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Atom Egoyan's Chloe: Sex Cinema High and Low
David L. Pike
"It is a protean film, and changes radically depending on how you approach it."
There has been some surprise about Toronto-based art film auteur Atom Egoyan's involvement in what most reviewers have regarded as a soft-core erotic thriller. This perception may have been compounded by the origin of the project in Hollywood-based producer Ivan Reitman, who got his start producing and directing Canadian sex-horror exploitation features such as his own Cannibal Girls (1973) and David Cronenberg's controversial commercial debut, Shivers (1975). But in fact, Egoyan's films have been centrally concerned with sex since the beginning of his career, and their sexual content has been integral to the marketing of his films since his commercial breakthrough, Exotica, in 1994. Even films in which sex was subordinated to the main subject, such as The Sweet Hereafter (1997), Felicia's Journey (1999), and Ararat (2002), prominently featured naked couples in their publicity. To be sure, this ploy is self-evidently related to the commercial realities especially of DVD marketing. But it also testifies to Egoyan's refusal as a filmmaker to sever sexuality from its fundamental presence in the familial relationships at the core of all of his films. And it testifies to his role as heir to the sexually complex and unrelentingly intimate filmmaking of the great European auteurs of the past, in particular Bergman and Fassbinder, whose films, lest we forget, also straddled a fine line between exploitation and art (think of the prurient appeal of Bergman's landmark adulation of Harriet Anderson in Summer with Monika [1953], immortalized by the heavy breathing of young critics Godard and Truffaut, and the X-rating originally tagged on The Silence [1963], Persona [1966], and Cries and Whispers [1972]; or the sexual demimonde explored both on- and off-screen by Fassbinder and his circle of collaborators). So perhaps we should not be surprised that Egoyan, screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson, and producer Reitman have taken a run-of-the-mill French sex-talk drama and "reinvented" it (to use their language) as a contemporary take on the classic European art film. What should surprise us is that they have actually managed to do it as well as they have.
This is the third widely distributed film Egoyan has made with sex at its center, but the first to focus so clearly on the European tradition. The tortured lives and thwarted viewer expectations of Exotica were of a piece with the new Canadian cinema of the late eighties and early nineties, while the sexual games of Egoyan's disastrous big-budget foray, Where the Truth Lies (2005), were a mainstream refraction of the steamy and sophisticated behind-the-scenes exposé of Tinseltown decadence. With the notable exception of a Grand Guignol denouement borrowed straight from Fatal Attraction, there is in fact nothing much Hollywood about Chloe. Its microscopic dissection of its female characters' sexual psychology and the complex dynamics of a troubled marriage hearken straight back to late Bergman (down to the erotic monologue between women, originated by Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann in Persona), as does its extensive reliance on close-up reaction shots, especially of Julianne Moore's extraordinarily expressive features.1 Like Egoyan's early features, the sexually transgressive potential of the familial tensions and the pushing of characters far beyond their own comfort zone echo Fassbinder's emotionally unresolved and psychologically ambiguous melodramas. What is most French about the film — its casual female nudity and the central role played by its urban location (Toronto, rather than Paris) — is for me more a reflection of Canadian cinema's adaptation of those Gallic tropes to its own filmmaking since the late eighties than a direct sign of the film's Parisian origin. That those tropes — especially the nudity — happen to be shared with American soft-core and the erotic thriller has long helped to guarantee both French and Canadian cinema strong ancillary markets stateside. The resemblance cannot be discounted, but neither should it constitute the only critical rubric for analyzing and evaluating the film.
Although Egoyan's narratives have always stressed sexuality in their psychology, only in his two "Hollywood" films has that sex become explicit and matched to the straightforward expectations of the mainstream Hollywood sex scene. Both Where the Truth Lies and Chloe feature simulated sex between older major male stars and young starlets; and both feature sex between women. The latter scene in Chloe is fairly indistinguishable stylistically from the soft-core staple, down to the elliptical cut from partially dressed in-plot-sequence kissing to musically accompanied close-ups of entwined naked bodies. Why does it matter? Serious movies have sex and plenty of dreck does not. Since Exotica, Egoyan's films have often explored the ambiguous representation of sexual young women: Christina's (Mia Kirshner) schoolgirl act in that film has splintered out through Nicole's (Sarah Polley) incest victim in The Sweet Hereafter, the series of runaways taken in and murdered by Bob Hoskins' Hilditch in Felicia's Journey, the rape victims in the lurid film-within-a-film of Ararat, the callow young journalist and her Alice-in-Wonderland lover in Where the Truth Lies. Chloe fits right into this auteurist trait, but the only way to distinguish it from its generic resemblance to the oft-mentioned Shannon Tweed is to suggest that the characters themselves are unable to separate their sexual tastes from the video tropes we see them acting out. Catherine's ambivalent post-coital response to Chloe — that she won't deny that she enjoyed it but doesn't ever want to do it again — nicely reflects the generic confusion of the scene, but in no way helps to resolve the dilemma in the absence of the auteurist context provided by Egoyan's screenwriting signature of a complex time scheme and plenty of narrative misdirection.
Straightforward exposition has never been Egoyan's forte, and some of Chloe's weakest moments can be blamed on its linear construction. The opening voiceover when Amanda Seyfried's Chloe explains her "profession" to the audience is especially flat, as are the opening scenes she plays as a lacquered call girl. When Egoyan loosens her up once Julianne Moore's gynecologist housewife Catherine appears, I briefly wondered if he was playing with expectations in his time-honored fashion: look at how much like a mechanical doll she seemed plying her trade with anonymous predatory rich men; look at how beautiful she gets once she is with someone she wants (Catherine). And, to be honest, Seyfried's acting chops eventually persuaded me this was the case — she almost held her own with Moore's spectacularly nuanced face and easily matched Neeson's thankless cardboard figure. There's the core of a decent drama buried here, the innovatively gender-bending portrait of a mid-life crisis of a successful doctor whose hazy realization of a loss of desire for her spouse and loss of self-confidence in herself leads her into an intense affair. And Moore has the capacity to make us believe it as few actors could. That core may not have made a great film, but it's enough for a warmly human one. But there is so much here to get in its way. Why do the principals have to be wildly and incomprehensively successful career people — a jet-setting academic whose actual field is so difficult to identify that we can't even question its lack of verisimilitude; and a gynecologist who seems to understand her specialty so poorly that her consulting room has been equipped with enormous plate glass windows whose curtains never close and a bedside manner that makes Cronenberg's Mantle Twins look compassionate. This allows her to watch from her window as Chloe prostitutes herself in a neighboring upscale hotel, but doesn't make a lot of professional sense. And what about the rebellious and gifted teenage son, inexplicably equally adept as concert pianist and star hockey player. (Is he in high school? College? Apparently we don't need to care, although we do see a bunch of young people in school uniforms at what looks like a graduation party at the end of the film.)
Better is the Stewart family's neo-modernist glass house, played by local architect Drew Mandel's 2004 Ravine House with an expanded reproduction of the bedroom built on set. The setting, all rectilinear floor-to-ceiling glass panels allowing total observation from any point, is patently unsuited for the coldly isolated family and a mother obsessed with spying on her son and husband. This very unsuitability effortlessly conjures up the lost intimacy the couple regret later in the film, as we imagine the exhibitionistic utopianism and confident perfectionism that motivated the move into this space (Catherine's waiting room prominently displays a framed blow-up of a decade-old newspaper feature about how the couple balance their careers). Moore brings Chloe into her street accidentally on purpose partly to show the house off to her, and Chloe later insinuates her way into it by seducing the son. But she exits (maybe it's real, maybe it's fantasy) by crashing out a plate-glass window into the wintery woods of the ravine behind, breaking through one of the many glass panels that have been associated with Catherine's voyeuristic distance throughout the film.
Moore and Seyfried match the house's cool elegance with quite a fashion show, especially their fashionably high heels (featured, for example, in the low shots beneath the bathroom stall partition where the two first meet), and Egoyan backs a number of shots with fashion billboards or hoardings, but it's not clear what they mean, whether they're commenting on the city replete with spectacle (the old 1980s reading of his early films) or simply showing us what Toronto looks like circa 2009, another aspect of its sleek bars and chic restaurants. The exhibitionism echoes through the son's girlfriend breaking up with him via Skype (why isn't he wearing a headset, as any privacy-obsessed twenty-first-century son would do? So that his mother can overhear). Later, in an equally implausible bid for privacy, he steps outside to have a cellphone conversation with his dad about his mom — naturally she sees and hears this one, too. Both mom and dad receive compromising text messages on their handhelds. It's been a while since Egoyan showed any traces of the early fascination with the mediating effect of technology that so strongly marked his films through The Adjuster; the later films continued to be centrally concerned with compensatory rituals and sexually infused emotional traumas, but in the mostly face-to-face terms we see in Chloe. Last year's Adoration was a reasonably successful gambit to reconnect the later version with the earlier, as the central character's video-conferencing is the focal point of his performance of a complex terrorism scenario. The Skype episode recalls the split-screen talking heads of that film; it does have one effective moment, when the girlfriend's face on the screen changes expression, her video image "seeing" through the son's webcam the mother listening to the conversation through the door she has just opened. But if Egoyan's thinking seriously here about how our conceptions of privacy have been changed by technology, it's not clear to me how.
This lack of depth to the film's auteurist threads only emphasizes the mystery of Catherine's motivation for hiring Chloe to seduce her husband or listening to the ensuing narratives of seduction without questioning their status as real. Whether she's honestly concerned about her husband's possible fidelity (probably) or gets off on the idea of Chloe having sex with her husband (appears so) or just has the hots for Chloe but can't admit it (likely) is not a recipe for suspense or for any deep thematic resonance. Nor is the Fatal Attraction-style response of the smitten Chloe at all persuasive; she goes straight for the jugular, both figuratively (the son) and then literally. Nevertheless, there's a powerful emotional kick from David and Catherine's reconciliation, cannily framed inside a sidewalk restaurant terrace, shuttered up for the winter — the only truly private setting in the entire film, all the more effective because it normally would be public and exposed. Neeson and Moore play this extended scene in painfully realistic fashion, perfectly capturing its awkwardness and the difficulty they have in being honest with each other, the realism of the drifting apart of professional middle age. But the kick comes mostly from the actors and Egoyan's wisdom in letting them loose and Moore's extended close-ups, and not from much else. And then the plot kicks in again, and we have to watch Chloe's heirloom hairpin drawing blood from Catherine's exposed throat.
Given so many missteps, it was a bit of a surprise, then, to watch the French original, Nathalie, and to realize how much, for all their faults, Wilson's screenplay and Egoyan's film have improved on it. Egoyan's actors inhabit their characters; Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, and Emmanuelle Béart play them. Chloe places the characters' professions to the fore as professions — the first three scenes show Chloe "dressing" for work, Catherine with a patient, and David lecturing. Each of these scenes is risible in its own way, but each does provide a milieu for the character and establish a viable social context. Nathalie's characters exist in the never-never land of French movie stars, and its great "innovation" is to refuse us access to Depardieu's character, forcing the viewer into the novel situation (for a French film, that is) of having to deal with a female character (Ardant) unmediated by her man. Unfortunately, that character's crisis consists of her husband's unapologetic philandering, a series of highly literary pornographic monologues voiced by Nathalie, a one-night stand with a young (male) waiter from a cocktail party, and a couple of girls' nights out with Nathalie before returning, in peace, to her comfortably bourgeois life. Nathalie, meanwhile, is comfortable in her skin throughout the movie, from her introduction amidst a bevy of hot prostitutes in a glamorous brothel to several scenes establishing the forty-year-old Béart as plugged in and happy in the bohemian nightlife of Paris, a familiar repudiation of Anglo-American prudery. The director, Anne Fontaine, reported that she couldn't even persuade the actors to go as far as being attracted to each other. So much for Anglo-American prudery. The French can do same-sex tension, social commentary, and slow-burn drama — see Sandrine Bonnaire and Isabelle Huppert in Chabrol's La Cérémonie (1995) — but Chloe trumps Nathalie on all counts here.
There is a late-teenaged son in Nathalie, but he barely registers, except in one brief scene where Ardant sees him in bed with a girl through his open door and smiles tolerantly. She's not sexually confused or troubled in any way, but just needs a little bit of fun to spice up her life. Wilson expands the role and ratchets up the tension straight into Egoyan territory, which, since Ararat, has featured intense, pretty young men who have serious issues with their mothers. Rather than a two-hander talk-fest between Ardant and Béart, we get a scenario closer to Pasolini's sexual parable Teorema (1968), where a beautiful stranger enters an upper-class household, seduces every person in it, and disappears, leaving disequilibrium and disaster in his wake. However, Chloe's ending is far more ambiguous. Nathalie ended with the couple reunited and the prostitute going her happy way; for all its awkwardness Chloe's genre-driven plot twist does have the great virtue, as Jonathan Rosenbaum pointed out in his defense of the film, of setting up the beautifully understated final scene.2 The elliptical cut from the aftermath of Chloe's fatal fall to Michael's graduation party clearly marks Chloe as a scapegoat in the classic sense, sacrificed by and ejected from the family circle in order to heal its rifts. The restored unity of the family is established by a simple sequence of eyeline matches across the crowded space of the house, its isolating and empty spaces for the first time filled with life and activity, echoing and mending the numerous failures and absences of the opening party scene. The ambiguity comes in the final turn to the private, a close-up of the back of Catherine's head, where the infamous hairpin is prominently displayed, neatly balancing the early moment where, letting her hair down in the restaurant bathroom in a crisis of sexual self-confidence, she first encounters Chloe. Is it a gesture of memorial to a tragic death? a recognition of her guilt? a sign of enduring and unrealized passion? Is it a shared gesture or a private one? unconscious or defiant? However seriously we can take it after the generic lunacy that has just transpired, the gesture is a clear signal that the characters in this film are meant to have a life and a meaning beyond what we have seen on the screen, beyond the tropes and conventions of the erotic thriller. As with the enigmatic conclusions of many of his films, here too Egoyan wants to gesture at all that we may not yet have understood about these characters, and to gesture beyond the simple narrative closure we may have been expecting.
Finally, then, for all of the director's protestations of being a hired gun exercising "other muscles" beyond those of the acclaimed auteur, there is still a lot of "Egoyan" here. He's got the same talented crew as always, including Paul Sarossy's cinematography, Mychael Danna's score, Eve Egoyan's musical supervision, Susan Shipton's editing, Phillip Barker's production design. But the core of actors, for the first time, is not there even in token form. Most strikingly, his wife and longtime collaborator Arsinée Khanjian is absent for the first time ever. And in a film about the floundering and final endurance of a long-term professional relationship, that feels a weighted choice. Just how it's weighted, of course, is their concern. Both Egoyan and Moore have been quite forthcoming about the resonance of the film with their own experiences in long-term relationships, but Khanjian's name was notably absent from interviews and publicity for the film. Similarly, there are none of the quirky individual character actors that gave such weight to Adoration, or the signifying cameos that punctuated Where the Truth Lies. Egoyan has said in an interview, "One of the things I promised myself I would do with this film was eradicate anything that referred to anything I had done before."3 And, to be honest, this is the very first Egoyan film I've seen that doesn't obviously feel like an Egoyan film.
Nevertheless, it does look like an Egoyan film, and while he may finally have severed his last link with self-referentiality in his use of actors and characters, he has certainly developed and refined a longtime interest in representing Toronto. Asked if he has recently been having a "love affair" with the city, Egoyan responded:
I always have. My first feature Next of Kin was shot in Kensington Market. It was totally Toronto. I think Exotica's Toronto, The Adjuster's Toronto. Ararat's Toronto. These are different areas of Toronto and different sorts of feelings of Toronto. . . . But these last two are taking a broader view of the city and are trying to imbue it with a sense of romance. I mean Adoration is sort of a desolate and kind of grungier sort of feeling of the city. And this one is certainly more glamorous.4
Wilson's screenplay had moved Nathalie's location stateside to her own San Francisco; Egoyan successfully argued that it would work better for him in Toronto. He had done something similar by shifting Russell Banks's New England-set The Sweet Hereafter to the Okinagan Valley and had tried in vain to persuade William Trevor to allow the Irish and Midlands settings of Felicia's Journey to be removed to Victoria, BC, in both cases allowing his nativist knowledge of the locale to influence and deepen the film (and the latter one certainly suffered from his inability to do so). There is a lot of Toronto in Chloe, and Egoyan makes sure we know it, as if by setting it so blatantly in Toronto he can somehow will it into being a little local indie piece and not the multiplex fodder as which it has been distributed by Reitman and Sony. We get lingering close-ups on street signs of Bloor, Yonge, and Dundas; significant footage in the Allan Gardens Conservatory (including an initial set-up echoing some famously found footage in the Anglo-Canadian classic Goin' down the Road); innumerable location-shot scenes in local cafes and trendy new restaurants and hotels; quite a few passing streetcars; and plenty of wintery scenes with genuinely dirty snow and see-your-breath cold. We get an extended shout-out to London, Ontario, indie band Raised by Swans as seduction ploy between Chloe and Michael. We admire recent architectural landmarks like Frank Gehry's reinvention of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Will Alsop's extension of the Ontario College of Art and Design, and Daniel Libeskind's Crystal extension to the Royal Ontario Museum.
Chloe's Toronto is fascinating on a number of counts. It is, almost, exclusively, a city of wealth and power, counterpart to the sleek and sexy locations that grace so many Manhattan-set erotic thrillers and high-powered romances, advertising the city's world-class stature. But doing this to Toronto had a special thrill, as Sarossy remarks in the production notes on the film's web page, because Toronto is famous above all as the anonymous stand-in for other cities. Moreover, when playing itself in Canadian cinema, including many of Egoyan's early films, it was predominantly used as a locus of modernist alienation, not as a site for rediscovering one's identity.
Strangely, Chloe's characters are not especially alienated; or, better, it is not their alienation that interests the filmmaker. As opposed to the similar characters she played in Safe, Far from Heaven, and The Hours, Moore's Catherine is not in fact trapped and disempowered by her social situation. It determines the trappings of her life — the showy office and showy house — but in fact the crisis comes from the loss of past happiness rather than the realization that her life had always been empty and false. We are never led to question the solidity of her relationship with David or its past happiness; indeed, the crucial moment of the film allows the couple to break through their estrangement and reestablish an intimacy signaled by the film as genuine and enduring. Left unsaid but strongly implied is that Catherine's current crisis has been prompted by the recent loss of a similar intimacy with her son, breaking free from what appears also to have been a nurturing and happy childhood. In contrast to prior, and far more troubled, Egoyan youths, Michael is well adjusted, confident, and productive (it is strongly hinted that he has been somehow troubled, but beyond his estrangement from his mother, the film gives no further indication of these troubles). To be sure, Egoyan strongly hints at a less functional class milieu surrounding the Stewart family. We never know quite what to make of Catherine and David's best friend Frank, apparently serially attracted to twenty-year-old trophy lovers (perhaps not coincidentally, his character is also the most direct carryover from Nathalie), nor the two bitter harpies Catherine lunches with one day, nor, of course, the various men we glimpse availing themselves in a more conventional manner of Chloe's services. But these characters barely impact on our awareness, as the film is about the central quartet, and them only.
Still, it is significant that Egoyan and Wilson refuse to provide Chloe with any backstory or milieu, or to draw any contrasting spaces to those in which the Stewart family moves. Egoyan has repeatedly stated in interviews that he intended his portrait of Toronto to draw out the class dynamics and divisions of the city; however, he has chosen to do so in typically elliptical fashion rather than creating a low Toronto to contrast with the high that we see. We know from the contrast of Chloe's awkward and stargazing entrance into the Ravine House with the easy presence of Michael's girlfriend there at the start of the film that Chloe is a class outsider. But the refusal to contextualize could just as easily lead us to conclude that the film takes the unreal wealth and status of its characters as much for granted as they appear to do so. This was the assumption of the many reviewers who complained of its lack of credibility. The minority that discerned a critical distance from its class assumptions saw an attempt at Sirkian irony through mise-en-scene. But I don't think even the film's lack of coherence is consistent enough for the Sirkian template (or a Fassbinder-ish one, either, à la The Marriage of Maria Braun). Egoyan has never made a perfect film — he is always trying to do too many different things at once. What is different about Chloe is that its fragmentation comes more structurally, from its mix of genres and influences, than formally, from an overabundance of thematic threads. It is a protean film, and changes radically depending on how way you approach it. As an erotic thriller, it's pretty mediocre exploitation; as art-film scenes from a marriage, it can be profoundly moving; as perhaps Toronto's first true city-film, it's an insider's pleasure. It establishes Egoyan as a consummate actor's director. But I hope Ivan Reitman hasn't convinced the man he's a genre director, because Egoyan is an auteur through and through.
See Egoyan's discussion of the close up as the quintessential feature of the big-screen experience in interview with Roger Ebert (one of Chloe's biggest supporters), at http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/a-conversation-with-atom-egoya.html. Andrew Sarris noted Persona as one of the rare antecedents of Nathalie in his review of the film in The New York Observer 30 April 2006: http://www.observer.com/node/38756 (6 July 2010). [↩]
Jonathan Rosenbaum, "An Unidentified Subject (Egoyan's Chloe)," Notes 29 March 2010: http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=20199 (3 July 2010). [↩]
Lee Shoquist, "Interview: Atom Egoyan," n: zone 28 March 2010: http://www.atnzone.com/nz/2010/03/28/interview-atom-egoyan-chloe/ (3 July 2010). [↩]
Peter Howell, "Toronto the . . . sexy? In Chloe, Egoyan turns our hometown into a hotbed of romance," Toronto Star E02: 15 Sept. 2009. [↩]
— David L. Pike
David L. Pike teaches literature and film at American University. His most recent book is Cold War Culture in the 1960s and 1980s: The Bunkered Decades, out November 2021 from Oxford UP. Earlier books include Canadian Cinema since the 1980s: At the Heart of the World (Toronto UP); Metropolis on the Styx: The Underworlds of Modern Urban Culture, 1800-2001; Subterranean Cities: The World beneath Paris and London, 1800-1945; and Passage through Hell: Modernist Descents, Medieval Underworlds, all from Cornell University Press. He is co-author of Literature: A World of Writing and co-editor of the Longman Anthology of World Literature, and has published widely on 19th- and 20th-century urban literature, culture, and film. He is currently completing Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City, co-authored with Malini Ranganathan and Sapana Doshi; and at work on Slum Lore, a cultural history of modern urban poverty.
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Contrast two theories of altruism ERQ.
January 1, 2019 May 5, 2021 Claire Neeson
This is a useful task to get students to focus on the command term of 'contrast' which they tend to find quite tricky. I give them the essay that I've written and they have to highlight all of the phrases/sections that really address the 'contrast' aspect of the question i.e. those which explicitly point out the differences between theories/studies/evaluation issues. I also ask them to fill details in the right-hand column so that they know why the essay works. This is a good active learning task, particularly for year 13s and they seem to really engage with it. I have highlighted some examples of explicit 'contrast' terms below:
The two theories of prosocial behaviour that will be contrasted in this essay are reciprocal altruism which takes the biological approach and the negative-state relief model which views prosocial behaviour using the cognitive approach. Research into prosocial behaviour is problematic in that it is difficult for psychologists to operationalise prosocial behaviour as a variable and to measure it precisely because it is a very subjective variable which may differ from person to person. Investigating it from a biological perspective (RA) involves using different methodology to that of a cognitive approach (NSR).
Reciprocal altruism is a biological theory that is based on the principles of evolutionary psychology, namely that altruistic acts are performed in order to gain some future benefit from the recipient. The basis of reciprocal altruism is that the donor's fitness is temporarily compromised in order to help another, fellow organism. This help is given with an expectation of future help from the recipient to the original donor. It is difficult to find empirical support for evolutionary theories – unlike lab-based NSR studies – so psychologists use the idea of ultimate causes to account for current behaviour that may be rooted in primeval instincts.
In contrast to reciprocal altruism, the negative-state relief model considers the extent to which personal discomfort at the sight of another's distress motivates altruistic acts. The assumption of this model is that when someone witnesses another in need of help they experience a negative mood such as concern, anxiety, guilt. This negative mood may then prompt the individual to offer help in order to improve their own mood, so prompting an egoistic motivation to help rather than being a purely altruistic act. This is a cognitive approach to prosocial behaviour which does not assume evolutionary instincts as the basis to behaviour (which is RA), rather researchers can use the model to draw inferences about behaviour.
Reciprocal altruism is based on the idea that there is a reasonably good probability that two organisms (e.g. two unrelated individual human beings) will meet again at some point in the future, making reciprocity possible. The negative-state relief model, however, focuses on a here-and-now approach, with the individual seeking relief from negative feelings in the moment rather than for some future gain. This is a real point of contrast between the two theories as reciprocal altruism assumes that human beings are programmed to instinctively help someone in need as a way of storing up future favours whereas the negative-state relief model is possibly easier to relate to as it identifies egoistic motivation as a factor in prosocial behaviour. In other words, most people are unlikely to believe that by helping a stranger in the street they are protecting themselves against future misfortune: they may never see this person again, their paths may never cross.
Axelrod & Hamilton (1981) devised a computer-based model of chess games involving two players to test reciprocal altruism. Batson et al (1989) in contrast, used a lab experiment with some manipulation of naïve participants. Axelrod & Hamilton took the unusual route of analysing a range of strategies used in chess games that had been provided by economists, sociologists, political theorists and mathematicians. This contrasts to Batson et al's more conventional use of a lab experiment involving 44 students taking an introductory psychology course at the University of Kansas. Batson et al's sample represents a typical group of participants for psychological research whereas Axelrod & Hamilton's represents a more diverse and less ethnocentric population.
In Batson et al half of the participants were told that they would be watching a video that would make them feel sad; the other half were told that the video would make them feel happy. The experimenter left the room and a confederate entered and asked the participant if they would be willing to give some time to help make phone calls related to blood donation. There were more offers of help from participants in the sad mood condition than in the positive mood condition. The researchers concluded that the participants in the sad condition may have helped in a bid to feel better (self-reward), thereby supporting the Negative State Relief model. Axelrod & Hamilton did not implement an independent variable, unlike Batson et al but their results, they claim, supported reciprocal altruism: the most successful way of achieving the highest average chess score was to employ a strategy known as tit for tat which may ultimately be more beneficial to an individual than pure self-serving acts.
There are limitations to each study, mainly linked to the operationalising of prosocial behaviour, for different reasons. Axelrod & Hamilton assumed that the players were drawing from evolutionary instincts to derive the most successful strategy but they may simply have been playing cautiously and using cognitive decision-making processes to plan their moves. This is the major flaw with reciprocal altruism: it is very difficult to use Axelrod & Hamilton's research as evidence of a biological approach as chess is a highly skilled game at which players must constantly think, process information, form judgements and make decisions.
Batson et al's research also has limitations but these are not at the level of the approach used (cognitive) but rather they are concerned with the issue of demand characteristics as a possible source of bias. The sample in this study were psychology students, (contrasted to Axelrod & Hamilton's sample of experts) so they might have guessed the aim of the study or behaved in an artificial way due to the contrived nature of the procedure. It is also possible that individual differences affected the result (more likely with a small sample) i.e. some participants may be naturally less caring than other participants. It would be very difficult therefore, for the researchers to be confident that they had successfully operationalised the negative-state relief model in their study.
To conclude, the main points of contrast between the two theories is that reciprocal altruism assumes that people behave prosocially for an expected future benefit – and that they do so without real, conscious thought – whereas the negative-state relief model assumes that help is given in the moment for egoistic reasons. The main source of difficulty in accepting reciprocal altruism as a valid theory of prosocial behaviour is the paucity of evidence to support it whereas for the negative-state relief model the main problem concerns the operationalising of the negative state and its subsequent ego-driven motivation towards prosocial behaviour.
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Hello everyone Jaysie Sheppard here, and I know it's been a few months since I had a blog but I'm back!!! I have known in my heart that God wanted me to express to all women how beautiful we are inside and out, but I struggled with this topic when it comes to beauty in the Mind. I knew when he told me to write about this a few months ago that it was important that we all women understand how beautiful our minds are and the thinking within our mind has major aspect of how we identify ourselves with God. I struggled with this because I knew deep down inside I had a lot of stinking thinking. My mind was not beautiful because I chose to keep ugly thoughts on the daily running in my head. Then I realized recently how I devalued my mind. I am not talking about knowledge, education, and wisdom which gives our minds beauty as well, but the thoughts I will let sit next to the wisdom of God in me. The thoughts that had "no evidence of truth", is what a great known professor said. "When your having anxiety or depression I would like for you to ask yourself one question, Where is the Evidence?" He was saying that what evidence do I have to think that it is true. Do you know the future, can you read that person's mind, did you see that with your own eyes? What evidence do we have ladies to think so ugly about ourselves or others?
TD Jakes used a term in one of his sermons called "sensual thinking". This is when your thinking about everything that's around you and you worry without ever getting a conclusion. I was doing exactly that today. This is when your constantly thinking of negative things and getting no conclusion and it goes over and over in my mind. I can say if God was looking at my mind it was not the beautiful princess he always sees me. My mind was ugly, because I was choosing to think ugly. Are our minds reflecting the same beautiful image that God describes us in the word of God?
This Scripture I believe from a athletes perspective is quite useful for me because it's all action words.
This has given me almost a brand new outfit to wear in my mind. Now I can dress my mind up with beautiful thoughts and beautiful jewelry of thinking. This is a process but if you continue in this chapter God gives us tools to think beautifully. So ladies finish reading the rest of Ephesians in this chapter and let's discuss how we will use these tools to think beautifully about things even when someone has hurt us. We need to strengthen ourselves first in order to be a beautiful mind for others as well.


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Home Cryptocurrency Inventor of Greece's First Every Digital Currency Vanishes after Sinking Invention
The person behind the invention of Greece's first every digital currency had vanished from the picture early this month while his invention was doomed significantly. The inventor is now back and says told the local press that he will be taking the issues in his own hands and will respond to the accusations leveled against him.
Vangelis Tsapas is a Greek who needs no introduction in the country as he is quite famous for various things to his credit. Amongst the things to his credit, he owns a national-level basketball team. In addition, he has been conducting several businesses and happens to be the inventor of Greece's first-ever cryptocurrency namely Hellenic Coin (HNC).
However, after successfully developing and thereafter launching the HNC coin, the inventor suddenly vanished from the picture earlier this month. Resultantly, there was a huge impact inflicted upon HNC whose value dropped massively. When he was there, the value of HNC was surging and it went up to the point where it was selling for US$ 4.84. However, the price went down to an extreme level on 8th November 2021, when the news of Tsapas's vanishing emerged. The first drop moved the price down to US$ 1.20 and presently, the value is under US$ 0.34.
After HNC's launch, it was in the month of June 2021 when HNC reached its all-time high value of US$ 4.84. Since then the value continues to keep dropping because of an overall impact upon the crypto economy. But the level of US$ 0.34 has sparked controversy amongst HNC holders which have been further fueled by the vanishing of Tsapas.
HNC holders are raising allegations that Tsapas has been manipulating the prices himself. They are claiming that his sudden non-availability was deliberate and he wanted to bring down HNC's value to an alarming level. Another allegation attributed to him is that he had sold his HNC coins intentionally for generating a "slump". During all this time when people were raising allegations against Tsapas, he did not respond to anyone. In fact, he stopped receiving calls, appearing on social media, and answering emails as well.
However, he has recently contacted the local press and informed the press that he hadn't escaped nor he is running from anything. Instead, there were certain matters which needed his attention and therefore he had to be away for a short time.
As regards the allegations of price manipulation against him, he said that all of them are false and baseless accusations. He said that why he would do such a thing to HNC which is in fact his very own invention. He said that he will be shortly noting each and every allegation and accusation leveled against him. Thereafter, he would respond to each allegation individually and will make sure that his name is clear from the accusations.
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Газалке́нт () — город, административный центр Бостанлыкского тумана (района) Ташкентского вилоята Узбекистана.

История
Возник в 1932 году как посёлок строителей Газалкентского гидроузла. Ранее Газалкент входил в Бостандыкский район Южно-Казахстанской области. Статус города присвоен в 1964 году.

Начинающийся от него деривационный канал служит энергетическим трактом для каскада Урта-Чирчикских ГЭС (в составе Чирчик-Бозсуйского каскада ГЭС) и подаёт воду на магистральный оросительный канал Бозсу.

География
Расположен в отрогах Тянь-Шаня на левом берегу реки Чирчик. В городе находится одноимённая железнодорожная станция (на ветке Ташкент — Ходжикент).

Население
Население — 21 800 жителей (1991). До 1990 года преобладающее население города Газалкента (по убыванию) — русские, узбеки, казахи, немцы, татары, корейцы.

Затем большая часть русскоязычного населения покинула город. Основная причина — безработица, как следствие распада СССР.

Промышленность
В городе располагаются плодоовощеконсервный, молочный и винодельческий заводы, гранитно-мраморный комбинат.

Камнеобрабатывающий комбинат (КОК) и стекольный завод, обеспечивавшие рабочими местами подавляющую часть населения Бостанлыкского района, к настоящему времени практически прекратили работу.

В окрестностях города находятся дома отдыха и санатории. Также имеется крупная тюремная зона в посёлке Таваксай.

Известные уроженцы

Рафик Ниша́нович Ниша́нов (узб. Рафиқ Нишонович Нишонов, узб. Rafiq Nishonovich Nishonov; род. 15 января 1926, Газалкент, Бостанлыкский район, Казакская АССР, РСФСР, СССР) — советский и узбекский государственный и политический деятель, дипломат.
 Медведев Иван Анатольевич (родился в 1959 году) — российский писатель, историк географических открытий, автор книг о знаменитых путешественниках.
 Ашуров Юлдаш Алимович (умер в 2009 году) — «вор в законе» по кличке Юлдаш Бостанлыкский.

Примечание

Населённые пункты Бостанлыкского района
Города Ташкентской области

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When it comes to Hong Kong International Airport (HKG), Cathay Pacific pretty much rules the roost. How else to explain the fact that they operate five different lounges at HKG? FIVE! That's a tremendous amount and during my recent trip back from HKG -> LAX, I had just enough time to stop in at two of them.
Cathay's flagship lounge is pretty special. It's divided into First Class and Business and I'm curious to know what First Class had available because the Business lounge made my jaw drop. Literally. It was embarrassing.
Besides the fact that you can get a literal View from The Wing here (how about that, Gary Leff?), the food available far surpasses any other airport lounge I've visited. Unlike the warmed-over chafing dishes of the oneworld First Class Lounge at LAX, The Wing offers a full pan-Asian Noodle Bar that would rival most fast-casual restaurants on the street. Dan Dan Mien (spicy Shanghainese noodles), shrimp and pork won tons in noodle soup, two types of ramen, braised beef shank soup, steamed BBQ pork bao (buns), pan-fried pork gyoza (dumplings), and egg custard bao for dessert. And it's all free.
My Noodle Bar lunch at Cathay Pacific's The Wing
I tried the gyoza and the dan dan mien and came away pretty happy. The pan-fried dumplings were fantastic. Just look at that sear. The noodles were less successful. Too much peanut sauce made me feel like I was eating noodles with very soupy peanut butter. I would have appreciated a lot more spice, but I'm sure they have to tone it down to appeal to the masses.
The Wing also has two hot self-serve bars, one featuring more Western fare and the other skewing more Asian. You can find dim sum, sauteed vegetables, fried rice, soup, and a wide selection of sodas, juices, and other beverages on the Asian side. On the Western spread, there are a few hot options (sausages? why is there a dish of just sausages?), a bunch of different sandwiches, cheeses, and a nice selection of grab-and-go salads and desserts (plus the same drink options as on the other side).
If you want to grab a drink, they have two different bars to choose from. The traditional Long Bar had a decent selection of liquor, but more importantly, a specialty cocktail menu and a solid wine list. They even offered The Glenlivet 18-Year-Old as their whisky of the month. Nice! Here are the specialty cocktails:
Just look at those delicious cocktails!
The other bar is The Coffee Loft, a full-service coffee lounge with a barista and everything. Want a latte? They can hook you up. Want some ice cream? They've got that, too, and some pastries for good measure.
"It's a coffee bar!" "No. It's The Coffee Loft."
It honestly made me mad that I had just come from the Harbourside buffet because I just wasn't hungry enough to try it all.
If you want all of the comfort of The Wing, but in a more claustrophobic space with less exciting food options, The Cabin is perfect for you. Instead of the open expansiveness of The Wing, The Cabin feels just like what it says: the cramped cabin of an airplane. They do have one major advantage, though: the view of the tarmac is much closer at The Cabin.
There's no Noodle Bar or Coffee Loft here, but they do have The Deli and The Health Bar. The Deli offers one hot sandwich (and a vegetarian option) in addition to the cold sandwiches that mostly resemble what you would find at The Wing. During my visit, the sandwich was shaved ham with pineapple relish. Griddled on a panini press, this sandwich wouldn't win any awards. You could hardly taste the pineapple relish and the ham itself was fairly dry. That said, it's a made-to-order hot sandwich in an airport lounge. Can we really complain that much?
Yep. That's a ham sandwich.
The Deli also offers a nice grouping of cold salads, scooped to order, and a lineup of self-serve hot dishes and pre-made sandwiches just like The Wing provided. Here, however, they offered a Thai BBQ pork neck sandwich but I just couldn't muster the courage to try it.
The Health Bar is really just their regular bar with some healthy smoothies added in. That's not a criticism. I love that they're doing fresh juice combinations and smoothies. The photo isn't great, but here's the menu:
So. Healthy.
Based on where your gate happens to be, I'd recommend walking the extra steps to The Wing. The Cabin is certainly a nice option if you're in the 20-something gates and want something convenient.
Overall, I've got to give it to Cathay. They made these lounges really appealing. I almost wish I could have spent more time in them before my flight left. Have you been to the Cathay lounges at HKG? What was your experience like?
Fly&Dine was able to experience the lounges as a result of a hosted flight by Cathay Pacific.
First time to hkg in late July and am flying back to lax in CX F departing 930am. Thoughts on what time to arrive at the airport and which lounge to go to for the best breakfast? I'm assuming they serve lunch and dinner on the flight.
I'd get there at 7:30am to have two full hours to make it through security/immigration with time for breakfast at The Wing. It's their biggest lounge, so I think you're best off there and, as far as I know, the First Class side offers a full a la carte menu. Maybe 7:00am just to be able to relax up there.
On my CX flight, the meals were served roughly 1.5hours after takeoff and before touchdown. You may want to consider your lounge meal and your first meal in the air courses of the same meal.
Shindig says:
My wife and daughter said the Champagne (?) at The Wing was better than the Deutz NV that was served onboard our late afternoon flight to JFK. I held off on alcohol until after takeoff but the Asian food there was great for our late lunch time visit.


The long, flat airport taxiways and runways make for one of the most exciting driver skill contested venues for an open-wheel event in Champ Car to be staged this year.
In Cleveland, the race is held on a working (but shut-down for the week-end) private aircraft airport right on the lakefront that the City of Cleveland resides on.
From Burke Lakefront Airport, the Cityscape of Cleveland acts a jewel of a backdrop with the Rock-N-Roll Hall Of Fame as a centerpiece.
The biggest attraction of the race venue has to be the track itself ... and in particular, Turn One on ANY start and restart.
The strightaway leading to the approach to Turn One is as wide as any concrete eight to ten lane freeway. The turn itself circles back to the other direction about 315 degrees onto a crossover to another runway heading back to the oposite direction.
As the Champ Cars and drivers head into Turn One, many are tempted to cut the corner short and take the shortest route to the apex, while others take a much higher line which allows one the hit the apex of the turn at a higher rate of speed.
... Well, here is the start of the race from last year where A.J. Allmendinger (currently racing in NASCAR) is able to just get past Sebastian Bourdais to maintain the pole starting position - Position One, while others will need assistance for a restart.
This year may actually be the last race from Burke if some people in Cleveland have their way - and this would be very sad indeed. The Cleveland Grand Prix is one of just a few races that helped to define what it ment to BE a Champ Car venue. Really, it is right there with Long Beach, Elkhart Lake, and Toronto.
The Burke Lakefront Airport circuit in Cleveland, Ohio offers a challenging 2.106-mile, wide-open 10-turn race track. This will be the 26th time that the Champ Cars "Roar by the Shore". This event is the longest tenure of any temporary race venue on the Champ Car circuit.
Is it possible that the race in Cleveland will go the way of other great venues that were Champ Car staples like Ohio and Vancouver?
What to do with Burke?
The vast expanse of land that makes up Burke Lakefront Airport has tantalized residents for decades as the last, best hope to give Cleveland a real lakefront, akin to Chicago, Milwaukee or Toronto.
And with two underperforming local airports -- Burke and Cuyahoga County -- the refrain from various quarters has long been to close Burke and merge operations.
But the hurdles to use Burke's 450 acres for a commercial center or housing or even a massive park are greater and more expensive than many realize.
While often called prime lakefront land, the reality is very different.
Most of Burke sits on garbage and dredge material. In fact, a Cleveland city dump since the time of horse-drawn wagons was located there and the garbage was burned until the 1950s.
Workers doing any digging on or near Burke are required to wear environmental hazmat suits because of the contamination, which includes PCBs, methane, oil, car tires and other debris.
Mike Hoyle, chief executive of Business Aircraft Group Inc., an aircraft management and sales company at Burke, doesn't believe the airport can be closed, both for the economic benefit it brings to Cleveland and for the simple reason that turning the land into a park would be too expensive.
City officials and others estimate that Burke contributes at least $100 million a year to the economy.
"You dig 4 feet and you're in sludge," Hoyle said. "My building sits on 6-foot-wide footers and it has settled 9 inches. You can't build a high-rise here."
But long before any new use of the land can even be considered, another question must be answered.
Can it be done? Can Burke, in fact, be closed?
That may be finally answered, with a master plan of the airport that Burke Commissioner Khalid Bahhur expects to be complete later this year.
It would finally answer the question of "does Burke stay or does it go?"
"If it stays, we'll be able to say here's why, and if it goes, here's why," Bahhur said.
If Burke goes, and the process could take years, a big question is where do the hospital helicopters, the Federal Reserve flights, the flight schools, corporate jets and others that use Burke go?
Some say other close-by reliever airports, such as Cuyahoga County, Lost Nation and Lorain County, could take portions. Of those, only Cuyahoga County has a control tower.
To close Burke, Cleveland would probably have to repay the Federal Aviation Administration $4.1 million in grants it received for airport upkeep.
The FAA could require Cleveland not just to move all operations to other airports, but could also require the city to reproduce Burke and its acreage at a different location.
"It's more than simply repaying the money," said FAA spokesman Tony Molinaro. "We would do an airspace study . . . to see what the consequences are and does this create more congestion.
"We can say 'No, you can't close this.' "
Longtime Burke Commissioner Mike Barth, who left to run Lorain County airport, said he believes you can give people more access and keep the airport.
Barth, who left in 1999 after 28 years at Burke, including 10 as the airport's commissioner, said dredged material should continue to be dumped at Burke, which would ultimately allow a runway to be added to the north.
"We all know the lakefront would be really prime land. We could have parks, entertainment, housing and retail," Dimora said.
"What land in the county isn't contaminated? You'll have to build with pilings," he said. "It's more difficult, more costly. But it's more desirable."
Hey! ... and then there is the Cleveland Grand Prix and all the commerce and attention this event brings into the Cleveland economy every year for the last 26 years ... where is the mention of this little tidbit of information?


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Rivers Cuomo finally trims the band down to just the "important" members.
[With Volume 10 of the Fancy Plans Guide to Rock and Roll headed your way early next week, I thought it might be fun and self-satisfying to re-up the original. It was never intended to be a series, but people started making requests and, oddly enough, I actually started fulfilling them. I'm still way behind on the requests, but as Abe Vigoda is fond of saying, "I ain't dead yet." Enjoy. (Originally published on May 13th, 2009.)]
Here at Fancy Plans… we are often asked the question, "What is rock?" We reply, "Well, what are you listening to now?" The answer comes back, "It sounds like rock." And our answer comes back, "It sounds like suck!"
Secure in our superiority, we retire to the bar, down several shots, head home alone and cry ourselves to sleep. Usually to Sigur Ros or some other depressing Nordic band. Unless we feel like murdering our friends and burning down a church. Then it's Dimmu Borgir.
But enough about us. It's time for some Rock and Roll 101. Remember, we do take requests. Just put them in the comment box.
Fronted by an underwear ad, Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch succeeded in putting the "fun" back in "funky." Tragically, they completely failed to put the "funk" back in "funky," creating a sound that can only be described as "funy," a made-up word that means nothing but sums up the group perfectly. Marky Mark went on to be a successful actor dues to his enormous prosthetic penis.
Much like other "new" bands (Riders of the Purple Sage, Christy Minstrels, Order), there's nothing remotely new about these kids. They're still the same old kids who've annoyed you ever since they were old enough to leave their yards.
Remember, a few Christmases ago, when they showed up on your doorstep, bursting with four-part harmonies and well-rehearsed choreography? And you said, "Would you youngsters like some hot cocoa?" and while they were nodding enthusiastically, you hurled the cocoa into their freshly scrubbed faces? Ho ho ho!
Well, if you do remember would you care to indicate that by marking an "x" in this box and signing the bottom of this statement?
– 16 Popsicle Sticks
– 4 Pipe Cleaners
– Intergalactic Spaceship (ask your parents for permission)
– Dry Macaroni Noodles
– Magic Markers
– Psychedelics (ask your older brother)
Grandpa's favorite band, or at least he thinks so now, when he isn't catching strange scents or ordering "strangers" like you out of his house. He used to tell you war stories but all he does now is argue with the television, occasionally stopping to yell, "Listen to me, you motherfucking beanpole. I don't know who you are or where you got that haircut, but get the fuck out of my house! Your skinny tie reeks of purple."
Awwww. Don't you just want to eat him up?
As popular as his namesake and twice as sweet. Cute-as-a-button blonde candy coating with a dark chocolate core of blustering misogyny. Melts in your mouth, not your hands, ladies.
PETA's least favorite band. Chock full of glittery synths, intelligent lyrics and a wardrobe to die for. If the Boys ever covered Venus in Furs covered in fur, several hundred angry protesters would show up and try to reconcile their hatred of furs with their respect for gay celebs and little red ribbons. Heads would explode.
Or perhaps, PETA will again take the low road and pimp out some objects (excuse me, models) to stand around nakedly protesting, thus ensuring press coverage both legitimate (AP) and bastardized (hello, Internet!). Possibly NSFW.
Early pioneer of the heavy metal spirit, Led Zeppelin is perhaps best known for their song We Fucked a Groupie with a Shark. Amongst their other achievements: exposing youngsters to Satanism, Whitesnake, and founding member Peter Jackson's movie career, which finally allowed the band's Tolkien love to blossom fully.
Formed by Malcolm McLaren as yet another London sex shop, the Sex Pistols inadvertently became a band. They were briefly popular and reached their pinnacle when they serenaded Queen Elizabeth on her 103rd birthday. Frank Sinatra nodded his approval.
Tragedy would befall the band as bassist Sid Vicious fell in with the wrong crowd and began murdering his girlfriends. Fortunately, his lack of personal hygiene and crippling heroin addiction stopped him at one, a Miss Chloe Webb. Malcolm McLaren went back to running both sex shops and his mouth, pausing briefly to photograph naked 15-year olds.
Carter, the Unstoppable Sex Machine
Current favorites in the mostly British arch-off, along with Certified Balsa artist Fatima Mansions and undeniably popular Blur. As Blur has dropped their class warfare angle to concentrate on world music, animated side projects and screwing Justine Frischmann, this leaves Carter USM (Shopper's Paradise, Sealed with a Glasgow Kiss) in a neck-and-neck race with underdog Fatima Mansions (Only Losers Take the Bus, Blues for Ceausescu).
A dark horse candidate has appeared out of the US, though. It's Negativland and their piss-take of U2's I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For. And here come the lawyers! Stay tuned!
(Or not, with the exception of Blur, none of these bands are still producing music.)
Lemmy, under the influence of nearly goddamned everything, is suddenly entranced by his "massive" hands.
Fronted by Quentin "Lemmy" Kilmister, former contributor to space rock pioneers, Hawkwind. Lemmy (Quentin to his mum) wished to head towards a more straightforward metal sound while founding member, Jethro Tull, was more than happy to prance around playing his flute.
Lemmy fought long and hard for his release from the label, finally forcing their hand with his refusal to comply with their sideburn policy.
The founding members of KISS met at a Kabuki class at an upstate New York Montessori school. They soon took their love of rock and roll and stage makeup to the next level, forming KISS in 1972. The original lineup included Gene Simmons (born Chaim Witz), Ace Frehley (Alfred Carlson Entemann), Peter Criss (Christopher Peter Rasmussenjinsenn) and Vinnie Vincent (Vincent Vincent, III Esq.)
Fortune and fame came quickly. Gene Simmon's tongue and little black book became the stuff of legends (apparently, he is quite the master storyteller and writes down his dreams for later interpretation). In 1996, Gene Simmons was given an honorary doctorate from the University of Chicago, thus temporarily making him "Dr. Love," until his title was bestowed on Dr. Drew.
During his formative years as a member of the high school tennis team, Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier) suffered a debilitating case of tennis-lesbianism. While recuperating (or should I say, "recooperating"), Vincent took a long trip to Sweden and returned as Alice Cooper, rock star. (I guess I won't say that. It's ridiculous.)
Much like your former uncle, Aunt Patricia, whose house you never get to visit anymore. Which is too bad because s/he was giving you free tennis lessons. Oh, well. We all wish her the best as she continues to climb the levelled playing field.
Cynthia Plastercaster
Not specifically a rock star, although she does know a great many of them and could probably pick them out of a crowded, darkened, half-dressed room. Ironically, Cynthia's start can be explained by a malaprop caused by a gardening accident suffered at an early age.
The story is that Cynthia approached Jimi Hendrix backstage and asked to be "a fanclub of his member." Jimi was delighted by this play on words and gave her some suggestions as to what she could do with Jimi's jimmy.
Another anecdote adds to her considerable legend. Apparently, a young George Lucas received a backstage pass to a New Christy Minstrels show. While touring behind the scenes, George happened across Cynthia, working from her normal plaster-castering position. As a 31-year old virgin, Lucas was confused and thought that this was her actual height. This image, combined with her eccentric speech patterns, stuck with Lucas and was the inspiration for the character Yoda.
Please stay tuned for future installments as events warrant.
-CLT
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Delightful, as always. There are 100's of bands I'd like to hear your thoughts and altered facts on… I'l start with five…
The Virgin Prunes
by alantru May 13, 2009 at 7:31 PM
Alien Sex Fiend, eh? That should be fun. They're a personal favorite of mine.
Capt. Sensible, Thin Lizzy and Sweet – A little research and I should be ready for dicombobulation.
And the Virgin Prunes, featuring Bono's cousin or stepbrother or former uncle or something.
To the Capmobile!
by Capitalist Lion Tamer May 14, 2009 at 4:21 AM
Gotta love the fiends. Saw them a couple of times.
by alantru May 14, 2009 at 12:09 PM
Holy shit you are so funny. I haven't laughed this much since the last time I got high. 😉
I vote for a Captain Beefheart bio.
by barelyknittogether May 15, 2009 at 6:37 PM
Another Captain request.
I may have to do a military-week theme or something. What the hell, Memorial Day's coming up.
We'll have a Cap-stravaganza because it works on so many levels.
Thanks for stopping in bkt and thanks for the compliments.
by Capitalist Lion Tamer May 15, 2009 at 7:17 PM
Much like all your work — it ages much much better than any rock star could ever hope to. (Cosmetic surgery, it appears, cannot save Steven Tyler.)
Of course, some things have changed since then: I now know all about Carter, the Unstoppable Sex Machine. Which is a good thing.
Of course, some things haven't changed. Lemmy's drinking is still out of control. Which is okie dokey by me.
And, finally, this affords me the opportunity for more requests. Thus proving they really do keep coming…
Princess Tinymeat
The Hudson Brothers
by alantru September 19, 2009 at 2:43 PM
Welcome back, Alan.
And now that you know about Carter USM, I shall have to rip thru my storage area to find some of their spiritual brethren, Fatima Mansions.
So far I have just found the case…
Thanks for the requests. I will be on those like something… loosely wrapping something else.
The Housemartins might be fun, what with them being the formative years of one of my favorite djs/producers, Fatboy Slim.
by Capitalist Lion Tamer September 19, 2009 at 8:37 PM
Post (or should I say repost) of the day, CLT.
To tell you the truth, Marky Mark and his Funky Bunch were the reason I never got into doing heroin (well not heavily, anyway). With kick-ass yet affirmative lyrics like theirs, I realized I could have a good time without pumping "negative vibes" into my system.
I'm here to prove to you
that we can party on the positive side
and pump positive vibes
so come along for the ride
Making you feel the rhythm is my occupation
so feel the vibration
…trust me, I was feeling it.
And let's just say that Led Zepplin changed my life…well, technically it wasn't Led Zepplin per se, it was a more like a cover band from Mexico (Llevado Zepplin) who played their songs.
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Can't wait for early next week…I've even got my matching pants ready!
by bschooled September 19, 2009 at 7:46 PM
Ha! indeed.
Marky Mark has a lot to answer for, but at least he kept you off the smack. Those were some pretty positive vibes, reeking of good times and early-morning cheerfulness. Not for nothing were the Funky Bunch refered to as "More positive than Octomom's pregnancy test."
I've been down Mexico way and seen some members of Llevado Zepplin toiling away in yet another cover band: Leopardo No Puede Oir.
They brought tears to my eyes with their searing rendition of "The how you say 'biting' of de amor." It sounds beautiful in the original Spanish even though it's originally English.
See you en la manana.
I'm kind of stuck in my ways, especially since moving here and not having a radio; but I still love me some Eminem. The first time I heard the new album it seemed like way too much….anger? But it's grown on my exponentially. There is no better workout music than 3:00 AM. Like I said it's a real bitch without radio, to find good stuff I like. It's always taken me a couple attempts to get into anything to begin with. I do love rock too, but haven't downloaded anything new in 18 months.
by Scott Oglesby September 19, 2009 at 11:58 PM
Eminem certainly has a way with words and has some amazingly intricate rhyme schemes. Taken with several grains of salt, he can be pretty good.
It's too bad you're stuck without much music, Scott. I love the stuff like a junkie loves heroin and, occasionally, methadone.
Keep the faith. Thanks for visiting.
Ten volumes in seven days. Very impressive.
by Ramblin' Rooster September 20, 2009 at 9:20 PM
Well, it took quite a bit longer than that. Just like creation which actually took millions of years under the assumed name of "evolution."
So about 4 months, more or less.
by Capitalist Lion Tamer September 20, 2009 at 11:28 PM
How about Guns N Roses
That one should be fun
by suzettevaughn September 21, 2009 at 12:07 AM
That one should be fun, suzette. Lots of things went horribly wrong with that band, including the mysterious disappearance of the lead singer up his own ass.
Great to see you again.
by Capitalist Lion Tamer September 21, 2009 at 5:41 AM
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Classification 1er Cru ABV 13.5%
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Domaine Dureuil-Janthial: Full Wine List and Profile
Domaine Dureuil-Janthial is simply the leading domaine of the Côte Chalonnaise. What is more, the astonishing Vincent Dureuil is equally adept at making both white and red wines. Vincent inherited from the Janthial side of his family, who have been in Rully since the eighteenth century. Vincent and his wife Céline took over in 1994. As they say 'because wine is first grown in the vineyard, we have chosen to respect the land and let live the soils and vineyards to produce committed and accurate wines, of great purity and a frank personality.'
The domaine now extends to 20 hectares, 17 in the Côte Chalonnaise (primarily Rully and Mercurey) with 3 hectares in the Côte d'Or, including vines inherited by Céline in Nuits Saint Georges, and some inherited by Vincent in Puligny. The domaine was certified organic in 2009, but after short harvests in 2012 and 2013, Vincent was forced by a late attack of mildew in 2016 to spray with fungicide. The result was that he saved 5 hectares out of the 20, but lost his certification. Stubbornly he immediately set about the three years of 'conversion' he must do before he can be certified again. For this perfectionist, being 'nearly organic' does not quite cut it.
At the harvest all the grapes are hand-picked into small cases for transort to the winery. The white wines are pressed hard - although he is clear that for this the grapes have to be ripe and in perfect condition, he believes it's necessary with Chardonnay to get into the solid matter of the grape. The juice is allowed to oxidise under the press and S02 is only added 12 hours after the pressing, so that a dark brown liquid, after the settling out, is what goes into barrel where it will be clarified by the fermentation. The barrels are also chosen with great care - they are there to bring out the minerality, to add a touch of density, and they are minimally toasted. The whites get up to 20% new wood, the reds up to 30%.
The vinification of the reds takes place after an intense selection in the vineyard and at the sorting table. For now, despite experiments with some whole-bunch fermentations, Vincent destems almost everything. The grapes go into old open-topped wooden vats and are held at 6C for around eight days of cold maceration before a classic fermentation that reaches up to 34C. After the fermentation they go into barrel for a year, before bottling by March of the year after.


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Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge makes a big splash at MWC 2016
The new Samsung Galaxy S7 has been officially announced at Samsung's Unpacked event. The high-end smartphones with great design keeps iterating each year and in 2016 the Samsung S7 has made bigger splash just from its announcement that the S6 did last year. Before I look through the notable features and upgrades for the Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge check out the video below.
The S6 a step forward in design and use of premium materials but took a step back by stripping expandable storage, water-proofing and a few other Galaxy staples. The Samsung Galaxy S7 has restored those features and revamped some of the excellent features of the galaxy S6 such as the camera, processor and design. Below are the 5 killer features of the Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge that will make Smartphone lovers want to buy one or existing Galaxy series owners want to upgrade.
Powerful Camera
The front and back facing cameras of the Galazy S6 and S6 Edge now has an aperture of 1.7. This means more light to the camera's sensors resulting in better low light pictures, better focus and depth-of-field. The dual pixel 15mp rear camera with Canon's Smart OIS technology means the camera is better than its predecessor despite the smaller megapixel rating.
Hello again Expandible Storage
The MicroSD slot is a staple of the Android phone and its removal in the S6 and S6 Edge probably caused the biggest gripe in the Android phone community. Samsung listened at the expandable memory slot is back with the possibility to upgrade upt to 200GB – plenty of storage for the video, photography and gaming horder who install a lot but barely deletes.
Lovely Curves
As phones got bigger and bigger they became harder and harder to hold. Even those with big-enough hands often had trouble using their 5 inch+ devices for an extended period. The S7 addresses this now with 3D curved glass on both the front and back which Samsung says "emulats the form of a three-dimensional water drop".
Gaming next frontier with Vulcan API support
Gaming on a mobile phone is big business. So what if you could build better games which are more efficient with better graphics and provide more challenging experiences? In steps Vulcan API; an open source framework aimed at multi-threading. So all those individual cores of modern smartphones such as the S7 and S7 Edge will now be able to accessed and tasked individual for gaming activities.
Water and Dust-proof
An IP68 rating, the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge means that they can survive submersion in up to 1.5 meters of water for 30 minutes at a time. No more heart palpitations when your phone gets splashed, soaked in the rain or you have a bathroom "accident".
What are your thoughts on the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge? I look forward to being able to bring a full review of the Samsung Galazy S7 in the future. For now stay tuned to Geezam.com and remember to follow us on Twitter @Geezam.
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Electrical Contractors Association of BC names Matt MacInnis president
September 8, 2022 By Anthony Capkun
September 8, 2022 – The Electrical Contractors Association of British Columbia (ECABC) has taken on Matt MacInnis as its president, effective September 19. He replaces Deborah Cahill.
MacInnis most recently served as vice-president, Communications, for the Mining Association of British Columbia. Prior to that, he served as vice-president for a public relations firm, providing communications services to a diverse group of clients, including ECABC.
"I am very excited to join the great team at ECABC and spend time with our members to learn more about their priorities and how the association can best support them," said MacInnis. "I believe it's important that we recognize the critical role of electrical contractors in supporting key priorities of British Columbians."
MacInnis also has experience working in the BC Legislature, and for local and digital media outlets.
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