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10 Movies From 2019 With The Best Ensemble Casts
Posted on March 12, 2020 March 12, 2020 by Mansur Zeynalov
There are some films where you struggle to find the MVP, and even if you can't, you get surprised how the cast is so packed and somehow every single member of the cast is a perfect choice for their part. That's the way it is; sometimes the cast is the real star. Unfortunately with the exception of the SAG Awards, not many award bodies recognize the whole cast. However, they should – not only the cast but also the casting directors as well. This year was also full of some great ensemble pieces with amazing and memorable performances. Here are 10 films with such casts that we can call great for various reasons.
10. Her Smell
This is not a widely discussed film because it's a small indie and definitely not an easy watch. Those who watched it were mostly floored by Elisabeth Moss' raw, impressive, beautiful, remarkable turn. It's the kind of a performance that would sweep the awards if it had a better distributor. Honestly, it may very well be the female performance of the year. She just gives it all here. Director Alex Ross Perry's campaign letter beautifully describes the process, how it's a performance that kept on surprise and fascinated not only the audience, but even the director itself.
Nobody else in the film's cast had this kind of a strong role as it's Moss' show, but then, why is this movie on this list? Because everybody is expertly picked for their parts, everyone is very convincing, and it's a cast full of familiar names that we're glad to see; I mean Eric Stoltz? Virginia Madsen? This is how you choose the right actors for the right parts. This is why "Her Smell" deserved to get recognition here.
It's a story of alienation to some degree, how Moss' character alienates or has conflicts with her bandmates (Agyness Deyn and Gayle Rankin), their label owner (Stoltz), her mother (Madsen), her ex-husband (Dan Stevens), a newish collaborating band that seemingly worships her (Ashley Benson, Cara Delevingne, Dylan Gelula), and a friend who is now more successful than her (Amber Heard). All of the performances here are small but pivotal and effective. They all complete each other. Everybody fits their parts like a glove, so organically and naturally that, even though most of them are recognizable faces, no one feels out of place. It's a great example of a film that benefited from excellent casting.
9. Waves
Kevin Harrison Jr, had two great roles this year and one of them is his powerful part in "Waves." It's not just him – everybody is powerful here. The movie itself is great and once again shows that Trey Edward Schults is a talent to keep an eye on. Harrison's performance is gripping here; what makes his and other cast members' work so effective that they don't overdo any moment, all of them manage to find the right subtle tones in their performances and they know when it's the time to go big.
There's a natural turn from Taylor Russell whose part is more flashy but not without depth; it's a lovely, enduring and touching performance and hopefully brings her more great opportunities. Each cast member delivers; Sterling K. Brown would make a great candidate for Best Supporting Actor if it wasn't such a packed year. He comes off like your typical tough movie dad at first, but then you start to sense humanity in him. Renée Elise Goldsberry comes close to stealing the film in one scene, and she showcases one of the most interesting and compelling portrayals of motherhood of recent years.
Most of the praise seems to be focused on Brown, Harrison and Russell so people seem to forget her, but when she's on screen, you can't take your eyes off her. Alexis Demie also deserves a shout out for excellent work. Lucas Hedges' plot is a bit too long and maybe the film needed less of his story, but still he turns in with a charming performance. "Waves" is a beautiful, impressive film that is also a strong technical achievement, but the raw, transparent performances of its cast is one of the main reasons why this film hit us this much.
8. The Beach Bum
This is definitely not a film for everyone. None of Harmony Korine's films are for everyone, anyway. He's a unique voice in the cinema, no matter if you love his work or hate him. Here he gives his actors roles that they can both have fun with and the audience can as well by watching them.
Matthew "McConaissance" McConaughey was great and his post-"Interstellar" turn was more of a mixed bag, but McConaughey still delivered touching work in "The Sea of Trees" (unfairly bashed) and "White Boy Rick," while showcasing his more cool side in films like "The Gentlemen." His range is impressive, of course, but this is what we missed seeing from McConaughey – playing washed-up stoner poet, no surprisingly hailed as the "role of a lifetime" by many critics.
This is an absolute trip of a movie and will probably have a cult following in upcoming years. McConaughey basically plays the modern day cinema's The Dude – though, of course, in Korine's style. While most of the praise was focused on him, the movie is much more than just McConaughey; everybody shines here. Is this an acting stretch for Snoop Dogg? Maybe not, but he's having tons of fun here. Jonah Hill's short appearance is hilarious, Isla Fisher is charming as ever, but the real scene-stealer is Martin Lawrence, who hasn't had a great role since the late '90s. His appearance as a sleazy dolphin-watching tour guide is sheer brilliance. Now that he's back with this and "Bad Boys for Life," one wonders if he'll get more great opportunities.
The only problem is that some of the supporting cast members needed more screen time as one couldn't get enough of them; Fisher in particular has never been better. In fact, nearly every actor in the film gives some of their best performances ever. Who knows whether or not the cast is having fun while filming this movie, but they sure give the impression that they did have fun. And if you get into the style and tone of the film, you'll have a lot of fun by watching them.
7. Luce
Ambiguity is at the center in "Luce." You never get too sure about some of the character's motives, what they think and/or what actually happens. It's a movie with no easy answers and the story doesn't really build up to some big conclusion, which is why it can be a frustrating watch for some.
One of the main strengths of the film was its all-around terrific cast. Kelvin Harrison Jr. gets his breakthrough moment here and he keeps the audience guessing; is this an overly nice guy trapped in misunderstandings, or there's something darker to it? Octavia Spencer was better than most of this year's Oscar nominees in the Supporting Actress category, yet she played another kind of character that you're not too sure if you love or hate at times. It's her most complex and maybe her best role. Perhaps if it wasn't a summer release and a bigger movie, she'd get more talk.
Seeing Tim Roth and Naomi Watts together can give you "Funny Games" flashbacks, but they get totally different kinds of characters to deal with here. Some of Watts' film choices in recent years have been totally awful and did no justice to her talent, but finally in "Luce," she got to play a very interesting, conflicted, complex character. It's a mother who wants to protect her son but after recent events, is also suspicious and somewhat confused about him.
One can say Roth doesn't have enough material to work with, but that's what makes his performance impressive, because it could become uninteresting if it was portrayed by your average actor. Roth still finds layers that keep his performance fresh and his character engaging. Andrea Bang and Marsha Stephanie Blake make you feel impressed in their brief moments. "Luce" was one of the most overlooked films of the year, and its cast was certainly worthy of a nomination.
6. Little Women
Greta Gerwig's "Little Women" is a fresh look at the beloved classic novel, with a new structure. She proved that some stories are truly timeless and it's possible to re-tell them in an effective way again and again. But for a familiar subject material to work this great, you don't just need great directorial and writing chops, but you should also get the most appropriate actors possible and she did it. Even though there's one disappointing stunt casting (Bob Odenkirk just feels so out of place), the rest of the cast is stellar.
Saoirse Ronan doesn't get tired of proving that she's the best actress of her generation; her recent film choices can be easily dismissed as "back-to-back period dramas" but these are all complex roles and as Jo, in both timelines, she just nails it. You see that it's a young woman with big ambitions, dreams, and creativity but is also kind of a mess. Up there with Winona Ryder, she can be the best Jo on film. Florence Pugh is also a revelation, since Amy is notorious for being one of the most hated characters of the novel, but she comes up with such a new amount of depth that now it's possible to empathize with her. Eliza Scanlen is heartbreaking; Laura Dern gives such a warm, humane performance; Timothee Chalamet is at his most charming; and then, of course, there's Meryl Streep, who needs no words.
The film focused on mostly the female cast members, and Chalamet probably got the most mention out of male actors, but the male actor choices are all great here. Tracy Letts' sequence is fun, Chris Cooper is effective as always, and Louis Garrell is an absolute perfect casting choice as Friedrich Bhaer. The movie is full of great actors and Gerwig shows that she's a great actors' director by giving most of them great material to work with. Emma Watson didn't get enough mention in reviews, but her performance is lovely as well, and certainly plays to her strengths as a performer.
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Allison Baden-Clay - GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD #47
Discussion in 'Allison Baden-Clay General Discussion Threads' started by SoSueMe, May 18, 2012.
they'll get you On Time Out
At what point would a normal woman turn and walk away?
I'm reading TMcH statements and she really didn't get it, did she.
I'm actually thinking GBC couldn't get rid of her
She'd wait till after 2.30 to contact her GG because that was the time Allison had left the office.
GG told her Allison was missing & she said 'I can't feel guilty about that can I?
He said no, no, no!
WOW it seems it's all about her.
they'll get you, Feb 14, 2014
lycheefarmer New Member
sosocurious said: ↑
It is very possible that no immediate or extended family members of either family physically participated in the search.
My point was that the Dickie family and friends were at the command post each day hoping and waiting for news that Allison had been found.
Presumably they answered questions, consented to interviews and provided statements. They co operated while in the grip of one of the most tragic of situations a family can find themselves.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...ve-interviews-during-effort-to-solve-death-of
Quote from article
The parents of GBC refused requests for further information and interviews during the massive effort to solve the death of Allison police claim in court documents.
NBC has provided a BRIEF statement about contact AFTER 6.30 am Friday.
The question I have is what reason would there be to refuse requests for further information and be interviewed regarding events before 6.30am Friday?
Oops Amee was typing while you were posting
Maybe they actually did provide statements and did tell the police everything they knew? At the point that Policeman Roddick made that statement quoted in the Courier Mail to the affect that the BCs weren't co-operating the police were still maintaining that there was a Facetime call which the BCs hadn't told them about. This was later admitted by the police during the second bail application to have been a "mistake". I suggest that you read this link again in the light of the withdrawn Facetime allegation and you will see how determined to malign the BCs the police were; http://www.news.com.au/national/ger...-documents-claim/story-e6frfkvr-1226413294650
What other "mistakes" may have been made that have cast the BCs in such a poor light? I think that many of you have a very trusting attitude towards the police that you would do well to consider in the light of the many cases and enquiries where corruption and malpractice by police has been established. The trial will tell!
lycheefarmer, Feb 14, 2014
Strangeworld Well-Known Member
lycheefarmer said: ↑
It certainly will. Bring on June!
Strangeworld, Feb 14, 2014
I truly hope you are not equating the forensic processing of a facetime call with corruption and malpractice? That's a massive leap IMO.
To be honest, the information provided by police had very little to do with my perceptions of the BCs since Allison's disappearance was first reported in MSM. It was my own observations of their behaviour, their actions, and their inactions that led me to my own conclusions. It has never entered my mind that the police working on this case are corrupt. That might make me gullible in some people's eyes, but I trust my instincts, and use my own observations.
As for passing judgement on the BCs, I sure do! And I'm proud to admit it. And to be honest, I am personally feeling mighty judged on this thread tonight.
sosocurious Well-Known Member
Strangeworld said: ↑
I am with you strangeworld
sosocurious, Feb 14, 2014
Mountain Misst FA in Aus.
If you care to read the bail application documents LF, you will discover the story in relation to the facetime phone-call 'false positive' - it was apparently a software problem (Israeli IT). Once alerted by QPS, a new version of the software extraction program was released to worldwide LE, correcting the IT glitch.
I don't see that as having anything to do with QPS and the BC family per se, rather DPP/QPS and a man who had been charged with murder; namely GBC.
We can berate ourselves if we want to, however it was this error presented at the last minute that overwhelmingly stopped someone from getting out on bail and possibly absconding as a flight risk. I for one cheered on Danny Boyle at the time and have no regrets for doing so.
Mountain Misst, Feb 14, 2014
Couldbe Well-Known Member
Quote from bail docs) - Lawfully intercepted telephone calls on one of the defendants phone lines supports that the defendant used his parents to assist him in covertly contacting TMH on his behalf.
........ lycheefarmer, you would have an opinion on this fact which you may like to share with us.
Couldbe, Feb 14, 2014
Lycheefarmer, what do you see as the facts for the case? If what we have been discussing on this thread seem way off for you, what do you think is the truth? It always helps if people have differing opinions to put all cards on the table, and not just put down what others believe.
possumheart Well-Known Member
Things G did to actively assist the police during the search:
gave different versions of Allison's walking route to his sister, neighbour and the first officers in attendance to make sure the police searched everywhere he could think of
wrote a car off on way to give statement because he was jumping out of his skin with anticipation
told TM to 'lay low' so she wouldn't bother them
possumheart, Feb 14, 2014
Left field opinions are thought provoking when backed up and are constructive. So please Lychee help us along with your thoughts and knowledge here. Evidence such as phone records, IT and DNA etc etc are always time consuming to complete. All takes time and can be frustratingly slow. Thus the wait of two years for the trial but I'm looking forward to all the new evidence because there is a reason GBC is still in gaol. They ain't letting go yet!
Obviously OW knows something about the 'truth' so bring it on.
Fuskier Well-Known Member
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Fuskier, Feb 14, 2014
MsAnais Verified Clinical Psychologist (AU)
they'll get you said: ↑
BBM I completely agree, TGY!!
TMcH strikes me as almost adolescent in her behaviours and romanticisation of GBC. Reading the cliché lines he fed her about why he was still with his wife stuns me, as they were obviously just that - lines.
"Ms McHugh said Baden-Clay told her he could not afford a divorce, because of business issues.
"He was not in a financial position to afford a divorce," she said."
http://www.qt.com.au/news/baden-clays-three-other-women-baden-clays-affairs-/1796964/
Please. What kind of mature woman falls for that? Her egotism and her idealisation of GBC imply a suspended emotional development IMO.
On another note, it sickens me to read her statements. Not once did she think about what she was doing to another woman - Allison. :facepalm: Betrayal of the sisterhood, big time. (another common adolescent theme that is hopefully worked through by her age!!)
MsAnais, Feb 14, 2014
From lycheefarmer's post - Quote: "As a contrarian who studied a little law following this case from a distance it is clear that the problem here is a rush to judgement and desire to demonise. Why not let justice take its course?"
My question to Lycheefarmer........ Quote: " ...do you really believe that GBC and his family have told the Police all they know ....... or do you think they might give new information at the Trial?"
Lycheefarmer answered: ...... Quote: "Well I wouldn't know! But I wonder why based on your own final question you wouldn't just wait till the trial yourself. That's the way our system works."
My opinion of that is: If the Trial brings forth 'new' information from the BC family, then why would they have previously withheld it from the Legal Authorities? They would find themselves in a situation where they would be seen to have purposely waited to see if 'SOMEONE' was arrested and tried ...... deciding to wait until the Trial to reveal it (this withholding of information could be viewed as a crime in itself!), especially when it has been recorded that Detectives sought further interviews from them.
OR the 'new information' could then be seen to be fabricated.
Amee Active Member
TM makes my blood boil.
Ms McHugh said she ended her relationship but it was not because Baden-Clay suggested he would leave his wife.
"I had a difficult relationship for many years," she said.
My decision to end the relationship with Rob was based on still having a respect for him, not being able to remain in an unfaithful relationship.":furious:
http://www.themorningbulletin.com.au/news/mistress-tells-court-baden-clays-lie-low-request/1795712/
Amee, Feb 14, 2014
BreakingNews Well-Known Member
Isisrising said: ↑
I agree that TMH was clutching at something that wasn't there. She wouldn't take no for an answer. That seems more like need than love. And sadly, I don't think she will ever work through past adolescence. I heard her at the committal and even then she was in denial that it was over. Can see her now - visiting GBC in prison for the next 15 years, waiting... waiting.:waiting::waiting::waiting:
I guess in sisterhood we should be feeling sorry for this poor lost soul. Then again, maybe not.
BreakingNews, Feb 14, 2014
Hiya Isis! :seeya:
I totally agree. Immature and trying too hard. It's like she fell for the image and not the man. Maybe I'm too suspicious, but the minute Allison disappeared, I would have run a mile....straight to the police station to give a statement and dump GBC's butt ASAP!
BreakingNews said: ↑
BBM Yup, I hear you!!:seeya:
It's very hard to feel any compassion for her. Okay, I understand she was having an affair with the guy (and loads of people have affairs) but for the wife to DIE and then to still be mooching around after him......:facepalm:
If it were me (and I wouldn't have done it in the beginning) I would have felt SO guilty if the man's wife had died.......OMG! She's displayed no remorse.
But she is not me, not us, not like anyone I know. And absolutely, she's not going past adolescence now. She's stuck.
And I totally agree, it's all about need. None of it is love.:twocents:
Trooper On Time Out
One thing is for sure... Toni isn't visiting, contacting or being contacted by anyone connected to or associated with Gorgeous Guy. Because she is the Prosecution witness, and it would severely compromise the defence if she did and bring a whole lot of trouble on her head from the really powerful, the State Prosecutor... so she has had to go cold turkey on Gerard from the moment she became that.
hard times,ey?? enough to put wrinkle on the brow.
Trooper, Feb 15, 2014
McCoy New Member
Couldbe said: ↑
I agree, CouldBe. The BCs very early in the case refused to talk to the police after one interview. This was when their daughter-in-law and mother of their grandchildren was missing. Most people in this situation would volunteer all information they had to help in any way. It was either putting their emotions ("how annoying for us to be in this situation" OR "our family name may suffer") first ahead of Allison's safety OR they had something to hide. Even if it was just the first reason this was selfish.
McCoy, Feb 15, 2014
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Welcome To Island Where People Forget To Die & Diseases Like Lung Cancer Mysteriously Disappear
One day in 1976, Stamatis Moraitis of Boynton Beach, Florida, felt short of breath. Climbing stairs was a chore; he had to quit working midday. After reviewing his X-rays, his doctor concluded that Moraitis had lung cancer. As he recalls, nine other doctors confirmed the diagnosis. They gave him nine months to live. He was in his mid-60s. Moraitis, a Greek war veteran who had arrived in the United States in 1943, considered staying and seeking aggressive treatment. That way, he and his wife, Elpiniki, could be close to his adult children. But he decided to return to his native island, Ikaria, where he could be buried with his ancestors in a cemetery that overlooked the Aegean Sea. He and Elpiniki moved in with his elderly parents, into a tiny, whitewashed house on two acres of stepped vineyards on the north side of Ikaria.
At first, Moraitis spent his days in bed. On Sunday mornings, he hobbled up the hill to a tiny Greek Orthodox chapel where his grandfather once served as a priest. When his childhood friends started showing up every afternoon, they'd talk for hours, an activity that invariably involved a bottle or two of locally produced wine. I might as well die happy, he thought.
In the ensuing months, Moraitis started to feel stronger. One day he planted some vegetables in the
garden. He didn't expect to live to harvest them, but he enjoyed being in the sunshine, breathing the ocean a
Six months came and went. He didn't die. Easing himself into the island routine, he woke up when he felt like it, worked in the vineyards until mid afternoon, made lunch, and then took a long nap. In the evenings, he often walked to the local tavern, where he played dominoes past midnight. His health continued to improve. He added a couple of rooms to his parents' home so his children could visit. He built up the vineyard until it produced 400 gallons of wine a year.
For more than a decade, I've been organizing a study of places where people live longest. In 2008, my colleagues Michel Poulain, PhD, a Belgian demographer, and Gianni Pes, MD, a researcher at the University of Sassari in Italy, and I began investigating Ikaria. Ninety-nine square miles and home to almost 10,000 Greek nationals, the island lies about 30 miles off the western coast of Turkey. We concluded that people on Ikaria were, in fact, two and a half times as likely to reach age 90 as Americans. Ikarian men, in particular, are nearly four times as likely as their American counterparts to reach 90. Ikarians were also living about eight to ten years longer before succumbing to cancers and cardiovascular disease, and they suffered less depression and about a quarter the rate of dementia.
Life on Ikaria
Seeking to learn more about the island's reputation for long-lived residents, I called on Ilias Leriadis, one of Ikaria's few physicians. On an outdoor patio, he set a table with kalamata olives, hummus, heavy Ikarian bread, and wine.
"People stay up late here," Dr. Leriadis said. "We wake up late and always take naps. We simply don't care about the clock."
Dr. Leriadis also talked about local "mountain tea," made from dried herbs endemic to the island, which is enjoyed as an end-of-the-day cocktail. He mentioned wild marjoram, sage, a type of mint tea, rosemary, and a drink made from boiling dandelion leaves and adding a little lemon. The teas double as traditional Greek remedies. Wild mint fights gingivitis and gastrointestinal disorders; rosemary is used to treat gout; artemisia is thought to improve blood circulation.
When Ioanna Chinou, a professor at the University of Athens School of Pharmacy and one of Europe's top experts on the bioactive properties of herbs, tested Ikaria's most commonly used herbs, she found that they showed strong antioxidant properties. Most also contained mild diuretics, which doctors use to treat hypertension. Perhaps by drinking tea, Ikarians have gently lowered their blood pressure all their lives.
On a trip the year before, I visited a slate-roofed house built into the slope at the top of a hill. I had come here after hearing of a couple married for more than 75 years. Thanasis and Eirini Karimalis clapped their hands at the thrill of having a visitor.
The couple were born in a nearby village; they married in their early 20s and raised five children on Thanasis's pay as a lumberjack. Their daily routine: Wake naturally, work in the garden, have a late lunch, nap. At sunset, they either visited neighbors or neighbors visited them. Their diet was also typical: a breakfast of goat's milk, wine, sage tea or coffee, honey and bread. Lunch was almost always beans, potatoes, greens (fennel, dandelion, or a spinachlike green called horta), and seasonal vegetables from their garden; dinner was bread and goat's milk. At Christmas and Easter, they would slaughter the family pig and enjoy small portions of larded pork for the next several months.
Just after sunset, another couple walked in, carrying a glass amphora of homemade wine. The ninety-somethings cheek-kissed one another and settled around the table. They gossiped, drank wine, and occasionally erupted into laughter.
The Healthy Magic of the Ikarian Diet
Meanwhile, my colleagues and additional researchers fanned out across the island and asked nonagenarians a battery of lifestyle questions. They were joined by Antonia Trichopoulou from the University of Athens Medical School, an expert on the Mediterranean diet.
She estimated that the Ikarian diet, compared with the standard American diet, might yield up to four additional years of life expectancy. Low intake of saturated fats from meat and dairy was associated with lower risk of heart disease; olive oil reduced bad cholesterol and raised good cholesterol. Goat's milk contained serotonin-boosting tryptophan and was easily digestible for older people. Some wild greens had ten times as many antioxidants as red wine. Wine—in moderation—prompts the body to absorb more flavonoids, a type of antioxidant. Local sourdough bread might reduce a meal's glycemic load. You could even argue that potatoes contributed heart-healthy potassium, vitamin B6, and fiber. And because islanders eat greens from their gardens, they consume fewer pesticides and more nutrients.
Ikarians' sleep and sex habits might also affect their long lives. A 2008 paper by the University of Athens Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health found that napping at least three days weekly was associated with a 37 percent reduction in the risk of coronary heart disease. In a preliminary study of older Ikarian men, 80 percent claimed to have sex regularly, a habit also linked to longevity. A quarter of that group said they were doing so with "good duration" and "achievement."
When Thea Parikos moved from America to Ikaria and opened a guesthouse, she stopped shopping for most groceries, instead planting a huge garden that provided most of their fruits and vegetables. She lost weight without trying to. I asked her if she thought her diet would make her family live longer. "Yes," she said. "But we don't think about it that way. It's bigger than that."
Although unemployment is high—perhaps as high as 40 percent—most everyone has access to a family garden and livestock, Parikos told me. People who work might have several jobs. Someone involved in tourism, for example, might also be a painter. "We may not have money for luxuries, but we will have food on the table and still have fun with family and friends," she said. "We may not be in a hurry to get work done during the day, so we work into the night. At the end of the day, we don't go home to sit on the couch."
Ask the very old on Ikaria how they've lived past 90, and they'll usually talk about the clean air and the wine. Or, as one 101-year-old woman put it, "We just forget to die." They have no idea how they've lived so long.
But if you pay careful attention, it appears that a dozen subtly powerful, mutually enhancing, and pervasive factors are at work. It's easy to get enough rest if no one else wakes up early and the village goes dead during afternoon nap time. It helps that the cheapest, most accessible foods are also the most healthful—and that your ancestors have spent centuries developing ways to make them taste good. It's hard to get through the day without walking up 20 hills. You're not likely to ever feel the stress of arriving late. And at day's end, you'll share a cup of herbal tea with your neighbor. Even if you're antisocial, you'll never be entirely alone.
The last time I spoke to Moraitis was in July 2012. Elpiniki had died in the spring, and now he lived alone. I had one last question: How does he think he recovered from lung cancer?
"It just went away," he said. "I actually went back to America about 25 years after moving here to see if the doctors could explain it." I had heard this part of the story before. It had become a piece of the folklore of Ikaria. Still, I asked, "What happened?"
"My doctors were all dead."
Moraitis died in his home on February 3, 2013, at the age of 98, according to official records. By his own reckoning, he was 102.
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Q: NSTimer is Not stopping when double Click on a Button I have NSTimer to display an image after 2 seconds when i click on button. It is working fine when I Click on a Button, But the problem is When I double Click the Button the NSTimer is Not Stopping. Continuously it is displaying images(calling NSTimer method) without Clicking on the button for Next Time. How to stop the NSTimer when i double Click / more Clicks on that button at a time.
*This is my Code*

-(void)buttonClicked
{

timer = [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:0.2 target:self selector:@selector(timerClicked) userInfo:nil repeats:YES];
imgviewtransparent.image = [UIImage imageNamed:[imagesArray objectAtIndex:i]];
}

-(void)timerClicked
{
    [timer invalidate];
    timer = nil;

}

A: With double Click it will schedule timer twice.
You can create a BOOL property to avoid this if you want.
-(void)viewDidLoad{
    [super viewDidLoad];
    //Define all your implementation

    //Set BOOL property to no at start
    self.isButtonClicked = NO; // You need to define this BOOL property as well.
}

-(void)buttonClicked {
    // Return if one click is already in process
    if (self.isButtonClicked) {
        return;
    }

    self.isButtonClicked = YES:
    timer = [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:0.2 target:self
    selector:@selector(timerClicked) userInfo:nil repeats:YES];
    imgviewtransparent.image = [UIImage imageNamed:[imagesArray objectAtIndex:i]];
}

-(void)timerClicked {
    [timer invalidate];
    timer = nil;
    self.isButtonClicked = NO;
}

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Duke's Kyle Filipowski hit in the throat in controversial no-call
The final 15 seconds of Duke College's hoops game against Virginia Tech on Monday night had it all: a go-ahead shot, a punch to the throat, a no-call and vomit.
With the game tied at 75 and less than 20 seconds remaining, Hokies guard MJ Collins passed near the right baseline, dribbled into the painted area and hit a small jumper to give Virginia Tech a 77-75 lead. He then cocked his fist in celebration – but in the process ended up punching freshman Duke star Kyle Filipowski right in the throat.
Filipowski collapsed to the ground and Collins withdrew his fist immediately on contact, signaling it was an accident. The referees reviewed the play and did not call any flagrant fouls – or any fouls at all.
A flagrant foul would have given Filipowski two free throws, and therefore a chance to tie the game.
Filipowski still looked shaken as the team returned to the sidelines, with cameras capturing him hunched over in his seat. The 19-year-old apparently even threw up in the group.
Kyle Filipowski grabs his throat after being hit
"Yeah, he just nudged me in my Adam's apple," Filipowski told reporters after the game. "I couldn't breathe for a minute, but I just needed to throw up and I was good."
"He was full of vomiting and he wasn't going to be out for a second," added Duke head coach Jon Scheyer. "He's a great warrior, man."
Duke's Tyrese Proctor missed a 3-point go-ahead on ensuing possession and the Blue Devils turned the ball over with their final attempt after Virginia Tech split a pair of free throws.
Virginia Tech held on to win the game, 78-75, giving Duke its fourth road loss in five road tries. Three of the Blue Devils' next five games are on the road, including two top-20 teams in Virginia and Miami.
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Poll: Most Americans Want Trump Stopped From Holding Future Office—Except Republicans
Alison Durkee
Updated Feb 15, 2021, 04:55pm EST
Three in four Republicans still want former President Donald Trump to remain "prominent" in the GOP despite his alleged role in the attack on the U.S. Capitol, a new Quinnipiac poll found, showing Trump's continued hold on the party even as a majority of Americans believe he incited the Jan. 6 riot and should be barred from holding an elected position again.
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The poll of 1,056 U.S. adults between Feb. 11-14 found 75% of Republican respondents think Trump should play a major role in the Republican Party, as compared with only 34% of voters overall.
It found 51% of respondents believe the U.S. Senate should have convicted Trump in his impeachment trial and 55% don't want him to be allowed to hold office in the future.
Republicans disagree: Only 9% think he should have been convicted and 87% want him to be allowed to run for office again.
The survey found 54% overall believed Trump is responsible for inciting violence against the federal government, while 55% thought the Capitol riot wouldn't have happened if Trump hadn't spent months claiming the election was "stolen," and 49% said the attack was caused by Trump's rally speech directly before his supporters overtook the Capitol.
Though only 11% of Republicans blamed Trump for inciting violence, 28% believe the events on Jan. 6 wouldn't have happened without Trump challenging the election results and 24% think Trump's rally speech directly contributed to the siege.
34%. That's the percentage of Republicans who believe Trump did not do everything he could to stop the violence at the U.S. Capitol building (versus 68% of Americans overall), reflecting how Republicans don't entirely absolve Trump of the attack even as they continue to support him.
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Trump "may be down, but he is certainly not out of favor with the GOP," Quinnipiac University Polling Analyst Tim Malloy said in a statement. "Twice impeached, vilified by Democrats in the trial, and virtually silenced by social media...despite it all, Donald Trump keeps a solid foothold in the Republican Party."
Key Background
A bipartisan majority of 57 senators voted to convict Trump on Saturday after his impeachment trial, short of the two-thirds majority needed. The seven GOP senators who broke ranks have faced consequences from a Republican Party still loyal to the twice-impeached ex-president. Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Pat Toomey (R-Penn.) were censured by their state Republican party chapters and the North Carolina Republican Party will meet Monday night to determine whether Sen. Richard Burr should face a similar consequence, though the Utah GOP stood by Sen. Mitt Romney. While Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell voted to acquit Trump, the senator's post-vote speech condemning his actions has also drawn criticism, with Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) calling McConnell "the most dangerous" Republican who's trying to "purge" Trumpism from the GOP on Fox News Sunday.
A majority of Americans—57%—believe extremism in the U.S. is "growing" after the Jan. 6 seizure of the Capitol building, according to the Quinnipiac poll. That includes 60% of both Republicans and Democrats, as well as 52% of Independents.
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Christina Maria Aguilera (born December 18, 1980 in Staten Island, New York, United States) is an accomplished pop and rnb singer who debuted in 1998 with the song Reflection for the soundtrack to the Disney film, Mulan. She has since become one of the biggest female recording artists of the last decade, selling over 50 million records worldwide. Her work has earned her numerous awards, including four Grammy Awards and one Latin Grammy Award, amongst eighteen nominations. She has achieved five #1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, as well as two #1 albums in the United States. She has released six albums, one of which is a compilation and five of which are studio albums: Christina Aguilera (1999), Mi Reflejo (2000), My Kind Of Christmas (2000), Stripped (2002), Back To Basics (2006), Keeps Gettin' Better: A Decade of Hits (2008) and Bionic (2010).
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Paul B. Stephan is an expert on international law, comparative law, international business, international civil litigation, and international dispute resolution, with an emphasis on Soviet and post-Soviet legal systems. He joined the University of Virginia faculty in 1979. He also is a senior fellow of UVA's Miller Center. During 2006-07, he served as Counselor on International Law in the U.S. Department of State, and in 2020-21 as Special Counsel to the General Counsel in the U.S. Department of Defense. He was Coordinating Reporter for the American Law Institute's Restatement (Fourth) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States (2018). Stephan received his B.A. and M.A. from Yale University in 1973 and 1974, respectively, and his J.D. from the University of Virginia in 1977. Before returning to Virginia, he clerked for Judge Levin Campbell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. Professor Stephan has written many books and published over a hundred articles. He is the co-author, with Robert Scott, of The Limits of Leviathan: Contract Theory and the Enforcement of International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2006). His book, The World Crisis and International Law – The Knowledge Economy and the Battle for the Future, will be published Cambridge University Press in 2023.
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Q: Define InputBindings in Style I would like to add a right click and left click command to each ListBoxItem in a Style.  Is this possible?
<Style TargetType="{x:Type ListBoxItem}">
    <Setter Property="InputBindings">
        <Setter.Value>
            <MouseBinding Command="{x:Static View:Commands.AddItem}"
                          MouseAction="LeftClick"/>
            <MouseBinding Command="{x:Static View:Commands.RemoveItem}"
                          MouseAction="RightClick"/>
        </Setter.Value>
    </Setter>
</Style>

A: I was not able to find a way to accomplish what I originally wanted.  I ended up using Events instead of Commands.
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<EventSetter Event="PreviewMouseLeftButtonDown" Handler="AssignItem"/>
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Did the Obamas buy a house in Rancho Mirage? Here's everything I know
Rosalie Murphy
Did the Obamas buy a house in Rancho Mirage? The question has dogged me since my fourth week at The Desert Sun, when former president Barack Obama visited the desert for a President's Day golfing trip in February 2015.
The pursuit has been a tricky one. Few people have firsthand information; those that may have firsthand knowledge are seldom willing to talk to me; and public property records, my usual reservoir of information, betray little. There are a lot of rumors, though — I've heard the same ones as you.
Although many tabloids have said a desert purchase is in the works or a "done deal," we've never confirmed that these rumors are true. I don't know for sure whether the Obamas have, or will, buy a house here. But I do know some things for sure — so consider this a fact-check on the last three years of rumors.
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Speculation surrounding the Obamas' desert visits has focused on two neighboring properties in Thunderbird Heights, a ritzy hillside community in Rancho Mirage.
The first is the Wambaugh House, named for its longtime owner Joseph Wambaugh, a novelist. The house went into escrow in summer 2014, and shortly thereafter, many media outlets reported that the Obamas were the buyers. The White House denied it, and when the sale was recorded with Riverside County, the deed showed the buyer to be an Omaha, Nebraska-based trust.
The signatories on the deed, and the trustees of the trust, are James and Karen Linder. James Linder is a medical doctor at the University of Nebraska and Karen Linder runs an investment firm.
"We bought the house for ourselves, and have no plans to sell. Spending a bit more time there is our only goal," James Linder said in an email to The Desert Sun this week. "Our only contact with the President has been to invite him to a house party. Alas, he was a no-show."
The Linders do not appear in OpenSecrets.org, a database that tracks political donations, as supporters of Obama or any other candidate.
Marc Lange, a real estate agent with HOM-Sotheby's, represented both the buyer and the seller in that sale. I asked him this week if the Linders in fact bought that house.
"Whoever's on record on title as being the owner is the owner," he replied.
The other house in question is the house at the top of Thunderbird Mesa, which belongs to James Costos and Michael Smith. The Howard Lapham-designed estate is where the Obamas are widely rumored to stay almost every time they visit, and Smith admitted as much on Twitter before their January visit.
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Smith is the interior designer who decorated Obama's Oval Office, and Costos is a former HBO executive who served as Obama's ambassador to Spain. An LLC listing Smith as its manager bought the property out of bankruptcy in 2011.
At the time, the property included two parcels of land. In 2014, Smith's company signed an agreement to treat it as one parcel. Such documents are common when owners want to build on their property. According to the city of Rancho Mirage, new structures in Thunderbird Heights are only allowed on lots of at least an acre.
In May 2015, the deeds to vacant lots on either side of that 8-acre property were transferred to Smith's LLC. On the same day, the county recorded a deed of trust — effectively a mortgage — for $2.925 million.
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Then, in December 2016, Smith's LLC took out another loan on the property containing the house. The loan came from a different bank and was worth $2.85 million.
Second mortgages are common lines of credit that allow property owners access to capital. Public records do not reveal the borrower's motives. One possible scenario, however, is that the owners reached a private agreement with future buyers and agreed to put up the capital to make improvements to the property, in anticipation of that future sale.
I also reviewed building permits issued for the Lapham house. In 2013, according to the city, contractors built an 8-foot wall around the back of the property and moved the air conditioning units below a retaining wall, out of sight. In 2014, builders applied for permits to build an outdoor dining area and to add on to the tennis pavilion. Both projects were delayed due to presidential visits, according to the city; permits were re-issued in mid-2016.
Even contractors working on presidential homes have to apply for building permits — at least they did for Gerald and Betty Ford's home at Thunderbird Country Club, a neighborhood near Thunderbird Heights to which the Fords retired. In 2007, a contractor received permits to convert a garage into a bedroom and install a new generator.
The Fords' home was never owned in their name. Deed records show the property was bought by the University of Southern California in 1976, the year Ford was voted out of office, and sold by the university in 2012, after Betty Ford's death.
According to Rancho Mirage, no building permits have been pulled for the Wambaugh house since work on the septic system in 2003.
Then there's the question of whether the Obamas could afford either of these homes. I looked at Barack Obama's 2015 financial disclosures in January and found that Obama held between $903,000 and $2.02 million in 2015, including investments in U.S. Treasury bonds, retirement accounts and a State of Illinois pension plan, which cannot easily be turned into cash. In checking and savings accounts, he reported $130,000 at most. Plus, he reported a mortgage worth between $500,000 and $1 million on a Chicago home.
According to the Riverside County Assessor's office, the Wambaugh house is worth about $3.46 million. The Lapham house is worth $3.24 million, and the vacant lots on either side, $2.15 million total.
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I have vacillated between these houses for years now — believing that the Obamas did, in fact, buy the Wambaugh house; believing they're in talks to buy one or the other; believing all of this is bunk.
The Obamas have not explicitly described their post-White House plans — beyond staying in Washington, D.C. until their younger daughter finishes high school — but presidents tend to earn large sums from speaking engagements after leaving office. Personally, I think the Lapham home is stunning. The theory that the former First Family might eventually buy that house currently makes the most sense to me — though that will likely change as I get more information.
There are some rumors I can't publish now, because sources asked to tell me stories off the record. Many come from someone who has a friend in the neighborhood in question, but when I seek verification, that friend never answers his phone. If you're one of those people, reach out to me.
In the meantime, I'm going to keep checking property records and taking calls. I'll let you know when I know for sure.
Rosalie Murphy covers real estate and business at The Desert Sun. Reach her at rosalie.murphy@desertsun.com or on Twitter @rozmurph.


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Representative Liz Miranda is the State Representative of the 5th Suffolk, and is running for State Senate in the 2nd Suffolk to build a district-wide agenda for community belonging, healthy equity, and economic opportunity. She is a community organizer, former youth worker, and entrepreneur who ran for office in 2018 after gun violence took the life of her brother. Since taking office, Representative Miranda has been a tireless fighter for the constituents of the 5th Suffolk, and families across the Commonwealth.
In the legislature, Rep. Miranda was a lead author in the police reform omnibus bill that passed in 2021. She has passed legislation to provide enforceable tools to protect the life and health of environmental justice communities, improve maternal health outcomes of Black women and birthing people, extend postpartum health insurance coverage, end solitary confinement in state prisons, and ensure vaccine equity in the communities most impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Most recently, she delivered an additional $10 million in COVID-19 relief funding to most-impacted Black and Brown-owned small businesses. As the daughter of Cabo Verdean immigrants, Representative Miranda has been a tireless advocate for immigrant justice and has fought for the Safe Communities Act and the Work and Family Mobility Act. After her decades of advocacy for gun violence prevention, losing her brother catalyzed her to run for elected office. Her lived experience as a survivor of homicide drove Rep. Miranda to become a legislative champion for violence prevention funding, which has tripled since her first term.
Representative Miranda is running for State Senate because she knows can continue to deliver on health equity, economic opportunity and build a district wide agenda for community belonging. She intimately understands the ways our government continues to leave behind working families, small businesses, communities of color, and immigrant communities. Alongside her neighbors, advocates and families directly impacted, she has worked to right the many wrongs within our system as a State Representative.
If elected, Representative Miranda would be the first Cape Verdean elected to a State Senate in the country. She would also be the 3rd (or 4th depending on the results of the First Suffolk and Middlesex special election) Black woman to serve in the Massachusetts State Senate.
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Yet another religious display case, this time from Big Mountain, Montana. For more than 50 years, the Knights of Columbus has maintained a six-foot tall statue, "Big Mountain Jesus," as a tribute to World War II veterans who told of seeing similar shrines while fighting in Italy. The statue is on public land administered by the US Forest Service. In response to a complaint from the Freedom from Religion Foundation that the statue violates the Establishment Clause, the Forest Service told the Knights the statue could not remain. This decision caused a public outcry, and the Forest Service is now reconsidering. One possible solution is a land swap, in which the Forest Service would give the 25 x 25 foot parcel on which the statue stands to a nearby ski resort in exchange for another piece of real estate.
This dispute is very similar to Salazar v. Buono, the Mojave Desert Cross case from 2010, the last occasion on which the Court addressed religious displays on public property. Salazar involved a Latin cross erected on public land by a private group as part of a war memorial; when lower courts ruled the cross unconstitutional, the government executed a land swap to convey the memorial to private parties. Procedural complications made Salazar rather narrow, though, and it doesn't give too much guidance here. Quite apart from Salazar, the Court's jurisprudence on public religious displays is famously unpredictable. Under some versions of the endorsement test, "Big Mountain Jesus" is pretty clearly unconstitutional. But the Court doesn't always apply the endorsement test, and Justice Kennedy's plurality opinion in Salazar indicates that even a sectarian display, in the context of a longstanding war memorial, may be constitutional. The Forest Service plans to announce its decision next year.
It is not a war memorial as stated in the article. On its application it states, "religious display." This is a violation of the Constitution of the United States.
In order to insure the diverse and free practice of religion in the U.S., it is necessary that the Federal and State governments refrain from endorsing, or appearing to endorse, any one religion. A clearly sectarian symbol, the Jesus statue, on public land is an appearance of endorsement of Christianity and can only be construed as a memorial for Christian soldiers alone. Transferring the land to private property does not negate the appearance of favoritism by the Federal government; it only enhances the endorsement of a single religion through the granting of special favors.


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Men's soccer stepping out of conference Wednesday against WVU
Grant Goodrich, Sports Editor|March 23, 2021
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Members of the Marshall men's soccer team huddle up during a match with Bowling Green on Feb. 27.
After three-straight conference games, the No. 8 Marshall men's soccer team (6-1-1) will divert out of conference Wednesday for a meeting with the West Virginia Mountaineers (3-2) in Morgantown.
The Thundering Herd and Mountaineers have only met twice all-time on the pitch. After a 2007 loss in Morgantown, the Herd evened the all-time series last season in Huntington with a 2-1 victory in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
West Virginia, who plays soccer in the Mid-American Conference, fell 1-0 to Bowling Green on Wednesday, March 17, a team Marshall defeated 1-0 on Saturday, Feb. 27.
While the Mountaineers are third in its conference, Marshall is tied for first with Charlotte, who WVU defeated 3-0 on Friday, Feb. 26.
With 2.38 goals per game, Marshall averages 1.18 more than WVU. The Herd also shoots it at a much higher pace, 18.4 shots per game compared to 8.0. The Mountaineers are more accurate with its shots, however, shooting 52.5% of its shots on goal compared to Marshall's 44.2%.
Defensively, Marshall leads most categories, allowing less shots per game and a lower percentage of those shots on goal.
Individually,  junior forward Tony Pineda leads the Mountaineers in shots on goal, with four, and his two goals are tied with redshirt freshman Bjarne Thiesen for the team lead.
The Mountaineers lost its top two goal scorers from last season, Rodrigo Robles-Grajera and Andrew Muriel-Albino, to transfer and graduation, respectively.
Leading the way for Marshall in goals scored, junior Vitor Dias has six, double that of junior Jan-Erik Leinhos.
Junior Vinicius Fernandes scored the game-winning goal against Kentucky Thursday, his second of the season.
With the victory over Kentucky, Marshall earned its sixth win over a ranked team in the coach Chris Grassie era. Ranked at No. 11, the Wildcats were also tied for the highest-ranked team the Herd have beaten in school history.
Coming off a victory of its own against SIU Edwardsville, West Virginia moved to 2-2 in the MAC, and after its matchup with the Herd, the Mountaineers will return to conference play for its final six games.
Marshall will return to conference play on Saturday against Old Dominion at Hoops Family Field and will wrap up the regular season with three more conference games afterward, closing out the season at home against Charlotte.
But before focusing on the final four conference games, Marshall is keyed in on WVU. The matchup will take place at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium at 7 p.m. Wednesday.
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— This week's WWE RAW hosted by Ozzy & Sharon Osbourne dropped to a 3.45 cable rating. Considering it was up against Game 5 of the World Series and Monday night football, the number is not so bad. Unfortunately for WWE, viewerhip declined as the show progressed, with hourly ratings of 3.5 and 3.4.
— Former TNA star Lance Hoyt made his WWE television debut this week on ECW as Vance Archer. He had been billed a Lance Archer in Florida Championship Wrestling, WWE's developmental territory.
– As previously reported, former WWE Tag Champion Jim Neidhart worked last night's TNA iMPACT tapings, defeating Jay Lethal. Neidhart is part of a new storyline where Jay Lethal faces off against various wrestling legends. The storyline is something that was planned before the Hulk Hogan signing and more legends are expected to be used in the coming weeks.


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The short-lived Taisho Era (1912-26) demokurashī (democracy) was followed by a financial crash that gave way to poverty, desperation and creeping militarism, culminating in the Pacific War from 1941 to 1945.
Shadows of Tokyo, by Matthew Legare.
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"Shadows of Tokyo" portrays the somber zeitgeist of Japan's capital in 1931, where rightist assassins armed with swords, handguns and bombs stalk key political and business figures. Masaru Ryusaki, an ambitious rabble-rouser, is one of a number of false messiahs hoping to stage a putsch and bring about a "Showa Restoration" to enable Japan to realize its Manifest Destiny.
The man with his finger in this collapsing dam is police inspector Kenji Aizawa, a survivor of the disastrous Siberian Intervention of a decade earlier, in which Japan lost some 5,000 soldiers to military action and sickness.
Ryusaki's mistress, Reiko Watanabe — a moga (modern girl) by day and geisha by night — disturbed by her lover's conspiratorial intrigues, telephones Aizawa anonymously with warnings of impending assassination plots. The cop, however, is hamstrung by self-serving bosses who secretly support the nationalists. After several harrowing run-ins with the rightists and their cohorts, Watanabe and Aizawa eventually meet in person and form an awkward alliance.
Legare's story reflects conscientious research into historic detail. Aside from James Melville's 1987 novel "The Imperial Way," few Western writers have set novels in this dark era — perhaps because they know that a happy ending won't be forthcoming.
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3D imaging: Allan Cormack
3D imaging: X-ray tomography and Godfrey Hounsfield's patent
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21. Hugh Huxley – the best electron microscopist in the world 180 03:19
22. Developing 3D electron microscopy 148 02:49
23. Using 3D electron microscopy to understand viruses 113 03:58
24. Image reconstruction in electron microscopy 121 01:58
25. Electron microscopy: defocussing to see transparent objects 100 04:58
26. The main ingredients in modern electron microscopy 102 04:00
27. 3D imaging: X-ray tomography and Godfrey Hounsfield's patent 143 05:14
28. 3D imaging: Allan Cormack 111 03:36
29. Involvement with 3D image reconstruction 108 04:56
30. TMV: attempting to crystallise the A protein 75 03:46
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Once we developed three dimensional image reconstruction there was a clear parallel with an X-ray, X-ray photograph. Yes. And, so, I- An ordinary medical photograph- Ordinary medical photography, medical X-ray, medical X-radiology, but, you see, what they do is they take an X-ray picture and there are two ways of doing it. One is simply, you just, put up an X-ray film behind you, taken an X-ray picture and you get a picture of everything superimposed in the- in line. So, I- the other way was, a more sophisticated way, was called X-ray tomography. If you wanted a better view you had the- the, say the chest specimen, you wanted to see the different sections in greater detail. So, they had- so, what they do in medical tomography X-ray, tomography, was to have a moving source and a moving plate behind the back. And, the two things are moved at such a relative speed that only one plane in the line of sight is - not in focus, that's the wrong word, but is, you can see without blurring. All the rest is blown out- Yes. And, that's called X-ray tomography, which is not, which is used for special cases. The ordinary so-called X-rays just everything in the line of view. So, I- I did speak to a professor of radiology at Middlesex Hospital, a man called Windeyer, I knew- I got to know him because I knew his- one of his people in his department, an old South African friend of ours, so he told me about it. And, he said- oh, we don't need any of this fancy stuff or words to that effect. We know exactly what we're looking at, we don't need any of this. In any case, he said, if you're going to tilt the specimens, I'm not sure if he said it or one of the other consultants I spoke to. And, Uli Arndt, in fact, at Cambridge went to see the radiologist at Addenbrooks Hospital and he came with the same thing, we don't need any of this fancy stuff, we know exactly what we're looking at; which is true. They know the anatomy of the body and they know how to interpret the many- 1897 was the first X-ray, 60 years, 70 years of experience. So, and, what they said to me was, anyway if you're going to tilt the specimen you're going to take a lot of X-ray pictures and, the- you're going to expose the body to a lot of X-ray radiation and that can be very harmful. I was able to answer that, because I said, well, when you do an X-ray tomogram you're getting a lot of blurred detail and that means you're also exposing the specimen to unnecessarily- unnecessary radiation. But, I couldn't calculate at the time, somebody did that later, about the information gain you might get; it was quite a clever theoretical paper later on by- by having a series of tilts. But, what was unexpected was the fact that the- anyway, let me finish, but, still somebody read up, a man read up, it was a man called Godfrey Hounsfield, who was working for EMI. My paper with David Rowley was published in January 1968, in August 1968 Hounsfield took out a patent. He worked at EMI, Electronic Musical Instruments, but they also had a wide range of- they build electron microscopes for example. And, he took out at patent to build a device to collect data from 60, it had 60 detectors and you, you, the idea was you would take a series of X-ray pictures and then you would assemble them by three dimensional image reconstruction. Now, what he patented was not the idea, he patented the instrument. Now, the idea he told me that he'd read all our papers, one, only two at the time, he'd read the papers and he'd followed them. And, in fact, in 1975 we had an exhibition at the Royal Society, a soiree, which Tony Crowther and I and I think you as well, John, I might remember, illustrated three dimensional image reconstruction in electron microscopy. And, he illustrated three dimensional image reconstruction in medical radiography. So, he was the- he got the Nobel Prize together with a man called Allan Cormack in 1979. I was a bit put out by it because I don't think there's any doubt that he followed what I did, in fact, he more than followed what I did because when he, well, some people think I should have shared it but it didn't matter in the end because I got a Nobel Prize three years later in Chemistry
Born in Lithuania, Aaron Klug (1926-2018) was a British chemist and biophysicist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1982 for developments in electron microscopy and his work on complexes of nucleic acids and proteins. He studied crystallography at the University of Cape Town before moving to England, completing his doctorate in 1953 at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1981, he was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University. His long and influential career led to a knighthood in 1988. He was also elected President of the Royal Society, and served there from 1995-2000.
Title: 3D imaging: X-ray tomography and Godfrey Hounsfield's patent
Listeners: John Finch Ken Holmes
John Finch is a retired member of staff of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK. He began research as a PhD student of Rosalind Franklin's at Birkbeck College, London in 1955 studying the structure of small viruses by x-ray diffraction. He came to Cambridge as part of Aaron Klug's team in 1962 and has continued with the structural study of viruses and other nucleoproteins such as chromatin, using both x-rays and electron microscopy.
Kenneth Holmes was born in London in 1934 and attended schools in Chiswick. He obtained his BA at St Johns College, Cambridge. He obtained his PhD at Birkbeck College, London working on the structure of tobacco mosaic virus with Rosalind Franklin and Aaron Klug. After a post-doc at Childrens' Hospital, Boston, where he started to work on muscle structure, he joined to the newly opened Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge where he stayed for six years. He worked with Aaron Klug on virus structure and with Hugh Huxley on muscle. He then moved to Heidelberg to open the Department of Biophysics at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research where he remained as director until his retirement. During this time he completed the structure of tobacco mosaic virus and solved the structures of a number of protein molecules including the structure of the muscle protein actin and the actin filament. Recently he has worked on the molecular mechanism of muscle contraction. He also initiated the use of synchrotron radiation as a source for X-ray diffraction and founded the EMBL outstation at DESY Hamburg. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1981 and is a member of a number of scientific academies.
Tags: Middlesex Hospital, Addenbrooks Hospital, Godfrey Hounsfield, Uli Arndt, Anthony Crowther, Allan Cormack
Duration: 5 minutes, 15 seconds
Date story recorded: July 2005
Date story went live: 24 January 2008
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