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37. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Three World War II veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
I so wish this film dove deeper than it does. The Best Years of Our Lives, directed by William Wyler and written by Robert E. Sherwood, only scratches the surface of what life for returning veterans. All three veterans in the film are dealing with something different: one lost both of his hands and now has hooks, one returns to the woman he married just before shipping out to find that he no longer feels the same way, and one struggles to return to his job as a banker and let's his penchant for alcohol take over a bit.
I think it's safe to say that this film lays a loose blueprint for the films that followed that tackled the same subject. Again, I'm mainly just disappointed because there was so much potential to dive deeper into the subject and instead the film chose to still have a very patriotic feel. But, I suppose, at the time, that producer Samuel Goldwyn would never let a film that greatly criticized the US Armed Services get by him. And that really is a shame, because had there been earlier depictions in film of how the US government nearly abandons its veterans upon returning from war, certain aspects of this country's history may have been altered. But, it wouldn't be until much later, with the Vietnam War, that we see film's really depicting the difficulty of returning to civilian life.
Other than that, I don't have much to say about this film. I understand why it is on AFI's list, but I don't know if it's one that should still be on the list. The acting was good and Wyler did a nice job directing, as usual. But, other than that, the film isn't very memorable to me. Plus, the two hour and fifty minute run time did not help. There are plenty of other films that have the same themes that could easily replace this one on AFI's Greatest 100 Films list.
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Seaweed – An Alternative Protein Source
Researchers at Teagasc ((the Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority) are looking to seaweed for proteins with health benefits for use as functional foods. Historically, edible seaweeds were consumed by coastal communities across the world and today seaweed is a habitual diet in many countries, particularly inAsia. Indeed, whole seaweeds have been successfully added to foods in recent times, ranging from sausages and cheese to pizza bases and frozen-meat products.
Researchers have previously shown that protein-rich red seaweeds such as Palmaria palmata (common name Dulse) and Porphyra (common name Sleabhac or Laver) species may potentially be used in the development of low-cost, highly nutritive diets that may compete with current protein crop sources such as soya bean. For example, the protein content of Dulse varies from between 9-25% depending on the season of collection and harvesting. The highest percentage protein per gram of dried whole seaweed is normally found in P. palmata collected during the winter season (October – January). Valuable amino acids such as leucine, valine and methionine are well represented in Dulse. In Porphyra species, the amino acid profile is similar to those reported for leguminous plants such as peas or beans.
Today, cardiovascular disease (CVD) accounts for more than 4.3 million deaths each year and high blood pressure is a main cause of CVD. In addition to its use as a protein source, the researchers have found that some of these seaweed proteins may have health benefits beyond those of basic human nutrition – for use in functional foods.
Bioactive peptides are food-derived peptides that exert a physiological, 'hormone-like', beneficial health effect. Proteins and peptides from food sources such as dairy, eggs, meat and fish are well documented as agents capable of reducing high blood pressure and are thought to be able to prevent CVD.
ACE-I inhibitors are commonly used as therapy in reducing high blood pressure. Food-derived peptides may act as inhibitors of important enzymes such as Angiotensin I converting enzyme (ACE-I) and renin.
The researchers found a renin-inhibitory peptide in the seaweed Palmaria palmata. This is significant as renin-inhibitory peptides have not been identified from seaweed species before.
These renin inhibitory peptides are currently being assessed in bread products for human consumption. Research work at Teagasc will also assess the effects of the P. palmata protein hydrolysates on the technical and sensory attributes of bakery products, in particular bread.
"Currently, analysis of a P. palmata bread product is underway and the effects of the hydrolysate on the moisture content, ash, crude fat, fibre and protein content have been assessed. The effects of the seaweed protein on the colour and texture profile of the bread are also being carried out," says researcher Dr Maria Hayes at Teagasc Food Research Centre, Ashtown. "It is also possible that protein isolated from P. palmata as part of this study could be used for technical purposes in food manufacture, for example in the manufacture of reduced fat products."
The researchers found a renin-inhibitory peptide in the seaweed Palmaria palmata (common name Dulse).
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Q: Google Api PHP unable to pass variable to call('list') I am trying to run the following code with the new Google Business Profile API:
$mybusinessbusinessinformationService = new Google\Service\MyBusinessBusinessInformation($client);
    try
       {
         $locations = $mybusinessbusinessinformationService->accounts_locations->call('list',['parent'=>'accounts/1111111111111111111']);
         var_dump($locations);
       } catch(Exception $e){
         var_dump(print_r($e->getMessage(),1));
       }

But I am getting the following error:
(list) missing required param: 'parent'

As far as I can tell it seems that I am parsing the param properly.

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President Wants Simplification of Palm Oil Fund Disbursement for Replanting
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President Joko Widodo demanded that the procedure for smallholders to obtain funds to help them replant their oil palm plantation be simplified so that the country's replanting program could be accelerated and production of palm oil raised.
President Jokowi gives a speech in the opening of IPOC 2018. (Doc: Gapki)
"I want the replanting to be accelerated. I demand that the procedure to obtain replanting funds be simplified," said President Joko Widodo while opening the 14th Indonesian Palm Oil Conference and 2019 Price Outlook in Nusa Dua, Bali according to the Indonesian Palm Oil Producer Association (GAPKI) on its official website on Tuesday (30/10).
He said that so far, he has yet to see whether the replanting program for smallholder's plantations, which he launched in Musi Banyuasin, South Sumatra, a year ago, was proceeding well or not.
He, however, deplored the fact that the disbursement of the replanting fund was difficult.
"It is said that there are 17 procedures. One is enough. The important thing is accountability, that it can be accounted for. What is so much money for? They should be returned to farmers, for their replanting, as soon as possible," said the president who is more popularly known as Jokowi.
He said that he often heard farmers or smallholders complain that it was difficult to get access to the replanting fund.
"Make it as simple as possible," Jokowi said about the disbursement procedure.
He said that replanting palm oil plantation is important, especially those belonging to smallholders which in general were around 30 years old. "How can they have a good production if they are not replanted?"
To encourage smallholders to replant their old or unproductive crops, the government is providing a subsidy of Rp25 million per hectare to farmers. The actual replanting cost stands at around Rp60-70 million per hectare. The government also provides quality seeds for better productivity.
Indonesia is now the world's top palm oil producer, and consumer, with national output at around 42 million tons this year according to Jokowi. About 80 percent of the palm oil produced is exported.
Productivity, however, especially among smallholders, are still very low, at around 3 to 4 tons per hectare per year while big companies can produce around 8 tons per hectare per year. As a comparison, Jokowi said Malaysia, the world's second-largest palm oil producer, can produce around 12 tons per hectare per year.
Jokowi also said that he has ordered the relevant ministers to ease the certification of palm oil plantation for smallholders. He said that as long as the land is not under dispute. "Issue the certificates for the people, why should it be made to drag on and on."
He called on smallholders to make use of technology to achieve a sustainable palm oil industry and to continuously raise their productivity, including through replanting.
For officials and entrepreneurs, he stressed the importance of boosting palm oil exports, including by opening new markets. The downstream industries also need to be developed so that the country can gain added value and no longer just export raw material, in this case, crude palm oil (CPO).
Jokowi also reminded all to accelerate the implementation of the B20 program so that the country could reduce its fuel imports. He said he deemed the implementation of the program that was kicked off on October 1, to not proceed as fast as desired.
Meanwhile, GAPKI Chairman Joko Supriyono, was quoted in the same report carried on the GAPKI website as praising Jokowi for his real support for the development of the country's palm oil industry. Supriyono said Jokowi not only helped open new markets but also was hands-on in defending the commodity overseas as well as in seeking new markets and pushing for replanting and the B20 fuel mixture program.
But Supriyono also said that industry players were also facing their own challenges, especially in the matter of permits and legality.
"Many GAPKI members are summoned by the authority because of permits and legality matters. This is worrying and causes business uncertainty," Supriyono said.
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Bayer Completes The Acquisition of Monsanto
WERNER BAUMANN: Hello. Today I'm happy to announce that this Thursday Bayer will complete the acquisition of Monsanto. This is good news for several reasons…
SOURCE: Statement by Werner Baumann on the expected closing of the acquisition of Monsanto
If you had told someone two decades ago that by 2018 the company that commercialized chemical warfare and the company that commercialized Agent Orange were going to team up to control a quarter of the world's food supply, chances are you would have been labeled a loony.
Unless your name was Robert B. Shapiro. He was CEO of Monsanto from 1995 to 2000, and in 1999 he told Business Week that the company's goal was to wed "three of the largest industries in the world—agriculture, food and health—that now operate as separate businesses. But there are a set of changes that will lead to their integration."
With this month's announcement that Bayer has completed its $63 billion acquisition of Monsanto, it is hard to deny that Shapiro's vision has been realized. Too bad for all of us that vision is a nightmare.
Because, contrary to the feel-good corporate propaganda being churned out by the company's PR department—propaganda that would have you believe that this merger will be good for the environment, for farmers, for ending global hunger, and, incidentally, for lining the pockets of shareholders—these two corporate giants are in fact committed to the consolidation and transformation of the world's food supply in the hands of the genetic engineers.
Monsanto and Bayer are a match made in hell. This is The Corbett Report.
It is hardly surprising that the first thing Bayer did after completing their takeover of Monsanto earlier this month was to announce that they were dropping the Monsanto name, merging the two companies' agrichemical divisions under the "Bayer Crop Science" name. After all, as everyone knows, Monsanto is one of the most hated corporations in the world.
HOST: In the film Food Evolution, Neil Degrasse Tyson notes that Monsanto is one of the most hated companies in the world. Why do people have such strong feelings toward Monsanto?
SOURCE: Why is Monsanto Hated?
MARINA PORTNAYA: The worldwide March Against Monsanto has drawn hundreds out onto the streets here in New York City, with people seizing the opportunity to voice their concerns and opposition to GMO foods.
SOURCE: March against Monsanto: World rallies to protest GMO in 38 countries, 428 cities
LUKE RUDKOWSKI: Why are you here?
PROTESTER: I am here because I have a loathing hatred for the company Monsanto, which a lot of people don't know that Monsanto is actually just a chemical company and they have no business basically dictating our food supply.
SOURCE: Why Are People Protesting GMO's [sic] and Monsanto
ANCHOR: New at noon: The City of Seattle is suing biotech giant Monsanto to make it pay for removing cancer-causing chemicals in the water. The city says the company knowingly dumped the compounds in the city's drainage system and the Duwamish River for years. Seattle needs to build a storm water treatment plant to clean the system that will cost about 27 million dollars. Six other major municipalities sued Monsanto as well.
SOURCE: Seattle Sues Monsanto For KNOWINGLY Dumping Cancer Causing Chemicals Into City's Drainage System
MIKE PAPANTONIO: Environmental lawyers have begun filing lawsuits against Monsanto for cancer deaths related to their product Roundup. What these lawsuits are showing is an effort—both on the part of Monsanto and the US government—to minimize the message about the dangers of Roundup in relationship to human cancer.
SOURCE: Lawsuits Helping To Expose Monsanto's Deadly Roundup Cover-up
BILL MOYERS: Now your bullseye is on Monsanto. Why is Monsanto so crucial to this fight over seeds?
VANDANA SHIVA: Monsanto is crucial to this fight because they are the biggest seed company now. Monsanto is privatizing the seed. They control 95% of the cotton in India, 90% of the soy in this country. They've taken over most of the seed companies in the world.
SOURCE: Vandana Shiva on the Problem with Genetically-Modified Seeds
This hatred of Monsanto is not unreasonable. It is, after all, difficult to think of a company that has ruined the lives of more people around the world, either directly through its coercive and litigious practices against small farmers the world over, or indirectly through the pollution of the food supply with their genetically modified crops.
Many are familiar with the company's sordid past, including its role in the development of Agent Orange and its contribution to the epidemic of farmer suicides in India. But in recent years Monsanto has gained special notoriety for its attempts to push the boundaries of patent law in a self-admitted effort to gain a monopoly over the world's food supply.
Even worse, Monsanto has, thanks to a revolving door with the highest levels of the US government, been not just evil, but extraordinarily effective in spreading its evil seed around the world. That revolving door has seen literally dozens of top Monsanto executives drift in and out of the US government agencies that, laughably, are said to "regulate" the agrichemical business, including Dennis DeConcini, the former US Senator who now acts as legislative consultant for Monsanto; Mickey Kantor, the Commerce Secretary under President Clinton who also served on Monsanto's board of directors; Michael Taylor, Obama's Deputy FDA Commissioner who had previously served as Monsanto's Vice-President for Public Policy; Linda Fisher, who was appointed Deputy Administrator of the EPA in 2001 fresh off a five-year stint as Monsanto's Vice- President of Government and Public Affairs; and US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who served as a corporate lawyer for Monsanto in the 1970s.
These officials have helped smooth the way for Monsanto to achieve a number of key corporate objectives, including the passage of the infamous "Monsanto Protection Act" in 2013.
TABETHA WALLACE: First off, President Barack Obama recently signed into law what many are calling the "Monsanto Protection Act." Monsanto, the world's leading producer of genetically modified food, will benefit greatly from the bill, since the legislation gives companies dealing in modified organisms and genetically engineered seeds immunity from federal courts. (Nothing creepy about that.) The bill states that even if future research shows that GMOs or GE seeds cause significant health problems, cancer, etc, anything, that the federal courts no longer have any power to stop their spread, use, or sale.
Interesting to note the bill carrying the Monsanto rider has virtually nothing to do with food, agriculture, or consumer health. It was inserted into a spending bill through lobbying efforts and the good work of freshman Senator Roy Blunt.
TYREL VENTURA: Well, congratulations Mr. Blunt!
WALLACE: Well done!
VENTURA: Very good.
WALLACE: Maybe write him a letter.
VENTURA: I love Mr. Blunt because Monsanto's such a wonderfully healthy, nutritious company.
WALLACE: Really looking out. It's amazing. And the Center for Responsive Politics notes that Senator Blunt received $64,250 from Monsanto for his campaign committee between 2008 and--
VENTURA: Nothing to do with him making a protection bill or anything like that. That was just purely good citizenry at work.
WALLACE: Of course. Mr. Blunt has been the largest Republican recipient of Monsanto funding as of late.
VENTURA: Oh, lovely. So basically Mr. Blunt gave him an out clause. We don't know what these GMO seeds and all that crazy shit that they do does. Sorry for the sailor talk. But you know we don't know what these cats do. They basically are poisoning the plants to kill bugs and--
WALLACE: Their pesticides are actually killing the bee population. There's research to prove it, and now because of this law technically we can't do anything.
VENTURA: Yeah, we can't go back as citizens. The government can't go back and sue them or hold them accountable for any of the actions that they've done. This is beautiful. This is wonderful politics as usual. You know, the old pay-to-play kind of technique of "we'll give you X amount of dollars, get you elected, and then help us out here."
SOURCE: Obama and the Monsanto Protection Act
But, ironically, of all the corporations in the world, Bayer is one of the few that could compete with Monsanto for its position as the world's most evil company.
MIKE PAPANTONIO: There are two huge issues with this Bayer Monsanto merger. The first is, that it's going to raise food prices all across the United States and even beyond our borders. Farmers have already experienced a 300% price increase in recent years, on everything from seeds to fertilizer, all of which are controlled by Monsanto. And every forecaster is predicting that these prices are going to climb even higher because of this merger. So we're going to have this massive price hike at a time when 14 million Americans have already been unable to provide food for their families, and then we're going to have this ethical problem that's plagued both of these corporations for decades.
Let's start with Monsanto. This is a company that produced Agent Orange, which resulted in one of the largest human-induced health epidemics in modern history. They made dioxin, they created and distributed PCBs across the planet, and now, pending litigation against them for Roundup is right there. Looking at their rap sheet would scare the heck out of anybody with a brain. They're in the business … Actually, really, when you drill down to it, it looks more like a cancer business than anything. They've been hit for false advertising and bribing public officials.
Then, move to Bayer. We've got Bayer and we've got Monsanto. Move to Bayer. This is a company that's joined at the hip with the Nazis, during World War II. They produced a clotting agent for hemophiliacs, in the 1980s, called Factor VIII. This blood-clotting agent was tainted with HIV, and then, after the government told them they couldn't sell it here, they shipped it all over the world, infecting people all over the world. That's just part of the Bayer story. Right now, they're facing lawsuits over products like Yaz, Xarelto, Essure, Cipro. In fact, the company, in 2014 annual report, listed 32 different liability lawsuits that the company's now facing.
So now you have the worst of the worst joining with the worst of the worst, and we have this magnificent experience of greed with these two huge corporations. This is a merger of evil, probably second only to the kind of merger that we'd see with DuPont and Dow Chemical. It's an ugly story.
Again, the media is missing the point. They're not looking at all behind what these people are … They're people. These corporations are regarded as people. If these are people on a witness stand, it's going to be a very ugly cross examination. These are people who should probably be in prison, rather than engaging in mergers.
SOURCE: Nazi Ties & Agent Orange: The Real Bayer-Monsanto Merger Story – The Ring Of Fire
Although less well-known by the general public, Bayer's shameful history is, like Monsanto's, a case study in corporate psychopathy.
Founded in 1863 by Friedrich Bayer and Johann Friedrich Weskott, it wasn't until 1899 that the company trademarked its most well-known product: aspirin. Less well-remembered is the fact that Bayer was the first company to trademark heroin, which they marketed as a "non-addictive" alternative to morphine and a "cough suppressant."
But it was under the stewardship of Carl Duisberg at the turn of the 20th century that the company began to develop its psychopathic character. In 1914 the German Ministry of War appointed Duisberg as one of the co-directors of a commission into the use of dangerous byproducts from the chemical industry. Unsurprisingly, Duisberg and his fellow directors jumped at the opportunity to turn their waste into profit by recommending the development of chlorine gas for use on the battlefield, a direct contravention of the Hague Convention Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land, which Germany had signed just seven years earlier.
Bayer, under Duisberg's command, did not just participate in the development and use of poison gas in warfare; they spearheaded it. Duisberg personally oversaw the earliest tests of poison gas and bragged about its lethal capabilities: "The enemy won't even know when an area has been sprayed with it and will remain quietly in place until the consequences occur." Setting up a School for Chemical Warfare at Bayer headquarters in Leverkusen, Duisberg also oversaw the development of phosgene and mustard gas, which he urged the German government to use: "This phosgene is the meanest weapon I know. I strongly recommend that we not let the opportunity of this war pass without also testing gas grenades."
On April 22, 1915, Duisberg got his wish. On that day 170 tons of chlorine gas was used against French troops at Ypres, Belgium, killing 1,000 and injuring a further 4,000. Attacks on the British followed days later. In all, some 60,000 people died as the result of the chemical warfare perfected by Bayer and urged on by Duisberg, one of the great, largely-forgotten atrocities of the First World War.
Most galling of all, Duisberg was not ashamed of his accomplishments. On the contrary, he was immensely proud of them. He even commissioned famed artist Otto Bollhagen to paint the scene of the earliest poison gas test at Cologne. Duisberg so enjoyed the finished result that he had it hung in his breakfast room at Bayer headquarters in Leverkusen.
Later, Duisberg—inspired by a tour of Rockefeller's Standard Oil in the US—wedded Bayer to the IG Farben chemical cartel. As I explained in "How Big Oil Conquered the World," IG Farben was a key player in the burgeoning oiligarchy of the early 20th century, boasting key oiligarchs like Royal Dutch Shell's Prince Bernhard and Standard Oil's Walter Teagle on the boards of its various branches. Bayer's Duisberg served as the head of its supervisory board.
Joining Duisberg on the board was Fritz ter Meer, who oversaw the construction of the IG Farben factory at Auschwitz, which ran on slave labor and participated in human experimentation. After the war, ter Meer was sentenced to seven years in prison for his participation in looting and enslavement of the camp prisoners, but was released in 1950 for "good behaviour," and, in 1956 became chairman of Bayer AG, newly resurrected from the ashes of IG Farben.
But this legacy of death is not some ancient relic of Bayer's distant past. Decade after decade, the company continues to be involved in scandal after scandal, involving wanton environmental destruction, injury, and even mass murder.
JAMES EVAN PILATO: "Bayer Accidentally Funds Study Showing Its Pesticide is Killing Bees, Promptly Denies Conclusions"
A large-scale study on neonicotinoid pesticides is adding to the growing body of evidence that these agricultural chemicals are indeed harming bee populations (to say the very least). Carried out at 33 sites in the United Kingdom, Germany and Hungary, the study found that exposure to neonicotinoids "left honeybee hives less likely to survive over winter, while bumblebees and solitary bees produced fewer queens."
SOURCE: Interview 1283 – New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
FARRON COUSINS: Mirena is a chemical-coated soft plastic IUD that proved to be a huge moneymaker for Bayer. But part of the reason that this particular contraceptive was so profitable was because Bayer was deliberately overstating the benefits of their device and not disclosing some of the rare but dangerous side effects.
For example, in April of 2009 the FDA had to issue a warning letter to Bayer HealthCare because its website for Mirena made a number of claims that were simply untrue or unproven. Bayer was so busy making claims that the IUD was a perfect solution for busy moms and would increase women's sex lives while making them look and feel great that it forgot to mention that the device is recommended for women who have already had at least one child. The company also declined to state that the Mirena IUD increases the risk of ectopic pregnancies, which is when a fertilized egg attaches to an area other than the uterus.
SOURCE: Lawsuit Claims Bayer Birth Control Device Linked to False Brain Tumors
ANA KASPARIAN: So the CEO was actually speaking to Bloomberg Businessweek, and he is trying to appeal the Indian court's decision to allow this patent for another company. He said the following: "We did not develop this medicine for Indians. We developed it for Western patients who can afford it."
CENK UYGUR: Uhhhh. Uhhhh. Look at that face. That's the kind of face that would say a thing like that. Doesn't he look so smiley? "Oh, please. We didn't develop this for Indians! We developed it for Westerners who are rich!"
SOURCE: 'Our Cancer Drug Is For Rich Westerners, Not Poor Indians'
MIKE PAPANTONIO: In the 1980s Bayer Corporation produced a medicine that was supposed to improve the lives of hemophiliacs. Bayer didn't tell those hemophiliacs that their product was infected with HIV. Because of that, entire families of hemophiliacs died with AIDS as the virus spread within households.
When Bayer was ordered to stop selling their drug in America, they dumped their AIDS-laden product in Asia and killed Asian families. No one with Bayer management was arrested. No one who made these psychopathic-quality decisions went to prison. They claimed the protection of their status as a corporation. That corporate status gave management the ability to kill people for profit and not go to prison.
SOURCE: Bayer Corporation Infected Hemophiliacs With HIV
Indeed, it is not difficult to see why these two companies—each one a titan of its respective industry, each one guilty of the most atrocious crimes against humanity and the destruction of the environment—would feel an affinity for each other. But why merge? What does a pharmaceutical giant have to gain from buying out and merging with an agrichemical giant, especially one that carries as much baggage as Monsanto?
If the connection between these corporate behemoths seems tenuous, then perhaps the key to understanding it is presented in that 1995 quote from former Monsanto CEO Robert Shapiro: "We're talking about three of the largest industries in the world—agriculture, food and health—that now operate as separate businesses. But there are a set of changes that will lead to their integration."
Integration of agriculture, food and "health" is the goal, and once that goal is reached the entire life support system of the human population, including all of our food and "medicine," will be in the hands of a few mega-corporations. Indeed, the history of the production of food and pharmaceuticals has always followed the same trajectory: away from natural, abundant, locally-produced organic materials and toward artificial, scarce, factory-produced synthetic alternatives.
Control of the global food supply is, needless to say, along with control of money and oil, one of the pillars upon which the globalist oligarchs seek to construct their system of total control. Although there is no proof whatsoever that he said it, the dubious quote sometimes attributed to Henry Kissinger is nonetheless quite true: "Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world."
The process of consolidating these industries is of course nothing new. In fact, it started long ago. As I explained in "How Big Oil Conquered the World," even the current agrichemical industry has to be seen in its historical context as a fusion of the petrochemical fertilizer giants (Dupont, Dow, Hercules Powder and other businesses in the Standard Oil orbit) with the "ABCD" seed cartel of Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge, Cargill and Louis Dreyfus. These previously separate fields were gradually consolidated under the flag of "agribusiness," itself developed at Harvard Business School in the 1950s with the help of research conducted by Wassily Leontief for the Rockefeller Foundation.
And as I also explained in "How Big Oil Conquered the World," Big Pharma, too, was a creation of the same drive toward consolidation, and spearheaded by the same people. From the Carnegie and Rockefeller-funded institutionalization of the medical profession to Standard Oil's role in supplying the petrochemicals for the burgeoning pharmaceutical industry to the role of Rockefeller Institute researchers like Cornelius Rhoads, who developed chemotherapy from the mustard gas pioneered by Bayer, the overlap of the oligarchical interests in cementing global control has been abundantly clear.
Then, with the advancement of GMO technology in the 1980s and 1990s (again, with considerable help from the Rockefellers and other oiligarchical interests), new opportunities for consolidation presented themselves. Seeds used to be sold by seed companies, and fertilizers and herbicides used to be sold by chemical companies. But then the GMO "revolution" came along and all of these companies spun off "biotech" branches to genetically engineer seeds. That, in turn, opened up opportunities to create GMO seed strains that are tailored to work with patented herbicides and fertilizers. The combination of GMO seeds and specially tailored agrichemicals has been especially lucrative for Monsanto, which was the first to capitalize on those synergies when it won regulatory approval for its first Roundup Ready soybeans in 1994. Roundup, aka glyphosate, has gone on to become the most-used agricultural chemical in the history of the world.
Monsanto and Bayer—not to mention their cohorts in the agrichemical, pharmaceutical, and euphemistically-named "life sciences" industries—are ultimately seeking the same thing: complete control over the population, from the genetic engineering of its food supply to the control of its "medicines" and chemicals. It is a race toward complete centralization, and with this acquisition, Bayer and Monsanto are getting a head start.
Particularly frightening, then (though hardly surprising), that this latest round of consolidation is being spearheaded by two corporations as thoroughly deplorable as Bayer and Monsanto.
Bayer: One of the pieces of I.G. Farben's grim (and oiligarchical) legacy; supplier of chemicals for the poison gas attacks of WWI; knowing seller of HIV-contaminated vaccines; mass murderer of bees; seller of tainted GMO crops.
And Monsanto: Dumper of toxic chemicals; proud seller of carcinogens; suer of farmers; cause of farmer suicides; suppressor of scientific dissent.
Are you feeling safe, knowing that a quarter of the world's food supply will soon be in their combined hands?
If not, then all of the efforts that have been made in recent years to "March Against Monsanto" must be translated into a "Boycott Against Bayer" and all of their friends in the burgeoning biotech/big agra/seed cartel GMO franken-industry. It is only by increasing our support for locally sourced, organic, heirloom seed-grown produce that we can hope to supplant this new mega-giant and consign it to the dustbin of history where it belongs.
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Into The Spider-Verse: Director Explains How 'Stan Lee's Cameo' Changed After His 'Wife's Death'
By Vasu Sharma December 27, 2018No Comments
Stan Lee's appearance in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was composed before his wife Joan died, however, recorded after – and the outcome is a different interpretation of his appearance than the past Spider-Man films.
Maybe it was a longing to see some more hope on the planet, however, the line that in the end made into the film was somewhat brighter than the version they had arranged previously.
"The thing that was interesting for us is that it evolved," co-director Rodney Rothman told IndieWire. "We recorded it a year ago and it was not that long after his wife [Joan] had passed away. We had versions that tried a little harder to be funnier and tried a little harder to be harder. What ended up in the movie were the lines that had the most meaning to him."
The line had a joke prepared into it – Stan Lee played a costume shop proprietor who sold Miles his first costume, and there was a "no discounts or returns"- sign in the shop – however, the version he ran with was more insightful than bittersweet.
At a certain point, when Miles asked whether he could return it on the off chance that it didn't fit, Lee said "it never fits," yet the version that made into the film was "it always fits – eventually."
The scene felt much impactful since the film hit theatres soon after Lee himself passed away, making this his first after-death Marvel film appearance (he had made a concise appearance in Ralph Breaks the Internet also, despite the fact that it was not a Marvel film).
Actually, Lee's cameo appearances achieved an unheard level this year, when he showed up in Teen Titans Go! To The Movies (Warner Bros./DC); Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Marvel by Sony); Venom (Marvel by Sony); Black Panther and Avengers Infinity War (Marvel Studios); and Ralph Breaks the Internet (Disney/Pixar).


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Javier Varas Herrera, más conocido como Javi Varas (Sevilla, 10 de septiembre de 1982), es un exfutbolista y entrenador español que jugaba como portero. Actualmente es entrenador de porteros de la cantera del Sevilla FC.

Trayectoria
Criado en el barrio sevillano de Pino Montano empezó a jugar al fútbol en el equipo del barrio, la Escuela Deportiva de Pino Montano. Poco después fichó por la Peña Sevillista Pablo Blanco, hasta que en edad juvenil pasó formar parte de la AD Nervión, con el que jugó en la Liga Nacional de Juveniles y Primera Regional Amateur. En la temporada 2003/04 pasó a formar parte de la AD San José, de Regional Preferente. Sus buenas actuaciones provocaron que el Sevilla FC se fijara en él. Al término de la temporada fichó por el conjunto hispalense pero decidieron cederle al CD Alcalá, de Segunda B, en la temporada 2004/05, jugando un papel fundamental en la salvación del equipo, una actuación memorable en el partido de Copa del Rey frente al Real Betis Balompié.

En la temporada 2005-06 defiende la portería del Sevilla Atlético, en la categoría de bronce, y al año siguiente, en la 2006/2007, logra con el filial el ascenso a Segunda División. con un destacado papel de Javi Varas en el partido de promoción ante el Pontevedra CF, que los andaluces ganaron en los lanzamientos de penaltis.

Una campaña más tarde, la 2007-08, Varas fue uno de los puntales del mejor filial sevillista de la historia, Sevilla Atlético, noveno clasificado, considerado como el equipo revelación de la División de plata. Al término de esa temporada, con varias ofertas sobre la mesa, el técnico del primer equipo Manolo Jiménez –que ya había sido su entrenador en el filial- apostó por Javi Varas como segundo portero de la primera plantilla.
Jiménez mostró su confianza en el canterano afirmando que Con Palop y Javi Varas la portería está más que cubierta.

Por una lesión de Andrés Palop, guardameta titular, durante la pretemporada se ganó la confianza del club por sus buenas actuaciones en los torneos de verano, destacando las victorias en el Ramón de Carranza y en el Torneo de los Ferrocarriles en Moscú, en una final en la que tuvo una destacada actuación, atajando un penalti. La recuperación de Palop, coincidiendo con el inicio de la temporada oficial, le relegó al banquillo, aunque Jiménez le dio la oportunidad de disputar la primera eliminatoria de la Copa del Rey ante la SD Ponferradina.

En su debut en Primera División, el 17 de enero de 2009, a raíz de una expulsión de Palop en la jornada anterior, frente al CD Numancia logró mantener su portería a cero. Al término de su primera temporada con el primer equipo, disputó tres partidos de liga y dos de Copa del Rey.

La temporada 2009-10 es considerada una de las emocionantes de su carrera. Debutó contra el Sttutgart en la Champions League, la máxima competición continental de clubes y consiguió su primer título, la Copa del Rey frente al Atlético de Madrid. En total defendió el arco del Sevilla F.C en 5 partidos de liga, 3 de Copa del Rey y otros 3 de Champions League.

Durante la campaña 2010-11 se consolidó como portero de Primera División logrando la titularidad. Un total de 21 partidos en Liga, 5 de Copa del Rey y 2 de Europa League que en la 2011-12 siguió en aumento, alcanzando los 25 partidos en Liga y tres más de Copa del Rey. Después de acabar la temporada 2012/2013 donde jugó en calidad de cedido en el Celta de Vigo, sumando su cuarta temporada como jugador de Primera División, el Sevilla Fútbol Club le comunicó a Javi Varas que aunque Palop se marche no cuentan con él.

El 25 de agosto de 2014 firmó su rescisión de contrato con el Sevilla FC firmando ese mismo día con el Real Valladolid por una temporada con la posibilidad de renovar automáticamente por dos más en caso de ascenso del club pucelano. Tras no conseguir dicho ascenso, quedó libre y el 12 de julio de 2015 se hizo oficial su contratación por la Unión Deportiva Las Palmas para dos temporadas.

Al acabar su contrato con el equipo canario no renovó su contrato y en el verano de 2017 se incorpora a la recién descendido a Segunda, Granada CF, firmando por dos años.

Tras estar sin equipo desde septiembre de 2018, el 19 de febrero de 2019, la SD Huesca hizo oficial su incorporación hasta final de temporada.

El 22 de octubre de 2019 anunció su retirada del fútbol en activo.

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Campeonatos nacionales

Campeonatos internacionales

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Ficha en la LFP

 Javi Varas: «No desespero; habrá muchos partidos y confío en tener mi oportunidad» (Entrevista en ABC)
 Javi Varas: "Mi ídolo es Unzué y mi referente, Andrés Palop" (Entrevista en As)

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Futbolistas del Sevilla Fútbol Club en los años 2010
Futbolistas del Real Club Celta de Vigo en los años 2010
Futbolistas del Real Valladolid Club de Fútbol en los años 2010
Futbolistas de la Unión Deportiva Las Palmas en los años 2010
Futbolistas del Granada Club de Fútbol en los años 2010
Futbolistas de la Sociedad Deportiva Huesca en los años 2010
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Pescara Airport Arrivals (PSR)
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Pescara Live Flight Arrivals
From Catania London Milan
Airline Alitalia Ryanair Volotea
London (STN) Ryanair FR982 13:55 13:48 Landed
Catania (CTA) Volotea V71700 18:40 Landed
Milan (LIN) Alitalia AZ1241 20:10 Scheduled
Pescara Airport is a popular arrival point to visit many interesting towns and cities in the Abruzzo region. The city of Pescara is only four kilometres from the airport, and offers a reasonable number of typical Italian attractions for its visitors, and the major cities of Rome, Bologna and Napoli are within driving distance of the airport. Since that Pescara Airport is the only airport in the Abruzzo region, it is commonly referred to as the Abruzzo Airport. It also has the official airport code of PSR. Arriving passengers will find that Pescara Airport is small and friendly, and is a well-equipped and functional building with all the facilities they require.
A small variety of airline companies serve Pescara Airport, and mainly fly in from other Italian cities. Ryanair, the low-cost giant, has been the single most significant cause in the rise in passenger traffic figures over the past few years at Pescara Airport. With the introduction of their low-cost services in the year 2000, many Italian airports experienced a huge boost in traffic. By the end of 2010, Pescara Airport had served around 461,000 passengers, which was the highest number yet to be recorded at the airport. On the 14th of February 2011, Ryanair and Pescara Airport celebrated their ninth anniversary for the flight between Abruzzo and Frankfurt-Hahn, which had worked out to be extremely successful. Ryanair flights that also arrive at Pescara Airport include those from Beauvais, Bergamo, Cagliari, London-Stansted, Girona and Trapani. Other airline companies found at this airport include Alitalia, Belle Air and Air Transat.
Passengers arriving at Pescara Airport will find a single terminal building, which is modern and with a good layout. Arrivals are handled from one side of the airport, while all departure flights are available from another. In the arrivals hall, there are the customs offices, baggage reclaim carousels, car rental counters, automated parking and bus ticket machines and the APTR Tourism Information Desk. Car rental services are available from many world renowned car hire companies, such as Hertz, Avis, Sixt, National, Europcar, Budget, Thrifty and Alamo. Vehicles can be hired directly from the rental counters, or in advance, from the selected car hire company's website.
In order to rent a car in Italy, an individual is required to be at least 21 years of age, and to have a valid drivers license. The primary renters should also have a major credit card in their name as well. Although rented cars are not often recommended for driving in the centres of larger cities in Italy, they are by far the most convenient and comfortable means of transport when travelling between towns and cities. Nearby Pescara, lie the areas of Chieti, Manoppello, Ortona, San Benedetto, Pineto, Penne and Atri, while further away the major cities of Rome and Bologna can be found. Bologna is a lovely drive up the coast of the Adriatic Sea, passing through areas such as Ancona, Pesaro, Riccione, Rimini and Ravenna.
Other forms of transport are available should you not wish to travel in your own vehicle. Taxis are available outside Pescara Airport's arrival area, as well as the Bus No.38, which travels to the city centre of Pescara, to the main Pescara Centrale Railway Station. From the railway station, which is where the main bus station is as well, long-distance coaches travel to Rome, stopping along the way at places such as Avezzano, Torre De Passeri and Chieti. Prontobus is also available, travelling to various locations in Rome as well. Buses also travel to Teramo, Naples, Salermo and Aquila from Pescara. Although there is no train station at the airport, Pescara Centrale Railway Station is one of the largest in Europe, handling millions of passengers per year. The trains of Trenitalia travel to all areas in Italy, and to destinations in other European countries. There are also another two railway stations in Pescara, namely, Pescara Porta Nuova and Pescara San Marco.
Further amenities at Pescara Airport include two conference rooms, one of which seats up to 180 people, while the other seats up to 64 people. They both come equipped with microphones, amplifiers, video projection systems, VHS, CD, DVD system and internet ADSL connections. The full service Banca Caripe is available for all financial transactions, and there are also currency exchange services and cash points available. Passengers who have a vehicle parked at the airport will need to pay their parking fees before leaving Pescara Airport. This can be done at the automatic machines nearby the exit of the arrivals area, in cash or credit, or at the cash windows at the exit to the car park. It is recommended to pay at the machines to avoid queues of cars waiting to leave the parking area.
Online information about attractions in the Abruzzo region, and those nearby Pescara Airport, can be found at www.abruzzoturismo.it, while further information about Pescara Airport arrivals can be found on Pescara Airport's official website, at www.abruzzoairport.com.


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Software firm Alea Srl joins TCCA
Wednesday, 24 July, 2019
Italian software development house Alea Srl has become a member of TCCA. The firm specialises in smartphone apps for real-time communication and has a dedicated PTT division.
"Alea is highly committed to the development of standards-based mission-critical solutions," said Alea CEO Giuseppe Merlino. "Through joining TCCA, Alea is now a contributing member of the mission-critical community."
"The development of applications for mission-critical users is attracting a huge amount of interest in the market," added TCCA Chief Executive Tony Gray. "We extend a very warm welcome to the Alea team and look forward to their expertise enhancing the critical user experience."
Earlier this year, Alea inked an agreement with Leonardo for the joint development of multimedia broadband solutions for the public security and professional markets.
The two companies are working to develop applications that leverage 3GPP specifications for mission-critical voice, video and data over LTE and 5G networks.
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Starting this tread because that 'Cannibilism' phantom link in an ABC article is bothering me to no end this morning.
Fixed! Sorry, wrote it very late last night, woke up and went 'Oh yeah, phantom should be not ABC'.
More pointfully, Daria is "one of the eastern continents", but for the expanse we have "examination of the area of the eastern continent known as the Aurocha Expanse". It's possible to parse that as saying that "The Aurocha Expanse" is the name of a continent, but that's not the more natural way to do so. The other way to parse it, though, implies that there is only one eastern continent.
Well. I'm a flat maps with East, West, North, South, little pointy upside down V mountains and stick figure trees kind of person when it comes to geography. I have to admit when I read entries about the P-3 orbit and some of the more techie entries my eyes tend to glaze a bit and I go 'urgle'.
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Have expressed to Vaklam previously that actually the detail of the rules of this game isn't something I'm absorbing easily, so have had to back and fill while I get the hang of things. While you may be attempting to nudge me toward the path of righteousness (ie following the rules and making it all hang together) I'm just feeling tired and Wrong.
In other news, removed reference to Daria as a continent: it's now pretty much open to whatever interpretation that doesn't conflict with the other players' realities from that round.
Also, now that I think of it, East and West are easy, just pick the direction that makes the sunrise work. The Meridian may be harder than I thought, though, since there's no certainty that P3 is pseudo-geosynchronous and could intercept the equator at any number of different points. So it's probably just a completely arbitrary line that crew of the Garrulous drew in the middle of the biggest ocean. Or else they had local maps from their investigations and used those.
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First Mitu+Oly High-resolution stack
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Lou Jost
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Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2016 12:53 pm Post subject: First Mitu+Oly High-resolution stack
I've been working on testing my new Olympus E5MII and PEN-F cameras. Results have been mixed, with some disappointments and some nice surprises.
First the good news. In high resolution mode, both cameras can use flash with the fully electronic, completely vibration-free shutter, even though the E5MII cannot use flash with this shutter mode in regular shooting. (This limitation must just be a software oversight; I hope Oly corrects it in a future update.)
Today I tried this high-resolution mode with the PEN F on a Stackshot, using a Mitu 10x objective and the 75mm Oly f/1.8 as the tube lens. The field of view is 4.6mm. Step size was 5 um.
I did the stack first with the 50 Mp hi res jpgs. Here is the full 50 Mp DMap image, reduced to forum size. It has all its haloes etc...no retouching. Then there is a detail near the lower edge (but not at a corner) at 100%.
Don't worry about the mess in the upper half of the photo; I didn't do the whole stack. I still don't have a cable to connect the camera to the Stackshot so I had to do it manually, and could only spare an hour, so I only did the bottom left half of the image (more or less), 50 steps in total, but that should be enough that any potential problems would be visible.
Actual pixels (100% crop) of central lower edge:
Then I stacked the original 10000 x 8000 hi res raw files after converting them to tiffs. The DMap result has been lightly sharpened and adjusted for exposure and contrast. The whole image, and then the same lower edge as in the jpg test above, at 100%.
I think this is a stunningly economical way to get gigantic hi res images without stitching.
Some things to keep in mind:
1. 50 steps took 10 Gb of card space. This means a deep stack will require a 128gb card or more.
2. The batteries are rated at about 350 shots. This probably assumes use of the regular shutter, and motion stabilizer, and assumes that each shot is written onto the card. Shooting in hi res mode is much less battery-intensive. My 50 steps used 400 shots and I still have lots of battery power to spare. But a deep stack of 500 steps would use 4000 shots, which means the battery will have to be changed often during the stack. A solution is to strip the insides out of a battery and wire the contacts to an external battery which can be changed without touching the camera. Alternately, the E5MII, but not the PEN F, has an optional grip and external power supply which solves this problem.
3. This takes time, if you use flash. Too short an interval between shots and the flashes will go into heat shut-down. For these tests I allowed 4 seconds between each sensor-shift shot (eight of these shots are taken at each stacking step) using two Yongnuo flashes at 1/128 power, triggered by an Oly FL300R at 1/64 power (its lowest setting) on the camera. There were no problems and I could probably have used less down time.
But this method really shines in continuous light, since there is no shutter at all and no mirror either.
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Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2016 12:59 pm Post subject:
There was one curious problem with the PMax outputs, though. Near the corners, each point highlight (but not big spread-out highlights that were just as bright) had a linear streak crossing them, pointing towards the center of the image. They also have a similar linear streak perpendicular to the axial streak. I guess this is coma? The weird thing is that the perpendicular streaks aren't visible in the original shots but are very conspicuous in the stacked output.
Here is an example from the PMax output:
OK, now imagine that we have some lens that can fill a full frame and that has this same level of resolution. Then if we could move this PEN F around in the image circle, we could make a 200Mp+ image (since a full frame image is four times the size of the PEN-F sensor. This could be easily accomplished by using the Fotodiox Nikon to Micro 4/3 shift adapter. We could run a stack with the sensor shifted to the lower left, then shift the sensor to the lower right and run the stack again with the same settings, and repeat for the other two quarters. These should be easy to stitch since they are using exactly the same aerial image.
Using bright continuous light a 100-step 200Mp stack could be done in 4 x 8 x 100 x (shutter speed) + 400 x (Stackshot moving time + settle time). If shutter speed is 1/4 s and Stackshot movements take 1 s, then it would take twenty minutes. That's not too bad.
That's impressive. Though I think I need to read it again
The "crosses" look like the sort of thing you get in compound eyes.
Lou Jost wrote:
This "cross" artifact is a classic result of PMax combined with astigmatism. The two perpendicular streaks -- one radial and one tangential -- should be visible a few frames apart in the source images. PMax just puts them together to form the cross.
Rik, do you think stopping down the f/1.8 tube lens a bit would reduce it?
Relevant - http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=150679#150679
Chris, thanks for that interesting thread link. There are so many surprising complications in this kind of photography! Without this forum I would have been very discouraged, but seeing the ingenuity of many of these solutions is inspiring!
Near the corners, each point highlight (but not big spread-out highlights that were just as bright) had a linear streak crossing them, pointing towards the center of the image.
I think that is coma aberration. In fact it's only present at the corners, not at all the image like in the linked thread. The stacking method can exaggerate it but it's not the primary cause.
Pau, Rik, Chris, thanks for weighing in on this.
What to do about it? I don't think it is caused by aberrations in my Mitu objective, since I've never seen it in my earlier work, only with these new lenses. I can try to minimize it by stopping down the tube lens. At these relatively low magnifications, maybe this won't cause much diffraction. Any recommendations for what is the smallest f-stop (on the tube lens) before diffraction sets in on a 20 Mp 4/3 sensor? Would an iris between the objective and tube lens help reduce the coma/astigmatism of the tube lens?
I've only ever seen, or heard of, closure of the aperture in a camera lens as a tube lens causing vignetting, not behaving like an aperture in the normal way.
If you add an iris behind the objective, it does have an effect of stopping the objective down. Its (mal)positioning probably introduces aberrations as well but since one is normally doing it for extra depth of field, not sharpness, I don't remember seeing or hearing of that.
Quick sums show you're already nudging diffraction, but it's worth a try.
If aberration is due to the "tube" lens, positioning the objective closer to it if doable could help because you will use only the center of the lens. But I think that the best approach will be to use a 100mm lens.
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 11:48 am Post subject:
Pau, the objective was as close as possible to the lens front element. Since then, I tried with an iris inserted, and this of course greatly increased the distance between them. The iris seemed to help rather than hurt. But not much. It also caused vignetting, which oddly disappeared when the iris was closed slightly.
Olympus doesn't make a 100mm micro 4/3 prime lens. I can use my normal Nikon tube lens set-ups but this Olympus lens is so excellent in normal shooting that I had high hopes for it as a tube lens.
Pau wrote:
I think that is coma aberration. In fact it's only present at the corners, not at all the image like in the linked thread.
I'm still thinking astigmatism, not coma. Coma would be visible in the source frames, and Lou says the crosses are not visible there.
It is typical for lenses to be astigmatic only away from center. In the linked thread, crosses are evident everywhere, even near image center, because the astigmatism is present in the subject, not the imaging lenses. Every ommatidium is not quite spherical, hence the reflected highlight is extended in perpendicular directions depending on focus, but not depending on where they are in the frame.
The stacking method can exaggerate it but it's not the primary cause.
What the stacking method does is to combine two linear blurs -- one tangential, one radial -- into a single cross-shaped artifact that does not appear in the original source images. I would say that the stacking method is the primary cause of the crosses, though certainly not the cause of the linear blurs that get combined to make them.
The iris seemed to help rather than hurt. But not much. It also caused vignetting, which oddly disappeared when the iris was closed slightly.
Vignetting is caused by two apertures fighting with each other. You can think of the vignette as a sort of ring-shaped shadow in which darkening corresponds to the penumbra. Stopping down the iris makes the penumbra get narrower, which makes the unshadowed center of the image get larger -- apparently large enough to cover the whole frame in your case.
Rik, thanks for the clarification. I'm sure that you're right.
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