the cackling puppet in the final shot of woman on the run appeared 10 minutes into M.
same camera angle, but one panned up to it and the other panned down from it
2 hours ago, hutz said:
I noticed that too ! The exact same "cackling woman" carnival clown puppet ! Such a coincidence that that same (I'm sure it's the exact same one, there couldn't be two of them) bizarre dummy was in both films - and both movies shown back to back on Noir Alley !
6 minutes ago, misswonderly3 said:
I think it's also in Man in the Dark (1953)
I liked this remake of M, although I have to go with what seems to be the consensus, that good though it is, it's not as good as the original. Nothing can beat Fritz Lang's strange, unforgettable story of the pursuit of the tortured child murderer in Weimar Republic Germany.
Still, Joseph Losey's version is a very well-made film, and pays due homage and respect to Lang's. At first it seemed as though the remake was duplicating the original almost shot-for-shot. And certainly, there are many similarities - the blind balloon seller, so key to the capture of "M", the panic-stricken mother waiting for her child to come from school (and the audience knowing that she never will), the ball the little girl was playing with drifting into the garbage heap by the side of the road, telling us everything we need to know about what happened to her, and the riveting extended penultimate scene in Los Angele's Bradbury Building, a building as magnificent and labyrinthine as the one in Lang's version. (I don't know what that building is in the original film, or whether it's a set - either way, it's very impressive....)
The story is pretty much the same, but there are a few differences. The main one is that in Losey's version, the killer has a little girl with him the entire time he's being hunted down by the ganster's men. I think in Lang's film, the Peter Lorre character just abandons the child when he realizes he's being chased - he has no time to think about her or his terrible compulsions associated with her. He just wants to evade his pursuers.
In Losey's remake, the killer continues to keep the child with him, right up to the point when he's caught. This must have been a very deliberate decision on Losey's and the screenwriters' part, because what it does is double the tension - almost the entire time the audience is fearful for the girl's life. Even though, as I said, we're pretty sure the killer just wants to escape, he still has that child with him, and we just don't know for sure that she's going to get away alive. Although I still prefer Lang's version, the added suspense of the little girl who remains in M's possession and the uncertainty of what might befall her adds a whole new layer of uneasiness to the scene.
Another difference I noticed: The 1931 version is filled with paranoia; we can feel the oppressive atmosphere right from the film's opening shots. There's a double fear going on in the 1931 M: the fear that a child killer is on the loose and could strike at any time, and the fear resulting from that - the fear that anyone might be accused of being the killer. There are a lot more scenes of innocent men being vilified, just for walking with a young child, in the 1931 M than in the remake. I know that Eddie comments about the paranoia in the early 50s and how Losey had some of that feeling infuse his film, but I still don't feel it the way I do with Lang's version.
Finally, there's the scene in the taxi garage, the "kangaroo court", where the killer is "tried". Yes, David Wayne is very good. He succeeds in making us feel pity for him, despite his vile crimes. But there's nothing like Peter Lorre's anguish in the original. Maybe it's because it's in German, and I can't literally understand what he's saying - this renders his speech all the more strange, mysterious even. The way he wails that he doesn't want to do it , he can't help it, he must....it's jaw-droppingly repellent and moving at the same time.
Also, I think by 1951 there was a lot more "psychology" going on in Hollywood movies; the "explanation" Harrow gives for why does what he does, based on a twisted upbringing by a mother filled with hatred for men, just doesnt' quite fit, somehow. It feels like the screenwriters picked up on some psychological theory of the day about "psycho killers" and applied it to Harrow. I find the earlier film's "explanation" much more affecting - precisely because there's no attempt to "explain" the killer's motives. He's just a sick compulsive child killer who feels he "must" kill, even when he doesn't want to. This is a much more disturbing depiction of the killer's mind, because no one, not even the killer himself, knows why he feels the need to kill children. Somehow this very lack of explanation makes more sense to me than the 1951 "his mother made him sick" psychological analysis.
Sorry, I know this is long...just one more observation...For some reason I have the idea, in the Lang version of M, that the killer does sexually attack the children before he kills them. And this fits with my (very limited) knowledge of how such serial killers work. The Losey version makes a point, right near the beginning, of clarifying that the killer does not "violate" his victims - he kills them, but does not rape them. I suspect this was important for the filmmakers in 1951 Hollywood, that they felt the film would never get acceptance or even be released if they did not at least spare the child victims this added horror.
The Losey version makes a point, right near the beginning, of clarifying that the killer does not "violate" his victims - he kills them, but does not rape them. I suspect this was important for the filmmakers in 1951 Hollywood, that they felt the film would never get acceptance or even be released if they did not at least spare the child victims this added horror.
Exactly, here is the Code at work no doubt, and that fact may have been the reason to have the child with the killer during the chase to make up for that very lack
Quel siecle a mains!
LocationNorth Carolina
It's Fat M vs. Thin M. I saw the remake a number of years ago and didn't remember much
about it. On its own it's a fairly good flick, though not up to the original. The German version
has a certain exoticism from being so long ago and set in Germany. There's nothing the
1951 version can do about that, it's just the way it is. I found it to be a typical police
procedural wrapped around a psychotic killer tale, and pretty effective as that. The mommy
messed me up theory likely seemed pretty nifty back then, today less so. Give mom a break.
I did get a kick out of the scene where Wayne strangles the Pillsbury Dough Boy as mommy
looks on from her photo. The mass paranoia and hysteria theme is also well done, though I
suppose it's an obvious tack to take. All in all, worth watching.
Hoganman1
LocationCharlotte NC
I always try to be positive when posting on this site, but I couldn't get into M. I thought it was weird. I haven't seen the original and maybe I might have enjoyed it more if I had. I much prefer films that have some suspense. Having heard a lot about this film I was really disappointed. As mentioned the acting was good for the most part and having so many familiar faces was nice. It was interesting that the mobsters did a much better job than the police by catching the killer. I guess that was the whole point. As always, Eddie did a good job with his intro and follow-up. Still M just didn't live up to the hype for me or my wife.
8 hours ago, misswonderly3 said:
My formative years taking place within a short distance (10-11 miles) of Santa Monica's Pacific Ocean Park (aka: "P.O.P."), although when the aforementioned films were shot in the early-'50s it was then known as Ocean Park Pier until 1958 and when the name change occurred and some additional rides and exhibits were added, I remember walking past this "cackling woman" more than a few times in my young life when I'd venture down the midway of this old amusement park.
It would permanently close in 1967 and be demolished in 1974.
(...other films and TV shows of note which would also be filmed there would be the final two-part episode of The Fugitive right after the park's closure, and the carousel scene in the movie The Sting just before its demolition)
17 minutes ago, Dargo said:
(...other films and TV shows of note which would also be filmed there would the final two-part episode of The Fugitive right after the park's closure, and the carousel scene in the movie The Sting just before its demolition)
Was the Santa Monica Pacific Ocean Park in the same place where the famous Santa Monica Pier is ?
29 minutes ago, speedracer5 said:
Hi speedy! Nope, they were always two different piers.
The Santa Monica Pier, which would also come very close to the fate of the wrecking ball in the mid-'70s due to neglect and occasional storm damage over the years, and which for years didn't have any sort of amusement park associated with it until 1996 and after its revitalization, is about a mile north of where the old Pacific Ocean Park pier was located.
(...and with the major east-west street of Colorado Blvd ending up at the Santa Monica Pier, and with the major east-west street of Ocean Park Blvd ending up at the ocean where the old P.O.P. used to be)
On 4/26/2019 at 11:03 PM, kingrat said:
Yes, I like it about as much as the Fritz Lang original. Love the location shots in LA and the utilization of the Bradbury Building.
Yes, I did too. It's sad that Bunker Hill can only be seen in pictures or films of that era now.
20 minutes ago, Hibi said:
It's sad that Bunker Hill can only be seen in pictures or films of that era now
Well, the only three physical features left of Bunker Hill are Angels Flight (about a half block South from its original site), and the 3rd Street and 2nd Street tunnels.
Yep. Progress. Just a bunch of skycrapers now......
And pretty much the very same type of urban renewal projects in Lower Manhattan which would take place during the same era (the 1960s) in your neck-of-the-woods, eh CJ?!
Bet you remember "Radio Row" before it was demolished to make way for the Twin Towers, don't ya.
And, just like I vaguely remember seeing the old Bunker Hill section of L.A. and the trolley cars plying the streets of downtown L.A. when I was a kid, and when we'd pile into my parents' '56 Chevy station wagon and drive up the Harbor Freeway to see a first-run movie at one of the grand old movie palaces there.
(...oh, and to have dinner at Clifton's Cafeteria too, of course...)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifton's_Cafeteria
How nice to see something being refurbished and not torn down.
On 4/29/2019 at 6:00 PM, Dargo said:
Yea Manhattan's urban renewal projects have, in my view, decimated a lot of the signature urban landscapes that made Manhattan, Manhattan. Of course there are plenty of pockets of picturesque urban decay to still be found in the "outer boroughs" and some small ones still in Manhattan. You just have to actively search for them on the island.
For instance in this shot from Something Wild (1961):
Here's the Manhattan end of the Manhattan Bridge, Pike Street is on your left. Pike street is the southern boundary of "The Lower East Side", Madison Street is at the bottom of the screen grab just out of the picture, just in front of the one story building on the corner of the parking lot, center. The basement apartment that Ralph Meeker lived in is the lighter colored five story walkup right next to the bridge with the plume of white steam/smoke.
Here below is the scene at street level today courtesy of Google Maps:
The line labeled Monroe St points to the corner building next to Ralph Meeker's five story walk up. In the first image its the darker building, today it's painted beige and has been built onto extending into the old parking lot. The rest of the parking lot is all built up also including the Madison Hotel which sits on the site of the one story building in the screenshot from the film. All the tenements on the North side of Pike Street have been demolished. You'll remember that neighborhood from The Naked City. It's the neighborhood at the end of the film where the police find and chase Ted De Corsia out of and on to the Manhattan bridge.
Now as you can see its all red brick public housing projects, a tree planted medium and a new skyscraper going up just to the left of the the center street light.
Urban renewal tore down the last original Manhattan el in 1955. It, the Third Avenue el, was built in the previous century in 1878, had Victorian gingerbread stations, with ornate wrought iron appointments, stained glass windows, and pot belly coal stoves for heat see below.
They should have preserved at least a station or two and one 3 or 5 car train and the city blocks fronting what they should have left as a historic district. But no, real estate development and political pressures were too great. Ten years later In 1966, Congress passed the National Historic Preservation Act.
On 4/28/2019 at 4:20 PM, misswonderly3 said:
Sorry, I know this is long...just one more observation...For some reason I have the idea, in the Lang version of M, that the killer does sexually attack the children before he kills them. And this fits with my (very limited) knowledge of how such serial killers work. The Losey version makes a point, right near the beginning, of clarifying that the killer does not "violate" his victims - he kills them, but does not rape them.
I watched this again yesterday and I found a very noir-ish curious contradiction to all the above. Yes the Losey version makes a point of stating that the killer does not "violate" his victims, but if you rewatch the title sequence there are some very explicit visual clues of what he does. Watch this sequence again.
A little girl is standing by a vending machine that has a mirror we first see David Wayne in the mirror he's playing with a toy called a "whizzer" he pulling on it stretching and releasing it at crotch level no less. It attracts the attention of the little girl, she's curious about it. It's not much of a stretch to say its a visual metaphor for exposing himself, pulling out and playing with his ****.
Another sequence follows a little girl is attempting to drink from a fountain. David Wayne approaches. His back is to the camera, we first see a stream of water again at crotch level, looks again like he's again exposed himself and is ****. The very next image has the little girl bending over towards his crotch again suggesting oral.
One of the final shots in the title sequence has Wayne leaning up against a boardwalk rail with his body in a very twisted almost "S" shape.
All visual clues are there to what the code forbade. There may be more.
Wow, some interesting observations there, joe. I suspect you're right. Because of the Code, Losey couldn't overtly show or state that the children were sexually violated/molested in some way before M murdered them. But he had ways of getting around that, to suggest to observant viewers (like yourself) that, whatever that media of the day (in the film) announced about the killings, there was some horrible weird sexual stuff going on between the murderer and his prey.
But, as I think we'd all agree, Code or no Code, (and of course Lang's version didn't have to worry about a code), it's best that the weird obsessive sex stuff happens off-screen. As of course, the murders also are (off-screen.) This is a wise decision on the parts of both Lang and Losey (ok, Losey didn't have much choice, but I'm sure, in the spirit of the original "M", he would have had them off-screen anyway).
This is because M is not a horror film, nor even a film about compulsive sex murders.(well, that would be horror, too, in my book...)
M - both versions - is about a community where something terrible, unspeakable, is taking place, and how the members of that community react to it. It's a film about fear- the kind of fear that becomes a malaise, infecting even people who don't have children. There's something profoundly wrong with a world where children are abducted and killed (of course this still goes on now, perhaps worse than ever - but M is about it happening in a very specific place and time.)
M is also about the killer himself, as underlined in that final scene where he gives his anguished speech (especially in the original version.) The fact that Lang - and Losey - could elicit any kind of sympathy for someone who commits such horrible acts is testament to their talent as director, and of course, the talent of the actors who played the killer.
I guess what I'm trying to say here is, M is a great film, and one of the reasons for this is precisely because the director chooses not to show the murders. A lone balloon floating randomly in the air is all we need to know what has occurred.
There's just one other difference between the two M's that I noticed, and it connects with what you were saying about the sexual obsessions of the killer. The Losey version has the killer collect the shoes of the children he kills. He has some kind of fetish about little girls' shoes. I'm not sure that adds to the story much, although it doesn't detract from it either. It wasn't necessary in Lang's M. In the later version, it helps in establishing concrete evidence when the police search Harrow's apartment.
There's just one other difference between the two M's that I noticed, and it connects with what you were saying about the sexual obsessions of the killer. The Losey version has the killer collect the shoes of the children he kills. He has some kind of fetish about little girls' shoes. I'm not sure that adds to the story much, although it doesn't detract from it either. It wasn't necessary in Lang's M. In the later version, it helps in establishing concrete evidence when the police search Harrow's apartment.

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Cal Poly Career Services opens a new student-to-alumni career networking site
by Natalie Weis September 27, 2019 August 29, 2022
Cal Poly's Career Services and Alumni Engagement teams created Career Connections, an online resource to connect Cal Poly alumni and current students for networking and mentoring opportunities. The website launched June 3.
The portal is exclusive to Cal Poly students and alumni and can be used for career advice and mentoring, as well as further networking. Similar to LinkedIn, the site allows users to request to connect with each other, request meetings or send a message.
Career Services Executive Director Eileen Buecher said while the platform will work to connect alumni and students, MustangJobs remains Cal Poly's source for recruiting and job postings.
Buecher said this program stemmed from an early Cal Poly Alumni Association idea from 2011 that accelerated into a greater group project in summer 2018.
The implementation team formed in December 2018 and was made up of Career Services, Alumni Engagement, Student Affairs, and the Information Technology departments. Funding for the program consisted of alumni donations combined with financial commitments made by the Orfalea College of Business, College of Engineering, College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences and College of Science and Math.
"We get to advance the Cal Poly community and showcase the 'Learn by Doing' accomplishments of students and of the alumni," Buecher said. "It's going to be an opportunity for us to come together and celebrate Cal Poly."
Buecher said the platform has one-on-one mentoring, as well as open and closed group sessions, to share resources and information. The platform is also an opportunity for students to easily access services and tools provided by Career Services. Connection abilities range from alumni-to-alumni, alumni-to-student and student-to-student.
To jump-start the availability and diversity of connections, alumni were given access to the portal May 16 to build their profiles and be ready to assist students in June. With the cluster of registered alumni, the site is able to match students with suggested alumni through preferences such as industry, location and other expertise.
Buecher said alumni have wanted a pathway to give back for a while and around 1,800 of them had registered on the platform prior to its launch.
"It's taking the Cal Poly experience … it doesn't end after you graduate," Buecher said.
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Q: Combine Excel Sheets with Different Number of Columns and Different Column Layout in Power Query I searched and most of the questions I found were sheets that were laid out the same but different column names, or different sheet names (or both).  I didn't find anything where the number of columns and column order are different.
I have two workbooks with a single sheet in each one.  First one is BillTo that looks like:

The second one is ShipTo that looks like:

While they are very similar, the ShipTo has an extra column, and BILLTO_CUST on it should go with CUSTOMER_NUMBER on the BillTo file.
Right now I have the two files joined using:
Source = Folder.Files("C:\Users\ME\OneDrive\Contact Template\Current Contacts"),

#"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(
        Source,
        "Workbook Objects",
            each Excel.Workbook(File.Contents([Folder Path] & "\" & [Name]), null, true)
    ),
#"Expanded Workbook Objects" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(
        #"Added Custom",
        "Workbook Objects",
        {
            "Name",
            "Data",
            "Item",
            "Kind",
            "Hidden"
        }, {
            "Workbook Objects.Name",
            "Workbook Objects.Data",
            "Workbook Objects.Item",
            "Workbook Objects.Kind",
            "Workbook Objects.Hidden"
        }
    ),

#"Expanded Workbook Objects.Data" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(
        #"Expanded Workbook Objects",
        "Workbook Objects.Data",
        {
            "Column1",
            "Column2", "Column3", "Column4", "Column5", "Column6", "Column7", "Column8", "Column9", "Column10", "Column11", "Column12", "Column13", "Column14", "Column15", "Column16", "Column17",
            "Column18",
            "Column19"
        }, {
            "Workbook Objects.Data.Column1",
            "Workbook Objects.Data.Column2", "Workbook Objects.Data.Column3", "Workbook Objects.Data.Column4", "Workbook Objects.Data.Column5", "Workbook Objects.Data.Column6", "Workbook Objects.Data.Column7", "Workbook Objects.Data.Column8", "Workbook Objects.Data.Column9", "Workbook Objects.Data.Column10", "Workbook Objects.Data.Column11", "Workbook Objects.Data.Column12", "Workbook Objects.Data.Column13", "Workbook Objects.Data.Column14", "Workbook Objects.Data.Column15", "Workbook Objects.Data.Column16", "Workbook Objects.Data.Column17",
            "Workbook Objects.Data.Column18",
            "Workbook Objects.Data.Column19"
        }
    ),

#"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(
        #"Expanded Workbook Objects.Data",
        {
            "Extension",
            "Date accessed",
            "Date modified",
            "Date created",
            "Attributes",
            "Workbook Objects.Kind",
            "Workbook Objects.Hidden"
        }
    )

But I end up with this:

*

*The header for the ShipTo file is in the middle of the results.

*The columns are offset

*The columns don't match (BILLTO_CUST = CUSTOMER_NUMBER)

I think what I need to do (via Power Query) is add a SHIPTO_CUST column to the BillTo file, and then move BILLTO_CUST in the ShipTo file to the first column.  Then promote the rows to headers, but only keep the header from the BillTo file.
So it would look like this:

Is it possible to do that?
Edit: I can't just edit the file(s) because the files come from an automated export function, and I am trying to create an easily repeatable process.  The formats won't change in the export.

A: Answer is that it can't be done how I was thinking... However, what I did do (thank you @Dolunaykiz) was to use Power Query to bring the BillTo file in (Data->Get Data->From Worksheet) and get it formatted how I wanted.  Then I used another query to bring the ShipTo file in and get it formatted properly.  Then I went to Data->Get Data->Combine Query->Append and that combined the two tabs into the final results.

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Cataract surgery 2016: News from the pharmaceutical front
A review of some of the most significant advances in medications for cataract surgery during the past year revealed a mix of the expected with a few surprises.
Reviewed by Eric D. Donnenfeld, MD; Robert H. Osher, MD; and Mark Packer, MD
A review of some of the most significant advances in medications for cataract surgery during the past year revealed a mix of the expected with a few surprises. For instance, though phenylephrine and ketorolac injection 1%/0.3% (Omidria, Omeros Corp.) received FDA approval for marketing in 2014, this intracameral product still earned top mention by Ophthalmology Times' Editorial Advisory Board members.
Eric D. Donnenfeld, MD, noted that use of the combination product grew substantially in 2016 and with good reason.
"There is strong and convincing evidence from clinical trials showing that adding phenylephrine/ketorolac injection to the irrigating solution is effective for preventing intraoperative miosis and reducing pain after cataract surgery. My real-world experience has been that its use reduces problems with intraoperative pupil constriction, and as a result, cataract surgery is much less traumatic," said Dr. Donnenfeld, Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, New York University, New York, and Founding Partner, Ophthalmic Consultants of Long Island and Connecticut, Garden City, NY.
Robert H. Osher, MD, professor of ophthalmology, University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, and Medical Director Emeritus, Cincinnati Eye Institute, Cincinnati, OH noted that phenylephrine/ketorolac is an important drug because it fulfills the need for an approved intracameral medication for preventing intraoperative miosis.
"With a commercially available intracameral product that is indicated for preventing intraoperative miosis, surgeons using medications in an off-label manner may be putting themselves at risk medicolegally, even if a complication occurs and is completely unrelated to the pupil," he said.
Because intracameral phenylephrine/ketorolac was granted pass-through reimbursement status, there is no reason why surgeons should not be using it routinely, said Mark Packer, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland.
"The decision to grant pass-through reimbursement status to Omidria indicates that the reviewers at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services were convinced it provides significant benefit, and it is certainly a better option than using some extemporaneously compounded formulation," he said.
Endophthalmitis prophylaxis
Use of intracameral antibiotics for endophthalmitis prophylaxis is also growing in the United States, albeit slowly, and Dr. Osher was hopeful that sooner or later, there would be a commercially available product approved for this indication.
"It is 8 years since Steve Lane, Sam Masket, and I wrote the first article reporting on the safe use of intracameral antibiotics in cataract surgery in the United States. There is still no FDA-approved product, but the tide is rising," said Dr. Osher.
"The efficacy and safety of intracameral antibiotics is being supported by a growing body of research and published reports, and I think its time has come."
Although there is no FDA-approved intracameral antibiotic, Dropless Cataract Surgery products (Imprimis Pharmaceuticals) combining antibiotics and anti-inflammatory products for transzonular administration is generating a lot of interest, Dr. Osher noted.
Dr. Packer observed that in October, 2016, Imprimis issued a press release announcing results of a fairly large retrospective study evaluating the efficacy of Dropless Cataract Surgery. The study included data from more than 1500 eyes injected with triamcinolone acetonide 3.0 mg/moxifloxacin 0.2 mg/vancomycin 2.0 mg. The results showed that for 92% of cases, no supplemental medication was needed in 92%. In addition, there was a low incidence of IOP elevation (0.9%), a 9.2% rate of breakthrough inflammation at days 14 to 21 after surgery, and visually significant cystoid macular edema developed in 2% of eyes. There were no cases of endophthalmitis.
"I think the incidence of CME in this series is concerningly high considering that a few years ago, we published a paper reporting a CME rate of only 0.1% among 2862 eyes that received topical anti-inflammatory medications for CME prophylaxis," said Dr. Packer.
"Although a much larger series is needed to show definitively that Dropless Cataract Surgery reduces the risk of postoperative endophthalmitis, I would expect it is effective. Therefore, I think that this approach might at least have the potential to reduce the postoperative medication burden by eliminating the antibiotic drop from the regimen."
Dr. Donnenfeld agreed that American cataract surgeons are turning increasingly to intracameral antibiotics for endophthalmitis prophylaxis. Accompanying this trend, however, hemorrhagic occlusive retinal vasculitis (HORV) was identified as a new syndrome associated with the use of intracameral vancomycin.
The first clinical series reporting on HORV were published in 2014 and 2015, and in July 2016, the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery and the American Society of Retina Specialists issued a clinical alert about the complication, recognizing its potential impact on patient safety.
"Although HORV has been a rare event, it is potentially devastating as it has led to cases of bilateral blindness," Dr. Donnenfeld said.
Simplifying surgical medication regimens
In 2016, Imprimis Pharmaceuticals also introduced a sublingual product for conscious sedation (IV Free MKO Melt). Containing midazolam, ketamine, and ondansetron, it offers an alternative to the use of intravenous medications and could open the door to in-office cataract surgery, said Dr. Packer.
In addition, Imprimis Pharmaceuticals announced plans to expand its LessDrops topical formulation line with a new product combining prednisolone acetate, moxifloxacin hydrocholoride, and nepafenac.
On the topic of minimizing the medication burden for cataract surgery patients, Dr. Donnenfeld said that he is looking forward to the eventual availability of the dexamethasone intracanalicular insert (Dextenza, Ocular Therapeutix). It was developed as a treatment for ocular pain after surgery, and in July, 2016, Ocular Therapeutix announced that it received a Complete Response Letter from the FDA regarding its NDA. The letter identified issues pertaining to manufacturing and controls but no efficacy or safety concerns.
"This punctal plug delivery system is designed to release dexamethasone for up to 30 days and would eliminate the need for using a topical corticosteroid drop after cataract surgery," said Dr. Donnenfeld.
Ocular surface optimization
Another issue in cataract surgery that has been receiving increasing attention is the importance of optimizing the ocular surface preoperatively and avoiding dry eye postoperatively. Oral supplementation with omega-3 fatty acids is one strategy for improving and maintaining ocular surface health, and Dr. Donnenfeld noted he was involved in a multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-masked trial that demonstrated re-esterified omega-3 fatty acids (Physician Recommended Nutriceuticals) effectively improved the signs and symptoms of dry eye in patients with meibomian gland dysfunction. The paper reporting on the study was published in September 2016 [Epitropoulos AT, et al. Cornea. 2016;35(9):1185-1191].
"Nutritional supplementation with omega-3 fatty acids is an important way to improve the quality of the tear film. We are now including the re-esterified omega-3 product in our protocol for all patients having cataract surgery," said Dr. Donnenfeld.
He added that he continues to be proactive in identifying dry eye preoperatively and is aggressive about treating it with anti-inflammatory medications as appropriate.
"I continue to use topical cyclosporine emulsion (Restasis, Allergan) and have begun to prescribe topical lifitegrast (Xiidra, Shire) to improve the ocular surface before cataract surgery in patients with dry eye," Dr. Donnenfeld said.
Medical treatment for presbyopia
While the huge amount of research that is ongoing to develop novel implant solutions for presbyopia correction is exciting and promising, Dr. Osher cited the idea of topical drop therapy as an interesting approach that could provide an option for risk averse individuals to reduce spectacle dependence. The concept originated by the late Lee Nordan, MD, is known as Liquid Vision and is being developed by Presbyopia Therapies. Intended for binocular use, it combines aceclidine to create miosis and tropicamide to inhibit accommodation. Together the two medications provide a pinhole effect for increased depth of focus without the accommodative blur that occurs using a miotic by itself.
"Well-respected cataract surgeons who have been involved with this project are very enthusiastic about its potential," noted Dr. Osher.
Eric D. Donnenfeld, MD
E: ericdonnenfeld@gmail.com
Dr. Donnenfeld is a consultant to Abbott Medical Optics, AcuFocus, Alcon, Allergan, Aquesys, Bausch + Lomb, Beaver Visitec International, CRST, Glaukos, Novaliq, Omeros, Pfizer, and Shire Pharmaceuticals. He consults and has investment interests in Katena, Novabay Pharmaceuticals, PRN Pharmaceuticals, and RPS Diagnostics.
Robert H. Osher, MD
E: rhosher@cincinnatieye.com
Dr. Osher is a consultant to Alcon Laboratories, Bausch + Lomb, Beaver Visitec International, Carl Zeiss Meditec, Clarity Medical Systems, MicroSurgical Technology, Omeros, and the Video Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery.
Mark Packer, MD
E: mark@markpackerconsulting.com
Dr. Packer is a consultant to Advanced Vision Science, Alcon, Allergan, Bausch + Lomb, Cassini BV, International Biomedical Devices, LensAR, Rayner, and STAAR Surgical, and he owns equity in Cassini BV, International Biomedical Devices, LensAR, and TrueVision.
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The National Transmission Corporation (TransCo) is a Philippine government-owned and controlled corporation created in 2001 by the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (Republic Act 9136) and a corporate entity wholly owned by the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management (PSALM). It is the owner of the country's power grid and its related assets and facilities since March 1, 2003, and also served as operator of the grid from March 2003 until the turnover of the grid's operations and maintenance to the privately owned National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) on January 15, 2009. As owner of the transmission facilities, it assumed all of National Power Corporation's (NAPOCOR) substation and transmission assets. TransCo is also responsible for protecting the national government's interests by monitoring NGCP's compliance with the standards set by its concession agreement with NGCP, congressional franchise and other relevant laws, handle existing cases such as right-of-way (portion of a power line) and lands where the transmission structures stand acquired and designated, structures built, and other claims that were accrued prior to the turnover of operations and maintenance of the power grid to NGCP on January 15, 2009, divest remaining sub-transmission assets to technically and financially qualified electric distributors nationwide, and undertake the operations, maintenance, consultancy and other technical services for the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) and Authority of the Freeport Area of Bataan (AFAB). It is also in charge of administering the FIT to renewable power generators.

History

2001–2003: Creation and turnover of operations, maintenance and ownership of the power grid from NAPOCOR to TransCo
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo signed RA 9136 (Electric Power Industry Reform Act), which introduced market competition in the energy sector and mandated the creation of TransCo on June 8, 2001. TransCo was started as a unit of another government-owned corporation named National Power Corporation (NAPOCOR), with NAPOCOR continued to own, operate, and maintain the country's power grid and its related assets and facilities until March 1, 2003.

TransCo's System Operations (SO) Group obtained an ISO 9001:2000 Certification where it is the first SO group in the Southeast Asia to obtain the said certification in 2001.

In October 2002, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo proved a plan to privatize TransCo through a 25-year Operation and Management Concession Agreement.

TransCo took over the operations, maintenance, and ownership of the country's power grid from NAPOCOR on March 1, 2003, with Dr. Alan T. Ortiz became the first TransCo president to serve after the turnover of operations, management, and ownership of the grid from NAPOCOR to TransCo. Its transmission lines links various power plants, distribution utilities (such as Manila Electric Company), and electric cooperatives.

2003–2009: TransCo as power grid operator
TransCo served as power grid operator from March 1, 2003, until the turnover of operations and maintenance of the grid to National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) on January 15, 2009.

In September 2004, Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management (PSALM) received but rejected proposals from four groups with different offers for the TransCo contract that eventually led to a decision to conduct a public bidding.

In June 2005, TransCo garnered the fifth highest score in the Corporate Governance Scorecard for GOCCs & GFIs in the field of Corporate Governance from the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD).

On September 22, 2005, PSALM filed at the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) a petition for a regulatory reset of the maximum annual revenue for TransCo and other concessionaires. From 2003 to 2006, three auctions failed mostly as a result of issues regarding regulatory framework and right-of-way.

In January 2006, TransCo wrote history by bagging the Philippine Quality Award Recognition for Commitment to Quality Management.

In August 2006, TransCo's implementation of Spatial Data Infrastructure Project received a Special Achievement in Geographic Information System (GIS) Award, conferred by the Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI) in California, United States.

2007–2009: Transition period for the turnover of operations and maintenance from TransCo to NGCP to start of concession period or turnover to NGCP
On December 12, 2007, 2 consortia bid for a 25-year license to run the Philippine power grid – privatization of the management of TransCo: the consortium of Monte Oro Grid Resources Corp., comprising the State Grid Corporation of China, and Calaca High Power Corp., won in an auction conducted by the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management (PSALM) Corp. as it submitted the highest offer of $3.95 billion, for the right to operate TransCo for 25 years, outbidding San Miguel Energy, a unit of San Miguel Corporation (bid of $3.59 billion), Dutch firm TPG Aurora BV and Malaysia's TNB Prai Sdn Bhd. Jose Ibazeta, PSALM president and CEO remarked: "We are very happy about the successful turnout of the bidding for TransCo. PSALM handled the privatization of the government's transmission business with utmost transparency and judiciousness."

On February 28, 2008, TransCo's concession agreement with NGCP was executed and became effective.

TransCo bagged the Mother Nature Award where it is given annually to companies that demonstrate effective compliance with environmental regulations and those that design and successfully implement sound Environmental Management System (EMS) and Environmental Management Programs (EMP) beyond mere compliance with existing laws in 2008.

Congress approved bicameral resolution granting franchise to NGCP to manage and operate its transmission facilities nationwide in November 2008.

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo signed RA 9511 into law granting franchise to NGCP in December of that same year.

On January 15, 2009, TransCo turned over the operations, maintenance, and management of the transmission system to NGCP which marked the start of the 25-year concession period and renewable for another 25 years with a total of 50 years. Ownership of the country's power grid, however, remains with the Philippine government through TransCo.

2009–present: TransCo after the turnover of operations and maintenance to NGCP
TransCo assumed its new role as a result of turnover of operations and maintenance to NGCP on January 15, 2009, which was to protect the national government's interest by ensuring NGCP's compliance with the terms and conditions of its concession agreement with NGCP, policies of the Department of Energy (DOE) and other relevant laws, handle existing cases, divest the remaining sub-transmission assets, and administer the Feed-in-Tariff Allowance Fund for renewable energy generators. Arthur N. Aguilar continued to serve as TransCo president even after its operations and maintenance of the power grid was transferred to NGCP on January 15, 2009, until he was replaced by Moslemen T. Macarambon, Sr. six months later on July 16, 2009, as a result of taking a new oath of office of the new table of TransCo organization.

The Department of Budget and Management approved the new structure of TransCo consequent to the privatization of its transmission business on April 20, 2009.

The new table of organization employees took a new oath of office on July 16, 2009, which results in the formation of a new TransCo.

In November 2012, ERC named TransCo as fit-allowance fund administrator and was given an added role in renewable energy sector.

On March 24, 2017, TransCo receives its ISO certification for Quality Management System from TÜV Rheinland.

On June 8, 2018, the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), NGCP, and TransCo signed an agreement on Friday for a national broadband plan that will help accelerate internet connectivity nationwide. Under the agreement, the DICT will utilize TransCo's reserved optical fiber to distribute connectivity from Luzon to Mindanao using the submarine cables that will be laid down by Facebook from the United States to Asia. The agreement plans to expand the internet connectivity in public places for free by building an additional 200,000 access points nationwide by 2022, DICT Officer-In-Charge Eliseo Rio said.

In 2022, the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) presented the Certificate of Compliance to TransCo for meeting the necessary requirements pursuant to Section 5.7.b of Memorandum Circular No. 2020–1 on the Harmonization of National Government Performance, Monitoring, Information, and Reporting Systems.

In January 2022, TransCo  has succeeded in testing and applying emerging ICT technologies that will make use of existing power line infrastructures to help the Department of Education (DepEd) to implement the Public Education Network program of DepEd that will provide connectivity and high-speed internet to public schools nationwide amid the pandemic. TransCo president Melvin Matibag said the Public Education Network-Communications Infrastructure for Learning (PEN-CIL) project would address the challenges of DepEd in ensuring the continuity of learning amid the pandemic and the expected transition to the New Normal by providing Internet connectivity in all public schools.

In May 2022, TransCo and Palawan Electric Cooperative (PALECO) signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) mandating the corporation to perform all functions of Small Grid System Operator to address the lingering power issues in Palawan. Said MOA signing is in accordance with the Department of Energy (DOE) Department Circular No. 2021-11-0039 "Mandating the National Transmission Corporation as Small Grid System Operator in Specific Areas."

Controversies with NGCP
In May 2017, TransCo accused NGCP with violating its concession agreement with the power grid operator by supposedly making too much money from its operations of the country's electricity grid. Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea pointed out that, if indeed NGCP had violated the terms of its contract by profiting unduly from the operations of the power grid such as allowing telecommunications firms to mount their fiber optic cables on the transmission towers.

In a November 2019 session, the Senate of the Philippines was informed that Chinese part ownership of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines – the Philippines sole power transmission line company – gave China the power to remotely switch off the Philippine electrical grid. Senator Sherwin "Win" Gatchalian said that he was advised by the president of TransCo that it was possible for China to shut down the Philippine electrical grid remotely "given the technological advancement right now in the telecommunications as well as in software." Gatchalian also said it would "take about 24 to 48 hours, depending on the gravity, to bring the grid back up."

Senator Richard "Dick" Gordon raised security concerns about the Philippines having "given our grid – although 40% it appears – to a foreign corporation that has interests that collide with our country in the West Philippine Sea," given that China "obviously has a hegemonic ambition."

In 2021, the National Association of Electricity Consumers for Reforms, Inc. (NASECORE) has called on the Energy Department to conduct a systems audit of NGCP for what it called a "dismal failure" of the grid operator "to ensure the quality, reliability, security and affordability of the supply of electric power" as required by law. In a letter to Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi dated December 21, 2021, NASECORE said: "This failure had been repeatedly witnessed during the 2013 Super Typhoon Yolanda, Typhoon Ruby in 2014 and the earthquake of 2017 due to its apparent inadequate, weak and grossly unreliable transmission system that are easily felled by typhoons." NASECORE President Pete Ilagan said this performance of NGCP is unacceptable and unfair to electric cooperatives and distribution utilities who bear the brunt of the blame from consumers for the grid operators' weak and the unreliable transmission system. NASECORE urged the Energy Department conduct an immediate and transparent audit (an actual ocular inspection and documentation) of NGCP transmission system so as to determine the required upgrading and improvisation that will establish a resilient transmission system nationwide and ERC to conduct a regulatory audit of the funds it provided NGCP meant specifically for Capital Expenditures which covers the rehabilitation and upgrading of the nationwide transmission system. Ilagan added that the concession agreement of NGCP with TransCo should be reviewed for possible violations as well as a review of NGCP's congressional franchise by the Joint Congressional Energy Commission (JCEC) to protect public interest.

Organization
Below is a table listing the officials of TransCo which are appointed by the President of the Philippines. The TransCo organization consists of president and CEO serving as head of the government agency, secretaries of Departments of Finance, Energy and Environment and Natural Resources, with DOF secretary serving as ex officio chairman, representatives for Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, Corporate Secretary and Compliance Officer, and Vice Presidents for General Counsel, Right-of-Way and Legal Group, Management Transmission Group and Resource Management Services Group. The DOF, DOE and DENR secretaries, TransCo president and CEO, Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao representatives, and Corporate Secretary and Compliance Officer form the TransCo board of directors.

Presidents

Chairman
The Department of Finance secretary serves as ex officio chairman of TransCo which is appointed by the President of the Philippines.

Notes

See also
List of Philippine companies
National Grid Corporation of the Philippines
National Power Corporation

References

External links

Official website

Government-owned and controlled corporations of the Philippines
Companies based in Quezon City
Department of Energy (Philippines)
Electric power companies of the Philippines
2001 establishments in the Philippines
Energy companies established in 2001

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HUBBARDSTON — The deadline is looming for turning in nomination papers for town office, and it's less than two weeks away. So far, voters are looking at three contested races for town office, while the town is looking at a race to fill all of the positions on the ballot. Town Clerk Elaine Morin-Olly said current Selectman Paul Hale has taken out nomination papers along with former Hubbardston police Officer Chris Giglio. The town clerk said both men have already returned their papers to her office. Morin-Olly said she is seeking re-election to her position and so far will be facing Joyce Green. The clerk said Green has not yet returned her papers. The only other contested race on the ballot is for a three-year seat on the Quabbin Regional School District Committee. That position is held by Edward Leonard, who is seeking re-election. Mark Wigler of Kruse Road has also taken out nomination papers for the three-year seat on the committee. Running unopposed on the ballot in the upcoming May 2 election are Rhonda Hamer, who is seeking a three-year seat on the board of library trustees; James Murphy, who is seeking a three-year seat on the Board of Health and Theodore Curtis, who is seeking a five-year seat on the Housing Authority. In the race for a two-year term on the Planning Board, Jassy Bratko hopes to keep the seat she was appointed to after two of the board's members resigned. Bratko is running unopposed. Also on the ballot are Dennis O'Donnell seeking a three-year term as constable and Paul Kimbar who is seeking re-election to his three-year term on the Finance Committee. There are six positions on the ballot that are still in need of candidates. Those positions are a three-year seat on the Finance Committee, a three-year term on the Board of Assessors, a three-year term and a one-year term on the Parks and Recreation Commission and a three-year position with the library board of trustees. Morin-Olly said nomination papers for the open positions are still available in her office, which is located in the basement of the library. ernieking@thegardnernews.com


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